skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Today, we’re coming up to the mid terms and Elon Musks company is intervening to push right wing talking points.

I don't understand this line of thinking being so certain[0]. Why is it definitely not the case that Elon Musk's company is simply concerned with correcting false[1] statements made by the official White House account?

You're seemingly trying to imply that this decision was made solely because of right-wing bias from Elon Musk's company and I don't see why that connection would be made without prior (ostensibly left-wing) bias.

(I don't exactly want to make this point because I don't think it necessarily matters but these context blurbs are seemingly often added by community members rather than Twitter staff.
Given how high-profile the official White House account is, it's likely this decision was made by Twitter staff, which is part of why I don't think this point matters.)

[0] People are entitled to their opinions but it doesn't make sense to me that I would know that this was totally only done for a single reason which I don't like.

[1] I think you make a strong argument that the statement is not necessarily false, but certainly that argument has counter points. The statement given by the White House did not attempt to argue in any way your point. Indeed, no mention of what Trump would have done had he been in office at this time. I have to say it's very reasonable to think that the statement made was plainly false.
And this mistaken idea is why people are able to buy and sell accounts for astroturfing.
To be clear, they said "web servers" not "websites". They just pulled a list of all public IP blocks registered to the country and opened port 80/443 on each IP address and took a screenshot. It's by no means a list of the websites hosted on those servers.

You could get somewhat closer by inspecting public DNS records for those IP addresses and then attempting to load each site by DNS name, but it still wouldn't be a complete index of all websites in the country. I'm thinking that's impossible to collect, or at least very nearly.
Choi Jeong became the first woman to reach the final of an international Go comp
Yes, and the specific advantages of using contiguous in-memory representations for data which is accessed sequentially.
I get it. It sounds good.

But I come from the generation that knows information wants to be free.
> President Nixon announced that the rate of increase of inflation was decreasing. This was the first time a sitting president used the third derivative to advance his case for reelection.

I can't think of a more fitting jerk.

(though arguably Nixon was actually talking about a fourth derivative (of price)...)
The house always wins— true for casinos and distributors of imaginary internet points.
This is a very useful pattern when you have small collections of large objects, where the vector/array implementation starts to fall flat on its face. Kernels and high-performance servers use these a lot for state tracking.

If you combine intrusive linking with a pool allocator, you can have decent locality too.
I want mastodon to succeed but the deal breaker for me is that the conversation threading is basically non existent. It's worse than twitter, which is itself a total dumpsterfire if more than 2 people start commenting on anything.
Clinton "Clint" Johnson.
The lawsuit has already been filed. Or at least one of possibly many.
I think you missed the part where you should slow down and comprehend before firing all culture warrior torpedos, he’s talking about not living paycheck to paycheck & having a great CV where he can get another job.
> 10 e-books per day per ip address

That's a silly policy in a world of shared VPN endpoints and Tor exit nodes.
I see, I never got that. Must've turned off Google's antivirus at some point. Not that I trusted the Vanced Manager in the first place; I prefer my weird root customisations to be open source.

I suppose it makes sense in a way; Vanced replaced an existing system package with a modified APK through root access. Google's intent was obviously not to protect the user, but the behaviour of the app was sketchy as hell. Especially for a closed source app.

ReVanced does this differently, that modifies the Youtube APK and changes the package name so it doesn't conflict.

Regardless, the notification could just be dismissed and the AV is entirely optional. The warning ("this app tries to bypass Android's security protections") is entirely justified because that's exactly what the app was doing. Anyone pirating anything knows to disable their AV at their own peril and this is hardly something new, at least this time the app wasn't flagged as a trojan with a fake name like most cracks and key generators are.

