skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Relevant though somewhat tongue-in-cheek: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2017/11/09/ceos-dont-steer/

I think that there are a lot of people that are cut out to be CEO, but most of them are already working as CEO - of a small business, or household, or one-man consultancy. There are very few people that are cut out to be CEO of the particular big corporation that is hiring for CEO. If you take the Ribbonfarm essay at face value, the quality that qualifies a person to be CEO is that their natural personality is in total alignment with the direction that the organization needs to go, and so they can merely be themselves, loudly and brashly, and they will attract followers that take the organization in that direction. There are just a handful of people, oftentimes one or none, whose natural personality is perfectly aligned with where the board wants to take the company. When you find that one, you should pay top dollar to get and retain them, because you may not find another.
Switched from TT-RSS to FreshRSS recently, mostly because I don't want to hack on PHP code. It's a good alternative, also light weight.
I've been a huge fan of the RStudio IDE for its Matlab-like look and feel and its support for R. I hope it continues to improve and continue to be a helpful tool for the community.
I love that. Should we dig in the Cydonia region on Mars? :)

Perhaps at the D&M pyramid?

https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/images/pia04745-the-cydonia-dm-pyra...
JXL currently has two levels:

Level 5 (intended for browsers), allows no CMYK, limits the number of channels to 7, limits the maximum lossless bitdepth to 14-bit or so (the actual criterion is that the intermediate buffers can be implemented using int16_t, so the actual bitdepth limit depends on what bitdepth-widening or -narrowing transformations the encoder used), and has some more limits like that.

Level 10 allows nearly anything the bitstream syntax allows, with a few "sanity check" type limits.

All of the coding tools and format features in the jxl spec do have useful potential applications for the Web, except for CMYK and very high precision lossless (and this is why a decoder conforming only to level 5 does not need to handle those). E.g. layers can be useful just for compression too (e.g. a text overlay on a photo background will likely compress better / with less artifacts if it is kept in layers).

The nice thing about jxl is that everything needed to display an image is specced in the codestream and handled by libjxl itself, so no need for a browser (or any other application) to implement these things themselves — and possibly not implement some of them, or not quite correctly. In avif (like in heic), a lot of codestream gaps have to be filled at the file format level (e.g. alpha), and that inevitably leads to bugs and differences between the different browsers/viewers.
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Yes. Everyone thinks (s)he is indispensable... yet the cemeteries are full of such indispensable people...
Hope things will resolve for you as well! Cutting off social connections actually made it worse for me.
Unless I'm not understanding the article, it seems like the tweet was truthful, the payout is the highest it's been. Is that entirely due to Biden, less clear. Could also be just adjusting to inflation, also true. But how many things are not adjusted to inflation, so even if the only reason the payout is highest is because of inflation, well at least they are making it match and not ignoring it like a million other things. There are no lies here, only things which might be hard to attribute. And I think it's reasonable to attribute this to Biden in all but the most narrow of interpretations.
But so does this mean on Twitter, leaks and whistleblowing about Twitter will be censored but leaks and whistleblowing about any other company will not? Because that sure doesn't sound like the neutral "free speech" moderation style Elon has been talking about so loudly nonstop for the past months.
The Windows kernel also has linked lists as one of its few general-purpose data structures available to drivers.

Like any tool, it has its place. As long as you're not traversing large linked lists, they're probably fine.
I'm not sure where you are getting this from. He was literally pushing for peace talks in the Ukrain-Russia war, where lots of people are dying right now.

Also he has manufacturing plants all over the world (China), so he would lose the most from violence (while many other billionaires are profiting from war).
Twitter: What do you call a pager “rotation” with one person on it
The article has errors. UA pays $500 a month for the $5000/mo high bandwidth high priority mobile service tier which they need for their high bandwidth drone video streaming. SpX eats the rest of the cost. This does not mean either that "it costs $4500/mo" or that "they pay $4500/mo".
I expect they mean that people who frequently use chopsticks at home are likely to have reusable ones.
Musk's prime motivator for purchasing twitter seems to have been ideological. Of course people are going to oppose him on ideological grounds.

More succinctly, Musk performed an activist takeover.
IRC was not even fediversed, it was independent fiefdoms, but it was fun.
HTTP/2 Performance Revisited
I imagine it's much easier for a CEO to justify divesting money from the company's profits to himself and to the government at a 1:1 ratio than it is at a 1:20 ratio.

