skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> "Com-pan-ions" are literally those who eat bread together: "com" is community, etc. and "pan" is bread.

Similarly, while plenty of people pan (pun intended, on multiple levels) American multiculturalism for being seemingly limited to food, it remains evident that food is a sort of universal language - a gateway to shared understanding even among those who share nothing else in common. Cuisine is a window into cultural tradition and history, and is a leading indicator of the formation of new cultures through the intersection of existing ones. To share food is to share what makes us human.

If we discover intelligent life elsewhere in the universe, I reckon this will be a key factor in whether we have any hope of ever truly understanding them and their motivations.
So many reasons to love this app :)
> "speech"

How is changing your name to that which belongs to someone else "speech"? Sounds like trolling and impersonating to me.

What exactly is being spoken when you change your name to a false one? I thought "speech" was when someone with name X, says something about subject Y.

I'm not surprised the attention seeker got suspended.
he can definitely attack youtube shorts, they are out of place anyway and i dont know why YT keeps shoving them to my face (I DONT WANT THAT S*%T). Doubt he can lure long form creators (what for??). I mean people already use twitter as an advertising medium to their YT channels, substacks, businesses and onlyfans.
I am hesitant to say it, but completing projects is probably optional...
Is bit perfect reading necessary? It’s so many samples per second, 44100 to be precise, than one bit error once in a while cannot be noticed.

And it’s not like audio is actually high fidelity. Any DAC will introduce a lot of errors. And the original recordings are not perfect either. Microphones, loud speakers, amplifiers, that’s a lot more errors than one wrong bit too.
If they think that code is bad they should see my projects. This is a beautiful work of art compared to my insane spaghetti code. I honestly don't even see what's bad about it at all but maybe I'm just stupid.
We're saying that phone as a social signal is dumb, not social signalling as a whole is stupid.
I mean - ridicule ain't so bad. I wrote a Tetris game that memory leaks whatever gigabytes you throw at it. important thing is what you learn from that
> the population of 10 european countries combined is not as big as the US

Populations (skipping Russia with 145 million): Germany 83 million, UK 67 million, France 65 million, Italy 60 million, Spain 47 million, Ukraine 43 million.

That’s 6 countries, 365 million people. The USA has 332 million.

Even taking ‘Europe’ mean ‘the EU’, the ten largest (by population) countries together have about 360 million people (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_European_U...)
I've been using proportional fonts in programming for about ten years. I stopped doing things like

abc = 1
d = 2

which add very little readability value IMHO.

Things like

func(arg1,
arg2,
arg3)

usually don't align well because func( has a different width than the five spaces in the lines below. However

1) my text editor (emacs) aligns those lines for me (probably any programmer's editor does) so at least I don't have to do precision work

2) I ended up writing code like

func(
arg1,
arg2,
arg3
)

especially with named arguments (arg=value). That aligns even with proportional fonts and all arguments immediately stand out.

If the arguments are few (two or three) and there are no named arguments I don't break them on multiple lines.

The result is that no coworker ever complained about my code.

Languages with a formatter (Elixir) solve the problem once and for all and align well with both kinds of fonts.
That's a fun idea that I've never considered. Good job creating it!
Twitter in particular seems to reward snark and negativity more than anything else.
Wait til you learn one is a parody TV show. The other is a social network of real people backed up by the US government.
Manifesto for minimalist software engineers (2013)
This is a very company-centric Randian view, and ignores that the company is situated in a society and can have unintended negative impacts on that society that don't amount to technical law-breaking.

Of course these teams were bad for the bottom line, which is why Musk cut them. But the entire purpose was ESG goals. For example, preventing the platform from being used to incite genocide in non-English speaking countries. Preventing that has no impact on profitability, and costs money. But, I hope we'd agree that it's the right thing to do anyways?
Strategic Scarcity: Allocating Arms and Attention in Washington
Blood is highly complicated.

I think the HN audience understands it at a level of "blood is red cells, white cells, and platelets", but that's really not the whole picture. Blood also has plasma which is composed of gas, nutrients, proteins, ions, and water. We can actually refine blood plasma down to a state where it's basically 100% safe even if someone with "bad blood" donated it.

These 4 different blood components all get seperated at the lab, frozen for storage, and turned into individual products which can be mixed+matched depending on medical need.

Don't get me wrong, growing red cells in a lab is awesome, but I don't see it the same way a lot of comments in this thread do (solving a storage issue, saving a lot of lives, etc).

