skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh thanks, but I don't think that I have much to contribute. I had been musing about a faithful ElIZA emulation a few years ago, but ELIZAGEN put somewhat an end to this.

"Moiré logic" was a joke, meaning, an interference pattern caused by two layers of logical state.

Well, there's actually one thing, I can contribute: The famous photo of Weizenbaum on a terminal (sometimes attributed to the German magazine "Die Zeit") – e.g. here [1] – seems to show Weizenbaum on a Lorenz teletypewriter [2], so there is some probability to the photo actually having been taken in Germany.

[1] https://maeda.pm/2019/02/11/joseph-weizenbaum-humanist-techn...

[2] https://twitter.com/RetroWizzard/status/1419658098210451459 (1st image)

PS: You may find this one (my own doing) amusing: https://masswerk.at/eliza/
Loading a not-present page is typically handled transparently by the OS. Exposing it to the userspace program isn't really useful.

I'd suggest to change your example to faulting for a page that doesn't exist in swap either, so a decision has to be made whether to set a flag or e.g. send a signal to the process.
"I am personally very skeptical of the "realness" of anything that happens during a hallucination."

Is it a hallucination, though? That's an open question in the scientific study of these substances and experiences.
You can ignore the ideological takes, which aren't really relevant and focus on the court records.

Musk is now voting for Republicans while he himself was an undocumented worker between 1995 and 1997.
This one goes for those who are positive towards EM right now (honest question, no ill intentions here): is there any way at all to look at his actions in the past weeks in a positive light from an administrative perspective? I mean, ok, you could argue that Twitter was in a bad shape and so on, but anyway, is there any real objective justification for such a messy, chaotic approach to its reorganization? Can anyone really expect to improve a company this way? He recently tweeted a meme of twitter burying twitter, and to me it really feels like the kind of thing a teenager would do, "oh shit, I made a mistake with this acquisition, let me blame someone for it".
I have also observed this.
that actually is what hacker news is and always should have been.

There used to be more VC and "inspiring founder" stories, but you know after 20 years of those we realised its mosly luck and connection, not stamina and found er endurance that moves the needle.

I for one enjoy the new format and on the "real hacker news" thats actually mostly show and tell "here i did this thing, there is the exploit, enjoy!"

My reason for returning here are clearly the comments and the industry wisdom i would not get anywhere else and with a lot less "pretend experts" like reddit or other armchair guessers.

In addition to hn, i suggest the "devopsish" subreddit though, they have a lot of interesting stuff, that would not be interesting enough for hn
> which doesn't allow anyone to change its emission rate

Bitcoin changes its emission rate every 4 years.
A fixed emission rate is far more desirable. Something like 1 coin per second forever looks more attractive and immutable than bitcoin's arbitrary capped emission, that doesn't guarantee security in the long term when block subsidy runs out.
True. Excellent.
I don't understand why you would put up with that! Find a new job!
ReportLab can render gradients, but it's poorly documented. See eg https://stackoverflow.com/questions/452074/creating-a-gradie...

I use the method with `canvas.clipPath(path, stroke=False, fill=True)` on a path I've parsed manually from SVG then `canvas.linearGradient`.
You pay an annual % tax on the value of your investments less debt as of January 1st. This means you still pay taxes if your assets lose value, too. It's a wealth tax that pretends to be a capital gains tax.
This article says the global average is 91 minutes/day for kids and teens. 99 minutes/day in the US.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/07/13/kids-and-teens-watch-more-...
Agreed. The problem was murkier in the 1980s.

Another factor: there wasn't much reason for the original Mac team to think about multi-tasking. If the original Mac had supported multiple app windows open at the same time, they might have designed menubar behavior differently.
Thanks for sharing your referral links
Yeah, this was my first reaction as well. It's incredibly hard to tell how much signal is in a metric like this. I can imagine two papers or two grant proposal with significantly different degrees of novelty that have the exact same references.
"Sometimes" doing all the lifting there.

