skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judging by the downvotes, I don't think I'm getting my point across.

Absolutely every fiddler that currently has an audience of non-negligible size is paid by a consortium of advertisers that have aligning interests. The strings, so to speak, all pull in the same direction. This is largely invisible, since everyone must play by these rules. TV, newspapers, social media. Audience of 5 billion. We do complain about polarization, clickbait, negative emotion amplification and dark patterns a lot, but we accept it as the economic laws of gravity. Shareholder duty cements this. It molds our entire society.

Elon Musk has removed Twitter from this regime, by burning 20 billion dollars and stating a willingness to burn the remaining 24. Assuming he can make the economics work out, Twitter will be the only global media platform that doesn't have to bow to the advertisers' every whim.

A lot of the contention comes from the fact that if this succeeds, Twitter will no longer have to follow the moderation- and censorship rules that advertisers have quietly implemented everywhere else. This might apply to the extremes that the majority want to censor (whether sensibly or not), but it also applies to lots of discourse that vocal minorities wants to censor.

Regardless of whether one likes this development, it's super interesting.
https://www.defense.gov/News/Inside-DOD/Blog/article/2052989...
~10? How about ONE? For all the reporting, there really doesn't seem to be a spate of Tesla's blowing up in the wake of Ian. There's been three pictures of that one white Model Y, and it looks mostly intact. If there were really more than one incident I'd expect, well, more pictures and additional reports. If this is really actually a problem we can march with pitchforks to Tesla's HQ together, but given the tens of thousands of them that must have been in Florida when the storm hit, this seems like the media just has an axe to grind.
When they started removing checkmarks from accounts for unapproved behavior, it stopped being about verification and started being about Twitter's endorsement of the account.

That was a huge unforced error, and its eventually led to this.

However, I think the right thing to do now is to remove the checkmark entirely and not claim Blue accounts are verified if they are in fact not verified.

Musk seems to be compounding a new error on top of the old errors.
Oof, this sounds sadly familiar to me. One of the most damaging developers at my company had a huge line of code count. I feel bad because he loved coding, and worked long hours, and always added lots of unit tests... But the unit tests were massive copy-pastes of each other that tested the trivial stuff (setFoo(), getFoo(), check the result) and often didn't test the complex logic that was harder to test but more important.

He watched C++ YouTube videos by experts and preached practices to us all - some of which were genuinely good ideas - but he lacked the judgment of when to apply what. He made massive changes without seeking team consensus, never accepted feedback, and totally lacked the desire for concise code that seems natural to most good developers.

Sadly his manager was enamored with him and kept him around far longer than we should have. I still run across his code to this day, overcomplicating and getting in the way of needed refactoring.

Cleaning up his code has given me a couple of -2000 LOC days...
For a book taking place in a near future using that idea a secondary plot device : New York 2200 by Stanley Kim Robinson.

That author in general is clearly behind those initiative and put them in his work.
The ability to work comfortably in AR and take several large screens wherever you go is alleged to be a major selling point for the Magic Leap 2. We'll see, the company isn't known for delivering on its promises.
I have a reverb g2 - great for games but definitely not up to it for work - the sweet spot is just too small.

If looking at a page of text, only the middle of 3 or 4 lines of text are in perfect focus. The rest might be readable but blurry. You have to move your head to scan lines comfortably and that is far from acceptable. I tried all the tricks to increase the size of the sweetspot to little avail.
By any metric, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) did not effectively control or prevent the spread of COVID-19.

I'll take confounding variables for $100, Alex.
> Nigeria is likely to have a billion people in a few years.

There are less than 220M people in Nigeria now. The population growth is very fast, but even on long odds it's more accurate to say "a few decades."
I'd like to somewhat counter this, due to a common complain we see here on HN, and that is running email servers on smaller or self hosted providers is more likely to have delivery problems going to one of the few big providers like gmail that's left.

