skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of us would not have even done that, though yes, the option was there, but that sort of thing was much more popular 40+ years ago.

There was another discussion where this came up on HN recently, but people get quite emotionally defensive when you start scrutinizing their reasons for staying on social media, so it is hard to have an honest conversation about it without a bunch of hyperbolic takes.

In my experience, it was designed to be addictive, partly by using our own behavior against us and partly by vindicating the desire for attention. The idea that we need to be sharing every aspect of our personal narrative with the world is problematic, as it turns out, but we are so steeped in it that's there's no chance of purifying those waters, again.

To your point, yes, there was some aspect of this back in the day, what with obituaries in newspapers being out there to both acknowledge that a person lived, but also put out the call to any old acquaintances to come say goodbye, but it was a laughable effort by today's standards of maximum self-aggrandizing and competitive social engagement. We have to ask ourselves if that is a socially and mentally healthy position to be in, which is an admittedly scary question.
My favourite Keaton movie is the one near his end where he goes across Canada by hand crank car on rail roads.

"The railrodder" (1965)

Kenton died 1966
Diffusion training from scratch on a micro-budget
Langfuse (YC W23) Is Hiring OSS Engineers in Berlin
It is also a rat race for food producers. If other food starts adding sugar, you want to follow otherwise it doesn't taste as well.

Currently, a drink like Cola-Cola contains 10.6g of sugar per 100 ml. But I am pretty sure the beverage industry can drop that to 5g of sugar and it will still taste good.

For bread (or hamburger buns), pretty sure it can be limited to the bare minimum to taste well.

It would be good if governments starts limiting sugar amounts (and other sweeteners). This stops the rat race, and people might not even notice.
Probably the submitter typed it on a phone instead of copy-paste and "etc" got autoincorrected.
> He opened his jacket and he was all bruised. So that's how he did it—it hurt—but you had to care enough not to care."

It reminds me of the glass eating trick by David Blaine, where the trick is to… just eat glass. It makes it quite bittersweet, as after all, those men are trading some of their wellbeing for some of their fame. Not sure how to feel about it.
You need controls. Things it can’t do, shouldn’t.
Of course the wording is not all. But it does induce a perspective on the situation, be it conscious or not. And it then more or less subtly influence how we engage in extra-linguistic interaction. It plays a huge role with feedback loops through laws that are the public statement of the dominant social order. And it has also a large impact on informal actions done at the tacitly ordinary daily social exceptions.

Consider how factory, mill, works and plant are all usable to refer to a place where some human endeavor is conducted. The term plant has several etymological hypothesis, including one linking it to slavery and colonization through plantations.[1]

https://shuncy.com/article/why-are-factories-called-plants-c...

I’m not a English native and I’m unaware of the "homeless" vs "unhoused" tensions. But to my mind they still seems same-minded compared to "indigent", "pauper", "sedentarized", "nomad" or "settler".
> "We are using exclusively 17 mm bolts for fasteners." Sure, it saves you time with finding a wrench. But I can't begin to imagine the number of compromises or additional complexities you introduce this way.

I spend 10 hrs a week under cars, and i say, hell yeah! I want this! For all cars!
Uv doing things I'm not interested in, has absolutely nothing to do with the design of virtualenvs. But virtualenvs are easy enough to work with; they absolutely don't "necessitate a whole dedicated tool just to manage" unless you could the `activate` script that they come with.

But also, Uv uses them anyway. Because that's the standard. And if the Python standard were to use a folder like node_modules, Uv would follow suit, and so would I. And Uv would still be doing package management and workflow tasks that I'm completely uninterested in, and presenting an "every command is prefixed with the tool suite name* UI that I don't like.

There was a proposal for Python to use a folder much like node_modules: see https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-582-python-local-packages-d... . It went through years of discussion and many problems with the idea were uncovered. One big issue is that installing a Python package can install more than just the importable code; the other stuff has to be put somewhere sensible.

