skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
YES! The article says this:

> But a few specialty houses (...) have long advocated for the warmth of analog. “Not that you can’t make good records with digital, but it just isn’t as natural as when you use the original tape,” says Bernie Grundman

which is absurd. "Warmth" is a kind of distortion, and if a signal is distorted then it's less accurate or "natural"!

They can't claim "fidelity" and "warmth" at the same time. It's one or the other.
> Do you know of any painters that grind painting like you can grind exercise?

I think absolutely most of them do, at least in figurative painting (the kind of painting that tries to resemble reality).
Considering that they do not obey the law, if they had actually stopped any terrorists we would be hearing all about it from "anonymous leakers" by now.
Agreed. That's why I call myself "programmer" rather than senior or engineer or whatever. Titles don't really matter in this industry except for matching a slot on a pay scale. It's been a long time since I've cared what title I get, I get paid the same regardless. Easier not to care about titles as a freelancer I suppose.

People who can't get along in the workplace, or in the rest of life, not only hinder themselves. They can damage a team's productivity and cohesion, and sink a project. Over time I have come to value "people skills" over technical chops, though it's nice to get both, and when I work with someone with good people, communication, and technical skills I think of them as "senior" regardless of their actual age or years of experience.
Worth noting DJB (the article author) was on two competing (losing) teams to Kyber[0] in Round 3. And has an open submission in round 4 (still in progress). That's going to slightly complicate any FOIA until after the fact, or it should. Not that there's no merit in the request.

[0]: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/post-quantum-cryptography/pos...
> You have a single DB running on a single machine. But you also care this much about write performance that you need sequential ids. How much longer is that single DB going to work for you, if write performance has become an issue?

Potentially a long time. Anecdotal: I helped a PG user in ~2012 (+- 2 years) to move to some sequential-ish uuid-like thing because they were facing outages, and as of last year they were still using a single instance for that service. And they grew by a lot.

> Because soon you might need to shard, which you will lose sequential ids and benefit of spatial locality right?

You don't need (not even want) perfect spatial locality. It's ok as long as it's not uniformly random.
This article is a bit old, so it doesn't mention the latest story to have hit /r/exmormon:

https://apnews.com/article/Mormon-church-sexual-abuse-invest...
They had $6.1 billion in cash at the end of Q1 2022, so they have a loooong runway.
Distill Web Monitor? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/distill-web-m...
I always find this kind of argument ironic because one, it's obviously intensely psychological itself, as are most philosophical attitudes (which does little to disqualify them) and secondly if you just were to take postmodern philosophy as a predictive science I don't think any discipline has been more prescient in describing our current condition.
Apple wouldn't release it though. They'd take one look at the massive crease in the middle of the screen and say "no".
Don't forget that playback progressively damages the medium. A true audiophool keeps a stockpile of virgin vinyl so they can playback once and throw it away.
Memory and experience aren't encoded in the brain like traditional computers. There's no concept of a "byte" when thinking about the human computational model.
The result is also all of the innovative product ideas that never see the light of day because two weeks after launch there’d be a Chinese knock off on the market for half the price making it impossible to recoup R&D.

That’s a big reason behind the push to SaaS and server based solutions.
That got me wondering at a first glance too. But in this case, the word stands for "čuda" not CUDA.

Čuda = miracles, wonders, in Serbian (and several other languages).

And odd conglomerate of words from different languages perhaps, one even anglicized (ASCIIzed?) at that... Well, it does get the people talking, I suppose.
Prediction markets for sports is reported on a W2-G, and skilled people can consistently make gains doing sports betting.

Stocks are different because they are assets. You get something for your money.
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Only if the deal fails outside reasons like regulatory action. Simply changing your mind, or claiming that you should have done due diligence after you explicitly waved it, doesn't count.

Personally, I want the court to rule for specific performance (ie. Pay the $44 billion) He fucked up.
40 Year-Long Dungeons and Dragons Game – Obsessed
Pretty sure that user is shadowbanned, so all their comments start off dead.
History of the First Crusade – Interactive Map and Timeline
It would be hard for them to be wrong about their numbers, given how subjective they are.

Their methodology is pick 100 users from the mDAU every day, then have a human decide botornot.

If you wanted to show those numbers were wrong, you might ask to see those specific users and come up with your own botornot score. Or if you thought those weren't inaccurate, but maybe not a representative sample, you might ask for 10,000 users counted as mDAU on a specific day (or each day) and botornot them and see if that matches the 100 sample. If you didn't trust twitter's sampling, you could ask for the full list of users and sample it yourself before botornot.

