skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Centralization or decentralization should really be an implementation detail of the solution to an actual problem.

> For that particular problem the solution might be one of those two things, or something in the middle. But out of principle it should be neither of those two things.

So which one is it? Pragmatic implementation detail or "out of principle"?

Also, if the author prefers a solution somewhere in the middle, wouldn't the Fediverse be the perfect example? Full decentralisation would be some kind of p2p network or possibly blockchain thing where there are no servers at all. Instead, each server on its own is perfectly centralised, it's just the community at large that is decentralised.
I hate playing these kinds of games, at least with most people, because they simply can’t answer the questions correctly. It’s frustrating beyond belief. Just one example, I once narrowed it down to a fictional character, so I asked “Was it invented after 1980?” and got a “yes”. The answer, after many failures, was Alice in Wonderland. I’m sure it’s my brain that just works differently here, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why people would choose subjects they don’t know the most basic facts about.
> and a lot easier to take in with just a glance

meant a lot harder
Andrew Iguodala, maybe
While I agree.

I also feel sad that we have ruined nearly every place on earth and now we must ruin the night sky, one of the last untouched mostly natural places most people can view each day.

Also, what gives the right of peoples in one country to ruin the night sky of others on the other side of the planet.

It's not just about observatories and atronomers that we should consider.

I hope we can solve and compromise and not just push forward without consulting and considering.
I don’t think the parent is arguing for a blockchain one journalism, just that outlets claiming to be “news” should own their mistakes if they want to retain credibility.
I get the feeling it is in the order that you listed. The in between discussion doesn’t seem to show on Twitter unless one has the direct link.
I prefer my method of payment to not be pointlessly based on debt, but rather money I actually have.
Can't access it, but what's the server running?
20 questions was a solved problem long before “AI”. It’s just a kind of binary search. These little pocket devices would blow my mind as a kid

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=20+questions+electronic&iax=images...
Yup, got burned by this. I had a POCO X3 (4G LTE but no VoLTE) which I'd still be using today had AT&T not labeled it as a 3G phone. Even just attempting to use it with my SIM card now automatically deactivates my plan.

Now they have a phone whitelist restricted to (mostly) mainstream brands...
I started using TikTok long before everyone was in it, pre-pandemic, and even then it was already much better than most other apps, and quite immediately too.
I’m not sure this works. What do we mean when we say “bullshit” — the necessary and sufficient conditions. I’d expect ex ante that it’s not reasonable to expect any consistent description to be applicable over speaker or over time.

Seems more useful to just say “intentional misrepresentation” when that’s what you mean, but what do we mean when we say “misrepresentation” … and so the line of —- what Id call bullshit — philosophical “enquiry” begins.
That IS quite a flock, for astronauts.
>[In the only two stores, both in New Mexico,] under an agreement with the tribal government, Tesla will train tribal members to serve as service technicians.

That might just work out well.
The Typewriter Artist (2013) – 4min Mini-documentary
Ask HN: How do I get Facebook job?
I am being honest.
Banksy confirms seven new murals in Ukraine
Darwin had a special Thinking path [1] he would take to start his day

[1] - http://www.wildlifewonder.co.uk/darwins-thinking-path
Is there some reason why we don't have small space telescopes, every project I know is rather large like JWT.
There are about 300 edits. Many things were likely removed and added, often multiple times.

If you mind, change it. Don't be quite as passive-aggressive and conspiratorial as you are in posting it here, and there's a good chance the change will be accepted.

Unless, of course, GameStop, "Team SoloMid", and ICC pay me again[1]. Muhahaha!

1: The latter two would also have to tell me who they are
On the other hand, Musk seems like a child yet he is in charge of some pretty important things in the USA such as space technology?
What a strange comment on the Hacker News, where everyone uses IDEs, debuggers, toolchains, profilers and other higher-level instruments to build products. When have you written your own hardware driver?

