skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/#move The docs, for anyone wondering.
This is hilarious. Musk forked over billions in excess value to Twitter shareholders and millions to executives with sweet exit packages.

I'm just guessing that Twitter users are going to say "thanks nah" to paying his bill for being impulsive and forced into honoring his poorly written purchase contract.

I also think it's idealistic in the extreme to think that users or advertisers want free speech.
How could that be everyone is using 14 character passwords that change every 90. Totally bulletproof security…
You can also delete the source code after compiling it and your software will keep functioning. Does it mean that code don't directly contribute to product value ?
that's why they are eco-terrorists - terrorist: a person who uses unlawful violence and intimidation, especially against civilians, in the pursuit of political aims.

the problem is that the cyclist they killed is not "the polluting industry". the other problem is that even if he was CEO of Exxon, what is revenge killing OK now and not murder?

if you go around blocking, harassing, destroying property, injuring and/or killing people - who are individuals that largely have no more or less ability to change things than you - then you are a terrorist, not a protester. you do not know if that traffic jam blocked an organ transplant or an ambulance.

it's fine to protest and hold signs and shout and have parades and be politically active, fine you are an activist. beyond that, you're no longer the good guy underdog - you're worse than "the industry" you wish to save us from.
This whole article is bizarre. Imagine an article saying “UK government set to extract hospital data to Excel without patient consent”. Or “SQLite”. Or “Amazon RDS”. Or “Microsoft 365”. Or “Google Sheets”. Or “IBM”.

Palantir is, as far as I can tell, not a building full of giant disks and evil arch-villains trying to make billions of dollars by looking at your personal data. Nor is it an advertising or data company (like Google or Meta or Equifax) trying to make billions of dollars off your personal data. It’s a software and SaaS company selling tools and a consultancy helping clients use them.

So maybe someone here is up to no good with someone’s data, but this is not at all implied by anyone’s mere use or Palantir.

To the extend anything nefarious is going on, I would imagine that someone is overpaying and/or receiving an underperforming service. Think about everything Accenture is infamous for.
Hey mtmail,

Sorry about that - I changed the title, so it's not "Show HN". Thought it was ok because my prototype was linked at the bottom of the post.

And just removed the calendly link, forgot to get rid of that - now it just accepts an email so I can reach out to those interested.

Thanks!
I have a question, due to the lack of diversity of food sources for flies, wouldn't that pressure de evolution of flies that ignore the stripes?

Maybe there would be a decline in population first, then a rise of stripe seeing flies.
preferably with a camera stand and appropriate lighting, in my opinion .....
Why are you sure that all of the low hanging fruits have been picked? The origins of software development are pretty much still within living memory. We’re still extremely new to programming. I wouldn’t be surprised if the field looks completely different in 50 years.

As for types, I’m not saying they’re flawless. I’m pointing out that in the transition from assembly to high level languages there were flaws and criticisms that came out. But looking back fifty years, were these flaws and criticisms genuine tradeoffs that kept assembly as a reasonable option for most developers? No, they were not. Now we look back on programmers who insisted on writing assembly as oddities, as niche figures. I cannot say if this will be the case for types, but I won’t rule it out.
This is a really nifty idea! I like the fact that you guys are combining teletherapy with also an app that gives more actionable things to follow. Definitely one of the hardest things about going to therapy was actually practicing the things we'd talk about during the session.

As many have already pointed out, the price point is definitely high, but I think you guys can need to target a wealthier audience in the beginning before being able to make all your resources accessible to everyone.
It's a business, it can do what makes the most sense for it. Only people with money can buy cars, only people with money can go to concerts, only people with money can eat at restaurants. Paying for things is a surprisingly popular model.
Most wheelchair users don't have the means to pay several hundred grand for such a system, nor the expensive daily maintenance it entails.

Maybe when it's mass produced in the millions like cars it will be more affordable.
VOCs are nanometer scale. A rough estimate for atomic bond length in organic compounds is .15 nanometers. CO2, which should be smaller than basically any VOC, is half a nanometer across.
I'm currently visiting family abroad and working remotely. I bought my work machine (A Mac M1) and a quest 2 with me. So far I've done one week of 9 hour days and on one of those days I used Immersed VR until I got a battery warning.

The experience was flawed but many things worked surprisingly well. I was getting fed up with just having one screen and having four low-resolution screens was really useful for some things. I could have slack on one screen, VSCode in the centre, my calendar or documentation on the left and my personal recreational browser and music Windows on my right (I eventually moved this to the top because otherwise it was covering the corridor where family members walked past and I preferred to see them using pass-through than being completely oblivious to the outside world).

Is it a very small screen for an IDE and is text blurry? Yes both. But text right in front of your head is quite clear. You have to scan your head to read lots, but most of the time a suggestion of the surrounding text is enough to get by. You also have to change your idea of "sharp text" it's better to use something like cool-retro-term or zoomed in browser to get text that's knowingly large and fuzzy.

