skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the real longcon of this is to seed people into a TikTok competitor using the existing meta user base who will gladly give it a try initially. It will catch plenty of the Twitter crowd and even reddit crowd but that's just a coincidence of the state of those platforms. Long term I think it will be to agrigate their more active users away from Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat into something that provides the lowest common denominator of all of them so they can slowly erode them as part of the Embrace Extend Extinguish playbook taking a cue from M$
They took the best engineers and lessons learned from the platforms they bought but ideally they don't want to maintain products that do 80% of the same functions
Very wrong. I do hope they reach this level of consumption. But don't do it by relaying on cars as a primary means of transport. The car market should stay small even as the economy grows.

This can be achieved by systematically ban cars from cities. By investing far more into trains then into highways. By having good public transit even to remote places. And by encouraging small vehicles when necessary.
That interview process is just a bit pompous. In my experience, companies that try this "every single person in the company needs to sign off" sort of strategy are looking for pretty much any slipup or inconsistent answer to a question and will use that at any point to make a negative decision. It's also a glaring red flag that the team might be awful at making decisions.

I once went through this at a different company, and after something like 6 stages, including the CTO and others with fancy titles, I was given an automated rejection. Apparently—after badgering someone for whom I had their email—someone in the chain didn't like that I gave kind of a vague answer to a question, and so that was it.
It depends on what the goal is: in this case, fbcdn is first-party for the threads website (because they’re both owned by the same company) and blocking it makes for a worse experience.
Are people actually complaining that you can't trade in software?
So, you disagreed with the article, agreed with me, but decided to leave a pithy comment giving the impression I was arguing for the kind of dogmatism the article advocates? Cool. Probably don't do that.
This is a nice way of explaining a concept, and could probably be applied to any complex topic. As someone who learns best by analogy, concepts usually "click" for me once I've associated them with a few other concepts. So I appreciate the format, and would personally enjoy seeing more explainers like this (and not just about database topics).
Slight correction, the monitor will run at full resolution (6144x3456), but with 24-bit color instead of 30-bit. To get 30-bit over Thunderbolt one has to run it at 6016x3384. So effectively, you get full PPI or full color but not both.
So basically like predicting Instagram will destroy Snap/Tiktok by cloning features like stories?

One of those HN threads you see people bookmark and bring up years later to show HN's competence at prediction using only the current day market players which they glibly generalize as generic pools of social media users going to these sites for their feature sets, like buying CDs of software by looking at the back cover at a store in 1998.
Yes, on my SE 2. I can’t keep more than a few tabs open in the background, and have to force close apps as well. If I don’t it slows to a crawl and the phone gets hot (noticeably warm).
These letters stopped for me when I enabled whois privacy on my domains. Which sucks, because if you need to get a hold of another domain holder... you have to basically pray that the registrar will give you the information (or pass your contact information along), or lawyer up and sue them for it.
Gallium
The only way to stay away from trolls is running an instance at localhost without any networking. I thought social applications were meant to connect people.
Facebook exists because they started off as .edu only.
I do my best to stay on "Peak Windows" - Win 7

(on the rare occasion that I have to run Windows.)
Gmail also had so much hype around it, invites were sold online (I paid ~1.10€ or something on eBay). ~~Blusky, not so much.~~
You sent me all these great texts and then ignore them when they don't show what you said they would. Being a straight nerd does not in fact put Aaronson in one of the least privileged classes in society. It's not actually misandry for men to be criticized for common bad behaviors justified by an ancient system. I'm sorry that it's hard on men to internalize the lessons of the anti-racism, anti-sexism, and queer liberation movements. Imagine being a rich person hearing "billionaires suck" while you're writing a check to charity on your private jet. That must feel like a slap in the face.

When you say it hurts to hear "men suck" my flippant response is "Have you tried not sucking?" If you have and were successful, then feel free to ignore any men-sucks coming your way. That's what I do. I don't know what else you're asking then that men's behavior just not be critiqued, or only ever be critiqued in a completely dispassionate way that ignores the dynamics of women's suffering and recovery. Do you get upset when an abused dog acts skittish or barks around you? Do you think the dog is being anti-human for not immediately realizing you're one of the good ones? How is trust regained once broken?

Why are we comparing being socially awkward to being gay or a woman? Because we're each lower-status in society? Because nerds defy certain social expectations for manliness like gay men do? Ok. But one can get over being social awkward, one can gain confidence, and put work into building skills for reciprocal relationships; but you can't get over being a woman or a fag. Refactoring unworkable notions of manliness sounds like it would be of benefit to nerds, women, and queers.

