skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2019 I built the original version of codeamigo.dev, a place to create coding tutorials, after codecademy rejected me for the third time. About a year in Amjad from replit reached out and offered to acquire the product and hire me full time. I went through the interview process, and was offered the job, but in the end I backed out because others convinced me it wasn’t for enough money. One of the worse career decisions I’ve made thus far.
The way I see it used makes no sense.

Does paper currency have any intrinsic value?
The picture on the upper right side of this page ( https://dcvsmarvel.fandom.com/wiki/Superman_vs._Hulk ) generates an X/Twitter post saying:

The green Hulk is squishing the purple Teen Abomination and throwing him against a rock wall! Yikes! #ComicCon #SuperheroBattles

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This peaceful pic: https://www.pixelstalk.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/HD-Pea... generates the following:

Tweet: "Looking for a serene landscape? Visit this green and yellow farm with a beautiful sunny blue sky! #countrylife"

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Author is right, it's fun. Some manual tweaking may be required (says Superman - as he thought he had the upper hand).
Or maybe because it is Python. I find Python to be a beginner friendly, easy to learn language that steers you in the "right" direction. I think it is the biggest factor that explains its popularity. It is not a perfect language, in fact, I don't like it that much, but you have to give credit when credit is due.

With C++, you can have decades of experience and be considered an expert, and yet, feel like a noob (my case). Perl, a language that shares many similarities with Python is also much harder to learn well. The "there is more than one way to do it" philosophy has value, but not for learning.
The word "adaptation" has a few specific meanings in the field of biology.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptation
Yeah, if they were very well-managed that have metrics not only for success but also for potential loss. And then an honest qualitative evaluation to see changes—good and bad—in the things that are hard to measure but nonetheless important.

I’ve seen very few firms of any sort do that well.
Arch completely broke systemd-boot after a recent update for me on my laptop. After spending half a day trying to figure out how to get it put itself back in to the loader.conf I just put Windows 11 on the laptop. My girlfriend uses the laptop and wouldn't know how to fix this if it happened again. So it still breaks stuff on occasion. Maybe not for you, but it does.
I'm embarrassed to admit that despite having had Spotify for years, my music tastes didn't change much.

I switched back to albums, and can thankfully pick clients that suit my taste.

* https://gitlab.com/souch/SMP for Android

* https://apps.gnome.org/Amberol/ for desktop Linux

Beets and rsync manage tags and distribution.
To the folks who want to cut Anduril slack, let me just say that these cost 5-6x a Shahed. In war, like in chess, if you manage to trade crappy little pieces for rare big pieces, you win. And if you decide that your strategy is to trade expensive big pieces for crappy little ones, you usually lose. The US has avoided losing by fighting small countries against which it has an overwhelming advantage, which keeps its hot wars short. If it were to fight a long hot war against a near peer (hello, Taiwan Straits), its dumb decisions about bloatware would quickly catch up to it.

Setting aside the budgetary considerations, quality is its own quality, as Stalin never really said. That is, if you can manufacture tens of thousands of payload-bearing model airplanes for less than the price of a Tesla, then you can DDOS any air defense system in the world. Its million-dollar missiles will soon be exhausted, and your radio-controlled offensive will have won.
> Ultra progressive ... progressive users ... fanatics

You say more about yourself than anyone else.

> ... think this is a known-quantity / settled science.

I don't think anyone thinks it is settled. Personally I don't know and I very much want to, but comments like yours do not illuminate in the least. Actual facts would be welcome
The Fediverse is not a single entity. Anyone who thinks it can be improved, can improve it. There are lots of different systems that are part of the Fediverse. It's not all Mastodon, and some of them have a completely different approach.
> It becomes problematic because it then becomes easy for engineers to have a completely different container for dev then is used for prod

If the differences between dev and prod are also programmatic in nature (eg based on flag, and mostly configuration-like values), it should be fine.
> At least accordingly to myth

And a lot of archaeological evidence!

> Carthage was colonized from Tyre, which is today in Lebanon.

It was founded by Phoenicians [0], whose land today largely coincides with modern-day Lebanon, which as a self-governing state is a relatively modern construct (post WW1).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenicia
I didn't switch because of Joe Rogan, but Spotify kept changing the UI and at some point it got so annoying to browse music over the crappy podcasts being shoved in my face that I switched to Tidal.
Gobs of data (2011)
Are there any real alternatives?

I tried to make a conference poster with SVG - using Inkscape - and it was minor disaster that rendered differently in different programs/browsers, with some features entirely broken

but I don't know of a third option..
"Spotify is essentially a media company" - they are definitely still a music streaming company with an ad-sponsored product-tier, even if the ad-sponsored tier is the most popular or most profitable. Also, when you have an ad-sponsored tier you are not streaming for free - you are paying by selling your attention, it's just that the resulting cash price of the subscription is opaque to the user.

