skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like the world is divided into two kinds of people:

1. Those who are active on Twitter; and

2. Those who don't and don't even scroll through it.

The first group seems to think this buyout is the most pressing issue of our generation. The latter just doesn't care.

I honestly just don't care about Twitter. The only people who "engage" in Twitter are those with a decent number of followers and they're, by definition, a small minority (of the small minority who use Twitter). For the remainder that read Twitter, it's really interchangeable with Facebook or Reddit or whatever. Like Twitter disappearing overnight would (IMHO) have very little impact.

My prediction here is that Elon will take it private, realize the "problems" aren't really problems or are incredibly hard to solve and then after a couple of years there'll be some face-saving reorganization and the whole thing will get made public again, probably for a net total loss.

Luckily (thus far) there's a pretty limited market for conservatives crying about censorship of hate speech masquerading as free speech.
> Twitter will be run differently, become less toxic, and hopefully in addition to that game-changing attitude the bot problem can be addressed as well. I don't see how it can get worse, but there's a lot of potential for it to get better.

While I'm an optimist in real life, unfortunately I don't have much reason to believe anything will improve, particularly due to Musk. He is hardly the most reasonable or grounded person. (Mind you, as a twitter user I do hope it improves.)
Yes, an individual can protest in this fashion, but that doesn't negate the unchecked influence Twitter has and the GP's concerns over how the rich and powerful are able to acquire this influence without any limit. It's a good point about NewsCorp, but I think the world has changed considerably since the MySpace purchase happened.
I don't see the logic there, but in case it adds to the conversation, I will say that I think that it is fairly clear that extremism is not inherently a bad thing, unless it is defined as such (rather than literally) - in which case I think the word would lose most of its utility in conversations like this.
Show HN: I Made a Magic Trick
I guess I'd want double the density of the HTC Vive Pro, and preferably even higher.

Also, demos of the VD seem shaky. When I move my head, my monitor only seems to move 1 inch instead of the whole viewport shaking. This is because I'm also readjusting my eye-target.

Without eyetracking/gazetracking and proper SDKs these things will still feel like a mouse (aim with your head)
Do you mean 'BEGIN CONCURRENT'?

https://sqlite.org/cgi/src/doc/begin-concurrent-pnu-wal2/doc...

Where did you see that the plan is to bring those into the mainline distribution?
4chan's /b/ is entertaining if you enjoy gore, racial epithets, homophobia, and literal nazis
This seems to be the source: https://www.resumebuilder.com/7-in-10-remote-workers-have-mu...

The implication is certainly that these are two full-time jobs. I don't have data to counter it but, I'm sorry, this just doesn't pass the sniff test. Sure, lots of full-time workers may earn a few dollars on the side now and then but that's not what this article seems to be saying.
Or you can go into academia to work on the really hard problems on a 5 figures salary.
The problem isn't just a bunch of leaves, it's the pulp that gets generated by a layer of leaves that gets run over by heavy trains several times an hour. That pulp is particularly difficult to remove.

There are existing solutions for this, of course. For example, the Dutch railways deploy a mush of sand, potato fibers and iron particles on top of the mush to give trains the necessary grip when they brake while they take the caked on goop with them at the same time. This solution can be applied by separate trains running at relatively high speeds.

This approach, like the novel CO2 approach, has advantages and disadvantages, but it should be clear that "just attach a fan and a brush to the front" isn't going to cut it. You'd need a hell of a fan to blow sticky mush off the tracks at 60-65mph (average UK train speeds).
Your [Apple] computer isn't yours (2020)
Fentanyl is used for several medical procedures, including fluid draws from the spine.

Please remember that everyone here is a real person, who is probably about as intelligent as you.

[^1]: http://www.allaboutepidural.com/main-content/epidural-opioid...
the answer is verdana, but they didnt test it.

