skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately I have to say that I’m too removed from this to care (I guess decisions like this happen invisibly in every company all the time). However, the true intentions about this acquisition do make me curious. Does he really think that patting the backs of a handful of conservative extremists will make Twitter better? (An already global leader in its segment?) can anyone give me a concrete analysis of the scenario? As far as I know there were a couple of attempts to create such “free” networks and it never really goes anywhere. I really appreciate his work as an engineer but I have a feeling he overreached here.
Where do you live so that your regular connection breaks multiple weeks per year? Never heard of something like that
I never disliked the algorithmic timeline, I just disliked the fact Twitter did everything it could to get you use it, including switching back to it after a while without telling you. The second I notice a platform not only being manipulative, but thinking I'm stupid and wouldn't notice, I start to resent it.
> In any case, avoiding raw HTML is a huge improvement.

Why is that? Raw HTML is quite simple to understand and edit. Especially modern html5. There may be a slightly marginal improvement with bold markings with stars versus b tags, but I wouldn't call it "huge" by any means.

EDIT: of course, you can build nightmares with plain HTML. Especially when it is auto-generated. But hand-written simple HTML is essentially equivalent to markdown, and I'd say that it is even simpler for some things (e.g., links, anchors and tables).
Google just doesn't know how to talk with game developers.

Even on Android, it took them 10 years to provide what is basic tooling for game development on other platforms.

Games succeed on Android because of the game development community standing in for the lack of motivation and tooling support from Android team, not thanks to them.
His own opinion is a valid reason.

It’s also a valid reason to leave because space captain Musk is in control.
How about explaining the situation to your manager and proposing a discussion among your manager and all the members of your team to agree on some guidelines for language use within the team?

In my experience in multilingual situations, people tend to shift to their first language just because it’s easier and feels more natural; it can also feel awkward to begin a conversation in one language and continue it in another. People rarely use their first language to intentionally exclude others from the conversation, but they often forget that others might justifiably feel excluded.

A nonconfrontational discussion might provide a sufficient reminder to the Mandarin speakers to use English when you are around. You might also find out whether the Mandarin speakers on your team have any issues with English use in your team that you might not be aware of, such as the native English speakers talking too quickly, using slang they don’t understand, etc.
The main value of using SDF shapes for 3D modeling workflows is you don't have to worry about topology (the vertex, edge, face graph structure which has to be formed over the surface of all 3D models) which makes a lot of modifiers (like boolean combinations of intersecting objects) vastly less tedious (Womp calls this feature "goop").

Right now Blender work still involves a lot of tedium, mostly related to topology. A lot of upcoming 3D ML applications also work considerably better when using SDF instead of mesh representations. I wouldn't be surprised to see this form of 3D modeling take off to a significant degree because of those two factors.
“Increasingly will be used…”

When will the crypto community finally quit with “it’s still early”?

Bitcoin is 13 years old. Ethereum is seven years old. Tens if not hundreds of billions of dollars have been invested in the ecosystem.

Please look at block explorers across L1s, L2s, and side chains for daily transactions, unique addresses, etc.

User adoption is abysmal and that says it all.

I was really excited about cryptocurrencies and blockchain until I woke up one day and realized a decade has gone by and outside of gambling on crypto exchanges and people who make it their identity the entire thing could disappear tomorrow and literally 99% of the population wouldn’t know the difference.
The new ui is a big improvement, they only removed/cleaned the right stuff, things I didn't even realize were getting in my way.
Sign up == skip. The "don't spam me" option is always hidden or simply ignored. Got enough crap polluting my inbox already.
When I turn off Huyndai Sportage 2021, the sound of Win XP shutting down is playing but with one extra note in the middle of sequence.
Lol. So trivially abusable
I remember when we used to speak about IE in those terms.

How the world has changed.
I'm afraid of what every single political tweet will look like now.
Facebook's ire seems to always be focused on Zuckerberg. It was always that way, especially after the Social Network movie.

And despite about a decade of similar whining on HN about deleting Facebook they are still the most popular social network around.
It still does, but a lot longer down the page.
I think it;s kind of screaming into the void to call people out on their inconsistent emotional decisions when that's all musk seems to do these days. Better to stand back and accept this is just humanity and enjoy the show.
He also gave you a specific non-political reason (accessibility) in the sentences right above what you quoted.
Why is it that it's taking them so long to pivoting from that failure? 10nm didn't work out, that's fine. But it feels like that didn't work out and they've spent the years after that in a hole and still haven't dug themselves out.
Electron is Chrome.
Haven't we had scipy for ages? It is a real OS replacement for Mathematica. It can even run a lot of its scripts/code (sometimes with minor changes).

