skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The system we have seems to have done a pretty good job, since people are choosing its products

That's a weird phrase for "people do not have a choice about the products they use"

> A lot of people will rarely make a larger sacrifice than maybe quitting Twitter for a while despite spending a huge amount of time trying to preach to other people

Speak for yourself. I know plenty of people who want to disconnect but literally cannot because the services they're required to use also require connectivity.

> Which makes it seem like the noises they make are often just posturing.

Yes, that's the real evil isn't it? When you lack choices or recourse then talk is cheap.
Does anyone have any advice for someone that is curious about moving from Google to LibreOffice? I work in a collaborative environment where everyone immediately having access to the same data on different environments (including mobile) is desirable.
I think most of what's said here has value. But be wary of the survivorship bias. There are also a ton of flat, lean, problem-focused and curiosity driven startups that _don't_ succeed. Their success definitely has a lot to do their talent and how they work, but also a lot of luck, too.
As an Estonian, I especially don't like being called eastern europe(ean). We're not, we're northern, according to UN geoscheme classification, according to EuroVoc, and I mean you can also just read the wikipedia page of a place to know where it is at. Furthermore, socially, culturally, and tech advancements wise, we're as far as you could possibly be from Russia association at this point.
Like looking at "average income" in the US, "humanity leisure time" handwaves extreme inequality.
To me, Abiword was the best clone of the best version of Word. To bad it is more or less abandonware.
This is really cute! thanks for sharing :)

if I may offer a small nitpick for feedback, I am seeing wrench emojis on empty lines which create a lot of noise.

If you are interested in PRs (and making the change) I might try to take a look at the code and see if it's possible for me to contribute this to it.
If the mall were the same cesspool that modern social media is, I wouldn’t be going there.
That's what "tyranny of the majority" is, you're agreeing with them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation#1970%E2%80%932000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deregulation#Reagan_administra...
> Are there some specific examples of where you have to have a smartphone?

Try getting a job without a smartphone.

Try getting government services without a computer.

Try getting anything without a phone at all.

You can't even walk into a physical brick-and-mortar business without them worrying about being defrauded.

We built a high trust society and then threw away the trust part.
Supply and Demand has to largely take into effect the impacts of marketing. And, not shockingly, we go out of our way to not directly use supply/demand in some markets. (In particular, I'm looking at concert tickets. Scalping is a direct consequence of this law, yet we go through great efforts to reduce its impact.)

Gravity, of course, is still one of the most mysterious forces/properties of nature. Such that I'm not really clear how trying to pull that one in is anything other than sophistry?

To the point of this subthread, I'm not clear what your aim is. I was pushing back on the idea that public academics don't know what they are talking about. They can, of course, be wrong. But so can largely anonymous actors online.

I think there is almost certainly a useful model that can explain why some people are more trusted than others. My assertion is that you will have to bring in aspects of what we call marketing. Along with a general awareness of who is driving criticism. But, specifically, relying only on having a history of pure success is easy to disprove. For an easy example, Newton was a failed alchemist, just like every other alchemist. I'm guessing you don't view him as a failure.
Conservatives haven't spent decades opting in to getting all their information from Fox News and AM radio hosts spewing hate because it's more accurate.

People want to consume what agrees with their beliefs. As long as Americans continue to believe they are a magical place with magical people that you can't compare to anywhere else for advice, that the Civil war was fought over "state's rights", that we disliked the Nazis in the 1930s, that certain TYPES of people are intrinsically better than others, that we are a "christian" nation, we will never get better.

Hell, even media made for people who don't actively hate LGBTQ types STILL treats the civil war like just some small kerfuffle and it's fine that two brothers on opposite sides of the war just needed to reconcile and love each other and that's totally fine even though one of them signed up to fight and die for a regime who's entire purpose was the continued enslavement of millions of black people for the crime of being born black.

A significant portion of our country is outright TAUGHT IN SCHOOL that the civil war was a war of "Northern" (read: those goddamned coastal elites) aggression.

The south fired the first shot for fucks sake.

Why do you think those people would EVER choose to consume news that tells them: "Sorry, you've kind of been lied to for a long time and actually your ancestors were kind of bad people doing kind of bad stuff and also uh we genocided the indians and also the Nazis were pretty popular here and holy shit you should see the horrible stuff we did under the guise of 'science' when we discovered Eugenics let us claim black people were inherently inferior. Because their skull was the wrong shape. No I'm serious"

How do you get someone to believe something they absolutely do not want to believe in and they don't even respect the primacy of material fact like "The southern states literally said they were fighting to maintain slavery IN THEIR SUCCESSION DOCUMENTS"? You can't force another human to respect and understand reality when they spend their entire existence and have built their entire worldview around "No, the people telling me my country did bad things in the past are actually the enemy"?
My sibling comment is explaining this correctly but maybe using a bit too much Rust jargon for the uninitiated.

