skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's hard to prove either way, for or against, because behaviors are different in different countries, age groups, apps, and so on. Maybe it works for some segments, but not others.

But I've met countless people, of both genders, who swore that dating apps is a waste of time, and money. They're designed to be gambling machines. The house always wins, which in this case means the customers keep coming back.
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This. I'm eagerly awaiting the replicators that will explore the cosmos and spread the knowledge of our existence. If we can get them done before we poison ourselves.
That's a weird take, we have enough stories of people growing up with mobile phones having less of a clue about desktop OSes than people aged 30-60. We have other people (seniors now) who never really clicked with computers in the 90s-2010. There are so many groups who would fall into the category of benefitting from this.
Could just be a bot ad for that app though.
I hope Newcleo ends up delivering. The EU should have advanced nuclear reactors.
Except that it can't, and doesn't, always work
How can you find the spare time and the focus to finish this ? Why ?????
It actually has the same origin as the parent poster of your comment:

Late Old English mægester "a man having control or authority over a place; a teacher or tutor of children," from Latin magister (n.) "chief, head, director, teacher" (source of Old French maistre, French maître, Spanish and Italian maestro, Portuguese mestre, Dutch meester, German Meister), contrastive adjective ("he who is greater") from magis (adv.) "more," from PIE mag-yos-, comparative of root meg- "great." The form was influenced in Middle English by Old French cognate maistre.

Source: https://www.etymonline.com/word/master
> I can’t speak for everyone, but I know a lack of social media meant that I have lost touch with old acquaintances completely. I have a few close friends and that’s it.

I feel like that's the downside of social media in general, like the network effect - since most people are on social media, that's the place where people will post life updates, as opposed to talking to others about that stuff directly as much.

Maybe there could be a healthy way to use social media: to catch up with the people in your social circle, maybe look at a few cute pictures of animals or memes, but don't obsessively doomscroll or compare yourself to the highlights of others' lives.
> did anyone care to throw Ads on the old fashioned telephone lines

Certainly, that is what call center robot calls trying to sell unwanted stuff are all about.

> Or tag an Ad inside our snail mail?

Certainly, it comes on stamps.
If this was about the boiling frog metaphor, people wouldn't be nearly this upset: the metaphor is obviously ignorant and therefore not very useful to describe the underlying concept of people getting used to discomfort. You'd have a few people complain about pedantry, but nothing as angry as "nope, we're not doing this in 2025."

Why the heated feelings? The cargo cult metaphor is not merely ignorant, it is also blatantly racist, which explains the unhinged resentment in your comment: "imaginary offenses" "supposedly marginalized people" "hallucinates"

You are being proudly and angrily ignorant specifically because the cargo cult metaphor is racist, and hence aligns along partisan politics, and hence makes you want to fight. If it was boiling frogs you'd be amenable to thinking and learning. Instead you're waving a MAGA flag.
No, the word "console" is too generic too assume that "Linux console" can only refer to the virtual terminal that is built into the Linux kernel.

Look here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Console#Computing_and_video_ga...

"Command-line interface" as used by the author of this article is also listed.
Klick into that textbox at the right in the lower part of the page. Then type (WSAD, Z for enter, just as written there)
Important thing to remember is that even after the move to PDP-11, early Unix systems had to deal with 32kB as entire space available to userland program, both code and data (including stack)
Some people just want to be offended by reality. Things like this exist: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Philip_movement

> The people of the Yaohnanen and Takel area had seen the respect accorded to Queen Elizabeth II by the colonial officials and concluded that her husband, Prince Philip, must be the son referred to in their legends.
I had a dream recently, where Elon Musk said the following:

I'm not actually the bad guy you think I am. It was basically all a show. You had suuuuuuch a hard and looong time understanding the danger of all these corporate social media silos. Where we control what opinions are visible and what not so much. Social media (in that particular fashion) was always a trap, a problem to definitely avoid, since day 1, but it was sooooooo teeeeerribly hard to make you understand.

So I though, well, if you are all too stupid to understand it, I will make a veeeeeery bizarre and freaky show for you that you will never forget. It will be so unreal, even you all will actually _get_ it now!!! Because it's such an important lessons for the upcoming future...
It’s bullshit. It means more interviews for people they know they won’t hire to meet a quota which wastes their time, and when someone from a minority is hired the perception might be that they weren’t actually qualified, even if they were.

Plus as a straight white guy - am I really so bad? The world seems pretty fair. I’ve never done anything sexist or racist in the workplace (quite the opposite) and haven’t even seen it happen. Why do I have to have it worse off every step of the way just because I was
born this way. End the BS and let’s get some work done.
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They are mentionning the country, not the US state.

