skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This Musk, never make assumptions like that:

https://twitter.com/jredmond/status/1588675418064039937

A couple of former Twitter people I know have made similar comments hearing that plenty of good ops people were cut. That sounds like the usual PE death cycle getting started: they’re not critical to daily operations so things are fine and you can say “look, I’m a smart manager” until something breaks. After a while, customers get tired of declining service and the process accelerates.
Dutch National Bank foresees deterioration of capital position
That's not possible, because I can't discern the final cause of all these theorems and definitions in "a whole bunch of stuff". It all comes off as a game of defining abstract objects just for their own sake.
The performance of vectors comes from iterating through them and letting the cpu prefetch items before you need them. Random access in a vector doesn’t really get you that if the vector is larger than your L1/L2 caches, which linked lists would be in anyway if you used them recently enough.
Forcing Facebook et al to become nationalized so they can't legally moderate content as they wish wouldn't somehow lead to an intellectual revolution in Iran - authoritarian governments already block Facebook and other Western platforms, and if they didn't, those governments would still insist that they follow local laws (including censorship laws.) So we would be flooded with Iranian propaganda, anti-semitic memes and shit that we couldn't legally stop, while Iran would still be persecuting dissidents.
I watched an interesting TED talk years ago on cleaning indoor air with plants[0]. After digging into the study and understanding the numbers, it was humbling how little each plant on its own does. You basically needed to fill every square inch of floor space with plants in a normal office for it to have a noticeable impact. Bringing in outside air via the HVAC system was many times more cost efficient and effective.

[0] https://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_meattle_how_to_grow_fresh_ai...
No, they are fighting for literal survival.
People Still Think Their Smart Speakers Are Eavesdropping on Conversations
Sure. I have aphantasia too. I cannot, for the life of me, picture or accurately describe my mother's, wife's, or child's face from memory. They're as abstract as a random actor's face to me in those ways. I know details about them, but it's like remembering a list of items, not describing a picture I'm looking at. I can recognize them faster than others, but good luck getting a police sketch of them from me.

What I do have are notions and feelings about things when I think about them. If you ask me my favorite foods, I have to sit and remember how I feel about various foods like some kind of rolodex (though over time I'll remember the items from repetition, any such rankings are like this). I don't know how to compare the "vividness" of such things beyond notions of "that seems familiar" or "I don't remember ever encountering that", so this article doesn't really feel like it's about me at all. Of course, I'm also one of the most patient people around, so maybe it's just that the difference between "2x later" and "1x now" is close enough for me to wait in more instances than most since they're both just evocations of feelings and notions rather than things I can literally visualize and compare like some mental "spot the differences" puzzle.
I think my biggest recommendation is David Graeber. Perhaps something like Towards an Anarchist Anthropology. In a similar way to Kropotkin, Graeber challenges a lot of narratives that form the basis of capitialism e.g. that all we did was barter before we had money, that it was the enlightenment that first introduced the world to freedom and equality etc.. Instead, he shows that there are many cultures in the past, and contemporary, that have significant anarchist tendencies (mutual aid, direct democracy, solidarity etc). I believe understanding this is key to expanding the anarchist tendencies in our own culture.
Most other opportunities are not super-volcanoes, threatening to cover a large portion of the USA with dust.

Defusing that threat could be desirable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellowstone_Caldera
> Yeah I get it, it's dumb when the president of BofA is talking about how QC is "the next big thing", I know it's not coming Soon^TM, but saying "we will never have a quantum computer because the current ones suck" has the same energy as "the world doesn't need more than 5 computers" imo.

From the outside QC looks looks less like traditional computing (as you're suggesting) and more like cold fusion. There are plenty of hopeful stories and investments but it's hard to tell if it'll ever happen in a meaningful way.
Does it? I didn't see it in my reading.

> Musk tweeted Saturday in response to a question about the risk of impostors impersonating verified profiles — such as politicians and election officials — that “Twitter will suspend the account attempting impersonation and keep the money!”

To me, this sounds like a reactive approach. Whereas previous verification was proactive prevention.
What cool project can I do with an extra, barely used iPhone XR?
I'm an iOS engineer with an extra, functioning iPhone, a soldering iron, and a heat gun. I have no experience with embedded systems/electrical systems, but I'd like to try to do something fun with this!
Yeah i'll believe it when I see it.
Hence also why it's frankly ridiculous when developers refer to themselves as "engineers".
Much bigger conventional army, 10 months later has yet to achieve any real progress towards victory.

They may not lose, but at the very least they are doing much worse than anyone expected given the relative disparity in military investments.
Accurate Statistics on Data Collection
Where can I get accurate statistics about digital data collection & usage worldwide ? Is there a "hub" for this kind of surveys ?