I wear glasses but have VROptician lenses and a Bobovr headstrap. The batteries would have died before I became uncomfortable.

The most important observation is that I didn't jump back in to VR once the batteries were charged or the next morning, but I'm glad to have a multi monitor option that fits in my cabin luggage, and cost a free hundred pounds, for when I'm doing a task that would be a total pain on one monitor.
The 20% has caused so much havoc in society, 80% needs to push back and make the world better.
I’ve got you: https://youtube.com/c/megabotsinc

They only did one real fight, but still 190k followers
It's 15% to 20% of revenue that you get to lock up in advance. It's a big deal.
It's a solid model. At least in the recent few years the feeling of an intentionally closed community of people who have skin in the game raised the quality of conversations. Act like a jackass? Great, get a ban and pay another $10, feed Lowtax (RIP).
Honest question: why does anyone care what Jack Dorsey says anymore?
Followed accounts are easier to do manually; there's a simple export / import interface that existed before the account move feature.

I will note that for you "as a content producer" the uniformly reverse chronological presentation on Mastodon highly penalizes older posts (even a day old!) to an extent that is pretty rough to get used to, and that makes those older posts pretty irrelevant to move over. This is much like Twitter before its engagement-maximization algorithm days, though.
> The thing about Mathematica / the Wolfram language is that it's quite a bit harder to create an open source interpreter than it was for eg R

On the other hand there are lots of Common Lisp systems which are capable of running the venerable Maxima/Macsyma.

> not sure what the status of Octave

I'm glad that Octave and Scilab exist, but I switched to NumPy and never looked back.
Alternative title:

“Twitter ex CEO announces half-baked and social signalling fuelled, competitor product to entice as many as possible to leave Twitter and help line his pockets”
Population pressure disproportionately harms the poor. This is still a big deal in Africa, where Nigeria is likely to have a billion people in a few years. Providing education to girls so they can later support themselves better is the most effective on-site method known to reduce that suffering, and also cuts population pressure where it is harmful.

I have strictly more complaints about John Markoff.

He is personally responsible for, e.g., Kevin Mitnick not being allowed to use the telephone while in prison, out of trumped up fear he could hack with it.
Yes! Actually, I was thinking "WAL" is constantly thrown around without explanation too.
Why would 12 bit be easier? It's written in C. For any given opcode you can just do a direct comparison in c to a char type. It would be easier to enter the instructions in text and the program read it, it would be easier to compare.

I could easily be missing something here, but any time you have to chose between a nice round single byte and something else in c, it sounds like extra work to choose something else.
Voting history is available to political parties and candidates.
Have you tried the latest couple of releases?

I used to have that issue 5 years ago but since then it opens under 5 seconds and loads the solutions I need for not much more. Currently using it on a cheapish recent windows laptop but even on a 8gb x220 it works fine, just loads for 30 sec in the beginning and then it's smooth.

Granted I'm only opening .net solutions with under 100 projects each but anything above that is unnecessarily more difficult to navigate with just vim.

And in my experience VSCode is many times slower than Visual Studio on the same projects. None of them are as fast as barebones sublime or vim on an m1 mac but when I load the latter with plugins it's not a huge difference.
And I agree. I just think monetization is the larger factor.
What percentage of Twitter users are saying it's turning into 4chan? A handful of users arguing in bad faith isn't worth pointing out, so the numbers are important.
At 1000 miles, the cost of any corridor from the Rockies to the Mississippi is pretty much unimaginable anyway, so why not fantasize about the right way of doing things?

Or to put it another way, the distance itself is beyond what people tend to imagine.

And any route across the Great Plains is going to run across prime farmland.
It's wild that I've a seen a few linkedin invites and even job posting for "quantum computing AI". The tone is always along the lines of building up your quantum computing software development skills since it will be the next big thing in industry.

I've worked with quantum computing researchers before (I mean in the same building not doing the work), it's interesting work, but we're still at the stage where a focused background in physics doing research in is the prereq, not skills with quantum algorithms and their implementations. "Programming quantum computers" is still physics not software engineering.
"So if I design a self driving car which kills someone, it's the car that goes to jail?"

No but the manufacturer will typically be held responsible. If the manufacturer intentionally designed it to kill people, someone could certainly be charged with murder. More likely it was a software defect and then it is a matter of financial liability. (in between is a software defect that someone knew about and chose not to fix)

This isn't a new issue. If you design a car and the brakes fail due to a design issue and that issue can be determined to be something that could have been preventable by more competent design.... someone might indeed go to jail but more likely it would be the corporation paying out a large amount of money.

It could even be a mixture of the manufacturer's fault and the driver. Maybe the brakes failed but the driver was speeding and being reckless and slammed on the brakes with no time to spare. Had it not been a faulty design, no one would have gotten hurt, but also if the driver had been competent and responsible, no one would have gotten hurt.

