skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having studied anthropology for a short while, there are many theories regarding the evolution of bipedalism. I'm sorry to say, as far as I understand it, they are all as flimsy as this one, in that they are barely based in empirical data. Not for a lack of trying, there just aren't any other species currently evolving bipedalism as far as we know.

This one, however, seems flawed on the basis of internal validity: what is the link between standing in trees and walking on the ground, let alone running? The fact that this is not immediately obvious means it raises a new question for which we have to invent more theories. Occam's razor says no.

If you find me dismissive, and you think surely the researchers have thought of this, I recommend having a look at the history of these theories, you'll notice their rise and fall seem more akin to fads than progress (much as predicted by Kuhn's Structure of scientific revolutions).

As the encyclopedia Britannica says: "There are many theories that attempt to explain why humans are bipedal, but none is wholly satisfactory."
And yet, his songs would have remained under copyright until at least 2092, if he had not released them.
That saying about how teenagers and twenty year old think they're immortal? There's some variant of that for programmers. That failure mode is something that happens to other people, to suckers, so I don't have to change direction because some guy who's going grey at the temples tells me I'm walking toward a cliff.

I've been in places where my job became a bit of a cleaner, for things that shouldn't have needed to be cleaned in the first place. When I realize that's what I'm doing - when it's most or all of what I'm doing - I leave. Sounds like John might have similar boundaries, and found himself standing at the edge of one.

I'd really like to see him try his own thing again, and either not sell it this time or be quite a bit more precious about what he's willing to part with and for how many zeroes.
Given that it's released into public domain but site won't remain up indefinitely, someone should probably add it to internet archive collection?
Prompt 1: Write a react component that is basically a starfield webpage background, and supports a property to enable and disable the animation

Prompt 2: Can you answer the same question but with Typescript and using React Hooks instead of a class.

Prompt 3: Ok, using the same concept, now render the stars using html5 canvas, but still in a react component

Result: I changed two lines (it was missing a useState import, and there was a null check issue - but that was only because of my TS settings)
Other than that, it loaded and displayed an animated top-view downward scrolling of stars going at different speeds.

You'll all think I'm crazy but I literally feel like I have access to the computer on TNG.
It's difficult to describe how amazing Portal is. It was a game changer for those that used it
It doesn’t even have to be innovative in a global sense. Just making suggestions that are outside the experience of the people you need to convince can become futile.

Egotistical people with power are more than happy to ignore maths and rationality. I don’t know why. It never works out for them and it brings everyone else down. It’s very frustrating.
> or (2) use a cell phone as an IP camera which will add noticeable latency

You can use them directly via USB using Camo or OBS - no IP needed, and that changes the latency equation.

Also, the new iOS continuity webcam feature is essentially zero latency - it's better than my good webcams.
It's interesting how universal this pattern seems to be.
I feel like there are a lot more promotions to go around in bigger companies though! I've worked in smaller orgs and promotions are harder to come by, if there is even a career ladder at all that is.
Also I think the idea is to try and attract conservatives from other apps e.g. TruthSocial.

Good idea in theory except that many of those users aren't as well-behaved so to speak.

And so the overall quality of the discourse has noticeably dropped since Musk took over.
Indeed! That was the point, driven home by a tiny morsel of irony. No chance that selling electric power to large consumers in California could disappear any time soon.

I bet the electrical grid operator's margins are much thinner in residential neighborhoods, sometimes maybe even negative.
I always loved the first few lines[0] of "WE WILL ALL GO TOGETHER WHEN WE GO" because I thought the rhyming of some of the words was so creative and I've (still) never heard it done that way anywhere else:

... funeral

... sooner or L(ater)

and

... tragic

... adjec(tives)

Listen here [1].

[0] https://tomlehrersongs.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/we-wil...

[1] https://tomlehrersongs.com/we-will-all-go-together-when-we-g...
Weiss goes into it on her site, but it's more complicated than just emails. She says they are using some lawyer SW that is meant for speeding up discovery in legal battles.

Seems like she should be a real tech person and just learn how to use grep. Her explanations all just feel like a first year journalism student trying to explain the hot new program she just learned about and everyone else has been just suffering through for a decade.
If your need is video conferencing, relatively recent ‘insta360 link’ is _very_ good. I’ve ditched my mirrorless+HDMI setup in favor of it and haven’t seen any drop in quality.

Companion app is pretty shit though, but they seem to be working on it.
So how about describing the FBI's dasterdly distraction plan rather than dropping random sketchy details every couple comments as an argumentation tool?
And I read a famous novel about such twins, Le grand cahier (The notebook, Das grosse Heft) by Ágota Kristóf.

They did speak to outsiders, but made up their own logical and esp. moral rules how to treat them, and they write down their findings, when they can eliminate all personal interpretations and feelings. Everything must be objectively true, to them and their limited view.
Their job is to investigate, prevent and prosecute criminal behaviour.

