skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's an interesting point I'd not thought of. I guess I'm more looking at it through the lens of "interacting with and modifying a running system" which kinda gives you a debugger (ish), compiler and execution environment all rolled into one. It's kind of nice to work in this kind of "scratch pad"-like environment while you figure something out versus the more traditional edit-compile-run cycle. But I have definitely seen what you describe as well, so I think that aspect is worth considering too, for sure.
> “Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s mistake).”

> -- Elon Musk, October 3rd 2022

This... isn't a normal argument. This is literally Kremlin propaganda. Wholesale lifted. The question we should be asking is: why is Elon Musk echoing Kremlin propaganda and signing his name and reputation under it?

If it was a mistake, then so be it. But Elon Musk needs to come to terms with the severity of this mistake here.
Those are related. Part of what makes engine-powered VTOL difficult is the engines. The V-22 Osprey has two propellors and two engines, but in order to handle an engine failure, there's a complicated driveshaft and gear arrangement across the middle of the aircraft to send power from the working engine to the other propellor. I don't know that anyone has seriously tried more than 2 engines for a VTOL system.

Electric power allows you to have lots of small fans, a few of which can fail without disaster.

Also, throttling turbines up and down fast enough to stabilize an aircraft doesn't seem to work well.
Reminds me of a sci-fi short story where the military leaders against an alien (?) invasion keep demanding "harder and sharper" human tools for the war. Finally they need a poet and find they don't have any any more.[1]

Though I think that the way classical literature is taught is probably enough to sicken all but the most die-hard readers. Endless dissection of things on a word-by-word basis. Shakespeare (say) wasn't a godlike superhuman imbuing every single word with dozens of layers of meaning. Sometimes it's just a fart joke.

Exactly the same as maths teachers drilling integration rules to death and having everyone conclude, not unreasonably, "this is pointless bullshit". Or history teachers listing dates and names.

[1]: edit: not aliens, and it's by Alfred Bester: https://archive.org/details/New_Worlds_029v10_1954-11/page/n...
I had a Commodore 64 back in the early 80s, in the Seattle area. For a time, I typed in stuff from books and magazines and saved them to tape. Got a diskette drive, but it broke. For a while, I had only the cassette drive again, and actually purchased a tape with Microprose's Silent Service from a supplier in England (this kind of software on cassette was virtually unheard of in the US by that time). It took weeks to arrive, but kept me going for months!

I typed in the Speedscript word processor from Compute! magazine. Each line had a checksum at the end, I think I got it right the first time. It was by far the best word processor available for the C-64 at the time.
A cheater is a cheater. They are making a choice to cheat. It's not an accident. They know it's wrong, they know their conduct is hurtful. It doesn't make any sense to say that no one took it serious. I'm sure people that lost to him would feel otherwise. If he's so good why would he even bother cheating in tournaments?
> makes cheating indistinguishable from normal human play under analysis.

From what I understand, Niemann got into trouble because people thought that he wasn't able to adequately provide the analysis i.e. the reasoning behind some of his own moves. You'd need a live auxiliary AI to tutor the cheater in how to explain why a particular move was made.
I have spot checked the data cited there to compare with the Census data...

The 'median' earnings data they cite comes from the BLS 'usual weekly earnings' release.

One can check that release on the bls.gov website. It is labeled "Series Id: LES1252881500". I compared Q1 1994 to Q1 2021, inflation adjusted using the PCE index:

1994: $750

2021: $983

That is an increase of 31.1%. The Census data which I cited previously is annual earnings, not weekly, but it seems relatively consistent with the BLS data, as the Census data showed a growth rate of 34.4%.

In short, both sets of data show relatively consistent income growth over that period.
The best players only need one or two notes, even something as simple as "there's a good play here" twice a game could throw things dramatically.

That is harder, almost as hard as playing for real, but doable. Much easier to just be a mechanical turk for sharkfish or whatever it's called.
There's a movie titles CBGB about him/the club, played by the late Alan Rickman:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scW0Dqims9c

I'm guessing they play a little fast and loose with history, but its a good watch.
I’ve never had a single lightning cable fail ever since they switched to them.
Maybe I'm lucky. I'm on my fifth job (out of six) where calculus knowledge has been incredibly useful. I'm not even into ML or data analysis. Just a run of the mill software engineer/architect.
We're now 11 years from c++11, but I wanted to say lambdas are generally well thought out with respect to how memory management works in c++. The syntax for captures is weird at first, but once you appreciate that what it's doing is playing nice with copy constructors, it's good.
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Musk burned his reputation. His handshake or verbal agreement is worth much less going forward. Without trust he can't move fast.

