skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a pretty narrow reading of that XKCD: even the examples it gives are not the result of attempting to unify a set of standards.

Eg. AC chargers had a bunch of different, diverged "standards" for pretty much restricted use-cases (those 1.5mm x 4mm connectors and then micro- and mini-USB). Text encodings had multiple standards for encoding the same text (eg IBM, Windows code pages and ISO encodings) without unification attempts.

In both of these examples, there is one unifying standard added (USB-C and UTF-8 + Unicode) that did stop the proliferation of new standards.

But majority of things never result in one unifying standard that can do everything win: even SGML brough up in this discussion is an example. CORBA also springs to mind.
You must work with clean data sources. :)
Yes, I do think one of them applies. 10 points if you can figure out which one.

Are you claiming that this isn't journalism? Under which member state definition?
It's called Parkinson's Law.
It might just be loading slowly. Mine was black for a bit then loaded here in the US.
I think it's fairly literal, there's a whole brand of humor around pretending to like things that you actually like. "I like C because of all the undefined behavior".

But this is also how word meanings shift over time. Someone will see someone else using that word and not know what it means, but then start using it, etc.
Yuyoyuppe, Utsu-P, Okame-P
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sybi0z3Eltw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt2hfzn66P4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSGCpxkJsVI
I'm not too involved with the crypto space, but why have a centralized exchange at all? Like why can't the exchange setup a transaction directly between me and the counterparty that we both sign?
The only winners were the Twitter shareholders, who the execs are supposed to represent.
In my area, the cheaper end of quality beans is roughly $1/1oz, so 200g would be $7 (Though, I find beans are usually sold 12oz (340g) per package). Personally, a 12oz bag last me roughly 2 weeks, but I only drink 1 cup per day.
It is the first time that he does not have government help (EV subsidy, NASA) and 0% rate money.

The problem with all those innovations, is that they take time.

In addition, he got a reputation to keep.
Server blocks are not "random", and they are very much a part of how the fediverse functions. It's also what disincentivizes creating large effectively-unmoderatable instances, because you will very quickly find yourself isolated from the rest of the network. This is by design, not a bug - the fediverse is not meant to be a "town square".
That is basically the opposite. Being ordered by your boss to go pull an all-nighter at his other company for no additional pay, as opposed to voluntarily taking an additional job along with the associated salary because you were bored and felt like it.
$1 Persistence of Vision Display
I responded to another post similar down but you are correct. The drug is $500k, the surrounding medical care / hospitalizations etc pushes the total cost to over $1,000,000
There are reasons unions exist and if things get harsh enough in tech they’ll appear. Whenever the employers bite too hard.
I don't think someone pays tens of billions of dollars to continue to lose money, at a slower rate. The goal is clearly to completely change how the company operates. Whether it works or not is yet to be seen, but clearly doing the same thing that has never worked, wasn't ever going to be the goal.

It's interesting how upset that makes some people.
Ah yes let me just pay $200 in gas fees to convert my doge to eloncoin. Problem solved
> FTX should not have been reachable by US citizens

Ostensibly this has already been the case. You can't even properly access ftx.com in the US. It just redirects you to the US exchange. FTX US is a distinct company from the international FTX exchange, at least according to Axios. If you still manage to get to ftx.com it gives you a banner saying its read-only, you aren't allowed to use it, and they wont let you.

FTX US is still allowing withdrawals at the moment, unlike FTX proper.
Probably an artifact of IANA, ICANN, IETF, ISOC all being U.S. run organizations. For better or worse.
I think you are out of touch with Elons views. He supported a protest of antivax truckers in my hometown that shut the downtown core for weeks and called our left leaning prime minister a nazi for removing them. Musk has consistently downplayed the pandemic, especially in the first year and also promoted quack remedies.

I know a lot of people think Elon is always a genius (I like spaced and Tesla) but I learned in the last two years he is also a dumbass.
Random comment

Saw a cool device recently (it's old) called Pocket Miku
sounds exactly like software engineering / compsci
I hope that this didn’t negatively impact your wife’s outcome and that she got better care elsewhere.
I see some people in multiple comments discussing the need for some sort of standard for markdown if it were to be used for (goals...).

Does nobody else remember the debacle and (limited) fight between Jeff Atwood and John Gruber (markdown's creator) over this?

It was a big deal here, and of course, over at Coding Horror, Atwood's blog. And the reason was: Atwood was calling for some kind of standard, and Gruber actively opposed the mere notion. Gruber claimed ambiguity was baked in in markdown and he didn't want a standard. So take this into consideration before proposing some markdown standards committee: the creator of markdown has said he actively opposes this. I guess he can be bypassed, but what does it say about the future of said standard if the original author says "no"?
> I don't want From to panic

There’s also a TryFrom which returns a Result, in the event your conversions are fallible.
Read up on Wal-Mart's practices some time.

