skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is crazy. The stock has been going sideways since the IPO [1], for a tech company during one of the most fertile and robust economic decades, Twitter's performance has been absolutely abysmal.

Twitter hasn't innovated, the whole thing has been running on autopilot since the IPO.

[1] https://tinyurl.com/ynnmx6zu

Compare with a company like Cloudflare that launches new products at a breathtaking pace, Twitter just seems so docile and unimpressive. Yes, I've spent thousands of dollars on their ad platform and it is a complete shitshow on the backstage too. Twitter's ad platform is a joke compared to Meta.

I feel bad for any employee that gets laid off, but to not see the problems in Twitter is being way too emotional and not very objective. Twitter needs a reboot. Those that stayed have a great future ahead.
>Is there a connotation of ADHD being associated with snake-oil or scams that I’m not familiar with?

With ADHD? Not really, but compared to other disabled people those with ADHD tend to be extremely pro mainstream medicine because they have basically the most effective pharmacological treatments of ANY mental disorder. Stimulants are several times more effective than treatments like SSRIs. So there is a strong bias towards conservatism because well why rock the boat when you have extremely effective treatment options?

Other disabled people tend to have a much more ambivalent or sceptical view of mainstream medicine since trying to treat most mental disorders is akin to trying to stop smoking. It does happen and it's more likely to happen the more times you try, but it's a plodding frustrating business that makes you desire something better. So they're more keen on more, lets call them "speculative" approaches to health.

For me with this specific case, it's them talking up the "science-based" (lol) nature of their program and them directly marketing it to people not diagnosed with ADHD but who suspect they have it. Show me the science showing this is an effective treatment for people who THINK they have ADHD. Thus essentially encouraging people to defer a diagnosis which results in insanely effective treatments to try a program that is experimental at best and is based off methodologies which are far less successful than pharmacological interventions. It smacks of exploitation. I'm not inherently opposed to the fundamental idea they're presenting, I simply don't trust these people AT ALL and think they're dangerous.
Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek - How a Dutch fabric seller made the most powerful magnifying lens of his time—and of the next 150 years—and became the first person ever to see a microorganism.
These look good on YouTube but in reality they move quite slow and are pretty underwhelming. Most online videos of drone shows are sped up quite a lot.

And missing the most exciting part of fireworks which is the sound/shockwaves
Observation of Jurassic Park?

Yes, it's possible to reacquire the capability to produce something like an aminoacid. But because that has to happen extremely quickly, before the organism dies, that's extremely unlikely. And then that bacterium is still vastly inferior to all the other ones. And it doesn't have any scary properties in the first place.
I know nothing about Intel's internal organization.

There were several different light source ideas tried. Some at US national laboratories. Tin plasma was known to work but it left so much debris that it gummed up the optics so it was forgotten for a while. The key turned out to be tin microdroplets.

https://www.optica-opn.org/home/articles/volume_29/march_201...
> The people who got exercise, slept well and kept meaning in their life avoided falling down the hole. They aren't in the study in the first place.

Horseshit.

I have a sleep tracker and an exercise tracker that tell me I get enough of both and I’ve plenty of meaning in my life. None of those things helped nearly as much as adderall.
Many of the STL containers in MSVC are incredibly cursed. Even std::vector is implemented in such a weird way, that you can't debug it easily with any debugger other than Visual Studio. And it's incredibly slow on Debug mode, up to the point that it's unusable... (Because of these reasons I just switched to using my own Vector<T> class recently)

I think there's a very good reason why old gamedevs who were stuck with developing on Windows largely ignored the STL and made their own containers / utility functions: MSVC's STL was just awful.
Thank you, I’ll check it out.
Well, by the book and its origins, there is no improvement just because in Markdown you can use any HTML. Markdown itself is part of the try when you follow the path of its history and when marketed as a subset, it means (and that approach may be valid), let us go back and reduce to the early set of HTML tags.
Here's a great one for Android as well.

https://github.com/mkulesh/microMathematics

These guys should collaborate.
During Covid I used over 1TB a month on my 5G connection some months.

