skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We looked into the data in 2015 and wrote this paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.07723

From the abstract:

A common objection against the use of these platforms is the delegation system, where a user can delegate his vote to another user, giving rise to so-called super-voters, i.e. powerful users who receive many delegations. It has been asserted in the past that the presence of these super-voters undermines the democratic process, and therefore delegative democracy should be avoided. In this paper, we look at the emergence of super-voters in the largest delegative online democracy platform worldwide, operated by Germany's Pirate Party. We investigate the distribution of power within the party systematically, study whether super-voters exist, and explore the influence they have on the outcome of votings conducted online. While we find that the theoretical power of super-voters is indeed high, we also observe that they use their power wisely.

The Related Work section may also be of interest for you.
this is indeed a costly problem, but I suspect there are economical solutions using technology.

Expert identification can, to a degree, be bootstrapped out of a crowd using something like Prelec's Bayesian Truth Serum (https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1102081). The tldr is that it fishes out holders of unusually surprising knowledge relative to the population. I was involved in a study that used BTS effectively to identify expert dermatologists.

I imagine it's possible to find a sweet spot between voluntary querying (a-la slashdot) by a rotating, small party combined with a variant of BTS which surfaces the experts as needed.

The cost of identification will still scale with the group, but it might be doable at ratios that are similar to moderator:users in forums.
No. The problem is not sound quality. The problem is that the speech sounds unnatural and computer-generated.
At whatever maximum frequency.

Let me put it a different way: If I'm playing a game and I'm barely using 20~40% CPU, I'm doing good. That 60~80% unused CPU processing headroom is my ability to be worryfree about capping out.

Which is to say: Yes, my 12700K is massive bloody overkill for my day to day activities, but it is 300% adequate for my needs and concerns and I love it. I'll probably upgrade it to a 13700K or 13900K(S) depending on the price a year or two down, since my mobo can accept it (thanks Intel!).
Migrants from poorer countries have lower standards of living, and often able to claim exclusive subsidies. When a job market is saturated with people willing to do jobs for way less, the existing workforce gets pushed out.

Country level this mightn't change much initially, as the existing workforce moves where they maintain their income. But on a local level it's disruptive, and if not held in check flows up to country-level. (A "brain-drain".)
The thing that's killing me w/ Django's Admin system is there's no concept of pure Viewing data.

A big part of administering your end users is having staff be able to "see" what is going on w/ the user (i.e. a dashboard for user and all user related objects, like what company they belong to, money, products, purchases etc). But it's weird that the viewing page is also the editing page.
Less bloat? How easy is it to strip Chromium down if you only want HTML+CSS for instance? (I would guess: not trivial)
Curtailment of wind wouldn't be a problem if it's just because too much wind, but that's not the case, there isn't enough transmission, and we are having to use gas, that is a problem
> and newer versions never have breaking changes anyways

Huh? Typescript release note regularly contain information about breaking changes. They may not be dramatic; but they are there.
Silly peasant, stop fighting the algorithm and embrace being fed filtered garbage instead of something atleast temporally coherent... /s
Ah good. I was going to ask that question (does anyone has a 400Hz AC power supply lying around? :) - well I guess the manufacturers have but not many more people)
This user in another post here has encountered issues. It looks like you were the lucky one.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34363615
If you look at your kids every day and their future. Yes. I guess. Or reinvest, to pump the funds into future tech to replace the disaster.
Any straight line you draw from earth to any direction in the sky will then reach a star.
Well, RIP twitter I guess. Although strangely if I search the news archives for outages with date set to before 2022..
>> The point of hjkl is to keep your fingers in the home row of your keyboard. This is generally accepted to be good typing practice as it improves speed.

You might get some benefit to speed if you keep your hands on the home row, or you might not. This is mostly something people have been repeating as gospel, but I'm not aware of anyone testing it.