I would posit that the CEO-to-government ratio acts, in a roundabout way, as a profit-to-pushback ratio. As a CEO, it may not be worth facing the board's reaction to spending two million dollars just so that you get an extra hundred thousand dollars.
That's wild. In the US, a fixed-rate 30 year is pretty common, particularly when rates were <4% - lock in that low rate for the duration. We currently have a 20 year. No prepayment penalty, no renegotiation. The only reason my monthly payment changes is changes to taxes/insurance (paid with mortgage, put into escrow to ensure those are kept current). I effectively have a housing cost that goes down over time due to inflation and salary increases.

I suspect a rates go up, ARMs (adjustable rate mortgage) become more common, in the hopes that rates come down and the homeowner see that upside.
Eating Panda Express style Chinese food with rice and a couple of stir frys? Try putting it in a plate, and use a fork and spoon to eat. Fork pushes components+rice into spoon, spoon goes into mouth. No more stuff falling off like when only a fork is used. Fork also used to stab when needed and spoon used to slice when needed.

Thank me later
Thanks a lot for the advice. I will try to do all of the points.
Right now in the 'fuckt it mood', so ready to get losses just to resolve everything fast.
You took the words out of my mouth! Many of our members (me included) have tried to adopt things others said worked for them, and it can get quite exhausting finding time after time that they don't work. There are 2 (of many things) that could be happening here:
1. The tool/tip wasn't the right one for you.
2. The tool/tip wasn't implemented in a way that maximized chance of success

Those 2 items above are what our coaches try to help with.

With 1., just picking up and trying something someone else is using can get exhausting. Our coaches help you dissect what the problem is, what sort of systems work well for you (in the past), what don't, and why, and then help you pick from a narrowed list to choose. For example, accountability works really well for me (body doubling) but another one of our members hates it because they are introverted and easily distracted by movements of others.

With 2., sometimes we pick up the right tool/tip but we don't implement it properly. We try it hastily for one day and then give up. Our coaches use behavioral change psychology to break down the steps, implement it into your life in the way that sticks, then keep you accountable to actually giving it your best shot.
It's been great, but the wolf and chickens can be a pain sometimes when you have to go to the bathroom in the next car.
FlowForge 1.0 Released
srsly it's 2022 and they only have legacy IP and no IPv6?
Did that company happen to be fast?
I'm done with these slow editors. Switched to Sublime from VsCode a month ago. Much more responsive.

(Still use the bloated Jetbrains for editing projects, but its functionality is regrettably unrivaled.)
I thought season 3 was good. Better than Season 1. The plot was relevant in the world of big data. The show Devs had this kind of theme as well. It asks interesting philosophical questions. But yes, Season 1 had more artistry and nostalgia.
In essence, they are. Shareholders elect board members who hire for important roles.

This is similar to democratic governments. In no democracy will voters elect the Minister of Energy or Transport or Defense or Labor or the foreign secretary. This is chosen by the elected officials.
Netflix removed 5-star ratings a while back; they don't have reviews either.

Seems like it hasn't impacted the user experience. Arguably improved the experience.

Perhaps other sites like Amazon and AirBnb should remove ratings and reviews too?
The most interesting thing about linked lists to me is how trivially it can be made lock-free multithreaded with atomics.

An array/stack can be made multithreaded but it is non-trivial to handle the edge-cases. In particular, the ABA problem is rather difficult. I've seen many solutions to it (ex: a synchronization variable that puts the stack into "push-only" mode and then "pop-only" mode. There's no ABA-problem if all threads are pushing!)

However, pushing/popping from a Linked List stack requires no such synchronization at all. Simply compare-and-swap the head (and on failure, try again). Its about as simple as you can get when it comes to atomic / lock free patterns.
Government fetishism. The threat they "post" to some abstract concept like "the republic" is not more important than the threat they pose to their fellow man.
Voting machines should not exist. Even if they are just printers.

Computerized vote counting is a ridicolously bad idea on every imaginable level. Especially if there is any amount of centralization.
Computerized ballot printing "just" makes it very easy to deanonymize people.

Here where I live your name is crossed of a list after you have shown your ID card. Then you get a piece of paper which is thrown into a box. Given the incentives, anything less rigorous seems quite ridicolous.
Like the ones used by ads?
I believe the original Tweet is https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880

When I go there now, I don't see the fact-check that angry_staffer talks about. Did anyone see that? I don't want to assume that a fact-check was removed.
Twitter Turmoil: We Need an Open Protocol for Public Discourse
The charitable interpretation of the argument was the exponent was intended to be a multiple of two. That's reasonable when comparing salaries in big tech to elsewhere, and I agree with this.

