skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not sarcasm, but it may be researcher bias https://xkcd.com/2501/

I don't consider twitter discussion "serious decisions". When a thread here reach 100 comments, the quality of the discussion usually drops. I don't want to imagine how bad it's in twitter.

The problem is people overdosing from snake oil they read in twitter. I think there were a few cases with ivermectine, hydroxychloroquine and chlorine dioxide [1]. People should not self medicate, or at least understand proportions and that the dose makes the poison. They should see a medical doctor [2], that at least understand proportions and that the dose makes the poison and that they should follow the advice from the FDA made by people that read a few of research papers and extended reports, instead of only one press release about a preprint written by a moron that somehow got a position in a university or hospital.

I guess politician don't read the full paper (except Merkel?), but they hire experts to read the articles and give advice. If you are a politician and the "expert" is reading only the abstract without checking the full paper and the journal and other related stuff, you should fire the moron.

[1] The chemistry of chlorine dioxide is too simple and it's obvious that it can't possible work, so it makes me angry. The other stuff don't work, there were no good reasons to expect them to work, but at least it's not obvious with elementary chemistry that it can't work.

[2] I have horror stories about medical doctos too. Always ask for a second opinion for important stuff.
The gas industry is paying Instagram influencers to gush over gas stoves (2020)
Building a read-only Debian root setup: Part 1
Instead of asking, is this true or not, it is often better to ask "What is this true of?" Hyaline seas are a great thing in literature, and a terrible idea in a public service leaflet about what to do if you hear the tsunami warning sirens.

I have read lots of student projects and dissertations where, although the student could explain themselves perfectly fine in spoken English, once they were in front of a keyboard and TeXworks they fell into a style of writing that was as tortured as the syntax for fancy LaTeX tables. Orwell's advice would have been very good advice for these students!

As to writing specifically for small children: J.R.R. Tolkien's childrens' story Roverandom contains a character called Psamathos Psammethicus, and Tolkien made quite clear in other writing of his that he doesn't think much of "writing down" even to children. A. A. Milne similarly has a scene in which Owl says "The atmospheric conditions have been very unfavourable lately." "The what?", Pooh asks. "It has been raining.", Owl explains. That's all at once an example of making fun of pretentious writing, giving an example of the kind of writer who should read some Orwell, and something that even very young children can handle just fine (along with words like Heffalump).
Yes, if this inconvenience is the case, this is definitely the last straw. Despite yours, and apparently the new owner's perspective, not everyone on twitter talks about or cares much for Tesla and metadrama, it's the people we follow, and how.

But half of my timeline, and most of my colleagues have left, the only thing that has kept me on so far is that the Tapbots Mastodon app https://tapbots.com/ivory/ isn't ready yet, because I like their UIs. Meanwhile I've collected lists and screenshots of where the people leaving said they were going. I've not had an actual reason to physically move over yet though; forced to use the site would be that.

I've been using third-party clients for over a decade, every time I've had to use the site directly it has been a nightmare. With a client app you never saw people you didn't follow anyway, and so as long as it's more effort to leave than stay... you don't have to think about it. Even if it is only specific third-party clients - then even the job of searching for and finding a different client is more effort than I want to put towards this site and its new ownership..
Antarctica probably looks a lot like much of Canada, Norway, and Chile.

Scraped.
Lol, You should clear all your collections. Don't hesitate.
Last week, I clear all my collections from all platforms used. I save 2500+ unread articles in my pocket. It's meaningless to save without time to read. And read later app I will never use again.
You should bear in mind that the energy of the human is limited.
I am from China. There is a traditional Chinese culture sentence for you.
吾生也有涯，而知也无涯。以有涯随无涯，殆已！
> Elon's tweets aren't the same as announcements from Twitter.

I’m not saying it’s sane, but in his eyes, yes they are, just like his tweets about Tesla.
I was pretty convinced that dark matter is made up nonsense and that RelMOND is probably correct, but then I learned of the Bullet cluster.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullet_Cluster#Significance_to...

Two clusters collided, with most of the observable objects being just past the middle point right now, however most of the mass seems have already shot way out to the edges, as if it passed right through everything. It's pretty hard to explain with anything else other than that there's something there that has mass yet can't interact with anything else that passed through everything when the collision happened. Adjusting equations doesn't really work in this case, there must be something physically there.

I'm not sure why this isn't mentioned first thing every time in dark matter discussions because it's literally the only thing that's pretty hard evidence imo.
So who is paying for this week's "gas stoves should be banned" PR push, then?
That sounds backwards to me. Don't you mean Y axis is time and X axis is frequency? Otherwise how could it play from bottom to top?
I am in the opposite boat. Deleted all my stuff never looked back. Best decision. This is probably the only social thing I read now; its like 5 minutes a day to scan the front page, then close it.

