skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> And if north korea was a chinese vassal, they wouldn't have nuclear weapons. It's funny how people want to ignore the obvious.

I agree with this view unfortunately. I find it a very harsh view. It's too harsh for my taste and I have the strongest wish that I didn't view things this way. With that said, the evidence is too strong in my opinion.

The evidence that supports it is that Ukraine was invaded by Russia, because they didn't have nuclear weapons. Ukraine used to have them and they were not invaded then. This means that nuclear weapons act as a deterrent. It also means that promises are not made forever (since Russia promised not to invade Ukraine if they'd give back their nuclear weapons). More importantly, you don't know how long such a promise lasts.

Based on how Russia treated Ukraine we can state:

* Nuclear weapons act as a deterrent. It doesn't matter what treaties and promises are in place. Nuclear weapons will fail as a deterrent if there's a proper defense against it. Currently, there is no proper defense against it. It will be unknown when there will be or if there ever will be.

* Promises and treaties show an intention. That intention may not be acted upon at any given point in time.

We know that North Korea has nuclear weapons. This means that North Korea has a deterrent against any other country including China. Moreover, North Korea has made this deterrent more potent by showcasing it is willing to starve its own population. This means they care less about having nuclear weapons targeted at them than the other way around. To see why this strategy is effective one could read up on the mentality Swiss pikemen in the 15th century [1].

If China invades North Korea, then they better have a way to defend against nuclear weapons. If they don't, then I estimate that they they risk about 50 million to 100 million people directly dying to being severely injured [2], not to mention the nuclear fallout would cause second order effects.

[1] In short: because they were willing to go on suicidal charges against other pikemen of other nations, they became the most feared pikemen to fight against. Fighting against a Swiss unit would mean certain death for both groups of pikemen.

[2] North Korea has about 40 to 50 nuclear weapons (source: a quick Google search). China has 290749208 people in the 40 biggest cities (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_China_by_pop...). I took a rough 15% to 30% of that.
Those videos are comically misleading.

The author acts as if cats can understand abstract concepts and combining words into a SVO grammar. And with dozens of words!

"later morning" "later play [with] dad" "love you mommy"

This is simply far outside the cognitive abilities of cats.

Edit: Confirmation bias is so strong that I get downvotes for writing this.
> The definition of computation I'm using is that there exists a process somehow that can go from the input to the output. If that process can't be replicated by a TM then so be it, it just means Church-Turing is false.

> Actually, the original wording that Church used was "any function that can be computed by a mathematician.." (could be computed by a TM).

That explains the disconnect. My working definition of computation is essentially the one Church gives there, with the understanding that he was talking about specifically computing the exact value of some function that could also be computed with a slide rule or some other effective procedure.

> So I think that it's reasonable to frame it as computation - it would be begging the question if I assumed church Turing was true.

Even assuming C-T, it's an enthymeme and not a syllogism. The unstated leg is something roughly like "the universe is a computer." Assuming that is basically assuming what is to be proved with respect to whether or not the brain is a computer or some higher category of reckoner that happens to be able to do everything a TM can, at least with enough time, pencil, and paper.

> I'm leaning towards the side that uncomputable functions can actually be computed in reality

For clarity it would probably be sensible to use a term other than computation for determining an exact value in this case. Anyhow, I believe I follow and I lean that way too.

There's a related metaphysical question too. I'm not sure how to state it exactly, but it's implied by questions like "When I throw a ball is reality computing a parabola and applying necessary modifications?" The alternative is that whatever way reality determines how that ball moves, it's not by what we'd call an effective procedure.

> Anyways, I hope this answers the question of how we might know!

Thanks for your insight and the link!
I compared my statements to the new pricing. It boils down to a 20% spike on most of their products. That's a stiff price bump with a six week notice.
HN to me is a enigma. I see comments on here a lot lamenting simple majorities for presidential elections being a necessary for a “democracy”, and now comments describing simple majorities being un-democractic.

I am not making a comment that either is good or bad, just it seems that what “democracy” means tends to be pretty damned subjective.
Only 21% and 12% are against in Sweden and Finland, respectively, vs 57% and 76% who want to join.

I understand your point about fracturing politics on issues like this (we're still paying for "Brexit"), and that 10-20% is a fair chunk of voters, but even then, you've got to be really against it to throw your lot in with an extreme single-policy party. A minority of the minority will be disillusioned or angry about it.

Given that the vast balance of opinion wants to join, joining takes months and can be reversed, and both countries have general elections within the next 12 months, I think democracy will be just fine.
Imagine someone from an old aristocratic family that has a noble title, was known to own land, etc. Even if they lose their money for some reasons they won’t be considered in the same social class as someone who comes from a poor background.

