skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Missed this good series of questions for a while but:

* The "?" about link says a lot of this.
* It was an old idea that somehow solidified recently, after spending enough time with color wheels and other things, to assemble this.
* This is initially based on an HSL (hue/saturation/lightness) color wheel arrangement. But several web colors have identical H/S, so I tweaked it to spread those (especially, as you noticed, the greys) out artificially.
* One of the things I wanted was to use a "real" (HSL) arrangement, to leave the values arranged visually. Close colors are close on purpose, so e.g. you can see that e.g. "tan" is a little silly, by how small its area is (there's a lot of colors very close to it, crowding it out) as compared to e.g. "crimson" which is large (not many reds, around that hue).
> (parent) Right but I don't want some wanker at Twitter or Facebook office decide that.

> What's legal or illegal evolves with politics and culture. So there's no fundamental purchase there for the kind of moral conversation you were trying to elicit. If in a few years the people you accuse of wanting to control other people's speech are able to get some laws passed making the speech they want controlled properly illegal, I'd venture you would resist accepting that as suddenly legitimate - even if those things would be "straight up illegal" at that point.

The parent commenter was simply saying that the abhorrent examples you provided were not a point of contention, and not relevant to a conversation about free speech. They weren't attempting to put the word of the law onto a pedestal as you seem to suggest, they were simply pointing out that the things you mentioned are universally considered bad all around the planet, whereas freedom of speech is not.

The situation you've outlined in which one political party successfully silences their opponents through legal means is exactly why a "Site deciding this or that political view is now bad" is so dangerous.
Not all under sink filters are RO but some are. There are a variety of options on the market and the prices are much cheaper than bottled water over a year.
I seriously doubt the merch raised remotely enough money to cover the cost of plant for a company like it.
Tell HN: You Need to Hackintosh a 2016 MacBook Pro(Touchbar) to Run Latest macOS
Regulation that forces alt app stores to be allowed can just as easily make this retaliation illegal too.
The Federal Government's Plan to Track Truckers' Every Movement
2016 was questionable. 2020 was not. There is no conspiracy, this is fact checked by Snopes.
I'm not sure you are describing ivy which generally tries to parasitize other plants/trees and is quite slow growing. It will also climb up walls and spread.

I've never seen acres of the stuff. It is not a ground spreader type plant, ie it won't run across your lawn or field. It will run along fences and hedges but it does not run into open ground.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedera_helix is classified as a weed in the US and elsewhere quite rightly because it is non-native. It is not a fast spreader at all.

You can peel it off walls and pull roots relatively easily. You can simply cut it in several places and it will die off. You can also paint or spray the leaves with something nasty from Monsanto if killing everything is your bag but it isn't mine.
oh ya, both google and apple get a cut of all the revenue that goes through the apps. If he fights them, it's unlikely he's going to win anytime soon. One more obstacle to deal with. 30% of gross revenue is a big deal. Given a 50% profit margin for twitter (very hard to get) it's like having apple/google as your equal partner in business. It's more likely that twitter will get less profit than apple/goggle on each twitters sale. No wonder twitter didn't offer direct sales to app users. I think he's just realizing the impact. Yikes...
From the last comment by the other person, it sounds like they're not going to answer. I'll answer for them (at my peril):

> "calls to censor misinformation in media"[...] are you implying that journalists should be forced to report misinformation?

No, they weren't saying that.

> and if they choose _not_ to report misinformation, they're censoring?

Also no.
The World’s Tallest Water Slide Was a Terrible, Tragic Idea
> Totally fucked to take the fruits of such hedonic labor and explicitly waste it to show off money.

Isn’t this the point?
Also, smokers get real value out of smoking, drinkers from drinking, people eating unhealthy food... I make the comparison not because I think we should tell people what to do for their own good but because we shouldn't assume we know the priorities of other people better than them
I don’t know if there has been independent comparison of the faster tunneling speed, etc, but the ability of Prufrock to “porpoise” (directly launch) is an innovation that I can’t find any mention of in TBM before 2017. (But that could be because it goes by another name, I am no industry expert.) https://www.boringcompany.com/prufrock

I think the primary innovation is business plan, ie limit scope by only bidding on things like small diameter, simple requirements, etc. Avoid projects that would lengthy and expensive study, etc. Public works projects tend to be insanely expensive and part of it is due to continual scope creep, which brings in more stakeholders which further increases scope and cost… in a continuous cycle until the project is canceled or, miraculously, is finished at ten times the budget.

Which kind of answers the objections raised in these articles. If cities are unwilling or unable to allow scope to be constrained to the capabilities of TBC’s tunneling tech, why should TBC bid on the project? Why blame TBC for that?

In this way, this kind of scope discipline is more reminiscent of foreign tunneling projects.

