skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A real stunt, indeed!

But TBF, the odds are pretty good, as it is an art form refined by the Russians over centuries, and taught to MAGA movement that they funded in the US (via the NRA), and then made home-grown by the Q-anon movement... so, the odds are pretty good of seeing such stuff
the best one is "select the photograph containing a crosswalk". How am I supposed to know what a crosswalk looks like in each & every culture on earth?
> So please tell me a concrete applicable way that we can apply today to protect them.

Don't allow corporations to build those features, and mandate that they build features that forcibly give children time away from their phones (e.g. caps on usage: no usage between 10PM and 7AM, no usage during school hours for entertainment products, maximum time to play games, mandatory labeling for all websites and products, etc.).

You can even go further (like China today, and the US during the Silver Age of comics) and enforce mandatory outcomes for creatives targeting children. For example the TikTok algorithm in China must output educational resources for children and perhaps children's entertainment could be forced to not glorify certain topics such as school shootings, revenge on bullies, sociopathy, etc.
> This is why systems are breaking down before our eyes and why the breakdowns will spread with alarming rapidity due the tightly bound structure of complex systems.

Is there actual evidence for this over the long term? I have seen a lot of articles on this, but while they are full of anecdotes of supposed system breakdown, many of them are clearly not new issues. For example, the 737 Max issues have been mentioned repeatedly, but plane makers hiding defects that later kill is not new.
I visited there a few times to get my touch-key strip repaired. It was a 5min cycle ride from where I lived when I first moved to London.
Typing Speed Doesn't Matter
Mass layoffs are down to companies misunderstanding the pandemic: Intuit CEO
It could have worked, but only if Apple remained asleep. Paying for big shows like Joe Rogan has given Spotify a large market share in podcasts. Obviously they weren't going to offer upfronts to every single podcast. Their strategy was to bring users in with the biggest shows, and have the rest of the podcasts feel like they have no choice but to move to Spotify to monetize (via their ad-tech).
Yeah, had this happen already. I remembered some normally purely carnivorous type of animal had a herbivore species. It was spiders, but I searched for snakes first. One of the top results was an article about how boas can be fed a diet of fruit (they cannot), which must have been AI written with how many other semi-nonsense articles that site had.
Google sees “putting your site online, getting it indexed, having it appear in search results, and receive traffic” to be competitive with “pay for advertising and premium placement.”

The long term answer will be some kind of “Google Blue” where you have to pay for any placement, not just premium placement.
LLM’s are significantly less likely to be accurate but are quite good at fooling people. The problem is our existing BS detectors no longer work well. It’s surprisingly close to talking to a talented con man.
Your citation is self-contradictory - if artist is also rights holder (which is not that rare I think) they will receive more than quarter.

70% percent of Spotify revenue goes to the right holders vs ~40% of a CD sale. That artist must have signed really bad deal, or he/she is selling CDs themself which makes comparison really misleading.
Apple has streaming now?
Your knowledge of the .Net ecosystem is a bit out of date. It's had first class support for mac and linux for 7-8 years now.
The content is true to the extent that a copywriter paraphrased another piece of content that is more authoritative.

My work is getting paraphrased a lot, and they usually get the gist right, although they have zero clue of what they're talking about.
There is a decent amount of inefficiency in doing this though because you still have to establish valuations between the bilateral currencies. How do you do that without using any reference to some kind of a reserve currency? Ie, how would you figure the 'correct' yen:peso rate with first refering to yen:usd and peso:usd? I mean, you can, but either party takes on a decent amount of risk of getting taken to the cleaners if they misjudge their direct currency ratios. Or, if you do use a reference currency, without actually settling with the reserve, the reference price can be more easily manipulated. So, that means everyone doing strict bilateral settlement has their guards up more which makes it harder to get any trade done.
Hold on: the eurozone is WAY harsher on Russia than the US, they are the ones restricting the price of Russian oil, not the US (US doesn't control the shipping insurance market). I mean that's understandable, Europe is in the line of fire next
Incidentally, Neil Young pulling off Spotify in protest of Joe Rogan, inspired me to start a vinyl collection this year.
Robert F Kennedy Jr. He's an anti-vaxxer and HIV/AIDS denier.
The alternative is all of them, and more. Dedollarisation does not mean that another single currency will step into the dollar's shoes as the global reserve currency. You will more likely have multiple spheres of influence with each one having a de facto dominant currency, and you will also have more countries doing trade in multiple currencies in order to "hedge their bets" as it were.

