skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, just imaging a different society: you have broadband at home and that means you have a small homeserver at home, an IPv6 global for it, a domain name for you/you family/business with eventual subdomains.

You took photos with connected device like you do today, but instead of sync them against your Google Drive/iCloud your phone sync them to your homeserver both via internet when you are on the go or at home in your LAN. Your friend have a phonebook like all modern smartphones have today but that's phonebook is a little bit more featuresful, from it looking for a contact you can initiate a voice{,+video} call IP2IP, you can write a mail but also see a classic blog page of the contact if he/she/it have one, this is just a local app that offer you correspondents "public namespaces" (Plan 9 style) mounted locally as you wish and cached locally as you wish. That's means that you photo gallery offer access to your contacts public photos and videos, just looking for them. You browser, a real browser, not a modern WebVM offer your contacts sites, cached as you wish in similar ways etc.

That's means: more functionalities, no feature erased by some corporate decision, only the community decide, you contents on your iron, contents you like on your iron, so far faster usage, far better integration, far less reliance on any specific third party services. Not a single functionality less.

It's not a dream, technically is perfectly doable, those systems actually are already designed decades ago, with the first P2P video-conference with screen sharing in 1968 (NLS mother of all the demos), with late '70s Xerox Star Office system etc it's not there just because few big & powerful have other plans for their own interests and most others do not know nor care.
Last time I got a 99 cent arizona tea, there was some slimy chunks at the bottom. Maybe mold? That's probably why
Fairly risk-free way (well, compared to alternatives): invest $10K in interview prep, negotiation coaching etc. Get a FAANG job. Live frugally. In a few years you'll have your $1M.
Is any of that news though? This article seems like it’s trying so hard to point out something unique, but other than shifting tastes it seems the same as it ever was.
> There's not much in way of open source solutions to using it

But there are some? Can an arbitrary Linux box or Raspberry Pi be fitted with free software to receive AES67 over Ethernet from commercial solutions, or is there a catch?
It is almost certain that whatever happens, there will be a lawsuit. Suing twitter, the board, elon, maybe the SEC (possibly multiple in different directions). It happens with almost any large move where there is even a hint that something happened incorrectly.
What are your skillsets?
That's why I use an external mute. No shenanigans.
Can’t agree more. Taking about inequality while looking at those who have more than you is never going to work for me. Her opinion would have been more interesting if she had written about how privileged she is compared to the vast majority of the world population.
As someone who works on the code for a competitor of Sonos, the answer is that it is hard to do, depending on your requirements.

> ...(from) a video, or a game

So then you need low latency, like less than 10ms? So that lip-sync works, and the game is playable?

Do you need it distributed across different endpoints, also with low latency?

Does it need to run using unreliable WiFi connections, and not kill all audio just because one endpoint is under-performing?

These are all hard, hard enough that doing it well (and keeping it proprietary) makes companies like Sonos big.

OTOH, streaming mp3 from one endpoint to another is trivial.
just in case you weren't aware, http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
Not a coincidence. Elon also offered $420 per share when he tried to take Tesla private.

Context for the unfamiliar:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/420_(cannabis_culture)
> The author is right to point out that the old social contract, which consisted of mass employment and labour as the primary input is largely being replaced by more and more bizarre ownership and asset speculation schemes.

If you believe Piketty, this was true for most of human history, and the high value of labor was just a temporary blip from industrialization.
"Let me introduce your new CEO, a clone made by crossing Joe Rogan and Sergei Brin."
You can't read anything relevant until you have curated who you follow, which takes a long time.

Whatever you write goes into the void, until you have gained followers, for which you must keep posting into the void for hopes of getting followers...

In short, it only works for accounts from way back with enough circlejerk, or famous people.
Wouldn't you think it would be weird for all social media platforms refuse to air content from a leading contender for the presidency? Does the platform just pretend he doesn't exist? Can they play clips of him speaking in the debates? How about if he wins, do they just block anyone posting his inaugural address? Create two worlds, one in which he is president and another social media world in which he doesn't exist. Very weird.
Rich people be quiet
My take, this is about putting a valuation on non-twitter social. Reddit has more users than Twitter, and a valuation 1/5th of twitters. If Twitter is worth 47 billion to someone, then reddit should be worth 50-100 billion.

Unfortunately it's not possible to know if Elon has a major stake in any privately held social companies.
FFI and allocation overhead, plus not being able to perform global optimizations. Each numpy call is pretty fast, and if that's all you're doing then it's probably pretty close to optimal (ignoring for the moment that their routines explicitly optimize large inputs at the expense of small -- for small vectors you can beat numpy even in pure python if you don't explicitly rewrite the problem as a function of larger vectors with appropriate shapes), but a composite call graph potentially (and often) might have additional optimizations that can be applied.

