skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This [0] did not age well:

>> "I'm calling it now, this is going to hollow out twitter in extremely rapid fashion. I give twitter a couple of months once this launches, they'll do a Wile E Coyote where they walk off the cliff, followed by plummeting."

It has been one month and it has not 'hollowed out' Twitter / X in "extremely rapid fashion". In fact, Threads is the one already 'plummeting' in 'extremely rapid fashion' of its daily active users and it did not surpass Twitter / X's daily active users either.

Both will co-exist, but Threads actually destroys the smaller 'competitors' such as T2, Hive.social, Post, etc rather than Twitter / X.

But this aged well, unsurprisingly [1].

>> The same people who incorrectly predicted Twitter's immediate collapse are now furious that didn't happen. Now we see them hastefully predicting the end of Twitter again. It is quite hilarious and this will age extremely poorly.

One again like I said before, the death of Twitter / X and its services has been greatly exaggerated, with the original commenter and many other no where to be found.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36580669

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36582377
Apple, Facebook, Valve, and most of those other companies you're outlining had successful business models built on their habitual users _before_ alienating a portion of their customer base.

Reddit has never been profitable and was never able to properly monetize the userbase they had. Killing their mobile app ecosystem only makes sense if they not only think that most of those users will be willing to switch to the dire official Reddit mobile app, but that doing so will turn Reddit's horrendous reputation around in advertising circles in time for their IPO.

I'm undecided on what the realistic attrition rate on the mobile side of Reddit is, but I think the chances of them becoming attractive to advertisers is almost nil. TikTok seems to be where social media managers are heading these days, and Threads/BlueSky are new opportunities on the horizon waiting to be pounced on. Meanwhile, Reddit is known as the legacy platform filled with users who hate advertising - why bother?
(Hi, I’m one of the authors of the article at the root of this thread.)

I’ve gone back and forth on workspaces versus more root modules. On balance, I like having more root modules because I can orient myself just by my working directory instead of both my working directory and workspace. Plus, I feel better about stuffing more dimensions of separation into a directory tree than into workspace names. YMMV.
So homeopathy pills are drugs!
Interesting; I didn't realize Ambien was addictive. It was prescribed to me years ago after laser eye surgery (but only a week or so of pills). It was great for the first two or three days (I generally do have trouble sleeping and staying asleep, and Ambien knocked me right out and kept me that way for a solid 8 hours), but then I guess I developed a tolerance and it stopped being effective.

I wonder if that's why people get addicted? Maybe the normal dose is fine, but many some start developing a tolerance, and then self-raise their dosage in order to get it to work again, but a higher dose triggers addiction?
my favorite is to put a linux install without internet in front of them and a book on python
The Deutschlandticket is not a travel ticket, it is only for local transport and slow regional trains. It is not feasible to travel through the country with it.
Reminds me of that time X had beds in thier offices
Non-determinism in GPT-4 is caused by Sparse MoE
Are you waking up from a nightmare? Do you have any recollection?
We were experimenting with IGMP on the Mbone back then, in terms of teleconference and webinar capabilities. We sort of envisioned that large groups of people would tune in simultaneously to live events, but Netflix's VOD and YouTube made for a markedly different architecture.
I mean, if it was a good decision, it was a good decision. But there are a lot of ways for a decision to be bad without legibly causing a legible problem—and the "business" might be happy with that—but that doesn't make it a good idea!

A common pattern I've seen is a team or organization getting in the habit of collecting little papercuts where no individual problem is bad enough to register but, over time, the codebase becomes slow and painful to work on. What's especially dangerous is that the state of the system informs people's expectations: what's easy, what's hard, what's possible at all. You get to the point where changes that should be easy are seen as inherently difficult and people start making strategic decisions that implicitly compensate for this, masking the accumulated problems even further.
A good reminder that reading is not good per se; you could be reading junk.
It works the same as maintaining road infra. Car/fuel taxes are not enough to cover it, so ppl taxes are used. There is no sustainable transport in this regard maybe except bike lanes since these require minimal maintenance after built and have long lifespan, but public transport is better (cheaper to maintain) compared to car infra when accounting nr of passengers transported
A major difference is that mastodon instances federate together, blogs don't. A rapid resurgence in self-operated blogs would also be exciting and newsworthy.

