skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but you can understand why people are not so keen on moving to an unfinished system, then? Or at least one which has not yet reached parity with its predecessor for a large proportion of its users.

Remember the excel effect: each feature which was previously implemented by snooping and injection may only have a small number of users, but there are many of them and most users will use at least one of them. If you want to replace a system and not have users hate you, you need to implement all the little fiddly bits as well: my personal example is krita, which is not supporting wayland until it has support for tablets and qt has support for that, as well as color management (these aren't even things which were insecure on X11!). So for the forseeable future an app I'm unwilling to abandon is not even looking to start with wayland support until wayland has sorted itself out, and then it looks like it'll take them a few years to actually deal with it. And so it grates when I hear 'why is anyone still on X11?'
Found a typo: s/Accessability/Accessibility
I've been up close to one project working in this space. The obstacles are obviously many, but fascinating to see that progress is made nontheless. Clearly a piece of the-future-puzzle.
Hi,

Just got a permanent job from qa and now trying to make my master thesis ready before it starts and need to make a study. I decided to write my thesis on information system modeling and would be very grateful if you are working on IT and could answer this survey which takes 2 minutes. It has questions that study do people use IS modeling and do they think it’s important. It’s completely anonymous. Would hugely gratitude if you have time to answer so I can graduate from school! Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this I will delete it if its against the rules.
On a point of fact: Farage was denied an account for being too poor, not because of his "views". The account in question is only for the rich and he didn't qualify.

More generally, No, we don't live in a "high trust" society. Specifically BECAUSE of pieces like this that knowingly lie about about the facts and people like Farage who also lie constantly in a (sometimes successful) attempt to get attention, power and money.

Personally I would not do business with either, not because of being a Remainer, but because I would not do business with a known liar and fraudster. Why would I? I likely won't get paid.
Threads debut solved the chicken-or-egg problem plaguing new social startups
Deref polymorphism is a known anti pattern.

https://rust-unofficial.github.io/patterns/anti_patterns/der...
This is very US-centric advice. Outside the US, getting VC funding results in a stark difference in quality of life for founders
Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2023 Shortlist
I don’t believe that objectively you can call LinkedIn “strictly for business” these days. Unless you want to count “pretending to do business” “lying about the business you do/have done” “pretending you have job offers” and all the other performative business LARPing at business positivity that goes on as “business”… at best it’s puffery at worst it’s fraud… and that’s arguably the most business part of LinkedIn, the people trying to scam other people into their business books and training courses… but it’s basically just scams at the end of the day.

How can this be called “strictly for business”?

I’ve recently been pushed back into the toxic cesspool that is LinkedIn due to trying to work with aerospace companies and other industries where I don’t have established personal connections and relationships to rely on, and I hate every time I visit the website or open the App… it literally oozes insufferably fake, toxic mental health damaging stuff…

You are right on the motivation though, it’s recruitment spam or fake bullshit business cult stuff because anything else will absolutely hurt your career… which is why even I’ve been tempted to get chatgpt to write some positive shit for me (because I refuse to try and make myself think up that kind of shit, however I have had to read enough of it I can proof read some and decide if I’m comfortable posting it)
Trite and rehashed groupthink—marketing garbage at its finest. But you should still write. As should every other human being, vocational identity notwithstanding.
Same, we were just about to choose InfluxDB, and ended up using it only for a niche low criticity scenario (VMware vSphere metrics, mostly for troubleshooting). We were never going to purchase Enterprise though, so they haven't lost anything outside of mindshare and champions, which can be evaluated to between 0 and infinity.
> makes me wonder how Uber is screwing this up so badly

This is just guesswork. May it be related to the VC funding that holds them afload, where at every turn they need to think about the future (and quick-as-possible) 10x return on investment that is in the fine-print of the VC contracts?

Or they may be so imbibed by startup-culture "Greed is good" mentality from the very start, that it is unthinkable to consider not squeezing it, and shaving off for every penny.
> Energy is not a bad thing in itself.

