skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the most bizarre strawmen I've ever seen. I hope the author isn't being paid for "free speech = sudden child porn", which isn't a scenario I've seen on any site in the 22 or so years I've had a connection.

And to call Twitter the epitome of free speech, when it has had a working relationship with repressive governments and their police organizations since 2010-2011 is absurd.
"Goodnight Zoom"
TCP/IP based server for HyperText (1990)
What's most interesting to me is that for both sides of the (U.S.) political landscape, Twitter is a hellscape that is full of nothing but "The Other." From where I stand, both sides are correct.
There is zero evidence that build densely decreases property value. Structure is by itself a depreciating asset. Land value will increase when the neighborhood densifies.
Insofar as board members are compensated by stock grants, they are incentivized to increase the stock price. But if a board member starts trying to do independent verification of what the CEO/team is telling them, that's a sign of mistrust. Because the board primarily interfaces with the executive team, would they know where to start?

That said, I've seen some board members try this out by offering to help/chat with some under-performing teams that they have expertise working with and asking light questions/giving advice... but having been on the receiving end of a conversation like that, it often feels like there is a lot of politics going -- you don't know if someone genuinely wants to be helpful, is vetting your capabilities and fit for the role (based on the trickle-down responsibility), or is trying to do independent fact finding (trickling it back up).
Both good points. The split between 2D and 3D in Sweet Home 3D is quite awkward. It is possible to retexture furniture but I never bothered. I think between the better interface and better default furniture you may have something here.
Photographer Stunned After Being Detained by Airline Staff for Taking Pictures
In something of this scale, "enough resiliency baked in to keep it going forever" is not possible. There are many reasons for this...

One is that hardware fails and needs to be replaced. That requires people who know how to install the replacement hardware and deploy to it. That's assuming the new hardware is 100% compatible - that won't be the case for more than a handful of years.

Another is currently unknown security vulnerabilities, whether in their own code or in external packages they use. Those vulnerabilities are there and they will be discovered. Once they are, things start being taken down from the outside until the system collapses.

Yet another is bugs. Every system of this scale has a large number of bugs, many of them unknown. Some of those won't be discovered until the right conditions arise - the right combination of data, timing, etc. When they are finally triggered, some of those bugs will take down entire subsystems, some of which are critical to the product functioning.

There are many more examples like this. There is no such thing as indefinite resiliency for anything near this scale.
Ding, ding, ding! We started diverging from the "web" long ago with the introduction of SPA.
where i work we joke that everyone with a title of director and up is just playing "corporate Highlander"
Pair is absolutely not price-competitive. Pair's "Starter I" plan is $30/mo, for 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB storage, and 500 GB transfer. Linode's most similar plan ("Linode 2 GB") is $10/mo, and includes 2 TB transfer.
Only like 25% of the US votes so it's a decent chance the poster isn't a voter.
How do you mean it is regulated this way? RBC lists a 25-year fixed right now - https://www.rbcroyalbank.com/mortgages/mortgage-rates.html#p....

It isn't competitive (9.75% vs 6.2% on a 5 year), but it's there.
The Swiss do it too. I got a very polite email in 4 languages.

ps: Anybody? [1]

[1] https://serverfault.com/questions/1112995/prevent-the-git-di...
You'd be amazed at how many "traditional resources" it takes to manufacture CPUs and other semiconductors.
I view him favorably for a variety of reasons. I have yet to see any reason to hate him with the obsessive fervor commonly displayed on reddit. I honestly just feel like his right-wing leaning/anti narrative tweets drove the left insane.
> Icebox style refrigeration is really the only option unless you spend a lot of time at dock or have a big generator.

Huh? I have a van with a side-opening "mini-fridge" (about half the height of a normal residential fridge) running on 12 VDC, and with 200 W of solar (shared between all the possible uses) the fridge will never run out of power.
I have been in that position delivering that update. The kind of work you have to do as VP/Director does not translate well into the task oriented stand up updates that developers give. Often times I would be working across multiple projects/initiatives - some I am responsible stakeholder, some I am an informed stakeholder, some are with external teams or companies - and most of these projects are over long periods of time - as in it is not 2 point or 4 point story item that can be updated in 60 seconds over stand up.
> I am looking for useful projects that do something useful for users who can't give a damn what language the project is written in.

Fair request.

As the instigator of the kons-9 graphics project, I had 2 primary reasons for using CL:

1) It is a language I find enjoyable to develop in. As I say, it is the only computer language I have used which doesn't fight me when I try to get things done.

