skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't say exceptionally. InnoDB is reasonably robust on a modern FS with sane mount options. Yet I'll never forget the MySQL 8 table rename bug that crashes the server and corrupts/truncates the table. Appeared in a GA release and took several patch releases before it was fixed.
All these concepts actually apply to any programming language. Haskell often allows to express them very concisely and compose them elegantly, but the fact that say, lists can be viewed as a functor (ie, you can apply a function taking an int and returning a string, apply it to a list of ints, and get back a list of strings), is independent of the language. Knowing that fact however does (for a certain type of programmers at least) make it easier to combine different pieces of code.

I usually program in C++ or php, but I do think in monads / functors / applicatives quite often. I then use whatever features of the language I have at my disposal to “encode” my thinking at an appropriate level of abstraction. What level of abstraction that is depends not only on the language, but also how efficient and “communicable” I want my code to be. I don’t mind expanding the `map` of a functor into an explicit for loop, if my junior colleague can more easily deal with it.

In fact, at this point, with functional programming patterns having become so pervasive, most people including beginners have no problem with the concept of functors, and “mapping” functions on things. Monads still have that aura around them, but really, any time you write a line of code that reuses the result of a previous line of code and checks for something, you probably have a monad hiding in there, and “exposing” it might make it easier to factor out your code or find an elegant API.
AirBNB is extremely unpopular in Japan, it's not a good comparison for anything. Searching on Suumo I can see over 100,000 apartments over 50m^2 listed (which doesn't prove much of anything, but gives an idea).
Meanwhile the opposing viewpoint is being pushed by… *checks*… the Santa Monica Observer. A real bastion of credibility.
I disagree. One is a hatred of a an immutable characteristic (race) whereas the other is a hatred of an action. There is a big difference. This is not a justification of hatred of actions but people seem to conflate the two.
It's not good enough, because there are instances where the project might die but they decide not to.

For example, if they are acquired and shuttered (like when fitbit bought and closed Pebble), if legal says they can't, or if the money needed to open source it after the fact is not available because they went bust and already owe creditors (you might need money to do a license review to ensure that releasing the code doesn't violate any third party licenses in software the project depends on).
We can’t even agree on a place to store our waste in the middle of nowhere. Billions of dollars have been spent since the 1980’s on Yucca Mountain and that still hasn’t happened.
This is exactly right. It's the same as how some popular YouTubers hedge their bets by publishing in parallel to their own sites or to other video platforms, yet they keep letting YouTube dictate their business decisions because it's the only place they can make money.
How does this compare to Atuin [0]?

[0]: https://atuin.sh/
FT.com serves ads to paying customers.
Well yeah but it doesn't hurt to make photography more accessible to everyone.
King writes 300-500 page novels at an age when most people are retired. 240 characters here and there is not evidence of much effort for him.
But focusing on the product doesn't address what color the logo should be, or how many bikes can fit in the employee bikeshed.
The model X is also probably one of the most profitable and iconic cars in the modern era.
Can’t wait for every company to have their own App Store I need to install just to download the one app I want. All the inevitable data mining and security bugs will just be the icing on the cake!
I'm likely to pay for it at that price. For reference, I have a bit more than 14K followers on Twitter.

Why? Two reasons.

1) Funding social media through advertising has led to dysfunctional outcomes like outrage being more visible than high-quality content. I’m in favor of alternative revenue streams, although they have to provide value, and removing ads doesn't count as providing value.

2) My Twitter account is part of my consulting business. Eight dollars a month isn't much to pay if it improves my visibility or perceived legitimacy. I'd be willing to try it for a year and see how it works out.

FWIW, I wouldn't have been willing to try it at $20/mo.
same here.

Company xmas party is coming up, I'll have a couple to drink there because its free but I'll be super lightweight so only a couple will do anyway.
As if Elon needs 20 dollars.
What is meant by 25% of today's global warming? 25% from what baseline? From what median? From what time period?
I paid 13 man/month for a 47m^2 apartment, and that was in a pretty nice area (Mitaka) and without searching particularly hard.
> I can’t think of a single thing normal people use.

