skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter is incredibly important to him, without it he’d never have been able to craft his Tesla or SpaceX narratives and garner so much retail support. Buying Twitter guarantees him a (bully) pulpit and raises his profile ever higher. His antics could easily get him banned in the future, with devastating results.
Glue takes far longer to dry than even C++ takes to compile. Not a fan for that reason only. Ok, also, no undo button. Wrenching on my car, tho. That's fun.
We subsidize every other form of energy in a most convoluted way possible, so why not?
I notice it works for pretty much every TLD, including .com too.

http://com. resolves to http://www.com

http://cd. shows a list of all such sites.

It seems likely that the browser has some kind of logic in the resolver to make this work specially for “www” domains.
Supposedly the Huy Fong Inc version is no where near true Siracha and most people in Thailand don’t think it’s good.
If 99% of users stuck their fork in their eyeball, it wouldn't mean that a Fork is a bad design or a bad implement, it would mean that the users are using it wrong.

FWIW, in my own usage of crypto, the lack of central authority is exactly why it is used. I don't really care that other people are just hodl-ing their funny money in someone else's wallet. Crypto, outside of an exchange, means I can send money to anyone I want, and no other entity can prevent that.
I use Python all day every day. It's horrible compared to many other languages I have used.

There are many versions of hype promoted for Python. Coal powered steam locomotives were great in their day, before there were better alternatives. But we don't irrationally hold the mentality that there is nothing better and why would you need anything else anyway?

Tell me any library which can only be built for Python?

Tell me any feature of Python which does not exist in one or more other languages?

Then I'll tell you at least some features which exist in several other languages but which do not in Python.

Python is inferior, and frankly anyone who is infatuated with it is ignorant of the other, better options.
Proprietary device drivers come to mind..
This. Its content is largely written by people who seem to feel that their own opinion has some intrinsic value to other people (I used to be one of them). Doing research and focusing on weighing opposing viewpoints is too much work. Really cuts into the cathartic act of spewing words out into the world.
Error rates on DownDetector are dropping with rate of drop increasing. Should be in resolution soon. I hope!

UPDATE:
[09:13 PM PDT] We continue to see a reduction in error rates and latencies for AWS services within the US-EAST-1 Region as we work to resolve the issue. While many AWS services are experiencing elevated error rates and latencies, services that are experiencing higher error rates have been tagged on this Service Health Dashboard event. The event continues to affect APIs for affected services, while the EC2 network, Elastic Load Balancing and API Gateway data planes are not affected by this issue. The AWS Management Console is operating normally, however some customers may observe API Errors at times. AWS Connect error rates have improved as well and we continue to work towards full recovery. We are working on applying mitigations to fully resolve the issue.
That's a good point. Carbon is dumped in the air - for free! That's because there is no cost resulting from it. (Edit: Yes, the last sentence is sarcastic.)
Ideally you'd have a SQL database and something like a certificate transparency log as a guard against shenanigans. Also, a bunch of regulatory procedures like DNS registrars have to follow.
So, he could have got out of the deal if twitter breached a covenant, and one covenant had to do with data provision.

By providing all the data requested, twitter just squashed that out.

He had no out on the bot claim itself, but his legal team was comfortable that the covenant breach was a colorable claim and wrote a letter. Now they need to think of a new legally plausible claim.
'ai' is a resolvable DNS name, just like you can resolve 'localhost'

The owner of 'ai' decided to add an A record on their zone.
Cramer is a clown. I really think it's amazing people take investment "advice" from the show which is 98% hyperbole. I don't even know if the whole show and persona is just acting and there's a real Cramer who is like a normal, rational individual, or if he's actually like that when the camera isn't on.
I think the article makes it pretty clear he wasn't in any danger, and that wasn't the point of his transmissions. He just has a big head and thought the rules shouldn't apply to him.

I'm certain that if he was in danger, and called May Day on the wrong frequency, they'd be no issue. More than likely they'd be a local news article reminding people how important radio communications are for remote locations.
I believe that you didn't intend to mislead, but "end-to-end encryption" is a term of art and you don't meet the definition. It would only apply to your product if you had some sort of synchronization between clients and you didn't have the keys to decrypt that data.

What you're describing is "encrypted in transit" and "encrypted at rest". Encryption in transit is table stakes for any software today, not a differentiator. As for encryption at rest, if I saw that I'd wonder why my email content is ever at rest on your servers.

Again, I don't think you meant to mislead, but it's important to use terms of art accurately, especially when marketing to professionals in the field.
I just amortize the cost over the useful period.

$2k bed / 10y = $200/y.