2) I do hope the users of the system will care that it is written in CL, as I am attempting a language-based 3D system where the real flexibility and potential of the software will be available to those who are willing to develop tools and extensions in CL. More of an IDE and less of a typical GUI-based digital content creation system, of which there are plenty out there.

And a bonus point 3) I wanted to consciously do something different, which accepts the fact that Lisp is not the choice of least resistance. No one ever asks "Why JS?".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMzaVDaZP8
Private companies will charge whatever they can. I never understood why people seek justification for a certain price. The bargaining power imbalance is plain to see.

When starlink charges you $100 it's because where it does so it has competitors that charge at that level. (Pendants will challenge this). In Australia where starlink is the superior satellite service there is an inferior NBN service and various mobile services if you can get signal. In Ukraine what do the alternatives charge that have consistent service?
We're still a resource extraction economy in Canada. If it's not oil & gas, it's timber, mining, water, fish, food. You look at every major export from any province in Canada and it's mostly resources. Ontario is cars, which I'm not sure is any better.
The next social network?
>>but the vast majority of the userbase is on the mobile website or app.

proving that the world truly is insane, I use old reddit on mobile as well as new reddit is more or less unusable on a mobile browser they hard force you in to their terrible app. If I need a mobile app I use a 3rd party app as the offical app is TERRIBLE

When/if they kill old.reddit is the say I stop using reddit, I would say my usage is already down 80% since the launch of reddit, as I pretty much only use the technical subreddits for news now, staying away for all other area;s of reddit.
How much of C-suite job effectiveness is who you know?
I've cast my share of moronic votes during my lifetime.
I know I’m not the only person who watched the movie idiocracy, but “the ‘conomy” is polling at the top of the list of issues for this election cycle.

Just once I’d like to see an actual economist debate some politicians who love act like them, despite having no qualifications and nothing but a list of talking points to back them up. We can all hope that this new crop of temperature readers will help educate JP and the fed about monetary policy.
Of course the administration uses cherry-picked statistics to get credit. And of course the opponents of the administration use cherry-picked statistics to criticize the administration.

Beyond obvious short-term political goals, the reason for this is simple: in a machine as large and complicated as the government, it's really really hard to accurately ascribe meaningful credit (or guilt) for any change, and especially to do so in a way that is understandable by voters.

Each administration makes changes (positive and negative) that won't be felt by voters for decades, if at all; and under each administration, voters endure the consequences (positive and negative) of previous administrations. But that doesn't get people to the polls, so why talk about it.
BC's biggest exports is still Coal, and then Lumber. I'm sure Natural gas will be added to that list shortly.
Orders of magnitude are typically in log 10, 2^2 being 4 is in the same order of magnitude.

The national average wage for the USA is roughly 70k according to a quick Google search, unless you’re suggesting the devs are making $4.9 billion per year I think you’re not using exponents correctly.
One cannot argue there is a supply problem in California housing.
I especially like iTune and iPod because of the out of the box thinking and the startup-like understanding of the customers back then.
So basically, you don't mind right wing toxic sites that bread enough radicalization to actually kill people, but you do mind the one platform that actually hosts groups from across political spectrum.
The president and the Fed have enormous power over the economy. If they spoke carelessly and spooked the markets, they could cause a crash any day of the week. Look at what happened in the UK in their small economy, and imagine how much worse it would be if the US president did it.

The Fed's low rates are also largely responsible for the way the economy behaved since 2008.
Yeah but the tooling has evolved over time. If those got tweeted today, there would be "context" added on many of them.
Yeah, it's ironic that their claiming responsibility for "inflation-based increase" in social security is correct -- because of their loose monetary policy that caused massive inflation.
That's only one part of the equation. But simply because the individuals get to keep their cash doesn't mean the companies need to give it to them.
But then you get the terrible JavaScript stacktraces !
https://marple.itch.io/orb-of-creation
I've heard it's a combination of

1. Usage patterns being way different from normal customers, i.e. at max capacity nearly 24/7, whereas regular customers can be oversubscribed by as much as 50 to 1.

2. Cyberattacks requiring enormous effort to mitigate or block

3. More stringent and demanding requirements for customer support, etc., because of the military application.

Though on the other hand there should be economies of scale somewhere here, so 50x greater usage likely isn't a linear 50x increase in cost.
Of course this is true, and isn't really a surprise. Very few outages are caused by existing code in a system that was otherwise working perfectly. It's almost always due to some change – whether a bug in newly deployed code, bad config update or whatever else. An untouched system is absolutely more stable than one in flux.

Of course the solution can't really be "let's not deploy anything, just to be safe", because then your competitors are going to launch new features and leave your product behind.
My hopes are for some sort of video editor for sale, but I have a deep fear that it will be some unnecessary for-its-own-sake UI refresh of Photo.

