skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: Where are the Hacker News titles 'before they were edited'?
Are these original wordings that have since been 'lost for ever' once they have been edited? Doesn't this just perpetuate the continued submission of 'bad headlines' because there is no (much needed?) repository of 'before and after' examples to use as a guide for the novice article submitter?
I'm 98% sure that they understood that and it was a joke.
I don't think this constrains the conversations that can happen on Twitter, so much as adding "context" to any conversation. The context that something is not provable using publicly available information although some people claim to know it's factual status is also valuable, and I agree this nuance would ideally be available in that "context".
Some useful advice!

Big fan of skip-level meetings: I schedule those in an ad-hoc fashion.

I let new joiners know to expect those occasional meetings, so they don't get worried if they're invited.

I use them for relationship building, showing appreciation, and also inviting colleagues to provide feedback on improvements to our organisation, tools, and processes, particularly if the skip-level was recently blocked by inefficiences outside of their immediate control.
The idea of using stable diffusion to create a t-shirt is compelling, but the execution here leaves a lot to be desired.

Randomly, I picked the stencil style and went for "Man with beard base jumping from the Eiffel tower." It produced one really poor image. It wasn't stenciled looking at all.

Next I went for pop art and used the prompt "Frog riding a motorcycle". The art style looked like something that an 8 year old would draw, not Andy Warhol (which I believe is the artist in your screenshot).

So I think you have some work to do in taking the inputs from the user and crafting them into better SD prompts that generate outputs that look like t-shirt artwork and in the styles they're supposed to be. I'd also drop the voice prompt support, no added value here. Definitely would prefer to type it on my computer and mobile keyboards already have a voice-input button.
GDPR maybe if the microphone data is saved?
In my opinion, researchers are not honest when they do explain quantum computers mathematically. I have never seen an explanation with a narrative:

- Here are matrices, this is how we multiply them and get a resulting vector.

- Here are special kinds of matrices SU(N) which leave |\Psi|^2 invariant, and here is an example for multiplying.

- Quantum computers are just SU(N) matrix multiplication accelerators.

At this point, no hype can survive and neither funding.
Ah, I see, since I'm defending Rust in this sub-thread, it's impossible for me to ask for constructive criticism instead of bullshit without it being "seemingly intolerant", while you're the reasonable one for doing the exact same thing. Basically just assuming I'm an idiot and/or arguing in bad faith. Lovely.
Chopsticks are non-modal. Like emacs.
I've been using for about 6 months and I think its a good product. I suddenly needed a new firewall as Comodo Firewall doesn't work well with VPN I have to use (it cannot block anything). This stepped up like a champ in preventing unwanted networking behavior from Microsoft and others. The Notify Task has some times been weird but 1.0 seems to work well for me. The fact that i can point at my local DNScrypt instance is nice. I need to explore SPN more and see if it would work better than VPN for me or not.
Tokyo Police Cars Are Good Weird
The death of "god" has lead people to adopt politics as their new religion.
Christian Evangelism and the Moral Majority has been replaced with Progressive US Liberalism and the Woke.

It's all so annoying.
Not a nodejs tool, but pandoc is an industry standard for converting between many text file formats.
It's a massive region, but because the region very sparsely populated, it seems doable. There will be fewer NIMBYs to object to having a road rerouted or a an area deemed wild. On the other hand, some of those NIMBYs are property owners who will have political or financial interests that conflict with conservation.
A Guide to the World of Mosquito Repellents: Goats and Soda
37% is quite a lot of support tho. It is not majority, but it is a lot in multi party parlament system. Second most popular part got 21%.

Yes, those elections were violent and also final step to power was under threat of violence. At this point, nazi were already clearly violent. Their first steps after getting power were creation of concentration camps for opposition.
Yes, surely they would have told you had they lost. Instead, silence and a change in spending habits.

I don't know here that "not easily verifiable" is deliberate, but it could be.