I would like to know things like : Which company collect the most digital data about users or products ? For what purposes do they use this data ?
Where is data traded, who are the biggest data brokers ?
Throught time what amount and what kind of data is mainly exchanged on the internet ?
Somewhat unrelated, but as part of a recent fascination with how the company runs under Tim Cook I was looking for YouTube interviews with other executives. Essentially, no one speaks on behalf of the company except for the Top 4-5 people, and even then what's available is like once every two years. And they give no forward looking answers or meaningful answers, just refer back to 'our customers'. Definitely feels like you sign something that says 'Do not talk publicly' to be a leader at Apple and I imagine their lawyers feel similarly about stuff like this.
I'm specifically thinking of YouTube. They run a massively profitable ad business, pay creators, sell a premium membership program with a clear value prop, and successfully moderate video content faster than Twitter can moderate text.
From the buyer’s perspective the only result that matters is the profit.
I've been going down the 5k display research-rabbithole recently. Hope you don't mind me asking which monitor you're using and also do you know if Thunderbolt 3 can handle it?
Be careful. You’re approaching communist thought crime.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_value
It is not even boycot for political reason (and conservatives do those all the time). It is literally just conservative cold business decision of "I don't trust that guy". This concept of freedom where others are mandated to do business or not do business or listen someone is super odd.

Advertisers have free speech right to not do business with Twitter. They have right to not do business with me too. Just like Musk has right to fire people from his company.

Free speech means also freedom to criticize twitter or disassociate from it when you think it affects your business.a
Of course it can be true.

It’s basically impossible for nature to evolve wheeled locomotion, and we aren’t machines.

Are you suggesting we are optimal? We aren’t even very efficient or physically fast or powerful for an evolved natural being never mind a machine.

If we didn’t have the brains we have we’d be just another ape. A weak one at that.

That’s just one example.

Ain’t no birds going Mach 4.
You wouldn’t, but maybe some other people on your team would, or maybe some other team. Even if it’s just a small minority, all of a sudden you’re performing worse than them, despite doing an objectively better job. Hence, it’s not a good measure.
Nothing special…I just use horizon workrooms

Instructions
https://www.meta.com/help/quest/articles/horizon/getting-sta...

There is similar apps from third parties too but I haven’t tried those yet
I recommend watching Andrej Karpathy's recent videos on backprop and neural nets. Makes it really simple and intuitive.

The spelled-out intro to neural networks and backpropagation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMj-3S1tku0

Becoming a backprop ninja: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8SA3rM6ckI
This hypothesis has never made sense from an evolutionary standpoint, as it doesn't explain why zebras are the only animal (on a similar environment) that show this traita.
So, just to be clear, you think Twitter (and by extension Musk and Tesla), along with GM, Audi, Mazda, Porsche, VW, and Ford are being manipulated by activist groups?

Or do you think it's more likely that GM, Audi, Mazda, Porsche, VW, and Ford don't want to give money to Twitter (and by extension Musk and their competitor Tesla), and they're blaming the boogey-man of "activist groups"?
No no you don't understand. Science was wrong and incomplete in the past but now (as everyone learns in school) The Science has been completed. What we know is infallible and what we don't know is unknowable.
This is a very general statement that I'm not sure is necessarily true at all?
My rationale is personal, suddenly. Those things stack up but I saw something specific that made me lose trust in what matters to me, thought I dont think it matters to most people. I want him to succeed so Im not a hater, I want him to push ahead for humanity if he will, with SpaceX, Tesla, the mind pong monkey, the bots.. I still haven't come to terms with reconciling that I wouldnt of thought it could be true, but I saw it myself in real time....manipulating information on twitter. I submitted a thread here about it with screenshots.
You are not most developers.

And furthermore, you are not the developer most non-tech companies want.

Those sorts of companies want to lock the door to the development section, occasionally slide policy from memos under the door, and get software projects delivered on time, without wasting any more thought on how the sausage gets made.
Luckily for elon then all those Twitter engineers had no idea to be boosting their LoC deltas for the past 2 years.
I read these kinds of comments on HN and I wonder if the people complaining about copilot have actually used the thing for more than 5 minutes?

Most of the time copilot is giving you one-line completions that are heavily adapted to the surrounding code. It’s not “writing a book by quoting choice paragraphs from other books”. It’s fancy autocomplete.

You can direct copilot to give you anything you ask it for. If you ask it for an entire function, and you don’t give it any context, then you are more likely to get a snippet from inside its memory. But even when this happens you are unlikely to keep the entire snippet unmodified because the chance that it is what you were looking for is low.
These monochrome Monitors displayed diffirent colors based on the mix of phosphors applied to the target area.

'CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) Phosphors'

Phosphors : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphor

Remember, Brightness adjusts the black level, and Contrast adjusts the drive.

Picture Line-Up Generation Equipment (PLUGE) : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_line-up_generation_e...

