skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you slow clap at your last statement because you figured it all out?

Because of Elon Musk Twitter has been in the news for months. That includes his impulsive decision to buy it, firing massive amounts of people, and to keep everyone focused on him a barrage of right wing themed tweets about hot button political topics. Of course the news media is reporting on this.

Then a massive US tech company, whose founder has a hollywood blockbuster biopic, releases a clone of Twitter. That's also news.

THEN Elon Musk sues them right after the launch publically claiming former Twitter employees stole code. You know, Elon Musk, the person I mentioned who did all those things he what did.

Then you make this "oh typical US media, the Zucks has them under his liberal soft thumb" comment because no way the news would normally report on all these major public and outrageous figures along their big business infighting
> Bacteria famously can’t

See firmicutes [1] and bacteroidetes: cellulomonas, thermobifida, clostridium. Bacteria also experienced those hundreds of millions of years. In fact, there's some cellulose melting bacteria in your gut right now! ;)

But, you are right that it's not just bacteria [2].

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4143619

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9277587
Its resonance may sustain because theres always people entering the field who are trying to build something, and either get caught up on a frameworks hypetrain or have fond enough memories using a given framework to build something quickly, and then getting burned trying to build something ambitious with a given framework because its opinionation proves to be too rigid one way or another, and a perpetual new influx of these sorts of people are happy to know it isn’t just them who hate (or at least were burned by) frameworks.

Or maybe thats just me.
Glad to hear it. I can write about 10 times faster via a keyboard compared to a screen.
Right, the Hunter Biden laptop story censored by Twitter for the benefit of one political party during a presidential election was somehow misinformation and also a conspiracy theory and racism.

I find the complete unwillingness for everyone still moaning about misinformation to admit they were wrong about that laptop to be probably the most insane thing I've seen in my life. The laptop story wasn't even that important, but the incessant and belligerent lying or moving the goalposts about what happened is breathtaking.

If you ever want to admit you're wrong, I won't make fun of you.
> "Really? I thought you just said that the Universal Hammer was the wave of the future."

This really demands that I link to the "Chef of the Future" Honeymooners episode, which I expect most readers of this site will not be familiar with and that I only know because my dad was a huge Honeymooners fan. It's apt to the blog post, as it turns out:

https://youtu.be/em1DEwOtm3I

To provide some context for the scene, Ralph ("chef of the future") is a bus driver and he's always looking for the next get-rich-quick scheme. Ed ("chef of the past") is his neighbor who Ralph thinks he's smarter than and always enlists in his schemes. Ralph's schemes never work out for him. The scheme in this episode is to sell a kitchen multi-tool ("handy housewife helper"). Here the two of them are supposed to be presenting it to a live TV audience. Unfortunately, Ralph's stage freight and the fact that the multi-tool is worthless get the better of him.

Sometimes when I read about a new framework or other software contraption that's supposed to make my life easier, I wonder to myself: "but can it core a apple?"

> Everyone is using a general-purpose tool-building factory factory factory

So that would be like a 3D printer that can print 3D printers?

Personally, I think I own about 4 or 5 different kinds of hammers. And I'm just a homeowner who fixes things on weekends.
Yes and no, I still remember the times when several Ruby on Rails apps I consulted for had 5ms DB queries and Rails' ActiveRecord was taking 120ms.

Technically choosing C++ over Python will save you several orders of magnitude more than nanoseconds.

Though C++ might be a bad example. I'd replace Python web app with Elixir or Golang.
I get the joke.

I would absolutely buy a tool factory factory. Tempering the steel alone would be worth it.

I’d even be interested in one more layer up, for access to car, rocket and chip factories.
There were movies before Cuckoo's Nest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titicut_Follies
> It's like saying rape victims are too close to rape and therefore their opinions on rape legislation are skewed.

No...no.
Yeah but it must be fixed way more urgently than a problem with efficiency. Imagine if the people voted, and decided to stop the policy despite good result, just because they're fed up of seeing syringes in front of school !

Visibility is the most important metric of a policy in a democracy. Here in China, it's not ! But are you ready to tell people their opinion doesn't matter because you know the result and the result is good despite what they see with their own eyes ? It's hard to swallow here, might be hard where you live too !
What? Its mostly influencer BS with some memes and random dances on Reels and stories to share what you ate today, also out of date news because of an algorithmic timeline.

The algorithm is probably showing you political stuff, but its definitely not the majority of content.
But tst-reflect seems to work by effectively building their own forked tsc compiler.
Q: Why are you canceling our wonderful subscription?

