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Ask HN: Would you use AI tool that analyzes X reactions to guide your strategy?
Hey HackerNews!

It’s just some market research and I thought it would be great to have some input from people like you.

I'm exploring the concept of an AI-powered tool that would track the responses of the audience to your brand/content on X (Twitter), summon instant sentiment analysis of talks that involve your brand and provide specific recommendations regarding further action depending on audience feedback.

Key question: Does the communication problem apply to the managing of reactions on the social media platforms and what would you expect to pay for a tool like this?

I'm particularly interested in hearing from social media managers and business owners who:

- Maintain and develop accounts that are currently used, has to constantly monitor brand references and social media consulting/agencies too expensive.
Bookmarking, not selling anything – I wonder if this would solve any real problem. All feedback welcome!

Edit: So thank you to everyone for giving some time and thought into this.
Somehow it seems roundabout to use computed styles (which aren't human friendly) then to use an LLM to convert that back into something human friendly. Maybe that's the only reasonable way.
I'd recommend eBay, too, if you're within the continental US. This might be sacrilege, but after using a TI-89 I shifted to an TI Nspire CAS, since it has one of the highest-resolution screens in the market and still uses AAA batteries – I paid only $25 on eBay.
Encrypted messaging app dev leaves Australia after police visit employee's home
Nutrients is a very broad term. This article seems to be focused on just three. Is there a good reason to restrict analysis to just three “minerals”?
Frozen vegetables are often blanched and flash frozen at the peak of freshness. In many cases they are “fresher” than what you find in the produce section
Thank you. I can relate to everything you're saying.

I think what's been helping has been reading about death and what that means and potentially feels like. I think part of the issue is that the topic of death is so misunderstood and feared, that it creates no reasonable way forward mentally. So hopefully I can learn more about that over the coming weeks.
Your example of go code that's harder to read is iterators, and I agree with you. There's no denying that code like this places a high cognitive load on the reader:

func (al *AssocList[K, V]) All() iter.Seq2[K, V] {
return func(yield func(K, V) bool) {
for _, p := range al.lst {
if !yield(p.key, p.value) {
return
}
}
}
}

But the code that actually uses iterators is in my opinion more readable than its non-generic counterpart. So it's really a question of how often you're expected to write (or read) iterators. And I don't expect that most programmers will be writing (or reading) iterators that often.
It's an odd article all around. Look at the first graph. It's an average mineral content of calcium, magnesium, and iron in 4 different vegetables, but only represented by a single line. Why isn't it broken out for each category (ex. iron in tomatoes over time)?
Not angry primate brain, but just normal parent brain. Why would a CEO not try to get away with this if all that happens is a little backpay and reinstatement? They will skirt any and every law they can if they won't be thrown into prison, and even then, well, it still happens.
We all indirectly benefit from the pressure tech workers put on the sector in negotiations for higher wages, perks like wfh, additional non-cash comp, etc. too.
Thank you. Did any readings or practices help you?
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Log4Shell , but also historically the mess that is pickling/unpickling in Python (see the big scary warning at the top of https://docs.python.org/3/library/pickle.html#pickle-python-... ), and more broadly any dynamic language that exposes `eval` in any capacity.
I'm curious about your objection to the proposal. Sure, generics mean that libraries need a bit more syntax - that's true in all languages - but the actual consumption of the AssociationList type here is clean and readable.

Most types don't need to be generics. Containers do, and I prefer a bit of generics syntax to copy/pasting the container ten times for ten types.
Poettering actually took his idea to completion.

A lot of people claim the same, but the proof is in the real life pudding.

Don't forget that geeks idealize perfection and especially minimalist perfection.
We are having some trouble atm due to the incoming traffic from the PH launch, but we hope to sort it out soon. Btw thanks for the share. Open to answering any questions.
I'm super into this idea as a project, can you point me to any design or signal processing info?
There are no objective criteria as to what is "good" writing vs "bad" writing.

> If it is an author directly selling books then you measure by books sold.

This is a fairly lousy metric. It depends enormously on the marketing campaign and the ability of salesmen to sell it.

For example, I read an article about the author of the "Slow Horses" book. It languished for years selling at a rate that was indistinguishable from zero. Then some journalist read it, wrote a glowing review of it, and it took off. Now it's a best seller, with sequels, and a miniseries.
USB-C Serial console != USB 3.1 port. Nor does a usb-c power supply port count either.

No need to get defensive, I wasn't the one asking if there was a use for USB > 2.0. If you didn't know before, now you know. If you did already then at most you read a sentence full of information you already knew. Hardly a terrible offense. Other readers who might not have known also now know. :)
Honestly I am not sure it will matter, there are better services out there but many people don't switch over for one reason or another.