For an illustrative example, imagine computing the sum of all elements of some `x-1` where x is some numpy vector. Each individual operation is dispatched to numpy without any global context, so it must explicitly allocate a buffer for the x-1 result before computing the sum. The astute observer might note that you can instead use np.subtract(x, 1, out=x) or np.subtract(x, 1, out=buffer) to reduce the impact of allocation, but the problem is _still_ dominated by memory bandwidth on modern hardware (at one point in the past memory access was about as slow as a computation, and now it's 100x slower at least), and having to iterate over roughly the same elements twice rather than doing a bunch of CPU/GPU operations at each element roughly doubles the total computation time if everything doesn't fit an a very fast cache. Even when using numpy to its fullest (which most people don't), the model of stringing together a bunch of local optimizations can't always and doesn't usually compete with the model of at least attempting to globally optimize the whole computation.
Pipedream: Chernovite’s Emerging Malware Targeting Industrial Control Systems [pdf]
They might bitch and moan but they'd take it up to force everyone to upgrade tools to "fit the new batteries".

As it is if you care you can get adapters on eBay/Amazon for cheap.
No, certainly not. My parents couldn't even help with college. But I bought my home in 2012 when prices were more reasonable.
There are very few companies that would want to buy Twitter and can afford it. And because of heightened antitrust scrutiny, none of them have any interest in trying when there's a very low chance of clearing such a merger with all the regulators in USA + EU + UK. (The last one even blocked Facebook's acquisition of Giphy. They'd have a field day with Twitter.)

So there probably won't be a competing offer.
The Bloomberg article states this fact, as well.
Abiword is very unstable, I do not recommend it unless you save at every keypress.
If the market decides the stock should go up or down after someone invests/divests (or files the applicable, standard form), that's one thing.

If he's prematurely saying what direction he's going to go one way or another, that's another thing. You don't see Vanguard tweeting "we're going to invest in this company if X happens and divest if not" to the general public, especially if they're trying to influence X to happen.

This essentially why he got in trouble with Tesla for tweeting he wanted to take it private at $420/share, immediately making the stock price jump up, even though he did not have "funding secured" and did not take it private. And he almost lost the ability to be a CEO or on a board of a public company for 10 years because of that!

https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
The java internal representation previously had a look up table for each Nth char (let's say 128, which is a nice round number), and if the indexes increased by 128 between every 128 chars it simply did a linear lookup. For most text this means constant time access, instead of a linear search through the 128 chars.

I don't think the benefits against a utf-8 system with a LUT would be very big, but as a retrofitted system (which it was) it is not bad. Pretty compact with mostly constant time access.
> I wish journalists would stop simply reprinting intentionally misleading company spin like this without any attempt to refute it.

That's exactly what reporters _should not_ do. Why would i want them to mix their opinions in when reporting an actual statment from the company.

People are perfectly capable of forming their own opinions.
> No matter how many times ... I keep reading "Heatsink Skydiving".

I always do the same thing with "Homomorphic encryption", I keep reading Homophobic encryption and start wondering what cryptographers have against certain groups of people !
Are you wealthy enough to not work now?

I ask because there is a lot more to life than working and it sounds like there might be a few work related things going on:

1) You don't need to work anymore for money

2) You've wildly succeeded in your career and may never top those experiences

3) Given your work success, I wonder if maybe you're a workaholic or that work is too large a part of your life

Any of those ring a bell?
We can only speculate why Russia was willing to fight over Ukraine and Georgia but not the baltics. One obvious difference is time. Russia had 18 more years to get in a better position to stop Ukraine joining.

The Baltic path to joining was also much faster, announced in 1999 and complete in 2004. The Ukrainian membership was announced in 2008 and had a many decade lead time because Ukraine was expected to tackle many internal issues of corruption and human rights first.

A separate factor is size, population, and location. Ukraine is larger and may have a more strategic position to take out planes and nukes heading to central Europe.
Sure, but the orders of magnitude of investment and resulting rate of progress aren't comparable.[1] Understanding the world/existence can't compete with cat pictures and blowing stuff up in video games. The consumer market makes government spending look feeble and comical in comparison. While the industry has been more or less bounded by metrics like Moore's Law over the decades, exploding volumes dramatically altered the price/performance delivered.