I still have discord, but I am super careful to make sure I only stay in channels when I need them and then immediately leave when I no longer have a use for it.
I’m glad when tools like Alpine remain in their niche. Too many of them grow with their userbase, adding every requested feature, until they become as unwieldy as the framework they originally tried replacing. If you outgrow Alpine, migrate to another framework instead.
Problem with such tools is that, if done beforehand, they start nice and clean and then as Support requests more features, it starts to get out of hand. Then someone passes the tool to an external team and suddenly you have dependencies that you are not aware of.

The best approach is to re-use the existing setup e.g. hook into existing observability ecosystem instead of building your own from scratch. If support needs to execute something frequently, question if that can be done via any existing orchestrator like Tidal or Autosys etc. If that is insufficient, maybe a dashboard is more manageable since it is server-side. If you see that you are building such dashboards for each of the services, they maybe there is need for a general Support dashboard (even that is not a panacea because that too starts nice and clean and then as Support requests more features, it starts to get out of hand and becomes a dumping ground for random requests). Push back on what is not essential, drive towards fixing the root cause of something that is symptomatic of a deeper issue; on the other hand, if it is a genuine need, add the feature - as with most things, balance is the key.
This person is just making things far more complicated than they need to be.

> cant make a new Facebook in 2023 and add all these old friends. Literally psychotic behavior.

There is nothing "psychotic" about signing up again and adding some old friends again. Many people leave social media and return when they feel more comfortable. They are the only thing blocking themselves from the social interaction they are missing.

> I live alone by choice with my cat and separate from my parents and all my siblings and yeah we all text but it’s still nice seeing social media posts from everyone. Maybe I’d feel less isolated. I also feel left out when they talk about some stuff they see.

Again they isolate themselves by choice then complain about isolation. There is nothing stopping them from socialising. Nobody has 'ghosted' them or excluded them from anything.

Seems to me like this is somebody that took things too far with a total cut of all social contact rather than just removing some of the more toxic elements of social media from their lives.

I don't use Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or TikTok because I didn't enjoy the never ending stream of content but I still use reddit, Hacker News (obviously), Discord and Slack for keeping in touch with "online friends". You don't have to go to absolute zero for social media to cut out the majority of the toxic stuff but still get some of the benefits from it.
That's really strange.

Most developed countries have free education including university. I went to college for free.

Don't all those millions of young people value their education?
typescript as a language on it's own, is worth it, however the nightmare of the landscape of all the poorly develop libraries and endless layers around it causes me to never pick it for a backend project.
Meta sues surveillance company for scraping data with fake Facebook accounts
Which one do you show for which tweet, if all you have is the OCR (that is, you can't read the markup)?
You can still die from those, but the odds of dying from bacterial infection have gone down dramatically.
Coming soon: Templates and custom templates with API.
> We could do a lot better...

I think the biggest win would be getting rid of the big spacebar, and replacing it with more keys. (The thumb is much stronger than the pinkies; but we use the pinkies for all sorts of keys, and the thumb only for a few keys).

Although I think by the time a keyboard design gets rid of the big spacebar, it then goes on to make other improvements (like symmetry, being split) and so ends up as looking too unusual.
Oooof. Guess I should count my blessings that the lack of bureaucracy in a smaller team means that I can spend time on admin tools when I see fit. Grass isn’t always greener
For some things, your nth derivative can very rapidly be 0.

There might not be an acceleration of acceleration... Etc.

So "all the derivatives" doesn't make sense.

Matter is limited by the celerity of light in a vacuum after all...
It's a nice article. If you resubmit, I'll vote you up!
Not having money, i.e. poverty, and how you have to balance needs/wants/now/future is bit more complicated than this. In the same way you can't tell an alcoholic to 'just stop drinking' or someone in an abusive relationship to 'just leave them'. Because there is more going on than a simple econ 101 decision process happening.
Today I found out I'm a paid influencer. Shame nobody told that to my bank account or my instagram followers.

To me gas stoves are the best, and now that I don't have one I miss it even more.
Yea, I always thought of PartiQL as a replacement for the overly-complicated DynamoDB SDK (it has 2 different 'versions' and multiple query modes - a low level API and a higher document level).
Extreme language does not take away from any of my points I have written an entire essay worth of points and got zero engagement on it. Why will I try to write more?
Calling The Expanse "hard sci-fi", especially in comparison to the Three Body Problem, is quite rich.
Is that a publicly traded company?