Selling products or services at a loss in order to drive out competitors is a classic anticompetitive tactic that has killed countless otherwise-successful small businesses.
> That assumes that people will still want to work for Twitter after all of this.

Just a data point, but Twitter is now much more interesting to me (as a place of work) than it was before. Which is to say, it went from zero interest to "maybe?"

* Chaos provides opportunities to make real changes instead of being just a tiny cog doing what you're told.

* Advancement is going to be faster in a fast-changing organization.

* It's in "go big or go broke" mode. After a year you're probably going to know which. Better than spending a decade working for a zombie.

* I'm left-of-center, yet... I find political tribalism really fucking annoying. Musk could only improve Twitter in this regard.

So it's a mixed bag. I don't have strong opinions about Twitter (I'm not really a user) but it's way too early to be writing epitaphs.
The next generation CAR-T treatments are supposed to be "easier" on the immune system and hopefully don't require the prolonged hospitalizations. But that is 5-10 years away.
A favorite of mine; back when I frequented a lot of software conventions I would bring my set and those odd, colorful pyramids would always draw some attention.

You can tell the difference between developers who play this game, as opposed to more "ordinary" people in that they approach the game differently. Developers come up with rules like "The sum of the pips pointing at other pieces is even." A new player in the latter group came up with one of my favorite Koans of all time: "One piece is highest."
People are talking about mass layoff in Twitter. But remember that,Steve Jobs did the same thing 25 years ago (after he rejoined Apple). Steve has fired 4000 people right way to reduce the expenses and hired people needed for his mission.
What about if you buy something you thought you understood, but that’s only because you were lied to?
I know I’m stating the very obvious but this and the layoffs feel quite adversarial.

The vibe I get from Musk is that he doesn’t care about much more than the numbers and believes that a hard dictatorship is warranted in this situation.

The sudden one sided decisions backed by ultimatums give me the impression of lack of respect for his employees and downright abuse.

I don’t see how such a relationship can nurture a positive company culture or retain top talent.
From what OP said, I doubt they'd be able to keep up with the additional load of patient care (admittance especially) so there could be long wait times.

At some point, capabilities like this mature on the science end but are slowed down on technology (scaled manufacturing). That would take significant investment by a big pharma or a new venture-backed investment to go after things like this. Fingers cross this happens within my lifetime.

From the article:
>“This is a tremendously complicated manufacturing process,” says Joseph Fraietta, who designs T-cell cancer therapies at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. In some cases, the entire procedure took more than a year.
No executives lay off 60% of their employees for fun. Typically, this course of action is reserved for when the company believes they have a 95% chance of failing and that doing the layoff will mean they now have an 80% chance of failing.

That the company later failed is not proof positive that the layoffs were a bad idea.
I looked into "Why Nations Fail" and it looks like it wasn't persuasive enough to survive the last decade. http://whynationsfail.com is a defunct website.

I think Bill Gates summarizes the theory's weakness well:
https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Why-Nations-Fail
Ok propogandist
It's a distributed content-addressed datastore, like Git or Bittorrent or Gnutella or Freenet, but maybe trying harder than any of those to be a direct replacement for web servers. I think they aim to make "ipfs://whatever"[1] a URI scheme that's supported in web browsers alongside "http://whatever".

[1] I can't find the page explaining the URI scheme, but as I recall the double-slash felt vaguely out-of-place when I did once upon a time read it, and I have never been able to take the project as seriously as it seems to want to be taken (flashy website with 'whitepaper' etc) partly because of that detail. The underlying idea about a distributed content-address datastore is a good one, but I feel like they're making it more complicated than it needs to be. https://www.nuke24.net/docs/2015/HashURNs.html is somewhat a response to it.
do not give them her current salary
Now that this hit the front page, I’ve had dozens of people who signed up asking me why they can’t find flights from San Francisco
LessWrong on Zendo-like online game [1]

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/n3MMA2cA9Rapi6TBt/zendo-like...
We use https://docs.rs/proptest/latest/proptest/ extensively at Remind. It very recently got a few new maintainers and does shrinking pretty well.

Our biggest use case has been testing our database materialization. We have a somewhat complicated hierarchical organization tree/forest within our database. In order to efficiently query those structures, we materialize the transitive closure of these relationships. TL;DR; we populate a row for each (org, ancestor) and maintain that via postgres triggers that fire whenever we mutate things.

The prop test that tests it all does three things. First, it establishes an arbitrary that captures all the possible shapes of organization trees. Second, we define the set of mutations (add a child, switch parents, delete a grandparent, etc.) that may occur. Third, we have code for reading/writing org trees to and from the DB.

The test then generates an org tree, syncs it to the db, performs 1 or more mutations on the tree and then compares what's in the database with the resulting tree.

