skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is trying to get to the concept of a group inverse without using too much jargon. If you don't mind jargon, as usual you'll want to go to Wikipedia to learn more.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiplicative_group_of_intege...
What's the alternative? Some people have extra cash, and they are willing to risk it in hopes of return.

Is it going to consequentially drive valuations higher than they've ever been compared to history? Sure. But isn't that more of a paradigm shift than a "bubble that may one day pop"?

With more and more people having easier access to investing in index funds... why would it ever go backwards? You'd need people to be sick and tired of risking their money and not having anything to show for it (aka no/poor returns).
Abandoned houses in modern society get stripped of copper so imagine how rare this is, and how much we've lost. But thanks to that good old volcano we actually already knew the Romans had lead taps and water pipes.
SNES Star Fox at a silky 60 FPS thanks to a new hack
It's Musk, but also, because it's Musk, there is just a lot more coverage of the details of what is going on.

The biggest issue I see is that the employees are just in the dark. They literally have to follow Musk's public Twitter feed to glean anything about what is going on.

It creates a lot of chaos to fire your executive team then immediately start layoffs. Normally, something like this should be organized and clearly communicated and done with care and empathy. This whole process comes across as rough shod and unplanned.
I'll take the apparently unpopular opinion, that it kind of did work like that, and the internet has accelerated our progress into some kind of future Star Trek utopia (hopefully skipping the 2026-2053 nuclear war that they have in their universe).

I don't know how you'd support or discredit such a view but I generally feel like the free flow of information has been overall positive.

Not uniformly so, but even the bad stuff say Nazis, was already there and mostly brought into the sunlight.

I'm reminded of something I saw on the internet long ago, which compared a Time magazine piece about "life in Iran" which was all black and white photos of war murals, and contemporary Flickr photos from Iran, which was just normal people stuff, in color.

Can't find it now, but here's a conversation on Flickr in 2007 that kind of sums up the same thing of "Iranians are normal people, like us", "I know, I'm Iranian":

https://www.flickr.com/groups/onthestreet/discuss/7215761559...

And here's someone who made a Firefox extension around the same time to work around the attempts to block flickr:

https://advox.globalvoices.org/2007/02/14/iran-flickr-users-...

Iran isn't currently some Disneyland, but would it be better or worse without the internet? I vaguely feel there's been a positive impact.

I know it was fashionable to get excited about the Arab Spring and then fashionable to be cynical about it all, but I feel like in one of those hype cycle things, the long term impact is being understimated, even as some overestimated the short term impact.
Good point, I sometimes get caught in the "ah, the internet back then" fallacy but what really has driven it down in the mud was the entry of corporations, not the people involved.
Helix is really great. If only it had a VIM (or VIM-like) mode available. I find the Kanoune shortcuts really limiting, as they fail to use the relative line numbers for anything except moving the cursor. Bidirectional selection, deletion, commenting, etc. is super useful when coding.
Seems like a pretty coarse level of analysis asking if “in-person” is better. What’s more productive for a manager will be different, maybe the exact opposite of what’s productive for a programmer. Some people get paid to talk, but many of us do not. The talking is paid for by our sacrifice of personal time, time spent with kids, or exercising or whatever. Managers, being decision makers, will push us back to offices because they benefit from it, because they are paid to talk. Something to be sensitive to, if you’re not already.
> given that he was pretty much cornered into buying Twitter in the first place

Just to be clear; Elon put himself in that corner, no one forced him there.
You've never heard The Beatles' 'Revolver' sound like this
especially in Canada…
This reminds me of the classic Simpsons trampoline gag[1].

[1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=clKqZZynW9E
(not OP)

Montaigne is not a Portuguese-sounding word or name, seems more French to me, but "montagem" is a Portuguese word meaning "montage" which sounds generally like what are describing, a montage of fables.
Meh. Until they can figure out a stack-safe trampoline, forget about it.
It seems jodrellblank was suggesting that your idea effictively already exists among those four services. It didn't work for me on craigslist (though I did get rid of a metal table in need of repair), and I was wondering if one of the others would be any better. If not, maybe your specialized idea makes sense.
Well, eventually, different tools for different purposes, though.

