skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s surprisingly common.

A more extreme version is what I call the Stonehenge cycle:

- humanity names something, e.g. Stonehenge,

- humanity finds other, somewhat similar things, and names them similarly, e.g. Woodhenge, Seahenge,

- people studying the field realise that the term has become so broad as to lose any meaning, and attempt to create a tighter definition of what a thing is - e.g. a ‘henge’ is ‘ a roughly circular or oval-shaped bank with an internal ditch surrounding a central flat area’

- the original thing no longer qualifies under the new definition, e.g. Stonehenge is not a ‘henge’.
That's just a power rule, not an insight. The idea that you can choose between YouTube, Spotify, or Apple for the same product is good. The fact that you can still choose from a long tail of RSS providers for most shows is even better.
If you do a job search for "Django", "flask" or "fastapi" you'll see that there are a lot of web dev jobs using it.
if you didn't time your caffeine intake this morning it's all a wash /s
Anthropomorphising machines is a thing!

I don't know why we do it frankly - when there are real humans one can talk to, rather than pretending one is having a meaningful exchange with a website or advert.
Texas Company Was Behind Voter Robocalls That Impersonated Biden, N.H. Says
Quote: "Each unit has it's own identifiers In Pascal you never need to worry about polluting the namespace, like in C where an identifier needs to be unique accross the entire program. No, in Pascal each unit gets it's own namespace and that's very relaxed."

While this is true, you can export the same function/procedure name from 2 different units- and that can bite you in the rear. The way it works is that the last one listed in the "uses" clause ("include" equivalent of Pascal) is the one that has priority. If you want to use the function from the first one you need to actually go use the full identifier of the unit in order to call the first one (unit1name.samefunctionname(blabla parameters). This is notoriously a big bug with 3rd party vendors who want to expand the capability of the general units (looking at you DevExpress) by using the same units name. While I get the over all advantages of doing this on purpose, it also pisses me when I really need the basic one instead of the "enhanced" one.
He's the CEO of the company that provides the microservice. I assume he has some reason for not paying the upgrade price to make it always-on. Glitch is hosting + a development community.

You might have seen an app hosted there: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=glitch.me

Or heard of its old name, Fog Creek, if you've been around long enough.

https://glitch.com/@glitch/fediverse-of-madness

Some fun stuff in here: https://glitch.com/@community/community-roundup + https://glitch.com/@community/
> A big question for me is if the ADHD was always even in the older generations there but was non-diagnosed?

Also could the absence of treatment be causal?

Undiagnosed people suffer immensely trying to cope and adapt to a neurotypical life. Depression and anxiety disorders are commonly found as comorbidities. The above-normal stress default by itself could probably explain all sorts of aging associated disease and symptoms, I presume.

Then you typically find issues with sleep, regular food and water intake ...

And yeah, in context, people with undiagnosed ADHD are much, much more likely to abuse drugs, or "self-medicate". Especially smoking and coffee.
Fun!

I wonder if this lets you measure the average attention span of visitors? I'd be curious to see the impact on the average of the various platforms where this is shared.
It’s worth noting that in the book the “AI” is partly a live connection to a human being.
Is "tectonically stable" a natural resource that relevant regions could use to their economic advantage?
I always have to laugh when there's a cheese plate at some midrange business hotel that describes it as artisinal.
I bet growing lumps of these and keeping them in nutrient soaked vats will be cheaper than using LLMs to generate spam...
Penning a letter to your future self is a deep dive into self-reflection and personal growth. It acts like a time capsule for your current thoughts, hopes, and dreams, creating a bridge across the years. This exercise lets you track changes in your life, aspirations, and mindset. It provides insights into your personal development journey, showcasing how challenges were tackled and goals shifted. It's a special way to document your life's journey, offering a moment to reflect and renew your sense of purpose. I love this idea.
Interesting why Japan and not some EU country. Risk wise, I think EU is a safer bet compared to Japan if China attacks Taiwan
It was poorly written and the story was something a teenager would dream up, but your complaint is that the editing wasn't finished? Is that how you judge a story?
I feel like it should be possible to say "I want to reserve access to this resource when something important happens on it". Or just "I want to reserve access to this resource". Hopefully eliminates TOCTOU races. I guess then there have to be different modes to balance scalability/flexibility.
It can be held in hands and used. So handheld. Fitting in a pocket doesn't have anything to do with being handheld.

