skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The whole thing is insane. So they’ve basically created a system where we have no choice but to pay for the utilities failing infrastructure.

I have done a bunch of construction work in Los Angeles county, including designing and building my own solar array. The only way I can describe the process, rules and the people involved is using words such as "surreal", "brutal", "nonsensical", "damaging", "expensive", "frustrating" and more. I cannot say anything positive about it. Nothing we do in this domain is designed to help people complete projects efficiently and at reasonable a cost.

If I can help it, I am never investing another dime in Los Angeles county. Even better, we have been planning a move out of California. This also means taking our businesses and employees out of this place. It's a mess.
Yes, they should. Who suggested otherwise?
The FBI reported tweets from Democrats as well as Republicans, and also apparently a parody of the pro wrestler The Undertaker where the joke is that he craps his pants regularly. Not seeing any evidence that there's any political bias to the reports, and if there was I certainly wouldn't expect the FBI of all organizations to be biased against conservatives.
Given the amount that I've had to bail them out as a California taxpayer and as a ratepayer, it's absolutely criminal that they're not currently a government-owned company.
Indentation-sensitive syntax is totally obsolete in a world with autoformatters. In addition, with this kind of syntax you also lose the ability to have your code autoformatted in certain situations. Here's a trivial example to illustrate the point:

def example():
x = 5
print("Hello world")

What's the mistake here? Depending on whether the print is part of the function, it should either be indented or have a newline before it. The point is you (and any formatting tool) can't know what the horizontal alignment of this code should be just by examining the vertical line order. You can only determine this by knowing (or reanalyzing) the semantics of the code. During a refactor where you're moving around lots of code, this can be a significant PITA. However, in the JS example,

function example() {
let x = 5
console.log("Hello world")
}

it's unambiguous what the mistake is because you can determine the correct formatting entirely from the line order, without having to know anything about the code's semantics.
Cal Newport's work may help. Check out "A World without Email". https://www.calnewport.com/books/a-world-without-email/
It absolutely is no such thing.
That's definitely a problem. But a lot of people seem surprised that issuing a chargeback can result in a loss of access to company services. So was just sharing from my work experience.
lightningcss is my new preferred tool for doing all the vilification and prefixing.
Yeah, that would be why words are nearly impossible in these kinds of subjects.
That's admirable. I wish more artists – whether musician, filmmaker, author, etc. – did this.
I would not at all be surprised. At the rate Twitter is going down the drain you can expect anything, up to and including their hardware being sold at auction to the highest bidder, with some bad luck harddrives included.
> The numbers are in and they're excellent.

Those numbers could have changed a lot this year if Russian shelling at Zaporizhzhia had worked out a bit differently.

And this was a military adversary that wasn't explicitly trying to cause nuclear damage here. The next one might go all out or try something as a false flag.

Those 70 years have been in relative peaceful times. And they don't include the 200 years of cleanup we've externalised to the future. We just learned a very painful lesson what externalisation to the future can lead to with global warming.
Thanks for the shoutout re https://dispatch.do
I think that one was only the lyrics/sheet music, while this is the actual recordings.
I’ve never been a big fan of Taibbi. But all the things you’re mentioning are characteristic of his journalistic style, which made him famous in his coverage of Wall Street back in 2008. It’s uncharitable and filtered through a fundamental distrust of moneyed corporations, but I’ve never heard it described as “unhinged.”

And I’m not sure “unhinged” is an appropriate description. For example, while “internal lingo” may be common, isn’t it also fair to observe that much corporate internal lingo is pretty Orwellian? Similarly, as to your second point, is it unreasonable to draw an inference that Twitter is doing what some agency wants it to do, when the agency asks Twitter to do something and then Twitter does it?
Ask a firefighter what happens when they see a solar panel on your roof.
> 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 ...