Supposedly Georgia asked to be part of UE since the Ukraine invasion so it somehow implies at the very least empathy towards Ukraine and not support for the war.

Having said that and taking into account that IP Geolocation is a fantasy and not something that really work reliably in practice, I would totally understand that some people living in Georgia would be geolocalized in Russia because their ISP is a russian company or is using IPs associated with Russia.

I am regularly geolocalized by some websites more that 3000km away from my home. My ISP headquarters and datacenters are in a different country and I guess some of the IP range they use are geolocalized there.
OK, point taken; we tell the Emperor's New Clothes even though it never happened.

On the other hand, nobody thinks it actually did happen: it's understood to be ridiculously exaggerated to make a point. And there's not a specific named group of people who are implied to have actually been gullible enough to fall for the trick.

I find the actual cargo cult beliefs -- "our ancestors are sending us loads of cargo which the white people are stealing from us" -- in a way far more disturbing in a "teach us something about human psychology" way. Compare to, "There is loads of prosperity available, which {the government, the capitalists, immigrants} are stealing from us."
I'm a Python fan condescending on PHP, but doesnt the world still depend on deploying instantly via FTP and cheap hosts enjoying the low overhead of a 100000 sites on a server? On the other hand, cheapest Namecheap and Digitalocean plans are neck to neck on first glance.
> You know absolutely nothing about what I know or have experience with based on that message.

Sarted using it at 14, still only use a handful of commands, don't think it's complex
>> and object-oriented design is pretty out of fashion

OO isn't debunked and its not out of fashion.

All that's happened is that it's no longer gospel that "the only way to program is OO".

I write code that has all sorts of styles and approaches that fit the task at hand and sometimes the right tool for the job is OO.

I get the sense you're saying that OO has been proven to be hokum and no one should learn it or do it anymore and all that remains OO is the smoking ruin of 20 years of Java. That's not correct at all.
Doesn’t account for differences in platforms or Python versions, and doesn’t contain resolved dependency hashes.

So it’s a “lockfile” in the strictest, most useless definition: only works on the exact same Python version, on my machine, assuming no dependencies have published new packages.
I don't understand what people are doing on social media that they can get addicted by it, or at least specifically by the social aspect of it.

E.g. facebook for me is mainly the messenger and a few random photos or people. Everything else on there is not enjoyable.

Reddit is like a forum where I can occassionally say things about my hobbies. Also nothing that sucks me in, in an unhealthy way.

X and Mastodon are mostly news and random people showing off things.

Youtube is like TV where at some point you watched what you wanted to watch for the day.

The only thing that seems addicting to me are Apps like Tiktok or Instagram, where you are just one simple swipe away from the next bit of short term entertainment.
Okay, I got it. If I want to make a successful startup, I simply just need to get an insane amount of funding and develop a great product based on detailed market research that fits the market and solves an actual problem. I also should find a way to actually sell a product in order to avoid negative cash flow problems.

This reminds me a bit of the main reason why restaurant businesses fail according to some TV shows I've watched: They have a lousy cook.
I'm the opposite, apparently. I loved CYOA books as a kid because they could be reread, so I ended up seeking games that boasted multiple endings, including "bad" endings. When playing more linear games, I appreciated them for what they were, but there was a disappointment that I could not try different options along the way.

I think both have a clear place in gaming, since different gamers obviously look for different things.
Although that is true, the counterpoint is that I think some people underestimate the potential impact on animals and how much room away from humans they really need. Some interesting recent research here: https://www.ualberta.ca/en/folio/2025/01/human-recreation-pu...
The title is his opinion, you don’t have to follow it or even agree nor take offence to it.
Hi, author here :) You can just log in to make edits – there's a rich text editor. It's a good point about markup being rendered differently to what you might expect, it can happen, especially with images but you get to know what works pretty quickly. And you can log in and edit if it's not quite right. Regarding the audience, another good point – it's niche and I did mainly build it just for myself, but it's getting a bit of traction.
> You made an assumption of intent.

Where?

"confidently" doesn't assume intent. "misinformation" doesn't assume intent.
> who cares about what they want?

People who want to date them? Or do you think men as well should prioritize seeking a relationship over their family, their friends and their jobs? Honestly i'd rather date women with balanced lives, then try to build onto that. Ultimately the relationship will become #1 for both of you (that happen with when the kid happen in my sample of 1).
Thanks. I'm not the best at copy so any feedback welcomed!
An old gamebook series that did lots of this is Steve Jackson's Sorcery! -- I wonder if that could be what you're thinking of?

