skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Rhetoric like this is interesting to me because it so precisely mirrors what I heard growing up about alcohol. I had a large group of friends whose families were very religious in a religion that was very anti-alcohol. They had reached a critical mass where they didn’t know anyone who drank alcohol (or admitted to it, anyway) other than stories of severe alcoholics that got passed around the community. These stories were emphasized and amplified for them every Sunday. They truly didn’t believe that moderate or occasional alcohol consumption was possible, because to them the only thing they knew about alcohol was the part about addicts whose lives had been destroyed.

Even from a young age I thought it was strange how much they bounced these stories back and forth off of each other and how good they were at finding more stories about celebrities or local figures who had problems with alcohol to support their case.

It was also fascinating how self-congratulatory it all become. They weren’t simply sharing stories to earn each other away from a trap, they were sharing stories to reaffirm their own superiority as people who saw through the sham and wisely chose against it. The worse they made it sound, the more superior they could feel about being on the outside.

I get the exact same vibes when I read internet posts like this, which take the situation to such an extreme that they think comparisons like this are accurate and profound:

> Zuckerberg is probably worse than Escobar

Then there’s the idea that social media can’t be used for socializing, and anyone claiming otherwise is lying:

> Social media being a place to connect and maybe even run a small business is like 1% of it. It’s a place for attention seeking people filling their loneliness with fake connections and content

Yet many of us are out here using social media to keep up with friends without spending 99% of our time doing this fentanyl-like addiction that everyone tells us is inevitable.

I’m not saying that people don’t get addicted to social media, just as there are people who get addicted to alcohol (obviously). I’m merely pointing out that, like alcohol, the vast majority of people who participate aren’t degenerate addicts who lose control. This weird rhetoric about Zuckerberg being worse than Escobar or implied calls for government to treat it like drug dealers are fodder for the self-congratulatory people who want extra validation for their decision to stay off social media (defined in a way to exclude Hacker News, Reddit, and other social sites), but they’re hardly accurate. It’s weird to see these hyperbolic takes being so popular on, oddly enough, social commentary sites.
> I've heard the primary reason for it is to avoid the possibility of wraparound on

Making it UB doesn’t fix that in any way that I can think of.
It is impossible for Russia to "lose" in Serbia. The vast majority of Serbs support Russia, and are pissed at their government for not supporting it enough.
If you are serious about commercializing this, you need to speak with a lawyer.
Last week I heard a Ukrainian saying that you can no longer fight in the open. If you don't have the cover of buildings, your time is very short. It is becoming impossible to defend anything outside of towns and cities. One of Ukraine's famous drone units uses drones with 20km + fiber reels. A mistake the world made when this invasion started was that they let it go on for far too long, there was a window of opportunity to throw some serious support behind Ukraine, but it never really materialized for Ukraine. It's led to developments that have changed warfare forever and not in a good way. Today there was a video of a drone that had anti-drone capabilities. It took evasive action on its own to avoid being taken down. It is insane how things are changing there and I don't think the West is keeping up with the times.

Israel fought a few thousand poorly trained and poorly armed guys, the outcome was predictable. How would they fare if an enemy could deploy 10k drones per day at them indefinitely? Or send 100's of drones with 5kg warheads nightly at civilian targets for months at a time, probably not well...no one could.
Indie dev turning profit first year is part of the typically success story for indie devs.
Because Apple thinks nothing of spewing these turds all over every machine and directory you visit from a Mac, which is not just a dick move but also technically incompetent.

The next Mac visitor who comes along will overwrite the turd with his own, so that's a blunder.

Then there's the fact that they could have stored all the turds on the local machine, keyed by URI or path or network address. This would solve both the dickishness and the overwriting problem. And if a remote machine's path or address changed, whoop dee doo... you lost your Finder layout for that directory. Pretty low stakes.
And paid subscriptions are not even necessary for offline apps
Credit to Ben Schwarz for providing me with this excellent implementation.

Supports: Light/Dark/System as well as storing the user preference.
Implements via a simple dropdown select box.

https://codepen.io/benschwarz/pen/bGPyboB
Was just thinking how my team can get off current Notion lock in, this looks promising. Might be able to contribute as well, being a Django shop.
Interesting how our experiences are so different. IMHO CSS is what the LLM’s are best at, out of all code editor tasks I have thrown at them. It’s trivially true that there is more CSS and JS in their training data than anything else since that’s what every single website in the world contains.
you just have to have enough money to have some legal entity register on your behalf and that legal entity then has their system spammed, but they have their phone public anyhow...

the idea is to have individuals accountable while not annoying owners.

in that sense it makes _perfect_ sense and works as intended.