In fact reading the linked page it appears they "build on top of" scipy.
Hating Elon is in vogue now, anything else is irrelevant.
There are multiple, very large diasporas of people fleeing the PRC. Hong Kong got its initial start from fleeing Shanghai industrialists and bankers (the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation being a notable one). And many of those people also migrated on news of the handover (like HSBC), and also in the recent events.
You just happen to be lucky enough to be within the very narrow overton window. Or at least a) believe what's being curated for you and b) never cared to look at what's not being said.

You should hope that your views (or more accurately, their views) never stray from it and the information that a tiny group of people are controlling is good for the entire population.

You could say just use another subreddit. But this isn't limited to one.
Just to make sure I didn't miss anything: They're not paying anyone for their fact-checking?
Interview with Allan Alcorn, the Creator of Pong
If you want to train the model, you can try Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion. https://github.com/XavierXiao/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion
Stop whining jesus
That’s a significant part of social media: shitting on things you don’t know shit about.
Prior discussions with comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25906672
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25908439
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25906775

An article arguing for a different UI:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25935407

Discussion from yesterday on a thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33474196

In that final discussion SilasX noted:

> Interesting, I remember someone on /r/slatestarcodex having the idea to rate/sort reddit comments by that metric, which I dub "sort by should-be-uncontroversial" (because normally-disagreeing people all think it's correct).

Honestly, that sorting mechanism sounds sane to me? It certainly sounds a lot saner than optimizing for engaging content (which seems to result in arguments), but I would guess is a lot less profitable (and so likely won't happen).

But like, in a world where informative comments actually were sorted highly, wouldn't that mostly obviate the need for this notes / fact checking system in the first place?

Put differently, isn't the very existence of and interest in this second system for voting on content attached to a tweet a demonstration that the primary system (for sorting replies, which are merely content attached to a tweet) sucks?
The prefetcher described in the paper implemented in the M1 is nowhere near a prefetcher that would be able to prefetched linked-list nodes.

> We tested for the existence of four DMPs: both single- and
two-level versions of pointer-chasing and indirection-based
DMPs (Section IV). Our findings show the existence of a
single-level pointer-chasing DMP....

When activated, the prefetcher described will also issue loads for pointers in a contiguous array of pointers. In particular, the pointer/addresses are already known by the core (because they themselves were presumably prefetched far ahead of time by the stream/stride prefetcher), so the core knows which addresses to prefetch. But in a linked-list, the address of the next node is not known by the core until after the node is retrieved from memory. I.e. there is an additional data dependency, and it takes a round trip to memory to resolve that data dependency.

It's the difference between prefetching B's in

A0 A1 A2 A3 A4
v v v v v
B0 B1 B2 B3 B4

and prefetching B, C, D, E in

A -> B -> C -> D -> E

The former is much easier to do than the latter as 1) the A's are easy to prefetch, and 2) the B's can be fetched in parallel. In the second, the core has to wait until B resolves before it can fetch C, and it has to wait until C resolves before it can fetch D, etc.
If we assume this is happening in a Mandarin speaking country, why to hire someone that doesn't speak the local language?

Does this person bring to the table something that the locals can't? Then, there you have your answer too for the guy that doesn't speak English.
I would perhaps say: if it offers you more value (not necessarily financial) than its cost, then it's worth it.

But this is a truism also.
English isn't a bad language; its spelling is highly inconsistent, but for the rest it's simpler than most other languages.

The only advantage Esperanto has is that it doesn't give (much of) an advantage to pre-existing native speakers. For the rest, it's perhaps even harder to learn than English, and --when hypothetically adopted on a large scale-- will develop into regional dialects.
What Happens When Kids Have Access to NBA-Level Technology?
Anonymous (or pseudonymous), independently verifiable operations with digital goods are clearly in demand. There may exist a better solution, but blockchain works now.
'Twitter’s priorities are no longer even remotely aligned with my own.'

Since when were they? The mistake was perhaps to ever think that they were. It was twitters 'priority to sell themselves to Musk, hence why they took him to court to ensure he bought them.

This is a somewhat crazy, knee-jerk reaction to some news headlines, the author has no idea of what is really happening, i'm not saying that i do, but for example the post says that 'the entire accessibility team' has been laid off then points to a tweet about someone saying there team had been laid off, firstly there is no indication that this is the 'entire accessibility team', just that the team this person was head off, secondly, the author has no idea about twitters accessibility plans in the future, for example, accessibility could have been given an even higher priority and given to a more competent team. Now i know this is likely not the case, but the real thing, is basically we don't know.

To make a knee-jerk reaction to a bunch of assumptions is crazy.
You are misrepresenting my comment by removing essential qualifiers: It's worth it if you use it daily as part of your job.

