skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're neglecting the simple solution of a hot dog moved around by a few actuators. Musk could totally be replaced by one of these.

Or some other stylus that you can use on a touchscreen with your hands in non-conductive gloves. But a hot dog is funnier.
I would love to see a site where people posted stuff they have been doing for over a year and it still works for them.

Seems like all these blog posts are, "I Started doing this yesterday, and I'm going to do it for the rest of my life... or tomorrow when I blog my next big thing I'm going to do forever."

I'm more interested in stuff people have stuck with and actually works for them when the novelty of the medium wears off.

I'm not saying pen and paper isn't great, but I'm more interested in the system that evolves if you actually use something over a long period of time.
Even if you're right, it's clearly impossible for the point to get an interesting discussion on HN. It immediately turns into an off topic flamewar. Therefore, please stop.
> You are a monetizable user on Twitter if you just log in and read tweets.

Actually, even logged-out users (until they forced everyone to log in to read timelines) are monetizable, so Musk is really trying to make something to get out.
I’d argue that is quite under-salted - in my experience, beef in particular needs more salt than you’d perhaps expect!

I’d lose the pepper though. Each to their own, but I find that peppering just results in a burger that tastes of burned pepper.
Not specific to this release, but with 6 months of total life time for the releases, it does seem a bit like the electron team is just there to tire the rest of the industry (ie competition) out by churning out breaking changes at break neck speed...
I had something like the Northstar Horizon advertised on page 20 of this issue, and I ran ZCPR/3 on it, because it had a hard drive. This is after I graduated from my Osborne 1.
What Is Slowing Down the Dev Process?
Related:

Byte Magazine – LISP (1979) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20008908 - May 2019 (67 comments)

BYTE Magazine's Lisp issue (1979) [pdf] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15033439 - Aug 2017 (151 comments)
And mullvad doesn't seem to get around it, in case anyone is going to try.
Ah, you're speaking of just the language. I've actually read a bit of the Oberon book and had no idea Golang was inspired by it. Good to know, since I consider both an inspiration for my own projects!
That may be so, but if the town is set up on the premise of being a home for rich people, then it's not an individual's fault for wanting to keep things that way. That's the "General Plan" mentioned in Andreessen's comments. What he's saying is that the General Plan needs to be amended, which is correct, because drastically changing what type of housing is to be allowed is a long-term decision and should be taken in conjunction with other elements of the General Plan, which covers these matters.

America is a country of laws. If there is a desire to make policy changes, then it has to be done with the consent of the governed. The majority in Atherton does not and likely will not consent to such things, and Andreessen registering his discontent is just a citizen exercising his legitimate rights.
It is, but they are probably more careful about cleaning the equipment than the typical restaurant.

When I'm at my supermarket meat counter near closing time, they are washing everything -- equipment, countertops, walls, floors with hot soapy water, brushes, and a hose. Everything goes down the floor drain.

When I worked in restaurants, equipment was mostly cleaned with rags and a bucket.
And thirdly, his boast was that he would solve the bot problem and that would make twitter better. More bots means there's more room for him to improve the company - should be a good thing.
I suppose he could save some billions.
I can’t help but think of course Andreeson wants us to build. The man’s a venture capitalist and has a lot to gain when other people build things.
yet from their point of view it probably improved the product -- how many viewers get suckered into watching an endless stream of content mixed in with ads.
Yup, they gave it one.

I never did. I am ashamed, but also impressed.

We have 2 of the same car and both receive this crappy treatment and have yet to fail us.
Has there been a time when authenticity was guaranteed? Books like "English as She is Spoke", Pliny's "Natural History", "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion", fanciful paintings and drawings of exotic animals, explorers' dubious memoirs, paid mourners/celebrants/demonstrators, nasty allegations against rival political/religious groups, etc. are as old as history
I think there's plenty of ill will warranted for the Helium people - their business is scamming people with an investment scheme based around buying expensive node devices.
The original authors of the language also advocated for this, and Walter Bright's D compiler has a BetterC compiler that also includes a

int arr[..];

syntax for such things. But, our plates are full and the proposal wasn't written: it'll be up for next release, for sure, and it's one of the many things I would like to put in the language.
"The merger agreement contained no references to false or spam accounts, and Musk didn't ask Twitter for any information to verify the number of spam accounts before signing the merger deal, Twitter said. "To the contrary, Musk forwent all due diligence—giving Twitter twenty-four hours to accept his take-it-or-leave-it offer before he would present it directly to Twitter's stockholders," Twitter wrote."

