skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd also second this.

I don't speak mandarin as such, but it's not exactly an obscure language, and I've had coworkers speak to each other in mandarin sporadically throughout my career (and I don't expect that to change), so much so that's it's not hard to pick up a few key phrases like these purely through osmosis:

* 我不知道

* 没办法

* 没有

I'd suggest making a token effort to learn a few phrases, and then adopt less of an "this is an English-speaking company, you must speak English when I am in earshot!" approach and more of a "i'm doing my best to understand/learn this mandarin, but I'm really bad and it's probably easier for you to use English..."
Soon, soon.

But can Teslas self drive yet?

https://www.forbes.com/wheels/news/class-action-suit-tesla/
He said twitter is garbage bc all the bots and crypto is garbage bc it's only for scams. Now the guy owns Twitter (by force) and pumps'n'dumps crypto. Integrity at its best.
It has been the latter for the lifetime of computers' existence. Personally, I see no reason for that to change in the near future. AGI will happen, but we will still want human's directing it's efforts.
Or bump up the font, increase the margins and leading. It worked for my high-school book reports!

4 pages? No problem.
> It seems hard for me to believe that deliberately choosing the less efficient solution is a good idea for a start up.

Many crypto scam startups have made bank with this less efficient strategy. Have you seen all the companies selling banks on internal proof of work blockchains and stuff?
So only ppl with money can tweet? Thats like cash bail.
It’s interesting how this happened, too. First, there’s that the Babylon Bee is independent and The Onion has been just one of several brands under Gizmodo, then Univision, then a PE firm. Independence is an asset when trying to be funny since executive notes have never been known for being creatively freeing.

Second, the Bee has a big pool of writers because it has a membership tier that allows pitching headlines. And their membership has grown as they’ve become a news story for things like their suspended Twitter account. So while The Onion’s parent corp was laying off staff, the Babylon Bee was growing its writers and also making more money, which let it hire more editors and producers and hire some of the headline-writing members who had proven themselves. All that led up to being able to produce a high volume of headlines and stories.
You're right, but the GP is wrong in outright denunciation of Intel's new standalone GPUs as outright inferior to AMD's. It's also misleading to call it an outright miss. While they aren't an outright win across the board, they already have better ray-tracing performance and a better resolution upscaling image quality than AMD on comparable cards. Intel has better H264 and AV1 encoding than either Nvidia or AMD.[2] It's also a fantastic ML GPU for the price having 16GB of RAM. To dismiss it outright is short sighted.

As far as AMD vs Nvidia, NV is not behind AMD at all. Nothing has changed there. The 4090 obliterates the 6900XT at 4K in Cyberpunk.[0] And if you enable DLSS3, we're talking a minimum framerate of 10.6 FPS for the Radeon, with a minimum framerate of 118.27 FPS for the 4090. This won't dramatically change with the 7900XTX. Nvidia competes well with AMD up and down the stack. Intel has a midrange GPU that should reach Geforce 3070 performance once the drivers mature. The encoders, XeSS upscaling, and ray tracing performance are already great.

[0]https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-nvidia-geforce...

See: CYBERPUNK 2077, ULTRA RT, DX12, TAA

[1]https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2022-nvidia-geforce...

See: CYBERPUNK 2077 DRIVING, MAX, PSYCHO RT, DX12, DLSS 3

[2]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctbTTRoqZsM
IntelliJ and VSCode have both worked pretty well with anything I've thrown at them, I'd consider them both fairly successful as IDEs "to rule them all". Obviously they're both very different ends of the IDE spectrum, but they've both had intellisense, debugging, type revealing, and refactoring features for all the mainstream languages I've tried with them. VSCode particularly tends to integrate well with LSPs.
I'm saying we'll find out soon if conservative politicians are treated the same way. Do you disagree?
Those are certainly more pragmatic than ideological concerns, which is the point GP was making.
In fact I've seen that analogy made many times on Mastodon in the last week.
> You'll never know if somebody has lifted a bit of code in violation of a license anymore than you would be able to tell if somebody copy-pasted from stack overflow without attribution in any commercial application

Wasn't this the subject of millions of dollars of litigation between Oracle and Google?
May I suggest slightly editorialising, in this case? I honestly only clicked in because I thought (post-title-change) 'that sounds like a Ben Eater video, I wonder', and since Youtube isn't working for me on mobile at the momentcame looking through the comments for this.

