skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For how counter-cultural HN has always prided itself in being, I find it a bit hard to believe just how much the media has shaped the story here. There's a lot of reason to be skeptical... it's not that I like Musk but the media doesn't like him and that's no secret. I find it to be quite the opposite of what you're saying, that their press team has done a good job of shaping the story positively for Meta.

The puff piece in the WSJ combined with the all the positive press over the success of Threads, with now a quite rosy view of how it has played out since. I'm personally not a believer that they internally think Threads is a success, but to each their own. I constantly hear from my engineering co-workers about how much Twitter has changed and how the sky is falling, but the user numbers don't back that up and my user experience seems to be much the same.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/zuckerberg-channeled-og-mark-to...
Just 1 year.
I don't think that the problem is that JavaScript may or may not have this feature, it's not even that the language is large and all-encompassing; it's that mixing and matching features is highly appealing and very rarely works out well in practice.

JavaScript is not really a single language built around a single specific style or set of needs any more. In this day and age it's an amalgamation of different techniques and styles. You've got classic inheritance and composition for your OOP crowd; you've got your map and reduce for your functional crowd; you've even got your observables for your reactive crowd.

This is all well and good, but I've found that it's hard to write some practical code that blends styles. At some point it's tempting to start adding types, generics and dependency management into a functional project, but it's my experience that this blending ends up getting in the way of itself. Similar story for wanting to do things like having a service that listens to queues in an async way with sync rest APIs. It seems like having a common set of middleware would make it easy to support both layers; however this is easier said than done. These things sort of work but it feels deeply unsatisfying, requiring constant switching between observable and async/await styles with error handling being a constant concern.
I can’t see how threads can be “launched” without a desktop client.

That’s not even an MVP, it’s non existent.

Some of these supposed genius tech leaders are really showing themselves to have very questionable decision making capability.

It was also extremely off putting that it was so tightly linked to instagram.

They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads.

Failing also to launch is Europe.

Honestly it doesn’t seem that hard, if you weird the resources that Zuckerberg does. You say to them “clone Twitter”. It’s not like Twitter is the biggest technical challenge in the world to clone… why couldn’t Meta do that?

The outcome looks like what you’d expect - the Meta equivalent of a Musk Starship launch.
And that’s for one needing some TLC. The top of the cabinet is coming apart. The speakers are missing. The floorboard is missing. The display has ghosting. The colors are fresh and crisp but it’s hardly “slightly used” as the one in the OP is. Still. I’m just lost for words he got this off the street.
They should've launched globally. Not including Europe was a big mistake in my opinion.
You had online jobs during the day and batch at night then. That's why you always had to have one night between. Obviously doesn't work when load is 24/7.
Android had the back button since the beginnings. They added an option a few years back to hide the usual three buttons at the bottom of the screen and to enable an ios-like navigation with a swipe up for home, etc.
That made a swipe from the left or right edge recognized by the OS trigger a back button. That is quite different from the app itself recognizing an in-process swipe left, showing the underlying screen you would be brought to. Though some android apps do support this as well.
Quoting email to Zuckerberg:

We are facing continued pressure from external stakeholders, including the White House and the press, to remove more Covid-19 vaccine discouraging content.

This is not "suggestion". This is government coercing private business.
Thank you for answering! I do have a clarification question though. Will I have to go through the lottery again in case I try before my H1B expires?
Amen. Plus, the whole reason RCS was built was to allow carriers to keep charging for messages.
Smarter, more efficient coding: GitHub Copilot goes beyond Codex with improved
It's not. The proof? There is no serious study on it, despite its "obviousness" and "pervasiveness".

Kapos, collaborators or hostages joining the cause of their captors are not a "syndrome" of people "falling in love" or "bonding" with their captors. Patty Hearst was just convinced of the cause of the SLA - and she tried to get out of jail by using that card. She was just neither bright not honest - a spoiled brat jumping on an adventure that turned bad.
Oculus has no ads though. It has a store with recommended apps, which is no different to Steam.
It makes me so happy to see this again - thank you!

( There goes my afternoon )
It's missing everything necessary to make it for you and your interests; instead, you get what Zuck wants you to see. No hashtags (needed to build an audience if you want to post about things or find interesting people to follow), and it's not on the web (given how completely shitty the Instagram web interface is, they could care less about the web). I think they released it to capitalize on Elon's stupidity but with something that barely works. I'm not interested in some generic stream of celebrities and influencers I could care less about.
Twitter doesn't track your eyeballs to see how many you literally read. It's how many has been sent to your device.
Sifting for the Right Questions in Science
You have a single back up option which is the iCloud.(EDIT: SINGLE CLOUD OPTION)

Can't install any app I want.