Don't be sorry, be curious! The researchers have studied anthropology for a long while. Let's be curious about what they think and how and why, not impose our judgments upon them.
He probably meant charts Elon shared himself (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1596718851097755648). For what it's worth SimilarWeb estimates roughly the same number of visits (user sessions) in Sep/Oct/Nov:

Sep: 6.8B

Oct: 7.0B

Nov: 6.8B

https://www.similarweb.com/website/twitter.com/#traffic
Related:

Hot Wheels: Little cars are big business - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33655937 - Nov 2022 (15 comments)

The Hot Wheels Design Studio: How a Real Car Gets Turned into a 1:64 Toy - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28550264 - Sept 2021 (39 comments)
The cracks don't travel in a straight line the shockwave does. That's it.

Speed of sound can be literally thought of as the speed that force propagates in a material.
You could run it on the edge, serverless. CloudFlare D1 supports a SQLite database that your code on the edge can access. That gives you an amazing way to run WordPress without worrying about the OS.

PHP isn’t natively supported there yet, but I can imagine such a thing could be built and be successful.
Sure, this month
That’s true. There’s also the flip side that those who choose the systems are likely the ones who succeeded in those systems.

I’m talking about directors, senior managers of engineering who worked their way up the corporate ladder. The system worked for them, so they think it’s a good system.

It’s essentially a form of survivorship bias.
I'm a little surprised we haven't seen governments try offering identity-based encryption as a way to head off encryption that's harder for them to wire-tap.

For the unfamiliar, with identity-based encryption, the recipient's public key is a function of the key authority's public key and some "identity", such as a national ID number or email address. Their private key is a one-way function of their identity and the key authority's private key. So, the recipient needs to ask the key authority one time to generate their private key for them, but there's only one public key to distribute. For the whole system, the sender can calculate the recipient's public key. The private key isn't even necessarily calculated before the sender has sent their message! It's very convenient and flexible!

Of course, the downside is that the private key is deterministic and can always be re-generated by the key authority, so it's fundamentally vulnerable to attack by the key authority. Also, some of the underlying math is less well studied than standard ECDHE/DHE/RSA, so we're less confident about vulnerabilities lurking just under the surface.
> You could compute the expected position of the hash in the file as hash / 2^160 * filesize and then just look around in the vicinity of that.

> The idea is to do an "unbalanced" binary search, with the pivot chosen as offset (range size * big-endian value of hash / (maximum possible big-endian value of hash + 1)).

Thanks. I thought something along these lines but didn't know how to express or formalize it. Now I must study unbalanced binary search algorithms.
For me, peak Windows in terms of style was Windows 3.1 with the Hotdog Stand theme.

But Windows 2000 was solid as well
There was a time when we didn't have to depend on the benevolence of creators and corporations to have works enter the public domain within our lifetimes (if at all). It's amazing when they do, but we should really try to fix that.
Do blind people use special code editors? If so, they should probably have a whitespace sensitive mode to make this easier.
Great, now do David Bohm. Oppenheimer had him blacklisted and he spent the rest of his life in academic exile (Brazil, India, and finally the UK).
I had the same feeling but I couldn’t exactly articulate why. The blog post while long and pedantic is simply illuminating in detail why I didn’t like the show either. He’s putting words to my vague reasons for dislike.

This quote really nails it: "If the story itself doesn’t have to obey any real rules of cause and consequence and thus the creators can merely opt to have anything happen for any reason then there is no reason to invest in any of it at all. If there are no consistent rules to this world then nothing matters and if nothing matters… why should I care?"

Fundamentally the show is sloppy work done by people that don’t know what good work looks like. They’re unable understand to root cause of their errors due to a type of Dunning Kruger effect.

People that don’t know any of history, logistics, physics, politics, races, finance, or anything else of import often go into the arts. In other words, they go to work for Amazon writing TV shows. Or NetFlix, or Disney.

Truly great works of fiction are written by authors who aren’t just writers. They have some other real world experience they draw on. Having lived through a war is a common one. Tolkien fought in WWI, for example.

