skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Stratification of American society is largely due to people fleeing violent and property crime, especially once they have children.

Claim made without evidence, and there is plenty of evidence that there are other larger factors at play.
I also refuse to use them for anything. A decade or so ago I spent 2 years barely able to access any site using cloudflare, won’t forget that

It goes to show the flaws of centralised services where you are not the customer. Not only is there no one to complain to, you can’t even take your money/traffic elsewhere as the competitors probably use cloudflare too
General reminder: BDSM does not imply "man dom, woman sub". In fact it doesn't even imply how many people are involved and what their genders are.

Edit: Why am I being downvoted for pointing out something objectively true?
For me twitter solve a very practical problem. I like to read stuff from everywhere, from substacks to YouTube channel to regular old mainstream media. But not everything they produce is of interest to me so I need a way to filter and get to read only relevant stuff.

Twitter is my tool to do that. For example I follow a person that once a week write a post like “top 10 things that happened the week in china”. That is as much as I need to know about that. I follow 3-4 person that talk about the war in Ukraine. Sometime they post articles from MSM, sometimes translate stuff from telegram channels, sometimes they debunk some propaganda found online.

I wouldn’t be able to do all of this by myself.

This used to be the job of newspapers but it works only if the newspaper line is the one that you like
This is the strangest part of me for all of this.

SBF hands over the keys to the Bahamas govt. and tries to publicly claim it as a hack, and then the Bahamas government decides to become one of the largest holders in the world of Ethereum.

There are still a lot of questions to this story that will be interesting to see filled in.
How To Fix Them:

1. Use A Bank

2. Admit That Cryptocurrency Only Solves Problems If You Like Crime
I dislike Twitter, but I think it's more than junk food. Its merits are about speed.

When something happens it's not a thing yet. It's mere phenomena. It takes processing by at least one human to be a thing, with associated words, that you can talk about. And when it comes to the collective consciousness, there's a similar dynamic at play.

You have maybe 24 hours, maybe less, before the narratives settle down into "what happened" and "an alternative view of what happened". Twitter's design is such that it lets you watch and potentially participate in that process in real time.

There are a lot of problems with letting it be your only source of news, but if you decide to do that anyway you'll notice that the rest of the news sources are two days behind you. Like you already heard about that thing, and you know how it got that way and saw glimmers of how it could've been a different way.

In some sense, Twitter decides what makes it into the other information sources because information spreads across it faster than others. By the time somebody's bothering with a long form post on substack, Twitter has already decided that it's newsworthy.

It's the quantum foam from which real news condenses. It's first-mover advantage for narratives.
It looks like a BASIC. Are there any benefits over other educational/games-oriented BASICs?

How does it compare to educational languages, like Hedy?

https://www.hedycode.com
This is great and thank you for making programming more approachable!

I think some of the numbers would benefit from units. For example colours, size, coordinates etc can all be represented by the number 444.

Therefore `circle 444` could mean a large circle a grey circle, a centred circle.

I had to read the example before I understood the code there is all.

Perhaps a prefix x444, y444, c444, w444 would help?
Not the person you're responding to, but they have a point. If it's not the main goal, are you saying it's just a happy coincidence?
The question was about FUN, not about making many calls daily.
I think you have it backwards. The supply of quality education hasn’t increased. Only the dollars chasing that supply have increased. Hence prices have gone up.
There's also the funny angle that some real "premium" stuff is actually awful crap, or at least an utterly crappy experience.

Years ago, I bought some very pungent blue cheese, must have been either from SW France or NE Spain. Definitely not a household name, and priced quite high. One of the worst eating experiences I can remember. The flavour was so strong a small crumb was enough to burn your tastebuds. Almost painful to eat, and we had to toss the thing out.

It smelled really good, though. I learned my lesson. These days I refuse to buy any unfamiliar cheese I can't sample in the shop first.
Capitalism has nothing to say about massive government contracts and subsidies following to these people from tax payer pockets.
Tesla Board’s View That Elon Musk Is Irreplaceable Emerged in Pay Trial
Well, a lot of new processes start where you can make money at small scale. Then you improve on it as you scale and address bigger markets, where you need larger scale to be profitable.
> whether any given formal system actually is consistent is not dependent on consensus, it is a fact, either true or false, completely independent of consensus.

The definition of "consistent" seems completely entangled with a given social group's ideas of "rational". You might imply that our word for it hints at a Platonic ideal of "consistent", but if that's true, then you're caught in an infinite cascade of which nuances of meaning between the Platonic Ideal and our concrete reality are actually reflections of the truth or corruption of it.
I think you’re right that the market for this is probably pretty small. But more so because these federated solutions won’t replicate the addictiveness and vitality of Twitter.

