skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it’s health related, as the article mentions.

>One executive in the entertainment industry said younger people were less inclined to go out raving until 6am as they were more health conscious and less frivolous with money than previous generations

This is the same generation that has 12 step skincare routines, eats only organic food, chooses to vape or zyn rather than smoke because of secondhand smoke, everyone has an Apple watch on their wrist tracking calories, etc.

If anything I’m surprised that binge drinking and going out late as survived as long as it has.

And as far as the money comment, this generation is not less frivolous there’s just less money to go around haha.
Okay this is an interesting topic but I think you are conflating several things.

The decline in sexual experience is occurring in California metros too. Its really interesting how the behaviors have shifted and surprising to me. But people are bonding, social, far less exclusionary, inclusive to things they’ve never heard of - unless you’re the wrong star sign, ironically, or political party.

I date 20-somethings, it’s just different than what I see with people I grew up with. I would say chronic anxiety and demisexuality are common, the most notable to me, and drive a lot of these shifts. But the libidos are there, their age-peers don’t know what they’re doing with really offputting habits or aren’t as interested either. I just cant extrapolate a real exclusionary streak from conservative leanings. Your algorithm is just cooked right now.
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One weird reason I've personal run into: when building on the edge, like with cloudflare workers, you can run into timeout issues because of how long password hashing takes.
> But some environments are notoriously noisy. Many years ago I put a system using several Z80s and a PDP-11 in a steel mill. A motor the size of a house drawing thousands of amps drove the production line. It reversed direction every few seconds. The noise generated by that changeover coupled everywhere, and destroyed everything electronic unless carefully protected. We optocoupled all cabling simply to keep the smoke inside the ICs, where it belongs. All digital inputs still looked like hash and needed an astonishing amount of debounce and signal conditioning.

:-)

I had a similar experience with a elevator motor and a terminal. The electronics worked absolutely fine, but when someone operated the elevator it occasionally produced phantom keypresses on the capacitive keypad.

This was perhaps understandable, but what really confused the users was that these phantom keypresses sometimes pressed the not fitted debug buttons (which weren't on the production keypad) which stuck the device into debug mode!

We learnt not to include the debug code in the production firmware and beefed up the transient suppression hardware and the debouncing firmware to fix.
The way Microsoft killed EEE PC movement was by removing the Windows Tax, the moment OEMs no longer needed to pay for Windows on EEE PC style devices, they were mostly gone in one year, and the new tablets segment killed the remaining survivors.

Lets be real, with SteamOS having a Windows ecosytem, it is about saving Windows licenses mostly, and not really fostering a GNU/Linux gaming ecosystem.
No, I'm arguing that your claim about IFR being less than 0.26% is incorrect, for the western population distributions that are relevant to this discussion.

You're the one who chose that paper excluding the elderly as the sole reference for your claims about the IFR. Why?
If they'll both misinterpret things, might as well go with the free, decentralized, and democratic option.
In four years, they’ll revisit the complexity. Facts may become simpler then.
> Nonsense. Without parametricity your software is not compositional and it becomes impossible to write correct software to solve complex problems.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
As someone noted in the thread on OpenAI restructuring: Maybe these messages are not meant to convince outsiders but to reassure insiders/true believers. It provides them with a ready made narrative to counter the cognitive dissonance.
Interesting point of view
Marc Zuckerberg: "I notice Elon has become much more popular than I am. Elon also owns an internet social platform. Elon has removed most of the censorship from his platform. Maybe if I do the same I will be popular again too?"
I've seen this happen when someone's not familiar with their api framework and instead of returning an object for the framework to serialize, they serialize it on their own and return a string. Which then gets serialized again by the framework.
Maybe Grid Playground is a useful choice as well. In my opinion, CSS Grid layout has much more options than Flexbox.
Cultural Lag
this is good news: I've always been scared of the so called "sources of truth", which think people are idiots.

The system is complex, and better educate people to face it: at 360°
Debouncing doesn't need to delay a touchstart event, in general, so latency shouldn't really increase in a carefully designed system, especially if you can be animating in advance of the touchend event.
Looks really cool, but I'll remain sceptic until it's launched and I see reviews. It stands and falls with the reliability and endurance of those connections, and that's not something we can see on a kickstarter.
This is laughably false and easy to disprove. Blurbusters did an analysis of this many years ago and we won't get "retina" refresh rates until we're at 1000Hz.
Yes, you would parallelize it with prefix scan which has complexity nlog n I believe. However, floating point is neither commutative nor associative.
Yeah. I imagine that's a bandaid around having to consume a dodgy api that they didn't have access/permission to fix.