Comments are supplemental. If you have just added some weird, non-obvious, bit of code because you needed to compromise, or work around some other quirk, go ahead and comment. No one is going to (sanely) object to that.
Indeed, Lisp contributed to why Algol 60 has recursion. Quoting https://vanemden.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/how-recursion-got-...

> McCarthy, fresh from the success of his Lisp project, was enthusiastic about recursion as an elegant way to get computers to do what they are best at: repeat execution of the same code with suitable modification each time around. In fact, the first Lisp had no iteration, so that the only way to add all elements of a linear list was to write a recursively defined function. As a member of the Algol committee he proposed making the possibility of recursion a feature of the new language. The proposal was crowded out by more pressing concerns. The result was that in the early months of 1960, when the report was to be finalized, there was no consensus on recursion.
Or why not the open source tool innernet? https://github.com/tonarino/innernet
If only one side is presenting evidence, isn't it likely that the preponderance of evidence will support their claim? I only browsed the linked judgment, but I didn't see the defense address the hitman claims.
I raised the same objection in another subthread and got reminded how Java's checked exception, while attacking the same problem as Rust's Result<> type, are really abysmal from a usability POV. Now I remember why I never used them...
110 days is very long yes. Note though that its still less than plenty of other European countries.
What if the table includes a poorly labeled column entitled “fiat@“?
doesn't make sense. if this guy invested 200M USD into Sequoia and then Sequoia invested 150M into FTX. This is not even breaking even and also washtrading.
Here's my own understanding:

* Musk didn't really want to buy Twitter. He screwed up and got locked into a contract he couldn't figure out a way out of.

* Having figured that he vastly overpaid, he panicked and tried to cut down the fat. Problem is that he hasn't spent enough time there to figure out where's the fat.

* Musk fundamentally doesn't understand what he has bought. He doesn't understand that Twitter's business relies on pleasing advertisers, who don't give a crap about free speech ideals and are very risk averse.

* Musk doesn't understand that what he bought is far more about people skills than anything else. Managing an online community is an exercise in cat herding. At Twitter's scale you also have to content with thorny legal issues. None of that is fun. Many forces push things into a familiar direction, and "free speech" is a very tough direction to pick.

* Musk doesn't understand even the basics of the platform he bought, like why the blue checkmarks provided any value. He proceeded to immediately throw a huge wrench into that system, to nearly no economic benefit.

* Musk is trying to have his cake and eat it too. On one hand he wants unrestricted free speech, on the other hand he wants to make money from advertisers that don't care for free speech. You can pick one or the other.

* Musk seems not to understand that Twitter isn't SpaceX. There's few places where you can work on a rocket, but a lot of places where you can maintain a backend. You can sell the dream of colonizing Mars to rocket engineers, but Twitter employees can go most anywhere else and do mostly the same thing.

* Musk seems not to understand that since his employees have plentiful options, he can't strong arm them. They can leave. They're generally well paid, and his takeover provides plentiful options for them to organize, help each other and start lawsuits if he breaks any laws.
The EU is desperate to get the sort of funding YC provides so they would never say "no".
@lausbub shared this. So it might be something you're looking for.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33652498
Technically your car will drive without a brake pedal, a roof and tires too
Haha. Yeah. I still only see the reverse chronological timeline. No advertisements and no algorithm screwing up my timeline. Thanks Tweetbot.
Isn’t this just ‘don’t knock heroin if you haven’t tried it’?
I'm kinda glad to see this. Twitter has been a cesspool for years and it negatively impacted society. I'm glad to see it crash and burn. It took $44 billions to do but what the heck.
What exactly is it that makes YT shorts so compelling?

Genuine question - because I tried watching them several times over, but they never really clicked with me?

Maybe I'm just old - but I honestly don't "get it".
"You seeing something when on strong drugs that you can't see when not is not strong evidence for its existence."