You can do the opposite, imagine someone from a poor neighborhood who then start to gain wealth, their money alone will not make them be part of the upper class (im quite sure there is a woody Allen movie with this exact premise).

What distinguishes social classes is in part wealth, but that’s just one component.
Same here I never tweet but follow a few people.
Does Laravel Scale?
Inflation is quite high.
I've alway wondered is 'finger' short for fingerprint?
You only need to see who the author of this post is to know that the methodology is crap, the numbers are likely made up (19.42% is WAY too specific), and the post is just a grab for media attention on the coattails of some other internet meme garbage.

This guy (Rand Fishkin) has been selling SEO as a religion for the better part of this century, and is in no small part responsible for all the search-result-garbage style websites everyone is complaining about elsewhere on HN today and every other day.

He's a third-rate market-bro hack that's been taking advantage of web professionals who get thrown into SEO/Marketing jobs and have no idea what they're doing by relentlessly shoving half-assed corporate strategies through moz.com and now his new sparktoro.com, and calling himself the great SEO redeemer.

Wanna question his methodology? There is none. Wanna question his science? Totally devoid.
Yes and no, just like any major media platform, huge majority of tweets being seen are from a very small group of influencers/popular person. That's why when you join twitter, it suggests to you a lot of people to follow that are already big.
https://archive.ph/DWSJu
Thanks to the genius move of Putin.

the best strategist of Russia ever.
> It'll be more likely north korea will one day liberate south korea than anything. South korea has a foreign occupation force. North korea doesn't. Think about it.

LOL. IIRC, about all North Korea has for it (militarily) is MAD with South Korea (thousands of bunkered artillery pieces aimed as Seoul and nukes).

Russia's got a far better military than North Korea, and it's getting torn up in Ukraine. North Korea, in anything resembling its current state, is never going to "liberate" South Korea.
I love the look of e-ink but I’ve been skeptical of using it for work ever since trying a few devices with e-ink screens—the latency of an eink screen can be a lot higher if the manufacturer doesn’t get it right, which is fine for some use cases but can be really annoying for others, such as typing.

For those looking for a distraction free, portable writing experience specifically, check out the pomera dm 200. It does not use eink but has a UI that sports a very similar look and feel to eink devices. It’s responsive, extremely portable, and only supports writing text. It’s Japanese, so the UI is in Japanese only, but you can write using English characters.
This is very likely. Erdogan really isn't much more than a thug, they always have a price, and often have dirty secrets they don't want laundered.
is there any way they, viewing Twitter externally, could tell lurker accounts like yours and abandoned accounts like mine apart?

No. Which is why the only reasonable thing to say as an external party is "we don't know."
I think you're conflating 'general purpose computing' with multitasking or multifunction devices.

PiHole exists precisely because the Pi is a general-purpose computing device: it uses a relatively stock operating system and network stack to perform its task. Its competition here is not a desktop computer, it's a bespoke network appliance with custom hardware/firmware manufactured by somebody like Cisco.

What you lament is that so many of our "PC" systems seem to have wasted processing potential, but I think this is optimizing along the wrong axis. Sure, my desktop PC could run a home DNS server without breaking a sweat, but my desktop PC is not on all the time. Even the idle power draw from the ATX power supply likely outweighs the full-throttle power usage of a Pi-equivalent device.

Home computing (PiHoles, routers, and "smart home" devices) are a devolution of computing to commodity status in the same way that the PC was a devolution away from a mainframe-and-terminal environment. I think further progression along this axis is inevitable, and we should welcome entries like the Pi or this VoCore that keep the ethic of hackable, general-purpose computing even in a commodity footprint.
Tab completion alone is a good reason to switch. bash completes only filenames most of the time even with a bunch of third party completion scripts. Meanwhile, zsh provides smarter completion as part of its default installation, which you can enable with this 3 line configuration:

autoload -Uz compinit; compinit
setopt menu_complete
zstyle ':completion:*' menu select
The US government admits to 8% inflation in the last 12 months. This price increase seems completely fair given the number of years it's been unchanged.
You seem to be arguing against something that the article doesn't claim. The article isn't equating inactivity and fake/spam, but that: of the accounts that actively send tweets ~20% are fake/spam.

Sure that's a different question from what proportion of all users are fake/spam, but this is still a perfectly valid question to ask, and the fact that they're only considering active users is in the title so I really don't get your complaint.

If you want an analysis that attempts to answer a different question go find or write one that addresses the question you want answered...

The article clearly states (emphasis mine):

> This represents the largest set of accounts on Twitter we could acquire, but it includes analysis of many older accounts that haven’t sent tweets in the last 90 days and thus, likely don’t fit Twitter’s definition of mDAUs (monetizable Daily Active Users).