Many just because they don't want too, or don't want to manage more than 1 app.

We also see several new apps spring up and just never gain traction.

It has developed a stronghold because most still use it, and that likely just isn't changing anytime soon.
Writing custom iterators always looked bad and overly complicated.

If it's not essentials I'd rather not allow code like this in my codebase and use some other solution that is more readable.
Guy's quote there came from a mailing list at MIT that was formed out of the 2001 Lightweight Languages Workshop. Archive of the original post here:

https://people.csail.mit.edu/gregs/ll1-discuss-archive-html/...
Do you know what a priority queue is compared to FIFO or LIFO? (Edit: Network scheduler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_scheduler )

How would you implement each with code?

I think if you support the values of Equal Time, you should also support No Paid Prioritization.

If there is paid prioritization, there is not equal time.
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I had a similar reaction to the discussion of farmer's markets. Technically yes, I've been to markets where it's obvious some vendors are not selling local produce but in the vast majority of the markets around me it's equally obvious that they are (I actually think most of them have rules that the produce has to originate within a certain radius). And selling "5 different types of produce" all grown locally at the same time is hardly difficult to do. Different produce does in fact ripen around the same time.

It made me wonder about the rest of it.
This article seems to lack common sense. Yes, the amount of Vitamin C will reduce the longer you store a vegetable or fruit in a fridge, but the amount of calcium and iron does not change. Nor does the the density of other minerals.

Why is the author nominating Walmart as the winner based just on their speed to market? What about the other factors like soil degradation etc., which reflect the amount of iron and other minerals?
I still develop on a terminal with 80 columns, to this day!

...but it has 96 rows, and there are five of them, side by side across my monitor. Definitely an improvement! - but I still prefer not to have long rambling Java-style identifiers.
What is more important, the law, or the typical employee experience? If you're in a strong market where workers are in demand (evidenced somewhat by higher compensation), then workers will tend to be treated better for fear that they will leave for another opportunity (remember: "at will"). If workers have fewer opportunities, then how much can the law really help?

Are there specific protections that are lacking in the US that you would expect to result in worse employee outcomes?
My read is that the author is taking the view of consumers. Not regulators and producers.
Of note is that this is a high school paper.
Why are you now talking about Ecuador and COVID? And you haven't addressed the UK link where you say 24% but it's 6.5%. Makes the rest of what you blather more untrustworthy than it was
You’re sort of mixing ideas I believe. The nutrient density (minerals etc) is declining because of the soil quality it is grown in, not because it is sitting on shelf.

The vitamin C thing was about nutrient loss due to blanching (a processing step) I believe
> Seems like all these other factors should matter too!

The way I read it was that there are some minerals that are no longer there to begin with because they're simply not in the soil. For nutrients (like vitamin C) created as part of the growing process, speed is the only factor that matters.

So yes, it does matter but unless you have a way of knowing which farm(s) the produce came from and what their soil mineral content is, that's not something you can factor into your purchasing decision.
Ask HN: Can you replicate this Lock Screen bug on your MacBook Air/Pro?
Try this: (1) Lock the screen via the Apple menu; (2) press the escape key to make the Lock Screen go black; (3) press the space bar. Does the Lock Screen appear again?

If not, try pressing one of the brightness keys (increase or decrease) to make the Lock Screen appear again.

If you don’t encounter a bug, try pressing the escape key again then the space bar to bring back the Lock Screen.

Repeat this several times to see if the bug occurs for you.
Yeah, the average billboard has better user-tracking.
Aristotle had this one figured out a while ago, methinks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhetoric_(Aristotle)

His model of rhetoric suggests that the authority of a respected figure (eg. ethos) can override either pathos or logos (emotion and logic respectively), but not both at once. In political terms, this means that candidates have to prove their point emotionally and logically to have the best chance at changing your mind (or at least overriding ethos.)

It kinda sucks that we live in a hyper-emotional and hyper-informed election cycle, but this is the logical conclusion of two competitors dueling with rhetoric alone.
> And, of course, the latter behavior as a box users are expected to live in is poisonous, because everyone is being conditioned to be passive and uniform.

No, it's not, this assumes that the other camp are all idiots.

Mainstream distros should be rock solid and boring.

Linux never got anywhere with the standard distros because they're all so different.

Tinkering is a different mindset (and has a different place) than professional engineering work.

Systemd is basically engineering, SysV & co. were basically old school tinkering/hacking.