>So again you're pretending that this is such a big deal that it needs a whole other tool

I make no such claim. The tool I want is not for managing virtual environments. It's for replacing Pip, and offering a modicum of convenience on top of that. Any time you install a package, no matter whether you use Pip or uv or anything else, you have to choose (even if implicitly) where it will be installed. Might as well offer the option of setting up a new location, as long as we have a system where setup is necessary.
Pass a law. Disaster insurance maxes out at 95% compensation. (Same for federal insurance of bank accounts.)

Not enough of a worst-case cost to cause a run on the banks (or a collapse in property prices), but enough to get people to start using the brains they were born with.
> What makes it social?

For the modern definition of social, nowadays: incentives to generate engagement (connect with people, post, like, comment) to build up data to drive advertising sales.
I got rid of Instagram and Facebook and have never looked back. It did lead to me losing touch with some people and slightly less serendipity (i.e. someone being in town, which I see on their Instagram story and then we hang out).

Instagram went first and then I realized I hadn't logged on to Facebook in 2 years so why bother keeping it around?

I think for people who can just decide to keep the account and no longer use it, they should keep it just to stay in touch with some folks. But I realize that as long as I'd have an account, I'd keep using it.

Personally, for me the tradeoff between 2+ hours every day on Instagram for an occasional few hours with an acquaintance isn't worth it.
This very reason is why US company culture is mocked in all those US shows, yet ironically (and often not ironically) US workers still take offense and defend it. Because if memorizing the company's... uh, what was that text called... thing, is what makes you useful in a company, sorry I cannot continue without laughing so I'll stop here.
It is happening. There is a lot of bad software out there. Terrible to use, but still functional enough that it keeps selling. The question is how much crap you can pile on top of that already bad code before it falls apart.
Ironically that feels kinda rude to me. Like if I wasn't able to walk, I would want people to aknowledge that... instead of pretending that I just move differently.
Did the blog post get published on their blog?
How would you describe what a neural ODE is in the simplest possible terms? Let's say I know what an NN and a DE are :).
Billionaires head to space while the world burns. Fun.
So many opt ins are deceptively worded (e.g. "would you like this personalized just for you?") or deceptively bundled, 'if you want feature Y, you need to enable X', I could see people opting in without fully knowing what they're doing.
Could there then be some particle that would interact electromagnetically, but not via gravity? And should we not be able to observe this?
> ...much as I did a couple of years ago when we were all socially pressured into renaming our "master" branches to "main" branches.

Hey, at least it's two letters -- 33% -- shorter.
That video is 100% accurate of the feeling of VR in the 90's, both of the behaviour of the believers, the experience itself, and the reactions from the onlookers :)
Isn't the distinction between "homeless" and "unhoused" that the former includes people who may have a house to stay in, at least temporarily, but the latter does not?

Like the difference between couchsurfing in a friend's house (homeless but not unhoused) and sleeping in a car or on the street (both homeless and unhoused).
I can guarantee you nobody knows it around here, managers or employees, and we work for an US company (in Europe though). We also don't ask it in interviews yet we all are successful at what we do. That's one data point.
For those looking for an IRC client; there's;

* The lounge (web based) :

* Halloy (rust, native) : https://github.com/squidowl/halloy

* Tiny (rust, TUI; easier to configure than weechat) : https://github.com/osa1/tiny

* Weechat (TUI; the goat but harder, here's a good guide to setting it up) : https://newblood.anonops.com/weechat.html
Isn't that super saturated and commoditized? How do you compete against the likes of toast?
My experience building a web app with Cursor AI over Christmas
I would argue that Nokia phones with windows OS was pretty successful. Everyone I know who had an early Lumia loved it.

It was the purchase of Nokias mobile division by Microsoft that killed it.
Adding Messaging Functionality to AI Agents
I used to know things. Then they made Google, and I just looked things up. But at least I could still do things. Now we have AI, and I just ask it to do things for me. Now I don't know anything and I can't do anything.
Reminds me when I get rabbit-holed on something I think is really cool, spend the day implementing it, step back and think "wow, I've really done something cool here".