How many programmers do the low-level work on the "doors and windows" stuff? A tiny minority.
The problem with speed cameras around here would be that they dropped all the speed limits and now everyone routinely does 15+ mph over the limit.
No, it's just for my own usage.
You already can't see the Milky Way in the way that cave ancestors could see. The future will be advertisements in the sky and brightness 24/7. There will be no "night". But people born in the future will think it's just normal and "cool" or whatever slang they use then. If they want to imagine night they turn on that VR implant in their head to Sim 2022.
My point was we call both “random” but, when you think deeply about it, you know that rolling a dice isn’t really random, we just can’t reliably predict the outcome.

There’s no reason the “random chance” in evolution is any different. It can just contain a million times more complexity in its determinism.

To prove determinism one way or another, we need to prove the fundamental building blocks of the universe are deterministic (or not).
Well if you live in city night sky was ruined already 100 years ago.
We could fruitlessly run through all the steel in the universe by indolently blaming our instability on other creatures.
>but I can’t for the life of me figure out why people would choose subjects they don’t know the most basic facts about.

Because most people think of something hard to guess as opposed to something they know a lot of facts about. Part of being good at 20 question is being good at handling wrong answers to your questions.

Production grade 20 question AIs do not just do a binary search because it is too easy for the human to make a mistake in answering and then the computer won't win. In order to improve the chances of winning, the AI must be robust against a small percentage of wrong answers being given to it.
There never was a container shortage worldwide. There were a lot of containers in the wrong places. They were piling up in West Coast US ports and scarce in China. It was more cost-effective to take ships back empty than filling them with empty containers to go back. Some of this was corrected by applying port fees to shippers who didn't take enough containers back.

This reflects the US's lack of exports and China no longer wanting unsorted US recycling.
> 20 questions is not a word game

I find this ironic, as the author treats it like a word game. I've always played that it has to be a "thing" by the typical sense of the word, e.g. an object. Sometimes with bounds, like something you saw today. The problem with "intangible things" is they are essentially imaginary, and therefore subject to the whimsy of the answerer, as they point out. Does an Air Guitar make noise? Is an Air Guitar a gesture, what about a form of dancing?

Objects don't have that problem but still can make for incredibly interesting games.
Trolls took advantage of Twitter’s new verification policy to impersonate brands
BeOS was fun. I recall attending BeGeistert and showing my Blender port (as a Not a Number/NaN employee) running on its software OpenGL driver (eventually I also beta-tested OpenGL hardware on BeOS). Be had a close knit community, with a similar passion as the earlier Commodore 64 'demo parties'. Official BeOS C++ API's included 'is_computer_on()' and 'is_computer_on_fire()': a sign that Be creators enjoyed working on their BeOS!
Back in the 90s as a kid, one year I got a handheld 20 Questions electronic game as a stocking stuffer for Christmas. I remember being astonished that this dumb little plastic pod with rubber Yes/No buttons and LCD screen "beat me" by guessing the first thing I tried (the Mona Lisa) in 8 or so guesses.

The author quips that "twenty questions isn’t enough to guess almost anything", but I wonder if most people taking their first crack at the game (usually as children) pick something squarely in the 2^20 most popular things.

(My friend's dad was really good at picking words. I remember he stumped us for an entire restaurant visit with "the cub in the Chicago Cubs logo".)
I'm likened to agree. As much fun as syntactic macros in python would be, and despite all the doors it would open, it would really kick up the potential complexity. Heck, folks were complaining about pattern matching and the walrus operator.

I mean maybe the council will go with it, but I'm bearish.

I do really like the idea of jit macros and zero-overhead decorators though.
Only way to make C "safer", is to follow Solaris footsteps, hardware memory tagging.
How do you have enough time for this? 20km/day is around 4 hours of walking even at above average speeds
Oh most definitely, especially in the context of making business decisions worth millions.
> But people born in the future will think it's just normal and nice.

