skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
From what I understand for some reason the US embargo also affects us in the Netherlands to the effect of blocking money transfers from Dutch to Cuban bank accounts. I think the US is bullying these banks into joining them somehow. It's f'ed up if you ask me.
The Beastie Boys were never out to change things. They wanted to have fun and gave us the best live performance of a one chord song ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZ5yKJlhbiA
I honestly do. He's done a really bad job of consistently explaining why he would be a good person to entrust twitter too. He can be great in certain interviews. I think here he does a pretty good job of staying professional and building his case:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33475005

But in April he was like chief internet meme operator manipulating dogecoin markets and building a case for free speech absolutism. So yeah, I 100% honestly believe that the public and media's reaction is mostly rational.
Seems important that there would be some sort of reform when there has been no mea culpa whatsoever by the perpetrators. Quietly issuing a reversal 6 months after the election does not count. Maybe I'm just not aware, but was there an official change in policy after this debacle? I assume it remained business as usual at Twitter until about a week ago.
Time for some A/B testing!
We must treat these people with the utmost contempt possible.

They call themselves public servants and yet they act as if they are religious leaders.
Right, though we didn't need full tree semantics (just fast random access and an append that didn't spool up the fans on the servers).

I would hate to have to do a full balanced b-tree on short notice. (We also had rather terrible extra requirements that made using an off-the-shelf thing from, say, the STL work in our environment).
Related, he talked about being diagnosed with Asperger's before

https://www.axios.com/2022/04/15/elon-musk-aspergers-syndrom...
Thats fair.

I suppose one problem with this approach for C FFI is that there's a lot of different values which could all be "null pointers". Converting them all for Option would be awkward and slow, and you wouldn't want to ever risk getting this stuff wrong.

But pointers are also useful even if you aren't doing FFI. Eg for implementing custom data structures. In that case, Option<NonNull<T>> (Or even NonNull<T>) is usually better than *mut T. But its harder to type, and it doesn't clearly tell you if the pointer should be *mut T or *const T. NonNull<T> should be preferred because security/safety is at stake for this sort of code.
I think Solid is an awful idea that gets a ton of media coverage solely because Tim is behind it. It still has you giving arbitrary servers access to your data, rather than keeping the apps under your control as well.

I think the only way you end up with really liking Solid is if you nearly paradoxically care about user freedom but really hate open source software and want to ensure you control your app code.
> This article reads like an abused partner defending their abuser.

You should read a few stories about working for Steve Jobs (or head to YouTube and watch interviews). This article is extremely mild, in comparison.
I think given Elon's obvious numerous successes, despite this latest frenzy of "Musk Bad", he's objectively a great leader.

You do not get to where he is by being a bad leader. His entire job is leading, despite what people like to think (ie. that he's actually designing rockets or whatever...)
That just feels like a cheap way to live. Maybe it's prudent, but I feel like I couldn't live with myself.
“Critical” in this context is a synonym with “negative”.
What do you see as the main similarities? I don't really feel like the Beasties' early rock sounds were that much closer to RATM than, say, Run-DMC or even Schoolly D's "Signifying Rapper". The Anthrax collaboration version of "Bring The Noise" might be even closer, but it was released after RATM's debut was recorded.
Cons can build a tree, though it can certainly build a list.

(a1 (b1 (c1 c2 c3) b2 (c4 c5)) a2 a3) is a tree.
People will happily accept fake reviews if the product is cheeper than alternatives.
Spoting fake reviews is “easy” but very hard is you know the product is 20% cheaper than alternative.
Then again, if you have control over allocations you can prefetch whole chunks of data to which the list refers making this point moot.

Often lists refer to arrays or sections of memory. The performance loss if any appears in bigger structures where you do want to have explicit control anyway.
Fadell: "I couldn’t have built the iPod, iPhone, or Nest without Arm"

Yes, he did lead the team that built the first hardware manifestations of iPhone.

Software-wise though, there seems to have been a conflict between Fadell and Forstall. Forstall thankfully won.

I mean, have a look at the video in this article:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/1/6/14188624/apple-prototype-i...
No, but he is impulsive, careless, fraudulent and, when it comes to software, incompetent.
I may not be parsing you correctly, but in what sense do you mean consensus? I think Mastodon simply relies on there being a single authoritative source of material from any address, and then that goes out to various places local and remote depending on details.

I'm not sure that's really consensus so much as message delivery, I don't think anyone would notice if posts arrived out of order (for instance). It strikes me as well enough served by a database that gets updates from users on an instance.

