skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think I misunderstood your first comment - I thought you found the "home and hobby" license ridiculously expensive.

I'm not sure what that 5000€ refers to. The standard licence is 3880+VAT (I guess that's what you meant), the annual one half that price.

If you look at it as

"hobby stuff" 500
"use it for my job maybe two times a year" 4500 extra

maybe the "home and hobby" license makes more sense for your use case - use it "cheap" for hobby even though you cannot justify paying the full price for work. That's why that license was introduced in the first place!

One could also say that a 5000€ A0 printer is "ridiculously expensive" because you want to print only a couple of posters. While you would be better off going to a print shop it doesn't necessarily indicate any problem with the pricing of the machine.
I am very much pro Ukraine and all that. But please let’s keep having respect for other humans. No matter how much we hate them. That’s also part of our value system we’re defending over there.
That's what he did. I can think of much worse.
So let's say a lot of people think in that way and avoid instances managed by nameless accounts. Where does that leave us?

Well, maybe people will flock to the few instances ran by transparent, accountable and competent people. Maybe some apolitical non-profit? Maybe a group of passionate engineers with spare change?

In any case those instances would become pretty massive and the costs would skyrocket and......

well, we're at square one: few instances will have total control over your data, they will either inject ads or require payment to keep the servers running and nothing will have changed
Try fitting an squad into an attack helicopter, though.
Goodness, no. I imagine the um, fast, companies didn't bother.

It was a charming little outfit that has since sold out to iomart. Alas.
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> I’m afraid I don’t understand how Twitter can end up with debt from Musk buying it. How does that even work?

This article explains: (a) how leveraged buyouts work, (b) how Musk's acquisition is different from a regular LBO, and (c) what debt Twitter now has due to the deal.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/elon-musks-twitter-d...
Single use plastics that end up in a landfill won't be turning into microplastics. It's more a matter of re-usable plastic items gradually wearing down.
You can keep apps under your control. What are you talking about? It also means you share only part of you data if you need to do that at all.

It gives users so much more control than in current situation.
Interesting point about SNR, social network and moderation. Ten years ago, when I interviewed for the Chinese clone of Facebook(renren 人人网), I told that the one of the major problems of social media is the SNR, and my interviewer insisted it was a feature problem. I didn't get the job, but within 3-4 years, renren goes downhill, and today nobody uses it anymore. Increasing SNR is actually a difficult question, because user behavior doesn't actually mean signal, something that is eye-catching, click-baity, is actually a good signal for the user.
Something interesting about Tiktok is it was designed for optimizing SNR, especially, only having one item(which is a video) each screen, instead of having a list of content. This, and autoplaying videos was breaking all the rules of app design guidelines. Now it is copied everywhere.
So how does Tiktok influence SNR, if user behavior does not compeletely correlate on what the real signal is. The secret recipe for Tiktok is human moderation, not volunteers, but tens of thousands of people, curating, moderating, to complement its realtime recommendation system.
Not speaking for OG, but: associated with his real name, while (as a PhD in econ) deeply dependent on reputation-contingent job prospects.

People can have careers ruined by a tweet; self-published article under your own name is in no way free from constraints.
It is a promise. Its value will be established sooner or later. It is too early to call any Twitter-related promise "empty". Even new governments traditionally have 100 days before it is considered fair to rip into them.
Really? Last time I needed browser automation for integration tests i just used selenide (jQuery inspired wrapper for selenium) and called it a day.

Had no issues whatsoever running the tests through maven and had a pretty good development experience.
If you’re using pytest you just paramaterize the tests and it tells you the exact failing case. Seems to be a basic feature I would be surprised to know doesn’t exist across almost all commonly used frameworks.
Why 8 bit opcodes if there's only 14 opcodes?

Even if it's just to deal with fixed width 12bit opcodes embedding a constant would seem to be win.

Of the given examples only 1 would be longer (by 4 bits) all the rest would be shorter.

Or maybe that's the point as it is a teaching aid

Student: why 8 bits for only 14 op codes, you could do X

Teacher: why don't you try it?
That looks like a case where I would use a parameterized test rather than a for loop inside the test.
Different organizations will have different conventions about this. Your org and office might have to figure out what conventions it wants.

And, as an individual (especially if your office is in China?) you might want to consider how much Mandarin you're able to learn, even if only for goodwill but years from being able to follow engineering conversations.

Related thoughts...

A friend mentioned getting into an elevator in the US, where two people were speaking German, and they switched to English as soon as they noticed him, even though they were strangers and not talking with him.

As someone who's worked at multinational companies (one Chinese, one Japanese) while based in the US, I've felt humbled by colleagues' impressive efforts with English.