[1] I'm only talking about the raw price/performance of the capabilities delivered and not the societal value of the respective results.
Try joining a charity or volunteering. If you're good with kids, try CASA.
As others have said exercise really helps. My friend made a huge turnaround in his mental health when he stopped tying his self-worth to money and gaming. He took up speed dating, Jiu jitsu, and weight training. He seems happier now.
Try going on a hike or staying in a cabin somewhere. Some quiet and greenery can do wonders for mental health.
Best of luck, and I hope you're feeling better soon.
Hell, the CPU is probably faster than GPU (... wait for it: for small tensor sizes).
Anecdotally, I have a friend. His parents have bent over backwards to support him, and he stands to take over his father's business when he can no longer tend to it. The dude is smart, but he completely lacks any drive to push himself. I feel like it's sucked the wind right out of his sails, but he lives a chill, easy going life and I can't exactly hold it against him.
PPC Linux can be had from the T2 Linux distribution! https://t2sde.org/architectures/powerpc64/
I see this as a pure existential crisis and for that you don't need medication (IMHO). A lot of personalities tie their self-worth to an external measure (like some sort of "success" or whatever) and that could work for almost your whole goddamn life, heck, people can become aggressively successful, feeding that trait, BUT until this external measure dissipates. In case of OP they have admitted that they won't be able to repeat this mode of success: maybe too old, too tired, whatever. Suddenly, this uncovers the original issue of tying your self-worth or finding your existential purpose in this process of having/doing X. If you are measuring some X, and, objectively X is good, but you measure shit and are unhappy, clearly, the problem lies within the measurement system :)
I just referenced back to this article when I got a text from my frustrated wife. I was able to give her a well articulated reply based on this. This was super valuable for me.
People will bail who bought on the good news
PLUS
people will bail who hear the bad news but didn't buy with good news.
99 cents for a can of soda is pretty standard, and ultimately that is what this is. The real question should be – how did they get away with overpricing it for so long.
Maybe the OP is smarter than the rest of us.
Question you probably intended to induce:

What "real" books on the subject do you recommend?
It's not rocket science is it? They are either dilute or they hedge against commodity/inflation.

The cynic in me says this is just paid advertising for Arizona Iced Tea. Every time there is a hike in inflation, we get a story about the 99 cent iced tea. Or maybe they keep it at 99 cents for the free publicity.

I guess one could take an arizona tea from today and find one from 5 years ago and send it to the lab for easy analysis. But I'm too lazy for that and so is the journalist apparently.
Wrong https://t2sde.org/architectures/powerpc64/
Now you are gaslighting.

You spoke specifically about me, and then continued to adjust your rhetoric as you learned more about me.

This is gross.
In this regard, this is almost a warning about the "stealth wealthy" - people who talk about poverty and show up statistically as impoverished, but are really just role playing as poor people.
Don’t cut corners

Pay your taxes

Call your mother

Help a friend

Be yourself

Follow your passion

Don’t eat rare meat

Exercise
Even though you can analyze a test Bayesianly, you still need to know about power (or some Bayesian alternative to power) to plan a sample size.
Any data on how that does? My guess is not that we’ll unless the content is richer than just text… and effectively largely becomes Patreon / onlyfans. It’s kind of hard to pull that off fully when the rest of the platform is fully free.
I generally agree about the pros you list of Bayesian, but I think in companies that are doing a lot of experiments and are not just optimizing a checkout page, they don't hold as well. For example, you often are testing out features that really are different from any feature before, and so a prior is harder to get alignment on. There are also frequentist methods like CUPED to mitigate the effect of confounding variables, and then usually you're analyzing the results across user segments so that you can try to look for heterogeneous treatment effects. (FWIW, having analyzed a lot of experiments, I've been surprised at how often there is NOT a heterogeneous treatment effect across user segments; the baselines are often very different, but the direction and general magnitude of the lifts are typically similar. And, the confounder that is most often relevant is simply some broad "engagement" dimension: users who use the product a lot might behave differently from users who do not.)

In my experience, the biggest blocker to using Bayesian approaches has been about data and computation requirements; there are some closed-form solutions (e.g. https://www.evanmiller.org/bayesian-ab-testing.html , also https://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/bayesian_asymptotics... ) but even those are computationally difficult at scale even if you don't have to do a lot of MCMC sampling.

But what is really interesting to me about your comment is:

> A/B Tests are not really controlled experiments, at least not in the same way clinical trials are. User behavior is always observational even if you have a control group

Could you expand on that? Isn't clinical data also observational: you observe the patient after some time, and see what their symptoms are or what various endpoint measurements are?
Can you tell about the time you were the most happy in your life?
The post I replied to doesn't mention supply either directly or indirectly, rather it states the following:

"[prices are] driven only by how much people are willing to pay." Emphasis theirs.

That statement is false, prices are a function of both supply and demand and supply is a function of manufacturing costs. The cheaper something is to produce, the more of it one can produce and hence the greater the supply.
What's the difference between power and sensitivity?
In the early days, symbols weren't garbage collected, while strings were mutable, wasted memory and were slow. So there were tradeoffs.

