skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> This isn't government run so no, checks and balances don't apply. It's a traded business.

That's a legal perspective. Nobody cares about legality here. Whether or not twitter is a private business or run by the government has fuck all to do with what utility it provides to society and, by extension, with the outcome of any possible changes made to it.

> I don't fear that musk will ruin an investment for giggles or for self centered reasons, no.

This makes no sense whatsoever unless you think your interests are aligned here. Ultimately, Musk will want twitter to make him money. How he thinks he has to handle the platform for it to earn him as much as possible, and whether that's better or worse than how twitters current management interprets things, that is the important part here.

> Your third paragraph is one of them logical fallacy things isn't it.

Their third paragraph is really just spelling out the negative of what they already said. If you believe all of these things, you should have this conclusion. If you do not believe all of them, then you don't need to have this conclusion. I don't see why you're calling this a fallacy.
The thermomix seems the closest thing I can think of; automatic stir-while-heating covers a fair bit.
Reminds me of the Pythagorean perspective that there are basic harmonies (wholenesses) in math itself-- and due to these harmonies in math (arithmetic, geometric, etc), harmonies manifest in the cosmos.

So, the question might be: does this finding have any implications for physical phenomena?
Are you able to hire/retain employees with this? I have no desire to work multiple jobs and I’d still be out of there immediately.

Ultimately software engineering is a seller’s market so I would tread carefully, if there are other places that either pay better or aren’t as restrictive there’s no reason why anyone should stick around.
The magic trick is that when you click the card to copy it to your clipboard you'll end up with two versions of the clipboard.

One will be used when you paste into a rich-text aware editor (like google docs). In this case it happens to be an ascii art of the card you chose.

The other one will be used when you paste to a text-only editor (like your URL bar). In this case it happens to be the OP's author's twitter URL.
Since this is a tangent off of Dunning Kruger, I have to wonder - am I missing something important about this?
Combine this with a webcam pointed at a busy street, some pose estimation and an auto rigger and you can steal people's identities with this in an automated way.

Example? A fashion billboard that doesn't use model photos but renders passers-by in fancy new clothes. Of course, the gathered data gets syphoned of into a database somewhere.
A walk, bicycle or motorcycle ride works wonders for me. It keeps me just busy enough to consider my thoughts one by one.

When I go on long motorcycle trips, I come back with this incredible feeling of clarity and inner peace.
Carrot History – Carrots in the Second World War (2008)
Zoom gearing up for 40 minute limit on basic plan 1:1 meetings
I choose Better to put in the title as an example because it is the worst offender - it is so vague, better what? It is waste of money to buy better.com as a startup, there are better, more efficient way to spend that startup fund.
> "Free speech is the bedrock of a functioning democracy, and Twitter is the digital town square where matters vital to the future of humanity are debated," Musk said in a statement.

Uhhh... objection.

A digital town square is more like Reddit or Hacker News or an online forums, where people are gathered by discussions, not someone attractive. Twitter and other social medias however, is where people go if they want to watch someone.

From this perspective, I think Mr Musk bought the wrong company...
I find the problem with a lot of electronics books is that they are either too deep, or too shallow. Gerry Sussman (yes, that Sussman) explained that the way electronics is taught, and the way engineers think about problems are two separate things.

So teaching material tends to fall into two camps: 1) detailed explanations that cover great depth, but are difficult to know how to apply to practical circuits, or 2) circuits that are presented as a fait accompli. They work, but I have no real idea why.

It reminds of statistics, in a way. I've seen biologists, undergrads and industry apply statistics like it was some kind of talisman. "Cargo Cult Statistics", as it were. They don't really "understand" the data that they're looking at.
Say you want to move sentiment around some idea. If you can manipulate the volume and direction of sentiment around that idea, say by green lighting a targeted segment of known dummy traffic (sock puppets, whatever), promoting certain posts above others, etc, you could potentially achieve that goal.

I think twitter, like others in its genre, has potential as a interface for mass manipulation or enchantment, and anyone who would "own" it outright, in its current form, is likely dangerous.
Having seen a project on a smaller scale but equally wasteful going through tons of work and huge costs only for the end user to go “but it’s more practical to use my phone”, I would say that this is in no way overly cynical, it’s very accurate criticism.

We all grew up with scifi and would love to see cool stuff like lightsabers and hoverboards even if they aren’t practical, but there’s a reason we don’t want government funds wasted on that, even if the politicians and project managers did “see this really cool show where a soldier on a hover board rode in and saved the day with his lightsaber”

It’s not lack of imagination, it’s a realistic focus on the problems that this claims to solve, which are much better solved with more straight forward means.
Seemingly nothing on the website but their Twitter account seems to be responding consistently with the info that from 2nd of May, basic plan will limit 1:1 meetings to 40 minutes. Also got the same response from their support.