So I guess, admittedly I may well not understand, but what does consensus have to do with it?
The video from Zed's Record store in 1992 is also interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lvzk6-2cyQ
Their drivers are open source though.
Chainlink. Ignore the community. Look at the work of those involved and the things they are building.
What would have been an appropriate mea culpa in your view?
Or Run DMC and Aerosmith with "Walk this way" produced by none other than Rick Rubin which role in the emergence of hip hop is extremely underated, as he one of the founder of most famous hip hop label, Def Jam.
Nobody at Twitter asked to work for him. They woke up one day and found that he was their CEO, after months of legal games where he demonstrated extreme reluctance to honor his deal.
It's unfortunate that Intel seems to be just as closed with its GPUs as the others. If they just sold the chips and provided full documentation, drivers, and firmware for a reference design (i.e. open-sourced everything but the GPU design itself) on their site, I wonder if they'd become even more successful. If you look at Intel's early products and what documentation was available for them, this was what they used to do.

Personally, I think the Chinese GPUs that are starting to appear might become quite competitive and perhaps even more open (if only because leaks/sharing may be more common) --- and I'm saying this as someone who has had a "buy American" mindset for a long time.
Ask HN: What do you use MongoDB for?
Should Twitter embrace porn and compete with OnlyFans?
> As for package management in R you can use either Renv or conda. Been coding R for a decade and have always pinned down packages and you could do so well before tooling made it simple as pie.

Right, I get that - but OP was claiming that package management in Python was a "shitshow". It's interesting that a lot of people are responding to my comment by saying "actually you can make package management in R just as easy as in Python, it's just that R programmers tend not to be professionals." Doesn't that just confirm my belief that Python's package management story is actually pretty good?
Or the opposite, prefetching a whole vector when you just need one item, evicting more than needed unnecessarily.

There is a reason why non-embedded CPUs have sizable L2 caches now.
Sorry yes. I didn’t read the tweet, you’re right. I thought it was the tweet that this one referenced which wasn’t so negative.
It's not a sacrifice if you are driven. Some people just can't NOT do it.
Domestic violence is common, but doesn't mean people should do it.
Wait, a 304 reply can change headers?
> Too bad that they went all political.

Since when have RATM ever been anything other than highly political?

Have you ever paid attention to their lyrics from back in the day?
> Musk drives you like a good highschool sports coach

Which might be good to get results from traumatized teenagers for a few years but probably not adults.

Also, child or adult, you shouldn’t have a tyrant able to abuse you at will until you quit.
Isn't this just absurd on the face of it - they're crippling their new emerging gpu tech to subsidize their established cpu tech. Normally the plan is exactly the opposite, leverage your success in one market to win another, don't screw your new market to support the market you're failing in.
Wow, this seems bananas. The loss in value isn’t even other investment, but rather “mental health issues for millions of users and increasingly negative political rhetoric, while facilitating ethnic cleansing, drug cartels, modern slavery, and vaccine disinformation”
The vision of space occupation has always come across to me as really stupid. From many scientific points of view it is infeasible, and many philosophical perspectives on top of that. I get the idea of making your vision come true and treating every obstacle as a technicality, but not all problems work that way. Especially not ones that go really far against biology.
It seems to me that if you owned the companies outright something like preventing one company from harming the value of the other could easily be illegal collusion and monopolizing.

I doubt they’ll win this one but if they do it would be hilariously amusing.
ERC721 is an EVM spec, how do you even propose achieving this kind of restriction in Solidity?

tokenURI aims to be flexible and unopinionated. It can be an inline SVG string generated by the Solidity contract itself, an IPFS link to a JPG, some app's custom protocol URI scheme, or a mutable HTTPS CDN like a game developer using NFTs but wanting to retain control over their assets.
Exactly. They've got great investigative journalism when focused on direct competitors, who they assure us are all peddlers of misinformation.

It's also laughable to watch them do the daily Meta hit piece, pretending they're the good guys and were never advertiser funded. A gate-keeping, deeply-embedded mono-culture of an institution funded by 5M well-off subscribers, going after a platform that 2.9B people use on a daily basis to connect with each other.

It's not that they are doing it, it's that they do it and pretend they are taking the moral high ground.
The story was corrected.
That's not whataboutism.
> Yes, firing 3000 people with lives and families

Maybe we need to be more mature.

Twitter was very clearly bloated. Laying off the bloat is pretty much status quo for major acquisitions. There is nothing unusual here.

Are any of the other major tech companies laying off huge percentages of their workforce also "jackasses"???
That was not what I was trying to say. I meant that it's not JUST tech, it involves a huge amount of politics, legislation, privacy, government relations, etc.
In the comic books he's also an alcoholic. In the first movie he's a rich kid who inherited his wealth, is making a killing selling arms, and only changes his tune after the consequences of his actions lead him to being captured and nearly killed -- where he decides to change his tune and become a one man army, judge jury and executioner unbound by laws.

