skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We can leave away the part about asexuality

Yes, let's, because it didn't support your point, though I see you continue to assert its validity based on a claim to usefulness. Let's address that.

> > From What is asexuality?[1]:

> This links represents neither my position nor my arguments about asexuality, so I will just ignore all said about them.

Actually, it does, because it points out (via its inane existence) that the distinction you make between sex and gender is really a repurposing of the word gender where temperament or personality already sit.

> An example; wearing a skirt is considered female, in western societies. So if I - as a male - wear a skirt, I'm drawing attention and potentially ridicule upon myself. Why is that? My sex is unchanged, I'm still male. But I don't behave according to the societal expectations of how males have to behave.

Firstly, "wearing a skirt is considered female" is an equivocation. "Female" as an adjective is entirely different to female as a noun. Even if your statement is true, applying the adjective does not bestow noun-status on the object. Licking your feet may be feline but it does not make you a feline.

Additionally, males have certain strongly associated temperaments and personalities (e.g. lower disgust response, higher aggression), as do females in turn. These lie on a spectrum, if not some multi-dimensional shape. There are feminine men, or men that have higher disgust response than most other men, or men that enjoy musicals (I'm one), or men that hate sport… or men that enjoy wearing women's clothing. These are not gender, these are temperament and personality. Male is their gender. Enjoying X is their temperament or part of their personality. Expressing higher levels of disgust than most males is temperament. Being disagreeable or aggressive is personality.

Taking up the stereotypical behaviour of other people is not a "gender identity" or an identity at all. The clothes do not maketh the man a woman, and I only used to hear that kind of nonsense from those mired in stereotypical thinking who were often truly bigoted. Plus ça change.

So, grammatically it's not useful - and that's even before discussing pronouns (Lord, save us, this atheist begs you!); in biology it's entirely erroneous; and in life it's undermining free speech, endangering actual females, confusing the hell out of children, and helping close to no one.
While Go’s signal handling is still not without sharp edges, it is by far the most pleasant system I’ve worked with: signals are handled via channels like any other event in your application.

Back when I wrote Python and had to wire up event loops by hand, signalfd seemed to offer a similar experience. Sadly signalfd’s issues are well documented, and it’s really hard to handle signals in complex code bases without help from a runtime like Go’s: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9564975
Time will tell. The issue is not scalability. The main issue is conflict. Twitter has both sides there. Truth social is not mainstream even if the main actor is posting every day. Same goes for the other side. There's also social media fatigue. Tiktok came with something "new" and it's growing because of that. Twitter is trying to move into yt space. Fb is trying to stay relevant in anything related to their core business (aka, ads).
Well to be fair this doesn't "fix" anything. Not denying climate change but really, charging a phone is one of the smallest energy uses in a household. They're probably wasting more energy advertising the feature.

Also, people won't use this all the time. Often when I'm charging my phone I need it charged now, not in 10 hours.
Not that interesting, the app is mostly relying on Instagram infra to operate. Hence, log in with Insta and keeping your username being the primary selling point.
I have followed this approach as well. I use a larger display from further away. I did get a deeper desk to enable this in my current setup. Previously, I mounted my monitor on the wall and moved the desk out ~10" (~25cm).

Either way gives me a greater range of suitable monitors, and they are all cheaper than going for unicorn displays.
I was never able to create an Instagram account because Instagram would just instantly ban any account I created for paranoid anti-spam reasons. Apparently this is [a common problem](https://old.reddit.com/r/Instagram/comments/85wbk1/banned_im...).

So I'm not looking forward to trying to sign up with them.
> And is that good impact or bad impact?

Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg both dropped out of Harvard; whether their impact is good or bad is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yeah fair point.
>effortful

He clearly wasn't effective in his English classes.

>edutainment is not learning

I learned more things from entertainment than any textbook or classroom ever taught me.

Also, his choice of font is a blight upon typography.
I wonder if it was a mistake: it'll be really hard to undo something like async because it infects the code. Which itself should have been a warning sign.
> Sorry your For You page sucks, but that's a you problem.

How so? You're blaming the user for a feature that the user didn't design.

If the commenter complained about their own chronological Followed feed, that would be a "you problem".
If Unix is technical debt, then I'd hate to imagine what horrible word would describe its competitors.
That's a good question, but yes, I am very sure.

I have compared them with magnifying glasses, and really tried to get into why such a (seemingly, at first) small increase in resolution made such a huge difference.

I've compared standard 27" 4K, the LG and Apple 27" 5K ), the Apple 6K and the Dell 8K. It really is just a lot more pixels. The fuzz is definitely small, but there.

Another good test is open VS Code full screen, divide it up into panes, and make the text as small as you can read it. I mean really small. The text on the 6K just looks awful while the 8K still looks good.