Put simply: How would two thread get access to the same account at the same time? There would be a point in time where the object would have to be split to end up in both of them, which would be invalid.

This is why you see things like this in rust

let x = 5;
let thread = thread::spawn(move || { // <- important bit
println!("{}", x);
});

println!("{}", x); // <- this would fail

The thread uses a 'move closure', which takes ownership of all values from the outside scope that are used inside its body.

Note that a value needs to be marked as `Send` so that it can pass across threads, but most types are.

That's what makes it so powerful. You know that any value you have in any variable, is only in that variable and nowhere else in the "world". Sure that value can be `Copy` and automatically copied, but that's still a new value.
Your value can be `Sync` which means that a reference of it is `Send`, but you're not splitting up the value, you're creating and tracking a new reference value that is then send across the thread boundary.
You can argue the gesture was unintentional, but to say it "look nothing like the salutes in documentaries, TV shows, and movies" is just a lie. Nothing like it? What would he had to have to have done differently for you to say it looked similar?
Care to present some proof? Here’s an counter proof that the compiler isn’t able to reason about the memory in that way https://godbolt.org/z/x7j8xoMxY

There are cases where C can do loop hoisting, but the cases are a subset of what Rust does and this isn’t one of those.
Well, then you weren't thinking about the Wozniak coffee test.

> "The Coffee Test has been proposed, and is attributed to Steve Wozniak, one of the founders of Apple Computers. According to Steve, this test would require a robot, not a computer screen. The robot would need to locate the kitchen and brew a pot of coffee in a random house that it had never seen before.

And more specifically, I disagree that such a system would work just from video frames. The issue isn't so much "Coming up with text that sounds right", it's more about state and environment representation, novelty, planning multi-step processes, and so on.

A good test of if this were easy, is can it be done in game engines, which negate all the speed / repeatability / controls complexity almost entirely. Plug an LLM into a game engine with a hovering arm that can grab and place and push buttons, and have it "make coffee" in procedural generated kitchens, coffee makers, etc. Bonus points for using POV imagery, bonus points for using bags of grains that might be coffee but might not. Similar weight, feel, placement. Hell my coffee, coca, sugar, and flour are right next to each other.

That would be a landmark top tier research accomplishment and top HN article for days (the real accomplishment!)
Just add "What Three Words" for time.
Yep. Radios are much clearer in the air. VHF is mostly line of sight and planes have the benefit of altitude. Approach/center comms can get a bit scratchy at times mostly due to distance, but approach/tower is almost always perfectly clear.
I mean, you can get the data from an API, probably. Then you just write a python script to keep an eye on colliding trajectories.
Has Swift's concurrency model gone too far?
I'm not totally certain you can attribute it to this. I know there's a bunch of work going on to migrate things into Azure after the MS acquisition but it feels like more of an industry trend that we cut engineering spend at the cost (often) of lower quality output and outages like these.

GitHub laid off 10% of their staff in 2023 and like you say, won't have slowed down to account for that.

Ignoring all that though... other than Copilot, what big feature changes have you seen in GitHub? My experience of using their product has been broadly unchanged for years.
Top down & middle-out disruption of information flow impedes acceleration of wisdom.

Ponzis and lesser people* at work.

*those who can't score without harmful sabotage

Sparring, cumulative competition, is a thing that drives the evolution of all parties and has the potential to rebalance the scales over and over again, but consumer culture and portfolio capitalism failed to capitalize on that and monetized the opposite instead: envy and sabotage.

Some people were too afraid of natural human convection and ruined the game. It still works, of course, but

> it doesn't bode all that well.
The book was published in 1994 with examples in C++ and Smalltalk.

Java was released in 1995.
Yes, 400M downloads are like 400M acceptances of mediocrity and awful design. It’s always been so slow too in my opinion.

You can improve a Linux distro by simply not including LibreOffice.

Sigh.
Well, most people have an addiction to food and shelter and need to get to work to support their addictions. Having a car is much more necessary than going on social media.

