skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel that on some level, human knowledge/interaction can be similarly reduced to a basic mechanistic nature. Our prior experiences play the part of training data, and our responses can be reduced to mechanistic processing of stimuli. I believe integrating reinforcement learning would address the last point. I have to say though, humans are much better at trolling.
Twitter's only failure is that it never returned a profit. When you look at the social landscape, it's hard to argue anyone has succeeded other than Facebook.

Twitter's product is great and it didn't need to be as large as Facebook. It shouldn't need to twist itself for the greatest common denominator users who required immediate gratification via algorithmic feeds and short memes.
Shoreline is kind of hilly even if the hills are landfill.
> syn-spoofing-flooding tools lack some TCP options

Four years ago my hobby server on a DSL link got attacked in a SYN reflection attack and it went on for a long time. I took the "usual measures" and it made no difference. (How much nutritional value are they getting here?) My upstream was aware, and had checked to make sure it wasn't inside their DC.

It became a diversion to investigate out of boredom. Finally, statistical analysis of TTLs revealed a pattern. I wrote a Python script to reveal the pattern (gotta love Scapy!) and make some guesses about the actual number of hops and sent that to my upstream. They sent it to their upstream. A few weeks later the Chinese arrested a few people.
Covid drug drives viral mutations – and now some want to halt its use
I mean, from my point of view as a passive Twitter user whose life has been unaffected by Elon taking over, I read this just as another repeat of the same ‘Anti-Musk narrative’ that keeps getting tossed around like a football. I don’t care either way, I’m not a Musk apologist, but I would just ask why this whole ordeal upsets you (and others) so much?

Okay he immediately fired a ton of people from a company that was notorious for setting money on fire. Is that really surprising, that he guts his newly acquired company, so he can rebuild it the way he sees fit? Especially considering every single other huge tech company has laid off enormous amounts of employees in the last year? Are you just as mad at them as you are Elon?

Again, I just don’t get why it makes folks so mad? Elon is going to do Elon things, and if it bothers you so much maybe try blocking him on Twitter, and ignoring any news you see about him. It’s not worth the stress. Especially if it causes you to take time out of your day to write such a rage filled post. Just go about your day, and don’t worry about how Elon chooses to run his companies. I doubt everyone cared this much about how Twitter was run before this, just go back to that and we’d all be happier.
Thanks, Vietnam was over in '75, Stoltenberg was 16 then. It's just all so absurd.
They aren't really 'rare' they just can't be cultivated in captivity at a commercial scale well due to their need for a symbiotic relationship with trees as well as Morels being very picky about their fruiting triggers. I have seen people successfully 'seed' an area by making a slurry by blending molasses, water, and wild foraged morels that were subpar and letting the spores germinate with a water aerator running in the bucket and dumping the slurry in areas on their property that were favorable to Morels.
I'm a bit concerned that they don't mention a particular strain of B. Subtilis.

There are hundreds of documented strains, and they don't all eat/produce the same things (at least not in the same ratios)

Some have been documented to reduce inflammation and restore tight-junction function in epithelial walls (where other strains did not).

Others have been shown to reverse the accumulation of α-synuclein. That has been implicated as a cause or symptom of Parkinson's disease.
DMs are also not working right now
My bad, I corrected the unit.
wake up, and make every day an adventure.
Wouldn’t they have found an unexploded bomb by now?
I disagree. It only broke backward compatibility with VB6 when VB6 didn’t make any sense. Like byref arguments by default, or the useless “set” keyword, or collections being inconsistently 0 or 1 based, stupid constraints on what types you can expose as a field or property in a class, or no way to distinguish empty strings and null. Having done the transition from VB6 to VB.net, yes there were a few things to learn but that was the only way to move on from legacy design choices.
It is only a matter of time before they try to charge for posting more than a minimum number per day. #HeNeedsOurHelp

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/twitter-responds-to-elo...
> Turkey is Turquia though…

The bird is named after a series of misconceptions, with different results in different places.

The country is named after the Turks; you expect it to be the same everywhere.
>I was willing to take you seriously until this last sentence.

I don't know man, based on your tone and how you approached the conversation, sounds like you weren't taking him seriously to begin with.
https://www.regular-expressions.info/optional.html#greedy
.Net itself is fundamentally OOP. Lambdas are implemented as classes with an Invoke method, F# enums are implemented as classes with variants as subclasses, etc. So if "overcoming OOP defaults" is the goal then making a new .Net lang that isn't OOP doesn't achieve much.

