skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The key in my perspective is to not scale too far.

Twitter, Reddit, and many other mega-platforms began the process of sucking (exactly) when their user bases got too big. operational costs also soared as they over scaled to stay dominant, while they began to fear changes in functionality because of a circular cycle of fearing user backlash.

No one platform can service massive levels and disciplines of users well, yet everyone keeps getting greedy, and always loses sight of that fact. Costs of competition at monopoly level create a paralyzing fear of losing a grip on users... That fear makes those platforms resort to corrupt methods to retain and addict their users to their product, and makes execs and investors unable to see outside of the vapor cloud they create...

Also, never go IPO if you want to keep your product's soul... Cash out early like Tom from Myspace, and let someone else crash and burn the idea as a CEO... :P
That's not what that Tweet says.
MX records fallback to A records, so ~10ish TLDs work this way already.
> Just an example: around here, most people have a first (given) and a last (family) name. If I don't model that as separate, I have trouble interfacing with other software. If I do, I have trouble with people from other cultures that don't follow that convention. Storing both risks the data going out of sync. What's the "right" way to store person names? There doesn't seem to be a simple solution.

The way past bureaucracies that didn't have the luxury of unlimited cheap complexity did: you set some rules and anyone who doesn't like them can either suck it up and follow them, or deal with the consequences themselves. Allowing users to specify arbitrarily complex requirements and never saying "no" is what gets us into this problem.
Instead of dark mode you can change the brightness of your screen.
The Unwritten Laws of Physics for Black Women
HN you disappointed me, not even 1000?
I'm not saying "ai" is not a valid domain. I'm just guessing why people get to a website when they just type "ai".

I'm on my phone now, if you search for the ai entry in the root zone file (https://www.iana.org/domains/root/files) you should find that IP returned by your host command.

Can you try curling "ai" and see if the content returned (if any) is the same as the one from "www.ai"?
I feel like I never use directly numpy anymore. All my data is in Pandas, and I mostly import numpy for the odd `df.transform(np.somefunction)`

I remember it being quite fun to build these vectorized numpy functions (in the crosswords and puzzles are fun, kind of way)

Figuring out how to make a transformation in Pandas is always frustrating, when it isn't straightforward.
IMO, paintings with the color blue are the best.

What does number of lines have to do with anything?
I feel like everyone romanticizes wood working.
When it comes to everyday software solutions you are usually aiming for obvious and clear, and often 'clever' is obtuse and opaque but definitely not always.

I think there might just be some vernacular nuance here though, maybe we can call it smart and robust, versus clever and opaque. Some problems are just difficult though, and if you get to work on that kind of problem regularly then that is pretty lucky.
The board doesn't want to sell to Elon at any price, but the shareholders told them their opinion was not very important as Elon's price was higher than anyone thought the company was worth at the time. Now there is no question that price was way too high.
For machine learning companies, Julia is probably the dark horse language that could give you a competitive advantage. Like always, the problem with using something more niche is the ecosystem strength. You need to train people more, build more tooling yourself. Still, there is performance to be had if you work for it.
> I suspect we have different governments. I don't see mine doing anything remotely like that.

Then why are they going to bring in a blockchain solution? It's got the exact same problem there as any other software solution would.

That's my point here, making it a blockchain (or a database!) doesn't magically solve the root cause, it's just an implementation detail.

If it even is a problem (a lot of other posters don't seem to think so), the problem isn't that the data storage medium isn't decentralised, or that there's too much trust in the system, it's the absolute ton of bureaucracy and paper-shuffling that takes several weeks. Choosing blockchain + API vs DB + API here doesn't address that. The gains come from modernising the system, not the storage tech.
Are you using this Tweet as your source? Because that's not what he said.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1526465624326782976
The main way in which DMCA 1201 is unconstitutional is that it violates the first amendment. The EFF is litigating a case to this effect right now.

Unfortunately, the Supreme Court's one big proponent against copyright overreach is leaving the court soon.
doesn't everyone hate having to pay more than they want? You could say unionizing workers are just seething about the invisible hand too. Seems like a weak criticism.
Counterpoint: no you don’t.

By the time you have a perfectly reasonable model of a system that is good enough such that computing the transfer function’s poles actually tell you something interesting about the system, there’s way more you can say about the system than “it is stable.”

There are maybe some lessons to be drawn from basic “classical” control theory, but many are better stated by just analyzing the system directly.

(As a side note, I’m not saying there’s Zero value in analyzing transfer functions, just that it’s a long way to the top from there.)
Wrapping yourself around a rotating axle is also fun for the whole family.
Can confirm, I started woodworking this year. It's every bit as satisfying as they hint.

It started as building project boxes for my Rasp Pi projects, and scaled up from there.