Intuitively, using the arrow keys to move the cursor without inserting a character should be faster. Assuming one is moving around the text while editing, it takes at least three keypresses to use hjkl to move the cursor without inserting a character: one to switch to command mode, one to move the cursor, and one to switch back to insert mode. That's because hjkl in insert mode simply insert their respective letters. By contrast, using the arrow keys to move the cursor without inserting a character needs one keypress: to press an arrow key.

Even if you count moving your hand to the arrow keys and back as two distinct "operations", and each keypress as a single operation, it takes at least three operations to use the arrow keys (i.e. as many as using hjkl): one to move a hand to the arrow keys, one to press a key, and one to move the hand back. Assuming that each operation takes constant time, that means that, at best, there is no advantage over keeping your hands at the home row and moving the cursor with hjkl, than using the arrow keys.

So that idea, that it's faster to keep one's hands in the home row, must be a superstition.

Incidentally, I've been using vim continuously since 2011. These days at work I use a Spanish QWERTY keyboard, but with an English Euro layout. I got the Spanish keyboard by mistake and it was simpler to keep using it with the layout I know, and benefit from more than a decade of muscle memory, than to try and learn the new key positions (and combinations). This is another reason why I am skeptical of the claim about the home row: muscle memory is faster than any spatial optimisation you may think of, or, rather, if you've already learned to move your hands one way and can do it fast, changing to a new way will slow you down, first. And then we're talking about long-term gains of maybe a few milliseconds in the long term in this case. That sounds pointless.
Industrial electrolyzers are usually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymer_electrolyte_membrane_e... which is a bit more complicated. But you also need to consider storing the hydrogen and turning it back into electricity.
> The computers we have today are just a mesh of stuff that flips on and off with no intermediate states.

Only when things are working properly and there isn't too much cosmic radiation, interference, strange patterns accessing memory, someone turning on a light…
Did someone play around with the servers again? :) Maybe he chewed on some server cables this time
Same here. I found React way too complex for something that should be simple. I blame Javascript..
Pathfinder Creator Paizo Announces New OGL Following D&D Controversy
Can't believe how long I had to scroll to find the answer I agree with, effectively: "it depends".

Going with car analogies, the question is similar to "Is a bus better than a race car?" - there's no correct answer without more context. How many people use one or the other, how many people praise one or the other, that's no help either.

That said, regardless of whether it makes me happy or whether it's a solid technical decision, TypeScript appears to be used somewhat widely at this point. So learning to deal with the complexities and gotchas of it is IMHO worth it for anyone who's serious about web development. No need to become a zealot though, there's no need to find and defend some silver bullet. It just depends.
Look at what other webapps are using, such as Photopea.
Why Taco?
Twitter is censoring journalist critical of Tesla
i agree, I have to work with typescript for my current job and I hate every second of it. I was never a fan of any languages that require transpiling. the trade off and trouble it comes with is not worth it for the small benefits. Im not a fan of JS in the first place but typescript just makes it worse.
Why is solar+storage different?
To the commenters saying that wind farms should move South or blaming wind farms or other energy producers. (My opinion and knowledge follows.)

That is the whole idea of a robust and efficient transmission network: to transfer power from where it is cheaply generated across even countries; and mitigate any power production or transmission network failures.

Say there is bad weather/physical catastrophe/heat wave in X area? No problem, we produce it in Y and deliver via Z. Pricier to produce in Y on time t, no problem produce in cheaper X and send to Y.

My read: Somehow U.K. managed to cheapskate on that front and we are now surprised it is more costly when extremely cheap gas is a thing of the past.

I am simply surprised that Scotland and England are not extra tightly interconnected. We can't really afford wasting or curtailing energy in Europe. Ideally U.K. should have been exporting that extra power.