That was back when I was playing a lot of PUBG on Stadia - it could really rip though the data.
I mean the coverage in the media, and am being a little sarcastic calling it “interesting”.
Related:

Mathics – A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19851934 - May 2019 (83 comments)

Mathics: A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11459186 - April 2016 (73 comments)

Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5196551 - Feb 2013 (86 comments)

Mathics - A free, light-weight alternative to Mathematica with support for Sage - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4066826 - June 2012 (57 comments)
EU must fully implement global banking rules, top EU bank regulators say
It's the commenting on something before it happens that can help prevent it from happening. Commenting about it after it happens is the worthless effort.
Well, I don’t know. In many countries it has devolved into football-fan level love/hatred that benefits no one.

Also, chances are neither of the two parties fit what you want. Especially in the US it is basically choosing the lesser evil..
Perhaps "append-only" might be the appropriate term there.
Energy of a wave is proportional to the square of amplitude, so I guess they took the square of the doubled amplitude in dB.
Show HN: Orbhai: Offline first task manager
Hello folks, this is my first web app which I have primarily created for myself, just wanted to get some feedback, what else should I add to it so that it is useful for you too.
Womp 3D – The New Way to 3D
I'm having some trouble understanding your perspective. Your original comment said:

> That [average] voter is much more connected to reality than the typical academic, politician or professional though. Because they actually go out and do things in the real world.

Now you're being more specific, saying those people who work outside "the real world," are those who are:

> Frequently extreme specialists in a specific field that doesn't translate well into broad life experience.

Why do you think that a fry cook or janitor has more "broad life experience" than a professor or a doctor? Do you think that there is something more "real" and "authentic" about manual labor, that intellectual labor lacks? Is scarcity the only source of authenticity?

In my experience, most people a born into, and live their entire lives, in a single social stratum. Maybe it's abject poverty, maybe it's menial labor, maybe it's middle-class, or maybe it's educated and professional. The classes live in constant fear and envy of each other, but very few people get to experience more than of them first-hand. There's insulation, as you point out, between the strata, but that doesn't mean that the uneducated and the poor are experiencing more reality, just that they're experiencing it differently.
My focus has always been to reveal secretive removals to authors, and Reveddit has never shown author-deleted body text,

https://www.reveddit.com/about/faq/#user-deleted
These are flat_map, flat_set, flat_hash_map, etc ...

See: https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/header/flat_map
Is lil that decker uses different from http://runtimeterror.com/tech/lil/ ?
Obviously there was bloat, but its the handling of layoffs that tell a lot about their new ceo...
Startups are for learning, bigcos are for earning
install zeal for offline docs including mdn

https://zealdocs.org/
Valve has been at this for a long time...

They started with a system that lets players review games and try to understand if a player is a cheat or not. Games are anonymized, and you get to rewatch the replay to try to make a determination

They can then use that data to train their NN to help detect which players / games should be fed into this manual review process

I assume now the product is probably good enough that it's ranking reviewers too to determine how good reviewers are at detecting if there's cheats or not.

It's pure genius

Here's a GDC talk you may find interesting:
> In this 2018 GDC session, Valve's John McDonald discusses how Valve has utilized Deep Learning to combat cheating in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTiP0zKF9bc
I wonder how much of this id powered by PHP & how much used the accelerated rust engine.
Much of the stuff I am talking about can best be appreciated by actually standing in front of the actual painting, not something we can do so easily here in south east Asia.

Google arts and culture images give some idea as to the differences I am talking about. Below are two links, one to a Rubens painting one to Hoppers. Use the zoom function to show their incredible detail. A godsend for teaching.

Rubens was perhaps the most skilled painter to have ever lived, but has frequently been critiqued for his lack of content.

Hopper treated colors ‘locally’. This means that a red thing would be painted with red paint, and a blue thing with blue paint. Like a child with a coloring book. I show students how to moderate hue, saturation, lightness amusing a range of pigments.

If you have time, check out the difference between the two.