In the case of the Fields Medalist, one can read in major publications that they engaged a PR firm. Those articles don't specifically spell out sanitizing the web. If one already knows every detail of the event in question (in my case, confirmation includes overhearing him express concerns about a wrongful death lawsuit), an internet search finds many accounts relaying a cover story, and a single forum comment that correctly describes the event. That comment was apparently beyond the PR firm's reach.
Just make an Amoeboa computer?
Having evidence is impossible at this point, however there are some hints.

https://www.politico.eu/article/indias-stance-on-the-ukraine...
My friends in the industry tell me that predicting protein folding is a popular civilian use case.
For the JSON example, some testing libraries (jest) will output a unified diff on assertion failure.
Terrible article. At some point we will have to do something about plastic that's not in our comfort zone.
As someone who lives on an island in Brazil, we have tons of plastic from all over the world being washed up on our shore. It's not a "developing countries" problem, our oceans depend on it, our lives depend on it, so forbidding something we can't manage seems like a pretty good solution to me.
His homebrew CPU was the best explanation of how microprocessors work I’ve seen!
You do realize that because of #metoo, claims and evidence of people's actions 30, 40 years ago are being judged in the court of public opinion, if not in actual courts?

I don't think you've been paying attention to the news.

Also the US government isn't a great example. JFK was assassinated in 1963 and all records surrounding that still haven't been released.

The idea that people don't care about secrets across the span of decades is utterly wrong.
Just FYI what fun thing is explored in the video:

> This video explores the electrical and timing characteristics of the RS-232 protocol.
Not the first article on HN to make that point [0]. Feels a bit like whistleblowers starting to come out.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32722374
Fifteen New Tests Reveal Tesla FSD Still Runs Down Child-Sized Mannequins
Linked Youtube video of tests: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgUPOM7oIxo
I always found that particular convention incredibly gruesome and dystopian.

The US genocided the native Americans and then use their names on their death machines they use for killing other people.
tx this is what i was looking for, also this agrees https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/schwarzschild-radius
Getting so tired of this knee jerk complaint. Do you design standard cell libraries or analog ASIC IPs? If not, why would you care that "1nm" doesn't correspond to an actual dimension in the process? I work with ASIC design in a node where the name still matches the minimum gate length, and the number of times this has actual mattered to me is exactly zero.

What does matter to most people is transistor density and other performance metrics that actually have an impact on the product. The "Xnm" has always given a rough indication of the improvements in transistor density, and all the foundries has done is continue to name the nodes as if that's what matters... which is indeed the case.

TSMC does sometimes call the nodes eg "N7" now. But nobody that matter cares because everyone understands that "7nm" is a marketing term.
Cool: the fact that I'm asking suggests I do, though. And I absolutely want to see the results in maths, not in programming notation. If I'm solving a complicated bit of maths, I want to see the result and intermediary steps as maths, not as programming code.
What a great article. And this is why I look at Hacker News: things like this that I'd never see otherwise.

> One suspects that it was Nadia who took on one of the charity’s more unusual services, that of reviewing and correcting soldiers’ counterpoint and harmony exercises

Only in France.

> ones remembered Boulanger offering holistic advice: “Quincy,” she told him, “your music can never be more or less than you are as a human being.”

Wow. I thought a jazz guy said this as "if you want to be a better musician, try being a better person" but I couldn't find it anywhere. Anyone?
Correct !

Thanks billion
Gun Detection System for Security Cameras in Python
"decisions about other people's lives shouldn't be made by a a small group of people (or one person), unaccountable to those impacted by the decision, with a massive interest in the decision."

That's exactly the kind of people who were making the decisions all along (public health officials and laptop-class academics).
They already do that with video game leaks
Many complained about voice-only input. I want to highlight a few other aspects that could be improved:

1. Navigation doesn’t work. Sometimes swiping right goes to the next page, sometimes doesn’t. Then you are stuck on the 3rd page and can’t go back.

