skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are the bugs in tcc you have discovered? I am using it almost every day for many years and yet to encounter a single bug. It generates much slower code than gcc but the point is it does it at least an order of magnitude faster. The code it generates is similar to code generated
by Delphi mentioned in a sibling comment. I wish they added linear scan register allocator and inlining of small functions to tinyc wich would not slow down compilation I believe but would make the code much faster.
How is that not a problem for the official interface then?
I'm not sure that's an enormous restriction since that ends in only about a week.
> WASM SQLite with the OPFS is the future of offline first web app development.

is that basically a desktop app that doesn't need to be installed? You still download it using a browser but then you don't install it on your operating system you just run it in your browser?
Because the answer is never "put down your phone and interact with the physical realm"
Alternate report (Feb 2022):

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06749-9

Debunked in 2000? "We were unable unequivocally to detect C. pneumoniae in any of the 101 samples tested by PCR and failed to culture the organism from tissue samples."

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JCM.38.7.2591-2594.2000
>Witness people who don't notice screen tearing in X11

Most people are using a compositor that came with their DE, so screen tearing never happens.
Why not trucks?

(Well, we know the answer....)
Jones didn't bother to show up to court to defend himself, so the plaintiffs won by default.
> There is no “one size fits all” database engine, that was proved by both WebSQL and IndexedDB.

Thanks to a few very small people, WebSQL was deprecated before it had a chance to prove anything.
I disagree with your assertion that Twitter is a public utility then. There's plenty of ways to communication with other people on the internet. Twitter has less daily active users than Pinterest, if you want to shout out your opinion on the internet then play by Twitter's rules or find another platform.
The play could also have benefits evolutionarily. While the behavior take energy, it teaches motor skills (which is more relevant to the younger bees who played more). I’m just using this (admittedly weak) example to show that play isn’t necessarily less than optimal behavior.
One thing to remember here is that Twitter is disproportionately popular with journalists and other media figures. The idea of major changes where they spend a lot of time is going to cause concern, much as HN would freak out over major changes at GitHub.
Is there something we know about the relationship between conciousness/sentience and the size of brain?

A computer neural network can be arbitrarily large and there is no evidence it will ever become sentient. While we're related to insects and afaik share some functions. I can definitely picture the idea of their conciousness just being a more basic version of ours. But I'm curious if there is some evidence or reasoning that actually conciousness emerges as some threshold gets crossed
I would disagree its about nostalgia when it comes to mechanical watches. I like them because they are a thing of engineering beauty. I even watch youtube videos of people taking them apart because they are just so amazingly intricate. No nostalgia for me, just a pure appreciation for a really well made thing.
13-year-old cousin seems worse than 13-year-old nonrelative, given no other information, because of possible undue influence. I.e., Lewis could have had some power over his future wife as her relative. Also as her father's employer I assume? All in all, quite sketchy.
I think the problem is less that many official accounts are "boring" and more that they are run by staff and don't have the feel of direct communication that makes Twitter interesting to begin with.
Making Faith Possible (1993)
A debrid service allows you to bypass the download limits of file-sharing websites (like 4shared, MEGA, etc.) without needing to have an premium account on each website.

They also provide functionally similar to seedboxes were they download torrents and then you download them directly from their servers. A lot of torrents are cached already (someone tried to download them already) and that's the functionality that's useful for Kodi or Stremio streaming as it allows you to stream media easily.
In your last point, you reveal your true point: you just don't like him. I don't necessarily do either, but that shouldn't get in the way of a rational discussion.
If I understand this right, they are hypothesizing that a super high energy photon encountering a magnetic field near its origin supernova got converted into a dark matter particle. That let it travel 2.4 billion light years to earth without interacting with stray photons during that intergalactic journey. Then somewhere near here, it hit another magnetic field and got converted back to a normal photon that set off all our detectors.

Does that mean we get hit with unconverted dark matter particles all the time? Do they just sail through the earth, like neutrinos supposedly do most of the time? Could they be converted to regular photons using magnetic fields? Could we reproduce the conversion to and from dark matter in the LHC, which reaches comparable energy levels to this photon? This is big brain stuff, I guess.
How does this differ from Invidious?
Eh, can work pretty well compared to CSS. Table cells are always in the order they appear on screen, and if you read them in sequence the order makes sense. That does not apply with CSS based designs.
It isn't misused every time. Quite the contrary - it's a critical part of HN's immune system. Without it the site would be taken over by pathogens.

We don't have anything close to the mods we would need to examine every HN post, so relying on the community is a must, and the vast majority of users who flag posts are doing it responsibly.

