skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm happy to do it, I've learned a ton about speech, myself, and society along the way. I also enjoy getting feedback, positive or negative, so please shoot me a note if you're thinking anything either here, via the address listed in my HN profile, or https://twitter.com/rhaksw
Wouldn't this cause frequent bus riders to get an alert that they're being followed?
This is funny, but comparing Twitter to Liz Truss is a bit silly. Liz Truss didn't have a vested interest to maintain a $44 billion investment. Elon Musk also wasn't elected to his current position as "Chief Twit" or "Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator"...
The product photo for the shaving bib apron (#7 on the list) is quite a gem.
People I interact with did not claimed they will be moving to signal. The claims of leaving signal were comparatively quite rare actually.
Gosh... I use Firefox, and it didn't even try to let me know before it asked me to sign up. Now I'm twice as glad I didn't.
Same here, for the longest time I thought this was a parody.
It would actually be funny if this were a realistic lettuce made of plastic
I’ve made a living working with Django for the better part of the decade, and certainly know who Simon is, but still wouldn’t kid myself about this meaning anything.
Interesting, I would be grateful to know more about what it could be if you let me. If you find out it.
Is this meant to be a joke or are people still this wilfully blind about what socialism actually is?
This was an interesting read. That Unified framework looks very interesting
Random pauses and inferior performance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_arson_damage_during_th...

https://www.yahoo.com/video/rioters-set-fire-federal-courtho...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_dur...
I think, they are happy will all the attention https://www.mastodon.com/
Wikipedia entry

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HAL_Prachand

Sounds like some French technology at its core.
If your looking at the results I am, I see a system with with 28x the CPU's being 23x faster, after 10 years of cpu development. And substantially more expensive in total costs too?
Are we looking at the same thing? Did I get the math wrong? ( always a possibility ).
Yes, it's a much bigger topline number, but it doesn't seem very impressive given all the infrastructure differences?
You have captured Hopper so well in that one post it supersedes the hundreds of articles, gallery descriptions, and catalogs I’ve read about him in my 6+ decades.

Username greatly appreciated.
I don't think so. It is clearly raymarching Signed Distance Fields, and doing so in realtime is quite slow. Even if you use proper acceleration structures, for every pixel you have to compute the distance to the closest primitive in the scene, and shade it. For a bunch of primitives using simple materials it is no problem even on a potato GPU, but as your scene gets more complex, the performance goes down, quickly. It is a beautiful and elegant technique, but it has its downsides. If you are interested in going deeper, Inigo Quilez (https://iquilezles.org/) has a lot of articles and code explaining how it works. I would start from https://iquilezles.org/articles/raymarchingdf/
Feature: Cookie Expires/Max-Age attribute upper limit [400 days in the future]
I think you might in fact be a fanboy. Which is fine, fanboy all you like if it makes you happy!

Maybe he does have people lined up to replace all the people he just fired. Maybe he really was able to ascertain who was essential and who was dead weight within days of taking over. Maybe against all appearances his actions are actually helping retain the best people at Twitter. Maybe having a public strop and suggesting he might publicly “shame” advertisers will have them falling over themselves to come back and spend their ad dollars with him. Maybe he really cares about “free speech” for speech that is not his own or that he disagrees with.

Maybe.
Exactly. For most systems that use heavy YAML configuration, their problem is not YAML.

YAML is a decent solution to their problem which is:

they:
have:
- so
- many
- nested
- levels:
of:
configuration:
without:
any:
- abstractions &that-arent-ugly

Markdown can only make it worse.
I must say, nice looking plate. That lettuce is already not looking so hot, though.
Or you can use char * and realloc (or a callback) for it to grow, if you're not forced to use caller allocated buffers.
Yeah I've had to slow down on them, my stomach is less agreeable to them than before.

But back when I first started eating them, I was once able to finish an entire bag in one sitting. Not my proudest accomplishment, but it's amazing what a young stomach can handle.

Nowadays I don't live in a country which has them readily available so I only have them from time to time when I visit the states.
> use markdown for configuration purposes - replacing yaml and stuff

That sounds unlikely. Where did you hear that?
My money's on the Internet moving on.

Twitter, as it exists right now, is done. Whatever emerges from the ashes won't look anything like the original. We may be looking at the birth of Parler 2.0.
Nobody is going to recycle your PET from prints/failures/etc. though, they're just going to get dumped. There's no magic plastic identification and separation in anybody's recycling. The way I see it you have three viable options:

* Use raw PLA

* Accept that you're going to generate some plastic waste

* Burn your plastic waste

Really unless you've gone completely carbon neutral, burning a small amount of plastic isn't a big deal, it's really where most plastic waste should go. Waste to energy plants are just fossil fuel power plants with extra steps.
I recently heard on the Tim Ferris podcasts about how in Asian countries age is considered an honour. It's a good way to look at things.