Now you can use frozen string literals and there's no benefit to symbols. Throwing "# frozen_string_literal: true" in the top of the memory benchmark script I get:

Calculating -------------------------------------
strings 0.000 memsize ( 0.000 retained)
0.000 objects ( 0.000 retained)
0.000 strings ( 0.000 retained)
symbols 0.000 memsize ( 0.000 retained)
0.000 objects ( 0.000 retained)
0.000 strings ( 0.000 retained)

Comparison:
strings: 0 allocated
symbols: 0 allocated - same

At this point with no practical difference between them STRINGS AND SYMBOLS BEING DIFFERENT ARE A MISTAKE. When you serialize to something like JSON you lose the distinction (the operation is singular and does not have an inverse transform) and you have to pick either symbols or strings to get back. On a long enough timescale this causes enormous confusion, and leads to the creation of hashes with indifferent access (which helps with the problem, but doesn't fix it).

Ideally it would be good at this point to make symbols and frozen strings completely equivalent ("foo".freeze == :foo being true) but that would likely break too much existing code. The differentiation between strings and symbols though only causes code bugs (mostly biting the new and intermediate level programmers). It is just syntactical sugar with a footgun.

Designing a language from scratch these days, it should have immutable strings by default from the start and should not introduce symbols, unless they are purely syntactic sugar around creating an immutable string.
Elon Musk is not important to Twitter.

It's a toy gun pointed at their head.

He could maybe maybe start a competitor, but I doubt it would work.

1) He doesn't have the energy for another serious project 2) It would end up being something else, which frankly might be welcome, but it won't replace twitter.

Journalists etc. around the world are not going to flock to a 'free speech' platform with little moderation.

They 10x will not do it if Trump is on it, and gaining traction, for example.
> I regularly click on tweets that have a comments count but zero comments

As far as I can tell, that's because you're blocked by the commenter or the commenter is a private account.
Justin Kan talks a lot about this same situation in his own life. Check out his YouTube [0] if you haven't already. I bet if you reached out he would talk to you as well...

[0] One example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rIL5vHoF34
Happy Birthday to both of us :)
Note that COBRA can be retroactive. If you're taking time off you don't have to start paying COBRA until you have a medical expense. If you avoid injury during your gap you don't have to pay.
Spot on. People are stealing enormous amounts of money in the cryptocurrency space. E.g.: https://web3isgoinggreat.com/

There are so many scams, grifts, and heists in this space that this is where I would turn if I wanted to MMF. At this point I almost feel like it's a moral obligation: the faster the bubble pops, the fewer people it will harm.
Moderation in a private vehicle for speech could take it seriously at any stage they choose (and I'd argue that the freedom to decide where the line is inside private stewardship is in fact part of freedom of discourse).

And there probably should be forums which have content standards based on truth according to the best efforts of those running the place to determine the truth. Perhaps not every forum should be that way, but some could be, and I think that's the standard that things like scientific journals aspire to.

#4/#5 -- I have questions about whether police/executive enforcement should be directly dealing with cases like this, but it certainly seems to me that people would be within their freedom of discourse rights to take someone making those statements to court. And courts are also places where questions of truth/fact are taken seriously along with questions of law, and obligation to be truthful solidly outweighs any freedom some might imagine they have to lie.
I think the dollarama around here is up to $4-5 now.
Thank you, I will look into this. I am worried about it happening again lol
The implication here is that this doesn't have a convincing case behind it?
Then when would you act? There are already plenty of monopolies and "lobbies" in America on the basis of the same efficiency (not acting until it's a "problem") - maybe proactive caution around big business should be the norm given all the historical abuses, from beef to chemicals to medicine to tobacco?
Then why publish it at all?

Not to mention, the article made no effort to establish that it's describing the world 2 years prior to this being written
When I was in college, a 'natty' referred to a far, far different drink. But then again, I did my undergrad at Flyover State U. On the other hand, I bet 80%+ of those folks own a house right now.

https://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/profile/29/653/
“ See: the sad story of Moot, who ran one of the most popular social websites in the world and ended up with absolutely nothing to show for it.”

when you say absolutely nothing you mean money. but millions of people have fond memories of what his site used to be. nobody would say that about facebook or twitter.
I took the GP to mean they wanted tooling to do design and interpret A/B tests for them rather than having to consider cases like false negatives and what have you, to reduce them down to something that's easier to understand.

My point is that the process of designing experiments and interpreting their outcome is nothing other than science.

Science is hard and goes much deeper than the trivial stuff like significance and power. Even scientists, who know all these formulae inside and out struggle with constructing experiments and interpreting the outcome.

To properly think about experimental outcomes, you need to actually have a firm grasp of statistics. The moment you try to convert it into a message that doesn't require understanding statistics is the moment it stops being informative.