skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Major lol, because engineers quit. Who runs it then?

A bunch of sorry chump ass latecomer teams who are still run by useless ignorant product chumps who cant understand shit & just want features features features.

Oh sorry, everything is shit & everyone who built this shitpile split, but you cant really grok any of that can you? Making the engineers the sole & pertpetually responsible ones is a shit show. Common and trash & so typically ignorant.
If you get great test scores, and you go to a school that does not send many students to the ivy leagues et al, you will get noticed; this helps a lot of smart low SES urban or rural students gain entry.

> spending summer break at work, saving enough money

is going to count in your favor

if you go to a competitive high school that sends lots of kids to top universities, then you need to stack up your extra-curriculars to stand out wrt all the other kids in a similar position
the ones that get published and get enough attention likely get prioritized
Why, yes. Yes, I am :)
Sounds like the fediverse. Most posts don't get a lot of interaction there.
LOL the "olden days" of open fires are very much alive and well here in NZ. There's a small town near me that gets smog in winter due to coal smoke from people who only have space heaters and single glazing.
Young people didn't leave Facebook because it was cancerous. They left it because it was boring. The "cancerousness" on Twitter isn't even skewed older: if anything it's skewed younger.
Let's make this simpler: If money disappeared, a lot of people would die. I don't care how long you make the transition period; even if it's a change spread across 20 years, without a database of resources and how many belong to each person (which is what money is), you aren't going to be able to coordinate people well enough to feed billions of people each day. How would the deletion of the database serve anyone?
What's the practical exposure to CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNET?
> What I think would be nice is if there we tools that better allowed us to create "social gardens" on platforms like Twitter, platforms that allowed us to better cultivate the topics we care about while allowing us to keep out some stray topic from someone who we otherwise follow because of something entirely different.

isn't this essentially what mastodon is?
Social platforms seem to be largely segregated by social class. Children and young people have their own stuff, likewise different generations and socioeconomic groups have their own fora. Twitter is something like the urban-cosmopolitan-progressive-educated-professional-30+ forum, and the politics reflect that.
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The guesses can get scarily good. Typically you start with the GNSS signal as your initial position/velocity estimate and inertial measurements to estimate travel from that point. With decent sensors and no other constraints, you can get lane level accuracy for upwards of a minute at highway speeds without a satellite fix. However, people (and vehicles) don't have arbitrary paths and the places where they do tend to be easy to get a satellite fix. The kinds of places where you have difficult GNSS environments also tend to have networks of paths and streets that can be used to refine your estimate., a technique called "map matching". In good conditions, you can localize position to within a block inside an entire urban area on that alone.
> If you're the type of person who can't resist engaging with things that make you angry, algorithmic feed websites are not for you.

I think I am that kind of guy, to an extent. I don't always indulge - but it is always a constant temptation.

Probably why I exiled myself from FB and Twitter.
> "We have heard that half a million [Iraqi] children have died. I mean, that is more children than died in Hiroshima," Stahl said. "And, you know, is the price worth it?"

> "I think that is a very hard choice," Albright answered, "but the price, we think, the price is worth it."

https://twitter.com/theserfstv/status/1506706179178725379
> Meanwhile, I find that Twitter is actually a really useful platform if you carefully curate the people you follow.

Exactly this. If you put some effort into following and unfollowing people regularly and you're the type of person who can resist engaging with inflammatory content, Twitter can actually be quite nice.

But for the people who just can't scroll past ragebait or inflammatory Tweets, Twitter is not a good place to be. People who can't exercise self-restraint or shrug things off seem to get pulled into angry, combative bubbles. It's basically the old mailing list flamewars but with shorter content and faster pace. These people are better off staying clear of Twitter entirely.
Oh. Well then I guess I’m against free speech as you’re defining it.

I’m in favor of everyone being free to speak their mind and share the opinions, without the government punishing them. I’m also in favor of individuals’ ability to absorb, ignore, retort, react, etc based on their own opinions of what people say. This includes both your ability to listen to any and all opinions at all times, and my ability to say I don’t want to have some content in my Twitter feed.

Thankfully the law where I live (the US) defines free speech as aligning with my definition.
With 10 years of dealership experience, I can promise this is not at all common. First off, very few dealerships finance your vehicle, instead they simply facilitate the paperwork through any bank thats competitive. Other than for some incentives with the bank over time, they couldn't care less if you default on your loan. They sure aren't going to get involved at all in assisting the repo process.

What you're referring to are devices installed by smaller shady "buy here pay here" dealerships that do in house financing for people with bad credit. Even then, gos trackers are extremely rare. Much more common are remote disabling devices. If you make a car unable to function, it's not that hard to find. Heck, they don't even really want to find it. They want to motivate the owner to make their payment, which disabling it usually does.