Are you founder / co-founder?

Are you employee #1-5?

If answer is "NO" on all questions, then by reducing your salary, you're purely losing money.

You won't see a penny for your "equity" even if company is sold for trillion $.
Most languages don't let you reason about such things. You just copy things around with no clue or care if it is fast or slow.

Most problems don't need that level of reasoning, but when it matters C++ gives you a lot of power to ensure you can control when it happens.
Loved this comment. We use multi-repos and the only drawback was at the beginning when we were deciding about our linter rules and we had to make multiple PRs (or some other library that had to be stabilized first). Other than that, It never annoyed me in some other way. Independent CI/CD configuration, independent versioning for each repo and independent commit logs are some of the reasons I like it. Maybe everything I mention is simply a tooling problem, but until it exists for us mortals and not just internally for Google, I will stick with multi-repos. I understand the reasoning behind monorepos but it simply is not enough to persuade me at the moment.

The only thing that I would like us to solve with a tool when it comes to the multi-repos, is to force which versions of the separate repos are compatible together. For the time being it's manageable without automation but it's definitely a high priority.

EDIT: Added new paragraph
Some cars are self-parking and can help you to parallell park. But it doesn't help you to park at the right spot, so the service is only half way. Should be potential to fill this gap
Obviously. You'd use Emacs for that.
This guy would probably benefit from some therapy, it doesn’t sound like the lack of social media is the problem.
What practical difference does it make?
> I find it also helps indirectly by making clever code harder to write. The dynamic nature of JavaScript encourages a degree of cleverness and meta-programming that makes things harder to understand. While you can do the same in TypeScript, making the complier happy makes it much harder to do so, which encourages more straightforward code.

Interesting.

Not having to define types makes JS feel very fluid to me when using it to jump into a problem and quickly test out ideas.

You can figure out solutions fast, and I suppose with that power comes irresponsibility for those who don't care to clear up the chaos they are able to leave behind in the fast iterations towards discovering the implementation they seek. In short - it takes discipline, and your argument it seems is that typescript enforces a certain degree of discipline... pros and cons to both.
Because they matter to the people you're getting hired by. Are you for real?
That's a business person's view.

At some point a Senior Engineer is about Engineering. Leave the marketing to that department.

The idea that 'business objectives' can be meaningful in detail at the Engineering level is hopeful. Maybe in a startup with one product, and even then, everybody is guessing about what features will resonate and what the customer base is.

No, a Senior Engineer is first about competent correct performant code. That's got to be their focus. Not attending business meetings.
It's not really "none working". It's different from community to community. Some of them did close to a mass migration. Enough that my plain Twitter timeline is extremely quiet now. Not everyone will see the same effects though.
> The whole point of not using social media is to push you to actually meet people in real life.

While that can be a reason, it's not "the whole point". I backed way off on social media a few years ago simply because I found it toxic. I didn't have trouble before that meeting people in real life, nor did it particularly change my behavior in that regard when I left most of the social media behind.
You again don't engage with my point. If the only profitable stores are exploitative why would society tolerate this? This is not a market issue, it is indeed a moral issue.
Watched a 4k blu-ray last night. Let me know when streaming services are sending video with peaks of 100Mbps h.265 and audio with peaks of 4Mbps (and when I can get a home connection that can handle that). And when I can use streaming when utility power is unavailable and my telco DSL is too (they apparently don't have a battery at the remote terminal)

SD cards seem alive and well, although usually micro these days.
congratulations!! I can't tell the first isn't human no matter how much I try. That is an amazing achievement.
Software foundations is a practical introduction to Coq's type theory (calculus of inductive constructions). You get a really strong feel for the concept of proofs as types. One of the sections builds the theory of typed lamda calculus within Coq. It's otherwise lighter on theory than other resources.

https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/
> Life might be possible with simpler chemistry too.

Yeah, but we since we know of only one instance of life developing we don't really know what's actually possible and what only might be possible.

> Chemistry was sufficient 100 million years ago for intelligent life to evolve, so some other solar system could've easily have had intelligent life for that long or even longer if they were lucky.

What I'm saying is that time it took life to develop on our planet is so close to the age of the universe (not even one order of magnitude of difference) that it's entirely possible that we were the lucky ones and the next intelligent life (or even eukaryotic life) in the universe won't show up for another few billions of years. Although it will inevitably show up.

> Our lives have changed beyond recognition in the last 500 years. Imagine a civilization that's thousands, tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of years ahead of us.

