skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this sentiment underplays how useful casual acquaintances are, on their own but more importantly as a step towards forming those strong bonds in the first place.

As an adult, how do you make the strong bonds that lead to people going out of their way to remember to invite you to things? Maybe you meet someone and click immediately, more likely it's someone you know from work, and commonly it's acquaintances from seemingly superficial activities that become close friends after you're mingled and mixed with enough folks to find your tribe.

"everyone complains about group chats being noisy" but there's a good reason they're still in there (obviously a big part of it is fomo but it's not obvious to me that everyone's lives would be better rejecting them. Human social dynamics are messy and not efficient).
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Which ones? Except the one that is Peter Jackson in Brie.
(UK) I got rid of signal when they dropped SMS support.

Using an alternative sms app that sometimes upgrades messages to signal was nearly zero friction.

Keeping an alternative messaging app for one contact is borderline-charity.

I'd do it to help with network effects if I wanted to support the company, but the attempt at crypto integration already cost them my good will.
> I can not prove it, but I am convinced that they scan the video stream in the device.

You can't prove it, alright. But do you mind sharing why you are convinced they scan the video stream?
Am I the only one struggling to understand where the video is?

The black-and-white theme made it pretty hard to see that there were video controls. I thought this was a hero image.
The Manson ‘family': key players and victims in the cult leader’s killings
Shopify Fuels Meeting Purge by Shaming Employees with Cost Calculator
What's Your Type?
Asking packagers to add upper bounds is less of a speed-hack vs. just the correct thing to do. What's interesting about conda-forge is that upper bounds can also be added later on via a "repodata patch".

I'm glad upper bounds can be updated, that definitely seems like the right approach. As a challenge on "just the correct thing to do", how should someone releasing a package using pandas specify an upper bound? Many basic dataframe uses will work just fine with pandas 3, whenever that happens. Some dataframe uses will break even in future minor releases. It's not clear to me that packagers can reliably predict that future.

Another example of upper bounds causing pain: I mostly use poetry which unfortunately makes overrides extremely hard. A bunch of small Django packages work fine in Django 4 but haven't been updated in years and specify they only work for Django 3.x releases. The poetry folks say it's a packager problem, the packagers never respond to a PR, and off I go to make an internal fork of yet another library.
Until you want to chat with grandma or that girl you really like.
Also one more argument for “parse don’t validate”. The code validates a mutable input, and assumes that validation holds thereafter. An incorrect assumption as it turns out.
Yahoo and Google did not have arbitrary cut-offs for the stuff they included and the stuff that they didn't that led to disenfranchising half the planet (or more, in fact).
I think it’s a negative correlation. I’m fairly likely to like people that realize a FB monopoly on communication isn’t a good thing.
Why have they been so successful? Why didn't MMS 6.0 implement everything that exists in modern chat applications. Why is Meta anything more than the anonymous humble entities producing sms and "phone" apps?
I would say the entry level workstation line today is Mac Studio (starting at $1999), not Mac Pro, which is strictly top end. The $6999 model of today is not equivalent to the old entry models in any way, unless you just go by bulkiness.
I agree with you and I think it's a cultural difference which is really hard for Americans to grasp because we're ultra-competitive, in your face, maximize, automate, dominate.

Maybe we win in some sense but we don't enjoy the forest in the same way.
Untrue, you kill the big demon at the end. Spoiler alert? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shub-Niggurath
Good job eating up their propaganda!

There is nothing wrong with asking for money for the API use, if it is a reasonable amount. (Still a bit questionable, as reddit is literally leeching on user-generated content, they themselves provide very little in the equation) But these were clearly meant to stop third-party apps completely — compute is ridiculously cheap, especially when you mostly serve easily cache-able textual data.

It’s a shame because it wouldn’t have been hard to make shitton of money while simultaneously riding the good-will of people by offering a subscription-based reddit premium for a few dollars at most for third-party API use.
100%

What if you could self host on all your devices and they were all seamlessly connected to each other like a single distributed OS without any kind of server in the middle? Then when your data is abused you have nobody to blame but yourself and all your data is always available so long as your devices are connected. No ads, no weaponized personal data, no spam, no extra expenses. Its just your hardware, your internet connection, and just the right software solution.
>And the only thing I remember about the film is the scene where a woman is looking on in horror, and there's a closeup of her urinating in her polyester trousers.

The entire film is harrowing, but that scene of the nuke hitting Sheffield has to be the most gut-wrenching thing I've watched in my life.

But mentioning her in particular, if you need a quick laugh to jut your head out of the depressive slump this film puts you in, her iMDb page is an oddly funny read - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1856457/
cf https://lamport.azurewebsites.net/pubs/state-machine.pdf
Taking your first three points as true, the trade is you get free global multi-way instant messaging, including pictures and video/audio clips, and video calling, for no cost other than minimal data costs.