So it would have to be either be a new native language, or a new managed language that also comes with a whole new managed runtime. For the former, Rust is already satisfying that need within Microsoft. For the latter, there's even less demand both inside and outside.
These terms are an extension of the license.
> Fed dropped the reserve requirements to zero, so banks can simply loan infinitely without any actual reserve

See my above example for why capital ratios, which consider asset quality and liabilities, are superior to reserve requirements.
"When disagreeing, please reply to the argument instead of calling names" according to HN guidelines
My day job is to work on the .NET runtime and I do 99% of my development in a debian VM (remoting in with VS code as my text editor). I can't remember the last time I hit a platform specific roadblock or needed Windows to do something.
If they did, then good. It reduced Putin’s energy blackmail ability, kind of akin to shooting the hostage.
Years back I was building some concurrent data structures and I had cpu instructions to operate atomically on 64-bit quantities. So, with my data structures storing pointers, it was very useful to use the 3 low bits (0 in the pointer due to alignment) for 3 booleans, and I think sometimes a counter or something in the high bits, so my atomic operations could work on a few more variables.
Maybe they're trialling an option for discouraging users they don't like for a bit, instead of obviously banning them.
Reddit is several orders of magnitude larger than it used to be. Managing a social gathering of 500 people has qualitative differences from managing a gathering of 5 people. Strategies that are beneficial at the small scale might not work or even have negative effects at the large scale.
My main worry: what will happen to my data if Google loses its position and shareholders start pressing for draconian measures?
To be a good parent is to remind your child that a life's worth and future does not amount to what school they may get into or what career they may have. There is much more to life.
I never heard of natto, which is kind of surprising considering I've been vegan for most of my life. This seems like the type of thing that vegans would be into. Anyway, looks disgusting and NSFW
Citation needed, I think. :)

Keep in mind:

1) I "own" some cards in MTGO. That is, there's a line in a DB run by Wizards that associates them with my account ID. I can log in and confirm they're in my collection, and I can trade and sell them to other people. It feels a lot like I own them right now, and it's hard to see how that feeling can be notably enhanced.

2) Of course, all that goes away if the MTGO servers shut down, or if my account is banned, etc. My MTGO cards are mine only as long as Hasbro cooperates, which is...exactly the same as if they were using ERC-721 tokens. Nobody else can run an MTGO server, and the hypothetical token showing that my account owns a valuable card is useful only to the extent that Hasbro lets me use it or trade it to others, which they could stop doing at any time. The token has no possible value or use outside the MTGO ecosystem, and if Hasbro has blacklisted the token (or shut the MTGO servers down), no value inside it either.

Blockchains can have significant value, but they are fundamentally a DB technology (certainly in this context). There are very, very few times where it makes sense to argue that a game would be better if the devs had just used a different DB tech. And this doesn't seem to be one of those times.
It's February though, and we've seen at least two outages in the past 3 months, and arguably a lot more generally buggy instances where specific features have been broken (very often without postmortems or any kind of acknowledgement).

I don't think people are surprised to see a website go down; they're surprised to see a website go down often enough that it no longer seems like a particularly noteworthy event. I opened this thread to see what people were saying about the policy change and instead saw people complaining about a service outage, and my response was not, "huh, what on earth is going on at Twitter?" It was, "eh, seems about right."

Twitter always struggled with outages, but they shouldn't be the expected result whenever new features/changes are launched.
Or could be Putin cementing his position. Even if you do a coup there is no thawing of energy policy with Europe so now the elites as less likely to try
Eh, maybe. I don’t think many NumPy people would reach for a decimal dtype even if it were available and implemented in hardware. It just isn’t useful in the primary domains where NumPy is used.

That leaves vanilla Python. You’re right that compared to dynamic dispatch, a decimal op implemented in hardware is nothing, but the issue here (IMO) is death by a thousand cuts. Python is already slow as hell, and currently using decimal as a default would require a software implementation in many if not all places, which will be slow. Trade off does not seem worth it to me.
Huge news if this turns out to be something that people can take over the counter to prevent staph. I've shared this with some jiu jitsu friends and hopefully its true and could bring down the rate of infections at gyms.
Yeah, it is strange that they did not mention that part of F# directly, only obliquely in saying that they maintain compilers and toolchains and runtimes with extensive community support, or something similar, perhaps on the linked page.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/...

There's an example of a Microsoft Research paper on F#.
Github is good, though I suspect that will change given the amount of issues they run into daily: https://www.githubstatus.com/history
Sometimes government needs to do that and when it does it's costly and the cost comes from our collective pocket. So making it easier just saves us money.

There's of course argument that if it's easier it will do it more often so it costs more. But that's something that will need to be controlled through political system.

Basically development of humanity is making forms of oppression increasingly more painless and predictable to both the oppressor and the oppressed. Predictability and painlessness is good for business so we thrive.

