skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Attempting to approximate pronunciation is a valid theory of transcription, but one which also ought to prescribe that 電気(でんき) be transcribed as dengki; English is not much less discerning of syllable-final [n] vs [ŋ] as it is vs [m].

That is blatantly incorrect. English converts syllable-final [n] to [ŋ] when followed by a velar exactly the same way Japanese does, and English spelling reflects that. Consider the English words "think", "clunky", or "handkerchief".
It's not an intelligence thing (yes, he's not a genius but that's not to say he's not very intelligent and has some deep technical knowledge in some areas) - I think the thing is that Musk has generally demonstrated poor judgement and low ethics in many areas (think Solar City acquisition, tweets leading to SEC legal action, Thai cave diver slur, some of the cryptocurrency stuff, now this whole Twitter thing, etc.).

People expect intelligence to lead to good judgement but I'm more and more convinced that (assuming a decent baseline of intelligence) they're fairly separate and unconnected things.
I'd like to hear your thoughts on what kinds of unique institutional knowledge you think they've built up and what sets the Twitter employees apart from their peers at other companies. My main guess would be scaling caches and services, but even that isn't a super rare these days compared to say 2006. I'm not sure what about Twitter specifically, the app and its functions, is that complex to pass on. Coming into codebases that large is very challenging, but it's doable. Isn't the current calculus ~ lowering headcount to stay solvent vs. the risk of more lost knowledge and the other 50% of the company losing their jobs?
Civilization
on the one hand, ok. on the other hand, fuck this shit, fuck basic dumb sensors having a whole nother chain of shit that comes downstream.

cameras are an interesting weird vanguard, an early indicator of the general-purpose-computint versus applicationized world. we greatly rely on and thank them for many of the things they do. but also flexibility & control & malleability along thr pipeline is highly desired, is a core restraint on creatibe flexibility. if so and so company wants to commercialize a value-add service on the physical hardware, we ought not begrude them that, but also there should be possible alternatives open.

ultimately i feel like the camera makers are in some kind of accidental unintentional death pact, where they are competing & trying to own a slowly closing ecosystem, whereas the phone, controlled & intermediated & restricted though it may be, is still an avenue for innovation & competition, & these folks with multi-thousand dollar camera hardware are perpetually unwilling to open the doors of potential, are forever combatting & opposed to letting folks enhance the value & usability of the product. anti-competitve into ruin.
"Civilization concentrates power, extending human control over the rest of nature, including over other human beings."
They forked the blockchain right? So the person still has them on the old chain.
You're insane if you think old Twitter leadership were "card carrying socialists"
Unnecessary disclosure:
I posted this article not only because it seems useful to me and others, but also because I'm not sure.
Edit: I'm not sure in which ways it wouldn't be.
Ok so now we are going into the history of browsers, who said anything about paying for browsers. Your argument was 'why are web apps not popular on Android then', and I explained why.
Does it really help you learn proof by induction? Serious question...
>It is also a regulatory failure, there are reasons this kind of dipping into customer funds is quite illegal in the US. FTX should not have been reachable by US citizens (funding should have been impossible) _or_ FTX should have been sanctioned _by_ the US

I wonder if Sam being the 2nd biggest funder of Democrats has anything to due with this...
I had a great time playing Zendo at a Perl conference, using a set of red, yellow, and blue Legos instead of pyramids. It’s a nice tactile thing to play with and build. Playing with programmers is fun, some of the guesses for the rule were long strings of conditionals — and incorrect, but being programmers this is the kind of logic we do all day.

Trying the game with my local gaming group was… not successful. If we were into harder games, maybe it would have gone over better.
> which will lead to cancer care being concentrated in a handful of a few very large cancer specific institutions

Wouldn't that be a good thing? Aren't specialized hospitals better at treating things that they specialize in?
Your look is correct, it basically wraps file i/o in to_thread().
Related https://bikeportland.org/2022/11/09/opinion-despite-panic-de...
BlockFi Halts Withdrawals in Fresh Contagion from FTX Crisis
But why does it matter what the underlying code looks like to the end user?