It would be called "pocketable" or something like that otherwise. I use my Steam Deck and Switch exclusively by holding them in my hands and never dock.
$4B/year is more than all the jewelry and precious metals stolen each year[1]. Should we not care about jewel thieves?

[1]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/252440/property-stolen-a...
I agree your original statement was fair and open, btw, my question was meant to be honest too. (And I didn't downvote you!)

I think every single institution that exists will have bias, so if we say having bias is isomorphic with being "a propaganda tool", then the term "propaganda tool" isn't very useful anymore, covering too much, and not what people think you are suggesting when you say the term.

I guess the interesting thing with tik-tok might be how much influence the Chinese government specifically as an entity has over it's various policies that effect what people see there; but then, I think people discount the influence the US government has over similar US companies too, from overt and more implicit pressure both -- but to literally any company operating in the USA, this isn't meant to be a "conspiracy theory" about say Facebook specifically either.

I appreciate you saying FB might indeed be similar... but generally if we say "TikTok is a Chinese propaganda tool" people think we are saying something different than "not too different from Facebook," and also something much more than "there are biases and interests of the people and organizations involved in decision-making, that necessarily effect what they do."

Which I don't know, it's not obvious to me anyway, or clear to me that the people who think it's obvious actually know what they're talking about. That there's something much more than this, in any of those cases.
I read your comment before going to the site. After starting the session, within a few seconds my mind drifted off into noticing how I couldn't see my reflection since my laptops screen is matte and why I prefer matte screens over a glossy one...and I've lost track of the dot too :/
I don’t do this kind of stuff anymore but if I did I would do something similar. Maybe add a before trigger that caused an error if no role was set. That way all connecting applications must set a user to use the db. Then put the database in charge of audit logs (who did what and when) and data access control with standard permissions and row level permissions. I’m sure you can balance that against an identity provider too.
I will check this out. My native Japanese wife rolls her eyes at any AI Japanese bot. "We would never say it that way."
How many people die each year in jails and prisons? No one knows
In the prosperity-eats-birth-rate scenario, the society is prosperous but individuals aren't having babies. Maybe fewer births aren't due to prosperity itself but the complexities it brings - including for those who aren't prosperous.

In the US, poor people are also having fewer babies. Like success, poverty consumes much time but it does so with far less hope. With that combo, the most fundamental resources of future-building (ex: consideration, dreaming) become scarce.
Canon's new litho might make low-volume very frictionless:

https://global.canon/en/technology/nil-2023.html
I've had many cases in the past (not in go) where I've had to make use of that exact same function (in typescript, in F#, and in C#). it is actually quite useful when doing any amount of data manipulation (map/filter/reduce chain that often ends up into a list of key-value pairs, which then get turned into a map/dictionary of sorts).

At least in my job(s over the years), turning a flat list of db records into a more complex, nested (potentially on multiple levels) data structure before handing it off to the front-end is a very common. I've seen it done with "simple, fast code" (although not in go specifically, but in other languages), but it very quickly turned into huge messes of of long nested for loops and was very difficult to read. LINQ, Lodash, java's streams... I sincerely can't understand how go developers live without them. They make me a lot more productive both at reading and writing the code.
EDIT: I solved my issue. Looks like I don't need to `unshare` by hand but runc actually does this already:

https://github.com/psanford/runc-examples/blob/master/rootle...
I recommend https://breathly.app/

