skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>It started on 4Chan as a deliberate "watch us make the media go nuts" joke... and it worked.

The disagreement then you and I have is that just because it was an "epic troll" doesn't make it any less serious. To me the fact that it's supposed to be a "joke on the media" is the point - it provides plausible deniability. That's the entire point of using the OK sign; Plausible deniability.

You could go on 4chan and found hundreds of pictures of guys posing with the ok sign, but you'd have to be really naive to think they didn't know what they were doing. A bunch of open white nationalists all adopted the same symbolism at the same time, but I'm supposed to pretend that the symbolism isn't being co-opted?

To be fair, I don't think it was ever the case that Trump or many high ranking officials used the OK symbol as some dogwhistle (Trump has always spoken with his hands), but to pretend it was never true is completely false. May journalists have blown the thing out of proportion? Sure, but that isn't libel and you can't sue someone for mistaking the growth of a trend.

>I think you're proving my point. Retractions and corrections do not work.

I am not someone who came to this conclusion from reading a New York Times article. I've spent a lot of time on 4chan in my teenage years and have kept the site at an arms distance. It was very clear to me what the gesture meant. I remember the threads, and I remember seeing the image the ADL now uses when it was first posted on there. To pretend that 4chan isn't full of white nationalists is bonkers. It's like saying the swatstika never meant anything other than spirituality. Their stated reasons for co-opting the symbol doesn't change the fact they co-opted it.
Isn't that model (without the wasm part) alread possible with pouchdb/couchdb?
Where did you get the $15 billion figure from?
Ongoing related thread:

This file has Pantone colors that have been removed and replaced with black - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33369951 - Oct 2022 (191 comments)
Big fan of clean sites, with a simple purpose. Shame there isn't a mobile friendly version though.
Does Elon have a history of cooking books? Or flipping companies?
not sure if you have seen it today but they added a "x" (ability to close) the nag screen that shows up after a few seconds while browsing not logged in, and the main page now goes to a generic feed of news posts and cat videos instead of the signup page. was probably a few clicks in the a/b testing system.
These days it kinda feels like both to be honest.
Gender is all about social interactions. For example, blue and pink being "masculine" and "feminine." Is there any relation to male or female chromosomes that would make blue appropriate for someone with X and Y chromosomes, and pink appropriate for someone with 2 X chromosomes? Of course not. Same goes for wearing makeup or high heels. At a different time in history, those things would have been considered "manly" but over time that's changed. None of the social flags that we use to determine a person's gender have anything to do with their genitalia or chromosomes, because we generally don't have that information when we see people in public. If gender and sex were really the same, it might be a bit more difficult for pre-op trans people to pass for a gender other than the one they were assigned at birth.
See https://hypercard.org/
Pantone is a standardised set of printing colours outside of CMYK, often used to print richer or more specific (accurate) colours.

A designer picks a colour on a printed—quite expensive—colour chart instead of their monitor. Because it’s an end-to-end standard you get a guaranteed exact colour match in the printed result.
EM is going to bring technology from Tesla over to help, and Twitter instead will become fully self-moderating.
The UN's main purpose is to prevent international war by trying to achieve compromises between the member nations. That's it.
Twitter acquired and shutdown Vine, Periscope, and Posterous (what could've been substack) among many others. They seemed rather complacent and uninterested in innovation, or even profits. I have no sane explanations for the management of the business side of their operation.
4chan does have rules. Low quality posts, spam, racism and nsfw are against the rules on most boards.
Daemon – Writing and packaging system daemons
Also very light: https://diskprices.com/
I'm still sad about the price explosion :/ I know a lot of it is due to the foundation's decision to prioritize industry over education/hobby, but I remember being absolutely blown away I could get a full ARM-A based dev board for $5 and then, later, one with a BT/wifi for $10.
He's said from the start his intention is to make Twitter a universal platform for everyone. Currently it's a cesspool echo chamber of the same bad takes from people who are overly online. It has a lot of room to grow and if he's successful, the valuation will up a ton.
This was great to know, thanks!
This actually also solved a problem I had where I wasn’t able to scroll back up in a tmux session.
But the BBC has a Twitter account and has accepted the ToS.
Recent and related:

Even after $100B, self-driving cars are going nowhere - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33212850 - Oct 2022 (481 comments)

Even After $100B, Self-Driving Cars Are Going Nowhere - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33106739 - Oct 2022 (107 comments)
Full Self Driving still regularly crashes into balloon children over-and-over again reliably, despite a huge amount of R&D since 2014 (8 years ago).

https://twitter.com/patrickmoorhead/status/14787661657237790...