This is quite sneaky if true, moving towards that with pretty much 0 advance warning. The info was buried in an email titled "One Time Only! Up to 50% off Pro" which landed directly in spam. Clear messaging this ain't
Yeah, but you also need a leader, and that role usually also falls to the manager.
I think is that is has a great standard library + with rails a lot of utilities out of the box, other than that some people just like the syntax.

So said that they standard library is huge, where other languages prefer to have slimmer ones and let the community build the utilities.
Extracting Data from MySQL
Russia Bans Chess.com
What is a valid reason to add a "null" into a modern language? I thought it's a commonly established truth that it has been a mistake
Whilst I find it easy to imagine time as "a place", and movable-to, I find it very hard to imagine how anything could change position on the time-like axis. This uncertainty holds for "teleport" too.

From the perspective of the force or system required to produce a discontinuous temporal displacement, what "are" any of the objects being displaced? How could such a system differentiate between "me" and "my chair" and "the ground objecting to my chair's and my motion towards the nearest significant centre of gravity"? Zoom in further... how could the "time travel machine" identify the atoms at the very edges of the dead skin cells resting between the hairs of my arms and the atoms of the myriad gasses and pollutants beside them in order to alter their temporal position. Which bits are "me"? What gets left behind? What is "me" from the perspective of a temporal displacement system?

Then zoom out a bit... "here" in space isn't "here" in time, yesterday. "here" in space yesterday was actually "over there" because the object we're riding on has moved around its orbit around ITS nearest centre of gravity since then.
Awful? How? Folks are putting good money into NFTs (jpegs hosted on s3 validated on the blockchain) for what? to speculate on the price going up to sell to the next gullible person... And now they've been hacked. Meh.
> I know a few friends who have 'custom' fonts on their phones.

It can get much worse. I have a friend who uses a "cute", handwritten-looking font on her phone. She is Chinese. When she sends me screenshots, I can barely read them. I have enough trouble with standard characters.

QQ took that one step further, and let you customize the font in which your messages appeared to other people. I don't think QQ is as popular as it was, though.
Numbers, people. How many are actually killed by wind turbines, versus loss of habitat, deliberate poisoning, hunters, etc?

The big threats to smaller birds are glass buildings and domestic cats, but they don't get as much discourse.
Most probably from the intial fees/payments/buying sneakers from new users.

It seems to me like they treat (good) US$ as peanuts:

>When I started playing, I bought about $12,000 of sneakers.

Then, not entirely unlike gym subscriptions, there will be a number of people not actually using/playing the game.

Overall and loosely, besides all the complications, sneakers, resilience, average speed, whatever, it seems to me a lot like betting, you deposit a certain amount, then you choose a number (or a horse, whatever) and sometimes you win (if you are lucky and good at the game), sometimes you loose, at the end the house always wins.
I don't think that really came as a surprise to anyone... nobody thought that gpt-3 was going to make sensible long-form narratives.
Very good standard libraries and heavy use of lambdas
To be fair, that's pretty true of Taleb himself.
I recently met someone who had desired to be a nuclear operator on a sub, but ended up working an aircraft carrier. At the time that she joined, the Navy didn't permit women to serve underwater-- so apparently operating surface nukes despite having never taken your Jules Verne voyage was permitted, at least ~20 yrs ago.
Can you please elaborate on Deno language server being better over tss? Does it have smaller latency, does it start faster? Is it a drop-in replacement or some features are missing?
This is a dynamically typed language. Null makes sense there.

It also makes sense in a statically typed language with union types, think `string | undefined` in TypeScript. The extra layer added by Some/None is not fundamentally necessary for safety.
The linked thread by yishan pretty convincingly argues that this is impossible. Among other reasons, if all legal speech is allowed, Twitter will become overrun with spam and users will flee.
It's an excellent assumption though because that's what most people do most of the time.
I do in fact have that acer swift N6000 bought for €200 - it is perfect for all my tasks (usually CI/CD, ssh) except may be Zoom. It does not allow changing background owing to paltry CPU/GPU. My boss therefore gave me €1000 to get a better device and I cannot find anything silent.
How would you prevent abuse of the downvoting button? Any serious feature proposal should explain how it’s useful but also how its abuse would have limited effects.

> More visibility to smaller tweeters. My feed is full of boring/dumb comments from "big tweeters" that get thousands of likes because of their large number of followers. Smart tweets from upstarts often get little to no viewings.

Switch to the "regular" feed that shows only content from people you follow. That won’t help you discover small accounts but at least you won’t get the boring accounts.
The Russians shot down an airliner, killing 298 people, mostly Dutch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17

There was very little international reaction at the time, which probably emboldened the Russian takeover of eastern Ukraine. But now Dutch artillery is being shipped to the Ukranian army.
for those of us with not as much grey in our beards (+1 this response if you get the joke) the python example is a ton more readable to me. Now that probably doesn't matter if the utility is only for you. I've a number of helper programs/scripts/etc that I use that I wrote and are only for my consumption.

