skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Bezos is not at the level where he could possibly be doing that.

Do you really think there is any person or entity that Amazon does business with, that will do significantly more because he has rockets and yachts?

Bezos appears to want to do things that are not original, simply because other billionaires do them. The very essence of status symbolism.

Lots of people hate Elon Musk, and I'm hardly a fan, but wanting to make science fiction real seems to me easier to respect and accept. He wants to go to Mars because he genuinely wants to do it.
Yes, but some of the remixes and things creators have done since then are...astounding in how well they capture the original's emotional intent and deepen it, even given modern technology. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfjLTYJ8Z2o for instance.
You mention GCd languages being a bad choice for games in your README. But these days Java has GCs that have < 1ms pauses. I wonder if it is still true?

https://kstefanj.github.io/2021/11/24/gc-progress-8-17.html
If you look at some of the other major FF franchises, its a combination of brooding angsty teen guy and an incoherent story that seems like a committee couldn’t figure out how to wrap up. Entertaining in their own right because usually something in their story has profound impact anyway, but FF6 stands out in this regard because its a well crafted and impactful story without the angst and strangeness.
The fact of the matter is they still have close 2 billion active logins each day. Even if they have settled in matters of user acquisitions they haven't stopped harvesting increasing amounts of profit from each users. I would like to know how the statistics of revenue per user would be from this point on.
Thankfully these are no match for T-47s equipped with harpoons.
> If a stock is priced at a huge multiple to earnings and sales...

FBs P/E ratio was well into the value stock territory of ~22 before this dip. They were trading at the lowest multiple of any other big tech company by far, now they're even more insanely undervalued from a fundamentals perspective. I realize that doesn't matter in the age of the meme stock, but personally I'm still pretty bullish in the long term and that's assuming the XR stuff is just a giant money furnace and returns nothing.
That’s not entirely correct, as I know of at least one approach to neural program synthesis that employs self supervised learning.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.08381

It’s a slightly different, easier problem: generating programs based on example outputs, rather than natural language specifications.
That is what I expected also. But no, it is a different game, text-based.
I offered a possible explanation to the question that puzzled you. That is the relevance.

The simple and plausible answer is that 94% of Medicare recipients report being very satisfied or satisfied with the quality of their "medical care" but most would not want to rely on medicare exclusively and have their private insurance abolished.

What is really bizarre is that 67% of Medicare-for-all supporters think they would be able to keep their current health insurance under Medicare-for-all!

Other related facts:

60% of Americans would oppose a national Medicare-for-all plan if it require most Americans to pay more in taxes

Roughly half of Americans would oppose medicare-for-all if told it will increase the taxes that you personally pay, but decrease your overall costs for health care

PDF:
https://www.kff.org/slideshow/public-opinion-on-single-payer...
1yr plus PacNW user; this is likely adding needed backhaul for this high demand region.
he's pretty decent. i can't think of anything particularly impressive about domestic policy (there's not much to improve on anyways in that aspect. shit runs pretty well here.) but he was pretty forward looking in seeing that the govt needed to actively support tech to build up a tech sector here. his son actually leads one of the government tech innovation units here (Open Government Products) and their work is pretty dope and useful.

i respect him more for how he conducts foreign policy. professional, eloquent and incisive, IMO he really brings the best side of our country to the international table.
I’m Single, & I’m Not Dating. Why Is That So Hard for People to Understand?
Ah I'm not too far into my tech career (2 years) and wouldn't say I'm looking to get out quite yet (I'd like to pay my debts off first), but I'm curious to hear what you've learned about getting into woodworking. I can't find your email on your page though :(
You can, but you have to try to make some sense.
reddit used to be great until they pulled their great bait & switch, then added all kinds of authoritarian features.

A brief history of reddit:

>We want to democratize the traditional model by giving editorial control to the people who use the site, not those who run it.

