skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have an iPhone 13 mini and I think it's really the perfect smartphone for me. I like the size and shape and I appreciate the overall build quality. But I keep it pretty minimal: I only use the phone, SMS, and occasionally Apple Maps. And the only apps I have installed are Apple Music Classical and Google Auth. No email app either, though I'll install the HEY.com app when I'm traveling. I use the privacy restrictions to disable almost everything including the camera, podcasts, Safari, Health, Siri, etc. I use iCloud to sync my contacts and that's it.

The last phone I had before this one was an iPhone 8, and before that an iPhone 5—both setup in the same way. I've never used my phone for entertainment or for socialization. It's always been a tool and I think it's better this way.

Wendell Berry, The Vacation (1994):

Once there was a man who filmed his vacation.

He went flying down the river in his boat

with his video camera to his eye, making

a moving picture of the moving river

upon which his sleek boat moved swiftly

toward the end of his vacation. He showed

his vacation to his camera, which pictured it,

preserving it forever: the river, the trees,

the sky, the light, the bow of his rushing boat

behind which he stood with his camera

preserving his vacation even as he was having it

so that after he had had it he would still

have it. It would be there. With a flick

of a switch, there it would be. But he

would not be in it. He would never be in it.
This is US-only data.
This is such a cool project. Very inspiring, thank you for posting it

Great example of using AI as a tool to make something exceptional
> I also think it comes down to the values of the creators of any platform. At what point are they going to sell out and why. That really irks me now. Like everything is in the service of wealth creation as opposed to real value. I think the only way to mitigate that is structure the project and team in a way to support it.

This is the crux of why we can't have nice things, and I've been thinking a lot about it. There are so many dynamics that trend towards corporate consolidation and ultimately the alienating effects of modern technology. The money to be made combined with rapid global scalability and network lock-in effects, mean that it's an uphill fight the whole way.

The bright spot is that so many technologists are disgusted with the direction tech has taken, and we have the know-how and agency to build alternatives. In order to address the selling out problem, I think we need to establish some standardized and well understood commitments to shepherding projects, products and companies that have some real teeth while not requiring a vow of poverty to maintain.

The other key piece is finding the right hooks to get normals using these products and not just defaulting to the big tech alternatives due to friction. This is the hardest part by far, but I feel there is enough general frustration with big tech that will be possible to harness in some way. The key will be some kind of killer app that appeals to enough people to gain critical mass.
MS turns evil when it comes to the browser. Maybe for other things too, but I definitely notice it when it comes to their browser. Like every time Edge upgrades, it asks questions using weird wordage to get you to click on setting it as the default browser.
I made a bunch of maps to answer this question! https://www.jtolio.com/2022/07/anthropocene-calamity-part-8-...
>> inventing a cleanly readable but hallucinated license plate number on a car, or financial figure,

This has already happened with copiers, which because of a bug in a compression algorithm, would randomly change figures when copying
It's hard, because sometimes I'm told "The science is settled" then other times I'm told it's always changing.
Mobile web needs to be addressed…
From what I remember last time I checked on this. % of money goes to a pot. Money is then globally distributed based on time listened globally (nothing is specific to you for the distribution).

So barely any of the money you put in goes to the artists you actually listen to.
I never used the loop variable inside a loop in my testing but thank you for detecting this!

I would change it to this, shouldn't slow down the loop either.

for (int i = 0; loops[0].loop_variable < loops[0].limit ; i =
loops[0].loop_variable, loops[0].loop_variable++)
{
// Hot loop here
}
AMD MI300 – Taming the Hype
Alan Kay has talked about this for years. Software right now is relatively brittle — like clockwork. One gear breaks and the whole thing can break. Alan always contrasted this with biological systems which constantly have things breaking but are also constantly healing, often across several orders of magnitude of size.