Tl;dr I think 'Ben Eater is back' is an interestintg post in its own right, possibly more interesting than this particular video considering the typical [video] reception.

(Longer-term higher-complexity suggestion: could YouTube links have the channel name somehow, like we now have /<name> for GitHub, Twitter, et al.?)

A concrete suggestion:

> Ben Eater's back: RS-232 protocol [video]

Or to be more subtle, just append '(2022)' (and confuse people who aren't familiar or aware of the absence):

> Ben Eater: RS-232 protocol (2022) [video]
If it's only going to be available (at least initially) via the iOS app, does this mean Apple will be taking a slice of the money for in-app purchasing, or is subscription now exempt from that?
Big discussion a couple of days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33457063
There are complaints that an anarchist society wouldn't be perfect, as though any perfection can be found in any of the well-over 100 governments run on the principle of capitalism plus government authority. Not even the capitalist ideal is respected (freedom to use your private property however you like), since it would cause so many problems in practice.
It is shocking how much the glass affects the quality of pictures. Given the relatively humble sensor used on this build, results are still almost pro-level.
I have the following argument, applying market principles to discourse.

There are four categories of claims:

1. Easy to hear and false

2. Easy to hear and true

2. Hard to hear and false

3. Hard to hear and true

The first category is the domain of spin doctors and marketers. Let's ignore it for now.

The second category encompasses a lot of facts, but generally these won't show up in discourse. Because they're easy to hear, they are already known to both parties and agreed-upon. Let's call these "common knowledge" or even (more tendentiously) common-sense.

The third category show up in discourse as "things you want to make your opponent believe about themselves or their worldview." These are your psyops, basically.

Finally, the fourth category is pretty much every true thing that you need to actually point out. They need pointing-out because of a natural (and relatable!) human tendency to avoid discomfort. If they weren't hard to hear, you would have let yourself hear them already. Thus, most of discourse takes place here.

If the foregoing breakdown is correct, it also suggests that the *hardest-to-hear truths* are going to be the ones which are most significant, because of all the truth claims, they are the ones which have not yet been universally admitted.

HN's current posture toward discourse seems to encourage making hard-to-hear truths even harder, by literally fading them. And moreover, the guidelines prohibiting the discussion of our collective moderation decisions in-thread is itself a way of figuratively moving *even the awareness of the problem itself* from `color: #000` to `color: rgb(130,130,130)`.

This is why I now try to read the greytext first. For every one comment faded because it was offtopic or whatever, there are three which were faded for telling us emperors about our new clothes.
You need a strong rigid cage to protect the operator, with comfortable seating and controls, a large and heavy power source, and something more practical than legs for movement. Put all that together, and you essentially have an excavator.

Excavators can do amazing things in the hands of a skilled operator. They have interchangeable tools and they come in a wide range of sizes. Maybe the small ones feel more like exoskeletons than the big ones. Some even have the operator in a standing position. The smallest Bobcat (technically a "loader" instead of an "excavator") is little more than a cage on wheels with one big arm: https://www.bobcat.com/na/en/equipment/loaders/skid-steer-lo...

I guess what you're really missing to make this feel like a scifi exoskeleton is two arms, more degrees of freedom per arm, a much more capable "hand", way more speed in all of the actuators, and a more 1:1 control style with some kind of touch sensitivity/force feedback. All of that would make these things way more expensive, complex, and most importantly, fragile. Durability and ease of maintenance is a huge consideration for practical work.