But instead, it seems like they were trying to count botornot for the full population without considering if they were in mDAU or not, which makes it a flawed comparison. The counterclaim says mDAU isn't the appropriate measure for some of the alternate revenue plans Musk was considering, and that's probably true, but it's not relevant to twitter's current business and if their numbers were accurate to the degree they were measured.
Thanks for sharing this paper!

I have always struggled to express exactly what my issue is with certain software patents.

With this paper I now have the vocabulary (and examples) to explain what I mean to someone outside the industry.
It is. People get confused all the time when their "compilation" of a TeX "document" doesn't terminate or yields other typical runtime problems. LaTeX is a very leaky abstraction in that regard. For more than basic competence in using TeX, it is important to understand how it works internally and for that it is helpful to have an understanding of what an interpreter is.
I don't think you can compare this to Russia and Ukraine at all. Russia (at least the western part) and Ukraine is Slavic. Ukraine and Russia were one country for 450 years and before the beginning of the 20th century that current nationalist movement did not exist. Ukraine literally means borderlands in old Slavic language.

If anything, it was the Slavs in that region that expanded eastward and resettled conquered territories e.g. Tatars(Crimea) to the eastern parts.

Taiwan was inhabited by Austronesians, some of which were butchered by the dutch when they first drove them out, then by Portuguese, later by the Japanese (for a while a lot of Taiwanese considered themselves Japanese, while others on that Island fought of the invaders in the east) and sometime in between all that Hakka and other Han Chinese settled the island.

After loosing the civil war as you know Chiang Kai-shek settled there while running a brutal dictatorship where the first thing he did was take all the local currency and reissue his own. I think the biggest giveaway on how problematic Taiwans history with China is, is that some of the biggest treasures that Mao tried to destroy are in the national history museum in Taipei.

I agree with you that Taiwan never accepted changing it's own constitution(i.e. passports are still issued as RoC, not as Taiwan), but you absolutely cannot compare Ukraine to Taiwan. Neither in geography nor in history.
anti musk sentiment mostly stems from the post-2016 leftist surge. most of the mainstream internet was technocratic before
It's just fundamentally a bad idea. Software should never, ever bother the user during use about how it's being used. That's what tutorials and documentation are for.

No matter how clever and subtle you think you're being, you're still just redirecting the user's attention from the task at hand toward the UI itself. No matter how ignorable, dismissable, or optional it is, it's an abysmal UI failure and it shouldn't even happen once. Make the feature right in the first place and you won't have to resort to nagging.
I think lower taxation on the upper and upper middle care is only a portion of the cause.

The majority of the difference is we spend so much more on healthcare than other countries. If we spent what other countries did on healthcare we'd be pretty close to being able to afford Medicare for all with current government spending on healthcare.
check my profile, twitter is a good easy way, or email me via substack
This would make a perfect episode if Knight Rider ever got another reboot.
I have 30 Twitter accounts, but only one is used. It's only used to be able to occasionally search for news on Twitter.

I wonder if those other 29 accounts are actually removed from the active accounts count when trying to sell their numbers.
Technically, a hybrid integrated circuit is just a bunch of individual components that are integrated together into a single package vs a monolithic integrated circuit which is your typical "everything on a chip of silicon".
Perhaps Distill Web Monitor or PageProbe?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/distill-web-m...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pageprobe/
Words are too overloaded already. Time to invent new letters.
> especially given that rich people buying expensive stuff is hardly hurting others directly

Superstition is always bad.
Emacs Manual for Its Users (1981)
Ok let's go with the latter. I was going to say "80 chars on the nose" but I had to mess with the punctuation—or rather, you did (with the double colon).

Thanks!
Sure, EFF played a major role in that case as did Bernstein. It made several lawyers into superstars in legal circles and they all clearly acknowledge his contributions to the case.

Still you imply that he shouldn’t have credit for that first win and that somehow he failed in the second case.

EFF shouldn’t have stopped fighting for the users when the government changed the rules to something that was also unacceptable.
Even "languages built around AOT compilation" are increasingly blurring the phase distinction between "ahead-of-time" and "at runtime", via increased use of metaprogramming and constant evaluation facilities. We may end up with a state of things where even some "AOT-language" programs are written to do much of their work at compile time, perhaps adding more and more of those facilities that were formerly allowed only at "runtime".
Curious if there is a better implementation?
But this is a solved problem. You build the base of your wall with glass foam bricks or aerated concrete. Pretty standard these days. Or a partially above-grade basement that can be insulated, as is common in the US.
Slightly related but a feature that I miss is the short lived "Air View" in Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5. It allows you to trigger actions by hovering your finger above the screen.

Samsung implementation was a bit gimmicky, gimmicks were the hallmark of Samsung during that time, but it is extremely useful for one thing: hover targets on web pages. It actually makes sites that are completely unusable on other phones usable again, and not only that, it is very intuitive.