I would also say that phones are a bad example because while the phone companies are decentralized, the call routing systems have written law behind them to ensure ATT and Verizon actually route calls to each other (and all other companies like CLEC/ILECs).
I have a friend who has been working (coding) using a Quest Pro for about a week and likes it.

I'm not a VR fan at all but I tried it for a few minutes and was impressed. The headset is comfortable and light and the tracking is flawless.

It was the first time I've thought VR might have significant applications outside gaming.
> LOC modified is a fine rough estimate

Maybe for junior engineers and that’s it. I want my seniors and leads mentoring, doing code reviews, designing, communicating with the business about impact and the like, training, and yes, coding, but not as much as juniors.
AT&T's Vision for the Internet (1984) [video]
That question was discussed on 4chan itself recently. I believe the suggestion was that twitter will be saved by onahole retailers and pirate anime streams. There's also that one guy that buys ads for his own Spotify playlist. That certainly won't sustain twitter but it's a humorous future to think about for the org.
you pick your server and see if they approve your account too. This was an issue that I encountered. I made accounts on a couple different instances but didn't make it through their approval process and had no idea why.
Yes? Since at least the 90s.
Yes. It's obviously a silly approach that doesn't stand 5 minutes consideration as a business plan. People went to twitter to be outraged, but some went there because they could follow experts in fields, journalists, scientists, writers. They often had blue checks to verify them. Now, anyone can get a blue check. So the blue check is worthless! It weakens the core value of twitter. Will millions of randos pay twitter $8 a month to get a blue check? Will people who valued blue checks drop twitter? Both of these things reduce the future value of going to twitter.

Making blue check a paid cost is like an anti-flywheel plan. Jeff Bezos should have rejected this at the sitdown meeting. When fake Elon Musk and fake Trump and fake Obama start posting on twitter, it won't make people want to go there, will it?
* someone is keeping you and your galaxy as a pet

* you don’t have anything to pay for it with

* your consciousness is the equivalent of an amoeba and it doesn’t occur to anyone to bother

* you are the first, someone has to be

* theres a whole other way to exist, creatures who live in quantum electrodynamics bound reality are boring

* somebody has been and is negotiating, just not you

* everybody eventually lives a billion years, the thousands of years human civilization has existed barely registers, they’ll get around to it after breakfast

* your species isn’t cool enough and nobody wants to be your friend

* your species keeps turning the salesman into a god

* nobody has noticed you yet, it’s a big universe and there’s plenty of other fun things to do
> Elon should just deploy a "woke bubble" option where your ad is sandwiched between posts from two liberal elites.

The reality distortion field behind opinions like this is truly bizarre. Trans makeup artists got demonetized on youtube by the same advertising industry. The vast majority of advertisers don't want their ads shown next to anything remotely controversial. They don't want a "woke bubble" they want a "broadly palatable platform."

If your feed is mostly QAnon and you like that, advertisers aren't going to "reach" you in a woke bubble. If twitter becomes an unmoderated cesspool, that's the userbase, and it won't attract the "general audience" that advertisers are after. Even if free speech means twitter must host all user-generated content, it still doesn't mean you can force normies to read it.
>* 2019 - the year of VR

How is 2019 the year of VR? Look at Google trends for "Oculus Quest". You can see that it continues to be growing. 2019 was not some kind of peak.
You might want to examine your priors. What if the issues you see as symptomatic of wide-spread left wing violence don't look the same way when when considered in the cold light of maximizing advertising dollars?
I think 5 ly is the range for a supernova sterilizing the solar system if we are not so unlucky to be in a jet.

500 ly is supposed to be equivalent range for a magnetar quake. I think the nearest known magnetar is around 10x that. But even 1% of the radiation needed to sterilize the solar system would be pretty uncomfortable.
Be careful with Pleroma for anything business related. It's licensed under the GNU Affero General Public License. Anything attached to it is at risk of being tainted and requiring the same license.

https://git.pleroma.social/pleroma/pleroma/-/blob/develop/AG...