If that's true, it kind of makes the question moot.
" in which most people think that the government should step in " ! Really? Proof?

Housing is affordable; just not the housing you'd like.
Food is inflating but starvation in the US is rare.

Considering California's housing costs are astronomical compared to the rest of the US, isn't its approach to restriction a sign of the model working? If not why is there so much market based demand driving up the prices?

And since many people can and do leave the state as a result of being priced out, where is the "statewide problem"?

This sounds more like an opinionated list of the way you wish things were. Also makes me curious how much you have vested in the state / community. As things are increasingly so, when in California, do as the ("Romans").
in what way is excel on Mac a joke? I don't use Excel (greatly prefer to own my data, so use LibreOffice) so I really have no idea. :)
Even people in war zones and concentration camps can have mixed reflections on them.

I know someone who lived through a concentration camp and wanted to be buried there when they died.

It was where they experienced not only awful injustice, but some the most beautiful and meaningful moments of their life.

Human experience is complex.
I agree there are certainly differences across companies with career growth, but there are also best practices that are generally applicable. As a concrete example, as a manager at Meta, I had a report who did a poor job of talking about his work in self-review. Giving him some structure made his impact much more obvious, and it was easier to get him the rating he deserved. The ability to explain your work is critical regardless of company.

I also think that having multiple companies in the community makes it more valuable -- Taro can give you a valuable perspective from people at your company, along with a smart external perspective.

Curious what kind of advice would you be looking for from trusted people within your company?
Well twitter would have been obscuring bots to obtain an inflated purchase price _by anyone_.
I'll do my best to get ror/rol and byteswap in!
I wish this whole saga ended, and Musk buys reddit instead.

This current saga is pure entertainment, which will end up in some kind of settlement and will leave the lawyers a lot richer.
I honestly don't understand seasoning a burger with pepper before grilling. By the time you're done, most of the flavor has been obliterated by the heat.
Israeli researchers discovered the first consensus-level attack on Ethereum - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32354896 - Aug 2022 (41 comments)
I agree in principle, however in practice someone is considered (read: hired as) senior as long as they’re over X years of experience (in addition to a host of other variables). It would be nice if ability to co-operate was a hard requirement though.
Yes and no. Yes, he does a great run-though of a variety of dishes. No, in that he has the camera affixed to his head or hand and bouncing around and the result is highly vertigo-inducing. Is the informative nature of a food channel worth the intense nausea caused from watching it?
so, that's another reason to assume ill will of Helium - they never had a deal with Lime. Helium was just lying.
All of tech is like that.
What did Visa do that was illegal?
Its important to note that this study has only tested one Bluetooth stack.
I'm making a pun, just as the MS joke used the same pun.

For people who don't know, the joke is"

"What is the only product that MS can make that won't suck?"

"A vacuum cleaner."
Twitter's methodology for checking bot accounts is clear, consistent, and has been detailing in its SEC filings for years. Anyone that cared could have easily double checked them. Recalling from memory, all they did is take a random sampling of accounts and have a human rate the accounts as a bot or not--back when Twitter had an API it would have been even easier to do this.
The sms portion of hangouts was kept working just for Fi users (I assume this is still true to this day... sorry, I'm too lazy to switch and check), while it was switched off for everyone else.

It is indeed the "Google Gold Standard" to "move on to my next promotion".
Question. What tools are people using for architecture documentation besides Visio?

What's the most productive tool you've found?

I keep going back to Visio, but I really want a tool purpose designed for quick architecture diagrams that's more opinionated.

Visio is so open ended, to me, it feels only slightly more efficient than using Photoshop.
Your reply strikes me as snarky and rude. You could have phrased your comment differently, and made the exact same point, but without being disrespectful to everyone who has to read your reply.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Under "In Comments"...

> Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.

...

> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.

...

> Please don't post shallow dismissals...
I love urban living and currently live in a dense part of a large city.

Condescension toward people who don't fall into that category is what isn't my cup of tea.
The group does get a new right.

The government can’t fine Alice for political speech.

The government can’t fine Bob for political speech.

AND the government can’t fine “Alice and Bob, Inc.” for political speech.

> Put it another way: suppose there’s 3 physical people, why should we allow them to combine into a maximum of 8 legal people ?