It's open source, runs on iOS and Android and has aboslutely no clutter.
Don't compare Miku to Taylor Swift ever again lol
Especially considering how difficult it often is for ADHD people to follow through on subsequent visits.
This would be great if native GNU/Linux games would be promoted, instead I suspect it will be used for emulators (consoles, retrogaming, and Windows) instead, like every Linux based handheld since Pandora.
Can space-based solar power work? Here are the pros and cons
Yeah, I took lecture notes directly onto microscopic crib sheets that helped me cheat during the exams. Greatly improved my grades.
Maybe it would be better if the circle didn’t have such a high contrast. I don’t want a black circle burnt into my eyes after I’m done with this exercise.
1. Japan is a vassal state of the US.

2. Japan has a different work and compensation culture than European countries.

3. China is no discernible threat to Japan.
What do you consider to be the correct meaning to "Spanking" ?

edit: No being difficult or troll -- just curious.
Watch out for Chapter 1 though. ;)

The TTC is very crafty, almost like it's testing you to see if you're paying attention.
I dont get whats supposed to be prescient about writing a book with an AI in it, in 1995.

And nearly three decades before the release of ChatGPT, he presaged the current AI revolution.

This claim seems to hinge on on the Primer in the Diamond Age which uses an actor to read out its text, which is taken as a metaphor for ChatGPT being built on human output.

I mean, the Primer/Ractor combo seems like a cool thing to have in a book, but I don't see why this is a 'most stunning prediction'
I see this “system user” all the time in large integrations projects. It is indeed simpler and many times works just fine but it sure is nice to have something like a “run-as” capability so the far side system can apply user specific security policies based on who is accessing the system vs only the system user profile/role.
As a data engineer do you find it your job to transform and clean data? How much AI stuff do you implement that does data transformations?
can it be fairphone?
Thanks for this quote. "Artificial Inanity" seems about as useful of a concept as "negative information" (from Foundation?) has been.
As a vi guy, I trusted whatever my iPhone said was the canonical capitalization of emacs when it autocorrected it :-)

EDITED TO ADD: I just figured it out. My iPhone presumably thinks I'm taking about an obsolete Apple product. Doh. I'll let my error stand as a monument to not trusting everything a computer says.

I would also note that most of what we seem to be discussing is whether his writing is good or not. Spelling, I'll give him. The opinions on editing seem to be a little more divided.
Thanks! And good idea. The ideal time would have been early 2023, because things have drifted into bitrot a little already. I'll tidy up and see about showing it off hopefully in the next few days.
Have you seen the schematics for the Fairphone 5
I find the idea that our children are supposedly doing the entirety of their learning in a school just as worthy of a Black Mirror episode…
Bullshit. EU moving production to other countries is not to slash pollution. I know there will be academic explanations to convince us this is the way but once common people start to face real life problems (energy cost, food security issues, layoffs because of industry relocations, etc) they will rise the flag of revolution.
Unless this is the expected result...
https://www.languagetransfer.org/ tries to do this with spoken languages
good feedback! thanks
Maybe I'm not "that into" podcasts but I've never had to pay to listen to the podcasts I like. I can't even remember being prompted like you describe. I don't even pay for the software that plays the podcasts... (well one time a LONG time ago I paid for a player that was really nice).

What situations are you encountering this?
> with lower pricing and more competition

Every node shrink since 7nm (some say 28nm) has increased the price per transistor.

So if we keep going for smaller and smaller nodes expect prices to keep on rising. Once we reach some physical limit that we can't figure out how to solve is when you can expect prices to stagnate/lower (and progress stops too)
> didnt read the article but even if the clickbait was true...

If you didn't read the article then calling it clickbait is extremely disingenuous.
In video games and sports, perfection of gameplay is often the difference between winning and losing, perhaps the same is true of the real world.
I don't agree with that - I pretty much love everything from Cryptonomicon onwards (apart from REAMDE) and I'm not keen on Snow Crash or The Diamond Age.

