skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing the same thing here on HN. People are frothing at the mouth to hate on him. Wild speculation all over.

Case in point, the HN trope that he is an idiot and doesn't know anything about technology and just takes credit for brilliant engineers' work. I laid out solid evidence that is not true, quoting top of the field scientist and engineers' assessment of his technical knowledge and skills. The only response I get is from RavingGoat (username kind of checks out) claiming Elon must have paid these people to say these things with no evidence whatsoever.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33504228

I know this is cliche here, but in this case, it really seems like Redditors have invaded this space.
I am testing atm theory that cycling environment color temperature from cold to warm and back to cold in 90 seconds boost your performance in monotonic work by at least 15%. There is some old publication somewhere accoring to my sources, but I could not find it.
1. No formal math or CS education, although I heard about functional programming early on. I'm primarily a react dev, so functional programming knowledge is like a superpower.

2. I built a lot of little projects, but most not to "completion". I did take 3 freelance projects for way too little money (don't recommend undercharging), and those did get to a "complete" stage.

Eventually I got a job, at which point there stops being a difference between "self-taught" or "cs grad" because an engineer is always learning / teaching themselves at work. Most of what a web dev does day to day has little to do with the topics taught in a traditional CS major. Once i was working in the industry, I used work as a chance to keep growing and adding to my toolbox. This is not something everybody does.

I used to have a sense of inferiority to CS grads, but I actually think being self-taught prepared me well for the day-to-day job of a developer.
There is nothing to prevent a set of instances from agreeing on a common set of operating rules or even common high-level management a la Fidonet or the way IRC networks are managed. If the Fediverse continues to grow, I would expect that something like that would naturally evolve.
> You might see one or two hugely fat people at Wal-Mart, but they'll be surrounded by dozens of people who are plump but otherwise mobile,

Have you been to Ohio? That ratio is flipped. "Plump" is merely overweight but not obese. In states like Ohio, plump seems athletic because the massively obese are very common. You can easily see several 500lb people a day, fat enough for any TV freakshow.
> [1] A test for non-obviousness: does an implementor care to look at your patent or reverse-engineer your implementation, or is a description of what the invention does sufficient?

This seems like a wonderful test of obviousness to me.

However, the "what" could be: "A method of reducing the number of online sales that are attempted but somehow aborted".

The "solution" of having a single click to purchase, in the context of cached purchase info and permission, might not be obvious to everyone working on that problem. (Even though it might be obvious in hindsight - which is not a barrier to patentability.)

That "solution" is specific enough to not block other's from solving the same problem (avoidance of aborted purchases) in via different methods.

That would be the approach I would use to defend single-click against your test. (Not a lawyer, no special legal expertise, just working through the logic as I can see it.)
The best time to electrify the railroads was 100 years ago, the second best time is now.

I'm not usually for full public, but in terms of the railroads the government just has to buy all the tracks and operate as an infrastructure provider.

Maybe on of the single best choices in Swiss history is the commitment to 100% electrified rail. I honestly didn't even know non electrified rail existed. In my mind it was just 'steam' and then 'electric'. I was pretty old until I for the first time read something about a diesel locomotive and I was totally confused.
The move away from socialist economic policy has been a great boon for the Indian people. But a lot needs to be done still to root out the corruption and wastage of the socialist days
That's a bit of a coincidence. Bill Clinton presided over the original dotcom boom, which produced a ton of federal tax revenue without any actual work on the government's part. Bush Jr's deficits are due in large part to an economic crash that actually begun under Clinton, as the dotcom boom failed.

Which doesn't really undercut the point: Republicans aren't actually very good at deficit reduction. Deficit reduction requires either increased revenue or decreased spending. They never substantially decrease spending (they always focus on a few small programs they're ideologically opposed to) and prominently run to decrease revenue. Their supposition that lower taxes will somehow increase revenue has never once worked in practice and was always ridiculous in theory.