I think the realistic applications of lab-grown-blood over the next 15 years will be closer to treating rare diseases or possibly rare blood types (some people exist outside the typical A, B, AB, O groupings). I don't see this fixing logistics or supply/demand issues in the next 15 years, especially with how highly regulated the blood supply is in any first world nation.
How do you make the stem cells produce the certain rare blood type that you need? What distinguishes it?
Computing is such a wonder to me that I couldn't imagine my life without it. This invention fundamentally changed what it is to be human imo and if you can accept and embrace this fact then everything else comes naturally.
From my perspective the VR game in SAO is a VR game like any other. There are no bad parts. The possibility of dying is not central to the original game experience.

What people might want is accurate VR physics, good AI (speech recognition and synthesis), flawless full body tracking and a community of players all starting from zero at the same time. Those who want permadeath don't need real-life death, you could just delete their character like so many other games do.
I imagine that donations will continue to be important for a range of subtler purposes, such as using the plasma for immunological stuff.
People can get vicious in Show HN threads, as well.
Because it's fun, I really have a great time programming. For me, it's like playing a video game.
Things like Twitter and YouTube and many subreddits (don’t know about insta and TikTok as I don’t use these, but I guess they are similar) should be ignored if you value you sanity.

So many times you encounter people who never tried anything or created anything or done anything than being drones being jealous or somehow otherwise angry at people who do do these things. Especially when they fail (of course sadly).

Many people fear everything so they do nothing; people have mocked my wife and myself for so many things over the decades just because they thought it was ‘weird’; moving to another country, starting companies, quitting a job to start writing or brewing etc. It’s sad people cannot just think; good for them and leave it.
Learning on the job, and putting long hours to make it work.
>The account in your link clearly states it is Elon

The display name states it is Elon, but the unique handle is @kathygriffin (which is linked from her official website www.kathygriffin.com).

But you know all that and somehow decided it's funny to pretend you don't.
It's actually much closer to the email system than this analogy.

Some dude in rural Canada can run a email server in their spare time and nobody thinks the email system is any worse for it.
My most interesting ideas take months and sometimes years to click.

The most challenging part of my current job (PM at bigco) is that the time and space doesn't exist. Ideas are extruded based on timeline (and other) pressures.

I've only ever been able to let ideas percolate when I've done my own startups or with my open source projects. In some cases good ideas never came to fruition because I couldn't get them to the point they were great. This is one recent example, but there's so many [1].

I've been thinking, for years, about an easier interface to manage
my photos using @getelodie (the Github version) than the command
line. I haven't put my finger on it.

Probably doesn't have to work on mobile. Probably web. Mobile /
desktop apps deteriorate quickly anyways.

It's sort of the opposite of churning out MVPs. One's not better than the other but they definitely lead to different destinations. Lately, I've been even more convinced than before that software that's treated like art yields much more interesting products than software treated like a factory.

[1] https://twitter.com/jmathai/status/1587163999900037121
You're saying that "later no harm means ... your vote for your second can't hurt your third", which seems strange, given that (by definition) it means your vote for your third can't hurt your second.

If you're right, then your second and third preferences can't harm the chances of each other, and it seems like this result must generalize such that your Nth can't hurt your Mth, for all N and M. That would mean that every possible vote has no effect on the outcome of the election, which seems like a contradiction.

Obviously I'm missing something, but I'm happy to put that down to the complexity and unintuitive outcomes of RCV/IRV, since Approval Voting is a much simpler system to reason about (and implement).

I still disagree that Approval's lack of later-no-harm is a feature, though. In practice, what it means is that voters have to think strategically about how well they think the various candidates will do, in order to decide whether they have to "risk" giving an approval to a candidate who they genuinely don't like, but who might be the only chance of preventing a detested candidate from winning.
> libraries and archives

This is a legit function of a university.
Anecdotally, I find a lot of people who are eager to talk shit on other's work are not especially strong coders themselves. People who actually know what they're talking about usually don't get mad as a first reaction because they can actually articulate WHY they're mad.

Usually I just block these personalities as quickly as possible and move on.
I spent a lot of time and effort deploying automation in customer service. The idea was to do it in ways that were really valuable, as opposed to spreadsheet positive. Our management had been toasted too many times by folks selling snake oil, but my god savings were needed.

They just had to be real...

So first issue: developing measures that measure real overall service productivity... this is hard, the gaming is intense.

Second issue: automation generates work. Yup. When your service workers get time they use it to address difficult cases and to do the work that removes regulatory and safety risks. The rest of the time this stuff is ignored, building hidden risk for the enterprise. Relieve the pressure, and it reemerges.

Third issue: peak demands. Ideally automation would help you deal with peak demands enabling human staffing at sensible levels to handle most of the traffic most of the time. Sadly it doesn't. Peak demand often seemed to be for the work that could least be automated.