And then wake up the next morning and realise it's shit and needs to be thrown away.
If they unlock the bootloader, the phone will wipe itself, that's what most phones nowadays do.
I always feel like these manager types have drunk deeply from the koolaid for some reason. It’s a lot of words and processes that they usually cargo culted from somewhere else. A lot of it seems to boil down to “don’t be an idiot” and “actually care about your work”. They always have this air of superiority because they’re high up on the org chart. Like CEOs who think they’re the chosen ones, when plenty of people could do it just fine. I laugh hard when people like Zuck say software devs will be replaced by AI, not realizing an AI CEO probably wouldn’t have burnt 30 billion on a terrible metaverse flop.
> That seems so bizarre.

We got a real pot, meet kettle situation here. It is absolutely wild to suggest that doing something standard like arranging for an obituary in the local newspaper would be viewed as a sign of mental illness.
Yes! Children love money, and it helps them feel like their efforts have a tangible reward that isn't "increase your chances of getting into Harvard 2% in 10 years". It's incredibly cheap for a working age adult, relatively speaking to the outcomes it can later produce - even $100 per A per semester is a huge motivator for a child who might otherwise reason that they can achieve their goals well enough with a couple of B's here and there. This is definitely what I reasoned when I was younger, and I would have loved a short term counterbalancing reward to give me more reason to push myself.

I also pay my wife, who is currently working through college. At her level the going rate we've negotiated is $250 for an A in her hardest, technical class, with exponential dropoff for lower grades (to simulate how small initial advantages lead to huge compounding effects in the business world). She's gotten the full amount almost every time so far :) but more importantly, she has chosen to put more of her limited pool of effort into those classes and less effort into classes neither of us really care about.
Kenny is great, I used Kenny Shape to draw Yaksha lang logo :)
I struggle to differentiate commenters muttering "radical wokeism", "virtue signalling", etc from dogs barking at cars.

Non constructive noise from creatures with desire only to chase something.
What truth has to do with leaders ability to change a weather?

I find suggestions for critical action that leads to eliminate individual freedoms, justified by collective guilt, quite obvious in articles about climate and weather like this.
It’s mostly useful as a hands free shortcut to get replies from chatgpt. Beyond that it’s useless

All the promises of integrating deeply into the OS and have APIs directly into apps so you can use natural language to get any app to do stuff for you is vaporware

So much potential but none of it delivered yet, I hope it will change soon
Show HN: Bad Apple on RP2040 [video]
What I can't get from a regular forecast is an indication of when the sun is shining on a particular face.
Its funny that as soon as microsoft need to make an alterate UI for computers they always reach for the home as an analogy. Are they really that short of creativity that rooms full of stuff is all they can imagine computers as?!
Why are those my only two options? A computer that's already infected or one I don't own?
20 years ago, death announcements were expected and normal. They appeared in places people were expected to see - including local newspapers. You would also see death announcement being read in churche, posted in buildings etc. 20 years ago people met in person more often and you learned this stuff via gossip and word of mouth. Not being told to you personally, but being told to a whole group of people.

The aggressiveness of your response is absurd. No, it was not seen as a mental health illness at all.

When you expect personal one to one call, it is equivalent of removing yourself from other social structures in the past. You can do it, but your relationships will weaken and eventually die out. Just like it happened in the past.
I don't think it's that at all. The motive is quite clear. It's right there in the article:

> We’re excited to return to active contributions to WordPress core, Gutenberg, Playground, Openverse, and WordPress.org *when the legal attacks have stopped*.