More recently, Jason Shiga has used clever mechanics like this a lot in comic book form, notably in Meanwhile. He's just finished a three-part series aimed at younger readers, Adventuregame Comics. All Shiga's stuff is great, highly recommended.
Hi, I've just ‘finished’ an app to make interactive text stories/games and I'm looking for people to test my app with real stories, if you're interested I could help you with your story so you can publish it online wherever you want.
Many devs are never even coming into challenging projects like that. For a large part of the dev community its just simple webapps for most of their professional life.
Yes! I didn't actually know about Posterous when I built it... the angle was more "HEY World for people who don't use HEY". https://pagecord.com/pagecord-vs-hey-world
Why? It doesn't retract from the fact that biodiversity is important.

Biodiversity is important because nature is brutal.

And it's clear to anyone who is willing to listen that humans are culpable. But that doesn't mean nature will return to an equilibrium when humans disappear.
It's a farsicle example as the bottleneck is getting the council to fix the potholes.
Agreed. Many smaller MRs are likely to get the same amount of changes accepted in far less time. Some of the factors include:

* After each change you have to review the whole MR, either because you have to rebuild the context or because it's not obvious how the new changes interact with the old ones. Hopefully the new review won't take as much as the first one, but still it's linear, and the number of changes request is also likely linear in the MR size, so that's already total quadratic.

* More iterations often mean higher review fatigue, at some point I don't want to rehash the same code over and over again, and I tend to postpone bigger MRs in favor of smaller ones.

* Larger MRs are correlated with the author not having a full grasp of what they are doing, and therefore are unable to segment it properly and organize the code properly. Sometimes there are not many alternatives to a large MR, so that's not a hard rule, but there is certainly a decent correlation.

In my experience (admittedly with a company that is not necessarily statistically meaningful) when I began doing code review that helped with my own MRs getting reviewed (and also contibuted positively to performance reviews). First and foremost because it helped me getting a better understanding of the whole code base, not just the parts that I ended up touching; and then, I suppose, also because it made me more trustworthy towards the code maintainer.
> Chumby’s kernel did a total of 5 reads of the CVWR register. The other two kernels did a total of 3 reads.

> I opted to use 4 as a middle ground

reminded me of xkcd: Standards

https://xkcd.com/927/
If someone literally thinks it's going to hurt our relationship that I am not following their facebook nonsense I am totally happy to not have them as friend anymore
The article ends by saying:

"The pop-culture cargo cult erases the decades of colonial oppression, along with the cultural upheaval and deaths from World War II. Melanesians deserve to be more than the punch line in a cargo cult story. Thus, it's time to move beyond the cargo cult metaphor."

for which the OPs summary is an acceptable paraphrase.
This is a good point. Right now it's just a scrollable page (like Twitter or whatever) but I'm thinking about adding an "Archive" page that breaks it down by date. I'm actually considering adding "Pages" support too, but first I'm about to launch email subscriptions :)
Indeed, the article is kind of only saying obvious things. I was disappointed because I expected some very specific, insightful ideas.
In my circle, very few people maintain a social media presence. I cannot remember posting anything on social media myself - except maybe a job update on LinkedIn, and some light anonymous trolling on X. I don't have Facebook or Instagram accounts and so I never visit those sites anymore (as they require an account to read). Spending a lot of time posting on social media is seen as unintelligent, attention whoring, and a waste of time.
The article doesn't claim that cargo cults don't exist, they just work very differently and the story that Feynman shared is likely inspired by an exploitation movie from the 60s.
Though there are dead ends, thus needing to save earlier to undo decisions.
It's easy enough to just use `mkdocs` with `mkdoxy` and the material theme, and you're done. In my repos it's simple enough to just run `just docs` at the root and that's it. Docs built for the given branch/tag/sha, and if various variables are set, docs deployed as well.

C++ documentation is another defect in the language (along with a build system), that all successor/modern/post C++ languages happily accept is part of the 'language ecosystem'.
> so those here coming to their defence is not a bit surprising.

Who came to their defence?

The debate about eucalyptus trees goes back many many decades and the fuel load management question is the big one.

Take down the Blue Gums (and friends) and allow no other trees to replace them is one option, sure, that's a decision for California.

Take down the Blue Gums and allow California trees native to that area to replace them isn't neccessarily an improvement over the situation there now.
Their downloaders for classic games still have the options to enable peer to peer. Though it failed to initialise, but I'm not sure if that's because their tracker is down or because it demands upnp. I recently did this with Diablo 2 and it's expansion.
I've been thinking about doing something sort of similar for a while now, and I've done a little bit of research into it.

Key takeaways:

* It's been done before.

* It can work just fine or even be quite good.

* There are caveats to it that you should be aware of.

* It can also come out really horribly.

So, TLDR, it's really not all that different from using any other tech to do a UI.

