skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>For me, thinking in words and sentences sounds like thoughs being weighed and slowed down.

I'm a very 'verbal' thinker, but not all thoughts and mental processes are verbalised by a long shot. In fact it's probably a small minority, but a very noticeable one so it sometimes seems like a dominant mode when on reflection it really isn't. Much of the time it's more like a post-hoc commentary.

I often think things through verbally when I'm working through a tricky problem or issue, but even then I'm not sure to what extent the verbalising is post-hoc construction. I suspect there's a kind of feedback loop in those cases where the mental model is essentially unconscious, it's output is processed to generate a verbalisation, that process imposes a kind of structure and grammatical formalisation of the idea or thought, and that informs further modification of the model.

I've often said, and head it said, that if you have a tricky problem it helps to find someone and explain the problem to them. Often by the time you've explained it, you've figured out the solution. Having to structure the problem in such a way that you can explain it is a kind of analytical discipline that helps think it through. For me verbalising internally is helpful in that way, but it's not the only way I think. If it were playing reaction sports that require some strategising and analysis of your opponent's moves would be impossible because it would be too slow.
After all the theater about Musk joining the board, then him not joining the board as it's "best for all", then refusing the $54.20 offer for being too low...

I have a feeling that Twitter's Q1 numbers to be reported on Thursday won't be good.

If they would be, they could reasonably ask for a better offer. If, as I expect, they aren't, they wont have much of a credible leg to stand on to continue to refuse his offer.
Ottawa store is selling magic mushrooms to protest 'unjust' laws
And apparently some search engine intermediary gets to take a cut for making the proverbial website. Sounds way efficient, good job to the free market of choice on this one.
I'm not sure the fonts are the sole consideration, anyway. Let's talk about diagrams.

The original article (https://doi.org/10.1145/3502222) uses the click-a-thumbnail scheme for figures. I'm sure this is the decision of the journal, but it is really quite annoying, since you lose context.

The actual figures are in the authors' control, however, and they are not very clear. Take Figure 2, for a start, which combines an overly small font and low-contrast colours, reducing legibility for no good reason that I can discern.

The PDF is a lot easier to read, as is common with online journals.

I'm not sure how many people will bother trying to read such a long document online, as it is formatted. But sometimes I think the point of such studies is simply to get cited, and this is an ideal paper from that point of view: the title states something that is likely obvious to most people, so this might get cited by quite a few people who don't bother to read the details.
You forgot “Clients, of course, should be written only in Rust.”
You associated here free speech with Trump and criminality?

That's a deeply depressing take.
are there multiple people interacting with the screen at the same time?

i found that the entire pattern changed rather quickly anytime i was enjoying it, which felt a bit too chaotic for me to spend more than a minute on it. cool page though
"Funding secured"

They also probably wanted to buy time for a counter-offer to show up at a higher price.
Probably his security recommending it.

He is building Starlink and refuses any form of censorship on there.

He sent several containers full of terminals to Ukraine (responding within hours to request for help from the Ukrainian government) to restore connectivity as the country is being attacked by Russia.

If you really believe those “he didn’t give one guy a car because he was pissed” propaganda stories, go ahead. People are easy to program.
the only thing that is funny about that joke is that Reagan believed people can just come see the president whenever they want
I am curious: I had both my colonoscopy and gastroscopy while I was asleep. (On one procedure I woke up in the middle of it however. It felt like beeing drunk :-)) After the hospital I was happy and relaxed for the rest of the day.

There was no anestesist (extra doc) present in the procedure, so I assumed it was no general anesthesia. But I dont know. Was it?
Maybe the reason they're pissed is that Twitter is downplaying their tweets, making them less loud.
And for that moderator who was killed in the attack on Benghazi.
Social media sites do this because all their stats show that users actually ‘like’ non chronological order even when they say they don’t. Telling people what they want when they ask for something else is a big nono, so they just change it for you on the sly.