For my purpose, SL66/Hasselblad outperforms the Leica for these reasons:
- interchangebale film backs
- more longer lenses
- macro work
- bigger negatives

You may assume I don't shooting anything moving fast, and very likely on tripod. True. I usually use medium format when I have something specific in mind, like personal projects. If not, any 35mm gear is sufficient.
Every time these alternative/privacy focused/decentralised social media platforms appear they absolutely BUTCHER the UX. I thought "oh cool, let's sign up!"

1. I click "sign up." So far so good.

2. I am redirected to something called "Mastodon." No idea what this is. Nothing about it on the previous page. Is this a bug? Do I trust it? No options to sign up here. Only "get the app" and "find a server." I'm on my PC and don't need an app so I guess I find a server?

3. Now I'm presented with a list of servers. What on EARTH am I meant to do with this? Does each person get their own server? Do my friends all have to sign up on the same server? None of this makes any sense. I just want to post cute pictures of my cats! I'm now three layers deep into some kind of bizarre sign up process. I'm out. This is absurd.

For context, I run a team of developers building cloud services. There is almost ZERO chance that an ordinary person will follow these steps or use this service.

This needs one button to sign up, asking for exactly one piece of data: their email address. After that, they should be automatically redirected to the portal to begin using the service immediately. This clusterfuck was obviously designed by developers without a care in the world for regular users.
I doubt he'll ever make his money back, but does that mean twitter will cease to exist? I don't think so. I think the rich buy media for the influence, not profit. Obviously he severely overpaid, but owning twitter still gives him influence. And it's not like twitter is loaded with assets; liquidating the company won't get his money back.
Pretty sure that’s not the case for 64 bit systems since you can “only” allocate about 48 bits of address space (maybe slightly more on newer systems).

For 32 bit systems using 64bit instead of size_t would similarly solve the problem.
Well, historically there is a lot of software discussed that is Linux or Win only and nobody bothered to mention that there was no Mac version...

As a long time Mac user, I think a little movement in the other direction is only fair. :-)
If I can’t choose wrong then why am I forced to choose at all? The user experience doesn’t add up.
That sounds more like “avoidance of personal engagement in intellectual pursuit” rather than anti-intellectual - if anything these suggest complete deference to supposed experts.
I assume you mean https://github.com/rougier/nano-emacs#readme
I never went to ekz as I heard nothing but horror stories about it.
IMO real value of twitter is in the network it holds currently & not necessarily specific features. even if somebody were to come up with a platform with half the features as twitter but somehow convinces a big percentage of current users to switch that would be enough to initiate a mass migration.

Mastodon would provide a good infra to create a platform like that but it need somewhat deep pockets (and trust on the founders) to keep it alive for the transition period. the only un-maligned patron I can think of of is craigslist guy. maybe if they can create a barebones 'chipper' that looks like CL and charges minimal fee to keep it ad free it might take off.
Yeah, I remember my Physics degree: "With a Physics degree you will have lots of employment opportunities... but not in Physics!"
It is unclear what your complaint is. As the second quote states, you only need a sample size of one to prove that a certain ability can exist. You just cant say much about how widespread the ability is.
I would guess that the 'look' is the verb. The Dom is now able to actively look, as if it were an eye.
Introduction to eBPF's Cap_bpf
My hot take: early science classes are almost completely useless, infotainment-type courses. Much better to engage the interested young with math. Then they can get into real science courses when in highschool.
That's not exactly the same approach, because you're doing unsigned addition while the Go code is doing signed addition.