Nobody complains that the assembly code that runs their application is cluttered and illegible.
> And the paper is still much closer than the 1-3% fatality rates often touted at the time.

The paper you're citing shows that at the time (mid-2020) that Ioannidis wrote his paper estimating a 0.2% IFR, there were many regions in the world where a 1% fatality rate was well within the 95% confidence range.

> Later research has put the IFR rate at 0.47% to 0.31%

To be more precise, an IFR dropping from 0.47% in March 2020 to 0.31% in January 2021, mostly due to improved treatments.

> [herd immunity would protect the population] is correct. Reinfections are less likely to result in severe symptoms.

Yes, but this means you cannot claim 400 million infections as a denominator for a constant 0.2% IFR, because many of these are reinfections, so should have a lower IFR than whatever was estimated in mid-2020.

As an aside, before Ioannidis started engaging in COVID-19 research, he estimated that the US would suffer 3.3 million infections and 10,000 deaths: https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-a...

His subsequent research seems to have been designed to justify the policy preference, rather than the other way around.
Boom. Another one bites the dust. There are no circuit breakers here folks, and no one to come to the rescue. I would be very nervous about having any significant amount of crypto on an exchange right now.
> Commissioners frequently resign before their terms expire, but I am not aware of any instances where a Commissioner, or all five of them, as suggested by the parent comment, have been been "fired" for political reasons. Perhaps an astute HN commenter can cite one.

Precedent didn’t seem to restrain 45.

45 remains the favored candidate to run as the GOP nominee in 2024 Presidential election.
I was reflecting on this recently in the Chinese property bubble. I suspect firms that take customer deposits and use them to speculate of future growth grow much quicker in a boom environment than firms that handle the deposits responsibly. Crowding out responsible firms.

This has lead to Chinese property developers spending all the money they collected to build homes on new parcels of lands and even soccer teams instead of finishing those homes. After all there will always be new money coming in.

In the crypto space this has lead exchange firms that speculate with their customers assets to out compete the safe approach providing exchange services and collecting a commission.
I have a 500mb per month data cap on my current phone plan. This would put a huge dent in that!
Yeah! I had it on a personal domain for $12 for a year or two, then I went and joined the Army on a whim and cut all my subscriptions, but now I'm in a place where I want cloud storage again and can't find any good options.

I think it's possible you can get "unlimited" storage by signing up for one of their enterprise plans, but nowadays they make you request additional storage when you run out. I'm sure they don't throw a fit over 5-10TB, but I can imagine flags being raised when users on 1 user plans start requesting storage and they already have 100TB assigned.
How would C/zig/rust have helped? They don't expose CPU cache lines to you any more than Java does. And with C in particular, you lose more in memory safety bugs than you could ever hope to gain from increased performance, unless you're working in an industry where correctness doesn't actually matter.
And what are they good for there?
A system can be made efficient in a choice of different parameters; there is no one efficiency. The parameters which are not optimized can suffer. This is almost self-evident. Optimization makes plain what is valued, and sacrifices what is less valued.
You can. I have it separate for the purpose of composition, sometimes I do 'gac Foo' which stands for 'git add commit' and I push later.
Good on you for having an abuse@ address ready to go. These kinds of sites are very commonly targeted for phishing attacks.
ipfs and other per to per systems sound like cool idea but
1 it isn't what he/she/them ask (ask for legislation and policies)
2 sound like something that faster than later will be heavily monitored, in the same way that bitcoin is now.
3 the web3 part which at least for ME now feel like mess of bad ideas, that doesn't solve real problems, and pyramid schemes financed by vc who can't care less about privacy.
hi u look like a capybara :) ur welcome.
I’ve seen people using <i> and <b> html elements to do whatever they need them to do, more than their old italic/bold uses.

