skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have actually done both, and the time taken to do the same task in PowerPoint is much lower. I would say 1/5th or 2/5th.

Also, as I said, the experience of writing code with Manim Community is not good.

If you have experience using prewritten libraries (i.e. you are not an academic or traditional Data Scienctist, and have proper programming experience), you will see that Manim is a bad tool. Not mincing words.

Yes, it takes time. But you get better and spee increases.
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For me, it’s Google Maps
The ~7000 QAnon accounts they banned don't fit your narrative I'm afraid.

There are now several intermediate steps they've added since then, like clear warnings [1]. This allows the account to stay active and still report on stolen data. Much better IMO, banning accounts is common practice, but too heavy-handed as to be the only tool Twitter has.

https://twitter.com/TheGrayzoneNews/status/13632755827845529...
This actually seems pretty good and has great coverage!
You can also use a pandoc filter to turn code blocks with Pikchr code into inline images.

https://code.jboy.space/pikchr-filter/
It is hard to write on this without taking sides.

Let's just say I share your intuition about this hypothetical real estate transaction but I am not convinced that it is an appropriate simile. As I read it, his claim is that he didn't waive inspections but relief on the prior inspection report which he is beginning to question.

But whether even that is the right metaphor almost doesnt matter. I think we would have to be steeped in what the standards are in the industry to have a productive discussion.

This is where someone in HN says: I am an M&A lawyer for 30 years and there are four standards. The X v Y standard whereby the effect of the change has to be material but material is not defined, however...

(Matt Levine has, as always, my favorite elucidation)
An advantage of Telegram over Signal or related apps is that if I am in a situation where I need to delete a message and leave no trace of it having been there then I can do this on Telegram. On Signal, if I delete a message it leaves a 'this message has been deleted' (or something to that effect) notification in the logs of the other party, which can be extremely undesirable behavior.
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I believe it corresponds to the traditionally learnt O(n) lookup, O(1) insertion/deletion of linked lists, whereas the reverse is true of arrays (having to move the items).

Though in practice I find that unless you are often deleting elements from the middle, modern CPUs will really prefer copying a huge amount of serial data, so an arraylist may still be faster all around then LinkedLists. (The CPU will recognize you moving values in a given direction and will have the best pipeline it can have)
One part entrepreneur, one part con man.

He waived detailed due diligence when he made a clear offer. Now he won't proceed without due diligence to decide if his offer was too high.
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> Unix time is the real universal date format surely?

Heh… It can't represent UTC (leap seconds). Implementation weirdness like not being able to represent dates outside the 32-bit second counter range due to using a 32-bit second counter. The occasional need to store the TZ the timestamp is relevant in/to.

> It underpins basically everything in datetime database entries.

It does do that.

> The problem is that most people can't read that

This is why I prefer RFC 3339 or ISO, in that order.

> along with the French somehow never being able to convince the world to adopt decimal time.

Somehow. :)
What? You meant to write "electric cars" in your first sentence, right?
> If we want to get a bit retro here, convincing video playback on a consumer PC more or less started when hardware cards such as the Video Blaster arrived on the market.

A bit odd to give QuickTime a snub here, which was released in 1991.
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Oh yeah e-bikes are amazing. I just wish they were cheaper.
> Well, it was one of the most well known fantasy novels, but I'm not sure I would consider it mainstream as the genre itself was (and is) fairly niche.

In the UK at least, a 2003 BBC poll with almost three quarters of a million votes [0] put LoTR first, as the nation's best loved novel

> The Silmarillion is still very niche today, even among fans of LotR.

Agree.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Read
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_time#France
I've never understood why anyone would want to compel someone to do work for them. Regardless of the legalities, if any, the "compeller" is always going to get a bad result from someone who doesn't want to do the work.
> writing code in it is very hard because it constantly feels like you're wrestling the compiler

I've been doing Rust for about two years. This difficulty eventually subsides and writing "safe" code becomes second-nature. I rarely wrestle with the compiler any more.
> If the law was that each individual gets X amount of carbon credits then you are stuck walking it would actually mean something. Instead it will be you get X amount of carbon credit then you buy more.

Revenue-neutral carbon tax is pretty much equivalent to giving everyone carbon credits and allowing trading them (just with less overhead). If some rich people pay more tax to pollute more, then more money would be distributed back to everybody.
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> Some climate policies are clearly not going to have a significant positive effect, but we're doing them anyway (eg shutting down nuclear plants).

Are nuclear power plants being shut down for climate policy reasons?
There are several options here:

One could think the math is correct, but conclude that they don't value other people that much. That doesn't mean the math is wrong. It means the assumptions behind the math ("I don't value myself more than 3000 other people") aren't held by them right now.