Democrats don't generally cut the deficit either, except for Bill Clinton's fortunate streak. But at least they don't pretend otherwise, and they don't present it as a tradeoff of "Sure, we're barbaric on human rights issues, but at least we'll lower your taxes while magically decreasing the deficit."
Have you ever thought about just releasing the patent for everyone to use? Patents stifle innovation iirc.
> In the article, it seems like we are just looping over a set of 11 cookies and doing exactly the same thing to all of them. Not sure what I'm missing.

You're missing that we're not just looping over a set of 11 cookies and doing exactly the same thing to all of them. We're streaming over a lazy sequence of cookies and doing the same thing to them until we stop (in the example when they hit 5 cookies eaten instead of eating them all and, presumably, becoming ill).

Generators act like streams, and are useful in any place you might see this pattern:

value, state = next_value(state)
-- alternatively if we can mutate the state directly --
value = next_value(state)

But they permit you a greater deal of flexibility about the way "state" mutates than a typical state structure might (or at least greater ease of use).
South Asia was captured by the East India Company, and the wealth of its people systematically extracted over centuries. This is different from the many other local wars and invasions that happened in India before and during this time, where either the invaders left after stealing wealth once, or they stayed and generally tried to improve the area they captured. Systematic extraction of wealth was only a feature of capitalist firm made of people who said they were distinct from you, and superior (please note 'race' was invented by Europeans).

So, hate for capitalism is pretty old in certain parts of the world.
Okay, so you're in the half of comments saying it really doesn't matter which server one picks. I hate to tell you this, but there are others recommending pretty strongly that one pick a server that aligns with their interests or identity, which is a challenge given that all available lists of servers seem to include a lot of exclusionary language, at least for me.

As it happens, I picked a server earlier today, more or less at random (one that didn't manually review applications), so I'm set. But the experience was very negative, and fraught with apparent peril.

If the choice of server matters so little, perhaps this site could be improved: https://joinmastodon.org/servers
I won't be using this. You know what I do use on Signal, SMS. But apparently useful things don't make a good Gen-Z app.
Racism and capitalism are two entirely different things
We've worked on similar circadian products, and I have a similar setup at home. IMO, we're getting closer to the time the market is ready. The main learning is to release MVPs and continue to gather feedback from/build a relationship with the core early adopter market. The market is small, probably in the tens of millions of dollars annually, but the right solution is going to be easy to setup/use with a good UI, and priced at a slight premium over other lighting (but not exorbitantly).
Why would someone spend a bunch of money to buy bitcoin and then crash the price?

Is that like the ultimate tax loss write-off? ;-)
It's funny that on average women already live 5 years longer than men, but every "gender equity" initiative seems more interested in increasing that gap than decreasing it.
Tesla may implement steer-by-wire next year
Is there potential for a Erlang -> Elixir play here? Ada -> Grace :). I find it a shame languages w/ a Pascal lineage are unpopular simply for syntactic reasons.
Funny, I rather have bad ads that fail to influence me.
Argo Rollouts at scale: Bringing Automated Rollbacks to 2,100 services at Monzo
The answer can be found here: https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/us-attorney-announces-h...
Am I in a bubble and these features are, in fact, widely used on WhatsApp?

I'm in groups with a whole lot of other people including a few who keep up with modern social media stuff, use TikTok, use Instagram, et c., and zero of them use the Status feature or Stories or anything but messaging. For us it's just ICQ/text with better media embedding (but still really bad, somehow). Some of us regularly use similar features, but only on other platforms, never on WhatsApp.

Is that unusual, and these are in fact much-beloved features by a good chunk of the WhatsApp user-base?
A good solution I can see is "choose an interest", with each public mastodon instance having some cheeky emoji and tagline in a list. So if someone typed "makeup" they might filter to the mastodon instance "beauty.social", instead of needing to find beauty.social before even getting started with creating an account.
Has anyone ever watched a single person try to understand what you just said?