Other than the fact that they aren’t semantic, it does make some sense to use small tags if you are concerned about saving bytes.
This fails to differentiate a "standard" from simply a "specification" (of a format, protocol, language...). I.e. we don't say "PostScript standard", but rather a "PostScript specification".

All of the claims they make apply to any specification, and yes, divergence is necessary to make progress.

A standard is a commonly agreed to specification, frequently ratified in one or another international organization (ISO, IETF, ECMA, W3C...). The main value of a standard is in ensuring interoperability where that matters more than all the other concerns raised.

Eg. we'd never have much of the internet if people didn't simply settle on the IP (v4) protocol.
Does anyone know the history of this domain after it was seized? I didn't expect to see it on the homepage. Did a double- if not triple-take.
On the other hand, evolutionary pressures and constraints of communication and game theory are frequently similar, and hence often lead to similar functional behavior even if the underlying systems are not homologous.
Isn't this what a bank is? The money sitting in your account is not really there, it's being invested by the bank. Bank accounts exist on the gamble that not everyone wants to withdraw money at once.
The SEC has been pretty slow across the board at regulating crypto.
Octopuses have been known to nuzzle favored humans with their tentacles, and to spit water at disliked humans through their siphon.

Do they really feel affection for their favored humans? I don't know. Discussions of this sort tend to devolve into debates about "qualia". What I do know is that octopuses appear to manifest signs of affection, and of contempt. And that I'd be honored to be nuzzled by an octopus, and I'd surely prefer that to being spit at by one.
Like that UI/color palette
Go can utilize the full CPU with ease :)
Im 10-15 years out if date, but no. When I was friends with MPA/CAA touring folks no one was pro live nation or ticket master. They were at best a necessary evil that you dealt with in order to get market/venue access. Everyone was moving to make money on merch and direct sales. And that was before the bigger consolidations and “resale marketplace” grift of the past decade.
Elon Musk failed with the hyperloop and solarcity. They not auccesses despite a lot of investment.
I am always a few years behind on smart phone models, so I don't have that much storage space. Every few months I go through my app list sort by largest size and delete the top few apps which are not necessary for me. So it definitely has financial repercussions for them. Smaller apps stay on my phone longer and have a higher chance to be used again and bring them more ad revenue..
Thanks atonse for the shout out!

Steampipe [1] is an open source CLI to query your cloud resources (e.g. GitHub, AWS, Splunk, etc) with SQL. The GitHub plugin has 44 tables to query [2].

The "GitHub Sherlock" mod includes 34 automated controls for organization, repo and issue best practices. The "GitHub Compliance" mod has 35 automated controls for supply chain security. Mods are written in HCL + SQL. [3]

1 - https://steampipe.io
2 - https://hub.steampipe.io/plugins/turbot/github
3 - https://hub.steampipe.io/mods?q=github
Non programmers reading this will start throwing it around at meetings prompting some kind of explanation or response from more technical teams. This pressure on the technical teams will probably result in a net reduction of memory errors over time.
I think he just had bipolar or something and does crazy shit
The genie can’t go back in the bottle on this one, but I think we’re in for a period of flux. Something new will emerge, but nothing looks like an obvious migration path, as in the Digg -> Reddit jump.
> it's increasingly difficult to say exactly what makes humans special or unique, if anything

Absolutely. Every trait previously thought unique to humans that I know of have been found in animals, such as deduction, tool making, intra-species warfare, delayed gratification, play, language, dialects, curiosity, mischieviousness, boredom, empathy, grieving rituals, etc etc. The only generic trait missing from my bingo card is humor (but monkeys seem close).

It may very well be that humans just got a constellation of traits that happened to fit really well together. If I was a betting man, I'd say:

- Very long brain development time. At birth, our skulls aren't even hard yet, and we're blind. This lets the brain develop at a slow pace towards general purpose problem solving.