Locked into OS.
ChatGPT can find you a job?
Has anyone actually generated a cv with the help of chatgpt?
Why replace it? You're just teaching the child that breaking things has consequences for others but not for them.
Ellul's The Techonological Society should be on that reading list. I have found it to be a thorough analysis of what technology is and it's impact on society and individual.
I feel like a literal pop in does not work for many people due to mobile phones and suburbs. Suburbs make it so you have to go at least a little out of your way to visit someone, which means you might as well call to make sure they are available before wasting your time on a detour.

Although, I see no problem with impromptu visits, I get them all the time. They just happen to call or text before coming.
You end up with generational trauma, Asian parents who were worked to the bone as children, saw peers find higher-paying jobs as a result, the people who had mental breakdowns are presumably brushed aside and viewed as a source of shame, many keep grinding through the system because the alternative is poverty as a farmer, end up with scars repressed and treating their children the same way... and the children who break from the pressure bond over the Internet and try to treat each other with kindness, but are often unable to provide for each other because they're too mentally scarred to find jobs and make a living.
I guarantee the problem space that dns solves is something you will run into in your career. Best to have some knowledge of systems like that so you can design them.
This was true 20 years ago. Nowadays, we joke about Juneuary and this year we had Maygust. Our summers are hotter and longer, winters bringing weeks of freezing and snow where I grew up expecting a single day of snow. The calm weeks-long drizzles of my childhood are gone, replaced with days-long "atmospheric rivers" called "monsoon" in warmer climes.
I think it is part of the new experience.

The only people who could change it are the musicians, probably by just asking for it before playing.

honestly though, I can imagine the musicians more likely to get the audience riled up - "I can't HEAR you!" "I can't see your PHONES!" :)
Hello! I'm part of the team who built this. If you have any question, please
feel free to ask :)
- Not letting you see just posts from your follows sucked.

- Building up a good group of people to follow takes a long time

- A lot of the people who I follow on Instagram I do not want to follow on Twitter.

- Just felt like an inorganic extension of Instagram. Like the difference between a fake real estate developer created neighborhood and a real one.
I mean it’s not like we upended all of society over a lab leak recently…
https://archive.li/XzKtu
This is the exception, rather than the norm. Most users outside hacker news just want a phone that works.
What’s so fascinating is that Edinburgh and Glasgow are only 50 miles apart. Just 50 miles in where someone’s parents or even grandparents were born and moved then away from has a legitimate impact on their life expectancy.
How is it different to android developers breaking shit? It’s not hard to break the “atomic” back gesture either, hell, websites are getting really good at breaking my back button!

Shitty apps/developers are everywhere, we should not limit ourselves over them.
> I'm assuming you are working on solving some NP-hard problem?

Yes, my choice of the problem is 2XSAT, which is a SAT class whose instances have clauses from 2-SAT and XORSAT. I proved (and I think that's where it becomes novel) that this class is NP-complete. This leads me to believe there is a clever generalization of polynomial algorithms for 2-SAT and XORSAT, and that's the subject of my interest.

The trouble is, algorithms for 2-SAT and XORSAT are wildly different. My first attempt to unify them, half a year ago, has failed. Since then I have made a lot of progress on the theory; now I have another candidate algorithm which generalizes them, and I am about to test it.

> Yes, that's a good approach!

I know, but it gets even better. I roughly follow what Krom did with 2-SAT in 1967. And it turns out, even if your attempt at polynomial algorithm turns out to be incorrect, the character of the exponential blow-up gives you at least some hint of what you need to fix.

> I'd be happy to take a look.

I wish I had written more on it, but the research got priority. For two months now, I am sitting on blogpost draft that outlines 2/3 of my strategy, as well as half of a proper paper; I was waiting if I can somehow conclude with a candidate algorithm, but I don't really have yet that written down in a formal way (it's new so some understanding needs to happen). I'll probably publish the blogpost as it is, and the actual algorithm (if the test implementation works out reasonably well) later as another blogpost. If you're still interested, I will send you an email when I publish the first part, probably this weekend, and you can tell me what you think.
Oh, may be I misunderstand you. So far it was ~1500 users per day which is quite small amount considering I don't need to store any big amounts of data. I pay for server and domain myself, I can afford it and don't think it can be overloaded in the near feature.
It doesn't matter - the only thing that matters is if the majority of the attendees took either public transit or their battery assisted bike to the party...
My dad had a penchant for repairing things using plastic handles off of disposable razors. This was back when razors had straight plastic handles, not the ergonomic, overmolded grips of today. We had one in place of the missing knob on our TV.
Unprecedented ocean heat is changing the way sharks eat, breathe and behave
WebKit - major PITA, highlighting text and googling in chrome opens safari ?

Appstore - can't install Gameboy emulator for games I've paid 20+ years ago because daddy Apple said so...
"About 1 in 36 children has been identified with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) according to estimates from CDC's Autism."