I'm sure it's just fine for personal use though.
> Try now to imagine an electrically driven vehicle catching fire during Christmas shopping season in mid-December in midtown Manhattan in front of Macy’s department store during rush hour at six o’clock in the evening.

sure, sure, the snow in which enough people drive for there to be a rush hour is totally comparable to a hurricane.
Hatchfi – Plaid-like API for crypto and Web3
For others like me, missing context:

> Google’s copying of so-called application programming interfaces from Oracle’s Java SE was an example of fair use, the court held (…).

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2021/04/05/tech/google-oracle-suprem...
The Visibility of a Toot
I thought that ASML got its EUV light source, basically, by buying Cymer in San Diego. Read some of [0], and then searched it, but didn't find a single instance of 'Cymer.'
Massive amount of code, particularly when written by a single engineer more often ends up being a liability, not an asset.

There are exceptions, but these are extremely rare.

Look for code created in collaboration by multiple engineers, with contributors or reviewers across multiple teams. This code is more likely to be an asset.

(Unless created by Google for external use or by xOoglers. Such code outside Google is a near guaranteed liability.)
If anything bad happens in any company, whether incompetence, or something illegal, it is best to just leave. Don't fight it, unless the company is so huge that if you find a tax non-payment issue you get from 15% to 30%, and that would be worth $10 million or something like that.

But it is folly to report wrong-doing to the company. Just leave. The business will almost always close ranks to the superior.

There was a story I read recently, the head of personnel was a woman. A woman employee reported some kind of harassment to her. The company started giving the complaining women bad reviews, whereas before they were good. And they fired her. This was a woman who let another woman know. That woman human resources person took the side of the company.

I myself have been subject to a lot of situations where I was extremely uncomfortable to the point of where I wanted to throw up and leave. I'm a man. All of the people that made me feel this way were women. Talking about porn, their periods, sex life - you name it. And it was so many, not just one woman.

If I complained, they would have to fire 1/2 the female work force at the office. Do you think that there is any way in fluck that they would do this? No is the answer. And I eventually left. Easier to do that than stay there. I don't have the time to be bogged down by crap, I don't want to go to court for 10 years asking for some kind of payout for harassment.
As a wise dog once said, "sucking at something is the first step towards being kinda good at something."

I avoided many areas of computer science and programming for far too long because I thought they were "hard". Many of them turned out to be way easier than I expected (I often found myself wondering, "why didn't someone tell me how easy this is! I could have done this years ago!!"), or so much fun that working on them felt effortless, despite the increased effort in objective terms.

I guess what I'm saying is, start learning about what interests you today! Make small and consistent progress.

I've found that setting aside time every day (rather than just when I feel like it) to study areas of interest has been extremely helpful in this regard.
Interesting, thanks for sharing! What’s the resolution and the size of the panels you guys are using?
It definitely happens much more frequently. So frequently that it doesn’t get articles written about it. It’s just not news. I saw a newer gas pick-up’s entire engine on fire and spilling spilling fire onto the road in the pouring rain just a week ago.
Awesome. I was commenting to a friend yesterday that it seems the news attention on Iran has dropped in the last week. Of course, our news cycles only have so much attention span for far away places, though somehow they can continue to talk ad nauseum about a potential conflict with China, or a Jan 6th.
https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2022-the-crypto-story/ is the best general overview of the space I've ever read. Covers most of what makes sense and what sucks.
The headset tracking for the Reverb is pretty good, it's mostly the controller tracking that has issues.

But the WindowsMR layer is a bit annoying. It's not too common but I've had a Windows update prevent it from working until I did a full uninstall/reinstall of the Windows Mixed Reality software, the Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR software, and SteamVR. Also because it uses different controllers, sometimes (though very rarely) an app will not recognize the controllers or certain buttons on them.
They switch from outlook at work to google at home while sending messages to their son on protonmail.