Or one could think the math is correct, and be generally inclined towards kidney donation as a result, but think it would be better at a different time, such as when they don't have very young kids at home to care for, or when they have a job which is less demanding and would tolerate them taking a month away from work at once.

Or one could believe in the general statistical inference, but think that the specific 3000 number is too high and insufficiently studied, and the actual risk to self is much higher. I don't believe this myself, but it sounds like you might. This is not a criticism of the method, just of the specific number being plugged in to it.

You can argue against these philosophical positions and assumptions without having to retreat to questioning what numbers mean.
Thanks for correcting my spelling. But fundamentally there is no problem with anyone looking at the data with Twitter's blessing.

The comment you were referring to says "because that data includes a ton of PII."

But PII isn't a concern here. Unless we're talking about sharing usernames and passwords, there aren't really any protections in Twitter's TOS for the information you willingly provide to them.
A likely large contributor to others' experience not matching yours is async: Newcomers often refuse to try rust's excellent native threading support and jump right to the badly tacked-on, lets-write-javascript-in-rust monstrosity called async. Async "won" in the rust ecosystem because of superior branding but it is by far the worst solution to parallelism in rust. It has, by necessity, 100% of the problems and limitations of threading, such as they are, plus many more of its own. It's impossible that async could ever be easier than threading and yet countless newcomers are lured in and convinced they don't understand threads therefore need async. "I don't understand how to fly a Cessna therefore I need to fly an F-15."
> People thought they were being robbed of 11 days. When the day arrived everybody awoke, got on with their lives as usual and in no time completely forgot it ever happened.

Not accurate.

Isaac Asimov pointed out that people only got paid for 19 days' work, but had to pay a full month's rent, so they were perfectly reasonable to demonstrate.
One could say the same of Musk haters, and both would be violating the HN guidelines.

Please don't do this here.

> Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, bots, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data.
This dismissive take is the biggest bull case for me.

GraphCDN is a killer product with an impressive business and a sharp team. Excited to see what's next for them.
"The software programmer with the $100,000 loan said that his options were about to vest, which left him with two choices: He could sell the options back to Bolt, or go through with the purchase."

What sort of option agreement requires employees to immediately exercise on vesting? That seems odder than the rest of the story.
Yes, but I think it's reasonable to demand evidence that the mDAU numbers really do include only 5% bots. Laziness and wrong incentives could easily combine to let that percentage creep up over the years. It wouldn't be the first company this happened to.

It's hard to have 100% confidence in Twitter's ability to classify bots accurately for mDAU purposes, given their terrible accuracy for anti-spam purposes. It's a slightly different problem (because ads can be counted after the fact while anti-spam has to be immediate) but it raises enough doubt about the mDAU numbers that I'd want to see more data.
I too would like to read a citation and further details to support the claim.
He is not the worlds smartest person - maybe the worlds most ambitious person.

And I'm not necessarily saying HN complaining - I'm referring to the general public narrative
It's actually dependant on the carrier. In Canada most carriers will make you pay extra every month for visual voice mail, without that you don't get any kind of transcription. Some low cost carriers, like mine, don't even offer it.
Of course he's not the only person who can do that. I was never implying that.
I like to imagine the outside universe has no computational limits. When you write code there, you can init an array of 10*1000 elements and have a loop that does heavy math over every pair of them, but it still runs instantly.
Palantir/Foundry
I wonder if the Ukraine war has affected Snowden with all the sanctions? An America, exiled in Russia who has a job and works. Is he paid in Rubles? Is life immensely more difficult for him now than it was 6 months ago? Curious.
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Yield yes, but not nutritional contents. Most vital nutrients require more than just CO2 to have more production in a plant (notably, Nitrogen is needed).
My understanding was that Steve Ballmer was primarily a punching bag.

I thought he had a VERY short-lived period where he was popular in the media and everyone was raving about him (Developers, Developers, Developers - like 1 or 2 years after XP), and then after that he was a punching bag for like a decade.

Is this wrong?
That's how my present office does things (more or less, not git but same idea), making every box a pet that only a small number of experts can keep running. Good for the experts, bad for the customers, and turning bad for us as a project because it's pissing off the people paying to keep the lights on.
What's twitter going to do? Sue to get the one billion breakup fee and end up having to submit to discovery?
By the time you get to CO2 levels that are toxic to plants, animal life (including humans) is all long-dead.

Normally when I have to remind people that humans are not plants it’s right after they state (accurately) that plants do better with somewhat more CO2 than is in the natural atmosphere.
Thats what "Pizzagate" was really covering up.
I would wager that getting big O complexity right is absolutely not premature optimizations, it is perhaps the only thing one should “optimize” upfront.

