skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I dunno about dumb, but voters' views are rather less connected to reality than one might hope.

What voters say is disconnected from reality, because the average voter has average skill at articulating their thoughts and usually only knows how to navigate their own social context. That 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.

You can tell by looking at what the polity does, it is often turns out in hindsight that it is quite an intelligent and practical beast. It is really hard to outdo a democracy when it comes to having a finger on the pulse of what is really going on.

It is a gross unfairness in politics that people so often deal with sound bite caricatures of their opponents rather than being forthright about what motivates their position.
1 is not useful; 5 is next to the useless list.
Moved away from Denver up into the mountains and I really miss my 1Gbps $65/mo internet -_-
An honest WISP is actually the exact sort of scenario I had in mind when I hedged that claim. In my experience, small businesses are sometimes honest but the big ones almost never are.
The first week into my prior job, I had to fix an in-production bug involving quadratic vector growth that was tipping over servers. The vector implementation guaranteed too much, namely consecutive memory layout (which wasn't needed, and if we had needed it, it would have been a mistake).

Decomposing that vector into recursive subvectors solved the problem. Going from a few tens of millions of elements in a single contiguous vector (with consequent -- and bad -- heap fragmentation!) to nested vectors with a few thousand elements each brought us back online again.

Which is to say: Vectors are nice. Lists are nice. Use appropriate data structures for your scale, watch your semantic dependencies, and don't get hung up on dogma.
I'd say it's typical discourse in today's world to consider Musk either a total failure or the greatest genius ever. Everything has to be boiled down to this simple Disney-like binary.

Anyway, on this one I consider the chance of failure to be high, from a financial point of view but also because a social network is not an engineering challenge. That said, he seems to seek out such unlikely adventures.

I think Twitter will first take a massive hit before it rises to new heights, if it does.
I was responding to the parent's statement that "restrictions on confidential information only apply to government classification of information. Private classification isn’t a 'real' thing, it’s just a breach of a private contract."

This is not the case - you can be convicted of a felony and go to jail for taking a private company's confidential information. Nowhere did I call layoffs a trade secret.
> The free speech supporters would vastly prefer that.

They should not just prefer it, but actively support and defend it. It's speech by Twitter people after all.

But if you go back to when Twitter had similar responses to tweets from the last administration, you might be surprised by the reaction from many self-proclaimed free-speech supporters.
> Obama set up the Bowles-Simpson commission to cut Social Security

Bowles-Simpson wasn’t about Social Security specifically, and it was set up deliberately with a supermajority rule that assured if it did something controversial, like touched Social Security in an adverse way, it would fail and fall short of the threshold for proposing policy changes at all, doing nothing.

Which is exactly what happened.
How about this one, I helped you out on a definition, can you explain what it means to "carry water for" someone?
Any suggestions on projects to look at?
That would assume everyone hits the caps - I daresay they're high enough that 90% or so of users never hit them (I'm not capped so I don't know) - or they'd offer a good/better/best allocation.

In the end you're trying to find a fair algorithm for "sharing" and any one you pick is going to have some ways in which it's unfair.
Similarly, I wonder how many HN posts are made by shills or fake accounts to push certain technologies or tools. I know reddit gets astroturfed pretty heavily, so I'd imagine something similar happens elsewhere.

Certain technologies can appear a lot more popular than reality due to how much exposure they get on sites like HN, leading to a skewed perspective of the industry.
I honestly don't understand why we all went this route of "port to Python". I mean we do it too (not my choice) but it really makes no sense to me.
This is nothing but absolute bullshit.
That's not how a network works and you know it.

-- sorry, sorry, impetuous. I'm simply tired of the bandwidth apologists. Data caps are 100% theft of service.
Therefore they're not allowed to report on malfeasance in the technology sector?
"Critical" in journalism doesn't mean antagonistic or agenda-driven. It just means to not treat it like fluff. The Style section is not critical. Cooking is not critical. I can imagine Tech used to be soft news (David Pogue era) but had to pivot as it became so central to daily life.
This is pretty much dead on. All social media platforms, especially Twitter, have a hard leftwing bias. Musk has signaled that he intends neutrality for Twitter, which has triggered a meltdown from the left.

What is it they always say? "When you're accustomed to privilege equality feels like oppression."
Right, so basically taxi cabs but personalized ads. GG on marginally progressing the wheel.
Microsoft can argue that Copilot emits a mixture of intellectual property (a pattern from here, a pattern from there), so they don't need to give attribution.

But if we disallow training, it's unambiguous.

Either you fed the program into your training system or you didn't. The No-AI 3-Clause License forbids use in training, no question about it. If you train your model on this text, you are obviously violating the license.

