skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, that's another abstraction. "Feudalism" is a descriptive term for a particular pattern of reciprocal obligations that was common in Western societies (though not dominant in the particular society that our own evolved from) in the past. The emergent patterns shifted, but the underlying reality -- that it all is just patterns of behavior engaged in by human beings with the same fundamental motivations and intentions -- remains. There was never an separate entity called "feudalism" just as there is no entity called "capitalism" acting as a causal agent.

And the problem here is that the things you're arguing against aren't particular to that emergent pattern -- they're the lower-order motivations that inform the underlying behavior itself.

There is no "analysis of capitalism". Your either analyzing real-life human beings or you're analyzing imaginary phantoms in your own mind.
Show HN: I built an AI chat that transforms itself as you talk
What about those jaring things touching the palm, don’t look comfortable
There are thousands of blogs. You need something memorable to keep people coming back. That is what branding is to some extent. It's not just about slogans or logos.
This is a worry!
No matter who you are, you need to have self-acceptance and emotional maturity. Very attractive features
There is absolutely still value in writing for its own sake. Personal blogs should first and foremost be for yourself. Long-form writing is a great skill and compiling your thoughts in one location is a great idea.

Not to mention that while you may not host the blog yourself, you will own the content. You can transport it anywhere, regardless of the shape of your blog.

As far as brand, finding readers and sharing content goes, I think plugging your blog posts here and there to your communities and social media platforms of choice is sufficient. Being algorithmically savvy about the process can be good, but posting to your favorite Discord server, your favorite social media network, and even just emailing/texting/DMs people works well too. Also... HN is good for this too, of course.
Are they ? The article only mentions "black box" a couple of times, and seems to be using it in the sense of "we don't need to be concerned about what's inside".

In any case, while we know there's a transformer in the box, the operational behavior of a trained transformer is still somewhat opaque. We know the data flow of course, and how to calculate next state given current state, but what is going on semantically - the field of mechanistic interpretability - is still a work in progress.
How has NodeJS solved it? There are tons of version managers for Node.
https://pharo.org/success/

It's used for real application development. It's honestly a great environment for building software
Why firefighting planes dumping ocean water on LA fires is a last resort tactic
https://acoup.blog/2024/12/20/collections-on-bread-and-circu...
I suspect DRM will eventually be self defeating. For example, I prefer to torrent content just so that I can get stuff to play using my media player of choice (and the instant seeks) without any hassle. Most normal people probably aren't even aware this is an option.

But with cryptocurrencies normalizing it's only a matter of time before a paid piracy service emerges that is both cheaper, simpler and better than Netflix or any other streamer. Some arguably already have.

DRM was being broken for years without even a monetary incentive, with one it won't stand a chance.
Male gametes are biologically and socially far less scarce than female gametes. If you operationally define physical attractiveness in terms of willingness to risk forming zygotes the result is distinctly asymmetrical across sexes, because the consequent investment is distinctly asymmetrical.
> We (...) have not shared geolocation data with ad partners for many years

Mobile operating systems don't have good (if any) support for opening things in subprocesses with restricted permissions from the rest of the app. So if Grindr loads an ad, that ad runs with Grindr's permissions. Same for any analytics code that ad uses. So if Grindr gets geolocation, even temporarily, so does every ad partner they have, whether they like it or not.

And the thing is, ads are a bottomless pit of third-party JavaScript. Nobody trusts nobody in the ad space, so everyone wants their own trackers doing their own client-side data collection. So Grindr doesn't have to know anything about Gravy Analytics, they just have to have an ad partner decide to use them and bam, they're compromised.
No need when places like Nauru exist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_Nauru
Sonos CEO Leaves Company
Nothing shows on this page without JavaScript except for the header and a grey background. A bit strange for a blog.
They're new :). But they're mobile sensors - designed for bike mounting as opposed to permanent installation.
LinkedIn does this. Posts with links can get hidden from other users.
Also sometimes: the bug is not in the code, its in the data.

A few times I looked for a bug like "something is not happening when it should" or "This is not the expected result", when the issue was with some config file, database records, or thing sent by a server.

For instance, particularly nasty are non-printable characters in text files that you don't see when you open the file.

"simulate the failure" is sometimes useful, actually. Ask yourself "how would I implement this behavior", maybe even do it.