Hitting the (fake) kid is SOOOOOO reliable, that Luminar used Tesla as their "crashes into dummy" car in CES 2022. IE: They're so confident that Tesla will hit that balloon child, they are using it for live in-person demos of their technology.
How exactly is it supposed to be worse?
Have you even ever been on the fediverse before? My guess is that you just want it to be worse.
Don't get me wrong, I agree with you. I can recall several instances having arguments in my head when someone totally oversteps the probabilistic nature of evolution - those people were my professors.

As to antifragile behaviors, I don't know that I agree completely. For instance there's a pretty considerable difference in strategies we observe with r (antifragile) and K (fragile) selection. But also hyper-specific species, for instance the famed Darwin's Hawkmoth: a moth previously unknown but predicted to exist by Darwin who posited that the pitcher flower with a narrow neck necessarily had some animal evolved to correspond to its adaptive strategies. That to me reads as the precise opposite of antifragility, an exclusive dependence would be fragile, and yet monophagy (very fragile)/oligophagy (fragile) is fairly common, and omnivorism (antifragile) is not. Though I suppose you could point to, in some instance, antifragile outcomes over the long run the sum risk for some of these organisms I intuit, outweigh the benefits of antifragile strategies.

There are some interesting and definitively antifragile, some of the niche partitioning strategies are really quite ingenious.

I would indicate the most antifragile creature is the human (literally real-time evolution), our wont towards ecosystem engineering may actually be our downfall. I've actually thought for some while a golden mean exists in antifragility, and too much investment in that direction leads to insensitivity to critical structural weaknesses through a couple of different pathways.
I feel as though I've stumbled into a culture war that I didn't really realize existed. Ignorance is bliss, I guess.
Using euler_a (or any other ancestral sampler) with SD is bad advice and makes all examples flawed. It's just a bad default in automatic1111's web UI. Compared to the normal euler it just mutates the output every step, so you're just making it less predictable and harder to tweak. In fact, most of these samplers are shown in the UI just because they were included in the third-party samplers library, they don't necessarily make sense for the better output. In particular, heun solves the stochastic ODE with Runge-Kutta, which makes it roughly twice as slow but it converges in twice as few steps as euler; this just leaves you with less granular controls. In fact, you can use just euler for everything. Or try DPM2_Karras, it's usually a bit faster, or DDIM.

Either way, it's just txt2img and it's not very interesting by itself; the real power of those models is in style transfer and the ability of being trained on custom stuff, in a variety of ways.
> The way he got bored running Tesla and SpaceX for ~20 years?

For all practical purposes, doesn't Shotwell run SpaceX and Elon just shows up to give "input", whenever the capital raise du-jour is necessary, and to do the marketing and PR?

It does seem to me he will need another Shotwell for either Tesla or Twitter, though. You can be CEO of as many companies as you want, but if the CEO is also doing the Operations part of the work, then you're constrained to pretty much one company at a time. I wonder if we'll see Jack come back to Twitter.
What's your source for these people being pro-Elon? What is the logic behind looking like you've either been fired or are quitting as soon as Elon is controlling the company, and that somehow making him look good?
Musk of today does not feel like the one of even 5 years ago.
More like WeChat, where you have micro apps within the app, and payments.
Elon likely wants to alienate existing Twitter users to some extent. It's not a website known for having a rational and well rounded userbase.
riscv64gc-apple-darwin perhaps won't just be a dream!
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NASA – Teams on Track for Artemis I Rollout to Launch Pad
It's front page news because space man bad
The Programmer's Guide to the Hypercastle
I very much want to. I've been on the net long enough to have noticed that ultimately what makes a discussion platform worth using is the right sort of moderation. Without moderation any large enough community quickly degenerates. The best platforms tend to be stringently moderated to keep up the quality -- not only kick out the wrong people, but discourage the low effort and pointless content enough that most of what's going on is worth reading.

For instance I absolutely wouldn't be using NH if it wasn't moderated in a way I happen to like. There are the various chan-derived boards and such, but I don't see any value in even finding out which still exist, because it's just not worth it my time to wade through mountains of garbage.
There's a massive difference because Twitter is now owned through a massive debt finance.
Nah, this is pretty much the deal for 99% of people on this planet.
Given the state of the economy if you go by "look at other X companies" you can say that every industry was a bubble that popped.
Is Audion still around or did it get completely Sherlocked?
> the problem is the lack of differentiation between bots and real accounts

Nah, I'd bet that it really is as simple as the fact that the first thing Elon sees under any and everything he tweets is a flood of cryptobot fake posts and scams. That he and we identify them quite easily, and he's just flat-out tired of it.

If clamping down on API access also curtails a significant proportion of those posts, then he'll do it, even if it's just a temporary relief.
Yeah, I thought it was eye-opening as well and it obviously stuck in my mind. If you judge speech based on the worst possible interpretation that could be made by the worst or most delusional people in society, there is nothing that can pass the test.

