skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The only problem with chopsticks is that they're harder to use

I'd almost say that's debatable.

My wife had eaten almost exclusively with chopsticks when we got together, and myself almost exclusively with a fork. At this point I'm much more competent with chopsticks than she is with a fork.

I've watched our infant daughter learn how to use a fork.

It's all made it pretty clear that using a fork does require skill, technique, and fine motor skills if you expect to use it as much more than a shovel. Even as a shovel, trying to get the food _on_ to the fork without pushing it over the edge of the plate requires some finesse. Even just trying to stab food, many foods require different techniques to not have them roll away, break apart when stabbed, etc.

I pretty firmly believe that treating a fork as intuitive mostly just comes from everyone here being familiar with it.
Re steak: They don’t have that issue because the way their food is cut is by the chef to appropriate portions.
The "Twexit" event is a huge opportunity for Fediverse to pick up new users, but I fear it will be wasted because the Fediverse software is still not ready for prime time.

The concept of "instances", "federated feeds", "different software for different media types" are all complexities unnecessary for the newbies.
You don't get rich digging for gold, you get rich selling shovels.
Mayhaps, but we can never know for sure now.
Twitter is mostly on their own infra. 1 billion is 25% of total revenue. I think they are close to that spend with cloud but it’s more like 750m if I were to venture a guess.
What??? Anyone with a 4k TV that uses netflix is watching 4k a good portion of teh time. What does time with TV on matter? Plus, most new shows are in 4k including kids shows.
People call London "town". Just a phrase.

They also call some small places "city" too.
Did you do that test double blind?

The skeptical position on astrology is typically that the archtypes are so vauge that they apply to everyone equally, and people tend to discard any parts that don't fit.

Saying that the archetype applies to you isn't countering the skepticism. On the contrary that is precisely the outcome that someone who think astrology is bullshit would expect.
I went on site in mmm 2018? to help them deploy some APM for the backend of their nav, maps and scheduling products. It was - like much of that kind of software- a mix of exceedingly awesome stuff with craptacularly integrated and poorly integrated systems, with ancient dependencies and strange feeds everywhere. In other words pretty normal stuff in corporate world, and the kind of systems that are hard to un-ransom...
DC is far more cost effective than public cloud for data intensive workloads.
The Republican leaders of this country literally encouraged (and in some cases abetted) a coup attempt lead by white nationalists on Jan 6th.

And they are upset that they are called uh, names.

I get what you're saying: name-calling is mean. It can deepen divides. I've been called names before. It felt bad.
You may have mis-parsed what the poster was saying. Imagine going to review the Ghostbusters reboot, but even before stepping into the theater, you decide you are going to write a negative review. That doesn't require fabricating lies, but most would say its an unfair/dishonest way to do movie reviews.
What country would that be in? Sounds amazing! 10 euros for gigabit!
Unlimited Data is $30/mo in many markets for Comcast, and if you use xFi Complete for $25/mo and just flip the modem into bridge mode, you also get unlimited data included (taking their modem saves you five bucks a month, and it’s compatible with Gigabit x2 which is 2000/200 service).
It’s not. I’m not saying things are perfect the way they are now and we shouldn’t look for ways to be productive, it’s that I don’t want us to get stuck in a local maximum like our industry tends to do. If Python isn’t expressive enough, let’s evolve on languages, not pile kludgy code generators on top that must be finessed with special prompts.
(Opinions are my own)

> GFM is, by far, the most popular flavor of Markdown.

It is very sad because gfm is essentially "done" evolving. There's no desire from people I've spoken with to improve the implementation or add new features. For example: Multiline tables.

> Many tech companies love the rich ecosystem of Remark to transform Markdown with plugins. Still, extendability is the subject where Markdown scores the lowest.

The state of the world here is quite painful. I'd also like to say a prayer for anyone else out there writing custom extensions to cmark-gfm in c.

> reStructuredText offers a number of useful directives out-of-the-box. For example, admonitions (“safety messages” or “hazard statements”) can appear in rST like this...

We've been able to implement this as an extension in cmark-gfm and hoedown. It is quite painful but it is doable.

Markdown is just as extendable if you have control of all of the parsers and rendering code for your organization. This is no small feat.
ML most likely? Have a camera, and then adjust the drones to fit desired image going into that camera. Feed in windspeed and other data. Drones can fly themselves already so this is just more adjustments.
I mean, if you modify the contents of the list nodes in place, sure. But at that point, you're just doing an array with extra steps.

Changing any of the pointers, however, will make memory prefetch much less efficient. CPUs like linear memory access patterns; they're easy to predict. Chasing pointers is much less predictable, even if the pointers are all to the same region of memory.
From his recent tweets he has said exactly the opposite; that he will build a "council" of diversified opinions and cultures, or something of the sort.