Last month I watched a guy in one of these accidentally smash his jackhammer attachment on a low overhang and sever the hydraulic hoses, spraying hydraulic fluid everywhere. I can only imagine that this kind of thing happens all the time. If that was a 20 DOF robot hand with touch sensors instead of a 1 DOF dumb jackhammer attachment, it could easily have been damaged beyond repair.
This is mentioned in the paper, and you can find citations there to previous experiments where the visual effect alone is tested and demonstrated to be very strong. Moreover, the researchers took steps to limit any olfactory effect by salt-curing the hides used in this experiment. Whatever other defenses a zebra has, it's been shown that flies really hate those stripes.
You can and should do this, if you have the time and energy to do so.
Let me guess next article: And you can only pay via [...dude buys buncha Doge again...] Dogecoin!
Is this considered a constructive comment on HN?
LOC definitely positively correlates to productivity, it just isn't everything. One year I modified over a million lines, because we decided that we wanted to stored some generated data in a config file that was checked into git, rather than in the DB. If you can ignore certain commits like this, the correlation is probably even better, but use it as just one data point.

Another major confounder is that super deep investigations that fix major problems often have relatively trivial solutions at the end. But the effort to debug and fix them (that is largely hidden by conventional metrics) is enormous. The people working on these types of things are often your best devs (because you know they will actually get to the root cause), but if you are only looking at LOC you wouldn't know that.
Point taken.

Small correction - Dreams isn't purely Raymarched SDFs. From recollection they ended up with a fairly hybrid approach.
The website is not ready yet for "Show HN". When I submit an email address and click "get started" it asks me to schedule a 30 minute meeting. That's misleading and essentially a sign-up page.

"If your work isn't ready for users to try out, please don't do a Show HN." https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
"The thing you have to ask yourself ... is why the content was neutral ... do you feel lucky, punk?"
>Why do you think they are doing things "the hard way"? Emacs can have all the things you have described

In the first few years of my career I would try every few months to get these things actually installed and working in emacs. It was definitely the hard way.

>The problem with "IDEs" was placing all your eggs into a single basket

Eclipse is a uniquely terrible piece of software and I understand why it might polarize people against IDEs for life. The JetBrains products are pretty good and, importantly, modular and consistent enough across languages that I don't mind.
Ask HN: My political party knows I haven't voted yet. How?
California; just got the SMS. How TF are they being notified of my voting activity?
> since developers are so valuable, shouldn't more and more people become developers until the cost for paying a developer goes way down?

There is a natural ceiling of the number of SWEs due to aptitude for programming. Some people simply don't have the grit, tenacity, persistence, or even intelligence for being able to learn to program, much less do it in a professional environment.

I've taught many people and of those, perhaps 80% just can't handle it. They see the money, start trying to learn programming, and they give up after a few lessons because they couldn't understand for-loops for example, or they just get bored and conclude it's not worth the effort. I've seen this firsthand.
Musk's idea is to piss off 10% of the left and right of the spectrum and keep the middle 80% happy.

The left 10% will hang out on Mastodon or Fediverse, the right 10% will go on Gab or whatever. I think what's happenning is great for all. You do you™.
Somethingawful was $10 to be able to post on the forums at least as far back as the mid aughts (when I became a "goon"). I don't know if that goes all the way back to 1999, but it's not exactly a new model.
The verification system didn't prevent that anyway. In fact, there's a verified blue check account right now under Elon's latest tweet impersonating Elon:

https://twitter.com/RodArdehali/status/1589022536913797120

It's long been common to see these.

Now that it'll cost $8, the account would be suspended and Twitter keeps the $8.
For conversation, it's worth noting a recent critique of Stewart Brand here: https://www.techwontsave.us/episode/126_the_real_legacy_of_s...

Also worth noting Brand in his younger days was actually rather concerned about issues of overpopulation (and likely population pressure too), he's excerpted in the Ray Offenheiser PBS documentary about Norman Borlaug and 'the green revolution': https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/green-r...
Worth pointing out is that although anyone can apply, Twitter has been very selective regarding approval and it's been more of a "Twitter approves of your content" rather than them verifying your identity.

