skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference between these and training chopsticks, which is that training chopsticks have an undeserved childish association with them. No need to try to add that association to this entirely different utensil.

> If you find yourself using them a lot, you'll find it easier and more satisfying to use actual chopsticks

Personally, I can use chopsticks just fine, but there's no way it's "easier" to use chopsticks than pincers. It might be more satisfying to master chopsticks, but I don't think most people are interested in mastering their salad fork and feeling satisfaction, we hopefully make decisions based on effectiveness. The author was saying, "hey, let's drop the historical baggage and just use the more effective tool when we see it."
"How are they even making money on it" is such a weird question about a business whose revenue is over a billion dollars per quarter.
In Asia, it's the chef's job to cut everything into bite size pieces, so the diner doesn't have to.
Here's: "Killing In The Name" performed by The North Korean Military Chorus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fAcYS-_8L2s
My guess is that amazons algo internal flags users who accept faulty products, and reroutes returned products from opinionated users to the "garbage cans" who will swallow the returns generating profits from what should be trash.
https://www.kotaku.com.au/2020/06/after-massive-dmca-takedow...

Mass DMCA strikes have happened before, and it lead to lots of streamers deleting everything out of fear that they would be permanently banned. Streambeats is a pretty successful company that exists entirely because of this.
Apple is a corp, not a family. Archives are only useful for advertising, employees aren't retained long enough to care.
Netflix pretty much solved that by colocating their caches at the ISPs. Netflix itself shouldn't be an issue for any reasonable size ISP these days. Edit: Just realised after writing this that it may actually be an issue for starlink - they're in a different position here. I wonder if satellite links will force multicast of some sort to make a return for customers.
Downset was heavily influenced by Zach’s old band Inside Out. I was in an old hardcore band from that era and know Ray and played with shows with Inside Out. Updated for autocorrected error.
https://danielyxie.github.io/bitburner/ has really great visual style, exciting story, various interesting game mechanics and internal programming language to automate stuff.
Orders who?
Does this mean not as many things are Written In Rust as I might believe?
Assuming this all goes back to Elon's tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376, which reads:

"""

By “free speech”, I simply mean that which matches the law.

I am against censorship that goes far beyond the law.

If people want less free speech, they will ask government to pass laws to that effect.

Therefore, going beyond the law is contrary to the will of the people.

"""

I don't think it's reasonable to interpret this as referring to any speech which constitutes a civil wrong. There is simply no way for a third party to have the slightest clue based on the content of a tweet whether that tweet causes someone to suffer a loss, or constitutes a breach of contract,
My friends in different size tech companies.
It's not your right to yell at someone.
Slight tangent, but Upchuck from ATL gives me some RATM-adjacent vibes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woFOlhweGbs
Correct me if I'm wrong, but it sounds like you're describing an Unrolled Linked List [1]? If so, neat!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrolled_linked_list
"Malinformation is based on fact, but used out of context to mislead, harm, or manipulate." - looks like revealing inconvenient truth falls under this umbrella.
This article reads like an abused partner defending their abuser. This kind of double-sidedness is extremely common in abusive relationships, in large part because it's a really effective method of exerting control over someone while encouraging them to blame themselves for being abused.

> If there are employees not aligned with that vision, he will chew them out and he will do it in a vicious way, which is his right as owner.

Is it?
This. For the $100/year privilege to write software for their platforms, the documentation is atrocious.
There is no huge business motivation and profit goals behind Wikipedia.

To make it work, we need non-profit social media network. But one can dream, that is not going to happen.
Amidst all this doom and gloom and supposedly inevitable failure of Musks' Twitter, I find it interesting to reason about that being a reality. What would replace it?

Nothing. As much as I dislike Twitter overall, it's not replaceable. The main characters driving it (journalists, politicians, the like) have no other central gathering place where they would have the cultural influence that they have now. Their status is exclusively bound to Twitter and cannot be reliably replicated elsewhere.