We are ‘people born in the future’ compared to our cave ancestors, and I wager if you asked just about anyone if they thought an unobstructed milky way was ‘nicer’ than the diffuse haze of a city skyline, they’d almost unanimously pick the former.
The stupidity is in insisting that Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme, like some sort of parrot that only knows how to repeat words heard from others without thinking of context or mechanics. Many people have used BTC for their own ponzi schemes (just as many have used dollars for the same) and many much newer crypto tokens and projects have indeed been ponzi schemes, but Bitcoin itself, no. It's a mathamatical protocol that can be used for bad or good or anything in between. Since it's not owned by any one person or group and doesn't even at all fit the literal definition of a ponzi scheme (look it up, it takes just a few seconds, most definitions mutually agree), saying that it is a ponzi scheme demonstrates, ignorance,, stupidity at basic definitions, emotionally hateful dishonesty or a mix of all three.
To play the devil’s advocate, it isn’t a clear question. Invented is ambiguous, and there are certainly works created after that date, such as movies and video games. If they meant the book, then yes, of course it’s a bad answer.

It’s a game though, not an exercise in pure logical deduction.
Comparing it to the government's budget is probably much better (https://tradingeconomics.com/el-salvador/government-budget-v...), but it still doesn't seem _that_ big in comparison.

I think it's safe to say the country isn't in shambles due to the Bitcoin experiment though.
I agree, but as air pollution improves around the world, that ruination is being reversed
Combine that with being locked out of your account because the text verification never arrives and it’s all net
> 3. The object model available in Common Lisp was more powerful than languages like Java/C++ because it had to fit into Lisp terms (“the art of the metaobject protocol” was the 1991 book that explained the more powerful substructure lurking underneath this object system), so a CL programmer could maybe use it to write a quick sort of aspect-oriented programming that would match your needs.

In addition to that, Lisps are sufficiently flexible that before CLOS itself was developed people were extending Lisp in Lisp to try out different object oriented models that fed into what became CLOS. That's hard to accomplish in most other languages, if it's even possible without going to a third party tool or digging into the compiler itself.
I do agree that I cannot understand what happened to Musk? He had three hits to his name, so it is unlikely that he just got lucky. And contrary to a common criticism, he didn't have much money to start with, as far as I know, since he broke with his father and had to work quite hard to get to the US via Canada and to study.

But then... man. It's like he had stroke? Peter Thiel, far more mean-spirited, is at least smart about getting revenge, financing someone else's trial to bankrupt you. Musk? Calls you a pedophile on Twitter! It's so pedestrian, unworthy of someone with supervillain potential.
> Paying 10% more for a product in perpetuity costs a lot more than a 12 to 24 month period where prices double.

JIT manufacturing gains are far under 10%. It’s mostly advantageous from a capital flow point of view. At this point, considering the overall brittleness introduced, it’s not obvious to me there ever was gained at all if you consider both the up and the down.

It’s pretty obvious that at this point the purely free market approach is as successful for manufacturing as it was for banking. How can we even talk about free markets when the government just saves everyone each time a large crisis happens?
> Why use relative units? ... because today there are different assistive technologies so that users can modify the base styles of an application web among those the font size, using this type of relative units ensures that the elements are displayed correctly on all devices.

I'm not convinced by this. Afaik all browsers support font size increasing/decreasing even if you don't specify your sizes in em/rem.

Relative sizes can be useful for developers/designers when targeting different screen sizes, see also units like `vw` and `vh`. But that's not UX (user experience), just DX (developer experience).
Try dancing, especially with others! Some of my best creative ideas have sprung from attending large improvisational rock/jazz/funk concerts.
Thanks :) We're currently using astria, everything else takes quite a while longer to set up and this was a quick MVP... And yes, we're definitely not the only ones who had ideas like this! gonna be a wild ride!
> Their track record of content persistence is excellent.