From the linked Twitter earnings report:

> We define monetizable daily active usage or users (mDAU) as Twitter users who logged in or were otherwise authenticated and accessed Twitter on any given day through Twitter.com or Twitter applications that are able to show ads.

EDIT: rephrased "accounts that are active" to "accounts that actively send tweets" to clarify what the article addresses.
As tempting as it might be to literally nuke Disney, actually doing so would entail too much collateral damage. So I'd be happy to see Disney go the way of Standard Oil. There's nothing wrong with megacorps like Disney that can't be fixed with vigorous antitrust persecution.
As other posters noted, in mathematics both 0 based and 1 based indexing is used.

When dealing with matrices and vectors (including data tables and data columns), there is a strong preference for 1 based indexing: first row, first column, first entry, etc. Most matrix and vector based algorithms in literature use 1 based indexing. Programming these in a language with 0 based indexing is a mess, and a common source or errors.

When dealing with sequences, especially recursively defined ones, there is usually an initial value (indexed with 0) and then the n-th value is obtained by n applications of the recursive step, so 0 based indexing makes more sense, but in literature there is no fixed convention, and you can find examples with 0 based and with 1-based indexing. Another example of 0 based indexing in math are polynomials (and in extension, power series) where the index is the degree of the term, or in general any functional series where the 0-th term is the constant term.

There are also negative indices.
So what's China waiting for (have 4 million deaths been averted by zero covid, or have they been delayed?). Is it still 4 million or not anymore?

I guess they are delayed and will be averted in future? Maybe there will be further tech shift, or a healthcare surge?

I suppose what I am trying to express is that zero covid is not a viable long-term strategy, it's a thing you do to buy time for your actual strategy, whatever that is.
Why are lurkers not helping numbers? It's the exact same as Youtube, do you expect majority of lurkers on YouTube to not be counted because they didn't create a video? People follow what is already out there and ads target the people watching.
Probably not. I think they both have comparable features, and by default are pretty bare bones without a lot of extensions and configuration. If you do want to try something new I would suggest fish shell. It is like a fully tricked out bash or zsh, but out of box. It is also very fast, because those tricks are built directly into the shell. I used to use zsh and after adding all the bells and whistles it got very slow.
^ This is exactly why I was against lockdowns in America circa June of 2000. Somehow back then if you took this position you were labelled anti-science, a racist, basically a serial killer, etc. I hope next time there is a major event people will stop and think "Maybe this person just disagrees with my conclusion."
>Yes but it's not just about military size, it's about cooperation. There's no >point in having a military that's 30x the size of another one if they don't >really cooperate with you.

Well if it prevents them from cooperating with someone else it might still be worth it.
The crypto space knows a lot of scammers, parrots and hypetrain-riders. This, in turn, attracts a lot of outspoken haters.

Many of the haters -not all!- are just as bad: following hypes, parroting critique or using the hate to push their own agenda. They lack any basis, or even general knowledge. False critiques keep being repeated, or just baseless shouting as your parent commenter did. Ignore them. Like you should probably try to ignore the scammers and influencers that promote crypto. A very few in the tech scene actually do have the knowledge and context to criticize (some) crypto-currencies. Unfortunately they are drowned in the noise made by the army of hating trolls that utter mere oneliners. Like parent comment.

To answer the original question:

* Try to understand the basics. Read the Bitcoin whitepaper (It is not hard), read the ethereum yellow papers (slightly harder). Read a book or two. Basics are even more important than in general computer engineering, because in crypto the context matters a lot.

* Try to understand the politics. Why will people advice (against) foo-coin and steer to bar-coin? Knowing the agenda and maps of the various groups help navigate. The older bitcointalk.org forums were a great place for this. Fediverse is a bit more nuanced in this than the mobs on twitter.

* As an engineer: focus on the tech. The politics distract, but are important (they make up the why). The tech, however, often is really great (and makes up the how). The tech is a lot of fun even if you dislike the politics or have political reasons not to dabble in a certain (area of) the tech. Learn to write a smart contract. Find how to deploy that. Numerous tutorials for this. I'd suggest to start with the "most boring" of this fast-moving tech: Ethereum. It has the most resources to learn.

* Dive deeper into security. Participate in e.g. a solidity (one of the programming languages to write Ethereum smart contracts) CTF Ethernaut (https://ethernaut.openzeppelin.com/)
Isn't it a bit ironic that a site - or its operator - 'going public' means all the content on said site actually 'goes private'?
The real question is: does it matter?
To whatever extent they allow.
I knew it, it was you.
In general, stuff just works.

The most problematic I'm aware of is Microsoft Windows, particularly 3.11 for Workgroups. These days it works, but it still needs a patched kernel AIUI.