You can't get rid of oppression. Humans will always divide into the ones that hoard power and those who don't with former living off the latter. Best we can do and the best we've actually done is to make this process as painless and as predictable as possible. Currently we are at the stage of territorially divided monopolies on violence. We learned in world wars that "territorially divided" is a very important part.
I think I'm running into the same issue, Windows 11 Firefox 109.0.1. The "ridge" of the reflection effect is stuck to the lower ~10% of the button, and completely dark, and the gold looks distinctly green.

Left is firefox, right is Edge (appearing, I presume, as intended)

[0] https://snipboard.io/AVU6zh.jpg
You’re comparing a problem pushed by a software vendor that doesn’t exist with other OSes to an unavoidable biological issue.
I don't use Gnome because I find its out-of-the-box experience to be pretty horrible. I couldn't figure out how to fix it, and didn't know about these tools. But it's fine, I'm really happy with the DE I use.
If you do, and if people find out about it, they'll send you false data.
The clearest reasoning is this: the pipeline was closed and unused. A potential replacement of Putin could have gotten Western support by promising to quickly reopen the pipeline. If the pipeline is gone, no potential replacement can use the pipeline to gather Western support.

There doesn’t even need to be a physical person that exists right now in Russia to oppose Putin. Just the possibility of it might have been enough for Putin to blow his own goddamn jewel in the Baltic.
I actually prefer it this way; now the key is associated with my account and not a particular installation on a device.
TL:DR:

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I followed the same path. Muscle memory is a big deal. Muscle memory is what makes you productive. It’s why those syntactic things actually matter.
If you want a version of typeof without this quirk it is trivially easy to write a typeof2023() function with the desired behavior. And it would be fully backwards compatible with existing code and existing browsers.

No need to fork the language for this!

"use strict" was for fixing some fundamental mistakes which couldn't be fixed in a backwards-compatible way.
When you are curious about a fact, you're looking for a useful and accurate answer. You don't care what page you read it on, as long as it's both useful and accurate. You just think you are looking for a page because that's how you're used to doing it.

Beyond that, most of the results that rank for anything are plainly worse LLM blogspam padded for SEO. All you're doing here is cutting out the middleman.

The problem with chat gpt for factual question search is, of course, that it's not factual. It's job is to produce coherent sentences, not actually tell you factual information. So until they manage to get that right it's not a superior product.

There are two types of search, people looking for a specific resource (like searching for a song on youtube) and people just looking for an answer to a question. If a LLM can be factually accurate, its a superior search product for that specific use, which is probably the majority of search.
> Another obscure one in the raw table I use when I do not need or expect cell phones to hit a port and this happens because most cell phones enable TCP timestamps which usually bumps their TCP SYN length to 60. Why cell phones? Modern bot farms seem to be using many old cell phones to launch their attacks and I have no idea why.

I was pretty sure Mac OS enables TCP Timestamps by default. The only platform that doesn't tend to is Windows? AFAIK. TCP Timestamps are useful for Protection Against Wrapped Sequence numbers which is sometimes relevant, and often used to get round trip time estimates (although there's lots of other ways for that too, so IMHO, kind of a waste of bytes)
Perhaps you could start thinking of some common features or technology you might use in any of your projects, and work on building that aspect, and let the rest sort itself out.
Have you had any kids yet?
Two languages come to mind:

1. Elixir's creator Jose Valim has stated that Elixir is pretty much feature-complete. I think they're potentially going to add some static-typing stuff, but the language is "complete" as far as I can tell.

2. This is going to sound weird, but I think Elm is pretty dang close to complete. Elm 0.19.1 came out years ago, and it's stable as heck. I suspect that Evan has one or two more things up his sleeve before "1.0", and then that will be it forever. The Elm community has a very high standard for quality and stability.
Right wingers: "Liberals are so closed minded, they should read more than just their side and should find ways to agree with other people, there's more opinions out there than just your MSNBC/reddit echo chamber"

Also: "You said something I disagree with, all your other arguments are invalid and I can entirely stop listening to you"
I remember that being missing for years. Nice.
This is an interesting point. In relation to this, I’m starting to wonder which OS is less detrimental here—ChromeOS or Windows 11.
>I'm not focusing on a single "hitman" taking down Rome. Who really knows but it was a multitude of factors. My point here is that large systems don't typically acutely fail. It's more of a gradual process of rust and decay that accelerates them into irrelevance.

I think a lot of people with experience understood this fundamental concept but the issue is that it seems difficult to convey this into a headline grabbing series of news articles.