A: Because I don't want to be billed or to pay the subscription fee anymore.
Germany is not customer-review friendly. I got two legal threats over a non-descript 3-star google maps review of a deeply mediocre Restaurant for maliciously damaging their business reputation. Google made me provide receipts to prove I had been there.
Yes, this is the issue I have with all the comments on this thread saying that glassdoor has too many good reviews for a company that the commenter knows is "toxic". I have no idea what "toxic" means to the commenters here. Then I finally see an issue concretely identified: toxic can mean manager expresses an interest in "debating religion at the water cooler"? So what?

I also wouldn't generalize from this poster's anecdote to conclude "This is likely some cultural issue" in the US. I guess religion is a touchy subject in the US compared to more homoegenous nations like in the EU, and a rule of thumb I'd always heard is to avoid it in the office. (They used to say the same thing about politics in the office but that definitely went out the window these last 10 years.)
React is arguably just a library though. NextJS is React as a framework
I was too afraid to leave an accurate/bad review of my previous employer because the CEO was petty and litigious. I don't trust glassdoor to keep me anonymous.
Plus I already knew that HR was producing good reviews to drown out the bad ones.
Why (and How) Phone Numbers Will Outlast Phone Calls
Consultative status is not consulting status. Was this a typo, a misunderstanding, or something else?

Do you understand what consultative status means? If so, can you explain it in plain English? I'm reading online, but it's not really clear.

A lot of these programs are (intentionally and should be) run on RAND terms. A lot are not. For the ones on RAND terms, it's often critical to protecting minorities whom the majority disagrees with, and making processes open and transparent. A majority of minorities we disagree with are wrong and get in as a result of this, but that's an okay price to pay for (1) the sake of the ones who we disagree with who are right (or just different) (2) checks-and-balances on governance and transparency (which the UN lacks otherwise). It often takes just one bad actor as a pretext to kill policies like these, and we're all worse off.

I'm not really sure what FWI's relationship to the UN is. If there's an intentional partnership with bad actors, they should be cut off. If it's an open program, the costs of keeping it open almost always outweigh the benefits of excluding bad actors.

There are also intermediate terms, such as making clear that being part of a program does or does not imply endorsement, and how a name can be used in advertising. The UN's name should not be used in misleading ways.
By definition if we can observe it (either directly or indirectly via the effects on stuff we can directly observe), it's part of the observable universe.

If it's outside the observable universe then by definition it has no observable effect. Until technology improves to expand the observable universe to a degree that we can observe it or it does something that allows us to observe it (which adds it to the observable universe), then it doesn't really matter to us.

In other words: If it's not part of the observable universe, it doesn't matter to us because we can't possibly know anything about it. However as soon as we discover something about it, it becomes part of the observable universe and now we can care about it because we know of it.
I can't speak for SUSE's corporate use, but I use opensuse on my laptop, server, router, and vps. Very nice distribution. That's not to say that there aren't sources/moments of friction and/or concern between the corporate and community, but it comes with the territory I guess.
It is a bit weird.

I've been toying with all the various Twitter alternatives as they have had their 5 minutes of fame and Threads definitely feels different and like it might stick.

That feels like very big news but not to HN I guess?
I know that you're a Google U alumni, but can you give me an example of a modern symmetric cipher that is susceptible to a chosen ciphertext attack?
Why one and not the other? You think china isn't building tons of EV chargers themselves too? High speed rail is nice and all but realistically you're needing to solve the issue of people commuting to work or commuting around town. High speed rail doesn't solve that really at all. You need local transit solutions.
What evidence would satisfy you? If I produced a study I imagine this would not change your world view, especially considering it's your occupation.
The real market is for brands, they can't stand the insanity on Twitter.

I think of Musk's idea of turning Twitter into a super app. Well, if I go into a business and somebody asks me to pay with Twitter that business is going to be associated with Musk, Twitter, and all that. If the business is selling anti-woke razor blades it might be a good fit, but an ordinary business just doesn't want to be associated with that. Contrast that to Visa, Mastercard, or American Express, all of which have worked hard to be associated with a positive image.
Don't forget about the Wuhan Lab Leak Conspiracy™ (which was anathema until ~6 months ago, but now it's the "leading theory").
"Resource Hacker" should be enough to edit some strings, you just need to find the right file.

http://angusj.com/resourcehacker/
I recommend you look at the market share for pc, and the overlap with casual gamer spend for the available casual games.
Book Review: Secret Government
Would love to have a similar and shorter representation dotting how much time you have left in your youth or being physically and mentally capable of doing things you love.
Cheap college exists but students and families repeatedly choose more expensive schools with more services. Low cost colleges go out of business because they are seeing declining enrollment numbers. There are low cost options for those who are looking.