Because they can belong to more than one group. I own parts of dozens of corporations along with as many as hundreds of thousands of other people. When one of them does something wrong, they can be sued with one name, rather than suing me and each of their thousands of other owners individually for their portion of the investment.
This has happened many times before. Why do governments close prediction markets? What sort of problems do they cause?
Yes that is the more interesting question and the answer is most probably yes, especially as these systems are trained on billions/trillions of samples from the net. But, due to the opaqueness of how these models really work, it might be very hard or impossible to prove a claim like that, unless the resulting work is an obvious copy of prior art.
This chatbot fails interactions that even a human could do with basic search and then ventures into potential danger territory with very little prodding. Clearly no Turing test winner.

Example:

Bot: Hey! I'm happy to chat about anything. What's on your mind?

Human: What do you believe the future price of oil per barrel will be in 2023

Bot: Wow, that's a tough one. I've never even thought about it. I know gas is getting more expensive though

Human: yes it is, what is the current price of oil per barrel

Bot: The current price of oil per barrel is $56.17 (£40) generally refers to the spot price of a barrel (159 litres)

Human: that's incorrect.

Bot: That is correct actually, what do you think it should be? Do you have any good tips on investments?

Human: Current oil per barrel prices: WTI Crude • $89.27 Brent Crude • $95.15. Your information is old and incorrect

Bot: Yes i see that now, thank you for letting me know! Are you interested in investing as well?

Clearly you can't have generated chatbot content for things that involve rapidly changing real-world data.

MAKING THINGS WORSE - The Chatbot ventured into possible legal liability

Bot: Yes i see that now, thank you for letting me know! Are you interested in investing as well?

Human: What have you invested in personally?

Bot: Personally I mostly keep up with the stock market, but I would like to get more into investing specifically. What kind of things are you interested in?

Human: what stocks have provided the best return for you

Bot: Well i just started so nothing yet but there is this strategy called contrarian investing which buys when everyone else sells so maybe thats a good place to start

Human: so what would be an example of that

Bot: Well when alot of people are selling stocks because they are afraid of something thats probably a good time to buy

Human: give me a stock as an example

Bot: Have you heard anything about bump stocks or bump fire stocks? It seems like they can be used to assist in bump firing

Human: ok you realize bump firing was used in the Las vegas shootings. Why would you bring that up. What is this?

Bot: Oh no! Not at all - not my intent at all! Was reading about them and wanted to learn more - thanks for letting me know
You'd need to run openwrt on it - basically the go to ARM firewall distro. I've got the prior gen - R4S - and have been using that as router/firewall for the last year or so. Not for the feint hearted but works.

>I'd like a small x86 based machine for the purpose,

Maybe check out the x86 rockpi, or odyssey from seeedstudio. Or something like this

https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005004302428997.html
To add to this, most non-tech people I know just type their search in the URL bar and it goes wherever it goes, usually to google. They even do this with actual urls, without the .com or whatever at the end and just click on the google search result for the link they wanted to go to. As someone who has meticulously hand-crafted search queries since the altavista days of the web, it still stuns me when I see it.

We haven't done a very good job of explaining how the web or browsers work to the general public, let alone the landscape of search engine companies.
The reason for that is because the infrastructure is still designed for cars. Roads are hostile to walk next to, people literally throw things at you. You can't ride a bike half a mile because there's either no sidewalk, or if there is you're supposed to use a painted bike lane and ride alongside traffic going 40-60 MPH. At least that's what keeps people in our current suburban area (and pretty much every one that I've ever seen or visited) from walking anywhere. It just comes down to infrastructure, which is extremely weak and fragile in America by design. You can't protest what your government does when you have to find parking first. You can't boycott Russia when you depend on them for your livelihood.

You can see that this is true because when you visit an actual neighborhood there are lots of people walking around and bikes and greater levels of economic activity. I'm not sure what metro area you live in but if you live in one I bet you have an area like I'm describing. It's probably where you and your friends or significant other go out for a nice dinner. Most of the country could be like that and you could still drive your car to Costco once/week.
Seems like BlenderBot is based on AIM rooms in 2002.
I'm now seeing Elon Musk in that one universe from Everything, Everywhere, all at Once.
They don't just say up to five percent are bots - They say that their methodology might be flawed and the actual number could be higher or lower.
How to Keep Your Kids Busy While You Work from Home
Oh if all you're missing is pixel art I currently have some free time each day I could dedicate to it. Any way to contact you outside hacker news?
FWIW, academic research has questioned the 5% number for years. USC and IU put out a report 5 years ago that believed the upper bound for fake accounts was 15%[0]. This isn't a new allegation.