And technically speaking, I think C doesn't guarantee that 'size_t' is at least as large as a 'signed int' (even though this is true on all platforms that I know of), so your approach would fail if that weren't the case. Although, you could use 'ssize_t' instead of 'int', or 'unsigned int' instead of 'size_t' to fix that.

> The real reason it doesn't work in C is because a memory region can be large enough to still overflow in that case.

The Go code we are discussing has nothing to do with memory regions, it's a generic binary search function, so it can be used for e.g. bisecting git commits. It doesn't require the calling function to use arrays.

Although yes, if the calling code were trying to do a binary search on an array, conceptually it could fail, but in that case you could argue the bug would be in the calling function, because it would be trying to pass the array length into a binary search function which only accepts an `int` or `ssize_t` function parameter, which could result in the array length being truncated. But strictly speaking, this would not be an arithmetic overflow issue.

That said, I would just fix the code so that it works for the full 'size_t' range, since the most common use case of a binary search function is indeed to do searches on arrays. In that case, the Go approach wouldn't work indeed.
I'm not saying that it's a Mastadon technology problem. I'm saying it's a social problem, that the "federation model" only truly works down to the layer of the tech stack which is not federated, which is still most layers. Activists will not be content to merely defederate, they will coordinate to have disfavored Mastadon instances brought down by their hosts and funders.
The old shift whistle
private property owners don't really own the land... the government can do whatever it wants if you miss your tax payments or if it decides to change the laws
The difference is that the config is loaded at bootstrap stage - if it fails, starting service fails, there is not much to handle other than crash and supervisor (ie. k8s or whatever) will try to start it again.
The eastern empire was essentially destroyed by Venice in 1204. While they regained Constatinolpe, some territory in the Balkans and Anatolia, the empire never truly recovered. During the last 250 years of its existence it was a mere shadow of its former self. It never regained its status as the preeminent cultural and political power in the Christian world.
Seems more likely they are just trying to get some people back in to train whoever will be taking over their duties. Which is why cutting so many employees should be done carefully and with at least a little bit of planning. You are throwing so much institutional knowledge in the garbage by just cutting off half your workforce overnight.
> Rumor is that Twitter lost $700-million/year or so in ad revenue at its latest advertising conference.

And having lost its CRO, who walked out on Thursday, Musk tried to repair the damage himself on a conference call with major advertisers, who started adjusting their spending down while on the call. Twitter's ad revenue for 2023 will be a smoking crater.
Is this basically a stripe alternative?
In my experience it's almost always the case with industry that you end up in some adjacent niche that isn't quite exactly what you want to do, even if you never leave the field of your schooling. By that I mean it may be a lot easier to get into computational chemistry for something other than drug design.

It's a weird time now with software eating everything and many science jobs asking for PhD in <our science branch> or Computer Science (!) as requirements. So I'd assume there's some angle in which your experience provides an advantage.
I'm pretty sure Russia was the one to start this war.
"I have to get really bad luck to die"

Or a moment of not paying attention and then suddenly your shields are all down and destroyed and before you know it that was it. But I haven't played easy in a while ..
The Wii did fine too.
As a reminder, you can still do those things. Have a weekly hangout day with friends with no firm plans. Spend time at hobbyist shops on the regular. Play board games with strangers.
Discovered this on HN a few months ago, and it has become indispensable for me. Beautiful software with subtle, nifty innovations in UX.

I love that Jesse is taking a first principles approach with this and not constraining himself with the standard text editor patterns. He's also pretty active on the support forum and very receptive to feedback.
Well the main one would be if you already used Atom and didn't want to migrate to VSC.
The plan is to build upon the "hackable" nature of Atom and really run with it. It should be easy to customise it yourself however you want, the (lofty) ambition would be to think of it something like an Electron based version "Emacs" where anything you can think of writing or changing in Javascript (or anything that can be transpiled to it) can be reflected in the editor.
Making Tables Responsive with Minimal CSS (2019)
The ones on HN that actually work don't have the time to run after every few language feature either ;)
A huge amount of farmland in Ukraine has been bought recently by American corporations.
Yeah, still not giving up WFH.
I spent fifteen minutes on a search for “best full text search” and Elastic looked like the best combination of popular+easy. Since I was expecting this to be the diversion of an afternoon there wasn’t any point in investigating more than that.