There are APIs in the kernel / memory manager that back then were not public (documented) and are only used by Microsoft themselves.
There's a parallel idea, that you should avoid--insofar as is possible--numerical indexing. In other words, instead of iterating over `0:length(X) - 1` or `1:length(X)`, you use something like `for element in array` or

indices = CartesianIndices(multidimensional_X)
for index in indices

X[index] = # whatever

If you do that, you don't need to keep track of whether it's zero-based, one-based, or anything else. In fact, you may not even need to keep track of the number of dimensions, as in this example, https://julialang.org/blog/2016/02/iteration/
> Which is why it's going to be very hard to disprove Twitter's assertion unless Twitter chooses to share their data.

It's impossible to disprove Twitter's assertion because they never claimed that less than 5% of their accounts are spam. From their quarterly earnings:

>We define monetizable daily active usage or users (mDAU) as Twitter users who logged in or were otherwise authenticated and accessed Twitter on any given day through Twitter.com or Twitter applications that are able to show ads.

>... mDAU does not include users accessing Twitter through third-party applications.

Their statement said that less than 5% of their monetizeable daily active users are spam. There very well could be 50% of the entire user base as bots or spam, but that doesn't negate the metric Twitter releases.
It's depressing how that's almost not sarcastic.
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Exactly. I’ve tried quite a few “distraction free” solutions. The problem isn’t finding the right device, it’s finding the willpower to force yourself to write even when you’re coming up empty.
Such a demand is pretty clearly impossible to accept as a peace condition as it would just expose Ukraine to more Russian coercion in the future. Russia also demanded a categorical end to NATO expansion including in Sweden and Finland.
Twitter wasn't looking to sell itself. This was an unsolicited takeover bid.
FYI, you still have your home directory hardcoded here: https://github.com/KhoiUna/cloudflare-nginx-dns-sh-scripts/b...
I never understood why Discord servers keep messages indefinitely. Especially with no way to delete them in bulk. I also had an issue with support where I lost access to my email address, but still had username, password, and 2fa. Went to change email in my account and it sent the code to the old address.
> They make their money on the potenial eyeballs alone. Lurkers are not helping increase those numbers.

I don’t follow this.. Lurkers are they eyeballs presumably.

If everyone on twitter tweeted the same amount it would probably just drown out the popular accounts and create a more diffuse and less profitable ad space I think.
How would you take delivery of a car when in lockdown?
Maybe if you're a big white (Tyvek suited enforcer) you could pick it up?
Why after two weeks of being locked into your apartment would you decide to buy a car you couldn't pickup, sight unseen?
No - you can say that 20% of the accounts actively posting are spam/bots.

It's possible they are posting MUCH more or less than 20% of the content.

If these are skewed toward the high end of producers - the 80/20 rule would say that as much as 80% of the content could come from them. Still - it's possible this content isn't interacted with much outside of other bots. You can't draw many conclusions from such a limited data point.
well if his science is SEO he seems to be good at it
How do "almost" and "probably" shake out in real life?
Yep, and the cool part is you don't need a lot to start feeling relevant.

At least I didn't. A few weeks of consistently showing up and interacting with the same people made them start recognizing me, and that was enough to stop feeling like I'm just tweeting into the void here.

Now a few months and a few hundred followers later I'm finally at a point where I can simply ask "my" Twitter for feedback or share a thought and actually get some engagement. That felt like going from 0 to 1, and it was the hardest part.

A few hundred followers is still nothing in the grand scheme of Twitter things, but it's enough not to feel irrelevant since they're genuine and actually engage with me.
I get annoyed working with people like the author. "Make me code, don't make me think". I get that writing code is the most fun/rewarding part of the job, but it's not the actual job. Anybody can type, figuring out what to type IS the job.
That's how I grew up. We always called them "cat" or "kitty" and would get more specific as needed and based on how we felt about them at the moment. Anything from "the cute black one" to "that orange fool."

We were always told that no one really owns a cat, but we should take care of them all because it's good luck.
It causes problems for people with a CS background too. I once numbered machines in racks with zero-indexing (so that they could match up with zero-indexed ip addresses). Even though literally everyone who touched those machines had CS background: DO NOT DO THIS.
One trait I’ve seen in “non-organic” software is the use of the Enterprise SaaS playbook.

Start bottoms up, give away free or low/no margin services, gain adoption, capture the market, then with the pressure to grow, they start moving upmarket, go after 100K+ deals and raise prices, and eventually price out / fire vast chunks of their early adopters.

Been personally bit by this a few times, so these days I tend to very cautious about adopting non-organic software, at least not without a backup plan.

I’m a founder myself and this is one big concern I have about raising VC funds. Wrote about this here recently: https://typesense.org/blog/why-we-are-not-raising-funds/

I’ve also started to use the term customer-funded (similar to VC-funded), instead of “bootstrapped”, since the latter seems to give off an impression of early stage whereas the former is a conscious choice and state of being.