skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hi. I have wanted something like this for YEARS, but have never had the motivation to hack something together.

A few questions:

1. Is the dev edition hardware different?

2. If not, it possible to upgrade to a dev edition later, ie. Is it just a config thing on the server end?

3. If I have multiple trmnls how do I manage them? Is it possible? Do I need multiple accounts? Do they show the same stuff etc? Is "dev edition" for my account or per-device?

4. Using multiple apps - is it a split screen display, or do it cycle through the apps every x seconds? Is there a button to advance to the next one?

5. What's the resolution in real terms? Ie. Can I get a full month calendar to show and still be able to read entries? How many lines of Todo-list items can I have? What happens to over-flowed items?

6. how does it get updates? does it connect to my phone via Bluetooth or to my WiFi? Can it store multiple WiFi networks, for if I want to take it places?
isn't it exclusively inhabited by bitcoiners? and relies on never leaking your private key, with no recourse for key rotation? or am I out of date
Looks like the HTTP 418 is due to the HN referrer header, copy-paste into a new tab worked fine.
> They can and do slice data in various ways

If you’re looking for statistical validity , this is not the way to go about it; if you perform 20 analyses, there’s too high a chance one of them will spuriously show p>.95 (see p-hacking).
It only returns that if you click the link in HN. If you open a new tab and paste the URL, it works.
I should of elaborated, many of the issues associated with,"conventional hibernation"
have to do with lethal infections aquired
externaly while hibernating, damp, cold, ....mold
as to the cryoprotectants ,side protecting microbes, clearly gut microbes and other internal flora ,would benifit......but ,big but, would a sneeky cryosuspension routine also include a freeze and clense
cycle?, why not!
and easy enough to verify,right!
Well, i'm in favor of pursuing the ideal, even though it will never be perfect in practice.
Lisp macros can take arbitrary parameters and are written in lisp.

C++ macros can only take types and numbers (until variadic), and writing any code to operate on those inputs is challenging.
Social networks have been algorithmically deprioritizing long form/well-written content, with Twitter/X being the most egregious offender.

Atleast Bluesky has a chronological feed without shenanigans.
> I see constantly banners on sites that set tracking cookies by default, and delete them if you reject them in the banner (or even worse, not delete them at all!) – this is not compliant as the cookies were set before consent was given

Depends on what you consider to be "cookies were set". I think it's a valid argument that cookies aren't set until a "Set-Cookie" HTTP header is sent to the server. The banner is just a form to decide whether or not to set the cookies prior to actually doing so. The banner switches aren't the cookies themselves.
I was thinking more along the lines of using namespaces and FUSE. I'm aware that Python kinda treats them like folders transparently, but not completely for reasons (and more) that you described.
This is a self-correcting problem. There are several subgroups in the United states with significantly above replacement rate. The basic statistics of stochastic processes and heritability of cultural practices regarding fertility and such dictate that those who have been able to resist the memetic pressure to have fewer children, will simply dominate. From an economic perspective, it doesn't really matter... A taxpayer is a taxpayer. From a political perspective, my guess is many people here won't like the simple results of natural selection.
I see a few in some Telegram chats that I'm in
And they also think the industry is full of people who can’t code. Despite the industry relying on a technique that purports to weed those people out. One might conclude, then, that maybe the technique isn’t as effective after all.
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Fair enough. I was unaware the trustee had publicly said the bid was lower.

I did, however, want to flush out exactly what sort of math the trustee would be doing in this case to justify taking the lower bid.
It certainly made them feel more human to me. I wish Kamala would have done the same just so people could see her have a real conversation. I have no idea how that would go.
Are you saying they didn't? Why is that hard to believe?
I hope we get a nice distributed protocol, and I'm not completely negative on AT (or nostr) yet. Twitter is a critical chokepoint for independent media right now, and the guy who owns it is in the coming administration.

Shutting down twitter, rumble, and substack would be a massacre for independent media right now. Elon could make an offer that couldn't be refused on the other two, and turn on the censorship harder than Facebook.

The right-wing free speech heel turn is always the same: when you censor, you're trying to prevent the free expression of ideas, when we censor, we're trying to prevent the "support" of terrorism. Lèse-majesté is always around the corner.
I see it is implemented in C. Doesn't this add a substantial attack surface, especially relevant for web services? How is the "memory-safe" claim justified?
If you follow and engage with enough people, the engagement bait stuff goes away, for the most part.
She grew up with VR, and is comfortable moving around in VR gear. Most people in later life cannot do that.
If you're a business, nothing beats "let's just hop on a call".

For me at least, the first one that picks up my call is the one who gets my money. "Send us an email, here's our WhatsApp, ..." kind of thing, I don't even try.
This is great. Really good work. This looks really useful, and I think you did a great job on the interface and site in general. I hope you aren't discouraged by the other commenters, keep hacking!
Protocols > platforms. Nostr will win long-term because it is a protocol.
It could be worse.