This differs from e.g. Google that runs a large ad platform used not only by several of their own services, but also external products and services (other websites and apps).
> The war elephants weren’t so veteran and so the Roman’s were able to scare them off as they charged

Just smear a bunch of pigs with flammable grease, set on fire, and send off towards the elephants who will promptly panic.

Super easy, barely an inconvience.
I’m in full support. But, you do realize the forum you’re writing this in, right?
This is very sad. The impact Daniel Langlois had in Montreal is essentially unbelievable, and most of those of us working in the tech/media intersection here could thank him for creating the whole ecosystem that contains our jobs.

Someone found this great interview from 1994. It is amazing how little changes business wise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X37FwLsTW7Y

One thing he did with the Softimage money was found Excentris which was a beautifully barmy indie cinema with features like ticket booths where for no reason you had to communicate with the attendant via video.

As a transplant into Montreal I had known of Softimage since the 90s, as their international reputation was very strong, so seeing their sign that used to be on St Laurent did make you aware of a justified sense of local pride in that achievement. Sadly that sign has gone.

RIP
You can use jcasc (Jenkins configuration as code) with regular shell jobs, or Jenkins Job Builder, to name two alternatives "in between".
The founding generation of the fediverse may operate with definitions of “sysop is malicious” and “bad behavior” that make little sense to most of the world. For example, back when centralized blocklists were still in vogue, some insisted that servers that failed to ban discussion of libertarianism, ought to go on the blocklist. For whatever reason, some of the founding generation see libertarianism as beyond the pale, as equal to fascism or hate speech. Even as someone who has been annoyed for decades by the libertarian idealism occasionally encountered on nerd forums, that strikes me as a bizarre policy.
> But your comfort comes at a cost, which is that people you disagree with aren’t exposed to disagreements with you.

Whats the alternative? That most shared discourse happens in a single space? I think its fairly clear that that doesn't work so well when everyone has write access to that space: it either dissolves into q conflict zone, or bubbles form within it, or both.

Before social media there was less of a problem because of gatekeeping by traditional journalism and state regulation, and because print media moves too slowly to permit high-freqency positive feedback loops to form.

I'm not suggesting going back to the situation before social media, but I'm not convinced that "comfortable bubbles" are the main problem. I suspect that the frequency and scale of discourse are at least as important.
I'm a heavy user of spotify. Almost everyone I know uses it daily. I don't understand why they are not able to turn this much engagement into profit.
Applying the troll's razor: Maybe it's just large scale trolling, nothing less, nothing more.
I sometimes wish some stuff would stay up, but, in the aggregate, I'm pretty happy with the result.

Whenever I see some article posted, that is likely to generate a storm of bickering (many platforms elicit this; not just politics), I'm usually happy to see it take a nosedive.

I had something that I submitted, fairly recently, get plonked. It was actually fairly sensible and relevant, but one of the commenters posted something that was "sort of" a "dox," and I understood why it disappeared.
That's true. The newer, larger out-of-town Lidls are pretty decent. Still the same terrible staff though :D
I used to look at SO on my morning coffee and try and answer a question or two with no incentive. However:

1. Most questions were already answered by reputation hunters with pastes from documentation when I got around to it.

2. SO started discouraging "teach the man how to fish" answers and insisting on code ready to copy/paste. I'd like to help people learn not write their code.

I did get invited to the job board thanks to Google. Some error in their android examples didn't get corrected for years and my answer on SO explaining the 'right way' to do it whored me ... checks ... what, I'm at almost 8000 points now in spite of not logging in in years.

Said job board didn't get me anything but then I never filled anything in. Maybe I had them import my linkedin, but iForget.
I teach 3D modeling, and also procedural animation and simulation. The last two I would class as being the same.

3D modeling I would define as being fundamentally intentional. Want a particular form? Make it as according to your intention!

Procedural modeling animation/simulation I would define as being 'overseen' by a mathematical algorithm.

In the case of the former, the artist has complete control over every aspect of the outcome.

In the case of the latter, the artist has limited control. Want to change the direction of that simulation-defined particle? Or that branch of that L-system generated tree? Good luck.

The advantage of a procedural approach is that it can realistically emulate the complexity of nature (which is beyond an intentional approach). Hence it's favor in those artists who are interested in nature.
>I’ve seen a lot of protest on HN and Reddit from people who feel the currently popular language is being “shoved down their throat”. But if you’re not open to that we would be writing C forever, let alone C++ or Java (which had their own hype cycles).

