skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is not a gotcha question, you talk in absolute terms of "free speech", because you know it is less acceptable to say "I want to call LGBT people a disease", "I want to be able to blame minorities".

What I am trying to say, is that I am sick of pandering to that bullshit deflection. If you hate some minority, and think that you are in the right for doing so, you should just be saying that. You shouldn't be claiming other stuff is being censored, and that's what you're correcting, as a cover to get back to bigotry, attacking minorities, and of course that other favorite: trying to overthrow elections.

Because that's the only significant censorship that twitter has added, and even that is fairly minimal.
Why do you think Elon is more likely to make the product worse than the current management?
This rings hollow because nothing "started" with this person.

He was dropped into a team inside a huge defense contractor to do a tiny technical task within the much larger purpose of that company. It's great that he liked and valued who he was working with, but it's not a condition he created or can advise others to create. His "who", however important it was to him, was nothing without the "why" of the company.

I have a manager who is extremely people-oriented. It's nice, but mostly in the sense of not doing harm. Team meetings are full of kindness and accolades, but people aren't engaged because the meetings lack substance and purpose. We have the meetings primarily to "feel like a team", rather than to engage in the purpose the team exists for.

You still need the why to generate meaning and self-respect.
Interview Hints That Putin Has Poor Health
I meant used by the Trump alternative.
I think you would still need some form of 3D modeling if you want to achieve a good/accurate fit for apparel on your body.
One day I was messing around with an IR camera for RPi and was surprised to see the magnets inside of my black plastic closed headphones.
Heh of we are going that route why not just laser-engrave it into animal skin?
My favorite part of HN is when someone posts something I webbed in 1995, and then a ton of people complain that their browser defaults make the content look ugly.

But they're complaining about me, not their browser.
Plus, the whole basket of assets going consistently up over time doesn't hurt.
Sokol author here (thanks for the mention). I think it's important to note that Magnum has a much wider scope than both sokol-gfx and WebGPU (see here: https://magnum.graphics/features/extras/). sokol-gfx and WebGPU are "just" 3D API wrappers, while Magnum is a much more complete C++ framework for writing 3D applications. I've been following Magnum (and the author
Vladimír Vondruš) for a long time, it's an excellent project with a lot of great ideas, and a nicely balanced C++ API (which is a feat of its own). Also I'm kinda jealous of the documentation: https://doc.magnum.graphics/magnum/ :)

PS: also don't forget BGFX (https://github.com/bkaradzic/bgfx) which sits somewhere in the middle between sokol-gfx/WebGPU and Magnum when it comes to API abstraction and feature set.
I've came to the very same conclusions.
Is it just me or does it look like the AI is just pasting a blurry version of the front to fill in the back? You can see hints of necklines on backs, or the red from a dress showing where a black overcoat should be.
The robots pictured at the end of the article (and moley.com, also mentioned) mimic humans in cooking (i.e. "physically at work using hands"), but I can't help but wonder the operational issues.

Kitchen is messy. You can drop eggs on the floor, oil jumping out of stove making everything (including the robots) greasy, the stove knob must be turned in a specific way to make it work---which means there needs to be a human on standby, and that person will need to work extra cleaning the robot as well.
Raising half a billion dollars is a massive vote of confidence from investors who have poured through the projections in fine detail.
Wasn’t he the founder of X.com the precursor entity to PayPal?
Serious question: Why not use source control to identify the files with changes and limit the scope of your formatter run to just those files. If the unchanged files met the formatter rules when they were committed, then repeated runs should be guaranteed to pass. Why introduce a cache when you could just do less work?
All I see is a textbook reductio ad absurdum argument and aggressive demands to prove a negative. You've eliminated room for nuance in a discussion about a very complex and nuanced issue and displayed your bad faith for all to see. If you were shooting to portray the things you're advocating for in a haughty and intellectually bankrupt manner then you've succeeded admirably.
> so they offer me to switch from full time to part-time with the same salary

I'm not sure of the specifics where you are, but contractors/part timers are usually drastically cheaper to hire than full time employees. Your consulting rate should be 1.5x or more (I'd say 2x+) than your FTE rate.
> Musk's personality and actions turn off many of these people.

Huh? You do realize the parent comment is not talking about Amy Schumer, right?

> It will much harder for Musk to get these people back than it would be for a publicly traded company.

