skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I think there's a higher barrier to participation than, say, reddit, and clear rules discouraging flippant or other low-value contributions, so you're shaving off the bottom 10-20% (guestimate) of worthless posts with that alone. Meaning the average is higher.

And then I speculate there is a high percentage of people here of at least minnium tertiary education (or equivalent), and furthermore people who are engaged and relentlessly self-educate. That's a literate bunch of people with strong skills in generating and critiquing ideas and philosophies in an arena where there is more "signal" and less "noise".

It'd be interesting to see the demographic breakdown of HN actually.
I don't think it would be hard to apply a CGT to real estate only, as all transactions are centrally recorded, but it would disincentivise exchange (which presumably occurs when the buyer sees a more valuable use for the land), unless it is charged on unrealised gains, which is a can of worms.

Other possible measures:-

Stamp duty, as in the UK. Also disincentivises exchange.

Unimproved land value tax (Georgism). (Would need to apply to alienable land only, or there would be significant impact on rural iwi, and possibly a threshold of say $100k/ha unimproved land value since farmers whinge so loudly.) Fewest problems in tax policy terms.

Revise zoning. Change residential to mixed use (light traffic commercial, up to 25 employees, say), allow up to four storey and multiple-household buildings, prohibit "amenity" and "character" objections to consents (apart from noise and smell) and building size/usage/land use covenants near (<10 km radius) the centres of cities, and probably some other measures. Densification policies. Streamlined planning and consenting of developments.

I agree that we need to build capital for business investment. Tax policy (and middle class culture, as embodied in zoning rules and district plans) is heavily tilted against that. Been that way my whole life.
Definitely all design reviews.

And I think they should be given the option to attend all other meetings too, maybe with the exclusion of those that are more business oriented like discussing the vision for the team with management, etc. It has to stay efficient.

Otherwise, how do you want your junior developers to not be junior at some point?

I wouldn't want to work for your company.
Twitter also used to be owned by average people. Like most publicly traded companies. So no, it's not from "many rich shareholders" to Elon. It's more nuanced than you're making it out to be.
Thank you. I love your thoughts! Mine are similar :) So I will implement something like that.
(Also, if someone likes the idea of Structpad and wants to work with me, you can email me at contact@structpad.com)
At company B, I think you really had to prioratize the right things to do and then the sub-option of how to not hold up other members (I.e. reverse engineer setup and document it) and start down that path..

Almost certainly they would have begun to decide that helping you along was a good tradeoff even if investing in getting you up to speed was a short term loss.

By skipping infrastructure you needed to do anything of adequate quality, they could pretend letting you get up to speed on your own worked and the eventual failure could be summarized as your repeated problems reaching expected quality.
> this isn't new (it started a couple of years ago I believe)

4 CEOs have supported this project ... so far.
All love is irrational. I would still rather love. Some people stay because they care, no need to be disparaging of them. You and I would not enjoy the peace and comfort of the modern world without it because somebody is irrationally willing to live/die for you and me.
Spanish spelling is better, pronunciation is easier (no th, only 5 vowels, etc.), native speakers almost as numerable, allows you to understand Portuguese, Italian, etc.

It wasn't chosen, America just won
For a simple and readable implementation of a Python btree see this:

https://github.com/samsquire/btree

I tried to keep the implementation as simple as I could.
Maybe they were fired because the Twitter UI is so horrible? Given that the site doesn't work without JavaScript, I doubt accessibility was ever that high on Twitters list of priorities. If the team has not managed to show any real work or progress, I can see some one like Musk just dropping the entire team.

