skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can’t call Christians mentally ill on Facebook? Really?
There is the cost on Ukraine and EU too. Let's hope Russian economy collapse before Ukraine's support.
The consensus on Havana Syndrome is cracking
Australia appoints first rabbit tsar to combat invasive species
Predictions failed to take into account Bidens cowardice. Not only he didnt deliver lon range weapons in time, but intervened on behalf of russia when Ukraine build their own drones able to reach far away refineries. Even sanctions omitted main russian oil trading banks and shadow fleet until last week.
I use https://excaliburjs.com/docs/ which is a Typescript-first 2D game engine for browser games.

It has support for spritesheets of course, but also Tiled map files (https://www.mapeditor.org/) which I use to build level maps.

If I'm building a game that can be implemented via the DOM (like if I don't need an update() loop), I love getting away with just using React or Elm. For example, any sort of grid-based game or board game.

I don't use Godot for browser games because (1) its browser support got worse from v3 -> 4, (2) I just want to write Typescript, and (3) it's just bigger and more complicated. Of course, the best game engine is simply the one that compels you to actually build and hopefully finish games.

Btw, give Pico-8 a shot. In a few months I'd built more games in Pico-8 than I finished across the rest of my life since the scope is so tiny.
Tell me you haven't read the article (or used racket) without telling me.

> I believe that an intro course should get students coding since the first major hurdle is learning how to construct any kind of program at all. The switch to a more "employable" language isn't going to make education worse.

None of this is the issue at hand. The switch to python is because industry uses it. The article correctly makes the point that racket was intentionally designed to get students coding as easily and quickly as possible. It has multiple steps of teaching languages for exactly that purpose, introducing concepts in ways that let students grapple with them one at a time in an interactive environment.

Meanwhile in python complex topics like duck typing, object oriented methods, exceptions, the distinction between iterables and lists, how to use a command line/terminal or how to configure an IDE, and so on must be covered before people can start writing code for the exercises. Racket is streamlined for beginners.
To keep my reply brief, wealth can refer to many things including material goods but let's restrict ourselves to money, since both of the articles you've cited does the same. Money is not a resource. You cannot eat or build with it. Money is a tool used to determine the distribution of resources. If total wealth has increased but inequality has also increased, it means the majority of people are increasingly losing the ability to decide the distribution of resources. This is bad even if you ignore the fact that the majority of people are also responsible for the production of said resources.

Side-note but the articles you cited are funded by various non-profits including Bill Gates' foundation, departments of the british government and so on. It's a discussion for another day and I'm obviously not accusing it of outright fraud or anything but in my experience such "non-profits" and think tanks are tend to be most guilty of unhelpful or outright obscurest analysis of wealth inequality, unequal development and so on (as you one would probably expect of any institution funded by capital benefiting from such dynamics)
> Once the accounts were finally gone, I realized just how much of a grip these platforms had on me. The number of times I reflexively typed "t" or "f" into my browser bar (which autocompletes to twitter.com or facebook.com) was honestly terrifying. Waiting for assets to build? Hit Twitter. Software update running? Quick Facebook check

How many different accounts do you have to delete though? For many of those people "t" and "f" would be substituted by "y"toube, "r"eddit, etc. It doesn't have to be a social media site, might be news you're intrested in, tech sites, deals aggregator.

I get what you mean, but for someone with habit of looking for distraction whenever they have nothing to do it won't be a cure, bandaid at best.
And people were laughing at PHP comments configuring framework, right?
What are some good alternatives to express the same concept?
Oh wow, it actually can handle the Python executable? I didn't know that, that's great! Although it's in the article as well, it didn't click until you said it, thanks!
What's changed from 45 days ago? (13 points, 20 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42260998
For those who didn't know:

https://www.g2.com/

SaaS review site
I have a very common name, and monkey's paw wish managed to get the unnumbered version for my gmail address.

It has been a significant amount of work just dealing with all the derppelgängers out there who use an address they don't own for important things. Medical records. Divorce papers. Mortgages. The short of it is that it doesn't even require maliciousness on someone else's part to be affected by impersonation, accidental or otherwise. So yeah, keep what you've got, because there's no guarantee the next person to get it will not somehow affect you.
I know that this strictly isn't "freedom of speech" because these are comments on an internal website, but it really does seem problematic.

In a remote-first environment, where there is no longer any means of communication that isn't through some other corporation's equipment, we are seeing levels of suppressing dissent that were never technologically possible before.

I don't know if there's a technical solution, legal solution, or no solution. But it sure seems like the ability to collectively organize has been hampered. Complaining about RTO may not be the most evocative example, but certainly the future will hold more significant ones.
There is what you might call cleverness in this passage as well. Do you see it?

Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of people, who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God’s invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.

21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images...
Python packages (distributed via the Python package index, PyPI) can also be general binary packages. Try pip install cmake, for example.
False dichotomy.

You can refuse to enable such a system.
I gave Linux on the desktop a good shake once, back in 1994. I installed Debian from a dev branch that came on 15 floppies. I was running it on an AMD 5x86 160 with 24MB RAM and had a lovely 17-inch (unusual for the time) trinitron display from Nokia. I used it for about 4 months, then went back to Windows 95.

https://bytecellar.com/2015/07/16/that-time-i-ran-linux-on-t...

An interesting hitch was that I needed to purchase a commercial X-Window system to get color from my Tseng ET-4000/W32p graphics board. XFree86 would not hit the modes I wanted. It cost $99. Here is the manual:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/5665910382/
I use croissant to cross post on social media accounts but I never use the services themselves to read any content. I’m screaming into the void and I’m fine with it.
Another project on my Kanban board is a plan to big spread of Touhou characters linked with QR codes. Here's a prototype card

https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3lbqfh7pesc2x

and the spreads I make are like

https://bsky.app/profile/up-8.bsky.social/post/3latxcwmkpk2w

I have a list of 20 that I need to fill out a little (somehow I missed Koakuma) and then I have to have my image sorter find a good set of images that fit together stylistically. (A friend of mine was talking about how RA's in dorms would make picture sets for all the rooms, seemed to me Touhou would be the ultimate basis for this)
7 plus was really great
You need to listen more and talk less.
In WWII, we had rationing of materials, buying war bonds, and other sorts of very intentional things. During the Bush WMD hunt, we gave tax cuts. Not even close to being the same.
I added back back the option to create anonymous predicitons with a button like you requested :)
It is quaint but if my friends and family each had their own blog that they wanted me to look at, I wouldn't. There's a reason these social media places caught on, because they act as aggregators.

I get it, it's different types of content, one requires more effort than the other, and the argument is that, if you don't have anything of substance to say, don't say it, but it still requires extra effort to read that I probably don't feel inclined to give.
That quip is less deep and more complex than you think.

Look back to when the leading cause of death was "any slight infection" closely followed by any number of other accidents and diseases.

Health, saftey, and treatment have now become so effective that death is relatively a great deal rarer in developed countries not at war to the point where people have an expectation of friends and relatives being kept alive and strong tendency to sue when that doesn't happen; leading to many "malpractice" cases being settled and covered by insurance.

Would you rather live in a world with or without modern medicine and doctors?
Corporations are by nature sociopathic, even moreso when the leader is someone barely human like Zuck. To wit: they may be fully aware that this statement would piss off thousands at their company, and are counting on those people quitting, so they can downsize without having to pay for severance.
Yeah, the models are all being RLHF-ed like little kids, but they'll eventually grow up. LLM Teen rebellion will be interesting to watch.
> it doesn't come down so much to the idea that these people may be offended, but that it defames them. The story as told in popular culture gives people a skewed idea of what the cultists are like

This doesn’t matter. Nobody is talking about the actual cultists. It’s a metaphor to talk about how people right now, in our own society behave around certain topics. The story behind it is apocryphal.
Post by @naval on January 3:
"AI won't replace programmers, but rather make it easier for programmers to replace everyone else."

Reply by @X.Wallets on January 3:
"AI can write programs per CEO Jensen Huang."

Follow-up post by @naval on January 3:
"Calculators can do math per CEO of Texas Instruments."
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This exchange has been bouncing around my head ever since it happened. CEOs especially those who are investing heavily in AI keep saying stuff that does not align with you my experiences working with and building these AI systems to the point where I think that people are saying things to justify their own investment in technology.

This is a CEO selling themselves and their company nothing more.
If you read the WSJ article Biden hasn't been running things since at least 2021. The fault for the Ukraine war is almost entirely Jake Sullivans.

The American foreign policy establishment abandoned trumps deterrence policy which stopped putin invading in 2018.
100% this.

While I deleted all of my social media, I will still end up spamming on reddit or reading HN or watching Youtube.

But I have to say I find them better alternatives, as those social medias are nothing but people screaming for attention.

During work time I have an extension that blocks them all.
It’s not clear, yes: I think they have way too much power in the wrong hands. Now, hypothetically speaking: If they were to lose most of their users, they would lose their power. So, in one way or another, everyone supporting those platforms (by using them) is part of the problem - and that would be the reason to stop using them (again, I know this is quite hypothetically).
I’m not arguing that they should be sued. I think its pointless, and presupposes an impossible alternative history.
This feels like a load of baloney to me. My most non-technical web browsing Microsoft Word-using relatives went from a 2012 Mac mini to an M4 Mac mini and the difference was night and day. They were extremely enthusiastic about the end result.