Glad I could help ;)
I find your trust in politicians disturbing.
I've not used python professionally for years - but I have had to do this maybe once in many years of usage. Seen it like once more in my team(s). A rounding error.

I've seen someone having to do this in node like once every month, no matter which year, no matter which project or company.
Honestly the first time I ever bought a game right on release day, cause I knew of the quality and wanted to support both GoG and hopefully in a small way signal to the industry that I want more of this in gaming.
My partner (who's family is living 10000km away on another side of an ocean) learned her estranged father died a few days ago and that he had been terminally ill for months.

Apparently someone from that part of the family had posted it on facebook but she didn't notice it as she do not visit it every day.
Python is fundamentally used in different ways, and in particular is much more often used in conjunction with code in other languages that has to be compiled separately and specially interfaced with. It also has a longer history, and a userbase that's interested in very different ways of using Python than the "development ecosystem" model where you explicitly create a project with the aim of adding it to the same package store where you got your dependencies from. Different users have wildly different needs, and tons of the things workflow tools like uv/Poetry/PDM/Hatch/Flit do are completely irrelevant to lots of them. Tons of users don't want to "manage dependencies"; they want to have a single environment containing every package that any of their projects ever uses (and a shoulder to cry on if a version conflict ever arises from that). Tons of users don't want to make a "project" and they especially don't want to set up their Python code as a separate, reusable thing, isolated from the data they're working on with it right now. Tons of users think they know better than some silly "Pip" tool about exactly where each of their precious .py files ought to go on your hard drive. Tons of developers want their program to look and feel like a stand-alone, independent application, that puts itself in C:\Program Files and doesn't expect users to know what Python is. People more imaginative than I could probably continue this train of thought for quite a bit.

For many of the individual tasks, there are small Unix-philosophy tools that work great. Why is typing `poetry publish` better than typing `twine upload`? (And it would be just `twine`, except that there's a `register` command that PyPI doesn't need in the first place, and a `check` command that's only to make sure that other tools did their job properly - and PyPI will do server-side checks anyway.) Why is typing `poetry run ...` better than activating the venv with the script it provided itself, and then doing the `...` part normally?

An all-in-one tool works when people agree on the scope of "all", and you can therefore offer just one of them and not get complaints.
By that definition the linked article doesn't fit, then. The author has put a lot of effort into research and writing about this subject. The "morality" part is a relatively small part of it, just a single paragraph in the conclusion.
What are you even talking about when you meet them? Are you reiterating each others Facebook posts together?

Not having seen a friend for a longer time and talking about all the things that happened is the one thing that friendship is about IMO.
Ok Karen
We're heading the opposite way of not being able to buy anything "dangerous" thanks to consumers that you're describing. I've been using a Xiaomi phone that stopped receiving updates in 2020, and have since been running LineageOS, which was made possible by the unlocked bootloader. Xiaomi has since changed its policy and it's basically impossible to unlock the bootloader on newer devices.

If not for the "dangerous" unlocking, I would have to run with dozens of severe vulnerabilities right now, all five years worth of them. A decent phone costs large amounts of money here, the hardware on mine is still very good, and so I would have used it regardless. (Yes, I understand that the firmware does not receive updates, but it's still much better than nothing.)
> This is simply incorrect. In fact the reason it gets stuck on resolution sometimes is exactly because it resolved transitive dependencies and found that they were mutually incompatible.

The confusion might be that this used to be a problem with pip. It looks like this changed around 2020, but before then pip would happily install broken versions. Looking it up, this change of resolution happened in a minor release.
They're good too! See: the 'walking sim' genre (<3 beginner's guide) or interactive fiction like Turnadot (once rated #49 of all time)

https://thebeginnersgui.de/

https://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/games/competition2019/T...
These days the word is "woke" or any of its variants.
Also good to consider for that tradeoff: Those people are completely fine to ignore you without some Zuck accounts.

Bring that together with your idea about friendship before you run behind them.

Maybe it's fine for you. Maybe your conclusion is that it's not worth the thing.

It's not a new topic. For me, iit was around 15 years ago. I never had FB or WA. Not even for a day. And that brought a lot of friendships to an end. Most of my friendships in fact. And that was sad!! But well, no other way would even be an option, admittedly! It's sad, but it was the best I could do.
The problem is that software is much more forgiving than real life engineering project. You can't build a skyscraper with duct tape. With software, especially the simple webapps most devs work on, you don't NEED good engineering skills to get it running. It will suck of course, but it will not fall apart immediately. So of course most "engineers" will go the path of least resistance and never leave the higher abstractions to dive deep in concrete fundamentals.
The instant messengers did that.

Then slack did the modern IRC client.
Thank you. I'll consider adding these sources to my reading.