skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I definitely agree. Much more if you need support for screen readers, then you can't use the slowly emerging alternatives even for a test drive, because either the a1y stack is not a priority, or the supporting libraries are not featureful enough.
Invalid analogy: Poverty is a macro-structural and multi-dimensional problem. A war is a territorially bounded conflict between two politically exposed parties.

But even if it were valid, since the steam engines have been created, poverty in the world has fallen compared to previous centuries.
This self-flagellation is charming but pointless. My concern is that the East has so completely adopted Western culture and ideas to the exclusion of that originating within itself that local customs, traditions, languages etc will probably be dead in another century.

When I left school, I knew that there were three philosophers in the world: Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. Exposure to Indian thought was completely absent in an Indian school because the system is run by bureaucrats who ape the West. The white man left India, but he left in place millions of brown men who think exactly like he did to this day. Diversity of skin color won over diversity of culture and thought.

Fixing this is far more urgent than whatever the intellectual onanism prevalent in Western academia and media concludes needs fixing.
The Model Is the Product
We have tried to limit screen time for my teenagers. We have tried to directly limit app time and categories of apps. We have tried to get them involved in sports and other activities to consume some idle time. We demand "best effort" for school and good manners.

My teenagers are, by all accounts of my research, "addicted" to reels, tiktok and youtube shorts. Given the lack of understanding, guidance and real research that proves or disproves harm was the impetus to try limiting these apps. It was not well received by my adolescents to put it mildly.

Being that I hold open-mindedness as a virtue for myself, I asked them to construct arguments that would help me understand their point of view and would reconsider if those arguments were compelling. They were.

Both of them put together slide shows with their school supplied chromebooks. They started off telling my wife and I about their grades, which are excellent. They showed that they don't miss assignments and don't have "too many" infractions for misbehaving in class. They showed us their training schedules for soccer and clubs.

My daughter, the ridiculously organized perfectionist, showed use how much time she spends cleaning her room and doing her laundry every month. She is also the biggest consumer of tiktok in the house by a wide margin. She then showed us an example of her feed.

Both had arguments that basically said; "we are responsible teens that get 93% of what you ask done without you asking more than once. We should be allowed to use these apps when we have down time and just want to veg out." I am inclined to agree.

I came away from this thinking about a lot of things. Namely, I am not sure any of the "social media" is bad research can be generalized across a population. The two teenagers in my house have enviable feeds. They watch content that is directly applicable to the activities they do in real life.

Obviously there are stupid videos and funny videos, but the bulk was tutorials and discussions regarding real stuff like nail design, hair styles, clothing, soccer skill drills, math tutorials, weird science stuff, fishing, Golf, and TONS of music dances. I have considered that perhaps we are now the "old people" that just don't get it and because of that have labeled it "bad for you".

I am biased, but damn proud of my teens. We have relinquished a fair amount of control on the "time" aspect. However, we still have boundaries as to when and where they use their phones as a matter of manners and they hold us accountable to them as well. I guess what I am saying is that I don't think "brain rot" is real for everyone.
I've known quite a few software engineers who just don't bother to learn anything about the tooling they use to create and deploy code. For younger, new developers, I can understand it when everything is presented as an app with minimal customization, but for mid-levels and senior engineers I am baffled by the lack of curiosity.

Sometimes just a couple of simple howto sessions can be incredibly useful, especially for teams just starting on a new project. I've given tutorials on Git basics, command line basics, workflow basics, and AWS terminology. Each time I've had engineers say it was like learning computing for the first time, because apparently newer engineers just don't get taught this stuff.

This is partly why I enjoy improving the developer "experience" (DevEx) alongside my normal DevOps duties.
> I was answering a general question, not talking about you/diet specifically.

Sure, I get that, and I responded in the context of my original "I'm going to throw out anecdata" note. In that spirit:

I've generally gone longer than 8-12 weeks, but not by much -- longest is probably 16 weeks?

I've definitely lost more than 1% per week. I don't graph it, but I think I'm hovering in the 1% - 1.5% range.

I'm curious about the maintenance phase and strength aspects -- I'm not interested in bulk, just strength.
All this sounds fantastic for environmental sustainability.
This is why the ultra rich now engage in prediction as to which resources will become critical, then try to monopolize that.
I went back to using a ThinkPad from 2012 (2022)
If you have a Mac, try Kagi [1]. (And pay for it!)

(And if you donated to Mozilla in the past by credit card, consider a chargeback.)

[1] https://kagi.com/orion/
An easy first step is simply raising taxes. They are ridiculously low. But further, I'm partial to the wealth tax (or a property tax). Couple that with social spending which will hyper juice the economy. The more needs we have provided, the more excess wealth can be spent on luxuries which is what encourages capitalism in flourish in the first place.