Have a look at the typical big accounts, with hundreds of thousands of followers and a decade-long history of a few dozen tweets per day. These are the 1-10% Twitter users generating 90% of activity on the network.

Where would they move to? Reddit? Discord? Mastodon? Facebook? I don't think so, that would be a worse experience but more importantly, the audience won't follow.

Twitter power users see themselves as creators, but they are not in the ordinary sense. A photographer or videographer produces tangible content that can stand on its own. As such, they can move it across networks.

The same thing is not true for a tweet. Sure enough you can move a tiny piece of text to another social network, but it makes no sense there. It doesn't have the cultural relevance or unique twitter mechanics of amplification. When your creation is snippets of texts that generate outrage, you're in Twitter prison.

Bottom line, I believe the above is what would keep Twitter alive even if temporarily takes some hits.
I agree with the author that there is a good Elon and a bad Elon.

But I think Twitter only gets the bad Elon.

At Tesla, Elon is producing EVs to help save the planet. At SpaceX, he is producing spacecraft to help save humanity. At Twitter, he is making the world a better place for unfounded conspiracy theories and Russian talking points, which he himself promotes.

In the last month, Elon has claimed on Twitter that 1) the attack on Nancy Pelosi's aging husband was due to a dispute with a gay lover; 2) Ukraine, a sovereign nation, should give up its industrial heartland to a bunch of rapists and war criminals; 3) Taiwan, a sovereign nation, should subjugate itself to the Chinese police state.

That is, Twitter employees don't get the visionary. They get an abusive boss who is also bad at filtering information, leaning into stupid theories, and willing to traffic with police states to forward his interests.

Frankly, I miss the good Elon, and I wonder where he went.

* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-taiwan-china-ukraine-...

* https://www.vice.com/en/article/ake44z/elon-musk-vladimir-pu...

* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-musk-paul-pelosi-tweets-li...
> Free speech rallies have been customarily labeled by the national media (and not only) as white supremacist,

You have that backwards.

White supremacist rallies have labeled themselves as "free speech" rallies in an attempt to normalize their cause. This is a well documented strategy [1]

However, exercising one's free speech rights by rallying for a cause (i.e. Charlottesville's "You will not replace us") does not automatically make that cause synonymous with supporting "free speech".

1. https://iop.harvard.edu/forum/im-not-racist-examining-white-...
They've ALWAYS been political.

The lyric "Fuck you I won't do what you tell me" wasn't about your mom or your teacher or your swim coach.
Can you reference specific examples of the latter?
I have yet to meet someone who feels more included when pronouns are stated.
>...yet implicitly acknowledges the shitshow that is the python library/package/environment management)

(Disclosure, I am a Python programmer who has suffered through the trash packaging situation since forever)

Since when has R been in a position to cast shade on the reproducible environment of another language? Anytime I dip my toe into the R ecosystem, it feels anathema to development practices to find anyone using renv or equivalent to try and vendor dependencies. Enormous pain to try to try and get old R code running again.
It oscillates from decade to decade.

The latest impression is driven by conservatives' current messaging that "big tech" is censoring them, coupled with their belief that the tech mores used to calibrate that censorship are coastal, and therefore more liberal.

Ergo, free speech is conservatives' right to say conservative things.

In the 60s and 80s and 00s, it was liberal. Give it another few years to swing back.
My libraries were originally made in Lua in order for me to better work with and learn the LÖVE framework.

* inspect.lua [1] is the most popular one. It transforms any Lua value (including deeply nested tables) into human-readable strings. It is very useful for debugging all kinds of Lua projects, not just games. It is a partial reason why I got my current web dev job at Kong.

* middleclass [2] is somewhat popular amongst people coming into Lua from OOP languages. I don't use it myself anymore and consider it a bit of a "clutch". Still, it has helped a lot of people.

* bump.lua [3] is a box-based collision detection and resolution library. The later part has some known bugs I never figured out. Still has been used by some people to do some fun stuff.

* gamera.lua [4] is a minimalist camera-system for LÖVE.