The blanket catch is odd though, as I'd have thought that it would still be outputting valid json (even if it has been serialized multiple times), and if you're getting invalid json you probably want to know about that.
It's not my idea. There's a bunch of video tutorials on it if you want to google around.

And I actually have implemented this for some problems and it actually is as good as the theory says. The hard part is transforming from "Grid with 0/1 obstacles" to "sparse set of visible nodes". That's not trivial and can put the whole thing out of reach.
Not all analog clocks continuously move the minute pointer. In train stations I often see the seconds pointer move continuously and when it reaches the 12, it stops there for a second or two, then the minute pointer moves, stopping at the next minute, briefly vibrating, then the seconds pointer moves on.
Often the problem with companies running the Feature Factory production treadmill too long is you have code supporting unused features and business logic, but nobody knows any more which features can be dropped or simplified (particularly after lots of employee churn and lack of documentation). So the problem is not so much technical debt, but product debt.

You can refactor, but you're also wasting time optimizing code you don't need. A better approach is to sit down with rest of the company and start cutting away the bloat, and then refactor what's left.
There was a time when Zucerkberg was popular? His platform once was, but not its founder. There even was a movie on how he cheated others.
This is a BS piece of PR fluff.

They aren’t scrapping factchecking in Europe, where it is a legal requirement. It’s not like they are pulling out of Europe.
Social media are not publishers. They are way more public squares, but online.

On top of that, even when publishers usually curate content, there is no obligation to do so. It's just something that has been done, because publishing used to be expensive.

Now, when sharing data online is cheaper and cheaper, this limiting factor is fading away.

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At the same time, we have just 16 hours of attention per day. So you have to decide whether you want to invest your time in more curated publishing (I read a lot of books, often old books which stood the test of time), or if you want to go to the public square where practically anyone can shout as he sees fit. I do that too, but I try to moderate both my time using social media and what I see there. And I am proud I haven't used TikTok, I stopped using Facebook, Instagram, I don't watch any Reels, Shorts, etc.

So publishers still are not lost, but what they are selling is not curation because of technological limitations, but because of limits of how much we can read and see in the day.

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At the same time, publishers are biased. They publish what they see as high quality. They publish what they consider worthy. They publish things they would want to read. And they have publication checklists that prohibit publishing certain things even if they are true.

Public squares don't have such an attribute.

There are things to be published and heard, even when mainstream people would disagree.
There are things that should be public, even when it's against a law in certain countries.

And online anonymity mixed with public square enables people to tell about atrocities that happen, or about corruption, government inefficiencies, about people breaking human rights and so on.

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If you end anonymity and public squares, you end a channel for democratic feedback.
Because publishers don't play this role any more. They are biased, people realize it and are fed of it.
>I do the same for fats. The way I look at it, I want to maximize the "enjoyment per kcalorie". :)

We are increasingly moving away from looking at fat as an indulgence, towards understanding it as an essential nutrient, with a large variance in fat types and their benefits. E.g. some people would avoid eating nuts, because they are high in fat, and not as tasty as something similarly fatty, like a pastry. This seems wrong both intuitively, but also from empirical findings about the impact of certain omega-3 fatty acids (such as in nuts) versus that of, say, omega-6 fats, which are way overrepresented in our diets due to being so cheap.
Hard to comply with ecall, automatic braking, etc with no code.
That would imply moving to a volunteer, public system of moderation would be, if anything, more activist and biased in nature than less.
all people shuld factcheck themselves rather than having some third party do this shit for them :S wtf happened to dont beleive everything everyone tells u?

i wonder how such ppl go through their daily lives. do they need a fact checker when they are at the barber making conversation? or in the pub? or are factchecks only needed on the internet because it someone is some kind of source of ultimate truth for ppl? i find this shit confusing as hell.
If you want something that looks a little "more real" but doesn't involve complex management of memory, maybe try a bug algorithm. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bug_algorithm

It errs on the side of "stupid" but is much easier to implement.
It's a very common security technique to avoid being targeted by malware. I believe even the Microsoft KSLDriver drops randomly named DLL and device drivers along with creating a randomly named system service. Uses 8 hex characters.

Several third-party vendors use the same technique, mostly security vendors.
Facts are now whatever most people think is true.
Can you also provide a simple RSS feed?
There is a difference between actually building a project and merely opening a file in an IDE though. See for example the recent emacs completion vulnerability [1], which AFAIK is still open.

[1] https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-53920.
The Oruga Unitrack [1] is listed as one of their case-studies, it looks awesome and I would really like to see it move.