There are ancillary benefits to having a progressive and aggressive tax system. If there's one thing business owners hate, it's giving money to the government. So if they can avoid being taxed by hiring more employees or paying them a higher salary, that's exactly what they'll do. It flips the incentives around revenue and pushes businesses to invest in the business.

That was a huge driving factor of the innovations in the 60s, 70, and early 80s. We've been stagnating since mainly because the government has been slowly pulling back on taxation making it much more profitable to horde rather than invest and innovate.
Properly stored nuclear material is safe as well. But it’s still hazardous material because if the storage or handling are imperfect, they are harmful.

Passwords are the same, except we’re constantly finding new attacks and weaknesses.

As some examples:

1. When a new attacks is found against a hash construction so all the password stored based on that are now more vulnerable

2. When it turns out your auth server is logging passwords in plaintext so it doesn’t help that your DB is storing them properly hashed.

3. When your auth call isn’t properly validating hashed passwords so attackers can either bypass the correct flow or intuit things about the password
This is what I have done for a couple of books I wrote in Markdown (https://deanebarker.net/books/).

Convert to HTML, then use Prince (https://www.princexml.com/) to style and convert to PDF.
Apple iPhone 16e review: The right trade-offs?
None of the individuals working for this agency could provide a list of 5 things they did the prior week, either. The subthread here was talking about waste generally I wasn’t intending to move any goalposts. Ignore fraud. I still think it’s unacceptable for government workers to be insubordinate or absent to the point where they can't provide a weekly standup update when asked. That’s inefficient waste in my book.
That was a pretty good endorsement of StoryGraph. I bet a number of people just read your description and thought “yes, that is exactly what I’m looking for”. Of course, it also means you did a good job of promoting your own service, since it’ll attract people who want the opposite.
I can see doing this, stepping away from the change for a bit, come back and read the PR from a fresh perspective and see if you can make sense of the change and if there are any errors.

Also, the “paper trail” of PRs is nice to have.
Sam Harris: The Trouble with Elon
Ben Goldacre used to have a regular column against misleading health fads, amongst other things, called Bad Science.

He was a practicing GP and whenever asked to give some advice himself he said that people and lifestyles were too varied to give any advice more specific than "Eat mostly fresh fruit and vegetables, cut down on cigarettes and alcohol, and do some exercise".
The two-party system in itself doesn't work well. So I'm not holding my breath.
Hah, I was just going to go back to these after I had issues with the Shadowmarch series by Tad Williams and The Wizard Knight series by Gene Wolfe. I had figured out that the books are on the authors' page even though the search wasn't serving them up.

Thanks!
We have called them out for years, and its not getting better.
> Stick to a few git commands

This was my approach for my first few years of git. I always tried to approach git via its commands, and I horribly failed - until I finally took a little bit of effort to understand how git actually works under the hood, which really made it click for me.

For anyone who has ever spent a modicum of time (e.g. while getting a CS degree) trying to understand datastructures, it's probably really straight-forward to "get git". The datastructure underneath is really quite simple. A branch is a pointer to a commit, a commit is a pointer to a tree, a tree is a list of pointers to other trees and files. That's already pretty much all there is to it.

Once the datastructure of git is understood, the commands start to "make sense" on their own - at least most of them. They still have tons of obscure options that one doesn't realistically need in a daily work flow, but the general idea what the commands do (and how to recover from screwups) was, at least for me, pretty simple after understanding the datastructure.
Fair warning it's beta quality but it's been my daily driver on ios and I've been happy with it.
DeArrow [1] or Clickbait Remover for Youtube [2] would help with that.

1. https://dearrow.ajay.app/

2. https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/clickbait-remover-f... would help
It could absolutely be on the table. The economy of Russia can only take so much of this war. Putin has little choice now. Trump is pretty much the only reason Russia will be able to keep up their attempted invasion.
>Companies like Cambridge Analytica explicitly target mentally ill people to change election outcomes and dismantle democracies.

What's not that years ago? Also wdym with targeting mentally ill people to dismantle democracies? Last thing I read about that was a FB api abuse to collect user data but nothing about targeting a specific demographic
I was thinking in the context where you'd like to potentially monetize the side project as some point. But definitely, I spend a lot of time supporting my son's Minecraft obsession, and since he's already expressed great interest in building mods I think that's something we'll do together that could be considered a side project.

In fact... I see a possible future where I have a collaborator worth his salt :)
> You don’t need acid for that. Just imagination. That was my first entertainment as a child.

While I'm on LSD it looks like any picture/art/etc is literally alive. I don't really know how to explain it.

> But LSD and related psychedelics are uniquely able to help one reconnect with that part of themselves.