Bret Victor also mentioned this in his talk "The Future of Programming" — link to specific time here: https://youtu.be/IGMiCo2Ntsc?t=582
I'm not saying better or worse, I'm just saying that it's an embarassment.
They also don't want to share two files, one for the file, one for the signature. Ideally, it's integrated, which means there needs to be some management. And ideally, it's also applied to the data before it's compressed, so that you can apply advanced compression and deduplication to archived documents like zopfli for example.
>IDE's are incredibly unreliable at finding implementations from compiled libs

It’s usually one click in IDE to download the sources of an open-source lib like Spring and one click to find the usages of the annotation in those sources (or better, reads of the properties of that annotation).
I do not think it is really a big problem to find how the code works both at init and at execution stage.
> I use arch BTW

Sigh you people...
Ask HN: Why doesn't Reddit just acquire 3rd party apps?
If people are using 3rd party apps because the 1st party apps suck, why don't Reddit just acquire the 3rd party apps. The 3rd party developers get an exit, and the users get to keep the experiences they like.
Wow the price is surprisingly low.
Poor Man's ChatGPT “native app”
Another moderation risk is that whoever is moderating has an incentive to delete people’s potentially successful posts and repost under their own or a friend’s alt account
I've had a couple HN comment threads recently, about Cloudflare blocking me, and I contacted multiple sites about this, but so far no improvement.

Maybe the right people are hearing, but they consider it a necessary evil of negligible impact (accurately or inaccurately). Or is stuck with Cloudflare, who says they'll take care of it. Or maybe the message is getting lost before it gets to someone who cares.
High Throughput Computer Hard Disk Drive Recycling (2019)
Tree-shaped threads is exactly what I need.
As opposed to the narrative pushed by Western economies to encourage limited forms of economic development in the Global South, by facilitating the creation of captive markets and dependent client states? You know, the normal day-to-day economic orthodoxy the world's been running under for two hundred years?

Which one do you think is winning?

(Also, when you say the Global South, do you mean the Global South that tends to be exempt from, or subjected to less stringent carbon limitations than the developed world? Or do you mean the Global South that everyone starts complaining about as soon as I mention that maybe we should reduce our emissions...)
> I dieted 3 times. The first time I lost 30 pounds and then gained them back. The second and third times, I lost significant weight, and in fact I went all the way down to 143 pounds (I'm 5'10"). I exuberantly donated away a bunch of "fat clothes" and purchased all sorts of new wardrobe, like skinny jeans, size "S" tee shirts, and the like. Then, guess what, I gained it all back.

It sounds like you're saying you dieted to lose weight, then once you reached your target weight, you stopped dieting, and that's when it started to come back. Is that what you meant?

> And ultimately, the diet I eat now is less of a choice and more of something I've been forced into. I went over it in a previous thread and I don't want to rehash that. But just suffice it to say that I really, really long for the diet I had when I weighed 143 pounds, and I wish I could eat fresh healthy food, but circumstances and my disabilities make that an impossibility.

Can you link to that thread?
(DevCycle Co-Founder & CTO here) The truth of the Feature Flagging market is the vast majority of engineering teams aren't using a third-party tool for Feature Flagging. Most teams are using an internal system (Environment Variables, Database flags, S3 files ect.) or not doing any feature flagging. The potential for the Feature Flagging market is as large as any other developer tools market, and the challenge is to build a product with a better developer experience that encourages the adoption of feature flags and integrates with team's workflows.

We've been in the A/B + Feature flagging space for about ten years with our visual A/B testing-focused product Taplytics (W14), so I'd say we have lots of experience running Feature Flags + A/B tests at scale. We've learned a lot from our customers over the years and were excited to build DevCycle as a green-field project from those lessons. If you are interested, try it out and we are always open to direct feedback.
I added that invitation flow in response to widespread abuse of the 1-way add moderator button. As an aside, the invitation message felt too bland and clinical during dev, so I added "gadzooks!" to the beginning, which became a meme for a while.
A redirect to some unexpected IP address. Here's what the output looks like:

190625 0.0.0.0
3 127.0.0.1
1 255.255.255.255
3 ::1
1 fe80::1%lo0
2 ff00::0
1 ff02::1
1 ff02::2
1 ff02::3
I have websites with many many thousands of unavailable videos, images and links. There is no fixing that.
> My brother writes xkcd.