Sometimes I do actually do this and put on my glasses (the text is too small for me to read without assistance, but it is still pretty crisp). It feels like a nerd superpower.

There are actually a bunch of us 8K superfans out here on the internet, but it's been a lonely party, because the Dell UP3218K seems to be still the only 8K computer monitor you can buy. (As in a roughly 32" desktop monitor, not a TV.)
And conversely you don’t have access to a few things assembly can do: arbitrary stack access, PC register, flags. Some operations like bit rotation, zero bit counting, or fancier addressing modes have informal code patterns with a hope they’ll optimize right, but nothing guaranteed in the standard.
It because it's integrated with Instagram.
I would prefer people did hyperlinks through URI, and we accepted some centrality to access a URI -> URL mapper. I say "some" centrality because the mapping function is a public good, and will probably have to be done by a number of big entities either through sharding, or some distribution of a centrally managed/maintained core. Analogous to the risk in the DNS, but the DNS is also a public good.
The issue, I think, is that the word "Feminism" isn't used as having a consistent meaning?

Like, it is kind of a coalitional word, I think. Of course, there are a number of ideas in common amongst the various ways it has been used,

and among those ideas held in common, are "women often experience unfair disadvantages due to how women are treated compared to men." and "that should be addressed/remedied in some way.",

and these statements are true.

But, the word "feminism" is not understood to refer solely to those statements held in common. If it was, there would be no such thing as different "waves" of feminism.

Rather, the word "feminism", at least often, is used to refer to "those claims made/supported by a coalition of people calling themselves "feminists".

(Personally, I try to avoid actually using the word "feminism", rather than referring to it, because I think that thinking of it as the name of "a thing" risks confusion which I'd rather avoid?)
Not the original commenter but, it... has a certain look to it. It's not something that can be totally solved by the OS or any scaling algorithm because fundamentally you have to deal with rendering fractional portions of a pixel to a physical screen where there is no such thing as a fractional pixel. It just always looks different, and IMO worse, than integer scaling.

You have to trade off distortions for bluriness and you can't avoid both of those artifacts at the same time. The higher your pixel ppi, the less noticeable any scaling artifacts will be though.
"Marital discord was significantly and positively associated with suicidal ideation and suicide attempt, and these associations remained significant when controlling for demographics and 12-month prevalence of mood, anxiety, and substance use disorders" [0].

[0] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/sltb.12157
The details of the curve, the finite field, and point P are chosen ahead of time (at least with modern curves… you used to be able to choose a custom P and it led to security flaws). When we refer to something like “X25519” or “NIST P256” it means the combined set of all three things.

In TLS terms the client connects and says “is X25519 good? I can also do these other curves” and the server either agrees or chooses another curve in its response.
I think Facebook/Instagrams very "PC-model" of moderation will allow for Twitter to coexist with them.

There's a tangible difference in Twitter now that Musk took over. Raunchy, sometimes offensive jokes are now actually possible on the site. I use Twitter a lot more than I ever did because of it. I don't want Instagram 2.0 with nothing but "models" and stolen videos.
I’m curious what the usage figures are like: everyone I know who bought VR rigs basically stopped using them and if the WSJ was right earlier this year the best MAU was a third of the total sales:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktok-parent-bytedance-battles...

I suspect that gets back to the space / isolation problem: if you don’t live alone there’s probably just not enough time where you’re using VR to be worth the purchase price to most people. That doesn’t get better until they’re cheap enough that the entire household can have their own or people find professional reasons to own one.
foo.h defines i64 as “long” and bar.h defines it as “long long”. Now what?
I felt like I needed to qualify it since I'm pretty aggressively claiming they're going to defenestrate twitter here.
Well I for one am actually looking forward to relevant ads.

On Twitter I've been shown everything from industrial mining supplies, nipple covers, psychology research papers, super yachts, home shopping network junk and just now an ad for an oral dosing technology conference.
The problem at Goodreads is not that they haven't made any improvements over the past decade that Amazon bought it. The problem is that they've only made technical improvements and other changes under the hood that no user ever notices. They weren't able to drive a strong product vision forward under Amazon because of poor product vision and poor organizational incentives. It should be a cautionary tale to the people who always complain about not working enough on tech debt - too much of that can be fatal too.
Only if all those iphone users use this feature all the time, and only if before enabling this they always happened to charge when clean energy wasn't available. This calculation is very optimistic.

Often people need a phone charged asap so this won't work.

If they actually make iphones more repairable and last longer so they don't have to waste natural resources to make new ones, it would have a far larger impact. But hey then they'd be making a little bit less profit.
FTA:

> One major American study suggested that up to a quarter of young alcoholics have a social anxiety disorder

Ok, and . . . . ?

I met my wife and successfully courted her because of alcohol. There is a precisely zero percent chance that I would have my family today if I did not have the option to use chemical assistance to overcome my innate aversion to socializing and empathizing. I transform from a robot into a human when I drink.