"I have a mastodon account. Why can't I view their mastodon posts? Mastodon is broken".

End of story. Platform is done. The fact that people are trying to say this is good enough absolutely infuriates me, and is makes me wonder if people actually know the technical level of the average user, not the programmers they work with.
I never understood the IKEA is a maze argument. There is literally a single straight line running from entrance to exit, with signage. You can walk the entire route in about 5-10 minutes.
From my comment, emphasis added:

> it could slightly reduce
Ok for the cases where they found the robots weren't flexible enough. But the "people are cheaper anyway" that they add on nearly every anecdote isn't reassuring at all.
ColdFusion! Wild. I wrote tons of code in CF over 10 years ago. I was not aware it is still a thing.
It might have been worth them formally filing the murder-for-hire charges just to save us from having to read his supporters repeatedly say they weren't real.
It also coincided with massive increase in the supply of available alcohol.
>Let's assume that Elon decides to burn 44 billion instead of running a mostly successful business like he's generally done in the past with his other businesses.

Why set up this false dichotomy? Elon might burn down his $44b investment in an attempt to run Twitter as a mostly successful business. Running a car company and running a social media company are not the same skill set. It is entirely possible, and seems more likely than it did a week ago, that he has no idea how to actually turn Twitter into a success.

>What exactly are the dangers of using Twitter if it might stop existing say 3 years from now?

Content and followers on Twitter cannot easily and directly be transferred somewhere else. Any personal investment a user makes into Twitter today is at risk of being worthless if Twitter disappears. Whether that matters you or not depends on why you use Twitter. If it is for fun, that isn't a real risk. But plenty of people use Twitter as part of their job and these people really need to start considering if investing in their Twitter account is worth it compared to moving that effort somewhere else.
India did make progress in lifting poverty. The numbers wary according to context but yes in absolute numbers India did make significant progress. Most of it is done by IT and pharma industry.
Garbage Collection is extremely complicated. It is a whole other program running to manage your memory using extremely complex, hyper optimized algorithms that have lots of best and worst case scenarios depending on which one you use.

GC implementations can very easily make code confusing. Consider `finalize` in Java - a destructor that gets called at a completely indeterminate period of time, making it a very confusing tool for resource management.

I find Rust trivial by comparison. But isn't that interesting, how we all view simplicity so differently?
Querying a Decade of Drive Stats Data
Everything about Signal will make more sense if you forget every opinion you've had or read on a message board, and accept that the project's mission is simply to transition as many people off insecure systems as they can. For example: message board nerds are apoplectic about Signal's phone number requirement, but the systems ordinary people were already overwhelmingly used phone numbers already. As communications trend towards ephemeral video messages (I have trouble understanding why, too, but then I'm old), that's where they're going to head.

The cool stuff about Signal is what happens under the hood. They don't want a special identity as a "private messenger"; they believe all messaging should be secure.
> I am neurodivergent, so I may be missing something here.

Yes, you're missing the logic.

> Excluding the assumption that C is unsafe, it contains purely facts.

You think C is carcinogenic and mere exposure to it kills?

From a "purely facts" PoV, leaving all emotion aside, C runs, and has done so for a number of decades, life-critical systems, including munitions, weapons, life-support, industrial machinery and aviation.

It's only because you are married to your argument that you think comparing C to a fatal poison is "pure facts".
Making people juggle a different app for SMS is the opposite of being mainstream friendly.
As I see it, it is not a tank, but rather a manifold to support the two valves/taps.

An example of a "modern" one (similar ones in plumbing are still hand made on the spot with pipes, but this is a pre-fabricated one):

https://media-www.canadiantire.ca/product/fixing/plumbing/ro...
Now if only there was a popular registrar with a streamlined interface that wasn't constantly trying to up sell you.