Certainly doesn't help that Donald Trump did in fact employ dog whistles and subtext during his time as president.

I'm not sure where this leaves us aside from in a post-factual reality where imagination can't be differentiated from the real world. People are compartmentalized by their priors and have no common facts worth discussing
Really the Ye thing doesn’t matter because I under minded my own argument :-) I think all those terrible things are coming but he’s going to thread the needle around discoverability to make it palatable. Too much chaos isn’t good for anyone even bad actors if the site becomes irrelevant, but we’ll see, I’m not super convinced youre wrong. Maybe Twitter has enough momentum to stay in the public eye in spite of itself.
It's interesting that Alzheimer's is coming to be called Type 3 Diabetes [1]

[1] https://www.healthline.com/health/type-3-diabetes
False. The value generated by employees only loosely determine the market capitalization. Market cap is driven primarily by perceptions of future market cap.

Employees don't suddenly become less productive because the stock market has a bad day.
Bullets also fly 30,000 times faster than bumble bees. We're not about to use them for pollination though.
I don't really understand why that means the Odroid-H3 is a "tough sell", though. It's quite a bit cheaper than both of the boards mentioned in that review, even after you add a case and power supply.
I get the point, but don't you have it in the back of your mind when using any 3rd party service? I do.
This is a good point - FB has some smart people working there on actually valuable, tangible things (such as data centers and networks.) AI, AR and VR are largely bets on the future, but they could pay off eventually.

Whether they can turn any of this into a successful business (telepresence? gaming? education? healthcare?) that isn't Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp but has comparable scale remains to be seen, and that's probably why some investors aren't confident.
That might be it - I’m just using the “saner” parts of the Internet as my reference (at least compared to Politics On Twitter), which usually means “smaller scope of community and discussion / human moderation”, much like HN on a good day. So HN wouldn’t feel special in that light.
Who Americans Spend Their Time With
Quick comments:

42M Americans = ~10M households (assuming 4 per household).

Starlink is $110/month and upfront $599, which puts it outside many/most of these remote folks.

10M household is the TAM, so SOM would be just 5-10% of that, about 500K-1M households, or even less.

Regarding the cost of replacement of satellites and their operational costs, I have no clue.
In Europe the further you go north, the likelihood that a car is electric increases. That is simply because people can afford it and there is a government willing to incentivise it.
> He’s riding on the coattails of his family’s mining business with a suspect ethical history.

There is no good source for how much money Elon got from his family, but it's fair to assume it was probably 7 digits. Turning a few million dollars into being the most wealthy man on the planet is riding his family's coattails? He founded Zip2 in 1995 with $200k in funding and sold it for $300 million in 1999. Even if he had millions of dollars to start with, he made more for himself than his family ever did by the age of 28.
Is watching Fox News or Newsmax counts as touching grass? Many of my sources touched grass and came to the opposite conclusion than you.

Criticizing Hunter Biden is not specifically hate, but then again people are not criticizing him, they are spreading conspiracy theories about him. It is yet to be proved that he committed any crime, but his privacy has been already thoroughly violated. Steve Bannon famously said that he doesn't feel good about it, but they are in war. Hunter's entire life was on that laptop, and it was straight up weaponized. Now he is a subject to many QAnon conspiracy theories, and fictional retellings.

> Look at all the prolife institutions

You mean anti-abortion institutions? There are barely any sources for violence against them. I don't think most people know about them. You don't see people attacking churches either. Anti-abortion violence is frequent, it's everywhere, it's a serious issue.
He's accused of killing two of his wives.
We've arrived to a very satisfying conclusion here: politics has always (mostly) been the biggest of all scams. Wether its a team of script writing artists, or the state of the art machine generated content, its the same worthless junk.
> No, "proprietary software" is correct.

Nope. PANTONE (a.k.a. Pantone Matching System) is a color system (or color-matching system, if you prefer) that existed long before microcomputers.

The system itself is the proprietary bit. If it weren't, open source software could easily support it.
Which ways is he a genius? I don't know much about him but as far as I can tell he's just an engineer who had a very rich father. Did he invent something that I'm not aware of? Genuinely asking, I would not be surprised to learn that I've missed something.
They outmaneuvered him and picked his pocket to the tune of $44 billion, so I suspect that he is not very fond of them.

I honestly wonder if Jack Dorsey did not just con his “buddy” out of a boatload of cash.
There's not much to think about. Bitness refers to the ISA, not the implementation. It's about what registers there are and what operations on them. It is what the programmer can write.

All CPUs that execute the same programs (in their native mode) are the same bitness. This is fundamental.