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/the-wrath-of-achille...

https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/nighthawks-edward-ho...
All Starlink customers are month-to-month.
When to Submit an ANDA vs. a 505(B)(2) Application: FDA Discusses in Draft
If I say something and you have an emotional response and or behavior response that contributes towards negative emotions/behavior vs positive emotions/behavior.

Beyond the obvious, let's just suspend what we think is common sense.

"I love you" vs "I hate you"

There is a charge associated with both those sentences and probably at the discrete unit word level which may be associated with particular vowel structures/sounds. I've vaguely looked into a "universal language" of phenotypes/sounds/grammars. I believe it was like 16 and associated roughly 16 base sounds to 16 emotions and may even have found some evidence for cross-species use.
Sky adblockers have existed for years – we call them ballcaps. (Incidentally, many such adblockers also bear advertisements of their own, which face away from the wearer.)
If you are a sys admin how can you tell the difference between legit scan and scan by potential hacker?
Pedantry rarely wins arguments, especially outside courtrooms.
Success: getting through the probation period, not getting on PIP, getting recognition for work done, setting myself up for promotion. I’ve read a couple of accounts of people getting sacked on Team Blind due to not speaking up in meetings and various other reasons which I’m guessing could be avoided.
Manjaro let their certificate expire, again
Intel has mastered 10nm production.

The race to the bottom of physics is not a long ride.
I make Techno. I would like to "feel" the sub in a way that doesn't require me to have a subwoofer. I know of things like Subpac but they don't sell them anymore. Do you know of anything else like this or if it is relatively easy to make one?
True, though a lot of them are disposable accounts.
Thanks, maybe the "About" page should start autobuilding from scratch after the visit. Won't be annoying?
IE didn't support XPath, a bit loose if style at all how the hrefs are dropping here.
The line between public and private has been blurring very badly since 2016. People are treating Twitter like it's an extension of the executive branch and somehow it's illegal for Musk to just buy it and run it how he sees fit.
Wait, what debt has Musk made Twitter take on? (being at the helm mere days, I really doubt there's any, debt like that takes longer to raise)

Musk himself took on ~$12 billion to finance the deal, that debt isn't on Twitter's books.
Sometimes a little knowledge is more dangerous than ignorance.
I see. I don't see a specific mention about the link itself in the rules for Show HN. I also think customs are less fixed than rules and don't need to be moderated.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
Nearly always after suggestions from his officers. Not a casual edict from on high.
Thoughtless bashing is not fine. Some attempts at humor are fine and some are not fine.
Usually it's higher frequencies so it's directed.

See: "LRADs and Sound Cannons Are NOT Safe. Here's How To Minimize Their Effects.
" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sqIvak-4Ek
You’d think, but everything is worse in Russia. Several agents have been revealed because they were issued sequential passport numbers.

https://mobile.twitter.com/bellingcat/status/151894316662756...

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2022/08/25/socialite-widow-j...
And who gets to decide what counts as "sensible?"
The really interesting part would be when winter hits and the Queen stops producing workers to downscale the hive (i.e. mass layoffs), then the insane period in spring where mass hiring starts...

Certainly a fun idea to play with
Blocking trackers is a feature not a bug. Disagreeing with what belongs on the list is fine of course but it isn't a bug. IMO Reddit belongs there equally as much or as little as Google and Facebook.
Thank you for the information, fascinating. I've been curious about this for a while, how drone swarms are coordinated by software to perform intricate shows. There must be some interesting questions to solve, like how to avoid collision, or if they need error correction in case of wind, etc.

Skybrush: Open-source drone light show and drone swarm management framework - https://github.com/skybrush-io

I learned RTK means "Real-time kinematic positioning". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_kinematic_positionin...

Apparently it's possible to set up one's own RTK station. https://github.com/Stefal/rtkbase https://learn.sparkfun.com/tutorials/setting-up-a-rover-base...
Quite easy to build.
The problem is to get ahold of the parts.

Get a well know console controller, take out the two actuators and mount them in any other form factors you like.