It turns out that English Lit alone is insufficient to write a multi-hundred-million dollar epic series in the same way that having only an MBA does not qualify someone to manage a deeply technical team working on cutting edge technology.
I work in electronic design automation. When I started, Solaris on Sparcs was dominant and we supported a number of Unix flavors, but all that died long ago, Linux killed it off. The Solaris port was the last to die, and we were very happy when it went so we no longer had to support their crappy proprietary C++ compiler that, at the time, still was missing important C++98 features.
Good points about tolerance. LEGO wasn't a nerdy toy though; it had the same mass-appeal that minecraft did/does. Also this LEGO ad from 1981:

https://imgur.com/xwAsW56
Very interesting question!
Suppose there was a small committee of Californians who mandated that Safeway pay retail price minus a regulated margin to the farmers, then wait until a large number of people started to make decisions around that policy, then did a sudden rug pull. But grandfathered in some people to the old scheme and left others to go figure themselves out, because fairness is a strange thing in the world of the bureaucrat.

From the far sidelines this appears to be a stop in a long journey where the State of California tries to simulate market-efficient price of different forms of power generation solar the slow and hard way that doesn't involve using a market. All these schemes look even more foolish than usual now that solar is allegedly the cheapest form of power, so presumably a market would just throw things up at speed.
They don't buy back at retail rates though.
They have been talking about that for 30 years. It could be done in a very short period of time if real R&D was put into it. Look at submarine nuclear reactors for example.
Those payments funded criminals and crimes. 'It's hard to do it otherwise' is not a defense.
It's definitely surprising. Chargebacks cause additional issues for a company which is why they're treated more severely than something like a late payment, refunds, etc.

It seems like a lot of folks are surprised by a chargeback causing a loss of access to the company services so wanted to share my experience that this is not abnormal. Big companies tend to do this.
There's no advantage for doing this at all. It's just duplicating the work git does for you already, but outside of git. I'd rather recommend spending some time with git to get familiar with your tooling, instead of working around your lack of familiarity this way.

And when it comes to "what's an advantage of rebasing over merging" - those are two completely distinct operations that make you end up with different results, so there's no simple answer to that question (it's like "what's an advantage of bold font over italics?"). Sometimes you want to merge, sometimes you want to rebase. Once you can visualize your repository in your head, it becomes rather obvious when to use which one.
Probability Monads from scratch in 100 lines of Haskell
One proposal I saw was to treat the RV32 core like a microcontroller or as a dedicated co-processor.
https://www.robertlipe.com/bl808-not-symmetric/
Far fewer people die of preventable diseases and malnutrition than any point in history; we've accomplished incredible things, especially since 1960. What are we writing this on?
Wasn't it an implementation of Linux system calls on top of NT?
A temper tantrum moderation. Great improvement!
Thank you Tom Lehrer. For the music, the math, and the comedy and now, the music.
How to Prioritize a Roadmap – 10 theses for building better products
It wasn't even a topic in the governor race, despite the numerous well documented connections between the governor and PG&E

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/local/abc10-originals/pge...

https://www.abc10.com/article/news/investigations/gavin-news...
Sorry to be so blunt but are you advocating for letting developing minds get addicted? I hear expert after expert talking about the negative effects of those types of behavior and content. When you say they crashed a thousand times, what does that mean? Months without sleep, streaks of failure in school? I'm curious if moderation means that they are now using devices less than 7 hours a day which seems to be the average.

Wouldn't the same logic apply to drugs?

Me and my friends were over 20 years old when social media arrived and it still changed a few of them for the worse. It's a source of suffering for them and it's plain as day from the outside.

I'd advocate for letting them grow up as much as possible before having to deal with that crap while constantly discussing the dangers and negative incentives of the platforms as well as many content producers.
> The alternative is publicly-owned utilities, like munis or coops.

