skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> He's not a technologist, he's not a programmer, he's not an engineer, he's not a physicist, he's not a rocket scientist, he's just a blowhard with a cult following.

These people and quite a few other experts in this field disagree with you.

> When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001. By 2007 he knew everything about rockets - he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people.

Robert Zubrin - aerospace engineer

> Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction.

He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy.

He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years.

Kevin Watson - Head of Avionics, Launcher

Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so.

- John Carmack

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
Quoted from Wikipedia about B holders automatically able to drive also A1 without any additional training:

"B licence holders in Czech Republic (only motorcycles with automatic and semi-automatic transmission), Italy, Latvia, Slovakia (after two years and only motorcycles with automatic transmission), Spain (after three years), Poland (after three years), Portugal (at least 25 years old or additional licence for mopeds), and Belgium (after two years) are allowed to drive motorcycles not exceeding 125 cubic centimetres (7.6 cu in) within the respective countries."

So roguhly 1/3 of EU population is fine just with B license. In other countries you just need few hours of training.
That's really interesting, thank you for the perspective. I'm amazed so many long in the tooth vim/nvim have moved over!

I do think the movement could be better arranged in nvim/vim - but that's really just an issue of remapping keys I guess. hjkl are in a great place, the equivalent of home/end/pageup/down are odd and not ergonomic.

I compiled helix on a 1Ghz single core processor, and it runs incredibly fast on that. Very impressive.
Ask HN: Just saw a video of a young woman from Just Stop Oil. How serious is it?
Watched a video of a young woman standing on gantry above M25 (London, UK) and she had a really emotional speech that deeply affected me.

I am an optimist and even though I know that global warming is real I am still betting on someone, somewhere figuring it out. For us to cut off oil, gas and other energy solutions from our lives would in my opinion damage humanity in ways I can't comprehend. People would starve in the short and mid-term but on the other hand long term we just destroy our planet and ourselves.

I never saw it presented in clear what the actual consequences of global warming are or how us cutting oil today would prevent a disaster. I can't really find anything that 'clicks' in my brain to understand what is going on and how much time we have on this earth. Will my children suffer? When and how? Will we all just cook? Will we have to go and live underground? Will we freeze due to currents changing and oncoming ice age?

What I am saying here is that I don't understand any of it. I just feel something is wrong but can't really pinpoint it. I am asking for help from HN collective to guide me to the right path of finding information that will explain in a concise way what the consequences will be and when. Something tangiable and not just we have to be within 1.5 degrees Celsuis or else....
TikTok published an article on their recommendation system architecture
There's a good chance Android 14 will support a new file format
Indeed! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ8Xgp8ALFo
Yeah but think about what could happen if you tweeted something you thought was obviously a joke and then everyone took it seriously? You might end up having to buy Twitter or something.
Don't people with such blood groups preserve their own blood for emergencies?
I wouldn't be happy with it but that doesn't make it illegal. In some countries it might be considered libel/defamation depending on what was said, but those standards vary wildly between/within countries and are to my understanding generally not considered criminal

And permitting lying or misleading speech is a pretty core part of free speech, it might be socially frowned upon or disincentivised by terms of service/moderation/other methods, but it's certainly not illegal
Every instance has its own moderation, so parody, scam and Christian counterstrike accounts will be allowed on some instances, but not on others.

Instances can choose to federate with each other, so it's likely no one will federate with scam instances.
> Don't (just) be afraid of Bandcamp folding - be afraid of artists folding.

I've recently come across that problem at least twice – I learned about a potentially interesting album done by somebody, but it had already disappeared from Bandcamp without so much of trace. In one case it turned out I had missed the album by only two months, because the album page still appeared in Google's search index cache with a corresponding last indexed-date, but of course that's not much use as far as getting the actual music is concerned.
I believe that is what they are actually banning people for, "impersonation", as they are using a verified account to do a more convincing impersonation of another verified account.

The easiest option in my opinion would be to force verified users to submit tickets for display name changes, or warn them that they will have to reapply for verification when they try to change their display name and remove it. Musk sounds like he is choosing the latter.
> Yes, it feels like cherry picking when people say something like "climate change makes severe weather events more likely" in connection with a drought or unusually hot spell but ridicule anyone who tries to use a particularly cold winter as evidence that climate change is not happening.