The very first, biggest impact performance metric is the algorithm used — anything besides that will be meaningless given a bad algorithm.
> pointer-jumping will throw away the (absolutely astonishingly large) benefits of the cache, unless you’re careful.

Right! Yes, that’s part of my point, STL::list isn’t being careful with cache, or with allocations. Really it just rarely makes sense to even compare STL::list to STL::vector as if they’re otherwise equal choice. Usually the choice is (or should be) driven by constraints, not by which has a slight perf edge, right? Inside a memory manager, use of a vector isn’t usually considered a choice. Maybe it’s possible to build a free page vector, but I think isn’t common, and people usually pay the costs of pointer chasing on the free list because there aren’t practical alternatives.

> the <vector> growth strategy does not free+malloc/reallocate on each insertion

Yeah very good point. Does STL::list do the same for the container of pointers? I don’t even know, but maybe it can’t, and maybe the primary perf advantage of STL::vector over STL::list is due to vector’s amortized mallocs?
I don’t watch television news or any television news program or talk show. I don’t listen to radio news or radio talk shows either. I don’t read the news as such. I will read comments that people write on this site and some others but I am not a consumer of news as such.

As I said, I can give reasons for my beliefs and those reasons are not due to ignorance.
If the capability exists, it will be exploited sooner or later.
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My realtor just sent out a newsletter today:

“Housing Sales Are Taking A Breath

If you've been anxious over being able to buy a home, you'll like the latest news from the National Association of REALTORS (NAR) and the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). In February 2022, existing home sales were down 2.4% from one year ago and down 7.2% from the month before. Supplies of unsold homes totaled 870,000 units, up 2.4% from January, but remain 15.5% lower than a year ago (1.03 million.) The supply is 1.7 months at the current sales pace, up from 1.6 months in January.

The median existing-home sales price rose to $357,300, up 15.0% from a year ago ($310,600), marking 120 consecutive months of year-over-year price increases. This is the longest-running streak on record, according to NAR.

Rising interest rates are conflating with rising home prices, impacting new home construction and sales. With mortgage interest rates a full point higher than they were a year ago, new home purchase applications were down for the third consecutive month. Sales were the lowest in seven months at 791,000 units. Mortgage applications for new home purchases decreased 3.9% year-over-year in February 2022.

The good news is you may be able to get a proverbial foot in the door soon.”
If we're the forerunners, it's our responsibility to leave behind huge and mysterious artifacts containing the secrets of the universe, filled with traps for the unwary.

"Figby, get those doom-chompers synchronized with the shooting flames!"

"Yes sir!"

"And think of something more profound than 'Be nice to other beings and remember to call your mother(s)' for that final secret. Maybe get someone in the art department to help out."

It's not easy being the Elder Race, but someone has to do it.
your first paragraph is just a reflection of the way the world works. You can take sides - most people do - or not. Either way the ethics are steeped in a complex of nationalism, ideology, media, state control, and everything in between.

Your second paragraph seems a tad hyperbolic. The intel machine is there to progress a country’s interests. Most of the time, it is for peaceful purposes, but agreed there is often a commercial interest at play.
I would like to see a source for your first claim, and I think the only source for the second claim is Musk himself (and I don’t trust much of what he says).
If you want signal without using a phone number, you can use a fork of signal called Session(https://getsession.org/). That's the power of opensource :)

I feel that the average person would be inclined to use signal more if it required a phone number than otherwise.
There's "knowing that there are bots" and then there's "knowing that a significant amount of engagement is bots." I think most people hear Twitter's "less than 5%" and think bullshit.
I can't believe this is a real take. I know this account is a bit new and slightly trolly.

I've used Tesla's products, so as a consumer I'm very grateful for it. I am not a direct investor in Tesla (ie., only via index funds).

The take I can't believe is the SEC should decide how capital gets allocated. Elon created a tremendous amount of value. Both for consumers and for investors. Does he sometimes do things that appear/are dumb. 100%. However, net-net he's been such crazy value add to humanity i can't see why we would want to take this man out.

Is the world really a better place where this man just sits on the beach and does nothing? I think not. You may counter and say, why doesn't he follow the rules like everyone else, well sometimes to get something special we need to make special exceptions.