Overall it's been pretty great. I highly recommend property tests, especially when modeling complex data in an external system.
> "I know who I'd rather trust my money with: SBF, hands down."

This quote is complety antithetical to everything crypto is actually trying to achieve; which is a trustless financial system, a system that would be void of these sorts of melt downs.

Don't trust; verify.
Seems like poor analysis on their part then. If they're leaving 3.5x perf on the floor, they're not spending their money very well.
Some days I think html should have no predefined nodes at all. just use whatever you think is best and use css to get it the way you want it to look.
Doing literally nothing would have already led to a better outcome than whatever waves hands this is.
How is Apple or Google going to “shut down” a web app?
I think Musk wants a do-over for X.com. Whatever that means. Some kind of everything app.

If true, he bought Twitter for the branding, rather than build a new brand. If true, Twitter is about to get an extreme makeover.

$44b seems ridiculous to me. But what do I know? I've never understood the point of Twitter. Whatsapp, a mere chat app, sold for $16b. And Musk builds rockets and launched the EV auto market and...

--

I highly recommend Jill Lepore's podcast about Musk called The Evening Rocket.

https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/elon-musk-the-evening-rocket

"Elon Musk’s visions of the future all stem from the same place: the science-fiction he grew up on. To understand where Musk wants to take the rest of us – with his electric cars, his rockets to Mars, his meme stocks, and tunnels deep beneath the earth — Harvard professor and New Yorker writer Jill Lepore looks at those science fiction stories and helps us understand what he’s Musk missed about them.

The Evening Rocket explores Musk’s strange new kind of extravagant, extreme capitalism — call it Muskism — where stock prices are driven by earnings, and also by fantasies."
That article was written in 2012 and ended with speculation on whether black rats could be eradicated from Lord Howe Island, to allow it to be repopulated with stick insects.

Ten years later, in 2022, it's looking promising. No rats have been seen for a while and surveillance is ongoing before eradication is declared. Meanwhile the native species are flourishing.

https://invasives.org.au/media-releases/lord-howe-island-cla...
I love love love ffmpeg but I'll be damned if it's not a horrible übertool that should probably be several hundred separate tools. It's flags are a language in and of themselves.
Alameda was also a totally separate entity, until we found out it wasn't.
I taught my children the correct usage of the word "literally", after we watched an irksome YouTube video in which the host made significant abuse of the word.

Now whenever they hear someone say "literally", they double check with me: "Daddy, is (xyz) a figure of speech?"

I find the behavior both cute and precocious.
Elon is used to taking advantage of the intrinsic motivation of employees (you get to save the environment/explore space/etc. So cool!)

No one (or very few) will feel this way about twitter and be willing to work themselves to death in the way he’s come to expect.
> ...successfully pushed a potential new user away...

1) You are "projecting", what is your purpose and agenda.

That is your intent, as an obvious troll (who masquerades as a Rust advocate), that probably has multiple accounts or working in a concerted effort from an organization of a competing language.

2) Your agenda is very clear.

It is mainly attacks, flames, and unloading of spam on any posts or threads which mention or are concerning Vlang.

3) Your troll account should have been banned a while ago.

All of this is very clear by your disruptive flame war comment history, for all to see.

> Vlang warriors...

So PufPufPuf and jonathanstrange are also "Vlang warriors", for just casually mentioning and saying something positive about Vlang on a thread about it and multiple languages?

What actually is happening, is the mere mention of Vlang can cause various rivals and competitors to engage with troll accounts to spam the name of their competing language (in this case Zig) and unload massive amounts of misinformation, propaganda, lies, and negative disruption on threads.

Notice how it is never initiated in the opposite direction. It is nearly always advocates of specific rival languages doing this, though they kind of and sloppily try to hide their affiliation, but often slip up as apparently they can't help themselves. Their activity consists of attacking or bashing Vlang (to include spamming the same negative propaganda links), when it is positively mentioned. This is very clear from HN's post history.

To include, this spamming or trolling activity by various evangelists or paid advocates of a certain language has gone over the top on the HN site, and is now on the radar of moderators (who have mentioning it).
Worse of all, it's a waste of Earth resources.
> This came after facebook was wildly successful

Official requirement came later, but people were de facto using their true identities in large numbers, which allowed to find old friends and family easily.

You know, the fact that it invites you to consider it a "yearbook" of sorts.
+ Aerogel. That will be $1 million dollars now please. Thank you.
Let’s ignore everything that’s going on with Twitter and just talk about this.

Why do I care? Why do I want this?

ApplePay on the Web is secure and trustworthy. It’s amazingly frictionless, much better than Amazon Pay was when I used that. It now supports built in package tracking. And it’s biometrically secured, not a password someone can phish or an SMS someone can intercept.

I can use it with any card. I don’t need to maintain a balance or go through them for chargebacks/disputes. I just use my normal CC company for that.