This assumes that the sober state of mind takes precedence over the altered state of mind. But there's no evidence that the one is superior to the other.

One could equally claim that things that one experiences when sober does not exist, and only things that one experiences while altered does.

Which is the more real? There's no "objective" standpoint one could take to evaluate the two and compare them to the "real real" to judge which is closer.
So it basically allowed you to start the process of reconciliation with oneself, finding balance that was never truly there, being able to work with sore spot that was before hidden too well. You probably felt a bit off before but never went digging and accepted it just as part of you.

What a wonderful therapeutic substance, it just doesn't fix everything on its own but requires further work, paving the path for it.
The conclusion of the study was that the machine elves was simply created by the trippers' imagination as they couldn't get any knowledge out of them. Like they tried asking questions that the users didn't know the answer to to see if they could get the machine elves to tell them. Of course it doesn't really prove that machine elves aren't real either, just that they didn't answer any questions with information that trippers didn't know.

It was something I read many years ago. Didn't find it from a quick search now.
It's certainly viewed as immoral at the very least in the UK.

"In R v Looseley; Attorney General's Reference (No 3 of 2000) [2002] 1 Cr. App. R. 29, the House of Lords held that although entrapment is not a substantive defence in English law, where an accused can show entrapment, the court may stay the proceedings as an abuse of the court's process or it may exclude evidence pursuant to Section 78 PACE 1984 ...

"Police conduct which brings about state-created crime is unacceptable and improper, and to prosecute in such circumstances would be an affront to the public conscience."

- https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/abuse-process
AI versus DAO – An Upcoming Battle
People love to split into groups according to their views on different absolutes. While tech becomes a dominating force shaping our world, I think, the existing “classical” disputes will give way to new ones.
Can't you tell your source is absolutely 100% biased ?

I can't tell if you're satire or for real
It's free market capitalism, no? The fiduciary duty of the previous management was to its shareholders (as much as I hate that), if you subscribe to that line of thinking then the board and management did what was right for Twitter's shareholders: extract as much value as possible for the shareholders.

Don't think there was a better financial outcome for them.
Which competitor is pushing ASML to spend more on R&D?
"If your aim is sabotage, you would have to find a like minded saboteur to work with you"

You are thinking active sabotage like git-committing a bug. Passive sabotage is trivial. I recommend skinming the CIA saboteur manual on the topic.
Thank you. I think you're absolutely right about JS. I would prefer to avoid dead technology, which is one of the reasons I haven't spent much time with schemes like Racket or GNU Guile.
The calendar you need to meet
Ready evolves your calendar into a living, breathing multiplayer workspace for teams to instantly make your meetings better.
the big issue with Mega is always how sustainable they are.

Its a business with a questionable legacy, and I have no idea what the longevity is of the service. Your data is probably fine, but it attracts a certain clientele that might put the service at risk long term of another seizure or whatever.

I also use Mega for big files, but not as my primary backup solution or anything important.
He bought a very powerful propaganda weapon.

Destroying it or disarming it is a win for humanity, I guess.
Lovely. How old is he?
Dunno. The best for Tesla might be him being occupied by something else.
It was a rhetorical question: for me the answer is no. TWTR apparently justified its share price to someone on the market, but I think it's been overvalued since IPO.

I have no idea if TSLA is overvalued or undervalued. I don't know enough about the automotive industry, renewable energy regulations, or batteries to even guess.
Is there an equivalent of Moore's law for energy efficiency of computation?
That's just a student competition the company organized that one time and it had no followup. Relatively disconnected to their business.
"Sir we told you to stop smoking 12 packs a day and drink a bottle of vodka every 6 hours, you now have terminal stage cancer"

"Uh duh ok but I still breath, I don't have cancer until I see them"
No, and no. It's not that you can't write multi-key music (polytonal is one word for that) but it sounds esoteric, "modern", "difficult", and not something you're going to use in a chart hit.