You can drive them with an audio pipeline, they are effectively a 4 ohm speaker. Attach them to a sound card and you can have your stereo haptics subwoofers.

You have to filter out aggressively the resonance frequency of the actuator to get a flattish response. Not that subpac or the other folks do so
Twitter's also far from being the biggest social media platform. I'm not sure how useful it is to advertisers going by the kind of ads I see. Barrons (sorry, paywall) says they only have about 1% of the ad market.

https://www.barrons.com/articles/twitter-advertising-ad-busi...
Good job, Microsoft.
Markdown is "worse is better". AsciiDoc is more powerful, but has a steeper learning curve, therefore it lost.

tale as old as tech.

EDIT: i'm compiling a list of "Worse is Better" technology battles:

- Mixed paradigm languages vs Functional languages

- Typescript vs Flow

- React+Redux beat Angular and Elm

- VHS beat Betamax

- AC beat DC

- what else? please share more here https://hashnode.com/preview/636602dec7fec996b85c7165 (draft!)
Take this perspective: The less boxes in a row, the less complex. Can I use is biased towards feature creep.

If not supporting a feature (in terms of not having it, not half implemented) would count and this would be visually faire represented, what we be your choice?
Excuse me, he is President of Mars ლ(ಠ_ಠლ)
Perfect CD-Ripping to FLAC with Exact Audio Copy
> We might have gone on for another year or two with HTML-format documentation, and it would just have been a drag on our productivity. But we knew that this wasn't a sustainable foundation in the long term

Really? It was HTML for 17 years with over 11,000 pages. But I guess that’s not long-term sustainability?

I applaud the conversion, but don’t misrepresent the facts and what you inherited, Wil.
Sure we can go over both cases:

Case 1: Growth factor of 2 and an initial size of 10 bytes.

Start with an initial allocation of 10 bytes of memory.

On growth allocate 20 bytes and release the 10 bytes, leaving a hole 10 bytes.

On growth allocate 40 bytes and release the 20 bytes, the hole in memory is now 30 bytes large (the initial 10 byte hole + the new 20 byte hole).

On growth allocate 80 bytes and release the 40 bytes, the hole is now 60 bytes.

On growth allocate 160 bytes and release the 80 bytes, the hole is now 140 bytes.

So on so forth... using this strategy it is never possible for the dynamic array to reclaim the hole it left behind in memory.

Case 2: Growth factor of 1.5 and an initial size of 10 bytes.

Start with an initial allocation of 10 bytes of memory.
On growth allocate 15 bytes and release the 10 bytes, leaving a hole 10 bytes.

On growth allocate 22 bytes and release the 15 bytes, the hole in memory is now 25 bytes large (the initial 10 byte hole + the new 15 byte hole).

On growth allocate 33 bytes and release the 22 bytes, the hole is now 47 bytes.

On growth allocate 50 bytes and release the 33 bytes, the
hole is now 80 bytes.

On growth reuse 75 bytes from the hole in memory left over from previous growths, the hole is now 5 bytes.

With a growth factor of 1.5 (or anything less than the golden ratio), the hole grows up to a point and then shrinks, grows and shrinks, allowing the dynamic array to reuse memory from past allocations.

With a growth factor of 2, the hole in memory continues to grow and grow and grow.
oh really. an agenda...

>In the unlikely event that we do discover information that is personal or otherwise sensitive, we take steps to remove the data and prevent it from being captured again in the future.

beyond a promise, what assurances do you get it wont be weaponzed?
> Sudo must be the program with the largest number of buffer overflows I’ve heard about. That news is repeating itself ever since I remember.

libxml? zlib? PHP?

The déjà vs are many…
I think on HN, I see same exact logic applied to Twitter employees with $300k compensation as to an Amazon warehouse worker getting paid $16/hour; i.e., labor rights above anything else.