This is a move to show how much the development of WordPress depends on Automattic (some 4k hours per week) and how WP Engine is using the product of that effort without giving much back (45 hours per week) - "A Level Playing Field". It all started from this and it sends a message "don't take it for granted".

https://web.archive.org/web/20240927025102/https://wordpress...

https://wordpress.org/five-for-the-future/pledges/?order=hou...
> half of our features at my startup are things we never would have thought of until our sales guys kept telling us how many restaurants were requesting the feature

As a developer in a smaller company I like to chat with both support and sales due to this.

Could be at lunch or by the water cooler, but just gently probe what they're struggling with or what our customers are telling them.

Often there are low hanging fruits that have significant customer impact for fairly minimal development effort.
> a phrase derived from something that's incorrect and never existed?

As I understood from the article, "cargo cults" exactly as in the widely-used metaphor did exist; it's just that they were a small minority of what anthropologists call "cargo cults".

So it seems to me it's you who are being not only spiteful and petty but above all, just plain wrong.
cultofmetatron is hiding an grace/ability ratio of an olympic ice skater. My friend worked for a POS company where potential customers had features in mind and engineers were expected to place the next block on the barely standing Jenga tower. They were bootstrapped, had excellent moonlighters and years of headstart in Indian market. They were dead by the time most shops got Android POSs.
CUDA and better graphics support for one.
Was it Packard Bell Navigator?

https://winworldpc.com/product/packard-bell-navigator/39
I saw a Jackie Chan interview years ago (20 or so) in which he said Keaton was an inspiration.
Moxie Marlinspoke thought hard about that, here’s his conclusion: https://signal.org/blog/the-ecosystem-is-moving/
Yeah, agreed. This "I don't want to own my things because I want Big Brother to protect me" attitude is really frustrating, especially when you can have protection without Google holding all the keys. GrapheneOS isn't less secure than stock Android.
> Yes, Is the inverse that in "less oppressive" countries, the first method is deemed useless and the second is rewarded

i agree with that too! Having broad, but ultimately not usefull knowledge is kinda rewarded in my country (France), it allows you to participate in multiple idle discussions without deep thoughts. And also, idle discussion is typically a case where i will superficially search wikipedia to confirm or disprove a thought we had.

And your following sentence is why i also don't like the term "structure of oppression". Social control describe the situation way better, and you don't have to imagine "oppressors" who don't really exist as such. The society as a whole control itself, via different methods (social pressure, traditions, hierarchical pressure mostly). Sometime you can design oppressors, but its the tip of the iceberg.

I like your idea of subverting the meaning of hunter and busybody, that would be a killer in a philosophical book or a novel, i doubt this is the case here, but it seems we are reading this very differently.

I was not engaging with the postmodernism bit of your commentary because in my experience, anglo just don't understand it and conflate it with Frankfurt's school neomarxism. For good reasons, most postmodernists authors are obscure on purpose (or not) and the translations are even worse. And for at least bad reason: Ayn Rand couldn't read. And most postmodernists authors are idiots too, which does not help. But some were right on at least one thing (and i have a very "meta" example): the label "postmodernist", at least in the anglo world, has now more meaning that postmodernism itself.

Once again, the only definition of postmodernism is one you do by negative, as it only is defined by what it reject, and one of its main aspect is "we reject metanarratives". Since it seems the author try to find a meta-narrative here, i'll posit that the author is not postmodernist at all and you should find another ideology to disqualify them.
Eeeh, the Electron issue is oveblown.

These days the biggest hog of memory is the browser. Not everyone does this, but a lot of people, myself included, have tens of tabs open at a time (with tab groups and all of that)... all day. The browser is the primary reason I recommend a minimum of 16gb ram to F&F when they ask "the it guy" what computer to buy.

When my Chrome is happily munching on many gigabytes of ram I don't think a few hundred megs taken by your average Electron app is gonna move the needle.

The situation is a bit different on mobile, but Electron is not a mobile framework so that's not relevant.

PS: Can I rant a bit how useless the new(ish) Chrome memory saver thing is? What is the point having tabs open if you're gonna remove them from memory and just reload on activation? In the age of fast consumer ssds I'd expect you to intelligently hibernate the tabs on disk, otherwise what you have are silly bookmarks.
I use `just` - https://github.com/casey/just and have a `docs` task. That runs a bash script that does all the heavy lifting (python install, and so on).