But with self driving cars, when they no longer need a "safety driver", it certainly won't typically be the human occupant of the car's fault to any degree, since they are simply a passenger.
I'm sure the moderation team will be right on top of that...
> Is this a function call, or a thing that expands into something totally different?

There is editor support for that, or lookup methods at the REPL. Put a cursor on the symbol, hit some key.

I use Vim and TXR Lisp. This one liner:

:nmap L "_y:execute ":!txr -e \"(doc '" . expand("<cword>") . ")\""<CR>:redraw<CR>

lets me look up standard language things by pressing L while the cursor is on a symbol like progn; it launches a browser window on the doc, and jumps to the section. For stuff that is in the code tree being worked on, there is jump to definition via tags.

> In languages with dedicated syntax for this, you can just recognize { and } and instantly know what's going on, ...

If you don't already know the construct, it may be hard to search for it, especially online.

Recently I wanted to see some examples of C++ lambdas in code bases. I tried searching for things like "[](" and "[]{" and whatnot on github; no luck.

> C's convention of MACROS_YELLING_AT_YOU.

Plenty of C macros (that do non-obvious evaluation) get written in lower case.

Even if you think you're sure something is a function call, that tells you little. You might know that it won't clobber the argument expression, but what you often need to know is what the construct does; and in the course of finding that out, you will find out whether it happens to be a macro.
Curious why he would remain so invested in Twitter despite wanting to compete with them.
Sure, in an ideal world no bugs and not even bad code would slip through review.

I'm still to find the place where this is true in software development.
Isn't content moderation the biggest challenge at Twitter?
People using dynamic languages deeply, especially library and framework authors, regularly write abstract/generic code for which a suitable type declaration would be mind-bendingly difficult in a very sophisticated type system and impossible in a weak one. You can argue that this is ill-advised! But static typing with normally-powered type systems leads to more voluminous and more purpose-specific code. Very powerful type systems are possible, but treated as academic and too difficult to use in the real world.

A way this often gets worked around is code generation. Anywhere you have or reach for codegen in a static language, you probably could have used a plain old function in a dynamic language.
Have you considered they send those to everyone? And someone else who did vote is about to post "I already voted! Why did I get this message?"

Plenty of companies out there aggregating voter information -- see L2 Data for example.
> Why does it exist in the first place if "no one cares about it?"

Lots of features exist that no one cares about. You seem to be implying UX folks always get it right.

Long time but casual Twitter user here. I've never paid attention to the blue check. Anecdotal, but yeah.
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Discoverability is a little better since Pleroma exposes the public timelines for non-logged in users (though the admin can disable that). I'm not sure about search.
Much closer than I would have expected. But what's this about RISC-V not having a jump with a register and offset address? Doesn't JALR have a 12-bit offset that's added to the base register rs1? How is that different from RISC-I's JMP COND, S2(Rx)? Does COND mean the jump is conditional, like JMPR EQ?

Interestingly since this article most of the "In RISC-V, but not RISC-I" instructions have been moved to extensions: Zicsr for the CSR instructions and Zifencei for the FENCE.I instruction (which turns out not to be useful for user processes running on a multicore processor with a multitasking OS like FreeBSD or Linux). That leaves only AUIPC, SBREAK (now called EBREAK), and FENCE. So it's even closer now than it was in 02017.
It also hides what URLs you visited. Depending how the hosting is implemented, just being able to see the IP, or even the domain name, wouldn't show what you were doing, but if it's in plaintext, they can see exactly what pages were visited and files downloaded
It’s more the people who might get pushed to the next level as they get positive reinforcement and, especially, as more moderate people leave because they’re tired of dealing with the zealots.

Extremists don’t care about disagreement – they’re there to talk, not listen – and if they see a few fellow travelers they’ll start to tell themselves their position is mainstream.
Qubits are getting smaller at the same time their coherence times are getting longer. The millions of qubits figure assumes pretty crappy coherence times. I don’t see any reason why you wouldn’t fit a future QPU on a 4 inch wafer or some kind of stack of them.

Finally, again, dil fridges are a solved problem. Not only are they solved but there’s a ton of room for improvement. They’re very inefficient. You can just make bigger ones with more dil units.

That leaves the wiring, but you remove a lot of that with cryosilicon computers and multiplexers.
ctid gives me ptsd !
This is awesome. Definitely gonna check it out...
https://instances.social/ already has a wizard that does a good chunk of this, though not, I believe, with username availability checking. There are a lot of different entry points and they don't all pursue the same polish, for better or worse.
> Do you get decision paralysis when deciding what home to buy or what apartment to live in?

Yes, of course. That involves a mortgage, location, the logistics of moving...
That’s interesting. As a HP G2 owner, it really doesn’t come close to reading text on a desktop monitor for me.