This was Rust for a decade. It was really annoying. But now we have a wonderful new language with tons of support that could legitimately challenge C++ some day. So I tend to agree.
Yes we would have to provision to delete it upon request. We are looking to use this for fraud risk management.
> E.g. could a controversial thread (plenty of upvotes, plenty of downvotes) get pushed off the front page because it has a low upvote:comment ratio?

You can't downvote submissions, just flag them. As for comments, I'm not sure how the sorting works there (but it seems like net upvotes, with comments younger than an hour being pushed to the top).
Tell HN: Anti-bot detectors are becoming aggressive and unfriendly
So just today, I was asked to prove that I'm human (yay!) yet again.

The latest batch of these detectors have become extremely unfriendly and aggressive.

The latest one asked me to match the shadow with a tiny icon in the background. Even on a large 32" monitor, I had to zoom in to even see the icon.

Surely, this isn't the best way to weed out bots? And if it isn't, what's the alternative?
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How many people will be getting told they're part of it? I would suspect this will be hanging over their heads as an unknown element. Is it even possible for HR to manage off-boarding 17% of the company within a month?
Well and your post was probably one of the longest for saying "climate change is a hoax". At least this is how it came across, or did you have any other message?
Nous-Hermes-2-Vision-Alpha
One of the first comments on that video in reply to someone saying this:

> I'd rather animals suffer than humans

Ah yes, the eternal suffering of not having purple clothes. It haunts me every day.
Stuff the food industry doesn't want us to know.
Okay, does the regulation vary upon different regions?
I'm surprised Spotify wouldn't take this to the next step and, borrowing a page from the old industrialists, try to vertically integrate and start their own music label and talent scouting arm.

You would think they could pull a "Netflix and House of Cards" to use all of their play data to find exactly which kind of niche singer/songwriter people would want to hear. They could then use their reach + algorithms to float their artists into people's "discover new" playlists.
I used Blazorise at my old job! Great work!
This and things like inheritance when someone passes away are things that will have to be regulated since we can’t trust these companies to do the right thing.

Allowing people to download what they purchased and allowing account transfers to your kids when you pass away should become legal rights.
Here's also a GPT for learning D (might require a ChatGPT subscription): https://chat.openai.com/g/g-QHX6wnuyX-d-teacher
Windowless dorms come to mind.
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Why would you ever want the dotless version though, in cases where it's not terrible? (e.g when there are multiple arguments of equal importance and calls where the argument is appears more as an option for esoteric cases than the implementation's main subject)

I really like the option to "semantically scope" a function to its main subject, like in kotlin extension methods. But I fail to see why I'd ever want to have both options. Is it just a compatibility thing, to be able to call code written for conventional languages? Or from developers who don't like that approach?
> I have not yet implemented L-Systems.

Regardless, what you have produced is kick ass. L-syetm or not, it demonstrates the complexity of nature.
I am not sure I agree with their participants sampling approach. Memory and particularly short term memory is highly impacted with people that have adhd/depression/bipolar. I am surprised they went with random participants without assessing their mental states and taking that into consideration.
Zig provides a smooth transition from C and has a built-in C compiler and also is excellent at cross compilation. D is much older and is more like a C++ alternative. Zig is more like a C alternative.
That won’t make sense forever. Already barely does. Giving people access to their stuff without DRM is the way.
> veterinarian in Azerbaijan

This is not the average vet in Azerbaijan. It's the vet telling a story that fits the values of YOUR bubble. There are probably Azerbaijanis in your own city who you don't know and wouldn't even listen to because they don't live in the same bubble. They might be struggling to put food on the table and they may think that you are a privileged ** and that you think you are morally superior because your bubble also contains privileged **s who happen to live in other countries.

You'd probably get more outside of your bubble by getting acquainted with a person at your local bus stop. But the reality is: you wouldn't want to because they don't live in your bubble.
EdgeDNS, a high performance DNS cache written in Rust: https://github.com/jedisct1/edgedns
So once diagnosed what then, pills or is there anything else that can be done?
Some people just put their money where their mouth is
A shoutout to SuperMemo here - one of the oldest SRS out there. Their first version was on Amiga, if I remember correctly, and the newest ones support iOS, use LLMs and all the other tech :)
Reminds of the quote attributed to Naval Ravikant (paraphrased):

You have one person running the website. They leave and, of course, you need two people to replace that one person. Then, eventually, one of them leaves, you need two people to replace them etc. This brings you to a scenario where you have 5,000 people maintaining the website and changes take years.
I have eliminated all plant-based calories from my diet and it is just incredible how much better it makes you feel.
You won't get a representative answer here because tech folk can be specific about what and how they listen, so our answers will make it appear like a big deal.