Edit: I even really like "Fall; or, Dodge in Hell"
How to hire low experience, high potential people
Cryptonomicon is one of my all time favorite books. Diamond Age and Snowcrash were only ok.
> the user don’t notice the difference

Users do notice the difference is large JS framework driven applications.
> Asus and Lenovo both make a handheld gaming device that competes with the Steamdeck now.

They both run Windows natively, though; that should place them in an slightly different market.
Three open source Rust crates for the GraphQL ecosystem
Ack. Just applied a fix on the scroll. Not sure what to do with when mobile phone goes to sleep. Will look into it
Editing photos using text commands – Apple AI work continues
Didn’t know it has a name, but I frequently do that when I’m not calm enough to sleep.
Choose Local, It Matters
A PC is not bound to an OS

When i say "the platform", i meant it offer the optimal setup for the use-case

- better UX

- better performance

- better battery life

Besides, the one that sells the most is the Steam Deck, wich run a Linux OS

A Handheld gaming device is not a novel concept, countless of devices running both android / linux in the market

Example:

- https://anbernic.com/collections/linux

- https://www.goretroid.com/
Specifically, the change log is an information that is almost entirely unrelated to the business logic versioning. They don't have to agree even on the timestamps, the only property that relation has is that the number of changes on the change log is larger or equal to the ones on the business versioning.

(Besides, the business versioning doesn't even have to be a single one, or have a single active version at each time.)

Those extensions are often sufficient for the change log (if you add extra information on your tables). But then, they are way overkill for that.
at least they don't hide their purpose. current software is service.
> After that there's just too much fart-sniffing.

If I'm correctly identifying what you consider "fart-sniffing" in his works, then often those farts are my most favorite bits. The little digressions, the impromptu lessons, the D-plots - love 'em.
The problem jQuery was solving was to provide a usable abstraction over an inconsistent platform for core functionality like event handling and DOM manipulation.

The point of the last decade and a half of standards work was to eliminate that problem, and it has at least moved it from "core web functionality" to more complicated areas like bluetooth, 3d rendering and audio, which jQuery's goals do not include handling.

Is it urgent to remove jQuery from projects? Not really. And it's good the jQuery team maintain the project for that reason. Certainly some projects have gotten performance gains out of removing it, but part of the work they've done in 3.x and now 4.x is arguably jQuery removing stuff internally and replacing them with the now reliable browser APIs.

But on the other hand, is there a great argument for including jQuery in new projects? This is also a "not really".
Hi. I had fairly severe dyslexia (and it turns out undiagnosed ADHD) in school, I could read fine, but handwriting in particular was hideously slow, to the point where I wasn't able to actually learn much because I was spending all my time laboriously writing things out. Once my parents persuaded the school to let me use an electronic word processor (I hesitate to call it a laptop by modern standards) for anything that involved writing it made the world of difference.

As a happy side effect it also had a BASIC interpreter, which I would absolutely use to distract myself in boring lessons. I've been a professional software developer more or less since I left school. Not sure what the lesson is there... give kids laptops but only allow text editors and compilers?
Do you have any opinions on the retro game value pumping scheme that ars had a few articles involved in it. I've only seen half sided pieces from them on those sorts of articles, I mentioned in the article having been made aware from a Karl Jobst video but they just tore me to shreds about the Karl getting canceled/nazi stuff. Like sure, he may or may not be whatever, but the information he put together was pretty convincing and didn't have anything to do with that.

Honestly I've felt Ars' community has been almost completely useless since the last update to the comments system. They removed the ability to tag comments with "Interesting" "Knowledgeable" "funny" whatever, I would just cut through the dunking on elon posts and get to the meat with top most knowledgeable.

Not to say that isn't a fun time to dunk on elon.
Thanks for the engagement. Not sure if you are asking rhetorical questions to make a point about why BTC seems pointless. I don't necessarily disagree, it's speculative. But for the sake of clarity will say that I think there is a real innovation in BTC and those questions, rhetorical or not, do slightly miss the framing of the innovation.