I found [2] on YouTube, but it doesn't seem to contain any actual video of the vehicle (and the voice-over says "unit-rack" rather than "uni-track" which I didn't love).

1: https://oruga.eu/#unitrack

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clL4sDXxvWQ
>if you can't tell me specifically how X is bad for youthen I have to assume it is not harmful by default

Speaking for myself, its a matter of how my brain works. Setting aside rational considerations like cost-benefit analysis or Bayesian likelihoods: if there isn't a generalizable logic to 'what (is harmful)' and 'how (it is)' I just get a 404.

It's not that I don't (or do) believe potatoes chips are harmful it's that the e.g. statement 'ultra-processed foods are bad for you' is literally devoid of meaning. Might as well be baby-speak.

As such, any attempt to incorporate that information[0] into my decision making process goes nowhere: I can't categorize a food as to it's degree of ultra processed-ness nor can I assess whether another foods/foods/etc might cause harm like UPF's are purported to do. Ergo: no basis for a behavioral modification, no new pros or cons to weigh.

[0]not even getting into the reliability of e.g. a paper's conclusions
The more direct reason that Zuck gave previously was because they couldn't rely on the political neutrality of the fact checkers. There's a fine line between opinion and fact I guess.
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I routinely read HN on my phone. I'm doing it right now.

I think I've only accidentally flagged about posts by mistake...
C++ templates are not parametric by design.
There are very good kernels written in Ada, like Ironclad[1].

Besides, what's the point of this comment? What if people wanted to write a million more Unix-like kernels in C? Do you think this is bad? Why do you care? If you want, just write your own in whatever language you want, with whatever design you want.

> Why not Plan 9 in Zig, or Hare, or even D?

Because nobody to this point was interested in doing this. It's really that simple.

[1] https://ironclad.nongnu.org/
IMHO the problem is these platforms playacting as governments, pretending like they have some impartial process-driven content moderation system.

The terms of service should just say, "This is our sandbox, you're welcome to play in it but we will remove whatever we feel like removing if and when we feel like removing it. Don't like it? Go someplace else."

This is actually the truth of the matter already, and all the dancing around third-party fact checkers and Acceptable Use Policies has always been a farce.
Not how Apple and others are doing. Internet access and cloud accounts are not a requirement to integration. You need standards and conventions. Now, eveyone is doing its own thing and company wants to control your devices to the point they can brick them within a few years.
The Babylon Bee, a satire site, was repeatedly flagged for false information until their reach was crushed. There’s no reason to repeatedly flag obvious satire unless it’s from activists.
Common in practice variant: don't use pure Python for cpu-intensive tasks (offload to C extensions)
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Interesting, thanks. Do you plan speed/performance comparisons as a scripting / pluign language? That would be relevant for games or graphics intense usecases—blackjack-rs considered scheme/lisp but opted for mlua due to performance)
How do you do the prior outreach without coming across as spammy though ?
Fact checking is now activism with an agenda? What a hot take. From what I understand Meta used fact checkers certified by Poynter’s International Fact Checking Network [1]. Now with "community notes" you will most certainly get people with an axe to grind.

[1] https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/
If anything, Elon has largely increased the amount of censorship on his platform[1][2]. The only demographic whose voice got louder is the far right[3], in order to please the new presidency. Zuckerberg is going for the same strategy, facts and democracy be damned.

[1] https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-05-24/under-el...

[2] https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2024/8/13/the-right-wing-l...

[3] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/04/elon-musk...
A lot of facts you cannot check. I am going to fly to the westbank to see who is lying or not? How do I factcheck stuff like that?
And I would say the large festival audiences are wholly unfamiliar with that, given that the option of the bigger elaborate event was always in their face. There was nothing they needed to find or be in the know about, and to them, the festivals are that same journey.

Regarding expense: not everyone is broke. And many people have shifted their budget to exclusively going to music festivals. I know lots of people that scoff at the idea of going to a nightclub or “going out” at all, but praise and prioritize going to music festivals. Even more are on payment plans for festival tickets far in advance, they are confident they can sell them at a premium if they don't go.

I’m just reporting what I’m seeing and applying market dynamics to it.

Given the tension with “wooks” that bum their way to the bigger festivals and have little to support themselves or any integration into society, I see intentional segregation with the current generation of festivals goers that supports an intentional interest in paying a premium for the exclusion it comes with. Event groups found that pool of wealth and demand, and are capitalizing on it to its extreme. But this crowd is really not trying to be around the other budget conscious crowd at the warehouse and barnyard, and there are plenty of good vibes to be had - you just choose which festival has the vibe you like. if one is too fratty for you, or has too many influencers, then you can still go to the “PLUR” one.
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>Have you tried using an Arduino or similar first?