One place, there were times I was in a meeting of team leads and the director, and I was the only person who was a native English speaker, and everyone else shared a different native language, yet everyone was speaking English, though some not fluent. (Defaulting to English was by convention, not only because I was there.)

Although admiring colleagues' language abilities (and the progress of some over time prompted the thought that one day that engineering lead might be running an international company), I sometimes felt a little bad that some of them had additional language burden atop technical engineering work. A consolation I imagined was that maybe some of them wanted to practice English.

At one multinational, I encouraged specific uses of written English engineering and product management communication. Which, in addition to the usual benefits, helped by it being easier to read&write across language frictions, than to hear&speak. And some meetings were converted to be country-specific, in whatever language people communicated most efficiently and comfortably, so long as we could stay in sync (asynchronously) via effective documentation.
And https://darcy.is/code-of-conduct/ makes it sound like their moderation would likely result in an environmental something along the lines of LinkedIn as far as the range of conversation goes.
If there was a similar forum for doctors, lawyers or other professionals you'd probably see the same level of discourse.

As others have pointed out, the voting system means you only see the best of the comments. And even then when HN strays "off topic" (i.e. away from science and tech) the commentary is far less on point.

And don't get me started on the "middle-brow dismissal"...
In the UK I sometimes see mention of this scheme on the backs of bottles, but it's denominated in cence (which we don't have) and is for Australia & New Zealand only.

We can recycle them at home of course (though I was surprised to learn not everywhere! It's up to the council! Wandsworth borough of London has no recycling for many flats, unless the landlord cares to provide something) - but not in a supermarket or anywhere for cash incentive.
This seems like a test design issue to me. Best practice is to avoid for-each loops with assertions within tests - using parametrized tests and feeding the looped values as input is almost always a better option. Figuring out which one failed and why is one advantage it gives you in comparison. Another one is that all inputs will always be tested - your example stops on the first one that fails, and does not evaluate the others after that.
Programmers have low IQ? That's a first. The common stigma as I see it is that programmers (or "computer people") are socially awkward.

And in that regard, I think there's a lot to be said for the medium here. There are certainly clever and highly technical people lurking around, but the ability to articulate your thoughts before posting anything is extremely helpful in conveying a clear, well put message. You have the time to really think about what you're saying.

However, this does not immediately translate to interpersonal abilities - charisma included. Talking in meetings, arguing in real time, and most of all being in a leadership position, those are totally different skills. If you're already there, though, it is easier to sound confident, and lots of people around here are at least somewhat experienced in the tech world.
Mastodon is too difficult to understand for the average user. I got on some page where I needed to select a room of some sort, most of it was in german and I couldn't find Trump or anybody I wanted to listen to. Is anybody actually believing that there will be some mass migration?
It's good that you've mentioned efficiency.
How do you think, if junior devs would have to take part in every tech conversation, scheduled or not, when would they do their job?

> And I think they should be given the option to attend all other meetings too,

Surely we had numerous meetings altogether, she wasn't excluded.
But if every engineer would be given the right to attend every meeting, this would pretty much degrade to everyone just holding meetings all day long.

> I wouldn't want to work for your company.
Thanks for sharing! There are quite a few companies that follow your vision, I wish you good luck in your career.
>until I used it for more than a month and realized the people posting there were just as toxic and annoying as Twitters,

Not even close to my experience as a Mastodon user and I've been on it for years. I guess this shows the limited predictive value of any single individuals experiences.
Are you confusing scipy and sage? Sage is basically trying to fill the Mathematica space in the Open Source world. However they have completely different syntax (Sage is python and Mathematica uses its own Wolfram language) and you cannot run just run Mathematica script in Sage.
> CLion is insanely fast and its autocomplete and refactoring

To be honest, I am not impressed. It's a good product, I bought it because I don't like the plugins fragmentation on VS code and overall it has better support for tooling, but hell, it's for me not comparable to IntelliJ for Java.

But I agree it works quite good.
We are using unittest.

But thanks for bringing it up, it seems it also has "subtest" support, which might be easier than interpolating the error message in some cases:

https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html#distinguishi...
Sand and cement in my house's case. Rubbish insulation, utterly impermeable - combined that means the dew point (where water vapour condenses) is within the brick. The freezing point is too, and bricks are not exactly flexible when saturated with expanding and contracting substances.

Some insulating panels are also dreadful, but on the whole a semi-competent installer will do the thing right. The problem is, some aren't even that good - we're talking a minimum bar of an NVQ level 2, and that's if people don't decide to just.. go self employed and do it without training. No regulation at all, and there can't really be any until it is a licensed occupation.
I've seen several test frameworks that don't abort a test case after the first failed assertion.

