skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>the idealistic Twitter

Never saw Twitter as idealistic. Seems to just want to show you celebrity gossip. Substantially worse product than Facebook from the start, and really pioneered the attempts at trying to continuously grab people's attention as opposed to just being a tool. Not really a defense of Zuck's products as a whole as Instagram seems to be the same.

>Facebook beat MySpace IMO because it tricked people into using real names

That was (and is) a fantastic feature, and I remember being aware of it when I signed up. It was super easy to meet people in real life then find them on Facebook, and then invite them to future events in real life or keep track of what they're up to.

Also Myspace allowing HTML resulted in a bunch of entirely unreadable pages. And the Myspace extended friend network didn't really work because everyone was friends with Myspace Tom (who by all means seems to be a chill guy IRL)

>Remember the apps, like zombie games? Facebook was not kind to 3rd party devs.

If anything, Facebook was too friendly to third party devs (which does track with your comparison with Amazon, which I think is far too friendly to third party sellers). Third party apps are anti-features IMO. Should've just stuck to its core functionality, connecting you with people you know, and showing you content from groups that you have chosen to join (which you can still get in your newsfeed if you aggressively block and hide almost everything, which I do lol)
Hetzner has S3-like storage, https://www.hetzner.com/storage/object-storage/.
You're completely right. It is an annoyance in this site to see people listing very small edits as if something important was happening.
are you aware of locals' perception about the TVA? lol
I enjoy his channel. He talks in one of his videos about the regret of getting a Cybertruck and putting his company logo on it now that it's so political. I assume others are probably having similar regrets.

In reference to the frame I can not even imagine breaking a frame. All my offroad and utility vehicles have had a steel frames that at worst might bend if I go all whistlindiesel on it. A big enough pothole can put a lot of stress on a frame. To me personally it feels like there is some similarity between the Tesla design philosophies and the OceanGate Titan submersible both of which needed significantly more stress testing.
Berkshire Hathaway is very special type of investor, as from Buffet cite, they only invest as major owner, avoid to be minor. Because as major they have much more access to internal kitchen of company, not just standard for IPO open balance with omitted details.
> At least with GraphQL I think the world would be better off if it had never seen the light of day. It's a steaming pile of hyper complex dung.

Of course not. GraphQL has vastly simplified our backend development, and has also resulted in better coordination between backend and frontend teams. There are so many things which GraphQL gets right - TYPES and schemas, traversing entity relationships, selectively querying fields, builtin API explorer etc. We use REST only for super trivial projects.
> and no rewards (lower interests) for people who could prove that they are solvent and responsible with money.

That's really what's driving support for credit scores, isn't it? That they provide some some people the (perception of an) ability to prove their character, their moral superiority, and to feel rewarded for all their hard sacrifices.

Similar, I believe, to credit cards and all those rewards and air miles shenanigans - everyone feels they're gonna be winners, so they support a private tax on everyone.
Will RFK Jr's vaccine agenda make America contagious again?
Tesla warns Trump tariffs could leave company 'exposed' to retaliation
That was the CIA not USAID.

So this would be like disbanding Ford because VW was cheating on their diesel emissions.

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Look, making the government more efficient is a good idea. That's not what's being done. The government is being shrunk so it's not capable of doing thinks like ensuring people like Musk/Bezos actually pay the appropriate tax rate. Or ensuring that factories don't enmass dump their toxic waste into drinking water.

The cover story is efficiency; the easy way to tell this is the GSA itself has proposed (prior to Trump) ways to save over 55 billion and DOGE isn't doing them.
There's nothing wrong with the cut, or with getting more control over the execution of your program, which is what the cut gives you.

You only get in trouble with the cut when you're just starting out and don't know what you're doing, and write your code in a way that it keeps entering infinite recursion or backtracking until the cows come home. At that point, because you don't yet know how to control those behaviours, you start sowing your code with cuts all over the place, which maybe stops the backtracking and infinite recursion (but maybe not) but it makes it an incomprehensible mess that still doesn't do what you want it to do.

As you grow and learn, you figure out how to control backtracking and recursion by ordering your program clauses and your clause literals in a sensible manner. At that point the use of the cut becomes so regular and formulaic that it might as well be added in by a pre-procesor.