Personally I would prefer to see registrars limit themselves to providing domain names. But for that to work seamlessly they all need to support an open DNS protocol that makes it easy for users to delegate subdomains to 3rd-party apps and services. Something like DomainConnect[0] but with better support for selfhosting[1].

[0]: https://www.domainconnect.org/

[1]: https://github.com/Domain-Connect/spec/issues/64
It's not the Chinese people, they are in general awesome people. It's the CCP.
My Pixel 3a held the promise. It got versions 9 to 12 from 2019 to this September before I traded it in for a 6a 2/3 off the MSRP.
Hmm one can argue about a site being non-English after translation, but I get the point. Thanx.
I'm currently looking to retrofit my place with variable color temperature lights. In industry parlance, it's is called "Tunable White". On one hand, non-hobbyist industry has a ton of great hardware options. High CRI, high R9, guaranteed lack of white point drift, 0.1%-100% dimming (although 85 CRI and 10-100% is most of what you'd typically find at Home Depot), etc.

My issue is that there are several competing control standards (with 0-10V being the more common but primitive one for America), and plenty of them (like PoE Ethernet lighting - super cool IMHO) are very much commercial-only. And stuff like Lutron's RadioRA is quite proprietary, with not much interoperability.

On the other hand, going with Phillips Hue or similar will lock me into that ecosystem - which also dictates which lights and switches I could use.
>speech realist

What is that?
Lost what, exactly ? Contrary to the capitalistic world of Twitter, where bigger faster is always better, the fediverse is not about that. If you don't want to adapt and are just trying to recreate Twitter, it's a complete non-starter.
I'm not a latin expert, but "malinformation" seems like an etomogically perfect word to describe a "whataboutism"
Finishing grade 12 comp sci in a weekend
I learned this from an interview with Elon and some additional reading, but here is an example. Tesla makes their own seats. They asked one of the manufacturers to build them a seat that supports higher G forces than the "standard" seats since the instant torque in a Tesla is legitimately different than most other non-hypercar seats. They also wanted to integrate the heaters (and eventually the coolers)[1] for their seats directly into the whole vehicle heating / cooling system to use the lowest amount of energy possible. Expectedly, the manufacturer told Tesla no, that was silly, so they made their seats themselves. They now have seats that are rated for higher G ratings in crashes than virtually any other manufacturer that exists.

In doing something as simple as making their own seats, they were able to also improve the safety. They've put sensors directly in the seats to reprogram airbag deploy sequences, in software, on the fly. They know if there is a child sitting on the very edge of the seat vs an adult laying down across the seat and have the airbags fire differently based on this knowledge. Recently[2], they stepped this up a notch and are in the process of using millimeter wave radars to confirm this. They're industry leading in this regard and previously just used pressure sensors plus the cabin camera above the rearview mirror.

In short, Tesla is not perfect, but they are trying to rethink the problems from first principals. In doing this, they are coming up with very novel approaches that are actually big improvements over the entire industry. In other areas (fit and finish) they're towards the middle of the pack when compared against peer auto manufacturers.

[1] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-patent-refrigerant-seat-temp...

[2] https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-driver-monitoring-system-fcc...
This reminds me of the correlogram modeling of auditory perception where the cochlea uses autocorrelation to encode temporal information of a sound signal. A neat idea that helps describe a lot of time encoded auditory processes.

Short explanation: https://ccrma.stanford.edu/~malcolm/correlograms/index.html?... [stanford.edu]
In 2013 FinCEN and the IRS declared that Bitcoin was always property so you can't make some kind of "it's just a game" argument.
Hmm, I won't use it, but I can't. It's broken on my Samsung s20 fe. The tutorial crashes the app.
The C Programming Language. Wow - a throwback in time. I learned to program using the 1st (1978) edition. Haven't touch C since 1994.
I'll rephrase title as "C Isn't a Programming Language that I use Anymore". But I have great memories of that era of my hacking career.
In retrospect, flexible bit-width types were a mistake. I'm not sure in what case you get much benefit by ignoring the domain of your variable.
"they're not neo-nazis, they're just self-identified nationalists and anti-semites! and yeah okay the platform has a ton of neo-nazis, and the CEO of the platform is a holocaust denier and says Jews should die, but c'mon! free speech!"
This is definitely true -- there's no shared playlist state, as far as I can tell, with this setup. I think HiFiBerryOS supports MPD, but I haven't looked too closely into it.