When you get many tests each emitting multiple failures because one basic thing broke, the output gets hard to sort through. It's easier when the failures are all eager.
GuanoWatcher
Linking the account to a credit card/debit card should be some sort of a proof or way to track someone as well no.? seems like they just make it more intrinsic, which is good and bad. not sure how I should take it as.

Don't care much about twitter either way.
Multiple assertions make sense in the case where otherwise you’d have to copy most of test A again to make test B
Whether using yaml or something more modern like Cue, nowadays a configuration language needs a semantic syntax checker (not just a parser), and tools to automate transformation. If you think you are OK building these with Markdown, go for it. But you'll find it's probably a bad idea in the end…
It is only one data point but I am exceptionally charismatic.
Don't feel bad. Plastics in the landfill is sequestrated CO2. It's oil that has been dug up, but never burned.

While you might argue that we shouldn't have extracted that oil in the first place, plastic packaging is less energy intense to produce compared to packaging made out of glass, metal, or plant mass.

So let the landfills store the CO2.
.....or they would find an equilibrium that doesn't require massive centralization. Your analogy gets from point A to point be with a lot of empty speculation and hand waving.
it will be mildly interesting to see if twitter can be re-ipoed at a growth multiple near above the purchase price. I guess anything is possible
I find Julia’s Pluto to be reasonably close alternative.

Of course it lacks many features, but plugins systems and overall architecture gives hope for possible extension to include many of the desired features.
I'm sure there's a local milkman you could sign up to, but you'd probably find it's 'just' delivery of 'normal' plastic bottles. (Perhaps with a more expensive glass option, or a premium option that happens to be in glass.)
Skiff is exactly the type of service that uses crypto and chains for no reason.

Its essentially gmail/docs alternative that e2e encrypts the content and saves them on their servers. Services like protonmail have been working like that forever.

I am not saying its not a good product just that it doesnt require blockchain at all. They slap it on there to use it and get hype but thats all.
That's why I switched to keep cup I carry around
Ask HN: Is most of human history skewed?
Recent world events made me think is history is actually distorted by the ruling class of a given period?
I was curious enough to sift through different publications and videos regarding human conflicts, discoveries and pandemics.

One thing I realized is that most of human history is actually written in favor of the victors or ruling classes absolving them from their own fraud or wrong doings.

Many unjustly wars veiled as justly ones. Inventions copied or stolen by self-proclaimed scientists. Profit over human lives.

This information would be vital for future human beings in writing their wrongs, but we keep on repeating the same mistakes over and over again for centuries.

Does that mean human nature is self-destructive? if we recorded history as it was for all human beings then we would we become a better civilization? Or would it cause more havoc in our societies?
Anything you can already easily do is easy. You are correct.

It’s a pointless statement, which is my point, but it is correct.
I think it depends on the type of feeds you subscribe to. Some big news sites have multiple posts an hour whereas many personal blogs don't post in the average month.

Personally I do more of the latter and probably get less than 10 new items a day (and 3 of those tend to be comics which are quick to read over breakfast).

Often the higher-volume feeds that I subscribe to are filtered by author or category to focus on what I am really interested in.
SciPy definitely can't run Mathematica scripts. It's a numerical library for Python that adds on to NumPy with special functions, optimisation, DE solving, etc.
Nah, scamming was there basically from the start, it's just that every iteration of it has been more egregious than before (NFTs today, ICOs in the previous iteration...)

The good news is that it's hard to imagine how it could get any worse, the bad news is that perhaps I am just lacking imagination ?
If you feel excluded by people speaking a language you don't understand then that is a problem. You don't have to be afraid of bringing that up.
If you don't like the new UI, you don't have to use it. The rest of us are over here being productive and enjoying it
You may also be interested in oK[0], which is developed by the same person who created Decker, which has a similar style, although more clean and a little bit more readable IMO than LIL.

[0]: https://github.com/JohnEarnest/ok
> And secondly, is Mathematica really that expensive if you use it in your job/industry?

i would pay double/triple the price if it was open source. i shudder at the thought of doing scientific work with help of a magic black box
> The world is made up of phenomena that mostly are pretty complex

The word “made up” is doing a lot of work there. Do you mean like a butterfly wing makes up the world around you or central banking?

One of these is not so much “complex” as it is mysterious, alluring, captivating, and we have no explanation for it, complex or otherwise.