In the same vein, don't be creative with bolt sizes. Be creative with what those bolts allow you to achieve. Be creative at a higher level. That should be the nature of humanity.
Serverless Use Cases at Startups
I'd point out that one advantage Go has over Rust in terms of security are the coverage of standard libraries. Go has great support for HTTP clients/servers, cryptography primitives, SSH, SQL, JSON, secure RNG, etc. all in officially maintained standard libraries. The Rust ecosystem has some standards here but the most widely used HTTP client, just as an example, is mostly maintained by one guy[1]. I think that adds considerable security risk vs Go's net/http.

1. https://github.com/hyperium/hyper/graphs/contributors
> He also acknowledged that the winners signed non-disclosure agreements preventing them from speaking about the terms of the contracts.

It's funny how supposed "free speech absolutist" Musk is so keen to restrict the speech of others.

To qualify for this giveaway you had to sign a petition pledging your support for the first amendment: "The First and Second Amendments guarantee freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. By signing below, I am pledging my support for the First and Second Amendments"

Only to gag your speech by signing another piece of paper.
I am going to be that person, but how is the copyright for the output of tools like this? Since not all websites include license on their site, yet their looks are replicated, this might be even less clear than with LLMs in general.
As with real sugar, we humans don’t have sensors that would tell us when there’s "too much sugar".
I would be very surprised if there is anyone who would become homeless if they were fired from their tech job at the New York Times.
Pwnat: Punch Holes Through Firewalls/NATs Without Any Third Party
I think people who entered the industry before 2010 (maybe even later) don't understand the current reality.

Previously, you were probably a dork in high school and mostly self taught for the love of technology. You might have gone through a prestigious academic CS program and cultivated a sense of superiority over the humanities and biz school kids. Outsourcing / off shoring was a thing but you had the innate protection of skin color and acculturation.

Today it's just another thing some people study because that's where the jobs are.
This is a bit of a mischaracterization of the Python side of things.

They only opted out for 3.11 which did not yet have the perf-integration fixes anyway. 3.12 uses frame-pointers just fine.
I still have a HP48GX in perfect condition and love it. One of my first programs was to calculate how much „slower“ my time is running when I drive a car or fly in a plane compared to someone standing still on the sidewalk.

I still find it much more comfortable having a real calculator… call me old fashioned.
Rqbit is a BitTorrent client written in Rust
Is that implying that Evangelicals are essentially racists? Jim Crow stopped about the time that the Sexual Revolution got going strong, so there's some confounding factors there. Since the Sexual Revolution values are clearly against the Christian "rules", which at the time somewhat matched the legal rules, and there was a secular movement removing the legal rules, it would seem likely that this was the motivating factor, especially given the existence of groups named like "Moral Majority" (ick). Also, Evangelicals are not just a southern thing, and I've never heard Evangelicals (I've not been to the South) argue for any return to anything remotely near Jim Crow, but I've heard lots of talk deploring sexual mores.
>Middle class Americans have high net worths; some in stocks, some in cash, some in home equity.

>All of the above can be leveraged when cash is needed.

And what percentage of Americans are working middle class? What percentage of those could liquidate their home equity or retirement portfolio (what you actually mean by "stocks") without causing a huge change in life plans?
Ehh for Mark and Matthew yes. I think that John and Luke are at least supposed to be from the perspective of John and Luke mainly because Luke uses first person language in Acts and the entire premise of John is that it’s from John’s perspective.

It’s also possible that Eg they’re written down from an earlier oral tradition which originated with them
No it's not.

Just open this (gift) article: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/01/09/opinion/immig...

There was clearly a non-trivial amount of frontend development work necessary to build the dynamic visualization in this article. This has nothing to do with CMS's. The work has nothing to do with persisting data anywhere. It has nothing to do with backend anything. It's all frontend work to get a visualization in a browser. Absolutely nothing do with CMS's.
Here is a way to look at it.

You read the article, and by the end you have actionable items, that you can execute today, literally.

Many piece published on the topic go on and on about how agricultural methods should do this and that. Sure, and in the meantime what do we do?
The article is mixing ideas, is the point. If soil quality matters, that seems to contradict the article's claim that speed is the only thing that matters.
well, systemd is doing things that init did not do, so that's not a replication, but if I kill something, it should stay dead till I restart it; if I dismount a volume, it should stay dismounted; if I set the permissions on something, they should not reset back. Don't treat me like I'm the anomoly.

"I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave."
This is really important in my opinion.

I've been growing most of my own produce for several years and I make sure all trace elements are present and available. It's a ton of work and makes no financial sense (it's not really cheaper when all is said and done) but at age 53 I feel a lot better than I did at age 38.