Also: never reason on the absence of a specific log line. The logs can be wrong (bugged) too, sometimes. If you printf-debugging a problem around a conditional for instance, log both branches.
I'd only be interested if I can also use it as a Japanese fan.
> is normally solved by …

It is normally pretended to be solved. Which is good enough.
As I believe Deadpool said in the most recent Deadpool and Wolverine movie - ‘The Dutch are never going to the moon, but damn do they know how to live.’
I know. I'm saying it's sick. I hate computers.
yeah I mean the price of 0$/€/any currency. And not all languages were free, especially one of the main place where python encountered first the success that made it so big was in the universities and in research, were software like matlab, mathematica, IDL or maple were (very expensive) kings before.
Anecdotal, but so many people in my circles have jumped ship to Bluesky that the transition is pretty seamless at this point. It feels more like Twitter than what became of Twitter does.
That ship sailed a while ago
I would point out that this article was not written by social scientist.
This article a bunch of unrelated facts intended to mislead with an absurd lie to end it.

> Everybody talks about the American debt issue, but Canadian households bear more debt relative to their income than any other G7 country. The average Canadian now spends 15% of their income on debt servicing.

> This is a stark shift from 2008 when Canada emerged from the global financial crisis with a healthier balance sheet than any other G7 nation.

Not at all, as two different things are being discussed.

The author is conflating consumer balance sheets with government ones.

I can't easily find a 2008 number, but in 2010, Canada was the highest in the G7 as well.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65688460

Not at all a new statistic.

> Canada’s resource industries have been vilified and regulated out of operation

This is an outright lie.

Canada has never produced more oil than we do now.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/265182/oil-production-in...

Canada has near record production of potash.

https://natural-resources.canada.ca/minerals-mining/mining-d...

Canada has near record output of gold.

https://natural-resources.canada.ca/minerals-mining/mining-d...
Heck yeah I'm down, I already deleted my personal account a while ago. Professional one is next.

When are we quitting telegram by the way?
> Every proven idea started as a random bullshit idea.

No, actually, almost no proven ideas start this way. Ideas which ultimately solve problems in a complex field, generally require a great deal of expertise to discover. Penicillin was discovered by doctors, insulin was discovered by doctors.

We all love the myth of an outsider who revolutionizes a field they were excluded from, but the reality is that someone like Florence Nightingale was excluded from medicine because of her gender, not because of her lack of subject expertise. The people who make groundbreaking discoveries in a field are almost universally experts in that field.

Sure, maybe in some new field that's in its infancy, a random person has a chance of discovering something useful, but oncology isn't that--we've got centuries of study of cancers.

Really? Let's look:

> No one in this thread is presenting their ideas as definitive solutions as far as I see, everyone is being pretty good about providing their confidence levels and sources.

Really? Let's take a look:

1. "Meanwhile, it is proven that the Zika virus does kill GBM cells in humans. This is what causes microcephaly in newborns. Inoculating the Zika virus in a controlled environment yields zero risk, and has no side effects." Poster gives sources, but the sources don't say what he claims they say, because you know, randos of the internet aren't actually capable of reading medical studies.

2. "To give you the short version of the story about how it works for HER: taking bloodroot causes the cancer to shrink too small to take a biopsy, but not go into remission, and when she stops taking it per the doctors advice, it gets very large and they start talking about surgery." Seems pretty confident that there's a causal relationship between the remission and his mom poisoning herself. Luckily another poster posted this: https://jakeseliger.com/2024/07/29/more-isnt-always-better-d...

3. "Have you looked into ivermectin and fenbendazole?" Later, when criticized, user posts: "The linked study claims it has potential." User provides two linked studies. Both links DO NOT claim it has potential, because, you know, randos on the internet are not capable of reading medical studies.

Let me be clear: the confidence level of a non-oncologist in an oncological solution is worth about as much as what I flushed down the toilet this morning. These aren't confidence levels, they're arrogance levels of people thinking they know things they don't. And contrary to your claim, there are a lot of pretty "confident" people posting here about things they should have a great deal less confidence about.

> As for the rest, I think this other commenter said it better than I can:

> I'm not sure why all the hate.

The hate has been thoroughly explained, but your linked poster isn't any more capable of reading Hacker News posts than they are of reading medical journals, apparently.
Can you pass the 14,000+ years by going hunting?

You'd have load up on ammo like it's a war wagon. And it's likely you'd blow you leg off at some point, yet still somehow die of dysentery.
Only reason is an other chunk of money they charge for it. But I am sure that they measured it’ll make profits. We’ll see next year wether it stays or not
Back when I went to the movies, I remember, the best way to forget a really bad movie was to immediately watch another one afterwards. It’s like I overwrite the previous memories or something
I mean, I love pringles
> Discord community servers can already be searched and discovered.

By those that have an account and that know on which "servers" to find the content they're looking for.

> What annoys me more is the fact that discord these days is also used as a substitute for forums and such. There is so much information just hidden on discord you will only find when you know to join specific servers because there is no way to search for that information from the outside.