Musk has just replaced the entire leadership of Twitter. What kind of track record Twitter used to have is entirely irrelevant for how it will behave in the future.

It's the same fallacy like a reputable company selling a well-known brand. People will stick to the brand (for a while) because they associate it with the performance of the original company behind it. However, that's a deception. The brand itself will tell you nothing about how the new company will behave.
Email kind of works though. It's pretty flawed, but we all use it.
Maybe it's time to rethink our project structure with .NET 6
Given a list of all twitter bans, there would surely be many that we would both agree are obvious parodies. So, obvious is relative, or, a grey area/high weasel potential area to do what you want. So it’s not obvious that anything has changed there either. That’s besides the point though that, while widely reported and repeated, Musk, as far as I’m aware, did not institute the rule about impersonation.
Yep, one of the most important next steps to figure out a free trial. The way its set up currently that's not possible as we're paying for each pet.
Do they think that strongly enough to change though?
You’ve got an extra D, it was ARPANET.
"It's one banana Michael, how much could it cost? Ten dollars?"
very cool, thanks!
Where do you get time for this? If I were to try this, between work, travel and chores, I'd have zero time for anything else.
Yes, I’ve seen $2-$20 CPM depending on the niche. I once ran a site for furniture manufacturer part specifications and we were getting $50 CPM. Lasted about a year, was over a decade ago.

It’s relatively easy to setup and monetizes much better than a lot of things.
"FlexPort is returning $400,000 that FTX donated to support our Ukrainian refugee relief efforts as soon as we can figure out where to send it back that won't get stolen."

Ryan Peterson seems to be a pretty stand-up guy.

https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1592248022372880384
I don't think there's such an API at the moment but I wouldn't be surprised if it's in the pipeline. I'm very far removed from the Registrar team so I'm not sure what their future plans are.
Eloquent Javascript. It really cleared up a lot of CS concepts for me: https://eloquentjavascript.net/
PayPal is a licensed bank in the EU.
He said it's the character, which has no ambigous creation date.
In the UK we have a fraction of the population of China, and we did half arsed lockdown and lost nearly quarter million lifes! Imagine the death count in China if they went Sweden mode! Their zero covid policy is an example of putting population ahead of economy and make every other nation jealous.
Erlich Bachman who founded airfare collator Aviato and then sold it seems the real deal. Last I heard he was in Tibet though.
It’s just physics. To see further and with higher resolution, you need larger apertures. The Event Horizon Telescope, the one that viewed the supermassive black holes a couple of years ago, is effectively the size of Earth.
Those of you having a bad time, remember, Elon Musk built PayPal and he's got his hands on Twitter.
I think GGP is conflating "we commissioned an article from an established journalist" with the article being "news". Adtorials, or whatever they're called, have been quite the thing lately and I don't see how this is any different, except inverted.

Since Sequoia isn't a news agency, its article is private corporate speech. And with the remarks about establishing trust in the crypto space, it seems to imply that either press release or adtorial-type stuff, or all private speech in the space, shouldn't be deletable.
Yes, exactly. My point is that the open source project who wants to be a more liberal license can do it, just like KDE did.

Then if someone wants to take that for proprietary software, they can do it too, like Apple. They don't even need to go as far as Apple and make a fork, they can use Slint's paid, or free as in beer (ambassador) license.
They were talking about light pollution
The recycling but is interesting. I was not aware of this aspect but have heard from other nations that they no longer accept containers full of plastic rubbish.
I think you are partially right, but I also think that people are willing to participate as long as it's low effort relative to their consumption or the expected value warrants investing more effort (i.e. why many teens want to be influencers).

Adding a heart reaction to an Instagram post is much easier than creating that Instagram post, though Instagram has made this very easy to do as well, which is easier still than creating a YouTube video, which is easier than updating a web page on SquareSpace.