Like, the EU has no interest in trying to force the euro on the world. But in the aftermath of Brexit and the Trump presidency, they have grown concerned about other powers having too much control over their trade.
Gradual escalation could be good in the sense that there's no clear prompt for nuclear war.
Weird. I like black sand. I spend a lot of time on La Gomera (closest island to Tenerife, about 30 km away) and actually love the sand there. There's also basically nothing but sand: no shells, few rocks, no random fish carcasses (presumably this is what you mean by "clean"). I'm usually there in the middle of winter (25º C-ish) when the sand being warm is a plus.

Usually there aren't a ton of fish around the islands because they're volcanoes: the mountain extends down into the water too, and there's not much of a shelf of shallow water around the islands. It gets deep fast. I wonder if something in dumping the sand also extended the amount of shallow water there.
Nobody is keeping you from building your own equipment which is as upgradable as you like.

ADDED: Certainly manufacturers have done deliberately user-hostile things. (And I voted for this ballot initiative in MA.) But there are tradeoffs especially with respect to compact electronics.
>> Thirdly was the user interface. Usenet looked dull. In a world of animated GIFs and MySpace colour schemes, Usenet didn't even have avatar images!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Face

I think there was even a color version of x-face? Oh yeah, found it. A 48x48 base64 encoded PNG image.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/GnusFace

I don't know what other Usenet clients supported that. The x-face header was already not widely supported.
> that technology and social media makes it easier for people to be informed

technology and social media makes it easier for people to be disinformed. Ministry of Truth is not sleeping.
First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set
I saw "semantic model" and got excited, but that's at the "grain" level.

The idea of applications has been stale for a long time, it just takes a long time for people to get there.

Microsoft doesn't want it to happen quickly because they like selling Office as a package, but they're slowing decomposing it. OLE was a micro step, now with a cloud graph model and AI they're going much deeper.

Ultimately, your "table" can be generated from data in a "spreadsheet" or "database." And your AI can interact with this data precisely. At a certain level, you really shouldn't need to care where something was generated or viewed. It's data. But the more strongly it's "typed," the more accurate everything becomes.

Yes there's some hype over AI, but it is just incredibly useful, even the most basic and stumbling step of importing your documentation to an app or browser based AI to answer questions. Anything that doesn't include it as a first class consideration is last epoch, in the same category as Visicalc, 1979. Unfortunately, that includes the vast majority of Open Source. KDE was way ahead of this, but they stumbled. I hope they can catch up. Local, Open Source AI needs to leap ahead or computing is going to collapse.

So the first step is to give all the data a schema, ideally a domain-relative one so it's interoperable. See Linked Data.
I have all sorts of things that I wrote years ago and I can never find them searching by title unless I put the specific name of the site in the query. I sure can find the slideshare though where some guy from Oracle stole not only my title but much of the content from my blog.
This is sort of a general issue. Compressed air is much more dangerous than water under similar pressure, because air is far more compressible. If you pressurize water to, say, 100 psi, you’re compressing the water a tiny bit (water is not very compressible) and stretching the container a bit. The stored energy is roughly 100 psi * (change in volume) / 2, and the change in volume is small.

If you hit a water pipe. with a shovel and break it, and your pipe has a rather high 100 psi of water in it, you will regret it: you will get wet, you’ll have a muddy hole, and you will be sad because you have to repair it.