I think the big thing that’s missing when comparing people leaving Twitter to people who said they’d move to Canada is switching costs. Like it is a heavy lift to move countries, much less so to stop using one platform and start using another.
Can you link to whatever chart you are referencing?

Because every chart I’ve looked at shows both a big jump in heating oil future prices, and more importantly, volatility starting at the end of February.

That is completely consistent with what you would expect, the war roiled energy markets and consumers are now paying the price.
The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
I always had the impression that Malcolm was the bad boy of his era. His reputation is much worse than King(who is seen as a hero). After reading it, it's all undeserved. He's not a pacifist sure, but the forces acting on him weren't pacifists either. It changed my world view, and did a lot to lift some blinders I had on. Of course he is from a different era, but many of the things he was struggling against are still in the USA today(sadly). So still relevant.
I agree with all of these points, and having followed them myself can report they worked out pretty well for me over the last 40 years.

One quibble, the 401k match offered by some employers is not "free money", it is part of your compensation, just like employer-provided group health insurance, etc. If your employer does not offer a match while similar employers do, then you should expect more direct pay to offset the lack of match. And on that topic, don't invest your 401k money into your employer's stock, too much risk from lack of diversification.
In the old days there was IRC, which:

- anyone could spin up a server

- servers can link together, scalable

- it's pretty much the absolute minimum you need on top of TCP to implement a chat, so extremely lightweight and a server can literally handle 10s of thousands of users

- anyone joins any server they want

- decentralized

- works over dial up

- mature ecosystem

- decades of time to work out kinks and issues

- 7000 engineers? I can set up a server in about an hour.

Has drawbacks but just saying, the future is in the past.
Since this is HN, if you have your own domain you should give the fediverse a try.

Try to set up an instance of mastodon, you don't need that much hardware if you are only setting it up for yourself. The official documentation is straightforward and easy to follow along.

The fun part is once you set it up you can interact with other people on other nodes, the more people you discover the more things you suddenly start to discover, I was trying this out for the past few days and honestly it feels like discovering the web for the first time. So many interesting people so many interesting topics.
Technically, it has grains. As it hardens, the liquid steel stuff clumps together not too unlike bread, with the boundary and grain size / mix being factors that affect the quality of the steel.

https://thermalprocessing.com/metal-urgency-determining-aust...
I'm not sure if you live in the United States, but Mayo Clinic is probably a top 5 hospital system in the US. It is legendary. Just read the opening paragraph from Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayo_Clinic

The Mayo Clinic (/ˈmeɪjoʊ/) is a nonprofit American academic medical center focused on integrated health care, education, and research.[6] It employs over 4,500 physicians and scientists, along with another 58,400 administrative and allied health staff, across three major campuses: Rochester, Minnesota; Jacksonville, Florida; and Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona.[7][8] The practice specializes in treating difficult cases through tertiary care and destination medicine. It is home to the top-15 ranked Mayo Clinic Alix School of Medicine in addition to many of the highest regarded residency education programs in the United States.[9][10][11] It spends over $660 million a year on research and has more than 3,000 full-time research personnel.[12][13]

A little deeper:

Mayo Clinic has ranked number one in the United States for seven consecutive years in U.S. News & World Report's Best Hospitals Honor Roll,[19] maintaining a position at or near the top for more than 35 years.
Musk’s Twitter reign magnified his brutal management style
> When Android users discovered and deleted the contact tracing app, DPH allegedly proceeded to reinstall it onto their smartphones, the lawsuit stated.

So even if users found out and removed it, they still kept reinstalling it. What if someone was just visiting the area or driving through?
FTX Hires Bank to Sell Salvageable Units
Weird, it shows up as 1:40 long for me. It's the last 5 minutes of the episode, where they claim GPT-3 is an all knowing machine that will generate factual responses to any question in a way that's superior to google search.
So are the birds mimicking the bees, or is it the other way around? Maybe I'm just missing the point.

I mean, is int[] a mimic of ArrayList<Integer>, or vice versa? Of course they're similar, of course they're different. Is "mimicry" just a pejorative thing?
It was a sequence of books that I read not immediately one after the other, but that had an impact on me once I started to connect some concepts and ideas among them:

1. Simplicity, William Jensen
2. Getting Things Done (GTD)
3. Getting Real, Jason Fried
The UN doesn't matter
The Power of Habits by Charles Duhigg. Set me up for my way of thinking about how I get things done for the rest of my life.
I would have absolutely no idea how anyone could try to synthesise anything as complex and subtle as an oyster, so I'm interested to hear about it.
too much soy, too many seed oils in fake meat for my liking. but if you haven't tried char broiled oysters, that don't carry the same risks, then you're missing out.
This is why you always look both ways and hold hands with an adult before crossing a runway.
They did market it as that, and then added a disclaimer amounting to "but it's not fit for purpose". Furthermore, that disclaimer was only present on the Mission page, not the front page or any other.

