skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Holmes lied about medical stuff. That’s way different. The issue with her is more that than the financial fraud.
I agree that to some degree that public transport can't solve all issues, but it can get you far enough that congestion becomes much less severe. It should be the primary means, not the only.

Of course the US has a lot more problems with implementing public transport that aren't easy to solve and are rooted in zoning/city planning. Single family home suburbs don't have the density to justify public transit.
Sometimes we see compatibility through a narrow lens (e.g. refusing to date someone who makes less or is less educated).

Sometimes there is no 'problem', per se.
Grossly oversimplified, inland is swamps & lakes atop crystalline rocks, while Helsinki is landfill punctuated by granite outcroppings.
Our LAN parties typically started with paintball or quads, then switched to games after dark.
I have a lot of embarrassing stuff on Github and an interviewer has never asked me about any of it. Sometimes they'll ask me to show them my work that I can (is not proprietary from previous employments) and I'll pick a few of the better looking repos to browse thru and provide context. But nowadays I put half my prototypes out there in the open by default so maybe the interviewers just don't go through many of the repos if they do check them out.
This a good sound
"Could you elaborate" always gets me... I can never decide if they are trolls or people who don't understand how conversations work
Social media as we understand it is really algorithmic feeds with ads in between.

People genuinely do not seem to be able to conceptualize a different model. The reaction to Mastodon's learning curve has been very disappointing. You would have thought that the people that most want to leave the site would welcome an alternative model that is specifically un-Twitter like.

And yet the complaints are all "Hey this isn't like Twitter, I can scroll right to the bottom of the page. Where is the randomness?"

It is that very randomness that keeps people addicted to scrolling, keeps them viewing more ads, and eventually, has them responding to the quoted tweets of people they don't like to 'dunk' on them, ignorant to the fact that dunking counts as engagement, and boosts the reach of those posts.

Mastodon specifically avoids all those things, but most Twitter users can't see that forest for the trees.
This is why I stopped using my Google home devices. No matter what I did, any time I tried to use it, I had to endure an extra minute of dialog telling me how to use the thing. Every. Single. Time. No exceptions, no matter what command or what settings, I got these "hints" every time.

Sure, it makes sense to help your customers understand the abilities of the device, but trying to annoy them into using it more is just never going to work.
I'm legit skittish about having to reinstall or update windows on my PC because I don't have convenient access to my Battlefield 2 discs and there's a good chance an old friend of mine will be trying to get me on an AIX match any random weekend. I made it to Windows 10 and this machine cannot go to 11 anyway so I'm fairly safe for now.

An update to Battlefield 2 with fairly open servers (and an ability to mod) would be an amazing game and platform. But yea it would have to be coming from somewhere else I have no hopes on EA.
What I meant is that the money has to be available for them to wait for it.

Akin to the line in Guy Ritchie's "Snatch." involving two guys «in a car that costs less than your shirt».
*they’re
Alternate alternate hypothesis:

> Dude LOVES Twitter. As a narcissist, he can't get enough of the adulation of the right-wing mouth-breathers. But Twitter keeps banning the people he loves, so he becomes convinced that Twitter is a liberal SJW organization.

> He decides to teach them a lesson, and make an offer to buy the company. Absolutely convinced that it is a left-wing political site, he's sure they'll refuse his offer, even a ridiculously good offer. Then he can say "aha! they're so woke!" and his fans will cheer. 3/

> But Twitter is actually governed by businesspeople who see his offer as absurdly high, and they jump at it. Musk freaks out, tries to get out of the deal, but he's already locked in solidly. 4/

> Now his Dunning-Kruger kicks in to protect him from his panic, and he says, "heck, it's not that hard to run this site; I'll turn it around right quick!" He's not completely stupid, so he cons investors into going in with him. 5/

[…]

* https://twitter.com/drskyskull/status/1593465921498144769
Nice memory lane! I like the color combos you use, especially the first site. I've this in the corridor in my house, with flyers and other visual designs I made back in the day. I always look at it and realize I was less skillful then, but still care about the same underlying concepts.

