skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> but who are basically unethical fools

Putting aside that these "unethical fools" would have to be at least really good grifters, politicians, and other synonyms...to make the analogy more accurate I'd wager these alleged charlatans didn't serially found multiple research institutes, run them concurrently in some cases, that are producing ground-breaking real-world results some of which their contemporaries said was essentially impossible (e.g. landing an orbital booster). Elon is either a genius in some manner, be it the greatest grifter in history or something, or Zeus is rigging the wheel of fortune in his favor for some reason. I'm not a big fan of the Zeus theory.
You can also do spaces and other punctuation which actually gives you access to full communication through morse code!
yeah but even if you're into crypto, you're not selling and buying stuff all day, trading between different coins. So what are all those transactions about?
Bitfinex (B) sees orders incoming for BTC or other currency. Then B acquires for $X. Then B fills the order to clients at $X.03

Boom, $0.03 free money. Multiply by scale of their client base.
And if you take all that and abstract it out by running it inside another VM, then you can just pack up your infra and move it to wherever, whenever you want!
Do you have a link to this interview, or remember where you saw it? I did some searching but couldn't find it.
And here we are, a post that defends the Soviet in 2022. Something I thought was impossible, talking as someone who had the (mis)fortune of living under the communists.
Hmm, interesting, but I would actually like a different system (and let me know if any VSCode plugins implement this!): I want TWO forms of undo, one which actually undoes my changes, and one which only shows me a ephemeral view of the code in previous states. Call it "not really undo" or "viewing history but not changing it".
They are pretty good, specially when packed in urchin enveloppe
I'm sorry, I don't understand your point.
> That kind of gets into philosophy of what governments are for: should they protect people who make bad decisions from themselves?

Since governments usually have to enforce the consequences of those decisions, ye.
Does he look like a guy with a plan?
I can't tell if this is sarcasm or dcik-riding.
It’s amazing that the excuse for the web being worse is always “the web being worse is not caused by the law being bad. It’s caused by it being badly enforced”.

The fact is that the cookie pop ups would never be necessary if the GDPR hadn’t been passed.
This is interesting. Now that I think of it, a transgender transition product could propel a company to this level.

Charging people a permanent lifelong subscription fee for being who they identify as - would be the absolute biggest revenue generator in healthcare history.

Imagine if the population of trans increased from its current level to, say, 5% of all humans. That would be a lifelong subscription plan for a subscriber base larger than the USA. To my knowledge this is currently unprecedented.

Trans medicine is a massive revenue opportunity and shareholders would do well to maximize this.
By no more accepting deposits?
I have a ton! But you can’t have any.
Interesting. Didn’t know that. Thanks
I have hosted my own email for over 18 years and I have found notmuch quite useful, albeit not on a daily basis, but it has really proved its worth in several occasions where I just had to find a specific email. It really is very fast and will traverse your 5GiB maildir in less than a second.
You can be pretty granular in CDK, just skip the L3 constructs and build everything using the L2 one or if you hate yourself go for the L1 which is manipulating the Cloudformarion template withing CDK
Same reason cops say shit like "this particular individual" instead of "this person". People think being wordy makes them sound sophisticated.

To those saying that "hunger" refers specifically to a physical state, we used to have the term "world hunger", and we obviously weren't talking about the planet itself being hungry.
So sad, it’s like the people who sell their shoes for one more bet at the track..
I also think the closed platform hurt.

Why buy a webcam desk tablet thingy that only works with Facebook when you can get an iPad and use FaceTime, Zoom, Google Meet, WebEx, and the list goes on into infinity?

An iPad is only $329 or less if you buy and old model and it can run millions of apps and be taken with you.

I think Facebook thought that this product might be nice for people who are too non-technical to use a tablet. But like, who is that customer exactly?

Reminds me of those internet appliances from the 90s. It was inevitable that regular computers would replace them.
Manitoba's Justice System-Nebo-Lit
Australia at least is closer to 50-100% cheaper. $150k AUD is a decent senior salary, but the same dev can make almost $200k USD in SF, which is $298k AUD.
Low-quality sleep increases glaucoma risk, new study suggests
Thanks. That's a useful interpretation to me.
Yup, "accidentally criminal" is still criminal.
Great now we know how to put you both in competition to get better offers.
NeXT only sold 50,000 computers, which is considered a failure.

Likely the $400m was really to buy Jobs.
https://ntldstats.com/tld shows how many hosts they have as well.
I got the swag pack back in the day. Email is in my profile.
Because most of his wealth was in that very hedge fund, and presumably he invested every last personal dollar before declaring bankruptcy.