For instance, you want a program that walks over a list and modifies an element if a condition holds, otherwise it continues, until the list is empty. You write:

% Program "skeleton" not meant to be executed but to expose a pattern

modify_list([],Xs,Xs):-
! % We're done, stop trying
modify_list([X|Xs],[Y|Acc],Bind):-
modify_element(X,Y)
,! Don't re-process X!
,modify_list(Xs,Acc,Bind).
modify_list([_X|Xs],Acc,Bind):-
modify_list(Xs,Acc,Bind).

In the example above, the two cuts have a very clear reason to be where they are (they stop unnecessary backtracking) which is immediately obvious by eyballing the program with sufficient experience. The vast majority of the use of cuts in the code you write once you have a bit of experience and understanding of how Prolog works is like that.
Computational mathematics may have adopted conventions from computer science, but I assure you that the alphabetical order convention is definitely the standard in most pure mathematics (with some exceptions, such as the Ascoli-Arzelà theorem)
I appreciate that the kid in the video has a personalized license plate that says "NO TAX", because I am sure, if he gets his wish, that he will make a video quietly complaining about how the privately owned roads he drives on are disintegrating during cold weather and make bank on youtube ad money.

As I noted earlier, this might be more than the glue, but that they did not take into account that the bonding substrates have different coefficients of thermal expansion. So next spring, during these wild temperature variation, they will start popping off again. The trucks, being released in November 2023, have only experienced maybe one spring season in the northern latitudes. Most initial sales were in 2Q of 2024 so they did not see a real temperature flux.
In Finland. Do you want the court case number?

Edit: I'll give you an easily digestible link in English from the government television channel:

https://yle.fi/a/74-20015426

"The UN Human Rights Committee has urged Finland to change the criminal provision, arguing that it restricts freedom of expression."

You can easily find the law in matter, the prime minister on video saying that burning the Quran is outlawed, and many other media links from government channels talking about this. And there are court cases where people have been sentenced in Finland for burning the Quran – not in public as has been the case in Sweden.

Before you write that the law applies to the Bible and Christians as well – it is not the case. Police, prosecutors and judges will not use the law against any other blasphemy than against Islam.
OVHCloud has a very decent support for automation - Terraform among others https://help.ovhcloud.com/csm/en-terraform-at-ovhcloud?id=kb...
Americans seem more comfortable with slavery and scams
Eastern Europe: I must consent and they do check whether there are any other loans and how good I have paid them. So they do evaluate credit rating at least here.
On a different note; it's funny how otherwise reasonable people (on HN but also in general) become stereotypical gossiping girls whenever there's expose on %famous_person% or a cheap ideological position to have fun with. Woah, corporate America sure rewards the fucked-up people! We do, indeed, live in a society. Chirp chirp
Certainly not the UK, they're spearheading much of the privacy problem.
> a personal loan for an education

Which is another thing we don't do over here in the EU.

Perhaps what's left doesn't necessitate a full-blown credit score system?
Routines.club
Directly from the courts of law. When European governments and courts do unflattering things, the media makes sure to shuffle it under the carpet. There's a very different culture around free speech and public debate in Europe vs America.
If Sweden isn't Swedish because ~30k Sami live there, then China isn't Chinese because 50K Uzbeks live there. You're not arguing that Sweden isn't a nation-state, you're arguing that nation states don't exist, which is just silly.
Exposing your bladder to a lot of CO2 might not be a good idea.
But all the people moving there would drive up housing costs.
I more or less agree with a lot of whaat you wrote, but I'd argue for an ostensibly personal social network, real names are mostly a positive.
Relative to their traditional construction material, twigs, it’s probably no worse.
You both are right.

But ignore memory at your peril. I have one proj that has a 256GB instance. For a fairly boring CRUD app. I am asking a lot of questions as apparently we are having the yearly 'we need more memory' questions. Things that are leading to speedups. Just by using less memory. At the bottom of that stack is a L1 cache with less than a hundred KB. It doesnt matter right up until it does. I have seen huge 300+ item string classes that needed maybe 10 of the fields. They threw it in 'just because there is enough'. Yet something has to fill in those fields. Something has to generate all the code for those fields. The memory mangers have to keep track of all of that junk. Oh and all of that is in a pipeline of a cascade of applications so that 300+ class is copied 10 times. Plus the cost to keep it on disk and shove it thru the network.
That is so misleading. Those F-150 recalls go back to 2003. The Cyberstuck has only been out a year.
Ah, it likely won’t work since it requires Microsoft Store, which we use for certification and distribution.

