skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All I see is retro computers, math, and concept art.

You can find terrible things anywhere, you can watch Jordan Peterson instead of 3blue1brown if you want to, but that's really up to you.
Hah! Never mind the capital overhead, it might be a while before customers trust a scissors-wielding robot with their head!
Seems like it might have some relationship to the distribution of primes.
They have datacenters around the globe and small teams in other countries, both to hadle the local infraestructure and to have always someone on the clock in case some problem arises. For example, in my country they had 11 employes handling the datacenters (which apparently have been also fired).
The term wheel was first applied to computer user privilege levels after the introduction of the TENEX operating system, later distributed under the name TOPS-20 in the 1960s and early 1970s. The term was derived from the slang phrase big wheel, referring to a person with great power or influence.

Source: Wikipedia

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_(computing)#Origins
What's the difference? It fits within the 50cc drivers license.
Autism. I'm not even kidding.
Trending/For You always has one rightwing hashtag on it, often repeatedly, no matter how matter how often I click "not interested"/"this is harmful" and add it to muted.
I believe the previous poster is referring to the acquisition process, not Twitter itself. Although the past week hasn't been exactly a promising start.
That's your own personal baseless speculation, do you go through life randomly accusing people? Not very healthy, I would suggest being less hasty
What a refreshing post!

So many good points are highlighted: embrace as many as possible ideas without apriori triage, look for ideas in many places, with diverse people, make unexpected connections, add but also subtract, put things into actions, ...

I recognize myself on many points, even I would not pretend to be perfect on these lines - being also tempted to take shortcuts.
And this is why this post is refreshing. It encourages me to keep exploring ideas and putting them into motion.
> the value is communicating the structure of the code.

I agree and I think that is the same thing as code-readability. Code-readability means you can easily understand the code.

I personally try to abide by what I call "hedge" formatting convention, the punctuation forms a vertical hedge which then shows the structure of your code clearly:

[ a

, b

, c

]

Moving my eyes down to look for the closing bracket is easier (to me) than moving my eyes from left to right to spot it somewhere on the right side of the page.

Note how above ALL the punctuation is in the same (first) column, Having read that it then becomes easier to read what is on the rest of the columns.

In general it helps when things that are the same, or have the same purpose, on each line are in the same horizontal position. It is is then easier to see what is different about each line, since it is easy to see what is the same.
I use a lowercase “L” and “LST” (in lowercase) for variables representing lists in function args.

For me the lower L and the number 1 have to be different. Most mono fonts make them almost identical.

Typing “lst” looks like 1st (First). They either need to curve the bottom of the lowercase “L” or remove the bottom bar of the one.
> "children" need to stay out of programming

Before I could drive, my father would taxi me to computer user group meetings and such.

I've always talked too much, asked stupid questions. One time, a guy dismissed my question about tablet input devices, something like "You're too young to know about that kind of thing."

It was one of the few times I've seen my father get genuinely pissed off.
Also “victim blaming” and “crowd fucking”.

That’s when you ratio water to home and tell people they need to save a gallon on their shower but you literally ship millions of gallons of water to SA.
Each day i contribute to open source, i keep thinking of putting it behind me. The amount of bullshit that comes my way, even now 5 years down the line, is really taking its toll. I love to share and make everything i do open. But the people really put a drain on my energy to even try.
I assume they just count the pieces !
The Star and Thank Author License
> We have NOW insane computing power, cool stuff like insane size FPGAs and super fast GPUs.

They are still slow, compared to human brains. To compete with biological neurons, computers may have to be 100x-1000x faster.

Your phone is massively more powerful than a DEC Alpha based workstation from 1992 and it can fit in your pocket. Moore's law may be slowing, but I still expect compute to be 100x-1000x performance/$ and performance/W in 30 years.

Software is already on its way into a paradigm shift, where it will increasingly be written by AI (look at the state of github copilot). Hardware (both eletronic and mechanical) design will continue to see similar developments.

At some point, spot-like robots will reach a price where it starts to become affordable by some households. That moment will be similar to the appearance of PC's in the 80s or phones in the 2000x. As the market explodes, prices will drop really quickly.

And even before that, militaries will drive development. Drones (ie robots) are already becoming a key factor in the war in Ukraine.

Battery tech is the main limitation at the moment. Though I do expect significantly better energy density over 30 years, and reduction in power consumption should make up the rest.

So basially, I expect robots will have a development over the next 30 years similar to how PC's developed from 1980-2000 or phones developed from 2000-2020, if not more.
What do you think an economy is? Its the amount if human production. Its mostly used on things people want and a good portion is used to make people's lives longer, healthier or happier. An economic downturn kills tens of thousands.
> He was a gadget freak without doubt...