Or put another way, where have you seen anything at all about him having a lot of assets outside of the Alameda and FTX groups?
Whenever you see this thrashy comms, it’s bc this wasn’t rolled out like a new feature with documentation and blog posts, so you’re seeing different support people who don’t know what’s happening try to explain it.
You have just demonstrated quite a lot of ignorance about Bitcoin. A 51% attack has nothing to do with changing the rules of Bitcoin, just to start. Maybe don't slam something you don't really understand?
The map is not the territory. The code is not the program.
Where I am (a Canadian municipality) transit and other municipal-led projects have several features that tend to keep them on budget and schedule (or at least closer to it):

- Unit price contracts (much easier to track growth in cost, helps to identify and mitigate issues earlier)

- Vendor performance management (Contractors and consultants are given a score after project completion, shapes how bids are evaluated on future projects)

- Qualified bidders (contractors and consultants are evaluated beforehand, only allowed to bid on projects if they've done something of a similar scope/content before - ties in with the point above, smaller projects will allow bidding by contractors with less history/lower scores)

The system isn't perfect (since it relies on vendor history, it only works well with projects of scope and type that they do regularly - i.e. roads and sewers mainly), but it's a lot better than a simplistic "lowest bid wins"
Better than it would be if the US had its way.
Awesome read, cool idea.

From software engineering perspective, this is a great example of a product being put to use that was not anticipated by the dev.

Thank you for the link!
Well, if we're listing songs that hit ya in the feels, J Frank Wilson and The Cavaliers "Last Kiss" is right there

https://youtu.be/bh4se9YMV3A
Yes tether is an obvious lie, and it’s now just a question of when, not if, they collapse.
Ah, I noticed McDonald's didn't and that was my original example before an initial unmarked edit, but then I wasn't sure if McDonald's was an advertiser.

So maybe it is extended to anyone that advertised in the recent past?

@McDanaids still shows up the same level of veracity as @McDonalds and @McDonaldsCorp:

https://www.twitter.com/McDanaIds/status/1590934953457782784

https://www.twitter.com/McDonalds

https://www.twitter.com/McDonaldsCorp

Other major companies seem to not have it either, I'm not sure if they are an advertiser:

https://twitter.com/jetblue
https://archive.today/8E3lM

p.s. what does "prostoalex" mean? Is it short for prostate-alex, or something else?
Hey, I drove through SF for the first time in over 20 years Wednesday morning and it was quite pleasant…at 3am.

Only saw three homeless people, checked myself before I went into full combat driving mode, Baghdad style, on the 101 because something set me off and didn’t hit one of google’s robocars even though I really, really wanted to.

Good times for all apparently, maybe it was the rain.
Major ad firm Omnicom recommends clients pause Twitter ad spend
no it's not at all obvious and your take is way off the mark.

the first TGV line opened in 1981... france had quite a bit of infrastructure then, it wasn't some freshly cratered hellhole.

> Major transportation revolution that enables mass transit without infrastructure, think flying cars

no, please god no. steel on steel is a modern, mature and extremely effective technology. the only serious attempt to "innovate" in recent memory, the chuo shinkansen, an ongoing effort by the world's second most competent builder and operator of rail systems has been a massive shitshow. in addition to being far more expensive than conventional HSR, it has an order of magnitude less capacity.

there's a word for this: gadgetbahn. just say no to gadgetbahns

if steel on steel sounds too simple to you and isn't scratching some techy itch for technological complexity it's because you're not looking deep enough. there's an entire journal devoted to studying the dynamics of the wheel-rail system [1]

[1] http://interfacejournal.com/
I wonder if you could do this if you cranked your polling rate up to 500hz like many gaming mice can.
Gunther von Hagens has 4 great anatomical videos with dissection called Anatomy for Beginners, it aired on Channel 4 years ago, if you mostly want explanations here's great channel as well https://www.youtube.com/c/InstituteofHumanAnatomy/
This is amazing. I really like that Angela Lansbury didn't make her character some bystander just because it was a tech-centered episode. She's like "I'm doing VR and I'm going to help out these programmers".

Like, the episode sounds ridiculous and strangely tech-phobic, but I just really like that she dodged the trope of "old lady skeptical of this new-fangled stuff" and instead she was really enthusiastic about it and not afraid to jump in.
I take NMN, so this was a scary headline. But it's NMN from a specific company.
> I want to quit… and I want you to give me $500k

Will be the only parts they hear. Oh, also that you plan to steal their IP. You made the tool as their employee, on their time, it is their tool, not yours.