He's really a bizarre character to idolize in many ways, the real life analogue is a rich asshole who makes people around him's lives worse at the same rate he's making the world worse.
I can't speak to the legalese, but on the surface the complaint sounds ridiculous.

> The complaint alleges that the Meta directors failed to consider that shareholders with diversified portfolios may be subject to net losses from Meta’s pursuit of a business model that maximizes advertising revenue without regard to the harms it inflicts on the rest of their portfolios. In particular, the complaint identifies press reports establishing that the company knew that its conduct was leading to mental health issues for millions of users and increasingly negative political rhetoric, while facilitating ethnic cleansing, drug cartels, modern slavery, and vaccine disinformation. These activities pose risks to political stability, public health, and rule of law, threatening the intrinsic value of the global economy and thus the value of diversified portfolios.

Is there any company in existence that would clear this bar?
If the fair use argument holds, there will be no possible defense against it. Microsoft will convert all open source into anonymous common property and monetize it.

That's the hopeless scenario.

Otherwise, the fair use argument fails to be upheld. Then Microsoft must argue that normally Copilot regurgitates a mixture of patterns from various sources, and therefore the licenses in the training data can be ignored.

To defeat this fall-back argument, we must attack the root of the problem: the moment our code is used in training.

That's precisely what the No-AI 3-Clause License achieves, while otherwise being the permissive BSD 2-Clause License that we know and love.
It's really great to see a service like this.

I was diagnosed with ADHD at 30. It's shocking how much damage it can do in your life. On the outside you might see the lost jobs, career trouble and difficulty in relationships but the inner world of ADHD can be even worse. Frustration from unmet goals and shame from letting down those closest to you.

Unfortunately, where I'm from insurance doesn't cover any kind of talk therapy. Online services like this can be an affordable way to access help.
Reading the article, it sounds more like someone really wants to get an ESG precedent established.
I find analysis of this type petty and stupid. It’s like arguing Doyle Brunson was just really lucky.

How much success, across multiple decades in so many different fields of business and technology, must someone acquire before meeting your standards?

I feel like I’m reading comments on Slashdot about Bill Gates in 1999. But in comparison, Elon Musk is wildly more successful than 1999 Bill Gates.
Extra copies, huh?

Feel free to replace the term “Vector” with “Contiguous Memory”. The relevant distinction in this conversation is “contiguous vs node pointers”. Embedded loves contiguous blocks.

A dynamic array copies memory if it regrows, inserts, removes. The cost of that operation depends on numerous factors. But it doesn’t result in “extra copies” laying around.

Oh wait maybe you mean array operations perform extra copies, not that they persist. In which case it comes down to which is more expensive: memcpy some bytes or cache inefficient pointer traversal.

It depends! But most problems for most programs are MUCH faster if they avoid LinkedList. Many people, especially new programmers, radically underestimate the penalty of pointer chasing.
Caught them live a couple months ago at Madison Square Garden. I couldn't believe how good they sounded or how energetic they were. Zach had to sit down throughout the whole performance due to an injury, but it didn't bring down the intensity at all. And you'd have absolutely no idea Tom Morello was 58 years old. I found myself wondering how much better their shows could have been 30 years ago -- it didn't seem like they'd lost a single step.

Needless to say, it was well worth the price.
> As I said, when you have pointers with some regularity (hence my reference to regular or patterned striding), then you may get some benefit of prefetching when you're not just dealing with linear contiguous access.

I would need a source to believe this. The only way I can imagine this working is that the L2 prefetcher might incidentally work well with your allocator - your allocator might try to hand out more or less colocated or evenly strided data.

> I'm not sure what you "don't buy"

This statement, primarily:

> Modern CPUs detect patterns of pointer chasing common in linked list use and prefetch to cache just fine

To me, this statement reads as:

1. Prefetchers in CPUs can prefetch data by examining loads that have yet to be executed

2. That they do this well, or at least that's how I read "just fine"

To my knowledge neither of those is true.

> You appear to want to argue for some reason.

I'm not trying to argue at all, I'm trying to learn. What you're saying does not sound right to be but it would be extremely interesting to me if I learned that CPUs are doing something that I'm not aware of.

If you're actually saying that an allocator may end up striding allocations such that the prefetcher can reliably predict where to load next, sure I'll buy that, at least for L2. That's a fine thing to say, it just isn't what I took away from your initial statement, which is what I wanted to drill into because, again, it would be very interesting to me.

Sorry if I'm coming off as argumentative, I was rushing that previous comment, which isn't really fair to put on you. I genuinely just am curious and if this is a case of miscommunication, no worries at all. I'd just be remiss if I didn't try to suss out if I'm wrong.
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>> The Beastie Boys were never out to change things

Musically there is pre-Paul's Boutique and post-Paul's Boutique.