There are plenty of jobs where Mathematica would be useful occasionally, but not every day. For these cases, the software is overpriced.
That's hilarious. I used to work as a senior backend developer in one of Berlin's startups. Another senior BE dev was a native Russian speaker, so despite our fluency in English we started chatting in Russian now and then. Our conversations were meaningful and respectful (unlike those held by our predominantly Italian sales team who would shout out words like "cazzo"). We didn't mean to exclude anyone either, we only used Russian talking about stuff we wouldn't immediately share with everone in the first place - just because junior devs do not have to participate in the discussions about architecture design. Still, a junior dev from the US felt intimidated hearing our mother tongue so she asked our manager to introduce "English only" policy in this German company. She could not pass the probation period (was too busy doing gymnastics directly in the middle of the office space) and left the company, but the policy remained. Sure I don't have an answer to your question, but may I ask you: what's wrong with you? How do you think, does your attitude have something to do with xenophobia?
It sounds like you'd be better off with the chronological view or just following more accounts.
The point being made that Twitter was owned by rich people before Elon bought it.
Maybe, but not in this particular case.
Musk is simply roleplaying as a competent businessman, with a side mission of appeasing his bizarre army of deluded sycophants who worship him for being a kooky crazy genius (he isn't). This is exactly the kind of image he thought he had when he swanned in and fired everyone: he thought it made him look like a cutthroat, intelligent businessman; it's simply a coincidence that Twitter does happen to be a bloated, mismanaged mess.
The issue isn’t whether 1 TB is a reasonable data cap or not, but that Starlink did a bait and switch.
When you say "figures", do you mean that's what the evidence shows? If so, presumably twitter's automatic switching from chrono to algo is a significant factor.
A year ago nobody would have thought free speech/open platforms are going to be adopted by censorship-loving left wingers.

This is actually excellent for open platform technology improvement, as most engineers tend to lean left.
Just for the sake of it I opened youtube video[0] at 1920@60 and capped the network to "Regular 4G/LTE" in Dev tools, which caps it at ~150KB/s (~1200Kbps). After a bit of stuttering I had a video without pre-buffering. Of course later, where the codec just can't compress enough it starts to buffer (part in the forest at 6:00), but that for a FullHD video at 60FPS with a very dynamic scene change.

If I were to watch these videos for 8h in a row it would be only 4GB a day or 86GB for 20d/m. FullHD video. At 60FPS.

Sure, video conferencing is a bit a different beast, because there is no way to compress a dynamic stream so effectively... Except if you don't run you conference from a Porsche 356 going through the woods then 90% of the picture is just walls of your room/office. It CAN run just fine with 1-4Mbps.

Hell, we had a good enough video calls in Skype almost two decades ago, on a meager DSL lines with 1-5/Mbps limit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jY7RF9r8YFw
I briefly tried it (as an indie game developer). It's basically taking a metaball approach to modeling and performing some form of real time rendering so you can see what the result will look like. It also allows you to add some animation and what-not.

Overall I don't see it replacing any serious tool at the moment, its quite slow in modeling (because of the rendering) and precision.

What it can be useful for is if someone doesn't have the necessary tools/skills and they just want to make a basic and quick 3d shape like a smiley face, have it bounce/animate and export that to a little gif or whatever.
The recommended budget platform has been Intel for most of this year. They're clearly still competitive but that only lasts as long as AMD continues to reorient their pricing upwards to a more luxury tier.

The new budget AMD mainboards cost 200+ Euros now. Intel doesn't even need to execute well when AMD is about to play itself.
Electric motorcycle maker LiveWire Loses Almost $370M as Investors flee
Screwing them over how, exactly? As far as I can tell most of the shareholders got cashed out at a valuation way above market. I'd love to be similarly "screwed over" given the opportunity.
FFS. Fine. Dear Lazy Web:

* I am happy to pay for an account on an instance and have to never worry about that side of it again: where should I sign up?

* What’s the quickest way to import people I follow on Twitter?

* What’s the least annoying iOS app?
It certainly is a knee-jerk- reaction.

tl;dr: "I don't like Elon Musk either!"

Nothing but virtue signalling.
I've never been a fan of Twitter or any of the closed, private social networks, and Musk's takeover doesn't change anything about that, but I absolutely welcome the fact that many people are finally inspired to look at some alternatives.

They didn't do it before, but they're doing it now, and are pleasantly surprised by what they find. Even if Musk hasn't ruined Twitter yet, there's nothing wrong with him being the catalyst for this improvement.
It is moderately annoying one has to sign up (and give one's email etc) to even see the product in action. Why couldn't they put up a public demo where all your work is shared/can't be saved just to check it out.

The fact one has to sign up to see the product in action says to me they either lack confidence in their product, or are desperate to monetise everyone who wants to check it out.

I've been waiting for some product to invent a painless way to sketch 3d objects with a touch interface for years.
Like everything on social media the most important thing is not the rationale or outcome of actions, it's first and foremost about virtue signalling.