I will venture that most people don't notice or care.
In the US, 7726 just goes to the receiving carrier (that is, your wireless provider), not the sending carrier. It can help your carrier filter the messages (eventually, sometimes…), but it doesn’t actually stop them.
I think the branding hurt it for years. It was perceived as a variant of C++. That didn't work, because it's definitely not C++, so C++ programmers would say "but it does X different from C++ so it's wrong". And nobody else wanted C++.

It's a variant of C, even to the point of compiling C code. The downside to that is that C isn't exactly the hottest language among people under 50.
'Wobbly spacetime' may help resolve contradictory physics theories
Built a website for a big student group while I was at Clemson. By the time I left it was a tool to run the entire organization.

In the process I taught myself web development and landed my first job because of it.
I want to write low level code and was considering Nim because I want to compile to C, so I can benefit from Cosmopolitan Actually Portable binaries.
Do you think Nim is feasible for this? Do you know other languages that could do that, it seems my options are VERY limited (despite there being thousands of languages, there's almost none that can compile to C and gives you good memory control)... I think Zig can't compile to C yet, Rust doesn't either (except for some experimental compiler) and other options are GC'd with a "heavy" runtime which is the last thing I want.
> the video also points out that Spotify is not a very profitable company. In fact, Spotify has lost money every year since it was founded in 2006.

you can't lose money indefinitely
Fun fact first version for PC was DOS version:

https://winworldpc.com/product/acrobat-reader/1
Very interesting. If I understand correctly, it is exactly the same pigment, coming from the same sea snail (Hexaplex trunculus), only that the application to textiles was different: if you dye a cloth and keep it in the dark until it dries out it becomes reddish-purple, if you let it dry in the sun it becomes blue.
Also why they are pushing so hard for getting people outside their playlist with "jams" "radio" and the automatically enabled "similar content" features, so they can fill play time with low royalty music.
Julia is the only programming language that makes me annoyed when I think of it, because it was so troublesome to package for Arch Linux and because of how little they care about increasing the safety in the language (like Rust or Ada).
Mine was handwritten and bound in leather. The rest of you must be new.
I see this response a lot on these threads. Why is it so hard to accept that two digit inflation over the past couple of years and interest rates well above 5% could be a major factor?
NB: this is a Japanese study.

The participants wrote their notes in Japanese.

If you write on paper, you need to write out each character by hand.

In contrast, if you write on a tablet or other device, the input system will sort of "autocomplete" for you.

Therefore, more cognitive effort is required to write on paper than on device.

It is fairly accepted that greater cognitive effort (either to encode or to retrieve) is associated with greater recall.

So I would doubt the transferability of this result to western context.
> If one wants, they can literally just spawn a julia process, define a function on the fly and then hook into that process and call that function from another language.

Okay but how do you distribute the program that depends on Julia to clients? You then also need to ensure that they have the right Julia available on their system. That's much heavier than dynamic binaries (which rely only on some shared libraries). My point was that it's not always "easy" to call Julia. That it's easy in HPC is a reasonable statement since you probably have full control over the system and it has loads of RAM available, but I wouldn't call it easy in general.

> You are mistaken.

I guess we're both right. I was talking about the "libraries" functionality [1].

[1]: https://julialang.github.io/PackageCompiler.jl/dev/libs.html
The country you grew up in almost always has a big quality-of-life head start, because it's where your friends and family are.

If you're in a poor country and changing country will get you a 10x increase in salary, that might more than compensate for only seeing your loved ones for a few days every few years. But if you're already pretty well off? Not so much.
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A(I) deal at any cost: Will the EU buckle to Big Tech?
Software that prompts you with information on some time interval that allows for embedding it deeper in your memory. I think the key was it would prompt you with the information, just as your short term memory would be about to forget it, and thus re-inforce it.

So some information X you want to remember.

It would prompt you with it at 5 minutes, then 20, then an hour, then 5 hours.

I forget the durations, but it was based in some studies on time before short term memory fades.
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Still. There's only ~200 countries, and a good chunk of them either isn't worth having any presence in (no need to negotiate licenses for Somalia), or is so small and has similar laws to surrounding countries that they'll be treated as one bloc by the publishers you negotiate with anyway (all the Pacific statelets e.g.).

Between that and the ability to just contract local lawyers, 45 to (realistically closer to) 90 employees per (relevant) country is still a lot.

Also, spotify outsourced 90% of their support to their community (designated "star" members). There's no hotline either, so no call centres to run, or anything else personnel intensive. (And you'd outsource that anyway, realistically.)