When I was growing up, basically no one had it. The rates were 1 per 1,000 or lower. So one or two kids in the entire high school. Now you can expect one in your class. Many of these kids are supper naive and vulnerable, just trying to fit in. One reason why the right is skeptical of what is being taught to them.
Did users "sign up" for Threads, or was it some kind of forced install for existing Facebook users?
These are a bunch of either superficially or actually plausible ideas. How can I tell whether it's legit or bullshit without seeing how it fares in the real world? Perhaps I wasn't clear - I was looking for company names, product names, something I can get a feel for in terms of concrete metrics like $$$ invested, sales, profits, how it's faring in the real world, etc.
Yes, the only reason that prods me away from a samsung phone. I don't want unnecessary apps on my screens/mindspace.
> No, it was approved before the US request, and that's the basis of denying the US request.

It was absolutely not the basis for denying the American request. [EDIT: Nvm.]

> on hold pending resolution of charges in Brazil

Suspended under color of a counterintelligence operation. Not simply put on hold. He isn't going home for a long time. Brazil isn't going to bend over backwards for the sick man of Europe.
I dont think this should be considered controversial. This sounds like a well balanced opinion, and is for sure one I share.

JavaScript has many missing features. This is not one of them.
Did Kindle's Experimental Browser ever stop being experimental? Sounds like a Reader Mode could do the exact same thing (plus save the book!)
The difference is that the iPhone is the bread and butter to Apple, where as Google's Android is treated as secondary.
What about cost in applying for a green card while on H-1B1?
I believe you and yes those are upsides - but we have to moderate for how these things work in general, and in general the downside of such digressions is much greater.
Very impressive that these are still in service. Good work NASA
> We're getting a little off topic here

LOL what? I can request student's grades and disciplinary records via an open records request?
> Hold down ALT and CLICK1 on a window, _anywhere_ on that window, and you go into "window move" mode. No need to seek out the "titlebar", just click and move.

This is a standard X.org feature. It works on more or less all Linux window managers; I checked and it works perfectly on Unity, as expected, and it did back in 2011 or so when it was launched.

I don't want the 2nd feature you describe, but I have seen the option for it in some other WMs.

Taekwindow adds it to MS Windows:
http://taekwindow.net/

Note that the site also documents how it works.

This is not a dwm feature and nothing to do with dwm.
Apple's real genius is in their marketing.

This was clear as day over 10 years ago, and is just as clear today.

Back in the early days of iPhone vs Android, there was a huge meme of iPhone users praising Apple for "inventing" features that Android had years ago [0]. I remember (but can't find right now) a screenshot of a conversation of an iPhone user all happy about iPhone getting SwiftKey and then saying "When is Android getting this? XD" and the other person responding with "About 4 years ago".

While the meme of "iPhone is better than Android because iPhone can do X" while Android has been able to do X for over 2 years no longer applies, there's still the meme that iPhone is somehow still a superior device. Apple has somehow convinced people that the iPhone is a luxury device, and there are some iPhone users that look down on Android users and think that Android is for people that can't afford iPhone, even though flagship Androids cost just as much.

It's just personal preference these days. I can't stand Apple's walled garden approach, but people that have multiple devices (laptop, tablet, phone, watch, etc) love it since it guarantees compatibility and functionality.

[0] https://imgur.com/gallery/9V2Vr
From India! I have an I129 (Successful H1B lottery selection) with an old firm, but never got stamped an H1B in the past due to Covid.

Will this affect my visa approval in the future as I am working on a startup which will be incorporated in US?
they've added a Following feed (only posts from your follows). it's pretty nifty and best of all there's no toxic users from Twitter (qanon, conspiracy theorists, extremists, white nationalists, taliban)
I had a pixel 7 pro, that after a half a year developed a battery problem. I got my money back and could get another pixel but was afraid of battery problems again, and picked a one plus 10 pro. I regret it. Pixel has the best Android expirence on the market. I'm not buying iPhones probably ever. I tried iphone 14 pro max a little bit and it's not worth 400 EUR over the Pixel for me. I also had Samsungs, they are ok, but pixel is better.
No, you are telling the way you'd like to pretend it works, because your partisan biases make you blind to facts. They way is actually works, as evident from Facebook executives themselves, is that they were constantly pressured by the government to censor, and attacked when the government felt they ate not censoring enough.
They're not trying to optimize so the kid can be a profession violinist -- god forbid, there's hardly any money there at all! No, the idea is to just do things which make the kid look different on a college application. That's it. Once the Harvard letter comes in, the cello can be sold, it's served its purpose.
Obviously Von Neumann probes haven't blanketed the galaxy as if they had, it would be obvious. Not to belabor a point I made in another comment, but the Fermi Paradox is a harsh taskmaster.

