skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unrelenting media coverage of every single thing he does?

Oh stop it! I lived in Los Angeles, that place is too big and populated by too many sharks. You only become famous if you really, really want to and deploy resources in a way that is optimized to reach that goal.

Musk wanted to be famous ever since the Paypal days.

There's a reason why you don't hear media obsessively reporting on 3 time Oscar winners Daniel Day Lewis and Jack Nicholson anymore. They have concluded their respective press tours (Lewis at least temporarily and Nicholson for a good 10 years, ever since he made "The Departed")

You need to seek press to get press, you don't stumble into it.
Clubhouse, Twitter Spaces (possibly deprecated), Spotify Live are three of the biggest.

Apparently Twitter had been in talks to acquire Clubhouse for $4bil. Hindsight is 20/20.
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It's the usual premature optimisation problem. I'd personally go with whichever data structure makes your code easy to write and comprehend, then profile, then adjust as necessary.

99% of code doesn't need to be efficient, but the maintenance cost tends to relate to the sheer amount of code and it's comprehensibility, and this cost is the one to optimise for, not speed.

For the other 1% that you identify with profilers, go with the more optimal data structure, and accept the reduction in clarity and purpose.
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A lot has been said about this, but little about the lack of coherence in Musk's argument. TL;DR; The more of the existing users that are fake, the better the deal is for Musk.

Musk was ready to buy (say) 100 million users with 5% fake at a market value of $44B, so call it something like $463 per user that he thinks is fair. He said he has a plan to eliminate all the fake users and push the number of users up to a billion or something. Let's say that works and therefore he's able to drive the company's value to to $463 * 1 billion = $463 billion. Tidy return.

But as an exercise, consider what would be the case if all but 10 million current accounts are fake/spam/bots? Now each user would be worth $4,000. So if Musk could grow the site to 1 billion users at the same economics, it would be worth $4 trillion. This is nearly a 10x better return than under the scenario where there are fewer fake users.

If you think his strategy will work, he's getting a better deal if most of the users on the site now are fake, because it means a better economic profile of the existing users.
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This is a complicated story that's been made murkier by politics, I'm honestly not sure where the best starting place is. Marcy Wheeler is has been researching and documenting a whole cloud of related stories. These two are probably no worse than others as starting points.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/01/04/why-was-gru-using-open...

https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/03/28/what-was-the-relations...
The terms of the deal waived any kind of due diligence or fluctuation in market price. The price reflected those terms. Musk recognized that there is a price that Twitter has to pay to enforce this contract. He is hoping that between the costs of enforcing the contract and the risk that the contract is enforceable, twitter walks away from the whole thing. Short term this seems like a pretty rational thing to do. In the future, if I were looking to do a deal with Musk, I wouldn't give much of a discount for waving due diligence, and make sure that I am protected from him pulling this kind of stunt.
To be honest, this is a nice project to do with an RPi/ESP32, a eInk display, and a Telegram bot :-)
you're confusing his scifi future state with the present. He made a successful electric vehicle company (those vehicles still consume electricity, often made from burning gas or goal) and a successful space company (with better, but not "cheap" transport to space). Both are great things, but they don't qualify him as the greatest person in history. You're just hero-worshipping and you picked a pretty bad hero.
Yes and no. To pull it off you need a lot of process and bureaucracy. It’s both good
and bad.
You may be interested in the Autoimmune Protocol Diet.

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Fascinating, we are back in the USSR. Why does Putin think it will work this time?
In espionage recruitment, they refer to ‘MICE’: Money, Ideology (East vs West, religion), Compromise (blackmail) and Ego.

Ego includes appealing to someone’s desires for sex, positions of power, or revenge - this case fits well end truly here.
plaintext is not markdown, though
I'm not sure if you realize, but you are getting a highly framed version of events.
Just be aware how biased your sources are. Imagine if Canada decided to get out of NATO to join up with China. Overthrew a pro US friendly democratic government. Chinese BioLabs started popping up all over. Made it public that they want Chinese missiles within firing rang of US cities. And ethnic cleansing of US citizens was going on for a few years. Judging by the "Shock and Awe" strategy employed on Iraq, I don't think America would be anywhere near as constrained under same circumstances. My bet is they America would bomb the shit out of Canada. Putin has been somewhat restrained, willing to sacrifice the lives of tens of thousands of his soldiers to spare the cities from bombing.
This is not a pro Russia post. More like "War is a Racket" and there are people that want to prolong this conflict. And it goes deeper than that. Ever since Putin imprisoned some US connected oligarchs, the US strategy has been to get rid of Putin. This war is culminating result of years of wrong headed US foreign policy. "Wrong headed" in the sense that Russians will not become some economic neo-colonial state of the West.
For me it never started, as I never got the point of them.