The Internet is federated. You can become the customer of any number of ISPs, and each can take you to any website with an IP address, in a distributed fashion, by just asking routers along the way.

ISPs all over the world are collaborating for a global network of networks.
I doubt $8 will be the only option. I’d bet $1000 that there will be a $16 (or whatever the ROI bar is) tier to be completely ad free.

$8 entry fee seems reasonable from a pyscological perspective. It sounds like the modern version of $9.99, since 3 numbers is taboo on the Twitter style internet and 8 sounds better than 9
he's doing it to pump up his twitter followers, which is why this whole article bugs me. It's a rather transparent attempt to gain followers without adding anything of real value
The elite have always used myriad silly ways to distance themselves from the unwashed masses throughout history.
Because landscape photos are easy. No bokeh, no depth of field (everything at infinity), good lighting, no need for fast shutter speed or a big sensor. Your images will be sharper I guess, but that's not worth $2k in most cases.
I have also avoided trips that would require MAX flights. When the MAX goes through a new type certification, then I will fly on it.
Writing 3 lines of text a day is a lot for a professional writer?
It's up to you if you accept 90 days in a contract or not. And if you accept 90, then it's absolutely within their right to wait until day 90. Why would they not? It was agreed up front.
F3 jumps to the next search match and Shift+F3 jumps back.
Kim Jung Gi (the artist) once said that the question he got most often was: what kind of brush pen do you use?
>Of course, this only works if most/all of the significant consumer countries all impose similar tariffs.

The problem always seems to be one of international action. If we wait for global agreement, I think we're screwed. Every time I hear the argument "there's no point in us acting while China is building a coal-fired power station every nanosecond", I think of this. Half the problem is that we're effectively exporting a good proportion of our emissions - we can't wash our hands of that and use it as an excuse not to clean up our own act as well. This seems like the obvious answer to those objections to me.

I think this is something that could be designed to work incrementally. Obviously the more countries do it the better, but every time you increase the cost of burning fossil fuels, more marginal renewable energy sources become economically viable.

> And there are hopefully just better ways to achieve what you want.

It's been a couple of decades and we're still waiting...
Yep and I have no idea what the OP meant by this.
People talk about email as the prime example of federation that we all use every day, but... gmail.com alone has a 30% market share, and 61% of 18-29 year olds[0]. The only reason that number isn't much higher is work emails, and a goodly number of work emails these days are actually Gmail behind the scenes as well!

People don't want federation, people don't like federation, people are actively annoyed by federation. Of course, people also don't want to have an AI model decide they've broken unwritten rules and have their digital lives walled off, but if federation is the only solution to that (I'm not convinced) then people will take their chances.

0. https://techjury.net/blog/gmail-statistics/
You can be passionate about helping people solve their problem.
In a way Twitter fills the space of being a proliferator of existing content, in a more concise form. In this way people don’t have to choose “do I create on platform X or Y” and instead they create on platform X and feel empowered to share on platform Y because it fills a different use case.
How much ass does the second row of your average sedan see? I'd be surprised if it's even 5-10% of trips.

Never-mind that if they were using the vehicle (sedan, pickup or otherwise) right up to the limit of it's capacity the majority of the time many here would be hand wringing about how they really should be using something with more spare capacity. This is fundamentally a societal expectations problem. People expect you to have more vehicle than you need. If you are maxing out what you have regularly you are "doing it wrong".
> Phone calls aren't really a thing anymore

Aren't they? What have I missed? Messages are async - if you don't want to disturb, calls are sync - if you need confirmation from the other side or you need several exchanges back and forth.

I text much more than ten years ago but I call (and receive calls) the same or perhaps slightly more.
Sure, good points. I don’t mean to portray it as binary.

Back in my gigging days, we called it “the perfect buzz”. 1-2 drinks before performing worked well- but more than that did not.