* anim8 [5] is an animation library for LÖVE

There's many other projects on my github profile. I must warn you that they are all in several degrees of disrepair, I pretty much abandoned all of my open source efforts when my first child was born. Ran out of free time and energy.

These days, when I want to scratch my game-making itch, I fire up PICO-8, an even more minimalistic gamedev environment than LÖVE. I find the limitations it imposes refreshing. It also means that I cannot use most of my old libraries. Which is fine.

[1] https://github.com/kikito/inspect.lua

[2] https://github.com/kikito/middleclass

[3] https://github.com/kikito/bump.lua

[4] https://github.com/kikito/gamera.lua

[5] https://github.com/kikito/anim8
Looks like rangerovers.pub isn't interesting or critical enough to get scanned.

I didn't think it would be.

Fun watching all the foreign traffic trying to hit Wordpress vulns on it, though.
It is always hard to enter the market as an underdog, and double plus hard when hauling around such a massive ego. Everyone likes the plucky upstart. The linux gaming comunity is there to help plucky upstarts. But silly leveraging/drm moves like this breed only enemies.
There are two things I appreciate finding in my low-tech textual browsing. First, an RSS feed listed amongst the commercial links for a site. Secondly, a link to the actual content at the top of the page bypassing all the menu clutter...
What makes you think that there is an oversupply of (good) Software Engineers? All I see every day is that it's still pretty difficult to hire good people.
Maybe up to 30% reviews on Amazon are fake, but in my experience on AirBnb 90% reviews are fake.
That sounds right. To be clear, blockchain is a solution to a subset of decentralization problems that rely on consensus. The vast majority of non-financial apps don't need to solve 1000s of global consensus problems per minute. There's tons of interesting stuff to be done in this space!
Logically no, but there are good reasons to distrust and despise hypocrites.
I feel like crypto meant something different in the early days. I think the 2017/2018 bull run with the BitConnect collapse is where we start seeing major faults in the crypto ecosystem.

The NFT/DAO and VC boom is the ideological nail in the coffin for me. I guess that's what people cal Web3... so perhaps you are right.
went all political

You're making it sound like the band's name is intended to express their frustration with parking meters.
The only problem is the underscore, I think. A <conspiracy-hat> custom element would be valid HTML.
It's almost as if a website that's constantly updating you on the full breadth of technology in our world is some form of magnet for people with ADHD :D
Yeah, too late for me to retract the word "devotee" when "player" would have sufficed.
partially a conflation of terms, here: while the article discusses vertical integration, the main thing people think of for "businesses built explicitly on unbundling" is horizontal unbundling—picking a niche that is solved OK by a wider solution, then solving that really really well. The textbook example is for random startups to unbundle Craiglist[1].

[1] https://a16z.com/2019/09/11/platforms-verticals-unbundling/
That seems to check out given that the author lives in the PNW.

[edit]

And specifically mentions liking guns in the about page.
Restated:

What I get from this whole experience is big tech employees, likely on a wage double their national average, are able to communicate more widely to the world about their disenfranchisement about being unemployed than others made unemployed who are not.

Now that I've done the hard work of fixing the typo that apparently invalidates the argument, it ought to be trivial to provide a counter-argument.
This is an odd article, given this island is off the island of Sipadan, which itself is not very large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sipadan#/media/File:Sipadan_is...

I guess it's notable for the fact that there is a resort in the barely submerged island?
I use Flym, Thunderbird, and a self hosted miniflux for years with success.

RSS is good to read, it does not solve the problem of how to respond.

This is more of a philosophical grouching so stop if you don't want to hear a rant.