Username checks out.
Under a broad definition of just "abuse", yes.

But "sexual abuse" is a specific thing, and socially attacking someone with revenge porn is not at all "sexual abuse".

It's a different category, just like punching someone in the face is a different category.
> But if I have to choose between diet and normal coke

no one has to make that choice
> Most of the carbon footprint on the planet comes from the relatively low number of people in the US and Europe.

> Not having kids and consuming like crazy won't save anything.

Most of the people on this site are American or European. You are the problem you name.
But "heat index" is already a household term, and essentially has the same purpose [0]. It's like saying the Kelvin scale will end up in household use: I would disagree because while Kelvin is useful, it's not sufficiently more useful than C/F for most household usage.

> people cannot carry out normal outdoor activities past a wet-bulb temperature of 32 °C (90 °F), equivalent to a heat index of 55 °C (130 °F) [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
Yeah, I suspect paid social media isn't going to work. It sucks because it's probably the only sustainable model. VC has really warped people's perception of software costs.
The thing is people want something where they have lots of communities like they do with Reddit. The ease of going there and finding something that is interesting for you is super easy. Switch it out with niche forums andit now becomes checking each niche instead of seeing what pops up. Multiple accounts multiple urls.

Realistically, most Reddit users don’t want that and won’t migrate to smaller niche communities. Smaller niche communities that currently exist are way better than the Reddit versions 9/10.
10% drops in overall comments so average pre and post or 10% in comment rates? I only ask out pure curiosity. I don't expect Reddit will ever publish engagement impacts during this period.
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/hurd/hurd.git/

Here it is
>Mojang

The real danger. (almost unironically though)

I can switch OS, Office is almost obsolete with google + free stuff, their browser/software is terrible and never used, Github(yikes, well, git works..), LinkedIn(and nothing of value was lost).

So we really are at the whim of M$ when it comes to Github and Minecraft. Scary. But hey, I used to be obsessed with Nintendo games, and now people have Zelda clones so I don't need to pay games that are graded on the Nintendo Curve.
"Trust fund kids" are a real phenomenon that many of us have experienced personally. People who never have to work a day in their lives usually end up as insufferable spoiled brats when they grow up, and its not hard to see why
Well, that reminds me of autocorrection in web input fields, turned on automatically. Especially great if there is no proper language detection. You type a message into a text field, and Edge corrects every second word because you are typing in your native langauge, how dare you?! This is totally something I'd enable by default, because, you know, what is there except US and UK? Nah, nothing noteworthy... Ah, the joy. Internationalisation, no surprise its written i18n, it reflects the care and fucks given... Or Apple... I t took them 3 major iOS releases to have umlauts pronounced properly with their speech synth. Umlauts?! Who the fuck needs those?!
Interesting, I was able to sign up with it.

Can I ask if you're using a password manager / what browser you're using?

Also for context, instead of testing password length/number of characters, I look for overall entropy in the formula of [alphabet length for char set used]^(number of letters in password). The one you described is well above the limit.
I've spent 6 years trying to find a proper reddit alternative and coincidentally 6 years in my local area trying to find ANY local friend group for interests I have.

I have better luck online. Heck, I had better luck in mobile game guilds. And the pandemic honestly made things even worse, worse in a way that has longer term effects than I ever predicted.

I can have a whole multi-post rant about the fall of social hubs, the futility of Meetups, and simply the difficulties of a late 20's male trying to find a friend group their age, but that's probably too tangential for a post asking about online communities.
I think a bigger issue is that it apparently doesn't support images exceeding just 9 megapixels, making it unsuitable even for digital photography today. There is a technique of stitching multiple images together, but I'm not sure what other drawbacks this has.