By the way, your RSS feed gives an error. Now I can't get updates from your interesting blog posts.
Yeah - I can't remember where I read it but the notion seems to be that corruption and bribery in China and US is actually quite comparable except that in the US, bribery in the form of political donation is legalized.

For companies such as FTX, or any in the Fortune 500 size, it the expenditure on political donation must have such outstanding ROI. For the scale of economic impact it has (tens of billions of dollars) I can't believe that influences can be bought for mere tens of millions of dollars.
This seems to coincide with inflation of food prices in the US where there was no Brexit.
Brexit has caused immigration from non-EU countries to increase.

According to the government's own statistics we've seen massive increases from countries like India despite the anti-immigration rhetoric displayed by the Tories.

We've also got a partnership with India that helps fill in the gaps. Not to mention the record study visa's issued to India.

"India first again. I’m delighted that Indian nationals were issued the largest number of UK study, work and visitor visas in the year ending June 2022. More strength to the unique living bridge that connects our people." Alex Ellis, British High Commissioner to India [2]

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/populati...

[2] https://www.gov.uk/government/news/india-receives-largest-sh...

https://fullfact.org/immigration/eu-migration-and-uk/
I don't understand what you're trying to tunnel. Don't most games these days work online anyway and have built in firewall / router traversal, usually via a hosted server or some such?

Worst case, can't you rent a dedicated server? Those are usually pretty cheap and people can just connect to them by IP.
You may recall that, when someone blew the whistle on Google Dragonfly, a censored search engine intended for use in China, the public outrage was enough to bring the project to a halt. The same might well have happened to Akamai.

Regardless: this whole attitude strikes me as an overly utilitarian outlook. Yes, if someone else handled the development, the consequences might well have been worse. But it is still wrong to participate in an injustice when you have the opportunity not to do so. "I was just following orders" is a pretty weak excuse.

Again, if the commenter had no other options because they couldn't risk the loss of income, that would be a good reason, but it isn't clear that that was the case.

I think it's pretty naive to assume that this project wouldn't have been used against the Uighur population, given how China has used extensive surveillance against them.
(2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=10kbclub.com
I've said it in previous threads about tea, but just to reiterate: Homebrew is not affiliated with tea, and its creator has not been involved in Homebrew for a long time (at least as long as I've helped maintain it, which is 6+ years at this point).
Yes that threw me for a loop for a sec
A Labour Party that in most respects doesn't sound any different to their opponents.
Brexit added cost and friction to labor imports but to a great extent European labor has been substituted with workers from further off.

Meanwhile we had a hot summer affecting the harvest, rising cost of energy inputs to the food sector (and every other sector) and a bird flu epidemic affecting supplies of eggs and poultry.
I sort of agree but it's so easy to see how a digital paper artifact could be drastically superior. For example imagine your piece of paper has hyperlinks. Or revision history. Annotations that can be toggled on and off and swapped.

Generally my problem with digital paper right now is I need many of them and they need to interact with each other seamlessly.

The advantage of paper is you can spread it out over a large area and see twenty or so pieces of paper when necessary. And you can easily sort and shuffle them and process stackd. This sort of thing has been extremely difficult to reproduce with digital artifacts. But it's not insurmountable. If your entire desk surface were color e-ink, say and you could trivially stuff papers into a portable contraption. Anyway to me it seens more that the tech isn't there to reproduce "space". Something like today's reMarkable is ultimately tiny as hell and can't actually be used like paper.

I got a Boox a while ago and the fiest thing I realized (unexpectedly) was that I need at least two. One to read and annotate and another to jot working notes. And they would need to be in sync with each other.
Communicating with Slip Boxes by Niklas Luhmann
The AMD changes haven't taken place yet. They start 2023. Also I was slightly wrong with the 3rd digit actually being architecture.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/7/23340934/amd-ryzen-model-n...