Lastly, there are tons of people reporting weird behaviour after installing a modified version of Vanced blaming it on the app itself, so the warning wasn't always disingenuous.
The 5% that fool themselves: '1/5 stars - This stupid modem doesn't have wifi. The $20 a month modem from Comcast has wifi.'
I feel like journalism needs to be re-invented in a way that accounts for our modern understanding of human psychology. We might need to define new standards and processes that counteract against a natural inclination towards various biases, herd effects, conformity, double standards, partisanship etc. The current system seems quite dysfunctional.
Interesting - I went through the calculation based on "chance the election would be decided by one vote; my vote" and it's pretty damn vanishingly small. (I assumed any election decided by a single vote would be decided by my vote, which isn't entirely fair, and ignored appeals, etc), but didn't value it on election spending but instead on "changes to me".
That's from April. So it's not relevant to their recent firing.
Wow, I’d missed the update on that post and hadn’t realized he’s a named plaintiff on the class-action suit against Twitter. Nice.
You can resign. You're not a slave. This man is only your master insomuch as you desire.
Everyone on HN needs to take a week to actually look into crypto projects. Nothing that makes headlines is ever good, and it's clear that's where most of the opinions of it on here are sourced from.

You're doing yourself a definite disservice by not investing a smidgeon of your time.

You are looking at a garden and remarking about the rotten veggies on the soil floor.
I have ADHD (late diagnosis) and am both medicated and have had years of counselling.

The problem with ADHD is that a simple dopamine system deficiency expresses in ways as complex as humans themselves.

I found something that works for me but I imagine it wouldn't work for anyone else.

Even with thousands spent per year on the best help, I'm still my own worst enemy due to the constant brain discomfort.

As an example, my work focus is fine but I struggle with compulsion , impulsively, chronic boredom and addiction.

While I applaud any effort to raise awareness and develop solutions, the solutions I feel are as complex as the problems and they're not something you can encapsulate and charge $99/mo for.

Sorry.
I’ve seen them show up in lots of situations through intrusive lists, which I think is the general form of the example you’re giving.

Intrusive lists are used in the Linux kernel, in physics engines (eg Chipmunk2d) and game engines. The way Redis uses them for TTL expiry follows the same pattern.
> D a modern successor of C and C++ does not support macro.

These are macros:

https://dlang.org/articles/mixin.html
"Hi, I'm Jerry and I've been assigned as your guide to the internet. Here, people are...shall we say...a tad excitable."
Honestly, after using mastodon I'm a bit more bearish on the fediverse. It's too complex for your average user and there are still significant centralization risks.

Sure anyone can host a server but obviously that's pretty technical.

If you don't host your own server then you place a lot of trust on whoever owns it. They own your data and they decide which external servers to share data with. Want to add a video game centric mastodon server to your feed? Well you better hope your server decides to partner with that server.

Not to mention that servers cost money, so you have to be sure that whoever is hosting it can continue to pay for it. Mastodon the organization is a non profit. Do they have the funds to host millions of people? Probably not. Which means people have to find a smaller server and hope that it stays funded.

This makes choosing your mastodon server a pretty important choice. Most people seem to be going for mastodon official servers which is causing them to be overloaded.
thepiratebay.org seems to be fairly resilient
Hi, thanks for responding. I already created a pod from the provider referenced in those docs (i.e. start.inrupt.com). It shows me a WebID url and a data storage url. What can one do with these? What can one do with a pod? The documentation says you can 'view' your pod, and links to some SDKS.

I tried looking at the apps on this page, starting from the top: https://solidproject.org/apps

- MediaKraken: If you click the button indicating you want to use Solid to store stuff, it presents a box in which to put a URL to log in. It won't accept either of the two URLs given above. Following experiences with other apps, I sub in `https://login.inrupt.com`. I can pass through the login page at inrupt, but the redirect brings me to an error page. I can repeat this loop ad infinitum.

- Penny: presents a box in which to put a URL to login. I can't log in with either of the URLs listed above, but it present a modal suggesting I try using `login.inrupt.com` instead. After a couple tries, I can get in to browse and see that I have no content. Yay.