Of course, the main way they measure ‘liking’ the site is via engagement, which may actually just measure compulsion to use, not enjoyment. And, of course, the however small, cohort of people who genuinely ‘like’ chronological order are ignored.
You would think web developers writing a CSS library would know how much web devs hate things like this.
Correct. Just like Amazon selling the Communist Manifesto doesn't make Bezos a communist.
This is spot on. It’s pretty absurd to constantly see the top “news” articles be “_____ says that _____” with the entire article just mentioning context of a tweet of some famous person.
> Netflix just streams videos

They make a lot of content too
My F500 gig specifically allows outside work as long as its not for a competitor...Why would you assume everyone is lying? Wouldn't it make more sense that some of us just have different (full time) employment contracts ?
There was also the suggestion near the end to cut the number of words for older readers, which is just ridiculous.
You need 3-4 years of intense study to transition from software engineering to ML. It's different enough.
The world today made another big step towards the abyss.
Two years after first reading this, I still find myself giggling uncontrollably over the exquisite prose, especially this line:

> When either the fore or aft seat in a Rafale is triggered, the second one is supposed to follow automatically, on the theory that if one crew member makes an unscheduled departure, there's probably a good reason for the other to promptly join the exodus.

So bone-fucking dry. Gods I love ridiculous things delivered in a no-shit-Sherlock manner like it’s as boring as the weather.
I still think Anthem was a lot of fun.

But I largely blame Kotaku/Gawker tbh. For some reason they felt the need to basically destroy Bioware. It started with Mass Effect Andromeda. How many articles did they release about how "broken" it was (which btw it was not as bad as they made it out to seem). They did the same with Anthem.

Were both games seriously flawed and not up to BioWare name? Yes. But they were still a ton of fun to play that a large portion of gamers never gave a chance because a certain blog decided they could get a lot of clicks for going the anti BioWare route.
Many Liberals are openly against Liberalism. Specifically, we're told that people 'hide behind' freedom of speech and that 'misinformation' and 'hate speech' are of high priority for corporations (and possibly government) to address. That's not Liberalism, it's Orwellian. Putin would support these views.
Just because someone doesn't share your negative view of the military doesn't make it propaganda.

There is a certain arrogance in assuming the only way other people could possibly choose to do this is by being brainwashed.

Military people write about their fond memories of weird situations they have lived in/through that civilians can't relate to. This doesn't make it all propaganda.

This whole article writes like someone trying to explain the weird lives of submariners, and he's just scratching the surface.
Biden officials worry Musk will allow Trump return to Twitter
That's because it's buried (and has been increasingly so over the decades), it'll mess up some sites and won't do anything on a bunch of others because no-one accounts for user-defined colors/margins/fonts anymore when designing for the web, and it has more options than most people want/need to deal with.

A simple browser-provided theme dropdown containing a few nice options, directly in the main browser chrome, from a major browser (perhaps Firefox, back when it still counted as "major") could have changed things completely—see the pressure on sites to support "dark mode" now that that's a simple option to enable.

It'd be nearly impossible to change now, but 10-15 years ago, maybe it could have been changed, if any of the very small number of entities steering the direction of the web had tried.
>For example, liberals decry Mississippi's 15-week abortion ban as "imposing religious beliefs." So why do highly secular countries like France and Denmark draw the line at 13 or 14 weeks?

Yes, people don't realize that Roe v. Wade made abortion far more permissible in the US than in almost every other Western country. The only exception I am aware of is Canada, which because of a series of accidents ended up with no abortion laws at all.
Also, the author grew up in the Bay Area (early exposure to how the SV ecosystem works), went to an Ivy league school (opens doors to top internships), landed those internships, and got a masters. All those things, but especially the internships, can help fast track your early career.

I’d take some things here with a grain of salt, like “low 7 figures compensation (staff level)” at FAAN (can eliminate G because they’re not likely to hire him back at L+1 immediately after he quits). ML is still somewhat hot, but 7 figures is an outlier for staff-level comp.