The Windows 11 supported CPU list is pretty arbitrary and doesn't have much to do with the capabilities of the CPU. The main real requirement is TPM 2.0 and even that can be worked around. And there are some officially supported 7th gen CPUs because MS realized how dumb it was for the Surface Studio they were still selling to not be supported.
I see Unix (or today Linux) as currently without any alternative. And it's an OK-ish OS by now. I'm using it for over 20 years as the only thing that's allowed to touch hardware.

Still I don't think that it has "won" because it's amazing on the tech level. It really isn't!

It's a big hack. With ridiculously stupid / primitive ideas behind it. (Just to name one of my favorite elephants in the room: A stream of "chars"—whatever a "char" is—is a "data format"? Even a "universal" one? Alone saying such things out loud is absurdly foolish, imho).

But by now legends have formed around the whole story. Most of the "Unix philosophy" for example is a post-hoc invention by people who have some strong urge to "look smart" in retrospective…

The truth is Unix started as a toy without any serous planing behind it. But than business discovered it by chance, and business came to to the conclusion that "a Bobbycar is good enough" as long as it doesn't cost anything. Business is never interested in excellent technical solutions! It's always only interested in "the cheapest shit that gets the job done"™ (barely). Unix fits this pattern very well.

A small reminder where we're still standing mostly:

https://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
> Upon successful submission of a package, the package maintainer will receive an NFT to evidence their work and contribution. The holder of this NFT will automatically receive all rewards associated with the package. Package maintainers may transfer maintenance ownership over a package to another package maintainer by simply transferring the package’s NFT. Successful transfer of the NFT will lead to the new owner automatically receiving future package rewards.

I want literally nothing to do with a cross between a binary distribution tool and a cryptocurrency pump and dump.
Swiss type deal isn't working for the Swiss anymore. EU was putting pressure on the Swiss to accept a comprehensive deal to replace the dozens of agreements that they have. When the Swiss refused, the EU simple lets one by one pass without renewing them.

This has e.g. happened with the Horizon Europe research program which Switzerland is no longer part of.
Good point. I should’ve talked more about _when_ it’s appropriate to talk about challenges.
I’ll keep buying Tesla vehicles despite absolutely despising Elon. He is a fraud and people are starting to realize it. I used to respect him too.

But he doesn’t make the cars or the rockets so I’m okay looking the other way there.

I’ve given up on Twitter. It’s gotten much worse since he took over and I’m already feeling better without it.
The UK Pound collapsed for awhile there and only just now stabilized. But it is still far weaker than it has been for the last 20 years. So of course things cost more Sterling to purchase. Mix in global inflationary pressure and you have the situation as it is today.
I was shocked at how similar real world driving was to SuperMario Cart. I find it illogical to assume adding the stress of real dangers, on top of learning basic motor controls and car physics is somehow better for all parties.
If it actually came to that, he could just disable the videos/media feature.

I don't personally like Mr Musk, and I don't approve of how he has handled this takeover, but I wonder if some of those hurrying forth with negative predictions about every Twitter development are just saying what they hope happens. The blind praise is just as bad, of course.

(The 'some' people I am referring to isn't the parent commenter, btw. I'm referring to the news articles and (like the linked content) Twitter posts I see getting posted about this.)
>Why did I leave Twitter? My biggest fear about the Twitter acquisition had quickly become an incontrovertible reality: the new right-wing ownership group of Twitter intended to exploit the service to promote political propaganda.

The above is laughable. If you believe giving everyone an equal voice is a bad thing, then you need to reevaluate your position in society.
> the republican controlled house

Isn't the house still controlled by Democrats with the new congress starting in Jan?
All good points and yeah, my point (that I could have been clearer on) is even current versions of CUDA.
I… HATED… all the things that made LAN parties chaotic and dirty. I don’t have fond memories of piles of garbage or spending half our time getting everyone on the same version of a game or whatnot.