But yes, it would be great to hear from people who depend on accessibility feature: How good is Twitter really.
I do have a blog, but I have less to write about now. Mostly it’s focused on software, however the problems I’m dealing with technically feel too specific, messy or open-ended to boil down into a blog post.
That depends. There might be a premium for advertisers to pay to target the half of ads that blue users can see.
Another thing. I absolutely hate the taste of those materials that pass for compostable stuff these days. The McDonald's around here switched to paper straws (EU laws) and wooden ice cream spoons. I seriously stopped going there since they did. People always tell me, why don't you take your own plastic straw and a spoon if you want to go to McDonald's? Well, when I did used to go it was usually on a whim, when travelling on a motorway far away from home. I would have to remember to carry this stuff with me all the time, just to ocassionally benefit from it. So they lost my business.

What they should've done is what IKEA did when single Use carrier bags were outlawed. Just have much stronger multi-use equivalent one can buy there and then.
Is there any point to helicopters anymore with the increasing capabilities of drones?

See Turkish drone use in UA/RU war. For a single helicopter, you could blanket the skies with drones. Now they aren't dirt cheap, $5 million, but that's a hellva lot cheaper than a single heli.
there might be a difference in public perception: zuckerberg built his platform in the first place, so he's got a legitimate claim to destroy it in whatever way he seems fit (even if that's not really true). musk just walzed in; his aquisition looks like a hostile takeover and now seems a bit clueless about how to proceed ("20$ too much? how about 8?").
Having to use quotes (or any other symbol) sometimes based on learned rules is a big no-no for lightweight markup in my book.
Or the simpler answer that doesn't fit your narrative is that lots of folks don't like Musk and his actions and his approach to running businesses. Lots of people find Musk repulsive. It shouldn't be a surprise that those people want to leave.
I think it also helped that Apple was still an underdog even after he got cancer, and very few people direct vitriol at underdogs or cancer victims.
oh Please ! It's weekend, we can argue whats the right gender-roles and the 'correct way' on Monday. I'm sure the OP has nothing against grandmas or women and simply used languages and expressions that is common.

Forget coding puzzle, the next time I interview someone for a job I will actively try to screen for this type of "high-horse-police".

As a programmer I want to solve interesting problems not partake in woke-police!

So honest question, what is the number one thing on a JD that will put you off from applying ?
In my opinion it's the opposite. The smaller the ship, the sharper the turn.
Welcome to the club bub
And it is better to use Clang, with other compilers libjxl performance can decrease significantly for some reason

Also fjxl has an effort option, with 0 or 1 it will be even faster, but with less compression

Same for libjxl, there are faster efforts 1 and 2, and effort 3 as far as I know works well for photos but not so much for the rest
Intel's pay-as-you-go CPU platform finally has a name
> Maybe on Fiber

Until now Starlink was advertising speeds as 50–200 Mbps. On the low side that is competitive with VDSL2 FTTC. On the high side, that's faster than the packages most users take out on FTTP*

* In the UK, anyway, by far most FTTP users take out entry level packages. These packages often coincide with FTTC speed tiers; if they don't, 100 or 150Mbps is the highest entry level tier.
the most strange part is it's hosted on Github

Really, a for-profit company can't host some static pages properly under its own domain.
Is there a way to get FB posts or FB groups articles to RSS?
The only reason why I am still using FB is following some people in a very specific fields or groups.
Is there a reasonably neutral comparison of Mathics vs Mathematica anywhere?

Based on an amazing showcase[1] Mathematica is right at the top of my list of languages to learn if it (and at least some of the surrounding tooling) ever becomes open source. I wonder how many of those examples would give useful results in Mathics, or what their equivalents would be.

[1] https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/44683/9570
Funniest stuff I’ve read today. So true!
It can also be worth it when used outside of jobs and occasionally - in the same way that a bike or a blender or a day at a spa can be worth it. I wouldn’t say that a blender is “ridiculously expensive” because I don’t care much about smoothies.
“How much chaos”

The only “chaos” I’m aware of is the /b/ N**r spam invasion that occurred one afternoon? The rest seems to just be Musk doing Musk and manufactured outrage (as I really do not understand how $8/mo is breaking the bank for popular celebrities and brands) over charging for validation.