So, you're saying that comedians who are on social media to gather following to promote their content... and were banned while doing that will not come back to Twitter if unbanned because Musk? Do you think they gave two shits about who the CEO or board members or majority investors were when they joined?
I don't think our design is particularly coupled to ELF. We only really do one thing with it (store the test array in an ELF section), which can be done differently for another platform, and isn't the end of the world if omitted anyway.
That’s a lot of BI articles.
It's basically unimaginable that they would sell the domain. Whatever amount of money they'd get for it wouldn't be worth it given the potential risks to their customers (since it was formerly an URL shortener), and owning git.io is pretty on-brand for GitHub.
Whle these are "consequences" of DeMorgan's laws, they are written in the logical predicate format

And you can bet a lot of node developers will get tripped up by those if they need to simplfy or rewrite an if statement

It's "obvious" but not so much (especially for the time), and shows the importance of publishing (formalizing and adding your name) to things that might be obvious but maybe not
Well done. That's a respectable number of sales for your first year!

The economics of self publishing is interesting. When I think back on
my first book I count at least 5 years research that enabled me to be
able to write it, 3 years writing it and then many years selling the
thing around industry. By a pessimistic account I was about £500k
down :) Like you, the first year I sold about 500. Unlike online
fulfilment today, I spent that time stuffing envelopes, staring at a
slowly shrinking pile of boxes in the corner of my study, printing
labels, with occasional trips to the post-office. It was actually
work, and many times I thought 'this is crazy'. It doubled for two
more years until dealing with the orders actually became too much
(while doing a "real job").

On the other hand, it got me a string of well paying jobs, established
me as the go-to consultant in a niche, invitations to talk and teach
all around the world, and basically transformed my career. So putting
a "net profit" number to it seems unfathomable. Each book you write,
if researched from scratch, is kinda equivalent to a PhD.

What happened next is that I sold the title, from my own publishing
company to a large publisher (MIT). Publishers don't take many risks
these days, but they will buy a book that already has reasonable
number of sales as a going concern. The advantage is that all
mechanics and business is suddenly off your hands. Without an advance
to pay back you then have a modest income stream and time to write the
next book.

Another effect of being a semi-professional writer, as a side gig, is
that other people want to pay you to edit, typeset, and review
works. Learning LaTeX and various markups and text processing tools
has been a huge gift. That can be quite fun if you're in a vibrant
field that genuinely interests you. And you don't have to be
associated with academia or a big-name institution for that to
work. In fact I'd say that academics these days never have time for
writing and that most other successful authors I know are independent.

I hope your book takes off even more, but right now I think you can
count 600 sales in the first year as a definite success!
Germany is also the biggest country in the European Union.
Precisely this. It's incredible how naive HN and the online community in general is being about this.
Magnum's documentation is top tier IMHO. Just don't start with the API reference, but with this page: https://doc.magnum.graphics/magnum/pages.html

(which arguably should be the main page)
No it was not general anesthesia. I've had general anesthesia for a hemmorhoids surgery and it was a completely different thing than the intoxication I got for colonoscopy/gastroscopy!

General anesthesia is a big deal both for the patient and for the doctors/hospital.
Cuckoo hash must be a great example. I was interested in the problem solved by this paper solely because I learnt the analysis of time complexity of cuckoo hash just a few months ago.
One thing I like about XP is that it focuses on people who directly interact with what you build - programmers, users and domain experts.

From the article:

> Without putting ‘who’ first, you can’t create trust. You’ll only have politics and dysfunction.

This addresses your point. If people in charge don't care about those who are affected by their decisions, AKA not taking responsibility, then you have a deeper problem.

The article states that the 'why' should fall out of the 'who' and that the 'who' is someone you care about and work with. There is a very effective ideal behind that and anything on top that gets in the way should be subjected to scrutiny and not accepted as a given.
We don't know. They have not been around long enough.
That is the theory. But who actually does that? Who actively monitors if link, which is directed to is dead and then tries to find correct location where the content have moved to?

The only possible solution right now would be to point to the dated content at the Web Archive.
1. Person can not tell you they are lying if they think they tell the truth

2. To fully understand a person you need to know their history
> But he didn't succeed were others tried and failed.

You do realize companies have been trying to make EVs even before there were fossil fuel powered ones, right?

There has never been a time in the last 150 years when some company wasn't making EVs.
Not the person who asked the question but thanks again for sharing this.

I'm in a similar situation but without the full time job -- I can understand the retainer, but with the contracting do you charge per hour? I'd imagine you charge per day/week but that also feels a bit hard to balance evenly with a full time job.
Interesting. I'm basically the opposite. I use `git blame` heavily and find that I can rapidly understand the intent behind some code by doing so, assuming the commit messages are well-crafted. Comments are great, where appropriate, but to achieve the same density of information you'd have to add a comment with every commit, which would probably result in a difficult-to-read codebase.
It's been 30 years and GUI toolkits are worse than they were in 1995
Why should I have to defend the imperfections of what I do for fun? I wasn't getting paid to make it good.