- Solid IDE: I get a 404

- Solid File Manager: After trying Penny, I know to enter https://login.inrupt.com in the login box. I can again browse my lack of data.

- Pod Pro (an IDE for editing pods). I can log in and see that there's basically nothing to edit. I have no contacts, but the files they would presumably eventually go in have some markup which I can mess up.

So far, I've yet to encounter an app that actually seems to do anything useful. Upon creating my pod I was shown 2 URLs and it turns out that none of the apps I encountered will accept them for anything.

I'd love for this to be a vibrant ecosystem of actually useful stuff. But so far it seems like an empty room that's awkward to get into. I think my new pod will be as neglected as my urbit planet, and for the same reasons.

Years ago I remember talking to someone about whether hadoop/mapreduce could help address some problem they were encountering -- but they had neither the data collection infrastructure or data analysis knowledge. It's not that mapreduce wasn't a good tool, but to him of course a framework that can run jobs he doesn't have and doesn't know how to write on data he doesn't yet have was pointless. A framework can need a lot of enabling conditions to be useful. I'm not sure what those are for Solid.
Godot game engine now has its own foundation
Aha, across all units, that makes more sense. I thought it was per unit and it off by a few orders of magnitude.
Just for clarification, are you implying L-arabinose is the left-handed isomer of glucose?
More stupidity, HP was chopped up in an LBO that separated the head from the body, and trashed one of the worlds most productive tech innovators.

This babbling bullshit from stanford "What drives companies, some that date back more than a century, to transform themselves in such a radical way? Did the anticipated benefits of “synergy” and diversification become a drain on profits and corporate value?".

Yea, that's it, they leveraging synergy, sure.

Maybe they were involuntarily sucked dry by the same kind of pathological assholes the spew this vacuous bullshit.

No wonder the world is so fucked up, apparently even engineers and scientists fall for this hateful, capitalist, greenwashing of the pillage that's cratered american innovation.

Sure, we still have innovation, Albertson's grocery just gave a $4B dividend while fucking your stupid asses everytime you shop.

Maybe they're leveraging synergy too!

Some body should give them a prize for that...
I said due to trust, not due to security reason. Just like people are used to buying on Amazon even though google will literally show a cheaper place in first ad when you search the product.

Also, I think average guy knows how to install APK in Android. It's literally easier than installing Chrome on Windows, and 80% of windows web share usage is from chrome.
All of these are indeed important, and will eventually (one hopes) result in the student realizing that linked lists are to be avoided because of their poor mechanical sympathy resulting from their awful cache locality.

Valid uses for a linked list are extremely niche. Yes, you can name some, and I can name several valid uses for bloom filters. Just because a simple linked list is easy to implement does not mean it should be used, any more than bubble sort should be used for its simplicity.
No one is calling for twitter to censor the New York Times either.
But the best way to talk is...on date!

Texting or whatever is terrible. There's no way to convey sense of humor and text is rife with misunderstanding tone.
The same could be said of Ray Kroc and McDonald's, but it typically isn't because the McDonald brothers aren't the ones who made McDonald's ubiquitous on a global scale. Most of the time, Ray Kroc is considered the founder of McDonald's because he was the one to lead its global success.
Is abolishing elections and replacing them by sortition (legislative juries) “absurd”? A very radical proposal, but doesn’t seem inherently “absurd” to me. And of course, under such a system, nobody has suffrage (unless one means the suffrage of jurors on a jury.)
I thought during the last admin someone decided it was illegal for the President to delete tweets or block users because they become Presidential records as soon as they are created.
> All of these languages are seriously flawed half-baked solutions to a problem that's already been solved.

I tend to think so aswell but there is a big exception: code highlighting. Having a no-js solution to code highlighting implies having a build step to handle just that (unless you actually do it yourself while writing the docs, which would be insane). I haven't spent a lot of time researching it, but I have yet to find a tool as simple to use as e.g. Pygments or Chroma (with Sphinx and Hugo, respectively). What would you recommend?
Careful! "Critical" is paraphrased. The thread says "tough investigative lens"!