And that's exactly the problem. Discord is a great Teamspeak successor (I suppose; I've never used that). It's a horrible substitute for a bug tracker, development roadmap, forum, release announcement feed etc.
When a Deadly Winter Storm Trapped a Luxury Passenger Train
E.g. Syria's obesity rate is comparable to the US obesity rate: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2094121/

The amount of confounders at play here seems so large that I highly doubt anything meaningful could be learned from it.
I do not get why there are no new build codes like "every house needs a pontoon cellar that could lift the structure
Related: decrease your iterating time as much as possible. If you can test your fix in 30 seconds vs 5 minutes, you’ll fix it in hours instead of days.
Anyone made a X to Bluesky importer yet? It is pretty difficult to discover the users back on Bluesky, and I thought with the Bluesky hose, it should be possible to matching content v.s. user?
Had a very different image in mind of what a sheet of paper looked like.
Utterly unremarkable for 2012 though.
Go ahead and leave. I'm staying.
Can't quit Twitter/X if you never made an account to begin with. ;)
Seems like many devs don't even like to code. They just want to get paid.

(Not suggesting there's something wrong with that, per se. But good luck getting someone's who just in it for the money to go above and beyond.)
I had to quit both Reddit and Twitter after their respective API changes that disallowed the clients I was using. There are very good nonpartisan reasons to get off these platforms.
I moved over from Twitter to Bluesky with the big wave (I've been using it since mid-2023 however). It's everything I've wanted from the community to the engagement. What's more, I'm not punished for linking to my blog! Everything I could have asked for.

My profile in case you want to follow: https://bsky.app/profile/xeiaso.net
It definitely does. And even better in some ways like no ads and fewer trolls.
Do you consider slavery, the Trail of Tears, the internment of Japanese-Americans, and the restrictions on women from serving in combat or some juries as discrimination?

In many states, it is okay to discriminate based on political views. Here's an example of a socialist working at Goodwill who was fired for being a socialist - https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/07/can-your-boss-fi... with the quote: “The law is pretty clear that a private employer can fire someone based on their political speech even when that political speech does not affect the terms and conditions of employment.”

Is that form of discrimination either DEI or nepotism?

Some US veterans get preferential employment in the Postal Service.

Is that form of discrimination DEI or nepotism?

The Freedmen's Bureau assisted only former slaves. Was that discrimination? Was it DEI?

Japanese-Americans who were interned or their heirs received payment as reparations. Was that discrimination? Was it DEI?
Joke's on you, I quit it a decade ago.

I'd love to read why, but the site is down...
I wouldn't agree it is "vital," but that definitely depends on perspective and one's goals, as well as the baseline level of privilege one enjoys.

If someone's goal is to achieve CEO and/or the top 1%, certainly every single connection could hold extricable value. I'm perfectly fine hovering somewhere in the middle, even knowing I have the capability to achieve much more. My future is uncertain; I probably won't retire when I would have liked. I've accepted that, and choose to live in the present rather than focusing on the future. I know at least I won't die miserable tomorrow.

I don't deny I could have done better financially by maintaining the status quo. Now that I think of it, I'm doing worse financially than when I was using facebook & twitter. I had more money, and my career was progressing at a much higher rate, but I was inconsolable. Without the money, and without the accompanying social media-imposed drag, I see the world more clearly. My relationships are stronger with my wife, kids, and close friends. I am much happier.
sea swell is risky, sea salt in quantities is toxic to most agriculture.
I have been searching for the same answer myself. Blogs, or long form narrative consumption have morphed into newsletters and substack is the king there solving the problem for both consumer and publisher.

Note Scott Hanselman, Bryan Cantrill, Adam Leventhal, Cal Newport, Derek Sievers, Tim Ferris etc. - a lot of the OGs still maintain their own real estate on the internet. These are outside the walled garden pruned by algorithms of megalomaniacs. Whatever format you are producing content, there is an essay at the core of it. Personal blog could serve as an archive for that.

Recently Oxide and friends did an episode to address this topic - I'd highly recommend that episode and the podcast itself. This was in context of the book launch https://www.manning.com/books/writing-for-developers. I've just made through a few chapters of the book, it will give you a lot of good reasons and framework on how you should do it.

If your aim is building a readership, consider the following questions:
- Why do you want to grow an audience?
- What do you have to offer to that audience so that they'll come back?
- Is long format prose their preferred medium for consuming the message?
> These links should be in the main post

That goes against the guideline of submitting the original source.

> you have some knowledge that some does not have

Sounds like a good reason to comment!
If you have something to sell, just make something up.
The people/accounts I want to follow don't quit though
Get a ham radio technician license, and you may develop an intuitive perspective on most electrical engineering concepts.

i.e. the physics lab derivation of the core EE tool set is unnecessary if you understand what the models are describing.