— Reddit FAQ 2005

>We've always benefited from a policy of not censoring content

— u/kn0thing 2008

>A bastion of free speech on the World Wide Web? I bet they would like it," he replies. [reddit]'s the digital form of political pamplets.

— u/kn0thing 2012

>We will tirelessly defend the right to freely share information on reddit in any way we can, even if it is offensive or discusses something that may be illegal.

— u/reddit 2012

>We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it. Not because that's the law in the United States - because as many people have pointed out, privately-owned forums are under no obligation to uphold it - but because we believe in that ideal independently, and that's what we want to promote on our platform. We are clarifying that now because in the past it wasn't clear, and (to be honest) in the past we were not completely independent and there were other pressures acting on reddit. Now it's just reddit, and we serve the community, we serve the ideals of free speech, and we hope to ultimately be a universal platform for human discourse (cat pictures are a form of discourse).

— u/yishan 2012

>Neither Alexis [u/kn0thing] nor I created Reddit to be a bastion of free speech

— u/spez 2015
I've been playing with Copilot as well.

It's very good at handling boilerplate and making contextual suggestions.

I don't see it eating my cake, but it's definitely a very useful tool for saving time.
Basically, a Mac :)
For me the most impactful thing by far was leaving the phone in the other room. Instant gain of 1-2 hours of sleep per night.
Zuckerberg’s ‘metaverse’ lost more than $10B last year and losses keep growing
Take heart. This might be all natural.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29886907
The new Home Assistant Yellow board even has a built-in M.2 M-key slot for NVMe storage; there are some other boards out there with built-in slots too (I especially like the BitPiRat I recently tested: https://pipci.jeffgeerling.com/boards_cm/mirkos-bitpirat-com...
That's Brad Fitzpatrick https://twitter.com/bradfitz/status/1488682672960376832
Here is an article [1] that shows consumption of coffee and soft drinks in 1946/47 and 2005. Adding coffee and soft drinks together there has been an increase of approx 32% in consumption since 1946.

Coffee 1946: 46.4 gallons per person

Coffee 2005: 24.2 gallons per person

Soft drinks 1947: 10.8 gallons per person

Soft drinks 2005: 51.5 gallons per person

Total caffeinated consumption in 46/47: 57.2 gallons / person

Total caffeinated consumption in 2005: 75.7 gallons / person

The chart seems to indicate tea has stayed relatively flat in the same time period. I'm not sure the history of caffeine pills or ADHD medicine, but those may also contribute to an increased consumption in 2005.

[1] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2007/june/coffee-consum...
Instagram is arguably fast becoming the 21st century version of the glossy fashion magazines my parent's generation often read to kill time, where every second page would be a full page advert for a perfume or a watch.
Facebook suspended the official washington state republican group multiple times for posts, they finally moved over to mewe.

Facebook is a shadow of what it use to be after running off everyone.
Digital scans of the slides only available on site, not online. I hate that sort of thing:

https://archives.museumofplay.org/repositories/3/archival_ob...
I mentioned AIM and XMPP because they put pressure on SMS pricing, and increased demand for mobile data.
Assembly was pretty much the only way to break the speed barrier that BASIC imposed. It started out as 'the' language, then after a while you'd realize there was the computer underneath BASIC that could do more and was faster, but also a bit scary. Then, after you mastered peek and poke and bit by bit learned more about what made the computer tick one day you'd wake up and realize that all you still used BASIC for was to load machine language programs.

That gradual ramp made it work.
You might enjoy Mathew Valente's YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/tssf

One of his recent projects is finding the original instrument samples that Nobuo Uematsu used before they were compressed into the game and using those to make high-def "restored" versions of the songs. It sounds easy but there's quite a lot of work behind it and the result is fantastic.
There is also comparatively more at stake when a newspaper gets facts wrong, versus misinformation on a Facebook post. When a newspaper mistakenly publishes false information at the time (which should not happen too often due to internal fact-checking teams or at least a trained editor and journalist), they issue a correction out of journalistic ethics. But when a Facebook post publishes a falsehood, there is far less obligation to issue a correction notice or remove the post.
Uber has the worst hiring process.