LSD absolutely helps me reconnect with many parts of myself. I have dissociative identity disorder and certain memories or even certain perspectives of memories can only be recalled when I'm on LSD.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the way you use "traditional", basically means "written in C", right? I certainly can sympathize with your point about the frustration of compatibility issues in your narrow usecase (though I don't agree that it should affect what options we have), but connecting to the original commenter's point, it's really common for libraries in python to be wrappers for things written in other languages.
I’d like us to converge on one book tracker. I’ve been using hardcover and quite like it but I keep going back to goodreads as that’s where friends are.
I think it does matter whether the work is done by the federal government or private corporations. While their dysfunctions as large organizations may be similar, when they're successful, they behave very differently.

The goal of any profit seeking company selling to the government is to extract as much value as possible. The goal is not just to provide X service which was initially requested at a price that undercuts your competition. The goal is to win the contract for X for year 1, and then to under-deliver it in a way that the customer is basically forced to buy X for year 2, because it would be a massive lift to shift to a different service, but probably the customer needs to buy Xv2 to actually accomplish anything and by the way Xv2 works best if you also buy services Y and Z. Perhaps you do some "study" to determine that actually the problem is larger than what the customer initially described and several other expensive problems must be tackled to fully solve it. Efficient use of tax-dollars to solve the problem within the scope described is not the goal of government contractors. These companies grade themselves based on their revenue and margins, not on what they deliver to the tax payers. They're profit-seeking companies and they do just that.

By contrast, when government agencies are working well, they do what they're chartered to do by Congress. Whether that goal is good or not may be a matter of perspective (e.g. do we need a separate SEC and CFTC and CFPB? Could there be a single financial products/services regulator?) but to the degree their stated missions are incoherent, that's at least partly a failure of Congress, which the people have an indirect way of correcting.
The only way any of this works is if they have enough violence with no recourse against it to enforce their way of doing things. Otherwise you can literally just ignore them if you sufficiently think outside the box.

Who needs companies when you have communities? Who needs a central dictatorship or a party if you have a faster and more efficient democracy?
State controlled media? We can have better decentralized ones.

The key thing is that the alternative has to be obviously better.
GPT-4.5 hallucinates over 1/3 of its answers in benchmarks, so I don't think an OpenAI client will be able to replace browsers for knowledge acquisition anytime soon.
Yeah, this is a worry. Google or someone will just come up with some not needed but slightly better (from a mere feature perspective, not from a privacy one) thing, that websites will use. Lets say a new codec or protocol for something like ... VR in the browser! or similar stuff. That thing will be somehow easier to use with Chrome and they will call it a "standard". Then people will try to use those websites using it and ... Oh? You use FF? Too bad! It doesn't work there! But you could use this "modern" and "secure" browser, _made by Google_! (and half-informed people online will claim FF doesn't implement the "standard") ... and tada, the badly informed user switches away. Not to forget, when they install Chrome, they probably are asked to make it their default browser.

It is all quite dystopian and depressing to think about.
Just as long as you don't buy NVIDIA for your Linux desktop!
I doubt that these "users" are actually a viable market for a browser.
You don't need a majority of people to start a revolution or a civil war, there are plenty of historical examples for that.
Epiphany is a webkit browser for linux and due webkit architecture, gtkwebkit uses alot of gnome components such as libsoup and gstreamer. The biggest flaw is the webrtc support is missing so not online meetings.
Depending on how far those Firefox forks have deviated, self-hosting the Firefox sync services has been a thing for quite a long time: https://github.com/mozilla/fxa and https://mozilla-services.readthedocs.io/en/latest/howtos/run...
Not all of them have plenty disposable income given the ever increasing cost of home ownership, healthcare (tied to employment), and everything else.
IMO, it’s not the technology that matters but the authoring tools. Flash was easy to pirate, sometimes free with school, and easy to use. Thinking of applications as “animations with scripting” was a great idea because it let people only learn what they wanted to.

If you just want to make animations, skip actionscript entirely. If you want some extra Easter eggs, just turn any symbol into a button and you can trigger any movie clip you want. Want to make this a whole game, heres the whole action script editor.
How would you say this compares against StoryGraph (another GoodReads alt I’ve been using recently)?
Has it been tried the other way? I don't remember an iteration where they weren't obnoxiously over-endearing. After the initial novelty, it would be better to reduce the amount of fake information you have to read, and any attempt at pretending to be a human is completely fake information at this point.
> If the users pay you’re accountable to them.

Except, apparently, the paying users that don't use Apple hardware.
How long before the machines print their own Terminators?
Continuation of the question "If AI is so powerful, why can't it solve Ukraine-Russia conflict?" [1] since people are talking about singularity

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43229282#43230446
I was once playing around with a 3-point ranking system. Think thumbs-down, thumbs-up, and double-thumbs-up. The thumbs up and down would basically function as expected, while the latter would be weighted heavier for the recommendation algorithm. Basically a `recommend me more of this, this is high quality content` action.