Anyway, down with Habbo Hotel.
Love this. My grandmother and her generation practiced it all the time. "A stitch in time, saves nine."
Supermarkets were buying back empty glass bottles in Italy in the 70s so people didn't send them to a landfill anymore. My parents handed bottles to a clerk at a desk, got some coins, then we started shopping.

Then plastic bottles took over the world.
What Is a Realm in JavaScript?
Though definitely a major influence, Duncan describes reading through the work as a child, I don't think it was his primary source. He had learned enough about history to doubt Gibbon, and tried to read available primary sources as much as he could.
Mathematica is prohibitively expensive. I work at a public technical university in Europe and we have no licenses for mathematica.
Is it possible to create a program that would create timelines/filters for me individually and locally, based on my clicks maybe, not sending anything to the net? Like a personal AI.
I for one enjoy having federated and local timelines where the posts don't call me slurs, are mostly about things I'm interested in, and have properly labeled images (no uncwed nsfw, so I can scroll in public). Have fun blocking hentai bot #13874828374 from your federated timeline on pl dot shitheads dot st or whatever :)
I cannot tell you how many people have said the exact same thing as you and when pressed to show what is exciting to them, all that comes out is yet another financial motivated, inward looking solution searching for a problem.

I've done some serious searching. There is absolutely nothing exciting in this space for people who aren't already bought in to it. It's like a cult
I actually like this spelling. The sounds that have exact equivalents use the Latin alphabet and those that do not are replaced by the character's native system. Cause his name is not Pyotr or Peter or Pierre or whatever else. It is Pëtr indeed.
learn key phrases in mandarin

- i dont understand.

- in english please?

- what's that about?

- are you talking about (insert random mandarin word here that will make them laugh, eg cheeseburgers)?
But by this logic we'd have to argue that Wikileaks is a public square. Real public squares have police, and those police have a mandate by the people to enforce contract law and private property law.

This is why hate speech I think is a much more controversial topic than copyright.
> Completely outa the blue based on what came before.

Not really; what came before is a story about how he'd talk with his friend in the office they shared, and then he condemns the OP for sharing the apparent American opinion that that kind of thing needs to be banned. The line from one to the other isn't exactly obscure.
Try fitting a squad, let alone a platoon, into one of those drones...
ahem you do already, it's called the internet!

Maybe you forgot internet is not decentralized.
> You can't realistically ban people from speaking their native language to each other (nor should you try)

It can be done. Irish Gaelic is not what it was.
> I work in a FAANG office where a lot of people can speak Mandarin, but I'm not one of them. About half of my immediate team can, though.

What is the official language of the company? If it's English, there are grounds to enforce it. The company should _not_ be hiring people on teams who cannot communicate in the common language - that is their failing.

> My manager is remote and has no idea any of this is happening. I don't want to be the asshole to ask people to speak in English, or make my manager be that guy either.

There are several problems here:

1. You can't manage an IRL team remotely. You can manage a remote team remotely, but not an IRL team. Important conversations are happening all the time and managers at least need to be aware they are happening.

This manager should either come into the office or be moved aside for somebody who can.

2. The manager needs to be aware of problems as they happen. They cannot manage what they are not aware of.

3. You are not being an asshole for wanting to communicate with your colleagues. It is _them_ who are deliberately excluding you.

4. (Speaking carefully) Chinese culture specifically can be quite nationalist and diversity of thought and people is not an ideology that is typically shared. If you lost your job and was replaced with another Chinese person, this would be ideal for them.
This, state your problem (I dont understand Mandarin?) and your needs (I want to be part of the discussions but I dont want to be the person pushing everyone to speak English all the time?).

By asking your team (and hearing them) they will understand and maybe come up with solutions (see e.g. parent) themselves.