I did not mean to say that. My intention was to say that our society fundamentally relies on fossil energy, and it seems more and more clear that we won't manage to solve that without degrowth before our society collapses.

> But thinking we’re past some fundamental point that makes any progress futile

Who said progress is futile? I say infinite growth is bad. I find it much more elegant to build a sustainable society with clever use of technology than to rush for productivity. Since we're on HN, look at software: we as an industry mostly write bad software, because all we care about is growth. We could probably write better, more sustainable software, for more sustainable products. To keep with the software comparison, my feeling is that I am saying "guys, please stop piling up crap code and hacks just to release a bad product tomorrow; let's go slower, but write good code that solves actual problems". And you're telling me "stop obstructing the rest of us, we like piling up hacks and releasing crappy software, and it makes good money".

Degrowth does not mean "go back to how people lived 300 years ago", but rather "be clever and do sustainable stuff". Or "instead of optimizing for productivity (which is killing us), what about trying to optimize for something that would be sustainable?". I, for one, would call that progress.
Enterprise-oriented HDDs (which I assume includes your 18TB one) are a lot noisier than their desktop counterparts. I'd expect that e.g. a 3TB WD Blue would be virtually inaudible compared to your drive.
>basic linear algebra

So, like before, then?
And I'm mandated to take a novel vaccine?
If your bio says "Emerging tech: AI & Crypto" I don't really care for your opinion on stuff.
LinkedIn reminds me of a dog doing tricks for its master to win treats, but in this case, the employees and job seekers are the dogs and corporate HR departments are the master.
> Five Eyes share data

Maybe this is what I’m missing: if US intelligence goes to UK intelligence for information about a US citizen, is US intelligence allowed to retain a copy? For how long? At what point are they “collecting” data in an overreaching manner?

Perhaps this relies too much on the phrasing in your initial comment but it was a (seeming) contradiction that stuck out to me.
Microsoft Outlook is already a web app at its core: "The point here being that Mail and Calendar are native Windows applications, whereas the new Outlook for Windows is essentially a web app at its core, from what we can tell."

Native is dead as it seems, at least for he Microsoft Office Team.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/06/20/microsoft_calendar_ma...
The Fifth Gift (2005)
~15 minute read about alien gifts to a small and childish civilisation.
Could you share how do you accomplish this? I would love to make a similar one for my Hugo site. Thanks!
> premium paid platform for the "intellectual elites"

The idea that the blueticks could be described as "intellectual elites"... Well, I very rarely actually literally laugh out loud at this website, but that did it.

That always _kind of_ was Twitter's positioning, bar the 'paid' bit (Twitter blue, well, existed, and that's about all you could say for it), but it's not something that Musk has exactly been encouraging.
I rarely learned anything meaningful from "X should do Y" types of posts.
This guy underestimate's a billionaire's ego. The guy spent like 25-30 billion on web3 and I still don't think he's done wasting money.

My prediction is 4-6 years. It will linger around until then and instagram people will stay on it until the end. But just like instagram, you need an account to view content so it won't see any traffic from outside sources. Like if anyone posts a link to threads I am sure they will get downvoted every single time on HN or reddit/lemmy. Twitter on the other hand, I have it all over technical documentation even and now I have to worry about broken links all over thanks to another billionaire's massive ego.

I remember begging infosec people to stop using twitter and slack over a decade ago.
Totally non-opinionated tried and tested fact that all humanity knows: Anything that doesn't have discriminated unions cannot be used productively.
This is so incredibly important. As a beginner you can basically hit anything often enough and see progress. Once you hit intermediate and the gains slow down you really do need to walk in with a plan. The plan let's you not think and just work. Just working and not thinking, and basically just being told what to do (even if it is just telling yourself) let's you get through the workout repeatably, and with experiencing less of the grind. It also means you hit the body parts with incremental progressive overload in a planned and repeatable fashion, causing growth. And every 6-10 weeks you get the fun of changing it up.