Therefore, it seems as if the whole hubub at the beginning of this saga was this concept but massively overinflated(OMG twitter is going to collapse overnight). In fact I guess you can argue that it was so overinflated that it was lying but thats the standard we have to live with for now.
That's crazy, I was actually diagnosed with this about 3 days ago - it's living on my skin and I went to the doctor because an area of my skin was visibly red and smelling "fleshy" according to the doctor. Currently on antibiotics that I wasn't too fond of taking but after seeing this, will probably be more aggressive with it.
>Again, I just don’t get why it makes folks so mad?

The people who are mad are the type of people who were used to having the illusion of influence, or thought they had the social currency to do/get what they wanted with Twitter.

They've lost that perceived control, and are suddenly anxious that they're addicted to a service they cannot influence or use for social power. They get happy for being able to drill in Musk's failure. To them, Musk is a convenient "rich" that they can finally apply "eat the rich" to.
Are you saying that some are good and some are bad strains?
I don't know what you want, you might be happy with MSDOS for all I know. But Windows 11 has support for the 6ghz spectrum for WiFi 6(e) and WSLg support for doing ML/Cuda in WSL. Those are both of high interest to me. Otherwise Win 11 feels like a large step backwards.
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This narrative points to no proof expecting motive to suffice. I think the US is not the only motive hypothesis. It would have made more sense for the US to blow it up earlier. Given that the pipeline was unused at the time of destruction it seems more likely a Russian intelligence ploy executed from Baltic ports.

I think the Swedish investigation, with no public announcement, might be the only source of primary information. Add to this the sabotage against German trains etc, and the overall lack of ability of the Russian government to negotiate for its interests but instead choose subterfuge (they denied the invasion, and claim themselves the victim), it is more likely such a secret operation is in the interests of the aggressor.
While I can see people thinking a LUT a film emulation, it’s just the starting point. Many emulation tools only focus on color which is fine for most people.

For an authentic look, halation, grain patterns, diffusion, highlight roll off, detail resolve and other imperfections are needed to complete the look, of varying qualities for each film stock. Not to mention lens choice as well. Modern lens with software correction may not look right.

Also this software is not specifically for photographers, it’s for motion picture.
> I just don’t get why it makes folks so mad?

It's because a lot of people have invested time into curating their little social sphere on Twitter and Mad Car Guy has set the company on a path to utter destruction. People don't like to have their things taken away.

You may think Twitter "set money on fire" before Musk but objectively they were approximately breaking even and now they clearly are not.
What I think shows the big difference between the tech demos of the 80s and 90s and what happened today. The old tech demo days had the tension of the system not crashing during the demo. We have now entered a new era where a tech demo can fail through the loss of the actual demo device.
That’s not their argument. They say if you ask everyone if it is ok most just ignore your question.
Yup, something like that happened with MacOS, which used 24-bit pointers a loooong time ago.

In general it's not a big issue. You only want to use it with proper CPU support anyways. It's just best to avoid using it for user code and leave it for use by the compiler and/or operating system.

For example, AArch64 supports Pointer Authentication[0]. This uses the additional bits to essentially "sign" a pointer, which could serve as a final defense against some attacks. It is essentially free, so why not use it for the dozen or so years those bits aren't needed yet?

[0]: https://www.qualcomm.com/content/dam/qcomm-martech/dm-assets...
mapreduce wasn't a contribution to open source tech, except in the sense that it was published with enough detail for Doug Cutting to make an open source version.

Both MR and TF are net-negative for the outside world. I think more unis teach pytorch than TF now.
That’s got to be an outlier? Small remote town + over aggressive cops with nothing better to do. This same exact story comes up in these conversations repeatedly. One would think that if there was an epidemic of parents being arrested we would hear more about it.

Around where I live (suburban though not as remote as the place in the article) I see groups of kids by themselves all the time. Older than age 9, but still.
Wasn't Spaces under the previous management?

That said, I don't know what bar for "feature over the last 6 months" is actually meaningful. The problem with Twitter was never the user-facing product, it was the thing that actually made them money - the ads. Twitter usage exploded under the Trump years while revenue lagged. The product that Twitter should be innovating isn't user facing.
(This comment was originally posted to a different thread that we merged here; that's why it now links to the page it's on.)
> If you're using a layout that defines AltGr

Which the parent was pointing out is nonstandard. There is no alt-gr key on a standard US keyboard. You can certainly remap alt-right to alt-gr but that is nonstandard and doing so does not mean that the key exists on the physical keyboard.

For example my caps lock key is mapped to ctrl-left. That is nonstandard.
A lot of people have been fooled by ChatGPT and similar language models like at character.ai or at least to the point where they have a lot of doubts about their own judgement, including me.
Monument Valley is a gorgeous puzzle game that guides you around artistic optical illusions.