skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> do you have any thoughts on what changed?

Caution was always a thing, but societal and peer pressure is much less now.

Look at older Millenial shows like Futurama and Archer. They are hilarious, but they absolutely perpetuate the idea that drinking alcohol is cool and a core part of being an adult.

On the other hand, a Zillenial or Gen Z targeted show like Bojack Horseman, Rick and Morty, or Solar Opposites doesn't show substance abuse in a similar manner - it still makes jokes about it, but also shows the dark side.

In high school getting a fake id to drink some beer, getting laid, or smoking weed or cigarettes with the stoners just isn't a cultural milestone anymore.

It's like what Chef said in South Park - "There's a time and a place for everything, and that's college"
Yep, that's why I included the post date in the information available to the model; in theory (if it's smart enough) it should be able to take that into account. That said I didn't include time-of-day; it would be interesting to see whether adding that information would be able to make the model more accurate!

If the reward model is indeed smart enough to be able to take that into account you could actually use it to plan the optimal time of day to post a specific story! You could just use the reward model to compute a predicted score for 8 different versions of your content, holding the post title/text constant across them all and just changing the date. Based on the differences in scores, you can determine which posting time the RM thinks is most likely to make your post successful!
Do you have a blog somewhere? To add to my RSS reader. Can't find anything in your bio here on HN.
I would say not having kids and then in essence relying on other people's kids for long term care and production of goods and services in retirement is much worse morally. And then there's the whole keeping the species going. If you think humans shouldn't exist then there is no productive discussion I can have with you.
The advertising situation got worse after the buyout.
Farming is a low “shots on goal” business too. You only really get 1 harvest per year. In a 30 year career already marked by high variance, losing 1/6 of your lifetime profits to experimenting with methods is a huge ask.
Welsh is generally highlighted as the example of a successful language revitalism movement, but it's also one of the rare examples of such movements succeeding. By contrast, you can look at Irish--where the need for the language that wasn't English was seen as absolutely essential as part of the (successful) revolution and independence movement--and see that the language revitalism there is more or less a failure. A century after independence, the number of L1 speakers of Irish has gone down, and I believe the Irish government still conducts most of its business using English (despite English officially being the lesser of the official languages) since so few members of government are sufficiently proficient in Irish.
Why are they so shiny? Did someone clean the tarnish off?
> In 2011, 23.1% of adolescents indicated they were current users, but by 2021, this figure had dropped to 15.8%.

I suspect that these results are being confounded by the covid-19 pandemic. Clearly there has been a decline in use, but it’s not clear what’s behind it, especially when teens couldn’t go outside during that time and pass a joint around mouth-to-mouth.
The complaint is that they're consistently irresponsibly gullible.
I suspect that when you say “non-commercial”, you’re talking about literary fiction. If so, yes there are a lot of tragedies within the field. David Foster Wallace is certainly one, as were Fitzgerald and Kerouac. J.D. Salinger had some interesting personal habits I don’t agree with, but he largely became a recluse to hide from fame.

But outside of those examples, you will find a large number of literary fiction writers who actually lived relatively normal lives. William Carlos William was a doctor as well as a writer - he served as Head of Pediatrics at a hospital in New Jersey for almost forty years until he died. Margaret Atwood turns 85 in a couple of weeks - her long term partner recently died but she’s still somewhat active on Twitter sharing information about the situation in Ukraine.

And I could keep going.

Writers are human and so express the full range of humanity, from dying young via suicide or alcoholism, to having successful medical practices and family lives.
It's really a shame that Apple discontinued target display mode.
Don't implement unification by recursion
Looks like this organization aims to enable easy switching between providers, rather than create something similar openstack[1]

[1] https://www.openstack.org/
This guy is correct, of course. But this comes off to me a bit like "how is cyber bullying real? Like just close your eyes lmao".

Yes, everyone is free to do and not do all those things. I assume TFA is writing this due to, yknow, all the various complainings about large (and or small-but-popular) OSS projects being inundated by grumblings and the devs feeling burned out and lashing out in response etc.

I guess my main point is that yeah everyone is free to both grumble and also close their eyes and not look at the screen... but I think what they mean is that we should all be more empathetic in our interactions.

Users should share or not share their concerns, but be empathetic that you're discussing someone's passion or art.

And developers should publish or not publish their code, but empathize that other people will potentially use it and might ask for things or point out perceived issues. You're not hanging up art, people are probably gonna try to use this thing. And you don't owe them anything, but understand people will try to use it if it fits their need.