That said, feel free to give it a try on newer devices. If you need any help, just shoot us an email.
I don't know what the maximum wealth should be, but I do know that it is lower than one billion dollars. So let's start there.

Billionaires are bad for society.
Yes, but this is not the people they'll hire for this kind of job. They're looking for the batshit crazy that will do this kind of stuff. This is the reason for the psychological profile they do in lieu of interview, when hiring managers.
Announcement discussion from 2023:

Apple announces that RCS support is coming to iPhone next year

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38293082

793 points | 709 comments
I have seen this. A cybertuck was pulling a small trailer for a landscaping company. It wasn't that interesting because it was a trailer that could have been pulled by most passenger cars, but I saw it.
1. I hate these "click-and-hold" "bot" "detectors" that takes 6, 7 seconds or longer to complete.

2. Making me do it three times in a row is just obnoxious.
Geothermal energy pitched as datacenter savior
Regime change operations regularly utilized USAID and NED (which, in turn, was often itself funded by USAID) to foster social instability, back opposition forces, and just generally cause chaos. For one particularly absurd instance in more contemporary times, here [1] is USAID trying to cause civil unrest in Cuba and instead ultimately just creating a honey pot for the Cuban government. Note that article is ~11 years old - it's not just a justification for contemporary actions.

[1] - https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/04/03/cuban-twitter-and-other... (archive: https://archive.is/IQl36)
What's up, old baits like "ZUCKERBERG TRIED TO STOP THIS BOOK" don't work anymore?
Why would that be? I'm no biologist but I'm quite sure the CO2 won't make it all the way to the bladder, when drinking plain carbonated water.
> you don't become a global ceo without being an absolute killer

This idea is very parochial and American, and it's unfortunate in
spreading a wrong idea that gives license for some people to behave as
hooligans.

There are massive global companies most of us have never heard of,
with CEOs who shun publicity and operate in what is really a
mild-mannered but highly competent fashion.

Power also comes from politeness, tact, diplomacy, and the earned
attachment of subordinates we call "respect".

They are not constantly immersed in scandal and drama because most of
the employees never have much cause to interact negatively.

The cult of US Tech leaders is a vile and embarrassing spectacle of
vanity, tantrums, acting-out, histrionics and arrogance. It's very
poor human behaviour that harms the perception of business in the
wider world, and we should not hold it up as normative.
Now i think it doesn't but it did as recent as in 2014, in a Received header like the one in the article.
Convo from 4d ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43313574
This is a convenient cover because it allows people to convert a measurable and fairly concrete thing into a more vague and flexible thing. Suddenly, all somebody needs to do is make a claim that what they are doing isn't corruption and they are off the hook. They'll be hypothetical billionaires that are the problem, but never any actual action.
Are the Systems We Have Created Now Controlling Us?
Mozilla's objection, among others, isn't "users are too dumb to give informed consent, regardless of what we tell them".

It's "we have dozens of APIs that require user consent and it's nearly impossible to contain this barrage, or to make sure that users fully understand the implications of consent for the more complex APIs and integrations"

Why do people in these discussions pretend that it is only WebUSB that needs a permission and consent?
Growing up in the UK, 45 minutes was about the ‘if we’re going there in the evening we’re going to need to get a hotel’ boundary. Now I live in the US it’s a short drive.

It’s amazing how perspective changes. If you haven’t experienced it I suspect it’s impossible to understand, because this feels crazy to write. It’s true though.
> Supervised FSD is getting very very good.

But that is not what we are talking about here, are we? We are talking about bad engineering and manufacturing.

It is like you are saying my girlfriend is great in bed but being blind to the fact that she is stealing all your money.
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10096725/

>People with little saliva and a habit of frequently consuming acidic beverages are at increased risk for enamel erosion. The basic recommendations are to drink water as the first choice and eat fresh fruits as an integral part of a healthy and balanced diet.

>Health professionals should motivate the population to change their behavior regarding the consumption of acidic drinks, and recommendations should be made at the policy level to discourage the consumption of sugary drinks. Interventions that would improve oral health and overall health are widely available.
Except in the cases where hate speech calls for violence. (See Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines)
> individuals that hold

I don't consider they serious, because they could buy penny stocks, which are unregulated and are very frequent target for fraud.