They seemed to evolve into another kind of TED talks, but even without trying to do anything quality wise in proper content.
Even though she loved the LOTR movies my mom has never read the Silmarillion and has no idea what The Curse of Feanor is.
CO2 is transparent to visible light: E.g., pop open a brewski and observe that can't see the CO2 and that it does not cast a shadow.

CO2 absorbs photons in three narrow wavelength bands, one for each of bending, stretching, and twisting of the molecule, out in the infrared. The absorption spectrum is shown at the Web site of the US NIST.

That absorption makes CO2 a greenhouse gas.

The usual claim is that the infrared does not come from "sunlight" but from Planck black body radiation from the surface of the earth.

The broad, intuitive idea that the CO2 acts like a thick insulating blanket over all the earth and trapping all heat is not very close to reality.

Then there is the question of, how much warming does CO2 cause? Some dozens of studies, with computer models, etc. were done. Results varied. A summary of the results is in a graph at

http://www.energyadvocate.com/gc1.jpg

Also it appears that the names of the studies are in small print in a box in the upper left of the image.

Some results predicted significant warming, but the times of the predicted warming came and went years ago without the predicted warming.

Al Gore's movie showed a graph of data from ice cores from Vostok station in Antarctica. The ice cores went back
800,000 years of so. Gore graphed both temperature and CO2 concentration and observed that the two went up and down together.

As I read the graphs:

(1) When temperature started to rise, CO2 concentration was low, not high. So, something made temperature rise, but it was not high CO2.

(2) About 800 years after temperature rose, CO2 concentration rose, and the usual explanation is that the extra CO2 was from more biological activity from the higher temperature.

(3) Some thousands of years later, temperature fell. Then CO2 concentration was high, not low. So, something made temperature fall, but it wasn't low CO2 concentration.

(4) We had some CO2 from WWII and the post war economic boom, but from 1945 to 1970 we had some significant cooling.

For one more, not from Gore's graph, recently I heard a claim that the three highest temperatures on record happened in just the last few years or some such. There is some issue about the relevance of extreme values: E.g., in any stochastic process, of course the highest values observed so far never go down, and in real processes, say, the fastest 100 yard dash, we can expect the highest values to go up.
lol yeah, only 10 hours later :

*Diablo Immortal: Activision Blizzard's Latest Scam The Jimquisition* :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EES5SZ9t1ho
> SGML was not mysteriously forgotten. It was buried at a crossroads with a stake through its heart.

> SGML developer pivoted to the web and XML

Appreciate your response, but with respect, that's the kind of hear-say
criticism I was almost expecting. First, SGML hasn't gone anywhere. XML is just a proper subset of SGML, written by the same people who developed SGML and updated SGML to allow DTD-less markup aka XML. Next, XML just didn't make it to the web, wich was its entire raison d'etre, as in, chapter one, sentence one of the XML spec. It's true that XML has been used for almost everything and anything except its actual purpose (eg serialization of service payloads when those are consumed by programs rather than pasted into markup, or config file formats). Finally, SGML is the only game in town able to parse HTML based on an international standard. Don't we want a perspective to get us out of the dying web, or at least preserve what's worth preserving of the extant web? Or are you ok with monopolists having captured the web into craptastic browser tech? Now that's something overly complex and user-hostile, and where 12MB doesn't get you very far indeed.

SGML complexity is a myth. You can code a parser in about one man-year, with optional features (SHORTREF, LINK, web bindings) taking another half (source: have done it [1]).

I will concede that working off the SGML spec alone is ... laborious, and studying it is indeed a non-insignificant part of the work. The spec is only about the markup meta-language as entered by an author, and doesn't say anything about APIs etc (except for ESIS used for test case suites and early Perl-based processors). Closest to a "document information set" would be HyTime "groves" and, later, DOM. Missing from the spec is a formal model for tag inference and for deciding ambiguousness of content models. That void was quickly filled by Brüggemann-Kleins "One-unambiguous grammars" paper ca 1993, plus clarifications by James Clark (author of the SP SGML parser/toolbox [2]). XML Schema appeals to the exact same theory in it's "Unique particle attribution" constraint btw.

Now don't get me wrong: there is valid criticism for SGML, and maybe a need for a new subset and/or extension (and I might have ideas to share). Just criticism with a broad brush and false dichotomies doesn't get us anywhere.