I had a junior system admin working for me in ~2012. He wasn't bad, in general, but he was extremely dishonest. We had a failure in a raid volume and volunteered to do the work, got trashed at a trivia night and then completely destroyed the system before passing out. This was one of many, many issues with him that were all documented.

I have another friend, a woman, who had five years experience before working at Uber and several years there. She applied for a senior position but was denied. However, they did put her on the hiring committee for it.

My friend knew what happened with my junior system admin (and new him personally). The first thing she noticed was that his resume was completely made up- he gave himself a senior devops title, lied about his previous internship being a job, and otherwise grossly overstated his skillset. My friend on the hiring committee pointed all of this out, and said a simple reference check would resolve this.

He was hired for the senior position, she was treated like crap. He was later fired for stalking and sexually harassing a coworker. The hiring process at that company is just ridiculous.
Why have I never ever run into this problem in the ten years of not having Facebook?

Admittedly I use Google for the answers. But I’ve never once needed FB. Is this a regional thing? Some areas exclusively use FB for a storefront?
I’m not sure whether everyone else is getting poorly paid at Amazon, or whether my clique is just doing well, but I’ve found that my salary is (was) in line with the higher end of the market. The declining/flat stock price changes that though. I know quite a few Amazonians looking to leave once their two years are up*

* Amazon pay a signing bonus for the first two years in lieu of RSUs. The idea is that you could sell your RSUs to make up the difference. The problem is that, for anyone who started in the last two years, your RSUs won’t make up the difference between your base salary and what you were getting as a bonus.
Something I've always wanted to work on was a browser extension that allowed things like this to happen collaboratively. There's stuff like PeerLibrary[0] that lets you annotate things as a group, but it's limited to publications and things you upload. Nyxt seems to meet what I want but lacks the collaborative aspect I'm looking for.

There's a couple of Browser extensions that have sorta tried to accomplish this before. Epiverse[1] seems to be the most polished one so far. It originally intended to allow any user to comment on any webpage. But it found that without existing content, few found it useful. So eventually the creator just parsed to see if the webpage was posted on Reddit or Hackernews. The original purpose of it ended up being too expensive to host so it ended up just becoming a HN/Reddit parser. Which, tbh, is basically what I want to build at this point. I'd love to contribute to the project, but I don't have much time and it's closed source

The other similar extensions also just parse HN/Reddit like Newsit[2] (which is open-source) and Thredd[3] (which only parses Reddit). My only real addition to this is that I'd like to include the ability to parse more than just Reddit and HN. I wanna create a discussion aggregator. There's similar sites like Lobste.rs and Lemmy.ml that could also be parsed, but obviously that's not the full extent of where discussions happen around a webpage.

I don't think I have it figured out, and I don't know if anyone ever will, but I think there's a lot to gain if someone is able to someday harness that feeling that you get when you read something really good or find something really cool and wanna see how others responded

[0] https://peerlibrary.org/

[1] https://epiverse.co/

[2] https://newsit.benwinding.com/

[3] https://thredd.io/
This is such a straw man. You’re really comparing physical newspapers to Facebook? Even my boomer parents let their physical subscription go.
Science Fiction Mavens Offer Far Out Homeland Security Advice [2008]
Yes, this model supports Wireless Uplink with Plug & Play Mesh:

> Wireless Uplink functionality enables wireless connectivity between APs for extended range. One wired UniFi AP uplink supports up to four wireless downlinks on a single operating band, allowing wireless adoption of devices in their default state and real-time changes to network topology. For devices that support Plug & Play Mesh, this functionality is extended to allow multi-hop wireless uplink – so wirelessly uplinked APs can support uplink to other wirelessly uplinked APs.

