skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Twitter is a disaster clown car company that is successful despite itself

Isn't this the best kind of company to acquire ? A product that has such inherent value that even a bumbling clown car of company could not sabotage its ability to retain users. Imo, Reddit and Twitter have monopolized 2 of the most effective forms of communication to have existed on the internet: Forums and memes (memes in the Dawkinian sense) and their tiny size is entirely a result of terrible leadership.

While musk didn't buy it for a particularly cheap price (at least in Winter 2022 prices), He should be able to justify the net worth as well as any competing tech company will be able to.

To quote Charlie Munger:

> Never underestimate the man who overestimates himself. These weird guys who overestimate themselves occasionally knock it right out of the park. I would never buy Tesla stock and I would never sell it short.
He just posted that last night under new ownership.
/?sk=h_chr still works maybe
Election officials prepare for unprecedented efforts to disrupt 2022 vote
"For those of you who aren't into watches (consider yourself lucky), watches can either be mechanical or quartz."

Not quite. There are other types of movement, for example the tuning fork movement first used in the Bulova Accutron:

https://electric-watches.co.uk/movement-types/tuning-fork/
Advertisers love 4chan type sewers. So do users.
If I wanted comments where I could correctly guess what the first ten most popular posts would be if I had an encyclopaedic knowledge of memes, I'd go to Reddit. I don't think that this is a uncommon view to hold here. Just different cultures, as you say.
Your comment more or less supports my point!
You can't control where your body stores fat. Some people just have more rounder faces. My friend is extremely skinny, but if you saw a photo of just her face you'd think she was a little chubby.
Why Meta Is Tanking–and How Zuckerberg Can Fix It
Great, they should have never been banned to begin with.
Galagomarket seems to have the RPi 4B 8GB in stock for 99€. Don't know where they ship, but the website is translated into Croation, English, German, Italian, Serbian, Hungarian, Slovenian and Slovakian. I bought from them in Feb 2021 and got mine delivered quickly.

https://www.galagomarket.com//item/display/1953
A talk on Cloud Native Wasm Day at KubeCon+CloudNativeCon2022 by Chris Crone from Docker & Michael Yuan from WasmEdge
Truth and satire are intertwined in a special way that makes satire be so powerful. Also Babylon Bee said they were satirizing USA Today as listing her as a top woman of the year.
They still come with a Lightning to USB-C cable. I plug it into my laptop when I need a quick charge and use my existing lower power Lightning charger when I don't.
> Twitter could be created by an undergraduate CS major.

All the codebases will look like they were created by an undergrad CS major and then have accumulated 16 years of edge conditions. And if you pull it all down and try to rewrite it because it is all overly complicated and everyone who built it was wrong: https://fs.blog/chestertons-fence/
Looking at the images, it uses a barrel-plug looking connector for power. Is the power supply of this device external?
Spring drive.
Not everything is a conspiracy to make more money.

I don’t know a single person in my bubble who needs more lightning cables. I have a dozen unused lightning cables already laying around.

I threw away every pair of headphones that came with an iPhone I have ever bought. Most of mini/micro usb cables that come with small electronics go into trash - I do not need more cables!
I think the main thing here is to get a watch that matches what you want to get out of it.

I have a mid-range watch, an Omega, that I got new. It's automatic (meaning it's mechanical but it automatically winds as I swing my arm from walking). I wear it nearly every day and almost always just works. I don't mess with it "every other day" like OP, I mess with it every other month when I have to reset the 31 day date window on my watch because the month only has 30 days.

This matches my use better than even a smart watch, which requires more charging and maintenance than my automatic watch. Of course, I could buy like 10-20 apple watches for what I paid for it :)

The watch is 5 years old and it only loses around a second a day on average (it's rated for +-2 seconds). Incredible that it's completely mechanical, and it's part of why I think it's such a cool device to have.
OP is talking about automatic mechanical watches - the issue he is describing is that if you don't wear one for a few days then it will stop and go out of time.
Sounds great. Any shortcut/bookmarklet code or pointers to servers to share? I'm sure readers could set that up themselves, but time/attention are always limited resources.
Open letter to Gitea
Is the origin server setting cache-control options that allow objects to be served when the origin is down? Are the objects number versioned so they can also utilize the immutable cache-control option? I don't use NPM so I have never dug into this.
I think one aspect of getting into "vintage" technology in one way or another (vinyl, mechanical watches, fountain pens, etc.) is becoming familiar with the reasons that people developed newer approaches.

In my experience, it's a fun way to learn about design and technological progress. Sometimes you find the quirks or inconveniences outweigh the appeal that initially drew you to it. Other times not, and the imperfections of the item in question become part of its charm.
> If I give you RGB, that merely specifies the color at direct reflection under normal light

Not exactly. What primaries? What gamma? What max intensity?