If you're suggesting we need a movement to help men figure out their way in a changing society, then I'm all for it. I was member of one myself back in the nineties. There are many ways men suffer under patriarchy and much work that has already been outlined. Paternity rights, anti-circumcision, domestic violence and sexual assault resources for men... If you were to start a men's organization, what would it look like and what would you work on?
I think this is a biased view held by people who migrated to Mastodon. In my experience on Twitter, the coding topics are as lively as ever, particularly around Web development. Personally, the introduction of the "For You" page has triggered me (very low following, previously inactive) to interact with accounts just because the algorithm does such a good job of surfacing relevant niche technical content for me.
Since most computer OSs keep some things in the same place all day, wouldn't you get a lot of burn in with an OLED?
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Tech stack: Vue, Node.js (express), MongoDB
Did that happen with substack notes?
“The Idea Factory”
Bell Labs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idea_Factory
A few cools things I learned from this article:

- 7z is a pretty awesome tool if I ever need to unpack archives and don't know the specific program or command arguments to do it myself

- .dmg, .deb, and .rpm files are really just standard archive files, not file formats by themselves (I knew they were archives previously, just didn't know you could just open these with standard tools such as 7z)

- macOS App Translocation exists [0] (never heard of this before, possibly because I don't use mac)

- GNU ar [1] is a thing that exists (of course I know about GNU Tar [2] and use it a lot, never heard about GNU ar or its UNIX counterpart before though). Tangentially, I also discovered POSIX does not use the tar command anymore and instead goes for pax instead for some reason since POSIX.1-2001.

Was expecting a lousy post due to some typos in the text, also not necessarily interested in Electron but got pleasantly surprised and learned a ton about a variety of things.

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/724969

[1]: https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/binutils-2.12/html_node/...

[2]: https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/
Admittedly, I haven't worked as a video editor since 2011 and never edited telecined footage, but my understanding from friends is that little had changed. Specifically I have heard them complaining about it. That streaming platforms specifically want progressive scan makes plenty of sense to me of course, but conflicts with what I've heard for whatever reason.
Sadly I don’t think Hack adds DMs either. I’ll pile on here and ask if there’s any chance you have an extra code! Thanks either way! rwl4@duck.com
Not sure what ads have to do with my response. I don't monetize with ads. A lot of software does, and it can misalign incentives. The user becomes the product instead of the customer.
It's very uncommon to find a monitor or TV that actually does non filtered integer scaling, most apply a blurry bilinear scale that looks awful. And afaik there are no external HDMI pixel doublers on the market, I would buy one in a heartbeat.

Native 720p does look slightly better than integer scaling to 2x because of subpixel stuff, and generally liking that LCD look. But integer scaling would be enough really.
There are quite a few such foot guns in nginx, it's part of why I've moved to using caddy.
I didn't know. I suppose this speaks to Instagram/Meta’s differing strategy: build a product as a separate app and then fold its successful features into its main offering. (Eg., Direct, Layout, Boomerang, Hyperlapse).
I consider it like using photos in public. It's legal. People are being so weird about this.
Did Musk think Twitter actually had a moat (thus he didn't have to be overly concerned with his actions promptly sinking the ship)? It would be hilariously delusional if so.

Of course it had a moat, wow.
That's fine. Blocking their entire website from ever hitting your feed takes 2 clicks.

My point is that this really doesn't matter. If they use ActivityPub as-written, both clients and servers can stop Meta content from reaching their feed. If you just find Threads content annoying, you long-press the post and tap "Block Instance". If you're a site admin and have been given a legitimate reason to block Meta for API abuse (eg. poorly-moderated content, spam, advertisement) then you can exercise your defederation power and be within your right.
Finally a public forum controlled by the right kind of people.
Its pretty sad given how most cloud providers price out IOPS.

I've had to explain numerous times to our engineers that their laptop is running around 10x the IOPS of our database (~40,000). Table scans are actually more performant on a dev laptop than a replica.
> I was spending tens of hours listening to politics on the radio. But when I tried to use any of those points in a conversation, I found that I didn't actually know enough to make a coherent argument.

Interesting to hear this. For me it's the opposite; while listening I conduct mini arguments with the presenters in my head, and come up with counter arguments, and counter-counter arguments, and counter-counter-counter arguments.

But a better habit is first check if it matters. Most of the time standing back and asking "why are we even talking about this?" - is the correct question, because usually there's no good reason; it's 'news' aka noise (definitely not education).
> Nothing allocates on the heap, without you knowing it and letting it happen. Zig utilizes the Allocator type to achieve this. Any function that allocates on heap receives an Allocator as parameter. Anything that doesn't do so won't allocate on heap, guaranteed.

That might be true for the standard library, but it is definitely possible for a function to use an allocator from a struct or a global. Not to mention calling a c function that allocates.

> Safety tools to avoid memory leaks e.g. std.heap.GeneralPurposeAllocator

Maybe I'm missing something, but AFAICT, that doesn't prevent memory leaks, it just has the ability to log if there were leaks. Like a built-in valgrind.

