skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's pretty common that after a peak of new signups, most do not convert to long term active users. This doesn't even take into account that most "active users" tend to never post anything, they just leech. They still count as MAU. I'm sure that Meta has plenty of ways to boost that number in the long term but overall I find the entire thing underwhelming.

Threads is text-based Instagram. But not even that as you can very well include photos. It has exactly the same shallow culture as Instagram: commercial, flat, vain.

Meta has openly expressed that it's disinterested or even hostile to news/journalism making their way to the platform (which comes with a lot of political flame-wars), instead to focus on making it a "fun" platform. Quite obviously because advertisers prefer networks without controversy.

Users may self-censor as on Threads the link to your real name is not very far away. Many users may have a real name Insta account linked up which in turn is linked to your Facebook account. Even if not visibility linked to your real name, internally you should assume it's there. So who knows what happens to all those accounts when you step over the line in Threads?

Hence, it's not Twitter which is defined by the culture war taking the main stage. Twitter is raw, edgy and toxic. It's also known for its real-time coverage of events, which Threads so far lacks. It also produces quite a lot of original content, whether they be memes or otherwise. You'll find none of that originating on Meta networks.

As Twitter seems on its way down, especially high follower users (such as journalists) are lost. There is no longer a "cultural network" where you push a message and get reach. None of the alternatives work for this purpose either.

I have no idea what will become of Twitter, but I do know to keep an open mind as we live in wild times. Just because Musk is a chaos monkey does not mean that it will not eventually rebound or even surpass old Twitter.
Does it cause you to feel any doubt that the vast majority of the professionals in that field disagree with that conclusion? I mean, you're saying that the majority of privacy researchers who are studying this topic view the current state of Internet privacy as a problem, and it's such a large majority that you felt like sticking around in the field would not be worth your time. Are all of those researchers wrong?
If we could get Ducksauce or the Kiffness to produce a song with a sample of everything is better when we stop being meta, we might just be able to save the world. :)
The UK is an island, physically and metaphorically. It can dig its (financial) grave if it wants to, the rest of the world won't really care much.

The headline is false.
I disagree. You cannot compare Dubai with Paris - or any othe 1 million+ population city.

They all have their unique story to them. Even cities as close as say Rotterdam, Amsterdam and Antwerp are totally different.
> Harvard or not, we are talking about criticism from people that have never actually been in the trenches of running a business

Never heard of this guy making the criticisms before, but looking him up reveals that he's been the VP of Honeywell, President of Medtronic, and served on the board of directors for Target, Exxon, and Goldman Sachs before becoming an executive fellow at Harvard. Still no idea if any of his criticisms are valid, but I wouldn't brush him off as just an academic with no industry experience.
Agreed, but setting laptops aside, would you spend ~1.8% of your pretax income on a phone? — And not for the best phone either, just the base pro, or an upgraded regular model.

I certainly wouldn't, but a lot of iPhone users are. I'm not judging, I'm genuinely surprised.
I had been losing sleep over that...

Not quite fifty years ago, a girlfriend who then was more "liberal" than I was, gave me the board game "Anti-Monopoly" as a birthday present. I had arrived at a stage of disliking board games, so we never played it.
They can just call up the internet research agency. They'd be glad to help.
> How are we still, 15 years later, stuck in the feigned incredulity stage of android vs ios?

We aren't. Sent from my Librem 5.
Hey, that's not fair! HN is for everyone's pet topics and non-technical stories are welcome. The only criterion is that they be interesting and gratify curiosity.

I mean, there's a high-ranking thread about a huge oak table on the front page right now: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36912861. As there should be.

(You probably already know this but for anyone who doesn't: HN is explicitly not just a technical forum - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.)
The snipers that hit you prove you wrong: you may have looked for discussion, you received passing sneers: flagging is probably not the critical issue.
> Twitter has someone who posted child abuse images

Can you say more on this?
Users are kinda mad https://twitter.com/ring/status/1685049112306262016.
I’ll give them credit and say this is the first time in 3 years I’ve had any issues
In this particular case he is in close contact with the employees and day to day operations. His other companies shall we say are run a bit more indirectly. It is shaping up to be one of his more spectacular failures. By spectacular I mean expensive. Time will tell.
It appears the videos are curated from those publicly posted on YouTube, so that passes the buck.
Is it really worse though? I can use WhatsApp on any device I want, I'm not locked to iPhone.

Japan uses LINE. Network effect implies a convergence to one app (pick your poison) and I am certain WhatsApp is better than the US situation.
It's a slang term for MDMA. Clearly the poster means that you don't have to interact with anyone when you're on ecstasy.
Thanks! The spec can be found here: https://github.com/bloomberg/blazingmq/tree/main/etc/tlaplus
That's an interesting idea.