Whatever that means or if it's ever actually happening though remains to be seen.
> 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.

Could you provide any specific examples of that?
I still hang out on Hotline and KDX and my friend has been running his server continuously since 2001. There are dozens of us! I also still point a dyndns domain to my IP, but just for some games and stuff. However, it seems that as a society we've settled on the web browser being the de-facto interface to everything, and we all expect persistent server-side data accessible from anywhere in the world. That said, it's still my goal to make a web Hotline client... one of these days... haha
Have you ever seen the music video for Testify? The gist is that Bush and Gore were identical candidates with essentially the same positions and it ends with a tacit endorsement of Nader. In hindsight Bush and Gore were not the same and the candidacy of Nader was harmful.

Their politics would have been more effective had they urged young people to rage within the system, but the rebellious message is clearly more appealing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3dvbM6Pias
From what I see, it's

pip3 install Mathics-omnibus

levels of hard. I'm missing some libraries on one of my machines, but I'm planning on playing with it.
Which part of this is an extraordinary claim? It's currently on the front page of every major US newspaper.
I think it's inevitable given the geopolitical situation in Taiwan that someone eats TSMC's lunch on America's dollar. China will almost certainly invade in the next decade, and getting large volumes of delicate electronics in and out of ports that are subject to a Chinese navy blockade will be very difficult (not to mention the difficulty in manufacturing them amid explosions). The CHIPS act is a big part of preparing for this.

Intel is set up pretty well to pull it off when this happens. Samsung might be in a good position too.
The announcement years back suggested it supported sage at least https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4066826
People literally celebrated the (illegal) destruction of my last job by Uber/Lyft because everyone has had at some point in their life a bad cab ride.

That one dude I pulled a knife on and then got arrested for being belligerent to the cops…top level customer service right there.
Bad take. Information is still valuable.
The problem at company B was everyone was experienced so they haven’t needed to onboard anyone. As a result you had no onboarding and that’s a team failure. I tell new joiners their fresh feedback is the most important thing they can contribute when they start and we place a lot of value in a smooth onboarding.

The result of not doing that is that people are taken off their work to help the person onboard manually. This then can cause the feeling they’re being held up as you experienced, this is where a true senior would have noticed this issue and raised it. It seems none of the team members were actually behaving like a senior.

Unfortunately this wasn’t explained to you so you felt disempowered to feedback on your experience so the next person they hire will have the same problem.

So on a successful onboard you might produce a better onboarding experience for the next person plus a bunch of feedback on the product with fresh eyes that many new customers will share.

Glad it worked out at a new place!
In full agreement, i feel like they already explored that sound before rage took it to a new and more commercially successful/influential level.
Stimulants don't work for everyone. Or like for me, they stop working after some time.
I agree with your premise, but I am curious what apps are you side loading. Are these important apps? I value this freedom as well but I have only needed to install blokada. I am a working professional and do not tinker with android as much as I used too.
You seem to confuse "the top" with "having the highest paying jobs at companies that active make either the planet, society, or both, worse"? Drawing a seven figure salary while you're enabling some of the worst abuses of power and the centralisation of digital control on the planet really isn't doing it right. That's "fucking it up" and then going "buy my paycheque! More money means I'm better!" when someone calls that out. No, US, you're not a better person because your salary is higher, and your company is not better because it controls a bigger part of the world.
How does Twitter make money without advertisers ?
I'm skeptical of Russia's useful military capabilities given that they're currently losing a war to a smaller country with ~20-year-old NATO tech. Turns out that 5x budget bought a lot more capability than Russia had.

Similarly, China's military hasn't been tested in decades.
$500 cheaper. $1000 / month for two starlinks) for 2TB of data versus $1.5k for 2TB of data.

Assumes you use all 2TB each month though.
Anthrax?
Most frustrating thing about email is that I get any at all (at work). We mostly use Slack, and emails are usually alerts from Github, JIRA or Azure. But it feels like there are too many of these alerts, and perhaps they shouldn't even be emails but something more lightweight, perhaps a slack message. Thinking about it that is probably possible to set up!

I am a fan of having fewer places to check anyway. If I can check my email via slack, and my Outlook calendar via slack then slack becomes the "one place". Not that I am a huge fan of slack (!) but I am just a big fan of having one place to go to to get a 'lay of the land' of what needs to be done today.
Just tested this on my 15-year-old account and it's really well executed. Great work!

The main link here should be to reveddit, not the video at cantsayanything as it is now.
If they laid off 3700 people, assuming 200,000 dollars each, that's 75% of the way there.

edit: oh, I suppose you wouldn't consider personnel "infrastructure". I'll keep this up despite how off topic I am, it's interesting to compare the reduced cost in labor to the stated goal in reducing infrastructure costs. A billion here, a billion there... Soon we're talking about real money.
Had not encountered this until today. Not a fan. If I want your opinion, I'll follow you. If your opinions are whack, I'll mute/block you. I can't do that to this overwatcher birdwatcher whatever.