If that’s worth it for me to upgrade then it’s simple to make the call. We spend a third of our life sleeping so having a good bed is a worthwhile investment.
I spent $400 on a drill press!
A filepath is an index and a hiearchy that adds information and structure. It can't be completely replaced by editor affordances.
> There is absolutely nothing about Python which makes it especially suited to scientific programming or any other kind of programming.

The amount of anger people have that things that, in fact, determine suitability for various applications are not the things which ought to do so in their own mental models of the world is... interesting.
At that point you may as well use a real cms.
to re-state the obvious, as a low-level C programmer by training, Python is exactly "a simple scripting language that could utilize lower language (C-linking) code." I wrote language glue for C libraries long ago, Python fit well and that is what I use it for to this day, decades later.

maybe people without the C background do not see that at all?
Bingo. This stunt especially after he tweeted long time ago that he will be the last one to cash out on Tesla. Then himself said anything above $1000 for the stock its overpriced.

It will be very easy to see if that's what it was. If they deal won't go thru (I anticipated both parties will be stuck in court to fight over $1B for close to 5 years, then Musk will settle for some $200MM), Musk can simply buy Tesla stock back! Why he needs to all this cash sitting in a bank right???
Anyone notice how the author goes to great lengths to 'bold' the claims in the original letter that talk about how worthless the technology is - and then fails entirely to address those points?

Letter: "Crypo rests on tech that is useless."
Blogger: "I disagree, I think there are some fascinating things to be done with blockchain tech! Just... don't expect me to share them. You should DYOR."

sigh
Hmmm, if a group of white supremacists booed someone talking about their experience of racism, then got up and walked out, what would the administration’s response been?

If that group then sent an email saying that they left because they did not feel comfortable and were subjected to hostility by the surrounding audience, would that be given a moment of respect?

What if that organisation was giving large amounts of funding to Cornell, would that have impacted the response?

These seem like reasonable question, variations of which come up every time students of some country committing crimes against humanity come out in support of said crimes. The response is always silence.

I don’t really expect anything different this time.
It's a personal testimony. Immaterial to the main point of the post.
Sad to see a licensee not following the rules. The tradition of amateur radio is very much one of playing by the rules in one of the purest forms of shared commons there is (outside of an actual common).
He contractually waived the right to call them out on their figure. What Twitter is doing is performative; they're living up to the letter of their covenants in the deal. They don't have to prove anything to Musk. He's on the hook.
Oh no, jobs with a living wage that let people have time and resources to self actualize. That's definitely not the point of capitalism, better kill it quickly!
In this ‘house NFT within the court system’ paradigm, what happens if the court disagrees with the blockchain on who is the rightful ‘owner’ of the house NFT?
You are describing every single self-publishing platform in existence. Substack is getting there as well, as it gains popularity.
Dgraph: New Funding Announcement
The Right to Read always hits me hard. This horrific reality is already here. A reality where hacking our own devices is a "terrible" crime.
"Why would anyone do drugs, when they could just mow a lawn?"
- Hank Hill
IIRC, there was a term that stipulated that Twitter’s SEC reports needed to not contain material misrepresentations. So, he could nix the deal if the number of bots was different than previously disclosed.
Embedded Copies
Infinite Mac 7.5 Weeks Later
Shouldn't there be a diagram of the complex plane so that people can see what it's the right half plane of? On top of it, there's a picture of a plane which is confusing.

Fascinating subject though, in engineering class it was quite surprising how this bunch of functions tracing lines and dots on the complex plane would be relevant to just about everything. Perhaps the first lesson is that even if you know how a system works, you can't just take the inverse function to control what comes out.
Your rough solutions require a state that's willing to facilitate them, rather than only appease the interests of investors and consumption-centric corporations. So it struck me as a little incoherent when in the same breath you decry socialism, Marxism and communism--needing only to point at the CCP for rationale. What -ism would you prefer?
There’s a reason (really a multitude of reasons) why there are so many securities rules and laws. They phrase “widows and orphans” in that area didn’t come from nowhere.
Haiku R1/beta2 has been released (2020)
Another option for those who don't feel like self-hosting is Ghost.org.
> Nuclear waste can be reprocessed (see Fast Breeder reactors);

Doubt so, as after decades of often huge projects in many nations there is not a single industrial fast breeder reactor working satisfactorily. Can you name one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeder_reactor#Development_an...
Yeah, I'm not sure the right terminology for the type of urban landscape it is.

There's uninterrupted development for a 30 mile stretch between McAllen and Harlingen, with densities ranging from suburban to exurban. So not quite typical American suburbia, but similar sprawl and car uber-dependence.
> You pressed talk on your radio during a disaster

If you read TFA, you'd know that's not at all what happened. He is a licensed amateur radio operator and knew the rules, and kept breaking them during a critical firefighting operation even after being told to stop, multiple times.