> pensions, mutual funds

Funds are better than individuals, because usually they have some strategy and hiring professionals to control things, but they also prone for mistakes.
"Tesla was the only EV that was somewhat affordable"

I don't think this is true. For example the Nissan Leaf has always been more affordable. But the range of the first Leaf models was very low. Tesla was the first EV company that offered a range comparible to ICE cars.
When an iPhone sends a message to 555-1212, where does the iPhone get the public key for that number?
Enterprise NVMe can do fsync much faster than consumer hardware. This is because they can cheat and report successful fsync() before data actually had been flushed to flash. They have backup capacitors which allow them to flush caches in case of power loss, so no data loss.

Here PM983 doing `fio --name=fsync_test --ioengine=sync --rw=randwrite --bs=4k --size=1G --numjobs=1 --runtime=10s --time_based --fsync=1`

Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w(1)][100.0%][w=183MiB/s][w=46.7k IOPS][eta 00m:00s]
fsync_test: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=11905: Fri Mar 14 13:34:34 2025
write: IOPS=39.1k, BW=153MiB/s (160MB/s)(1527MiB/10001msec); 0 zone resets
clat (nsec): min=1052, max=223288, avg=1606.69, stdev=2345.64
lat (nsec): min=1082, max=223458, avg=1653.08, stdev=2346.58
clat percentiles (nsec):
| 1.00th=[ 1128], 5.00th=[ 1176], 10.00th=[ 1240], 20.00th=[ 1320],
| 30.00th=[ 1448], 40.00th=[ 1496], 50.00th=[ 1528], 60.00th=[ 1576],
| 70.00th=[ 1640], 80.00th=[ 1720], 90.00th=[ 1816], 95.00th=[ 1960],
| 99.00th=[ 2576], 99.50th=[ 3376], 99.90th=[ 10816], 99.95th=[ 32640],
| 99.99th=[124416]
bw ( KiB/s): min=123168, max=190568, per=99.00%, avg=154788.63, stdev=19610.50, samples=19
iops : min=30792, max=47642, avg=38697.16, stdev=4902.62, samples=19
lat (usec) : 2=95.61%, 4=4.10%, 10=0.19%, 20=0.04%, 50=0.03%
lat (usec) : 100=0.02%, 250=0.01%
fsync/fdatasync/sync_file_range:
sync (usec): min=13, max=1238, avg=23.08, stdev= 9.27
sync percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 15], 5.00th=[ 16], 10.00th=[ 16], 20.00th=[ 17],
| 30.00th=[ 18], 40.00th=[ 25], 50.00th=[ 26], 60.00th=[ 26],
| 70.00th=[ 26], 80.00th=[ 26], 90.00th=[ 26], 95.00th=[ 27],
| 99.00th=[ 34], 99.50th=[ 79], 99.90th=[ 101], 99.95th=[ 126],
| 99.99th=[ 347]

The same test on SN850X

Jobs: 1 (f=1): [w(1)][100.0%][w=22.9MiB/s][w=5859 IOPS][eta 00m:00s]
fsync_test: (groupid=0, jobs=1): err= 0: pid=23328: Fri Mar 14 13:35:04 2025
write: IOPS=5742, BW=22.4MiB/s (23.5MB/s)(224MiB/10001msec); 0 zone resets
clat (nsec): min=400, max=110253, avg=797.80, stdev=1244.19
lat (nsec): min=430, max=110273, avg=826.49, stdev=1248.86
clat percentiles (nsec):
| 1.00th=[ 502], 5.00th=[ 540], 10.00th=[ 572], 20.00th=[ 612],
| 30.00th=[ 644], 40.00th=[ 668], 50.00th=[ 708], 60.00th=[ 748],
| 70.00th=[ 804], 80.00th=[ 868], 90.00th=[ 1032], 95.00th=[ 1176],
| 99.00th=[ 1560], 99.50th=[ 2224], 99.90th=[ 8384], 99.95th=[23424],
| 99.99th=[66048]
bw ( KiB/s): min=19800, max=24080, per=100.00%, avg=23004.21, stdev=1039.13, s amples=19
iops : min= 4950, max= 6020, avg=5751.05, stdev=259.78, samples=19
lat (nsec) : 500=0.80%, 750=58.72%, 1000=29.04%
lat (usec) : 2=10.89%, 4=0.28%, 10=0.18%, 20=0.04%, 50=0.04%
lat (usec) : 100=0.01%, 250=0.01%
fsync/fdatasync/sync_file_range:
sync (usec): min=136, max=28040, avg=172.88, stdev=195.00
sync percentiles (usec):
| 1.00th=[ 145], 5.00th=[ 149], 10.00th=[ 151], 20.00th=[ 151],
| 30.00th=[ 159], 40.00th=[ 159], 50.00th=[ 159], 60.00th=[ 159],
| 70.00th=[ 159], 80.00th=[ 161], 90.00th=[ 198], 95.00th=[ 202],
| 99.00th=[ 396], 99.50th=[ 416], 99.90th=[ 594], 99.95th=[ 1467],
| 99.99th=[ 5145]
A lot of carbonated water gives me gas, especially when not eating enough. But I am not sure it is an issue. People have various gas levels, it just goes in and out.
> nobody has to borrow money. If you don’t borrow, credit scores are irrelevant.