Another problem is that it doesn't support progressive loading in the browser. Meaning the AVIF image only shows when it is fully loaded:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UphN1_7nP8U&feature=youtu.be

That looks really bad for the web and could make AVIF subjectively slower than most other image formats.

It's disappointing. There is a once-in-multiple-decades chance to establish a big new image format -- and then it doesn't even support some basic features JPEG had decades ago. If AVIF wins, we probably would have to live with its problems for ages. It reminds of JPEG not supporting an alpha channel. 30 years later this blunder still causes headaches.

So yeah, AVIF seems to have better compression than JPEG XL, if the subjective examples are reliable, but at least the latter doesn't miss basic features, which seems more important in the long run. Alas, Google/Chrome favors AVIF, so JPEG XL seems doomed.
Ha, I like that one even better "a door is a jar". No it isn't!

Here is some more evidence about nissan doing the same, but I can't find a video:

https://www.curbsideclassic.com/curbside-classics-asian/curb...

"In 1982, the ZX was facelifted, with an updated NACA hood duct, alloy wheels, taillights, more integrated bumpers, and other minor trim changes. ’82s were also bestowed with the infamous voice warning system, shared with the Maxima sedan. Among other things, it would inform you that your door was in fact, really a jar. I imagine it was a feature that was neat for the first two weeks, after which point it would slowly drive the owner insane."
The issue is water and sand. While it's currently supplementing other ecosystems with nutritions, these by themselves won't magically become greenery.

It would definitely have an incredible effect on the climate if you could magically make Africa into a Forest again though. Might even make some parts of Europe uninhabitable with that cooling alone. Not gonna happen though.
I've always liked the idea of this monetization model. But have you thought about how to disincentivize content stealing? Feels like these models end up needing a very thorough verification system.
I have far more simpler (I imagine?) case already in mind, from the recent Cities discussion thread:

>> I would've expected at least a not grid-based zoning so that buildings on curves look more natural. All these empty pieces of land in between buildings look really bad and kind of force us to make grid cities. And that is not even an innovation, it was already present in the SimCity series. But some procedurally generated buildings for smooth corners and connecting buildings would be nice.

> Its hard to make assets that would work with every curve. When you see screenshots of nice cities like this, people are using mods to hand place assets with them clipping into each other to make a unified wall of buildings along the curve or corner.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36294742

ML generated building configurations for city builder games. Readily adaptable to any shape, and as a bonus can break up excessive repetition a bit. If you want to be ambitious, train a model on real-world aerial photos.
Do any real end users really care about "interacting with brands?" If I stack-ranked all the reasons I enjoy the Internet, "Interacting with brands" won't even make the list. What does that even mean? Do people really go online so they can "interact" with Mountain Dew? What would that even look like?

After I wrote that last sentence I checked and indeed the "Mountain Dew" twitter account has 777.2K followers. W--T--F--? Am I the lone crazy person?

Doritos has 870K followers. McDonalds has 4.7M followers. Are these all bots? What real live human being actually wants a twitter feed from Doritos?
It absolutely will. I had toyed with the idea of something like this before, but wasn’t sure what the behavior would look like until I found the cryptocurrency subreddit.

They have a system that rewards a monthly crypto amount based on the number of upvotes you received that surprisingly has an actual value that you can sell for. It’s largely led to a race to the bottom where comments and posts largely ignore any long form discussions or accuracy in favor of majority appeal.
lol, you got me
Do you have the corresponding statistics (income percentiles vs. average house cost) for all areas in the US handy, allowing you to quickly determine this is not possible? Or do you not like the idea and therefore reject it?
My first 5 minutes have been positive. I've worked for years on a similar platform but never expected to have the time to ship, so I appreciate that you've implemented a few patterns/features that I was hoping for, namely tag-based subscriptions.

Bug report: on latest Firefox with uBlock Origin, I have a strange UI bug on the root/home page: without any activity from cursor or otherwise, there is a dropdown that appears to show emails saved in my browser for form auto-fill. This is visible in the top left which seems to be in the same place where your registration sidebar is.

