skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gotcha.

So the funnel must be having a way steeper dropoff than in the CD era?

Far more music being released but getting people to come listen to it live being very hard?

I read this article which seems to support that hypothesis : https://towardsdatascience.com/hot-or-not-analyzing-60-years...

It talks about there being fewer artists on the charts, and "a reality where there are a few artists releasing a ton of music — most of it doesn’t last, but the songs that do stick, stay for long".
Seems like Xi Jinping has decided to put a stop to the entertainers in China:

https://scholars-stage.org/xi-jinpings-war-on-spontaneous-or...

Interesting how "the market" has seemingly spontaneously created things like YouTubers, TikTokers, Instagram influencers, etc. Wherever there is money to be made, someone's there. Political news is hot in the attention economy? Macedonians make fake news sites with Google ads: https://money.cnn.com/interactive/media/the-macedonia-story/
It isn't the usual primary reason. You use these things to provide a mulch layer over the top of tilth; it suppresses weed germination.

If all you want is to add organics, you'd probably fork in manure.
> What I don’t understand: why do you wish him to step back and reflect?

Because I used to look forward to his essays. I found them interesting, insightful and witty. Now I just find them predictable and self-serving. I'm probably just feeling disillusioned with someone I greatly admired, that's all, and I'm wishing I could feel about that person the way I used to feel.
True story:. I'm a techie and a nerd and I've always been near the top of my class. One of the things that I enjoy is it really dry humor. And one of the ways I can get a laugh out of people is by stating something that is obvious as though I just figured it out. Or intentionally making massive understatements. Like if I just broke my arm and I would say something like, "I have found that breaking your arm is unpleasant."

When you say it around people who are generally quick witted, it takes a second for them to grok what you're saying and then they figure out that you're cracking a joke and then they smile, usually laugh.

But years ago I found myself working as an aircraft mechanic. And my cohorts whom I rode around with were very blue collar in language and culture, and several of them had been chosen as "mechanic" because they hadn't performed that well on an aptitude test.

So one day I made one of my famous observe-the-obvious funny statements, and one member of the group whom I'm pretty sure was one of the low aptitude scorers, looked at me with obvious disgust and said, "You must be one of the dumbest people I've ever met."

He didn't understand why I started howling with laughter.
Everyone wants more batteries. Batteries are going to be the new semiconductors over the next few decades.
It has a lot to do with jingoism/nationalism, albeit maybe not race explicitly (although I doubt the cultural rift between the two does much to help).

I rarely see the same level of outrage against Saudi Arabian oil (yes, yes, a low proportion of gas in the US nowabouts) or things produced in many other circumstances that are at least as "unfree" as they are in China.

Because of that, I find it difficult to believe that it is based off of some principled stand over governance.
I know this article is meant as a joke but the first variant of bogosort, which is actually randomsort, it will be the fastest algorithm once we start using quantum computing.

Having an array and allocating "n"=="array length" qubits for it then implementing parallel version of randomsort (no while, while is serialization!) will be the fastest sorting algorithm.
Interesting. Is it protocol-compatible with other mastodon instances? (I'm not very familiar with how these fediverse sites work.)
If we could go back in time and teach users that passwords are only to be entered into browser chrome, and if that used PAKE, we would be in pretty good shape.
That's a super interesting video. Thanks!
"nl" already brought few points. As a practical test: take a piece made of cast magnesium (alloy) or cast aluminum (alloy). It'd be hard to easily tell each other apart, save for using a weak acid. Their strength is similar (esp. when alloyed, still worse off for the aluminum) but magnesium is non-trivially lighter. Here, a random quote [0]

Magnesium is also better at casting components with thinner walls and tighter tolerances than aluminum. However, even with the many advantages of magnesium, aluminum remains a less expensive alternative for die casting.

[0]: https://diecasting.com/blog/the-difference-between-aluminum-...
> Most everybody.

It depends what you mean, but I think you underestimate people. We all contain virtue and greed, and have the free will to choose which we will favor.

Of course, it's more complicated than that anyway: What happens is that some kinds of corruption become normalized and thus people don't feel they are violating ethics, and some corruption, though objectively no worse, is not normalized and is responded to with outrage.
Here's a gigantic PDF listing ways the truth can hurt all kinds of things: https://www.nickbostrom.com/information-hazards.pdf
Hi, yes, you can move your followers to another account, and export/import other contacts. Perhaps not entirely without the old admin's cooperation though.
I think those people are simply living in the past. It is hydrogen disrupting batteries, not the other away around. In fact, I see a flattening of the pace of battery improvements, meaning the speed of this disruption event should be moving faster than expected. By 2030 the battery "revolution" might have already collapsed and left for obsolescence.