"Instead of covering the industry with a business press lens or a consumer lens they started covering it with a very tough investigative lens — highly oppositional at all times and occasionally unfair."

Of course that will often lead to critical articles, but it is not precise to paraphrase the actual meaning here IMO.
Right, sorry and thanks for pointing it out.
"And make sure to shit on tech, because everything else would be opinion, not reporting"?
std::string stores the length as part of the value, not as part of the type. (That’s probably what nicoburns meant, but it’s clear what caused the confusion).
Huh, maybe my kernels have always had patchsets, because I always get an option to change the scheduler (but never do).
Maybe Vladimir Gavreau? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Gavreau

EDIT: who may or may not be the same as this "Professor Gavraud": https://www.dickbowdler.co.uk/content/publications/A_Short_H...
Can you point me where specifically did he do it?
Capped data makes sense - brings those few people running endless torrents and the like into line. I can easily imagine a few customers making up a very substantial chunk of starlink’s usage that way, and given inherent service limitations that probably have to address it :/
It is the new Chewbacca defence [1], whenever the discussion deviates from the desired narrative it is enough to bring on a variation on 'but Trump did XXX' or 'at least it was not as bad as Trump' or 'just like Trump' to derail it.

Now that the precedent has been set this is likely to continue with one side using the mentioned but Trump arguments which are countered with at least he was not as bad as Biden. Rinse, repeat, ad infinitum et delirium.

[1] https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Chewbacca_Defense
Seems like “web3” has completely missed the mark and is actually highly centralized, arguably more so than web2. If I had to guess, it’s because expediency requires it. If you’re in the middle of a gold rush, first principles like decentralization are quickly supplanted by principles like “line goes up”.
I take great pride in achieving a -2 point rating on a post because it means that I've spoken truth to the powers that read HN.

I take even greater pride in talking about commenting of comments, _contra_ the guidelines, because a rule that you cannot discuss collective moderation decisions is like forbidding your subordinates from telling you that you have spinach in your teeth.

The spinach abides.
MoviePass’ ‘unlimited’ ticket scheme was a fraud, US prosecutors allege
Like SVG, the point is to easily embed it into other XML documents.
No. "Critical" (in the defensible sense) reporting of breakthroughs would involve checking of the science behind the breakthrough, probing the ethics and finances, etc. Ideally this should always be how tech journalism is conducted, otherwise it actually isn't journalism at all, it's just PR or trade writing. With fast news cycles this may not be practical for every single column cm, but it must be the default.

"Critical" in the pop sense (making a worthiness judgement) is not altogether avoidable, but it should be marginal in journalism. This is what Opinion is for.

What Yglesias & Piper are saying, in effect, is that the NYT made a top-down directive that tech coverage should be negatively-slanted Opinion.
Firmly disagree. While a manager doesn’t need to be a productive engineer, they do need to be able to call out bullshit. And that is really tough if you don’t speak the language.

Multiple times I’ve had engineers tell me something was impossible, or strictly necessary, or too hard, when it demonstrably wasn’t. If you let too much of that happen, your product suffers.
Twitter could have let him out of the deal but forced it. This is all on the (now former) board of directors who probably received a nice payout for a new mansion.
Hearsay on twitter
Thanks for saying this.. I use TS religiously and haven’t been able to go back since diving in, but man is complex Typescript hard! I’m building a DAW right now with pretty large interconnected, dynamic systems and the TS is getting really mind bending with all of the layers of inheritance and generics. A functional architecture as opposed to this OOP one would probably make life easier… but those decisions were mostly out of my control early on.

That being said, as a Svelte user, I really wish Rich would stop dragging his feet on Typescript as much as he does (no TS in markup is a huge bummer). I can’t complain too much though.. the Svelte Compiler is a magnificent beast and I couldn’t write it let alone contribute to it in a meaningful way. If leaving Typescript to the other maintainers helps him be more productive, so be it.
What is the reason that safety-critical tools like sudo and OpenSSL are not written in Ada? Rust is still undergoing a lot of work but Ada has been around, has been stable, and it is fast.

