skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems deeply ironic that Noam is starting a Twitter competitor, when he's mostly well-known for some comments he made about lazy startup employees which seem like something Elon Musk might have said. But then you realize it's not ironic at all.
> No, web components are not required to build a web app

Nobody is saying that.

Nobody has ever said that.

I have explicitly said the opposite since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33635218.

You are arguing with yourself.
My own definition: If the ingredient list contains something that you are not exactly sure what it is, then it is processed.

Personally I consider a can of skipjack tuna in spring water to be unprocessed, even though it has been canned.

I consider a frozen bag of peeled and cooked shrimp to be unprocessed, even though it has been peeled, cooked, and frozen.

But a frozen bag of peeled garlic shrimp I would consider to be processed, because the ingredient list contains items I don't exactly know what they are.

So that's my definition, it's the ingredient list.
All species that consume other life forms are, we are just more efficient.
Pitch correction is harder to do live, if there are key changes, since you can set your auto tuner to a specific key

Also, key changes present some increased difficulty (not insurmountable of course) in live performance on certain instruments like guitars. And the fact is (at least frontman) music artists are getting less talented at their instruments on average
Dandy. A memento of the corona virus
> I'm open to the idea that blockchain might somehow be useful for something somehow in the future. I don't see what LibreOffice could gain from blockchain.

It's not because you can't imagine anything that nobody else can.
Not familiar with PUFA (had to look it up). I am a little confused by what your last line is saying?

PUFA: Polyunsaturated fatty acids are fatty acids that contain more than one double bond in their backbone
Cause they crave an audience, and find technical challenges in alternatives.
But that is what the comment he's referring to means, that's the point.
Blender tool code incorporated in widespread stock images
"Training" and "being the (allergy) the most skilled" have no connection to you? You can't be serious.

This is mincing words and a bad-faith argument. I consider this discussion pointless and will not continue.
Not this study, it showed some ("weak") correlation between red meat consumption and poor health outcomes. Keep looking.
Oh yeah that of course exists, didn't mean to imply it didn't.

Just the "uncured" but still processed bacon that is pretty much just regular bacon
This manifesto is generic enough that it aligns with all existing social-network platforms. So this Twitter alternative is bringing nothing new to the table.

Worse, there isn't even an attempt to provide or support an open protocol/open endpoint as a way to entice developers.

Don't get me wrong, I'm under no illusion that had this open endpoint been provided, that it wouldn't be shut-down in a couple years once this "Post" service gains market share .. but still, this performative action would have been welcome.
This is for USA only?
There is a difference between watching a giant tire fire from a distance, and throwing $44bln of your own and investors money on said tire fire nominally to make it ‘better’.

If he gets himself under control and stops it from downward spiraling (including losing much of their existing advertiser revenue!) then he’s making some progress.

But right now, he seems to be throwing gasoline on it.
Regardless of what I think of the wisdom of his foray into social media, it's hard to ignore the obvious success that Musk has had in bringing electric vehicles to the mainstream and vastly lowering the cost to put mass into orbit through rapidly reusable launch vehicles. Likewise, Starlink is looking like it may well succeed in bringing internet connectivity to the most remote and under-served areas of the planet. That's not nothing - and I don't think one (or several) poorly-considered venture negates his past successes. Just makes him a flawed human like the rest of us.
The universe appears chaotic, in that outcomes have sensitive dependence on its initial conditions. Even if all laws of physics are deterministic.

So for there to be a wide range of possible things happening from the initial starting point (including you and I having this conversation right now), IMO it follows that a complete description of the initial conditions would have to be absurdly (infinitely?) large to cause the universe to replay to this exact moment if you started it all over again.

In other words, the size of X would have to be extremely large… so I think I agree with you.

(Edited once I realized that myself and OP are likely in agreement.)
It's this in a nutshell.

I made extremely sophisticated backends for biomedical software. For medical imaging software. And for molecular imaging software. I was very aware that the graphics, biophysics, and mathematics work I was doing at those companies was important. I was on site often collaborating in cross-functional teams at NIH, Carnegie-Mellon, Cleveland Clinic and Sloan Kettering among others. And there was always a core of people on those teams who often wouldn't go home in some situations.

Now, when I had enough exits, and I got into making graphics and physics backends for video games?

Well, sorry, I was just very aware that I was doing something with a lower level of importance. Dressing it up as pushing the boundaries of what some political opportunist wants to call "free speech" would still not have moved the needle for me. If I were at Twitter, I'd be in the camp of "I'm not going to work 18 hours a day on your political campaign as though it's critical to mankind's continuance big guy."