This system doesn't always work correctly. If you see a post that shouldn't be flagged, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com. We often turn the flags off in such cases.
yabai https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai
Yes, this was all vey predictable. But I have a different take.

Something needed to break this fascination with useless college degrees. Having them devalued like this should accelerate that process.

That's not to say college can't provide any value of course, it certainly does in many instances. The problem is we're at a tipping point where most degrees are basically useless and most of the universities that bestow them exist mainly to grow their endowment. The administrative overheard is absurd. With the same knowledge attainable online, society would benefit greatly with a 90% reduction in enrollment.

All of these people talking about making college free are missing the point. The knowledge should be free, there is no need for the college itself in most cases. Cut out the middle man since it is a parasite on society at this point. We're saddling the youth with a lifetime of debt for a shit degree, all so countless nameless administrators can have a job.
It's hard to imagine the Trump ban staying given what he was actually banned for. I'm not a Trumper but he tweeted:

"To all of those who have asked, I will not be going to the Inauguration on January 20th.”

Twitter interpreted this to be an incitement for terrorist attack on the inauguration and banned him, the sitting president of the US, for that. It is hard to imagine any platform with a semblance of free speech stand behind that kind of logic. If you are willing to read into statements that deeply, any speech is bannable.

https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspensio...
I also use VSCodeVim! One struggle I have though is that navigating with Ctrl+d / Ctrl+u or Shift+[ / Shift+] still opens folds if the cursor lands in the middle of a folded section. Do you run into this also and/or know a fix/workaround?
Well said. Code stays as it is, typically. Data changes.

Of course code can modify its own 'code". But that makes it much more difficult to reason about its behavior. It is good to have some "invariants". If we can assume that code does not change except when the human author changes it, then it becomes much easier to reason about the changes the program may cause to the data.
They both corrected the articles after 3 hours. Gotta give credit where credit is due. But it shouldn't scare you that peoples lies are taken at face value. We see it everyday. Hell some politicians are lying right your face.
I don’t understand. Are you saying that they repost something that got someone banned, they don’t get banned, and then they complain that it’s inconsistent? Why not ban the reposters?
If it is I think the term needs to be reviewed. In fact if people want to get sensitive about their racial identity then they need to focus on the actual words and tone.

Especially when it seems like alot of the time people are called racist or sexist for sharing a viewpoint that in their view is accurate.

For example, whenever I run into drivers that don’t react to a light change I have noticed it tends to be a woman with a phone in her hand.

I’m sure someone would take issue with my experience listed above, but I feel like I should have the right to make such a comment without backlash, because in my experience that observation holds true.

My point is I feel like context and history are important.
The us has the benefit of being a country, has experience in waging wars and a mighty economy but it’s also suffering from potentially destructive internal threats. The eu is still far from where it should and can be. It’s still threatening rebellious member states with expulsion and sanctions in pathetic little displays of power. Large entities that somehow also manage to be efficient are the ones that survive. Just because there are issues in other countries or political blocks it doesnt mean we should lower our expectations. The eu needs to evolve. Its the only way europe can remain relevant. No matter what a few spoiled brats in western europe think, without a united eu its game over for everyone in free europe. We are already again at the mercy of the us, under threat from russia, and in competition with india and china. We either stick ranks of eat their dust.
> I know Musk is widely disliked, but there will never be a shortage of talented engineers wanting to work with him, on interesting challenges, for very high compensation.

But how many talented engineers want to work with him, on interesting challenges, for very low compensation. Because historically with his other companies that's what he offers.
https://archive.ph/EBzzH
I'm saying this from the perspective that he made a shitty acquisition and trying to see ways he could consider it as a positive thing.

If I'd had made this acquisition, specially in the circumstances he did it, I'd probably get so depressed that I'd put and end to it all.

I'm not a fanboy, but I'm also not a hater.
I wrote hundreds of those checks in scripts, makefiles, CI and whatever else. After I found Nix (and NixOS) it's ridiculous not to use it. Use it.
It's funny how "KillAllMen" trended on Twitter and that wasn't considered hate speech, but calling a woman a man is?

Actually I guess that's consistent, if you think men are lesser beings who deserve to be killed, then it makes sense you would also think that the worst possible thing you can do to a woman is call them a man.
Whataboutism...

Edit:

Not only that but also transparently disingenuous. I don't know r/conservative (my comments are not about liberal vs conservative and I find odd that you and others immediately frame them that way) but a dedicated 'conservative' subreddit is obviously not the same as Twitter, which, again as become the de facto standard for most political and news communication.
Can you elaborate on how the axo-axonal transmissions blow up our simple models? I couldn't understand anything from that summary.