> [Zig] helps your remain safe and avoid leaks

So it talks a little about how to _identify_ memory leaks, at runtime. Which is also possible in C with tools like valgrind. But it doesn't mention defer, which is an advantage zig has over c (at least portable c) for memory management. And it doesn't talk about the "safe" part at all, which I would take to mean protections against use-after-free, double-free, unitialized variables, invalid free, etc.
>People don't trust it, and are caring far less.

not trusting or caring so much about social media is the absolute best thing that can happen to social media. and i don't mean that in a negative way, i don't hate social media. it should be a fun thing, people blindly trusting it or caring too much about it makes it less fun.
Which makes no sense.

They wanted Google to federate. They still want Apple to open messages (xmpp)... And this? Block it before we see it.
I never realized there were apartments up there! Fun idea.
If you can't be bothered decoding the QR code:

https://threads.net/download/redirect
Buy sell groups or niche interest groups? Do you discover them from search
We have ultrawides at the office that send usb to the source of video in auto mode but also has a button to override that and you press it to toggle between targets. Not sure about brand and model. Can check it when in the office.
With my Apple account, I didn't even remember 2fa having been set up at all. And if I had backed it up, it would have been to a computer that itself had been replaced when it died. With the Time Machine archive having been corrupted and unrecoverable, so it would have been lost.

Today I've noticed the qr seed idea. But I'd prefer having my personal phone having access to nothing irreplaceable, and not worrying about it if it dies.

If I work in an environment that needs to be secure, then I'll worry about following security recommendations. But to whatever extent possible, I prefer not working in an environment that needs to be secure. And then not bothering with the UI disasters that secure solutions regularly impose on people.
Tell HN when you solve the latter!
Do HN users just generally prefer to talk about whatever interests them, while totally ignoring the article they are allegedly "commenting" on?

There was nothing in the article about robots or AI, OK? Maybe that's what you like, but this article isn't about that.

Current estimates are that ~6M people in the US have dementia today, out of a population of ~340M. Let's call that about 2%. Immediately obvious conclusion: There is not shortage of population to serve as caregivers.

What there is a shortage of is anyone who would actually want to work in a US dementia care facility. It's one of the lowest paid, least appreciated and most grueling occupations. Emotionally grueling as well as physically. How many 80 year old's butts did you wipe on Zoom today?

In spite of this, most staff I encountered were dedicated to the residents.

Maybe you're ready to lock your senile parents in a room with a robot dog, but I'm here to tell you that the human interaction is one of the only decent things in US assisted living. This is 100% from the people n the trenches. Healthcare ownership are bloodsucking jackals. Once you remove that person to person contact, the only thing left is ownership exploiting the defenseless.
> but I see comments like this and I just see it as wishful thinking.

Usually with black/white motivations as to why they want it to die while disregarding the realities of social media markets and network effects. See: the countless threads about HN users deleting FB 6-7yrs ago. Meanwhile Meta is doing just fine.

Someone should make a chart of all the times HN claimed FB will die because [x] and overlay it on their stock price: https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/quote/meta
I mostly agree, except this is a simple game. It should be simple to play.

If folk aren't seeing the text laid out in front of them, there are a couple tricks - demonstrate, make the instructions pictographic/difficult to dismiss.

There is a fine line between making your game accessible and providing too much instruction, but I can think of a couple visual cues that probably could have been given.

That being said I had no problem reading the intro, on the other hand I will regularly finish those long, long, long 45 minute articles that have "congratulations you made it to the bottom", and I know generally people who are great at reading much, much faster than me have little problem figuring out "techy" things, so I do think in general people just don't read enough.
Ask HN: Biggest Code Speed Up?
Curious what your biggest code speed up has ever been?

Mine, obvious, but switching from element wise operations to “vectorized” operation.
Instagram is a more oriented community. I do not care about Facebook, but on IG I have a lot of likewise minded people. Making this into a more sprawling community platform makes sense.
If you say so. Migrated in December full time and I'm having a vastly better time than I ever did on Twitter. More, and higher quality, engagements with folks. But go ahead and pretend it's some big fail.
I think the next article could be about group by.

Like (only intuitively sofar...)

A group by from A rows to B rows
- is a map-reduce job
- is an AxB linear transformation matrix from your linear algebra course
- is...
Then you're lucky. I've definitely seen the phrase weaponized. A lot.
Have you tried that? How does it actually work? Does it not add lag?