[1]: http://sgmljs.net

[2]: http://www.jclark.com/sp/
Interesting idea. Agree that security would be a headache, but I also wonder how would we prevent such a language from being too closely coupled to existing cloud platforms.
You're basically repeating what I said in my original post. Different people have different needs and expectations for their devices. sto_hristo is yet to explain what device they think would work better for an artist as a drawing tablet.
Check license on individual pieces...

https://www.mutopiaproject.org/ says "all in the Public Domain or under Creative Commons licenses"

https://musopen.org/ says "free, without copyright restrictions"
Yah, in short, any matrix operation where you can track the effect off the operation on the eigenvalues of the matrix will give you the same effect of polynomial roots.

I used to work in algebraic combinatorics, which provides maps between important objects in algebra, combinatorics, and geometry, allowing us to apply theorems across the domains. You would often have dead obvious observations on one side which were very difficult to prove on another; eg 'This particular eigenvalue is a positive integer because it is also the dimension of a vector space."
Sounds like a dream program to me! I can understand why its so popular.
> He's playing a game and he's winning.

This sounds like how people discuss celebrity beefs.
I haven’t studied the issue so my opinion doesn’t matter. It seems to me that there will need to be far fewer people in the future in order to have a planet worth living on. I think all policies not designed to ensure this outcome will fail. So for me policy doesn’t matter since none of the ones I’ve read about have this as their goal. Mine is a minority opinion. Maybe even and extremist one!
There's some confusion here - GP was arguing against time-of-use rates. I wanted to highlight the irrationality of that argument. Rather I should have written "Another way to think about [your proposal against TOU] is..."
Just like the short-lived social olfactory trend started because some vcs thought their shit didn't stink.

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

https://www.wired.com/1999/11/digiscent/

https://thehustle.co/digiscents-ismell-fail

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17476460
And what if non green policies now will make it harder to provide for your family tomorrow?
Those arguing in good faith for green policies are thinking this. They are not out to get you, and take away your freedom. They fear all of our freedoms will be obliterated by the harsh realities of climate change.
Here's a graph of energy consumption by source: https://ourworldindata.org/global-energy-200-years

Renewable sources are growing exponentially but carbon emitting sources continue to grow exponentially as well, simply somewhat slower.

It seems wildly, unreasonably optimistic to look at that graph and imagine most of that majority at the bottom suddenly vanishing within ten years.
But somehow Biden and his son selling out the country is perfectly fine.
But hey, a Bee is now considered a Fish these days. So same logic applies.
You could also learn Blender. It’s pretty accessible these days and you can easily script it with Python.
> my hands start shaking when a computer does not answer immediately

I’m sorry to hear that. It sounds like it could be an anxiety issue somewhat unrelated to what we are talking about? Does it help to stick to very small files so you never have to wait? Does it help when you get progress updates in the interface?

I still don’t understand what you’re suggesting because the idea that you want to give arbitrarily sized inputs to a sort and have it come back instantly is unrealistic. You can only improve the overheads and bandwidth, you can never avoid waiting if you give larger inputs. No matter what solution you suggest, I can give you a file you’ll have to wait for. Speeding up the unix pipeline doesn’t appear to solve the problem you’re describing, that’s why I’m asking for more detail.

> it’s in the original post

What is? I’m not sure what you’re referring to. You only mean the imaginary idea to combine 3 processes into one? @yegle only appeared to ask for a shortcut for a common workflow, and not a more performant alternative. I’m asking you what your preferred practical implementation is. What can you do today to speed up this workflow? And how does that solve the problem of having to wait?

> the uniq can stream but the sorts can’t

Right, this is true regardless of what tool you use. You can eliminate the overheads of starting up 3 processes, but you can’t avoid the second sort, if you ask for a second sort.

Might be worth observing that the overheads of 3 processes get relatively smaller the larger the inputs are. If you’re sorting a gigabyte or terabyte of text, using a single process will be barely better, if at all.

Might also be worth looking at cold cache vs warm cache startup times for 3 processes. Does your 2/3 second change the second time?

PS GNU sort has options that can improve its bandwidth. Maybe try these? https://www.reddit.com/r/commandline/comments/a7hq5n/psa_imp...

This is another reason to avoid writing your own tool, since sort may in reality have a lot of functionality that is not easy to duplicate, and may have ways to gain performance that is hard to beat.
Actually there is no where left in the world where this is the case. USA was the last country to use first to invent and we switched away in the mid 2000s
> Twitter did nothing wrong here

I have nothing but respect for Elon's work at Tesla and SpaceX. But Elon Musk is a known quantity in terms of counterparty behavior. Nobody should be surprised this is happening, least of all Twitter's Board.
> I call him with a first name basis because he's probably the person I know best outside my very best friends and my own family. I've been following and listening to him for a decade now and I know his personality well.