For example: @disclosetv, they have 1M followers, tonnes of articles / media about them, public org and related paperwork, yet they have been rejected 10+ times (IIRC). They mainly repost/cover news that isn't widely covered in MSM/social media.

Meanwhile, random Buzzfeed contributor #9432, 40-view political Twitch streamer #347, satire-account pretending to be a crazy right-winger #12..
I don’t think this is entirely true. For sure, one could say “X” is bad because it conflicts with their view, and that’s something that has long existed before the concept of “echo chambers” became well known.

I think echo chambers are unhelpful in the sense that they reinforce a certain view without nuance or deep dive.

I had a friend recently tell me how a certain personality is crazy. I asked them why, and after pressing on them a few times, they admitted they had no real data points to say this person is crazy or attack them. It’s just what they’ve heard everyone else say, and so my friend was convinced that if enough people are saying something, obviously it must be true.
Doesn't feel like a ghost town to me? I've watched my feed explode in the last week though. Now I almost wish for a ranking algorithm.

You won't see jack shit until you start following people, though. It steadfastly will refuse to spoonfeed you. You have to manually curate your feed.

So it can feel a bit bare at first... But I think the last few years has shown the downsides of the "let me show you what I think you should like" approach...

230,000 new users in the last week, 68,000 of them just in the last 24 hours. Currently at about 30,000 posts per hour. (according to @mastodonusercount@bitcoinhackers.org). Growth throughout the week was averaging about 1000-1200 an hour, but in the last 24 hour that has double or tripled.
The author seems to have misunderstood Codd’s definition (which is just the usual definition for mathematical relations). An N-ary relation is an N-column table (in the idealized database model where a table is a mathematical set of rows, i.e. no duplicate rows).
the AI is driving

On a more serious note since this is not Reddit, I have watched movies in VR during bus trips (6h long routes). It works, it's way better than looking at laptop/tablet/phone.
Well they might've cheated. There's a lot of that around.

But if it's a pattern you see from STEM majors from a US school, you could complain to their dean. They usually have industry advisory boards also to get feedback about how students are performing and what is needed.
Usually when I read through a build-out description like this, the author writes it for an audience that has a lot more background knowledge than I do. This article, on the other hand, was lucid and the explication helped me follow along.

I got to the part about 3.3V being derived from 5V and thought to myself "why not get it from 24V?" and then just a tiny bit later, there's the bit about USB and how Starfish can just take 5V from the USB host, and it clicked.

I also learned about Sparkfun's QWIIC connector in the aside about the chosen i2c bus switch having two "extra" channels. Love it, thanks for the article, Thea.
> Twitter pushes content from random users you don't follow

and the TweakNewTwitter browser add-on rejects it, along with "trending" and all the rest. Add in ublock origin and you've pretty much got Twitter the way I thought it should be.
Well yeah, what else about Twitter would require that much raw manpower?
He who pays the fiddler, calls the tune. Want to broadcast whatever you want? Fine, pay for it. Want advertisers to subsidize your costs? Don't be surprised that their money comes with strings attached.
"soon" in Elon time is 3-5 years.
If twitter.com goes down, all of twitter is gone. There is no secondary Twitter server or alternative service that you can use to do your day to day tweeting without completely depending on Twitter's centralised API.

If mastodon.social goes down, c.im accounts will still be live and I'll be able to follow them through a mastodon.nl account if I want to. It'll be sad to see the toots from mastodon.social disappear, but most of the Fediverse network will remain online. By segmenting users across different servers, the ecosystem can remain alive despite the collapse of a big server.
> I see few other people on this planet that are tackling the same problems that he is

Literally hundreds, if not thousands, and perhaps tens of thousands of scientists and engineers are tackling those problems. For one thing, he is not personally developing anything, he employs people to do the tackling; and for another, other companies are invested in the same pursuits.
Raw data compression was once an attractive application, but the method is more general. That said, streaming services still pay a great deal for bandwidth and storage in edge nodes. Cell- and keyframe-oriented video compression are reaching their limit.