The front page just said this [0]:

> Get Started

> Galactica is an AI trained on humanity's scientific knowledge. You can use it as a new interface to access and manipulate what we know about the universe.

> [bunch of example prompts, including generating a wiki page or answering a factual question]

The Explore page went into even more detail of how you can use it to access scientific knowledge. Then, if you look on the Mission page, you are again presented with the same haughty notion (Galactica is meant to give easy access to the world's scientific literature), only here you also see the Limitations, which basically amount to "but don't trust the output, especially for more obscure topics".

So we were given a service whose main goal is to summarize and present existing scientific knowledge, with citations and everything, except that we shouldn't trust any of the output to actually reflect the scientific literature. But hey, if it's a popular topic, it'll probably be closer to correct!

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20221115165109mp_/https://galact...
Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age, had to read it in literature class.

The main character gets an A.I. powered book that teaches them anything. pretty mind blowing for me, I imagine one day possibly something like that could exist.
> some even deeming them “restaurant quality.”

Counter point - most people didn't think they met the quality bar to serve in a restaurant, which is worrying.
The mechanism should also include the possibility of figuring out the optimal venue size in advance. I’m not sure what’s the right way to modify it in order to accomplish this goal.
I wished facebook death in 2014. It didn't happen, all my friends are still there. I don't want to socially isolate myself more, it's peaceful but at a significant cost. I become pessimistic about bad things will disappear.
Aside from pushing the boundaries of the posting guidelines[0], you've perhaps inadvertently raised an important point.

OP's post is an observation of the real world: the inter-related evolution of technology and humanity's use of it. That use isn't primarily driven by system architecture. It's sociological, commercial, political, emotional.

The conception of the fediverse was itself a sociological and commercial response to social media power being vested in too few commercial entities. The distributed nature of it isn't cost free: there is no single "Mastodon" that everyone signs up to. It remains to be seen whether federation is a net winner, or whether the incremental usability friction prevents large scale adoption.

None of that is first-order technological. The underlying internet may well be federated, and it's eminently possible to create federated services on top of it. Email is perhaps the signiature example. But _just being_ federated is neither necessary nor sufficient for successful adoption. Witness the very centralisation that the fediverse is a response to.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
My opinion is all significant regions of the world should be able to manufacture their leading-edge chips because we know now this is critical for any modern society. We can think then, and only then, about an international cooperation "à la" nuclear fusion (i.e. ITER).

Then you can think of some international "glue": RISC-V (machine code level global interop). We would need high-performance, multi-lateraly trusted (the super hard part), open source chip base designs(mobile/desktop/server/niche).

Americas with the US currently restoring its manufacturing capabilities (and the heart of RISC-V), EU (netherlands/germany) manufacturing the leading-edge tools (ASML) is still unable to have a leading-edge foundry of its own or performant chip designs, India (their defence started to manufacture non-leading edge RISC-V processors), non-China asia (South Korea/Taiwan are the heart of the current leading-edge chip manufacturing with EU tools), China (has to R&D/build everything on their own), Russia (should have been EU, now they will have to piggy back china I guess, but even that...), middle-east/africa? Oceania is strongely linked to the "western world" (for now), aka US/EU.

leading-edge chips use much less power for the same amount of critical work which is MIR (health critical), sciences state-of-the-art R&D, telecom(devices/infra), weather forecast, monetary systems, advanced weaponery.

Entertainment (movies, games, music, art...) is driving hard the performance of those chips.

And forget about "making money", since "making money" out of that is "optional" since it is critical and strategic for any modern society (see that like defence).
More like cast iron, and some lower-grade steels. Higher-grade steels tend to have their pores closed off, the grains welded shut/together as a part of the mechanical processing.
There are multiple set theories using different axioms. Is the Axiom of Choice based on an observation of nature or do mathematicians keep it around because it's useful? It's a statement about infinities that absolutely have no physical reality. You can do mathematics without it, and the question of whether to do math relying on it is a matter of opinion.

(Yes, proofs relying on AC are arguably true even if you don't accept AC, but as a social reality some sets of axioms are considered valid bases for work and some aren't, you can keep adding stronger axioms to ZFC to prove more things more easily, but how far you go with that before it stops being interesting is a matter of opinion)
Generally it's a really good system, which is being adopted around the world.

For Hinckly, it's the French taxpayer that will be on the hook if there are cost overruns building the plant, because we already know exactly how much they can make from energy for the next decade. (That's why their CFO resigned when they decided to go ahead: https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-edf-britain-nuclear-idUKK...)