Have you seen what you get if you visit jwz.org with a HN referrer header?

Not that I blame JWZ at all.
Thanks, I know :)
You'd think so, but during the interviews I did, there are plenty of candidates to senior positions who just cannot code.

They talk the great talk about problem solving and team work and mentoring, but once it's time walk the walk, they just can't seem to write any code - and we are not talking advanced algorithms, we are talking Fizz-Buzz level.

Maybe it's different for doctors, but as long as such people exist and apply to jobs, we need to ask programming questions.

This also means that if _you_ are applying to a job in a larger team for a senior position and they did not ask you for any coding questions, they either:

- Really good for firing people fast for low performance

- Have people at "senior" position which just give advice and nasty code reviews, but don't actually write any code.

Either way, it's a red flag for the company.
I believe in this example, OP is requesting a phone number dedicated to the onair coupling. So the "dedicated" number would serve as a prophylactic managed through onair.
An advantage of Bluesky over Twitter that’s valuable to a lot of people is the degree of control it gives. Algorithmic feeds are more precisely tunable so it’s easier to get them to show the things you want to see, starter packs make it easy to follow entire circles at once, and moderation tools are robust, which helps tamp down on spam, trolling, harassment, etc.

It feels more designed for meaningful interaction than it is engagement at all costs, which is probably why it’s common for people who've moved to have seen much higher numbers of substantiative replies to their posts despite having a fraction as many followers as they do on Twitter.

It may not catch on regardless, but I think it has the best shot of all the Twitter alternatives thus far.
Yes, my rural Wyoming electricity is like 6 to 7¢. Per capita, it’s much more expensive to transmit in Wyoming than New York. (For non-bullshit reasons.)

One lights the state on fire every fifteen seconds. (For comparison, look at power prices in Santa Clara, a bastion from PG&E’s incompetence.) The other has every community board provide input to move a power line two inches.
I agree with this, although I'd add that study becomes exceptionally useful after you've reached the senior level.

Until you've seen most of what the software industry can throw at you, study isn't that useful. But after you've seen it all you'll be quick to glean the relevance and importance of new concepts when studying.
I think money adds to it. I don't think it is the only problem.

Good moderation is vital. And it is not much, but the friction of having to hit next page slows some of the doom scrolling traps.

Reputation style points are probably important in there? Makes it harder to flood with bots.
Well, the algorithm only pushes engagement bait so it's selecting for morally flawed takes rather than nuanced takes.
I agree but I fear it would be used as an excuse to no longer interact with the public and turn off all reply comments by default.
On the other side of the world, mystery “balls” washing up in Australia appear to have a very different origin:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-07/what-were-black-balls...
One thing I like about bluesky is it allows you to watch embedded videos from external media sources (e.g. youtube) without leaving the app. Seems like twitter/X was clearly opposed to the loss of control this entailed.
I'll save everyone some time. TLDR; anyone who voted for Trump has bad judgement.

'I expected 50% of voters to vote for Harris and 48.5% to vote for Trump. Instead, 48.5% voted for Harris and 50% voted for Trump. So I guess 1.5% of Americans have worse judgment than I expected.'
>please stop the coding challenges
sounds like someone didn't pass through coding challenge
You forgot to list one:

X/Twitter has over 500 million monthly active users.
For new grads, just let them in. Just make sure they know something so a simple coding exercise is maybe good there. For more senior people, actually talk about their resumes and try to understand what they did, why they did it, and importantly, if they actually did it. I never got asked anything about my previous experience when I got into my first faang beyond some superficial things like "what tools did you use".

I've seen interviews where you actually have to present a thing you've done and then explain the decision making process behind it, tradeoffs, outcomes, etc. those are more common outside of CS and I'd like to see more of that in CS. Or hell, have them write an essay describing the tradeoffs about some theoretical engineering decision. That'll give me actual info on how a person thinks.

For context, I used to work in self driving cars and had to interview many people who claimed to work in that field and claim to have worked on huge projects themselves. Then you dig deeper and it turns out they were part of a huge group, they never heard of this problem, that problem, never heard of this industry standard, etc. it's like, forget coding, this person doesn't even know the domain as much as they claim and not being upfront about that disqualifies you immediately in my books.
Let's test it out: https://www.jwz.org/

EDIT: I laughed.
Example :

If the model detects a "relaxed" mood, it will prioritize calmer, slower-tempo music from YouTube (based on keywords in video metadata).