And then there's the days where stuff doesn't quite work, but you have turned up anyhow. Those are days I chalk up to fun.
Same here. I am exclusively using the quick filter box (Ctrl+Shift+K). I would like that the filter bar be never hidden.
Yep. The docs for Deref also dedicate a whole paragraph, with a conclusion in bold, near the start of the page, to why it's a bad idea. https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Deref.html
Doesn't Apple have this step already? I'm talking about the online store with optional pickup in your Apple Store. I've ordered online whenever I exactly know what I want. No sales talk, no waiting. Pickup in store was fast and hassle free, but that might depend on store and time. Best of all: I know exactly that the item I want is available for me.
Last pop quiz: what makes Python an object-oriented language?
Ah, hm. It can’t be classes, or I’d tell you you’re wrong. So what is it? [...]
self? No, that’s not a keyword or anything; it’s just the de facto standard name
for the first argument. So what makes self work?
That’s close enough, really. The answer is descriptors, which are basically “the
things that make self work”.

From another blog post on the same site [1]:

A descriptor is just an object; there’s nothing inherently special about it.
Like many powerful Python features, they’re surprisingly simple. To get the
descriptor behavior, only three conditions need to be met:
1. You have a new-style class. [...]

It therefore follows logically that Python code using old-style classes is not object-oriented, and that Python was not an object-oriented language prior to the introduction of descriptors.

[1]: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/05/23/python-faq-descriptors/
Unless that movie theater entered into a contract with a distributor, right?
> twitter is on a long slow slide to irrelevance

What makes you say that? The current alternatives seem a bit of a joke for anyone but the most extremely opinionated (in a very specific way) users when you compare them side by side.

Didn't it break engagement records twice in the past few months.
The "The Ecology of Dune" (fictionally by Pardot Kynes, the first planetary ecologist on Arrakis) appendix in the first Dune novel is about this subject: Life is its own tool to ever more efficiently extract energy from a system.
Delegate call bug in ink programming language
I've been using the Strong app to save workout templates (in a broad push/pull/leg framework) so I have a list of stuff to do each time, but if I'm bored with an exercise or (more typically) someone's been using the rack for 30 minutes and I need to move on, that's when I'll look for an alternative exercise. Apps like Strong or Fitbod or this new site are great in this scenario - can filter by what you have and will show you how to do it.
Bigger, Better and Faster Vulnerability Detection in Ink Programming Language
Fax machines have been dying pretty hard over the past 10 years though.
Don't worry, they just pipeline your emails directly to google now for 'verification' for your protection. Mozilla is a sellout
This is a work of fiction, filled with 75% pure fantasy, and the rest half wrong.

All the hardware stuff is pure fantasy; they were using an emulator. So all the pics and all that text, including nonsense like "3 PIC slots" and "two EDO RAM" -- Peripheral Component Interconnect is not even similar to a Peripheral Interrupt Controller; EDO RAM only works on a Pentium, and it's a type of chip, it's not countable -- this stuff is 100% pure fiction.

No, Win95 was not the first fully 32-bit Windows from Microsoft.

1. It's not fully 32-bit; it's a hybrid, with 16-bit code.

2. It's not the first; that was NT 3.1, which is fully 32-bit.

It didn't bring programming to consumers. Did consumers want programming anyway?

This is pure fakery, in broken English, from someone who doesn't really know their stuff -- and probably is not really old, as they claim. It's just playing pretend.
Vulnerability Detection in Ink Programming Language
Yes, but … no.

> (We did this to ourselves, by constantly trying to make computers easier to use, and telling everyone else they should have one)

Agreed. However: most people never wanted a computer, they only wanted to do certain computer-y things.

And they don't have to anymore! We now have this new breed of wondrous, computer-y devices which are less capable, but in return are also a lot easier to use. It's here, it's absolutely ubiquitous and it is roughly good enough most of the time.