In fact, when we were putting together a highchair, one of the legs was the wrong parity (we got two of Left leg instead of R+L), so I pulled it out to the drill press and drilled the proper holes. The company gave it to us for free for our trouble, which basically paid for the drill press.

Also built small bookshelves for the nursery to match the wife's "Vision", coat hangers / key rack near the side door. All kinds of useful things!
There was nearly a disaster earlier in that flight too, when the pilots got sick from food poisoning and the cabin crew had to ask if any of the passengers knew how to fly a plane. As it turned out, one of the passengers had flown many years previously, and offered to try.

When he reached the cockpit, however, he took one look at all of the controls on the modern aircraft and realized that he wasn't going to be able to operate it. When the chief steward asked why, he replied, "I am just a simple Pole in a complex plane".

I'll follow lb1lf out.
I'm a current senior at Cornell and I'm conflicted.

> On Friday, the administration told students in an emailed statement "we have an expectation and responsibility to engage with viewpoints that we disagree with," but that "we must also respect that walkouts are a legitimate form of protest and an appropriate expression of disapproval."

I like free speech as much as the next Hacker News user, but many of the actions of these students (they have an organization and a secret group chat to coordinate stuff like this) absolutely fall into the toleration of intolerance paradox. On the other hand, walking out is just about the most polite form of protest you can conduct. Certainly better than the mob that tried to prevent the law school Boston Flag SC case debate from occurring this semester.

However, even without imposing actual consequences, the administration absolutely should have rebuked those using their free speech in favor of human rights abuses. They should have done more to defend Rizwangul NurMuhammad.
The general form is that crypto can't do X. The response is that an obscure implementation Y does do X. The problem is that Y, while existing, largely doesn't address X in practice because Y's trading volume and/or market cap is insignificant.

I guess to your point. How much corruption is avoided, and how much wealth is being saved that would otherwise be locked out? Without the means to quantify it, it feels like another, "this is theoretically possible"-type argument in the same way. The answer I expect to get is, "No one knows, but it is possible." I guess I'll keep waiting to be convinced. There are a lot of great things that are theoretically possible. Still waiting on them.
Software is never done - it creates new paradigms we adapt to. "Complex Software" is a fallacy. The problem is organizational structure and IT culture around software.

People get invested in software, their code, their favorite dev community... they get comfortable... they become biased and influenced as they learn (not pragmatic)... they enter cycles of doom largely centered around conways law & organizational complexity. Scaling any organization is a people/business/cultural problem.

E.g. look at React... how tf did it develop into the hook mess. Early versions we so amazing and simple. A react app/oss component that is 2y old now is garbage. In contrast, look at how Angular has developed, or look at Golang, or Kubernetes (yes really) as a modern examples. People are struggling with AI today because python sucks at scale - but they suck at engineering real solutions because they aren't culturally adaptive. Im no AI/data scientist, but our models running in production on Golang, parallelized across K8s, and the data processing our "yesterday's devops engineers" are now doing is working out just fine.

"Software Engineering" was a mistake. Industry never adapted from the physical personality of the word... building bridges and building software are not the same thing.

Edit: grammar/phrasing fix, end of P2.
I would check whose paychecks do most Linux contributions, and then there is the Cloud.
Out with the unicorns, in with the centaurs? A new tech milestone takes shape
I remember John Stewart destroying Cramer during the 2008 crisis. I'm suprised he's still around.
Right, he declined to do more due diligence after having done none. Looking at SEC filings is not doing due diligence. It is also not statements Twitter made as part of the deal.

Shareholders can only sue Twitter if those facts are materially false. This is an incredibly high bar that is almost never met.
You are correct, but quadratic is sufficiently bad.
My first thought on reading this was the scene from the movie UHF: "WHO WANTS TO DRINK FROM THE FIREHOSE?!?!?!"
I don't think you're necessarily disagreeing. There's a factor that neither you nor the author are considering: value/$. Author is implicitly assuming that the higher cost equates to a higher value (clearly this is never a linear relationship).

So my friends call me the cheapest person they know, but I also think like the author. If there is something I am going to use a lot and the added value helps me, then I'll shell out more for it. Really we're talking about Boots Theory[0]. If you buy cheap rubbish then you'll buy frequently. If you buy quality you may only have to buy once a lifetime, even if it is 3-5x. With your phone, if all you care about is texting and making calls, yeah, you're not getting any added value paying more. If you're a person that takes a lot of pictures and values the camera, you will get added value (don't come at me with the "buy a dedicated camera" because you're not carrying that in your pocket everywhere and thus can't capture the same moments).

So if you wear boots every day, it's better to shell out for the boots that will last you a lifetime rather than ones that will last you a season.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_theory
The follow-up article on inflation of shelter costs in response to mortgage interest rates is also fascinating and worth a read, imo [0]. The tl;dr is that in the medium and longer term, higher interest rates will decrease inflation, but there's a right-half-plane zero effect that will cause higher inflation rates in the short term in response to interest rate hikes (with a lot of simplifying assumptions).