- Hands are extremely helpful for tool making.

- Knowledge sharing. Yes, we're quite smart, but more importantly we can combine our findings through language and persist it over time through writing. This is an incredible change in the topology of knowledge. Even an animal with 3x intelligence would not stand a chance without language.
San Francisco and the Bay Area will also easily charge $20 for sometimes even just 12 ounces of beans. Pretty wild, but IMHO San Francisco has some of the best cafes, baristas, and actual drinks. I moved to Southern California and it's still good and they charge almost as much too but still not as good.
well now he can get buy-in from other companies wanting to flex their muscles and try to get employees to not work in a distributed fashion ...
(maybe a repeat though in this number of comments)
The "official" label that Musk killed yesterday appears to be back.
Feels like we’re in cyberpunk 2077 with all the options to be honest
I suppose it's easier to justify this to yourself when you know most of the people whose money you're gambling with are also driven by the same greed.

The cryptocurrency bubble was very transparently built on delusion and avarice, and everyone involved knew it. There are very few truly innocent victims here.
Inductive here meaning going from specific to general. I've never played the game, but it seems like you start with a specific example of the rule and try to generalize its definition. So in that sense, it's a little like pattern matching. "Proof by induction" is a proof technique where you prove that if something holds for n, then it also holds for n+1. That doesn't seem related to this game, but the game might help with your pattern matching abilities.
>As someone in the industry, it's almost certainly not.

Oof, this aged terribly. Didn't even take 24 hours.
Nice, do you have anything you can share?
This is nothing. The NYC developer market was completely saturated in 2008 when Lehman brothers went under and AIG made huge cuts to their IT organization. I recall the number being 60-80k developers looking for jobs all at once.

If you have employable skills you will find work
FontAwesome's documentation in the past contained examples using the <i> element.
Example:

<i class="fa fa-facebook"></i> <!-- renders the Facebook logo or something like that -->

I believe they presently just use <span> now.
Thanks for sharing! Love these other options!
I spend about 10/ a week on coffee for 2. Drip brew so seems low for latte folks. Starbucks latte is like 6$ now or something
Oh, yeah, man, that riveting nature documentary -- Squiddly Diddly.
They changed course on that and you were able to opt-out of the upgrade and continue using the free version.

You had to do something by a certain date which has since passed so it's not much help now.
Twitter reactivated the ‘Official’ check for accounts that are actually verified
Using CSS you can make most html tags behave like other html tags. I’ve made all the divs look and behave like strong tags and vice versa to demonstrate to people new to CSS that the default styling of tags is mostly artificial.
They're looking for evidence such as employee surveys - rather than evidence such as Apple executives looking at productivity data and then recalling employees back to office.
> they just don’t care.

This is it. Developers on broadband and tight budgets don't care about app size. On the App Store there's usually no direct correlation between app size and conversion rate: the app will eventually be available anyway.
Hearing aids
$5/tonne for forestation? I did the numbers - some time ago so my memory is hazy at best - but I'm pretty sure we ended up at one big tree being roughly one tonne of carbon, and big trees are not five dollars a pop. Have we not included the cost of the land?
So software development houses will become call centers.
No. You physically can not run a major (arena/stadium) tour without using live nation. They own or have cross deals with the production company, venue, etc. Even pre-merger they had their hands in many many many pies. Its not just ubiquity of the ticketing.
It sure did, just pointing out that there was way more involved in engineering a cheap mass-manufacturing process than scavenging at markets. Somewhere near that section is a sentence on X-ray irradiation to induce mutations, just imagine the trial and error in that, and then these labour-intensive scaling experiments.
lol if only they had a communication department
Ask HN: What external evidence is a red flag to you when job searching?
For example, one of mine is, the commercial makes me cringe—either it’s woefully out of touch or low quality or I know it’s bullshit. This is a red flag to me because some companies totally understand who they are, who their customers are, and the impact of great messaging. Because content is design. And caring about design is one of the things I look for. That’s a personal preference.