I know, I know, a tale as old as time "people need to be nicer and more human on the internet." But here we are, and it's still true.
"San Francisco will pay $212M for its train system to ditch floppy disks"
I'm not sure I could do this - I think it would do horrible things to my neck! But I am curious:

Do you run that at 3840x2160 without high-dpi support? How do you find text clarity?
It's still a bad deal.
I also use and love the exact same 49" CRG9, but if you do the 2x retina math, to deliver the pixel pitch Apple customers expect on desktop in the 32:9 display form, that would realistically have to be a 10240x2880 display at a minimum of 60fps. Not sure if there are bandwidth considerations over displayport or similar as this is essentially two 5k Studio Displays (5120x2880) side by side at that point.

I love my CRG9 with MacOS, but there's no escaping the text rendering is significantly poorer than on Apple's own 2x retina stuff.
Haha great question. Since it's only trained on on-platform HN content and not external links, this post is a little bit out of distribution for it unfortunately. I'm thinking about scraping a corpus of external links and running the same analysis though, in which case I'd definitely run it on this story because I'm also curious about that. :)
>Don't call someone here a liar unless you have clear and convincing evidence of it.

The post in and of itself is clear and convincing evidence.

>On a repair invoice, the shop usually lists the cost, then it's paid for by the manufacturer at the bottom. It's all normal accounting for the back office. If you've ever owned a car that had warranty repairs, regardless of make or model, you'd see this.

That's not how any of this works for Tesla though, there are no "shops" you take it to, only Tesla service centers do warranty work. The prices listed for warranty work are always "$0.00", never listing how much any of it costs. The post is clearly a LARP.
2 wrongs don't make a right, but 3 lefts do. Collective punishment is terrible no matter who does it. And most tariffs are sanction-adjacent stupidity that largely leads to reprisal counter-tariffs and trade wars accomplishing nothing.
Either the classic "A Mind Forever Voyaging" or the Lovecraftian "Anchorhead"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_Forever_Voyaging
https://store.steampowered.com/app/726870/Anchorhead/

If you want to live these games vicariously I can also recommend the Eaten by a Grue podcast over at https://monsterfeet.com/grue/
I'm not. In China political struggle is hidden from the public and happens behind the scenes. Same thing happened in the Soviet Union. This made me interested in how autocratic political systems operate but there's not much scholarship on this. I found studying one party systems in America to be helpful in understanding the autocratic political system.

In a one party rule state the senatorial/gubernatorial race is not competitive and always won by the one party in power. To appear on the ballot as a representative of that party requires the party endorsement. In effect the party endorsement is the election. However the endorsement process is controlled by the party and not open to the public.

Endorsement selection is based primarily on how much money the prospective candidate can get their friends to donate. (From this money some percent is kicked back to the party and the rest is spent on services provided by party apparatchiks. It is a closed ecosystem). The other requirement is canonical adherence, though this is more required for national politics.

How the parties work behind closed doors I'm less familiar with because im not an insider, in the Chinese communist party case or the American case.
Techniques to Reduce Latency in Your Apps
Nope. I was actually planning on asking dang if he has any insights there. If he sees this thread hopefully he can chime in!
Contrarianism for the sake of contrarianism is the ultimate bad smell in my book but it sure will get you on Rogan’s show.
Incidentally, it was observed that the new iMac can support an external 8K 120Hz display: https://x.com/vadimyuryev/status/1850929080281321899
Phones was already an argument.

At least from my observation in germany I would add that it is also maybe due to less opportunities.

Here the youth has also less money and less good job opportunities while the cost of living has dramatically increased. When you want to move to a new flat the rent is insane.
This is a desktop so I think the assumption is that the savvy can attach a USB3/4 device with appropriate storage (e.g. for your massive photo library - it's easy to change the location).
Maybe they are just more informed with phones.

Memes about permanently stoned people are spreading fast. Propaganda about "cool" hippies does not work any more.

The same with myths around sex, real anti-conception effectiveness...
I'm building a platform for developers to build, deploy, and share web crawlers. It's built entirely on Cloudflare and aims to be the cheapest and easiest solution for crawling tens of millions of pages.

https://crawlspace.dev
For me it is 9:05 by Adam Cadre [0]. Short, linear, easy but with a great twist.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9:05
Writer Paul Theroux has several very good books about his train journeys: https://bookshop.org/search?keywords=paul+theroux+train
It's my work computer — not my choice. At home I use a Corebooted 51nb neo-ThinkPad.
Transparent HTTP caching as a way to avoid leaking metadata is not pro-privacy. It only works because the network is always listening, to both metadata and message content. The reason why people worry about metadata is because it's a way to circumvent encryption (and the law). Metadata is holographic[0] to message content, so you need to protect it with the same zeal content is protected.

But letting everyone have the message content so that metadata doesn't leak isn't helpful. Maybe in the context it was deployed, where pervasive deep packet inspection was only something China wasted their CPU cycles on, your proxy made sense. But it doesn't make sense today.