Someone like Warren Buffet can make a one phone call and the deal gets closed in few days because his word can be trusted.
> self-fulfilling profecy

that's not really how it works though, and it should absolutely not be a concern (it's quite common to get a sort of tech-industry tunnel vision while discounting the bigger picture or regional focuses.)

I've always argued that downturns are a natural part of every business cycle and perhaps instead of trying to avoid them, we plan for their inevitable occurrence.
By that logic Albania, Bosnia, Libya, Chad are also "Western"?
None of these were FOSS, though...
Which shows ... I don't know ... naivety, or cockiness, or something. If I'm cheating at chess (or poker or whatever) online and I know that there are likely to be some form of anti-cheat scanning happening... why wouldn't you run your chess client on a computer beside you - then everything surrounding that is undetectable (processes, focus, CPU utilization, etc.)
Musk failed to prove a material adverse effect by Twitter.

But if his investors wanted to get out of their contracts, they might have legal standing (IANAL), or at least enough threat of it to be allowed out of the contract by Musk to avoid more court battles, based on the fact that he has caused MAE...

After all, there is an open court case of Twitter v Musk (separate to Musk v Twitter) in which Twitter claimed:

"Since signing the merger agreement, Musk has repeatedly disparaged Twitter and the deal, creating business risk for Twitter and downward pressure on its share price."

and

"Musk’s strategy is also a model of bad faith. While pretending to exercise the narrow right he has under the merger agreement to information for “consummation of the transaction,” Musk has been working furiously—albeit fruitlessly—to try to show that the company he promised to buy and not disparage has made material misrepresentations about its business to regulators and investors. He has also asserted, falsely, that consummation of the merger depends on the results of his fishing expedition and his ability to secure debt financing."

(Copied from the legal case Twitter filed - https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/07/14/twitter-vs-musk-t... )
Overqualified or underqualified. Sigh...
So the new narratibe, after all of Musks attics, is now of the billionaire pursuing humanities best that, human as we all are, had to be nudged to do that as well by honoring his acquisition of Twitter. I already how Musk would get out of it with his hero status intact, I guess I just got my answer, or at least a potential one.
as an avid fan of dokku, def interested!
are you able to drop a link to the repo (if it exists yet)?
This is a weak argument and, taken to the extreme, could have bad results.

We teach calculus because it's a prerequisite for many scientific and engineering careers. It's not a mental exercise, it has direct, practical use for many types of scientific and engineering disciplines.

We can argue whether people actually use calculus in their everyday lives (I would argue so but it's maybe overly broad) but I think the best reason is because it teaches us how the world works and has direct, practical utility for a variety of fields.

On the other end, if the best argument really was that it was good 'mental exercise' then why not teach sudoku in class? Or minesweeper? Why not have people do a crossword puzzle for their final exam?

We want education that has enriches and enables students, not mental machinations for the sake of it.
The whitewashing is weaksauce's failure to mention that Dorner was also killing people who weren't police. This whitewashing was done for rhetorical effect, to make the LAPD seem worse by making Dorner seem better. This is completely unnecessary, because the facts of the case are already bad enough for the LAPD.
You need dozens of lab staff in China and maybe a few admin staff + daszak here in the states to hide it.

Even setting aside that china is a place where scientists who speak out are regularly harassed consider this:. Suppose you set out to save millions of lives and instead wound up saving negative millions of lives. Can you say with certainty that you would have the fortitude to admit your complicity in the mistake?
He’s really not though. His claims aren’t of a moral nature. They’re pragmatical in terms of what could lead to peace and possibly avoid nuclear warfare that more or less could lead to the end of civilization.

If Russia wasn’t a threat, I’m 100% sure he would say that the rest of the world should help in reclaiming Crimea. So I don’t think he’s saying that Crimea belongs to Russia at all.
No, the evidence is usually around analysis of the moves and how they compare to those generated by chess engines and how the same player has played in the past. The mechanics of the cheating are mostly irrelevant.
It's a fine sample though.
That's a bit of an unfair argument, since you're mixing various things together that are not connectors (USB 4... etc.).

Bottom line is that the industry has actually been converging on USB-C for some time now. And again, I think it's unfair to compare an industry with tens (hundreds?) of players having trouble agreeing on something, when we're talking about Apple -- a single entity -- obstinately refusing to drop their obsolete, outdated "uniqueness" in this case.