What do you wish the ad copy had said instead?
Surprised nobody has made an app that lets you photograph/cut & paste formulae from books or web pages, or just write with a stylus. It's the layout with keyboard and mouse that's the stumbling block. There's lots of good options for symbolic logic, numeric analysis etc.
Indeed, that is much easier than it seems (with properly cooked meat), even if it will look very weird for any bystanders.

Dull table knives usually do not cut much better than a stainless steel spoon.

Any food that is so hard or so elastic that it cannot be cut with a spoon is probably not cooked well.
Elon is getting quite delusional
Replace "interact" with "control" and "wave" with "walk" and you see the issue.
The next step is for Elon M. to cleanout the stables at the mic primes
The Wikipedia page says the engines are a Safran/HAL joint venture, so it's tech transfer from the French.
- Javascript vs *

- English vs *

Both awful languages in many ways. And yet, here we are. Also who the fuck wants to speak Esperanto?

In some cases I don’t think it’s “worse is better”, much as “the flexible beats the over-designed ivory tower”.

Another way of looking at it is “capabilities matter, vulnerabilities don’t”.

Think of a river carving its way through a valley. It is terribly undesigned and messy but it flows exactly where it had to.
I liked Mastodon when it first came out. But nowadays it’s seems to be more like a Left wing version of Gettr. Wouldn’t use either.
That failure was under the last guy. He didn’t work there yet.

Wasn’t an investment of any value either, it’s the message that mattered.
Why do you think this would end up like Parler 2.0?
I was listening on BBC World Service that it's about £5000 per person for flight, hotel and tickets.

Unless you have a high profile country that will have been bought up and you have to get scalped tickets. In which case the sky is the limit.

They were talking about the first time that Wales has made it in decades so they still had tickets free.
Ms was definitely evil. Vendor lock-in. They stole Java (.NET). They sabotaged Fahrenheit/chronos. Kept office formats proprietary. Did a smear campaign against Linux and open source in general. IE didn’t adhere to standards
If only Elon would stop saying and doing silly things
Agreed. For all his warts, he runs a ton of successful businesses.
The purchase of twitter for $44b will be known as the most expensive corporate mistake in history. He's aleady chased away most of his advertisers, pissed off both sides of the political spectrum with his selective enforcement of rules, and clearly he's reneged on the whole idea of turning Twitter into a "public square" as theyre still taking down legal free speech. His ship is sinking. fast.
> To assume Elon has simply discarded the issue of accessibility altogether is to me the least likely assumption.

Yep indeed, it could be that Musk doesn't really know who does what at Twitter, nor which teams are effective or not. Maybe noone does. In that case the best path forward could well be to blow up everything, leaving only a skeleton crew to keep the lights on, then rebuild on top of the scorched earth.

In fact this approach might even attract some more hungry and gung ho warrior types who are attracted by musk's style, and could be better suited to bringing about his vision than the existing team.
In a month everyone will have moved on to the next trendy thing to rage about and nothing will have changed at twitter
with all the attention towards mastodon, people should know about pleroma https://pleroma.social/ which aims to be lighter version of mastodon. it runs on a raspberry pi and is almost 1:1 compared to mastodon so that should get some attention also
You have an algorithm that deciced what kind of content millions of people see every day. Only optimizing for engagement is a bad idea as Facebook showed
you sense zero ethical issues at a company who's biggest question in the most recent last ongoing question is the definition of censorship? literally zero possible ethical consideration? I'm sure there's bloat too but yeesh
It's not great but it's good enough for, again, a free call half way across the globe.
Even email is not really that decentralized - it's mostly Google + Microsoft.
To not support it's new owner
We're more polarized now compared to when mastodon, and twitter, were first introduced. I'm convinced making a twitter clone is going to be impossible as most people are seeking to sort themselves into ideological buckets at the outset.
It's too early to judge.
More important than matters of intelligence: Musk’s public unpopularity means nothing to his power, whereas it meant everything to Truss’s.
A Blindingly Obvious Solution to the Fake News Dilemma (2021)
.NET exists because ms didn’t want to pay licenses

Also, they had visual J++. That was a nice ide, with an embrace and extend strategy to be evil.

The.NET history seems incomplete. I recall downloading .NET beta for FreeBSD in the 90s or maybe beginning of 2000.

I can’t seem to find anything about this anymore
Playing standup bass, electric bass, and drums are unique musical experiences. You feel them in your gut. It’s therapy right along with music. When you’re in the pocket no one doubts who’s leading the band.
Textual and Graphical Languages for the Cloud Era
My impression is that he has a unique way of building “Brand Elon” which seems to work because of the times we’re in.