Systems like Microsoft Copilot are a new threat to intellectual property. The open source licenses need to change to adapt to the threat.

Otherwise Microsoft and Amazon will pillage open source software, converting all our work into anonymous common property that they can monetize.

We're watching it happen.
That does sound useful, although I'm having some trouble thinking of what for exactly. :-)

And indeed, I don't recall seeing something like that. At a first glance O(log n) seems easy to do in the average case, but perhaps not in the worst case.
It's odd that the author states they wrote the article in response to arguments on Twitter, yet they didn't show us the arguments this was a response to.
Dwarf Fortress Creator Explains Its Complexity and Origins (2020)
nsarray (objective-c) also does something similar

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2413656 (sadly the article link is dead)
Short answer yes.

This question can be easily answered with a search for NYTimes and green energy in tech or when Elon initially helped Ukraine using Starlink or any of the multitude of articles on advances in robotics or how new advances in computing help solve problems in healthcare.
Order book for all-electric Eviation Alice airliner passes US$2B
It's not a bad idea, but I don't think they'll get close to 5 million memberships. Maybe 250K corporate memberships? That's a lot too, probably 10-20k to start. And I think they're deluding themselves on how hard the transparency piece will be (much easier if they can eliminate the "public square" component) And then the creator team, that is very greenfield and I can't imagine it won't depend on lots of moderator tools and "brand safety". But really if they push hard on ending the public square element of it and create much better personal moderation tools. But I think to get this they'll have a lot of work to do in building tools to get to those numbers.

This article says Twitter blue has only made 6.4 million dollars? https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/31/twitter-blues-troubles-twi...

So that's a million subscribers divided by the number of months it's around. Will Musk's verified really be that popular? Do they have the time financially to build the credibility necessary to make the new twitter blue a success?
C and C++ are far from the same thing. That said, D does seem kinda nice so I wouldn't mind seeing some rewrites of critical infrastructure in it. Preferably something that'll benefit more from the rewrite than ls would.
That is a very incisive analysis of "software engineering". I don't know how you did it.
Does anyone have DAU or MAU numbers for this stuff? I've been convinced that web3 is not going anywhere, but open to being proven wrong.
If I understand Yglesias' point, tech executives got annoyed that twitter would grant verification to journalists that gave them negative press attention? Why is everyone so obsessed with blue checks? Don't tech executives have their own PR departments?

The twitter thread doesn't mention any specifics, but I've seen self-driving cars mentioned in other comments as something "unfairly maligned" by major newspapers. So far as I can tell, the self-driving efforts of Tesla, Uber, and other startups have failed to deliver again and again on the promise of having a car that can drive itself without human supervision. Is that not deserving of criticism?

Not to mention how Google in particular has gone to war to not pay newspapers a single dime for reproducing their content. Business is business, and a lot depends on interpersonal relationships. Strong-arming somebody usually doesn't endear them to you.

Skepticism of new technologies has been around forever. The way to earn public trust is to actually deliver on things that make people's lives better.
Musk can inexplicably get millions of people to buy into his technobabble when he has a long history of not delivering on 95% of the things he promises.

He's a billionaire selling futuristic dreams to the gullible with a single goal - to enrich himself.

What's there to like for the average person? He's not a "hacker" in any sense of the word, he's a used car salesman.
What's the scam?
The Arpanet Completion Report (1978, BBN Cambridge) [pdf]
What I want to do is put the little box outside the big box in winter, though I suspect all the "waste heat" the freezer/fridge "burns up" offsets the gas used to heat the house somewhat.

All in all it's too complicated to work out, but I will admit to leaving frozen goods in the trunk in the winter because of laziness.
The thing that is, macroeconomic policy is already basically solved. It’s been understood for hundreds of years. But the lobbyists have succeeded in pumping misinformation and poisoning minds for so long that many factual untruths are blindly accepted by a large chunk of the population.
In what way are they lacking capacity?
The VList paper - which I archived at http://trout.me.uk/lisp/vlist.pdf to avoid having to google the bloody thing every time - is an interesting hybrid.
It would be a return to the norm. Parents used to warn teenagers not to give out any personal information online. Using someone's real name in a public online setting was considered gauche.

Maybe a generation or two of dredging up digital sins will get us there.
> a great platform could surface this kind of additional context effectively, but only as provided by the users of the platform

I guess Twitter is a great platform then - FTA:

According to a description under the annotation, “Context is written by people who use Twitter, and appears when rated helpful by others.”
In a sense, it's totally understandable. For over a decade now, almost 2, the internet has put traditional news media in continuous peril of losing their reliable revenue and eyeballs: ads, local reporting, community postings, national, and international journalism have seen playing fields entirely leveled and reshaped due to (mostly) free technology interconnecting billions of people.
Definitely helpful, thank you for the thoughtful perspetive. I like this: "how to investigate further, or how to know whether to give your service a shot?"