Stress is a drug in this way. Affecting our emotions and how we see and think.
This is full of false dichotomy. Making things more understandable isn’t “dumbing them down”. There isn’t necessarily a trade-off. An application being CLI-based is not a get out of jail free card for UX critiques, nor is it an implication that it’s for power-users. You can’t just put the minimum viable effort into considering how someone will use your software without any thought to intuitive mental models and cry “it’s for power users”.

Old-school FOSS nerds have a hard time admitting that they tend to be absolutely useless at considering user experience, because then that’s something On Computers that they’re not good at. The best they can do is shoo it away by claiming that the sort of UX concerns I’m talking about only apply to software used by Lesser Beings and not Smart Computer Boys such as themselves.

It’s such an outdated user-hostile boys club attitude fuelled by insecurity and misplaced and not even well-thought-out elitism, and I’ll never pull any punches when talking about it.
> There seems to be a desire to watch Meta fail

around here the only desire that exceeded the desire to watch Meta fail was the desire to see Threads kill Twitter first on its way down
Hi, I'm from Germany and have nearly my master degree in computer science is there a possibility to immigrate to the US? What would make the most sense? How long does it take? Thank you very much for your time!
You're arguing that the value they provide is worth the high price. That's a valid argument, but it doesn't mean that the price isn't high.

Whether or not it's worth it is a purely subjective thing.
I wrote this about 6 years ago when the then PM was trying to do the same thing - http://coding2learn.org/blog/2017/06/11/dear-theresa/
The SDXL model was trained on different aspect ratios, but each one of those aspect ratios has a precise resolution, so anything other than those resolutions would be considered out of distribution, so maybe when you were inspecting the wide landscape images you use an out-of-distribution resolution while with the portrait ones you didn't as much.
my kids aren't old enough to comprehend these things yet but family friends take their kids to volunteer at homeless shelters, food pantries, etc. Seeing addiction and what it does to lives first hand is a good motivator to not let it happen to you.
Her goal was not to collect hits, and the one was a fluke that surprised everyone involved. Up to each person to decide how important that is to them, I suppose.
If I recall correctly, the whitepaper talks about using the iris code (generated from your iris image) to associate your private key to your world id. I think one of the purported selling points is that you can recover your identity using an orb and your iris.
Do we have any data about people actually becoming sick because of toilet flushing aerosols? Everyone enters bathrooms and flushes multiple times per day, but is not constantly sick. So is this actually a problem or just "gross if you think about it"?
>How could the mechanics of a forum be set up to achieve this?

Asking people to post their work and downvoting/flagging/banning them if they refuse.
I think apple noticed a long time ago that the world is not exactly lacking in quantity of phone apps. If anything, the sheer number of them has become a hindrance to anyone wading through thousands of nearly identical apps to try to find the actually good one.

So if they implement policies that increase the average quality of apps and decrease the total quantity, that's an improvement for users twice over.
Most protesting has some negative consequences for the person(s) doing it. Suicide is a bit strong, to say the least.
Brave Search is scummy. Try to configure robots.txt to block its crawler without blocking others. Brave won't let you.
Can you trust AI? Here’s why you shouldn’t
Primary key and quantity field could be not a perfect solution from performance point of view. Timestamps does not guarantee uniqueness.

Look, Im not trying to win the argument. In most cases you definitely right, my point is that sometime you have to work with working legacy code/system, and sometime this system could have some unique features.
Having switched from Android to iPhone recently, it’s not even the quality of the phone. It’s the insane fragmentation, incomplete features, and random breaking features.

I finally gave up when a pair of Bluetooth headphones couldn’t pair with my phone. I realized that there are simply too many variations of Android for device manufacturers to test. With an iPhone, you know that most accessories are going to be tested against your specific model.

Now that I’m on an iPhone, the integration between various device is insane. Answer a call in your watch, transfer it to your phone, then move it to your laptop. Seamlessly, cast music to speakers/tv/bluetooth and it just works, every single time.
Thanks for the feedback.

Don't they both go hand in hand? How can it be an effective organization if it is not revenue generating?

In a capitalist world it is not often you see effective organizations that are non profits.

Maybe I am being a little naive here.
I have a ton of Apple products and I could not care less about the status they confer. They just genuinely have a better end to end user experience most of the time. They do, for the most part, live up to the “just works” mantra.
Surprised nobody's made an indie movie in which bioterrorists get the material from.these ticks into the food supply somehow.