You mean, like Silicon Valley Power (Santa Clara) or Los Angeles Department of Water and Power?

Both of which charge a fraction of PG&E does, and have more reliable power, and offer better customer service (SVP's website is around 1000x better than PG&E's), and more transparent billing, and more assistance to needy customers.
Curious if you've heard about socially-induced Tourette-like behaviours? There was a HN post about it not too long ago, one of the signs was sudden onset later in life: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33878155
"ok boomer" in gen z speak tends to be a jab at millenials, not something directed seriously at the legitimately wisened.
Do you have a source for this? I see light claims online but nothing truly concrete.
I exert influence
You align strategic competences
They play politics
It starts with a culture where I'm not sweating the fact that I haven't checked my Slack notifications in a while.

Slack is used like a kitchen sink in the two places I've used it - there is no easy way to determine what is urgent vs what can wait. One literally has to comb through all the red dots to filter them. If you believe channels solve this because you can create dedicated channels for the important stuff, very soon someone starts abusing the responsiveness on this channel to their selfish ends, first seeking an exception, and very soon making it a habit.

To top this, the Slack UX is literally designed to maximize the time one spends with it. I often find myself on Slack intending to either -
1. Check one of the important channels or
2. Recollect something someone shared that I now need to use

And before I know it, I'm responding to something that I didn't need to at this time. I often also forget why I came here in the first place.

Yes, email and ticketing are also pervaded by spam, but Slack is essentially a corporate sponsored, culturally accepted medium for noise and distraction with no easy way to apply controls.

You typically need strong leadership to define the constraints through culture, because the tool by itself isn't designed for this.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/12/13/crypto-exchange-binance-temp...

"Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, paused withdrawals of the stablecoin USDC on Tuesday while it carried out a "token swap." USDC withdrawals were resumed about 8 hours after Binance first announced the pausing of withdrawals. Changpeng Zhao, CEO of Binance, tweeted on Tuesday that the exchange is seeing an increase in withdrawals of USDC."

Strategically timed 8 hour stoppages are not a sign things are going well.
I think you need to think of the RV32 as what they were designed for as I/O processors, one in particular is for networking
Death tolls aren't the only impact of a nuclear disaster. Denial of land use for tens to hundreds of years, cleanup costs, mutations, denial of water supplies if it reaches ground water (the prevention of which was one of the things that did work out well at Chernobyl). All with cleanup costs a magnitude higher than those of industrial spills.

We're all going to die eventually of something and of those 8M many would have died soon after of other causes. Look at how many people still smoke packets full of hazardous fume sticks on a daily basis. That's how much we care about that risk.
It's not like they can just throw this stuff away anyway. The theming support is everywhere throughout the API, and since Microsoft is a backwards compatibility company, they can't just change APIs incompatibly because that inevitably breaks existing software.
Check out the book "American Prometheus" about Oppenheimer. Very compelling read.
What makes you say that? Certainly tiktok seems to be full of a lot of generational humor/videos, which must explicitly naming boomers and often showing people their age. But maybe I’m too old to understand their explicit gripes.
I get the feeling that the Quest Pro is a similar game changing experience, but the strategy tax from being forced into Facebook services is absolutely suffocating.

I am legit excited about the idea of having VR eye contact, and would gladly pilot headsets for my team. But nobody wants to be on Facebook's platform. It's embarrassing to even talk about it. And I'm frustrated that something that should be a fun, cool, liberating, wide open new platform is so stifled and locked down.
I Wish I Could Tell You This One Is Not All About Twitter
Starring Liam Neeson as the hunter...

Goldilocks

They ate his little girl... Now he's pissed.

Coming to a theater near you.