It's important to remember that hydrogen fuel cells are batteries too. There is no reason for the metal lithium to have magic properties over other battery technologies.
I no longer work at Brex, but I believe they did this using Kotlin rather than Elixir.
You could just destroy all universes to ensure it's sorted in the remaining reality.
Ah here, steady on.

I know it's commonplace to wail on the USA because of all the shite that seems to be getting shittier but there is _so much_ goodness in the USA.

The systems are a bit broken. The constitution needs modernization, access to and application of the laws need to be made measuably fair, and the economic model requires reformulation. Racism, sexism, and perverse idolatry need to be educated out of the standard models of discourse. But.

The USA is still a paradigm of democratic republicanism. It's still full of amazing humans, many of whom work hard to improve other people's lives. It is seething with debate, invests hugely in technology, and still reacts quickly to changes of circumstances. It's fucked, but not irredeemably so.

Mainly it needs to focus on education and healthcare, especially by removing pernicious, profit-seeking, short-term motivations.

Also, stop voting Retardicans.

To be fair, Demoticrats are a pretty shoddy bunch of disorganised and intellectually confused herd of kittens, but they at least _try_ to improve the lot of other humans. The Retardicans are big business first and all else after, with a whole heap of contempt for thought on the side.
yep. The Soyuz was supposed to run on Syntin but then they reverted back because the added energy density and payload capacity (something like 30%) was not worth the manufacturing cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syntin

Edit: Soyuz U2 (Syntin version) launched 72!! rockets. Then they reverted back.
Well, Truth isn't so much growing as it's collapsing.
1. The point of numbering them is to highlight all of them have been answered already, but he's not interested in the answers. Otherwise, a good faith skeptic would have found the anders to his "concerns"

2. The debate you are alluding to has been done, see point 1. But he ignores this, because as long as the debate don't stop, his position is unchanged

3. Asserting there is a debate until someone who has done 0 to engage with an overwhelming scientific consensus agrees there isn't is false neutrality. That one random guys opinion (and mine, for the record) is worth jack shit compared to the IPCC ans the 97-99% of experts who have come to a consensus based on the data they spend their whole career studying. To go against their consensus is perfectly valid but needs to be done in a manner which integrates all the data collected in the consensus explanation at least as well, or better. Not just by listing context free gotchas and claiming the debate hasn't been finished yet

As for the question of creating climate skeptics: I'm much more interested in pointing out to readers that a rhetorical playbook is being used and provide a counter voice than to argue with someone who isn't themselves arguing in food faith. See point 1
Unless you're taking some ideological stance against Roku, no need to replace your existing hardware, it will continue to work with Youtube:

We are, however, giving Roku the ability to continue distributing both YouTube and YouTube TV apps to all existing users to make sure they are not impacted.
That's just a stolen and license-violating Mastodon, not much building involved
> This one, which is basically saying one of the most important things for society is coming up with new ideas. Not hard to see why someone who built his life around startups would think this.

> If I already know pretty much exactly what someone is going to say (and nearly all of it is self-serving), I'm not going to be that interested in listening.

These seem to be your central points. Firstly, you're correct: the essay says that new ideas are one of the most important things for a society:

> There are more subtle reasons too, which persist long into adulthood. Intelligence wins in conversation, and thus becomes the basis of the dominance hierarchy. Plus having new ideas is such a new thing historically, and even now done by so few people, that society hasn't yet assimilated the fact that this is the actual destination, and intelligence merely a means to an end.

...

> So what are the other ingredients in having new ideas? The fact that I can even ask this question proves the point I raised earlier — that society hasn't assimilated the fact that it's this and not intelligence that matters. Otherwise we'd all know the answers to such a fundamental question.

But is this mistaken?

When choosing where to send your kids to school, would you rather send them to a school that believes strongly in their own ideas, or one that embraces more recent ideas?

My parents sent me to a small religious school. Personally, I would've been happier somewhere else.

But as you say, you don't disagree with the essay. Your central point is in your last sentence:

> If I already know pretty much exactly what someone is going to say (and nearly all of it is self-serving)...

You're saying that pg essays are no longer surprising to you. But I don't think you knew what it was going to say before you read it; you read it, and then said, "This isn't surprising."

Personally, I found it surprising that society could place so much emphasis on intelligence, if it's true that new ideas matter more.

You could try to argue that new ideas don't matter as much as intelligence, or that something else matters even more. It would be interesting if you were correct, since that would refute the essay's central point. But you haven't done any of that; your comment can be summed up as "I think pg sucks," because you're not making any concrete claims.
>> Disclaimer: I'm a co-founder of https://logtail.com, ClickHouse-based hosted log management platform.
I'm not sure it actually says that - it says that Tesla has signed a deal for BYD LFP batteries, and it says that BYD blade battery packs are energy dense, but it doesn't actually link those two and say "Tesla has signed a deal for BYD blade battery packs".