The other is exactly like the giant labyrinth constructed around a lie. Complex for its own protection - synthethic complexity that you can skip if you know the shortcut to the heart of the maze.
If a programming language is also written in a programming language
And my understanding was that localStorage didn't actually have any specific permanence guarantees; how do I know I won't spend a bunch of time putting in some information, only to have it disappear behind my back if I don't touch it in a few months?
I still think people are just mad because verified won't be a status symbol anymore. Vanity, nothing more. No matter how Musk handled this, he would've gotten hate because he is just a controversial dude, and he does like to stir the pot.
> The Grayzone is an independent news website dedicated to original investigative journalism and analysis on politics and empire. It was founded and is edited by award-winning journalist and author Max Blumenthal.

https://thegrayzone.com/about/

> Max Blumenthal (born December 18, 1977) is an American journalist, author and blogger who is the editor of The Grayzone website, which is known for spreading conspiracy theories and engaging in denial of atrocities committed by dictatorial regimes.[2][3][4][5][6]

> He is a regular contributor to Russian state-owned Sputnik and RT, and has been accused of spreading Russian propaganda.[11][12][13]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Blumenthal

So Russian propaganda it seems
Yes, monopoly on information is very bad. The other extreme, signal being drowned in noise is...we are finding out now, i guess.
There's been numerous mass migrations to Mastodon since 2016, from different individual communities. The furry community, lgbtq+ individuals who wanted to leave twitter, comic book artists who overlapped with the two prior groups, political news junkies from India, and every year there's a couple more.

I don't think that all of Twitter is going to migrate but just some slice of the user base, just like all the previous times.
They calculate that it is 1600 light years away. So, unless you were lighting your childhood campfires 1600 years ago, that light still has a little way to go.
AC is easy to change the voltage of with 20th-century tech (even high-power 21st-century tech for DC amounts to “convert to AC, shift that, filter it back” with some—crucial—improvements), so it works reasonably well over moderate distances at moderate power if you shift down as late as possible, but it’s absolutely awful for transporting large quantities of energy over long distances, because of the skin effect.

Essentially, thick round wires are useless for AC because the current gets expelled to a thin layer on the surface (determined by the frequency and the properties of the material, roughly independent of how much you were trying to cram in there), thus the resistance goes down as the radius rather than the cross-sectional area, and you end up using absolutely asinine amounts of (nowadays very expensive) copper or (kind of expensive) aluminium in high-voltage lines. (Using flat buses instead of wires does work, but then sharp edges mean you get a lot more current leaking into the air.)

If you don’t have high-power semiconductor components you can use to convert to AC and back in order to shift voltages or to just convert to AC in order to power industrial motors, you will have to grit your teeth and bear it—it seems that mechanical motor-generators are simply too unreliable. But for the last twenty or so years we’ve had them, and I understand that people are once again looking seriously at high-voltage DC. Of course, grids are huge and expensive, so it may be some time until implementations become common.

I don’t think any of this counts as an instance of worse is better, though,—it’s just that the ease of building alternators changed dramatically over the last few decades.
Fair criticism if you ignore the coiner of the term and focus only on the first definition I supplied.

I thought it was obvious that talking about moving to a platform is very different from actually making the move. The author has presumably moved, which is taking effective action and can be contrasted with people who are saying they are going to move but haven't done anything about it.

You should also note that the coiner of the term disagrees with you:

No one actually has to do anything. Virtue comes from mere words

I don't think it's fair to call it virtue signaling when someone took effective action. Does that clarify enough?
Thanks! I’ll give it a read.

Edit: I must say that even after I read it I have trouble understanding how any of that happens except through well connected people moving money around to their own benefit.

The banks are on the hook, but it’s not really the banks because it’s not their money they are lending out.
Oh, man, thank you. God, I needed that laugh this morning. Brightened my day right up. Good looking out, homie.
I agree, using SDF for everything is probably not a good idea but it can be useful as a feature along with standard modeling tools. I sometimes use SDF volumes in Houdini to get that blended look. nTopology which is a specialised standalone 3D software use it for advanced 3D printing. You can do things like blend two different infill patterns.

But as a webapp, it is cool looking. I'm curious how he managed to get it to work in a browser.
Well, if we lived in a society which was based on voluntary social interactions - which are by definition mutually beneficial - and where bodily attacks and forcible expropriation by dint of the "right" of superior force was deplored and defended against by the majority, I'd call that a capitalist society.
Dendron has a VSCode extension. Here's how they think they compare with Notion:

https://wiki.dendron.so/notes/9de065ab-4802-4580-93a6-769e94...
Musk is eminently hatable. He's also a competent businessman. The odds of him turning Twitter into Stormfront are very low, yet many are acting like it's already happened. What is the point of calling for a boycott of a company that hasn't yet done the thing you don't like?