skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article explicitly says the new line width was larger than the space, so I don’t think it’s your second guess.

Your first guess makes perfect sense though, so perhaps that’s what happened. As I said, that was how I had put it together in my mind (regardless of actual fact).
Catholicism has pretty strict orthodox rules and yet has no issue with images
Another perspective not mentioned is that there is a real context for why the distinction matters in the US. In the US, new features can be described as capital expenditures, or CapEx, whereas maintaining the fitness of the software is considered OpEx, or operational expenditures, and both are taxed differently. This matters for public companies.
Sadly this what happens with the “equity” push is public schools. There is no way to have “equalized” outcomes without dumbing down the content. This means less advanced courses.

It’s sad because somehow the idea of equal opportunity has been replaced with equalized outcomes in education.
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Because it wouldn't know to check.

An AI being right is just when the output of one of its roleplaying sessions is a true statement. AIs can have a version of "confidence", but it's not how true it thinks its statements are, it's how well it thinks it's role-playing.
Shades of gray of course.

Murder? Of course it should be illegal. And society generally takes it seriously.

Banning plastic bags - the cause of the month - or washing your car?

Most of society is going to not give a rats ass, and it will undermine the rest of the system because of it.

More laws don’t create less lawlessness. Laws which address, and give teeth to effective enforcement for, actual problems create less lawlessness.
Leave the country. You’re fucked here. Go somewhere they won’t care, consider going illegally.
Congratulations on being the first person in human history to call the end times correctly.

Again and again we’ve shown we can make these transitions, including surviving a major ice age. While there’s good reason to worry, as lack of worry denotes foolhardiness, despair is both self-defeating and counterfactual to the whole of human history.

This time it may well be different, but if it is, then your attitude is guaranteed to lead to failure, as we will then not take the necessary steps to secure the future.

My money is on a technological solution overall, but there are many things regular people can meaningfully do, such as driving less, giving up one or more cars, or choosing to build or renovate toward highly insulated, potentially net carbon sequestering house as with the passive house standard, switch to heat pump based a/c and water heating, and voluntarily contributing to carbon sequestration efforts such as through YC alum Wren https://www.wren.co/join/Empact

If you think that’s not enough, and perhaps you’re right, what lever do we need to press to make change? It is our responsibility as the current generation to identify and press that lever to secure the future for our descendants.

Politically, my money is on the Citizen’s Climate Lobby effort to bring about a carbon tax, and the American Conservation Coalition for its effort to raise the prospect of environmental policy in the Republican sphere. If enough people vote on this issue alone[1], as the second amendment and abortion communities have effectively done over the past forty years, then we have a chance to shift policy in the direction of conservation/protection.

For me that means: a carbon tax to reduce demand, unleashing zero-carbon sources like nuclear to further out-compete the fossil fuel plants, while also embracing efficient infrastructure like pipelines to efficiently convey that supply we continue to use. On this last point, remember that the demand is constrained via a carbon tax.

The world needs our earnest efforts. You can keep your despair.[2]

[1] particularly in the primaries, as most house districts are now non-competitive between the parties

[2] Incidentally, I think the hysteria on the left is also counterproductive, as “the sky is falling” only reaches so many people before it discredits the speaker, and the goal should of convincing the middle does not require them to be terrified - IMO the easiest way to do that is to make the behavior high-status and motivate people that way, e.g. see Tesla, solar panels, etc.
> I haven't looked into it, but I wouldn't be surprised if they could get around the trickiest constraint, which is how many hard drives you can plug in to a non-mainframe machine for historical image storage.

Netapp is at something > 300TB storage per node IIRC, but in any case it would make more sense to use some cloud service. AWS EFS and S3 don't have any (practically reachable) limit in size.
I think it's sensible to be critical of the language used in our craft, especially when borrowed from the more physical world, because with it comes the baggage. For example, I have a pet peeve with the phrase "use the right tool for the job" used in the context of languages/stacks, because languages and stacks are more akin to building materials than tools (IMO). Selecting a building material and selecting a tool involve different considerations, and thought-terminating cliches like the above can give a false sense of clarity. So IMO, to look at software maintenance as the author has done, I think is fair and reasonable, even if just to render obvious that software maintenance is a special variety of maintenance that differs from most usages of 'maintenance'.
"The professor was an adjunct, which is what allowed the school to fire them without due process by simply declining to renew their contract."

This is in the article.
> simply scrubbing with hot water and concentrated soap is often not enough.

This is because you aren't using hydrochloric acid to clean the stain, as our guts do all the time.
> refuted it

Refuted what?

Pretending to refute something isn't a refutation, especially when you're being very emotional and upset about it.