I think i'm just trying to reconcile that your view is genuine given the age of your account. I'm sadden by this being a real take. We want creators. We want folks to build. It's hard to build to follow all the rules. There are soooo many.
> I think we can all agree we will become cyborgs,

Well, obviously! Who could imagine any other scenarios?! My mom just called me asking if i could replace her right foot with a hoverboard. I cant wait until I can no longer feel sunshine or grass. Living forever as a process in a virtual machine... my ancestors could have never dreamt of having such fulfillment.
> for use in SQLite docs

Examples of output, because I too was curious:

https://www.sqlite.org/lang_createtable.html

https://www.sqlite.org/atomiccommit.html
Another perspective is WikiLeaks seems to be very selective about what it publishes
or you can just use session
Interesting, I think I see WhatsApp, signal et al more like email than AIM. I've never felt the pressure to stay engaged in conversation or to answer right away, if at all.
https://www.notion.so/Manage-your-manager-26a26b82bd824f97bf...
found this link on HN a while back but never really put it into practice. could be useful could not
I've been on this site for a few years as well and think your impression is probably skewed.

Don't claim to speak for others.
A lot of credit for these improvements come from that gil removal effort. I very very much hope we get it or a well supported branch with those changes.
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There is also Logseq [0][1], which provides excalidraw[2] support out of the box.

[0]: https://logseq.com/

[1]: https://github.com/logseq/logseq

[2]: https://docs.logseq.com/#/page/draw
"Democratic values and human rights" is just how we refer to "how we want it done" - when what we want goes against them, they fall away to the side and aren't talked about.
With regard to the output productivity of the conversation, there's also something to be said about the "narrative control" that limiting speaking to a single person at a time brings.

With voice platforms (including things like Discord, Zoom, etc.), there's always one thread of conversation going on. The meeting is generally a point A to point B discourse where circling back to examine a topic further is awkward and destroys the overall flow. People want to avoid that, so anyone who can manage to dominate the conversation and stop other people from interjecting has the power to effectively manage what comes next. There's a lot of potentially valuable conversations that get lost along the way as a result.

As an aside, I've seen this bleeding into real-world conversations over the past few years as well. Pre- and post-COVID conversations with my peers in college were staunchly different in how they handled side conversations. Perhaps it's just a product of my cohort getting older and more accustomed to the norms of professional communication, but I've noticed far fewer productive side conversations in groups of roughly 7 or more and a much stronger focus on "staying on-topic".

Text-based platforms have long since managed this issue with reply-based systems, threads, and hierarchical, nested conversations (e.g. HN, Reddit, etc.). This is really only possible asynchronously, though. In a voice format, the best you can do is leave to a breakout room or other channel and come back when you're done, but in doing so you're missing out on the conversation in the main thread. Unless we can somehow find a way to work past that limitation, I'm convinced that practically any platform that relies entirely on voice is going to fail to have the reach and community-building effect that something like Discord or Reddit has achieved.

Additionally, all of this also fails to consider the fact that synchronous-only voice is yet another social distractor that demands your attention on someone's terms other than your own. As seems to be the sentiment on HN, I'm pretty staunchly opposed to normalizing yet another consumer of my time as necessary for social acceptance, but perhaps I'm a bad sample of the public opinion.

Apologies if I repeated a bit of what you said here, but the point I'm trying to make is that you're entirely right about the obviousness of this issue. It doesn't take much consideration of the concept to realize that there's an immediate growth problem. Novel as the idea behind social audio might have been, it was doomed from the figurative (and literal) word one.
NATO, lead by the US after we waited ages for the European community to sort things out. Europe really dropped the ball there, and proved themselves almost wholly incapable of dealing with an internal security problem.
Wow, what drivel.

Almost zero planning/research and they are surprised they had a bad experience? I honestly don't know what to call this other than FUD.
> per capita

Of all the possible debate proposals for the exploration of complexity in the problem, the one that can have the most limited credit is the idea that "total production" could be the metric to base policy.

That better metrics than "per capita" could be found (energy spent how, by what, with which care towards compensating the externalities), sure, granted, complex but interesting - but that a gross aggregation could mean anything is hardly serious. It would be akin to "The one with the highest total GDP picks the short straw".

It may happen that somebody steps in with the idea, sure, but the answer - at least in terms of discussion - would be easy (and involve a "this is not serious").
If with "this beast" you mean Inigo Quilez, he worked at Pixar for a while, made shadertoy, and teaches the world maths via shadertoy, his own website and his yt channel. So he's doing pretty well I'd say

[0] https://www.shadertoy.com/

[1] https://iquilezles.org/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez/videos
Absolutely. When was the last time you were worried about your kid getting gunned down at school, going bankrupt from medical expenses, or unable to find housing due to housing costs increasing faster than wages.

Looking at a sole metric instead of quality of life holistically leads to suboptimal optimization. Total comp in the US is only good for two things: living okay in a dystopian hellscape or aggregating wealth as part of an exit strategy.
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To call those people critical of Musk (with most providing what they perceive as valid reasons) “haters” feels cheap.
You can't just add conditions to an unconditional offer.