I think this is why Reddit is mostly lurkers.
Not to be confused with Kanye.
oh la la, we'd love to do parrots! don't have any yet but send as an email and we'll do it for free for you. it's just gonna take a couple days since we need to train AI first to find good prompts for parrots and we had so many orders yesterday that we need to fulfil first. your parrot will do ground breaking work hahaha
Worth adding that “negative pieces for 10 years” is not an opinion. It was official NYT editorial policy (original tweet now deleted)

https://twitter.com/KelseyTuoc/status/1588231892792328192
Anyone have a retool-less explanation of what this is?
There's a school of language philosophy that says that the existence of a dragon is a false premise, and thus that every predicate is true for it. Others would claim that such sentence aren't true nor false. The archetypical example is "The king of France is bald".

However ... no theory of (natural) language has been consistent with human judgement, so all these attempts to formalize semantics should be take with a large grain of salt. They are attempts, not even theories.
> a falcon heavy costs $97 million, and would enable detection of threats we'd be otherwise blind to if we stuck to terrestrial observations.

What's the cost of a space-based detection platform compared to a ground based one, and does it impact whether such platforms get built in the future?

Overall I think its the impact on and complete disregard for radio astronomy that gets be about this. I'm sure you're not allowed to do high-decibel audio experiments next to the founder's house, but regulations prohibiting radio emissions affecting particular pockets of land are up for grabs?
Figure out why people show up. This may be homogenous across the group, but more likely there are two or three main categories.

Then, ensure you’re making space for them to get the thing they’re showing up for. Show a direct connection to how what they’re doing supports the outcome they’re trying to achieve. Show clearly that without them performing this task, the outcome they’re invested in will be compromised.

This game is all carrot, no stick. The only threat you have is that you might forbid them from continuing to counter their time, and that’s usually gated behind a pretty laborious process.

If someone’s primary reason is something like “I want to protect my community” then you can probably rely on them to keep their nose to the grindstone on less-fun tasks. If their driver is “I like having coffee with other other volunteers in between working” then they’re still an asset, but you probably need to hand them short simple tasks.

Expect attrition in the group and always ensure you’ve got new blood coming in. Be prepared for tasks to get dropped on the floor if someone gets busy or bored. If something absolutely must happen no matter what, that’s a job for a paid member of staff or it needs to be distributed amongst a large group with a sophisticated collaborative structure.

Source: volunteer firefighter that manages an equipment maintenance team and spends way too much of his time doing stuff because he loves it.
Staged Programming with Typeclasses
Use a debit card instead? You can only spend as much money as you have on the bank account. Except for the gas station, they can put a hold on your card for roughly the amount of a full tank and then release it after they know how much you refueled for. This can create a debt but is limited in scope.
> AST SpaceMobile has yet to respond to astronomers’ requests to clue them into its satellite’s whereabouts

Blue Walker 3 TLE is published and available via a few trackers, what are they complaining about here?
Actually there are several and some are listed on the Mastodon website[1]. Look in the "So you want to run your own Mastodon server" section.

I have only heard the best about masto.host but they have closed subscriptions for now (which only speaks for them IMHO). I have personal experience with Ossrox and Weingärtner IT, they are both excellent and I can recommend them without hesitation. I have no affiliation with any of those companies except being a customer of the later two.

EDIT: The price of a small instance is less than a Twitter subscription. So, if you want your own instance - which as pros and cons - nothing is holding you back.

[1] https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/run-your-own/
A quote that always stuck in my memory is and now I can’t recall exactly :)

I never stole from an honest person they wanted something for nothing and I gave them nothing for something
Not really. Perhaps slightly in how 'rude' you let people be, but none of that is censoring ideas or thoughts.

This comes down to the moderator I guess, an assumption is that they know how to distinguish the two.
I and my exgirlfriend play this game back in those days. One time she chose 'arrows on traffic sign' really got me frustrated. Sometimes she answers my question as an object in our physical world, and sometimes she answers me with its semantic meaning. Reminds me of Gödel's incompleteness theorems.