Organizations, (I do mean organization as not only corporations do this) ingest or take over a well functioning solution, a FOSS, or standard with the intention to make it better (i give them the benefit of doubt). Often this manifests in merging with their tangential product, or similar solution into the victim. Ultimately, each and every one of these solutions die an agonizing death - death of complete abandonment, or complete destruction of the original spirit (e.g., ICQ, usenet, feedburner, CU-SeeMe, sageTV, silk labs, drop.io, gowalla).
This guy worked with elon for 1 year. He's says in the article that he didn't enjoy that style of management and left. Sounds like he's the perfect candidate for this topic rather than a yes man from elon
Archival and distribution for the purposes of education and preserving the historical record can be considered fair use.
They do allow you to leave reviews for things you didn’t buy from them (there’s a “verified buyer” tag for people who did buy it directly) but here are two other very common scams:

1. I receive emails offering to give me free stuff in exchange for reviews, with the promise of more if they’re good. You can also find job site posting which are similar: get paid to review products, strongly implying that you get more for 5 star reviews. I haven’t actually done this but I’d be shocked if they gave people time or latitude for fairly reviewing anything.

2. I’ve had cards included in Amazon purchases offering freebies for positive reviews - just include a link in your email and get an Amazon gift certificate.

Amazon makes reporting these difficult and the frontline support tend to be confused if you try, and nothing visibly happened when I did. Clearly they do not care about this problem.
Another name for that is "B* tree". Or anyway a thing with similar performance characteristics.
Is Musk bipolar?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EaJHfcbXQAAo6ox?format=jpg&name=...
Since so many of the comments here are about chopsticks, I'm curious what folks think the proportion of people in western countries who can use chopsticks is? I assume it follows roughly the introduction of Asian foods into the locales where people live?

I learned in my late teens; prior to that, there was really only one Asian restaurant around where I grew up, and it was more of a buffet-style Chinese restaurant where most of the entries were variations on General Tso's chicken or other Americanized menu items. My parents did acquire a taste for Asian cuisine, but never learned to use chopsticks. But we also have relatives of a similar age who literally have never tried Asian food at all, and I'm assuming have also never tried to use a pair of chopsticks.
Old WWDC content has a lot of value. They cover a lot of core technologies that Apple has no interest in covering and documenting again (because they deprecated and are removing old documentation instead of improving them...). The channel in question helped me a lot while trying to understand aspects of early-Cocoa.

The argument you've presented is more related to the way Apple handles the evolution of its software than about having old content laying around. Their current approach is far from good unfortunately. During OS X Lion days, Xcode documentation was so rich that even core concepts of the OS were covered.

Having a structured way to keep those informations readily available is very important to help us preserve software history. And Apple is not helping...
It'll be interesting to see what deprioritized means.

Many mobile networks will throttle you to a given rate after your soft cap. Most everyone, last I checked, was 512kbps or under. It's hard to check! Xfinity Mobile was 768k down, but just checked again and it's 1.5Mbps down now. By compare I think Google Fi was 256kbps! Yikes! That has single handedly scared me off Fi.
These days they're doing what a lot of those 90s bands ended up doing: raging with the machine.
That depends more on what they link to. Not prefetching a worthless list of pointers when you could prefetch data instead is typically faster. Prefetchers have limited capabilities and capacity for loads.
If the seller/owner responds to a negative review, this is a red flag for me. Indicates a sort of hypersensitive, pressuring attitude. I empathize that they might wanna "tell their side" but in the end it betrays a clingy monitoring of Your Image that makes me as a potential customer feel like I may be walking into a spiderweb.
Aaaaaah, OK, I see it now.
First generation GPU, but intel is a great grandfather of anticompetative behavior. Nobody can call intel a newcommer to the public relations game. It looks like they arent going to change anytime soon.
Usually the bad reviews are obvious. A product explicitly Windows only in the title is panned by a Mac user. Someone gives one star for slow shipping.
I would put it this way- I agree with you that Twitter had a left wing bias before. It has a right wing bias now, and so far neither is enough for me to leave the platform. I don’t think this crowd sourced fact check makes any sense as it operates today, whereas I think it’s fine to point out literal factual inaccuracies.
I thought they used crowlog
According to Yoel Roth, the Trust & Safety organization within Twitter was mostly unaffected by these layoffs. The team size was reduced by just 15%[1] and the amount of moderation activity is largely unchanged[2]. Roth says that their "efforts on election integrity – including harmful misinformation that can suppress the vote and combatting state-backed information operations – remain a top priority." [3]