Forth issue: the tech is a castle of lies. Ok, that's not quite true... but there is a lot of lying. In the academic work the lying is of the form of what is left out of the experiments and evaluations - for example that the algorithm cost $100k to run or something. In the commercial world there is flat out lying - HAL I look at you, you bastard. How many RFI's were derailed by some regional President at a supplier ringing my CIO or CEO and explaining that I was "a problem" and had "an attitude"... well, all of them. The issue is that there is no sanction. HAL is still pushing Holmes and winning contracts, and not delivering what they promise, because it's all a lie. All that happens is that they move to the next sucker and wait for management churn at the old sucker to erase the corporate memory, and this does not take long. In reality they should all be drummed out of the business and no one should ever speak to them again.

But, five years later I am still flogging my guts out and they are all on their boats and golf courses. One of the bastards had his own vineyard.

So, sigh
Thought the show was great. Didn’t have any difficulty following season 4. Was hoping they were finally headed to space in season 5.

Tried to cancel my HBO subscription after this announcement. Only way to show disapproval. But it’s bundled with my internet service if I want the tier I’m in currently.
It's the most common yet worst status symbol, because it can be bought with a plan and monthly instalments, so it's easier to flaunt than a Lamborghini.

I've seen people on benefits with better iPhones than mine.

If your date judges you for having an Android instead of an iPhone, they're a terrible judge of character and wealth.
Building a VBZ Display Clone
If you have two degrees and work at a big company, how is it self taught? Seems like you would have learned a lot from both of those things. Genuinely curious.
Probably both of those, yeah. Ad revenue was growing until Musk got involved.
That's not what the comment I'm replying to said

"Do you want a partner that uses social signaling as a criterion for picking their partner?"
Principles of Pricing
Customers are free to distribute the patches, Grsecurity is free to choose who their customers are.
Can I give the most stupidest and shameful reason I have not yet moved to FreeBSD from Linux (been using Linux as my daily driver for last 15'ish years).

Google Chrome Passwords. For some reason you can't install Google Chrome on FreeBSD, you can install Chromium but all my saved passwords are stored in Google-Chrome, and you can't (it seems) port it !

So now I'm stucked with, Ok do I spend a day and move everything (manually) to Firefox/Chromium or do I just suck it up and stay where I am.

Yes yes I know there are many "solutions" how to store passwords, that is not the problem, the problem is PORTING my 100+ passwords/logins Ive gathered over the years to a new shiny solution.
That's something that surprised me, too.
Maybe in poor southern Europe?
Starting at age of 12.
People are loyal to theır friends, not the apps. If the people you want to talk to are not all on iMessage they you don't use iMessage.

If in EU you manage not to use something else than iMessage the you are in a bubble because most people in EU use Android. You somehow managed to have an iPhone bubble but your situation is not the rule but the exception.
The elephants will have their revenge. We might not remember the before-times when the elephants triumphed over us, nor might we remember the systematic extermination of their wooly comrades, but the elephants?

The elephants never forget.
Wait, the US government is involved in Twitter? Please, go on!
Just wait until you have to figure out your AWS billing
I do not see anything in WhatsApp to let me share media at original quality, or near it.

This website says it still compressed quite a bit at Best Quality:

https://beebom.com/whatsapp-best-quality-photo-option-live/
yup has been the case for ages
But he’s right. There’s no meaningful usage of it outside of America. WhatsApp is king everywhere else.

Anecdotally more people I know use Signal than iMessage, including my non tech savvy sisters and friends. iMessage is too weird and Android too prevalent for anyone to consider using it where I am from (the U.K.)
> We have to bite the bullet and redesign urban environments away from the car.

I agree with you philosophically but how would this work in practice? Most US cities that could benefit from urban planning and redesign are that way because they're densely packed car-centric areas.

It's like, if a giant earthquake flattened LA sure, that would be a great excuse to redesign the entire city. But the vast majority of the infra isn't going anywhere, and nobody is gonna float redesigning a city with the level of NIMBY-goodness here.

Practically speaking, a "50cc-rated EV moped" is a great way to, at minimum, start to get people thinking less about cars, in my opinion. It's a necessary bridge to a future that's probably decades away.
It's a problem with all social media. As soon as subreddit becomes big enough all the most upvoted comments will be low effort snark. If there's a way to find a negative angle bashing someone/something it will be there. It's also happening on HN for certain topics (big tech etc).
It seems like the lesson is that if the company and its workers know that there’s always another project to work on next, then there’s no incentive to drag out this one.
On HN unsubstantial put-downs are downvoted/flagged. On Twitter they get hearts and lols. That’s a pretty big difference.

(And yes, like another comment said, HN voting is also shit when it comes to certain topics like big tech. Fortunately the crappiest takes upvoted by mobs tend to be modded down by saner humans.)
I'm tired of cutting these weird corners to save energy. My wife won't even let us use the oven anymore. I don't think these things are gonna save the planet, or even save us that much money
> You have the mother of all hotspots on the pan (less relevant for boiling) where the induction ring itself is and getting simmer right is harder.