Eventually we matured and realized that keeping the place clean was a good idea. Pre-planning the game list, pre-testing them online, etc. and having an actual bedtime (3am) all helped.
Stop giving money to Elon Musk and his projects.
Here are two of my favorite obscure quirks of C:

struct X { char x[8]; };
struct X awoo(void);
printf("%s\n", awoo().x);

The above is UB in <= C99 and valid in >= C11. [0]

struct X { char b[8]; } foo();
int *b = foo().b;
printf("%s\n", b);

The above is UB in >= C11 and valid in <= C99. [1]

[0] https://wiki.sei.cmu.edu/confluence/plugins/servlet/mobile?c...

[1] http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1285.htm
From the FAQ:

If a BookReader edition is available, you can read it instantly online by clicking the "Read in Browser" link. You're done!
Borrowing books in other formats will require
Adobe Digital Editions or ebook software that works with Adobe authentication. You can read this FAQ entry for information on other ebook software.
An Adobe.com account which you can get

I must misunderstand something then. Is it not a choice between browser and adobe id?
I assume there isn’t enough gross margin on small cheap cars and consumers have shown they’ll just buy the larger, more margin-filled alternatives.
But the title is accurate no?
https://www.binance.com/en/blog/ecosystem/binance-labs-leads...

> Packages will be released on‐chain as NFTs with their dependency metadata included.

:thinking_emoji:
also, probably, rule 5 - I wasn't able to find x.com submission on HN or reddit with 100 points (reddit search is broken, BTW).
The hot-hand fallacy is the tendency to believe that someone who has been successful in a task or activity is more likely to be successful again in further attempts. The hot-hand fallacy derives from the saying that athletes have “hot hands” when they repeatedly score, causing people to believe that they are on a streak and will continue to have successful outcomes.
In UK, if you pass your test in an automatic then you are restricted to only being able to drive automatic cars. Historically this reduces demand for automatics, and they are more expensive in UK, dealers charge more for an automatic gearbox. Even when renting a car, automatics cost more (probably just to extract more cash from tourists)
>He is a fraud

Could you clarify and elaborate on that?
It might have made sense historically to focus on a different market - but what about now?
Why would you use a Twitter clone? If you object to the idea of someone buying a platform you like, you probably shouldn't move to a platform with the same problems.
That still has nothing to do with petroleum.
This is one of those things that is simply not true. Corporations are not legally equivalent to people. What utter rubbish and lazy analysis.
Citizens United was the right decision. Banning political campaigning by private entities just gives more power to entrenched political parties. And it's fundamentally unfair that I can't start a PAC and campaign my political goals, but the RNC and the DNC are given a free hand. Also, why can't a billionaire start a PAC and run campaign adds, but he can start a TV network and run propaganda? So, ban that too, you say. But that violates freedom of the press, which I assume you don't want to get rid of.

Everybody must be allowed to campaign, because the alternative is having politicians decide who can and who can't, and they will never do this in a way that doesn't entrench their own power.
Yes, so 1-2 months from now. They can start planning now
It’s missing the super well written and insightful “dead” comment at the bottom of the page that I “vouch” but it never really seems to do anything.
Funnily enough Z-Library made it easy for me to buy physical copies of books I wouldn't have bought otherwise.
Probably the key reason why online meetings where eye contact is impossible never feel engaging.

The cool tech demos from Nvidia and other which do gaze correction unfortunately didn't make it to Zoom or Teams.
How full are supermarket shelves in the US? Whole product lines are missing in supermarkets in the UK.
No. I'm the article author, and I didn't submit it to HN.
Most of the online games today seem even worse for connection than before. I hear that only Fortnight, CSGO, and Valorant are using good servers.
"Corporations are people and money is speech" was just Stephen Colbert's in-character strawman summary of the Citizens United decision.

A better summary is that restrictions on money being spent on speech are effectively restrictions on speech, itself, and the freedom of speech is not limited to individuals.
To compete after Brexit the UK needed to break with the status quo and that most likely meant, as many Brexiteers suggested, going for low tax low regs. Indeed, if the level of taxes and regulations in the UK is the same as in the EU then why setup a business in the UK rather than in the EU?