Sure, many of these things have generally accepted defaults. But point being it's still not that simple. But really, RGB only seems exact because it produces one specific color on the monitor in front of you. And it's nowhere close to being able to represent the full gamut of possible colors. For example, it's missing all violets!
Perhaps Twitter might, uh, "pay" for the services?
twitter could be in the green tomorrow if he really did fire all the useless mouths there.

I will be very happy if all their frontend people get axed.
The difference is, those changes don't affect existing copies, they affect new copies. If you have a VHS or DVD copy of the show before the license expired, then you have the original music. This is mangling old documents unless you pay a fee. Yet another example of modern copyright leading to the individuals having the least possible rights, in order to be nickled and dimed.

It would make more sense if existing documents could still retain their colors, but new documents couldn't be made with the Pantone colors in question. It'd still suck, but it'd be more respectful to the end users of the software.
Reusable =/= recyclable. Palimpest is more like erasing pencil writing and then re-writing.

> Again, this sounds like it's purely driven by cost concerns.

It's not - I was thinking of fine art applications. You can't make tracing clay or vellum, for example. Or textured paper to work with different types of paints/inks.
A lot of people hvae been banned for violating Twitter's COVID disinformation rules, perhaps most prominently Alex Berenson.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/covid-truther-alex-berenson-fi...

It will be particularly telling to see how Elon handles this category of moderation.
It's easier to move the masses with promises of freebies and subsidies than with better economics that are difficult to explain.
What's so special about Karpathy's youtube channel?
> IMHO

I would like to hear an expert's opinion on this though.
Okay, missed that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_galactic_nucleus says

"An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that has a much-higher-than-normal luminosity over at least some portion of the electromagnetic spectrum with characteristics indicating that the luminosity is not produced by stars. Such excess non-stellar emission has been observed in the radio, microwave, infrared, optical, ultra-violet, X-ray and gamma ray wavebands. A galaxy hosting an AGN is called an "active galaxy". The non-stellar radiation from an AGN is theorized to result from the accretion of matter by a supermassive black hole at the center of its host galaxy."

Do we? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagittarius_A\* says

"Sagittarius A*, abbreviated Sgr A* is the supermassive black hole[4][5][6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way"

Front row seat! Get in!
You wrote: <<Between these four states alone, we're talking about 40% of the country's population.>>

Google Sensei tells me:

UP: 204.2M
Bihar: 99.02M
Rajasthan: 68.89M
Madhya Pradesh: 73.34M

Not even close to 40%. Population of India is about 1.3B to 1.4B.
Thanks for this thoughtful response bawolff. I need to digest it but
you make good points that all tally with ny experience. Yet I remain
convinced that a regulatory approach needs to include the end user as
a firts-class stakeholder. How to do this without making the life of
security professionals an untennable misery is where I want to focus.
After all people look after their own money, their own homes and their
own health. Why do we carve out an exception for their data?

Respects.
The Stack dataset is a collection of 3.1 TB of code in 30 programming languages
I've started pyanodons after finishing SE, that's easily another ~400 hours if I ever want to take it to the end!

This $ invested per hours of good gameplay is extraordinary.
Ah, a good king! The ever-popular fairy-tale character.
Apparently at USB-2 speeds if I'm understanding things correctly?
Sure, but since we’ve used up all easily accessible oil and gas they’d have a hard time to find the energy required to level up a society.
Big fan of Ole Time. And it's the exception to my rule that any place called 'Ole Time' probably isn't.

The pulled-pork sandwich at Clyde Cooper's in downtown Raleigh is worth checking out. It's worth taking a trip out to the Skylight Inn for the experience and street cred, but, to me, the pulled-pork sandwich there isn't really any better than the above-mentioned places.

Disclaimer: FL native, only been in NC about a decade, I've got no business judging pulled-pork sandwiches. I think I can say that the classic Eastern North Carolina pulled-pork sandwich dressed in vinegar, red pepper flakes, and cole slaw is easily one of the US's great sandwiches.
30 m is only a nominal description. A well placed drop or water vapor would be damaging.
Indeed, which is some kind of mechanical-quartz hybrid.
This is the story of a love-hate relationship with one (1) mechanical watch.

The complaint about big dials is familiar, watches trend big these days, but literally everyone who wears a watch has preferences for what they want to wear, this has no bearing on a watch being mechanical. I don't have many watches, but the largest dial is 40mm.

I'm at a bit of a loss about the bit where mechanicals stop running after awhile. ...yes? The watch in question is an automatic, so the author could get a winder if they don't want to reset the date.