We are still interested in feature extraction and scene composition, which both benefit from more compact representation.

To compete with hardware-assisted decoding in display hardware, fractal rendering would probably need to be coded to run in Vulkan.
Well if we're providing anecdotal counterpoints I would argue that software development has the least number of "type a personalities" especially when compared to other engineering fields such as mechanical and electrical - just by virtue of the fact that it encompasses such a wide swath of careers,

for example you've got lots of people who would fall under the umbrella of software development that mostly just do web design and WordPress, they're about the least engineer-type people you can have.
There's a pendulum swing back and forth between local compilation being supported or not... currently settling onto VSCode remote, with Jetbrains Gateway trying to catch up in usability.
My point stands Mastodon has a bad UX and no one I know wants to continue to use it. They were all pretty much immediately put off.
All the really productive people I've met in life were optimists regardless of their personal or external circumstances.

So it's not surprising that Stewart Brand is as well.
I feel "fact checking" as first pioneered by politifact (if you don't count snopes) was a significant advance in journalism and I recall they did hold a substantial number of left wing journalists and talking heads to account, bias or not. The biggest change was that journalism traditionally expected you to trust the veracity of a story based on a journalists reputation. After journalists reputations largely got smashed by the Iraq War, I really appreciated Politifact's commitment to at least stating what their sources of information actually were. It felt like a more transparent form of journalism you could "Fact check" yourself. The articles WERE still fundamentally subjective opinion pieces, but they were at least based on sources you could actually look up yourself, and often with these fact check articles I treat them like wikipedia use them as an index of sources.

I'm not against fact-checking persay, I'm more against the artificial promotion of certain parties influence through forced editorialisation. I feel birdwatch holds the promise of a better way to accomplish the same end.
How many $8/mo users does he need to pay the billion per year in interest he saddled Twitter with?
True. You could implement that using an array of structs where each struct contains indexes of the array to link other structures. instead of memory pointers, since they are 8 bytes in 64-bit applications. This way you get the nice properties of both linked lists and continuously allocated arrays
I'm not convinced he has any real long-term plans, considering how he tried so hard to get out of his ridiculously high offer.
FWIW, most of us don't pay that much attention to it unless it's an instance with a very good or bad reputation, and even then, new users aren't really presumed to know what they signed up for.
LSPs turn a M*N problem into an (ideally) M+N problem. You can't do that with any existing single editor's plugin architecture, basically by definition.

Ctags is a better analogy, and LSP has fairly obvious advantages compared to it.
Agreed I've been a software engineer for 20 years and not once in my professional career have I felt like the industry was disrespected. This is in the United States.
Works for me. Getting these clowns off the main sites sounds wonderful.
> In 2 weeks Twitter will have shipped a major feature ($8/mo subscription).

Do you mean that he is planning to increase the subscription price for an existing feature called Twitter Blue? Why do so many Musk’s fans have the urge to constantly exaggerate his impact?
That wiki is the original wiki.
For what it's worth, it doesn't to me.

Discussing Mastodon is hardly "forced" when the overall topic is a new decentralized alternative to Twitter, since Mastodon is a decentralized alternative to Twitter that's been around for a while.

It seems unlikely that this is astroturf given that the person who posted it has been on HN for over a decade (though admittedly not super-active) and their comments are on a wide range of topics and not just Twitter or Mastodon.
I am liking Mastodon a lot, and digging the general vibe and liking the smaller server I'm on. But can't help but feel that we're just a bit of time and marketing away from somebody "professional" coming along and creating a massive instance that federates into it, and tries to fill the Twitter niche more directly. Mastodon.social got overwhelmed, and it's interesting that there's nothing else to fill that niche of "I don't care which server, I just want to be where the crowd is"

Maybe some ex-Twitter employees should fork Mastodon and go from there?