2. What are points? I have 5 points, got to the payment step - the T-shirt is $25. How am I supposed to use points?

3. The T-shirt that is displayed as a 3D background is completely different from the low quality generic fit design at the end. This discrepancy is off-putting.

4. The tiny final print is unintelligible on my phone. Some squiggles and circles that I can’t make sense of at this resolution/zoom level.

I think the idea of custom fashion is interesting, but this implementation doesn’t feel empowering at all. Feels limiting and gimmicky. More importantly, the result - a generic T-shirt with a very small print is not fashionable or even attractive.
You could parse the failing expression using babel and get an AST back.
What else is there to rely on, if not data? "Lived experience" is just allegations without proof, and in aggregate it's data.

Anecdotes? The word of activists that insist that a fifth of men are rapists?

It's fine to say the data isn't reliable, but unreliable data about sexual assault in general isn't reason enough to conclude that McMurdo is a place overrun with rapists
Guys stop saying there is winter this and winter that, it's all part of the Gartner hype cycle:

1. it all started with a technology trigger (much to the like of early AI development by Turing and McCarthy)

2. then we reach the Peak of Inflated Expectations (trying to solve real world hard problems like Travelling Salesman)

3. and swamp through the Trough of Disillusionment (Death of LISP machine and overall major AI projects halts)

4. until the Slope of Enlightenment (accidental discovery of using GPU to accelerate AI computation)

5. and finally reaching the Plateau of Productivity (developing Tensorflow, PyTorch, and the overall AI democratization though the use of DL and AutoML).

We have just barely in between the stage of Peak of Inflated Expectations and going to Trough of Disillusionment for Quantum Computing and very much likely to stay for a while. Don't you worry child, It's all part of the cycle.
The UK has a backlog of something like 6 million+ people waiting for operations/medical attention. Whatever issues the US has, it's not on the same scale.
Your premise is dubious. This is a definitional question, what’s the commonly accepted meaning of a word.

There’s no other way words are defined, widespread acceptance of the applicability of a term is self-proving.

The fact that the official government representatives of the whole world agree on the definition means that’s the definition.

It’s certainly possible there’s injustice embedded in word choice (consider what is and isn’t called terrorism, for example) but the system is providing a defensible result.
Really?

Facebook and Google have provided homes for Farrakhan, ISIS, etc. and they're the two largest advertising platforms on the planet, yet Elon is a dick so that it as bridge too far?

Fascinating lol
But hard drive failures are why you pay a cloud company with live migrate (ie not AWS) for their service. The physical hardware the machine is running on will eventually fail, as you note, but the VM will keep on ticking on basically forever * and you'd never know the hard drive/SSD underneath it failed.

* Live migrate won't upgrade the CPU family you're running on, so eventually someone/a something on your end will be forced to deal with migrating it, but that's O(years).
So what’s the point in having them?
They do that with video game leaks, and I'm sure they do it for movie leaks, music leaks, etc.
Steve Jobs, in 2002, on the iPhone and the death of PDAs (2010)
> On my phone, the link to the CantSayAnything/About/Sticky page goes to a 404.

Try this,

https://www.reddit.com/r/CantSayAnything/comments/xwvbsy/wri...

> I thought Kelly Cotters paper was very interesting

Yes she is great. To my knowledge, she's one of the few who has actually questioned and researched the area of shadow moderation. Here's the paper for any interested,

https://kelleycotter.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Shadowba...
I suspect everyone knew the 50% layoffs by Twitter would suck up all the headlines so it was an ideal day to announce layoffs.
If you can construct an EmailAddress, then you have a valid EmailAddress. That's the point.

If an EmailAddress can be a valid or invalid email address, then just leave it as a String (since that can also be a valid or invalid email address).

> You check that stuff when the data enters the system.

Yes

> If that place is the EmailAddress type, then you have built your system wrong.

