skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> legislation which would ban TikTok ... from operating in the United States

What exactly does that mean? The federal government blocking a particular website or app would be unprecedented and would face tons of legal challenges, so based on the wording I wonder if this blocks particular business operations?

I can't find the legislative text anywhere - "are introducing" may mean it hasn't been introduced, or perhaps doesn't even exist, yet.
Modafinil seems like a lighter alternative to amphetamines for people who don’t have ADHD.

I tried a small dose of Ritalin and ended practicing handstands for half the day.
As a software engineer I agree with your concern.

These apps were most probably optimized for developer speed, and not for size or user experience.
That's <big>

Deprecated, but it will be back.
For those who want to know how it works:

> NightWare uses information from the Apple Watch heart rate sensor, accelerometer, and gyroscope to detect a nightmare and then disrupt it through haptic feedback, generating gentle pulses on the wrist that gradually increase until the user is roused from the nightmare, but not from sleep.
The "you are here" marker doesn't appear very accurate. It placed me in North America, but I'm in Sweden...

Edit: zooming in it actually places me in Sweden and even gets my ISP right. But still categorises me as North America. Did geography change while I slept?
It is refreshing to read something positive about something working well in a extreme situation.
Kudos to you to exercise your democratic duty.
Thanks for sharing.
It’s about capex vs opex and they have legal definitions.
Interesting. My initial comment was discussion of the article only. This additional information, which is not mentioned in the article, makes it seem that the brickwall mastering was not done by Mick Gordon.
I'm reading through this right now actually! The text is available for free here: https://neurophysics.ucsd.edu/courses/physics_171/Buzsaki%20...
I work in an engineering consultancy organisation.

A lot of the big tenders are incredibly wasteful, with lots of money being wasted on them.

We have an aggressive sales pipeline process. We prune our sales pipeline hard, and ensure we are spending money where we can win.

Result, we win about 70% of tenders that go to the end - we save money by recognising where we can't win and walking away early.

On a related note, we are great fans of the 'pre-proposal'. You should be able to get the gist of any proposal down in 2 sides. That should be enough to get buy in from stakeholders on all sides. Only when everyone agrees on the pre-proposal do you then write the full proposal - so you save effort (and make the client happy because they don't have huge amounts of boilerplate to read!)
I’m also in BigTech and have seen my compensation drop (unless there is a major uptick before my next vest in a month).

But, seriously, I’ve got the worlds smallest fiddle for someone who is worried that they may not make 270K+ going forward.

Yes my stock has dropped by 50% from its 52 week high. It stings. But it doesn’t affect my life at all. I made sure that I could live off of my base pay - and still max out my 401K.
I don't focus. I get obsessed.

I start with some idea, and until I can confirm it works, or it is actually wrong, I can't stop.

This idea is there, in the background, calling for attention, so it's not something I can just ignore.
Aside from the project itself, the production value of this video is crazy good.
If your employer is in danger of bankruptcy, one should probably be thinking about looking for new job.
I still buy music on Bandcamp or 7digital. I've been accumulating my collection for over 20 years ago it's huge. I have it in pCloud, but there's also a copy on all of my laptops and NAS. I play music locally with MusicBee, and on the go I just use a 256gb sdcard and a decent app. If I'm in someone else's house I can use the pCloud player but it's shit. I have thought about using Astiga to play my pCloud collection on the go but so far the sdcard + app works well.
I put HN into /etc/hosts and time to time I find myself automatically opening a new tab, quickly typing the URL and starting at a connection refused page. And how often that happens is concerning, but that little trick helps me to realize that I should probably focus on something else instead, like doing few push ups.

I reduced considerably these monkey brain moments.
Ad revenue is down and there’s a ton of pressure on advertisers to bail on Twitter at the moment. We’re also in a recession with advertising budgets set to shrink further.

The suggestion the company may struggle seems entirely warranted.
I’m sure the folks at Yahoo thought the same as it muffled along for years…
I Run My Roleplaying Game, 2022-11-10
My observation of English-language typewriter and early plain-text computer usage (documents and emails) is that * was mostly used as equivalent to italics, ** and *** for stronger emphasis were not particularly uncommon (bearing in mind that traditionally there was simply no such thing as bold). But _ was kind of a historical oddity, with underlining used in lieu of italics in the typewriter era for technical reasons, implemented by means of overwriting; underscore-surrounding came much later, and never seemed particularly popular to me, and was more often interpreted as underlining rather than as italics—though the typewriter remarks are certainly still relevant, as underlining had for a while changed somewhat in semantics.

I say Markdown’s error was doing anything with underscores at all, especially given the programming context and the prevalence of underscores in snake_case and SCREAMING_SNAKE_CASE (Python being most heavily affected with its __magic__ methods, so that all implementations will be affected, rather than only some that have gone a certain way on word boundary matching), and it should have just been *italics* and **bold**.