Lots of people are currently willing to make that trade, at least until a competitor comes along that offers something better.
What I don't understand is why Threads is app-only. Possibly 80% of the tweets I consume are embedded in news articles, and sometimes I click on them and end on Twitter's website, where I then hang around for a couple of minutes.

I have no Twitter app installed on any device and like it that way, which means that I won't ever see any of Threads' content.
Google and Meta got customer data from tax prep firms and lawmakers want a probe
If you want to know what they talk about, then you have to use the same platform. This is trivial, and doesn't have much to do with being able to quit WhatsApp.
> most web communities are not worth the price it would take to keep them afloat

Maybe this is more a problem with how we've structured the web and less a problem with the type of app or our expectation of it.

99% of what I view on the web doesn't have to be absolutely up to date. I can tolerate some latency. If we dropped the whole request-response thing in favor of pub-sub, and just had the servers wake up for one minute every hour to propagate state changes, we'd only need to pay for 1/60th of the uptime that we currently are--the cicada approach.

I realize that this would be very inconvenient for advertisers who are trying to create a controlled experience re: which material I see when. They would absolutely hate it if the default mode of consumption happened in an offline-friendly way. But given that I don't give a damn about what they want, I think it would be ok.
That is also not true for any European customer in general. There is a 14-day return period without any questions asked on any product barring a few perishable/date sensitive/hygienic concerns.
I think I’d call that “docs in/from/are code.” “Docs as code” couldn’t be more literal and clear when treating doc as if they were code.
It seems possible to create separate tiny devices for different applications and sell them prepackaged. The installation process would look like plugging it into electrical outlet and connecting to your local Wi-Fi. Redundancy can be achieved using close friends and family devices of the same class.
It is always amusing to see free marketeers complaining about getting free marketed.
Standalone (non-Qubes) Whonix runs on Kicksecure; in fact, both projects are from the same author.
Not having WhatsApp here in Brazil is tough - Basically my entire family and close friends(?) use it as an asynchronous way of communication, which is good at the end of the day. But not answering regular phone calls is not good.

Unfortunately I cannot just walk away from it because of this.
I was shown “The Day After” when I was 11.

It destroyed my innocence. Every time a plane went over I was scared it was the Russian ICBMs coming to nuke us.

What a fucked up thing to do to a child.
He felt good :-)
This echoes in my soul
Modules work if they can operate without allocating or are generic over allocators. I don't really get why people think it's normal for e.g. a websocket decoder to insist on calling read, write, epoll, and mmap, if the user just wants to encode and decode messages.
The problem is when you are dealing with dependencies that are "vocabulary terms". These are required to be common. In Rust, one example would be serde and I'm assuming pydantic would similary apply.

For Rust, these can also impact build times so people actively work to keep down what dependencies can be duplicated which are semver incompatible versions.
In Switzerland, healthcare is somewhat private. The legal framework is enacted by law, and the Confederation decides the types of claims, prices, conditions, etc..

Every hospital (public or private) must follow the prices decided by the Confederation, and every health insurance must reimburse following the same prices, not more and not less.

And it works quite well I'd say
It’s not a feature, it’s absolutely essential for any forum, otherwise every second comment would be shitpost. Come on, at least don’t double down if you have zero idea about what does a forum entail.
> In the US, you can probably pass calculus without writing a proof, but you can't pass mathematical analysis without at least understanding epsilon/delta proofs.

In Poland we do those in high school. :)
Probably more about not caring than being proud - can't really call someone stupid for not caring about office productivity software when their profession couldn't be more distant from it.

Not to mention - using tech and computing concepts in absurd ways is a decades old running joke in media.

Imagine Anna Belknap in that seat being asked about writing a GUI interface in visual basic to track an IP address and the response would probably be the same.
Sometimes; but there are also a bunch of "foo2nix" tools which can generate "packages" (individually, or sets of inter-dependent definitions) from other formats[0]. It's basically just generating (parameterised/overridable) "lock files". That's how Nixpkgs can contains massive collections like haskellPackages, pythonPackages, nodePackages, etc. (plus all the various copies with different compilers/interpreters/flags/etc., thanks to the overriding). It can still require some manual tweaking[1], but CI makes that easier, e.g. translate a few thousand definitions; send to CI; mark all those which fail to build as broken.

[0] Actually, they generate functions which return derivations; Nix doesn't have a concept of "package", although the term gets thrown around informally.