That includes content that isn't protected by free speech e.g. child pornography.
each team or project normally has a group where you can ask questions, provide feedback or ask for features.
you can also turn off notifications or tweak them by channel - you can turn off @here and @channel too.
My kids self-moderated before they started playing Roblox and Fortnite.

Before that, we had no limits. After that, self moderation was lost. They would play forever and turn into monsters. The then-7 year old would pee in his pants and keep playing.
Because more important users get special treatment? If you are a user that are of special importance to the business (like politicians, news outlets, or major Twitter users), then of course their requests are going to get escalated more quickly. Twitter isn’t a democracy; some users matter a lot more to them than others, and it’s not really based on political lines.
You're posting in it. We're all here while those other threads remain low in replies. I'd say their plan has succeeded, wouldn't you? The proof is, as they say, in the pudding.
I would love to have some positive XFN feedback! The farther away the better!

Unfortunately I was helping out with our hiring process, and let's just say with the recent downturn that hasn't been the most important work lately :(
> AIX
> So yeah, a mainframe.

If it was AIX, it wasn't a mainframe. AIX runs on IBM's POWER systems, which are their "midrange" line. (There was, for a brief time, AIX for S/370 I believe... but that disappeared long ago.)

Mainframe would be a System z (the S/360->S/370->S/390->z/Arch lineage), typically running z/OS (or Linux for z!)
> All of those analogies apply to selling power back to PG&E at retail prices. It's in small lots; it's undependable; it comes from many sources, not just a few; and it's priced wrongly.

You must not be an electrical engineer.

Do you think the power I generate from my solar array travels a hundred miles to some facility to then be sent back to the house next door?

Not so.

Multiple homes are connected to, and fed by, power distribution transformers. In other words, five to ten homes share the same output. Which means that excess power from one or more of those homes is fed directly to any home that needs it.

My power goes directly into my neighbor's meter. The power company charges my neighbor the full rate for my power. They pay me almost nothing. Pure fucking profit.

Of course, it would not be sensible to ask for the full rate. However, they should pay a good percentage of what they are charging for the power. Among other things, if anything breaks it is my responsibility to fix it. And, of course, I paid for the entire system. They sell my electricity at full rate with minimal costs.
"...[as they] are now considered uneconomical without an attached battery" to quote the article.
This is a little strange... the notice on his website says "November 1, 2022", but here's an article (and discussion) from two years ago stating the same thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24833683
Ask people: "is there a subjective experience of seeing a reddish patch, which is distinct from whatever physical processes might be going on in the eye and brain when one sees that reddish patch?" I think most people would say "yes". I don't think that's a "leading question". And, the "Mary the color scientist" thought experiment is just adding a bit more color (excuse the pun) to the question.

> In fact, a very important propaganda technique involves leveraging this by working to get a question incorporating a proposition you wish to get accepted as part of its premise into public debate so that, whatever position people take on the questions, your interests are advanced because merely getting the question into the debate leads people to accept its premises.

If there is "pro-qualia" propaganda in the public debate, I think there is at least as much "pro-materialism" propaganda as well.
It's not a backchannel... every social media company has a dedicated response team that handles requests from law enforcement, partners, big media companies, etc. Do you think Disney just hits the report button on YouTube? This is an official method of reporting content. Literally every major company does this and the reasons why have been explained for years.
This is all great advice (especially "uninstall it from your phone").

I'll add to this that if anyone involved with Slack is around here, Slack is in desperate need of more powerful/flexible muting controls -- ie, not just muting notifications from specific channels/DMs, but actually doing things like suppressing visual indicators in the sidebar, muting during certain time periods, etc... You want to go wild, it would be great to be able to fully turn off channels client-side during certain periods of the day so that new messages literally won't show up until it's turned back on.

When I used Slack, if it was open and there was an indicator for a channel, I checked that channel. It didn't matter if I got a notification or not, the indicator itself was enough to distract me.

I suspect there are a lot of people who have become less productive because of issues like this. A lot of the advice in this thread mirrors the above comment where people feel like they need to completely close the app and get it out of their face entirely in order to concentrate. In my opinion that's a weakness of the muting/UI options, that the only way to really truly tame notifications for deep work in many instances is to completely block the entire app.

Edit: I consider both of these problems faced by OP (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34018044, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34014517) to be primarily UX problems that Slack could fix. Definitely the notification indicators -- putting a bright red dot on someone's screen is a distraction regardless of whether or not you also play a sound.
Or Capital in the 21st Century
Let me clarify: they should not be involved in "policing the particulars of content posted on media".
> If John fucking Carmack cannot move the bureaucracy this way

My read is its not so much the bureaucracy of project managers or paperwork as it is junior executives trying to 'leave their mark', defend their turf, etc.
Not my personal view. Antimodernism became the dominant reactionary worldview in Anglo-Saxon countries. Alexander is at the top of this pole.