In terms of America having little to show for the Education system, a disproportionate number of the top colleges and universities are in the US.
The fediverse is irrelevant here, threads is already much larger than it, multiple times in fact.

If anything, threads proved how slow mastodons growth was, and how small the fediverse is.
The PDF links for NYT front pages (different versions) are on this page:

https://www.nytimes.com/section/todayspaper
This misses the mark. CS classes and degrees are akin to reading books about swinging hammers rather than just swinging the hammer.
There's a debate to be had on that for sure. I'm not for prohibition, I voted to legalize cannabis (even though I don't consume it) because it didn't seem much worse than alcohol and realistically once 50%+ of you population has tried it, that ship has sailed. Some people claim it helps them relax, sleep, etc...

Now with that said, crack, meth and heroin are not "social drugs" and are not compatible with a healthy society. They are strongly addictive and cause permanent damage. You might disagree (and that's fine), but I don't see how making those legally available outside of addiction treatment facility will lead to favourable societal outcomes in any meaningful way.
Probably unrelated, but here's a neat video about the problems with resin coated rebar: https://youtu.be/xVDy84rR5Z8
TLDW: in practice, it's worse than leaving it bare! Probably unrelated because it's rebar degradation is ionic, so it can concentrate, where decomposition from microorganisms is surely related to the actual surface area.
Nice job! How does the drawing work?

I enjoyed trying to reach the very top of the test level. Spotted your greeting :)
SF was where the Dirty Harry movies were shot. By the standards of the time, SF was gritty and lawless. The movies poke at the luxury beliefs of the elites and what that was doing to SF. However, it got turned around to some extent so that by the early 2000s it was a top place to visit. Many conventions chose it as a destination.

I recall going with a group to Java One and we were all excited to get to SF and the conference.

But it's been on a decidedly downward trend since then, under one party rule. There's no way I'd go to a conference there now, or for any other reason.
This is what I'm referring to for the most part. There are other things like Disney+ carrying pro wrestling in other countries like Indonesia.
We really do have expensive internet in the US. Sim cards when traveling are so cheap. I think I have a 4gb plan with Verizon and it's expensive enough for me.
Essay writing has already become an old world archaic skill in my mind, like a seamstress or blacksmith. People still produce clothing and metal tools, but with 1000x fewer labor hours for the same amount of output and the process looks completely different. Even most of my personal messages get LLMed if they need to be very long or have to explain something complicated.

Critical thinking is still a skill, but even there GPT-4 is great at giving suggestions and ideas when you're not sure what to do. I got into a long recurring argument with extended family members at an event last month. I pulled out my laptop and dropped in everyone's complaints into GPT and asked the best way to move forward. An argument that normally would have gone on for hours was over in 20 minutes, and we actually felt a sense of mutual understanding for once.

The world is changing very rapidly right now.
This feels outside the bounds of what counts as a "Show HN": https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

This isn't something I can actually try.
Well in France we provide methadone and subutex for free to anyone who needs it, but we also chase drug dealers, jail large consumers, do heavy prevention in schools etc.

Our goal was never to stop drug use, we know it's impossible, but to both make it survivable by victims, stop the violence on the citizens who did nothing wrong but walk past a drug victim, and also stop the spread of the victimization (that's why we hesitate so strongly about Marijuana: there's a 100% chance in increases its victims rather than reduce them).

Minorities are not the only drug victims, a lot of the victims are also in people of the mainstream cultural segment of the population. I'd even argue these victims make it all the more important to help control the problem since they have richer parents who hold more power and vote etc.

Don't lose sight of the point, the evil is the drug, not the police, in the drug fight. The victims of the drug trades are killed by the drug in 99% of the deaths, and by police abuse for the rest. It is not a police problem first and foremost.
Differential privacy satisfies a post-processing guarantee. It says that if you take the output of a differentially private process and do any amount of processing and combining with outside information, then you don't learn any more than you would have gotten with the outside information alone (up to epsilon).
Slap 'art' on it and everything goes, right? Critical thinking becomes passe.
I'm not sure if this is the "apt page" they're referring to, but there's https://packages.ubuntu.com/ for Ubuntu. It's helpful for searching package versions across releases, especially if I don't have an Ubuntu server handy. Other distributions have similar pages too, I believe.
I like typia for doing codegen basically in the way this request is asking: it hooks into the typescript API to create runtypes from plain old typescript
Trains can be used for local transit solutions also.
They are supposedly coming "soon".
> The fact that it didn't release with an ability to time-sort tells you everything you need to know.

They announced its coming.