I use a USB switch connected to both displays for my input devices so I can switch between screens/computers: https://a.co/d/ckNXGpt
seriously why put it behind a QR code, why not make it a clickable link. It's not just threads, I see this annoying design pattern everywhere and I cannot fathom why people are doing this
I'd like to see a fork of SQLite that "supports the PostgreSQL wire protocol and the majority of PostgreSQL syntax" (to quote another popular db).
The wider fediverse continues to demonstrate why most people prefer to stick to centralized social media. If I wanted to deal with moral busybodies who feel like they have to respond to everything, I'd just tune back into the political side of Reddit and Twitter.

With the fediverse, the most likable servers I've interacted with all just let people do whatever they want as long as it isn't illegal and doesn't overload the server. It's great not having to see the moderators and admins freaking out over yet another perceived slight against their ideology every other day.
Ask HN: Where do you buy electronic components in the Bay Area except online?
I keep finding myself in the situation that I need some electronic components "right now" and I can't wait for an online order.

In Berkeley I used to go to Al Lasher's on University or Radio Shack, but with both of them gone now is there no other option than to go online and wait for delivery?
I will do the counter-argument: this app is from Instagram, so it might have an higher success rate. To have worked in big corporate, new products are often entirely managed by a division, and only a reporting is done to the central entity.
Location: Idaho

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes (except to Seattle, CA, New York, Florida or Texas)

Technologies: Rust, Node.js, Go, Vue, Azure, Big Data Tools

Resume: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1R3YWdfAd_aYqQ8BzCNNx1RXr_77...

Email: johnw.darrington@gmail.com

I'm currently working as an architect for the Idaho National Laboratory. Looking to broaden my horizons - literally. Hoping to find something that can get me and my family out of Idaho.

I've worked on big data systems and management for a while, helping write a custom data lake for INL in the process. I've managed teams and projects at various sizes. I'm hoping that I can make a difference somewhere and build a great product and team.
Would you be open for any internships? Your product sounds quite interesting.
The need is convenience, of course.

Are you really going to encrypt alerts your servers are sending you with GPG?
Me: I couldn't speak about "coding twitter" in general

You: I think this is a biased view held by people who migrated to Mastodon.

Me: ???
Thanks for the correction :D

The main issue is that users reported that text does not look very nice when the monitor runs in 24-bit color and full resolution, which is a bit concerning when considering the asking price.
What would be more proper in this case is to make it 64" display. Otherwise it is just a waste of resources. But one can not sit in front of 64" monitor at a normal viewing distance. I would guess except some very limited niches 8K PC monitor makes little sense
Some will choose to federate with it (if it's an option), some won't. Just as they do with other instances. That's the beauty of it. Fragmentation is not a bug, it's a feature.
If you don't care about exotica like async or signal safety, and just need to see the callstack from arbitray points, this can do the job without C++23:

https://github.com/Ardour/ardour/blob/master/libs/pbd/stackt...

(2 different implementations, one for POSIX-y systems with the execinfo.h header, and one for Windows)

The demange() function is elsewhere.
> Why does “..” in paths only work sometimes?

That fully depends upon the file permissions. In this case, let's assume that a user has permissions to read files all the way from the web index directory (../index.html) back to the root directory (/). At that point, since they have permission to traverse down to the root directory, they now have permission to view any world viewable file that can be traversed to from the root directory, for instance /etc/passwd.

In other words, imagine a fork with three prongs, and your web server resides on the far right prong. Imagine that the part of the fork where the prongs meet (the "palm" of the fork) is the file system. If your web server residing on the far right prong of that fork allows file permission to files and directories that lead all the way to the palm of the fork, at that point you could continue accessing files on other prongs once you have reached the palm.
werc, shttpd, etc.

Treat any web request like you would a real user on a Linux system you'd need to give access to to download files via scp. Chroot, strict permissions, etc. Can't escape what you can't escape. A ../ should return the same as expected in the shell, permission denied
Will be interesting to see how much this is a genuine business for Facebook vs just an opportunistic dig at Twitter/Musk. It's actually been kind of weird watching all the big tech just stand to the side while Twitter implodes.
Threads can succeed on sports alone. NBA/NFL moving from Twitter to Threads will pull millions. And those users are IG friendly
> "what made Twitter great" was the easy to digest brands, the non-anonymous accounts sharing their day, and journalists/other named professionals

You should be in sales lol, just sell the B2B folks on ads and sign them up for multi-year deals like Spotify, by selling a tiny set of uber celebrities and brand names that no one gives a shit about enough to switch platforms. Forget what the users are doing which is posting as much as ever.

I'd loved to bring up old HN threads announcing the death of Facebook using similar broad strokes. Apparently Meta is the competent one now because they pigeonholed a cloned feature on their platform + the alternative is no longer cool among the tech crowd on a niche programmer/startup forum.
I have used Caddy for years, automatic SSL certificates, does file serving, does reverse proxy, very easy and clear to configure. Single-binary (Go) so easy to "install", single configfile.