Plot twist: Was a frame job by the Big Bad Wolf.
Merge commit is just a regular commit that happens to have multiple parent commits - it doesn't have to match the state of its parent commits at all. However, you usually use `git merge` in order to create a commit that does in fact match the state of its parent commits, so some people (and even some UIs) don't expect it to diverge over regular conflict resolution - which is why it's easy to "hide" changes there that don't appear in any dedicated non-merge commit.
It sounds as if the company itself does not have a 'dislike' button.
Looking at it another way, 7 was the last properly-desktop one, before touchscreens ruined everything for everyone.
> How is this constant? This is just 1 request every 7 days

That is only 1 VIP twitter recipient, not the total received by Twitter.
Because power outages are extremely annoying and eliminating dependencies is a good thing.
Pynchon hired post-docs to research the dotcom bubble and cultural ephemera of the time for BLeeding Edge. Many other writers employ researchers for their writing as well, James Ellroy comes to mind. It's a kind of open secret in the publishing industry. Of course, writers and their publishers alike would prefer if readers had no idea of this.
> 7. The FBI’s social media-focused task force, known as FTIF, created in the wake of the 2016 election, swelled to 80 agents and corresponded with Twitter to identify alleged foreign influence and election tampering of all kinds.

I think this is a typo and should be FITF, the FBI Foreign Influence Task Force: https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/counterintelligence/foreign-...
Spaces "coincidentally" shut off while Elon was in one and getting grilled with questions about banning journalists. Also, about 7 hours ago he tweeted "Spaces is back"

To me that's convincing circumstantial evidence that Spaces didn't break, he turned it off.
Crappy 360 video on mobile had nothing to do with gearvr.
Nine Inch Nails released their music on What.CD (a music torrenting website), under an alias. Maybe a bit similar. They did it for the arts, very punk-like :)
Is AIX functionally superior for banks and financial services? Or is it a matter of legacy software requiring AIX?
It's beautiful!

OT: it seemed like an awesome application so I ran it but a few seconds into importing I got

"Rate limit for Tweet Replies reached. Waiting 18446744072038294844 seconds"

I'm not going to live nearly long enough for that!

ADD: and there's no cancel button or anyway way to stop it.
Same. I’ve been at companies that paid really well and ones that only paid ok. We still had to go through all these hoops. All things equal, I might as well get paid better.

Moreover, it wasn’t better than the smaller startups I’ve worked at either. There was little self promotion because your connections mattered more than what you did or your impact. If you weren’t in the club with founders and other early employees, you were a have-not.
Trump was in charge of the FBI when this happened, and its director (Wray) was appointed by him.
It's as if the persecution of journalists is a new thing..

If Musk doesn't grow a spine and stop behaving like a petulant child there are other places journalists can go. But I think Twitter would learn that they were a driver for why many chose to use their product.
There is an even larger group of people who happily used Facebook’s products to stay in touch before, during, and after the pandemic.

For much of the world, Whatsapp video calls were the standard way to keep in touch.
Apple is I think a different case as it comes after a (reverse) merger, in particular as the main product (the OS) was rebased from Next’s stack and not Apple’s legacy one.

Laying off redundant people after a merger is basically part of the plan, and it’s more akin to cutting off the bits that don’t fit in the new org (they’re bringing in 500 Next people at the same time), than “slimming down” in the sense of making the same org leaner and more efficient.

Or if we take that definition, car manufacturers merging and getting rid of thousands of workers as a cost saving measure would also count as successful slimming downs, and we’d have many more example of it. That would work as well.
That's not it, but thanks.

Here's a pretty good recreation, though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjWD-CnasPc&list=PLGxaqBTVsg...

I've been unable to find the original. I'll keep looking.
Why the hell would the government charge a citizen to build infrastructure to begin with?

Poles, transformers, roads? That's what people pay taxes for. The government should deal with it.
Everyone around me used XP for a very long time and remembers it very well, but 2000 is largely forgotten.
I had such an insane amount of hot wheels. I totally forgot about this.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34008221
It's an open secret. Everyone within the FAANGs knows what the tests are for, even if many of them won't admit it.