I wish I could share this more widely but I think a lot of the worlds problems might be from lack of trace elements. Just a theory but eating produce picked the same day with proper mineral balances as a regular diet is astounding.
Totally agree with you it feels roundabout. The really challenging part was converting the computed styles to output that is as human-friendly as possible. And what's interesting these days: human-friendly means LLM-friendly...

We do a few optimizations to make it as human-friendly as possible. Details in the blog post linked above, but to summarize:

1. We abstract global styles — don't want to include boxSizing: 'border-box' on every div!
2. Remove inherited styles — no need to have styles that are already inherited from the parent.
3. Pull out SVGs — lots of icons on the internet, which can just be their own imports.
4. Condense padding, margin, border to their shorthand properties
The GPU is a lot slower than the CPU - per core/thread. Otherwise you would need to select different core/thread counts on both sides, or set something like a power limit in watts. When it comes to watts the process node (nanometers) will largely determine the outcome.
You've mis-understood. The 8tap filter is part of the HEVC encode loop and is used for sub pixel motion estimation. This is likely an improvement in encoding performance, but it's only in one specific coding tool.
There is a dozen commonly known vitamins and minerals. There are over a hundreds. Where should an article stop?
Perfect! Thanks for the source.
Nearly all the managers I’ve had throughout my career have been good. Of course people in a bad situation are more likely to complain about it, so the impression you might get from reading a forum like this is heavily biased.
You are right, but everyone feels they are the one special exception. And unfortunately the public sector are especially rigid in sticking to their 40 year old processes, garnished with an organization-wide god complex that they are holding the world together with it

I managed a whole 8 months in a local government role (not UK) before jumping ship when I realized how futile trying to improve anything was
Title character limit, adding the "s" results in

>1 too long
For what it's worth, I don't believe there's any meaningful security difference between Rust and Go.
> when they have specific demands that management is able to meet

It's just wild how management is able to unilaterally decide what is and isn't reasonable, and just label unions as childish.

"We want to help you, but you're hurting us!" is one small step away from "gosh we love the idea of unions but it causes too much friction between workers and management, and trust me, management knows best."
A lot of passive radar stuff is ends up export controlled so open source is sparse here
Read both links. 155 is just salary, TC seems to be on the order of $200k for a senior, which is above-median but not top of market for NYC.
>>According to the study, Black tech workers at the newspaper make 26 percent less than white workers

>>women, who make up over 40 percent of the Tech Guild, earn 12 percent less on average than men

claims like these always irk me, like did you just compare averages by race/gender? Whoever made this claim, did they control for other factors, like job title/level or productivity?

its like the famous "gender pay gap" claimed by all the people who majored in Gender Studies instead of Statistics. Turns out "gender pay gap" magically disappears as soon as you start controlling for relevant variables like hours worked, job seniority, experience, etc (https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/there-really-is-no-gender-wag...)

That is, there is almost no evidence that men and women working in the same position with the same background, education and qualifications are paid differently. Whether it’s the Target Corporation, Facebook, the University of Virginia, the United Way, the White House or McDonald’s, there is almost no evidence that any of those organizations have two pay scales: one for men (at a higher wage) and one for women (at a lower wage). Of course, that would be illegal, and if that practice existed, organizations would be exposed to legal action and “half the legal profession would be taking such cases on contingency fees”

I am all for fairness in pay and equality, but lets not insult the intelligence of your readers by making some absurd claims without doing proper econometric study and controlling for confound variables
> showing up drunk or high, or having relations with a student

having worked in a school district and staying in touch with colleagues afterward, I can honestly say that most people would be surprised at the number of teachers aren't fired for misconduct like that, particularly showing up drunk or high.

it seems that getting shuffled into an administrative role or a year of paid leave are the goto solutions whenever an incident can be handled quietly.

back in my grade school days, there was one teacher who would routinely lose her shit and scream at people.

when it inevitably escalated beyond that (usually throwing objects.. chalkboard erasers, garbage cans, even the occasional chair), she would simply end up teaching at a different school in the same district.

they managed to keep that game going for over twenty years.
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>Religious types love the connection between religion and morality //

I can only speak to my experience of Christians (in the UK, of a broad swathe of denominations), but a central tenet is that all people are sinners. Never have I heard it expressed that Christians are more moral than others except in strawman arguments suggesting that the immortality of a/some Christians demonstrates God does not exist. Indeed even in a small parish CofE church in rural England {mainstream, not progressive, conservative} I've heard the opposite preached.

Perhaps some Christian leaders have expressed this view and it passed me by? Maybe it's a Roman Catholic thing?

Many things that are more reasonable to believe are false, I don't see how 'we could be more moral without religion' proves anything?
That reference was solid as a rock.