If the user has previously liked a "motivational" playlist, the model may suggest high-energy songs related to "inspirational" or "upbeat" moods.
how do you think Figma slides will play into this? (Big Figma/Jam fan here BTW, thanks for your work!)
Coca-Cola's annual Christmas commercial this year is AI-generated
Sure, and all I'm saying is that it's possible to have a software engineer career without putting yourself through such tests. Yes, it's harder to find decent jobs, but it pains me so much when I see people giving up after years of effort just because they're not aware they can get hired and practice what they enjoy doing without having to pass such tests.
Same here, owe him a lot it was also my first programming language (on 286's).

It's interesting that you mention GWBASIC specifically because that was also the BASIC I had access to. It doesn't seem this variant was popular in the US.

Also learned CLIPPER and created all sorts of tools and business apps. Yet another thing that seemed very localized.
>please stop the coding challenges
sounds like someone didn't pass coding challenge
Not sure but probably will genrate a queue of videos for premium users.
Setting up a PDS isn't too hard but still requires a dedicated IT person right now IMO. If you have a lot of customers I think it's worth it (aka you can justify spending budget on keeping the PDS up.) If you're small, it's not worth it yet I don't think.

Censorship/moderation is based on labellers that label posts for content. The default App View has opt-out moderation based on the default Bluesky moderation labelers. You can also opt-into other labellers if you like. You can run your own labeller to get your own moderation. I run my own labeller and my own feeds so I can customize my experience but none of it is in a state that others could really fork the code. It's not too hard to start reading the jetstream (a version of the firehose that's easier to parse/read) though.
Gather is great. I think it lowers the barrier to chats just enough to make it more organic. In particular I find it's really great if you're having a 2-3 person conversation and realize someone else would be really valuable to add. You can just glance at their desk and see if they're available, "wave" to them, etc.
There is no monopoly on what makes a culture "good".

Every community will have its own strengths and weaknesses.
Like an MMORPG guild. which in 2024 means Discord.

(No “professional” solution is even close to gamer tech for remote communication)
If a submarine drags you, you will have a noticeable wake. No need to look at the charts.

Edit: or be instantly capsized and dragged below water, jfc: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FV_Antares#Inquiries_and_recom...
> memetic pressure to have fewer children

What does this mean?
Right. My opinion is that following people/accounts shouldn’t be the single approach (and that it may even be the overall more detrimental one), and that it’s generally better to follow communities. Like HN, or subreddits, web forums, formerly Usenet newsgroups, mailing lists, or also more chat-like platforms like Discord and IRC.

It would be great if Bluesky could generalize to that. My understanding is that it’s focused on primarily following accounts, and that you don’t independently have communities focused around topics and interests.
I do not want better UX to read and write a single file. None of the example apps I mentioned work well with R/W to a single file except maybe the image editor example.

I want permission to create, read, write, move/rename files and directories within a root directory selected by the user. Anything less is not sufficient for AAA quality local-first apps.

I think window.showDirectoryPicker() is fine. I hope Firefox will implement this or a similar API, but I am also okay with launching major features without Firefox support. I have done so before to no discernable adverse effects.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window/show...
See also https://www.tabnine.com/blog/unveiling-tabnines-code-review-...
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exactly. the number of people who have "high BMI" due to muscle mass and general fitness is utterly trivial when compared to number who are straight up fat.

it's a nothingburger; whether you use BMI or Body Roundness or whatever, most USA-ians are fat as hell.
I don't let the algorithm dictate who I follow. I pretty much know the big names in all the areas that I want to keep up to date with. And for every big name I know their main rivals, so I can have a complete picture. It's that simple.
If Bluesky manages to attract the same diversity of opinions I might start using it.
It would be funny if someone scanned the internet for these and exploited them to install a patch against this vulnerability
Are you talking about groups like the Amish and Orthodox Jews?
The real issue is that none of these alternatives (Threads, Mastodon, Bluesky) offer anything other than "we're not Twitter".

Digg to Reddit was a unique case, because Digg very specifically fucked up their site, badly, with the V4 update. Reddit was in a great spot to pick up users from Digg because of not only having a similar overarching purpose as a link aggregator, but additional features like subreddits which enabled more smaller and casual link sharing and comment sections. It was a clear upgrade from Digg V4. I do think that Reddit would have eventually overtaken Digg anyway, and V4 only sped up the process.

Technically and product-wise, there's not a whole lot wrong with Twitter right now. If you're on there to look at funny memes, cat pictures, celebrity news and pornography -- which encapsulates about 98% of Twitter use cases -- it still functions much better than the alternatives. The migrations are happening for meta reasons, either political or ToS-related (specifically, X claiming they can use images you post for AI training). This isn't a recipe for long-term success, it's a precursor for people making bunch of noise for a month and then heading back to Twitter.