Climate change results in more extreme weather, both warm and cold. So a particularly cold winter can be a result of climate change as well.
I just put stuff on one line and let the editor wrap them. Doesn't waste vertical space, compatible with any font, any size, any window width, any form factor, the best from all worlds.
Phil Spencer wants to talk to Blizzard about classic RTS games like StarCraft
Well, maybe because it is the best for everyone to not see posts which has the potential of armed resurgence against the democratically elected officials against the country, also known as a coup, especially not from a traitor with connections to Saudi Arabia and Russia? And I’m not even from the US, but the country’s fate with the biggest military is insanely important to anyone who shares this planet.
Computer Science curriculum for a self-taught developer
every year a new one. Does that surprise you?
Phones would be useless if they were not interoperable. It's fine to have a proprietary messaging system but at some point, when it gets large enough, it needs to play nice.
could you create an example with dynamic children, e.g. in ACME booking (https://json-form.com/demos/demo-acme-booking.php) there's a button to "add another child"? Does your platform support that use case?
Aren't we forgetting Snarkis Prime, Stack Overflow?
Looks like they aren't producing that many (seems out of stock in some regions). Always a hard balance to reduce e-waste and ensure scalpers aren't "balancing the market".
Ask HN: What's your review of running EdgeDB in production?
Would love to learn about what it feels like to use EdgeDB fully for a real project, not just toying.

Doesn't have to be a large project, but it should be actively developed and important enough so that downtime is painful. :)
Seems weak. Poorly written and based on plainly false assumptions. I agree with IV that no one should be prosecuted under law for impersonation as long as nothing actually fraudulent has occurred.
I don't think that Elon is self consistent enough to have an utility function.
Filter bubbles have always existed in every society, and always will. People have always chosen communities and groups within them with behavioural norms, and those who defy the norms are ostracised or made to comply.

If anything, having means by which communities can separate partially without needing to fully isolate (e.g. if you don't like Twitter's moderation policies your choice is to cut yourself off from Twitter; if you don't like fediverse instance X's moderation policy, you can pick from several thousand other instances with varying degrees of concordance with or opposition to X's moderation policies, most of which can still federate with X) gives an opportunity to reduce those bubbles.
There was a prize offered for almost exactly that, reconstructing the Stasi archives from the shredded pieces. I'm not sure what came of it?
For now, nothing really interesting, it's only guided projects I did with the book Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel and coding challenges on HackerRank and Codingame or projects in Clojure but always guided.

Its a little bit weird because I'm used to do a lot of projects in other languages, but I struggle at beginning new projects in Lisp, its really different from what I'm used to think.

But you're right, I really need to do projects in Lisp, its been a long time since I want to do my own blog and I really think I'll do it in CL or Clojure/Clojurescript.

If you have project ideas, I'll take it. :)
>The checkmark was meant to guaranteed that you are who your claims to be (without having to check the @ on a side channel). If you intentionally use it for deceit then what is the point?

The point is that it's now possible to simply purchase a checkmark for $8.00/mo with no identity verification involved. So the checkmark is now unfit for any purpose besides impersonating other accounts. Which is why everyone is using it to shit on Elon Musk.
I don't think that things like telling someone to kill themself, targetted harrassment campaigns or using racial slurs is comedy.
One major theme in the ongoing US-Russia conflict over the past decade-plus (dating back to at least 2008) is a fight over who gets to sell oil and gas to Europe. With the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines, and with countries like Qatar refusing to alter long-term energy contracts to increase supplies to Europe, and with Iran still under the Trump-era sanctions (which Biden continued), that mostly leaves the USA as the primary supplier. See this from past summer:

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/us-lng-exports-europ...

> "...the United States has already sent more gas to Europe during the first six months of 2022 than it did in all 12 months of 2021. If exports to Europe continue at the same pace through the second half of 2022, the total increase over 2021 would be around 45 bcm [billion cubic meters]."

> "Benchmark gas prices in Europe have averaged $34.06 per million British thermal units (mmBtu) so far in 2022 compared with $29.99 in Asia and $6.12 in the United States. That compares with average 2021 prices of $16.04 in Europe, $18.00 in Asia and $3.73 in the United States, data showed."

