skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Okay, I googled your claim, here’s what I get for the prompt “is social science a science?”

“Social science is one of the branches of science, devoted to the study of societies and the relationships among individuals within those societies.”

What are you even talking about now? Sure there is a difference between social science and, say, physics, which is why they have two different names. Yes they are different subjects. They are both branches of science though. Why are you moving your own goal posts? You weren’t arguing earlier that “there is a difference” between social science. You were arguing that social science is not science, which is false.

I don’t know why you think casting doubt on Wikipedia using ad-hominem tactics is a good idea. That’s a pretty weak argument, you can do better.

And why did you bring up STEM? Only the S stand for science. Technology, Engineering and Math are all not science primarily because they’re not primarily based on experimentation and observation. They involve some science here and there, but they are not considered science disciplines.

It actually might be much more productive to cite some websites, especially if they’re actually trustworthy, than to claim someone somewhere agrees with you without providing any evidence at all. Let’s do some actual science on this question. I’ve given you two pieces of evidence that are widely trusted and widely cited, one of which was your suggestion. Now you give me two pieces of evidence that back up your claim that social science is not science.
Correct, scams do come via the telephone and email. The telephone and email are also useful for legitimate transactions. They also take many orders of magnitude less electricity than Ethereum, while providing far more service.

I have yet to see any value provided by Ethereum, full stop. Its sole purpose is to enable wealth extraction. The internal economics of the whole situation is absurd on its face. It is literally rotten and valueless, except for the purpose of cheating people.
Remix Run is not listed? https://trends.builtwith.com/javascript

EDIT: under frameworks https://trends.builtwith.com/framework/Remix
Apple M1 Mac as a Service
Looks like you just sign a login message with your address' private key, so even an address with nothing in it should probably work.
Warsaw Circle
You have a laptop x that already exists.. At what point does buying laptop y, which needs to be manufactured, have the lower environmental footprint?
Yes, uh huh.
Don’t break user space.

The above arguments could apply to any breaking changes that a host wants to implement. Those who don’t directly consume the change, those who can adapt, and everyone who is fine with the status quo.

Python is free to do as it pleases, but this breaking change is going to result in a lot of churn.

> GIL removal is an immediate win for these uses.

As a minor aside, the GIL free Python version was actually a performance regression, somewhere between 5-10% impact. https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#performance . So, an immediate loss for nearly everyone.
We're discussing laptops here. Performance per watt is possibly one of the most important metric to the average consumer even if they don't know it by name.

Better battery life + less heat = more comfort.
What if this is like building a small community garden that is not open for public.
SBCL has been ported to RISC-V, so it has an assembler for that architecture.
follow your own advice
Yeah, and then everyone has to have the same locking hierarchy, and be conscious of it.

This sounds like a nightmare waiting to happen.
Serious answer is to spend the first 20+ years building a religion out of whatever your idea is. Religion has that kind of demonstrated staying power. And presumably if you have a 300 year vision for something it must have some pretty religious characteristics.
Questions on Consciousness
Yup. It's pretty common to see Alpine + HTMX used together since they are both HTML first. I've heard web components work well with HTMX too.
Except for that whole “some communities groups on the site are NFT gated” part, which means that you must first buy a cryptocurrency to buy the NFT.

It’s just like a “free to play” game that will upsell you on in-app purchases at every opportunity. I can’t imagine anyone wants their reading experience to be more like that.

“Web3” really just means “the worst upsell shit from mobile gaming, in every aspect of your life — with the extra bonus that you get to risk losing your money on a scammy crypto exchange!”
Ah yes that wonderful time more than a few decades ago where ... Knowing people didn't help you get better jobs?
https://faraday.dev/
Sure it is from a 10 point scale.

0 - Full privacy off the grid

9 - Brain implant with all data shared to the world

8.5 - Allowing Google to have and scan for ads and government perusal all of your personal emails, written thoughts, location info, friends and accomplices, calendar, photographs, etc
this is a rather simple case that just tickles the internet and HN interest due to the novelty of an emoji. the real focus should be on the despicable behavior of the defendant for trying to renege on an expensive contract. it’s everyday stuff.

what i find most interesting is that the official court documents, which as we are familiar with are in a typewriter-like ascii plus some typographical symbols (like the section marker), contain the emoji in question. i appreciate the least common denominator format for official government documents. i find it quite something that they have reproduced the actual emoji symbol rather than restricting themselves to a description.

whereas even HN does not accept emoji in comments.
If you'd like another option built on a foundation of open LLMs, open models and open source, check out txtai (https://github.com/neuml/txtai).