Or the more deeply saddening outcome, of some sort of subscription service.
RVers regularly power full size residential fridges with nothing but solar panels.
Or you can just buy like a 10 year old Ford Ranger for less than the cost of shipping a truck from Japan. They made them up until 2012. Parts availability and mechanics to work on them are everywhere. You don't want to wait weeks to fix your rig because it's Japanese-only, and the part you need isn't available here.

Also, you could even consider a new Ford Ranger. Sure they are bigger, but the gas mileage they get is really good. They can get 26 on the highway, and carry a lot more than a 25 year old Toyota. And it's brand new, so if that's your thing you have options.

Or consider an S10 or Colorado. The latest Colorados can get near 30mpg highway. The S10 was made up until 2012.
I first thought this was an announcement about how R now uses Posits instead of IEEE-754 floats… I wonder if the rebrand will cause any confusion for either party down the line.
How is it disgraceful to lay off a rich tech worker who isn't needed in the company anymore and can add more value elsewhere in the economy? This is a big part of economic prosperity that we all enjoy. Sometimes people need to get fired. It sucks, but if everyone was in a jobs protection racket, that would suck much much more.
Why do we need human rights? Elon will tell you what your rights are. Also he would probably like to have twins with you
?

You made a post an hour ago and within 29 minutes provided an update that it was resolved. How much easier can it get?
Do you honestly think your first sentence has anything to do with public/media reaction? I mean honestly? Because the same reaction happened in April when none of this had occurred. There had been a turn against Musk before the Twitter acquisition was even a thought. I just find it interesting.
Voters are pretty smart.

They just don't focus a lot of their smartness on electoral issues, since the personal payoff is so near non existent.
It's a typo. There isn't some kind of grave epistemic problem with the first sentence where everything that follows is predicated on a falsehood. We don't discard the contents of books just because the publication has a typo.
Yes. It is interesting over the years watching people play "hot potato" with the boss' friend or such.

Eventually they land somewhere and it doesn't take long to figure out the deal and then they start working on a strategy on how to move them somewhere else.

Obviously the person i responded to hasn't spent much time with a large org to see this first hand.
Advance parole is the permission to leave and re-enter the US while your green card application is pending. USCIS is pretty backlogged right now, so getting anything approved, including advance parole, can take longer, which leads to bad experiences like this one.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/us-citizens/advance-parole
Always go by the 1 or 2 star reviews.....
Here in the US we have ARMs (adjustable rate mortgages) - usually they are rated by (fixed period/stepping rate) - the most common being a 5/1 ARM = 5y fixed + adjustable rate reset every year.

So is it the case that in NZ, if you refinance your mortgage, you typically get charged a significant fee?
So, we should ignore Web3. Fine.

But should we ignore Solid? The project started in 2016. Can you _do_ anything with it yet? You can "start a pod", but all the apps are clearly written to demonstrate the platform features rather than to _do_ anything or meet any user need. Of the ones listed, I couldn't actually get any to work with a newly created pod.

https://solidproject.org/users/get-a-pod
https://solidproject.org/apps
Ok now create a vector space of similarity between videos in each category and extract the key points from each video into a summary of each category.
Personally, I don't understand why buying votes in this way is bad. I should be able to sell my vote if I want. Rich people can skew elections either way, at least this way ordinary people might get a cut of the corruption.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/11/04/poli...

Example of how musk can blackmail governments at critical juncture. Never ever should any govt depend on this egomaniac POS for such critical infra
Have you ever seen White House getting fact-checked with democrats in power before the acquisition? If there is any bias going on its from people that have a bone to pick with Elon and his choices

The fact that my comment got flagged for some odd reason highlights the fact that people (including on HN) dont want to hear that Elon is making twitter better and less biased
I totally disagree.
Saying that "pi isn't really about circles" is totally wrong and removes it from any properties people can easily grasp.

He argues that pi should be defined as a property of a differential equation. This is obviously stupid, because it makes mathematics impossible to teach.

For me it gets the worst when he claims that Euler's equation has no relation to circles. Which is, really, really stupid.
The complex exponential represents rotations in space. This connectiom can only arise when you understand first that pi is in fact about circles.
The circle is the underlying principle of pi.
> What I get from this whole experience is big tech employees, likely on a wage x^2 their national average

> According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median wage for workers in the United States in the second quarter of 2022 was about $1,041 per week or $54,132 per year

Which puts your estimate of the average silicon valley wage at $2,930,273,424 per year.
I'm a big fan of the genre, but is there a sub genre term to describe games that:

- Generally have minimalist art styles
- Have progression in the UI as complexity unlocks and changes the perspective and scale of the game
- no ads or IAP
- otherwise is a blend of clicker and incremental idler game?
Isn't that essentially what Jupyter does?
Do say more!
“Pray I don’t change the terms a second time.”