As someone who doesn't really participate in these large social networks -- even modern HN is way too mainstream for me honestly -- I do think it's a good thing people get off them, though. Smaller communities are a good thing. Shouting your loudest, hottest political takes on Twitter so you can pat yourself on the back for 10k likes is a fast track to mental health issues.
I have no idea about browser adoption. I’m just aware of adtech’s requirements around it.
Hmm ... yeah but that's wandering into "the supposition of a supposition" territory.
> So, why are Teslas — and many other ostensibly safe cars on the list — involved in so many fatal crashes? “The models on this list likely reflect a combination of driver behavior and driving conditions, leading to increased crashes and fatalities,” iSeeCars executive analyst Karl Brauer said in the report.
90% of social media is the crowd of people using it. A new social media site will take over with having better people, which might be caused by getting better features but unlikely. Or, it could be that the dominant social media site makes blunders that push its users away, like Digg did.

Twitter used to be unbeatable for me in 1) areas with technical expertise or, 2) following the latest in news. Using Twitter to get the latest on news has only recently been destroyed, as evidenced by its failure as an information source during the recent hurricanes in the US.

And most technical users are now reevaluating the crap they have to put up with every day that they didn't have to a while back, and finding X lacking. And in science, this is especially with a new administration that is dedicated to science suppression (e.g. RFK Jr) and X is run by a wanna-be oligarch that wants a part in the administration controlling their social media without regard to free speech. (For example, blanket banning of "cis" made lots of discusion really hard. "Cis" is a technical word that is used all the time in my field unrelated to the culture war, and not being able to use it was infuriating and really made a lot of people angry that they were mere pawns in a stupid culture war. It is not a curse word or a slur or hateful word and nobody's life was made better by banning its use, but many discussions became silly.)

Mastodon is more clunky than Bluesky, too clunky to get working for most, though a lot of scientists got close. Bluesky is easier and is getting the community now.
Launching my side project. At least I got in better shape (and I'm happier for that than launching a side project)
One thing I like about them is the peace of mind it brings. On the very rare occasion that I somehow forget to close my garage when I leave (maybe I’m in a rush and the button in my car didn’t register), it’s nice to be able to close the door remotely.
People aren't leaving X because of polite disagreement. They're leaving because ideological extremism and hate not only run wild but are actively promoted by the platform.

Here’s how I see it: imagine you like going to a restaurant for dinner fairly often. Recently, a group of rowdy patrons has started coming in, getting drunk, and making all kinds of noise. Strangely, the restaurant seems to encourage their behavior. You don’t love this—you’re just trying to enjoy a nice dinner and some casual conversation. So, you leave and don’t come back.

You can’t force the restaurant to calm down or kick out the rowdy patrons. They should be allowed to serve whomever they want. Luckily, you’re also not forced to endure their actions.
Well, the whole deal here is that it isn't nothing, actually. You certainly get how those massive corporations stopping their boycott to X is relevant, right?
That's about what I'd expect from a network that's also undergone exponential growth in the past ~week, while still being much smaller than e.g. twitter in absolute terms.
They're not trying to write a paper with the identified. They're trying to identify when regressions creep in so they can be fixed. Half the paper talks about all the ways they filter signals into things which are likely actionable. Sure they'll still get some wrong, but as long as the precision is high enough for engineers to treat the regression reports seriously and the recall is high enough that costs stay down, that's all that matters.
I’m a product manager, not a developer, although I used to be a developer a long time ago in a language far far away.

A few months before my last interview I had taken up Python by solving about fifty projecteuler.net problems. I’m not fluent, but capable, and since no one is hiring me to write code anyway, I put it on my resume.

At my interview with a CTO he said, I see you have Python on your resume? “Yep,” I answered, and said pretty much the above.

“Do you mind if I open a shared session to code in”

“Sure” (I haven’t coded in front of someone…ever?)

“Do you know what Fibonacci numbers are?”

“Yes”

“Can you write me a function to return the Nth Fibonacci?”

That’s clearly not a very hard task, and fortunately I was up to the task and got the job.
See also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ox8fqPCbMM
Correct.

Essentially you’re switching one filter bubble for another filter bubble that makes it harder for any contrary opinion to pierce it.
It's definitely something that's happened community by community. A lot of space news I care about is still just on Twitter but urbanism stuff has mostly moved to Bluesky, for instance.
I don't understand this critique:

> I’ll also add that the reason I’m a big fan of a ActivityPub solution like Mastodon is that it’s quite inexpensive to run your own complete stack unless you’re extremely famous. Hosting a Mastodon instance is a one-step process, and you then control everything. To get the same experience with atproto, you’ll need to spend hundreds or thousands of dollars a month, and even then you still don’t control everything as of today.

When you run a mastadon instance you're not mirroring the entire network, so its a bad comparison. I'm quite interested to find whether there will be niche relays that only index posts from certain pds (or provide a kind of community-chat discord competitor by being one server that hosts the PDSs of the community, and also provides the relay and appview for that community)