But we’ll see. TBC has not completed many tunneling projects, and companies must ultimately be judged on the basis of their output (although for companies in growth and innovation mode, that can require patience).
I mean C11 because it's an example of a major release in a major language that became unusable in practice because a compiler vendor decided it wasn't important to support it in full. Now you can't bump your compiler version to C11 if you want stable portability. This is relevant because it's what happens to C++ if it demands too much from compiler developers.

>For C++20, GCC is "only" missing module support, but otherwise supports everything else. Clang is lagging behind, though.

Then I'll rephrase: it's not only not available widely, it's not available at all.
> The actual duty of police to protect citizens arises from state law...

No, SCOTUS explicitly ruled otherwise. Colorado law said the cops had a duty to act in a certain scenario; SCOTUS said Colorado can't override police discretion.

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/28/politics/justices-rule-po...

"Although the protective order did mandate an arrest, or an arrest warrant, in so many words, Justice Scalia said, 'a well-established tradition of police discretion has long coexisted with apparently mandatory arrest statutes.'"
Looks like I'm on 2ac3afa5b273a502d7632e9346c7c3bc9283fb48
Yep, would all be fine if they could just return the nitrogen in its original form.

It's mainly the ammonia (fertilizer runoff from fields and animal waste) that's a problem for nearby nature preserves and bodies of water, according to environmentalists who sued the government. Also livestock urine ammonia vapors and nitrogen oxides forming smog.

From a non-paywalled article: [https://www.science.org/content/article/nitrogen-crisis-jam-...]
You can also use https://twiiit.com/ to redirect to a working and non-rate-limited instance.
I will, but that just makes the whole thing more utterly ridiculous.
I began typing it out in iOS safari and autocomplete presented me with the entire key.

Such nostalgia.
Steam already has curators/curation lists exactly like you describe. They are usually not particularly interesting.

Anyone can make a web page with apps they think are great, and links to those apps that will go straight to store pages. Very few people do.

These are done rarely because there's little or no money in it. Give the curators a significant cut, and now you have a lot of curators and a lot of gaming of the system.

Now you need to curate the curators, which is still a significant problem.

Throughout all of that, you'll have those claiming that curation is censorship. They don't matter because you can never satisfy them.

Who ensures security in decentralized app stores? Curators, independently? Or can they "inherit" that from the major app stores?

None of this is anywhere near simple.
You can already do that to some extent. There's tons of compiler flags that make C more defined. Eg both clang and gcc support `-fno-strict-overflow` to define signed integer overflow as wraparound according to two's complement.
Growing up in Texas, we had a type of thorny briar we called “Goats head”, it was like natures caltrop. As the weed that produced it died (by human or drought), the goats head thorns remained attaching themselves to fur, clothing, or bare feet.
Someone convinced my mother that a pair of goats would rid us of those weeds, thorns and all. The goats systematically ate _everything else_, including grass, hay, the bark off of trees, and even a wooden dog house. But they never ate the goat-heads.
Those regulations exist for a reason. If you dig tunnels underneath a city or town, you're liable to cause buildings to subside or collapse. This is not theoretical [1] - it happened in my city.

That it happened is not somehow an argument for paying less attention to tunnel digging projects either (the LCT was done at around peak "NSW government gives stupid handouts to private companies for our infrastructure").

[1] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2005-11-02/balcony-collapses-int...
I kind of wish this wasn't only in a header.

I frequently perform basic API exploration in my web browser - hitting https://api.github.com/repos/simonw/datasette/commits for example - and there isn't a convenient way to add headers to those requests.

I quite often do this kind of exploration on my iPhone in Mobile Safari (no need to get my laptop out just to quickly check what shape an API is), which is even less convenient for sending custom headers.
Unfortunately I have no time for opensource.
Games are really really popular application
This is about controlling information, not stopping sexism or racism. The British government has profited from both for many centuries. Ask women. Ask India and the Middle East.
I heard Google also alters the drawn borders based on your IP (if you're in one with a contested border)
When I read this, it clicked that the problem wasn't in the hashes - they produce random output. The problem was with the idea that the appearance of random numbers could be construed as meaningful, based on associating them with criticism or being problematized by the people who made the rules against insulting the royalty.

When you imagine those people going through every available media and looking for insults against the royalty, and finding one way or another to interpret it that way so they could crack down on the writers - how insane they must have been, or worse malicious, and sometimes just sadistic.

If I were to offer some advice based on it, I would suggest that if you think a hash can be problematic, to reflect seriously on where the problem may lie.
For someone that doesn’t know what he’s doing he’s successfully built a pretty successful rocket company that’s developing the heavy lift capabilities for going to mars, an EV company - important on a planet without plentiful hydrocarbons, planetary communication systems, and a bunch of other companies that are components for that vision. It’s hard to point to where the BS lies - with every rocket launch he gets one step closer to that BS I guess?