Finally, what some normal dealerships do to increase profit and ease of making aftermarket sales, is preinstall theft deterents or safety devices to ALL cars on the lot, and then hope they can upsell each buyer during the paperwork process. The reason this is done is because having to bring the car back to the dealership to have your after market products installed is a huge pain, which becomes a major sales objection. Thus, dealerships decided to start installing the devices in every car ahead of time, since they are cheap parts anyway, and using that as a sales tactic to sell you on paying for the actual service contract or insurance (the word used loosely here) as part of the product they installed.

Tldr; dealerships install $39 GPS trackers in every car on the lot.
25% of the time, they manage to extract $500-1000 of profit by selling the service for $1200 to a buyer. This pencils out on the end, thus they keep doing it. Definitely a more sleazy tactic that almost no dealership I worked for used, but not uncommon. Heck, the OP story was done at a franchise Audi dealership.
Scrutiny doesn't seem to have eradicated "the 2020 election was stolen", or "the coronavirus vaccines don't work".
> I could delete twitter, but that's essentially like blocking everyone on it.

Yeah, it's great. Twitter has nothing to do with reality, it's a shared delusion between a bunch of people that hate each other. You won't miss a thing.
someone like Srinivasa Ramanujan. True genius needs to be found, identified and nurtured. If they are born in a poor household, there would not be as big an opportunity to identify them, and society would be poorer for it.

Therefore, society should look to try and identify them, and spend resources to get them to flourish.
There’s nuclear thermal rocket engines that have been explored, but those don’t actually use the nuclear fuel as a propellant either. They use hydrogen. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NERVA
The question is, should a university
a. maximize for absolute value of success of its alums (for some definition of "success"), or
b. maximize for the value it adds to the student (and hence the society) by considering the difference in the said measure as a result of the student joining the univ.

(a) is easier to measure and optimize for. But it will select for students who will do well in later life - irrespective of what the univ has to offer. The univ's entrance criteria will exhibit this bias. Of course, some biases can be explicitly countered - by having a quota system for those with less privilege. But in each of those subsets, the univ still tries to maximize for absolute success of the individual.

(b) is harder to measure - as it seeks to quantify the portion of individual's success that can be attributed to the univ specifically.
The “set it on fire” part seems like the part that you want to ban, regardless of whether insider trading is legal.
I haven't found any technologists on Twitter who avoid posting or interacting with political or social-issues stuff.

Everybody has an opinion on Trump, Biden, BLM, Trans Rights, Free Speech, racism, sexism, religion, immigration, abortion, war... the list goes on.

I'd actually pay money to follow technologists whose opinions on anything outside the tech in question I have no good guesses about.

The standard refrain is "well all tech is political". Well no: it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from when you're talking about a quirk of CSS or a cool e-ink project... or at least it doesn't interest me who you are or where you come from: I'm interested in what you're learning/teaching/doing with the tech.
I’m tickled that 4th century Greece had the “[me,] an intellectual” meme.
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The obesity epidemic is a lot more recent than barn-raising days. Even in the 90s people were considerably skinnier.
Yet another way to suppress expression that one doesn't like. This is not how the world should be.
Or a sign of 'genius'? Meet the Residents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsEz1OAUBBM
Same here. Besides author wise block I desperately need topic wise block. For instance this Will Smith slapgate has totally screwed up my carefully curated timeline. My only option is to take a two week Twitter sabbatical and hope it dies down.
Money doesn't keep track of resources. It is a fake system that has no correlation to how many resources are available to each person, and in fact it is ripe with abuse to hoard resources for those that don't actually need them.

Computer systems and databases are what keeps track of resources, as well as communities. This idea that we should focus on money rather than morals or value is absurd and part of the issue that will end up causing the 2nd fall of rome.
So my guess would be you have both a inverted index and some sort of ANN index deployed, and route queries to those depending on the inferred intent?
Could be at least 1 order of magnitude faster though.
Nvidia Debuts Spectrum-4 Ethernet Platform with Eyes on the Enterprise
Insofar as "schizoposting" is a made up term, it's largely made up by its practitioners. I'm not attempting to make any particular normative statement by continuing to use their choice of word.

I don't think that the person who wrote this is dumb. I think they're probably misinformed, have developed a myopic reactionary bent, and are probably trying to express sentiments that English doesn't really have a great vocabulary for yet. That's not a new theme in history!
I've been actively removing connections who comment or like posts that add no value to me. But LinkedIn is rapidly going downhill - some days my feed is just full of rubbish.
Sounds like you're describing federated microblogging. There's mastodon or pleroma that you could check out.
My biggest issue with Twitter these days is that my curated social garden keeps being invaded by engagement farmers who use the thread feature to post obnoxious listicles. I’m constantly being recommended tweets like these in my feed:

“I hunted, killed, and ate a wild baboon (brains and all)…Here are the 13 things I learned about human health along the way.”