The worlds of "smart" devices and general computing machines could have, _should_ have coexisted perfectly next to each other. That Apple is slowly but surely merging the two is a massive, unnecessary, foolhardy mistake that is on them and them alone.
I prefer thunderbird because of the search functionality. I’m not saying you’re wrong, I just consider it the least worst, they’re all horribly bad.
Great execution! Thanks for sharing. I wonder if you'd thought about integrating with wger [0], i.e. exporting the workouts from your app and creating it there.

[0] https://github.com/wger-project/wger/
right, this is not allowed by the EULA of the binaries released by ownCloud GmbH.
He's not saying it's aliens.. but..
Object Pascal strikes again: if a: ^record ... end is a pointer to a record, then a^ is the pointed-to record as a value and a^.b is the way you access a field of it.

Incidentally, the authors of Go were asked why they didn’t use a postfix dereference when Sethi noted[1] back in 1981 that C syntax would have been simpler that way, was quoted in Ritchie’s 1993 retrospective[2] on that point, and even their own blog post on declaration syntax pointed out that possibility[3], but IIRC the answer amounted to “but then we wouldn’t have gotten those sweet, sweet C-bandwagon popularity points”.

(I also cannot help calling out “Language X” here: One nice approach that nevertheless basically forces implicit dereferencing is that of Algon-68, where all values are constant values; the way to declare a mutable variable is to declare a pointer—a constant value—to a mutable cell; and the way to make the whole thing bearable is to have the compiler infer the minimum possible amount of dereferencing in an expression from the types of the values involved. Then of course it becomes impossible to infer the types, so the ML family goes with the inconvenient dereferencing, and you end up not really using a lot of mutability in ML.)

[1] https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/spe.4380110606

[2] https://dx.doi.org/10.1145/154766.155580

[3] https://go.dev/blog/declaration-syntax
Fruit of the Poisonous LLaMA?
What is this biased way of reading CIs? Are you paid by 3M?

Yes, it shows that with 5% probability the risk is only 1.18 - why choose to focus on those 5%? According to the study there is an equal chance that the relative risk is 12.7 times normal, why should we ignore that?
Wonder what the hard-drive footprint this takes now, my version; 60.9.1(32-bit) takes 126MB and i consider that bloated for what it is. At the Thunderbird 60.9 release mark; Pegasus footprint was 30MB, Opera Mail was 38MB, Sylpheed was 28MB, even the Bat was only 50MB.

I run Thunderbird portable from a data pen, which is why this metric is important to me (i realize it won't be for the majority of users).

Edit; Okay i know i could buy a bigger data pen, but i also do weekly backups to the cloud and am limited to 7mbps upload, 2g takes 40 minutes, so every bit i can shave off helps. But i want to emphasize i realize it won't be important for the majority of users
If it's free in the cloud, then you're the product. When it is MS, often you pay and are also the product.
> Whenever I searched online it's always from the US or Europe. No local e-commerce market have 486 available.

Then you should say that, not embark on a work of fiction.

Or use modern 486-class hardware, which is far more interesting.

E.g.

https://www.embeddedts.com/products/TS-4400

or

https://github.com/eivindbohler/tinyllama
By the same token, somebody actively writing code could be said to be one consultant away from being replaced be an offshoring firm.

In the end, knowledge of the business details (including their technical implementation) are something that cannot be easily replaced.
Everyone is very complementary so can I be allowed to be the debbie downer? As a web app, it's neat! Functionally, not a fan as yet.

I've lifted for a couple of decades. I put in the muscles for a pull workout I will be doing today and the results are... dumb. "Dumbbell superman" nah not going to do that. Two types of hammer curl? Nah that's a waste of time. "Bayesian hammer curl" wtf, my eye is twitching. Two types of dead-lift only differentiated with different shaped weights? Nope that's dumb too. It's also suggesting exercises at the wrong level e.g. bands or dead-lifting a kettlebell. I'd need to put all my gym's kettlebells onto a bar for a useful dead-lift :) It also had no vertical pull like a chinup/lat-pull for a back workout which is kinda criminal.

For a beginner, they won't know it's dumb, so this is kind of harmful. They need to use a more carefully designed complete split / full-body-workout, because it matters how multiple days combine, not just a single day.