If a 68040 is 32 bit then so are the 68000 and 68008.

Most of the so-called "8 bit" CPUs weren't really. They were mixed 8/16 bit. Especially something like the z80 which had a lot of 16 bit registers, could do 16 bit adds and loads and stores. But not 16 bit compares or moves in the registers (needed two 8 bit moves). But even the 6800 and 6502 had certain 16 bit operations to support the 16 bit address space. The 6809 was even more 16 bit in being able to do 16 bit moves and subtracts and compares -- other than the lack of segment registers it was very very similar to the 16 bit 8088.

One problem with the terminology is that those early microprocessor instruction sets weren't Instruction Set Architectures. There was only ever one implementation of them, so people (including their manufacturers) tended to conflate implementation details and instruction set details.
If you ask people if they know something and they already do, they can sometimes be insulted. I'm never insulted when people do that, I think it's considerate, but I have seen people get all "of course I know that, what do you think I am, an idiot" on me.

I still ask if I'm not sure of someone's level of expertise - I think any reasonable person would react positively.
That demo link is so impressive: I just watched my browser DevTools and it loaded 23MB of data in order to run that query against that 28GB database.

I really need to dig in and figure out how Datasette (and Datasette Lite) can work better for this. I think this issue might help - the ability to turn off row counts entirely: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/issues/1818

(I noticed that trying to access the table directly seems to suck in a LOT of data, presumably because it's trying to calculate a count across the whole table?)
While I agree there is a large contingent of people who seem to believe every detail of real neurons are necessary to cognition (up to and including the atoms), and while I tend to agree those people are way off the mark about which details are actually relevant to the algorithms of cognition versus which are specific to natures implementation thereof, I also think the existing AI field goes too far in the other direction and oversimplifies more than it can get away with.

So far we've been able to gloss over our mistake through the raw brute force of voluminous training data and GPU power. It works in the same way using a hammer to drive a screw into a wall works. Sure, we can do it to an extent, but there's a much better way. We need to figure out how to use a screwdriver. And by screwdriver I mean slightly more sophisticated artificial neuron.
You forgot to mention the cenotes! That whole peninsula is underrated. We had entire pyramids to ourselves and this was before Covid.
I think two HN submissions got merged, I think the submission I made my comment to lead directly to that page. At least that's my excuse in case someone asks.
Twitter has historically had too many developers. I wonder if there will be big rounds of layoffs.
I'm not sure to what extent this is true for all their cafeterias, but the Cupertino based cafeterias are very much in house, with quite a bit of executive attention. Steve Jobs made the revamp of Cafe Macs one of his first priorities on his return, and he personally recruited Francesco Longoni, who I think still runs the cafeterias, from Il Fornaio.

And Apple even patented proprietary takeout pizza boxes, with involvement by their product packaging team: https://patents.google.com/patent/US20120024859
The ultra low power Intel (N5XXX and N6XXX) are by far the best x86 CPUs per watt right now.

The n6005 on the H3+ could easily handle 3-4+ 4K encodes as a media server with the eGPU too.

It's pretty much my ideal hardware for that use case so I'm probably in for one.
>being Catholic in government 60 years ago

you mean like the then current president John f Kennedy?
These kinds of speedruns are called arbitrary code execution runs. There's also speedruns on the SNES that do this.
> Twitter's video serving is embarrassingly woefully bad

I've never understood why they just refuse to let you click a button to view the higher res version of a video. Instead, it's a game of refreshing and clicking play several times until whatever automation they have realizes that you do, in fact, have enough bandwidth and decoding power to handle a 640p video.

At least youtube-dl bypasses Twitter's shenanigans, but it just seems like such a hostile feature to begin with.
> stonk

Watching language evolve in real time is fascinating sometimes.
> he only joke I see is "a trans person exists". The article isn't about her policies, her performance in her job, or even complexities in our evolving definition of either sex or gender like you are implying. The joke is that this person is trans. The message of that joke is the existence of a trans person in public is worthy of mockery. Therefore the only way to stop the mockery is to stop being trans or retreat from public life. I think refusing to stop that mockery until the target does one of those two things qualifies as harassment.

meh.

Twitter allowed much worse things that joking about someones self-identified gender.

It's a satire site: it's exactly what it says on the tin. If you leave political affiliation out of it, then, yes, twitter has been taking sides.
Gender as a concept distinct from sex is a way of describing an existing social phenomenon. Gender, though traditionally tied to biological sex, changes over time. What we define as "masculine" and "feminine" traits change as society changes, and can even differ between societies, despite the fact that male and female chromosomes have not changed. Just because no one had described this distinction before the last century doesn't mean it isn't legitimate.