However technological capabilities of life didn't change at all in last 4 bn years despite it being in control of the whole planet for that long. Technology seems to need a really long runway to fly off.

Another thing is that once technology kicks in as you noticed it develops incredibly fast and it influences the environment at the same speed. And life doesn't really like fast changes to environment so the technology in hundred thousand years might make this world completely unlivable.
Have you tried Deno?
I feel like it would be much harder to create a set of hard controls, like MIDI, to affect the voice acting vs. trying to do a co-embedding space of voices and descriptions of the voices and just saying "Say this quietly and meanly". Thoughts?
Unlike at NASA where they hire everyone?
It Never Existed
Firefox lost ~16M users since last year
I soft quit just before the pandemic on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit. Just said "Taking a break for awhile". No regrets and haven't been back.
>> Because the wind providers have already sold that electricity in an energy auction. So the grid has to pay them for electricity, even if they can’t use it.

> This isn't a real economic loss.

Perhaps I'm misinformed on what economic loss is. To me, paying for something and not getting it is a loss.

I go to movies, I buy popcorn, I spill popcorn. Movie theater says "tough noogies" to me that's a simple economic loss, and roughly the same. I paid for it, I didn't get it.

Worse still is paying for curtailment on both sides. From the article:

Consumers end up effectively paying three times for the power they’re getting: the original payment to the windfarm for the electricity, the payment to turn off, and then the payment to the alternative generator.

If this is true, and you're both paying a turbine operator for the power, and then again to not produce the power, well that's extra worse. That would be the initial economic loss (I paid for the thing and didn't get it) with an fee tacked on top.

I go to movies, I buy popcorn, I spill popcorn. Movie theater says "tough noogies" to me and doesn't replace the popcorn. They also charge me a fee for cleaning up the popcorn I spilled. That's worse from what I can tell.

Again maybe I don't understand what's going on here with respect to how precisely curtailment works. But it's hard to imagine that the situation

> So the grid has to pay them for electricity, even if they can’t use it.

is anything other than an economic loss.
It is only strange because you don't understand the situation. In most developed countries, university education is "free" for a select group that test highly or get good grades. It is not true that 100% of the population is offered free college education, usually 10%-30% of students are given this opportunity, based on their academic performance.

That is also the case in the US, when a comparable share of the student body is offered scholarships (~1/3 of students)-- that's what happened to me, I never paid a penny.

What we are talking about here is those who would never be eligible for a university education in "most developed countries" being able to buy their way into the classroom in the U.S. Others are able to get scholarships to a local university but prefer to buy their way into a more prestigious or desirable university. For example, many are offered tuition wavers to a local community college but prefer to pay to enter a different institution. Or they are offered a tuition waiver for a local university but prefer to go to a more expensive private university, etc. There is a whole chain of selectivity.

Whether or not this is a good idea remains to be seen. More and more, people are coming to the conclusion that the cost isn't worth it.

There is a second issue about whether American universities are actually good (from the point of view of the student) compared to the rest of the world, or whether they are good (from the point of view of select faculty) because they have such huge budgets. Here, too, the situation is mixed (and deteriorating).
"I wish I would get paid more for my value"
This is why so many people are so unhappy; their self-estimation of their value to an employer is entirely at odds with reality.
I don't think he realistically have any huge impact on BTC, on the rest maybe, but BTC is too big and independent that he has no real impact on how it is valued. At least that is my impression.
Yes many people need narrative like that to make sense of the world.

And many other people will keep self-congratulatorily "revealing" it as old and worthless.
The writing is bad, but the sci-fi elements blend with history and real life perfectly. There's a reason Obama gave a blurb for it.

There are great threads in there. The dark forest as an illustration of paranoia matches up with the culture of fear in unstable political climates, and is also a hopeful description of peace in a nuclear time. "Hot contact" with an advanced alien race mirrors the US and China. The exploration of hidden information with sophons, wallfacers, and star signaling.

Foundation was written when the US was cementing its empire. It thinks about legacy, decline and planning. The series reads as safe, cozy, paternal (some of the main antagonists are petty bureaucrats and gentle public disapproval).

Three Body is much more chaotic, jumbled, in the trenches. The systems are bigger and stronger than the people, practically and narratively. Asimov's robots were essentially human, dealing with how to be good citizens. It's all human scale. Liu's people are triggers for events far larger than themselves.
Not with that attitude! Just need to believe harder!
In what language do you put a space before comma but not after? Even without that the usage is puzzling enough to make me genuinely curious what their native tongue is. It almost reads like a haiku.
It sounds you are essentially recommending therapy for those who don't like TS.