You deny that your admiration for Elon Musk is because of a "cult," but this sounds very cult-like. Have you considered that Elon Musk is not the only person who can make you a better engineer?
And before DeX, there was the Motorola Atrix (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_Atrix_4G#Webtop).
They did say "direct" so the router wouldn't be a concern

https://www.wi-fi.org/discover-wi-fi/wi-fi-direct
Yes, US Navy Seals broke into Putin's palace, put a gun on his head and told him to launch war on Ukraine.
There are a lot of alarmist comments here - but the direct effect on humans is minimal up to 10,000ppm[1]. The effect on the environment on the otherhand isn't easy to predict.

[1] https://www.fsis.usda.gov/sites/default/files/media_file/202...
It’s not about feelings of guilt, it’s about choosing complicity.

Sometimes that’s a perfectly rational choice, but when you are knowingly complicit with an abuser, there is always some kind of cosmic price to pay.

It’s not a threat of arbitrary moral punishment, it’s a warning about real long-term consequences.
Question: is the first algorithm O(1) cause we treat INT_MAX as a constant, right?
See also the classic Bjarne Stroustrup talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQs6IC-vgmo
I feel like I've always gotten the most from Exercism. [ https://exercism.org/ ]. It's similar to Code Wars, in some ways, but I like the interface on the CLI, I like that you can get mentoring, I like that there are multiple languages.
Can you elaborate on this? I have three languages enabled on Android GBoard and it'll offer up completions and suggestions across all three languages even though I'm usually on English.
But everyone does it - not just the US.

If the CIA does something against another country it’s still illegal.. just not inside the US.
It's more like, I find a house for sale and I announce that the owner is missing out on the potential value of this house, because I can see termites everywhere. I am the termite master. The owner of the house has no idea what they are doing with termites, I announce to the public. I know much more about the termites in that house than they do. They can't even see all the termites I see. What fools! The value I will bring is my termite annihilation skills.

I insist on buying the house. The owner is reluctant to agree. They delay. I continue to insist that I purchase the house immediately. The owner says, hey let's stop and think about this, let's do due diligence and inspections, let's take our time. I say screw you, there is no due diligence allowed, there is no house inspections allowed, you must accept my offer now. NOW. I insist that the house owner has a legal fiduciary responsibility to their family to sell the house, because my offer is above the assessed public value of the house. This house must be sold to me!

They give in to pressure and accept the sale. I sign all the contracts, I waive all the inspections.

"What, the house has termites? What a surprise! I want my money back."
That got a bit mangled - proper version here[1].

[1] https://rjp.is/dcmando.txt
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I stopped tracking the increases in my plywood costs here in London once they'd breached 250% over a two year or so period, starting somewhere around the beginnings of Covid (so, not entirely wedded to lockdown issues, if memory serves).

I'll welcome price decreases, but it did make me seek out a new, better supplier so hopefully 'worth it' in the end (I pass on all material costs to clients, so as long as I explain the cost increases, it doesn't really affect me.. it is galling though).
What observation methods would one use to detect life on Earth from even a moderate distance away? It is not known to me that we have the capability to even discover life on Earth if we were in another planet in another system.

As far as I understand, exoplanet discovery and study is still incredibly rudimentary.
https://archive.ph/pHHER
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I think you're missing a perfect example of nerdery and kickassery - Helion Prime. They have songs like The Drake Equation.

Also I think you'd reconsider the kickassery of 4 for Visions of Atlantis with their new album.
Lots of child comments have made statements about what life 'needs' and why that would make things difficult.

We don't know what conditions life 'needs' since we only have a sample size of 1. We can speculate, but nothing yet is a known fact.
Robin Hanson, who coined the term "Great Filter", presented a theory in 2021 to explain the Fermi Paradox. It's known as the "Grabby Aliens Theory".

This 12 minute video does a good job of explaining the fairly non intuitive reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3whaviTqqg

As I understand it (it's not an easy theory to wrap your - or at least my - mind around), the reason we don't see any other civilizations is that we're among the first ones.

This seems very unlikely, but is actually not. Because a successful hi tech civilization would likely be inclined to expand ("be grabby") and fill up the galaxy in ~100 million years, as Fermi pointed out. That would mean all habitable planets would then be taken, and no more civilizations would rise up from primordial goo like ours.

That means - and it's a weird mental leap, but I think it's correct - that almost all civilizations arising "naturally" would have the same experience we have: The universe seems weirdly empty.

I guess it also means that the galaxy is ours for the taking!
I found their comment more interesting and valuable than yours. Just a data point.
> Show me one truly powerful person who could have survived 30% of his subjects actively resisting.

It's a lot easier for "truly powerful person" to keep "his subjects [from] actively resisting" than you seem to think.