skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MDX is popular with NextJS if you want to maintain it as part of the code base. A headless CMS is another alternative, as is a standalone website or something like peer mentions wix / squarespace.

One thing I learned is that you should lean towards letting non-technical people choose their own tools like why we largely let developers choose their own tools.
Not everything that is written on Twitter is a viewpoint and those things became mire and more sind Musk bought it.
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"This island is made mainly of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish at the same time." (1945)
That's how it looks like currently. Nostr is the open protocol whereas Bluesky is the more open platform.
Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++
This Ian guy's shoe-tying tip you've linked is one of the most universally useful life-improving pieces of knowledge I have, which I try to evangelize to anyone I know who will listen. The only facts whose impact comes close are mostly household tips:

- cheap liquid dishwasher detergent including in the prewash cup instead of costly pods that deprive the prewash cycle of soap

- Put bleach in the washer's bleach dispenser and use hot water for any light sheets, no, it doesn't hurt prints or fade light colors

- cook anything you can fit in the air fryer to decrease total time ~70% vs an oven
In all my circles, I don't know a single "X" user. Not even one. Anecdotes are funny like that.

Facebook monthly active users: >3 billion

Instagram monthly active users: >2 billion

Threads monthly active users: ~275 million

If they're cheating, they're doing a poor job of it.
You can use C-Reduce for any language
PV themselves aren’t the most expensive part and US PVs aren’t double the cost of China.

Competition is progress.
Threads has gone out of its way to make real time engagement impossible. Seeing post about sporting events that ended 3 days ago on your front page is terrible UX. If I was a conspiratorial type person I would believe zuck & elon colluded not to compete in that space.
Something tells me you tend to attract harsh disagreements that may be interpreted as “toxic”. Maybe do some reflection?
> One can choose to leave a group/platform/party without believing they are contributing to the negative direction the group has taken.

It is true that one can make up any arbitrary reason for leaving, sure. They could have also said they decided to leave because the moon crossed into their zodiac. But when you get down to it, that's never actually the reason.

Undoubtedly the real story is that there is no compelling economic reason to post on X. It is not a service for long-form news content. Nobody goes there to read that kind of content. It is like trying to post cat photos on HN. Soon you're going to realize that you are wasting your time. There are places for cat photos, as there are places for long-form new content, but HN and X, respectively, are not it.

> If I go to a social club and find that new leadership and new members changed the focus from sports to anti-immigration, I might not want to be associated with them anymore.

With material impact, perhaps. But posting on X is a solitary activity. This is more like giving up on Solitaire because you thought the Queen of Hearts looked at you funny. Which, no matter how much you claim it to be, doesn't make much sense. More likely you were just bored of the game and made up an expiation to not have to admit that you were bored.
I’m tired of threads. In the beginning it was nice but now it just gives me engagement fatigue. So much shallow content provoking replies and adding nothing to your life. It actually makes me feel worse.

And now they will be adding ads. That’s it. I’m out.
It is functionally impossible to run an unmoderated message board that doesn't devolve. Holding out hope that "we" learn where "we" is everyone in the world is not going to happen in 1000 years. The only way for a forum to remain civil and useful is for careful moderation to remove troublemakers and it is equally impossible to do that without ever making a mistake.
> Mastodon functions basically identical to email and damn near every normies has figured it out.

People struggle with emails everyday. Phishing, spam, identity theft, etc. We just delegated the complexity to Big Tech and even then it is barely working.

> Pick a server, sign up, share your handle(email address) with your friends.

Just "picking a server" is one step too much that the vast majority of people don't even know what it means or entails, hell most people don't even know what a server is.

Also nobody is going find friends and share their handles with. Facebook just proposes you people after subscribing. X and Reddit just gives you the front page that makes the news. Mastodon / Bluesky / Threads never make the news.

> Content wise it's a timeline so you, by default, only get who/what you follow.

People don't know what they want or what to follow. The "I just get a community of people I want and know" becomes an echo-chamber very quickly and echo-chambers are boring and doesn't get millions of views. Call it "random crap the algorithm throws" if you want but it doesn't change the fact that people want to be on the social media where everyone else is at.
While we're posting not-nice things, I'll throw my current favorite out: pipx ( https://github.com/pypa/pipx ). I use Python's Poetry to build a wheel and then pipx to install it. Super-easy, barely an inconvenience :)
Get real. It's a liberal echo chamber. 90%+ of the posts there are anti-Trump and/or anti-Musk.
Show HN: AI-Generated Perfect Playlist for Your Mood
Hello,

This is Shivam

I built AI-Generated playlist platform that picks the perfect music based on your mood. It uses machine learning to understand your emotions and fetches the best music videos from YouTube using Youtube API. The platform creates custom playlists for different moods, like happy, relaxed, or motivated, and adapts as your mood changes. I wanted to make sure the music always matches how you're feeling, so I added a recommendation system that learns from your preferences and keeps getting better over time.