And the best part is that it costs next to nothing to make and it doesn't take any space or make anything more fragile, if I am not mistaken it is just a few tweaks on the way the capacitive touchscreen sensor is driven. So why not keep it? UI wise Samsung was a bit clunky but it doesn't mean it doesn't have potential.

3D touch on the other hand is probably a bit more expensive as it requires extra components (pressure sensor). Also, pressure sensitive devices have a long history of being failures, but contactless tech is used all the time, the closest would be digitizers, they all support hovering and it is put to good use. I don't have anything against 3D touch, I think it is nice to have and cheap, the ability to use your phone as a scale is also a nice gimmick but between 3D touch and hovering, I would have bet on hovering. In the end, we have neither...
Does your place of business have an air compressor outside, an air hose and fittings for the public to use for free?
Date range is great, but unfortunately it can fail when for instance old newspaper stories still have recent news in the sidebar. Google will include those recent updates as belonging to the date of the old story.
There is a political party that started out with the ideal to "split" Italy into a more "productive" north and a "lazy" south.

Ironically quite a lot of the "lazy" southerners have migrated into the "productive north" because they jobs are there. I wonder what kind of immigration policies would such an socio political arrangement come up with. "Luckily" in the last few years they found a new enemy: other people with browner skin. And so the party grew from being a north only party to being a national party that got quite a few votes from people that until a few years ago were loudly despised because they were lazy southern italians.
Transhumanism should be about freedom and increased ability.

But the future is about corporate authoritarian dystopia, extreme wealth inequality, and environmental armageddon.

Pessimism for the future is beginning to take over.

I mean, look at "Meta", and the fact it's tied to effing facebook and all the crappiness that entails. VR is a lot like transhumanism in many ways, and it's clear VR will be attached to megacorps and google-class lockout and non-customer service.
I thought this was going to be about a lathe from 1800 or something
Love this idea. I'll give it a shot if I ever need to learn Redis. I'm a FAANG iOS dev who's guided a few people from 0 to dev job, so I was curious to see if you had a Swift track but it looks like not yet. Would love to hear if that's on the roadmap or not!
> Audiophools

You don’t need to attack any community, no matter how stupid it may be, if they are just minding their own business.
There are hearing accommodations in iOS that can even use your audiogram.

Settings -> Accessibility -> Audio/Visual -> Headphone accommodations
Good to know. Do the punitive damages also go to the plaintiffs? Or does it just get funneled into the government slush fund?
Azure network is junk. Try running traceroute from a VM running there - it will come back empty. They just silently drop ICMP "TTL expired" packets, for "security" reasons, no doubt.

Also, you can't spoof source IP there, even when talking between your VMs on a private subnet. So forget about running a router inside a VM. On AWS you can. [0]

[0] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/vpc/latest/userguide/VPC_NAT_Ins...
I’m using 10 years MacBook (not retina) as home computer - it has 16gb memory and 2tb ssd. And works quite good for web browsing, writing documents, even for some development (like patching Spark Redis connector, although it’s usually augmented by separate Linux desktop). Maybe I’ll upgrade at some point, but it’s still good for many tasks. The only problem is Mac OS version :-(
i.e. "the internet is full of lies" But that doesn't mean sources of truth do not exist. Sources of truth do exist, though, what is read online should be carefully considered. I mean, isn't that kind of the thinking around telling people to not clicking links in emails, text messages and generally stopping to ask whether a piece of information seems too outlandish to be true or too shocking? So yeah it's definitely felt like the internet is full of people who aren't "mature enough" to invest so heavily into the internet of late.
Just use a wire?
Sure you do. Remember tank man? [0]

You don't index shit yourselves so when Bing censors something you do too.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27394925
Audiophile world is strange...

Monster cables vs Coat hangers: https://consumerist.com/2008/03/03/do-coat-hangers-sound-as-...
Warm up new headphones:
https://soundsightheadphones.com/guides/do-i-need-to-warm-up...
Also considerably more expensive than a monitor.
I still think that "warmth" is a way to describe not actually hearing the separate digital samples subconsciously, and just hearing the sounds gliss into each other. I also think it's an anachronism that comes from way back when the digital sample rate was often a lot lower (and people would insist that their live digital effects sounded as good as analog, when you could sometimes even consciously hear the samples jumping into each other.) Other than that, it seems like something that people project onto music with bassy reverb.
I don't know if there's such thing as the "real" dissemination of scientific knowledge. You just have concentric circles of people that each know a bit less about the subject matter. The farther you get from the handful of experts on a particular subproblem, the more false a statement has to be to be noticed as false.
There's a capacitor layer behind the screen and there's a tiny actuator for vibration. I don't see how it wouldn't be.
Having been one of those people I do have a lot of sympathy but think you're right. Life is full of trade-offs. You can spend a lot of time doing nothing because there is no perfect option that meets all of your needs.
Why settle? There is a reasonable shot of forcing musk to pay a 200% premium. $3-5 billion is a steep discount. Twitter should settle for nothing short of specific performance.
Forth is the exact same thing.
>>they classify certain beliefs as true (i.e., successful, superior) and other beliefs as false (i.e., failed, inferior)

You think that this describes post-modernism? I thought post-modernism was all about, well, relativism.