[0] X is holographic to Y when the contents of X can be used to completely reconstruct Y.
Starting out in self-hosting.

Got a VPS from Hetzner and will start by self hosting my blog and setting up actual (budgeting tool)

Then will move to self host my notes, media, and my applications.
I understand the complaints, but I don't think the Freakonomics podcast should necessarily be expected to meet the high standard of peer review. Is it really that bad for Levitt to take published research at face value, trusting that gatekeepers upriver have done their due diligence?
I don't particularly like it, but Work is an online multi-player RPG that pays me to play it.

(Prior to approximately 2020, it was more of a LARP situation, but my instance, at least, has moved to fully online.)
Especially in that era, and perhaps also true a bit today, a lot of the famed novelists were recruited to write screenplays, and many of them were extremely unhappy despite the money. So whether or not it’s commercial has nothing to do with it.
Social species have longer lives, generation times, and reproductive windows
Except no one has been able
to establish any kind of causation. The observation is real but the explanation is dubious.

If you consider sex, drugs, and alcohol to be forms of "stuff to do" then it sorta sounds plausible but why driver's licenses? Why not sports or extracurriculars? Why not video games? Why are tabletop rpg getting more popular?

You could just as easily blame ubiquitous access to porn for most of this as well and it would be just as plausible.
> the skew is likely to stay the same over decades

This is a huge assumption.
I use the Kagi Universal Summarizer fairly often, which I believe uses GPT. It's generally useful enough.
Update: change is rolling out to do zero downtime failover on free accounts.
Discussion (30 points, 9 days ago, 41 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41893052
I don't know what this article (0) says specifically, but I've been to a talk where they showed a giant grid of dishes where a robot like the one in the picture was busy doing things to the samples. yes, they don't make the glass themselves and have to wait for that in the post, but really, given the tools, these devices could very easily chew through a lot more work than any human can do in a day/week/month/whatever without getting tired or distracted.

I don't expect the first ASI to conduct novel physics experiments, but I can easily believe that after optimizing the supply chain for everything else, it just happens to have stashed a bunch of magnets and whatnot to do these in its spare time.

(0) https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00093-w
Intel's Big AI Bet: Gaudi 3 Ft. Supermicro – System Tour, PyTorch, More [video]
> It's intended as a replacement for _scala_ builds. Having a build definition in the native language [...] makes task customization easier for the maintainer

Totally agree! But the title of the post says "Mill: A fast JVM build tool for Java and Scala" :) - it certainly looks like better tool for the Scala community.

For projects that are primarily building Java sources, it'd be nice to have a build system that uses Java code to describe the build. I don't think this exists at the moment.
The author has a long-standing beef with the statistically insignificant and irreproducible claims of the subject Langer. See for example this latest paper: https://stat.columbia.edu/~gelman/research/unpublished/heali...
Moving to a World Beyond "p < 0.05" (2019)
Sometimes you need to produce megatons of a thing, but sometimes you need to produce a million different things. I bet on the humanoid robot in that case.
The Usenet Oracle
Discussion (54 points, 16 hours ago, 77 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41967120
I found suspension of disbelief very easy, just like most SF.
Dig Network: The new standard for decentralized content delivery
This is going to be a bit of an oversimplification but when you build things that are easy to delete, then you’re not going to cause unintentional bugs when you delete them. It’s once you over complicate things that everything becomes an interconnected mess where developers don’t know what sort of impact changes will have. There are a lot of ways to fuck this up of course. Maybe you’re following some silly “best practice” principle, maybe you’re doing “micro-services” in a manner where you don’t actually know who/what consumes which service. But then you’ve not build things that are easy to delete.

I think external consumption as you frame it is a good example of this. It’s fair to give consumers a reasonable warning about the depreciation of a service, but if you can’t actually shut it off when you want to, then you’ve not designed your system to let things be easily deleted.

Which is fair. If that works for you, then so things that way. I suspect it may not work too well if you’re relying on tests and observations to tell you if things are breaking. Not that I have anything against tests, but it’s not exactly a great safe-guard if you have to let them tell you if you broke something in a long complicated chain. Not least because you’re extremely unlikely to have test-coverage which will actually protect you.
If you get wasted on anything, or do anything silly, or act weird, someone will pull out a phone and video you.

That would have stopped a lot of the testing my limits I did when I was young and even more dumb.
This assumes E = mc^2.

What if it's E = mc^2 + AI?
> Ah, but people with turnkey, profitable businesses don't tend to sell them.

> Something is up.

Who would have thought?
Marijuana is now "the man", complete with licensing and lawsuits.

The hip young people are moving on to things that are still transgressive.
Plus all the people who think there are two kinds of people and it’s really important that everyone know what kind of person you are. Who wants to advertise against that?
Wow, you and I should be friends - this is my project: https://color.vos.lol
I'm no fan of Freakonomics and their whole genre of "wow isn't that surprising" pop science (Ariely, Gladwell et. al.) but I agree with you here.