He enters like a bull in a china shop, destroying everything regardless of quality or value. He then hands over day-to-day running to a team of competent people to build it back up as something new, but leveraging the original brand. Elon Musk then gets the credit because of legendary stories of all his hard work.

His social media presence causes competent people to underestimate him as a joke, not realising he’s playing by different rules to most businesses. On the other hand, it causes his personal army of fanboys to overestimate him as some kind of business genius. Really, he’s just a social media celebrity in an age when people give huge financial value to that status.
I guess refreshing to see the masks drop as people turn to actively promoting corporate censorhip. I didn't think it there was this many, but I guess US politics with its cycles of polarization increased those numbers...
This is clearly a joke
Mathematica had a really nice way of entering equations, once you learned the shortcuts. It's so much nicer to see fractions, matrices and integrals in proper notation, rather than an endless sea of parenthesis.

Eg. when you enter a rotation matrix, it's obvious when you make a mistake when you use the graphical editor in Mathematica. It takes a lot more effort to check if ((1,0,0),(0, sin(2pit),cos(2pit)),(0, cos(2pit),-sin(2pit))) is correct.
Does someone have a better sense of economics of charging $8/Month ?

At best assuming approximately the 420,000 [see Ref.1] folks currently on twitter will pay $8/Month - which gives about $40 Million in annual revenue.

Will the economics work if the advertisers stay out ?

Also, why charge $8 in the first place if the number is too low ( < $40 Million), given as Mr.Musk puts it, twitter is losing $4 Million a day !

Source : [1] https://www.statista.com/chart/28633/verified-users-on-tw
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What is the definition of "outlast" in this instance?
That's a bit more accurate, though it still sweeps a few edge cases under the rug.

Choosing phrases and words that more clearly express what you mean is a good thing. Communication is hard enough under normal circumstances, and on topics like this, things get even more complicated because of groups who are trying to conflate seemingly-innocent phrases with their own arguments (both to make their own arguments sound like there's already widespread support, and to make their opponents seem unreasonable, as I described above). You should try to be sure that you're saying what you actually mean, and try to avoid unintentional meaning from phrases that have been coopted by others.

On the other hand: Why, exactly, does it matter whether biological sex is binary or not? The other half of trying to say what you mean is understanding what you actually mean. What are you arguing toward?
I see plenty of web stores where all google reviews are from people who didn't buy anything: competitors. You can buy them by the thousands positive or negative, its not very expensive. The worse part is that [for a fee] these services offer guaranteed ratings. If you purchase 100 and one is deleted a new review will be posted, it continues until the count is back to 100.

The bad reviews are not obvious at all. Even if you could spot them 100% of the time the average customer thinks they are real.

Things are so bad the EU now requires any review system to be able to prove the reviews are from actual customers. Removing negative reviews is also not allowed.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_22_...
Could you explain how db indexes are costs having no reason at all?
Many of my friends and family who moved over to Signal ended up using it permanently.
Super interesting about all the high altitude needs of this and the Cheetah with links in other comments. I remember growing up in Colorado there were certain places and certain mountain passes that most helicopters couldn't do, I even remember one time an Antanov was ad DIA and couldn't take off because of the combination of altitude of the runway and particularly warm temperatures that day
Nobody is forcing you to watch them. Don't like it, don't watch.

Think it can be done better? Build it.

You sound like a child screaming "I don't like scary movies! They shouldn't be made!"

I'm a bit surprised you spent the time writing the article, and that I wasted my time reading it AND responding.

Ok, closing computer, going to find a life.
Does the EU have similar legislation?
people with megaphones are the point, the problem is when there are mechanisms of moderation to manipulate them and make them into groups, if there is no such mecanisms and moderation is up to the user completely(unfollow/block) things function very differently
"Swipe through the headlines - no need to read the full articles."

I mean that's really the problem. Everybody reads headlines and thinks they read the article.

Does swiping affect the kind of news that will be displayed to me in the future?
Seems to be using similar tech to https://ephtracy.github.io/index.html?page=magicacsg
>But one thing he obviously does frequently is fix broken shit, then try again if that fails.

This works in small starting companies not in a Behemoth like Twitter.

And I doubt he fixed so much.
The traffic problems he claimed to fix with the Boring Company are nowhere near fixed, same with FSD.
Why aren't wages rising in a tight labor market?
He has talked about open sourcing Twitter's algorithms.

And His dream for the stars aspiration for Twitter is a public square where people exchange communication and ideas freely, civilly and honestly. Some might argue that is a crazier dream than autonomous rockets, Mars and electric cars!
49 U.S. Code § 40103

(1)The United States Government has exclusive sovereignty of airspace of the United States.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/49/40103#:~:text=49%...
Ukrainian Forces Close In, Russians Beg for Help
Email isn’t really an exception - it’s largely another federated system failure with most users on one centralized system (gmail).