The fact nobody will engage in the good faith argument, but rather take the least charitable interpretation and spew verbal diarrhea around the assertion instead of directly addressing it is further evidence of the point.
After billions of quarterly losses, and still kicking around... I would love to fail so...
Starlink Sets High-Speed Data Cap at 1TB per Month, Lowers Advertised Speeds
The guy did just buy a $15b business for $45b, instantly losing $30b...
“Open to employment”
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I'm finding myself at the same point. I look back wistfully at the vision of Vannevar Bush[1] in his proposed Memex, and realize it's never been brought to life.

It would break all sorts of copyright laws, but my ideal system would suck in everything I view through the browser, store all of it locally for at least 2 months, and if I happened to link to an item in that time, make the storage of it permanent.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-m...
> I'd understand the point of the story, specifically what was so powerful about the eleven-word incantation

That's the point, there was nothing remarkable about the eleven words. Goes to show you how arbitrary the system can be.
I don't even understand what Web3 is. Whenever I try to learn about it the discussion digresses into blockchain pyramid schemes that clearly won't scale and other such nonsense. Certainly Web3 isn't just crypto-bros trying to take over the web? Why would anybody outside of the crypto scam sphere care about it if that were the case?
Actual source:
https://gitlab.com/edneville/please
Wow it even learned to spawn camp lol
I'm not taking trying to take any absolute sides. Even the best of people will do bad things. You can find dirt on anyone, if you like.

What I was originally responding to was the fear of twitter allowing hateful speech, which ofcourse had to be right-wing "hateful" speech.

My comment was more directed towards how I found that (default) assumption weird, since I see tons and tons of clearly hateful content and attitudes from all sides of the political spectrum online and in social media.

When I see people complaining about all that "hateful" speech online from one end of the political spectrum, I have a hard time seeing that as something else but denial about the hateful speech their side of the political spectrum themselves are promoting, or worse deliberately ignoring.

The fact that you find someone else's opinion disagreeable, distasteful or "hateful" is not a blanket-license for you yourself to act disagreeable, distasteful or "hateful" in response. It's a chance for you to be a better person.

If you want to fix our divided world, you need to show people there's a middle way, and you do that by calling out bullshit on both sides.
Good Ideas
I have been using RSS-Bridge to generate those feeds, but today it looks like Mark changed the API again. Hopefully next update will fix that. I wish I could get my family and friends to start posting on the Pixelfed instance I setup for them to avoid this cat and mouse game with Meta. ;/
Genfanad Indie Game
Interesting game indeed, the developers also have posted a level editor and their scripting language genfanad on GitHub

https://github.com/genfanad
It’s shocking that they actually recognized the issues with the show and made the right call in canceling it.
If you're claiming that it costs $200k to find a competent developer who can create and publish a Python package, that's risible.
Satellites cost a lot to operate and UA is using significant bandwidth for these satellites. SpaceX is not a charity.
I think the point of Season 3 was that the whole world had been transformed into a kind of Westworld through predictive algorithms and surveillance, and that we aren't really that much less programmable than the robots.
It’s the successor to rmarkdown. The same team that worked on rmarkdown are working on quarto.
I much prefer deques to linked lists when I need O(1) push/pop but still want to keep some semblance of cache locality. Although you can't splice two deques together as easily as two linked lists.

Sadly, you can't really control the block size in C++'s std::deque so you can't communicate useful information to the library about your use case. I think MSVC allocates such a small block that it is effectively a linked list.
> One possibility is that the Biden White House probably outright lies less than the Trump White House did.

More likely it's not a lie because the POTUS actually believes it's true. It's not a lie if you sincerely believe it right?

Like how he keeps saying that gas was $5/gallon when he took office [1] (it was $2.39/gallon).

Or how he claims that his own son died in Iraq [2] (he died in the USA).

Though the best example would be the tale of Cornpop [3], in which a young Biden, working as a life guard at a city pool, tangles with a razor armed thug, himself with just his wits and a steel chain. It's entirely possible he thinks this actually happened.

[1]: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/28/politics/fact-check-biden-gas...

[2]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/us/politics/biden-ukraine...