(quote is from the datasheet PDF)
Yep I guess the pull to be a walled garden is too great. Even Twitter, a product that should have been the true antithesis to walled garden pigeon holed themselves into walled garden state. I wrote a blog post about it a long time ago https://medium.com/@shareU/we-built-this-city-2cb97437942f
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/sep/14/facebook-...

https://www.techtransparencyproject.org/articles/white-supre...

https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-facebook-russia...

So outrageous it's easy to find evidence for all of them?
Agreed. Not sure what did the programming environment look like on Apple 2 back then. Probably not great. I don't even know whether there were debuggers. Need some Googling.
Like this alternative, nice job! Wonder if there's room for a Wordle that crosses genres each day too to keep things interesting.
I think I agree, though from a more skeptical standpoint. To be fair I haven't used VR much lately, but at first glance I see a lot of parallels between this and the iPad.

The iPad is a fantastic device, and it definitely changed the way many people use computers. People use them for all sorts of things, because they feature properties that make them more comfortable for plenty of work applications.

I'd argue however they haven't had the significant, "post-PC" impact people used to believe they'd have. I remember the narrative back then was predicting they would change the way most people interacted with computers, and PCs would stick around "like trucks" just for the "heavy" or specific jobs for which they'd the absolutely required.

What I've seen instead is that iPads (and all tablets really) act mostly as a utility or compliment, and when I had one I only casually used it for light tasks when my computer was out of reach or battery.

So in my case, I don't doubt a lot of places will have VR headsets for work, but I still don't think people will consider them indispensable except for very specific applications. I think we'll keep seeing more remote service repairs, for example, but not that workers going into factories will become exceedingly rare— only less extraordinary. I think it's probable VR will become as common for 3D artists as tablets are for 2D artists, but don't necessarily think it'll spill out into software architecture or other keyboard-centric applications like that.

In summary, I think VR will become more commonplace and be a fantastic tool in many contexts, but I don't think at the moment that it will signify a significant paradigm shift in most work contexts.
I agree with you on this, since we humans want things in a vague form, and it's still very hard for computers to infer insights from those ambiguous requirements. Not very easy to do that by taking derivatives of function compositions.
Miller v California has been undermined so severely by subsequent decisions that it basically doesn't apply anymore.
Nintendo of America was way more strict about content, so a lot of RPGs would heavily self-censor just so they didn't fail approval and have to go through the long approval process again.

IMO this hack is only partly about censorship, and largely about fixing mistakes and limitations.

I love Woolsey's localizations and would rather have his than a fully accurate translation that loses its charm. But the FF6 translation was also done by a single person with limited information about the game, so there's a fair number of errors. So, I like the approach they took there where they fixed mistakes without losing the flavor.

On top of that, they fixed limitations in string length, allowing for more accurate names for spells, items, enemies, etc.
Maybe, but the type of people he describes are insufferable too. Tech people are usually the worst offenders of thinking/acting like they are smarter than everyone.
In other words, starlink added 5 guy-at-large’s worth of ports.
I felt a similar way when it first happened. I was fuming "an update should never break your core functionality across all devices!" only to find that it wasn't actually the latest update but rather code that had been there for ages.

It's hard to hate something once you truly understand it, I guess.
Ask them if they have a putnam?
> Soft drinks 2005: 51.5 gallons per person

Wow, no wonder Diabetes has skyrocketed.

51.5 gallons is almost 900 ml a day. That is about 100 grams of sugar per day.

This is like a epidemic of sugar addiction.
I hope its waste doesn't result in billions of microscopic scary-sharp razor blades spread everywhere.
Thanks Daniel, much better indeed.
I've interacted with local businesses that use a Facebook page as a replacement for maintaining a website that they own. The rationale I've read is that their time is best spent providing their quality service versus learning website development (even with a block-based website builder), and hiring a web developer is too pricey, when they can create a Facebook page that is easy to set up.

Most importantly, it's easy for them to update and maintain a Facebook page, versus an independent website.
I get this same sense. I really want to need an RPi 400 out of nostalgia. My original machine was an Atari 400. It's not much to justify, but I can't think of what I'd actually do with it, other than put it on a shelf like a hipster.