The combination of FoV and the resolution really isn’t there, I struggle reading text through it vs a 27” 1440p desktop monitor I have on the same PC. I really couldn’t imagine reading text for any length of time in VR.

(Edit: I just realised you were comparing to AR, not desktop, sorry.)
Oh yeah? they pay US$20 an hour at a local fast food equivalent in India?
You're not being persecuted by state actors. Your views, as far as I can tell, aren't even that heterodox.

But trying to derail a thread about an actual dissident to focus on cancel culture and deplatforming is obnoxious and worth the crits you're taking, IMO. If that serves some dark CIA agenda, I guess I'll have to take that risk.
Very cool, and surprisingly accurate.
> There are quite a few websites with little or no moderation working just fine, like 4chan.

Even taking at face value what you just said, it doesn't logically follow that if having one or more places like 4chan is just fine, having online venues be like 4chan would be just fine as well.
> I’ve seen people take a dogmatic approach to this in Ruby without really applying any critical thought, because one assertion per test means your test is ‘clean’.

I can't speak for Ruby, but what I would call 'clean' and happily dogmatise is that assertions should come at the end, after setup and exercise.

I don't care how many there are, but they come last. I really hate tests that look like:

setup()

exercise(but_not_for_the_last_time)

assert state.currently = blah

state.do_other()
something(state)

assert state.now = blegh

And so on. It stinks of an integration test forced into a unit testing framework.

I like them to look like:

foo = FooFactory(prop="whatever")

result = do(foo)

assert result == "bar"

I.e. some setup, something clearly under test, and then the assertion(s) checking the result.
It's not exactly that simple: Islamists (and religion in general) is also perceived to be an antidote to Marxism. At the height of the Cold War and bordering Soviet Union, the west resorted to creating and supporting religious groups "Mujahedin" in Afghanistan (Taliban v0.1) and Khomeini in Iran.

The Late Shah of Iran is on record constantly warning about "Red regression" (referring to Communists) and "Black regression" (referring to Islamic fundamentalists) as threats of the nation and the 1979 revolution succeeded by them joining forces (and the commies got the axe afterwards). Funny that in the western world, we are seeing the extreme left/woke anti-Americans and the Islamists join forces again too, despite being cut of very different clothes: the general American left narrative is silent on issues of Islam (particularly bad when it comes to women and LGBT) as it contradicts their own narrative of fighting "Islamophobia". I doubt this ends well.
How do you know they knew? Maybe they’re just spamming SMS’s at their list.
They said that they are going to have a separate mark for "notable people" to be able to determine real people from fakes (regardless if they pay)

They are basically shifting the meaning of the blue checkmark and trying to use it more as a bot filter rather than identity verification.
But are any companies as successful as Tesla and SpaceX? And would Tesla and SpaceX be as successful without Elon's leadership?

It's impossible to answer definitely, of course. I'm leaning towards no. I'm not a Musk fanboy, but he does something right.
It may make more sense to assume that I've always been a fan of passionate debate; now, I just don't have to carry a firearm or worry about federal oversight for public comments.

Life's much better now, albeit a little less surprising ;)

I guess I can only wonder what's it like to never put your life on the line for a selfless cause and only argue online, though. Any insights there?
I’ve noticed that since the 8 dollar checkmarks rolled out today a bunch of people have paid for it and then used it to impersonate Elon. That person you linked might not have been verified beforehand and just bought it today.

I tried to look for their past tweets on the internet archive but didn’t find anything. So I can’t say for sure if they were verified beforehand or not.
it's outsourced to Infosys or TCS
For awhile now I have not wanted to use GitHub because of this tool. Why should anyone write code for Microsoft for free when Microsoft charges for software?

Perhaps options like GitLab and others should be considered instead.
Similar to or compatible with TBL's Inrupt?
The key here is mastodon isn't a business, so moderation isn't entirely focused on being cheap. Mastodon, correctly in my opinion, identifies social networks as community resources not as entities to extraft profit from.
I've just spent the last 30min-1h looking this up. I think I might have a form of this... Mostly, I can't really picture stuff. I thought that was just everyone.

Gotta find out more about this!
Indeed less and less people are using those. And when they do use email, they are using its centralized version, gmail.
Some states release early and absentee data at the precinct level. Campaigners can glean a lot from this information, including modeling the likelihood that you have voted early or not based on your past vote history. With the exception of Utah (whose voter file is now opt-in), every state identifies which elections you have voted in.
not a plumber--some contortions are sometimes involved to get into tight spaces (not as bad as my brother who is an auto mechanic when he has to get under the dash.) But I have put my name in for the position that drives the lawn mower for my wind down at the end of my career.
What’s the PPD equivalent for a recent MacBook Pro at a distance of “sitting on your lap”?