Kudos for noble intentions et al, but it seems rude/wrong to insert an unsolicited opinion into conversations, especially in such a graphically highlighted/authoritative manner. I don't care if it's crowdsourced, outsourced, right, left, wrong, wise, whatever; it's uninvited and unwelcome.

simple solution: make the overwatcher a regular twitter account instead of a blue-bolt-from-god intrusion. I'd probably follow it.
Except people don't live online. They live in the UK, and maybe spend time online, and this agency knows that.
> I guess even people like OP would balk at sending their kids to the #1 school if it had 90% Asians, and then that school wont remain #1 for long.

Why? Harvard was 90% WASPs when it became #1. Universities in India and China do just fine with 99% Indians and Chinese. What difference does it make?

> The diversity is of value in other ways - experiences outside of your comfort zone and ones that dont come with a quantifiable meric are wonderful things about a college education.

And you can't have those things if you have too many Asian students?
> As OP said, Intel profits dwarf AMD revenue.

> Can you show numbers that would support "eating one's lunch"?

It's imprudent to swallow bold, unsubstantiated assertions without even bothering to sniff test.

Lunch[1] is on me this time.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33477899
Torrenting continues to be free, because when we were growing up we learned to share.
I have such a reputation among my friends for liking flaming hot cheetos and eating them with chopsticks. I also like the Metal Gear Solid video game franchise, so a friend of mine made me this drawing:

https://i.imgur.com/SLaMl2h.png
I've upbooped this perspective but I disagree. Markdown trivially compiles to HTML and is justifiably loved (aside from the proud markdown haters, old and jaded and scarred by it not working for their weird usecase that one time), and you haven't suggested an alternative which addresses the problems they had with the mess caused by wysiwyg output. But maybe you have a better solution? Beyond the entitled expectation that it's someone elses job to fix it.

Also #6 of their manifesto is about interoperability. Markdown is a great choice for this if you are consistent in your approach. No lock in, human and readible.
Do they use AWS though?

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
What if the party is Ethereum Foundation? And the order is to remove a smart contract by change the source code?
> You can pretty reliably do something like, over a controversial tax hike that affected 2% of the population, get 30% of respondents to claim it made their taxes go up, if there was a heavy media push about how it'd make everyone's taxes go up, and that's for something they should have direct experience with

I don't think this is necessarily because those voters are stupid. It could be that they oppose the tax, and they will give whatever answer best signals "I oppose this tax", regardless of whether their answer is literally true. This is a reasonable strategy and it makes sense why they'd do it.
I mean the left can just as easily post their "context" on right wing tweets as well. If the White House can't handle a bit of debate on Twitter, it reflects poorly on them imo. Let the public see both sides
While there's a certain use for linked lists - in operating systems kernels for example and as a programmer you absolutely have to know how linked lists work, there are other linear data structures which are more suited for general programming.

To give a C# example, arrays, lists and dictionaries (hash tables) implement iterators so you can always know what the next element in collection is. Elements can be accessed by key or index in O(1),elements can be added in O(1). The case in which you absolutely have to insert an element in a particular position is rare so linked lists are seldom used.

The same case is for C++, there is a vector class in STL but no linked list class. Same for Java.
Every time someone makes a "free mathematica", my first question is "can I write, and see, maths as actual maths instead of as programming statement?" and every time so far the answer has been "no". So... can I write, and see, maths as actual maths?
Interesting article. Honestly it's sad that you can't just wave your phone in front of any screen or input device and instantly be able to use that device to interact with the phone.
A primary difference would be that this is happening now, rather than being a hypothetical. One can dislike both, but not mentioning a hypothetical surely doesn't negate the dislike of the actual.
Hmm, how insightful.

Let’s dig into this.

- Queen stops producing workers and is replaced by workers (regicide) or replaced by beekeepers (ie. shareholders)

- Bees due to disease or other calamity don’t provide enough honey for their shareholders and they lose their hive and possibly life more than likely

I’d prefer not to lose my life if I don’t produce at work if workers or shareholders aren’t happy
I don't think ad-tech is going away anytime soon. It would be nice but it's not gonna happen because the fundamental problem is not the ads but the fact that most social networks are not sustainable without advertising so the platform participants end up being treated like cash cows that are milked for all they're worth.

If Twitter was paid for by its participants then they would not have to put up with advertisers. Right now the advertisers subsidize the operational costs so they get to dictate what features are developed and what kind of invasive access they have to behavioral data for optimizing their marketing campaigns.
Hopefully hackers who give a shit about free thought will sabotage the earth based infrastructure.
I can actually speak to this.