Try again.
Consolidating power is a convincing argument, but Xi doesn't seem to especially greedy (I am sure he's extremely comfortable, but he doesn't strike me as only in it for the money somehow). Though I see his extended family do seem to be doing a lot of business[1].

1:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xi_Jinping#Family
Performance and reliability are things sadly missing from corporate apps. You don't need CDNs, caching servers and all that good stuff; if a screen is taking 3secs instead of 1sec to load, no problem. No problem it being web-based instead of native, either.

But I've seen apps out there where a screen takes 10+ seconds to load, and often that fails and you have to try again! That is absolutely unacceptable.
Their fee is based on committed capital not marked up AUM
I wouldn't call that chronological, but otherwise you have a good point. This reminds me of a czech forum abclinuxu.cz I used to visit regularly using the following features:

1) dense list of discussions which you are participating in, with a quick way to find new posts there

2) one can optionally "follow" a discussion via email, this way, people sometimes noticed new posts in discussions which were months old

Both features were quite visible, so most of active users were using them to some degree. Moreover like hacker news, the discussions were threaded, which is imho another feature which helps with long lived discussion. But compared to hacker news, it has much smaller number of users and lower volume of new posts (even at it's peak), so it's not clear how much would that help given the sheer volume of posts and users there.
This is one of the things that attracted me to the YN455 which has the exact same (Sony-manufactured) 20MP FT sensor as my Olympus PEN-F: https://www.hkyongnuo.com/productinfo/660161.html
It truly is a small world! I’ll say hi to him, thanks for sharing :D
Will You Help Me Repair My Door [video]
> It occurs to me that the future of smartphone photography, particularly on low-end phones, is likely to use the image as a prompt to run through a generative AI trained on professionally-taken photographs.

I really hate this idea, but at the same time, I kinda wanna try building it.
If an inspector reviews your house and finds no issues, that is indeed evidence of absence.
perhaps even before that, people in general still lack the discipline and practice of note taking

so a gentle reminder to start taking notes!
And even after reading through first post and your post I had to do a double take to figure out it was wrong.

This is exactly why I don't bother with copilot - I tend to skim when something looks right.

Same thing when I'm reviewing code - I don't go into details - I just do high level sanity checks, if I'm familiar with domain I check for problems I anticipate, look for potential improvements where my experience matters.

If I have to go in depth I might as well do the thing on my own.
"You don't need to monetize it" who's going to fund your Twitter-as-a-charity? What happens when the free money goes away? Businesses have to pay the bills eventually one way or another, you need to plan for that in advance
Private equity generally buys EBITDa positive businesses from each other and founders. Highly unlikely PE marks many investments to 0, rather just less than purchase price.
I call them distractions but this is the beautiful thing about open source. We can have both.
> if it really was [which it isn't]
They did not spend half their revenue on compute. It’s more like 20-25% for running data enters/staff for DCs. Check their earnings report.

Whats app is not an applicable comparison because messages and videos are stored on the client device. Better to look at Pinterest and snap, which spend a lot on infra as well.

The issue is storage, ads, and ML to name a few. For example, from 2015:

“ Our Hadoop filesystems host over 300PB of data on tens of thousands of servers. We scale HDFS by federating multiple namespaces.”

You can also see their hardware usage broken down by service as put in their blog.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/a/2015/hadoop-fil....
Okay but not really though right?

https://www.aap.com.au/factcheck/a-swedish-study-did-not-say...
Yeah the article suggests doing bilateral concentric then unilateral eccentric, but that doesn't seem very practical as you point out.

Many movements have other ways to cheat the concentric using momentum though. For example with a bicep curl you can swing the weight up to the top, and then doing a controlled eccentric motion. On a pull up or dip you could jump up to the top.

That would allow you to use more weight than you could comfortably use in a concentric motion, to give you the extra loading on the eccentric portion - which may give you better strength gains - without having to do unilateral movements.
This and your other comment in this post are such spot on sage advice and align so well with my own experience I feel we must have worked in the same companies. Thank you for putting words to some things.
Yes, that is one way. I list this and others in the documentation for my own implementation: https://sentido-labs.com/en/library/cedro/202106171400/#defe...
the lack of an effective feedback loop.

Of course. The feedback loop for government is different from that for business. Failure in business means going out of business. This powerfully incentivizes business to stop rewarding failure. Like when Alexa lost $billions and Amazon cut off its funding.

No such feedback exists for government operations.
A fair and measured answer, thanks.
To me, most of digital versus analog arguments are more this-is-better-for-me than anything else.

I mean an old friend just linked me their bandcamp. It has a few dozen songs that sound great. Turns out half were made with only a Kaossillator Pro. The other half with only an original Kaossillator.

Working that way wouldn’t work for me, but it works for Sy. And ordinary folks would say that’s a poor way to make songs.
> Vaccines are specific to the thing they prevent.