At least for my purposes, this isn't too big of a drawback: HiFiBerryOS seems to take a "FIFO" approach, so taking over control just involves playing over AirPlay and booting the last person off. Someone could of course do that do me, but that's what social etiquette is for :-)
Hating the CCP != hating Chinese people.

Amazing that this needs to be said...
New Banksy in Kyiv
I didn't know that steer-by-wire was even legal in the US, but according to the article Toyoda is already doing it in a couple of their models. I'm not sure how I feel about not having a direct link to the steering, but physical links can fail too. And you can have backup "wire" links much easier than you can add a backup physical link.
I don't understand poverty statistics. With this news, the UK now has more people living in poverty than India (16% vs 22%?). If it is valuable to judge poverty on relative income, you would think the rational course of action would be mass immigration from the UK to India but that is clearly not the case.
With the recent increases at the Shanghai and Austin Gigafactories, Tesla is able to sustain a rate that would extrapolate to two million vehicles manufactured per year.
You didn't engage with the other person's point at all, you just called it "malinformation". Looking forward to the spread of this one. I'm expecting it to triple "whataboutism".
What the fuck happened with Signal? Why did we remove SMS (step 1 into "only criminals use this app") and then start adding stuff that has absolutely nothing at all to do with messaging? Did a federal agent start running the show with the sole mission of destroying the entire app?
2700K 90+ CRI bulbs + Dimmer
Perverse incentives to get folks to use signal more. Checking it when you get a message isn't good enough, need to get creators and influencers on the platform to let folks doom scroll.

How many followers on Signal do you have?
Well, I don't have enough friends to give you good statistics, but there exists users of that feature on whatsapp.
Speech-in-noise hearing impairment associated w raised risk of incident dementia
I do wish that JS had more builtin syntactic sugar around generators (and particularly async generators). They would be a lot more convenient and syntactically cleaner if most of the Array builtins could also be used for iterators. For async iterators the builtins would need to leverage the promise builtins as well, so you could to something like:

const result = await asyncIterator.map(doSomethingAsync).reduce(asyncAggregatorFn)

Without ever having to load all of your data into memory.
It is an auction, it won't be pennies on the dollar.

The last person who got that good of a deal was Tim Draper in 2014, which was a brilliant play and even then, I doubt he's sold it all.

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/12/19/what-the-us-government-does-...
These descriptions remind me of Pittsburgh back before the Clean Air Act in the US— one apparently had to pack a second white shirt with them to work as the first was soiled with smoke by the end of the day. Buildings were and are still stained black decades after air quality had improved. My environmental history professor while studying in Pittsburgh was being treated for lung cancer in spite of never having smoked, and he thought it likely due to how smoky the city used to be.

Pittsburgh's downtown and many poorer neighborhoods were located in deep valleys full of heavy industrial installations.

I hope India makes the same progress on air quality as it develops that many richer countries have. Seeing things like its maturing domestic electric scooter industry is a reason for hope.
> I can't believe Russia blew it up, it doesn't make sense.

I think lot of what Russia does, doesn’t make sense at the macro scale, only in the context of internal power struggles.
If everyone is moving. The problem with the network effects is that it is very hard to compete. It is kind of the experience with Parler. If 5% of users are extremists and leave twitter for [new platform] and another 5% of users are moderate and do the same, [new platform] ends up with 50% extremist, 50% moderate, and the moderate users won't stick around for very long.

I am not sure that a social network full of left-wing activits will be very palatable to the average moderate user.