If you compress air to 100 psi, you are compressing it to a rather small fraction of its original volume. So the change in volume is greater than the entire volume of compressed air and is almost as large as the uncompressed volume, so 100 psi * (change in volume) / 2. 1 cubic foot of air compressed to 100 psi is something like 10 kJ. Beware!

If you winterize your irrigation system with compressed air to 100 psi (terrible idea), and you hit a pipe with a shove while it’s still at 100 psi and break it, you will release a lot of energy.
You can see that in even ancient Lisp discussions. The article shows a macro that transforms to a Common Lisp-style LOOP, but LOOP is often criticized as having too much of a DSL syntax and there's plenty of old debates on if it is better to use things like REDUCE or other predecessors of LOOP instead of learning the complexities of LOOP. (On the other hand, LOOP is very powerful, and its mini-query language can relatively succinctly describe a lot of usefully optimized loops.)
If you're mass-producing low-quality sites you would do that on day 1 with each of them. So it likely doesn't weigh positively as much as we would hope.
> - := for assignment is similar enough to what is used in math for definition, so that languages like Pascal use it

I think its cppfront that is taking the approach of `:=` being a declaration with the type being inferred (ie shorthand for `: Type =`). Reading up on that has made me the most ok with applying this to functions (which I see coming up more these days) but I think i still prefer functions having a more distinct look as I process them differently when reading. Now, cppfront's approach to types I think is bonkers, making critical details hard to find except maybe through convention.

https://github.com/hsutter/cppfront

> <> for inequality is something SQL got right

Maybe I'm not recognizing the biases of my own learning background but this never reads right to me vs "not equal" / `!=`.

> - concise keywords like `fn`

In other discussions, it sounded like Graydon had an upper limit of 4 characters for keywords

https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/13oemrg/question_abou...

For me, I had a "whoosh" moment for `fn` and always thought it a weird abbreviation, completely overlooking "fn" keys on laptops.
The fatal mistake is not enabling bounds checking, which most STL implementations support.
It means Atlas is doing a set of shrugs, the exercise, to strengthen his shoulders so he can keep carrying the world as the weight of its problems increases
I’ve done a Remote Desktop equivalent over a modem with PCAnywhere in late 90s. Even VNC which is horribly inefficient compared to better protocols is good enough.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlas_Shrugged

NB I haven't read it and have no plans to - but I suspect that is the reference.
I always assumed the desktop client was built using Electron or something similar, so would be the same for Windows/Linux/macOS, is this not the case?
Rust moved in a direction where it is now a suitable alternative to C/C++ all the way down to operating system code and bare-metal embedded firmware.

Graydon wanted something else even before Rust 1.0 was released. He wanted an OCaml-like language with modern Go/Erlang-inspired higher level concurrency abstractions.
Nobody said it had to be Common Lisp. I'm going by the notation the grandparent commenter used. My point was that indentation can clarify the structure of nested sexps vs putting them on one line. And that is actually what people do. "mod" vs "%" hasn't the least to do with it. This isn't even really about arithmetic; those are just at-hand examples the GP commenter chose. Could just as well have been

(foo
(bar
(baz (bax x 2)
"hello")
"world")
"!")

>the brackets you and the parent used in the s-expr are around the wrong groups of symbols

No they're not. Yours is wrong. Multiplication has higher priority than addition so the order of evaluation begins with (x * 2) not (1 + x).
Sure it does. Freedom of speech has the side effect of wealthy people and organizations being able to purchase louder speech, and often mask that process.
Just more spam and scams than they can handle. 0.5% of all the shit on the Internet is real content. And that stat is from 2015.

Their own fault for monetizing every imaginable search query.

It has provided the incentive to ever spammer and scammer on the planet to mass produce copious amount fake interlinking pages massively larger than actual Internet.
Rust is a low-level programming language meant to control everything about the code’s execution. It will by almost definition, be complex.