“I read all 40,000 words from Jeff Bezos' Amazon shareholder letters. Here are 9 lessons worth your time:”

“We keep seeing the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. This is a feature of the system, not a bug. Time for a thread”

They remind me of Buzzfeed articles back in the early 2010s and there’s no way to turn it off besides muting the word thread and its emoji.
That Silicon Valley episode and PG's Don't Talk to Corp Dev essay have a very similar takeaway. Interesting that they both came out around the same time in 2015 as well.

One counter I would make to PG's essay is: investors, whether accelerators, VCS, or otherwise, predominantly benefit from big exits... and so they have that effect of pushing towards polarized outcomes ($0 or big). But "small" exits can still be very meaningful for founders.
Funny addendum: I was just talking to a friend who had one of his developers poached by another bay area firm and wants to get them back.

EE with 10years web dev experience, willing to grind 48 hours without sleep on tough problems. He was paying 2k/month
Exactly. If you’re really intellectually bright and committed, all those extracurricular activities, populated by average students, are a total waste of time. Regardless of anything they say, MIT and Cal Tech have prospered precisely by ignoring that crap, and giving preference to people who can do the work.
Beat it a long time ago and randomly picked it up again last night. They made a lot of improvements. Still a fun idle clicker.
There's something about this image that almost brings tears to my eyes. It's so big. It's an order of magnitude larger than our ("our") Milky Way. And that little smear to the bottom-left? A whole galaxy with uncountable stars, but also just a few pixels.

Do we humans represent something greater? Are we just a smear of pixels, a trivialising of some incomprehensibly large object? Are we really just this small? Are we a galaxy to some other being in some microscopic dimension, imaged with technology of a totally alien nature? Maybe these aren't logical questions.

I mean, there are plenty of photos like this, where you can just barely begin to appreciate the scale of the visible universe, but yeah, this one just got me today.
Its definitely interesting to consider something like that. Stats as to why might be cool, but odds are nothing is going to change my mind. I am actually more curious about how many users on my list end up getting banned for being bots eventually.

There used to be a tool I think called something like block with me, where you could follow other users block lists. Although I can't seem to find it any more. Options like that would certainly be interesting. But Twitter isn't incentivized to do something like that.
Yeah I mean it is natural to hang with your gang. We do that in real life, outside of the internet.

But, the premise of this post is to nuke a tweet which is rather a good name for it. It would end up creating a worse exposure for the person blocking. They'll be left with the most perfect resonant chamber - this is how conspiracy theories and lies spread. Mentally conditioned to ignore facts and diverging opinions.

Sure, go ahead and form a band with people you love to hang out with. Play music, enjoy life.
>Wales made corporeal punishment illegal recently. That would be unthinkable in most of the world. In most Asian cultures, children have a lifelong obligation to their parents.

China banned corporal punishment during the communist revolution of 1949, and is about to enact new laws that strengthen enforcement in rural areas and send offending parents to reeducation facilities. Japan banned it in 1947, and passed another law more explicitly banning it in 2020.

Still you are right in that compared to most of the world, the US/UK gives less authority to parents. But compared to other developed countries with similar GDP, they are still very traditional.

>the fact that my parents were/are wonderful and my father hit me occasionally explains my views here.

I'm sure many people have the same experience, but frankly I don't understand why this would lead you to conclude that hitting a child is reasonable. People cannot be divided into "good people" and "abusers"; everyone is capable of both types of behavior under the right circumstances. We can always use more research, but we have studied this topic enough that you should not be relying so much on personal anecdotal experience instead of peer reviewed research. We have large, well controlled studies that consistently show that corporal punishment contributes to developmental problems and is an ineffective method of promoting good behavior.

Answer me this: is there any type of evidence you would accept? If you were to design a study to determine whether corporal punishment is helpful or harmful, what method would you use? How big would the study have to be? How strong of a correlation would you need to see to believe it?
They use Common App. Here's the requirements:
https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/apply/application-checklist/ap...
Yeppers. Insane in the membrane.
Now surf their site and see if you can find merit scholarships. That's a fun one too.
These gardens sound like federated social networks, like mastodon or pleroma hosts in the Fediverse.
What is the point of these tests if people can just test prep their way through it? The result is not indicative of their true selves, it is simply yet another horrible facade.
In these jokes, is the word intellectual meant to be a substitute for “smartass”?
For one it prevents seawater incursion, a major threat to California coastal cropland.
Would you rather that Europeans write about non-European cultures, or would that just meet with a different complaint?