Will try it this way. The store of value is a derivative result of the actual innovation, which is- BTC for the first time is a computationally secure mechanism that provides a system of record, the contents of which are somewhat resistant to political attack and manipulation.

A system of record is the basis on which rule of law exists, the basis for accounting and financial transactions, the basis for property, etc. Proof of Work vs Proof of Stake vs others as the "costs" for maintaining those systems of record, are experiments, empirical discovery processes to see which one(s) over what timeframe hold water.

Specifically to the points:

> BTC vs Gold

Yes. BTC is a technology that has wider use cases than gold. Store of value is just one use case.

> Who is paying for those watts and why?

Right now, people who want to make money, it is economically viable to turn stranded energy into "mining". Who is benefiting from the use of the ledger for store of value and medium of exchange? Often, not always, elements considered criminal by most governments as well as people whose legitimate needs are not being met by their governments.

> store of value...we can get something only less that energy

This is where I think the disconnect between the mechanism that BTC is, and these "rhetorical" questions, is greatest. BTC is a system of record platform. We have lots of other ones. All systems of record require upkeep. They are out there, they are expensive, we don't think about them. They are just people's jobs. Every county has a system for property and title maintenance. Every single financial institution has a ledger- many ledgers. etc.

Many of these ledgers are private. Oracle, the database company, originally became a big business on being the underlying mechanism for millions of private systems of record around the world. In every one of those ledgers, there is a DBA who can do UPDATE X SET VALUE = Y WHERE KEY = Z and often does- certainly "legitimately" governed by the various policies and protections and business rules and so forth that apply to the ledger. But sometimes those UPDATE SQL statements are "illegitimate" and those often occur when the political and governance mechanisms in the business or in the country are breaking down.

There isn't any of that SQL manipulation in BTC. Storing asset holdings is again, just one use case. Attestations, like on off-chain ownership, are another.

And to be sure:

> The market is settling out of chain, because it's cheaper

Absolutely- or rather, there is a lot of implicit cost hiding and inertial convenience in existing systems, as one would expect. And they work "well enough" in a "worse is better" sense. BTC may be too good, too "perfect", too expensive, as a system of record, long term. We'll see.

Hope that makes sense. Cheers.
> I abandoned it halfway through because the style struck me as cringily cyberpunk.

I believe that was fully intentional.
I think the mp3 is responsible for much of the positive momentum of podcasts and audio in general. (That's pretty obvious.) But there is not a widely accepted analog in video. Video encoding is complicated. And since we are at a particular juncture where video is large enough relative to internet speed, compression and encoding are still very important.

So the complexity of that is what makes it hard to go totally open in my opinion, at least from the creator standpoint.

That and the fact that there is just too much momentum with YouTube's audience volume, if your goal is viewership.
The thing is, TSMC floundered in America because they had to compensate American workers.

American workers aren't cheap.

These brutal Asian work cultures can only exist in Asia.

Americans and Europeans compete through ingenuity and intellect economically, not through a meat grinder of hard work. It's much different.

America's plan to revitalize their industry cannot be contingent on the graces of foreign countries.

China is grinding out their own domestic chip manufacturing even though it's far behind the technological sophistication of Taiwan. In the long run, China's strategy is vastly superior.

It's a bit embarrassing.
You pretty much covered all of my points.

Also, impersonating a user is against Discord TOS. It's only if the user is actively portraying themselves as that user to others and not just a nickname switch and being goofy, IIRC.

Personally I think you should get nuked for a day minimum for doing it at all but whatever. Someone did it as me last year and was actually having conversationg an entire day or two before I saw them doing it and it confused the HELL out of me until I realized it.

I used to have a 2 or 3 character nick on Efnet + Freenode, prob others. I'm sure thats long taken by someone else now unless the nickserv never expires them.