He even wrote for the UK version of MacUser
There have been many more electric scooters in europe already. The only thing differentiating it seems to be the pedals, which makes it more of an s-pedelec (in german at least). Compared to those it mostly has a larger frame and possibly battery.

Overall I wonder why this is interesting in that context, too.

Even worse, this article is purely speculative based on a design document.
Great addition, thank you... I'll add this to the article soon
Well, the point is that we need to realize there is always a human being on the other side of the comment / post. On Twitter that might not always be true. And these players may have been created for the sole purpose to troll / egg / incite.
That's true, but I power mine from the municipal grid that burns stuff to make steam and then electricity
Well...

https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay...
Show me a week in the last two years when California's renewables didn't produce any power

https://www.caiso.com/TodaysOutlook/Pages/supply.html
> There will be a reckoning once capitalism runs out of people to exploit.

That's just a different way of saying there will never be a reckoning :-/
Rutger Bregman's "Humankind" is actually presenting a lot of (convincing) evidence towards the hypothesis that the vast vast majority of people are in fact kind, and have been throughout most of our recent history. This is thus also evidence for the statement "Twitter is a cesspool of the worst of the worst of us", although we may ask: Is it really? Or does "the algorithm" bring out the worst and to the surface? Does Twitter repel kind people?

These are interesting, even very important questions imho.
> enjoyed the warmest October

I abhor this kind of language that news sites use. It takes away from the seriousness of the underlying cause (and its effects), and associates hot/warm weather with "good". Public apathy towards climate change starts here.
The thing is that money is not being "wasted" at all. It's profit for someone.

Just like healthcare & education, building big infrastructure projects lines the pockets of everyone even tangentially involved, so there is no incentive to change anything. People are literally making millions of dollars.
For customer service I find that the real automation "gains" tend either to be in debugging the rest of the organization or in driving a customer to give up on finding a human to talk to.
Most of the people you refer to are not even genuinely left-wing, they just flaunt the aesthetic. Scratch the surface and they are fully invested in capitalism.

Real leftists are out there doing grassroots organising, running unions, setting up cooperatives, making positive contributions to their communities. Not shitposting on Twitter with hammer-and-sickle emojis in their profiles.
I would guess a mix of ‘reinventing the wheel’ complaints (except sed kinda sucks for the common task and it’s annoying having n different regexp syntaxes) and ‘nodejs for everything’ complaints. But it doesn’t really make sense to me.
> If the average person is talking to a wall and the influencers are getting all the engagement why would they stick around?

Aren't most people on Twitter exactly to follow those influencers? I don't think most people would ever expect global engagement from any of their tweets.

The real issue here is not average people, but people with something important to say who are not rich, like scientists and activists. They (and their followers) are the ones who might be hurt by the expensive checkmarks.
There is nothing to read between the lines bere. Circumcision is "singled out" because that's the only one that realistically might happen to a child born in the west.

If I were to have a child, circumcision would definitely need to be discussed with my partner. Because there are plenty of reasons people decide to opt-in for that procedure, none of which have any intentionally malicious components to it.

FGM wouldn't need to be discussed, because not only I assume nobody here would be insane enough to even propose it, it is just downright evil, carries zero non-malicious purpose, and is illegal to perform here. I see zero reason to worry about something that cannot even be legally performed in the first place.
Just add some emphasis and start right at 8:00:00.85.
...fiction? At the very least, robots have full coverage healthcare.
Ageism never died on the internet I guess. I think people underestimate how many young people are online these days.
This was 2013 as well. I think it's gotten significantly worse since then.

People love to hate, to critise, but never ever create. It's extremely difficult to make anything, but extraordinary easy to talk smack.

Just look at YouTube movie or TV critics. It boils down to argghh, snark, hate and ANGRY VOICE. Not trying to create, to offer alternatives, but just to hate and tear down.

Maybe we need a community that would give valid feedback or nothing at all. No snark, no veiled snark Nada.
“There is no stupid question” is something any teacher should get ingrained in the minds of the students.

Of course once the student STUDIES.
Attempts to confuse identity are not normally held as acceptable, though. Parody and satire imply that there is some kind of exaggeration that makes it identifiable as such. In this case, without scrutinization, one could have easily thought Griffin's account was Musk's.
One can provide feedback and encourage people to learn about more efficient coding practices without ridicule and comments like "my eyes are bleeding".
I do not know if it's normal or not. Certainly I don't think I've ever seen 'sic' being used on American spelling like that ever before. It stood out to me as strange, and I even remarked to the wife, 'Have you ever seen the BBC add "sic" to American spelling before?'

Brits are completely aware that Americans spell things differently, personally I don't feel it needs pointing out. Makes it look like the writer thinks Jack is wrong!

Googling "BBC using sic for American spelling" brought me to your comment, and looking at the other results it doesn't look like they do it all the time. Seems silly to have done it at all!