Semantically, view italics as emphasis and bold as strong emphasis (basically where HTML 4 headed with <em> and <strong>), and the doubling of the asterisk makes perfect sense. The asterisks are an intensity modifier.
FTX Yikes
In Elon's case, and WFH, it is really hard to know whether he is trying to prove a point or if he has "playing 3d chess" decision making going on

The man loves proving a point, and "covid is stupid" is one of them

So, very ambiguous whether this is a reasoned move or or something more emotional and ego driven
Are there any restrictions on timing your quitting so that it damages your employer as much as possible?
Like, I don't know, a senior sale person quitting 2 minutes into a meeting to sign a massive contract, the company lawyer quitting 5 minutes before representing the company in a trial, or somesuch.
>more expressive/accessible creation tools, before we can have an interesting internet filled with true variety

Is it the tools or is it the networks? Instagram is filled with pictures of text because that's where the audience is.

Have you considered adding ActivityPub to mmm.page? The audience could interact without having to create a new account. There could be a network effect to spread the content and the platform.
A viral teen app became the center of a sex trafficking hoax
The whole series is excellent. The actionable items are clear and well defined and I started following some of them last year. The benefits cannot be put into words.
I wonder what the difference would be vs. "just" running 3-4 copies of apps on a node.

We did that (ops, not developing the actual app) few times where app scaled badly
MISRA-C is far from a dumpster fire if the extremely widespread use in the automotive industry is to be believed!
True, that's where I find noise-cancelling headphones with some white noise helps a lot. But I feel you
Personally I don't visit particular episodes, but rather a feeling, a drive towards a specific emotional reaction.

And try to think back to, recall, when that feeling first started, and then imagine meeting myself at an age where I experience that emotion.

Often some memories about the surroundings or events from that time will naturally present themselves. E.g. when meeting my 5-7 year old self it's often around an old bunker that I used to play on.

When connecting to that manipulative 8 year old bastard mentioned in the article, I initially imagined meeting at a dog show(!). But was not able to communicate with that child even when intentionally changing the surroundings to my room, and eventually had to imagine just chilling with a TV show.

I suppose it's a form of self-hypnosis and haven't studied the mechanics of it.
It's nicer than the alternative (to explode even later)
Sounds like a rat's nest of fragility. :(
Other than the standard people mentioned, there are also the "1992 consensus" [1] which intentionally made the word "China" ambiguous.

One possible interpretation is there's a thing called "de jure China", and both P.R.China and R.O.China (Taiwan) can claim themselves as legit. It's just
de facto R.O.China happens to control only one province within China with is Taiwan (maybe plus some islands from Fujian).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Consensus

Related topics:

One China Policy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_China

Taiwan Independence Movement: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan_independence_movement
I spent 7 years trying to get a green card in the USA. As a CANADIAN engineer. After two (non-FAANG) companies flubbed the paperwork, I gave up and moved to Asia.

Best thing that ever happened to me.

That “USA experience” I got working on large scale (millions of users a month) projects REALLY pushed me to the top of the market skills wise, even though I’d consider myself an OK web developer compared to my peers in California.

Now I’m living in Taipei, spending half of what I was spending in LA for double the life style. Got a remote contract that pays more than my previous job, and a nice tax break on top of that. I’m on track to get my Taiwanese PR next year (only takes three years).

So for anyone worrying about immigration after a layoff in the USA who has a few years xp already: you’re going to be fine. Its stressful, it’s scary, but the xp you have will still pay off in other markets. Especially with remote work.
I believe you might have a typo in your mail? Just making sure you're not missing out on something useful :)
Dup. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33528619
Really that just need manager that presents the results to higher-ups as raw cash savings.

"My team makes your team apps and make them run cheaper"
Its not just safety, but to prevent shady people from taking advantage of desperate people.
Elon needs a dedicated ML engineer team to fight this stuff.
Think they're going to "find" child porn?
Why isn't this deprecated and marquee is?
But enough about the police department.
well JS is just horrible programming language at every level. Frankly it's a technological wonder it can be run as fast as it is now.
When's the next republic/monarchy vote? I missed the last one and sure want to vote in the next one.
> This mentality is what's being exploited.

This is one of those things that I find schizophrenic about capitalism: the more you like your job, the less valuable (monetarily) your work becomes. Because, you know, you're being compensated in that warm fuzzy feeling when you do your work.

Except that this is insane! I can see the logic of the system ending up with that reasoning, but if that's the outcome then that system is stupid.

And also, turns out that fuzzy feelings don't feed a family.