So there is software that does this for you using RTK base stations which provide better than GPS accuracy. The software is out there (skybrush is a good one open source one), you load your points into the flight controller of your drones and the show is actually fully automated after launch, the flight controllers just have waypoints and times where they should move so that the swarm doesn't collide.

You can actually do it without RTK but you have to come to terms with the fact that your drones could be within 6 meters off of the target location while RTK can give you cm accuracy in the sky. The FAA actually approves swarm operations and I was able to capture some of it in Miami during the Independency Day celebration (self-plug for my own channel incoming) which you can see here -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWO3Bo1y3B8
Same crime that Akhenaten did as pharaoh.
> They take cruel advantage of how opaque the connections are between the macroeconomic, political, and social inputs, and the outputs as experienced by individuals.

That's why the more transparency and readily-available information there is, the better : )
These are actually plating tweezers. When I visited a lot of modern restaurants in Spain about ten years ago, these were pretty common to appear at three table for a course or two. So these have been around for a while now and haven't spread much outside the kitchen. I have some of these, but rarely use them to eat. In a regular kitchen these are really great for stuff like getting pickles or anchovies out of a jar
Thank you and appreciate the pointers.

For #2 can you suggest some beginner's textbook?
the size of a c++ object is fixed at compile-time
Chainlink only makes sense in a blockchain-centric world. If you get rid of blockchain then you don't need chainlink....
That has nothing to do with the contract Musk actually signed.
Banned in Bangalore, India.
By my thinking:

- price is 0th derivative
- inflation is 1st derivative (change in average price)
- rate of increase in inflation is 2nd derivative
- that rate of increase is decreasing — 3rd derivative

So I think Nixon is talking about a negative 3rd derivative of price. Am I missing one?
I just said "I tell myself" because its what I'd like to believe. Certainly the US is not in the business of demonstrating good morals.

Thanks for the links, particularly re: India, I wasn't aware of this chapter in the cold war at all.
> China will almost certainly invade in the next decade

Unfortunately, a decade is optimistic now. Given rising instability in China, it will probably be less than 5 years. I believe the DOD has updated their estimate
All of what you say is speculation. In reality there might be a huge amount of waste where it's just become an accustomed part of the culture <- also speculation.
Once you learn a language like markdown, why even bother with the markup? You know what denotes a header or whatever in the source. You might as well just write in plain text and not bother with the markup at that point once you’ve set up these formatting guidelines for yourself. Plain text readmes worked for like 50 years so far, they seem fine.
> iirc there's currently around 400,000 verified users now.

Doesn’t mean anything as none of those ever paid for verification
Is Intel Chinese or American? iPhones? Android?
> there's no documentation to set stuff up

This is very common, and it can ruin a new hire for no reason (as well as lead to problems later, when it turns out everyone is doing various cargo cult ways of running the code). Almost everywhere I've worked, if there was existing code, there was key undocumented info that was necessary to get the code, build, and run it.

It's become the norm for me, when starting at a new place, to grab someone who knows how to get and run the code, and have them walk me through it while I take step-by-step notes, then I turn that into the start of the official development docs. (I'll also start capturing other org process information, usually starting with things like what comms are used for what, who to talk to about common things, how to use a wiki effectively, etc.)
Expecting a project like this to come out of the box with the polish of a decades old tool isn't quite fair is it?
Companies do actually measure return metrics
That‘s why the Amiga OS (Exec) used linked lists as its primary data structure. It was one of the first micro computer operating systems using dynamic memory mapping (i.e. no fixed addresses for OS calls and data structures) and supported multi tasking. Any object you received from Exec basically was a pointer to a list node. And, yes, the Amiga‘s biggest problem was memory fragmentation and leakage because unreachable linked list nodes would be starting to accumulate whenever working with a buggy program.
Mathematica has an army of mathematicians working on edge cases that only other mathematicians would care about. It's essentially impossible for any open source software to match what mathematica does.
I find this kinda odd to be honest. Like you want your friends to be happy. So if you have two single friends that you think might hit it off, why not? You don't have to set them up on a blind date, but just host some event and invite both. No real pressure.
And the worst part. I think there are a lot of us who would be willing to pay for being on a good social network without ads, but I don't think there is enough of us. Too many people have been trained via myspace, facebook and twitter that social media is just "free." It it is going to be hard to change the masses on that.
I love reveddit.com, it's hilarious to look at the typical r/science post and see 60%+ of comments removed on average (the 'controversial' ones go 75%+).

If the moderators agree with the study there is zero dissent tolerated. This subreddit has something like 1000+ moderators and they remove any comments that doesn't fit into Reddit's very narrowly defined overton window. Not just people being off-topic or taboo... but often anyone who questions the studies being posted.

My only critique is that it doesn't work with Firefox. I have to pull up Chrome which I only use for work. Do you have a social media profile to follow/provide feedback to?