There is a general problem with a 5 or 10 star voting system, consider a [malicious] user who only gives a 1 or 10 star vote, thus ending up with more voice than one that votes in the range of 4-6 which would be what the majority of the content deserve. Therein lies another problem too, while the scale would imply 5.5 to be average [out of 1-10 with no 0 option], most people tend to consider 7-7.5 to be average instead, there's a very natural bias on the scale.

This idea isn't actually uncommon however, as platforms tend to work with a thumbs-up, thumbs-down, and a `favorite` action of sorts. Some platforms tend to respect favorites in recommendations and some don't. I have found that YouTube doesn't care all that much about my... let alone favorites, it doesn't even care about my votes. TikTok however did this well, I had downloaded it one day and at the end of the day my feed consisted of neat programming tricks and lessons on color theory. Which kind of revealed something my own prejudice too, as I had expected TikTok to show me the worst content and it was the platform that respected my choice the most. That said these things change a lot so it wouldn't surprise me if the same test shows the opposite results a year from now on.
In this case nobody will ask him, but it also means he's not the one who'll pay for it.
Who determines "excess" consumption? Who holds the cards for accountability?

I don't know about you, but I am not capable of critically thinking 24/7. Do you critically think, like always?
I don't understand why we don't have a "Discuss Anything" universal app, operable on literally every tokenizable piece of human content, searchable by similarity in embedding space, and discoverable using titles, concepts, or vague impressions. Let people create threads and discuss everything, forever, with versioned references to the original content (like a website), as long as it's legal.

A browser extension called Dissenter briefly allowed this, got too popular too fast, had a data leak, and then they rolled it into a spyware browser. It also only had popularity among one extreme of politics.
Why does the government need two identity providers? Login dot gov is good, agree. But why do we need two?
Ah yes, the hallmark of great software is having to learn how it's implemented to be able to use it.

None of the concepts behind git are difficult to grasp, the problem is interface and leaky abstractions all over.
Any person that mentions reflogs is actually saying I don't understand any of the points above.
Sharpening and bandwidth-limiting have the exact same effect, because the maximum sharpness of an image (like any other signal) depends on its bandwidth. There is no difference in the type of artifact produced. That's why the artifact from both has the same name of "ringing".
Currently Ladybird has 200k USD from FUTO, 100k USD from Shopify and then a bunch more from ProtonVPN, Ahrefs, etc., they also have 7 full time employees and a bunch of volunteers: https://ladybird.org/#faq

They fall short of the numbers you suggest, but it's kind of encouraging that some people can do that for an entirely new project. Time will tell how it works out for them, but I could feasibly imagine a Firefox fork gaining similar ground, should people get tired of Mozilla's stewardship for whatever reason.

After all, even something like 3% of the market share is way more of a proof of feasibility than 0% and if you get a bunch of money when that figure is 0% like Ladybird, things can only get better for a project built on established technology.
You may also consider using the Jujutsu VCS[0] as effectively a nicer and saner git frontend.

I’ve written an intro to it a couple weeks back[1] - I’ve been using it since, and so far haven’t had the need to switch back to git at any point.

[0]: https://jj-vcs.github.io/jj/latest/

[1]: https://kubamartin.com/posts/introduction-to-the-jujutsu-vcs...
The old SSA identity thing was useless. Out of the dozen or so people I know who have tried to use it, not a single person was able to make it work.

It was so, so bad.
Sounds like insubordination.
The Best-Laid Plans (1993) [pdf]
My take from using it a bit is that they seem to have genuinely innovated on:

- Not writing things that go off in weird directions / staying grounded in "reality"

- Responding very well to tone preferences and catching nuance in what I say

It seems like it's less that it has a great "personality" like Claude, but that it's capable of adapting towards being the "personality" I want and "understanding" what I'm saying in ways that other models haven't been able to do for me.
Sure but is there an app I can talk to / work with? It seems they're a voice synthesis model company, not a chatbot app / tool company.
Lessons learned setting up a global engineering org at Google
Every peace negotiation process can be messy. But in the end they found a compromise that both parties were content with and have had peace for decades. That's to me a good ending.
This is all the outcome of 4chans /pol/ and similar places rhetoric becoming fully accepted by normies.

This got started at least as far back as the “original Q disclosure”.

Men are from mars and women from Venus, and the rise of AI sexbots or relationshipbots is going to further fan the flames of the war of the sexes. Marriage rates will likely never go up again in human history.

Get ready. This is the era of NEETs and Incels.
The meaning of brainrot keeps changing. Originally(?), it refered to a particular extreme/ADHD content understood only by the perpetually online. Remixes of the spinning oiia cat are pretty good examples: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IxX_QHay02M

This neuroscientist seema to be throwing the label on all of TikTok or all short form video. This seems barely more sophisticated with grouping together Lawrence of Arabia and Transformers 4 as movies.