For the UK taxpayer, they'll probably be paying too much for power they could have got cheaper, but at least the price is somewhat limited, unless there's any kind of accident or issues with storage.

The key missing element with nuclear is that you don't have a vibrant market of competitive bidders, which is what drives the price down in wind and solar.
Oh, yeah, I don't agree with that, no problem with moderate meat consumption. I mentioned it in my first comment as an extreme example of what parents can do at their discretion.
Meh. That's kind of the whole point of CBT after all. It might not seem helpful but if you practice it enough it can help. And I say that as someone with plenty of social anxiety!
The primary use of Twitter is for leading voices to speak. It's the 'blue checks' speaking and everything else is just chaff.

Researchers, CEOs, diplomats and some people with relevant information basically emit relevant information.

That's quite a different use case then most that are offered.

Twitter is not a P2P thing, it's a 1-N thing and many of those '1s' need the blue checkmark.

In order for another network to gain value, they need to bring over a critical mass of popular voices.
"Acquaintance" is a word many more americans should be using much more of the time. The over-use of "friend" to describe "anyone I know" has been a problem for me ever since I moved here (3 decades ago). It also has implications for reporting too, where "anyone a person of interest knew" is a "friend".
Reminds me of when I got GTA 3 working on an Android watch. Here's s video of it in action:
https://twitter.com/Martin_Adams/status/860604357028577282?s...
>I'd rather not use any of these apps, not twitter, not mastodon, none of it. Social media is for losers.

Part of the difficulty is that, if you include reading social media as using it, it can actually be quite difficult to avoid, particularly in the case of Twitter and the public sector in a number of countries. For some reason, many politicians and public services have chosen to use Twitter as their primary, if not only, method for official public announcements, especially ones that are quotidian but relevant, like unexpected service delays and changes. In many cases, not reading Twitter means not getting information that you may need. This is unacceptable, especially when Twitter has required logins to read tweets. It's also something that is entirely the fault of the agencies and politicians who make this choice and the governments that allow it, rather than Twitter or Musk. But it is the current situation.

As a practical example: there are a number of train and public transport services that appear, in practice, to announce most unexpected delays primarily on Twitter, no longer even bothering to update their status displays in train stations or their own apps and websites. These are major rail services in developed countries. My reluctance to check Twitter has resulted, in just the last three weeks, in at least two instances where I went to a train station in Dublin, and to a platform listing a train as departing on time, for a train that, had I checked Irish Rail's official Twitter account, I would have known in advance was not going to be departing at all. Had I checked Twitter (or at least a Nitter instance), I could have taken an alternate route to begin with. On Amtrak in California, it appears that official Amtrak Twitter accounts will give information on service delays that is not being provided to station staff. Meanwhile, in the UK, it appears that, in practice, most announcements by politicians are made primarily via Twitter, then elsewhere.

This has, in the past, also been the case with many businesses and Facebook, where Facebook may be their only online presence, even for basic contact information and hours, but it matters significantly more for the public sector, where one doesn't necessarily have a choice in what services to use.
What is Congress.
Nix-Lisp: A Lisp implementation written in Nix
This episode is incredible! I also listened to it a few years ago. It provided so much insight into (a) Japanese vs American manufactoring and (b) the impact of poor labour union relations. (Please do not read [b] as me being personally anti-labour union. Some of the revelations from union members in that podcast were shocking to me -- drinking and drugging while on the manuf line!)
Tracking people without their consent is not justified
Once upon a time, I was on Livejournal. So were all my friends. Then they started vanishing, leaving only auto-posted collections of cryptic fragments of their halves of conversations they were having on Twitter.

Eventually I finally got on Twitter too. It was okay for keeping up with what my friends were doing. Not great, forcing everything into the arbitrary limit of 140 characters long after the "it fits in an SMS" requirement was dead was annoying. But it was okay. Kinda like having an IRC channel where you were the one who decided who showed up.

And then it became a place for political argument, because that Increased Engagement, and Twitter was constantly chasing that as a way to serve more ads in between the conversations with my friends, even though the doubled post limit of 280 characters was still fucking horrible for any kind of discussion much beyond "u suck" "no u".

Mastodon is a replacement for the reason I actually went to Twitter in the first place: I can go there and see a bit of what my friends are up to, with links to other projects. I would be happier if they were moving towards something longer-form but they are not. I've adjusted the post limit on my own instance to ~7 and it's pretty nice.
they're cheap in FL unless you're ordering some variety that requires shipping - but that's in the same vein as non-local seafood. elitist? your bias is showing - oysters are harvested and eaten by all walks of coastal inhabitants. if fancy restaurants are your only point of reference I'd suggest expanding your experiences.