I was never especially keen of the going to Mars bit. Perhaps my lack of faith is disturbing.

Prey -> Pray

[You mean my Praying Mantis isn’t so beneficent?]
> That may or may not be true, it's all unclear.

It has already been proven Twitter will stop being the Twitter its users have enjoyed for the past decade. You are free to argue Twitter will be better for it but there is absolutely no disputing the old Twitter is dead.
ITT: Lots of people from overseas wondering how New Zealand's mortgage and housing market works.

This post is wrong, we're not in a recessionary spiral. Households (and banks!) are overall doing fine. Unemployment is at record lows, wages are rising faster than inflation, non-performing (ie in default) mortgages are at 0.2% of all mortgages (lower than GFC), mortgages are stress-tested to higher levels than we're seeing. Banks are extremely healthy (making money hand over fist).

Consumer confidence is low, but it's low in defiance of reality.

For more see here: https://thekaka.substack.com/p/incomes-are-rising-faster-tha...
Salaried employees are a fixed cost. Just like we try to improve our production costs by absorbing it and spreading through more gallons/widgets, we do the same with our salaried employees. The piece that gets missed is often the useless work we do that is the real savings for the company. Instead we are not working later to get answers to some executive who demands them a day earlier than they really need them because we cut a headcount.
Woah, that’s strange. I just bought a house and the mortgage guy I was dealing with said anything more than 7 years is prohibited in Canada unless you go to an unregulated B-lender.
Clearly I stand corrected!
> They laid off 25% of the workforce so at least 25% of Twitter will be affected.

That's assuming that those 25% were actually putting in work at Twitter.
What are the chances the private sector wants to play up the possibility of recession to preempt government freebies?

“Keep buying those mortgage backed loans”, for example

“Keep those interest rates near zero”

What do they have at stake?
Self-publishing isn't free, and usually requires guidance from a professional resource to do properly without your book being lost in the chaff. You may get a higher percentage of return, but haven spoken to a fellow community member who has done self-publishing and writing for a major publisher, they commented they would never do self-publishing again.

My books are both in eBook format and paperback. ~400-500 hundred pages in length. The hundreds of hours spent writing the book/taking screenshots, formatting, does not pay off, at least for technical books.

Creating technical books is purely for the notoriety, possibly job prospects, etc., IME. I've had wonderful community feedback which is certainly a self-esteem boost (maybe ego, which isn't necessarily a good thing :)), but it is only going to buy me a few cups of coffee at Starbucks.
Good for the wealthy.

Middle-class still can't buy because of stricter lending rules and increasing interest rates.

Middle-class who FOMO'd in the last 2 years will see their interest rates double and even triple when they refinance in the next months. With inflation and cost of living rises recently, that bump up in their mortgage payments is really going to hurt.

Meanwhile, those with the cash can just scoop up houses (if/when they want to).

Silver lining is younger and future generations might not be completely and utterly f'd.
I think it's just bad online tutorials and guides. It's not any more complicated in practice than any other language I've tried, maybe with the caveat that getting a REPL running and connected is more work than an only static analysis based IDE.
that's amazing! Subscribing now.

I'd love to find a "web2rss" for laggards that don't provide their own feeds :)
Consistency is not Musk's strong suit.
Ah my mistake about the subsystem implementation. My memory was fuzzy given the 5+ years since I read Windows Internals 7th Edition. Thanks for the correction!
I have a theory that when the C-suite decides to slay an entire division they assign an incompetent boss. Give them a few months to mess it up. Then go for the kill. The incompetent new boss magically absorbs all the blame.
Is it possible that Elon's intention here has little to do with his personal fortune, or that of his employees? Maybe he simply sees the current situation as Twitter as a cancer on society, and sees himself in a unique position (ie. rich enough) to actually do something about it. Forget about the numbers, the digital marketing/pseudo-journalism industry pretty much needs to be cut down a notch, (or stop calling itself tech!). I see your point that he has a good chance at failure, but pretending the company /was/ successful or on some great path up until last week is just sad.
Not really: inflation is happening all over the world, not just in the US. In fact, the US has some of the lowest inflation among western nations.

The cause of inflation is the economic hit from Covid and our response to it. So my original point stands: the world is complicated, and it's naive to say "Biden caused inflation."
I did this, to three campuses without realising - My intention was just to send to my classroom.

Oops.