AAPL: ~$450k
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Apple/salaries/Software-Engin...

AMZN: ~$600k https://www.levels.fyi/company/Amazon/salaries/Software-Engi...

FB: ~$600k
https://www.levels.fyi/company/Facebook/salaries/Software-En...

Nobody there is reporting $1M+ offers for staff level. While I’m sure it’s happened, it’s pretty far outside the staff pay band (excluding equity gains during the 2020-2021 market run-up, which are sadly behind us) and would be a truly exceptional offer even in the current climate. That, plus the fact that it sounds like he didn’t get many formal offers (“I did not initiate the formal HR interview process with most of them”) and wasn’t pitting offers against each other, makes me skeptical.
> [A nuclear blast] will cause a complete meltdown and aerosolization of much of the fuel [of the reactor and storage]

Cann the blast from a nuclear warhead realistically be positioned such that it would aerosolise significant amounts of nuclear fuel? And given the location of nuclear reactors, would it matter in a full nuclear war? Your comment sounds like a good fictional story, but does it actually make any sense?
Yeah, so it could be a response to her leaving him. She may have left him because of it. I imagine Elon isn't the easiest of romantic/parenting partners given his work ethic.
I have literally never had it reset.
Social needs vary among people. It's easy to see the benefits of good social relationships. However, I think people with lower social needs, smaller to non-existent social relationships aren't suffering.
if they quoted Erdogan, I might give it to you, but 2Pac is too far removed. not everyone has to know all the lyrics to every rap song to distinguish between participating in pop culture and bomb threats by the way
Entropy Crushers
What exactly are you thinking of? There are very few things I can think of that rust cannot do when using unsafe (And one of the biggest is interacting with safe code ergonomically because of &mut/& guarantees like the noalias/restrict attributes)
Two largest marsquakes to date recorded from planet's far side
I just looked at that subreddit for the first time. It seems completely harmless. I didn't read a single thing that was controversial. It does probably contain some of the longest and most structured comments I've seen on reddit. But I'd be surprised if this was the subreddit the original poster was talking about (unless all of the "good stuff" was already banned).
Underwhelming for me.

On my iPhone I opened Google Docs and started a new document, per the instructions, and pasted. It pasted a link to their Twitter.

Maybe Desktop works better?
> some kind of "general ban", when it's actually a very specific ban German states started putting in place [0].

But it does, it's just that to prevent a misuse, any ban on symbols (which are used to advocate or promote something criminal) a separate law is needed to prevent misuse and allow judiciary overview. That's an additional protection.

> US attack on Iraq was also illegal

That's a fair point (and I agree on the illegality), and I would actually like this to be challenged in the court and see a decision. However, the Russian flag is not banned, just the Z symbol as a symbol for this war. If there was a symbol for U.S. drone strike or the invasion of Iraq we could be talking about something more concrete.
It's not that you can't (logistically) fit another job in. Just that if you were to - it wouldn't end well. And would be like, you know, dishonest and unethical and all that stuff.

Am with you on the reading a book in the sun part, though. It's good to have that data point as to what people really do with their time out in FAANG-land.
Interleaved Deltas, or SCCS Weave
Well... I can say I am glad America doesn't have this.
Yah, its pretty clear from those pictures its not the leaf but the resulting compressed pulp, which looks pretty similar to the stuff I spray off my driveway every year with a 3200psi pressure washer. That i largly a mix of leaf/etc with black mold, which actually grows into the concrete pores.

Which makes me wonder why no one bothered to try something like that, are pressure washers common in the UK? Mine is hardly the highest PSI, and it frequently needs to be turned down because at that pressure it can actually etch soft concrete. And at 2.5GPM its not using a lot of water either.
> The Supreme Court codified this in CITIZENS UNITED

Actually, the Supreme Court established it no later than First National Bank v. Belotti (1978), despite the frequent claim that this was an innovation in the 2009 Citizens United case.
hmm, so actually the amount of free speech is INCREASING? interesting...
My hunch is we will get exactly zero new features, but Musk will be able to ensure any and all of his rich buddies will be back on the platform.