[1] Since those other formats are woefully inadequate at representing dependencies; not just the required compilers/interpreters themselves, but especially stuff like third-party C libraries, binaries that are assumed to be in $PATH, etc.

PS: Those "foo2nix" tools don't need to be manually invoked; they can just be another derivation, whose result gets imported (via the import-from-derivation feature). That's how I tend to manage JVM projects (using mvn2nix).
GW solar and salt and shrimp farm is a 3-in-1 power station
Or you just exclude all non-ideologues and most non-techies that don't give a crap.

Which I guess is a useful filter if you want to be surrounded by techies and ideologues.
It embeds Vimeo. https://player.vimeo.com/video/844198233
I agree that it wouldn't be a good idea to spend your life focused on things that are hard for you, but since, as you said, there will be hard parts no matter what you do, learning how to learn the things that are hard is the critical skill.

You don't really have to learn how to learn things that are easy for you. That's what gets them classified as "easy." But you'll never accomplish anything unless you learn how to work through those inevitable hard parts, and the sooner you can learn that, the better.
I kind of agree with you. This is why I’m trying to move my team to Go for new development rather than TypeScript. I end up having to spend about one day per month fixing dependencies. Our versions are pinned but upstream someone just said, “use latest”. Then everything breaks and I have to upgrade our project from TypeScript 3 to 4 or 5. Then I have to figure out interdependencies. It’s a mess.
> I'd also point out that this is exactly how bubbles occur

No it isn't. You'd be surprised in the variety of people that you meet when you don't use algorithmic systems to do so. Just because you only maintain relationships with people who are not so glued to WhatsApp that they won't communicate through any other means, does not mean you have created a bubble for yourself.
Ask HN: Are there benefits to registering domains directly with the country?
Are there benefits to registering domain names with country TLDs (e.g. US, EC, DE, UK) directly with the national registrar? For example, Nominet for .UK, or NIC.EC for .EC.

Does registering directly with the national registrar confer better privacy, security, price, etc, than registering via a private registrar such as GoDaddy?
> It's not like OP's situation and access to emulators would have been any different if the decision went Sony's way.

I would respectfully disagree - although it's hard to speculate on alternative histories.

The United States has an outsized impact on the software industry - even for the largest economy in the world (American big-tech dominates the largest companies by market cap).

Preventing or impeding the development of emulation software in the US would definitely impact the rest of the world, simply because fewer people and companies can legally contribute to open-source Emulation software.
> That analogy is bad, as you could equally say that each social network "is a home" and therefore can censor everyone without mercy.

And that would be perfectly justifiable. None of the big social media networks are forced to provide service to a customer that they don't want. It's not an utility, it should not be treated as such.

> if you don't like state censorship, just emigrate etc.

- The cost of creating a Mastodon instance for yourself is negligible compared to the cost of moving to a different country

- To "emigrate" to a different country implies having to abandon your original home country. In some cases, it even means having to renounce your original citizenship. Online, you can have different digital identities.

All that is being asked of you is to respect the rules of the home you are in. If this is difficult for you to understand, it's not a problem of your social peers.
>However the counter argument is we’re a major US ally providing material support to US overseas military power projection

This seems like an enormous risk factor more than anything else. Australia and the EU are essentially vassals of the USA, but Australia seems wayyyy more vulnerable to armageddon. Since everyone's packed into such a tight space.
You can do a POST with an api access token to gitlab.com to get a job to run with custom environmental variable settings. So, you don’t have to use git to start a job.
I can only speak for myself here, but my journey with Maths did start with concrete, practical relationship between concepts and usage. I still remember fascinated by Geometry and Trigonometry, because how it can be used to create graphics and video games is obvious.

The more abstract it gets, the more it warrants an introduction with "here's how it's used in real life".

I can recall the point when it started becoming mechanical - it was when I started doing Derivatives and Integrations. I was 'just solving puzzles' until I hit a chapter, tucked away way back in the syllabus, almost at the end of the 2 year arc - a chapter about Applied Differential Calculus. I still remember the feeling of "Oh... I get it now" euphoria, with a tinge of sadness - why wasn't this covered early on?

Same thing would have happened in Engineering as well, but at the time my teacher was good. They started by explaining the applications of Fourier Transform before we actually got to learn the mechanics of it.
Addressing Development Challenges in Solana's Ecosystem
So you know, I am from rural Japan, so I'm not coming at you with just an idyllic view and many farmers I know range from age 25-90. No one is doing it tough, or breaking their body here. Mostly it's a fairly relaxing lifestyle, especially in mid-summer while farmers are mostly just tending to crops.

Young people move to Tokyo because rural life can be boring if you're not into the outdoors. Watching rice grow isn't for everyone. However, you might be surprised to know that where I live there is actually a housing crisis because so many people are trying to find a house here after re-evaluating their life since the pandemic.