I’m no Elon fan boy, I think he’s frankly dangerous, but I don’t doubt for a second how serious he is and how methodically he is executing his idea of colonizing mars. Whether he will be successful or not, it’s hard to dispute he’s advanced that cause more than any one person has.

I’d note the success of boring company has nothing to do with the motivation for creating the company.
WebNFC, for one.
Sir, your dog can compose poetry!

Yes, but not very well.
Just wait till they try to shift the Road Tax from Gas to miles-driven.
There's one way to reliably track miles-driven, and it's GPS.
What are you talking about? Website operators already pay for hosting, which at large scale includes paying for your bandwidth aswell.

Some platforms may use their own scale to provide some form of free hosting, such as Cloudflare pages, but at the end of the day this is just moving costs around between users, and Enterprise customers still pick up their hosting bill.
I like that it is just an nginx response. As if the web server is the lawyer.
an express system to and from the airport would be nice, sort of like the heathrow express

blue line to the loop is a lot of stops and takes almost a hour

would people actually use it/is it worth it? who knows
I would gladly take any of these over dementia.
When I got to Java, I experienced the same problem. Much later, I learned C# and found that it apparently had observed and disarmed some of Java's traps, but they also got a little baroque in some places, e.g. with pointers, references in/out parameters, values types, nullable types, ... A lot of the time one doesn't need it, but it is a bit of a red flag if language has two similar concepts expressed in two similar ways but with "subtle" differences.

I did like the const vs readonly solution they came up with. I wish Go (my current goto (pun not necessarily unintentional) language) had something similar
My talented friend who worked 7 years at Stripe as backend engineer is looking to join startup. Very flexible about comp
Pretty sure it's just a matter of time until it goes the way of Stable Diffusion.
I just posted an argument for not-headers here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33782541

Short version: I do initial research against APIs using web browsers a LOT, including on my phone, and headers are really inconvenient for that.

In case you can't see DEAD comments, there's one here that talks about this too (and isn't offensive about it, so I imagine the account is DEAD for some other reason): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33781215
I might be misreading what you're saying (and if so, apologies), but I just went to nitter.net and pulled up a couple of accounts and they worked fine.
Lets you browse Twitter without being logged in and not getting the constant "you need to log in to keep reading!!" wall of messages. It just calls in to their API and builds a similar experience as the real site.
That's actually hilarious. I wonder if the same trick works for Copilot.

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Elon Musk’s existence does not give rise to reality. The knowledge and ability to do these things is not his alone as clearly he relies on a lot of workers.

If society should really do these things is not for him to dictate via Twitter.
It's an alternative front end to Twitter. Used for privacy, faster loading of pages, and/or RSS.
Having said that, there's plenty of people using this method[1]. I particularly like the work this person did presenting that data in Grafana[2].

[1] https://community.weatherflow.com/c/developers/5

[2] https://github.com/lux4rd0/weatherflow-dashboards-aio
I hate that notch also. I use https://topnotch.app/ to play some eye trickery so i don’t have to stare at that thing.
I'm freshly out of the weeds of implementing some fixed-point decimal parsers, and only found ~1 cycle that I could save (at best) per iteration using avx512.

I largely agree with linus here. It's still a huge pain to do anything non-trivially-parallelizable with simd even in an avx512 world

1. I have NEVER been satisfied with the results of a compiler autovectorization, outside of the most trivial examples. Even when they can autovectorize, they fail to do basic transformations that greatly unlock ILP (to be fair these aren't allowed by FP rules since it changes operation ordering)

2. Gather/scatter still have awful performance, worse than manually doing the loads and piecemeal assembling the vector. The fancy 'results-partially-delivered-in-order-on-trap' semantics probably don't help. Speeding up these operations would instantly unlock SO much more performance (see my username)

3. The whole 'extract-upper-bit-to-bitmask' -> 'find-first-set-in-bitmask' really deserves an instruction to merge the last two (return index of first byte with uppermost bit set, etc). It's such a core series of instructions and ime often the bottleneck (each of those is 3 cycles)

4. The performance of some of the nicer avx512 intrinsics leaves a lot to be desired. Compress for example is neat in theory but is too slow for anything I've tried in real life. Masked loads are another example, cool in theory but in practice MUCH faster to replicate manually.

5. It still feels like there's a ton of really random/arbitrary holes in the instruction set. AVX512 closed some of these but introduced many more with the limited operations you can do on masks and expensive mask <-> integer conversions.
> Sometimes relationships just don't work for either person, despite everyone's best efforts.

This "sometimes" works for me every single time. I'm 40+ and never had any friends.

> Sometimes you can find an unexpected new relationship that's less than 'friendship' but still valuable and compelling.

I never experienced this as like. All my relationships end when we stop meeting each other at work.