They changed things. If you haven't listened to it for some reason, listen to it.
> You can even slowly see a talking point emerge where several large journalist accounts

That's true. The "2020 election was stolen" lie was amplified by all the mainstream media. Word for word.
The library would've paid for the copy regardless of whether or not the person actually borrowed the book - the act of borrowing itself makes no difference.
Does this mean that the demand for new treasuries is drying up? That would suggest that they would need to raise interest rates further to attract more money?

They're going to try to rebuy the older low interest bonds but that brings "significant operational complexity". Why would they give the money back that they just got by selling bonds?

Here's the report directly.

"Report to the Secretary of the Treasury from the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee | U.S. Department of the Treasury" https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1073
Had the same experience one time. I had bought something many years ago on amazon like a cable or tool and I remember needing to replace it. I clicked on the link in my orders and it took me to a spark plug or something. Vendors definitely reuse links to get traffic. It's insane.
I'm not sure I follow this comment.

Adding a random amount of time seems like a reasonable thing to do.

Not sure what the links are all about, or the discussion of time complexity... I mean, there isn't an "input size" to talk about big-O scaling anyway, in the case of sudo.
It’s great right after a new tier is installed because they over provision at the beginning.

It’s hell at the end of the lifecycle because they reaallly don’t want to provision anything new.

Reminds me fiber just dropped maybe I should switch. But I love my tiny little ISP.
It's surprising people are arguing about this. That fact alone shows that lots of developers don't understand the relationship between L1/L2 cache, data access patterns, and how prefetching works.

That makes sense, given how abstract things have gotten. Decades ago there was an article that showed the penalty for non-linear data access was massive. That was before speculative access, branch prediction and cache prefetching were standard features. The performance hit today would be even more (except presumably for machines that have implemented the speculative execution security mitigations).
Exactly. MSNBC was complaining about twitter a few hours ago, saying very bad things could happen. Embarrassing the level of fear mongering going on.

Update to my comment.
Found it: https://twitter.com/Cernovich/status/1588572920066240512
(Cernovich can have bad faith takes, but the video speaks for itself)
You can get away with single CAS if you don't need full size pointers. Of course then you're actually using your list to refer to an array.
> They later reversed the decision long after the election when they could no longer deny they censored the truth.

> With just a few weeks to go before the Nov. 3 vote, […] Twitter underlined just how fluid its policies were when it began letting users share links to an unsubstantiated New York Post article about Hunter Biden that it had previously blocked from its service.

This link literally says the opposite of what you are saying.
Let's go take a look at a title on WorldCat
It turns out that online union library catalogue Worldcat is now sending bibliographic search trackers to the usual Surveillance Capitalist suspects.

Note that Worldcat provides catalogue services to numerous other institutions and libraries, including those which previously maintained their own systems. For example, the University of California's Melvyl catalogue now redirects to Worldcat:

<http://melvyl.cdlib.org/>

This means that academic search histories are now being compiled by Facebook and Google Analytics.
Since you're intending to fake the review, you don't have to actually send the product. You only lose the shipping costs and the platform fees. And even if the platform handles fulfilment, since you control both sides of the exchange, you can take your unopened product and re-stock it at only marginally increased cost.
A little bit of a digression from the original topic but I have found sleeplikethedead[1] useful in the past for sleep related products (not affiliated with them). I hope it helps your search :)

[1] https://www.sleeplikethedead.com/
An update: I tried accessing the IP address directly a while ago and the Department of Homeland security was displaying a copyright notice saying that copyright infringement is punishable by a fine up to $200,000. Currently, there is an FBI notice saying they had a warrant from a New York court.
Threaded: <https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1570183006689673222.html>
This sounds pragmatic. But it also sounds… I’m not sure but it set my alarm off.

Abusers and bullies need to be stood up to.
As a note that type of prioritization would have been prohibited by most net neutrality rules.
> > Redis can be wrong, but both Redis and the Linux kernel can’t.

> Yes, they can, and I'd rather avoid argument from authority altogether.

Pretty sure that was a joke, considering the overall light-heartedness of the whole post.
This.

We're talking about a guy who publicly falsely accused a guy he was jealous of of being a pedo without evidence. Just imagine what he would do if he could get away with it without backlash

I wouldn't want to gez on his bad side because I think he has the power and pettiness to ruin my life
Acting out makes you look like a buffoon even if someone else started it.
I can’t speak exactly for NZ but I assume it’s similar to Australia; it is normal to get charged a discharge fee from the bank your leaving and there maybe an establishment fee at the bank your refinancing with, along with another small cost to change the official register of state government. This could all amount to a couple of thousand dollars every time you refinance.