/r/evilbuildings for your amusement.
Some of those journalists accounts are now un-suspended. e.g. https://twitter.com/drewharwell, https://twitter.com/RMac18, https://twitter.com/donie

Micah Lee's is not (https://theintercept.com/2022/12/16/elon-musk-twitter-suspen...): https://twitter.com/micahflee

And Jack Sweeney's personal account and ElonJet are not: https://twitter.com/JxckSweeney, https://twitter.com/ElonJet

Edit: Micah Lee is now unbanned too.
Another indicator of how our earliest ancestors evolved living on trees. Studies found that just being around a tree improves people's psychology and general health.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/20...

Likely due to the same reason - we evolved on trees before moving onto land.
Ahh I also went down the SVG-for-browser game. The promise of vector (resize-and-without-loss) seemed good right.

I ran into a bunch of issues especially with text, when starting to scale "objects-with-txt", had to add bunch of weird css-stuff everywhere and not it's not very cross-browser.

I'm now back on the ThreeJS train again :/
In Europe they decided that slowly suffocating them with C02 is more humane. I am not making this up.
His writings definitely show a lot of humility.
That's the point of the Twitter Files (tm). Shining a light on how that process worked.

It is of course tied up with partisan politics, who won or lost this week from some particular story, but more transparency is good.
Think of it as a priority queue in terms of software. Does it make more sense now?

If the FBI had to go through the same queue as Joe Average then their requests may well end up at the head of the queue too late for action. The same goes for celebrities, advertisers and so on. All of these have different contact points. And because law enforcement contact is one step away from the company doing something that is potentially illegal their messages are given a higher priority.
Not against the rules but as an interesting data point, somehow Australia has just about archived this with no mandates. I’d say about 80% of buildings, commercial and residential have solar installed.

There have been financial incentives from the government though.
Alas the economic evaluation is more complicated than that. Grid solar requires transmission lines. The largest transmission line in construction right now for California load is called the Ten West Link. It will be 125 miles, have a maximum capacity of 3,200 MW, and cost $390 MM. [0]

[0] http://www.caiso.com/Documents/Feb12-2021-OpeningBrief-DCRT-...
I agree that having poor customer service is unacceptable. I agree that losing your access to email is a tragic thing and extremely difficult to resolve all the other issues that come with that. I'm not really commenting on the situation other than that issuing a chargeback commonly results in a loss of access to that companies services.
Based on a brief bit of googling about this board's CPU (the Bouffalo Lab BL808), it seems to have one RV64 and two RV32 cores. The RV64 core may be capable of running RV32 machine code, if the OS sets various flags correctly, but the reverse isn't possible without emulation.

How does Linux handle this? Can you just run an executable and have it automatically scheduled onto whichever cores can execute it? Wouldn't the kernel itself have to be compiled for both architectures?

EDIT: Maybe I was overthinking this -- I found what looks like the devicetree file for the BL808, and it seems like only the single RV64 core is supported:

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20221127132448.4034-7-jszhang@k...
Actually you might be surprised [1] [2] [3]

[1] https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/africa/lion-kills-man-g...

[2] https://www.telegraphindia.com/west-bengal/calcutta/alipore-...

[3] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3602819/Naked-man-j...
The implication of chipping in might mean an unwise alignment with Roth's PhD idea.

His idea wasn't even "Grindr for teens". It was worse because he wasn't proposing a separate service. His idea was to update those sites to accommodate young people. Yoth wrote: "those services should consider offering toned-down content alongside adult fare."

Even if we're charitable, Yoth's use of the word "alongside" was unfortunate. Less charitable, a serious error. It's unrealistic to expect a service with such a concentrated historical purpose for gay adults, could pivot to a harmonized family-friendly vibe for young and old.

I wonder how he landed such a role at Twitter over other applicants, and what criteria he met, that others did not.
Good point, Musk is now in direct competition with Truth Social, Parler and so on. I had not given that any thought but it explains some of the more bizarre moves of the last weeks.
See x3n0ph3n3's comment upthread.
His Wikipedia article says:

> In 2020, at the age of 92, Lehrer donated all of his lyrics and music written by him to the public domain.[60][61] He followed this on November 1, 2022 with all recording and performing rights of any kind, making all of his music that he has originally composed or performed free for anyone to use.[62]

That makes sense. Legally, a recording of a particular performance of a musical work, is a separate copyright from the underlying musical work. Releasing the later into the public domain did not release the former into the public domain, which is why he had to do it separately.