I only share so much because for some of us it’s a very slippery slope. I used to not be aware of _why_ I was drinking so much.

I do really enjoy the taste of a craft beer, or a decent bourbon. The part I’m working on now is balance. I don’t want to get to where I _have_ to stop drinking.
Sea Drone Attack on Russian Fleet Puts Focus on Expanded Ukrainian Arms
I think it’s not a naive question at all. To my naive understanding, categories need to have a composition property (if there is a morphism from a to b, and b to c, then there is a morphism a to c created by composing a to b and b to c), which allows to express “richer” structures than just directed graphs. Now, for the gory details, you better ask a mathematician :]
And what will he do about the hundreds of "RealStephenKing" "OfficialStephenKing" "StephenKingTwitter" accounts that will spring up and start scamming people and linking them to fake websites? How much will that cost Stephen King?
Exactly, landscape photos on phones and pocket cameras ten years ago looked comparable to a DSLR. Just lower res.
By (2) it seems like the price should be f(#followers).
To regulate Turkmenistan, you first need to rule it.
I think it has been demonstrated multiple times that toxic content increases peoples engagement i.e. time spent on the site and looking at advertising. Decreasing the time spent on the site will lower revenue. Most of what we are experiencing both on social and mainstream media is the effects of requiring an ROI for news. Before news shows had to make money (think Walter Cronkite the most trusted man in America) they actually delivered more news/facts than opinion. Today the situation is reversed. The algorithms are tuned to make this happen to maximize profit. Knowing that it is an AI doing it is irrelevant because the problem is in the model not the algorithm using the model.
Oh ya I wouldn't quit. Im just saying you might want to try and approach it differently and do things outside of work that take your mind off it.
This is my one and only gripe with "gen z".

Phone calls take 1% of the time to communicate complex ideas, I dont have to write documentation level explanations and I can hear your responses / tone and dynamically adjust to fit the conversation.

My feelings on this are especially prevalent at work, I understand more in an informal setting.

We have < 25's working in sales who HATE phone calls... it will be interesting to see how they make it in the future. The current "senior" sales reps go to the pub or play golf with clients & suppliers every now and then. I guess only the metrics will tell.

That being said if I have to text anyone > 40 I basically cry because they cant express any level of emotion over text and their over use punctuation I interpret as blunt.

God getting old is hard work (im only a > 25 < 30 something).
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Right decision for the wrong reasons? I think the bidding wars hurt the vast majority of authors, where all the money and energy and physical product space in bookshops gets sucked into a handful of authors leaving the majority of respected, award winning and decent selling authors begging for scraps during their lunch break at their day job. But I don't a merger would have helped at all.
If you want to hit a time and battery life target it unfortunately isn't just software; image processing algorithms start in Matlab and moves to hardware for production. You can only move so many pixels through the pipeline at once.
“We need to pay the bills somehow! Twitter cannot rely entirely on advertisers. How about $8?”

If you can see mocking in those 3 sentences then I can metaphorically see you popping up and down on elons lap.
> Refactoring is (or should be) caused by changing requirements

This can be a compelling reason to refactor, but my experience is that refactoring is often called for without/before any requirements change. Typical cases:

- Existing requirements, and interactions between them, are better understood over time, presenting opportunities to serve them better

- Current design/APIs are brittle and adapt poorly to maintenance tasks

- Resistance to “premature” abstraction/DRY produces large scale redundancies, and consequently increases volume of bugs and time spent versus value of work

- Of course the opposite is true, with improper abstractions becoming unnecessarily entrenched and unwieldy

- Ecosystem/stdlib improvements make certain areas of custom code obsolete, or more of a liability than they’re worth
I’ve heard this from attorneys. The gist is: arbitration/mediation make sure the case is settled quickly. Big corporations can afford attorneys to appeal and appeal and appeal. With arbitration that does happen.
I decided as a 14 year old to never drink. It’s been an interesting experiment in particular regarding peer pressure, group dynamics and societal norms.
First, to clarify, there are "keyboards" and there are "digital pianos". Keyboards typically have 60ish keys, keys that are light or thin, and sound that is low quality. Digital pianos, on the other hand, have full-sized keys that are weighted like a grand piano, have a connection for a traditional piano pedal, and usually have a good sound quality. Keyboards are not appropriate for learning most kinds of "serious" piano music.