Not at all. There is no significant hot spot as heat is actually produced by the bottom of the pan and not the coils themselves.

> Induction as implemented right now is on/off with full blast for the duration and just increased downtime. It is not the same as low constant output.

Again, not at all. All the devices I have used were perfectly fine generating a low, constant heat. what you describe may be the case for bargain basement ones, and it was the case for most resistive cooktops, but is definitely not the case for inductions ones.
> Ironic that Steve Klabnik jumped in on the ridiculing, when he a) Complains all the time about people mocking Rust, and b) supported the various "rewrite in Rust for no good reason" projects.

To be fair, this tweet was close to a decade ago, and Steve Klabnik posted an apology at the time.

People do make mistakes from time to time, and Twitter is prone to post unfiltered brainfarts.
How do people who study dinosaur fossils damage tribes?
This is the first I'm learning that people spit out watermelon seeds. Why? That's so extra.
The Sizewell C nuclear power plant must go ahead
Similarly, the image with Input Mono caught my eye: https://i0.wp.com/blakewatson.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2022...

The word "chain" looks more like "cha in" which just makes the font seem unfinished to me.
ICRC proposes digital Red Cross/crescent emblem for protection in cyberspace
Yeah Federighi made it pretty clear. I'm a little surprised Eddie Cue didn't seem to realize how significant giving up imessage exclusivity could be. But I'm guessing in 2013 there were bigger differences in iPhones vs Android phones, wasn't as clear that eventually it would be a significant reason why someone might choose one over the other. Giving up iMessage in 2013 would be different than giving it up today
I never implied that what they are doing is wrong or illegal. Just that it is a closed private fork.
Mark Zuckerberg is betting the farm on VR, so he clearly choose to go to another way instead of clashing with Apple.
> This is unfair to these who will stay. Musk will see or feel no difference, he is quite insulated from all that, but immediate colleagues of these who quit will feel the heat strongly.

That kind of thinking is misplaced loyalty: you think you're being loyal to your colleagues, but really you're being loyal to the owner. Trying to protect your colleagues from a toxic workplace is just a recipe for more toxicity.

Musk will see or feel a difference if Twitter's technology organization collapses to the point that they have trouble maintaining the site (e.g. return of the fail whale).
1-2+ million a month. I wonder how fast light rail will be when they have as many stops as are planned, will it be just as slow as a bus?

https://www.soundtransit.org/ride-with-us/system-performance...

https://www.soundtransit.org/get-to-know-us/maps
Apologies if it was unclear, I was trying to think of better words than 'backed up by' as it is similar to 'backed by.'

I was referring to the fact that the US Library of Congress has archived every tweet since 2006.
First, trolling is speech. It might be distasteful speech, but it's speech.

Second, expressing yourself through actions is speech. Voting, donating money, dance, painting are all kinds of speech.

Third, we have a long history of satire and parody impersonations that have been repeatedly upheld as not only acceptable, but valuable to a society.
In other news, I am once again reminded why I am happy not to have a Twitter account.
As I said this is electric bike, nothing to do with cylinders in EU, but power output of 250 W, so completely different category from what you mention and as I said regarding ICU motorbikes, you are fine with normal car license up to 125ccm and if you don't have car license then it's slightly easier maybe to get 50ccm license, but still nothing to do with ELECTRIC bike.
Yeah, especially since the arguments for improved security are extremely questionable.

Compared to websites, malicious browser extensions are a small problem and I do believe making it harder for adblockers is part of Googles motivation.
I studied classical music composition for 10 years before (re)discovering my love for programming. It taught me so many things that have been valuable when learning this craft. Algorithmic thinking and self discipline, staying creative under time pressure and building big systems with infinite amount of details.
He also said that it wouldn't be impersonation if it had a disclaimer that it was a parody account, and then he banned accounts like H3H3's that were clearly labeled as parodies.
It was pretty obvious from the speed of the layoffs that this would happen. No way they would be able to accurately suss out everyone that would be needed in a few days.
They prioritised speed over accuracy, which I can actually respect. Question is how hard it's going to bite them.
> it was something like a pot roast brought to a boil in the morning, then put in a well insulated container to sit for the day.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haybox: “A haybox, straw box, fireless cooker, insulation cooker, wonder oven, self-cooking apparatus, norwegian cooker or retained-heat cooker is a cooker that utilizes the heat of the food being cooked to complete the cooking process. Food items to be cooked are heated to boiling point, and then insulated. Over a period of time, the food items cook by the heat captured in the insulated container. Generally, it takes three times the normal cooking time to cook food in a haybox.”
Russian Oligarch's Seized Yachts Are Costing Tax Payers Millions