Disclaimer: I am the author of txtai
Years ago, companies could get discounts if they were a “certified gold partner” or whatever.

To be a partner, the company would need a certain number of certifications among their employees, so there was tangible value to companies who either used a ton of Microsoft licensing or Cisco/Dell hardware, or resold those to their own clients (better discount equating to higher margin).

In some cases, getting the higher level certifications like Cisco CCIE was a virtual guarantee of a good job.

I feel like this has become less of a thing in recent years, but I’m not involved in that space anymore.
> I already see Framework laptop owners tossing mainboards every generation.

That would be extremely stupid, especially after they released the case to turn the Framework mainboard into a mini PC.

https://frame.work/products/cooler-master-mainboard-case
The individual hedonism of the common person, even the extreme examples like in this article, are a drop in the bucket compared to industrial manufacturing, shipping and power generation.

And not for lack of advancements in those fields, no, but for the sake of filling the coffers of shareholders.

The hedonism that's destroying all we love isn't watching movies or drinking coffee, it's unchecked greed - hoarding of capital.
It depends on the absorption bands used. One big downside of PV cells is they don't use energy in the blue. Perovskites do absorb blue. So a combo should do better than either alone.

The average intensity of solar energy reaching the top of the atmosphere directly facing the Sun is about 1,360 watts per square meter.

You get about 1,000 W per square meter at sea level https://www.solar-electric.com/learning-center/solar-insolat...
> Are people who dont care about politics the target audience of the mainstream "news"?

Wel again I can only speak to the interactions I have with people I know, but much of my family spends an inordinate amount of time watching 24 hour news and telling me about he latest headline of the day. They don't seem to care about politics at all though, as soon as I ask questions attempting to dig deeper into the issue or political views that might lead to that stance the conversation grinds to a halt. My best read on most people that fall into the target audience of network news is that they are people more easily influenced and drawn into drama that pits one group against another.

My original question regarding Twitter really was meant as a genuine question though. The only people I have had even mention Elon Must and Twitter seem to be in the tech world, I'm curious if I'm in a bit of a bubble myself and the Elon/Twitter issues do in fact reach beyond that.
I find the egg slicers to be a bit fragile. I'm on my 3rd one. The cutting wires keep breaking.
preach. one can't give the seven databases in seven weeks treatment to every tech in the world.
Yes, it is a gem of a language.

Now, I wonder who its mother is?
Does Microsoft have an AI opt out?

AWS has an AI opt out at the organizational level that prevents them from using your data to “improve” their other services.

(I personally recommend everyone opt out now in AWS if you haven’t already…)

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/organizations/latest/userguide/o...
Threads: Why Meta’s Take on Twitter Feels Soulless
After the Ethereum merge, the Energy Usage of any ETH token is negligible. Do you have any source for this "NFTs are damaging because how much electricity they demand" or is just plain old Hacker News "Crypto Bad" fud?
Ethereum is proof of stake and doesn’t use tons of energy.

I get you have an axe to grind but it would be better in a thread about Ethereum tech rather than an application. You are being really annoying and against the spirit of HN.
I figured Meta released threads now cause of the 2024 US elections: twitter has reached dead wood status for corporate/political/msm media, facebook hasn't learned its lesson in the eyes of lobbyists (no touch), forget tiktok cause of 'china misinformation incoming', streaming had it's run, Fox lost its main character (and a lawsuit) and nobody watches cable anymore. So where's that sweet $15B in campaign ad funds going?? Threads is being pitched as fresh and an alternative to twitter as well as "separate to FB"...so logical to release now as that the $15B flood gates open around Sep/Oct. I can already see those marketing agencies pivoting with a sigh on not spending it on twitter in a few months. But we'll see if this plays out by then.
I think this is the best approach, and the only really workable approach. Very often it's too hard for an app developer to play nicely with an unavailable permission, and it makes testing vastly larger and harder for a relatively marginal set of users, so smaller commercial apps mostly won't care to play nicely.

Granting the permission bu feeding an alternative data source is easiest for both parties, the developers and the users.

It, of course, will make some scams easier, too. Prepare for banks to use more complex device-enlisting procedures, for instance.
Just 3 points in (x,y) form.
“I’m good at excel but I still can’t get a job.”

