skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Baseball just has "errors." Tennis has "unforced errors." American football has fumbles, interceptions, safeties, and lots of ways to draw a penalty. I'm probably leaving out other bad things you can do, too (hiking it over the punter's head, or stepping out of bounds, for instance).

I think if we're using it in a non-sports context, "own goal" and "unforced error" are both appropriate.
It's tricky to do GUI editing when your design is expected to be responsive to different aspect ratios, input methods, and screen sizes. :(
The Boring Company takes machines made by other companies, and digs tunnels that anyone with those machines can dig to provide a solution that is largely impractical.

Pretty easy to get rid of traffic jams actually, you just get rid of the cars. Never been stuck in traffic in places where there aren't cars.
> I think there may be a space for super-large multi-GB files served from static storage being accessible from SQlite as well. Another one would be this full-text search of a 43GB SQLite database of Wikipedia's full text search

To the best of my knowledge, OPFS's current quota is about 256mb (per origin).

The browsers currently have no way of viewing/managing the content of OPFS, so it's sort of a storage black hole. i can't even tell you how many sqlite3 database files have been orphaned in my local OPFS since development of the new sqlite wasm support started, with no reasonable way of me being able to find them without using the OPFS-specific JS API to fish through the storage (which i haven't yet been willing to do).

OPFS storage cannot sensibly be exposed at the system filesystem level (i.e. browseable with a file manager) because that would open not only security holes (the ability to "side load" data into any origin) but also huge file locking headaches, especially on platforms which use virus scanners.
Fertility rates have been declining across the developed and developing world for decades [0]. We haven't relied upon VR to maintain a reasonable standard of living thus far — why would such a change be inevitable in the future?

[0] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.TFRT.IN
It takes a bit of practice, I'll admit. Start with some basic desk clutter items like a nice cigar that you can rest on a stately ash tray, something that's hard to knock off the desk and takes a while to enjoy. Have a puff between builds, nothing too serious. Once the ash layer builds up it makes things like a ramen bowl less prone to sliding off.

I can't just walk off without mentioning the importance of a tactical housecat capable of pre-cleaning the dishes so as to not attract vermin- the plus side being if said housecat is a subpar dishwasher, they're all too willing to take care of any enterprising houseflies bound for a meal.
The eventual plan as was announced was that power consumption would reduce once a majority of vehicles were EVs, since the EVs could charge at night during minimal demand and discharge to the grid during the day at peak demand. There's a lot of ignoring possible (and likely) catastrophes with that plan, and Germany found out how flimsy it really is when Russia invaded Ukraine and made economically viable low sulfur coal and natural gas much scarcer.
Too many people seem to believe that real conspiracies don't exist. They certainly do, and we can't stifle conversation that proposes the possibility.
The US has roughly the same # of hunting deaths per year despite a much larger population. The US stats also include things like heart attacks and falling out of tree stands, dunno if French #s are comparable? If you look at injury rates per participant, hunting (5 injuries per 10,000 participants) is roughly on par with bowling (6 per 10k participants) and well behind golf (15) and tennis (16).
> Without the manipulation of algorithms

“Algorithm free” is the “chemical free” of the 21st century.

Said more directly, just as everything in the physical world is made of chemicals, everything in the digital world is made using algorithms. Some program is still enforcing the rules if your system.
Genuine question, should I prefer rustls or openssl for security in rust.

A reasonable number of crates let you switch between them with just a cfg flag, and when using them the only difference that makes it way to the user is security (and maybe performance), but I'm not sure which I should consider to be more secure?
It's supposed to be the platform for VR(i.e iOS sdk with appstore and all the lock-in).
It sounds like you’re interested in having a technical manager? I’d ask them questions about the stack used at the company/team, why it’s the way it is, who made those decisions, what parts are working out great, what parts need improvement… then maybe about actual software delivery, eg how does something go from idea to implementation - what are the testing standards in place and why? How does a developer know when it is safe to release something?

If the manager can talk thoughtfully about these things at a technical level, or at least acknowledge when they have gaps they may be a good manager for you. Granted there are a lot of other qualifications for being a competent manager in my opinion. Good luck!
Picture 10 elephants trying to get through a 4-foot doorway, all at once.

If the volume of sell orders gets too high, the exchange shuts down trading in that stock.

If it's high but not "too high" then the price they all get will be significantly less than what they expected.
Had quite a few packages updated on my Ubuntu servers today and believed it was this issue. But seeing this is still embargoed it looks like these weren't updates for this problem? Or is Ubuntu releasing binaries but keeping the sources embargoed?
It's a weird choice to (1) pick 1965 as the starting date and (2) not discuss at all the fact that peak inflation followed the oil price shock of 1973.
> The canary / break prod / rollback attitude is why developers are constantly putting out fires instead of getting things done.