At normal POS in the real world ApplePay works just like any tap-to-pay EMV card but it’s in my watch so I always have it. I don’t see how Twitter payments could improve on that, just equal it.

ApplePay Cash let’s you do P2P payments between users.

So that leaves an interest bearing account. There are rumors Apple is doing that and launching it was iOS 16.2. But I don’t care because I already have a savings account.

So what’s left? If you can’t get me, is “you’ll get 3% interest” enough to lure people away from Venmo/PayPal?
No subinterpreters in 3.11 ?

If we had those, all this async idiocy would go away, no more code colours, no more single-core, even better isolation and protection against context-switching tangles.

(the implementation not so nice though. Python threads on machine threads ? Whose stupid idea was that ?)
Seems like most (if not all) of the top tech companies are also on hiring freezes.
Zendo Online [1]

[1] https://github.com/AbstractPlay/zendo
There are clinical trials on Glioblastoma CAR-T treatment but it faces the same problems as any other solid tumor - namely the solid tumor microenvironment is not amenable to the current generation of CAR-T treatments

In addition one of the dreaded side effects of CAR-T is neurotoxicity. CAR-T can cross the blood-brain barrier and leads to inflammation in the brain. You can treat it pretty quick with steroids but this side effect along with several other pro-inflammatory ones is the reason for the 30 day hospitalization sp treatment.
Good. I don't think my tax dollars should into forgiving someone else's loans. This includes Wallstreet.
World War 3: Government advisor’s shocking nuclear war projection
Speaking with the Schiller Institute, Starr revealed research showing Russia and the U.S. could each launch 800 to 1000 strategic nuclear warheads in 5 – 15 minutes at the commencement of what would undeniably be the break out of World War 3.

“There would probably be a number of nuclear warheads targeted in a place like New York. The U.S. and Russia have only a few hundred cities with populations greater than one hundred thousand people, so they’ve got plenty of warheads to go around,” said Starr.
When Pinboard's price suddenly doubled I suddenly stopped paying. Wasn't a heavy user so the price hike wasn't relevant to me. I wish consumption-based pricing was more of a thing.
This is like saying in 1941 Stalin signed the non-aggression pact because he wanted Hitler to destroy Russia. Capable narcissists are in it for the glory. It's only toxic narcissists, who are not good at anything, that like to destroy.
The archiving happens automatically; you shouldn't need to do anything except request an archive backup[1]. Unfortunately those requests are not honoured, and haven't been for a long time (my last successful backup was in July 2020).

[1] https://pinboard.in/settings/backup
Unfortunately it’s a pretty dismal experience. For example you could only get 30fps@4k, it was always fairly laggy on the three or four docks I tried. It uses various hacks to make things work, and I will definitely avoid any DisplayLink chipset.
Ebikes could reshape our cities
You’re in a good place if you enjoy this kind of work. As far as book recommendations go, it probably depends on where you see yourself going. Would it be more technical work, sales, product, business, management, entrepreneurship, or something else? Like you said, in your role you get exposed to a lot. In my own experience it was a transition to product.

You can certainly continue in your existing role, of course. It doesn’t have to be a transition. But it’s a generalist type of job, and it feels like one discipline ultimately wins out in the end.
Fun related fact people may not be aware of: you can do basically this with arbitrary XML files, defining a stylesheet which transforms the XML into HTML however you like using XSLT. As an example, Atom feeds on my website (such as <https://chrismorgan.info/blog/tags/meta/feed.xml>) render just fine in all mainstream browsers, thanks to this processing instruction at the start of the file:

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/atom.xsl"?>

(Mind you, XML is hard to work with in browsers, because it’s been only minimally maintained for the last twenty or so years. Error handling is atrocious (e.g. largely not giving you any stack trace or equivalent, or emitting errors only to stdout), documentation is lousy, some features you’d have expected from what the specs say are simply unsupported, and there are behavioural bugs all over the place, e.g. in Firefox loading any of my feeds that also fetch resources from other origins will occasionally just hang, and you’ll have to reload the page to get it to render; and if you reload the page, you’ll have to close and reopen the dev tools for them to continue working.)
we have lots of decentralized exchanges: uniswap, paraswap, dydx, loopring, etc....

not sure why more people dont use them, perhaps fooled by the convenience/ marketing/ promotional lures of CEXs.
Its true. As another commenter said the baseline now is writing content into a social network and let it do all the work or use a GUI
Pretty sure he already has: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/10/elon-musk-tells-twitter-staf...
The Trump doctrine?
If you follow published reports of Android vulnerabilities you'll see that taking longer than 90 days for a fix is actually not that rare. I myself had a similar experience a couple of times.
I'll just ignore Gruber... his sloppyness in defining the details created a myriad of dialects of markdown