That’s why I went to uni to do EE/Robotics. I wanted the next step, suffice to say I did not get the next step from university.

I see what you’re getting at though. Just in time learning seems to be the way it will be. It’s just frustrating I don’t even have a base to go off of. Pretty much all my background knowledge has come from stuff I learnt outside of uni.
You don't need all for the original statement to be false, that's the big issue with "universal"
His platform which has over 3 billion monthly active users "once was" popular?
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I have a very personal reason to hate magic links:

I'm quite fast at passwords and 2fa. The whole thing is second nature, I have a password scheme to deduce the password for any site but keep them long and high entropy, and I can do 2fa calculations from any trusted device without taking my hands off the keyboard (thanks to oathtool), and anyway my passwords are sync'd securely and I can look them up with hands on keyboard.

This is strictly better than "single point of email failure". Why force me to be less secure and less usable.

Please, just allow me to use passwords and regular old TOTP.
> Meta is a business, and only does what benefits the business. That is why no one should rely on fact-checking done by Meta.

Correct, and in any kind of healthy society, we’d tell them to get off their dead corporate asses and stop enabling the boiling of people’s brains in a vat of political nonsense language for profit for the same reason we outlawed leaded gas and asbestos: because there are things about products that are more important than their profitability, and sometimes (at least in theory and at a time long past) we were willing to tell businesses “yes we know this makes you money but it’s also corrosive to our society and/or the people in it, so kindly knock it the fuck off.”

Nowadays we’re seemingly much more prepared to just feed everyone’s sanity to the industrial shredder that is the attention economy.
There is no such resolution limit. That was a joke.
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Keep dreaming man. Just look at what Next has become... It has taken "render component on the screen" and turned that into an experts domain. It's a nightmare for anyone who isn't the most skilled, for projects that are more than just toy apps and AI one-offs.
^^^ These are the kind of Community Notes we need.
It's impossible for anyone to verify every claim they come across, people just don't have the relevant domain knowledge, resources or time to do the work necessary to evaluate everything from first principles.

People who think they factcheck themselves more often than not just default to believing whatever confirms their biases. Which, nine times out of ten, just means blind cynicism towards whatever the mainstream or status quo says.
Last time I checked, ecstacy is usually how it is called when in pill form, with the idea that it is not pure MDMA. That is, it may be cut, a combination of drugs or something else entirely.

MDMA/molly is usually in crystal/powder form, with the idea that it is more pure.

But how drugs are called on the street and what they are in reality is constantly changing, there are countless myths, and dealers are not exactly a reliable source of information regarding what they sell.

In reality, that's essentially the same thing. If you look at https://www.drugsdata.org/ you will see that it is mostly just MDMA, the form doesn't matter much.
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> if anything

How on earth can you say that if you were alive during the pandemic?
I see a lot of memes on Facebook that would have been a sure ban last year now being promoted by the fb algorithm.

Rulers are changing, companies will change. And maybe people like Zuckerberg are really changing their opinions too. Who knows
I love it. Small data is beautiful :) Many times I heard about people running clusters to analyze datasets that can fit in single machine :)
I'm curious about the limitations that prevent these apps from writing / caching local data. It doesn't seem like the paradigm would have to change entirely to support that.
No one is going to build new factories based on a policy that’s probably going to be reversed in less than two years. The only effect will be reduced consumption.
You don’t. Yet they are popular.

It’s only the densest transit zone in the US. Many international locales are denser and measurably better.

This issue highlights that people take for granted that things are permanent and people will accept anything. This is great for me — I’ll happily pay the toll to move faster when I’m in the city. But my guess is my customers will start melting away faster and I’ll be spending quality time in Jersey. That was happening even before COVID and I think will accelerate.

They would have been smarter to hold out for a few years and add a surcharge to the road mileage tax that’s coming.
Clearly this doesn't work, seeing how America just elected a compulsive liar, with popular vote no less!
There is more to a language than knowing how to pronounce each individual letter. You can easily see it if you take any modern language, write a text in it down in IPA and ask a linguist unfamiliar with the language itself read it. It will still sound very alien to a native speaker. And this is with a live language we have full knowledge of.
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Facebook is for the let's just say older folks but Instagram and Whatsapp are wildly popular. Threads is meh. Began promising but has become a place for bots. Only account I check in once in a while is James gunn who seems devoted to that platform.