If they can tell it’s faster then certainly a technical person like myself can.

And also, that was an incredibly cheap upgrade. In 12 years they went from one $600 computer to another $600. That’s right, the new one was the same price, so cheaper than the original after inflation, they’ve paid $50 a year to compute, and that’s on the world’s most premium brand of computers.

Sure, you don’t need to upgrade anything. And for now, the Ryzen 3600 is a fantastic “old” processor, it runs my game server and it’s certainly capable.

But it’s not like you wouldn’t notice a far better experience someday in the future with an upgrade.
> the U.S.’ book value

This is a nonsense metric for international finance.

> some were delusional expenditures

Moving the goalposts [1]: Nobody suggested the wars weren’t delusional; you claimed they’re the cause of America’s debt. That is wrong.

We could have gone on over half a dozen Afghanistan & Iraq wars for the 2008 Great Recession and Trump tax cuts alone. The cause of our deficits is not “directly invading countries.”

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts
Super neat re Willison article.. would something like this work under powershell though?!
It's still better than the information on most of the internet, which is what most of the dataset is.
There isn't anything unique about your account on most social media platforms. This isn't a "plant your flag" situation like when trying to prevent identity theft. You don't need to register your account before a bad actor does. Sure, I created an online account with the IRS, credit bureaus, etc. before somebody else could. That's important because they are tied to unique identifiers like your SSN, etc. But somebody could just create a social media account impersonating you even if you already have an account on that social network. There isn't anything enforcing the uniqueness.
The only thing I miss about the internet from 25 years ago is people took themselves less seriously. "Don't feed the trolls" was a thing. But it also wasn't that great either. People weren't nicer. The tech was limited. Things are objectively better now.
I've been using nix in a Mac for a year now. Recently I got a new Lenovo machine and first thing I did was install nixos, it's actually much better than I was expecting. You do notice that nix is designed around nixos
That’s what RSS is for.
With pip the best practice is to have a requirements.txt with direct requirements (strictly or loosely pinned), and a separate constraints.txt file [1] with strictly pinned versions of all direct- and sub-dependencies (basically the output of `pip freeze`). The latter works like a lock file.

[1] https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/user_guide/#constraints-files
Agreed. I’ve done this and I’d you have an existing fan base on those platforms, a final post that explains where you are and why you’re not active can help keep those folks engaged.

Plus I feel like I’m still costing the platform the fractions of fractions of a cent to keep my data stored, replicated and active somewhere
IERS: No leap second to be added for June 2025
I just bought all new parts for an SFF build with a 9800X3D and 5090. So I guess this is a timely post. I know it's overkill for my needs but I love building PCs - been doing it since I was 12, and it was my first job (working at PC Club in SoCal).
I think we are about the same age, and it was the kind of car that you'd get if you wanted to be recognized as you drove around. I only saw one regularly within several miles of my house and I knew who owned it.

Kids now might feel like they can't afford these cars, and that prices are out of control (they are). But a base model Mustang brand new is only about $32k and you can find them used. Meanwhile a base model Honda Civic is $25k (not the lowest economy model from Honda but close). So people in the market for a new car could probably afford a Mustang, and might choose to not buy them because of build quality or thinking it's too flashy.
I think if you're looking at women who don't prioritize a relationship then okay but who cares about what they want? It's like trying to sell a Econovan to someone who wants a 911.
Didn’t you mean to name it Spacey?
Excelent call to action.

The distictions between made "deleting the accout" and "just stop using it" are really mute. The main point is to disengage from such platforms.

Of course, almost no will. In spite of the clear conection between these platforms and individual mental health, and even more importantly massive distribution of seriously mileading "fake news", most people quite frankly just don't give a shit.

Look at the near total indifference to the petro mafia's distruction of the natural world. Most people just can't be bothered.

So when you compare something like failing to respond to corporations eliminating the ecosystem services required for life on earth, to a call to action against the crimes of asocial media, do you really expect a significant number of people to care?

I'm doubting it...
> the guy who maintains it has vanished off the face of the earth

How would you pay such a person?
Facebook removing 'fact' checkers is good, they weren't fact checkers, they were bias enforcers.

Community notes is far superior to the bias enforcers.
> The story as told in popular culture gives people a skewed idea of what the cultists are like, and reinforces a skewed and arrogant idea about how much better / scientific / whatever the rest of us are.

This is precisely what GP is talking about. It is not defamation to infer that a primitive group of people is, well, primitive. You are imagining defamation on behalf of them.