Your endpoint might be popular and heavy used or you could be self hosting and be the only person using your endpoint. It's decentralized and works for the average person
Full Self Driving will also be soon!
You have gone to the mat, arguing with industry professionals, while evidently having little or no industry experience, and making obviously incorrect statements like “the CEO can make employees do anything.” Like, come off it man, you don’t know what you’re talking about. You just want to be oppositional. It’s not working, you aren’t winning the argument.
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This is a misunderstanding. The public figure verification system isn't being discontinued, it's being shifted over to a secondary tag that says "Public Figure" or something. Like what you see with the "Russia state-affiliated media" tag some people have.
Anecdotal but on my drive home I regularly see car-b-ques of ICE cars. Not so many EVs.
I learned FEM at school. It really drove home the power of computers. The basics of FEM are pretty simple. You should need to do many of these simple calculations.
Didn’t see it mentioned in the article, but Yongnuo have two generations of shipping product like this, not just a concept phone like Xiaomi’s seems to be. The Yongnuo phones have Micro Four Thirds mount/sensor, but there are plenty of Leica-co-branded lenses in that system so it totally counts ;)

Their first model was the YN450, and the updated one is the YN455:

https://www.hkyongnuo.com/productinfo/660161.html

https://www.yongnuomall.com/product/detail/16254
You are assuming free.
It doesn't differentiate the flies mistaking the cow for a zebra, compared to the stripes themselves doing something else to keep the flies away.
https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2227/?lang=en

It says "Though there are likely millions of stellar-mass black holes roaming the Milky Way..." I thought it was billions, now.
> Counting lines of code, commits, changesets or any other simple metric will destroy your culture.

Counting them alone won't, but incentivizing people based on changesets will. IMO there are plenty of cases where counting LOC is useful to a manager. It's a discrete piece of data than can be combined with other data to make informed decisions as a manager.
Can't you rent displays when you move? More practical than carrying them around or being restricted to using cars.
I think it was more than likely Apophenia.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/martin-nie...

What we can do is try and support everyone who is taking action to better their place in the world. If all we have is our attention and our voices, that is what we MUST use.

Even if just to tell Iranians that we hear their voices and support their cause.
Towards Moore's Law Software (2008)
Hadn't heard of it before, and it appears not to be.

There indeed exist a few non-Vixie-cron-derivative implementations but as far as I'm aware, all major Linux and BSD distributions use a Vixie cron derivative.

Edit: I see now where I caused confusion. In my original post, I should have said all default cron implementations.
This seems like a really bad product idea. Blue checkmarks were an important safety for users to know which accounts were legitimate. And now they are taking away the ID verification part of the system?
Do cables provide vendor information? If you look at the list of connected USB devices on your computer, do you see information on the cables used?
Well in excess of human eye resolution, around 100 PPD at 2ft distance with a 28 degree FOV.

Peak human eye res is 60 PPD.
Ya exactly! I’d walk or take the train? Maybe LA and sunset.
Not only for building user-facing tools; the AI/ML space needs a lot of good engineering practices to function. In many cases, traditional software, infra and DevOps, QA and UI engineers, etc., are as crucial to ML projects as data scientists are.

So I don't think you need to worry about being left behind or that your skills are stagnating if you're not directly developing ML models. There's no existential reason to jump in, unless you're particularly interested in ML.
>Dorsey just cut bait and declared moderation and profitability to be impossible while watching Google pull off both.

I guess you've been ignoring watching Google squirm for years about moderation, they left China because of this. They've been fined for years in the EU for violating laws around this and privacy and this is only expected to get worse and more expensive for them. Moreso Google has deleted plenty of individuals/entities from the Googlesphere for questionable reasons that's leading to increased resentment over the years. Google hangouts/+ epically failed.

Google hasn't pulled off anything in the social media market other than losing money
New-ish.