For now... this is a good self test from WHO: https://www.shimmer.care/adhdtest

I'm also glad you felt reassured!
If you want to prosecute or persecute those mafia members, yes, evidence is necessary.
If you are in that place, you're probably using a linked list over small statically allocated memory, but you still need random ordering and fast remove or reorder.
I really appreciate this. Thank you!
The weird NYT editorial decision that tech companies HATE!
That only works if you allocate lists all at once and never modify them.

If there are any other allocations taking place at the same time -- say, allocations from other threads, or for other data you had to create while building the list, that locality is shot. Same goes if you insert more elements to the list later, or if you perform an operation which changes its order (like sorting it).
Both Redis and Linux are C projects, and in C it's customary to roll your own containers. Without generics, and with a culture of avoiding small dependencies, it's preferred to roll your own simple list than to reach for more advanced reusable data structures.

So I don't think it's a particularly enlightened decision by these projects to use so many lists on their merit, but rather a programming pattern especially common in the C language they use.
cons cells are a local maximum.

often they're sufficiently maximal.
Just wait until you're 50.
I would have no issue if companies that receive bailouts are bared from buybacks, paying dividends and giving management bonuses until they pay back the money. But under normal circumstances buybacks are already taxed through capital gains taxes. That is more tax efficient but the solution to that is indexing the cost basis to inflation and scrapping any 50% discount not layering on more taxes.
Lifelong US resident here - this is not remotely true.
Thanks @vedranm! I especially like your side-by-side comparison of the process of contributing using Markdown versus reST. It really encapsulates the difference that reasonably seamless tool support makes. I need to look more into MkDocs...
It's less that I trust the rabble, and more that I see the rabble as the lesser evil to the horrifying status quo of having war criminals like the Washington Post fact check claims on the Russo-Ukraine war because they're an "Authority" and a "paper of record" and "non-partisan" and "just checking facts".

I am strongly in favor of giving birdwatch a chance and maybe making a few adjustments along the way because we need something better than hack journalists and something more than wikipedia articles.
Right? the mentioned short UA string in the article is

Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 10; K) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/100.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

but as long as we're breaking backwards compatibility anyway, it seems to me it could just say Chrome/100.0.0.0 Android
Yeah, registration is free for up to 500 req/min if I remember right! Really nice from TfL.
The measure of success isn't how much Twitter fell before he had anything to do with it. It's where it ends up after he's had more than a couple days to improve it.
If the data is relatively big buffers, you really do not want to copy them. Your memory bandwidth will thank you, and performance will vastly increase.
Cache locality will be good anyway since you're referring to long blocks.
Careful, admiral Hopper will give you an earful if you disrespect milliseconds.
Inserting into an array increments the indexes of all subsequent values. How would a regular BTree emulate that behavior?
> a social network is not an engineering challenge

this is a sign that youve never had to support the scale of a popular social network
They probably shouldn't be called layoffs - they're actually mass firings, usually to reduce labor expenses.

"Layoffs" implies that it's a temporary shutdown of production and that workers will retained when business conditions improve.
Just because eBay saw it trending on HN and decided to resolve it for good PR doesn’t mean the process was easy.

I guarantee you this is what happened; it literally happens all the time with people here.
I feel like this is the same problem that drove Intel into their current position; they do a really bad job at creating a separation of concerns. Their big turn around plan across the business appears to be treating foundry and chip design like two fully separate entities, so that the foundry will no longer cater to their designers and actually force design to compete on their own merits; a hard-learned lesson.

And yet, here they are functionally subsidizing their CPU business by handicapping the usefulness of their GPU line. That handicap will probably be for at least two generations, since it's almost certain that consumers will now be skeptical of their (already rough) firmware being able to receive updates not only this time around but whenever their next line comes out as well, even if they claim to fix the issue.

Edit: Ars has retracted this story; Intel claims, and Ars has confirmed on Windows at least, that Arc GPU firmware should be upgradable using both AMD and Intel CPUs. Maybe they actually have learned!
Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle McDowell.

Guide to Competitive Programming: Learning and Improving Algorithms Through Contests By Antii Laaksonen
Most people don't try all the alternatives and so they have no idea if this is good or not. You buy something, it seems to work so cognitive dissonance won't let you give it less than 5 stars as that implies you didn't choose the best.

I really want someone try independently try then all, but that is expensive and a lot of work so few do.
Show HN: Reveddit.com: Improving online discourse with transparent moderation
Hi HN, this talk represents a summary of my work over the last four years on addressing shadow moderation with Reveddit.