And the author wants to take that option away from me, and many many others. It is our personal decision to trade the 0.03% decrease in brain volume and infinitesimally increased risk of cancer for the option to relate to other humans.

The author's correlation to depression is laughable. Alcohol helps many of us actually relate to other people, thereby staving off said depression.

Data point of n=1:

Before alcohol: 0 friends, 0 romantic relationships, 0 children, mired in loneliness.
After alcohol: Many friends, 1 wife, 3 children, 0 loneliness.

Prohibitionists can fuck off.
Huh?

Zig, like Rust, has two kinds of "primitive" numeric types, the kind which are an explicit size in bits (u8, i16, f64 and so on) and then the word size ones (isize, usize), which are whatever size is suitable for your target machine.

C gets this all muddled because it has named primitive numeric types but their meaning is imprecise, and then it uses a typedef to assign one of these (but you don't know which one) as the native word size. So maybe long is the same as your size_t, and C will just assume you know what you're doing when you write a long where you need a size_t - thus making your code non-portable.
The cherry (or turd?) on top is that the platform is manned by a skeleton crew.

I kid you not: I recently saw a screenshot of a post by an engineer asking ex-Twitter engineers for help debugging an issue.. on Blind. Mind you, I don’t blame the engineer at all: it just gives you an idea of the mess Musk has made for himself.

I think the fact that the platform is still running is a testament to those who built & documented the infra. It’s also a feather on the cap for those who remain to man the ship, particularly if there was no other choice.

One catastrophic outage is all it really takes at this point.
> Twitter is is ok to get info really fast, rarely goes down, you have access to all kind of views (from extreme left to extreme right).

Twitter was ok to get (and, equally important in my opinion, share) info really fast; now you need to have an account, be logged in, and be under your meager daily quota to even be allowed to see anything. And everyone you want to share info with needs to do the same. The recent changes have pretty severely undermined what made Twitter stand out among its larger competitors.
Sure there is: when I’m parsing or serializing something it’s pretty important I know what size something is.
Wish I'd known that it was difficult to become homeless back when I was. It seemed really easy at the time, all you had to do was get evicted. Not sure how it could be easier now.
Had the same experience with Facebook. Looking back, I’m glad it happened that way.
That is not what I’m saying at all though? The article is literally a defense of the existing system which allows those that own valuable assets to keep them and price them accordingly.

The closing paragraph was more to point out that if you do want to encourage development of domains and prevent squatting and overcharging - regulation could be a way to achieve that. I’m not endorsing the view just commenting that that’s a way real estate deals with the problem.
Interesting way to do things there. Have you looked into Pulumi or Terraform CDK?

I don’t know if either of those would help you or not and I’m not proficient in either, but some of the components you described seem like they might have some overlap.
They’re better than implicit assumptions that int is 32 bits.
Will they win the journalist contingent? Twitter won mostly on news.

Facebook has celebrity influencers but that is a different demographic.

People are not interchangeable. Eg Journalists would make a very dull Instagram.
It's really awful in Go to create concurrency patterns. In particular because the generics are clunky and verbose, and there are no type classes/traits. There's also no good cancellation convention: Context is verbose, dynamically typed, and not used in all the standard interfaces.
Aren't those the accounts he's subscribing to?
The qubits aren't all coupled all the time. The whole point of a 2-qubit gate is the coupling is controllable. Also -- why is the gap of the bare system important? The whole point of QEC is the creation of a decoherence free subspace. Your model is wrong and you don't understand quantum error correction.
In modern curves P is set in stone head of time.

In the early days of EC you were able to pick a custom base point, and then it was found that this could leak information in various ways. It’s not allowed in modern curves or implementations.
The first cut is the deepest
> whether their impact is good or bad is left as an exercise for the reader.

Bad.
There is a different subscription for "Teams", aka business use.
It is a decision, but, I wouldn't say it's a "big" one. It is possible to come off TRT, though it's a long ramp-down period. The TRT itself isn't really a hassle, I just poke myself in the butt twice a week. I've worked it into my morning routine: shave, shower, teeth, poke.

I was like you before I started TRT, super hesitant, and worried I would just be poisoning myself. A good friend of mine kept pushing me to try, and I can't say I have any regrets.

For me personally, I wouldn't want to come off TRT, I feel so much better consistently. IMHO, there are no downsides, at least none yet that I've experienced.
> Musk's actions generally speaking make a lot of financial sense, it's just that he bought a company that wasn't founded on financial sense...

He bought it for ~40% more than it was valued and then scared away a lot of advertisers. That does not make financial sense, and is in large part the root of Twitter/his money problems.
Justin Jaffray is a gem
Well, they certainly weren't interested in stepping outside their business model. I think I showed that pretty conclusively.