P.S. It seems to me that U.K. has a quite fragmented transmission network "by design."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distribution_network_operator#...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Power_Networks
I think that is a terrible idea.
P.S.2 To the U.S. readers: they pulled a "Texas."
I get that this is trying to point out that neo4j shouldn't be that far behind, but why are the i7/gatling test numbers being directly compared to memgraphs g6 test results? The conclusion is a bit premature without the other half of the test... What performance does memgraph have on the newer, single socket hardware?
Not really IME; you have to go through layers of bullshit aiming at making the paper seems more important that it is, not hurting the feelings of Pr. Curmudgedon that could be a reviewer, fitting the grant that funded the paper, hiding the weak points of the study, adhering to the current Scientific Serious Professional Way Of Writing™, not disturbing the flawed, but socially accepted consensus in this particular field, ... and so on that are actually burying what should actually have been in the abstract.
> I am here to tell you: if you are running a software business and you aren't at, like, Google-tier scale, just throw it all in a monorepo.

Funny because Google is famous for having a monorepo at scale.
Sorry for an likely ignorant question, but can someone ELI5 why we are confident that evereything in universe is less than 13 billion years old or whatnot, and not just redshifted beyond recognition?
> Additionally, as far as I'm aware or at least last time I checked this doesn't enable directory based permissions,

I haven't tried it yet, but I thought it did.. the first 3 paragraphs of the comment you're responding to all mention directories

> This API allows interaction with files on a user's local device, or on a user-accessible network file system. Core functionality of this API includes reading files, writing or saving files, and access to directory structure.

> Most of the interaction with files and directories is accomplished through handles. A parent FileSystemHandle class helps define two child classes: FileSystemFileHandle and FileSystemDirectoryHandle, for files and directories respectively.

> The handles represent a file or directory on the user's system. You can first gain access to them by showing the user a file or directory picker using methods such as window.showOpenFilePicker() and window.showDirectoryPicker(). Once these are called, the file picker presents itself and the user selects either a file or directory. Once this happens successfully, a handle is returned.
In a word: Facebook.

A more technical use case that I liked was a system that can analyse the configuration of resources across and entire network and find a "path" from a normal user account to a full admin privilege.

Something like: "Helpdesk user A can reset the password of a service account that can write to a file share that contains a script that is run on logon by every user including the full admin, allowing user A to trigger an action in the context of an admin B, making them equivalent to an admin."

You map out "things" on the network like file shares, security groups, accounts, etc... with links between them, and then ask for the shortest path from A to B.
I'd like to read more about that, got a link?
Half an order of magnitude bigger, at most.

A regional outage of that size is embarrassing whatever way you slice it.

Leaving all that aside, he’s driving a massive subset of his users away at a time when he really needs all the users he can get.

You can spin this however you like, this is not a good situation for him. He’s said as much outright and implied it repeatedly.

Since this time last year he’s said that both Twitter and SpaceX are likely months from bankruptcy, and Tesla has been flat out told FSD, the feature they’ve been selling all their cars based on (which he has said himself the company is worthless without), just isn’t happening.

This is dire for him.
I did not write the blog post, it was just a simple infer/extends non-trivial example explained in depth, commonly used in packages like express and so forth. TDungeon [1], a game running on the TypeScript type system, really showcases how powerful the type system truly is.

Why not C#? Probably because Anders Hejlsberg [2], lead architect of C# and core developer of TypeScript, wanted something different. More of a sociological, rather than technological, reason.

[1] https://github.com/cassiozen/TDungeon

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anders_Hejlsberg
Worth it if JS is worth it.
I use Neo4j to create a CMDB that pulls in data from Active Directory, File Shares, Cloudstrike API, Okta API, Windows Services, Processes, and TCP ports, VCenter, Cisco CDP , ARP tables, Routing Tables, and MAC address tables from routers and switches. Powershell get-foo commands combined with the ConvertTo-JSON makes it very easy to import data from Windows.