I can imagine it working either taken way too seriously like a Tom Clancy script, or super tongue-in-cheek and parody-like.
Your thinking on these and other posts is narrow minded and totally subservient to the richest people in Silicon Valley, starting with the people who own this site. You also have the temerity to go outside HN and tell people to rewrite posts on other sites - a corrosive form of censorship. Your reply here is a great example of why you are a poor moderator. I wish you would quit.
This is exactly the kind of problem NetLOGO is geared toward modelling and solving. It is very much like the LOGO (turtle graphics) you might have learned as a tween, but multi-agent, so you can model the behaviour of several types of cars (fast, slow, hesitant, etc), design a few multi-lane obstacles and traffic conditions, and let 'r rip. Of course you can click to observe from any particular vehicle's POV as well.

There are 3D and 2D versions, but your problem will quite suit the 2D version. It has been used to model the "coil spring" pattern of stop-and-go traffic already.

Check it out. I'd love to see the results, as your subject is one of very common interest.

https://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/
Another one of these articles. We learnt very easily back in the 1990's when the Internet was smaller, and the computers were much much slower and less capable.

DNS, LDAP, SMTP, IMAP etc were the bread and butter of ISP's back then and people actually referred to the official documentation (RFC's etc). You had to learn them if you wanted to run servers on the Internet at all, and with a bit of an investment of time (ie. your paid time on your job) you learned it.

This generation of developers and devops people don't have the patience or initiative and expect to be spoon fed and just cut and paste crap from StackOverflow and various low value blogs. Rather than learn the infrastructure that the Internet is built on, they grab the latest fashionable wrapper tool of the week, follow some shitty blog instructions, and then cry foul when it all falls apart and they cost their company lots of money. Just because they didn't take the time to learn the foundations of how things actually work on the Internet.

I've seen it time and time again. It's not actually that hard kids. You just need to do your homework.
I'm interested in the history of food evolution and proliferation like this. Do you know any good places where I can read more about this?
Well, your discomfort makes it clear you’re not American poor. Verbal confrontations, even disagreements led along insults, are enough to get shot where I’m from. Obviously nothing about that is a good thing.

My point is that the internet is already an extremely private place. I started this in reply to someone proposing privacy evangelism in the wake of ignorant sheeple, and that’s stupid and insulting.
Thank you for writing the blog, the way it is written was very engaging :)
Political threads often do go that way, and I understand the frustration. We don't want regurgitation—that follows from what we're trying to optimize for: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor....

But the question of how to handle politics on HN is not simple. By the same principle of trying to optimize for curiosity, some content with political overlap is interesting and belongs here. The questions are which forms of it, how much, which particular links, etc.. I feel like after 10 years we arrived at a pretty coherent and stable general answer to that. Not that we get every specific call right—we don't. But the general principle has held up.

For anyone wondering what I'm talking about, here are some past explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22902490 (April 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21607844 (Nov 2019)

and some related points:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23959679 (July 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17014869 (May 2018)

and there are lots more at https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&so... covering this.
I like the Einstein quote about the speed of light - some smartass asked him to recite it, and he’s basically like “I don’t memorize trivial information that’s easily looked up in books”

Could be totally apocryphal, but I like the sentiment.
> wouldn't kids with more balanced extracurricular lives have an advantage over those who fill their day to the brim?

Depends on what you mean. Afterschool activities often include sports, so there's some balance between academics and physical activities, but physical activities won't get you into a good school unless you are at a competitive level, so there are high pressures there as well.

As for parents who recognize the importance of downtime? The ones that can afford it... send their kids overseas. But of course, even with added downtime, those kids are more academically competitive, so they end up ratcheting up the standards in the area they go to.
Expo Modules Core is the only module that is bundled in. It is a small runtime library that defines the Expo Modules API used by other modules, and adds about 150 KB to a production build of an app downloaded from the stores. A hello world iOS app made with Expo ended up being smaller than the same hello world app that used RN without Expo due to the Xcode settings.

There are also no custom UI controls or animation libraries bundled with Expo. The Expo Go starter app includes a preset SDK, and when developers create a build for the app stores or a development build of their own app, only the libraries they use are included.

IMO it would be a meaningful improvement for the react-native package to provide the minimal runtime needed, namely JSI, Hermes, Turbo Modules, Yoga, Fabric, and perhaps a few primitive view components like View, ScrollView, and Text. The package provides more than a library needs. Animations and gestures today are better served in my experience by modules outside of the react-native package, like Reanimated and Gesture Handler that use truly native gestures. React Navigation uses the system navigator UI and Expo Router adds file-based routing and universal links. Expo Image adds support for modern image formats like AVIF and WebP and uses mature, performant image libraries like Glide and SDWebImage. So there is definitely still work to be done that can improve quality and reduce complexity in RN.
I laugh-cringed at the "Operation Pedophile Not" skit from SNL in 1994.
It’s hard to say. What I see is a lot of people in my network really scaling back or dropping Twitter and maybe playing with the alternatives but not really embracing them. I suspect that for many it will be a case of “Social media was nice while it lasted.”
> Flat statements like “that’s rude” or “that was very kind” can be very powerful.