> won't ever reach critical mass like centralized Social apps

Is that even a goal? I use it because there's interesting people I can interact with there. Market share is not the only measure of success.
QMK is fiddly, but VIA's web app couldn't really be much easier for the common suff.

You just visit https://usevia.app in a modern browser and plug in your keyboard. Remapping keys, creating layers, and creating simple macros is easy using the GUI, and changes take effect right away.

I am curious as to what you can do with the M60 using Python, though. Do you have any example off the top of your head, of things that are hard to do with QMK/VIA?

One thing I have always wanted to do is conditionalize the keyboard's functionality based on external state (e.g. use different RGB color schemes depending on environmental ambient light, or on data returned from some external service). Stuff like that is not generally feasible on a keyboard, but it seems like it might be doable with the nRF52840 in this keyboard(?).
It really does sound like an entirely different level of complexity.

GCP native API is basically the same thing as knative in most ways. Just a bunch of various services and resources that you all call and authenticate and even often provision the same way.

As an example of that since we are talking about infrastructure management I would say at its “smoothest” level of integration there is a service you can use (or host it yourself on Kubernetes if that’s your thing for some reason) where like any other Kubernetes resource I would just “declare” what I wanted.

So now I’m not messing around with complicated Terraform logic at all (Google got really good with automation, I don’t think there is anything close to an equivalent for this is there?). I just declare say a BigQuery resource or a Project (AWS Account equivalent) resource and the service will do all the hard work of making sure that’s the state my account is in at any given point.

I can also stick policy controls around it like I would with K8s so only certain people can create certain resources under certain conditions.

It’s really easy to just stick that into a git repo and still do all of the IAC stuff mentioned in this article but it’s also easy to do the cross environment stuff and manage the roll out between each of them.

Overall, it’s very predictable, the IAM is really intuitive but also incredibly granular so it’s very easy to model things on top of and to feel fairly confident that I’m not accidentally doing something stupid so I really like it from that point of view.

My number one bit of advice for GCP is see how easily you can architect your way into using Cloud Run as much as possible unless you have some really wild use case. You can get to a really sophisticated set up with only a tiny team. Followed by read Google’s API guidelines (aip.dev) to understand how to build things in a way where you’re going to continuing having a good time.
suppressing growth does not equate to 100% regression.

the growth rate could be suppressed to match the attrition rate and turn into a steady state, rather than eradication of the mutant cell lines (and their progeny).
They already died.
There’s space between highly speculative startups, huge stagnant companies, and open source: small privately held companies teamed by highly skilled engineers building products outside the “web space” that actually do something useful.
Off by one floating point
This article is making a bad comparison.

From the CNBC article (https://www.cnbc.com/2023/08/04/google-offers-on-campus-hote...):

> The Google-owned hotel is situated on a newer campus in Mountain View, California, that it opened last year.

The Gizmodo article is comparing this to what Twitter did. Having a space that is actually run as a hotel is not the same as setting up bedrooms in an existing part of a building.

Based on the description in the article, I am reminded of the Stanford Guest House (https://rde.stanford.edu/stanford-guest-house), which is owned and run by Stanford, for the benefit of faculty, staff, students, and visitors. It is also run as a proper hotel.
Apple is a weird company. They are absurdly proud of Rosetta 2. It’s one of the most impressive codebase in the world.

And Apple is working as hard as possible to remove it as soon as possible.
I would think a combination of git, unit tests, and comments would solve this problem?

Unit tests prove the code works as intended, and are basically examples of what the code is doing. Whether the code is actually "good" is a bit more subjective -- but tests give you the freedom to modify it without breaking it.