This also results in U.S. electricity ratepayers having much larger bills, driving across-the-board inflation - but fossil fuel shareholders and executives are certainly raking in the profits. Mission accomplished?

https://energynews.us/2022/10/12/natural-gas-prices-are-risi...
Parents must encourage curiosity. And if you are not failing, you really aren’t pushing yourself enough. I wanted to teach my kids some important life lessons so I had them interview some amazing people - Jimmy Wales, Vint Cerf, Nobel prize winners, Pulitzer winners, prime ministers etc. they’ve learnt a lot. If you are curious google Rookie Reporter . There is also. Youtube channel of the same name.
> When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001. By 2007 he knew everything about rockets - he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people.

Robert Zubrin - aerospace engineer

> Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction.

He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy.

He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years.

Kevin Watson - Head of Avionics, Launcher

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
The blood group of the person who donated stem cells.
Thanks. For possibility to delete everything, I have to implement a selection for multiple blocks. This, restore and backup will definitely be implemented in the near future.
Sure, on an abstract level, but then there's the question of what comes out of your speakers. I assume there are some sounds you can make with an actual 64' pipe which would be hard to do justice with most speakers.
China is likely stockpiling and deploying vulnerabilities, says Microsoft
Not sure if you're from the UK but if you're not then you should be aware that the BBC has become a lot more politicised as the government appointed a major donor as the director in 2021 [1] and have previously threatened the company, for example by changing the license fee to starve them of funding[2]. In addition, the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg is not without controversy and accusations of pro-government bias[3].

Unfortunately both sides of the political spectrum now mistrust the BBC's impartiality.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Sharp_(BBC_chairman)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Kuenssberg#BBC_political...
If true, seems to me many would not accept. Although perhaps they would get a pay rise + some may value a job if they see a recession impending.

Overall, seems very odd, and if true very bad management.
> I wonder if he'll be on pagerduty

Considering he's the world's richest man and he's literally replying to customer feedback about the product on the product, yes, he probably is on pagerduty.
"Heartless" is uncalled for. The warmer weather may mean that fewer people are suffering today, but it is also a symptom of a trend that leads towards more suffering in the future. Is it heartless to think of those people in the future?
I vaguely remember a project somebody made where they made mini album covers on card stock and attached an NFC sticker. They would pick an album, set it on a reader, and it would start playing.
Even if they make perfectly human-like, realistically acting sexbots with HW failsafes, there's the question of trusting the SW. It would be inadvisable to use such a black-box proprietary machine which is probably recording and sending detailed (and potentially embarrassing) telemetry. I'd expect a long wait for community-designed, open-source equivalents.
> "Those banned are trolling him, plain and simple"

And...what's wrong with banning trolls? The nature of trolling isn't about "speech", it's about disruption of the platform that provides the chance for speech.

And who uses the term "bootlicker" who isn't juvenile or suffering unknown issues? "You are now about to witness the strength of redditor knowledge..." Awesome, but your comment is a pile of ashes on the ground.
Couple of hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33502177 96 comments

and some more hours ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496808 133 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496822 18 comments
>1,124 new Mastodon servers since Oct 27

Wouldn't be more appropriate to say ActivityPub servers? ActivityPub is the underlying protocol of Mastodon which is only one of the many available implementations. I have encountered numerous Pleroma users on the federated timeline lately.

https://activitypub.rocks/
Great collection; I would love to see it becoming a number one site for discovering AI art tools. Some improvement ideas:

1. I would add a filter based on the type of content created in the tool. Seeing image generation alongside text generation was a little confusing. Choosing what I am looking for from the start would be easier.

2. Tags are great, but you can't click on them. Instead, it just redirects you to the tool's website.

3. Add more tools. I am the creator of the AI art tool – getimg.ai[1], which I have been building for more than a month. During that time, I've literally seen hundreds of different AI tools worth including on this site.

[1] https://getimg.ai
It’s mildly amusing to me that after VCs poured billions into a decentralized blockchain-based web, the twitter exodus is here and web3 isn’t really even part of the conversation.
https://ted.europa.eu/TED/search/canReport.do Every contract given is reported.

The work is almost certainly done under the broader umbrella of the Mixed Multiple Framework Contract for Digital Communication Services and Social Media (DCOMM1)

https://etendering.ted.europa.eu/cft/cft-display.html?cftId=...
I'd argue former employees from either group should not return - mistake or necessity. This culture is just wrong. It's nothing short of bullying.
China is too big of a territory; if the Chinese needed to migrate because of global warming, they'd likely move within their own land. Probably the same case with Pakistan.
> not everyone is good at art, but they know exactly what they want,

This is pretty much like saying "not everyone is good at programming, but they know exactly what they want". Then consider all the debate about agile processes and amount of ink spilled over how to get your customers to figure out what they want from your code...