There are probably one or two examples somewhere, but it's certainly not common.

Keys are like the rails that keep a train on the tracks. If you don't have them, or if they're too non-linear, you lose a sense of momentum that keeps untrained people listening.

Classical music meanders for a while and then stops at cadences, which reinforce the key. It's like a train ride with stations. A key change switches the ride to a different track, but you always get a series of pauses and restarts.

Modern music uses ambiguous chord sequences - usually four chords - that repeat over and over but never come to a climax or a pause. The chords are ambiguous because they fit with a couple of keys - usually related major and minor, or perhaps a mode - but without the stops there's no clear sense which applies.

So you get continuous but repetitive motion on a single track without the stops. It's like being stuck on a loop and going through the same station over and over without stopping.

Sometimes the scenery changes between the verse and the chorus/drop/whatever. But without the clear key stops you can't get off.
Drug induced trips are safe the way a mountain trip is safe.

Meaning, if you know the mountain and your skills well and are prepared (or have a good guide leading the way and the preparations), it will likely be a great experience. But not necessarily a "nice" experience and even seasoned climbers have gone missing on a bad day.

So framing any drug trips as safe, like the current hype does way too much, is of course dangerous and missleading.

I do recommend both, though, but you have to be prepared and you have to be in good condition.
Ask HN: WHO should I be Reading these days on best practices, etc.?
How to write this question without sounding like an old grandpa? Back in the day, I used to know who to read about software craftsmanship and best practices. Joel on Software, Uncle Bob, etc.

Who are the modern ones to follow? I'm tired of all the listicles and fluff written by the average Joe who's been told they need to blog. I'd like some actual substance from a person who knows their stuff and is still actively writing.

Any thoughts or suggestions?
There's a difference between "not getting" something and deliberately avoiding it because of huge negative effects
If my SRE quit everything would be fine for weeks/months and then nobody would know what to do when shit start to die
That's not the only thing I read.

It's a primary source at least :-)

I also didn't claim to be an unbiased source of information, and in fact actively welcomed corrections...
Well I consider this an idiotic but pragmatic reason: I've encountered laptops where Windows Subsystem for Linux will cause windows to bluescreen on boot (do they still call it that?) when VT-x is enabled. There's an open bug report tracking the on WSL for a couple of years now.
Common sense :)
Just use Twitter. There are no ads to speak of.
My two favorite sources for financial news are Matt Levine's Money Stuff column/newsletter[1], and Patrick Boyle on Finance on Youtube[2].

They're both quite funny. Both have a very dry wit, though Boyle moreso.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ARbTQlRLRjE/matthew-s-levi...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickBoyleOnFinance
As someone who has zero experience of using TikTok - how does it monetize?

And how does it deal with companies? Facebook and Twitter seem quite focused on providing marketing departments (i.e. advertisers) with a way to connect to their customers and doing promotions.

The self-promotion of regular users this article decries is enabled by those same tools that those companies need for marketing promotions...
Just be careful, I haven't heard of account locks, but I'm sure it can happen. I just use it for cheap storage. You could add your other account onto it as a family plan, so Account A (main) can share Account B's (Turkish account) storage. But given Googles track record for support... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is an example what I dislike about proponents of psychedelics. The condescending tone and appeals to "science" when a scientific method is nowhere to be found.
I've started categorizing social media based on what part of the brain they activate / appeal to. Twitter is clearly the cerebral one. Facebook more like the limbic system. TikTok… the brain stem? :)
> That's an open question in the scientific study of these substances and experiences.

I sincerely doubt that there are scientists questioning whether clockwork elves are real or not.

Hallucinations are considered hallucinations because they are seen only by the person who ingested the hallucinogens, and none of the other people who might be present but didn't ingest the hallucinogens. Consistence is crucial to the very definition of reality - hallucinations are not consistent, therefore they aren't real.