Upon looking it up, I'm amazed to discover that Kaczynski wrote "leftists", because the excerpted paragraph sure as hell describes the modern conservative. Raging against science and rationality and truth to serve an emotional drive to power? Trump, Bolsonaro, Putin...

I think perhaps this is, uh, a difference in worldview.
> Oh, and no, I've been to plenty of massive festivals, there were no robberies

Uh huh
It was seeing him be at the top of his niche for so long, him running a successful business with a handful of employees, him just remaining this counterculture icon who seemed to get away with everything, it made me think that he might be more calculated than people gave him credit for.

But more than anything, it was this insincere apology he gave regarding sandy hook, after which he seemed to feel above the Sandy Hook’s Survivors right to confront him in a court of law. I just sort of hoped he was a better and smarter person, maybe somebody who believed some kooky things but was doing a show mostly to entertain people and didn’t mean badly. Just seeing such hateful stupidity is surprising and disappointing to me. I might be too naive.
I’m doing the same - if it works, why to do an upgrade?
"I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members." - Groucho Marx

"I don't want to buy any..." - Elan Musk
If you spend all day making bagels do you go home and make bagels for dinner?

It's a static text blog, not a bank
Stuff like AI alignment is why I'm less interested in the EA groups nowadays tbh. Too much preference is given to these sci-fi ideas over rational known solutions to real issues. I also find it's not CS guys talking about these issues but philosophers and I don't believe you can weigh up risk/reward of issues in the mid-far future off of peoples views who don't understand (even theoretical) implementation details. I still fully agree with many other parts of EA though, like giving what we can and focusing on effective charities.
Adding to the analogy: The current owners of the home regularly remove swastikas spraypainted on their house by vandals, and some people call this a violation of free speech.
The solution is an aux cable.
You sound enjoyable to work with, I wish I could say the same about some of my coworkers.
> I just spoke clearly about real world regulations that you happen to be unaware of, and could easily look up

Coming from a family of structural engineers (specialising in offsite construction, no less) I'm not sure whether to be more amused by the notion that there exists a Europe-wide ban on the use of prefabricated concrete panels, or that broad claims about building regulations are easy to look up!

It is true that many 1960s-era system built structures would no longer be compliant, and that regulations governing things such as insulation of dwellings might make cement panel walls designed to be single-skin suboptimal for many use cases but that is not the same thing as a Europe-wide ban on prefabricated concrete panel systems. There's actually a pretty varied market for them.

Perhaps your condescension towards the OP was not fury, but merely an attempt to bolster your apparently weak credentials as an expert in European construction. I recommend you discard that strategy in future :-)

> In my opinion, what you did here was to say "your claims don't hold up when someone replaces the thing you were talking about with a different thing."

Someone more familiar with European offsite construction techniques would interpret the OP's point that low rise construction from manufactured panels like the three different companies mentioned in TFA (two of which do not involve concrete walls) is not a "hip" novelty in Europe, and that timber-framed panels may incorporate a variety of facade systems used to provide equivalent weather protection to cement-like facades [also similar ease of assembly for the most part]. They are, in fact, very similar approaches to speeding up onsite construction

I'm not sure my remarks to that effect involved more reinvention of the original argument than your extended analogies to software and 1950s construction.

> But sort of the core concept here is that once it's cement-like, that's no longer necessary

Cement like material does not have the aesthetics of brick. Which is the chief reason to prefer a panel with a brick-like cladding instead of a lower cost alternative panel. Which is why brick-like skins have a place in panel wall based construction.
The easiest example would be brainfuck, which doesn't have addresses and you just move the tape head. I'm not that versed in how other languages are defined, but does e.g. JavaScript even expose pointers to the user? From my understanding of the language, an implementation could be able to allocate infinitely many objects, without breaking the language spec.
Why would Twitter settle?
... "but that it was doing so specifically so that Musk would buy Twitter at an inflated price."

The insanity is people being perfectionistic in that it was specific intent to target him to buy it - even if it says "him" - it's absurd that people are taking that literally, and not simply to "make it seem valuable for someone to buy."