[3]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/sep/16/corn-pop-joe...
Investments aren't meant to be risk free.
> It means price rises of all kinds.

but my point is that isn't the idea of "genuine" (like you said) inflation almost useless to say then? what's a fake rise in prices?
Reminds me of this quote "There are only two ways to make money in business: One is to bundle; the other is unbundle." - Marc Andreessen / Jim Barksdale
Good luck with that. It really says "removed by the moderators of r/gifs".
ok so what do CEOs do? hell, what does my manager do?

other than calendars full of meetings, I don't know what any manager does. as a technical person my entire career, the only things that my managers have ever done is to have regular meetings where we talk about non-work stuff, or they tell me that I am in trouble and/or fired.

the only thing that I know that they actually do is make technical decisions based on non-technical criteria, which makes for a very bad decision, in my experience.

I worked for a lawyer once who hired me to make technical decisions, and then made them himself anyway. "why are we spending so much money on rewriteable CD's?" well, you made an executive call and mandated that we archive documents to CD using uncompressed TIFF. so we get about 10 pages per disc. I told you not to do that but you said you knew what you were doing.

then it becomes my problem to fix while the lawyer screws off to some foreign beach.
> It's a bitter pill to swallow that I not only have to give these people my money to do this work, but they're wasting time trying to ascribe credit or blame for it.

I agree, it is a bitter pill. The alternative is to live in a society where leaders don't need the goodwill of the people in order to rule, and therefore have no interest in proclaiming their accomplishments. Fortunately, there are lots of dictatorships for you to choose from.

> Voters seem to have no problem deciding for themselves who deserves what credit,

Voters certainly decide, but I see little evidence that they decide accurately. It's not that they're stupid, it's just that (a) they don't understand how the government or the economy work and (b) have no collective memory. So, they decide, if there is inflation under the Biden administration, it must be Biden's fault, QED.
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So does that mean that this decision came from the Sulzbergers? If only our hall monitors could turn their gaze inward.
the right answer, with a pool of VC money, is to have a pool of coaches on tap, so the appointment is NOW. no scheduling stuff in the future to be missed or forgotten. expensive on the back end, but that's what the VC money is for. And also to have it in the middle of the night - so many people I know have their awake hours from 1-3am, meet people with ADHD where they are.
Lichess: Serving 5M Chess Games a Day with 125 Volunteers
> From what I can tell he’s ruining the good parts of the Twitter culture and he doesn’t have a vision.

Maybe? But I think he and others would argue that Twitter was gradually losing popularity and had no direction. So I'm not sure "slow death" is such a great culture to hold onto.
I start with negative reviews, looking for well-written ones with specifics.

The fake ones are often absurdly easy to spot, with mindless cheerleading, lists of features regurgitated verbatim, and fully spelled-out product names. That's my favorite: ridiculously complete product names with taglines, practically only missing the (tm).
More diverse than my friend and family or HN.

The English language one worships authority, the German language side is mostly small children who are slightly left wing. That certainly falls under "somewhat"diverse IMO, which is a pretty low bar.
if you could find it I'd love to read that.
I would rather have my microblogging system look more like a feed reader than the opposite. E.g. folders, search, notes, re-export multiple curated feeds...
This is starting to feel like a medium takeoff.
If every comment you make gets appended with "Actually: vaccines cause autism" then that's narrative control.
Nothing good worth mentioning. They got some Scaled Composites employees killed though. :(
Feeld seems to be picking up steam.
> Linked lists are conceptual. A node pointing to itself is the most self centered thing I can imagine in computing: an ideal representation of the more vulgar infinite loop. A node pointing to NULL is a metaphor of loneliness. A linked list with tail and head connected, a powerful symbol of a closed cycle.

Tongue-in-cheek, but this really made me smile. :-)
Except it is the speech of those pressuring the company that is free. I can tell a company that supports things I don't agree with that I won't be a customer. If enough of customers vote with their wallets, the company will change it's policies because it cares about profit.

No one is obligated to give either their money or attention to Elon Musk, or to third parties that are perceived to support Musk's companies.
> These are basically training chopsticks. If you find yourself using them a lot, you'll find it easier and more satisfying to use actual chopsticks. Chopsticks are cheap, easy to clean, versatile, able to be made from materials like bamboo, and more elegant than pincers.

Using chopsticks is also good exercise for your fingers. I suspect that's the main reason why they're so satisfying to use.