AI is slop in and slop out... and dangerous to students... =3

John Shive's Wave Machines is where every student should start:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DovunOxlY1k
Two reasons:

1. Back when I was in CS, the department was much smaller than it was today. This was after the 80s programmer crash, and so they just didn't have enough professors or resources to teach as many students as were interested in being CS majors.

2. You are able to teach to a higher standard if you've filtered the students that enter your department. You can have one or two people fail OS rather than half the class. At some point, it is reasonable to see if the students are committed, and they get to prove themselves a couple of years after high schools, which worked better for people like me who weren't very accomplished until they get to college.
An article full of buzzwords and a semi-amusing story of how a manager successfully bullshitted a delusional CEO. Okay.
> Another catch is heat management in summer

Possibly, but I have not noticed temperature to be an issue in modern buildings anywhere in the United States, so it seems at least for this climate band to be a known quantity and handily managed.
Yes, but unless it’s incredibly boutique, the buyer would both be tasting the beans and running tests on the product. It’s not that hard/expensive. The large low margin chocolate manufacturers (Mars, Mendelez) definitely already test, and they already know which of their suppliers have Cd problems in their soil. It isn’t something that changes year to year (although processing/fermentation effects on Pb can) especially if it’s monitored.

The smaller suppliers only buy from a few bean producers and rarely switch because they’re looking for a particular flavor/quality. They would really notice if there was change in bean process, just like with coffee. Even they test and have higher incentives, because their customers have choices.

https://spinnakerchocolate.com/blogs/blog/from-farm-to-facto...

So if you’re looking for zero eat something else, but modern sourcing can reliably be below CA standards (as shown by the very study cited in the OP).
I deleted two quite big accounts that I ran.

Now I’m still on Nostr so I haven’t kicked my social media addiction yet, but at least on Nostr I get to pick and choose which of any, algorithm is forging my timeline.
Can you finish the sentence? I don’t understand.

This isn’t me being tongue in cheek, I am just dumb.
I already did this two years ago. Twitter had already gone down the shitter a decade ago when the far right moved in, and by 2022 I was only using it to keep tabs on the Asahi Linux project. Marcan moving to Mastodon was enough to get me to abandon my account.
Please, without looking it up, guess what the current Syrian rate of obesity is.
> the law was never applied to Swartz

Merely being charged with or investigated for a crime is absolutely an application of the law.
A friend of mine once told me, don't get upset about other people's passion. Just bet your own money instead. If you don't like the AI obsession, short the AI stocks, or invest in something else.
Understood, thanks for the reply! Good luck with the rehoming.
Exactly! If the message was “we’re all American and we shouldn’t harass each other” that would be great.

But these trainings divide people up into groups—just along arbitrary lines. All of them put white people over here and “people of color” over there. But I suspect the second strongest affinity for most “people of color”—after their own group—is white people. Because that’s who people interact with the most often outside their own group.

The culture I’m most familiar with, after Bangladeshi culture, is southern British American culture, because those are the people I grew up around. If you subdivide people into any groups more granular than “American”—which I don’t think you should do—you can’t put me over there with the Taiwanese and Latinos as “people of color.” I don’t know anything about those people and have no greater affinity for them than I do for any random American.

My sister in law is Taiwanese, and all her friends are Chinese or Taiwanese. And they seem like lovely people, but I’m more out of place in that setting than I am in a room full of white people in Georgia.
This is very underrated. Also an extension to this is don’t be afraid to break things further to probe. I often see a lot of devs mid level included panicking and thus preventing them to even know where to start. I’ve come to believe that some people just have an inherent intuition and some just need to learn it.
The Sky Follower Bridge browser extension[1] works really well to find everyone you were following on Twitter and find their Bluesky accounts. It finds matches, close matches, and maybes so you do need to review, but the tool doesn't autofollow, just makes it easy to follow.

[1] https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...
You should try to provide more information about what the thing is before requiring users to login.

Google is also the only authentication option, which also dissuaded me from exploring it further.

Not trying to be a dissenter, just providing feedback that I hope is helpful.
By `autorun` we're talking about the notorious pre-2007 function of automatically running an exe — the `open` key in the `autorun.inf` file, specifically. It's ignored in all non-EOL Windows versions. It technically true that features called Autorun and Autoplay are still `enabled`, they just don't do what they did pre-2007. The `icon` key still works, but not `open`. You can re-enable `open` with registry edits, but it's not easy.
Them being uncopyrightable doesn’t imply that they can’t infringe on others’ copyrights. If you publish some copyright-infringing piece and say “my dog typed it by accident” (LLMs basically have the same status as animals here), then even in the hypothetical case that that’s true it’s still copyright infringement.
You and I have to compete in this "competitive" job market thanks to AI, but we can't have US megacorps compete with China who might develop better tools used to swindle us.