So this leaves a few possibilities:

1) No intelligent, technologically advanced civilization exists in the universe other than ourselves, because any such civilization would have developed Von Neumann probes, which would mean the galaxy should be covered by them.

2) No intelligent, technologically advanced civilization has yet developed Von Neumann probes.

3) Von Neumann probes exist, but they haven't blanketed the galaxy. Since the math says it should be easy for them to do so, either they were developed relatively recently and simply haven't had the chance to do so, or else confounding factors exist which make the process of unbounded exponential growth more difficult than the math would suggest.

None of these possibilities lead to the conclusion that UFOs (assuming the narrative presented by Grusch and other UFO believers) as described are more likely to be Von Neumann probes than not.

Any nearby civilization that released millions of self-replicating probes should be noticeable. We've studied nearby stars, there's no evidence of any of the telltale signs of energy usage or heat that should accompany something on that scale.

Also, there's no evidence of replication on the part of these objects within the UFO narrative. What are they feeding on? Where? Exponential replication means if they're here they should have stripped our solar system clean by now. Why haven't they?

All of the behavior described resembles conventional, piloted craft rather than the expected behavior of swarms of Von Neumann probes.
> The statement "apple stuff is just so easy and it works" is EXTREMELY misleading. When it works it works but when it doesn't you generally won't find much good advice.

I've been a Mac fan since OS X came out in 2000/2001, and had iPhones and android phones for years. Just a general "I like all the OSes... and I hate all the OSes" kinda person....

The worst thing about being caught in a situation where something doesn't work right, or is just outright broken? If you go to an iphone/mac themed discussion place to discuss it, you'll probably just get called an idiot and insulted. A lot.

I also hate how iOS kinda has dark patterns to keep you locked into Apple's iCloud services. Lately, MacOS has been getting worse about that too. I think the only Apple service I can log into without causing an Apple device to freak out and have iCloud take everything over is Apple Music.

My biggest beefs are trying to export a tens-of-thousands picture library out of icloud - there's no good reliable way to do it except to tell the Photos app on a Mac to download everything locally and then wait an eternity (like literally weeks) to do so. Then you can use a python script to read the sqlite db and dump everything with correct EXIF data... (if you don't, it's a complicated mess)

My favorite is how bad the ECG app on the Apple Watch is. Especially if your older parent who has the watch on the largest text size uses it. Basically, it becomes almost impossible to dismiss the legal warning screen that pops up if you touch the grey "sine wave, 65bpm" summary thing. If you do, you have to hit a teeny tiny target at the top left of the screen to go back to that summary screen, scroll down without touching the grey box, and then hit 'done' at the bottom.

THEN you reach for your iphone and open the health app you had open before. But it doesn't show the ECG you just recorded - unless you tap the notification from the home screen. When you do, it'll exit the health app and reopen it, so that the latest ECG loads.

It is the most hilarious and fucked interaction I've seen. Like, the Apple Health App is LITERALLY BROKEN and their workaround is to make the notification force-restart the app.
Wasn't Instagram iPhone-only for a very long time?
MSFT may have lost their web edge (and I'd argue that had more to do with Google legitimately out-maneuvering them by starting over on a new browser design from scratch than anything MSFT did), but in a sense they did "move on." Their stock value in the '90s when they got regulated was around $37; it's around $340 now.

They pivoted to cloud services and their server products still do robust business.
I've worked in web tech long enough to recognize that the overhead of HTTP does not explain the difference in performance between "raw binary" protocols and ones that have textual headers.

Put another way I've seen extremely low-latency https servers. The latency in S3 doesn't come from using https.
I kind of doubt it will get an API. Seems like Reddit and Twitter have come to regret how much power an API gives to users to sidesteps or whatever they don't like about the platform.
I feel like these aren't very "hidden", yet any time I talk about these or their developers to my colleagues, nobody knows what I'm on about.
I'm working to digitize some old VHS tapes. It's not as easy as it sounds.

You've quite a few barriers to getting that stuff online.

1. Sure, someone taped 6 hours onto a junk tape of TV from some channel to catch one show. But then they likely taped over that, again and again.

2. Tapes are bulky. VHS in general and junk tapes in particular would have been viewed by most people as low value junk that was tempting to disposed of. That's especially true during the decade or two before nostalgia and retro-cool starts making old junk more desirable.

3. Tapes degrade. Even if someone kept them, they might not be readable and/or gum up the VCR you're trying to use to read them.

4. VHS digitization equipment is also old. Apparently newer capture cards aren't very good compared to older ones, and there are specialized devices to fix signal errors (TBCs), allowing capture cards to actually work, that are becoming hard to find and expensive.

5. It takes a lot of time. VCRs play tapes at 1x speed. So if you want to digitize a 6 hour tape, it's going to take at least 6 hours.