In hindsight, ES wasn’t the best choice for what this turned into: the problem is that it wants to be a managed cluster that does log analysis/analytics/observability/machine learning/I don’t know what all and full text search is almost an afterthought; whereas I want a single node that does full text search and nothing else. All that extra complexity makes it hard for me to figure out how to get it to do what I want, and I don’t have the time to invest in really understanding how it works under the hood. So I probably will switch to something simpler when I get a chance, so I can have a better chance of being able to figure out how to adjust it to make the results look the way I want.
It would be, except that the farmers become wealthy from their unsustainable business practices and start lobbying for insane shit like piping in water from wetter regions. The problem needs to be nipped at the bud; ban farming with fossil water.
Horrible. Why would I want the vocals to overwhelm to a point where I cannot hear the instruments?
Why would you think AI would be able to make enjoyable puzzles? Are there any examples where AI does a good job at the word play and culture references that make crosswords so enjoyable?
I've donated to FOSS projects before. I have never and will never donate to any proprietary software projects.
That's an enduring memory of mine of using pre-home-internet PCs: foraging the entire filesystem for anything novel.
How else would you characterize Pigovian taxes?
My, aren't you a bundle of joy and hope.
Only on 2s-complement.
> Debt will become extremely attractive

How attractive? 10y yield at 5% attractive?
even if you don't log off do houseclean your old tweets with tweetdelete.net (not affiliated in any way, feel free to use an alternate)

I do not trust Elon to use my posting history responsibly, period. with so much pressure on monetization who knows what gets sold to which advertiser.
The great thing about selling land to foreigners is that foreigners can’t vote and we can just eminent domain it back. See Kelo vs. New London.

Incidentally the debt America is running up is ultimately owed to the Federal Reserve, which is a creature of the US government. There are major unsustainable problems with US economic policy, but Congress borrowing from a bank that it controls[1] isn’t one of them.

[1] As Dune taught us the power to destroy a thing is the power to control it, and Congress can assuredly destroy the Fed.
More like "move things and break fast", I think.
That's what I like about this approach in Go - by having no choice you accept that "error path" as "actual functionality".

Phrases like "noise created by error handling" start sound like "the incovenience created by seatbelt". It's not noise.
All modern computers are implemented with binary digital logic. If you build the hardware the obvious, computing mod 256 is just masking the lower 8 bits or nothing at all if it's an 8 bit register. Computing mod arbitrary N is equivalent to doing integer division, which is an inherently complex operation that's typically anywhere from 10-100x slower. It also scales much worse for very large operands.
I'm a decade younger and in a good financial position relative to my peers, but share a lot of the same sentiment. Finding it very hard to get motivated to do the challenging, delivery-based tasks at work when the only people getting any praise or promotions are "developer advocates", i.e. the marketing department.

I don't see a way out other than to grind away for the next 20 years before retiring early. That's not what I want - I'd rather enjoy the time I have now. I'm just too fearful of a massive decline in lifestyle options if I change to a lower paid role, and don't even have the confidence that any job exists which would be a meaningful improvement.
iMessage doesn't have stories and it seems to be doing just fine...
I assume that the people who ask for more photos and yet more photos behave the same way on other platforms.
And this is why I come to HN
Used to be common on IRC as well.
Yes, but if you don't have lead infrastructure in your water system, it is extremely difficult to have lead come out of your tap.

If you do have lead pipes, however, it only takes a shift in pH to pull the lead into solution.
Note: While educational, making a DNS query without DNSSEC verification in 2022 is like making a HTTP query without certificate verification (or without HTTPS support).
Which is it peanuts or cashews?
ESLint – Ultra Refined Config
> I mean from the fundamental Burry warning makes sense.