a proper solution ingredient would be trustworthy and affordable pseudonymity, and that can be lifted by court orders only. but then who guarantees the independence of courts? and the fairness of laws?

we're in a tough ride.
Global expansion in Generative AI: a year of growth, newcomers, and attacks
The downside to all that was software releases happened once every year (or longer). Which, was it actually all that bad, but let’s not be completely wooed by the green looking grass on the other side. There were long delays between new features or bug fixes.
Zuck directly controls the algorithm to his own ends, he is much worse than Escobar, he is actively destroying the minds of children. You are defending him bc you don't want to believe that we are in the dystopian nightmare we all feared.
OTOH doctrines at least have a slight chance of being updated along with the code.
do you have a link
Raph, I think you may be using a different definition of UB than what compiler authors are using? As I understand it in the language sense of the word, UB technically allows the compiler to interpret the code however it wants. To me utility in UB are relying on some kind of well-defined behavior to result which would imply that you are either just relying on today’s behavior OR you are doing something that’s non-deterministic but not violating language rules? Or some intermediate definition where it’s both violating language rules but no future version of the compiler is likely to be able to detect the UB and change behavior?

UB is very useful for compiler authors because they can apply very useful optimizations with “illegal” code and then emit illegal code constructs when they want those optimizations to apply. I have a hard time understanding how that’s useful to language users though.
>there is only one model

There is one set of observations, and many many models to describe them: Schrödinger equation formulation, matrix mechanics (Heisenberg, Born, and Jordan), path integral formulation (Feynman), phase space formulation, density matrix formulation, QFT or second quantization, variational formulation, pilot wave theory aka de Broglie-Bohm theory, Hamilton-Jacobi formulation, PT-symmetric quantum mechanics, Dirac equation formulation (well, not really independent, just for spin 1/2 particles).

They all give the same results, and are therefore mathematically equivalent, but different models tend to be associated with different interpretations:

Schrödinger Equation : Copenhagen, Bohmian Mechanics, Many-Worlds
Matrix Mechanics : Copenhagen
Path Integral : Many-Worlds, Stochastic
Density Matrix: Ensemble, Decoherence-based
Second Quantization : Many-Worlds
Pilot Wave Theory : Bohmian Mechanics
Consistent Histories : Decoherence-based
Relational QM : Relational Interpretation
Stochastic Models : Stochastic Interpretations, GRW (Ghirardi–Rimini–Weber) Collapse
The TikTok ban was motivated primarily by the Israel lobby wanting to crack down on pro-Palestinian content.
Galois Connecting call-by-value and call-by-name [pdf]
My view on free software has changed over the course of my life. When I was in my 20s, my big concern was being able to do things like afford the mortgage on my house and be able to maybe be able to afford to get married and have kids or at the least pay off my credit card debt. Time spent on free software was unlikely to help with that and I focused my development time on things that would bring in money.

Now, in my 50s, I’m looking at retirement somewhere between 4 and 14 years away (although given the ongoing demolition of the United States, it might be more like 24 years away). I have little interest in building a side-business in software and, frankly, the flow of money in software is such that it wouldn’t be likely to be a viable concern anyway (to give just one example, in the 90s, I spent hundreds of dollars on compilers and database software that today are expected to be given away for free). As a consequence, the code that I write on the side I release with the least restrictive license possible because, frankly, I don’t really care if some corporation takes it and incorporates it into their product (in fact, I’d be kind of honored), and while it would be nice if they would kick me a few dollars, given my experience working as a corporate developer, my guess is that the few dollars that have come my way aren‘t coming out of corporate coffers but out of other developers’ wallets (for which I’m truly grateful, even if the actual dollar amounts likely don’t even cover my marginal expenses on the work).
its not the worst crime in the world to be pretentious.

if i see people who are obese as lesser than me, and that hypes me up to exercise every day until im 80, is that really so bad?

it may not make me a saint, but it would make me healthy.
> If Western European tourists and green card holders are getting arrested and deported after being incarcerated for who knows how long

Don't forget, they're starting to deport people to places they have never been, or even speak the language of!

Oh, sorry, even that's outdated this weekend. We are now at the point that people are being sent to an unregulated prison in El Salvador "pending processing".
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Ray tracing refers to the act of tracing rays. You can use it for lighting, but also sound, visibility checks for enemy AI, etc.

Path tracing is a specific technique where you ray trace multiple bounces to compute lighting.