I think the closest recreated retro-experience is the Commander X16[0]. The thing I like about it is that it specifically isn't a modern computer. Everything is simple right in the hardware. Other choices are often capable of running a full Linux but then used to run a script or emulator. There's definitely the realistic possibility of getting to fully know your machine, especially given that there's extensive documentation and a community.

Here's some hardware specs from c64-wiki[1] and it 'boots to basic'

CPU: WDC 65C02S, a static descendant of the 6502
Speed: 8MHz
Video: The VERA module generates VGA (and other formats)
tile and bitmap modes; 128 sprites; 128K video RAM;
palette with 256 colors selected from a total range of 4096
Sound: Yamaha YM2151 sound chip.
16-channel stereo Programmable Sound Generator
PCM audio playback up to 48kHz 16-bit stereo
RAM: 40K "low" or "BASIC" RAM
An additional 512K SRAM (expandable to 2MB) in 8K banks
ROM: Banked in 16K groups; contains an upgraded Commodore KERNAL,
DOS functions and a 16 bit ABI, and an upgraded BASIC 2.0
Media: An on-board SD card with native FAT32 support
Outputs: Two SNES controller ports, plus two additional SNES port headers
PS/2 keyboard and mouse. VGA. Stereo audio. I2C bus
Inputs: SD; four expansion slots with access to the CPU databus;
IEC port; SNES ports; I2C bus
Operating System: Commodore KERNAL and BASIC
Battery-backed Microchip MCP7940N real-time-clock chip
Form Factor: Micro-ATX

[0] https://www.commanderx16.com

[1] https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Commander_X16#Hardware_specifi...
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_drop_experiment#Fraud_alle... and the following section. Physics isn’t immune to it.
Thanks, that article is a lot more informative.
My 16yo daughter says FB is for old people and nobody in her age group is using it.
Meta? Never heard of them.
In fact Turbo Pascal (and later TurboC) was so fast that initially I thought there was something wrong with the compiler, that's how quick it compiled a program. CTRL-F9 and off to the races.
This is awesome! Awesome enough that I actually don't mind that it has ads. I checked out my project (https://www.libhunt.com/etewiah/property_web_builder ) and even though the alternatives were not bang-on, there is a button to suggest alternatives so the results can be improved.

What I really like though are the mentions. I'll keep coming back to that page if only to keep an eye on where my project is getting mentioned.
It seems like every report I read about comes to the opposite conclusion of the one before it.
I can't find the article I first read about this in but the Wordle wikipedia page mentions a couple of antecedents with near-identical gameplay, including a TV game show called Lingo ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wordle
I hope they ship soon. I preordered Starlink and put down the deposit in Feb 2021. Still nothing.
retvrn to traditional Python
Uh...that already happens and AI isn't event required
But they use Instagram instead. Either way Zuck wins.
Wordle-over-SSH
> I went back to my forums, find myself easily disengaging from Reddit (around the election, Reddit was nothing but stress), Check Twitter maybe 10 minutes a week, go to Instagram once a week because my kid posts his artwork there.

Are you a teen or a young adult. I am guessing you are in between age of 35 - 45 because, I am that age myself and have started weaning off of social media lately. The dopamine rewards are just not worth it.

I have, however, moved on to saner places like HN.
No, at this level, connections are symetric. The next question is probably why is it reported as 2x2x100G? That's most likely two separate connections which are each an aggregated connection of two 100G connections. This is likely to two separate routers on the Starlink.
The language around this is confusing and contradictory around the article. Did overall users fall or did user growth fall? Is it decelerating or shrinking?
> The idea that a driver can anticipate when a self-driving car is going to fuck up and do anything to prevent it is bullshit and the charlatans pushing these cars know it.

There is no factual basis for this claim. Cruise control and adaptive cruise control have been in use for a long time, require this type of attention, and are safe to use.
- Not an OS

- Unrelated to Notion Labs, Inc.