Checking into git frequently is also a way to give yourself some freedom. Commit at every milestone, like every time the next thing is "working". If you feel like refactoring, go for it -- you can reset back to working state in a few seconds.

And lastly, leave comments in. You can always clean it up before you push. You can even squash or interactively rebase your history so no one else sees the gory details how the hot dog was actually made.
>if not making it an enjoyable and desirable experience

It will always be the worst part of my day and with more passengers and the regularly scheduled disasters that won't change any time soon.
That's an age appropriate activity. They don't make a children's calculus book.
Partly because a lot of these companies “return to office” took away all the cool stuff like sitting next to your team, having an actual desk of your own, etc.

I just want one single place that is actual 2019 normal. None of this BS hotdesk crap.
> This is not the view of the scientific community, 36/50 US states and the vast majority of the international community

Unless you've got sources, I'm going to have to respectfully disbelieve that you somehow speak for the scientific community at large, 36 whole states, and the world.

Despite the morally-devoid echo chamber that many choose to live in, we've seen time and time again that social consensus doesn't mean anything when it comes to morality or truth.

I seem to recall at one point, owning human beings as slaves was both lawful and even considered morally necessary by many US states, and even the international community! Yet we can easily look back and realize that was a bitter mistake that has and will continue to affect generations to come. Not because we somehow "came to a consensus" that slavery was wrong, but because we finally acknowledged what was always true—slavery is wrong. Our consensus was just us coming to our senses.

I'll say it again, consensus means nothing when the subject is murder. The entire world agreeing does not, in any way, shape objective moral truth.
Pair programming sessions.
Just like financing road infrastructure
In 1990 you could have up to 4 displays on a NeXT Cube + 3 NeXTDimension 32bit colour boards. These were 1152x864 32bit colour displays at a time when people were using 80x25 16 colour text (likely, wordperfect/Lotus 123), or /maybe/ 640x480 16 colour graphics in windows 3.0.

NeXT had full ipv4 support from the start.

Unicode wasn't a thing until after Apple bought them.

One experiment I've done on my own NeXTStation turbo was run equivalent applications on both a NeXT and a modern Intel mac pro. Mathematica, email, Framemaker/affinity publisher all take roughly the same time to load and execute similar tasks.

Yes you can't do 3d, video, or AI on a 33 year old NeXT, and the image files would be smaller, but beyond that you could easily do your day to day work on such a system. It doesn't feel old at all.
It could also be explained by high gas prices, inflation and overall economic adversity.
I would have said I'm surprised that so many "hAcKeRz" are eager to prostrate themselves at the altar of eternal rent-seeking and powerlessness, but a lot of people here love simping for profit extractors, especially Lord Xoldermort. Another day, another rote disappointment.
Someone had a phone number set up a while back that routed into ChatGPT that worked decently well.
After seeing multiple "first drafts" going into production over years, I've internalised that they shouldn't be even presented as ready to be shipped until and unless a draft passes multiple refractors. If something is unknown, it is better to explore possibilities and prototype in a prior sprint before picking the actual implementation. Take your time to figure out unknowns before writing the code you intend to ship.
Some NAT46 (not to be confused with NAT64) tools and routers exist in the wild today. "Stateless" ones work by manually setting routes for chosen IPv4 addresses to IPv6 ones or treating all of IPv4 traffic as the "ultimate" semi-private IPv6 "subnet" and prepend a fixed IPv6 prefix to all IPv4 traffic (and you can do that with just about any IPv6 /64). Stateful ones act a lot like NAT44 routers and can also use "out-of-bound" protocols similar to NAT44's UPnP (but I think distinct from?) to setup routes on the fly from application requests.