Also don't try and tell me everything is a rice terrace because it's not, there are plenty of crops being grown on large flat plains. That's just some kind of idealistic view you yourself have.

I do find this farming is just back breaking "toil" myth really interesting, it comes up a lot on HN, especially in the context of automation. Kind of the quintessential justification for everything. There is farming smart and there is farming stupid. Experienced farmers I know don't do a lot of work and are producing more food than they and their families consume.

My opinion, a lot of the farming horror stories come from uneducated populations having to farm without proper training and resources and farming in harsh environments.
Which is basically never, if you're not a developer or statistician.
> Person A can send you abuse, so you block them. Person B though is free to send you abuse, and so can the next 10,000 people.

That's a completely fantastical example. A normal person will never have close to unmanageably many replies. This is at most a problem for celebrities, which can be granted other solutions, e.g. only people they follow can reply, which solves the problem.

> Moderation is essential for most online communities.

There is a big difference between forums and social media, where you choose your own filter bubble anyway.
> Windows phones are gone. Why would they want to make MS Office touch friendly?

Windows Phones are gone, but people still use Office on touch devices: MS Surface tablet, and other manufacture's Windows tablets or hybrid laptop/tablet devices, or just touch-screen laptops¹ which are a thing, and increasingly the web versions of office that might be used on anything modern including iPads.

> I don't understand why they removed the lines between buttons.

The usual reason for things like this is that it makes things look cleaner, or more modern⁴, which it does. Though IMO it has a detrimental effect on discoverability (it that a button, a link, or just some text?!) and navigation, even for the modern touch-first idea it is sometimes aiming at (where are the edges of what I can touch?).

My biggest irritation with modern UIs is focus indication on the desktop. It has been a problem for many years but only gets worse as time goes on: it can be difficult to see at a glance, especially over multiple screens, which window currently has input focus because many app families use different window decorations and even within one app the active/not distinction can come down to the difference between one shade of off-white/black and another shade of off-white/black (MS Office and Firefox are both guilty of this).

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[1] I know people really like touching their screen where possible instead of using a mouse or trackpad, I sometimes find it preferable myself² though not for Office & similar tasks.

[2] and for the most part I'm an old-fashioned keyboard-or-die person, regularly bemoaning bad design decisions³ (or simple laziness of not implementing standard shortcuts) that force me to leave the keyboard to mouse/trackpad/touch

[3] which can't be good for accessibility reasons, as well as not-irritating-the-like-of-me reasons

[4] though given how quickly fashion changes, I'm of the opinion that “to look modern” should never be a design consideration in a product intended to last into next year!
But which version should they provide? The dependency resolution still needs to happen somewhere ;)
The main issue with EPL is that compiling or interpreting the language (it supports both paradigms) is extremely resource intensive and incurs significant compute overhead, often unavailable without resorting to fixed infrastructure. Inference requires access to the massive n-dimensional memetic matrix that comprises the execution environment since most of the processing is done in the data structure itself.

Is silicon this implies a large amount of memory and processing capacity, and in carbon the training process takes decades, even though the cost is (amazingly) lower. The big downside of carbon based solutions is that each instance has to be individually trained, so scaling is a serious problem. Not only that, but the success of the training stage is not predictable, and retraining is usually ineffective.

Interestingly, EPL is considered by some to be an exemplary example of the “data as code” paradigm, since the majority of the processing is pre compiled into the n-dimensional memetic matrix.

Even though the mematrix is so massive that resource consumption is high just to move tiny fragments in and out of working memory, it enables the use of simple algorithms to produce surprising inference performance. The main requirement for extracting inference from the dataset is that the extraction algorithm perform statistical prediction of sequential tokens, which is easily accomplished in both silicon and carbon based neural networks.

It is also worth noting that each data output is also code, which is then recursively be added to the mematrix even if the output is an error. This requires careful code hygiene and error checking and correction or inference results can quickly go off the rails.
I admire the absolute confidence here. I find it baffling, but still.
What would be the point of a warning?
Your friends dictate, many times subconsciously, much more important things that you do such as the clothes you wear or where you go on holiday.

But hey, I draw a line in the sand at the instant messenger! :-)))
Yes, but economic efficiency measures profit, not "number of packages shipped per dollar". Also that metric may not even be meaningful in isolation and optimizing for it may lead to worse (social) outcomes.

The problem with Medicare in the US isn't that Medicare is inefficient. The problem with Medicare in the US is that the US has a private healthcare system and Medicare exists on top of it. A universal public healthcare system wouldn't perform the same way in terms of bang for the buck because the dynamics would be very different.