And the fuzzy feeling crucially comes mostly when people are able to do their job well, not rushing it because the allocated minute to do it is running out.
When working fast and/or with nontechnicals.
Does it matter if it reduces anxiety, rumination, or depressive symptoms?
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Corporate capture
I really hope so. The sooner Twitter ceases to exist, the better.

Just think; journalists would actually have to start researching stories again, instead of the endless 'X tweeted this and Y tweeted that' which seems to pass for in-depth news gathering these days.

And, closer to home; maybe people on HN will stop linking to fucking tweets as news stories
finally our favourite rekt news, never expected ftx to be here lol
You would make changes in your app, not have to patch JVM, deploy patched JVM etc.
Does the moderator get to play? I guess not since they know the rule. Is it fun for the moderator too?
> What technology didn't get cheaper?

Military hardware?
> insufficiently compensated for their time

You've just described the job market. If this employee cannot find better paying employment (assuming that the job market is operating efficiently) then it is either a skill issue (This hypothetical employee is not sufficiently skilled to demand a higher salary) or a demand issue (There is insufficient demand for your skills in the market).

We can have a fruitful discussion around job market efficiency (e.g. is Amazon a monopsony employer in some local markets), but objecting to the tone of the comment feels very out of place when this is the language that we use to describe the economy.
> they made a profit

That's literally the raison d'etre of commercial companies. So, yeah, most will do what it takes to remain profitable.
I keep waiting for a law enforcement death due to a no-knock raid. With gun ownership in the US, it's only a matter of time before someone shoots someone they assume was a burglar, and since it was no-knock, just saying "FBI" isn't really enough. Anyone can break into a home and say "FBI."
Interesting! Got an account, but I wonder how you/we are going to pay for it. Even with just a few million bookmarks you're going to need a non-trivial DB setup, and (according to some napkin maths on my Pinboard account) ~2.5 MB of storage per bookmark for the snapshotting feature.
The way things have been going make me question if he even wanted Twitter to survive in the first place.

What happens to him if Twitter goes bankrupt? Is it possible that it could potentially be a loss minimization strategy?
https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/159096722176907673...
Hey, thanks for the civil response!

> the author of the blog you shared has openly said "V is something that should be ignored until it dies into obscurity":

I didn't know this -- that's very harsh, and I don't agree at all. I see that that comment was made after the reviewing blog posts, however. I can get that the relation between V and them has soured.

> Also even in this thread there were people spreading lies about the language: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33544205

That's the one I initially replied to, sharing my view as an outside observer. It would probably serve V well to handle such popular blog posts in some way. Like put up a blog post refuting the points in the article, and then link to that or something. Something to undo the damage to the language's image by those posts, and (re-)inspire confidence.

The other way is probably to be "so good they can't ignore you". That would be great, always good to have more great tools.

> My advice is - check out the language and make up your own mind. In the end this is a tool, not a football club.

I completely agree -- and people should try it for themselves. I guess my point is mostly that if the community's exposure to a language is those blog posts, they won't be inclined to try it. And if those blog posts don't get handled in a graceful and confidence inspiring way, the community won't "update" its view of the language.
The battle has been lost and ‘literally’ lies with its siblings ‘very,’ ‘really,’ and ‘truly.’ I suspect ‘actually’ is in danger.
And who was on the first base?
Yeah I had "I know that look" reaction when seeing it.

The first actual TSDB in a way
I have loved this one for years

while (s++ = t++);
Speaking only of HTML tags, you might be thinking of (the HTML version of) "ruby" characters, which isn't dots, but does allow for annotatation:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_character#HTML_markup

With CSS `text-emphasis` we can do the dots you are speaking of:

https://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/t/text-emphasis/

Probably there are other useful bits of HTML/CSS for Asian languages. (right to left and/or vertical writing, anyone? I always wanted to fart around with pretty-printed Chinese poems and, like, calligraphy script fonts with procedurally generated jitter.)

Edit: there are also Unicode entities for these:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emphasis_mark
Why 16 byte aligned? That’s 128 bit, double the word size right? What is the significance of that alignment?
yes, it's a lot of fun for the round master (who is more than just a moderator, they have to come up with the rule themselves). the fun lies in seeing if you can find a good rule - not too complex but also not too easy - and watching people try to get it, or watching them chase red herrings.
I realise this is a comparison article with a funny intro but I honestly don't understand that when you have a _list of links_ that you need to share with students you chose a third party website and then act shocked pikachu when that third party website has a hick-up.

There are hundreds of fool-save options that make it so you don't have to depend on a third party, here are some: You could email the links to students. List them on the personal website that this is written on. Have a reader that lists them. Co-host them with the rest of the assignment.
Exactly.

Suddendly my car can only drive for 10km a day.