Exactly. Have you not heard all the stuff about "vaccine-escape" variants of sars-cov-2? This is what we're talking about.
Adding to that, I didn't fully move to wayland until sway was mature enough for my day to day work. i3 (I think I found the project through a twit from somebody at Google) is completely burned into my mind and my current workflow and I just could not living without it.
but chat is not a search engine, so it will not replace them but it will make them obsolete. I dont see any of this obstacles as substantial. conversational systems will take us back to the original, "bladerunner" concept of technology as something that gives us answers, not something that gives us the books to find the answers

The main hurdle for openAI is that it must find a way to link back to the web so that people have an incentive to keep creating content for their training sets. But it seems this could be fixed if the model provides direct links to e.g. buy stuff in its answers.
The pleasure has been all mine. :-)
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In which case, it seems like your blame is misplaced: the government is not particularly guilty of waste (although not innocent either), but is instead is mostly powerless to prevent private contractors from abusing the public's interest.
It will now…
in this specific discussion it's very important to use Tb and TB correctly.
If you really want (a < b < c), then write it as ((a < b) < c) which D will accept with a shrug that the programmer might know what he's doing.
Your point makes sense if you have no idea how Twitter works.

It needs to assemble tweets internally, sort them with an ML model, add in relevant ads and present a single response to the user because end-user latency matters.

And each of these systems eg. ads has their own features, complexities, development lifecycle and scaling requirements. And of course deploying them continuously without downtime. That is how you end up with disparate services and a lot of them for redundancy reasons.

I know you think you’re smarter than everyone at Twitter. But those who really know what they are doing have a lot more respect for the engineers who built this insanity. There are always good intentions.
This matters for R&D tax credits as well. Only new feature development is considered eligible.
With some (pending) regulation, there's indeed the risk that they require such advanced tech that only Big Tech can comply. I don't know if that is the case here.

I see Zuckerberg as a sociopath in a pressure cooker, a highly competitive environment where each decision has an outsized impact. For sure he morally has a piss poor track record, but I still don't think of people like him as villain.

I don't think he gets up in the morning and thinks "how can I ruin the mental health of teenage girls today"? It's possible that he wants to do the right thing, or a neutral thing, or really does want industry wide clarity on this matter.

The way I think of Zuckerberg, Bezos, and Musk is that it's a system issue. You can play evil billionaire whack-a-mole but new ones will pop up.
It's really hard to test big-endian software -- because almost no-one (and in particular no devs) really run big-endian CPUs anymore.

BE is still common in networking hardware (due to being the traditional "network byte order") and mainframes. The most widespread BE hardware would probably be the cheap un/rebranded routers with MIPS SoCs.
I am both embarrassed and disappointed with the negativity this post has attracted.

A litanny of "gotchas", where someone attempts to best the OP. What about x, y and z? It can't possibly scale. Twitter is so much more than this, etc.

The OP isn't making the assertion that Twitter should replace their current system with a single large machine.

The whole thread paints a picture of HN like it is full of a bunch of half-educated, uncreative negative brats.

To the people that encourage a fun discussion, thank you! Great things are not built by people who only see how something cannot possibly work.
> I think the author critically under-guesses the sizes of things (even just for storage) by a reasonably substantial amount.

While true, and not to take away from the parent comment, I've noticed that the size of things is often partially the result of scaling out horizontally. Most companies I've worked at end up with a lot of duplicate records as each subsystem might want a copy or to cache a copy.
Private companies too. And the P&L looks really different depending on whether you expense or capitalize everything
Passwords are weaker than you believe
again, irrelevant.
You still have to worry about vulnerabilities. It shouldn't be possible for a chat program that someone exploited to be able to access your ssh private keys, but unfortunately this is how many Linux distros, ignoring Android based ones, work.
> the Flu vaccine

There are many, not just one, for the different strains of flu. The yearly shots include only a small subset, the ones predicted to be most prevalent in the coming flu season, because of manufacturing costs/limitations and compatibility.
I recently bought one well supported by Valetudo (Dreame W10), but when I saw the flash instructions I decided that I'll just run my unit without setting it up with internet access and an account. That works fine, so I'm not really keen on doing the flash anymore.
Weed is the secret behind my ability to debug really gnarly problems that others get stuck on. I'm not the best coder, and I'm incapable of finishing projects, but most workplaces I've been at I've quickly become the "hey could you look at this heisenbug" guy.

I never smoke in a professional setting of course. I read the code, set breakpoints, debug prints, yadda yadda. Then when I get home I smoke some hashish and suddenly it's like I can execute and debug the code in my brain and just see the bug in plain sight like I'm Gregory House if he was a programmer. Then I pull out my laptop and throw together a fix in the dumbest, simplest way possible, test it, PR it and let code review turn it into production ready code. Because I have no idea what that looks like, and hopefully the company has other people that do(wishful thinking, i know).