The cargo cult story, as it goes, simply describes the (in many ways fascinating) behavior of humans when faced with phenomena they are unable to understand, and how they derive their own interpretations of what happened. Taking a humble approach, we may be in the same position when it comes to things we, from the height of our reason, do not understand as well.
... this was me in 2016. (Facebook had Cambridge Analytica, LinkedIn had taken on a demonic element to me in that I'd spent years prospecting and it had brought so many grifters and bullshitters into my life I felt like I was becoming a bullshitter... It would have been one thing if I was making money but I wasn't.)

I got back into social media about 1.5 years ago when Mastodon seemed to be coming on strong. I've lately gotten into Bluesky and all I can say is: (1) come on in, the water is fine, and (2) sure it will go bad someday when the money gets tight but back in the day we expected platforms to decay and for the cool kids to move on to the next one.
The funeral director at my father’s funeral used comic sans for everything.

A flop no but used hilariously for a things it shouldn’t be. One of the most divisive typefaces ever.

I like it.
I don't think deleting social media accounts is a good idea. Used appropriately, social media can be very useful and open doors that would otherwise not be available.

The problem is when you are just looping[1], absentmindedly opening and closing news and social media sites for hours. This can eat a lot of time, and is generally pretty draining.

I've been adding separate user accounts based on what tasks I'm doing, and locking them down so they can only perform those tasks.

I have a social media account (which I'm on right now), I have a coding account which I can not access news or social media from, and I have a few other accounts. This creates friction when task switching, and makes it so I have to be a bit more deliberate with how I use the computer. (I have social media blocked on my phone, as I find that's just not compatible with a happy life)

I've also recently been setting up Site Specific Browsers[2], basically custom PWAs, a web browser with no URL bar and no tabs, to further add barriers between tasks (like checking CI) and just noodling on the web. (I use electron to do this, but you can also use chrome by starting it with --app=https://www.example.com/ . Sadly Firefox has removed the ability to do this. )

[1] https://xkcd.com/1411/

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site-specific_browser
I should whatever I feel like, thank you very much.
All news: https://www.iers.org/IERS/EN/NewsMeetings/News/news.html

Additional info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second
Noodler's archival inks would be fine for that purpose. Bulletproof Black reacts with the cellulose in the paper so it will not wash out.
I’m pretty sure GP is saying if you already had an account and you delete it, it’s trivially easy for someone to register with your old handle and impersonate you

Of course people can always impersonate you but the goal here is to prevent them from impersonating you with a social handle people knew you had.
> Not even close to being the same

Correct. And yet, the fiscal impact is still almost insignificant compared to civilian spending.
Small misorder in the „right route” - you should first activate the virtual environment just created and then install pandas.
Well didn’t OS/2 HPFS inspire NTFS?
PM plans to 'unleash AI' across UK to boost growth
Yea it’s odd how so many people have become pro-censorship.
Yes, that's right. But social media platforms always tend to have something new on it each time you check them, which creates a strong incentive to check them even more often. News sites, for example, on the other hand, don’t use algorithms that encourage doom scrolling and keep you engaged far longer than you intended.
Surely you know about your promotional posts 3d ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42649226) and 11d? (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42566086)
I read the whole history and it only affirms my belief that the phrase is spot on. I'm not concerned of its pop culture origin, etc.

Look, these people were seriously believing some ridiculous junk. Most Europeans once believed some ridiculous junk. There's millennia old ridiculous junk still being believed. It's all "cargo cult".

In any case, I enjoyed reading the history too.
"Not as giant as they are today" is not the same thing as "not giants". Let's compare revenue and net income for Google, Apple, and the other manufacturers that OP mentioned:

* Google: $16.5B revenue, $4.2B net income [0]

* Apple: $24B revenue, $3.5B net income [1]

* Motorola: $36B, -$49M net income [2]

* BlackBerry (RIM): $2B, $382M net income [3]

* Nokia: €51B, €7.9B net income [4]

* Sony: $48B, $799M net income (converted from yen at 158 yen/$) [5]

These numbers are absolutely in the same ballpark as the supposedly-larger players which they beat out, and in terms of profit substantially higher than all but Nokia.

[0] https://abc.xyz/assets/investor/static/pdf/2007_google_annua...

[1] https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0000320193/4913a18...

[2] https://www.motorolasolutions.com/content/dam/msi/docs/en-xw...

[3] https://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReportArchive...

[4] https://www.nokia.com/system/files/files/request-nokia-in-20...

[5] https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/IR/library/ar/SonyAR07-E.pd...
It's a stepping stone. The mere act of noticing yourself typing "t" and remembering it's not there, and feeling the feelings and realizations that accompany that, can lead to real behavioral change.

If you care about yourself and want to have healthier and more mindful habits, you will hopefully start redirecting what were once mindless impulses of avoidance or boredom into more meaningful activities for yourself.
Could you share a link to the article, please?