However, that's just a data point of 1. Others might feel different.
I pay 4eur for 1tb managed NextCloud from Hetzner - it's a good service overall but it's unusable for photos. Apart from iCloud at 10eur per month are there any alternatives with a good photos (viewing, sharing, tagging, ai etc) integration?
Ask HN: Is anyone using Value Stream Mapping?
There is a concept called "Value Stream Mapping" that is starting to gather a small amount of steam in certain software engineering circles. On the surface it seems like a process from manufacturing companies that doesn't map well to making software. Is anyone using this? Is it adding value? Torture? Something else?
> there is no use for it.

No use for it? The blockchain is a massive achievement. It's a decentralized verification system. Of course it has plenty of uses beyond crypto currencies.
Why shouldn't the US be protectionist? The country does not exist for the benefit of large technology companies.
Two opposing lies do not form a truth.
This is the actual problem. We're doing Goodhart's Law with self-improvement. In a lot of cases, particularly concrerning people with power/clout, those people are never going to change. But they can make a vague simulation of it that hits the metrics. And now we've reached the stage where they can simply farm that process out to paid help, so they don't even have to do the simulation themselves.
Very true. I find that watching a sport that I've played AT ALL is much more entertaining than, say, curling (pls no sarcasm about curling here, folks).

Even golf, which I haven't played since high school, is more relatable to watch because at least I've done it.
These are not incompatible ideas, by the way.

Of course he’s going to do what he defaults to and knows best to try to get out of a bad deal?

Can you really say edgelording so hard you appear to be a legitimate national security threat to get out of a $44bln deal you don’t want is something that doesn’t sound typically Elon Musk?
Not before interviewing, public speaking, business meetings, or any other interaction in which the rules and topics are predefined and understood. Those are very easy to handle.

But socializing? Meeting random new people? Parties and mixers? Yes, six drinks at an absolute minimum to start. Usually more, with periodic BAC maintenance drinks for the entire duration of the interaction or event.

Alcohol is an absolute godsend for those of us who don't know what to say when interacting with normies.
Ask anyone running a general discussion group for a neighborhood. It consumes a lot of time/effort if you do any sort of active moderation. Most people eventually quit if they're not being compensated in some significant way.

On the other hand, if anything goes it can probably be fairly hands off.
does pork count as red meat? because, man, i would grill up some good pork chops every single day if my family would let me.
I'm using an NVidia card right now for very high end video work. It works great.

Why would I want power saving modes?
Virtue signaling. A loaded term, yes. But it is exactly why these discussions go off the rails. Nutritional 'science' doesn't even really exist, so you can always find something out there that sounds very objective and intelligence which will back up the positions you already hold on faith.

This discussion today is already off to a great start with bro science and bragging about personal choices that are clearly the best, with the occasional 'but I am a little weak, so I don't get it perfect every time' tossed in to make it sound real. Hell, there's even a bit of the smug international 'this is just an America problem' already cropping up. Another day ending in Y on HN.
That's fair-- if it's in a package, looks, smells and tastes like bacon it's probably bacon :)
The group I was in switched to Pursue The Pennant when that came out.
Haha! Yeah, they joke around.
> TurboWarp Desktop

The only thing they forgot is to add a description: what is and what it does.
TweetDelete: Delete tweets from your Twitter feed in bulk
Here's the administrator's filing with the Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware: https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/uploaded-fi...

Page 22 is exciting: "The Debtors did not have the type of disbursement controls that I believe are appropriate for a business enterprise. For example, employees of the FTX Group submitted payment requests through an on-line ‘chat’ platform where a disparate group of supervisors approved disbursements by responding with personalized emojis."

.. and: "In the Bahamas, I understand that corporate funds of the FTX Group were used to purchase homes and other personal items for employees and advisors. I understand that there does not appear to be documentation for certain of these transactions as loans, and that certain real estate was recorded in the personal name of these employees and advisors on the records of the Bahamas."
Because I want to know what function does?
>As someone who used one of these laptops as a daily driver for years, I disagree. The CPU was quite powerful.

The benchmarks, reviews and poor sales disagreed with you. Maybe it wasn't under-powered for your standards and needs back then, but compared to what the mainstream laptop market of the time, they were very slow in windows apps which is what most consumers ran back then.
One traditional university introduction happens to be written by Goodman ("good" man): Introduction to Fourier Optics.
I would say it falls into "pointing out hypocrisy."
It's simply curious as the piece of code has ended up in multiple versions of stock imagery all over the web.

Clearly the "artist" picked a random repo, generated a number of images based partly on it, and those seem to have been remixed for use in various places. One issue suggests it's in an image offered by PowerPoint now!

Edit: see the issues list for numerous places the code has been used
I agree here. It's hard to read this as "Red meat is not a health risk. New study slams years of other studies. But you should totally trust this one, because the others are Lazy and Shoddy."