It's a personal project. I do it for fun. I didn't write tests because it wasn't fun. I cut corners to get to the fun part faster. I made breaking changes because the one single user accepted them.
Whether the CVE is found by someone who reports it, or someone that does not makes no difference to the vulnerability of your systems. Better it be in the light, where it can be fixed, than in the darkness.
Emphasis on generational :)

PS. I am a millennial, and I absolutely love the zoomer humor. You guys are f* hilarious ^_^
Sharing is caring. It's not an invitation for unsolicited judgement.

The message is "I code in ny spare time" not "this is representative of my professional work"
Neutron stars are rare and hard to hide (they're very bright in X-rays, and stand out against dim and dusty backgrounds, unlike isolated black holes). There are maybe low tens of thousands of neutron stars in the Milky Way (we've counted about 3000 of them).

There are hundreds of billions of regular stars in our galaxy (and in similar galaxies), some much more massive than neutron stars, and all of them have a much larger cross-sectional area than neutron stars. (NSes are tiny -- compare with New York City -- <https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neutron_Star_Manhatt...>) So small black holes are much more likely to collide with ordinary stars, and even Long Island NY and other comparable features on Earth, other solar system bodies, and exoplanets (we've counted five thousand of those now, and a lot of them are considerably closer than the nearest neutron star). But we see no evidence of that.
Looking through the poster's profile https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=erichocean wow, he sure put in the work to let his SEO spam get through! but you caught them anyway, good job!

imagine, all those years, since 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=erichocean just to be caught out in the end! that's just heartbreaking.
blows my mind people think he paid 43B to block a few people.
Speed up OCaml GC by prefetching during marking
I like his conclusions, but also think he neglects to acknowledge that the current solutions are a result of people trying to solve the problem of climate change while balancing other problems. You can't force a solution, as another commenter points out, without some negative externalities. The sad reality is that there is a negative correlation between wealth and impact from climate change, while there is also a negative correlation between wealth and impact from forced immediate actions to curb emissions.
Why would you ditch a service for offering you more choice with no real downside?
sure. unless they lie with that too.
ONE. MILLION. DOLLARS. :)

Seriously, though... The next step for Communick is to offer custom-hosting and a whitelabel service.

We can talk about pricing (raphael@my business domain), if you let me know:

- how geographically dispersed is your audience?

- do you also need/want Matrix with its own conference server, or it's fine if people use Jitsi?

- is it okay to have fixed storage limits (e.g, 100GB/user), or does it have to grow on-demand?

- do you need any kind of strong SLA? I haven't seen any significant downtime with Communick, but it is not a hugely popular instance (yet) so I haven't had a real-world stress test yet.

Ps. My business domain is mushroomlabs.com
Ask HN: Getting started in biology with a CS/data science background
I come from a computer science and data science background, having done my undergrad in this direction. I would like to do my masters in biotechnology, but I have very little knowledge of biology.

Can you recommend me resources that I could study with? Beginner friendly books? Online courses?

I would be really greatful!
My hot take is that he doesn’t much care for politicians of any party.
I wonder if you imagine you were kind in this exchange.
> Who would have thought that Trump back in 2018 could so accurately predict Germany's current problems with Russian gas.

Oh not this again. American politicians only care about Europe when they want to make profit or surveil its citizens. Trump (or better, his speech writers) were upset that, at the time, Germany banned fracking.
The city is stealing people from the country. And a lack of people leads to a lack of jobs. Because fewer people means fewer amenities and services (less shops, less offices, no more swimming pool, less budget for nice things in the municipality). And few people and little amenities and services make it less attractive to start a business there, because it is hard to find employees locally, and hard to attract them from far away because of the amenities.
TeX, Calendar file, scratch wiki

TeX for everything; it's basically `duck-talking` with snippets of code. One TeX doc per project.

Calendar file with reminders to do stuff in the future, ie. delegate to your future self.

Todos in a scratch wiki page, so notes can be scribbled from any device.
You're not the target demographic. It was shared with other programmers, not submitted for your judgement.
Let me drop it here.

http://worrydream.com/AlligatorEggs/
funny how some low-poly 3d models wrapped with photos are being called "photorealistic" nowadays.
I just bought your sound design book. Looks very interesting!
This is largely a problem of GitHub and other code UIs making it awkward to see anything other than the most recent commit in blame view.

With `git blame` you can use `-w` to ignore whitespace changes and `-M` to detect moved/copied code; a lot of the time this will help to rapidly find the relevant commit rather than a lint change.

You can also use `git log` on a range of lines of a file: `git log -L 15,23:src/main.rs` and if you add `-p` you'll see diffs as well.

Comments can go out of date, commit messages (if used properly) provide a genuine timeline of the evolution of the code.
> make it seem like "woke" people are ignoring discrimination against Jews and Asians.

So then you agree that the other person was attempting to communicate the following: 'express doubt that "overrepresentation" is a good justification for discrimination'.