One of the linked articles does report earlier rumours around Tesla using blade battery packs from BYD, but then also has quotes from BYD saying "we never said that".
Even without destroying the universe you can sort your list with a quantum source of entropy, just use:

def cosmicraysort(list):
while not sorted(list):
pass
playing it forward, what are the unintended consequences this incentivizes? Assuming a bad actor can get their hands on an orb, then they just need a supply of human eyeballs?
I don’t mean to stir the pot here, but that’s a pretty unhelpful comment.

You could basically rephrase it as “you don’t need a lot of math, you just need a lot of math”.
Would this do it? https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/actions#create-a-w... or, depending on the error, perhaps this? https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/actions#re-run-a-w...
I'd think it'll just disable the federation API.

Mastodon already has blacklists to prevent abuse from certain servers, and given Trump's target audience, the block would probably be mutual.
It is compatible since it's using the exact same codebase, but practically everyone on the mainstream fediverse has blocked them, and I suspect they probably will turn off federation.
Honestly, I thought I was making a joke based on a typical format used for Zen Koans but now I'm not so sure.
Nothing obvious about it. It's only "obvious" if you get political.

Trump has started a couple of other alt megaphones for himself since he got booted off Twitter and they failed. He's tried email and he's tried blogs and he doesn't get enough attention on them, so he quits. This one has already started ridiculed and with poor security and moderation practices before it's even gotten off the ground. I am not sure how Parler, which caters to the same audience, is faring nowadays, but I don't get the impression it's really the alt social media juggernaut its proponents have hoped for. Gab also is for the maga crowd and it hasn't been a large crowd. The fediverse at large isn't that large either, for that matter.

So, let's see how Trump does this time.
I appreciate that the Cache-Status: header they describe uses RFC 8941 structured fields and thus ";" to separate items within each cache and "," between caches. It's like someone put effort into making it easy to parse.

Rant time: I just finished writing a state machine parser for "WWW-Authenticate:" and "Proxy-Authenticate:". Those headers use comma both to separate challenges and to separate parameters within a challenge, which just seems mean-spirited. Other things about HTTP authentication that seem mean, dumb, annoying, or all of the above: both the RFC 2069 example response and the RFC 7616 SHA-512-256 example response are calculated incorrectly; RFC 7616's userhash field seems to require the server to do O(users_in_database) hashes to know what user to operate on; RFC 7235's challenge grammar describes a token68 syntax that really only is used for the credentials in basic, never a challenge; RFC 7616 drops backwards compatibility for RFC 2069 even though I bought a product this year that still uses RFC 2069-style calculations; and it's based on old standards that followed "be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" so RFC 7230 section 7 has separate grammars for what lists you must send and what lists you must accept, which further complicates parsing the nested lists.
> I think people are focused on the wrong issue. The fee % is not the problem. The problem is the restriction against using other types of payment processors.

I generally agree with this sentiment, but still feel that the fee % itself is a significant part of the problem and worth to tackle it in parallel.

My concern is that Google/Apple have lots of direct/indirect advantages against its payment competitors as platform holders and I'm 90% sure that they're willing to exercise that position to keep the dominance of their payment solutions. And I think they have a good chance of winning. We need to push them in all possible directions even if some approaches don't work.
Would the Fed actually have the authority to even do that, regulate what securities Congress members are allowed to hold?
Weirdly, I just submitted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28946349 earlier today: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Deplatforming as a Moderation Strategy on Twitter.
Then I will have to disagree. I insist that it is still post-hoc rationalization.

Sooner or later, hydrogen cars will be cheaper to own than a battery car. Once this happens, none of this reasoning will hold up to scrutiny.

Should be noted that you can have hydrogen delivered in the same way propane/LPG can be delivered. In fact, gasoline/petrol could have been delivered since the first days of the automobile. None of these ideas really mattered in the end.
> This just seems like punishing the poor, very much like fines for speeding. "Rich" people get the freedom to do and say what they wish, but the poor must sit still and only convey favorable opinions.

It's $5, not $500. Anybody using an account long-term will experience more cost from having it deleted than from paying that amount for a new one.

The reason it works is that a poor person gets to amortize that $5 over the life of the account, typically ten years or more, which makes it a negligible amount even for someone making minimum wage. Whereas the spammer gets banned and needs a new account every 90 seconds.

And if the problem is that your mods are imposing censorship on disadvantaged people, you don't want something that makes that sort of "moderation" effective. But that's a different problem. Maybe try not having such a small number of large platforms so it's easier for people to abandon the ones doing such things.
How about ai which is our government?
I'm willing, but I also have no choice in the matter, so it's hard to say whether it's benevolence or banality.
For anyone who's familiar with the roll of British entrepreneurs who did terribly at school and yet built massive companies, this post isn't some sort of massive reveal.