He goes through several paragraphs of criticising Levitt for believing his interviewee without mentioning what claim the interviewee is making. So some chambermaids were told their work is exercise, didn't change their behaviour and then.... What?
"c" being pronounced as "ts" would be familiar to most people from Central or Eastern Europe, for example. Even coming from English, "c" can often mean "s" which is at least similar.

I'd say that the most unusual pinyin mappings are "q" and "x", although both have some analogues in European languages as well.
> end up implementing their own half-baked programming language interpreter inside of their XML

Greenspun's tenth rule.
Zero-cost post-quantum mitigations for Seraphis (Monero)
I think it might boil down to the „anecdotes vs data“ problem and how “lived experience” is sometimes treated as if it were some universal truth.
Could you explain the benefits of having a biased, rather than balanced, editorial department?
Cabinette[0], a macOS app for musicians/producers to manage their music catalog. My WIP folder has about 75 songs, ranging from electronic/orchestral/piano, and I wanted something with dedicated filtering, tracking progress over time, and pretty drag/drop. So... I built it!

Currently in TestFlight, but 1.0 is launching soon :) Feel free to give it a spin, and drop thoughts on the feedback board.

(Another idea I'm starting is an easy-learn, hard-to-master, productivity app: split calendar and todo list, with fluid drag/drop and power user features. Targeting the iPad at first, and will hopefully bring to more platforms. Keep an eye on my website[1] for launch!)

[0]: https://cabinette.app

[1]: https://peterkos.me
Consumer freedoms by way of compliance with laws.
A nodal real-time video processing tool : put together pre-made "processing boxes" to generate interactive video. It runs on pretty much anything, uses a plugin architecture.

Say, plug a camera, and it will blend two videos streams using a silhouette detected on the camera, with various effects. It's very, very early, pre-alpha stuff, but it already was used for a demo by a customer.

GitHub pestacle, be warned, it's undocumented and larval stage
It's instructive not to argue the finer points without acknowledging what TFA says about the operators of the scheme breaking the law:

> In 2006, Charles Edwards was convicted of 83 counts of wire fraud and sentenced to thirteen years in prison.

Then another company:

> By 2009, more than a dozen people had been convicted of fraud in relation to Prometheus.
Oh yeah I totally agree, it is highly fictional. I mean it's Netflix, so I would definitely treat it as nothing more than entertainment.

I'm half surprised they didn't try to work Sutton Hoo's proximity to the Rendlesham Forest Incident in there to spice things up with an alien landing[1]. It's literally just over the road.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rendlesham_Forest_incident
not only is it intellectually lazy, its just plain lazy. this is hackernews, surely you've heard of artificial intelligence?
I don't think phones are to blame for movies declining in the age of streaming. The more shocking part is that anyone is going to movies these days.
I found this film recently and cannot recommend it enough. One of the most visually captivating and thought-provoking pieces of media I've consumed in recent memory. It details the emergence of space-time, matter, chemistry, abiogenesis, and human culture. The CGI and sound design are especially good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FJVCrldAfM
TikTok brain rot. Streamers. Influencers.

Teens are living their lives vicariously through other people. Capitalism has finally created the perfect consumption slave. They buy what they're told to buy via peer pressure feedback loops and stay at home contended with their entertainment bubble.
This isn't my "favorite" but if you're going to mention generative AI and text adventure games and you don't know about AI Dungeon, well, now you do: https://play.aidungeon.com/

I was always terrible at text adventure games because my brain does not run on the style of logic that they do. I mean that without any particular judgment. I observe that it at least sometimes makes sense to other people. But I have sometimes read the solutions to things like Zork and many of them still make no sense to me... not, like, I can't understand the written text, but, like, even knowing the solution I still would never have thought to try that.

So the only Infocom game I ever completed on my own without a guide is Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Head or Tail of It: https://www.myabandonware.com/game/nord-and-bert-couldn-t-ma... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nord_and_Bert_Couldn%27t_Make_...

Completely different sort of game. And also one that may be the Infocom text game hardest to make into any other sort of medium. It could only work in text, and absolutely nothing else. (Though there are a couple of other contenders, I know.)

Although if you're on the younger side, you may not have heard of some of the idioms that the game uses, which may raise the difficulty quite a bit. The 37 years since the game's release has seen language shifts. I played it a lot closer to its release time.
Dumb overstatement. They are both and everything in between.
You’re completely right and yet the sight of one fills me with desire.

Possibly because it has a direct line right back to the original Macintosh. Such that when I showed my 11yo cousin my Macintosh SE, he called it an ‘iMac’.