At least in Western culture teams I'd do this, not sure whether Eastern culture people would really say what they think though.
Much other software can and does compete. Professional mathematicians use any number of other programs as well as simply writing their own.
Not liking Elon Musk and moving to a different platform is taking an action. Taking action is the opposite of virtue signaling.
For me personally, it's a low-fee payment system that can't be blocked and doesn't require any KYC. My friends and I use it primarily as a replacement for cash when we split restaurant bills abroad. There are people who use it to donate funds to organisations under repressive regimes anonymously.

Blockchain is just a useful primitive to build stuff on top of it. As an engineer, I would like to embrace it, NFTs notwithstanding.
Even with a perfect prefercher a linked list would still be slower to iterate than a vector as it is inherently serial (unless your CPU does address prediction and I don't think any CPU does).
"Collaborative fact check" really does show that there is a demarcation between "fact" and "truth".
That’s why I deleted my account. Musk and the rest of the PayPal mafia are hardcore neofeudalist libertarians, a movement that has gradually infected more and more of the tech world.
Is it really getting all that many users. If so: What kind of users?

From Musks perspective Twitter isn't about the HN crowd or personal interaction between lower and middle- class people. It's all about the real influencers, entertainers, politicians, journalists, C-suite class, investors, millionairs and billionairs. Sure if you follow these people, boosting their follower count and their ego, you're welcome on the platform, but you're only there to read the messages from the upper echelons of society. If your yearly income isn't measured in the millions of dollars you're not really part of Elon Musks vision for Twitter.
I feel like there is a massive branding issue with Masto. Derives its name from an extinct animal (often misspelled or confused with the band), toots sound funny. Twitter got this right from the get-go.
per video*
how do you think hackernews works?
It doesn't work for controversial topics.
You could be right, assuming he manages to indeed keep the platform running smoothly. I think that will be the most important factor. And while I honestly can’t be bothered to care whether people are banned or not from Twitter, it just sounds to me like the idea that less moderation is always good could be an oversimplification of the problem. If I am not mistaken there were attempts to create “free speech” platforms that never went anywhere. Also, from the point of view of the survival of the platform itself, banning a few people to please many more others seems to be more reasonable than taking some kind of ideological stand (in one way or another). So, the question is, can the platform survive (smoothly) supported mainly by the happy attitude of so-called freedom fighters?
If the creators are reading along in this thread, I’d be very interested in an article or even a short explanation with some pointers on how they got this to perform well enough to render in real-time. Every time I’ve tried to create SDF based shaders with many Boolean operations, it kind of starts slowing down to the point where it’s unusable.
> basically we don't know

Yes, it has been grossly mismanaged from a PR perspective. Expecting no fallout from that is naive.
> Imagine where the world would be if bell labs didn't invest all that money into positive changes that people _intended_ to make.

The people at Bell Labs could point at something and say "despite this never making it to market, this is what I contributed to the world".

Also Bell Labs is probably not a great example of a sustainable company, because they are not still operating today.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think twitter still doesn't work at all without JavaScript functioning. That's not an easy fix after the event and sorting that alone could probably keep an accessibility team busy for the foreseeable future.
Arizona is a 7nm fab I thought? They are saving the good stuff for Taiwan…
Thanks for these valuable insights, please can you elaborate on the "trusting your instincts" in this context?
This is a brilliant example of a selective memory. What you have forgotten is that long before Jan6, Twitter blocked retweets of Trump's tweets, attached various warnings to his tweets, was selectively 'fact-checking' him, how that notebook story was banned on Twitter right before the elections. If that is not silencing, then what is? Can you name some other person on Twitter that had undergone a similar treatment?
That video is rather illuminating that this is definitely not an application that my grandmother could use.
Where do attack helicopters fit into modern war, out of curiosity? From my very uninformed point of view -- seems like in a world where man-portable weapons are getting more and more capable, being in a relatively (compared to jets) slowly moving, lightly (?) armored flying vehicle would be pretty terrifying.
> ignore performance on MS targets because anybody who cares about performances is running something else.