Or that's just the way I see it.
Guessing here but I think the implication is that courts in the US are unable/unwilling to enforce workers rights even when laid out in a contract. In a post-union US there is not enough organised support for workers unless they are very rich.

Obviously employees all (maybe almost all) have employment contracts
I hope they use Mastodon. Because then it'll be trivial for authorities to find out and seize the offending server and probably most of the users if it's part of the global federation.
We left them because of this. Long overdue move away from Gmail Gsuite resulted in TS costs for our dozen user team at least doubling; the overhead involved in managing the overlay network acls was also getting out of hand too.
> Most advertising can be automated.

I don't think you ever worked with advertiser directly at that scale, I worked in a company that did on a smaller scale and it was hell on earth, no way to automate that, we had 10 people just for them and they were overworked
40-hours week is more of an artefact from the times when the labour unions were fighting for a normalised work week and fair pay.
You can get the same purging experience and feeling of lightness with a standard colonoscopy prep, which is done with over the counter medication.

You don't get black eyes either.
Facebook is a very different business from Twitter in 3 ways - firstly scale, they're more than 5x the size, secondly in engagement - they have enormous amounts of demographic and behaviour data about their users and they track them extensively across the web, and finally business model - Twitter does brand advertising whereas Facebook is much closer to point of sale, an advert on Facebook is likely to directly convert to a sale, whereas an advert on twitter is just mainly brand advertising - Facebook's type of advert is far more valuable. So it's difficult to directly compare them.

But more importantly there's a big difference between how Facebook and Twitter work - Facebook is default closed, people can't interact with you unless you're putting yourself out there - either by friending people or joining a group, so there's a natural barrier against the spread of harassment, brigading and the toxic behaviour becoming public. There is a whole load of toxic neo-nazi stuff on Facebook, but it's out of view, and because ads are highly targetted there's no concern about brand safety. On Twitter it's default open, so if people are going around loudly spreading far right homophobic conspiracy theories about a violent attack on an elected official everyone is going to know about it - that's why Twitter has to be so careful.

There were a lot of people who have been in social media who explained in a lot of detail about how these things work when Elon first got involved. For example, Yishan Wong ran reddit back in 2012, at the time he had an extremely similar free speech maximalist view similar to Musk's current view. He did a very clear explanation of the dynamics of why that approach simply doesn't work - https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440 .
Wikipedia Is a Source of Political Propaganda
In that case the code will probably also be difficult to read.

In my experience, studying the database schema and IO data structures is indeed the best way to begin understanding a complex system.
If Russia gets anything out of this war it would be anything but death minimising. It will signal to them, and all other states, that aggressive wars are viable. They are in Ukraine because war has worked out for them in Georgia and Chechnya. You are literally espousing a pro-imperialism stance masquerading as a moderate position.
Here is my 5 line bash script which uses Fabrice Bellard's https://textsynth.com

You need to sign up (with email address only) for an API key. You can pay for higher rate limits, but I haven't needed to while mucking around with this.

#!/bin/bash

# Make an account at https://textsynth.com/ get API key and put it in below

curl -s https://api.textsynth.com/v1/engines/gptneox_20B/completions \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Authorization: Bearer YOURAPIKEYGOESHERE" \
-d '{"prompt": "Using the Linux shell\n\nQ: how do I '"$*"'?\nA: ", "max_tokens": 200, "temperature":1.0 }' | jq -r .text

Gives for example

$ ai check process running on port

If you are looking for processes listening on port 80 or some other port, you can use netstat command with the port number:
netstat -tupln | grep 80

For more details please refer https://serverfault.com/a/538945/192371
Former Wireguard user here. It's fantastic for point to point VPN but I moved to Tailscale last week and it's so much better having all of my devices on one flat network. Not to mention getting my parents devices on there with no config.
That would be how I meant it.
Even without any preparation, many people still have some of the most profound experiences of their life on psychedelics, comparable in significance (in their words) to the birth of a child or the death of a parent.

This has been shown in research time and time again.