In an area where there are huge amounts of lobbyist dollars arguing in the same direction, I'd love more technical reasons about why every other study is flawed and why this burden-of-proof function is meaningful.

I'm not realistically going to read the 25 page PDF in a field I'm not in.
Not on NixOS :(
I think often of this jab by Rodney Brooks on my home field of human-robot interaction [1]:

"A group of people who have never used a computer are recruited for an experiment, using variations of Unix commands to manipulate files from a command line interface. The users have never heard of computer files before and they don’t in any sense have the utility of files internalized.

The experiment is to determine whether something the experimenters have called utility versus expressiveness is more highly valued. One set of users is taught commands like “rm,” “mkdir,” and “cat,” etc., while another is taught “delete,” “new_directory,” and “type_out,” etc. They are asked to do some housekeeping tasks on a file system. Their speed and accuracy is measured, and they fill in a questionnaire about how hard and how intuitive the task was. The paper itself about these experiments touts “statistically significant results,” with lots of p-values, etc.

No HCI academics bother to invent windows, icons, a mouse, and so on. Such work is viewed as too informal and unscientific."

I just finished my PhD and these lines were in my head since they were published. Between an advisor who would only greenlight plans if they immediately led to a paper and an embarrassing amount of impractical "safe" research that only makes for good tweets or headlines, I've given up hope on anything meaningful coming out of the Ivory Towers. The robot revolution will not be peer reviewed.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3209540
Would you expect the National Council for Animal Protection to give you an unbiased figure?

I struggle with the concept of feedlot farming being morally acceptable at all. However, I've been on a number of beef farms in the UK and it's just not representative of how British beef is raised.
Of course, this is only if the submitter explicitly agrees to that.
>I’m fed up with “platforms”. Growing a garden on someone else’s land is dumb [...] To top it off, there’s very little upside to you as a user.

The "upside" for users who post/write is reaching larger audiences. Similar reasons for mass audience "broadcast" platforms like Twitter, Youtube, TikTok.

Small islands of decentralized communities (USENET newsgroups, dial-up BBS, vBulletin/phpBB forum websites, this HN website, and recent Mastodon interest, etc) do not accomplish the same thing.
Having never performed live I'm just guessing, but theoretically changing keys on autotune should be as simple as pressing a single button at the correct point in the song, no? Conceivably it could even be programmed in with everything else
does the national council for animal protection sound like they do independent research?
Why are you assuming that all, or even any, of those reports are valid?

After opening that page, all it takes is a single button click to submit a report.

The last time I reported an outage using that site, it didn't even have a confirmation prompt.

I don't see anything preventing false reports from being filed, either.
Personally, I put about 30 dollars of pennies up my ass the week before the interview. The trick is to then spend them.
You can buy direct from farmer who treats the animals well, either individually or with a group of friends and family. You just have to have the freezer space.
There are obvious problems with both those prefixes.
We don’t know that the universe is discrete, hence a description in a finite number of bits, and Kolmogorov complexity, may be inapplicable.
I'm confused by this article and the reference to the alt-right. I thought these people were the second largest donors to the Democratic Party?
Slams should not be allowed in titles here. It’s abused by journalists or editors who just want to make you feel angry instead of conveying a point. I question info from any publication that uses it
How do you manage these patch files? Is that a recommended approach?
You can't use methods that may panic on OOM like Vec::push or Box::new. This means that close to 100% of crates that use the stdlib won't be usable in the kernel without modifications.
Defense Department fails another audit, but makes progress
There are plenty of code bases that are dramatically simpler when exceptions are in use, especially if you just want to read and understand the happy path. I'm tempted to give an example or two but I'm sure most readers know that really.

There is definitely a trade off for efficiency and guarantees about all error conditions being handled. That means that exceptions aren't appropriate for all situations or perhaps even for all languages. But taking such a hard line against them is just as naive as using them too much. (It's always suspicious when you see someone making a sweeping declaration like this about engineering trade offs.)

Python is not Rust. Its goal is not to be hardened and super reliable. Its goal, at least sometimes, is to maximise developer productivity. Imagine telling a Python developer who's just thrown together a quick script that, actually, no, you're going to have to waste time making it more verbose so that it satisfies some reliability constraint you don't need. It just doesn't make sense.
Who likes Twitter culture?
That's a good idea. As I understand it the Burden of Proof method is a meta-analytical method, though, which means it gets applied to a corpus of studies. I'm sure there are more than 1 study that tries to figure out that relationship, though.
Never tried but I somehow doubt it. Standard issue UDP hole punching absolutely does work though.

You still usually need hole punching with IPv6 if there's any kind of firewall in the way, but unlike IPv4 with NAT it's virtually 100% successful. Even if IPv6 NAT is deployed there's usually a 1:1 internal/external IP mapping making hole punching 100% successful.
"Think of the startups" is the standard flavour of "think of the children" on Hacker News.