My computer can only download 1Gb a day (not because of my ISP but because MacOS).

My fridge can only be opened 3 times a day.

My doorbell only works 4 times an hour.

That move by Apple is totally SHITTY.
As a United States citizen, you can vote in congressional and presidential elections from Antarctica or low Earth orbit, but not if you're a resident of Puerto Rico (an American territory with a population of 3.3 million).
Yeah that's actually a good point, I was thinking that what would probably be useful is a system of collecting the data first and then from there curating it.
I get the impression the author missed out on zcat for reading gzipped files.
> Safety can legitimately be in the backseat when you're trying to cure a disease that has a 50% chance to kill you in a year.

Yes.

Standards are lower in that case. Back in the 1990s when I was up to date, clinical trials for HIV ad cancer treatments were truncated.

We saw the rapid development of COVID vaccines recently, much quicker than normal drug development
Why this choice? In the case that a treatment is life-saving the ethics board can approve experimental treatments on a case-by-case basis. Medical laws just don't allow patients to make this choice for themselves.
I didn't know that!
I wondered how it related to https://dagster.io/
> Go is a more appropriate alternative to C.

Go has GC and phat binaries. Frankly for a lot of stuff C# is a way better choice than Go or C++
I've heard someone once say "if Rust is a criticism of C++, it comes from a position of respect" and that was definitely true in the early days of the programming language.

Interestingly though, I take the stance that Rust is much closer to C than C++.
I used to be a performance engineer for telecoms systems. Tuning & fixing performance regressions saved millions in hardware costs & software licenses (think databases, licensed by core) in the late 90s/early 2000s. It was great fun, and highly rewarding (mentally).

I'd love to get back into it.
When the news of an 8$/month verified account came out, I naively thought that meant verified would still mean that they verified the identity of the user. The badge should be swapped out for a green dollar sign and called “Paid” instead. There is obviously no verification involved now.
Setting short-term goals works very well for me. Create the skeleton of such and such class, refactor that method, send that email I have pending and things like that.
I believe that is not a problem with Google, or at least it would be the same problem for any large search engine. There is money to be made when your search result ranks high, thus, a lot of a useless affiliate marketers do their absolute best to rank high without providing any value. I don't believe Google is interested in promoting those useless articles, but it's a cat and mouse game.

By the way, most non-technical people have never heard of Reddit.
You’re wrong, not much more to it?
> The study on medical devices indicates that safety actually improves with deregulation, due to the combination of a larger market and litigation.

I doubt it, very much.

Appropriate regulation, not deregulation, is the name of the game.
I don't think he's trying to prove a point or play 3D chess.
I think it's much simpler. He's basing his decision on his beliefs about and experience with in-office vs WFH. He believes in-office is more productive.
I guess the Tacoma Narrows bridge had 99.999% uptime because it lasted for months and then only took minutes to collapse.
That's pretty much the first thing every single one of them does to differentiate the phone.
That's where I am actually going now. I started reading much more long-form content.

I created a list for the people I follow on Twitter and gave someone else the key, effectively rendering Twitter read-only.

It is amazing how fast your engagement drops once you stop liking, posting, and commenting.
I've been using <i> for things like inline simple math. I set it to display using serif font and in italic using CSS (while the surrounding text is not in italic and also using sans-serif fonts). The results is good visually, it works. And I felt like it was a good use of this tag. I'm now even more convinced! Thanks for sharing :).
That sounds SO COOL. Can you tell me more? Or do I have to go ask my friends at Boeing about it? :)
Is the Fediverse about to get Fryed?
> People fear change and cling to nostalgia. That's part of it.

People devalue the past is another.
All I can say is, I'm not that poster. The names being similar is a coincidence. This being mostly an anonymous forum however, I don't have anything to prove it to you. Maybe my post history can serve as a small argument, although that can be faked/bought/hacked too.

I think it would be better to engage in open, sincere, and civil discourse about the language -- instead of labelling people that raise questions or concerns as trolls with sleeper accounts.
Google calenfar includes this sort of information
Why do you think its a joke? it seems you agree with me?

Sure brits love to get drunk but their politics always seemed reasonable to me.

I love the different subcultures the UK birthed and its heartbreaking how bad things are and are still going to get in the coming century.

Downvote me if you must, wont change my personal (albeit uninformed) feelings.

As for Adam Curtis i enjoy his work but this parody hits it on the nail:
https://youtu.be/x1bX3F7uTrg
Especially now that designers are making buttons/clickable areas hard to distinguish ... I could totally use AI to highlight all the things that are actually, you know, interactive.
Usually the problems occur when there are too many people between people paying for a product (and therefor paying the paycheck) and people actually working on the product.
Meetings are performance, side-chats are politics. I think the decisions are based on the politics.