That is what they were attempting to express. And you have zero disagreement that this is what they were trying to say.
at least not for me (on Firefox)
How does this prevent a single instance growing to massive proportions, and then its property (and private data!) being sold to highest bidder? Those who self-hosted their data will have no problem, but the majority of users aren’t self-hosting, and will lose posts & media upon switching to a new instance (which may lead to the same network effects we see now with Twitter users not willing to migrate).
Hell yeah he did! Freedom of Speech is back on the menu boys!
Not everything is political BS. Some things are just common sense. People can read body language and sometimes they can tell if someone is lying, especially if they know the liar well.
People doing manual labor are just as obese as us office workers.
Then you don't accept the principle of freedom of speech because you threaten retaliation to ideas. You use a strawman that abuses that freedom to justify your response.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech

First sentence clearly states that to adhere to the principle, retaliation is not to be feared or people will not speak up. This threat of violence is prevalent in dictatorships all around the world.

But for any intellectual dialogue the adherence to freedom of speech is a minimal requirement.

There is a difference of principle and requirements de jure.
> because that's how Rails happens

Bingo.
Of all big social platforms Twitter has the least amount of active users per month (
~330maum). Pinterest (~$10B) has more active users (~460maum). I can't imagine that there is much more potential in Twitter.

So how it is possible to get a loan for this amount of money?
Great observation
SQL. Typescript with library like pgtyped basically allows you to write raw SQL queries and then generates all the static typings for them.
It also hides what was being "shortened". If I find expired url science.com/astrologist-dicovers-alien-life I know who owned it and can guess what the content was. Doesn't happen with random characters or 3rd party short-names.
Interesting idea. This can be done with the existing DNS infrastructure I believe. It really sounds like a workable solution.
Yes, and they're still working on the basics. Their system for writing shaders in Rust may be useful, but it's not done yet.
The official Go tour (https://go.dev/tour/) is also a good resource IMHO, especially for people already experienced with other languages, because it points out the key differences.
How does a team not know how to code in Ruby? Doesn’t ergonomics matter?
> open algorithms (99.9% people would not understand what they looking at, at probably 80% of engineers wouldn't either

100% of engineers won't either. These algorithms are all going to be neural net based, which means they need the data (which will be private) to even know what outputs will be for a given input. And why the output is such for a given input? No way to know - basically a black box.
I love that the evidence of widespread misuse of company funds is someone booked their flights too late to a conference.

Also, the idea that employees of a game company don't play the game they work on for fun is pretty understandable.

Like it's their job. The last thing they're gonna want to do on their time off is play it.
It’s almost too easy for Elon to improve Twitter. The list of problems and features is a mile long. Twitter has done nothing but stagnate the last 10 years.
Is it working for you with firefox?

If not, maybe you should add a note that firefox is not working, so the ~third(?) of your visitors won't get confused, and you won't just waste their time for nothing.
I have the physical copy of the last edition. It is good. For total beginners it might be a notch to fast tho.

The introduction has been rewritten completely from former editions as far as I can tell, and to my judgment has a better pacing and a friendlier tone. For those who already have a little bit of knowledge from tinkering around and seek to deepen their understanding it is definitly very much recommended.
Dunno, most of what I write is for myself. Occasionally someone reads it and finds value, that's great, but also not the point.
> salmon lochs

Lochs (LO-Hs) are scottish lakes, lox (LOKS) are yiddish salmon fillets...
> People are unreasonable, they are not going to accept punishment just because you tell them what rule they broke.

You'll never stop the banned person from being angry. The point of transparency is so that you provide something to make the mob think twice about grabbing pitchforks.

It's the same reason we have a justice system, to stop vigilante justice from tearing apart society. You have provide the illusion of justice or people make their own judgements based on limited information. Of course it won't be perfect every time. You just have to persuade _enough_ people.
With rare exceptions, operating digitally has been the only way to stay in business through mandated shutdowns and restricted activity. It was and still is going digital or going down. Read about the digital transformation of a Biotech Leader in this case study.
> Well, with Audacity now compromised

That was resolved, even though some people still seem to think it was/is/ever will be malicious.
Who cares about this “basic trust”? Except the employer, obviously. Not exactly a balanced power dynamic there.
Thank you fartcannon. May we hack into the long night
Oh hey, I own that book! It felt to me like SICP for sound.

I'm curious what kind of projects it led to you consulting for?
Sink? Twitter is ripe for growth. He’s going to 10x his investment and make the last 10 years of Twitter look like Apple’s slow decline in the 90s.
Shouldn't it be independent from observation and happen even if you look elsewhere? And why the falling matter can't be observed? If it didn't reach even horizon, it can be observed given a good enough telescope.