This was no accident or harmless mistake. I think the fine is justified.
Thanks. I clicked on 'past' immediately after posting, but all I saw were Algolia search results for the keywords in the title. If I'd seen it had been posted before, I probably would have deleted my post. ISTR 'past' used to show matches for the URL, and not the title. Perhaps I'm mistaken.
The “luck” Python ran into was that some people came together to write NumPy. The alternatives at the time were Matlab and R. Matlab is not a great general programming language and is expensive. R has esoteric syntax and also isn’t a great general purpose language. This shift didn’t happen so long ago that it can’t be remembered. It certainly didn’t happen because it was installed by default by some Linux distros.

For better or worse (and honestly, probably often for better), people writing scientific Python care about solving a particular numerical problem. Code quality often matters less than just getting the right answer. Knowledge of a language or code quality is rarely the hard or important part.

Scientists generally spend time learning math and software engineers spend time learning good design practices. It shouldn’t be a great surprise what each group becomes good at. Time is finite.
You can’t even run your own realistically. Taking credit cards requires an insanely difficult and expensive auditing process for basically no benefit when you could be up and running instantly with PayPal/etc.
India has lots and lots of developers today and has had lots for a good long time now.

But it seems there are factors beyond this list that prevent the majority of US development jobs from being shipped to india.
> Python has a great/dope community

Python's community is one of the greatest and worst parts of the language. Python might not be the best language for anything, but it's the second best language for everything.

I've dabbled in many programming languages, a lot of which are backed by a single large company or consultancy:

- Java (Oracle, at least initially)

- TypeScript, C# (Microsoft)

- Golang, Dart (Google)

- Elixir (Nubank)

- Clojure (Cognitect)

- Kotlin (JetBrains)

- Objective-C, Swift (Apple)

- Julia (Julia Computing)

Then, there are languages like Python, Ruby, JavaScript, PHP, Rust, etc. that are more diversified and distributed in terms of core contributors, maintainers, and evangelists. Meanwhile, there's a long list of other lesser known languages that have failed to grow a community as large as Python's.

As I get older and older, I have realized that our programming languages are not static entities, but they change and evolve over time. They are influenced by users, companies, and researchers. I hope that one day, there's a humanities subject that studies programming languages just like we study natural languages like in linguistics. The closest thing right now seems to be history of science, but it's quite a broad field.
"white-color crime", lol. Interesting Freudian slip.
i don't think he's bankrupt (or close). i just mean as long as he has the assets he's bound by the terms of the deal to turn them over. if everything else goes right with the deal and he has the assets he has to turn them over
Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST)
Except you've replaced something people want: easy access to their crypto and a feeling of assurance with something that people clearly don't want: no one wants to stick a fork in their eyeball.

The thing is, users define the market. If we were talking about a traditional "product", if 99% of users used a product wrong, that product would be considered an abject failure, at least from a UX / messaging standpoint with a clear mismatch between user wants/needs and product capabilities.

The average crypto buyer buys crypto because they want to make money. The average crypto buyer doesn't give a shit about decentralization or removal of bureaucracy. The average crypto buyer is getting exactly what they came for.
Same, I’ve found it incredibly productive for scaffolding web apps, also helps when I’m less familiar with a language or framework.
Yes, there has always been some tribalism. But I am old enough to recall when the fact that you were Democrat or Republican was a secondary bit of information, not the deciding factor in who your friends and family were.
If the tests dont fail thats not my problem.
Thanks!
Yeah I’m working on it.
You also see over representation of coders climbing and in the martial arts (particularly grappling) - I've done both myself. I'd do wood working if I had the space. I don't really know why its like this, except that they all make sense to me in the same way that writing software does. Any other reason is a just so story.
(IMO) Substack is not geared more for a tech-focused audience; the difference between it and Medium is that Substack is focused on newsletters, not blogging, and was always laser-focused on monetizing an audience. (That aspect of Medium wasn't there from the start, and Medium has thrown a lot of monetizing strategies at the wall to see if they'd stick.) Substack is arguably competing as much with Patreon as it is with Medium.
Not everyone needs a platform to be honest. Most people lives their lives without posting anything online, just jumping from platform to platform searching for something to consume. And the argument that people would worried if they lost access to their data is almost invalid, most don't even backup their phones, much less data on platforms.

And for people who needs to distribute stuff, they would just opt-in for every platform, self-owned or big tech.

