Everything comes and goes. HN is no exception.
With that in mind does it matter for you? Are you here because HN is at its peak? If commenting here makes you life better a bit keep doing that. If not then just don't and go somewhere else. Or stop using the internet altogether and just became goat farmer. Do what makes you happy and not what crowd thinks will make you happy!
it is a very interesting observation and I did some calculation and it seems that every 8 seconds, one hackernews comment is made
I feel like the reason why it has peaked is that when hackernews was created, it probably had both youngsters and experienced alike since it was the hot new thing once but over time it matured and I think that very few young people are here and I doubt that there are surveys for hackernews median age
I am one of the youngsters and honestly I joined because of youtube (fireship -> primagen -> theo t3 -> hackernews)
And I feel like the reason hackernews doesnt feel attractive to youth is probably because of attention span, like only recently I saw someone create a thread about what clicks on hackernews or not as if its a game and I do feel like hackernews isnt conventional social media and our whole new generation has never really understood something beyond conventional social media
To me, it was unstimulating at first (which in retrospect is a good thing), like just large amounts of texts and texts in comments and I didn't understand the situation
And I don't think hackernews should change. Once I got the hang of it, it became one of the most interesting websites to me personally.
But don't worry I think that the spirit of hackernews/tinkering is still there in youngsters whom I see in their own ways, people (my age) are definitely being fed up and are taking steps like clippy and other interesting stuff that one can argue go similar to tinkering/curiosity of computers
I will have to admit that even my attention span was "cooked" and I don't think it was something extremely because I have talked about it but like, as a youngster the culture is changing so fast sometimes like, after I was on hackernews for a long time, I do not feel talking internet slang but that does alienate me sometimes because people my age have low attention span and when I used to send long messages to my friends they were kinda responding like, "aint nobody reading ts" or even on platforms like discord, I genuinely felt like a left out person because all people my age had slang or something and I didn't
Nowadays I do not feel this way because this is the person I am and I kinda see opportunities for myself which are unique to myself because of hackernews and the tinkering curiosity it has given me but still I just wanted to share a perspective about something that had troubled me once.
You are strictly correct for a single pass!
log2(9000)~13, which is indeed much smaller than k=50.
The missing variable in that comparison is Iterations.
t-SNE and UMAP are iterative optimisation algorithms. They repeat that O(N log N) step hundreds of times to converge.
My approach is a closed-form linear solution (Ax=b) that runs exactly once.
So the wall-clock comparison is effectively:
Iterations * (N log N) VS 1 * (N *k)
That need for convergence is where the speedup comes from, not the complexity class per se.
I would love to be able to do `info recutils` before installing, as for deciding whether I want to install it. Is there someway to point info at some online source? (Yes I know there are published HTML versions of Texinfo documents, but I really want to do that in my terminal without needing to locate a website.)
I use VisiData[0] to view and modify in bulk. For simple error corrections I just edit the text file. For insertions as part of another process I'll write a simple script that appends a block of test to one of the .rec files.
Has support for recfiles improved recently? I was overjoyed when I learnt that VisiData had support for recfiles since I'd been getting tired of editing recfiles manually and liked VisiData's UI when working with CSVs and such.
But at least at the time (~2 years ago IIRC), the support was really basic, just basic record display, and most importantly, editing the parts VD didn't understand lead to data loss. I don't remember what I was trying to do - the error report I wrote with those details died with my old machine - but it wasn't anything too complicated, just array fields and foreign keys I believe i.e. just using recfile features one step beyond a listing of `key: value` pairs. I gave up on recfiles as a whole after losing data a few times like this (since I hadn't found any other suitable tool either).
Last I used Visidata, it didn't play nice with fields like %sort (they'd disappear if you re-saved the file) and if you had two fields with the same name in one record they'd get combined into a single field like "Name[2]:" when you re-saved. It might've also killed comments? I'm certainly not surprised it only has basic recfile support, because who use recfiles, but I'd be careful using VD with them for anything but viewing.
I haven't put the work into supporting full round-tripping, so yes, at the moment it's mostly useful for reading/viewing. If someone files an issue that would likely go a long way towards getting better support!
The front page "when you have .. but you need .." doesn't list rec files as a format. What other obscure formats does this support? I can't find a list
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