I’m interested in learning what other evidence people see in the wild that makes them pause and why. Maybe it’s quantitative, maybe it’s a gut feeling. What is it?
I would keep going but what a waste of a day. Agree to disagree.
And this is precisely the sort of thing that sets apart community-run projects like the fediverse (!= Mastodon) apart from for-profit platforms like Twitter. The fediverse culture is based around consent and guarding each other's safety. That means that just because you can do something, that doesn't mean that people will accept you doing so.

And that is precisely what happened here. Someone started indexing all the posts of a group of largely vulnerable and marginalized folks, without asking for their consent, without trying to understand the community norms, just barging in and doing what they felt like without concern for the consequences to other people's safety.

They got swiftly ejected from the community accordingly.

If you truly believe that it's okay to index things just because "well, I can technically access it" without any further consideration, then to put it bluntly: you are a threat to the safety of marginalized folks, and you are not welcome in those spaces. You should also consider that there are plenty of people who cannot afford to take such a cavalier attitude as you.

> That people are getting upset at this idea gives further credence to the idea that these newcomers really have no idea what they're joining up to and are just hoping that "Mastodon" matches the ideal Twitter replacement they have in their heads with little to no understanding of the reality of its workings.

This is certainly true. The fediverse is not a replacement for Twitter, and it is not meant to be. The toxic Twitter culture is not wanted there. That of course doesn't stop media outlets from completely ignoring that and going for the quickest headline.
Because it's a tiny, infinitesimal part of their porfolio, a fraction of a percent, but one that has a many orders-of-magnitude potential gain.

When dealing with as much money as the OTPP has, you have to form a very broad risk profile: for every super-secure, government-guaranteed dollar, spend a fraction of a penny on a super-risky but absolutely humongous payoff.
If you can't convince a single engineer that your idea is good enough to invest in, you can't sell your product to customers.
Can you do e.g. full disk encryption that way? (And, crucially, do you get a semi-graceful failure mode if the disk encryption fails somehow? Similarly for e.g. network filesystem as root). I can certainly see the value of simplification, but being able to run some kind of userland before you've got your main filesystem up and running has a lot of use cases.
Interesting. The rainbow logo (which I grew up with - I had (still have!) an Apple ][) has way too much of an Atari 2600 breakout vibe to me today. I find it looks really dated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakout_(video_game)#/media/F...
Like any politician railing about higher taxes and "eating the rich" - it's always never about their own money!
Any reason you chose to use per to per vs. peer to peer? Just wondering if I'm missing a fun reference
What a totally rational way to run a company.
Only tangentially my field, but both cytotoxic and helper T-cells bind on antigens, and indeed this work CRISPR edited anything with a TCR to their (3) preferred, cancer-targeting receptors (for each patient).

The press release has a few more details (in addition to the Nature paper): https://pactpharma.com/news/pact-pharma-reports-data-from-fi...
It’s great for journals and people that like to tinker with a simple spec.

I wrote a similar spec for lists: https://lists.sh/spec

The renderer is crazy simple when you can figure out the type by reading the first 4 chars of each line.
There's no hard and fast rule, especially when you're working with a small team. When I think of a solution architect, they select the right technology/technologies for the job - usually in an enterprise setting where the tech landscape is vast. This is typically a role one moves into after being a developer - which is helpful because they were hands on with the technology (or at least other technologies) and have the ability to get into the technical details.

Typically, the person that spends time creating tickets, and making sure they are moving along, generally has a title like scrum master, tech lead, product owner, product manager or the like. Each of the aforementioned roles has different additional responsibilities and responsibilities can vary by company, for the same title.

The title consultant typically doesn't refer to a skillset or job function. It's mostly used to describe a person that doesn't work for the company, but can be hired (oftentimes short term) to do anything.
The Cost of Exception Handling