[1] https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1588657228462317568

[2] https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1588657230836305920

[3] https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1588657232279130112
In simple terms, investors are suing because even though they might have made a boatload of cash from their investments in Meta, they ended up with a net loss overall because what Meta did to pump up the stock value ended up destroying the value of a lot of other things the investors had in their portfolios.
> the Python and Linux programming languages are all open-source.

Yikes
I think Elon Musk is trying to be Tony Stark. Tony Stark is a fun character to read about in comic books and see fly around in a movie but he'd be insufferable in the real world. I think he's going to lose his shirt at this dumb Twitter thing and maybe that will be a humble Tony Stark post-Thanos snap style rebirth...
No one has a right to chew you out in a vicious way. As owner he has a right to fire you, but if I were a Twitter employee and he raised his voice to me, I'd be right in face at twice the volume. I'd have to get paid a lot more than a "competitive" salary to be viciously chewed out.
I mean I could also roll up at a coffee shop with a tanker truck and demand they fill it up based on my $5 bottomless coffee purchase. But nobody sensible reads bottomless that way.

Also I don't think your reading of their offerings is right. 1.2TB allowance on the basic package and those that want more can purchase an unlimited package:

https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/exp-unlimited-data
Considering these are the teams that put their thumbs on the scale during the 2020 election by censoring the New York Post, I'm not sure much has been lost here. They later reversed the decision long after the election when they could no longer deny they censored the truth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/technology/twitter-new-yo...
> almost always, whatever problem you're trying to solve would be better done with a regular resizable vector

Resizing a vector brings the whole of it into cache, potentially dragging all of it all the way from actual RAM. Prepending an entry brings nothing into cache.

Cache is king.
Funny how he's creating a reputation of being a total loose cannon, then uses this directly to get more money "or else who knows what he'll do" ...

Interesting tactic.
Except then it became "Fuck you, do what they tell you."
In case anyone wants an example of how challenging this actually is: try to find a sleep mask on Amazon that doesn't let a bunch of light in somewhere, isn't so thick it makes your face sweat, is comfortable while sleeping on your side, and has elastic that won't fail in 2 months.

After around a dozen failed attempts I finally found a great solution 9 months ago. Of course two days back I accidentally left it in a hotel room. Trying to buy a new one by clicking the link from my purchase history brings me to a listing with completely different pictures that look nothing like my beloved mask, now includes bluetooth music playback functionality, and of course costs about 3 times more. Pretty sure I won't get the same product if I bought it again.

So really I'm wondering if my previous 5 star review counts as a "fake review" based on this study's metrics and if not what percentage on top of that 30% is earnest reviews that are for completely different products.
I don’t know what has given you this impression. Hopefully you’ll find it easier to navigate between their websites from now on.
No, just a jackass.

Edit: Yes, firing 3000 people with lives and families because you paid an obscene amount of money for a company that you didn’t actually want makes you a jackass.
> Zach de la Rocha made a banger with Run The Jewels last year though, none of that silly politics either.

You got me, I didn't realize this was satire until this line.
Intel plans to rival TSMC and Samsung as a chip supplier
The answer for why Git beat Mercurial in overall usage more or less boils down to GitHub being very successful. That isn't to say that Git wasn't already in a good position prior to that, but GitHub made it very easy to get into Git in a way that hadn't really existed before. (Anyone who used CVS or SVN on SourceForge knows what I mean.)

At that point, it's just network effect. GitHub made using Git easy enough that people were willing to accept a clunky interface. It's not like people expected great interfaces from CLI programming tools in 2008, anyway. People are still using Mercurial, in any case.

As for Darcs, I used it. It's cool. I'm not convinced it's that much easier to understand than Git, and it has well-known performance issues.