“I’d rather use SQL though”

There’s something profoundly concise here in these sentences.
Daniel Schmachtenberger: AI Wormhole and the Metacrisis [video]
I agree with the principle, but I don't agree that this is where it applies. Initializing things separately just makes it easier to make mistakes that are difficult to spot and harder for compiler to come up with meaningful warnings. It also doesn't make it immediately obvious to the reader that it's just a value to be passed as argument rather than further operated on.
just related to this, I found neat overview of various PBD adjacent developments, XPBD is far from the only thing https://doi.org/10.1002/cav.2143
Do any of these books have a purchase list of components to purchase?
And then comes the actual wild fires
No, this is false. Relying on the GIL isn't bad practice in a python extension. It's something you have no choice but to do. The GIL is the thread safety guarantee given to the extension by the python intepreter. It's the contract you have and you have no choice but to code to it. Removal of the GIL requires an alternative contract representing a finer-grained set of thread-safety guarantees for people to code against. Programmers who coded against the contract that existed rather than somehow divining the future and coding against a different contract that hadn't been invented yet (while also managing to make it compatible with the existing one) weren't doing something wrong.

But besides being incorrect, the idea that extensions that break on removal of the GIL are "bad" is irrelevant. The question is what the ecosystem will bear. The people who own the codebases I'm talking about are not pushing for GIL removal. They have large, working codebases they're using in production and the cost of redesigning large chunks of them would be real. GILectomy is being pushed by people with varied motives but they certainly don't speak for everyone and their case isn't going to be made successfully by casting aspersions on those with different priorities.
Code review generally requires a peer to do the reviewing, so most folks would likely say that doesn’t count. I was curious if it would, but the first couple pages of googled results confirm the peer aspect.
> Most recently, we were trying to find news about the Paris riots

I've been very frustrated by this for a few years now. At least since the start of the pandemic response, I've noticed myself having a very hard time finding news on topics the BLM protests/riots, trucker rallies, Paris protests/riots, etc that didn't feel extremely controlled or moderated. Finding what seems to be unbiased updates on the war has also been particularly difficult, though that's kind of expected given that it's effectively an active hot war between Russia and Nato at this point.
I've heard it said that all the real discussion happens in hotel suites.
relies on ClosedAI, what's the point of being the 47373th app that does so?
I notice all your examples are non-FOSS and older than Perl. Python, Ruby, Go, Rust, have mascots and logos. They’re more than languages, they’re projects with healthy communities that have their own identities and the camel is part of Perl’s.
Agreed. And actually, realized I screwed up what I was trying to communicate in my last comment. What I was trying to say is that Java and C# are at their core basically the same language, and no one is calling C# bloated and syntax heavy.

Yeah, actually, I like Java (it gives application devs just the right amount of control) and think to save it, needs to purge itself of Spring.
I am an ignorant old grouch.

Is there anything more anonymous and less dependent on 3rd parties than "hi, welcome, please create a new user ID and password"?

Everything else, as far as I can see, ends up benefiting the provider in some sneaky shady way,as opposed to user.
you should not have kept silent. i very much appreciate this review.
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I'm not sure if anyone is using this this way, but this seems like a great way to test LLM reasoning performance as it is created anew each day and there is no chance it is included in the training data.
Svelte is already so lean and provides so many QOL improvements to the whole JS/HTML/CSS experience itself that I haven’t found time to try out HTMX, but I’m keen to learn it. I imagine it would be great to stash in the armory for a rainy day. Unfortunately, my use cases almost always require way more firepower than your average website… so I’m not sure when that rainy day might come, but I dig the spirit and simplicity around HTMX.
While this post seems aimed more at compliance or sensitive data issues, “unlearning” aka forgetting itself may be essential for better or more human like AI agents. You are as much defined by what you have forgotten as what you have learned.
Not the cynical view, but realistic view. Reality isn't cynical even if it is tiresome. The impetus behind most major tech - satellites, planes, nuclear technology, etc was to provide the military a better way to kill people. Of course it was sold to the public in a more positive way.
Given Ethereum's network, I'd like to pose the inverse question back to you and ask why urbit would be better
> making a more efficient ad probably doesn't make the sellers more money

of course it does. it allows the better seller to take budget from other ad sellers.
Do you have any source for (a) how much electricity the blockchain requires after the merge and (b) whether there are any applications outside of gambling and scamming that can not be done otherwise?
I find various sports, video games, and reality TV totally useless and waste of time, energy, and a scam on people’s limited time on this earth. Doesn’t mean I want it outlawed.
The electricity argument has been made moot a while ago with the switch the proof of stake.

Not all NFTs need to be bought or sold. They can just as easily be used as membership tokens that are given away.

Also, according to the website, only some of the communities will be locked behind NFTs. Others appear to be free to join just with an Ethereum account used as auth.

I haven't used the service so I'm not going to defend it but it makes sense for web3 communities to base their auth around the tech they're already using, and that is crypto wallets. Everyone in the community already has crypto wallets so the friction to join is very low.