In recent games, "ray tracing" often means just using ray tracing for direct light shadows instead of shadow maps, raytraced ambient occlusion instead of screenspace AO, or raytraced 1-bounce of specular indirect lighting instead of screenspace reflections. "Path traced" often means raytraced direct lighting + 1-bounce of indirect lighting + a radiance cache to approximate multiple bounces. No game does _actual_ path tracing because it's prohibitively expensive.
cough std::env::set_var cough :D.
> nor did I say sonic or non lethals were "OK"

Nobody argued that getting killed protesting is better than being sound cannoned either, but that didn't stop you from assuming that, trying to corner people into saying so, and acting hostile as all fuck, hence this entire thread.

Glad we cleared it up. I guess like protesters getting suppressed being generally true, discussing anything with an intellect of your caliber carries a similar general penalty. Definitely a valuable way to frame it that I'll keep in mind moving forward.

> Please try harder next time even though I know it gives you a head ache. Cheers.

Enjoy.
I agree with a massive caveat.

The beauty of free software is having your cake and eating it.

It seems like today catering to hackers and normies with slightly different builds or packages would be easier than ever.

The author really doesnt craft a path forward, but nothing he implies would indicate that hackers lose anything (other than like you say, lack of nagging)
Part of the forbidden eleven.

https://anathem.dlma.com/data/Eleven.html
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You don't need to be a degenerate alcoholic to see negative health effects from drinking alcohol. Alcohol hastens obesity by being high in calories, impairs sleep quality, damages your brain/liver and may be a carcinogen.

The point being, social media can be bad for your health even if it doesn't ruin your life.
It’s subsequent updates which didn’t work well. And it is (or at least was) a limitation of git itself.
In other words, it provides the ability to monetize and extract more money from people. Like we need more of that...
> suprised the VCs aren't pushing IPOs more

Harder to charge 2 & 20 on public equities.
Soda is an addiction. Coffee is an addiction. Chicken wings and cheese burgers are an addiction. Watching sports is an addiction. Orgasm is an addiction. Making money is an addiction, and so is spending money.

Humans are driven by pleasure. We are all pleasure seekers. If scrolling social media is an addiction then maybe exercise self control.

I don’t care what someone tells me is an addiction. Either control yourself or shut the fuck up
I like WHOIS with its extreme simplicity [0]. RDAP, on the other hand, works on top of a large and changing HTTP [1], and uses a JS-derived serialization format [2]. RDAP has advantages, such as optionally benefiting from TLS, the data being better structured and defined, but the cost in added complexity seems high.

[0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3912

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9082

[1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9083
Green House by Schwartz and Architecture
Quantum Graphs
> Lynch decided he’d rather deal with the symptoms of depression

... through meditation.
I have some family in Hong Kong that lived in public housing for the longest time. Some of the newer apartments were pretty good. 40th floor, nice view, free WiFi.
Sorry, you’re right. My understanding was that it was the same in practical terms to delay by half a wavelength, but that wasn’t correct.
It's also dangerous because the dip is the average. Individual companies can and do fail.
I agree that it's ridiculous, but absent some sort of regulation, things are not priced based on how much they cost the provider, but based on how much people are willing to pay. Even if they're unhappy about it.
The subreddit of the language or framework you're trying to learn.
Who will enforce the court ruling and how?
Even if you don't look at the computed styles, the user agent styles are shown in the default element style view, at least in Firefox. There, you can see all of the applied styles as a stack, so you can see which styles have been applied first, which ones have been overridden, etc.

This is a good place to look if you're trying to figure out why an element is behaving weirdly, because it shows all the styles and exactly how they override each other, as well as the source of each style.
> TikTok ban was motivated primarily by the Israel lobby wanting to crack down on pro-Palestinian content

It really wasn't. But I agree that this was a popular take. (Funnily enough, the rumor helped shore up the bill's polling among Republican-leaning voters. And once it was up, like, yes, rule number one of politics is you generally don't say no to votes.)

The EU going after Instagram and Twitter would find its own stable of bizarre conspiracy theories.
If that's true in a large organization, how do SaaS companies actually make a profit?

If you develop an in-house tool, you have very predictable user numbers so you can go on-prem versus cloud for the compute and save ~10x on that side.

You also have the benefit of being second, the other guys already did the hard work of UX research etc. and your in-house team just needs to replicate a slightly complicated CRUD app.

The one significant roadblock I can see is being able to put together the right team for the job. But cost-wise it has to be a no-brainer that in-house is cheaper.
That's what single file is for. Hoarder fetches the webpage using it's own browser, single file makes a copy using your browser including any sessions, then sends that to hoarder.
I believe, you are a specific minority actually. What the OP described “gal flipping between FB/Insta” is actual reality around me when I am outside and look around me. Young and adult, all are flipping, the younger they are more TikTok/Insta, older they are more FB/X.