Though given all the chatter on here in the last couple of weeks, I'd migrate some of the python work to `uvx` and that would make things simpler again.

I'm don't know if doxygen easily supports 'incremental' builds for your use case. I've never really found completely re-building docs for my modest repos a bottleneck.
IMO the main issue with this is that it means you'd have to patch the production version, and it might be different from the current (master/main/develop) branch, so you'd also need to backport your fix. Keeping configuration separate allows you to avoid that.
Feedback noted and added to roadmap. Thank you.
> 20+ years ago when my family visited relatives abroad, our relatives would get to the airport and often have to wait for our delayed flight because they had no way of knowing

Apart from phoning the airline or airport and checking whether the flight was on time. We used to do that all the time 30+ years ago.

20 years ago you could check on websites IIRC.
The "Valve Handbook for New Employees" was an interesting read. I still don't know how much is fact and how much is fiction, but I liked some of the ideas there.
The fact that she has the experience (and the stories) to set it up in the first place more than makes up for it, IMHO.
Are there still modern software using the floppy disk icon for save? I can't recall any.

In my experience most software that still use an icon for saving these days are using an arrow pointing down to a horizontal line. This icon is usually similar or exactly the same as a download icon.
> _with the same originating meaning_

[Citation needed], as they'd say on Wikipedia.

I don't think that's the origin at all. Why do you?
Wow, I'm surprised to see something that recent on quality.

I recall reading an 1850's novel that talked about the demise of home clothing manufacturing, as factory production started taking off I guess.

The trade off is definitely long term quality for short term cost, not just in the seams, but in the cloth material quality as well.

I guess we need an education in clothing quality to appreciate this kind of thing?
It's not "an essay" it's a thesis done by someone who is an expert in the field. AI has been advancing but is, generally, not yet considered to be an expert in much.
This is near-idiotic, especially allowing the AI to train on (however anonymised) actual healthcare data.
In my opinion that's part of the game, intentionally so. You're a drunk detective who wakes up from a wicked bender and then has to go figure out how to solve a messed up case. Figuring out how do you even do that, trying and failing, is a great simulation of how being a detective actually is. In other words, figuring out how to play the game is a part of the game.
It is now dead, but on my Asus 1215B VA-API, with AMD, it never got hardware acceleration regardless of the endless entries on online forums I have digged through.

Maybe I should eventually have used anything else other than Ubuntu LTS, but then we are again to the endless stream of "Why are you using XYZ distro, use ZYX instead, it works for me" comments.
Show HN: JUring – Java bindings for io_uring file I/O
Hi HN! For the past few weeks, I've been working on bringing io_uring to Java. It started as an experiment, but slowly it became more than just that, and now trying to turn it into a proper library.

After hearing talks about virtual threads and io_urings performance I wanted to build something that was faster than Java provides out of the box.

I ended up creating two APIs:
- A direct one that closely mirrors io_uring's behavior
- A blocking one built with Virtual Threads in mind for remote files.

This is the link to the project if you are interested https://github.com/davidtos/JUring

It's still far from done, but it's running! Would love to hear your thoughts if you've worked on or used something similar. Also very curious to hear what you like and don't like about the project!
Sweden neither at war nor at peace, says PM
> But our ancient relatives did indeed use sex toys before the modern development of what would become the vibrator in the late 19th century

Of course, in those days, more forward planning was required, as it would take the steam engine at least an hour to get up to pressure.
In the case where it write functionally "good enough" code that performs terribly, it rewards the LLM vendor...since the LLM vendor is also often your IaC vendor. And now you need to buy more infra.
An icy vent line may have caused Blue Origin to scrub debut launch of New Glenn
On the other hand, I wouldn’t have heard about it if it wasn’t for the block :)