Having a team solely responsible for rollbacks and failed builds is immensely helpful. If you frequently have code that passes tests but fails in prod, then a team must "regulate" the commons (the shared code base).
> very cool to look at the unpacked module, in all its wasm glory

Very nice :). Be aware that the copy of sqlite3.wasm on the sqlite.org/wasm site gets updated fairly frequently, so may differ from that at any moment. That particular site is only for documentation purposes, not for hosting the canonical wasm file release (which is pending along with the release of sqlite 3.40), and its sqlite3.wasm/js copies get updated hand in hand with development of the canonical copies.
but that's absolutely the wrong example, to take your analogy, YOU are the news station, YOU are the content generator, and Twitter is perhaps like.... the cable company?

Twitter isn't providing you and a platform for free; it sells ads alongside it. And if its moderation is too strict, then it's not an effective platform.

which goes to my original question, strict according to whom?
With built-in wifi and bluetooth orange pi 5 seems to be a better candidate for media, and R6S for firewall.
XR is the future, sure, but it's missing the killer app that convinces people to shell out for it. We're talking a lot about market value here, if people don't want it then it isn't creating any value for them. Maybe we should focus on actually creating some value before we try to leapfrog too many levels of technology?
Meta is not “Mark’s company”. It’s publicly traded and has millions of shareholders who do not support this silliness. For now, the main reaction is to sell (leading to the valuation drop).
Ubuntu 22.04 & RHEL 9 are the major distros impacted. Docker images built on ubuntu:latest will also be impacted. The latest releases of Alpine/Debian/AL2 are all not impacted, they use 1.1.x lineage.
> Twitter is basically an internet scale public bathroom wall with everyone scrawling short hot takes onto the walls. The best case scenario has always been that it shut down and I hope we are one day closer to that eventuality.

I really don't see a problem with having an internet scale public bathroom wall for people to scrawl all over. Sure, Twitter is mostly spam and garbage, but so what? Every comment, however useless/offensive/entertaining/banal/silly/poetic/helpful/etc that isn't breaking the law isn't really a problem and no one is forcing you to read it.

I don't have much trouble ignoring Twitter entirely most of the time and the main issues I have with it aren't even about Twitter itself but with how people try to use it for things it is poorly suited for. It's the "journalists" who copy/paste tweets then call that an article I take issue with. Twitter is absolutely no place for presidential records, and shouldn't be the only place for any kind of important or official notification, or the only way to reach a company to get customer service.

There are certainty far better platforms for blogging, but lots of people like Twitter and find it useful. I don't see why Twitter should go away.
The pilot and crew were ordered to eject. Instead he tells his commander he thinks he can land the plane. He then gave the crew the option to eject but they elected to stay with him. But he made this decision without really knowing the extent of the damage until he landed. He said upon seeing the damage that maybe we should have ejected!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khkghaz5RqA
A large reason that manufacturers have jumped onto EVs with such enthusiasm has nothing to do with regulations or wanting to get ahead of them. It's entirely because EVs sans batteries are extremely cheap to manufacture at scale and are vastly more modular than even the very prevalent front wheel drive layout and platform sharing combination. The number of components is much smaller by half or even more, the cost of servicing the vehicles is much lower during the warranty period, and the permutations that can be made with the same basic parts are limited only by crash and class size regulations.
RiscOS... at least this is the reason why i use an PI instead of a normal PC
> I wouldn't give up number row and Fkeys for more chording for two reasons.

Here's a third reason, based on personal experience (n=1): chording actually creates more strain on your hand/wrists than single keystrokes
> Feels like WASM is hitting an inflection point this year. After nearly a decade of hearing "someday", that day is finally here.

At the start of this development effort (April, IIRC (2022)) we (in the sqlite project) had only ever heard of wasm but hadn't paid any attention to it. Within just a few days of starting this project, we were fully convinced that the combination of sqlite and OPFS will be one of the Next Big Things for web app development.

As the project's "JS/WASM Guy" i'm exceedingly excited to see what people do with this and what improvements we'll make based on user feedback. (It's long been my experience that the most interesting feature suggestions come from users.)
The science is a actually not settled on the reasons for the blue/pink preference.

Same for a lot of what trans activists want to pass as facts.

Tolerance and fighting discrimination is important but bullying people into a set of beliefs is doomed to fail, except on Twitter until today ;)
Plus I do think it's a compliment to the skills of the artist that her or his art is worth a good look even upside down; even if that's not the best way to view it.
Yes like GNIP around that time these firehose startups were amazing and it was a golden age of metadata and then Twitter Killed the Golden Goose. Bring back open data! Let Open Source and all the hackers from second order efforts give back value to Twitter's Value.
Enterprise Fizzbuzz (https://github.com/EnterpriseQualityCoding/FizzBuzzEnterpris...) seems like a much more developed version of this
Visitor only exists to deal with limitations in the language. Every use of Visitor I've seen had been an absolute nightmare to maintain. I'd rather just use reflection than implement something using Visitor.