[0] https://jbconsulting.substack.com/p/on-shelter-futures-part-...
It weirds me out that he's even worried about this now.

In the beginning Musk stated in interviews that he wasn't concerned about the monetary amount. I can't pull it up on my VPN, but I recall him taking the stance of it being a social-impact-y investment and not one that is designed to make a profit.
At Berkeley the legend is that there was a class on blowing up with special application to local problems.
> Include an Hardware Asset FK in your Link M2M table. Model each binary link explicitly, so a Y cable = 2-3 different Links that point to the same cable Asset. Or you can have single Links with M2M inputs/outputs. But definitely don't model Y cables explicitly.

Our cables have stickers with cable IDs, which are stored in the CMDB (and can be used to trace the endpoints through patch fields, for example).

So if you model a Y cable as two physical cables, you have to both allow duplicate cable IDs AND multiple cables per port. Both of these have significant downsides in preventing data entry errors.
It's tedious to make, but you can nail it if you follow the directions. And you can use whatever peppers you want for an extra kick.
They are the same, but that's not really the point. www has been registered in addition to the entries for the root TLD. You said "the internals of the browser that automatically adds a www in front" - that's irrelevant. host isn't doing that, curl isn't doing that.
Yep. We all have dirty laundry, it's just that we can see it open-source projects.
The tweet says he's not moving forward on the deal unless Twitter provides evidence that their monetizable user metric, which is not an estimate of bots, is accurate. Producing that evidence is not a contingency in the deal, so Elon is threatening to fail to perform, i.e. he doesn't want to buy Twitter under the negotiated terms.
Instead, the insurance is always subsidized 100% by taxpayers, and left off the balance sheet to make nukes seem cheaper than they are.

Likewise, decommissioning cost.
Overall thats a neat idea, but I found two small things to criticize:
Maybe revisit the responsive design, on my phone everything is all over the place. Also there’s a typo in the setup guide.
The internet is already monetized (services have real costs, and someone has to pay for them at the end of the day)- you can pay for services directly, or you can accept the consequences of intrusive advertising, surveilance and manipulation on the "free" internet.
This is what I hate about modern society. There are altogether too many voices urging the same thing:

"Why would you do something to augment your experience of reality if it's inefficient?"
Editing native iOS binaries to run on the Simulator
Absolute raving nonsense from this guy, as usual. Supply and demand clearly favor the employees, and most tech ceos are barely maintaining the market share they have. Nobody is moving a company. They might open an hq for subsidies.

Difference between dot com and now is every company is a tech company. Someone is always there to vacuum up the layoffs. So many companies need engineers and can’t afford them. Like the real estate, cut the price 5% and someone will snap it up.

But income is actually still going up right now.
This is an ARRL news article. Those speculating that the FCC is unfair, didn’t know if The firefighters had a problem with it, are not being transparent, etc can just click through and read for themselves the actual FCC notice, which is a public record. I quote its beginning:

> On July 22, 2021, the Commission received a complaint from the U.S. Forest Service alleging that an individual had been transmitting on government radio frequencies 148-174 MHz without authorization, and that the individual was causing radio frequency interference to the U.S. Forest Service firefighter’s fire suppression aircraft in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho.
> There is always wind somewhere. But grid capacity is not free, in fact it is quite expensive.

No it's not...as I said several times over: IT'S ALREADY WORKING and has been for years...

> Also, if this load causes a brownout in Spain, due to improper maintaince, for instance,

This is not the US here. We have the most stable grid on the whole planet. Countries do maintain their networks here.

> In other words, while a better grid can mitigate _some_ of the variability of renewable supply, you still need massive expansion of storage capacity when you stop using natural gas, especially when you switch heating and transportation to use electricity too.

Sure more storage is nice. Especially if you want to profit locally but it's not something which would make true green energy possible NOW. Because: as I said several times over: IT'S ALREADY WORKING. We have been "pumping" massively energy into storage in the alps. Now with NordLink we do the same in the other direction too. It's all there.

> Seen from the outside, it surely looks like the German population has been seriously misled.

This must seem so if you're completely uninformed or even misinformed as you have shown here. In fact though as g8oz says: you should be thankful for us showing the world that true green future technology can be made to work and power a high tech and densely populated country. We'll keep on showing you and those countries which WASTE taxpayer money on nuclear just that.
There is nothing unreasonable here, it's perfectly understandable. Stock market crashed, which means the proposed buying price for Twitter is now too high, PLUS Tesla stock is less valuable which means he has to use a lot more to get funding. It up debatable whether he wants out of the deal completely or just want to negotiate for a lower price though.
This is some of the best non-rigorous writing about math that I've encountered. Far superior to the awful quanta articles that sometimes get posted here.
> not many people correctly calculate the cost-per-use of their car

Cost-per-use by itself is fairly meaningless, costs needs to be compared against value-per-use.