Are Europeans allowed to say anything at all?
That's interesting the three color thing didn't know that was a thing
They are claiming that it’s maybe helpful for being more equitable than the other measures.
> live in a democracy and take my chances with Covid-19 than live under an authoritarian regime.

that's a straw man false dichotomy. It's not mutually exclusive. Just because trump and his administration handled it poorly, doesn't mean it can't be handled well under a democracy. Look at new zealand and australia - they handled it fairly well.
That is news to me, and good to know.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/python-27-rea...

Apparently RHEL will maintain any security problems until 2024, but yeah it's pretty much dead. Huh. Not sure how to react to that.
Conceptual Architecture of the Linux Kernel (1998)
Cheatsheet for the C++ core guidelines (Philosophy), including a set of tried-and-true guidelines, rules, and best practices about coding in C++.
Exactly. Nobody really successful is well-rounded. Who TF has time? Well-roundedness is great when you’re spending money earned by others.
1. Find out using inside information that Twilio is having a good quarter due to macro conditions

2. Buy deep OTM call options in… a similar company that’s in the same business as Twilio

3. Never get in any trouble
There have been tools like this in the past (e.g, ggautoblocker). All they do is make a social network even more broken.
I used to work for a place that did the summer fancy extra-curriculars.

Basically, think a very very fun summer camp, BUT we would package in X service features, one per week. This was a win win. Parent's would pay because kid could put the stories of painting the walls in X town on the application, or cleaning up Y pollution on a beach. And the rest of the times the kids could have fun and learn cool stuff (I'm being vague because I liked the program even though you had to have good money to go).
Do you have more information? Like what fraction of total TEU-miles are on short routes?
The author does not consider nuclear shipping vessels, while this is the right electric for long routes, such as Trans-Pacific: it allows for good utilization of reactor output, shave delivery times at no additional operational costs and it's nearly free from CO2 emissions (direct or indirect).

China is building a number of new nuclear ships starting with icebreakers but container ships are in the plans: https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3155860/ch...
I think that would be conflating Twitter with a different type of social tool. Because Twitter has such a critical mass of users it's not surprising that they're hitting some fundamental issues with internet communities, and users want to solve them on twitter instead of using a tool or platform better suited to the task of having a tightnit community or a space for discrete topic matters.

> There is of course the argument that this could lead to even worse echo chambers

I think it's chasing a red herring to think we can harmonize such broad points of view in the same room, so treating Twitter like a discussion platform while also trying to think of it as a broadcasted social network, you just get a lot of yelling and extremely shallow discussions. If you want in depth discussions, more than a few people is usually too many, let alone tens to hundreds to thousands. I've seen some entirely novel conversations come out of twitter, but I've seen far, far, far more shallow bullshit. It's the wrong tool.

> Ah, but who am I kidding, people would much rather possess a nuke than a garden.

I think you're very right here, people are afraid of not being part of the bigger conversation, and so they hesitate to find places to start their more discrete conversations elsewhere. I think that's made people forget how to have in depth discussions online, instead most topics circle around the same more broadcasted points as to not stray too far from the consensus, and accidentally disagree with their peers on the finer details.
What got me to convert was limiting the # of devices I could sync, not any storage limits.
While we're imagining.. maybe it's a swarm of self-replicating AI locusts that consume entire worlds. They're growing, almost exponentially, outward from the poor civilization that created them...
I tried out Google Drive on Windows years ago when I was already using Dropbox, but its performance was terrible. It might be better now. To fix sync I had to reinstall and resync, I couldn't just point it at an existing folder with the files I had. I've used various incarnations of onedrive and it also doesn't hold up to Dropbox's performance.

My main use case is all my audio recordings from my DAW - each take generates a small .wav and .reapeaks file. I use this as my live working folder - I read and write into my Dropbox folder while it's syncing.

These add up (more count- than total-size- wise). I currently have 378k files, 23k folders, 754 GB and Dropbox is the only client that hasn't skipped a beat with it (even before they rewrote it in rust - it used to be python???? insane). It runs well on a 10-year-old CPU and even ran well before I moved it to an SSD.

It's not perfect - onedrive keeps infinite document history, Dropbox a max of a year - but for anyone looking for sync performance I'd suggest looking at Dropbox first.
So, if someone is celebrating Hitler, and 100,000 people "love" it, you don't think you should be allowed to block those toxic people? Hey, I get they need, help, but many of them, if not all, are too far gone.

The only thing that gives these people power is their voice.
This thread really shows that a lot of HN just really do not understand people unlike them.
> People didn’t have McDonalds and cars ages ago. Barn-raising, (manual) farming, and hunting are hard energy-intensive work. Our calorie output required to survive dropped

Not saying I know any better, but at it's face I don't buy this. The change in day-to-day activity doesn't feel like it would account for the difference from just the 80s to now.

> while the calorie inputs available cheaply dramatically increased.

This I buy much more, confounded with maybe the specifics of the nutrients available.