I dont think this study is well done. Fonts are learned over time, and people's performance will improve, but differently. There's definitely certain fonts that are optimal.
He is openly pro-sensible-regulation in all of the industries he's a part of. If he's a libertarian he's certainly not our normal caricature of one.
This sums up the whole situation. There’s really nothing else to it.
>>nothing ... nihilistic

Wow, that's nearly the exact opposite of the way my brain interprets it — that he's seeing an infinitely rich tapestry, the wonder of emergent properties and consciousness throughout the universe, from the smallest scales to the grandest, and we, self-referentially seeing ourselves as a part of that grandeur.

Not that we're anonymous atoms in an unconscious universe, but that we're part of a universal consciousness, possibly the most key part, as we are the particular (perhaps particularly privileged) atoms that are now "standing… atoms with consciousness… matter with curiosity".

Seems it really is in the eye of the beholder, and often more of a reflection of our own state of mind than of the artist's intent.
High school students at least get lockers.
Even if this deal goes through, Elon Musk will still own much less media than several other billionaires do. He's scarcely on the leading edge of this trend.
> People act like this is some spiteful thing he's doing in order to just post edgy memes or have a 'private' social media for himself.

I think more likely, he feels like if he owns the platform he will be free of legal oversight and SEC interference in regards to whatever he wants to say over his bully-pulpit - Twitter. We have (literally) the richest man in the world being told that he's not allowed to do something, and he thinks he has the means to fix that.
Not sure what you want to do about this. In our system, every governmental action to ease poverty and spur economic activity has a knock-on effect of increasing the wealth of the 1%, and every wealth redistribution action has the effect of decreasing non-governmental economic activity making the middle-class more poor and forcing people already on the margins into poverty.
Proud owner of a pair of silver dolphins.
On the other hand, there’s a lot of real problems that real people actually deal with that just need a logistic regression to save million bucks here and there. I like that space more.
Most comedians are turned off by audiences who cancel. Anyone not in tune with that trend in Chappelle's work isn't credible to make broad sweeping comments about that.
I find it strange that people assume Elon will get rid of bots as though Twitter weren’t already trying that.
I’ve been interviewing candidates for ~5y across two companies and have yet to see a motivational letter. And most the resumes I see are either overly verbose and don’t tell me what you actually did, or are simply a soup of buzzwords.

A few of the most successful and memorable hires I was a part of have real github accounts with something more than a bunch of forks or fancy profile readme.

In my opinion, it doesn’t matter if the content isn’t representative of what you want to do at work. Seeing that you’re curious and interested in building things, trying weird experiments, and so on is a strong data point in and of it’s self.

Here’s a similar example from an unrelated field: there’s a handyman that lives down the street from me. His humble home is neatly manicured and I often see him outside in the morning, dressed for the job and working on projects. Observing the pride he takes in his craft was a signal to me that he probably does good work. And after hiring him for a small project, my hunch was correct.
Indeed, I've noticed a while ago it's slowly becoming a Java with lots of dollar signs.
"I am an anesthesiologist. To an anesthesiologist, fentanyl is as familiar as a Philips screwdriver is to a carpenter; it is an indispensable tool in my toolbox. It is the most commonly used painkiller during surgery. If you’ve had surgery, it is more likely than not that you have had fentanyl. Fentanyl is used to blunt airway reflexes and to place the breathing tube into the trachea with minimal coughing. It is the potent analgesic that prevents pain from the surgeon’s scalpel while your body sleeps under anesthesia."

https://theconversation.com/fentanyl-widely-used-deadly-when... (2016)
> I did and always had the the issue of putting my thoughts into words properly

I’m the same in that respect, but I grew up bilangually, so I always wondered if that has caused my brain to think more independently of language than other people. On the other hand, I spend a lot of time mulling in my head what I will say/write to other people, which results in a lot of internal monologue.
There was a commercially available Tcl compiler available at that time. Did you ever take a look at it?

https://wiki.tcl-lang.org/page/GE+ICE+Tcl+compiler
If you do CSS you'd know the best fonts for 16px isn't the best fonts for 18px, and definitely not the best fonts for H1 H2 etc.