Does it?

He's not "wrong" to call out the side effect of millions of people "blindly + consistently" pumping their extra cash (savings) into index funds in hopes of return. Sure, this means the market is "crowded" compared to historical times (we're probably at all time high for market participants from a retail/average investor perspective I would guess?)

But... what's the alternative? How are you going to tell millions of people "we'd like you to stop investing in the market/deny you access to the chance for 6-10% index-fund-level returns because you're driving valuations up"?
My immense frustration was largely due to the fact that yes (of course) I was able to read the short instructions on the wall.

What I could not do (for more than 3 minutes straight, iirc) was execute those instructions in the proper manner to get Cuphead to do what I wanted.

disclaimer: I am old as hell and phased out of any serious video gaming in the era of 2D, 2 button and an 8-way joysticks
Unfortunately no. There's been a sight increase in interest ever since Ruby 3 but something else is needed for a spark
Don’t call it a comeback—Ruby hasn’t gone anywhere.

I get it that the hype around Ruby and Rails has—thankfully—subsided but Ruby is even better today than it was then.
> You could regulate use of the water, or tax it, etc. All kinds of things. Have some imagination.

Unless by regulate you mean ban, none of that will make a fossil aquifer sustainable. The best you can do is push back the date the water runs out, but the water will run out. You can't call it sustainable just because it lasts longer than your lifetime. By that standard, coal mining was "sustainable".

In regions with regular rainfall where shallow wells suffice, sustainable use of groundwater is simply a matter of balancing inflow with outflow. But in regions where aquifers are deep and sealed, or were filled thousands of years ago when North America was covered in a mile of ice, you cannot use the water and balance inflows and outflows because inflows are effectively zero. The only way to balance inflows and outflows of fossil water is to ban the use of fossil water.
Have any other HN readers gone through all the standard hair loss prevention treatments and just given up?

I was obsessed with saving my hair in my late 20s. In my 30s I just accepted it and moved on. Treatments can be expensive with dubious results (Minoxidil, different shampoos) or have possible serious side effects (Finasteride). This can be really disheartening if you are single though.
My point is even if that 44 billion was pissed away Musk is never going to be destitute.

The people that get hurt in this sort of thing aren't the rich and powerful.
I'm based in the UK and it's more often than not fairly standard to not compensate for overtime.
No, if you claim you bloody well cite. It's not on us to fill in your omissions.

Given that, your 2nd paper is interesting and supports you. The first seems (emphaisis: seems) to back up findings that most damage is done to the adolescent developing brain with cannabis, but still reading it.

Edit: 2nd paper doesn't seem to ask when cannabis use started so it's quite possible the damage was done in adolescence, not adulthood:

"Cognitive tests were conducted at ages 7, 9, and 11 using the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised and again at age 45 using the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-IV. Additional neuropsychological tests were administered to measure the participants’ verbal learning, attention, memory, processing speed, and more"

so tested as pre-teens then at age 45. That seems a very big gap between them.
50 key thinkers in Globalisation
Agreeing where to meet is a common American thing that stems from a mutual feeling of paranoia. Namely:

- The seller doesn't want the buyer to know where they live in case the buyer comes back to stalk them.

- The buyer doesn't want to meet the seller is some random alley carrying cash, lest the seller rob them.

For this reason, most Craigslist transactions I've had where the thing being sold was over $100 in value, we'd meet in a mall or bank parking lot, where no one would be stupid enough to try to rob the other party in broad daylight.
All of this is stupid. It doesn't matter who writes crosswords, and all the rest of it, including this comment, and probably mine, is pointless complaining, shouting into the abyss.
A little bit of wow factor from infotainment at an impressionable age can lead to lifetime interest that is far, far more impactful than the "educational" quality or content of these classes.

Not always of course but this kind of thing can definitely be valuable.