Would it be the equivalent of edges communicating between each other in artifical neural networks?
The driver of the big rig one lane over might soon be one of these teenagers
Safety of life is not a boundless good. All of the good things around us come at some risk to life. Of course, the government's liability to overvalue safety (or to be more neutral, to inconsistently determine the value of safety) in a particular proceeding (be it before a court in a lawsuit or before a regulatory agency that might order a recall), is just another part of the calculation.
What do Twitter engineers / product employees do when the code is frozen?
> My use case is an offline-capable app.

not trying to be snarky but do you mean a desktop app?
Hardest line is when the cell carrier drops support. I held onto my iPhone 5 until the very day it could no longer work as a phone, and that was also far after it stopped receiving security updates.

Or what happens is they stop running the latest OS, then newer apps you might need stop supporting old OSes. Old versions of apps might even stop working with whatever servers. That or the latest runnable OS doesn't work with whatever 2FA bs you need to download free apps from the App Store, as was the case with the iPad 2 last I tried.
Yikes, you can't post like this here. I've banned the account. Normally we give established accounts at least one warning before banning them, but your account has been breaking the site guidelines so badly and so frequently that it's far over the line.

If you don't want to be banned, you're welcome to email hn@ycombinator.com and give us reason to believe that you'll follow the rules in the future. They're here: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
> network effects have granted Twitter a relatively unassailable cultural position

Hard to say... there are massive network effects, but switching costs are also pretty low. Facebook seemed pretty solid not so long ago.
The cheapest Tesla has a $47k MSRP now, but most people add on several thousand dollars in options even on that one.

The Leaf and Bolt both have starting MSRPs around $28k, and most probably sell in the mid-$30k range, so there is a significant price difference.
Have you been anywhere near a university lately? There’s a contingent of super militant students, supported by certain faculty, that spend their time policing who is allowed to have a “platform” and what’s acceptable speech.
I don't think a bunch of attention seeking lunatics holding a banner over a bridge counts as "real-world damage". Especially when it seems to have galvanized everyone in power to denounce them and pledge their support to fight against similar groups.
Different use cases. Jetson is for open CL. This is a SBC for general server/light desktop usage.
And Turing machine? Can it modify its own tape?
> It is the town square for the elite (politicians, celebrities, experts)

Only for a subset of those elites who conform to certain ideological views. The rest have been actively censored or banned from Twitter.

> There isn't really anywhere else to go.

And that has been the problem for those with non-preferred views. Twitter clones have been actively denigrated and, in some cases, forced to shut down.

IMO, Twitter needs to add up and down voting, like HN has.

Open discourse is not for the faint of heart. Never was - it can get your adrenaline up and teach you self control.
It sounds like Musk is going to tell advertisers to kick rocks and try to monetize the platform.

Where are people gonna go if not on Twitter? The left isn't gonna have better luck with their own truth social or parler. The network effect is too big with Twitter. It's not fun if you're not dunking on your enemies. That's the fun of Twitter.
IOCCC entry? Tiny emulators seem to appear there semi-regularly, e.g. this one was memorable years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18198374
This is part of what makes political discourse so challenging today. It's really easy to conjure up evidence in the form of poorly written articles with bad sources (or outright fabrications), but exponentially more difficult to go and fact check every one of these sources any time they are trotted out.
Ligma/Johnson.

And they were taken seriously by the assembled press.
HD Radio uptake is quite variable by market. In some markets it's quite dense, others not do much.

Other than slightly worse stereo separation FM Multiplex sounds better, other than the stations running the whole HD channel for one audio stream.
who says you can't still advertise to them? if twitter goes the "screw the eu" route they don't even have to follow gdpr so that makes for a competitive advantage.
Unless there is a rational, defensible argument (which I have not heard) of how a free speech platform can repay the investors (investors require more money back than they put in) I cannot see how an investor cannot care - legally. You have to remember that the money they are investing, in part or in whole, is likely other peoples. It would be naive in my opinion to think otherwise.
Fairly moderating a single massive global community is an unsolvable problem for both scale and cultural reasons. The current dominate model for social media will not work in the long run. Breaking down the task into sub-communities that are given moderator power helps with both the scale and cultural problems. Reddit however seems to be moving away from this model by deemphasizing the autonomy and identity of individual communities for a broader, singular reddit community.
It's very much like it for the Ukrainians.
I think the only big take away is Musk said too much stuff and is now left holding a culturally relevant, but monetarily flailing company. My expectation is he will do whatever it takes to be successful; cut staff, add more ads and paid features, etc. I believe he will also do certain things under the verneer of "free speech", but will eventually do a 180 because it will hurt the bottom line of the company.
An EC2 switched off can still have an EIP attached and that attachment is billed I think.
A valid refutation, if a little weak.