Though they exist, my understanding is that the need and use cases for them is overall much weaker than NAT64 or NAT44.
You sure on that? We have 1000/100. Both WFH using zoom etc, 4 nest cams etc recording. We very rarely break 10-15mbps up.
What's the reason for the high inference latency? Any ideas on how this could be improved?
I agree with you to a point, but man there are ways that Comcast and Verizon just can't compete with Municipal. If I want to upgrade a modem I can read some reviews of the best Wifi6 routers or whatnot, or I can ping the guy I know who works for my provider (who also basically introduced me to my partner of 8 years) and get his take on it. The closest thing I've gotten to that with a Comcast person was shooting the breeze about easement rights for his van and how that neighbor calling the cops on him is going to be disappointed.

When I call for support it's some lady a mile away who answers on the third ring, and if I break my modem she apologetically asks if it's OK if somebody's there in an hour to fix it for me for $35.

It's like buying local vegetables except its internet and cheaper. You can't beat it.
Comments so far seem to have ignored the relationship between the Eastern front and the strategic bombing. In fact, they were directly related.

Stalin agitated ceaselessly for the Allies to open a second front in France, even back to 1942, to draw off German troops. The Allies weren't ready, but the bombing did at least tie up a lot of German planes and anti-aircraft that otherwise would have been used against the USSR. It had a political value, in other words.

Whether it really did disrupt German logistics for the Eastern front is debatable, but it showed Stalin that at least the Allies were doing something. Even if the German civilian suffering was for naught, I don't think Stalin saw it that way.
Docker only supports Windows by way of a virtual machine with some extra UI wrappers on top, it's not as if you're building/running Windows native containers in there. (Unless things have changed a whole lot since I last looked.) By that logic you might as well count anything that runs under WSL2 as supporting windows.
Think Twice Before You Use Discord for Your Community
I'm here to vent and give a heads-up to you all. It's about my nightmare with Discord as a game developer - the platform where I've been nurturing my game's community for the last 3 years.

Imagine building something from scratch, pouring your heart into it, watching it grow day by day. My server has over 4,000 die-hard players after 3 years, buzzing with ideas, feedback, and some crazy game theories. It was not just a server - it was my lifeline, my nerve center.

Now imagine waking up one morning to find my account disabled. Poof! Because someone out there decided to play a prank and report me for being "underage." I lodged an appeal ASAP, throwing in every proof of identity I had. You'd think that'd be enough, right? Well, guess again.

It's been over 3 days now, and Discord Support is as silent as a graveyard. Their policy says that my account will be dust after 14 days if things don't get sorted. Each tick of the clock is like a stab, knowing my community is sitting there in the dark. It's beyond frustrating, it's crushing. I'm unable to reach them because if I make an alt account to announce this, what's stopping some random strangers from making their own claim that they are the dev?

You might think, "Surely they'll respond before the deadline." And I wish I could believe that. But I've heard enough horror stories about Discord support responding when it's too late, or never responding at all, and the account just disappears into oblivion. That fear is real, folks.

So, here's my two cents. Seriously think over where you're setting up your community. Consider if you have any real control over the platform. This helplessness I'm feeling now, the feeling of seeing something you've worked on for years slipping away... It sucks, big time.

My advice? Don't put all your eggs in one basket, especially if that basket is Discord. I'm learning the hard way and trust me, it's a lesson you don't want to experience.

Any advice or similar horror stories are more than welcome. But more than anything, I hope my painful story can save someone else from this mess. Lastly, I'm not giving away my dev/game name because I heard that its possible for anyone to reach out to discord and claim my server once my disabled account gets deleted after 14 days.

Note: If there's a kind soul from Discord seeing this, I would really appreciate your help. My ticket # is 38363509.
Behind Microsoft paywall.
Interesting. Are you certain that in those gummy-bears the melatonin would be spread around the gummy bear equally as opposed to being injected or similar into a single place? I'm not sure how they are combined with melatonin.

Edit: looking around a bit, it does seem like melatonin or supplement ingredients are added and mixed before they are molded, so at least in theory it should be spread around fairly evenly.
in 2010 or so in our daily USA city newspaper online-edition, at least three times a week for the entire year, did I respond to "no there is no climate warming" posts -- straight denial.
I wouldn't be surprised if the first major acts of eco-terrorism (for lack of a better term) were to happen.