You’ll be shown the door promptly.
I wish there was something like what Stumbleupon was back in the day. I miss it.
I would absolutely love if that forced music to become an amateur passion endeavor again and dance on the graves of the dreams of the hopefuls.
Bloomberg Billionaires Index estimates that SBF has lost 100% of his net worth, all of which was in one way or another tied into Alameda/FTX-related firms (there was some invested in Robinhood, but it was used as collateral for Alameda-related loans.)

https://www.thestreet.com/investing/cryptocurrency/crypto-bi... (this covers the details, but isn’t paywalled.)
This is so offensive to chocolate cake that it makes me doubt you’ve ever had chocolate cake.
Hah it’s a fine line. I’m a pretty big fan of Musk but I really hope he’s finally in over his head and twitter completely fails and is offline in 12 months.
1. This only applies to market orders.
2. Bitfinex is not the only exchange where people can trade BTC or other crypto.
3. How does B acquire BTC for $X at scale?
The UK refused to allow Assange to be extradited to the US because the US still practices the death penalty. That's one of the few areas that the UK and the US disagree publicly on.
If you _really_ forcefully want your account suspended pretend to be Elon Musk or any other celeb without mentioning you are a parody.

(at)chriswarcraft, (at)kathygriffin and (at)h3h3productions are all proof of success.
>IMO

Anecdata,

I've studied along guys/gals who've done IMO, also had them as co-workers at other times, they have never performed well.

I really like Linus' saying "talk is cheap, show me the code". These people can make a thousand arguments about why something should/shouldn't work (but never write code), then you show up with working code and they don't have much else to say.
I found that when software programming, one of the best practices was to work hard to avoid writing code (and this isn't about cleverly writing 3 line functions in one line or such).

The goal was to really think about what code is really necessary, and how the thing can be designed, structured, or architected to require the least writing of code.

Of course, in the end code must be written, but I always keep in mind two thing:

Where do bugs live? In code - every statement is more habitat for bugs.

What is the fastest optimization of any process (software or physical)? Eliminating steps. An unnecessary step eliminated is a 100% optimization.

This thinking approach is valuable in other areas too. As I was learning about club sportscar racing, a coach asked me "what are the things you do that slow you down?". I thought and started an answer about brake & shifter footwork while entering a turn... and he said "No, no, the really big basic things"... "like braking and turning?"..."Right; braking and turning. What does that mean? That you should avoid braking and turning at all times".

Obviously, the point is not to be taken literally as you'll run out of road at the end of the first straight and have a very slow lap time. The point is to really think about how every little bit of applying the brake and steering inputs will slow you down, and if you can eliminate or minimize even a few, you'll be ahead.

And in a completely different field, I remember an interview of a famous film director (I don't remember who) who said that in a great film, every syllable had a specific purpose. If it didn't serve a purpose to the plot or character development, it should be cut.

Obviously, we must in the end write code to get the machines to do anything; but do we really have to write that next few statements, or can that goal, feature, or function be met otherwise with some extra planning and thought?
Probably not, unless someone (or a consortium) buys it from Elon out of bankruptcy, which Elon says could happen next year.

Or Twitter refugees migrate to Jack’s new Blue Sky service.
There was an interview, I think it might have been the financial times or maybe the new york times; but a big, respectable media outlet. In this article Elon Musk took the journalist to a nice mexican restaurant and they discussed all sorts of things.

One of the things the journalist and Elon Musk discussed was government, or rather, governance... politics. What is the best way to run a country? For Elon, billionaires were where they are because they are extremely good at resource allocation and so on, they're visionaries, they're creatives, they're excellency. And so, it his view that it should be these people (of course, himself included) that should be running the country.

Now, it seems pretty clear that a lot of these skills are not transferable. But this elitism that we encourage props the egos of people and imo makes them unable to take advice. In many ways, I think, the failure of the elites is precisely their inability to acknowledge that despite all their abilities, they are average at more things than the number of things they are good at.

Chile is a country that has been run by technocratic elitism for a while, the conception of the educational, political and societal system can be resumed as follows: "If I'm good at reading markets, and everything is a market, then I'm good at reading everything.". I think this sums up the vision of people like Elon Musk very well.
Huh. Never even thought of that. Anyway those days are long behind me. Will stop recommending this though.
The irony is that there is a very high chance the drop was caused by fake information, not from the Twitter accounts, but rather from the US government's BLS.

You see, back in October, they decided that inflation is too high so it's time to tweak the formula so it doesn't look so bad. Energy would be too obvious, but health insurance is the perfect component to tweak![1].

So what happened in this week's CPI print? Well inflation still went up - a crushing 0.4% Month over Month, or 7.7% Year over Year, but because inflation has been so bad, this rate of inflation is an improvement[2]. The market was quite pleased.

But what about healthcare inflation? Well it made a 50 year record by reporting -0.6%. That's right, according to the BLS, healthcare costs went down 0.6% MoM. To anyone with healthcare insurance or medical costs, they know this is an absolutely fake number. Even among analysts that work the sector, they knew the number was going to be suppressed, but not by this much.