I wager it get's edited away before the end of the day.
So I've seen every news agency on the planet run this story, and they either cite each other in a huge circle, or they cite "people familiar with the matter".

Do we have 100% concrete first-hand documented evidence this actually happened to more than -let's say- 10 people?

Somehow, I highly doubt it.
Key points:

- Elon said there are 10 managers for one engineer. We can argue about numbers, but I am pretty sure there are no 10 engineers for 1 manager

- Web UI is crap, it is slow to load etc... If twitter would accept pull requests, I would fix it myself. I am pretty sure tech people are frustrated by situation.

- I do not see any research from Twitter into federated networks, cryptography... I did interviews with twitter in 2012, this stuff was all cut latter... I think Musk may sponsor this type of research just to push his Dogecoin BS.

- Read how "hostile takeover" looks like. It is mess, also it is very very sensitive week. "work the whole weekend" is irrelevant. Things will look very different in two weeks!

- Key people will be able to renegotiate their contracts, with much much better salary. You probably need 100 people to run twitter. See Whatsapp...
It's in an orchestra. Not every instrument has to have every capability - that's why they are used together.

I had a weird error from the embedded YouTube link in that page, but I found a page which showed it being used realistically_ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v62YjjV-Roo.
Hi!

I'm a versatile Frontend/Fullstack engineer interested in building human-oriented high quality web products and services. Have a ton of hands-on experience building all kinds of products with modern web technologies. Also have a strong background as an interface/information designer. Particularly interested in educational, visualisation or developer tool projects.

Location: Berlin.

Remote: Yes, hybrid type of work also OK.

Willing to relocate: Yes, willing to relocate to London.

Technologies: Typescript, Node, expressjs, React, HTML/CSS,
Jest, Cypress, and all that stuff.

Resume:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1nAkmI3rClSsuNxIuKmzNZ8Qb...

LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zzolo/

Would be glad to have a chat!
Reading it again I feel like this is most likely satire. It just feels so contradictory to the entirety of the author's background, it's odd.
> Does it taste any different to the kind I can buy in the big jugs at Costco?

I'm not familiar with this specific brand/batch, but real shoyu and the bottled stuff isn't even comparable. Luckily the things most westerners use soy sauce for has many other inputs so you can mask the taste, but if you have ever ate a Kaiseki meal or had a proper Omakase Sushi meal you'll notice that that the chef is brushing the shoyu (or tare depending on the season/fish) from a similar product.

The only closes analogue I can make is having real Aceto from Emilia Romagna after having had that watery sour food coloured vinegar stuff we put on salads in the US.

My good friend's wife came from multi-generational family of shoyu makers in Fukushima prefecture, the story was harrowing and painful to listen to, but the level of pride in their legacy still shined in when she spoke about what they did. And being the only one at the table who was a cook it really cut deep.
I think GP means prefect or nothing - it errors out if not able to get a valid read.

Regular error correction + checksum is a pretty solid implementation of that.
That makes sense, thanks. It just occurred to me how interesting of a challenge it is to write a bittorrent client. There are so much issues to work on, like how to effectively retrieve chunks of files and in meantime balance upload speed equally to remote clients of file parts you actually have already.
It is fascinating to see how much can be reconstructed and heart warming what patience is shown by those who reassemble these precious parts of history.

But perhaps we (humans) should in general try not to destroy so many things in the first place. Be it historic pieces, general infrastructure (check the tragedy taking place in Ukraine), endangered species, the environment.
Linux DRM subsystem will change if your process name starts with the letter 'X'
> It is not (if it ever was) a general programming language.

Colossal Cave Adventure (ADVENT) was written in Fortran.

Zork (aka Dungeon) was originally written in an obscure Lisp dialect invented at MIT, MDL; but Bob Supnik at DEC ported it into Fortran, and that version became widely distributed.

I used to work for a university, where the software which determined whether students had met all their degree requirements to graduate (such software is sometimes called a "degree audit tool"), was written in Fortran. Why? Well, it was a manual paper-based process, then one of the academics kindly volunteered to automate it for them. And he was one of the mathematics lecturers, and Fortran was his favourite language, so that's what he did it in. Some years later he retired, and without him the software became increasingly difficult to maintain – the university no doubt had some Fortran programmers in the physics/maths/engineering/etc departments, but the central administration's IT didn't. They ended up replacing it with some commercial off-the-shelf solution–no idea what that was written in, but almost certainly not Fortran.
As someone who has used FreeBSD exclusively on bare-metal corporate production servers for the last 10 years, I still wouldn't use it on desktops/workstations. It's built as a server OS and my opinion is that it does this very well, I have tried a few times over the years to use it as a destkop OS, I spent more time configuring my machine than I did actually using it. I can install Ubuntu and 30mins later be using it for work with no issues.