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I used to think echo chambers are bad. I realized that when algorithms force me to consume content that I don't agree with, my mood becomes terrible. In order to protect myself, I no longer think echo chambers are pure bad. They are a necessary evil to ensure my own sanity.

In the real world you congregate with like-minded people. The same applies to my social media timeline. And I use Mastodon by the way, which doesn't have an algorithm driven timeline.
Previous:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40164920 - April 2024 (1 comment)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40157435 - April 2024 (1 comment)

Related:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40163251 - April 2024 (79 comments)
But this whole conversation could be much more interesting if, instead of presenting a critical analysis of the language used by pro- or anti-immigration groups, some policies were discussed.

For example, one might say that undocumented people with no criminal records who have been here for more than x years, would be given documents. All the others will be deported. Then, one might discuss the merits of x years instead of z years, but it would be a starting point.

"I don't know of many/anyone that's in favor of illegal immigration" -- all those who are against deporting illegals, support illegal immigration. One cannot say with a straight face, well, I am of course against illegal immigration, but since they are already here..."Sure, I am against homicides but since the guy is already dead..."
I bet this was posted by someone at the onion
The 2FA requirement doesn't need a smartphone. You can generate the same one time passwords on a laptop. I know Bitwarden has this functionality, and there are other apps out there if that's not your cup of tea. Sorry that you feel pressured, but it is significantly easier to express a dependency on a package if it's on PyPI than a download on your own site.
If you use a time travel debugger (rr-project.org, undo.io - where I work, or Microsoft's WinTTD) you can generally just record an application to a file and debug it (with full fidelity) somewhere else.

And you don't need a full debugger setup on the target machine, just the recorder binary.

Gives you the possibility to have a proper debug experience without having to set up debugging that somehow works in a live k8s pod, or connects through special firewall holes or somesuch.
A third possibility you aren't considering: a lot of Democrats were bored and stuck at home and had nothing better to do, so they voted for Biden in 2020. Come 2024, they had plenty of other things to do than vote, so many of those who had in 2020 decided not to bother.
I did hundreds of interviews for a former employer (10k+ employees) and developed a fondness for in-person coding interviews. In particular I would tell the candidate up front that the goal of the exercise is to see how they collaborate on a problem, how they communicate about their thinking, etc. The problem itself was considered too easy by many of my colleagues, but I still found it an extremely useful for the seniority and capability of engineers.

A later employer was in the hiring tech space, enabling this kind of take home exercises. Lots of time was invested into getting signals as the developer was doing it because everyone knew that's just as valuable, if not more, than the final solution. But many companies using these take-home exercises do it just to filter out candidates. To them, it's a proof-of-work system that helps regulate the intake of their hiring funnels.
Who on earth is "shoving it down your throat"? Calm down.
There's a reason waste management becomes so important when building cities and large communities.
There will be no great migration like we saw in 2010 with users shifting from Digg to Reddit but, instead, only the slow trickling escapes of users to more dispersed communities.

Here the human condition can flourish in a more localized way, with more participation (less lurking). No more winner takes all.
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This is what my last, 6 person, startup used, and it was really helpful. It lowered the barrier to having a quick discussion, since you could see if someone was at their "desk" or busy in a meeting.

Also you can see if other teammates are having a discussion or co-working in a common area, which made for some ad-hoc co-working sessions.
Why rely on guesswork when you have the primary source at hand?
> they shove it into the Instagram feed and make it look like Instagram content.

And also into your notifications now.
Find a needle in a haystack with Git bisect
Alternately, shipping containers are regularly lost from container ships.

The article doesn't say if this was closer to raw material or waste.
Roof install in US with permitting is a loooooot more expensive. Around $2/watt.

I’ve seen quotes of $50k for 10KW 24 panel array without batteries.
It looks like you have a deja vu
Thank you!

- We do not support cname domains (not part of the short term roadmap)

- We're not happy with the standard widget, we're certainly open to customization, any are open to feedback and introducing configs/customizations. Alternatively, you can simply create a widget with your link

- Pre-filling form is easy and we can certainly support that via query strings if you require it

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They are definitely “growth hacking” as much as possible - I regularly would see 1/3 of a Threads comment in my FB and IG feed and when you click to expand it takes you to the App Store to download the Threads app. I’m not interested so I just back out but I’m sure it works wonders to get their numbers up.
This would be insanely disruptive to me and I think most of my team.

There are much better ways to handle this like using gitlabs handbook.