What is the worth of: a visit to my friends; taking a surfboard to the beach; taking a load of firewood to my parents; an emergency 2AM visit to a suicidal acquaintance; taking my nephew and his friends to the skatepark; helping a friend move; picking up a Craigslist chair.

Other transport options usually have severe limitations on availability, flexibility, cost, destination, load, etcetera. Optionality and peace-of-mind has huge value too (i.e. availability if urgently required, even if it happens that nothing urgent comes up).

Last time I mentioned on HN how useful a car is, someone suggested hiring a car instead, which is ridiculously more expensive and extremely inconvenient (at least where I live).

Disclaimer: I am carless at present. The non-financial costs are extremely high.
Stridently confident and 100% wrong.
Coinbase employees petition to remove execs
So you mean basically to make rich people as less rich as possible by taxes, so eventually they have the same level of opportunities as poor people - correct?
This is really amazing. Thank you!
You can still withdraw from a home purchase if they seller lied in their disclosure, which is actually quite common.
Maker spaces often have woodworking equipment. In LA where I live, and also in MN where I'm from, there were several options.

They usually offer classes if you don't want to start yourself. But you can learn a ton by looking up cabinetmaking or something else on Youtube. For a real trip, watch joinery -- it's mesmerizing.

Other than that, I started by just picking up a saw and going to town, and quickly googling "How do I" to find out much more than I wanted to know. It pays to learn about the basic tools first. Table saw, Router table, Chop saw, Drill press, etc.
It’s sure to vary by person, depending on the sites you visit. I find it to be a very small fraction overall, well under 1% for things without forms. For startup-style websites and things with forms, it’s much more hit and miss.
I expect people to treat others with respect. That's what I expect people to do.
> If you want your mind changed that cryptocurrency is currently useful, I can't help you there. But if you want your mind changed that many of the drawbacks of blockchain technology are not as insurmountable as detractors would have you believe.

Let me summarize the sentiment to see if I'm understanding: "I'm excited about crypto now because of what crypto could be in the future."

To me it feels like being really excited about technology X because technology X+n might fix the problems with technology X. I just can't get behind that as a general principle. I've been hypeburned too much and I just don't have it in me anymore.
Wait, what? So Jim Crow or Apartheid were not racist because they were promulgated by governments?
Just what do you expect my response is going to be to that? I certainly don't understand anything more now. You bring up someone obscure and state he is representative of what I could conclude is all teachers urging for reform of our education system? Maybe after reading the previous arguments by COMPLETELY SEPERATE PEOPLE I have been mislead.

Not to be personal or anything, but I went to public school.
As many as you want.

But make sure not to look at them.

That would make them collapse into a single one. Note it would have nothing to do with quantum mechanics, it'd simply be the OOM-killer making a choice.
Copyright violations can be equally bad: https://www.eff.org/cases/capitol-v-thomas
unless you happen to own freenode/libera.chat, you don't own your own platform on IRC either. same for mastodon, unless you happen to own the mastodon instance you're on, you don't own it.

And the old web had plenty of platforms too, tripod and geocities were platforms as well. You could take it a step further still and say that unless you have a server that's sitting in your own basement, you don't own your own platform, since any hosting provider could decide to pull down your site as well.

it gets real lonely if everyone does own their own platform, and it certainly wasn't the case in the old web either (though it was definitely more common to own more of your own platform). Still, I don't really think this is the defining feature of the old web. I think the level of commerce is much more important, something like ao3 feels old web, and that's because it's a user-centric platform, rather than business-centric
There is no need to "find" cheap energy storage. Many different methods are already known to store energy.

But building storage before you have enough renewables to charge it from would be stupid. So, the money goes to generating capacity, in the meantime. When storage is needed, it will be much cheaper than today, as cost is falling even faster than generating capacity.
I would be very interested in a post with more stories!
I think it will be a mix. There's always been the use of technology to both enhance and break privacy. On one hand you have surveillance, on the other you have encryption. It is a give and take and the march of progress will always render previous methods inadequate. Hundreds of years ago, letter locking was the thing for secure, private communication, but now we can read those letters without even opening them.

http://letterlocking.org/imaging-locked-letter-collections
Fixed the typo.

May I ask what phone you are using? Thanks.
I got started (in an apartment in a city) using https://commonwoodworking.com/ and https://woodworkingmasterclasses.com/ from Paul Sellers.

He focuses heavily on using hand tools instead of machines, so much more suitable for apartments. He's also budget conscious, and tries to show ways of achieving things without spending a ton on lots of expensive or specialised tools.
Set time limits to meetings and require agendas.

Take everyone off paid zoom so it cuts you out after 40 minutes.