No, there's no way for a startup selling handheld mobile phones, tablets, digital cameras, headphones, headsets, handheld videogame consoles, portable speakers, e-readers, keyboards, mice, portable navigation systems, earbuds or laptops to invent their own shiny new connector for charging without providing support for USB-C at the same time.

What exactly is lost if a startup is not able to shove their proprietary connector instead of using the standard? A startup selling floor lamps can't sell their own proprietary power plug and outlet either.
I've run an online community since 2001 and I've yet to meet the boogeymen of self-hosting. A small site and forum with ~100 users doesn't cost a shit to run ($5 per month, the cost of a coke and a sandwich where I live), updates itself automatically via CPanel, and it isn't much of an issue if it goes down for an hour or two every other year. That's an acceptable cost for not having to submit to anyone's whims about allowed content, and for not having to tolerate "redesigns". Twitter is probably down more than a standard Apache server.
Not nationality, nation states that are known bad actors.
For the time being yes. It’s the only place where we know how to reliably verify someone’s death.

What other country are you interested in?
When the foundation to almost every company’s long-term success is the people it has hired, eviscerating those ranks of people indiscriminately is a really great way to have loads of institutional knowledge flee and the job become much, much harder for anyone who remains.

At this point, my only immediately rational conclusion is that Elon is acting out some sort of a revenge fantasy, trying to create as much harm to Twitter as possible without any care that the company might actually collapse. Or maybe even to that end, explicitly, just with plausible deniability.

These tweets makes some great arguments that give legs to my supposition - anyone with any minimal amount of business sense would know of these arguments, and yet Elon is ignoring them wholesale to the detriment of Twitter. What remains is the determination of whether it is ignorance or intentional malice.
That still doesn't answer the question

Why did they decide that and why do they trust the receipts of those benefits to use them appropriately?
Universal in the sense that everybody who qualifies[0] gets it automatically deposited into their bank accounts every month without having to jump through hoops. People in the top 2 quintiles will however see have to see their taxes go by (at least) the amount that they get in UBI each year for there to be any chance of the numbers coming even close to making sense.

[0] Citizens (possibly permanent residents) over 18 (or 16?) who actually reside in the country.
500 new words added to Scrabble dictionary
> Comments can have a scope that's way too close to the code, rendering them very volatile and oftentimes neglected.

I think this is a well put and nuanced insight. Thank you.

This is really what the dev community should be discussing; the "type" of comments and docs to add and the shape thereof. Not a poorly informed endless debate whether it should be there in the first place.
> Give it a try and see how you feel. Ignore the rest.

Remember that how you feel isn't the same thing as your long term health risks. My belief, and that of mainstream science, is that this diet will raise your cholesterol and increase your risk of heart disease. You won't be able to feel your heart health worsening until things are very bad. It might be a trade-off some people want though.
I try to escape Tailscale, but they keep trying to suck me back in.

Tailscale crew:
I know y'all read HN, so I say to you: keep up the good work and innovation!
Absolutely not. China is an authoritarian state with no rule of law other than what the CCP says goes. There are no meaningful firewalls between corporate operations and the Chinese government.
Its involved but seems like it can be done pretty quickly https://nassaufoods.com/resources/basic-manufacturing-of-bac...
It's not like datomic claims to be lightening fast, it's not. The real problem is if you want to support the historical queries "as_of()", which is very difficult to do efficiently with only B-tree indexes. So you're either left maintaining your own indices as tables or externalizing it to something else. I think the latter would actually be a pretty ok option if your dataset fits entirely in memory (though... for historical queries it will grow much faster than a normal database).

Regardless, I have a partial attempted implementation of this on top of SQLite using Python: https://git.sr.ht/~chiefnoah/quark

No query engine, I didn't get that far.
> People act like he was the one deciding which ones get turned off. Instead of it being someone whose job it is to know this screwing up.

He created the conditions where anyone and everyone left in the company is likely to screw up. Because they are stressed. Or worried. Or tired. Or angry. Or doing a job that's not theirs. Or taking over stuff they don't know, because those who did know were fired in a rush, and there was no transition, no handoff, no training.
>> rational argument, integral to print typography, is militated against by the medium of television

> the rest of it seems to incorrectly pit textual against visual media and it lacks nuance and sufficient depth.

I don't think that's quiet right. He's not pitting textual media against visual media, he's pitting the written book against broadcast television.

Also the argument isn't outdated, your comment about twitter further emphasises it. Text needed to be put on twitter, rather then in books or even websites, to get to the point where you would (rightly) consider it diluted and commoditized.

Twitter's form excludes the possibility of writers regularly publishing whole books on there just as much as written books excluded the kind of "few people understand: ", "this is important 1/n" threads that you see on twitter.