Nothing at all wrong with a bargain Seiko, that said springing for sapphire is a great way to avoid having to baby a watch. The bit about feeling unsafe wearing it in the rain is pure neurosis, however: a 30m resistant watch can be worn in the shower, bath, pool, nothing bad will happen. Just don't dive with it.

So if you're reading this: you like Seiko, you don't like glass, you don't like resetting the date, and you worry about water resistance. Get a nice sapphire Seiko, put it on a winder when you aren't using it, and calm down about water, Japanese engineering is more than up to the task.

Edit: worth pointing out that for a Seiko 5, there are sapphire crystals which a professional can install, so that's another option.
> Thinkcentre M600 on ShopGoodwill for $40

These are, indeed, RPi killers if you don't mind the power consumption and the lack of built-in GPIO.

I have a cluster of HP thin clients running... clustery things.
I've been hearing this criticism of "the suggestions are getting worse recently" for so long that, if it was actually true, YouTube would be only suggesting videos you actively hate by now.

My suggestions are still totally fine, as they have always been.
Pantone for those not aware is like DNS to IPs.

It's a lot easier for designers to discern the Pantone name "Mahogany" than its RGB value (205,74,74).

The rub here is that X-Rite (like a Registrar) owns the rights to the Pantone names. Now they want to collect a fee for it's Pantone names (similarly to how Registrars collects fee for Domain Names)
The rural market, RV market, boating market will always be an enormous niche. But fiber and other broadband tech like 5g wireless may win out in the long or mid term. Leaving only the very secluded rural market.

I would not have guessed that the satellite tv market would have gone on as long as it has, considering how many satellite customers also have access to cable. And yet, you can drive through any suburb and find plenty of dishes.
How Software-as-a-Service Is Accelerating Digital Transformation
Parents aka the people. Literally the opposite of the government.
Tell the FTC: We need meaningful safeguards against corporate data abuse
> Never bet against Elon

Success does breed success, but it’s not inevitable. There’s still hard work to be done and his big successes have come from hardware (batteries & rockets). Twitter is software in the social / content realm.

To use your cooking analogy, it’s like saying don’t bet against Gordon Ramsey (an expert in the cooking / media / art / experience realm) if he acquired Virgin Records. I’m sure he has connections and some knowledge that helps, but it’s a new field with new challenges.
I would recommend you read: PEMF - The Fifth Element of Health - https://www.amazon.com/PEMF-The-Fifth-Element-of-Health-audi...

It talks about how our cells are little capacitors and the earth's pulsed EMFs actually help energize your cells. I recommend skipping the first chapter though.
Its a headline because of profits. The actual news is 1 sentence conveying "transaction completed". I wish traditional media would relegate stuff like this to their business section but they are profit seeking as well.
I'm not an expert but the water pressure from drops can be quite high. Same idea when putting your watch under the tap.
Yep, I used to be a free speech absolutist when I was younger, back when I thought the world was black and white and that simple ideas could "solve everything". Then I participated in forums/groups that had zero moderation and it was hell. Even then I didn't recognize the issues fully. It wasn't until I moderated a community myself that it finally clicked. I tried to be unbiased as possible but that lead to me silencing people who stepped over the line who I agreed with and me giving people I didn't agree with a ton of leeway to avoid seeming biased, it nearly killed the community. Once I started trying to enforce right down the center I got to experience the backlash of the people who I had given leeway to (not the same people, same group of people). Death threats, attacks, etc. It was not fun. I didn't want to be seen as a "dictator" but that experience taught me that if you want to have a good environment for discussion/community you have to crack down hard on the people who keep pushing the line. Short-term bans resulted in lots of complaining with zero change in behavior for 99% of the offenders. Permanent bans were the only useful tool, even then they'd still sometimes come back under new accounts but eventually get bored.

People complain about reddit moderation but I totally get it in most cases. If you let people push the line they will just keep going until it gets really bad, much better to nip it in the bud. Especially when we are talking about unpaid moderators. Moderation is not an easy or fun job.
And if that's not enough, increasing muscle mass to balance it out.
Amazon has worked extremely hard to make the warehouse jobs as brain dead as possible so that people off the street can be plug and played at a moments notice. They're treating the warehouse employees like robots because the medium term goal is to replace them all with robots.
It’s Hard to Shard
Yes but there's a lot of those suits going around and getting paid $$$ to "demystify AI" to non-technical audiences. Hype pays.
All their games have a problem with making you play parts of the game you aren't interested in and find tedious and for which the way you personally play it could easily be a preset that made you not have to worry about it any more.

In many ways I love HOI3, for instance, but it's a bit love-hate because about 50% of the time I'm messing with shit I'd rather let an extremely simple "AI" handle. Or just give me some good preset templates (make them "historically inspired", that's cool, or not, either way) for the things that use templates, or, also acceptable, let me save some of mine between games and have them show up when I've researched enough to build them (looking at you, tank and aircraft editors, especially).
B+ Trees Visualization
I guess you would admit that beauty is subjective. Beauty in tooling is an even more rarefied discussion.