If you run your own servers, especially ones that you physically have to maintain the hardware on, FreeBSD is a very reliable choice and the upgrade paths on it are fantastic. I now run some services in Azure and use docker, but all my "on prem" stuff, is still freeBSD powered.
Like your ISP?

I've been thinking that, just like your ISP provides you with an email address (do they all still do that? Mine does), maybe they should also automatically provide you with a social network account.

It's a bit odd how everything today still links back to email, which many consider dated, but we still don't have a good replacement for it. This might be ready for a new universal distributed communication system.
“up to you” … But is it really? Isn’t that the question?

Reminds me of a line by Ken Kesey:

If you’ve got it all together, what’s that all around it?
Automatically generating network traffic out of millions of GitHub repositories
We’re incredibly similar. We’re the same age, started coding and working at the same ages, and both acknowledge ADHD in our lives

I didn’t want to go to university, partly because my parents couldn’t help me and partly because I sucked at learning what I was asked to learn.

In response to the OG OP: Curiosity might kill this cat eventually but it certainly helped my career. Being a perfectionist and intensely curious allowed me to explore and refine my understanding of software production over many years.

16 years in I still often forget just how much I know and often feel like an imposter. I think this is exacerbated by career trajectory taking me away from the coal face of code writing over the years.
It was previously a Twitter norm that you could temporarily change your display name to “impersonate” (satirize) someone, with your handle being the giveaway that it’s not real.

This norm seems to have been summarily overturned. I thought that Twitter was going to keep the status quo with moderation and make changes through a moderation council with diverse viewpoints.
It was publicly traded, with Vanguard, Morgan Stanley and Black Rock owning the largest holdings.

Source: https://metro.co.uk/2022/10/28/who-owned-twitter-before-elon...
I think its getting better in EU, but a lot of companies still expect "freelancer" who works on site...
He's always been bad at dealing with people. Twitter isn't a technology company, it's a people company.
this is what "web3" and decentralization should be, not endless blockchain applications
Also please write about your process of writing. I just did here: https://notes.alinpanaitiu.com/How%20I%20write%20this%20blog...

And while I’m not sure it would be of any use to someone, I know I wished I could read how others make their writing process more convenient when I started.

There are so many ways to publish writings that one could get overwhelmed with choices and not even start. For some people it feels good to have some guidance, and let someone with experience make some of the choices for you.
You literally said you’d tear people down in a pub when you were asked directly if you would treat someone in real life like that. There’s no speculation, and I’m not accusing you of anything, what I’m saying is based on your response.
> where is still possible to discover

How?
Firstly by signing a contract, changing his mind and then being forced to fulfil the contract by a court. By alienating a lot of prominent Tweeters and advertisers. Now by sacking a load of people it turns out he needs.
Why can't people just ignore stuff they don't like and leave people alone. :-(
I hope the normative people exiting to Mastodon convert out of using social media altogether and enjoy the much needed mental health respite just like the previous batch who went off to Gab and god knows where. Although, I'm not holding my breath - it would be the height of irony to see them coping with the "horrors" of the wild west that is Mastodon. Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

No federation without representation!

I fear the flame wars will only increase. Maybe the internet is just not for everyone.
"rewrite in Rust for no good reason"

`sudo` just had an array-out-of-bounds CVE
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-4399...
Very helpful. Can someone recommend more of these learn by doing programming blogs?
I reckon the pendants would number less than those who think it unnecessary and verging on xenophobic.
Should probably point out that the trending tag is targeted to you personally.

Like when people obliviously complain about seeing ads for 'gay sex' on Google not knowing it's targeted specifically at them because of their browsing habits.
This is wonderful! I’ve certainly noticed a lot of activity on one of my recent mastodon posts. Is it appropriate to drop our mastodon tags here?

I’m @tlalexander@queer.party and I’m a trans robotics engineer from the Bay Area, developing an open source farming robot (see my HN profile for details).

Feel free to reply to this with your fediverse handle! Also is anyone on cohost or other platforms like that? I’ve seen some friends join cohost and I submitted the application form.
> If getting jiggy with an industrial machine that could tear you in half is what floats your boat...

People already get jiggy with other people who could easily bite off important bits.

The issue is trust, and I think that even with the simplest of failsafes[1], the machine juggling your important bits can be made more trustworthy than the human currently doing it.

[1] For example, failing in an off position, or using equipment that, even if overdriven at full force, will not have enough force to do damage. Having the clamping or piston mechanism driven off a spring can ensure that the maximum force applied depends on the stiffness of the spring, which gets softer with age, not harder.

There's multiple ways currently being used to make machines that interact with humans safe for humans no matter what happens.
Most people on twitter are great, question is not the people, it's what's chosen to be amplified, either by the media, or the algorithm, or the users.
True, it’s just more expensive than just paying them. There is no logical reason to not do so.