Is this something more common in the UK than the US? If so, why?
Isn't this standard on any laptop?
Even if it's conceptually simpler, it still suffers from the same issues in my comment
There is 'printf'. It's just that printf (and the rest of the standard library) is technically as much a part of the C language as the language grammar itself, and C compilers are welcome to use innate knowledge of those functions for optimizations. The other place you typically see this is calls to functions like memcpy/memset being elided to inline vector ops or CISC copies, or on simpler systems, large manual zeroing and copying being elided the other way to a memset or memcpy call.

C compilers will typically have an escape hatch for envs like deeply embedded systems and kernels like gcc's -ffreestanding and -fno-builtin that says "but for real though, don't assume std lib functions exist or you know what they are based on the function's name".

<rust_task_force> One of my favorite parts of rust as someone who uses it for deeply embedded systems is the separation of core and std (where core is the subset of std that only requires memcpy, memset, and one other I'm forgetting). The rest of the standard library is ultimately an optional part of the language with compiler optimizations focused on general benefits rather than knowing at the complier how something like printf works. no_std is such a nicer env than the half done ports of newlib or pdclib that everyone uses in C embedded land.
</rust_task_force>
Only because they have to. If there was a way to recharge within 3 minutes publically, the home charging solution would be rarely used.
Fun fact: World of Warcraft used SRP4 for a long while (I'm not sure if it does anymore). That's a pretty big deployment.

But this article will be useful; I have something unreleased that does password authentication by dumping the salt to the user, just out of ease of implementation. I'll probably take another look at it.
It is also very dangerous to machine. https://www.china-machining.com/blog/cnc-machining-magnesium...
It is quite obvious to me from your comments that you have zero experience writing commercial 3D games. However if I am wrong then you are welcome to elaborate.
I've been following Noah's journey on Twitter for some time, and I really like his short sneak peek videos on new features. This tool is just awesome!
It's not a prefect analogy because it only really captures the producer's point of view. They are hiding the product's heaviness or GMOness itself, but because they think that doesn't tell you anything about its safety or general worthiness and so should not be part of your decision.

You should still be able to avoid the product for environmental reasons, or just because, but of course they don't think so. (HN's favorite Sinclair quote about men and salaries and understanding.)
Closer to in 1939 remarking on somebody who buy their chemicals from IG Farben or weapon from Heckler and Koch.
Then I’ll keep the roku and cancel youtube premium. Google is just the worst.
Reusing plastics is honestly one of those "do we need to" things these days. The theory is that if we reuse them, then the waste doesn't pollute the environment - but landfilled plastic waste is basically sequestered carbon, and plastic pollution is ocean-borne and mostly being directly produced by poor environmental practice - not unrecycled plastic waste or landfill escape.
fastest swap implementation, assembler:

PUSH A[j];
PUSH A[i];
POP A[j];
POP A[i];
Calls on puts you say?
Any examples of this?
Yeah, good point about that conflict of interest
I JUST LOVE THIS. I thought they were making donations to big names in OS fields but I was pleasantly surprised. neovim, axios, urlib3 and dark reader.

I think I am going to start making a laundry list of small YouTubers, Projects, Browser Extensions, and Maintainers so I can help them out as they helped me out.
probably not. Then again, does the fed actually have the authority to do some of the things that it does?
“The Fed” as in the Federal Reserve: no.

“The Fed” as in the Federal Government: yes.
TBH, that's a prediction of the future that you haven't substantiated.

The fact that the have insane YOY growth with 14B quarterly revenue, are supply constrained - not demand constrained, have very high profit margin per car if you exclude new giga factory investments is sufficient to justify the stock price.
My guess: since overflowing int is UB, and the only value of n that stops the recursion is zero, the compiler assumes that n must be zero and checks accordingly.

That doesn’t explain why it uses test dil, 1 instead of test dil, dil or cmp 0 or whatever.
Body on Carbs, in Real Time
Why is the book “Business Adventures” so popular with tycoons?
I try and avoid any news about that person so I don't know much about Truth other than it exists, how is it violating any license?
I was bored with billionaires fighting with each other over nothing before it was cool.
That's an awful website you've linked; pop ups on popups, obscuring alerts, all overlaying the content. Do you mind providing a short text comment about what a "decoy" is in this context?
This is exactly why its better to buy a dumb TV and install a $50 HDMI stick (or two)
> lawsuits per capita

try legal transations per capita
> ...it feels disingenuous to me, people who say that never actually think that their questions will be stupid.

I ask questions that have a decent chance of making me look stupid all the time. Even when the rational part of my brain says "if you have this question, it's likely that other people do too," there's a big part of me that worries, "nah, I'm the odd one out here."
> Is it worth paying for YouTube?

That depends on how much not seeing that 'constant and disruptive advertising' is worth to you.