The Verdana font that HN and reddit uses are pretty good for reading in small text.
Do you just hate scientific research or something?
So did blue origin, and that was started a couple years before spacex. I suspect this is more the case of an idea that's time came, rather than any particular feat of genius or insight by a company founder. Once you have the computing power + speed, and the built-up engineering knowledge and tools, there's nothing stopping anyone with a half a billion in government funding from building something like that.
You may wish to look into Synergy (https://symless.com/synergy/features). It allows you to use a single keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. Each computer retains its' own displays, so it may not meet your needs. When I used it I had Windows and Linux desktops side by side, and focus followed the mouse across the displays.
Someone else posted this, but the submission quickly disappeared: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31156933

I think it's worth re-posting.
This is oft-repeated but it's not as simple as that.

There's no sharp line dividing the two. You already have "VR + passthrough" which is pseudo-AR. And AR turns into VR as soon as you cover up enough of the real world.

There's some experiences/applications that suit AR more than VR and vice-versa. Most devices will offer a mix of the two.
The existence of multiple LSP clients demonstrates the success of LSP and is a strength, not a weakness as the author suggests.

Often, it's because LSP clients have differences not in interacting with the LSP Server, but in how that is surfaced to the user. Some LSP clients are written in different languages, and that can make some implementations faster than others. This is why LSP is a success. It allows for clients to be written in many ways but for all of them to do the most basic thing they need to (go to def, rename, refactor, search symbols etc).

Multiple LSP clients is a success and offers users more choice about how they want to interact with their code. Do I want a search for symbols to open in a new window, to replace the current buffer, in a searchable list etc.
"No one here seems to have a problem with this." That is not true. A true statement is "Not enough people seems to have a problem with this." The American political system is setup so one vote is not equal so those with more voting power can win with fewer votes. I would argue that a majority care about these issues and would like to fix it, but the votes of the minority count more. Look at the US Senate and count the number of people each senator represents. The electoral college guarantees inequality in votes for the president.
> Operations can have cognitive side-effects, particularly in the over-65s but also in the very young

I’m going to need every medical professional to define “young” at the beginning of their articles, abstracts and research papers from now on.

It was about 2 years ago today when I realized this isnt the same word or context as the general population and the communication skills of that entire industry is inadequate for ever saying anything to the public.
Hi HN! This weekend, I made a magic trick that you can try out in your browser.

Works best on desktop. Also, for those who don't like it, Google Docs not required--JIRA comments or most other WYSIWYG editors will also work.

Hope you enjoy it!
It was both the best and worst time of my life. Wouldn't trade it for the world.
> The GDPR reads as if its authors had a different understanding. For example, the 'data minimisation' principle indicates that you should not be collecting personal data unless doing so would prevent the desired activity

Indeed. It could reasonably be assumed that this is the main reason why the paid version does not use any tracking.

> There's also a question over whether the services are the same: a subscription appears to be materially different to one-shot access to an article, a question which is entirely overlooked in their analysis.

Well, the service is being offered on a monthly basis alone. The customer may only desire a one-shot access, but that offer is simply not on the table.

I may only be interested one-shot access to [some-Netflix-movie], but the smallest access unit Netflix is willing to sell me is a month. Same goes for certain gym memberships. etc.

> The practical interpretation is that, if a user wishes to read 100 articles from 100 service providers all using this scheme, the cost of privacy is a significant detriment at €600.

Accessing a 100 difference service providers is on the customer, though?

Same example as above. Say the customer wants to watch just one movie on Netflix, Disney+, and 98 other providers, all charging $10/month. $1000 per month sounds a lot but that's entirely on the customer; they could also just spend only $10 and watch 100 movies on Netflix.
> He says Netflix is woke without any citations

People don't do citations in casual conversations.