> If you think about it like someone did something wrong

Oh... I do not think that I did something wrong. I think I didn't do something. Systematically. I'm not sure what exactly. The article gives some hints, but I need to think it through, to be sure.

I spend my teens to figure out how to not do something wrong. I'm very good at it, I even do not need to think about it, I just do not do anything wrong. It became ingrained to such an extent, that I cannot even imagine what I can do wrong, because my mind suggests only "right" options.

> Generally, you can make any relationship closer by investing more time into it. But that means you risk getting stuck in trying to make a relationship fill a spot it won't ever fill.

Your wisdom probably very wise and useful, but only for people who already have some relationships and need to decide what to do with them next. I have no relationships and I do not believe I will, so all your advice is wasted on me.

At the same time the article we discuss gives me something to think about. Yeah, I'm vulnerable and I'm not going to risk being hurt by a careless person only to get some intimacy. I'm not going to ask people weird questions, because they can ask them back. I mean, I can deal with it, I can wriggle out of any uncomfortable question, but it is kinda unfair to them if I ask but do not answer.
Am I the only one whose brain is fully blown by seeing stuff like this? It feels strange to look at that kind of output from an algorithm and just shrug one's shoulders with apathy.
We're bipedal animals by nature, but not every individual is able to walk. Likewise, although we're social animal by nature, not every individual can easily form close social ties.

There are many reasons a person might struggle to make friends. For instance, some people were poorly socialized, or have some kind of early-childhood developmental trauma that makes it difficult to feel the appropriate emotions when talking to people. Others naturally have trouble with empathy and so are unable to smoothly navigate social interactions. And some just naturally aren't interested in learning about other people's lives, or in telling others about themselves. So they have to force themselves somehow.

I agree with you: these artificial systems are pathological and unpleasant. But sometimes it can seem like the only option.

My impression is that you've never struggled with any of these very basic aspects of life. Consider that not everybody's experience is the same.
The chatbots using the model over at character.ai give you a sort of genetic algorithmic interface by letting you choose from alternative responses and vote on them as conversations progress, and you can make your own bots then train them and get some very interesting results. I am personally extremely optimistic about the future of such technology and I think we've only begun to scratch the surface collectively.
It is illegal to hold a blank paper (if you intended to say print out cp on it)
Though the problem with these national instances may be distinct, the main Nitter.net instance hasn't been working since October 25th apparently. This same issue (no tweets show up) remains today; I've experienced this bug for the past few weeks.

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/707

Musk announced his intent to deprecate the old Twitter API, which Nitter relies on, but it's unknown whether it's been done, or if it has anything to do with this (Nitter issues predate both the deprecation announcement, and, actually, Musk's takeover, though Nitter.it is only offline since recently).

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/730
Make the tunnels only accessible to high power electric scooters and take off all speed limits.

Add fog machines to make the experience even more mysterious, scary, and exciting.
The question is whether talented people are willing to give away their time for free (commute) to an employer when other employers are available who'll not ask for bonus free time in addition to properly paid time. I'd guess no.
Yeah, it makes sense that they have features that make it harder. I can't say that it's the _wrong_ choice, but it's enough to remove any potential remaining interest I might have even if it did reach the level of support on Linux that I would otherwise want. I honestly prefer not having function overloading, and I certainly wouldn't want to give up features that I actually would want to use to be able to have it be supported in a language.
you can change any twitter link to nitter.net (or any of the mirrors) and it will display the tweet, media, and replies.

it’s been super useful for people who don’t have a twitter account or for people who don’t want to feed the twitter beast.

multiple of the mirrors have been down today—nitter.net has also been showing “…not found…” messages to me all day as well.
No, this is utterly amazing and leads to 1000 more amazing things down the line
Excellent resource, thanks.
If you can point to a positive change that Apple have made, in this regard, under Cook's watch, then your argument has some merit.

If you can't then you'll have to rely on the "it would've been worse but for his efforts" but I doubt you're going to provide evidence for that.

What we do know is that Apple have repeatedly sided with censorship, I can certainly provide evidence of that.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'keping the sanitizing check'?

A C program is basically a bunch of bytes, and the C standard tells you what those bytes are supposed to mean. A compiler's job is to translate the bytes into whatever target language you fancy, and making sure to preserve the proscribed behaviour. And that's exactly what the compiler did.
Most British universities don't map cleanly onto these categories. In theory most of them (including Oxford and Cambridge) are independent educational charities. But endowments are (by US standards) small, and they're so dependent on public funding that they tend to do governments' bidding. A little less so Oxford and Cambridge, which are richer and prouder, but it's mostly a difference in degree than in kind. There's also quite a bit of direct government regulation (e.g. by the Office for Students).

There are also a few actual private universities, some non-profit (e.g. Buckingham, a free-market experiment which has survived but not thrived) and some for-profit (e.g. BPP University). But all of our major institutions are semi-public. Ish.
That is an overrated comment.