Labels without understanding is kinda pointless. My friend's 5 year old has translated 'rude' to mean 'something I don't like'. Whenever he gets a timeout he calls his parents rude. It's actually pretty hilarious.
"Drugs will make you feel awesome. Never trust _anything_ that makes you feel like that"
It's time to go do crime against houses with Ring security systems.
This was already a solved problem. Just get the kids use all the stuff away from parents when they are between 14 and 18. Yes it will do a little bit of brain damage, but getting pissdrunk at that age and having your parents nurse you back to normal is a great experience for a kid. I know this from first hand experience, when I was 14 (it was sorta normal in the Netherlands at that time). I was a lot more carefully with any substances afterwards. As for addiction: kids are getting addicted to their phones and games all the time.
It is fine for a quick one off project, but if you're going to depend on anything over the long term, you have to be able to upgrade it. Especially in JS land where things change almost weekly. 99% of my releases have been simply about dealing with changes of dependencies. I wouldn't be confident to do a release if I didn't have a test suite.

You're right on the point of using another low code solution though... it still opens you up to dependency issues. You might also want this as a product with its own skinned UX/UI that you have full control over. Third party 'commercial' products won't always give that to you.
Ah another one of those "dese damn kids and millennials I tell ya hwat, back in my grandpappys days we used to mine our own copper before laying them lines!"
200W PMPO !!

(in reference to the ridiculous advertising tactics of cheap audio/computer speaker systems in the 1990s)
> Trust us.

While you should never trust any corporation in the sense that you might trust a person, you can trust that they will do the things that they believe will make them the most money.

What financial incentive do you believe that apple has to steal your fingerprints?
On the last paragraph:
"...Our new material is five times lighter but four times stronger than steel"
I was unaware that this was still in an early stage of development and am glad to hear of plans to move forward on a native app.

> Hopefully that roadmap and explanation of the architectural decisions clears up any worries about the short and long term state of our GUI.

Yes.

To expound on my original complaint about web apps in general, my main problems with them are:

* responsiveness -- specifically latency when using the gui, as well as the long staggering pauses when I don't know if I am waiting for the server to respond or if there is an app hiccup or if the thing is frozen (the random long unresponsive breaks is what made me unable to use Roboflow, for instance)

* file management -- having to do everything in the browser is frustrating because of the way the browser is separate from the OS and makes everything an 'app'. Having to import files to some server to work on them is annoying when they are right here in my system. I also like to manage the files in a specific way and have access to program and preference files and know where everything is stored (if it crashes I can find the temp files, for instance). Sandboxing the app from the OS is the opposite of how I want a desktop application to behave

* portability / offline use -- I don't want to login to use an application. I don't want my files on a cloud and I want to be able to use the application forever, even if the original company is defunct

I hope this sheds light on where I am coming from. It seems you thought of at least a few of these issues and are mitigating them.
What's a Twitter? We're supposed to be xing and rexing our xs on x now.
I find very few people outside my home who religiously put down toilet seats prior to flushing. I can’t even think about it too much without being unsettled. I can see that it obviously isn’t that dangerous given our daily lives, but it is one of my hang ups.
Chinese developer leaves S.F. with trail of broken real estate deals, lawsuits
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E4GF9Y21twcjlZ7Aha7zRJ2aSTb...
Opinions and views likely follow statical patterns like everything else.

Systemic reasons are why it's common to see the collective responsible for the systemic patterns in society be so fervent to deny systemic issues exist.

I myself like the idea of my success being attributed to my hard work. I would like to think that I bootstrapped my way to success. It's not an easy feeling to accept that in many ways by virtue of just being part of the main majority collective I by default have an advantage in my community over those that aren't a member in that majority collective group.

i.e. if the majority % of users in a forum are belonging to a certain category then it's reasonable to believe that most of that majority would be against anything perceived as a criticism of their group (and by extension themselves).
Cool. I wonder how much discussion went on about the '+' in the name.
In JS land it is especially important and honestly one of the least done things, which is sad and a source of why things are always breaking randomly.
More broadly you could look at global serviced office providers, people like https://www.servcorp.com/en/about-us/ or even https://www.wework.com/
Let me guess, to protect the children and the rest of us from terrorists?

You know bad actors won’t care about your bill, I would love to see how the government is going to block an email encrypted with gpg?
It's pretty smart if you're a spammer / phisher. Legitimate use-cases for this setup seem to be few and far between. I wonder how it handles (or skirts) the STIR/SHAKEN requirements in the US.
Waymo kills off autonomous trucking program