Everyone agrees that Netflix is woke, the disagreement is weather wokeness is good or bad.
It's interesting that a lot of people here seem to consider a second FT position as immoral/illegal.
How about instead of a second FT job - studying FT for an unrelated degree? The time needed is arguably the same as a second FT and context switching is still there.
Wrote code for many years sans ORMs.

Two features I enjoy in ActiveRecord and other ORMs, and why I would consider them a good standard practice for most things that aren't "toy" projects.

1. Easy chainability. In ActiveRecord you can have scopes like `User#older_than_65` and `User.lives_in_utah` and easily chain them: `User.older_than_65.lives_in_utah` which is occasionally very useful and way more sane than dynamically building up SQL queries "by hand."

2. Standardization. Maintenance and ongoing development (usually the biggest part of the software lifecycle) tend to get absolutely insane when you have N different coders doing things N different ways. I don't love everything ActiveRecord does, but it's generally quite sane and you can drop a new coder into a standard Rails project and they can understand it quickly. On a large team/codebase that can equate to many thousands or even millions of dollars worth of productivity.

I far prefer to write a concise, clear query instead
of trying to remember some ORM syntax

100% agree.

ActiveRecord strikes a good balance here IMO. An explicit goal of ActiveRecord is to make it painless to use "raw" SQL when desired.

On non-toy projects, I think a policy of "use the ORM by default, and use raw SQL for the other N% of the time when it makes sense" is very very sane.
China Doubles Down on Coal
Funny and accurate article:
https://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1276-6-things-m...
And [https://web3isgoinggreat.com/]
People who disagreed with the movement. People that agreed liked (and posted signs in their yards, etc) found it to be a moving slogan.

Contrast that with “Defund the police” where even where there is broad support for alternative policing initiatives, you don’t see support for the slogan.
As a programmer (with a busy professional and personal life), I don't really care for the fact that it's like this but I acknowledge that it is and I also understand that it can be a strong signal in the right hands.

I use my pinned repositories to showcase side projects that I've worked on that are either complicated/challenging problems or that solve a specific problem in a complete way. These 6 repositories are "the most serious" work that is available in my public GitHub profile.

Some time ago, when I put my mind to doing this, I made sure to put extra effort and attention to detail into about a dozen different projects that were in my public profile, so that I had options across languages, project types, etc., for what I'd pin. I put each project through its paces, made sure it ran on multiple platforms (or, that there were notes in the README about how to get there otherwise), cleaned up Makefiles, test suites, etc.

At least one of these projects is incomplete and/or a work in progress, but I've indicated as much in the README, but it's also obvious to see exactly where (and why) that project stalled, if you read through the code.

I can't say that it's helped get me a job (I haven't changed employers) but I do feel a little better about the other 100 or so projects in my public profile now that are in varying states of completeness.
SoftBank Cuts Back Spending, Leaving Startups Desperate for Cash
(Slightly controversial opinion for this thread) Stark is an a*hole. Folk(s) imitating him (or imitated by him) ironically don't realize it.
What you're speaking of is "Prioritize Wellbeing" which is a worthy belief to hold and to remind ourselves as engineering managers.

However, the specific word used by the OP is "Facilitate" which gives managers the leeway to be weak and lazy. A manager can say "I let my team take PTO a few days each quarter, I facilitated their well-being!" while they passively allow their stakeholders to dictate the workload of their engineers, with zero pushback. In practice, "Prioritize" basically means conflict and action, "facilitate" means whatever the manager wants it to mean.