For an intermediate/advanced lifter, clearer goals are more useful e.g. PL or BB, and then planning intensity/loading/waves/deloads etc. for constant progression. What I find most useful is deep dive discussion by an expert for most effective exercises and how to get the most of out of them with subtleties about grips and cues to increase mind-muscle-connection etc. Suggestions for how to swap out exercises to work around injuries or focus on weak points is very useful. The lifter can then iterate and swap exercises in and out of their routine to keep it fresh and useful.
The ad spots are how they get new customers, the product quality is how they keep existing ones.
Not unless you chuck a whole lot of weight on inappropriately. The advice for almost all newbies is to start with the bar. Even then they could put some weight on and still not be at any risk at all. The issues don't show up for quite some time with inappropriate form, or u til quite a bit of weight is put on prematurely. Starting off with dome youtube videos is just fine. Getting help when you eventually want to progress further and get more serious is recommended.
I feel Twitter lack of moderation makes it more and more hateful, reminiscent of some usenet politics groups where conversation was impossible. There's even quite a lot of porn content. I don't know why, but I receive tons of dick pics that I'm not interested in. I tried very hard to get rid of them but was unsuccessful. I can definitely see the platform becoming unusable, while users flock to a different system for a better experience.

On the other hand, it seems some groups manage to share ideas in a positive way (e.g. cancer survivors), so it all depends on the feed algorithm, maybe most users have a postive experience. Hard to say. In any case, some minor tweaking of the feed algorithm could be enough to improve the experience.

But in the end, I think it all boils to the network effect. Will enough users migrate from Twitter to Threads. My guess is not, network effect is extremely strong. At that point, even the most upset, anti-musk, users don't seem to be leaving (which I find quite ironic).
Apparently, "blind contrarianism" is when you don't take random blogs and news articles spouting ridiculous and unsubstantiated claims as gospel.
Some quality publications cannot seem to come to the point for some reason. This was full of so much fluff, I gave it twice as much time as it deserved but still don't know what its point is.
Gatekeeping weight lifting? Come on. Let people work out the way that works for them.
That's nice, but the suburbs never had that unless you're ordering pizza or maybe Chinese food. A single restaurant needs a lot of volume to hire its own full-time driver. Amortizing a driver sitting on his couch to come to any restaurant in the area was a big change.
Still not sure why this metric is important when you can get 1tb pen drive for $100
That "better" for many of us means more connected with expressing an actual human's perspective and creativity.

Not merely "expressing a human perspective" (abstract) but a human's perspective (of a specific individual).
HN hug of death. Download appears to be down.
It's "supposed" to be. Great.

What does it do today?
There's something about art created by humans that will never be replicated by AI.

It's the human factor. When you look at an art piece created by a human, you wonder about what the artist was thinking. You can sympathize with the artist since you're both human.

Similarly, music often sounds better on the radio, even if you're listening with worse speakers. The reason is because you know you're listening with other humans.

It's the human connection.

So while there's nothing wrong with it, I doubt I will hang AI art at home.
Security dialogs aren't guaranteed to help fatigued users, but they are extremely useful in preventing silent attacks.

The big risk is that some rogue app silently steals your data. If there is no dialog, nobody would realize.

If there is a dialog, the chance is higher that people will realise that the app steals your data, and write blog posts and articles about it, making it known that some app steals your data.

I for one am very happy about eg. clipboard notifications in iOS. I don't want random utility apps logging my clipboard, and without notifications I would have no way to know about them.
Software Patterns You Should Know as a Software Engineer – Part 1
You can write object-oriented code in C, but no matter what tricks you do with storing function pointers in structs, you still have to pass the struct itself as an explicit argument.

A sprinkle of clang blocks and Block_copy on top of your structs and you’re on your way!
We Need to Talk About Steve
My bromance with Steve goes back as far as I can remember. That's why reading Lisa Brennan-Jobs memoirs was such a sobering experience.