Re the paralell stuff and python it's easy to import multiprocessing and take advantage of all cores. I think where python wins is how easy it is to handle errors and organize things as it's a full fat programming language vs a shell scripting language like Bash + the gnu userland.
I believe there is a plan to support syncing private keys [0] (that you can turn on via the developer tab in Safari) announced at WWDC 2021 [1] and discussed in this blog post from Hanko [2]. But I have not heard any more about it in the last 10 months.

[0] https://developer.apple.com/documentation/authenticationserv...

[1] https://www.macrumors.com/2021/06/10/apple-icloud-keychain-p...

[2] https://www.hanko.io/blog/passkeys-part-1
We call them embedded systems and customers call them dishwashers or air fryers or blenders. Those are the kitchen computers, no?
Yeah I too found that comparison to town square a bit odd.

However, these comparisons are bound to fail, town square is a physical space that has natural limits such as number of people who can gather, speed of discussion and communication, tolerance to hostility and such. Almost none of these limits apply to a digital space. Humans just don’t know how to deal with these new media we are making up rules as we go along.
NFT Research, Going Crypto-Native, and a Tribute to Virgil Abloh
My other half is an editor and graphic designer and constantly points out bad design. Many CMS platforms do this out if the box to allow cross platform compatibility (at various degrees of success), but you could just define some core defaults to ensure compatibility.
Intigriti secures more than €21M in Series B funding
It's not a 'one toggle to turn it off' thing. They've gone to extra effort to make it hard to disable, to the point that you need to do many actions in the right sequence or all your work will be auto-reverted.
Eh. People say "a new OS" when talking about a new Linux based distro. A new Chromium based browser is apt.

I think the ship has sailed and we won't have a new browser from scratch any time soon. If two of the richest companies in the world can't do it ( Apple's Safari is always late with features, has significant bugs; MS abandoned their Edge), who could and why? What would be the value add over just using Chromium? It'd be a massive undertaking which you can't profit off because the competition is free.

PS: I'd like someone like the EU Commission ( for instance in the upcoming Digital Markets Act) to force Google to give away Chromium to an independent committee. It is the basis for Internet consumption, it shouldn't be in the hands of a single company.
I'm not sure "elitist" is the right word for criticizing the wealthiest man on Earth's habit of portraying himself as a genius rocket surgeon.

I'm not saying he's never written a line of code. I'm saying he's vastly exaggerating his contributions to the technologies he is known for and his only "engineering" credentials are unspecified contributions to a dot com boom software company that repurposed an existing navigation database for its USP while essentially selling web listings to companies.

When people hear Musk is an "engineer" I doubt they're thinking of someone probably just writing some HTML2.0 pages and CGI Perl scripts, if that. It's also important to keep in mind that the history of Zip2 is scantly documented beyond "the brothers Musk founded it and then sold it for millions some years later" so we don't even know if Elon wrote even a single line of code or whether he meaningfully contributed to the software at all.

Even if we're exceptionally credulous and believe he wrote all of Zip2 himself, that makes him a programmer, not an engineer in the sense it is implied when talking about his involvement in Tesla or SpaceX. Knowing how to build physical machines is very different from knowing how to write software, and I say that as a seasoned software dev.
very interesting. I would like to see that math applied to the emergence of life. how slim were our chances? or maybe not slim at all and maybe even unavoidable?
Proper renewable expansion means less gas, not more. Every watt-hour generated renewably displaces one watt-hour of gas.

(The German nuclear shutdown looks extremely bad in hindsight, though)
> 1. Why is there something rather than nothing?

> Well, why not?

-- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Nothingness" (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/nothingness/)
If this wants to sell itself as a shell scripting language, it should very quickly advertise what is it that makes it superior to say, bash for typical shell scripting tasks.

Shell scripts with bash are painful to the point that if I find myself writing more than around 10 lines of shell, I tend to stop and switch to Perl instead. But Perl hasn't been too popular lately and isn't ideal either, so I'm very much up for something better.

Here's some features I want from a shell scripting language:

* 100% reliable argument passing. That is, when I run `system("git", "clone", $url);` in Perl, I know with exact precision what arguments Git is going to get, and that no matter what weirdness $url contains, it'll be passed down as a single argument. Heck, make that mandatory.

* 100% reliable file iteration. I want to do a "for each file in this directory" in a manner that doesn't ever run into trouble with spaces, newlines or unusual characters.

* No length limits. If I'm processing 10K files, I don't want to run into the problem that the command line is too long.

* Excellent path parsing. Such as filename, basename, canonicalization, finding the file extension and "find the relative path between A and B".

* Good error handling and reporting

* Easy capture of stdout and stderr, at the same time. Either together or individually, as needed.