A digital piano is perfectly fine to learn on. They're pretty good quality these days. You can put headphones on and not disturb anybody. (Grand pianos are comparatively loud.) There's no question that you can reach an advanced level of playing on a good quality digital piano, like the better ones from Roland, Kawai, or Yamaha.

However, you lose a lot of really fine-grained control of sound. I'm talking about really fine stuff that classical pianists appreciate. For instance, pressing the pedal on a digital won't give you any feedback from the felt rubbing on the strings. Most classically trained teachers would recommend an acoustic over this fact alone.

An acoustic grand also has more opportunities to change and shape the color of the tone. A technician can make the piano warmer or brighter for example.

Some teachers claim an acoustic will lead to vastly better physical technique. I haven't seen this substantiated by any actual experiment though, so it might just be a tale among teachers.

With that said, an acoustic grand is not an investment. Maintaining it costs $100s per year. Keeping it in tip-top shape costs $1000 every 5 years or so, in top of the $100s paid for tuning. They require TLC to keep them in good condition.

Acoustic pianos also slowly break down. The crown of the soundboard flattens, the strings lose brilliance, the felts compress, the hammers wear out, etc.

But an acoustic will probably give you the greatest degree of connectedness to your music that a digital could not.
Understandable, SQlite was always bound to TCL.

Also, TCL/Tk was the RAD/Glue language for the 90's Unices. Kinda like Visual Basic. C backend, TCL glue, TK grid UI, DB connection.
Did they correct for individuals who currently intake no alcohol but have a past history of alcohol consumption? My understanding is this is one of the ways past studies have skewed the results, because some people quit cold turkey but then live with the consequences of moderate or heavy drinking for years (or an entire lifetime) after that.

(I skimmed to the introductory paragraph where they talk about confounders, but don't see alcohol history listed as a confounder.)
>they only used them for those purposes about 5-10%

While true, when you need them, there is no substitute. So the answer is to have two vehicles, which may not be economically viable.

Also, everybody has really strong opinions on the legitimacy of owning a truck until they need help moving.
looks great for unarmed opponents
> I’ll get hammered for this, but why do people own cars like that, why on earth would people need a F350 super duty ? What practical purpose would it serve ?

The only reason you'd get hammered for that question is the implicit assumption that nobody who owns an HD truck needs it.

You might see me drive to the store once in a while in my F250. So you'd probably wonder why I needed such a massive gas guzzling grocery getter? Well, because that day my wife took the Bolt and I had no other option. People fall for this fallacy all the time, assuming that if you see someone underutilizing their truck, they must always be underutilizing it.

But I only drive mine a thousand miles a year, and except for rare occasions only when a travel tailer is attached behind it. The rest of the time we drive my wife's Bolt, and I'll wager that my average fuel consumption is lower than most people who only have an economy car.
This threat is interesting. I wonder what the minimum number is of top Twitter accounts that would have to leave for the platform to lose an unrecoverable amount of its daily impressions.

For example, out of the top 100 twitter accounts (https://socialblade.com/twitter/top/100), almost all are musicians, sports figures, politicians or news outlets.

If the top 5 musicians and the top 5 sports figures got together and started posting content exclusively on a new platform, I wonder if it would be enough to cause a gravitational shift.
> The EU is in the news right now because they cracked down on nuclear and fossil fuels and - after succeeding - ended up in an energy crisis.

They allowed the fossil fuel lobby to severely curtail their renewable installations and had a quarter of their nuclear reactors fail. Then had a massive source of gas disappear.