Edited to add stuff
Thoughts on the “guard” proposal for Go's error handling
Is it at all surprising though considering his past statements?
I need a better word that Blog for Haven (feel free to make suggestions!) because 'Blog' comes with all the connotations of public posting--but everything on Haven is private. So it's worse than creating an account, you need to have the owner of that Have create an account for you; there is no self-signup.

Account management is admittedly one of the weak parts of Haven's UX right now, but everything needs to be source-initiated or else spam is an even bigger issue. (That was my previous experience trying to do this on Wordpress). I've got ambitions of adopting IndieAuth and building Haven as an IndieAuth identity (IndieAuth is like Oauth, but you sign is as your domain instead of a user @ google/facebook/github/whatever). This would let account creation be more of a whitelisting process--just paste the names of the people (people identified as domains) to which you want to grant access, and authentication is handled by their own domains.
If you don't want to store ill-formed addresses, you need to parse them before you store them.

At issue here is only how much parsing is allowed.
Also, instance owners can unilaterally control what you see and who may follow you (by blocking individual users and whole servers from federating with theirs). Whether or not such a block exists is transparent to you as a user (this is different from earlier, similar approaches, like NNTP-Servers, where it was pretty clear when a particular group was not being distributed by your server - also, differently from Mastodon, NNTP did not represent your identity identifier - using different servers for different groups was perfectly usable with the same identity (which came down to your email address).

They sell this as a feature and celebrate when "undesirable" servers get blocked.

Mastodon is a good idea turned bad by building in pretty dystopian functionality.
> mutually exclusive

Governments often set floors for wages. In fact, this is called the minimum wage.

> This system is the same as shopping at a store that sells you the same goods at a lower price than another store.

That's how it works in a perfect world, but not how it works in reality. In a perfect world monopolies wouldn't be an issue. The reason they are an issue is that with a monopoly it is very easy to manipulate the market that you control. The reason we generally break up monopolies is because they are actively manipulating said market and stiffing innovation. We tend to not go after monopolies that aren't doing this.

> I do not see what this has to do with a “plutocrat”.

A plutocrat is someone who's power is derived from wealth. A plutocracy is a form of government where that power, derived from wealth, is instrumental to political power. You may think that this is universal to all governmental systems, but it isn't. Often we see the reverse (wealth derived from political power vs political power derived from wealth).

Anti-trust laws, IP laws, the SEC, etc are all designed to prevent this from happening. I think the problem you're running into is that you're taking perfect models (spherical cow in a vacuum) and assuming that they work identically in the real world. This is naive just as it is naive to assume a spherical cow in a vacuum falls out of a plane at the same rate as a living cow. There's an approximation and you can get some useful planning from the simple model, but it is going to have significant errors in the real world experiment.

What it comes down to is a lack of sufficient complexity and nuance in the model you're using. An econ 101 course or even a B.A. in economics will not be enough to sufficiently understand the economy in high detail. It is really easy to overestimate the utility of our knowledge and mental models because we tend to not measure likelihood of events based on random samples but instead have a large selection bias (getting random samples is also quite difficult).
Win+ctrl+left/right arrow to switch between desktop. You may need to add a new desktop through the Task View app first though. Works in Win 10 and 11.
That's terrible. Those are absolutely the people you'd want to keep.
Thank you for the thoughtful response; this is something I had failed to consider (since, as you anticipated, I try to avoid creating deep or highly dynamic abstractions), and I do regularly throw in the towel on complex or deeply nested types (either by just omitting them out using a "close enough" type in Python, or by using trait objects in Rust - looking at you, `Map<Chain<RangeInclusive<...>>>`).
This gets blown up because of the anxiety/kickback about EVs. The writing is on the wall that ICE cars are going to if not disappear at least decline.

That’s a big freaking deal as millions of people make their living around cars. The number who will be in the future is a smaller number.
so I believe this initiative is problematic but I feel activists are shooting themselves in the foot talking about privacy and conspiracy. The issue is lock-in -- the authority is mandating compatibility with proprietary Palantir feature sets (for example approach to federation and access control) and use at a local level (outside NHS-E) as a cost saving measure (the cost saving part means replace not dual operate 2 platforms). This is signaled strongly here and in the FDP procurement.
> which tends to indicate that the content moderation team was already severely under-staffed

Or that they were moderating the wrong thing.
Maybe it does only horizontal and vertical steps. In that case it makes no difference, because the heuristic should always give you the Manhattan distance, which is equal for all options that don't overshoot the goal.
Because you want a slow, laggy coding experience?
Thank you. Getting it.

EDIT: sadly not available in app for me either. Only the $4.99
I did not know this...
> Unfortunately, I have to inform you that Moore’s law isn’t a law of nature. It worked for conventional computers because those could be miniaturized. However, you can’t miniaturize ions or the Compton wavelength of electrons. They’re already as small as it gets.