Even some of my family members who preached the bad of smartphones and internet are addicted to Facebook/Youtube and mindlessly scroll away while I observe the insanity.

It is sad and unimaginable for those of us who can resist the claws of the addiction, but for the rest 99%, it is just escaping the boredom/loneliness/social disconnect.

Social media wanted to connect people to genuine interactions over long distances, instead it has created a whirlwind of addiction media supply. Most people’s feed are very insignificant portion of their real connections and dominant following of content farms, celebrity gossips, meme, media misinformation, polarisation and of course 66% of ads trying to sell them something related to the most common trend of their feed at that hour.
To continue the metaphor, shouldn't someone close down or regulate "wheel stealing jimmies wheel theft funded auto retailer" so that they don't keep stealing people's wheels?
No floats, yes, but it has fixnums with infinite precision
> The concept of WHOIS has felt sleazy for many years.

More recently, yes. But the original (perhaps naive) goal was to keep domain owners accountable for whatever they were serving from hosts under their domains. That seems reasonable, at least on a more "polite" internet, where things weren't scraped and monetized and SEO'd into garbage.
Almost all destabilization (motion, to be clear) in the economy results in the large getting larger and the smaller disappearing.
It goes both ways, many C folks call files full of inline Assembly and compiler specific extensions, C.
Don't Make Big Mistakes Rule–The Underrated Key to Career Longevity
Most career advice is about optimization—how to be more productive, more visible, more strategic. But Charlie Munger, the late billionaire investor and Warren Buffett’s intellectual partner, had a different approach:
“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”
In other words, don’t chase brilliance—just avoid catastrophe.
Perhaps connected to a variant of an adaptation by Valiant: "Only Adapt"
“Reputation” as a free market remedy is such a poor solution, though, as it lags behind the events that change it.

A badly tuned PID loop is better than nothing, I guess.
Some other TLDs, like .us and .in, also forbid WHOIS privacy. TLD owners are free to set whatever policy they want around this. Perhaps .edu does the same.
Thanks for sharing that insight. When I read the original comment I felt like I was an outlier for thinking how beneficial I’ve found social media on a personal level. If used with intention then there’s a wealth of learning and knowledge that the algorithms help deliver.

Of course there are many people who use social media purely for distraction. Which if used chronically is going to have an overwhelming negative impact.

In social media’s current for profit model it benefits from negatively impacting people. Which is a shame given if it wanted to, it could focus on the wellbeing of all its users.

An example I can give is the Reddit app that used to give a warning if a user used it for over a certain amount of time. These days it encourages it’s users to stay engaged with badges.
TL;DR Alexa will be cloud-only very soon because it'll be powered by an LLM, which is too big to run on a smart speaker.
https://ruben.verborgh.org/blog/2017/12/20/paradigm-shifts-f...
> I'm surprised there isn't a constant archive of what news sites put into the "memory hole". Maybe Google being shit isn't them failing, but deliberate (I don't seriously believe this).

archive.is
I wonder which other old internet protocols fell into obsolescence.

Finger is not officially retired but no one supports it. NNTP seems it had a similar fate.
I'm not saying it's not on the table. My example included platforms being seized or forced to shut down. It just shouldn't be our starting point or our goal.

It shouldn't be the only viable option because we have no other legal mechanism with which to regulate these platforms before they have become enormous and powerful and spiral out of control.

If it needs to be done, it should be done for the right reasons. (Not that a TikTok ban would be bad, or that it's not a sensible move geopolitically, but in the context of the discussion in this thread, a TikTok ban is definitely not on the table because we've agreed that society is harmed by addiction to a centralized social media platform, or whatever. Any side-effects in those areas as a result of the ban would just be collateral.)

I would just prefer a ban never needing to come into play because we don't let things get bad
Assuming average age distribution between 16 to 60 in the protesters, that leaves about 3 million non protesters in the same age distribution for serbia, with children and elderly making up the remaining population, which is around 6.7 million, give or take.

That's 1 out of 4 working age citizens hitting the streets - not all people, but a huge chunk. It's safe to say there are going to be a lot of sympathizers in the non-protesters, a lot of people who wanted to protest but couldn't. There are definitely those who support the government, but I'd wager they're less than 15% of the total population, with the rest in opposition, or at least not in support of the government.

The usual tipping point for revolution is lower - if 10-12% hits the streets, it's a strong signal that the movement behind that activity is taking power.
It wasn't a profitable company.

The point is that many tech companies in the Bay Area were not profitable, never going to be profitable, but they treated software developers like kings because of the distorted market supported by low interest rate environment.