No

If you validate & construct an EmailAddress from another external class, that means external classes are free to bypass validation and construct an invalid EmailAddress. Putting the validation/construction inside EmailAddress lets you force construction to go via validation.
"Private space" is also a concept. There's such a thing as being too abstract, and specific trumps general.
Goodbye, Elon
Fire control computers, like on a navy ship, were faster than digital computers of the day. YouTube has a number of videos on them.

An opamp performs multiplication faster than a digital computer (speed of light vs a few cycles). It's not super useful on its own, but it does fit the criteria.

In Veritasium's video 2/2 on analog computers [0] they show some startup products near the end.

[0]https://youtu.be/GVsUOuSjvcg?t=898
One benefit I heard called out was that early Betamax capped the tape capacity to one hour, which meant you couldn't record things like full sports games and quite a few movies. Sony didn't change this until VHS came along with its slower tape speeds and more recording time, and by then it was too late.

Also, VHS was cheaper, and while Betamax was technically inferior, it wasn't inferior in a way that the average buyer would notice.
I installed this about six months ago on Ubuntu 18 and it hanged when I launched. Has this been ironed out? I might try again. If I'm having issues, I'll submit an issue on Github. Was it tested on Ubuntu 18? BTW: I have to use Ubuntu 18 since version 20 is not compatible with my machine (some BS about NVIDIA drivers crashing the OS)
My main issue is using a keyboard while in vr. Feels like a keyboard that senses when fingers are near would be useful, so you know what key you are about to press. Most of the time i can tell particularly if i am used to that keyboard but sometimes its trial and error. That or accessible hand gloves. I suppose brain impulse reading is still far off as that would solve most input issues with vr.
It's extortion if you think coordinated boycotts are also extortion. They're two sides of the same coin.
> Anarchism argues that no centralized government is necessary for people to lead happy, just and equitable lives.

How does this work when one is a minority in a prejudiced society? This concern has always hindered me from thinking of anarchism as viable.
You do not seem to know what you're talking about. The 12.7bn that was borrowed is going on Twitter's books. Their debt load prior to this leveraged buyout was 5.5bn; it's now 18.3bn[0], with yearly interest payments of roughly 1bn.

[0]: https://www.barrons.com/articles/tesla-stock-twitter-debt-51...
> looking like lisp implementation of the Fibonacci sequence.

I wonder if Lisp can benefit from a similar 2d visualization sugar.
We see a similar thing with Ai / ML where there is a huge amount of hype but applications of quantum computation are only restricted to searching an unstructured database, finding prime factors of a number , solving a linear system of equations , computing knot invariants and the obvious one which is quantum simulation. [1]

It would be better just exposing this as a library of functions and then hooking it up to a cloud service to solve. Which Amazon, Microsoft and IBM have. Microsoft and IBM are using their own hardware And Amazon is reselling other providers. [2,3,4,5]

Researching post quantum cryptography algorithms are already on their way [7] but most likely feasible quantum computers are 80 years away when I was reading a great deal of quantum algorithm papers as a class and I asked the professor how long it would take.

The interesting strategy if you were to hack a organization which has encrypted backups would be to exfiltrate the backups and then wait for a quantum computer that could break it which is why post quantum encryption needs to be researched but the algorithms involved are still in their early stages.

Post
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_algorithm

[2] https://quantumai.google/hardware
[3] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/quantum-computin...
[4] https://aws.amazon.com/braket/
[5] https://www.ibm.com/quantum
[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-quantum_cryptography?wpro...
[7] https://pqcrypto.org/conferences.html
There's a good LWN article on the state of the kernel.org bugzilla: https://lwn.net/Articles/910740/
1. Let them know you can’t understand and ask them nicely if they could use English for working together (not for everything they can still gossip or talk about sports).

2. Encourage automatic translation app usage (its not perfect but it can help a lot) on both sides. Particular by the person who is weakest in either language.

3. Be kind and simplify your own English. Don’t use slang. Repeat things using two different wordings. Speak slower. Take shared written notes as you go to help reinforce vocab.