Removing middlemen or the whole decentralization thing is a welcomed change, so we get more to be in control more. But this is a paradigm shift, like how we moved from offline to online, the ways and methods of doing things need to change. For instance, instead of self-hosting the entire thing, I imagine a way for people to actually host their own data, while big tech host the frontend and backend. When you want your data to be displayed on Facebook, you will need to provide a temporary access key that can be revoked anytime.
Does no-code make this better or worse?
This is the Pareto principle at play, it’s the consequence of accessibility. But I’ve also found completely indie blogs that remind me of the Web 1.0/early 2.0 days.
You nailed it about aerospace: the manufacturer I work for makes aircraft that were certified in the 1950's. The visitor entrance to the production facility has the type certificates framed near the entrance. We routinely design "new" aircraft that are basically lipstick on the old grandfathered in designs from decades ago. Whatever it takes to not have to recertify.
This is going to absolute lead to price gouging because today you can only items in one segment. For example price of bread to other bread. But if you start using cost per use all of a sudden you will be forced to justify 50 bucks for a loaf of bread or 100 bucks for a peanut butter bottle, after all a jar of peanut butter lasts a long time. Yes supply and demand and competition will still exist but they will all learn and adapt.
>with only ever a single processor to throw at the problem which itself is hard bounded by mealtimes and hours-in-day.

If you use

#import friends

you can increase the processing power. Depending on the quantity of beerSupply can increase the errors and decrease effeciency of the extra processors
So sometimes it is better to cut losses rather than double down because planes exist.
I joke with my friend: “I can build it myself for more!” And true, some projects cost more than buying it from a store… but the experience is worth it, and usually the end product is better than what you can get from a store.
Lol. India also has a shortage of software engineers now because these days they are building services for domestic market instead of for western markets. These software engineers get paid $50k. The average $7k software engineer is not the engineer anyone wants to hire.
Anyone who is "infatuated" with ANY tool is likely ignorant of alternatives.

That said, I think python is a very convenient wrapper for lower language utilizing scipy libraries. I also think it is great for quick prototyping. (It's been a couple years, but I even prototyped PySide Qt stuff in ipython notebooks, now Jupyter notebooks, back in the day).

Now, simply the popularity (perhaps created by luck), led to a huge ecosystem of scipy tools for the science community. That in-and-of-itself snowballed into a reason to use it. Could that have happened to a different language? Yes. but that doesn't invalidate that it DID happen to Python.

Perhaps your day job forces you to use the Python hammer for a screw problem; I'm sure that problem frustrates a lot of us working people, but I don't think it's inferior for the specific uses I outlined.
Right, but in that case the choice is between a pre-made extract with unknown sampling, or a full population.

Asking for a custom-made sample is really the same as requesting the whole population and sampling yourself.
> Notion has genuinely great UX

That’s definitely in the eye of the beholder. For something so text-oriented it doesn’t use the native text primitives so lots of muscle memory doesn’t work. I have to keep resorting to the mouse to do anything.
Register allocation is a classically hard (NP-hard!) problem

I thought one of the huge advantages of using SSA is linear-time register allocation?
As they say, the best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Just because it takes a while to bring it online doesn't mean it isn't a worthwhile investment.
The product manager shouldnt be the boss of an engineer. Thats what engineering managers are for. Product / Eng managers work together to set goals of what they want done, it shouldnt include how they want it done, and exclude potential side fixes. Thats how you kill the morale of an engineering team.
Use any language you like to build a proof of concept.

But one you need to take that POC and build a real product which needs to be supported, extended, and maintained, then you must choose tools which fit that long term need.

Many of use first experienced school in kindergarten. Kindergarten was an important step in our education and socialization. But we didn't refuse to move on to the next level, no matter how much fun it was or how nice our teachers were. Maybe some people felt unsure about leaving their comfort zone, but there's no progress without risk and effort.

Is a university student elitist because they know something a kindergarten kid doesn't? Should they stop trying to promote continued growth through the educational levels?

If you were to use production Python on any decent sized project, and you had also used Ruby (just one example... some other languages can be even more succinct), then you would hate Python.
Thanks for this recommendation. Picked it up and indeed it’s a lot of fun.
> Even if he could, the firehose doesn't contain the sort of PII you would need to determine whether a user be a bot.

What data would that be though ?

1) Email addresses would be valid since they are used during the verification process.

2) Location data is only available on mobile which bots obviously won't be using.

3) IP address data would be filtered through compromised hosts.

4) Interaction data is probably the key one. But this is trivially forged.

The type of bots that are most common on Twitter are those from well funded interests e.g. governments, companies or technical ones e.g. hackers.

People who know what they are doing and would be building something largely imperceptible from ordinary users.