To be fair though, I do feel a need to at least have a presence on LinkedIn even though I’m only active on it when looking for a job.
it's being actively worked on!
ACX 2025 Prediction Contest
It just sounds more informed. Just like all the "amateur" physicists who speculate on theoretical physics posts on HN.
They're saying PRs and issues but I can't access github.com or github oauth for logging into external services. Need to migrate our org off of using github auth for anything critical I think, this is twice so far this year that we've had these issues.
A good alternative for game engines where Lua has literally already been embedded is to use Fennel, a LISP that borrows some Clojure-like syntax and that compiles to Lua-code. In some cases it should be possible, like for Löve 2D, to include a few lines of boilerplate Lua code to load Fennel-files on the fly. Elsewhere you probably have to pre-compile to Lua.

https://fennel-lang.org/
Like a documented Tiananmen Square massacre ...
Yes teens are forced to use social media or miss out on interacting with and making friends.

The longitudinal facebook/Instagram study that came out a few years ago found that those who abstained felt ostracized.

You sound like a boomer who says kids don't need a phone and should just go knock on another kids door to make friends.
This Waco?

---

PBS:

> Rumors about Koresh's sexual practices with girls persisted for years prior to the ATF raid.

> Koresh acknowledged on a videotape sent out of the compound during the standoff that he had fathered more than 12 children by several "wives" who were as young as 12 or 13 when they became pregnant.

---

Seattle Times:

> Children who left the Branch Davidian cult compound said David Koresh gave girls as young as 11 plastic Stars of David that signified they were ready to have sex with him.

-----

PBS:

> About six hours after the tear gassing began, flames simultaneously erupted at three separate locations on the compound. Audio recorded by the milk-carton bugs suggests the Davidians started the fires, acting on orders from Koresh.

> 1st DAVIDIAN: [surveillance tape] Start the fire?

> 2nd DAVIDIAN: Got some fuel around here?

> 3rd DAVIDIAN: Right here.

Can read more here:

https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/15/us/tapes-from-sect-compou...
> No one is forced to be on social media.

Not yet, perhaps.

But try getting a job without a linkedin account.

Try getting fair prices without an email address. For that matter, try getting email without a large-block mail provider and without getting your email server blocked or spammed.

Try filing for unemployment without a SMS-capable phone or email address or signing away your rights to a non-government entity.
I'd put the bit flip more around the time of Johnson/Nixon.
This is, justifiably, very similar to nuclear reactor operators. Pay needs to reflect the working conditions to attract more people (it does for reactor operators).
It sounds kinda cool and sci-fi-ey, but yeah I have a feeling I'm gonna struggle remembering the name of this new API lol
Going to use this as a comeback next time my wife makes a comment: "I'm just well-adapted to certain climates, so there!"
DeepSeek and ChatGPT: Censorship in LLMs
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I wonder if we're moving into the full "regulatory capture" part of the cycle. Huge companies which no longer produce value need some way to shield themselves from smaller competitors with better value propositions.
The internet makes you stupid.
Draw is great, I use it to edit PDFs, though it doesn't always handle that very well, it's really nice when I need to do some simple stuff.
I have faith that AI will wield unimaginable powers, but I also know that there will be rich people behind them making the decisions on how best to crush the rest of us.
given new USA ai diffusion rules will mistral be able to survive and attract new capitals ? , I mean, given that france is top tier country
I like to use pdf24 for this sort of thing. Fast and simple.
Even within the system you have options and ignorance isn't a good excuse.
From the thread:

@discardableResult
public init(priority: TaskPriority? = nil,
operation: sending @escaping @isolated(any) () async -> Success)

> Take just the operation argument. It's a closure that is sending, escaping, declares any isolation (I don't understand this part very well yet), it's async and it returns Success. That's a whole bunch of facts - 7 to be precise - you need to know about just one parameter of this constructor.
I understand that all 7 make sense and there's nothing you can do about it within the current strict concurrency model.
I’ve used date libraries from several languages and they’re all pretty awkward, but Ruby seems to have a very elegant solution thanks to the fact that primitives are also objects, so for example you can write things like 1.minute.ago or 1.day.from.now, which really helps in quick code comprehension.
Commoditizing complements at small scale: building bookstore infrastructure
Highly recommend to go see these sorts of paintings in a city palace like https://www.snijdersrockoxhuis.be/en/, subject matter and setting complement each other so beautifully.
Or you can say closeup magic is BS and walk away. We aren't talking about heart medication or food rations here.
I suspect the impact would be extremely small compared to BMI, so it would be likely that there would be a link because of some dependent variables.
If that happens then bye bye google maps, gmail, search, free youtube, facebook, instagram, whatsapp
This is interesting but are they really going to sit here and update all of this manually? What is the impact scale?