I have quite a number of thoughts and questions which I'll move to the platform. Great job.
I have been hearing this since I was in middle school in the 1970's. I will believe it when I see it happen at a large scale.
%98 lurk, %1.9 comment and %0.1 make content that make the rest of the group come in and lurk / comment in the first place. You probably want to invert the payment model in a way and still give money to content creators, or make it a platform which content creators can get paid and take a cut, like substack.

But you have a chicken/egg issue there too, which is why coke when it was first getting started gave coke to various soda fountain places to bootstrap demand in the first place.
In all honesty, after and during Covid19, I find it hard to trust WHO or anything coming from hospitals’ doctors, integrity was lost, or maybe clear it was gone long ago.
I had the same experience when I went from peanut butter that is just ground peanuts to some peanut butter from some of the big brands. The big brand PB tastes like cake icing.
But container is a form of virtualization.
Sure, but that type of traffic is expected and they can handle it with things like caching and autoscaling. I'm suggesting that a part of the system that usually doesn't get a lot of requests wasn't designed to handle a huge influx of requests.
Baby GPT on a Trip
Here is how you disable that:

1. Go to your favorite search engine

2. Download a different browser

3. Never use Edge again
Founders successfully fundraise and expand internationally with DocSend
Same thoughts here. Overall there's no real exploration or discussion of the particulars that make Mojo a scalable language either which makes it a rather empty article.

Still I do like the idea of "scalable" languages. Nim accomplishes this largely by making programming the "low level" mostly as simple as programming in the large. To be fair Nim doesn't offer too much special for "component programming" like Obj-C's aside from basic objects. Though one could argue making good DSL's is certainly a superpower and benefits component programming.
Bluetooth is an option... But yeah they probably should have included it as a default option and removed the optical drive from the default
I’m sure it did have added sugar. Basically all American supermarket bread products (including most bread!) do, and are are super sweet to Europeans.

It extends shelf life though. European supermarket bread will mould in usually less than a week, but it’s really unusual for an American bread to go mouldy.
LLMs will not achieve this. Full stop.

"Healing" code requires significant amounts of nuance. An understanding of the ecosystem both inside the code and outside. This is even a difficult task for humans to get right. LLMs do know a lot, but they don't understand a lot. Hell, ChatGPT still tells me that a kilogram of feathers and a pound of bricks weigh the same, just because it expects a certain pattern. Even explains why they aren't, but insists they are right. (in before "but GPT4")

--

Prompt: Which weighs more, a pound of bricks or a kilogram of feathers?

ChatGPT: A kilogram of feathers and a pound of bricks weigh the same. One kilogram is approximately equal to 2.20462 pounds. So, in this case, a kilogram of feathers and a pound of bricks both weigh about 2.20462 pounds.

-- As a followup --

Prompt: Are you sure that's correct?

ChatGPT: Apologies for the confusion in my previous response. You are correct, and I apologize for the incorrect information. A kilogram of feathers and a pound of bricks do not weigh the same.

A kilogram is a unit of mass in the metric system, while a pound is a unit of weight in the imperial system. Since weight is affected by the force of gravity, the weight of an object can vary depending on the location.

However, if we assume the objects are weighed under the same gravitational conditions, then a kilogram of feathers would weigh less than a pound of bricks. One kilogram is approximately equal to 2.20462 pounds, so a kilogram of feathers would weigh less than a pound of bricks.

--

And we can see it does even worse. I had to ask 5 times and it gave me every possible answer (it continues to loop if you keep asking btw. It doesn't converge). You don't know when to stop if you don't already know the answer. It will think it is wrong if you keep asking because that's stochastically what it expects: correct answers are accepted, wrong answers questioned. Memory is not understanding, even though they often look similar. LLMs are great tools, but they aren't a replacement for thinking. They require lots to use them.