4. Be kind and encourage people who struggle with English. Usually their reading and writing is better for than their listening and speaking due to more opportunity to practice. Be patient and tell them they don’t have to apologize if they struggle. Encourage them if they improve.

5. Only correct them if it’s important or if it’s at the right level, and then do it gently. Mandarin speakers often confuse he and she because they are the same pronunciation in Mandarin.
If you know who they are talking about correcting them isn’t necessary right alway.

6. Learn some basic Mandarin and show them you are willing to sound awful and embarrass yourself. Be aware it is mentally very taxing to listen and speak in an unfamiliar language — until you get used to it. Showing them how awful you are will allow them to compare the pain of that mental tax to listening to you butcher their language.

7. Be aware half the time they are not saying anything of interest. The worst side effect I found from learning Mandarin was understanding boring gossip and advertising.

8. Allow time outs for a mandarin discussion on difficult issues so they can then switch back to English.

9. Help them polish their English — eg draft documentation or comms. Occasionally being an ally rather than complaining will encourage them to keep trying to improve, and show respect.

10. Ask the people with good English who are Mandarin speakers how you can help the situation, and how they could help too. Don’t make this a performance issue but and a chance to be more inclusive and collaborate better.

Source: It took me several years and significant effort to speak Mandarin at a business level, and run meetings in a mix of Mandarin and tech jargon.
i need to send this to all my coworkers. i wrote some tests kind of similar to this, except i had a bunch of setup code then asserted something was true, changed 1 thing and then verified it became false so that it was super clear that it was the 1 thing that causes it to become false.

they were like no, copy paste the entire setup and change the field to false in the new setup.

im like how are you supposed to tell which of the dozen conditions triggered it now? you have to diff the 2 tests in your head and hope they don't get out of sync? ridiculous
That's not my definition, it's the Wikipedia definition. Where does yours come from?

Also would you answer to my initial request to explain how transactions can be voluntary in a capitalist system where most people dont own property, the means of production.
Apple's Chief in the Risky Land of the Handhelds (2002)
If you want the convenience of a centralized service run by a single party you have to deal with the consequences.

In other words, just stay on Twitter! Why’d you move to mastodon to begin with?
> And no I don't think I need to support such a statement with a source. I'm sure you can find one.

What I've found is Facebook is not popular with young people: the audience many advertisers are the most interested in. The stock market is certainly not happy with their latest results. So sure, I can easily find a source that says Facebook is still the most popular platform. The details matter. Is it growth in Asia that's keeping their numbers up while US users shrink? Are they failing to attract young people? Have they lost users among the HN demographics? These details matter if you want the actual story.
Explained here:

https://bugfix-66.com/7a82559a13b39c7fa404320c14f47ce0c304fa...
Who said it was my highest priority? Obviously having a solver is the highest priority, but it turns out that if you purport to have made a mathematica competitor, that was the baseline. If you don't have that, you have nothing. So the question is never "can it do what it needs to", it's always "can it do the things which keep me using Mathematica, instead of Sage, like letting me compose notebooks that contain, and show, actual maths?"

And yes, I enjoy writing in math notation because it's an immediately understandable notation compared to 500 character programming statement.
Let's look it at the other way.
I love the Washington Post, but if they started manufacturing PC's I'd have some questions.
If your values are in the mechanical domain, doing a simple and fixed computation in the mechanical domain may be more efficient. An example would be a mechanical differential in a rear-wheel drive car [1], or a swashplate in a helicopter [2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_(mechanical_devic...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swashplate_(aeronautics)
> God help us if he colonizes mars and has total control of air water and heat.

We've already seen this play out in the movie Total Recall: https://youtu.be/X8lT-Sn-HqE
For Twitter users in other countries? Yes. Twitter had been the best of the social media companies (though still not perfect) at resisting subpoenas and other measures from the US government as well as authoritarian countries, but all the personnel involved in that have been fired.

Twitter's legal and human rights teams were more valuable than is commonly understood.