Except if they want their own place to live.

And for the period of about a decade or two, if they want to buy anything over the Internet. For some reason, e-commerce in its early years would only accept credit cards. Took quite a while before debit cards started working for on-line shopping, and by that time, the damage was already done - credit cards got a boost in popularity both in the US and worldwide.
That secondary markets thing has been an earlier subject (but not really covering app stores etc at that time), there were issues where larger companies didn't want you selling CD Keys or Windows license keys you weren't using, and they didn't want the ones that were bought in one market to be used in another (i.e. grey market import etc). I think they (the EU) ended up telling the corporations to suck it up since whoever owns the thing is free to sell it when they don't want it anymore.

This is of course also a factor in the move to subscriptions since you'd no longer own a persistent license or product and as such there's nothing to sell. Ironically this should also mean the 'product' (subscription) has far less value than the actual product, even if it's technically the same system/software. Yet subscriptions are more costly than a one-off you repeat every couple of years. Sigh.
Example please? It's always been fair use to train on accessible data. It's how for eg: so much of research has been going on for decades.
I want code running in a browser to stay in its sandbox, a large motivation for web apps in the first place is that they stay safely sandboxed and ephemeral. I think browsers accessing hardware is a terrible mistake, they make a terrible “OS” and trying to use the web as the default platform for all apps has set our industry back decades.
I agree don’t trivialize violence. Sending an email or txt to asking for some talking points is not violent.
>> Prolog is really for indeterministically searching a large/infinite space such as in planning (and yes it can be used for theorem proving and program verification as well).

I'd say theorem proving is what Prolog "is really for", in the sense that it's a language whose interpreter is an automated theorem prover.

It just so happens that a (first-order) theorem prover is the best tool to explore an infinite space, if it's worth its salt, because that's what it has to do in order to find a proof in the first place.

And of course you can cast all sorts of combinatorial problems like planning and verification as proofs (this sequence of actions reaches this goal state from this starting state).

Edit: incidentally, it's so dumb that the standard for pattern matching in the industry is regexes, with their insufferable, cryptic pandemonium of notations, rather than Prolog, which has got to be the language with the simplest possible syntax in all of computer science this side of Brainfuck. When I was doing my NLP homerwork during my MSc I kept writing small ad-hoc parsers that were all balls of mud around a bunch of regex scripts, and I longed for the simplicity of Prolog and its DCGs (I couldn't use Prolog because the homework was in Python and at the time there was no Janus). Why do programmers do that to themselves?
I love your long perspective!
And it probably would have worked if David Sacks wasn't the AI czar. The Harris administration would probably have caved by now
They use magnetism AFAIK
I'd eat nothing but meat if it means getting the mental clarity of Joe Rogan.

(Would be funny if it was only a pose and he got caught sneaking a bowl of rice and some carrots.)
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Isn't this basically libkrun? https://github.com/containers/libkrun
Sorry not sorry, but that was no "nothingburger." The fact of the matter was that Twitter under Jack Dorsey had become completely bloated and abusive. You had people working there whose only job was to do things like manipulate pixels in emojis and more seriously, they had created a vast and cancerous DEI bureaucracy.