* Excellent process management. We're in 2022, FFS. We have 128 core CPUs. A modern shell scripting language should make it trivial to do something like: take these 50000 files, and feed them all through imagemagick, using every core available, while being able to report progress, record each failure, and abort the entire thing if needed.

* Excellent error reporting. I don't want things failing with "Command failed, aborted". I want things to fail with "Command 'git checkout https://....' exited with return code 3, and here's for good measure the stdout and stderr even if I redirected them somewhere".

* Give me helpers for common situations. Eg, "Recurse through this directory, while ignoring .git and vim backup files". Read this file into an array, splitting by newline, in a single line of code. It's tiresome to implement that kind of thing in every script I write. At the very least it should be simple and comfortable.

That's the kind of thing I care about for shell scripting. A better syntax is nice, but actually getting stuff done without having to work around gotchas and issues is what I'm looking for.
It'd do better without any references to 'NFT'.
I didn't know that term, so many thanks for that. I might add that I always treated performance in a "don't fix it if it ain't broken" way because clean domain code was much more important to me and performance problems tend to show up where you don't expect them anyway. One "escape hatch" I always had was to push operations down into the database layer if they can be solved by more complex queries or stored procedures.
The Lexend group was formed out of research on second grade students (US) [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3777945/] that lead them to a font design [https://design.google/library/lexend-readability/] that apparently showed improved reading proficiency. A 'world-script' version of the font family is also published as Readex Pro [https://github.com/ThomasJockin/readexpro]
Behold, DANG•E.
"https://git.io/" seems to occur about 200,000 times in source code:
https://github.com/search?q=%22https%3A%2F%2Fgit.io%22&type=...

It would be good to write a script to fetch all of those and log their destinations to a CSV file and put that online somewhere. You could even make PRs to all of those projects replacing links with un-shortened versions.

I hope github will replace the redirects with a holding page linking where they used to redirect to, rather than just delete them. That way people can report the broken links to the original site and still get to the destination they were intending.
Beats – The Lightweight Shippers of the Elastic Stack
I'd argue to the contrary: the "why" is more important than both "who" and "how". You "map" the latter two into the first.
I have worked with Velodyne Lidars and I noticed ghosting at sun set with direct illumination of the units. I.e. small cloud shaped ghost objects.

There are interference problems.
I guess we should be looking at the value system - that is scalable. Dang is not. But Dang's value system reflects on his moderation style and we need more of that. Value system is a good start. I'm sure there are many with similar value systems and perhaps we could have some sort of "test" for it?
> You were absolutely allowed to say that...

... That may be true for Twitter, but it's certainly not the case for IG and FB. Discussion of any sort was off-limits, based pretty much entirely on Daszak's letter (we agree that's batshit insane, right?). Millions of posts were deleted, and tens of millions got a little warning bar that dropped interaction by "at least" 80%.

Meanwhile back at Twitter, people who tweeted wrong-think of very mild varieties, such as anything but the current and official (and ever-shifting) stance on vaccine effectiveness were getting banned. While that's not super cool, you're right to point out that Twitter weren't quite as authoritarian as claimed.
Oh, I'm not saying any of these are bad. I'm just saying you shouldn't thank Google (or the supermarkets) when they try to spin this as charity. Some people might not want to hear this, but the thing doing this is not corporate volition but regulations.
thanks for the suggestion, I will check them out

I have wondered if using different music to drown it out would work, like tinnitus sufferers do
Didn't XLNX turn into AMD directly at some fixed rate?
Your very first point is mistaken, calling into doubt some of your conclusions. During Overlord, the Allied landing forces were outnumbered only during the very first phase of the battle, on D Day itself. This changed rapidly as they gained a foothold and more forces were brought in. Within just a few days, the forces strength of the Americans, Canadians and British in Normandy was much greater than that of the Nazis. Furthermore, they enjoyed total air superiority and better provisions. Despite this, the undermanned, underequipped Germans kept them bottled up in the Normandy beachhead area all the way into August. The Germans consistently showed themselves to be deeply impressive, much more aggressive and professional fighters despite lower resources throughout this phase of the war as well.

Worth mentioning as well that German forces were poorly laid out, prepared and concentrated in Normandy right from day one. The German high command and even Hitler leaned more towards Pas de Calais as the landing area and on the day of the invasion itself, many German commanders and some forces were in fact on leave, aside from the general understaffing of the Normandy defense areas.

Also, while the German generals wrote extremely self-serving memoirs after the war about how they were thwarted by Hitler's orders, the dictator did indeed increasingly override them in many catastrophic ways. There is a mountain of clear documentary evidence of this. His orders countermanding military logic were mostly written and well preserved later (unlike his much more secretive, almost entirely verbal instructions for the orchestration of Nazi genocides during the Holocaust).