As far as "knowing what they had" -- Jerry and I did write about that:

https://www.albertcory.io/lets-do-have-hindsight

it's not so much "not knowing", it's not being interested in taking over the computer industry and not wanting to understand it. They wanted a machine they could sell through their copier sales channel, period.

The part where Don Massaro says, "The desktop is OUR market. The 820 is just to hold our place on it until the Star is ready" (and yes, he really did say that) betrays a stunning blindness to what was going on:

"People are bringing their Apple II's to work so they can use VisiCalc? Well, we'll put an end to that stupidity!"
As respectfully as possible: can you define what you mean by scraping? Because it seems very much like you don't understand what that word means or are using it very idiosyncratically.
internal, sorry
Reminds me of how Instagram absorbed Snapchat usecases with stories. Instagram tackled the competition for ephemeral stories simply by implementing Stories as a feature.

This time, Threads is a fully fledged app. Getting users to adopt a new app might take as much time as getting Messenger installed. Still, Instagram has a robust social graph to lead users towards downloading it. In fact, they seem to have already onboarded users when they implemented part of Threads with the status update feature in the Instagram messages view.

Twitter will probably remain used by relatively "anti-social" people. In the States, that may be by politicized users, fueled by Elon's freedom fighting. Here in Japan, Twitter is very popular because of the sense of anonymity, coupled with the use of Kanji characters that achieves concision within 140 characters. Instagram might be too social for us (esp. male older than 25).

It will probably pain me to see the diaspora of users among many microblogging services. The transition to a new microblogging hub may be painful for both Twitter Inc (ie. X Corp) and Twitter users.

It's funny to see that Threads is the re-implementation of Facebook status updates before news articles swamped the Newsfeed. Meta's microblogging came back full circle.
Your atomic increment may turn into a function call if it’s targeting multiple microarchitectures.
When people are hyping something that is probably still 20 years out, i think its safe to say they are trying to sell you something.

Quantum computers will be a real (albeit not earth shattering) advance, but we are still far off.

Still rather people pump money here than crypto bs.
Justin also has a post on WCOJ that's really solid:

https://justinjaffray.com/a-gentle-ish-introduction-to-worst...
Is this specific to the curved ones? I've got the Dell G3223Q, a flat 32" 4k 144Hz, no flickering on my M2 MacBook pro or my Framework with PopOS. I run it at 1080p (2x scaling) on both and connect through a CalDigit TS4 w/ DisplayPort.

I like it enough I'm considering a second. Only downside is no usb-c.
> in his English classes

How's your italian?

(「ペンネ」wa, oishii desu ne?)

Edit: for that matter, effortful has become more cromulent than I would've guessed: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=effortful&year...
effortful
adjective
showing or requiring effort

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/effortful
> I learned more things from entertainment than any textbook or classroom ever taught me.

It sounds like you should have probably paid more attention to your books, and in the classroom.

If you can't get much value out of subject matter experts condensing the salient points of a topic into a book, with accompanying exercises that require you to master those points to solve...

It probably means you didn't do the exercises. Do the exercises.
I’d really love to see some actual creativity out of the biggest names in the industry, instead of this endless regurgitation of whatever idea got the tiniest bit of traction most recently.
Well, it was announced that naughty old mr car would be buying twitter in about April last year. From then, there was enough chance it might all go horribly wrong that maybe they could justify this project.
I agree that it makes no sense that there's no syntax in modern languages for concurrency. With structured programming we have single threaded stuff all figured out. There needs to be an equivalent for concurrency. Maybe it's incorrect to think it can be done with special types like Future/Promise or whatever. Where are the if, while, for, return, drop of concurrency?
They also instantly reverse that if you follow the email prompt/mobile prompt. No idea why they decided to handle anti-spam that way.
You:

> You may be surprised to know that, when doing a "conventional" CC transaction, you are most certainly not giving any stranger information that would allow them to perform a transaction in your name on another merchant.

How do you know as a client the merchant doesn’t have a skimmer embedded in their payment page? Or that they don’t post directly to their servers (whether accidentally or not)? Are the PCI police going to catch them? Maybe they want to store cards to process later and don’t know or care about pci.

The problem is using the same details for every transaction in a loosely authorized way.

In a perfect world the merchant won’t have access to the card details (like with one-time payments) and everything would go thru a provider with a preauthorized payment. But we don’t live in that world right now.
I'm not too familiar with mobile app dev but why is the app 254 MB? I just compiled a 3rd-party Android Reddit app with a different oauth client_id and the apk was 18 MB. What are they packing in there?!
Apple shipped a LLVM cross-compiler for Apple silicon on day one? Not entirely sure what you mean here.
I am completely ok with this. Let the mainstream have their thing and keep mastodon weird. Right now it’s got a usenet/bbs vibe and I love it. That goes away as the mainstream/tide comes in.