Let me know what you think, good or bad, and I'll do my best to answer.

What is shadow moderation? It is any action taken against your content that you aren't told about and aren't able to detect while logged in. I focus on Reddit comments since every single removal is shadow removed— removed comments are shown to you as if they're not.

You can try this for yourself on,

https://www.reveddit.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/about/sticky/

Your content will be removed, you won't be told, and it will be shown to you as if it's publicly visible.
It's about the meaning, not the raw bits. I might be able to duplicate your signature, but that doesn't mean I can sign documents for you.
Sounds like you arent a twitch streamer. DMCA is alive and well.
That altitude is above roughly 99.9% of the atmosphere.
Yeah - one thing I've noticed with some forums is that the addition of the "like/dislike" buttons (some have even more reactions available) greatly INCREASES the signal to noise ratio (I mean makes the forum have more signal, maybe I said it backwards) because the "me too" posts and the "fuck off" posts are reduced, you can just hit the button instead.

Some streaming platforms have a button you can hit that makes party emoji or heart emoji or whatever appear in a stream from the lower right, that's a similar thing which helps with cheering so you can then combat flooding.
Starlink is doing exactly what you want them to do.

During congestion they have no choice but to throttle everyone hence lower speed "at the point of congestion".

The new addition is not really a data cap. When you reach 1 TB they'll throttle you, but only when they have to. They won't throttle if there's enough bandwidth for you.

The cap basically identifies "heavy users".

So quite literally Starlink is doing exactly what you described as the ideal solution: during congestion they are throttling heavy users.
This isn't common just in politics, but in your average big corp, even tech. You need to justify your accomplishments today even if the real benefit won't be seen a few months or few years from now.
http://trout.me.uk/lisp/vlist.pdf
I think it's a thickly veiled ad, if it's an ad at all.

It's legitimate news that some parents do it. It's business news that Apple's trying to make it kid-friendly.

The article doesn't extoll the virtues of giving a smartwatch to your kids. I guess you wanted them to trash the whole idea? They do say in the first paragraph, "The smart watch cost $279, and he worried that its recipient would immediately break or lose it."
The SCIENTISTS have very disorganized R code and also on my experience even worse Python code where they learn inheritance and make some absolutely head scratching choices. It makes me weep from time to time.

Here's the thing, programming is a skill. If people think it's the "not important thing" only the result (seen this often in some of my previous positions), you're going to get disasters yeah.

As for package management in R you can use either Renv or conda. Been coding R for a decade and have always pinned down packages and you could do so well before tooling made it simple as pie.
To be fair, most people have a hard time understanding the word "hypothetical" or realizing something different from the status quo.
The cap is exactly that, if I read correctly? After you hit it, you still get non-priority service without extra charge.
Actually you can stab, hold or even cut a steak with a good spoon (by good spoon I mean one made of stainless steel or titanium with good mechanical strength; there are some cheap spoons that would bend at any significant pressure applied on them), so a good spoon can also be used instead of a fork or instead of a knife, while those cannot be used instead of a spoon, for taking small particles or liquids, but it is obvious that a spoon is less convenient than the tools made specially for those tasks.

There are people, like myself, who believe that any food cutting should be done when cooking the food, not when eating it.

Because of this, I no longer use any table knives, which are anyway much worse for cutting food than the high quality super-sharp Japanese knives that I use for cooking.

I also no longer use any forks, because when the food is already cut in pieces of the right size, it is much easier to take them in a spoon than to stab them with a fork.

When I was young, I ate the food in the manner considered polite traditionally, with knife and fork, but after I grew older, using the most efficient and comfortable methods for doing anything has become much more important than caring about how something was traditionally done or caring about what others believe to be the right way.

After I have started to eat everything with a spoon, for a long time that was a subject of jokes and amusement for other family members. Nevertheless, eventually they all began to imitate me, after recognizing that it is indeed much more convenient than the traditional European manner of eating.
Ah yes, you are right, I misread this a bit.

Well, then if the UA string is reduced for privacy reasons but the server can still ask for the information, the benefits are quite unclear.

UA strings need to be solved but I also agree that Chrome single-handledly deciding the standard is annoying.
Harvard publishes a report every quarter on investor activism vulnerability by industry and they quote about potentially $200B in dry powder. If the board is complicit, investor activism is one way to address it.

https://corpgov.law.harvard.edu/2022/10/06/the-activism-vuln...
I think you're confusing what's happening. People die of thirst faster in the desert because deserts are generally hot and dry, so you sweat profusely. Meaning you are going to lose your store of internal water faster.

Also, I think you're just taking an analogy made way too literally. Analogies are messy but used to help illustrate a point. They do require one to read the intent of the speaker more than the literal words used.