Is it that GNAT only became available relatively late in the lifetime of GNU/Linux? Or is there another technical reason for it?
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Mastodon

https://joinmastodon.org/
The US is the world reserve currency, so in uncertain times investors in foreign countries buy dollars. This is the only reason why the US is not currently seeing inflation rates of 20 or 30% per year.

The rest of the world is not uniformly seeing inflation. I heard this morning that Canada is at 3.5%. Korea is at 6%, and this is driven by import prices, since the USD is at high demand.

Domestically to the US, it's more complicated. Boomers are retiring causing a labor crunch, but businesses are attaining record profits which just about match the magnitude of price increases.
It is bad because it takes a problem and makes it much worse.
How much severance did they pay to employees? The WARN act maximum penalty is 60 days salary and benefits [0]. So if you’re giving out severance packages of more than two months you can ignore the WARN act as you’re paying the same or more than the penalty. And I assume that any deference agreement would involve not suing due to WARN act violations.

[0] https://webapps.dol.gov/elaws/eta/warn/faqs.asp
That's an interesting question and I couldn't find a direct answer. Let's use a good old Fermi estimate instead.

This report [1] tells us that the "global disposable cutlery market was valued at $10.1 billion in 2021."

I checked the Walmart website and they sell various disposable cutlery packs at about $0.04 -$0.08 per single unit. I know it's not an accurate representation of global prices, but it's a good start. I'm going to use $0.05 per unit in my estimates.

A market size of $10.1 billion divided by $0.05 gives us 202 billion units of disposable cutlery used per year.

The report I linked above mentioned that disposable eating utensils "are generally used once and then discarded".

Let's assume that a person uses two disposable utensils per day. That's 700 utensils per year.

202 billion divided by 700 gives us little less than 290 million people using disposable utensils.

Let's also assume that those 290 million people use exclusively disposable utensils. It's likely not true - say, some people might use disposables eating out but reusables at home. It lowers the average yearly usage of disposable utensils down from 700. This would increase the number of people who use disposable utensils. At the same time, it would also increase the number of people using reusable utensils.

How many people use forks and spoons and knives (of any kind)? I've seen anything between 1-2 billion. Seems plausible.

1.5 billion (total utensils users) - 290 million (disposable only users) is 1.21 billion people using reusable utensils. About 400 million households, at 3 people per household.

A crude estimate, but feels in the right order of magnitude.

1 - https://www.alliedmarketresearch.com/disposable-cutlery-mark...
> This can work because the browser provides the secure separation between app and wallet.

I thought the app and wallet were the same thing. What's the difference here?
From the thread:

> I think it is broadly good to be on the lookout for hard-hitting exposes and write them where you see them, and broadly bad for your ability to do journalism if you have decided the tenor of your story before reporting it out.
Because the initial selling point was “providing access to those living in rural areas without great alternatives” and then they tried to get a bunch of government funding for providing residential connectivity in those areas (And then failed at providing it)?
That is exactly what birdwatch is: https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/product/2021/introduci...
That depends on whether the BND are testing that it could be used in an attack, or just seeing a port is open. Having UDP/11211 could mean you're running a vulnerable memcached service, but not necessarily so.
Why you should never pay for online dating

https://www.gwern.net/docs/psychology/okcupid/whyyoushouldne...
It's also a risk/reward thing though. Putting an obstacle to the first date is a great filter to remove people who aren't particularly interested or who would have incompatible lifestyle. From this respect a hike might be far preferably to Starbucks.
> Journalism is supposed to be critical, no? Otherwise it is just rehashed press releases.

But the people who put out those press releases, like tech executives and investors, want it just be rehashed press releases. They actually got their wish for a looong time, and came to feel they were entitled to it.