The renewables are working exactly as advertised. Seems like a pretty good argument for more of them.

> do by looking at China

So at least half of new generation as renewables with a small increase in nuclear whilst keeping thermal plant capacity roughly constant (mostly by moving existing production to more efficient plants)?
> Last fall [i.e. 2019], we announced our intention to support add-ons in Mozilla’s reinvented Firefox for Android browser (...) In the next few weeks, uBlock Origin will be the first add-on to become available in the new Firefox for Android.

Sounds to me like uBlock is literally top priority for Mozilla, so I don't see why they would do that.

https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2020/02/06/ublock-origin-for...
Is there seriously nothing that does this?

Doesn't seem too difficult to implement now that I think of it.
Could use a likes/retweets ratio to determine what's actual content and what are engagement posts.
Amazon sell-off pushes market cap below $1T for first time since April 2020
I take it you don't believe in global warming?
Show HN: My Conversational Social Network
Interesting that shifts are in the <1IPC set; I thought those were fairly cheap with a barrel shifter; does this simply omit one for space purposes, or are they more expensive than I expect?
I think it is true of most. If your identity is worth verifying by Twitter, it is apparently worth something to Twitter. If you wanted to prove that your twitter account was you, you wouldn't need their permission, right? Surely you could sign a file on your Twitter account with your PGP key or whatever.
Zero g tends to expand living spaces in general due to them becoming truly 3-dimensional. The volume of a tiny room on Earth can easily accomodate several people in orbit. Large spaces don't make much sense in these conditions, not just because of inefficiency, but because of the inconvenience of being stranded in the middle. You need some kind of handles or separators within the immediate reach - why not have actual walls then.
GitHub: High-impact package maintainers now require 2FA
Wait, why? Isn't solar or wind, depending on location, typically the cheapest form of power generation?

Most of Europe is off coal. It's not really a necessary part of an energy mix.
> "Hey, maybe this is the year Google starts to improve!" /s

Sure, may have been wrong in the past, but 2023 will definitely be the year of:

- improved google search
- linux on the desktop
- mac gaming
- ps5 availability at msrp
- post-pandemic recovery
- fiber to the home
- quantum computing
- explainable ML/AI systems
- non-scammy crypto
- distributed internet
- a web that doesn't suck
- secure and reliable computing
- better netflix programs and selection
- ???
I would be perfectly fine with that.
Biodiesel?
U.S. banks processed roughly $1.2B in ransomware payments in 2021
At 280 characters that sort of thing would create the worst incentives possible on a platform with already terrible incentives.

Sure seems like Musk will be selling the desiccated corpse of Twitter to Verizon within a decade. On the bright side for him, he'll never have to pay tax again after writing it off.
> People like Twitter because of their draconian moderation efforts, I was banned from Twitter because I told someone that a death threat was not ok; apparently Twitter decided that I since i said "shut up" that i was somehow the aggressor.

Such a strange comment because it's diametrically opposed to my experience of Twitter. People aren't complaining about 'draconian moderation efforts' as much as rampant abuse, trolling, and disinformation.

A simple "shut up" tweet would never get banned — far, far worse seemingly goes unpunished. I suspect there's more context to that one than you're letting on.
I'm in agreement. The distros really get in the way of things like this and it's kind of on them to address it.
She specifically said those images were commissioned by Disney and she doesn't own the copyright on them.
If you take a lot of landscapes I think that's actually when you do want the big sensor. Which, remember, is not a 35mm full-frame DSLR either! Instead it might be a 4x5 large format camera like Ansel Adams used.

(Which requires a lot of patience, but an old one would be cheaper than a new camera. Though renting is always an option.)
The libraries in question are the ones consuming the output of those external services. If an external service sends data that does not map to the programming language's string type, then the string type will fail to be created from that invalid input, and the library was wrong to have tried.
Everyone does just live in Tokyo. It's the most populous city in the world, the nicest place to live, and anyone with any sense moves here.