I don't think he gives a damn about the product or how it functions.
No one but the (US) government needs to give a hoot about free speech, nor should they.
UK had draconian libel laws used to silence inconvenient messages since for all intents and purposes forever, though.

English defamation law puts the burden of proof on the defendant, and does not require the plaintiff to prove falsehood. For that reason, it has been considered an impediment to free speech in much of the developed world.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_defamation_law
Totally agree that metaprogramming is fun. But I don't think it's a recipe for simplicity and robust engineering, and that's the priority with Hare.
I'm using SQLite for my blogging engine (https://goblog.app). Easy backups, easy testing, light resource usage and probably faster than a separate database.
> The whole value proposition is to do things cheaper.

I don't think this was ever the case, at least, not in the short term or at smaller scales.

I always thought the value proposition for AWS was the fact that you could scale up and down nearly instantly and that you didn't have to run your own data center, which was a monster of an expense.

AWS made it so a single person could be a startup. With just a couple clicks, you've got a server running, and you only pay for the time you use.

Now, maybe you're asking about GPUs specifically...in that case, yeah, I don't know why people would use AWS unless they really only need a couple hours of GPU time per month or something. GPU instances are so expensive that the ROI for buying them yourself hits pretty quickly. You have to REALLY need the rest of the AWS infrastructure to be directly connected to your GPU to make it worthwhile.
It’s fair to assume any substantial site with user created content has some significant agreements/settlements with attorneys general in various jurisdictions. Those will likely be the stickiest, outside of ones with direct judicial determination.
This looks really polished! I am more used to drawing diagrams using simpler tools like Mermaid, but this is much flashier (and quite simple, at least by what i skimmed)

¿Do you have any idea if there is a way to make custom diagrams with this?
Facebook has had an official real name policy for a decade and was the primary source of online misinformation in the 2016 US Presidential election. How do you think Twitter will pull this off and actually improve?
Ask HN: Will Go with generics overtake Rust in Web3?
Now, that Go has generics, do you think it has chances to overtake Rust in web3 / blockchain development?
oh, man, this is so spot on! "They're also generally liars." / "God's gift to mankind, except for the dumb ones"
I think removing Trump was an objectively positive move for a number of reasons, but Twitter’s bottom line isn’t one of them.

Wouldn't Trump tweets drive a bunch of traffic and therefore ad revenue to the platform? Seems like an obvious move just from a business sense.
Very curious to see how this plays out. One thing that I would love to see is stopping these obnoxious login and “show in app” nags. The web would be a better place if the social platforms behaved like normal websites with optional login instead of using any public surfaces just as a funnel to suck you into their silo. Maybe it would have been better if twitter and possibly reddit where owned by Wikimedia or Mozilla?
Not that they would have had the change for that anyways.
It’s really an announcement about the formalisation of existing API patterns: returning FALSE on failure (regardless of the “success” type) is part of many old php apis, this change allows properly typing those.
“I’m moving to Canada if Trump gets elected.”

Remember that crowd?
I've been using twitter for years and had no idea this was an option. This is clearly deliberate - the option is nowhere in the settings menu, where one would look for this. The star icon gives no indication it is even clickable, and does not communicate "sort order". There are fairly standard icons for that.
https://archive.ph/20220422112132/https://www.wsj.com/articl...
> show me a demo where it answers a hard question whose answer you - all of us - don't already know.