Why did 2 years pass between one and the other? Maybe he just didn't fully understand all the legal details involved at first. Or maybe there was some contractual issue (with record labels/etc) he had to sort out, and that blocked putting the recordings into the public domain but not the music/lyrics
Oh well, it's at least an opportunity to talk about Tom Lehrer again.

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Somewhere in HN history there was an article about him where a guy convinced him to donate his master tapes to an archive. Lehrer had them in a basement somewhere and was just going to throw them out. He was surprised to hear that they were valuable at all. He seems to be one of those humans who gets more interesting the closer you look.
Twitter re-enabled accounts for several journalists banned over ElonJet
Git is a tool for manipulating graphs of states. You can traverse them (checkout), create new snapshots (commit), make and update pointers (tag and branch), calculate diffs and reapply them across different snapshots (rebase, cherry-pick, merge), and synchronize your graph with other repositories (push, fetch).

Git commands and UI are just tools to let you work on this data structure. You should think in graph of commits first, and only then in commands that allow you to execute your plan. Like with any other data manipulation tool, there are often multiple ways to achieve the same thing.

You may want to spend some time with https://blinry.itch.io/oh-my-git - when you can actually imagine the data structure you're working on, it becomes obvious that rebase is nothing else than automated cherry-picking.
WeWork is also very much alive.
The end of my decade in VR
This is incorrect. The "handled" response you're referring to was regarding a list of links to leaked nudes of Hunter Biden reported by the Biden campaign:

https://i0.wp.com/www.techdirt.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/1...

As I've said, Taibbi has been very clear that he has no evidence of government involvement in any response to the Hunter Biden story.
https://advances.realtimerendering.com/s2022/index.html

This session has one of the best overviews of Lumen. The previous year has a really good overview of Nanite.
What about the proposed tax per kWh of solar. Will that be going into effect too?

Edit: Looks like the 8% per kilowatt-hour tax was already rejected.
https://twitter.com/CNNPolitics/status/1400166091586932736
Virtual cards are often associated with fraud or malicious actions and may be rejected entirely. Generating cards probably can be done programmatically, but so can recognizing and blocking those cards.
-- I know little to nothing about the subject - was thinking - isn't waking pretty difficult? - would take a long time to figure out - building into the human system using evolution? - holding into things (like branches) might be a good way for evolutionary "ah ha" moment?? --
I worked at Chef Software up until last year and we maintained binary distributions of the software (including ruby and lots of lower level libraries) that were built on Solaris, AIX and Windows in addition to Ubuntu, RHEL and FreeBSD.

Most customers were on Ubuntu/RHEL/Windows. There was very little on FreeBSD, AIX or Solaris. We had zero interest for HP-UX, I think that is dead enough to be ignoreable. Banks and financial services have a tendency towards AIX, while Solaris I think was primarily one customer that had a lot of legacy. AIX and Windows were the biggest pain in the ass, but every time we tried to kill support for it, people discovered sizable contracts that had been signed with us (yeah, our tracking in salesforce was bad).

My background is that I learned C and Unix on a Tandy 6000 back in 1989/1990, then in college used and worked on a wide variety of O/Sen (Dynix, BSD4.3, Digital Unix 4.0, SunOS 4.1.4, Solaris 2.4+, Irix 5.x/6.x (i think), something that ran on a VAX, NetBSD and later Linux). I ported NMAP to a bunch of those and did the original GNU autoconf work on it. I've been mostly Linux since 2001 (Amazon from 2001-2006).
> He compared it with C or Go, where he realized that it was easier to him to read kernel code without any context, because there is no abstraction price to pay. What you see is what there is to understand.

I don't get it. In C you're programming with structures, data types and functions. In ML and Lisp, you're programming with structures, data types and functions. Lisp lets you muck with syntactic forms so maybe that has some obscuring effect, but I expect most programs are written in fairly direct style. Where people do add abstractions, it's to reuse code so there's ostensibly less code to understand overall.
Lyttle Lyton is definitely the better contest. It's easy to make writing bad when it's long and confusing. Perfectly crafting a brief opening sentence is so much harder.

My all-time favorite was from 2018:

> The wizard’s beard was long, much like Gandalf’s in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, who was also a wizard.

It's perfect.
Which is why I said “part of being young.” That said, I don’t remember being so explicitly mad at previous generations when I grew up (as a millennial). “Ok boomer” is a big part of the gen z vocabulary.
> Is that how Google ended up with eight chat apps

Its more because they killed their already working, well-accepted Google Chat app, not seeing gigantic profit or any market control benefit from it. Somehow they thought it was a better idea to have some 'chat' through the browser - which resulted in whatever 'Hangouts' was. Prioritized 'engineering' and profits over users as its so normal for large public corporations.

Then Slack and Discord came and wiped the floor with all of them.
They should've made this tank with transparent aluminum.
Decrusting the Serde Crate