I think the last paragraph of the "What Popper actually Said" section is just as important to note:

> It makes sense, doesn't it? Free speech is all fine and dandy, but let's stretch that to the limit. A and B are promoting their ideologies. A-ism is based on reasoned arguments — they may not yield correct conclusions, or they may, but A is speaking in good faith. B-ism is based on calls to violence and insurrection. If both are afforded the right to speak freely, modelling things out, B will necessarily inflict violence, or threats of such, on A — but violence and violent threats have the effect of silencing others, which indirectly impedes their right to speak freely — you are not 'free' to speak if someone will hurt you for doing so! Thus, free will is replaced with coercion, and society suffers as a result.

A line in speech has to be drawn somewhere. There's a difference among "I hate $RACE", "I hate $RACIAL_SLUR", "Someone needs to deal with the $RACIAL_SLUR problem", and "I want to kill $RACIAL_SLUR".

The first two on their own are not violent, and they're not written to stoke violence, but a person that sees as a lot of that content who agrees with it may eventually decide to escalate to violence.

The latter two are easily considered calls to violence, which even most free speech advocates might not agree with. The most aggravating thing about the people that post that kind of content is the blindingly obvious bad faith claims that "Oh, I don't mean we should solve the problem by KILLING them!" or "Well, I'd never ACTUALLY kill someone".

It's extremely easy to say "Well until the murder happens, no crime has been committed" when you're not the target.
Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Death of the Internet (2021)
You can't do this here. We've banned this account.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I wouldn't have done it that quickly.

Parag Agrawal just made $42 million as a severance package. His 2021 pay package was around $30 million. You'd save around $10 million by shifting him over into an advisor role, telling him to go home and lounge by the pool, and calling him any time you needed whatever insight he might be able to offer. I don't expect you'd call him very often, since I don't think he did an insanely great job as CEO, but maybe he's got the password to the office safe or something.

I'm too lazy to look up the details for the other execs who were fired, but the same kind of math likely applies.

I assume that they're no less limited in what they can say publicly than they would be if they were still employed as officers of the company. Severance agreements often come with NDAs. So that's probably a wash.

It is possible that there's some value in sending the message that nobody is safe. My personal opinion is that managing from fear like that isn't long-term valuable, and I think moving them into clear advisory roles sends the same message, but I could be wrong there.
4) don't overestimate cut of transaction and underestimate ad revenue (promoting the transaction seekers). Let's use Amazon as an example: They run a 3P marketplace with a transaction cut business model, and it's not very profitable. Vs. their ads based sponsored product which is extremely profitable (soon to larger than AWS for profit at Amazon). This is a very different ad business than twitter's current performance marketing ad product.

I think first party ads promoting commerce on your platform can be very lucrative. And % of transactions tend not to be, with the exception of Android / iOS app store markets.
(Insert fond memories of the Allerta inPulse's SDK.)
I agree. It’s like we forget that we’re literally one of millions, billions, or trillions (it seems the estimated count is an open question) of species on this planet. No other species could possibly share analogous behavior.
content moderation in any form is policy, is political, is governance. they're talking about setting up a council with diverse viewpoints, that's an attempt at representative government!

they already support blocklists and most of the content it suggests is directly related to your activity on the site. it seems they have a small random factor, but it's pretty easy to ignore or block if you don't like it.

but honestly, that's not really the issue. i think it's more a matter of a change in the fabric of how humans communicate and organize. everyone can see that it's powerful, nobody is quite sure or agrees on what the adoption curve looks like. some think you just throw it out there and wait for the dust to settle, others think that's a path to armageddon and that a dampened rollout is necessary. who knows what's right, but there's a good chance we're about to find out.
Why goal cascades are harmful and what to do instead
I've never used one. In fact, my phone charges off a keyboard USB port so it's 0.5A and stresses the battery less. Of course not as much of an issue now that there's optimized charging.
Is an ad for some fantasy cosplay.
And really, random moderation is inevitable at scale. It's always going to be a judgment call made by different people in different moods.

You can spend more money to reduce the std deviation, and spend less while increasing it, but you can't eliminate the randomness.
This was rural Eastern Louisiana, so I wonder how odd this would have been to people at the time. Also, his own first marriage was at the age of 16, and he had always spent a lot of time with cousins apparently. To further develop the image, his parents mortgaged their farm to buy his piano.

I get an immediate sense of place and culture that was more similar to the victorian age than our modern world, or indeed other parts of the country at that same time.
The scale. A million here and there for him is nothing, but billions is real money, even for him.
Reminiscing: The retreat to comforting work
I've found Lilian Weng's blog a great resource to get an intuition for the maths behind popular models and concepts.
https://lilianweng.github.io/