You can’t even run an email server yourself without getting blacklisted these days. I doubt Twitter is going anywhere, I’m not even sure it can be replaced, it’s an unusual niche product of its time and network.

Mastodon doesn’t solve the underlying problems that lead to centralization either so most users end up on one server. Back to the same issues, except the experience is also worse than a competent centralized system.

To solve this for real you have to solve spam (need IDs), there can’t be a distinction between a user account and a server, and the server needs to be trivial to run and manage with automatic updates.
I suspect outlast will be either twitter suffers some massive temporary outage that shakes confidence in the service as a whole or the venture itself collapses.
You're insane. Cut out the Fox and coke.
You’re right. He still might realize he can use it to extract personally profitable handouts from ethno-nationalistic autocrats. Through suppression, promotion, and sharing user data. That would be good for him at least.
I find mastodon a bit hard to navigate between the servers and how to engage in a particular server.
If there just would be some format and rendering engine that would us allow to display text nice. Let me think, something like HTML and a browser?

Jokes aside, it's interesting to see at what lengths people go just to get it "in a format I prefer" rather than using the given format (and the other side not having any kind of structured format as it looks).
I think he expects a large portion of the other 300m+ accounts to pay $8 too.
Once you have the audience prime for trolling, you’re going to do so. But the bigger question is why are we so happy to provide him, one of the richest people around, with free entertainment?
For Mastodon to 'work' in a way I'd enjoy, it would need a culture that it just does not have, and that has never emerged from any microblogging platform. The Fediverse as a whole is filled with enraged culture warriors, going out of their own way to be upset and exclude others.

I don't buy into the "Well, you can just grow YOUR OWN island!" spiel. I don't want to make an echo chamber, I want a healthy environment where people from disparate backgrounds can discuss a topic without "AS AN XYZ THIS IS BAD AND EVIL" being the key point of discussion. And I know for a fact that the large instances that operate in that way would immediately defederate for wrongthink.
Catholic Church can curb carbon emissions by returning to meat-free Fridays
I sharpened a spoon once. It's not as useful as you would immediately assume.
> I can’t see myself putting the same work in to help the world’s richest man pay the loans he took out

So Twitter was “really good” (while it was helping the many rich shareholders of a random public company) but it’s suddenly “work” a couple of days after the owner changed?

Nothing wrong for not using it because of ideological reasons, but the product’s accessibility (or anything else really) hasn’t changed yet.
Question: If you run a Mastadon server, what legal liabilities does that expose you to? How might that vary by country?
We know many things about Musk because he's a well known public figure which has attracted the attention of plenty of investigative journalists.

But what do you know about the owners of the Mastodon instance you registered your account with? Are they accountable? Are they sensible? Are they competent? Do they even have a real identity?
Thanks!

I wrote few of these algorithms myself for some other products.

There is always a trade off between fidelity and immersive feeling because the basses were not meant to be used with such product in mind.

With my company, Interhaptics, we built a full stack pipeline only for haptics. Our tech is at the basis of the MPEG haptics encoding standard coming out shortly.

We have been recently acquired by Razer, look out for news of you are interested to build for touch natively
I use WhatsApp. Everyone in Latin America uses it. I don't believe that Zuckerberg is reading my chats, and not concerned enough about E2E encryption to bother evangelizing another app to everyone I know.
Your questions are less interrelated than you might think.

Why is general parsing hard? It's sense-making from free form input. We have so many different languages and syntaxes and there are different algorithmic approaches needed to parse them depending on the format and language, frequently made as dense as possible for various more or less (usually more) misguided "optimization" reasons.

Why is parsing in low level languages hard? This is more about incidental features of low level languages. C just happens to be exceptionally unsuited and unsafe for the tasks involved in parsing. From a safety and security POV C is chainsaw juggling, but C for parsing untrusted data is chainsaw juggling while running through a mine field.
> is too high for me to think he is a particularly gifted engineer.

These people and quite a few other experts in this field disagree with you.

> When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001. By 2007 he knew everything about rockets - he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people.

Robert Zubrin - aerospace engineer

> Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction.

He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy.

He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years.

Kevin Watson - Head of Avionics, Launcher

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
Didn't he himself claim a lot of them are bots?
I don't see a valid reason to leave Twitter in his post. IMO laying off the accessibility team isn't a reason to leave. But, each to his own opinion.

The layoffs will have effect, but it doesn't have to be a bad one. Once they get leaner, they might have a clearer vison and know where to expand.
I think if it is marketed as a better replacement for such a basic tool as a text editor (notepad in this case), it cannot be a webapp, it has to be native and daaaamn fast, but let me emphasize the fast part, because an electron app will not cut it. I like the visual looks of it, but it needs to be a very fast and very much native app for me to even consider adding it into my workflow.