I get why Apple chose to do Lighting instead of microUSB back in 2012 (I have lost track of the high number of microUSB connectors I have broken), but the funny thing is that Lightning didn't really offer any technical benefits beyond the more sturdy form factor at the time. Lighting was USB2 (and more or less still is), and microUSB carried USB2 signals just fine. They went their own way there for pretty dubious reasons. Well, ok, one obvious reason: they wanted to restrict who could build an iPhone/iPad accessory, because using the Lightning connector required licensing it from Apple.

So basically Lightning exists for one physical sturdiness reason (which, alone, probably would not be justification to do something new), and one anti-competitive reason.

Apple should have just stuck with microUSB, and then switched to USB-C once that made sense. But no, that would have reduced their iron grip on what people are allowed to do with their phones.
Well you could go with a static site and host on Github Pages[0], which is free (as of time of writing). You have to learn Jekyll[1] though if you're running a blog, which is a way to publish without manually editing templates and god forbid, writing some HTML.

Then you just buy a domain for 10 years in advance and you're set. 10 years is a long time in tech and is plenty of time to produce meaningful content that makes a dent.

[0] https://pages.github.com/

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-s...
They aren't acting above the law, but within it. They are legally allowed to detain people in certain situations.

It's perfectly fair for the law to allow certain groups to do something that's illegal for other groups to do. For example, illegal for people not sanctioned by the government to drive on public roads.
I agree that Twitter is awful, and I agree that there's no better man to absolutely drive it into the ground and pound it into irrelevance and bankruptcy than Elon Musk.
You need to be specific -- it's Minix 3 that's a µkernel, not the earlier ones.

And someone else already did mention it.
Think of it however you'd like to. You're entitled to your opinion. But we're not saying these things from a place of arrogance.

I'm not claiming we're better that civil engineers, or that our job is harder. Maybe you're reading it that way, but I'm trying to assert that such a comparison cannot be made. It's neither easier nor harder, and it's both. The two endeavours are just not comparable.

Civil engineers work with real, physical, tangible things. Hardware, so to speak. We work with ... software. Soft. Ware. The modes are entirely different, and thus the universe of challenges. I wouldn't compare painting to songwriting, even if they're both art.

But if you go up to a painter and talk to them exclusively using songwriting analogies and when they tell you that doesn't make sense and you plug your fingers into your ears and yell "Arrogant!" in their face ... well, you're entitled to you opinions and apples are still not the same things as oranges.
Yep. By the analogy of working out for the football game, people should be taught the following

* computer skills
* finance math
* formal logic/critical thinking/rational philosophy/bias identification
* electrical/plumbing/auto/construction repair skills
* cooking
* principles of fitness
Digital Ocean + Dokku = Heroku ;)

Or... at least as close as you can get. I actually preferred it before the heroku thing.
The latter. The article briefly points out that cheating on only a few moves can give one grandmaster a significant advantage, which makes cheating difficult to detect. In discussion of a previous article, some HN commenters suggested that even having a binary “be careful here” signal based on a chess engine could make a big difference.
I've never liked how people say that statistics is useful but calculus is not. I do not believe that you can actually understand statistics without understanding at least some calculus. So much of statistics is about areas under curves!
A half dozen languages already do this and abstractions still work
Wow, how fucking stupid. Does that mean that cars that already have ultrasonic sensors (and radar modules) will stop using that sensor data?
Ask HN: If you could, how’d you save My Space?
The average age is from birth. What’s the expected age having lived to be 84?

People can live well into their 90’s. Hopefully he’s got another book in him. These people are still alive, for example:

Jimmy Carter: 98

Henry Kissinger: 99

Warren Buffet: 92

Charlie Munger: 98

Mel Brooks: 96

Alan Greenspan: 96

Noam Chomsky: 94 in December
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I specifically said it may be true. He has a public and indisputable history of exaggerating and lying about a whole bunch of stuff, though, so he is not a reliable source for much.
Part 1 has some cool material. The mathematical preliminaries, polynomial arithmetic to motivate linked lists, and symbolic differentiation to motivate trees. The MIX simulator written in MIX too!
Yep, we used them on displayed laptops in the computer store I worked in.
I don't know what's happening but I'm getting way more unsolicited recruiting requests than I have in a very long time (Sr+swe), so either they're more desperate in bringing in seasoned employees to replace the often lighter pulling entries, or something.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33085649

where’s your evidence to the contrary?
And Apple doesn't run an app store on Android. Does that mean Android is also a monopoly? Heck, Sony doesn't run an app store on the Nintendo Switch. Does that mean Nintendo is a monopoly? We could play a similar game with streaming services. Yes, you can give money to people in different ways and get software that works on different systems. That's how it has always been. Nobody is being deceived or coerced. Well until now, since the EU is coercing everyone to use USB-C.
Agree, after reading up about fossil. Except for one thing: I don't want the "closed team" culture that was intentionally baked into the tool.