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/23/905181717/study-finds-paintin...
Robot Jox is a great bad movie. I love it.
There is a sampling bias there though: most cars are still ICE, so if they caught fire at the same rate you would expect the same observation.
I suspect in 5 years we will look back and see a trend that all of these tech layoffs supercharged the current crop of tech startups. Seed and series A stage companies have been starved of talent for a long time now.
It is already more aerodynamically stable than I expected it to be.
I was with you until the analogy to electromagnetism and time dependency. I admittedly don't have a PhD in physics (undergrad astrophysics), so I possibly won't understand your answer, but isn't gravitomagnetism more of a useful fiction than anything people actually believe models reality? I mean the equations look similar, but there's no physical justification: gravity is not a field in the QFT sense.

I guess I'm asking why you'd expect there to be an analog to the interaction between electrical and magnetic fields, when the nature of the thing is so different?
A couple points

EVs are novel so anything happening with them is going to get more coverage even if ICE have the same problem.

There are FAR more ICE cars on the road than EVs so we have to adjust for that in figuring out the rate one would burst into flames.
Here's some data: https://www.autoinsuranceez.com/gas-vs-electric-car-fires/

What's odd is hybrids seem even more likely than petrol cars to catch fire, though EVs are far less likely. I guess the combination gives you the worst of both worlds in terms of fire risk.
But here the movement is relative to two things. You're aware of your motion relative to the plane, and the headset is aware of its motion relative to earth's gravitational field. Einstein's elevator experiment only works when you're traveling on a (reversed) path that matches one that would be caused by gravitational force.
I did say tricky, not impossible. ;) IIRC proving pointer-pushing code is an active research area, but I could easily be out of date. Not cheap enough to be mainstream yet, anyway.

We're deep into semantics territory with "what's the right context for comparing Rust", but I would strongly argue that yet another language safe via GC is not interesting for its safety. As you point out, it's been done a lot. Rust is interesting because it pushes safety into a new level of runtime performance and (to some extent) lower hardware abstraction. AIUI that's the motivation for Rust, where most of the marketing and enthusiasm is, etc. And if you don't need that speed/control, Rust isn't much of an improvement: just use a GC and have more fun (unless you just think Rust is neat, I guess, but whatever).

So it's the languages already in that "low level" domain (broadly defined) that are its real competition IMO, C/C++, upstarts like Zig/Nim/Crystal, etc, languages where linked lists are on the cards. Especially for the problems where safety has previously been seen as too costly in either runtime or development time (no one is coding to fast moving web standards in Ada/SPARK, methinks).

And I don't think I implied that those languages' list manipulation is less safe than Rust's, rather that Rust's isn't any worse, besides being uglier. I made almost the same point from the other direction in another sub-thread: there's no use denying that Rust code for DLL's is uglier for no safety benefit on that particular task.

As others have pointed out, the whole question of linked lists in Rust is a huge distraction from its actual benefits and weaknesses.
I’m working on bluesky and previously worked on SSB, that might be what you read
You could make an arguement of gmail centralizing control in email, but I don't think thats what you are doing.

Mastodon is part of a federated network. Most people who use Mastodon belong to a large server rather than hosting your own, but you can be part of that network without being part of mastodon.xyz. You can join mastodon.social, or any number of those mastodon servers, or host your own. The same is currently true for email.
I’ve had to use MilkyTracker on my Mac for creating .mod files for Game Boy development over the past couple of years. I’ve learned workarounds for nearly everything and gotten really good at using it, but I keep telling myself I’m going to fork it and try and make some improvements. Maybe one day if I ever get time.
I did not mention anything about gender (not discussing linguistics) so why bring it up?

For more on critical race theory - and critical theory from which it derives - may I suggest a visit to New Discourses' explanation of the origins and essence of this movement?

https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-critical-race-theory/
Urban public lighting switch-off map