I’m guessing they just didn’t want anyone to see an empty feed on signup day.
> But I am more qualified than you to compare them to other children

Do you have any evidence that your qualification gives you better comparisons?
> No one trusts these review companies

It's not so much that I'd read the reviews, but ranking of results is fatally flawed thanks to these practices.

For many queries (restaurant in town X, book in genre Y) there are simply so many candidate results that ranking is the one and only thing to determine a (much, MUCH) smaller candidate set that the customer might actually engage with. How often do you click through to page 2 of your search results?
I still don't get the hate for <<

it's the coolest part
You should have seen the platform it replaced. ServiceNow was essentially "let's rewrite HP Service Manager from scratch to remove the legacy debt." Service Manager was what you get when you develop a mainframe green screen application using a low-code RAD system and then try to maintain it for 20 years.

Amusingly, I'm consulting with a company now whose business model and product strategy is "a rewrite of Service Manager that's cheaper and more sane." Presumably the cycle of rewriting these kinds of platforms will continue until the heat death of the universe.
Yeah, agreed, this ain’t it.

I do think theres room in the world for typescript to be able to emit runtime code from its types, but I don’t think it should be in the business of writing validation libraries.

Closest they should get to this work is writing an interface to export types types into runtime code that another lib can pick up and write validators with.
If so could assembly be the best systems language?

It is, but it's so non-portable. UNIX was a good compromise. By using C, you only needed to change the extremely low-level C stuff from one assembly-language to another. The rest of C and the operating system remains the same.

That's why the Linux kernel is available for such a huge range of different CPUs.
Roots were calculated at least as far back as 1800BC thousands of years before calculus existed. Trig functions were indirectly messed with since around at least 300BC and was definitely discovered by Indians around 600AD. Meanwhile Calculus wasn't published until the 1700s.
I think the closest I’ve ever seen to ‘murdering’ a series by releasing new media was the final series of game of thrones retroactively killed the cultural phenomenon that it was.

It does not live on much in the zeitgeist.
As I mentioned in the GGGP comment, they don't just build the railroad; they develop most of the parcels before they sell them off. Several buildings they do not sell; they for example tend to build shopping malls, hotels, and apartment complexes directly around the station, and hold onto those, leasing them out to businesses, or operate them themselves. Railroad companies in Asia are much less conservative than in the West, where they mostly have shed all their business except slow freight.
But why didn't those users just go to mastodon?
I do think this is why I sometimes get amazing results, and other times I have to go over a snippet of code so often I just give up and do it myself. It's a matter of how the question was asked in the first place.

Knowing that, it makes sense that your prompt should be as specific as possible if you want the results to be as specific as possible.

The best results I got was feeding it Lisp code that I wanted translated to C (to compile it). It took very little effort on my part because I described what each of the snippets did separately, and the expectation when combined and used together.

Through this, I learned that C doesn't have anything akin to the Lisp's (ATOM). ChatGPT stated clearly that its version of ATOM should only be expected to work in the code it was writing, but might not work as expected if copied out for another use of Lisp's (ATOM).

I asked it to give examples of where it wouldn't work, and it gave me an example of a code snippet that used (ATOM) that would not have worked correctly with the snippet that did work correctly with my original purpose.

Having said that, I myself learned that working with code function by function with ChatGPT, and being explicit about what you need, gives very good results. Focusing on too many things at one time can derail the whole session. One or two intermingling functions works great though.
My mother in law’s phone number (in Germany) is 263. In 2023.
I'm still surprised Apple hasn't had a stab at making the PGP process seamless. I always imagined they'd generate keys on the device, sync via iCloud and publish public keys.

I was hoping their big song and dance over privacy would lead the likes of Gmail, Outlook, etc to adopt native PGP too.

Wishful thinking. :')
are you sure?
I don't have extension installed and I have "Open Link in New Container Tab" button
I think over time HN has become more like a lot of other tech communities; a bit ideological, zealous, and detached. Most of these groups have ingroups (the virtuous hackers) and outgroups (CIA, NSA, RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft, Big Tech, Social Media, techbros, billionaires, <zeitgeist enemy>.) This is the kind of community you'll find in a lot of FSF mailing lists, Libera (formerly Freenode) channels, and Linux subreddits. Threads, being a Meta project, is an outgroup project, so not worth talking about no matter how many use it. The other Twitter alternatives align more with the ingroup so worth boosting beyond their actual usage. It depends on what you want out of a community, some people want a space that is a bit relaxed and others want something a bit more cliquish. The FSF orbit communities have always been on the cliquish side.

For me if I wanted something more zealous I'd spend more time on Libera channels or FSF MLs. The few I do spend time in satisfy my fill of that culture.