Going further: most "principles" like the kind the OP wrote are designed for a manager's self-therapy. Beliefs that justify decisions the manager has already taken, dressed up in nice-looking words, the kind of drivel that influencers peddle on LinkedIn. Whereas real principles that the GP refers to are meant for self-discipline. Beliefs that call into question decisions, and force the manager to really think their next steps through carefully.
Yes. And probably the best characteristic of SQLite in production is its (albeit accidental or implied) story around Dev/Ops. A whole category of problems just goes away.
Fentanyl is commonly used to induce general anesthesia. Diacetylmorphine was used before the introduction of fentanyl. Diacetylmorphine is also known as heroin.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_anaesthesia#Inductio...
People are hopping on this guy for saying he’ll solve agi in 20 years, but I’m already laughing at him thinking he’ll be creating value with humanoid robots in 1 year.
LightPC: A Resilient System Using Only Non-Volatile Memory
This is so funny to me how it's constantly brought up here but has never been an inconvenience to me, and I started with PHP3 in 1998.

Even before auto-completion I guess I would just read the docs.

To each his own I guess.
> There hasn't been any bigotry or violence directed towards Russians abroad

This is simply untrue:

https://www.fox5dc.com/news/russia-house-restaurant-vandaliz...

https://vancouverisland.ctvnews.ca/vandalism-at-russian-chur...

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/12/1086282867/a-russian-pianists...

Perhaps you are going to respond that none of this is equivalent to the atrocities committed by the Russian military. And you’d be right, in exactly the same sense that the indiscriminate internment of Japanese-Americans and Japanese-Canadians was not equivalent to the atrocities carried out by the Japanese military. My point here is that one still does not justify the other.
Isn't Georgia a very popular font? Interesting to see it isn't mentioned anywhere. It's the preferred font choice for me, but I know a lot of editorials also use it (or a variation of it).
I certainly hope too, especially as those teams are typically at the crossroads of every initiative and therefore unfairly perceived as "what is slowing us down" rather than "what carries everything else". Echoes can shine a light on their contribution, and on the challenges of being in the middle of it all.
A Life Lesson from Kurt Vonnegut – Of All People
In teams I've worked on recently, it's been less of a "which is easier" and more of "what percentage of our customers would we reach".

Worldwide, Android phone significantly outnumber iPhones, but in Canada and the US, the split is pretty close to 50/50. At that point we would probably go with the platform the majority of the team is more comfortable with unless there was a specific business reason for going with a specific platform first.
> Then you're not connecting with the US "left" (probably not a coincidence).

Interesting assumption. I'm far to the left of most Canadians, let alone Americans.

> It is true that if you watch network or cable TV from the US, you will not find the actual left represented, other than perhaps Bernie Sanders.

That was my point, albeit poorly expressed; very few actual leftist thinkers get any kind of mainstream exposure so all "US thinkers" are right of centre unless you specifically go looking for the left leaning ones.
We will soon find out what's harder: settle Mars or make a public place where everyone can post, anything but a cesspool of bullshit. I think we will see Mars colony first.
> The point is that your examples are clearly of "suppressing free speech".

But that's what Musk wants to fix on Twitter, so I think it's applicable.

> For example, what does not having a PR dept supress?

On the face of it nothing, but if the PR dept is closed to make it harder for the press to ask questions, then it's indicative.

> And the right to not send a luxury good to a journalist/blogger is hardly a free-speech chilling penalty

Of course it is. The next reviewer (if he wants to buy one) will either not review the car or try not to upset Musk with his review.

> refusing service is not censorship.

Well, then how is refusing service to right-wing users on Twitter censorship?
Is Boeing in space with SpaceX?
Would VW even care about EVs without Tesla? Would they lie about them like they did their diesel emissions? lol - holding up VW as something to emulate!

GM had a pretty good EV in the 80’s - then killed it. Literally - never sold them, only leased them and forced owners to cough them back up and destroyed them.

I have zero interest in owning a Tesla - their stance on right to repair and their customer service sucks, but without them there wouldn’t be near the activity around EVs as there is now. Like him or not, Elon pretty much single handedly embarrassed the rest of the auto industry to have to take EVs seriously by proving that yes, EVs can be not only useful but cool.