Caveats:

Yes, this is very hit or miss, maybe a one out of ten per try, but you can try multiple times of course.

I'm not recommending anyone mess with psychoactive drugs unless they know it's something they can handle, and more importantly that they know how to do it safely.

I'm not saying I have my shit together wrt drugs, I definitely do not.

Weed is double edged; it has negative effects that greatly limit its functional potential most importantly on working memory and focus. I like to say weed can temporarily turn you into a brain damaged genius.

There are many other ways to get this effect without drugs: Taking a walk, meditation, sleep, sex, and basically anything other than staring at the problem can do the trick through random associations.

I was high when I wrote all this so maybe none of it makes sense, but be nice.
You seem to be confusing norms and moral values.

Using one of your examples, the norm would have been slavery and the moral value would have been equality.

This is actually a great example of what I’m talking about. Norms usually enforce the status quo, but values drive us to break norms and change the status quo.
Yeah I completely get that, but I think a lot of hacker news tends to think of companies as the sum of their engineering resources, rather than what they really are. Which is weird, because it's hosted by YC which is meant to be the polar opposite of that. The point of my comment was that the decision making that lead to Twitter's design actually make sense when you understand the business model behind them. It's not good enough to just run a webpage.
>Incidentally, I think the hysteria on the left is also counterproductive

The left is definitely more vocal about it, but it seems like it's a state of mind created by tough personal circumstances which act as a base of projection + poor education which doesn't throttle the projection, and those two things affect many people across the political spectrum. Right-wingers have the steam valves of denial and religion though.

If, instead of climate change, the hysteria were about engineered pandemics escaping labs (not COVID; I mean an actual engineered pandemic sometime in the future), I think it would actually be warranted but equally unhelpful. :p
Thanks! FWICS, futurecoder (and JupyterLite) may be the best way to run `print("hello world!")` in Python on Chromebooks for Education and Chromebooks with Family Link which don't have VMs or Containers ((!) which we rely upon on the server side to host container web shells like e.g. Google Colab and GitHub Codespaces (which aren't available for kids < 13) and cocalc-docker and ml-tooling/ml-workspace and kaggle/docker-python and https://kaggle.com/learn )

Also looked at codesters. quobit/awesome-python-in-education: https://github.com/quobit/awesome-python-in-education

Looks like `Ctrl-Enter` works, just like jupyter/vscode.

iodide-project/iodide > "Compatibility with 'percent' notebook format" which works with VScode, Spyder, pycharm, https://github.com/iodide-project/iodide/issues/2942:

# %%
import sympy as sy
import numpy as np
import scipy as sp
import pandas as pd
# %%
print("hello")
# %%
print("world")

Does it work offline? jupyterlite/jupyterlite "Offline PWA access"
https://github.com/jupyterlite/jupyterlite/issues/941
ChatGPT is already chipping away at my Google searches. I'm more and more just starting there for coding related questions.

I've had chatgpt help me with the following just this week among other things.

- solved a complex issue with scaling and transformations using pixijs upon providing a code example. The solution was 99% there and saved me hours of debugging.

- refactored JavaScript to the async/await pattern

- simplified a complex nested logic in c# with citations

- scaffolded a MySQL create table statement upon providing several c# classes. Again saved me the tedious steps of typing them out.
Yep agree. It’s a great way to write solid software. You can do something similar even when not using formal methods:

Start by writing the skeleton of the complete application. By “skeleton” I mean all interfaces implemented with placeholder all-in-memory code. And then step-by-step refine the whole application until it is done.

It works great!
Not necessarily. The inspector could be corrupt, bad at their job, whatever.
https://archive.ph/RXZdV
Was CCN not able to get a photo of Mashinsky to use? Seems strange that they're throwing around more photos of SBF for two reasons.

1) it's like hiding the bad actor,

2) another photo of SBF probably just gets lumped in with "I know about this", rather than getting new attention "is this something I need to know about".
I never set them up, seems to work well for me so far.
Is this actually due to the “equity” push? The article linked by the parent points to staffing issues during the pandemic and the issue you point to isn’t mentioned.
Y'see, frankly, fuck that.

You try do something good for the world (put a forest somewhere, do a bit of rewilding), then that area becomes desirable, then some LVT prick comes along and tries take what's yours so some property developer can flatten it to build magnolia shitboxes.

Edit: the LVT people on here remind me of the arseholes who want to replace most of the good public parks in Berlin with housing, lol.
>had a job from 71.7% to 55%

Middle-aged immigrants (both illegal and legal aliens) have taken many jobs that teenagers held in the past, food preparers and deliverers at restaurants being a notable example.