You seem to want contradictory things — if you don’t need that level of control just use any of the litany of high level languages with nice syntaxes. I don’t think we can eat this cake anytime.
So don't use it. Why object to those that do have a use case for it?
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been anti-vaxx for many years. When COVID started he went full in on the "5G Bill Gates microchips!!!" stuff and the craziest of the craziest of COVID-related nonsense.
If the site is so good other people should naturally link to it over time and the situation will work itself out.
It's like the tyranny of the rocket equation, but for companies.

To do more (ex open in different markets) you need more people, but with more people you need more support people, which also need to be supported in turn ...

Next thing you know you have 5 engineers on Chaos Monkey so that your 20 SREs can more easily test their globally distributed low-latency CDN. You also have region lawyer manager VPs who manage lawyer teams per country, and are in turn managed by your glonal Head of Lawyering. Who also has an administrative assistant otherwise theyd lose head over the schedule and their tasks...

And we didn't even get to the programmers yet.

In rockets, to go a bit faster or haul a bit more mass, you need a lot more fuel.

Orgs are the same. Except they don't explode. Usually.
You could do both: use DDG but preface search with !brave as needed.
You don’t need a real-time OS.
This is a goal, sort of. They've publicly stated that they want Carbon to be an easy transition from C++, like Kotlin did for Java. But they want a particular kind of language. A challenge with C++ today is that users want very different things. Google doesn't like being limited by strict ABI stability. Other people want to link their code against binaries compiled a decade ago. Carbon is promoting a particular language evolution model that makes sense for a lot of use cases but not all use cases.

It also remains to be seen if it'll work. A lot of people don't trust Google and languages take a long time to build.
> It was always a labo(u)r of love, and never seemed to have widespread support, due to the tiny userbase.

Did Spotify spend time on that?
That is medical misinformation. While reinfections do occur, symptoms are typically less severe. Recovered patients retain a substantial level of immunity, even against newer variants.

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-part2/

The mRNA vaccines used in the USA are very effective at preventing severe symptoms. However they have only limited and temporary benefit in reducing transmission.
The war in Ukraine is pretty clear cut for a modern conflict. It's colonial war with a disturbingly high component of genocidal intent of eradicating Ukrainian culture and identity.

It's as black and white as wars get.
'Old-Person Smell’ Exists, Scientists Say (2012)
CookieCutter is the typical solution for for this.

An alternative is "uPlaybook": https://github.com/linsomniac/uplaybook (disclaimer, I'm the author). It is a YAML-based simple scripting that is focused on simple CLI-based automation, in particular file templating and secrets decryption.

uPlaybook is a small Ansible+CookieCutter combination. In the uPlaybook you can do simple shell-like operations, create files based on jinja2 templates, decrypt secrets, and do some looping/conditionals.

You can define parameters that the user needs to supply (for your "react-create-app" that might be app name, features you might optionally want), which uPlaybook turns into CLI arguments, or it can prompt the user to fill them out.
Yes, but it means problem is somewhere else than Spotify. Especially considering that with Spotify more revenue goes to right holders compared to CD sales.
Does anyone know about a Python equivalent of this?
I think this is going to be an example the "beer distribution game" and the "whiplash effect".

First there are no RPI anywhere, now all the links in the supply chain will have inventory!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer_distribution_game
Why do you act like it's a given that it's in a British citizen's interest to increase immigration? This goes for British citizens of South Asian descent. What have they got to gain?

I'm always surprised to see people with this "we need endless immigration or you won't have diverse restaurants" mentality. And it's always coming from the most privileged people in society, and always condescendingly talking down to people who don't vote like they do. (i.e. people like Guardian writers and you)
>Analyses of volatile organic compounds from human skin (2008)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2574753/
It's a poor user experience because you break it on purpose. Whatever other way they can come up with to permanently identify you, you will block that in the name of privacy and keep complaining.
My very first programming language had fn, so maybe my love for it is just a form of nostalgia.
A lot of Graydon's ideas feel like interesting extensions to ML-style languages. I bet if he had continued down that path, it would have been a lot more of an experimental language with a hodgepodge of different ideas. Which is totally valid (you need these languages to test new paradigms and features), but definitely would not have become mainstream.