A possible query would be match (host:ESXihost)-[:running]->(vm:WindowsVM)-[:running]->(:Process {name:$processName}) return vm,host

I feel graph databases work very well to document the myriad dependencies in a enterprise IT stack and to integrate siloed data.
Did you find the whole clip it was in convincing? For me, I didn't even notice the breath but the entire second and third clip felt obviously AI-generated. But the first clip sounded absolutely real (maybe with some compression artifacts - see my other comment.)

Later when I went back and listened carefully for why the first clip felt so "real" I noticed it had pauses. (No breaths per se but they are sometimes removed from edited audio.) However, I then noticed that the conversational clip, which felt unnatural to me, had very obvious breaths. The entire effect of the conversational clip didn't sound like a human at all. It sounded like an AI.

Did you find the whole conversational clip "convincing"? (Did it sound like a human to you?) How about the narration clip?
You get what? Anything close to that long? Don't leave me hanging!

I did the same and found a Guardian article that claims no Twitter outage lasted even an hour since 2016, but I thought it was irrelevant because articles about outages aren't exactly top-notch in quality.

Did you find anything better? If so, do share! I'd be happy to be proven wrong!
As described - inaction.
100%. The IMF/World Bank are basically fucking loan sharks.

Those fuckers purport to be helping when they are really doing a lot more harm than good.
I'm sure there's a catchy phrase for that kind of thing, intellectual cottagecore maybe?
I don’t mind it, but I do I think its a stretch to consider it a “skillset” that I need to pass memorized questions about when joining a company

its like, just there. I hate how its existence dilutes the javascript community’s example code for some libraries.

I find it cleaner than just JS but its pretty easy for me to keep up with value inferred type in just JS

I would write my new projects and tests in Typescript
It can also be fixed by notifying about the superdelegate's vote to the people delegating to them, so they can override it if desired.
I fully agree. Yet I still learned the vi input model because pretty much every text editor on every platform supports it one way or another, and a cross-editor / cross-platform input model makes it a no-brainer to switch editors (which I do all the time, e.g. using vim for quick edits on the command line, and a 'proper' IDE for coding, where the IDE also changes (VStudio, Xcode, VSCode) depending on platform or task at hand. And while typing speed doesn't matter much for productivity, "muscle memory" does for "staying in the flow".
I think this will eventually be unnecessary. Delegation solves the problem that interaction is costly. But with modern AI trained on my opinions, it could conceivably take normative positions and then only inform me when it's something I care about.

Then you can have it act on your behalf normally and notify you when it's something you care about.
Let's be real, if your "last straw" moment wasn't several weeks ago it's unlikely this is gonna be it.

But if it is, shame on you. All the silencing of journalists, banning accounts for saying "mastodon", or saying anything negative about Tesla, or criticizing Musk in any way, that didn't do it.

But now you have been mildly inconvenienced and it's the last straw. Really?
Exactly - but i think these apps are hoping to become 'trusted' that a picture taken with them can't be tampered with easily from the photo sensor to the cloud.
try out dart, its much better than TS
There's a pretty advanced Mac OS speech markup language, I wrote about it here: https://www.mattmontag.com/personal/mac-os-x-speech-synthesi...

Going back further, there was also a prosody markup for Sound Blaster speech synthesis (Dr. Sbaitso, anyone?).
This is indeed a good industry leading benchmark.
> and I wasn’t expecting them to revoke the previous license, but instead remove the OGL from new versions

Well, to be fair they did do exactly that with D&D 4e and the GSL. Which bombed spectacularly, as their audience continued to play 3.5 and Pathfinder which continued to use the OGL.

This is actually WotC learning from their mistakes. If they launched 5.5e with a regressive and user-hostile licence, people would just ignore it and splinter the community and hurt the new edition.

Instead — the way wotc is attempting here — they blow up the old editions entirely and shut down all their competition in one legal maneuver. Existing customers have little recourse, they still enjoy ttrpg with their friends and d&d has significant brand strength as well as being the only company left publishing. Nerds will whine but the company now is now well-positioned to be the sole competitor in the increasingly profitable digital future. They don’t have to spent 10 figures on the next dndbeyond, they can just sue them. They don’t have to built a better vtt than foundry, they just shut down foundry and theirs is better by default — tada!