I think this is a mischaracterization. Moore's law is the result of many individual multiplicative advances that stack in each other (many of them allowing further miniaturization, but alternatively can also go into the direction of larger chips: chiplets, 450mm wafers, wafer-scale chips).

There isn't a reason this stacking couldn't also be possible for Quantum Computers. Indeed, the number of qubits seems to grow exponentially [1]: 1 -> 2 -> 5 -> 17 -> 49 -> 76 -> 127 -> 216 -> thousands. If anything, the iterative miniaturization of classic circuits made the first steps more approachable compared to quantum computers that had to start on the atomic level.

However, the existence of more and more stackable advances is indeed no law of nature that some authors seem to assume [2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_quantum_processors
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerating_change#Kurzweil.2...
Multiple reasons: Musk spent a bunch of time bashing twitter's moderation efforts pre purchase. He's then spent a bunch of time mocking advertisers' wish for brand safety [1]. He chased that with calls to harass advertisers who stop advertising on Twitter [2,3].

For context, Twitter has never had a particularly compelling ads product. Like it or not, both FB and Google have super compelling products: the best (by far) tracking, targeting, cross-device linking, or intent. eg Facebook could match your user across devices, browsers, and apps; and allowed ecom targeting by phone or address, not just pixels or cookies. Google has a near-monopoly on the highest-intent ads next to their searches. That's why, in 2021, Google earned $209B from ads, FB $115B from ads, and Twitter < $5B from ads.

Add that up with Musk's ... compelling offer to whip his followers into a rage at you if you, say, reduce ad spend allocation to Twitter in your quarterly ad rebalancing, and it's not hard to see how we got where we are.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1587899771091566595

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588676939463946241

[3] https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1588696580709924866
Manyverse
Most states make voter lists available (usually, for purchase) to parties, campaigns, and sometimes more broadly, and the list information often includes voting history.

General national summary is here:
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/access...

It doesn’t list California as providing voting history, but the information available from California County elections offices includes voting history in every county I’ve checked.

But that’s for past elections, I’m not sure exactly how they get information on status for the current election.
Mastodon is great, but think Web 2.0 needs more open source alternatives to Facebook, Twitter, Telegram et al that have all their features and are just as easy to use, or the public won’t join. With Zuck and Elon now owning some of the world’s largest public forums, their policies have to satisfy everyone, which is impossible. Not to mention that governments can pressure them into stuff. So we once again get to this same conversation.

We need open source alternatives like Mastodon. But it is difficult to match the ease of use and network effect of current Big Tech. Federation for example makes it so that downloading 50 avatars from 50 different sites much slower than if they were all stored om central site.

For me personally, I have spent around 10 years and reinvested $1 million of our revenues to build this open source platform, which I think will help liberate people from privately owned Big Tech platgorms the way Web 1.0 helped liberate them from AOL, CompuServe, Prodigy, MSN, MiniTel etc. and opened up new business models like Software As a Service and E-Commerce.

All the big companies, from PayPal to EBay, Google, Facebook, Amazon, only became possible because the Web was open and permissionless. AOL wouldn’t allow any of these business models to permanently be built on top of it (keyword: Facebook LOL).

Web 1.0 has a hugely adopted open source solution: Wordpress. NYTimes was one of the first investors. To publish something, people can choose from a free market of hosting companies, and plugin developers can sell directly to them, and no one can get deplatformed.

But for Web 2.0, I’m sorry but Mastodon and Matrix are not at the level consumers expect after being spoiled by Facebook, Twitter, Telegram, etc. That’s why we built Qbix… it’s supposed to be an open source alternative that lets you assemble your own community apps, if you want you can quickly stand up an alternative to what Zuck and Elon run:

https://github.com/Qbix/Platform

If you want to play around with it, it’s free to use. The platform is ready for use but needs a lot more tutorials and needs to be packaged for hosting companies… ultimately the goal is to incorporate micropayments:

https://qbix.com/ecosystem

If you’re interested, here is more on why it’s needed:

https://qbix.com/blog/2021/01/15/open-source-communities/

Edit: 4 downvotes in 4 minutes. That’s not enough time to even read the comment or look thru the link, let alone try it. Why such a vehement response to what is essentially free software, which is intended to help humanity? Mastodon and Matrix are in the same category… I would definitely appreciate any TEXT accompanying the downvotes, so that I can learn what you are thinking.
Why I’m giving electric cars a second chance
It's not a Federation otherwise you wouldn't be able to disconnect from other instances.

It is in reality a Confediverse.

Edit: All Elon has to do is send out a Tweet with something to the effect of "The Left's alternative to Twitter is Mastodon a Confederacy. Now that's what I call ironic." and watch them lose their minds.