To me this is the equivalent of having to be on camera all day. Am I idle if my avatar hasn’t moved or interacted with something in game?
If it were calling to a real chess engine there would be no illegal moves.
Just saw a YouTube video from legaleagle, a lawyer and in his videos he usually cites Twitter posts but the recent ones have bluesky posts which made me think bluesky has gone mainstream so I spun up a VM and hosted my PDS for me and a few friends

I like the feeling and style of the app, it's very comfortable coming from Twitter
No idea but bots are not exclusive to X.
Adding on. Networking works. Niche job boards can work. Mass market job boards are a pretty bad experience for employer and employee; if you're in a pile of 100 applications, chances are good the decision manager is out of attention when they look at yours. You need something to get yours looked at; when you're new to the job market, that can be a cool side project; when you've been around for 10 years, it really should be your contact that put you in.

Contact everyone you've worked (or studied) with before that you'd at least consider working with again, and say something like "Hey Jabbs, I enjoyed working with you at [name of place], I'm looking for a new opportunity, are you/is your employer hiring or have you heard of any opportunities that might be a good fit for me? Thanks etc"

Looking for work is a slog, but send out at least ten of those a day, until you run out of people you can remember; and hopefully you'll get something moving.

Going forward, try to make sure to keep a list of people and contact information you work with that you'd like to work with again, on personal equipment/accounts, so that you can network more easily in the future.
I just posted that to communicate that there are reliable sources, not just Jones, that say the Onion bid was lower.
It's definitely the best contender, and I've been trying to use it but so far there's less people, my feed there is much blander, there's missing features that I miss from Twitter, and everyone seems to be posting about Twitter itself all the time.
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I hear it all the time ‘coding interviews are useless’, ‘peer review in scientific journals is broken’ and so on and so on.

I’d say yes and no.

Yes, these are the problems that cannot be solved perfectly.

No, because in such areas any ‘reasonable’ filter is better than nothing. People say that these assignments don’t have anything with reality, but, well, we don’t have months to try to work with each other, we only have 3x1h.

I worked as individual contributor for years, but also had a chance to try a hiring manager role for the past 3 years a lot. We do standard leetcode-style interview (without hardcore) + system design. And I always consider both as a starter and bite to see how the candidate behaves; talks; do they ask questions to clarify something and how. And I always try to help if I see that candidate is stuck. By the end of all interviews you will have some signal, not a comprehensive personality profile. Do we do mistakes? I’m pretty sure, yes. But I think it just works statistically.
> Does preservation of a living culture take priority over the wellbeing of its members? Perhaps a culture is something that can be decommissioned humanely.

This is problematic. Who, but the members of a living culture, can determine any of these questions? My understanding is that most cultures are self-preserving, until they aren't, usually through conquest or other external forms of eradication.
Collaboration and support being standard seem very much like situations you'd never face in the workplace. No satire there.
They make it to the HN front page every so often https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=bsky.app
Flipside, X has become the #1 app I use. Breaking news, smart people, funny people, celebs, the works right there at my fingertips. And best of all, no more weird gestapo. They were fired. And their little chivatos seem to have fled elsewhere too! Win/win!
Note that [Istvan Nemere](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istv%C3%A1n_Nemere) also died (Hungarian novelist, wrote more than 700 books), died at 80.
Sounds like they are confusing Merkle blocks with block chain.
You're presenting a false dichotomy. Of course, there will be mistakes. And of course there needs to be moderation. But I support the moderation similar to HN, it's about politeness and respect. As long as you're respectful, you can say your piece.

Also, X does provide community based fact checking too, which works best when there are representatives from all sides participating.
When you post on Instagram, there are opt-out features that will 'automatically share to your Threads account too' and you can see Threads notifications in the Instagram app and such .. so I think it's reasonable to assume they are leveraging the Instagram user-base a bit.
Pay 4 20 Google Play Testers
Google Play app publishing now requires "20 testers / 14 days." I can help with that looking for work
The true rival to X is not using social media at all. If you’re mad at your Skinner box, switching bubbles won’t improve your life.
North Korea's 4G is rolling out (plans and details)
If "Twitter, but decentralized" was compelling to the average social media user, Mastodon would have eaten the world years ago.
If your phone contains sensitive information, perhaps pictures, financial information, texts, etc, and it gets stolen - this data could be extracted. But typically, when a phone is rebooted, the drive is encrypted. So you're good to go. Phone theft is quite common, and probably the thief won't bother trying to extract data, but they might.
I feel like, in general, you should be able to treat an archive as a filesystem. Zipapps could be so much easier if it did that transparently.
ChatGPT macOS app can now work with native coding apps
Depending on your current salary, you might make more by collecting unemployment which has the benefit that you can make finding a job your full time job.
> but after that they are golden.

Of course. They paid an enormous cost and beat other competitors for that privilege which is carefully guarded by regulation and certification boards.

No doubt software has more instability, but the trade off is that you don’t have to do that multi year grind. Easier fire, easier hire. Similar pay.