Although it's always a good thing when outrage drives people to open-source and federated platforms.
I'd imagine there's some amount of work, I doubt it was a huge team but they probably needed a few people to focus on the various platforms and regions their apps support

it seems easier to have a team focused on a features like that keeping things consistant and whatever dosen't seem that crazy.. fatter than what a startup would but twitter is a multinational worth tens of billions
The UX can be better and the accessibility worse.
Who watches the Birdwatchers? Joke aside that's an experiment I can appreciate at least it will show us how bot invested and deranged twitter and it's users really are. I actually thought it was launched months ago..
Scipy is for numerical computation. It's not a CAS.

While Sympy (which is one of the OSS libraries used in Mathics) is a CAS, it only implements a subset of the features of Mathematica, and not to the same standard. See here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33478881
> or maybe tweet at some brand whose service has made my day crappier

It's like something must stink before it goes on Twitter.
Assuming that your team members switch Mandarin due to habit, start a practice of taking notes during the team meetings on the major points discussed in English. If you take up the role yourself all team members would have to present what is discussed in English to you. You might miss out on banter or smaller discussions during meetings, but anything directly related to the project would be clear to you.
This might not work out smoothly at first, but as long as you have the role of a note taker, the team would be more aware of your existence.
As it was designed it's all about liability and like this twitter has none.
That sort of backs up my point though, the majority (all but one!) of the projects are rebuilding traditional steam engines for heritage/historical reasons. The one advanced/modern project was abandoned for lack of interest and done by a private company.

Also I’m in Western Australia… One of the two Australian projects on that page (based in Victoria) no longer has a functioning web page, which is not a good sign given the cost of a website compared to rent for a workshop big enough for a steam engine. The other project is making slow progress over the last decade building a replica of a late 19th century design which while cool and I hope they eventually finish it, doesn’t stoke the fires of my imagination enough to uproot my entire life to move closer so I can physically help make it happen.
> "Accessibility should be part of every design team"

Yes but that doesn't mean dedicated people. Accessibility knowledge is already well understood by designers and developers, particularly at the big end of town.

The previous team would have presumably written plenty of documents and guidelines and generally fostered a culture of thinking about accessibility. No reason why that will disappear.

Patterns and best practice methodologies are common in tech, precisely for efficiency reasons. They belong in standards, and shared knowledge - which is better for the industry as a whole. If every small team needed dedicated accessibility staff, the system is BROKEN.
Why are there no sensors other than the IMX477 available for the raspi? There’s a plethora of CSI sensors, yet all aftermarket boards use this one. Is the RPi locked to use only that particular sensor?
That is what is wrong with using housing as an investment class.
Is the window really that narrow, or do you just happen to fall outside it/identify as having fallen outside of it for personal identity reasons?
> It shouldn't be acceptable to glorify

Profile pictures are not necessary used for glorification. It often used for trolling also, especially on classic forums.
You just discovered that happy people aren’t complaining on social media. 99% of people can be perfectly happy with something that’s constantly dumped upon.
I agree that Mathematica is extremely powerful, but in my opinion calling it polished is quite a stretch.

The notebook interface has a look and feel as if it was hacked together in two weeks in 2004. Kernel startup and function evaluations can be extremely slow (how the hell did Mathematica 1 run on 1988 hardware?). Sometimes, long-running evaluations can be interrupted, sometimes doing it crashes the kernel. The arcane functional programming language makes writing procedures extremely painful (control flow is handled by nesting If[] functions). Plots are borderline unreadable by default. Customizing them is very complicated and inflexible compared to OOP-based plotting libraries in other languages. Many features don't work at all. I once tried exporting an animated plot as a video file, and most codecs were simply broken. Sometimes PDF exports of plots are Megabyte sized for no good reason.

Instead of fixing such basic stuff, Wolfram keeps adding cloud features that nobody asked for and machine learning stuff that nobody uses. For the vast majority of users, Mathematica 7 is functionally identical to Mathematica 13. Unfortunately, there still is no real alternative, so everyone keeps giving them lots of money for a frankly very unfinished product.
I wouldn't go that far. I agree that there's a lot of that visible right now, but Elon demanded round-the-clock hours from employees as his first "executive order", as well as locking down offices. He just doesn't seem that good of a boss, and more like a traditional capitalist in a sense. Is it ideological to want decent working hours?
Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
What is wrong with this approach? They are not breaking the standards as IE did. It was the only issue with IE.

What is an alternative - always wait while some API is implemented by other browsers first? It's not their fault they are faster.

Disclaimer: I have ZERO relations with Google, Chrome, or Chromium.
Why would they phase out their other products? The actual code intelligence part is the exact same between them, fleet is just a client shell using that as well.

It is only made so the “lightweight IDE” niche is filled as well.
Google finds more work makes employees happier