They may have underestimated how loudly nerds like me are whining, and voting with our wallets. And perhaps also o overestimating how successful their legal shenanigans would be — I’m not a lawyer but so much I’ve read from legal analysis suggests wotc is in a dubious position and unlikely to succeed here.
> Precise predictions are hard, but the general direction of travel cannot be seriously disputed without arguing against the above simple facts.

To add, the predictions re: global warming seem to have been too optimistic, and they were already gloom and doomsaying enough decades ago. I scoffed when I read a headline saying something about a specific glacier being gone in 100 years - I'm sure it'll be much sooner than that.
If the species was a human, it would by now be institutionalized for self-harm while delusional, but well, there is no warden to put us into a zoo and govern affairs, so there is that.

Instead we basically have a species, that is the equivalent of a homeless drug addict on the tenderloin, soiling its own future.
A good start would be to honestly communicate this as the starting point of every debate. Then evaluate what can be done, without retardations setting in, in the range of the limitations.

How much of the day can be used, without withdrawl syndroms.

How can delusions be crafted into something that moves the species forward towards a reasonable goal?

What has to go, even if it hurts temporary and the "other hand" wants to prevent it?

As in, is it okay, to call for a first strike policy on someone who wants to assasinate you in 3 generations? Can terrarism against terrorism be legit as self-defense?
https://www.amazon.de/How-Blow-Up-Pipeline-Learning/dp/18397...
a side note to my sibling post about the bayesian truth serum, which can be used to surface "experts", is that BTS discovers experts by rarity of knowledge in the crowd and correctness of metaknowledge of the crowd. The existence of experts is a critical assumption. A corollary is that the maximal knowledge is bound by the crowd.

But also, since it's relative to the population, the knowledge of "experts" does not need to have any bearing on truth. I thought this would be a problem in our context, but then I thought, that's not so far from reality anyway!
If you only need a few graph queries then you could just use SQLite, it’s capable of doing it (I have done it before). But writing graph queries in SQL is painful, so I wouldn’t do it if you need more than a handful.
Fraud detection. Detecting and analyzing anomalous flows of financial transactions requires you to look at multi-hop series of transactions.
No. The current subscription-based version required new auth when released (was a separate app).
Or don't shop at all and use that extra time to walk with friends in nature. Or when you really do need to shop, avoid the commute and use that extra time to spend with friends in nature. Being forced to be around strangers to get chores done doesn't put soul into my life.

I also avoid laundromats and do laundry at home and it doesn't feel soulless.
I think the objections to things like this is the tech for tech sake.

Like with backup cameras that we just don't want to pay for. I've been driving for 20+ years and never once bumped my car. So the safety aspect isn't really relevant. But when I get told "We added this backup camera for free, so you're saving 500$". Honestly I'd rather have you shave 500$ off the price of the car.

I've actually had that conversation about bluetooth in my current car. 8 years old and I've never used the bluetooth. It was tech for tech sake. It adds no value.
v) It’s been well over a year, and IntelliJ Idea still requires me to go to the settings page to enable an experimental feature to be able to run a simple helloworld.ts.

Not sure whose domain this falls in, but the situation is a coal mine canary that tells me the whole ecosystem is not up to the level I want from my production tools
As I understand it, the most basic calculation came from modeling the Cosmic Microwave Background temperature changes in reverse time. If I recall correctly, that runs into a discrepancy that requires the addition of inflation to account for it.
But your argument was "after you do it once, there is no way to go back".

Unless "go back" was "not know there is a difference, unrelated to whether you care"?

Because in the comparison to high resolution, I would never want to go back to 1080p. But refresh rate is whatever to me outside of games.