But what would a not-very-savvy investor do when he sees the CPI print 0.4% this month, and their healthcare sector investments print -0.6%? Why - and this is the technical term - shit your pants of course. I mean the sector is losing 1% per month to inflation. Sell, sell, sell! I need that money in sectors that are keeping up, like literally everything else.

So let's give it up for the US government, tweaking the CPI calculation once more, to under-report real inflation and screw over everyone else. It's a time-longed tradition going as far back as fiat currencies. And kudos to the mainstream media apparatus for using the event to smear their ideological enemies instead of broaching the subject with a modicum of thinking.

And if you're curious, here's the best an army of government academics can get you when you need healthcare CPI to drop: https://www.bls.gov/cpi/factsheets/medical-care.htm Scroll down to "Health Insurance".

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[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-03/why-healt...

[2] https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
> Some poor slob couldn't get a date because he was slandered ... Oh the humanity!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you aren't mocking someone, I would advise that you contain your enthusiasm to a single exclamation mark.
> I feel like SF residents' aversion to new transit projects is unfortunate but totally reasonable

SF residents don't have an aversion to funding transit and transit projects, see measure L that just passed with 2-1 support.

> walk anywhere in SF near a BART (subway) stop and you face open drug use, trash, and other problems nobody wants in the neighborhood they call home

Singling out BART subway stops in your anecdote is disingenuous when you consider that there are only 8 BART stops in San Francisco, 3 of which are similar to what you describe, but there are _113 MUNI stops_. Additionally, MUNI has ~90 million annual riders while BART only has ~27 million while covering a geographic area 10X the size of MUNI
Even more profitable is printing their own currency with nothing backing it, then lying about having it fully backed to set the value at or just below $1.

Each USDT printed and sold to a sucker = $1 USD free money.
Because they are trying to sell the idea to the western countries. But macroalgae culture is a standard business in China and Japan since thousands of years.

I had eaten it, the green are good, salty when fresh and a little bland after cooking it, the red are a little bitter with a medicine aftertaste. You should use it sparsely in kitchen. Is more a spice than a main dish.

The main problems are that climate change removed 90% of the Laminaria forests here in the last 20 years and that the red algae are harvested and sold for pharma and industry, so aren't really available to harvest to the common people. You need a permit for this. The culture is also complicated here.
ooh this looks interesting. im so dependent on gmail its a little scary. whats the best way to host ones own email nowadays? (not moving off gmail anytime soon, but maybe for some less important accounts)
I love the fluid design on the "works" page as it resizes to the browser. Putting physics into your resize algorithm really shows a lot of care and attention.

Haxe is an awesome project that's been around for ages... I last looked at it as a potential replacement for AIR/AS3 a decade ago but the GPU capabilities weren't there yet with OpenFL. Seems like it's time to take a new look!
Enthusiasts staying long isn’t enough to keep things going, mining is a raging beast that must be satisfied or people start doing double spend attacks for the lulz.
They are starting at begining of 2023, I'm creditor, just gave bank account details etc. Most people will get their money back because all assets were converted to fiat from the time of collapse and BTC was worth then magnitudes less than today.
How can we make chicken and pork taste like beef (especially the chickens)?
I've been programming for over 50 years. If I judge by the past (not necessarily a reliable choice), languages are not that important. They come, and they go. I believe that you'd do well if you could demonstrate that you can easily acquire different languages as needed. Opportunities and careers are unpredictable. You should be able to seize opportunities when they arise. I suspect that you are vulnerable to obsolescence. Being familiar with multiple languages (not necessarily fluent) will likely be of more use that adding a single new language. Good luck.
Code changes have at least a linear amount of bugs on average, but have a large random component and selection bias - A key part of being a good developer is learning how to read code and notice/realize when it does have a bug.

Even if the number of bugs is largely random each change set, repeatedly selecting the most obviously buggy code to change will reduce the number of bugs over time. This can apply at a number of different points and scales: The developer writing the code for the first time and testing it locally themselves, the code reviewer looking at the code, other developers reading and editing the code while working on their own features, other developers choosing which library to use for a given function and which projects to support, customers choosing which product to use and business to support. Each of those layers selects against bugs over time, eventually bringing it sub-linear to the end users.
> Corpses are ridiculously stiff. I couldn’t turn an arm over without risking snapping the wrist.

Mary Roach has written a great book book with the same name about the same subject.
Pretty sure that requiring all new products to have a "legal basis" before invention would be a very bad idea.
As long as there are enthusiasts. When the music stops, everyone is rushing for the exits at the same time.

The music stopped sometime last year, now we’re in the end game.
Can I suggest having [users flagged] and [mod flagged]? right now i just assume mod flags.
Definitely do sell it to /u/filmgirlcw. I can vouch for her being awesome. :)
Meh. It's just more efficient cheating at the stock market casino. I can't be bothered to care anymore.