And I think that's what made the comment so funny.
half of what I tweet could be done by a bot, that is to say answer to writerslift posts with links to books and articles. the other half could not. I'm currently real, but would I be a bot if I automate my bot half?
Right. At least you didn't call me a Nazi. You sound like one of the people who think CRT is "just history" without reading any of the actual books on CRT.

How do you define far left in the US? People who advocate for the redistribution of income and wealth and for a brotherhood of all workers?
> Not to give citizens a free for all tongue wagging that can harm others or incite violence.

Absolutely agreed. And that should be applied EQUALLY, which has not and does not happen.

That is the problem. Hatred from the left has had a free pass in social media and the 90% of media outlets that support the ideology. People even cheer them on, not realizing just how much damage they are causing and how ugly the slipper slope actually is.

As an independent, that is what is deeply disturbing to me. My vote is already irrelevant in California. It has been for decades. I am taxed. I am not represented. And my voice? If I dare side with republicans in a public way, my life could be absolutely ruined by the violent left.

Here's what's interesting:

I have actually lived under military regime. So has my entire family. We absolutely cannot believe how the left in the US has become very much the kind of thing anyone who has lived under oppressive regimes will recognize as such.

The left, in this nation, has done an amazing job of taking over educational institutions and indoctrinating young ignorant minds. That's what we are battling. It isn't about wanting to go full-tilt-right, that is also a horrible reality that nobody wants to live under. Neither extreme should have control of a nation, because they are both detrimental to society.

> If someone is saying "jews are vermin", they absolutely have to be gagged.

No. That's wrong. You want to know who they are.

You want human garbage like that in the open. You don't want them hiding. As the descendant of genocide survivors, I want assholes like in plain view. I want them to be well-lit, not in the shadows.

So, yeah, forgive me for thinking that moderation and rules applied EQUALLY to all sides is actually better for not only this nation, but humanity as well. Notice I said "moderation". Nobody with two connected neurons wants a free-for-all or thinks that is a good thing. Elon certainly does not and has been very clear about this.

The hatred for Elon/Twitter is only coming from the left, because of the potential of having to live by the same rules on a single platform. This should cause everyone pause. This is no different from a totalitarian regime feeling like they are losing control and moving to suppress all ideas and media not in alignment with them.

It will be very interesting to watch this develop. If our government gets involved and treats Twitter with a heavy hand, well, I have lived in places resembling where this is going. You won't like it.
A few years ago I tried to reply to a discussion with a link to the Anti-Federalist Papers, and my tweet was censored/blocked. If I recall correctly, it was labeled as misinformation or something. The censorship on Twitter goes far beyond hate speech or threats of violence.
Well, Go isn't really a great language for safety either. Memory safety maybe yes, but not in general. Rust or Zig do much better here.
> starlink only needs up to “42,000 satellites

Emphasis on up to. They only have 3000 right now and it already works. If they go above 5000 it's because they think they will make more money that way, not because they need more than 5000.

> 5000 or whatever towers ain’t insurmountable

The US has hundreds of thousands of towers, and that number gets a lot bigger with 5G.

And while that covers "a huge percentage of the population", not all of that is fast, and reaching the rest of the population gets harder and harder.

> replacing on a 5 year cycle

> The tower probably even lasts longer than 5 years.

Let's say a cell tower lasts 20 years, which is a bit longer than two cell technology generations. So that means starlink needs to launch about a thousand satellites per year to maintain their network over the whole planet. And cell providers need to rebuild 20 thousand cell sites per year just in the US, more if they try to cover everyone.

Starlink can launch that many satellites with about $300M. Let's round way up to $500M a year to keep satellites and base stations running.

Each year cell companies are pulling in hundreds of billions and putting tens of billions into towers, just in the US.
> I wonder what the catalyst finally is/was to cause such an acceleration

IMO, all that was missing was a truly compelling use case. The combination of the ubiquitous sqlite with non-trivially-sized persistent storage gives us that use case.
> 4chan does by having no rules

It does have rules. Lots of them. To the point the place changed significantly over the years. You probably mean 8chan which had exactly one rule: don't do anything considered illegal in the USA.
My first question for you would be why do you want to work at my company? You like working at early-stage startups, and that's not this company. My second question is what would keep you working at my company when something else catches your interest? I would be extremely concerned that you would get bored with a non-startup and leave after a short time for the next big thing around the corner. The 3-year stint is a good point for sticking around, but if the only thing that keeps you in one role is growing the company to $xM, you're probably not going to be happy here to begin with.
> Your eyes focus "into" the VR scene, not at the screens one inch from your eye.