Code that we might deem "beautiful" may not even compile. ^_^

Does the tool do what it needs to do without getting fussy, gobbling RAM, and requiring a small army of maintainers to feed the monster? There is most definitely a place in technology for that kind of sanity.

There is something to be said for a design that doesn't bring with it a brigade of Opinions-As-A-Service proponents.

Any non-trivial notation is going to require learning. There is absolute value in learning. I think of many flexible and effective notations in tooling that has literally been the foundation of modern computing.

Maybe we are in the age of the Mono-Notation Luxury Coder. ^_^
Here is my competing take:

The biggest problem I see in developer communication is what I call the "assumed context" problem.

As in, you talk/write to people as if they know all about your code, except the detail being discussed. In reality, they usually have much less detailed understanding, and you're making no sense to them.

I'm pretty sure this is related to people "on the spectrum" often having low "theory of mind" capabilities. People without that will just assume people know what they know, and proceed to fail at communicating with those who don't.

It also makes it easy to think of those who don't know what is obvious to you as idiots.

The workaround, if you want to communicate with the idiots surrounding you, is to start conversations by fact finding. The question "so how much do you know about the flurbigator system?" can help.
If you happen to have a link, I'd love to give that a read. :)
> ... should check out the Space Exploration mod.

Do note that while Factorio on the Switch is a full game, there is no mod support. It does, however, have cross platform multiplayer.
AWS AI services opt-out policies
carb != sugar

sugar is glucose + fructose.

The human digestive system metabolizes fructose differently than glucose.

Bears eat lots of fructose prior to hibernation, birds eat lots of fructose prior to migrating south for the winter.

Consuming lots of fructose, say in a large container of carbonated drink dosed with high-fructose corn syrup/sugar, sends signals to your body to stop burning fat and start storing fat.

Ever hear someone say, "I just have to look at food and I gain weight". Well, those people have probably consumed enough fructose such that their body started storing food calories as fat.

see "Peter Attia - #87—Rick Johnson, MD: Fructose—the common link in hypertension, insulin resistance, T2D, & obesity?"

at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbSic4Oo8ME
A mechanical watch owner here: One very important thing to keep in mind is that a mechanical watch needs to be worn always in order to avoid having a winder or the gears losing their accuracy. Therefore, I opted for a "field" automatic watch: Seiko SNZG15J1. Field automatic watches are meant to be worn all the time. The SNZG15 has the Seiko 7S36 caliber which doesn't allow hacking or manual winding. But both features are not really necessary if you wear the watch all the time and willing to accept < 60 seconds worst case difference with atomic time.
If that initial statement about not caring about the ad's context were true the advertising companies wouldn't have torched Youtube's as revenue 5 years ago because explicitly their ads were played on unsavory content. It turns out they do care, probably not for moral reasons but presumably because some bean counter actively calculated that they'd lose more than they gained from such perception of being associated with Fringe viewpoints.
Quake Engine Running on a ZX Spectrum
> Many times, when someone speaks of a 10x software engineer, the gut feeling is of someone that provides the output (measurable in code) of 10 developers, not that he's able to have an impact in the organization through communication as 10 developers (breaking silo-s, syncing teams, etc), although this might be closer to the truth and what the duties of some staff and principal level developers includes.

Both are 10x developers. One by 10x impact at the code level, the other by 10x impact at the "delivering the right thing the first time" level.

Though, in reality, it's really hard to be a 10x developer without doing both of those things ... a profilic coder who is solving the right problem because they took the time to communicate and understand the real issues.
Recreate Cezanne painting from photos with Stable Diffusion
Am I the only one who uses YouTube like this:

* Only go on the Subscriptions page; I've never once visited the "Home" page

* Blocked the Recommended Videos sidebar using uBlock

* Use SponsorBlock

* Use uBO filters to remove Shorts from Subscriptions page

I come to watch what I want, not get all the clickbait on the side.
> In a world where people are increasingly living in urban areas, fiber will annihilate satellite internet.

Fiber may be way better, but putting a glorified wifi router on top of a million dollars worth of kerosene and stainless steel is a great deal cheaper than digging a 1000km long trench.

There aren't many of them compared to the people in cities, but being able to serve the billion or so people that would have to pay hundreds a month for crappy microwave internet with somewhat less crappy space microwave internet sounds like a the one company he's running that isn't fleecing the taxpayers or investors.
This is absolutely not true.

What is true is that a 30m resistant watch has no business being 30 meters underwater. That's puffery.

Prolonged submersion and heavy rain? Not a problem.