Basically, I view Grayson as a leader who set the tone for Rust being a language that was willing to take ambitious swings on cutting edge features. But I don't think he would have been the person to eventually make the cuts and compromises necessary to hew the language into a cohesive, mainstream language. Rust ending up as a replacement C++ helped it not only determine which features to keep and which rules to follow, but also helped it create the right pitch for developers to use it.

This does lead to a larger question about BDFLs. Perhaps, like CEOs, the BDFL you want when you're starting a language is not the BDFL you want when you're maturing a language, or maintaining a language. Especially around feature selection, in the beginning it may pay off to add a lot of features based on user feedback, but later on it may be better to push back more. And from a psychological standpoint, I have wondered about the pressure of being a BDFL. Grayson has been open about stepping down partially due to reaching his limits, and I suspect other BDFLs have thought about it too. The job sounds exhausting and thankless. At a certain point, wouldn't you want to leave and start a new project? And wouldn't we want the person who had success once to give it another shot?
>Nah, just a shill for the banking or residential property business (or somebody stuck with a number of condo's that aren't selling as well as desired).

Or, you know, just someone with an opinion, possibly ill-thought, that is asking about it...

"Shills for the banking or residential property business" job is not to ask such questions in an internet forum to see what others think. Those work in government, PR, NGOs, think tanks, and so on.
Things usually start slow until they accelerate.
And now Google's version is "OR terms we think are close enough to what you mean".
The ads are genuinely disgusting. I don't how stuff like this is legal.

https://youtu.be/EozPi1qmH44
Here's 25 year trend chart.

https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2022/06/01/blog-dollar...

The only way the ratio would change meaningfully is if the current emerging countries dependent on China were to continue to grow strongly for the next few decades.
So are we all now officially complaining about that it stinks where we've SEO-sh*tted for two decades?

Good, then let's get rid of this ad network dystopia which never worked as advertised (they show me special offers for a frying pan, 2 weeks after I ordered one. Laughable ya folks). Replace it with great authentic inspirational content and people will throw their 2 bucks at it.
Spotify did a moonshot to try to corner the podcast market and is now calling it quits.
I not think you know who Walter Bright is :)

In my opinion he wrote wrote of the best c/c++ compilers for DOS. If he says something compiler (c) related, I usually pay attention.
There was a Google search engineer on Reddit who claimed the opposite personally, Google is going down the trash but the alternatives aren't any better. Of course I can find it now, thanks Google.

I wish there was a search engine that ran like mid 2000s google but with a social media component so you can down vote SEO spammer blogs into oblivion.
Can I ask why? Last time I used it, I didn't see any difference compared to the web version. Modern browsers can be controlled through MPRIS (playerctl or the bult-in client if you're using a full DE) and don't waste an additional couple of gigabytes of RAM to play a single audio stream.
"Vote against their own interests" almost always means "vote contrary to my preferences, the imbeciles".
> The podcasting initiative was doomed to fail…

Except that it didn't.

Before Spotify, "podcasting" meant "open medium based on web standards". Spotify embraced/extended/extinguished it to the point that even technical people happily call shows distributed on closed platforms like Spotify and YouTube "podcasts".

Since freeing the word "podcasting" from its open, standards-based chains, Spotify now claims to be the largest podcast listening platform with 25% of U.S. listeners. As a closed platform, there's no way to independently verify whether Spotify is cooking their metrics books.
Silly to see people complaining about search results and indexing without backing those claims with data from search console. It’s like devs turn off their brains when it comes to marketing because they don’t like it.
> With Jack confidently predicting a conspiracy theorist will win the presidency

2016 can't be repeated, people have learnt that hard way