For that, we need artificial comprehension, which we do not. Artificial comprehension, the ability to generalize systems to their base components and then virtually operate those base concepts to define what is possible, to virtual recreate physical working system, virtually improve them, and with those improvements being physically realizable is probably what will finally create AGI. We need a Calculus for pure ideas, not just numbers.
Parent upthread never claimed Musk was pro-Trump, just that Musk's views on freedom of speech and censorship would likely re-platform Trump, regardless of Musk's politics.
I spent 2 seconds reading through:
"This polyamorous genderfluid witch is a preschool teacher in Florida. She’s so proud of herself that she discusses her gender and sexuality with 4 year olds"

"This is a mental illness"

"This teacher has been identified and is employed by @FergFlorSchools"

"3rd grade teacher at @GracemorNKC teaches 8 year olds about gender identity and then “wonders if anyone [students] will change their minds” presumably about their gender. These groomer teachers need to be fired. "

You say "just annotating videos", those political blinders you're wearing must be pretty strong...
It says a lot about where we are as a culture that we're here having even a semi-serious debate about whether or not it's good to make jokes. What a bunch of joyless puritans we've become :(
that's your army and police forces failing to protect your citizens from a turkish bodyguard on your own soil. nothing to do with persecuting Erdogan's critics
I was also under the assumption fast.com was the standard speed test as speedtest.net had some ISP (xfinity) affiliations (in the US(?))
Maybe individual people are nice to their face, but they'll still vote for the guys who implement "don't say gay" bills and the like, with is pretty anti-lgbtq
That likelihood is no more than any other form of autonomous driving.
Supporting everyone's right to speak does not make someone pro-Trump any more than it makes them anti-Trump. It's simply an entirely different concern.
> if the environment is adapted to prevent show-stopping accidents

And what exactly would that environment look like to those outside of a car?
Musk is the lead designer for the rocket. That's not something Bezos does, for example.
This is the kind of bullshit reaction I don't see on Twitter, using supported features.

I had no doubt that somebody who hates Twitter could find a facile excuse for that hate. I didn't need the demonstration.
One story that still haunts me about the culture onboard the submarine.

We were dropping the trash and one requirement is that an officer be present. I was told to go get an officer. I found the Chief Engineer sitting in his room reading his Bible. I asked if he could come and be the required officer. He said, "sure."

When people saw the Chief Engineer behind me they mocked, "Hey! Couldn't you have gotten someone more senior?"

I didn't know that "officer" in this role meant to go find an Ensign or Lieutenant JG, not the officer who's 3rd in command of the whole boat. Folks got a lot of laughs out of that one.

Overall, though, life on a submarine is infinitely better than a surface ship. I served on a fast attack sub and a frigate. The people on a submarine help make life better because most of the jobs on a submarine are advanced and require clearances that people can't get if they're on drug waivers or dropped out of school.
Sweden and Finland agree to submit NATO applications
Docker's managed VM strategy for Windows and MacOS is really powerful, I'm not sure why other applications don't do that.
> Prufrock is a next generation Tunnel Boring Machine designed to construct mega-infrastructure projects in a matter of weeks instead of years, and at a fraction of the cost. The current iteration of Prufrock, called Prufrock-2, is designed to mine at up to 1 mile/week, meaning a tunnel the length of the Las Vegas strip (approximately 4 miles) can be completed in a month. Prufrock-3 is designed to be even faster, with the medium term goal of 1/10 human walking speed, or 7 miles/day.
https://www.boringcompany.com/seriescround

Isn't that faster than existing machines?
I have a feeling facebook's real name policy is because it's somehow better for ad profiling
what a legend, what did they charge him with?
> I think they're conflating the tradition from C-style languages of returning a false-ish value in-bound

It’s not really conflation when php has been doing that since forever as it originally was little more than a thin shim over C (you can see that in lots of older APIs e.g. the mysql_ stuff is straight transcribed from the C library).
I was a bit skeptical of "Turn the Ship Around" because of its title, and despite all the positive reviews, but it's one of the best management books I've ever read. It's definitely worth a read, even if you're not a manager, as it applies to any team-related activity, and provides a useful toolkit for improving your team, whether you're the leader or not.