Not diminishing the effort, but it is a lot. It reminds me a lot of engineers turning out in droves to civil society organizations in 2017, only to not involve themselves in sustained manners.

I'd love to see an automated tool that can link to authoritative sources about their status.
I wouldn't say this applies to cloud providers, they have a very different business on their hands.

But for SaaS in general I think the trend is noticeable? Twitter led the way with massive layoffs in engineering often in the roles around reliability. The industry as a whole have aimed to cut costs however possible, and reliability/ops is usually seen as a cost-centre that gets hit hard.

I've watched this in my own space (start/scale-ups and larger companies, I work in incident response tooling) as people start talking very differently about reliability and engineering investment. You hear "do more with less" about five times every day and spend that was previously greenlit by default around reliability/redundancy is under much more scrutiny now.

I see this as a silent mirror of the reduction in open-source efforts from companies now there's been a refocus on business impact and bottom-line.
> digital technologies have increased inequality in our world.

that's not inevitable though - it's a conscious decision made by each and every person in power to let it get to that point.
So if the America was criticized, then criticizing China wouldn't bother you? How come every time China or russia are criticized, the comment section is filled with "but America too!"? The way I see it, it's just an admittance of guilt by supporters of the empire of evil.
There are indeed valid concerns about vaccinations, but I'm not convinced that vast majority of anti-vaxxers made any effort to represent that stance with an good faith. Hell, they politicized wearing a mask during a pandemic, which ordinarily would be considered the most harmless and least controversial thing to do during a pandemic.
MFA and allowing some sort of music streaming (specifically Plex, for me) would make this a no brainer. Without those two, like you said, it wouldn't be able to be my only mobile device.
What We Learn About Our World by Imagining Its End
Perplexity clone in 21 lines of code
Minimal Perplexity clone.

What it does:

- Input user query
- Generate 1 to n google queries to find the answer
- Use this queries to query Google
- Generate response with links to sources

You can retrieve from any source line this and improve the quality of answers for multi-hop questions from your users.

Have fun!
From 0 to 400 Customers: SaaS Growth Hacks from a Serial Founder
Pointers Are Complicated II, or: We need better language specs (2020)
https://archive.ph/O2cpz
LibreOffice is like X - it needs to be mothballed and a new paradigm needs to be brought into being.

The preferences and toolbars are simply a confusing, amateur hour disaster of no clear design vision, just people cramming their weird and obscure use cases in. Blessings to those who get use out of it, but there is hardly a more disappointing example of open source then this.
> They have no realistic option than use the social media sites in the link I included?

Perhaps. What options do you see, and how do those options meet their requirements? How well do you understand their requirements?

IMHO "revealed preference" has to be interpreted very carefully, in the light of the fact the market actually rarely fully satisfies people's preferences, and nearly everything is a compromise, sometimes a large compromise. I very rarely see that done when "revealed preference" is brought up. In nearly all cases, it's not a gotcha to undermine what people say about their preferences, but that's how a lot of people try to use it.
Github's homepage: timeouts

Github's status page: "Incident with Pull Requests and Issues"
I detect the slightest bit of sarcasm but then again it’s hard to read tone in random internet comments.
It's easy to forget how many skills and "heuristics" go into listening. I once read a scale of language proficiency that placed "Can converse over a poor phone connection" at a very high level. When a word is garbled or lost, you have to quickly think of all the possible words that could've fit the grammar and whatever sound you heard, consider them in the context, and choose one or two. Then the next part of the conversation should let you pick one. Then add the complication of not seeing body language.

I forget where I read this. I think it was from the US Department of State, but I can't find it now.
> What gets measured gets done.

Sometimes. Other times...just look at the US public education system.
I wrote a blog article (now defunct) years ago about this, which I called "The cyclical nature of shiny new hammers". This was the basic premise. If the workforce is a bunch of carpenters and productivity apps are hammers, there will always be a subset of carpenters who chase after shiny new hammers. I do think there are productivity gains by these new hammers but they are marginal at best.
Books written by humans are getting their own certification
> But there's nothing about AI in general that limits it to learning only from prior data

Maybe not, but I don't think this is exactly what the piece said here: "AI, lacking a physical body, relies on computational reasoning and learning based on vast datasets that include recorded human experiences and knowledge."

Do you think AI will soon get a physical body, and experience "sensory input, emotional responses, social interactions, and the unique context of each moment"?
> 30 minutes

The Lyft team reported 30 minutes for their 30TB database. Our db took about 15 minutes. In the essay we wrote:

> So we cloned our production database and tested an in-place upgrade. Even with our smaller size, it took about 15 minutes for the clone to come back online.