> skillset is always a few years away from being outdated.

I strongly disagree with this. In your example you use “crypto” and “llm”. If this is your skill set you are fad chasing and needlessly increasing your exposure to changing markets.

Engineers solve problems by applying math and science expertise. This is a timeless skill.
> instead of presenting a critical analysis of the language used by pro- or anti-immigration groups, some policies were discussed.

> "I don't know of many/anyone that's in favor of illegal immigration" -- all those who are against deporting illegals, support illegal immigration.

An example of the reason there is critical analysis of language used is due to exactly what was done right here.
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No argument about it. I was just explaining from the perspective of the companies. Per another thread, the companies usually do not care about false negatives and they recognize that there will be false positives. In the meantime, they get so many resumes so they can afford having false negatives. Case in point, even IBM got tens of thousands of resumes every week in the 2000s.

Not that I can pass the interviews, by the way, and I definitely don't want to prepare for such coding challenges. I'm just trying to explain the phenomena as an observer.
Mine too. Or 99.99% of it at least. But if I were to apply for a job, I'd focus more on having at least a little repo of something to show, than on polishing my CV or doing leetcode excercises. That 0.01% code I wrote which is my github is my CV. That 99.99% I wrote for my last employer won't be seen by my next employer.
True. But you don't become an active monthly user. Unless there are some shenanigans happening, which is highly likely. I think I visited Threads by accident several times by clicking posts in IG, that were apparently Threads posts embedded directly into IG as a growth hack (my speculation).
UK is massively .NET oriented as I understand. Perhaps a bit of an outlier in Europe?
what do you think would be a better test?
Not a good year for PL pioneers, starting with Nicklaus Wirth's passing.

We all owe Basic a lot. No "modern" tech has filled that position. Rest in peace.
> Should be noted that it stopped being the case close to a decade ago now. Since PHP 8 things have changed a lot and it's a significantly better platform, both in terms of usage and the people behind it.

The breaking changes section of UPGRADING file for PHP 8.4 is over 200 lines. For 8.3 it was over 100 lines.

And when it went to version 8, there was only 1 full-time developer working on it and as far as I know 0 part-time. The rest were volunteers doing it as a hobby. That full-time developer who was paid by Jetbrains decided he wanted to work on another project. This resulted in the next release being pretty much nothing. At which point, everyone realised this language went from funded to not funded and they created the PHP foundation.
Yes, I feel the same way. I'm in favor of self-controlled filters that let each of us decide what we want to consume, and when. Don't think that means you need to go into the echo-chamber permanently.
That's really well put.

> If you think that citizens cannot, should not, or should not be required to profoundly understand what is happening to them in digital contexts, that's a specific point of view.

Yes, that is what I believe. Most especially the "required" word. I do believe they should be allowed, empowered, encouraged, and enabled to understand those things, but I do not think it is a good requirement.

IMO people also have a right to not care about this. At their peril, perhaps, but who am I to tell someone that they may not use digital tools unless they commit to this understanding?
Nice thinking how will you genrate revenue out of it?
Threads is closer to 300m now.

According to Mosseri it is now adding 1m new users a day.
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Normal engineering isn’t a vehicle to the upper middle class. Supply of engineering degree holders (challenging) is much closer to demand.
I find it funny how hard people try to push the “BlueSky is better than twitter” narrative. So hard, that my entire BlueSky feed is filled with Twitter refugees who shit post about twitter being bad.

Maybe instead of having yet another echo chamber of short form content, we should embrace long form, well written content with wide range of opinions.
My mom is in an assisted living center. The floor above hers is reserved for memory care residents. I'd love to see how to incorporate this into their affairs.
For the longest time, I didn't get the appeal of Twitter. I started using it a bit more when I was still in the habit of using social feeds, and Facebook's was getting actively bad.

I haven't used Twitter much lately since it got bought, and I haven't missed it.

A lot of the time when I did use it, it was for customer support. I feel bad for my followers who had to see my gripes about whatever behemoth sold me crap.
Thanks, I appreciate the honesty.
One thing people miss about remote work is that it's inherently transactional. Show up to a meeting, get or give what's needed, then go back in your hole. This is nice but for many people the lack of genuine social interaction is a killer.

A few jobs ago we set up Donut (donut.com) to set up a couple 15- or 30-minute 1:1s per week and tried to stick to the rule that we weren't supposed to talk about work, just chat about whatever. A replacement for break room chatter, not Yet Another Meeting. It didn't always work very well but when it did, it was great.

Some of the best conversations I had were with an autistic SRE who spent his first month telling everyone how autistic he was in case we needed to know. He did better virtually than he would have in person - lack of eye contact due to camera angles, maybe? So yeah, this has value even for you neuro-atypical, "I don't need chatter, just code" types.