3D head gear like Oculus have optical systems that move the physical screens virtually to a much greater (and comfortable) distance - most people can't even focus objects closer than about 10 cm.

That's not what I meant. Rather, even that virtual 3D screen is still at a fixed apparent distance from your eyes, unlike a natural scene that contains objects that are father or closer. Such objects scatter light not only at different angles for the two eyes, the bulk of the 3D effect, but also at different internal convergence, requiring the eye's lens to deform and compensate.

This is an effect current tech cannot reproduce, leading to a nauseating and tiring viewing experience - as if the whole immersive virtual world wasn't already.
Discord is a very different product but the demographics of users are very much those that have migrated from hackers on twitter to being in discord groups as of today.
> What if you just fix that second part instead of worrying about the first?

I think that's an entirely different product. Something closer to Discord or Telegram. Would be interesting to see a pivot along these lines.
Celebrities Say They’re Quitting Twitter as Elon Musk Takes Over
"Table of Content"
Twitter already hides tweets in specific countries based on local laws.
He eventually gives a good reason for it. The old cables have a safety factor of something close to 100%, where as the current connector has a margin of 15% or so. (Going by memory here).

The takeaway being, even with a small fault in the connector, there's more than enough margin to ensure safe delivery and therefor, no molten pins or terminals.

The current connector seems to lack this, and if one of the terminals does not make a solid connection, then the drop in effectiveness is enough to push it out of spec and cause a failure.

I do greatly enjoy Buildzoid, and I was eagerly awaiting his video (and one from Gamers Nexus; note they haven't commented yet) from someone who actually looked at this from an EE perspective. I recognize his video was titled "rambling", but he largely repeated himself for 30 minutes, and scattered the relevant datapoints in the video in a few short snippets. A little planning on his delivery would gave gone a long way.
This was stock market crack when they first did it
No, this was just incompetence/ignorance on the govts part. My local (Indian) company director had full authority to do whatever he thought was needed.
Everything about the incident is surreal. Neither student nor instructor could tell the wing was missing until they landed because a fuel leak obscured their view. The instructor told the student, who outranked him, to eject. The student refused. They had to fly almost twice as fast as usual to remain stable when landing. The plane manufacturer didn’t believe the incident until in-flight photos were produced.

And the plane was so sturdy they just stuck another wing on it and put it back in service.

Update: /u/rmason did a better summary while I was writing mine but I refuse to delete due to sunk cost fallacy—thumb pain incurred while typing
Why is D's garbage collection slower than Go's?
Children are always, in every society, very costly to the immediate family that cares for them, and any benefit accrues to the greatly extended family, tribe, religious sect, kingdom, state, or market economy. The idea that people decide to have more children simply because they are struggling, is a patently ridiculous and alienating belief about ‘other’ people. Rather, they are forced or rewarded for ‘uterine labor’ as you say, and therefore what you say does apply to the social organism as it evolves to greater complexity and specialization, and to the individual only through the reward structure.

But, back to my point, which is that this economic specialization is not at all causal to living standards, which could be absolutely awful and yet provide no incentive for childbearing. This tribal structure has a common name: ‘extinct’. Conversely, an unspecialized tribe could enjoy wonderful living standards, and they would be expected to grow prodigiously. And finally, if a previously unspecialized tribe becomes specialized, and therefore lowers their birth rate with the same economic output, their living standard will increase. Okay one more to drive the point home. Consider the Mongols or Wahhabists. These were low-fertility specialized tribes that enjoyed massive increases in living standard, followed by such a massive increase in fertility that it would eclipse the population growth of all other tribes.

Market participation is the force that both drives specialization away from ‘uterine labor’. Additionally, it reduces the value of all outputs such that there is not enough prosperity margin to produce children. Imagine a high-fertility tribe that can no longer afford to feed and house children because the market price naturally drops for their goods over time. In this case, the causality clearly works in the opposite direction.

So I will state the obvious, that improved living standards do not cause low fertility, but market participation does, and the result of this combination is increased living standards.
Most of Twitter's staff aren't engineers. In fact, by their own descriptions of their workdays, most of Twitter's staff don't do anything at all.

Twitter will function better with 75% of the staff gone.
> Social media apps don't let users download pictures anymore.

These aren't problems with screenshots of text (although others have done a pretty good job in listing those) or even problems with computing. These are problems with shitty social media platforms that want to take control from their users, and with the users who accept those kinds of limitations. Stop using bad user-hostile platforms and they'll either improve to win back users or they'll become obsolete and die as people flock to better alternatives.
Don’t even get me started with screen recording on a phone. At least on Apple if any Apple Music is playing that you don’t own the mp3 for, gets scrubbed out. I only know this from trying to make a cool thing for my son. I’m so tired of the nanny shit and wish I could just go back to android.