Honestly, as much as I think AI art is deeply unfair to artists who unwillingly contributed its learning material and are getting replaced by "in the style of ..." prompts, I can see how just deferring a commercial customer to AI can be a blessing. Let the machine deal with "this looks fine and it fits the material I gave you, but I imagined it differently. Can you redo it by tomorrow?"
Or a recording, could use something like https://asciinema.org/ or https://github.com/charmbracelet/vhs
I just had to quit Reddit this weekend. Deleted the app off my phone, edited my hosts file on my computer to send it to 127.0.0.1 along with a whole bunch of mass media sites. I noticed this year that I was scrolling and scrolling and scrolling hours away on reddit and then it hit me, this is a tiny minority of the world having an outsized influence on my thoughts and opinions both in a positive and negative manner but more often than not negative and getting worse over time. The most outraged, the biggest whiners would get the most upvotes so all you see is outrage and rants and I thought to myself, is that really how the general public is? Is this really my experience of it?...then I thought no it's not, it's an algorithm that's feeding off my fear to instil more fear in me in a never ending loop. Delete...
MUNI handles 157,000 daily riders. The TEL line is expected to hit 500,00 in some years, maxing out at 1M in the distant future.

It's not that big of a difference.
Is this average monthly active users? And over what period?
Inflation has been nowhere close to 10 percent for 3 years. You can determine the adjusted rate here:

https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl?cost1=100&year1=2019...
A nice way to undercut my market of "pay me". Although maybe this will set a price floor above 0 for blood.
Why can't error-tolerant parsers also be easy to write?
The whole "bloated administration" claim stinks of an easy, painless, simple and wrong solution to a complex problem. If the Author has some hard evidence to support the claim then I am all ears. But what he does present is weak. For instance, he claims that the Uni of Michigan spent 10m USD on 76 Diversity officers. Assuming that's true and they're all totally useless (I am sympathetic), that's still less than 5% of the budget, less than half the average year on year increase for one year. And that is assuming they are all completely useless, and that students have zero interest in paying for such services...
And labor you can pay $800USD/month and have them live in dormitories and then send them home when the project is done.
Your question is somewhat ill-posed since it isn't a platform but a network. A node on a network can allow parody and scam accounts, at which points other nodes are free to refuse to federate with it.
They should definitely say yes, contingent on keeping their severance payout.
I see much more "tesla man bad" here on HN and especially on Reddit.

Personally, I'm in the "tesla man has some good and some bad camp."
> With the destruction of the Nordstream pipelines ... that mostly leaves
> the USA as the primary supplier.

Does that suggest motive for the destruction? Who else has both motive and means?
The same humanities who championed that it’s in our Iranian culture to beat our people to death for having “improper” hijab? The sooner these leeches get defunded the better.
Just [s2idle].
It's actually the opposite, you have a pattern-seeking brain that likes coincidences. It's why we notice patterns, because some are not coincidences but outright consequences, however indirect they may be!

But there's a lot of coincidences in the world, some being so unlikely and so unfortunate, our mind can refuse to accept that, well.. it can be just a coincidence.

The longest-reigning UK monarch dies at the start of the shortest term PM's tenure ... it's incredibly unlikely, yet it happened. Should there be an explanation behind it? Or maybe it's just a coincidence? You decide.
IodéOS Is Open Source
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From the beginning, we have been strong proponents of open source software and part of our code was open from day one. We are happy to take the next step and completely open source iodéOS.

We would like to thank the community as well as all beta testers for your commitment for iodé. As you may know, we also accept donations for iodéOS which is installable for free.
OK I read the news different way - it will be for sure more than 250W so you need license already anyway, so I've found pedals odd and thought they used them to avoid requiring any license.

And if they don't care about license then more than 1/3 of Europe (population) have A1 already with B license anyway, so why use pedals then, this seems like really odd niche for teenagers, since if you are adult you either have B license (and pretty good odds having A1 anyway, so you have much higher limits) and you can drive electric motorbike without pedals or don't have any license and you are not gonna make AM specifically to ride this moped, if they wanted to target the group without license they should add pedals (which they did) and weak 0.25kW electric engine (which, they won't), so this is really motorbike for teenagers, otherwise they should ditch pedals and can put there stronger engine if it's intended for adults.