That's a strange take. Surely games still represent a significant chunk of the demand for C++ developers that need to care about performance?
Steve was almost universally mocked/hated by anyone that didn't use Apple products. He was also had an ornery personality that didn't mesh well with many.
Thank you for all the references! The topic is interesting and closely related to Structpad
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/03/08/uber-got-off-the-hook...

Well the "long" investigation let uber off the hook despite disabling emergency breaking and put the driver in jail.

Which seems to put all the blame on the user and nothing on the makers of the AI.
Linux considered AsciiDoc. But went with ReStructuredText. So, I'd look into that instead.

I'd guess Mozilla chosen a format most people are familiar with.
Anyone with a 4K TV who has the premium subscription, and has manually changed their settings.

From Netflix:

Basic ($8.99 per month): Standard definition (480p) content on a single screen at a time.
Standard ($12.99 per month): High definition (up to 1080p) content on two screens at a time.
Premium ($15.99 per month): Ultra HD (up to 4K) content on four screens at a time.

Some people complain about the 4K quality.

From Netflix:

High definition (HD) 720p: 3 Mbps
Full high definition (FHD) 1080p: 5 Mbps
4K/Ultra HD (UHD) 4K: 15 Mbps

So 1 hour of 4K video is 60x60x15/8 = almost 7GB

That's 142 hours of watching Netflix (outside the nightly window) almost 5 hours per day. I can assure you Netflix doesn't make that much good stuff
It's not clear whether you are in an English-speaking country.

If you are, then personally I think it is really bad form for the other team members to be speaking in a foreign language when the native English speaker is present.

It's rude and disrespectful and I think it's bizarre that we are in this contemporary situation where we are afraid to say that.

If I was working in a foreign country where the native language was - as you would imagine - that spoken in the office, I would damn well learn it and feel embarrassed at co-English speakers excluding somebody on the team who couldn't speak English.

I can't offer a "tactful" answer beyond having an informal chat with somebody you trust with influence, and even that might be risky in the wrong environment.
Thank you, your comment helps me sharpen my thought.

1) Yes, you definitely need to know Latin to appreciate the Aeneid, I agree with this.

2) It is a comparatively low bar though. Ability to write Hamlet is quite a step up from ability to read it. So a floor level of skill is absolutely necessary to even “unlock” the taste.

3) There are also returns to additional knowledge/skill for a while. The better your English is, or the more cultural references you know, the better your appreciation of Hamlet might be. You “unlock” less dramatic but still new taste buds.

4) I do think, however, that my OG point largely holds: your acquisition of baseline knowledge/skills doesn’t instill taste so much as unlock it. In other words, among people who speak English, all but the aforementioned seething subset will agree that Shakespeare is great and among people with some algo thinking, all will think elegant code is elegant.

5) Because the skill to unlock taste is so much less than the skill to produce, I agree with the article that they are basically orthogonal.
Others have mentioned the local anesthesia to be more painful than expected (which is news to be honest, I just thought I was a bigger wuss than I realized), but also I actually haven’t been seriously hurt in my life - I have fell off a bicycle and had a scratch that took a month to heal and a hairline fracture but none of those were too painful. I think there’s some benefit to being a sedentary nerd lol. But also, a knife cut isn’t painful? It bleeds and stings but not exactly pain right? Unless you got to the muscle which I never have.

Having said all of that, I have definitely been told that I have really good self preservation instincts. One will never know what combination of all of this makes me.
I find it comedic whenever someone talks about how they're a truly longtime user of Twitter but they can't stomach staying on now that the owner doesn't share their values. Elon's values are extraordinarily similar to Jack's! If you were going to leave when someone's values diverged hard, you'd have left when Parag joined, because his did, and that's the entire reason Elon bought it! In reality it is some combination of personal association and public persona. And these are not the worst reasons to refuse to use a service, most of us have been guilty of the same at one point or another, but at least admit that that's why.
The owners of the original work
All of this seems to assume what people care about right now is what matters. The news cycle will move on in a couple weeks. That's when the real test will be for how much people really give a shit.