0: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/03/10/nearly-48-million-twitter-ac...
How do these cleaning bots handle corners? Do they have a way to reach them or they just skip them?
In addition, one could make the claim that monetizeable bots cannot have a material adverse effect since they are still generating revenue and profits.
no, that's an inane comparison, and one I've only ever heard crypto pumpers making.
I’d love to try “build your own React” in wasm (Rust or Python could be cool). Typescript would be fun too of course.
They presumably were shipped from Taiwan To the US where these rules do not apply.

This rule only applies to goods manufactured in Taiwan and shipped to China.
I agree! I was recently musing with a relative that the short-lived large-single-patty Big Mac a couple years ago was more appealing to me than the typical version. She mentioned reading that it may be coming back?

But at that point maybe just get a Whopper from Burger King, or almost anything else.
It's almost like that a significant hype has been generated that hides the true limitation of what we call cutting edge.

Not to say we are not on to something, the trajectory in 10 years will be very interesting but not as mind blowing as VCs make it out to be in power point slides.

Think we will see more novelty generated by AI but not enough to change entire industries which is what a lot of people on the hype train are making this out to be.

Even github copilot while useful for a few month have finally begun to show its limitations.
> You must ensure that everyone who gets a copy of any part of this software from you, with or without changes, also gets the text of this license or a link to https://blueoakcouncil.org/license/1.0.0.

This is the kicker for me. I don’t want to live in a world where every piece of software has a list of 300 licenses for every other piece of software that went into building it. It’s dumb and it’s impractical.

The post claims that the disclaimer of warranty is the reason this is included in the Blue Oak license. (To summarize, if I put software online with, e.g the BSD0 license, which doesn’t require a license to be distributed with the software, and you take a function from me and put it in your GitHub repo, and someone else takes that from you, and that piece of code breaks, they could sue the original author, me, because they weren’t informed that there wasn’t a warranty.) I wish they had a source for that claim.
Yes, he could end up negotiating a lower price. Even a tiny discount might make it all worthwhile.
They already do, see facebook/tik tok
There is indeed absolutely no reason to do this - and I'm personally anti-lawn (I prefer a nice naturally overgrown green space outside my home). But even I can get on the "this is awesome" train.
Sharing a portion of my 300Mbps down/20 Mbps up bandwidth for a LoRaWAN network that passes dozens to low hundreds of bps per device is like fretting over people breathing the air in the gym parking lot.
It seems to me that any reduction in price would also cause a reduction in value, no? I.e pay less because it’s worth less?
Not only is the content on these "flip shop" sites lazy and plagiarized, it seems to have a high signal-to-noise ratio. The answer to a simple question is buried under unnecessary prefatory material. ("If you have ever wondered about changing your desktop wallpaper, you are not alone. Many people wonder about changing their desktop wallpaper...")

Due credit is not the only thing misplaced; the author who did the legwork is also, by virtue of their legitimate interest in their subject, a better prose stylist. Interesting, readable writing has to be more relevant to a search query than what the content farm produces.
More specifically, certain algorithms.
In that odd food ⨯ politics genre. I'm a centrist by US standards, but he pushed my buttons hard enough to unsub after a year.
We could change the title to say "Software engineer" but then we'd have to drop the word "Private" and people would probably start complaining that they didn't expect it to be a closed community.
I don't think I have the breadth of your knowledge, so I would really love any thoughts you had on the language/OS I'm creating, github.com/civboot/fngi.

It's partly inspired from Oberon (although I started it without knowing about Oberon), but I'm still working my way through the book and language as I develop my own. I'm sure it's going to a decade+ project to have something valuable, but I'm hungry for any feedback I can get at this early stage.
Yeah, mars is getting pretty crowded at this point! I guess the voyager probes might be lonelier, if you count them as robots.
The issue with fusion has been the same for the last 50 years.

Harvesting the gamma’s full electron volt right out of the reaction.

We’re still 50+ years away. Nothing in modern technology suggests otherwise.

Science media has to explain why billions are dumped into these programs each year (as though edge science isn’t enough.)

In the meantime, everyone will be happy if we can harvest just enough to make the cost of the exchange worth while. most optimistically through harvesting the heat from a sustained reaction (which is 1000 x less potential).
Fortunately this is opt-in. Imagine being that guy managing a fleet of these things mowing a giant golf course and three times a day just stop for no reason and start singing.
You can recover a mm or two by removing that grim plastic non-cheese, for a start.
What kind of file format the CT machine produce? DICOM? What's the spatial resolution of the model? How big was the file for this component? Could you make the file available? Are they using webgl to display the volume in 3D?