When git replaced SVN, it was so empowering that I, as an individual, was able to use the full maintainer workflow without the blessing of a maintainer, privately by default.

Before git, we saved the output of "svn diff" into a .patch file for tracking personal changes. When submitting a patch, the maintainer had to write a commit message for you. With some luck, you even got credited. For sharing a sensible feature-branch, you had to become a maintainer with full access. This higher bar has advantages (it tends to create more full-access maintainers, for one). However, it sends this message: "Yes open source, but you are not one of us."

Yes, fossil has this great feature of showing "what was everyone up to after release X". I miss that in git. (Closest workaround: git fetch --all && gitk --all.) But if "everyone" means just the core devs, then I'm out.
Why is kittyhawk investing in airplane startups, when they themselves are an airplane startup? Is that just a sign of too much cash to burn with too few ideas?

Not that it matters much anymore...
It would be an interesting point to bring up, especially on the topic of why they are difficult to build. No doubt Rails' scaffolding benefits quite a bit from how opinionated the framework is about project structure.
I mean, probably the worst way to cheat is 'mindlessly'. If you're doing nothing more than 'transcribing' moves from one client to the other, sure. But if I'm cheating and trying to figure out maximum ROI, I'm looking at what the computer did for me, trying to understand it and figure it out. That way I can learn and get better myself, as well as talk/bluff intelligently about why "I" might have made a certain move.
Because we just went through a massive existential shock with COVID, in which the Fed took on a staggering amount of assets i.e. liquidity - and - we've had material global problems which cause major increase in the cost of goods and fuel.

In 2008 we had a 'banking crisis' but that was an 'accounting crisis' otherwise the economy was normal. We had to re-allocate.

With COVID, we had a real shock to the system, and then lasting shocks due to increased prices.

So both the money printing and regular higher prices are coming back to hit the economy.
theres a difference between high inflation and hyperinflation. which developed country had hyperinflation? (even turkey doesnt have it)
Russia would NEVER give the residents the ability to actually vote him off the island. The entirety of the win is the immediate PR win he handed them by implying

- That the remaining residents even have the legal/moral right to have such an election.

- That such an election could possibly be morally conducted with armed men camped on your land and the unburied dead scattered on the landscape without the specter of intimidation.

- That such results would be valid given it would be conducted after the Russians drove off or tortured and murdered half the population that didn't agree

- That anyone could possible trust the Russians to conduct it no matter what oversight was provided

- That they would respect the results if they went their way

It re-contextualizes the discussion from an immoral war criminal is slaughtering his neighbor, raping and pillaging their lands, attempting to erase their identity and attempting to cover his tracks with sham elections to somehow the sham elections are a path to peace between warring neighbors if only we conducted them more fairly.

They cannot possibly be conducted fairly and Musk's statement was literally the most stupid and offensive thing he has ever said in his life.
I'm of the same opinion. Frankly, when Go first appeared, I felt we would finally get something almost as simple as Python and almost as fast as C. Unfortunately not everything was as nice as I had expected. Still, in that respect it's better than Rust as it makes it easier to focus on the problem rather than the language.
All the USB data specs are irrelevant for this legislation. All it says is: Use a USB-C connector and support the USB PD charging standard. In fact many cheaper android phones use USB2 since the port is purely for charging.
QNX gained a GUI and multimedia support mainly because at one point it was going to be the basis of the next-generation AmigaOS, of course.

https://www.theregister.com/1998/11/14/amiga_2_to_use_qnx/

But it didn't work out:

https://www.trollaxor.com/2005/06/how-qnx-failed-amiga.html
Wow, really? I have only once run into a website that does not accept signup with simple email/password (crates.io, of all things, which requires a GitHub login). Not saying they don't exist, and it sucks that you've run into them and needed them, but I'm really surprised.

Beyond that, especially given that I assume (hope?) such sites are rare, a simple workaround would be to have a GMail account just for such signups, and set it up to forward to your main mail account hosted elsewhere. I think that's a pretty small price to pay if you really do want to get off GMail.

In my case, I still have my GSuite (or Google Workspaces or whatever they hell they're calling it now) account (really the only difference is now my MX records point somewhere else), so if I did have any sites left where I hadn't switched from Google auth to email/password auth, it would still work.