We see that the current government is unwilling to go down that path, although Covid did throw a major spanner in the works of public finance, so the country is almost guaranteed a slow (or not so slow) decline.

This is not about whether I think Brexit is good or bad, but it did happen and that changes what the country can and should do in order to prosper under those new conditions.
I'm pretty sure that speech-to-text is still a major issue. Most solutions available right now are all too heavy to run on-device, there's a reason only wakeword detection is done on device and the audio is actually transcribed on the cloud. Even the one the parent linked, OpenAI Whisper, seems to require a beefy machine to run.

When we get models/apis that can run on a raspberry pi in real time then we can say the issue is ecosystem access. Right now i'm unable to build my own custom assistant, simply because I have not yet found a speech-to-text model that can run on my low power devices - even the one on my top-of-the-line android phone needs to call out to Google for recognition!
2015 isn’t that long ago when it comes to Elon fandom though.

2015 is firmly in the period when he was amassing his fandom with the work at Tesla. The S was 2012 and the X was 2015. Both were huge things for his legacy that captured many minds, especially the X with its bold door design.

So I’m not sure what your point could even be given that you sound like a long term Elon fan.

Generally your talking points are straight out of every populist fan base.
Not much has changed unless yourself did. Then fundamentals still stand:

- figure out what you want
- figure out how to get it

First point is the hardest. Since most of us don’t really know what we want. We might describe an incomplete picture at best. Hardly a clear vision. So start with what you don’t want and go from there.

Second point is about organizational skills. Research, plan, execute, iterate. Rinse and repeat.

Don’t forget to be kind to yourself. The world is has enough without an enemy within.
> The only way to actually get things done is to do them, and that will never change.

This is the most blunt, real, and effective advice that can be given.

It is very important to emphasize that daydreaming of doing everything (and all at once), is a dopamine trap! No matter how long one mentally masturbates on a beautiful idea, it’s only through charting a course, breaking the problem down, and going through the motions and the steps to completion, humbly and dutifully, that will yield any results.

Another commenter, unfortunately downvoted, also said something important:

> Never tell others what you gonna do unles you have done it.

This is equally important advice, as it falls in the dopamine trap category.

Namely, refrain from satisfying the creative urge merely by talking about it. Instead, act first, and talk about the results.

Goes without saying, but let’s say it anyway: of course this doesn’t mean that you should hide like a mad scientist; communication is crucial in creation. Just don’t spend all your time talking about all the nice things you’d have done, if you weren’t spending your time just talking about them while leaving them undone.

Also, if the thing you want to make has some sort of personal meaning or cause, that’s a great impetus.

And don’t forget to fail, and don’t be afraid to fail, either. Try, err, try again, err elsewhere, keep moving, keep learning, keep making.

It’s good fun!
Bear in mind that the current AT&T isn't the old one. This AT&T is essentially Southwest Bell trying to put the monopoly back together. The old AT&T foundered probably on not keeping their tech up to date, they were not even able to cope with the introduction of number portability. That's probably a simplistic take, but I think mostly true.

Current AT&T will make terrible mistakes because of different internal politics.
More of a meta question related to the working of HN...

This one was posted 3 hours ago. This same post of 1 hour ago is also
visible: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33680904
links to the same url.

My experience is that posting something that was posted before, even sometimes within days, will link to the same post. Or gets sometimes within seconds as a
"[dupe]" even if not's the same page but might be the same subject.

Why was that not the case here?
Ask HN: Readings to more deeply understand JavaScript?
I’m looking for recommended readings to more deeply understand JavaScript. In particular, things like Cloudflare Workers, their internals, build systems, etc.

I’ve been coding in JS for years, but would like to dive a bit deeper into the ecosystem around it.
Lol, click the "links"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17
saying something can hover usually implies that it can have a ground speed of 0 at an air speed of 0. If you leave out the air speed requirement then anything that can fly can hover