Peaceful protestors, as is tradition, were largely ignored. Acts of civil disobedience were ignored. Acts of obstruction are being frowned upon and the people involved are turned into villains by the media. There are people out there who went through all these efforts, faced rejection or deafening silence at each step of the way and are now out there further radicalizing themselves. Policymakers are still largely sleeping on the issue. This summer broke records and hit concerning extremes all over the globe. It feels like it's just a matter of time before something boils over.
Hold up, we've identified a mechanism that all cancer cells posses and healthy cells don't? That's almost unbelievable.

I wonder how something like that comes about? Is there something special about that isoform that is necessary for tumor growth or what?
How to make AI UX your moat
TCA looks like a fine piece of software. I'm going to try it. But I prefer WW2 airplanes over modern ones. And I'm have a BLAST learning LAC. There is a lot of depth here. And LOTS of airplanes to try. I haven't spent much time in the online missions yet but I am almost ready to give that a try. I'll probably get murdered there by some bushwacker!

I will try TCA after I get tired of LAC. If I ever get tired of LAC.
Personally, Next.js with NextAuth and Prisma for ORM is a much better full stack dev experience for me. Django templates are their own DSL, adding JS is more annoying and less powerful to do than React/JSX, Django Auth is cumbersome, Django Rest Framework will immediately feel like an old Java EE OOP way of doing REST or JSON API...
> Have you ever seen a Youtube video about someone reviewing a Tesla or comparing it to another car? The comments are always full of hostile and vitriolic remarks by people who are personally offended

So how do you think we can improve that? It's a very serious question - the anger and mis/disinformation on the Internet is doing great harm, has killed millions and may do far more (via vaccine and climate change disinformation, to start).
They're clearly referring to Celsius as it's Montreal in July.
> Their rates are less than 1/2 of PG&E

And their website is approximately 3141 times better than PG&E's. Electrical reliability and customer service are better, too.

It's hard to overstate how much better municipal power companies are compared to for-profit ones (LADWP is better than SoCal Edison).
Wedding Giant the Knot Pulled the Veil over Advertisers’ Eyes
It is literally kept in existence by government funding. My local transport agency (state owned) effectively charges a third of what it did before. Obviously they are taking enormous losses on this, which are financed directly by the federal government.
And, worse IMHO, Gitea is hitching their wagon to it https://gitea.com/gitea/act#forking-rules (plus whatever the relationship is to https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/act#forking-rules ) and with all the marketing-speak about "runs github actions!" I think people are going to get a bad taste in their mouth from having improper expectations. I have the same bitterness from GitLab claiming that "gitlab-runner exec" does anything sane

My experience matches yours: it's a noble idea, but they have quite a way to go, including better error messages for when they assume something exists and doesn't. I do have a great deal of sympathy for the incredibly hard task of "run arbitrary JS from the Internet as if it were GitHub" but I'm also not the one who claims my tool runs arbitrary GitHub Actions yaml
EPA Approved a Fuel Ingredient Even Though It Could Cause Cancer in Every Person
I know this is an article specific to hocus so I don't mean to take away from that but the title is much more open ended and plural so I'd like to ask this -

What has been your favorite local dev environment?

I personally docker-compose everything w/ .env overrides and I don't really feel like I've ever needed anything more than this.
> Downloading and configuring CouchDB on their PC isn't something I can do for them, but it's really simple and easy to do and I provided step by step instructions.

Innosetup is still a thing, and there are alternatives. Installers can take parameters, or be built on the fly. That's what we did at one place to install postgres and other apps for a customer, while making it as simple as possible. Next, next, finish.

Discount refers to reducing the cost if they went thru with it, lack of an extra charge while nice is not an incentive in itself.
It originally came from the WEF:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25068820