The crowd here is blind to this circumstantial disparity. Another blind spot is if you replace $300k engineers getting laid off with $100k managers getting laid of at say IBM, the tide reverses, no more empathy for managers! How dare we!
It’s the Way That You Do It
Instances, local and federated feeds are core to the architecture of the system. There's pros and cons to this UX, and just because it's not exactly like twitter doesn't mean it can't catch on.

Different software for different media types... you mean like Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Reddit, TikTok? Different media are interacted with in different ways and are optimal under different interfaces. At least with ActivityPub you can interact with all these media across the spectrum of software as you desire. Try following a YouTube channel from your twitter account.

In truth, fediverse is mature and ready for prime time. And there's still plenty of novel UX approaches to be explored, and I hope people do that. But it won't pick up the steam needed to steamroll things like Twitter because it doesn't game your mind to give you the dopamine hit, and people can't ban those they salivate over causing trouble for, they can only block them. For those people using Twitter that disliked these things and didn't know there were alternatives or couldn't put their finger on what they didn't like fedi is going to feel like fresh air, for the rest "there's just something missing." I give it a month before most of the new users go home to Twitter.
Thanks! I may have thought about removeddit by mistake.
Nice used to listen to The Grid by Philip Glass a lot
I've migrated our project documentation from pure asciidoctor to Antora and my team loves it. It took some time to set it up the way we wanted, but the effort was worth it.
Rachmaninoff with Brain Cancer
Which might look like Matrix downloads?
> Blocking trackers is a feature not a bug.

I didn't say it was a bug, I said the list of websites broken by that feature are tracked in a bug.
The Many Meanings of Moss
Are there any good Software Engineering magazines out there?
Stripe used to release https://increment.com/ which was pretty nice but they haven't release any new issue since November 2021. I am looking for any decent magazine in physical form
My first published side project: webrouter.io a routing webhooks tool
The goal of this project is to allow routing of incoming webhooks according to some pre-defined rules. Many third party allow only one webhook URL to be defined, this is annoying for two reason:
- You will receive dev webhooks in prod and vice versa
- You can't easily scale horizontally without DNS magic or internal routing
I somehow misread your comment the first time through and thought you were suggesting the ability to ask the OS: "Hey, I'm a pointer, is there anything in front of my block of memory, if so can you move it elsewhere so that I can expand?" This would of course be a pretty silly idea but it would be funny to give the OS folks a whole new class of use-after bugs to worry about.

Edit: Let's call it "memoveouttamyway"
Nobody said that. These are not workers in poverty, they are making a significant amount of money and know the risks. There will be severance packages and they'll be hired elsewhere. This has happened to dozens of well known tech companies in the last few months. We're only focusing on musk because politics.
I'd check out the Woojer Strap/Vest [0] or maybe the ButtKicker [1] from the article if you're ok with being seated. I have stereo ButtKicker Concerts on my couch and they're awesome.

[0] https://www.woojer.com/

[1] https://thebuttkicker.com/
This looks really pretty.

I assume it uses SDFs, though there isn't really any technical explanation for how it works.
That's my point, it's not the frequency that liquifys someone.

You could easily play a 7.1 hz sound on a good thx sub or concert sound system. Simply playing that tone would not liquefy someone.

At the same time, one could play a 6 hz or a 7.3 hz tone at the same power level as this guy did, and it would liquefy someone.

The frequency is the result of a bunch of other variables that are the true drivers of the phenomenon. Power level, physical properties of air and the limits to the power you can couple to it before cavitation and negative pressure regions occurs, resonance, and the geometry of your device. Put that all together, get it ringing, constructively interfering, and it will be at a certain frequency. It's the result of the equation, not the input.
It is already there.

https://github.com/mdn/content
> No, the code overwrote the 9th byte of the buffer to add a null terminator: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/bd209b9f16fcd127...

Ah that makes a lot more sense.

> So it's not just reading past the end of the buffer, but it's overwriting a single byte potentially belonging to another object. It may still cause a crash but it's relatively unlikely that it could cause something more severe.

Yeah I agree that nothing severe should come from it. The allocations are probably larger then the size of the buffer being used so it may not even right off the end of its own allocation.