skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Elon never misses an opportunity to humiliate one of his subordinates. It’s a pretty consistent pattern since he took over twitter.
>I try to keep many interactions and animations to 0.25 seconds. That seems the slowest "acceptable" time for interruptions.

I like the way old desktop UIs used to work: the action happened immediately, but there was also a fast animation that acknowledged it. Like, minimizing caused the window to disappear instantly, but there was also the wireframe rectangle that quickly shrank into the taskbar over the following few frames. The animation didn't interrupt user flow at all!
Storage per dollar increases are usually correlated with storage density increases. Seeing news like this makes me confident we aren't hitting the limit of Moore's law for storage for a while.
It's a shame that many companies could have benefited from utilizing these talented employees more effectively, rather than overhiring.
A member of the team explained that they have a game called Creative Playground (beta testing is open now) where 90% of it is written in Rust, where they still rely on physx and MoltenVK in C++.

So it seems like their other games then are more like 10% rust and 90% c++.

But I’m assuming that the Creative Playground is like a testing ground for using Rust in larger capacities down the road then
Right, since there is no research on this topic already...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCyFvcQidvI&t=94s
Hardware microphone disconnect (2021)
I was recently trying to figure out whether the microphone is usable when using my notebook in clamshell-mode. Turns out Apple added a privacy/safety feature to all Apple silicon-based Mac notebooks and Intel-based Mac notebooks with the Apple T2 Security Chip. It will hardware disconnect the microphone when the lid is closed, based on the lid sensors.

Pretty cool safety feature!! Even though I'm sad I can't use my mic in clamshell mode
The USA has ADA law mandating accomodations for access, and it's so strong (at least in CA variant/extension) that even trolls can use it to extort money from facilities that have no practical need for it.
I was expecting more of a 'write your own implementation' kind of thing, but it's not really that.

For example, the replacement for _.concat() is really just advice on how to concatenate arrays in-line. In such cases, I think learning that a packaged function is not needed is pretty nifty.
A lot of cliché and propaganda.

We are in the end of a destruction phase, the left, progressive are about change and destruction of order and renewal but they now have monopoly over almost everything.

The next step is the rediscovery of order, tradition, beauty, natural laws, religion.

The artists are at the tip of the process, we will start to see more and more flip back.

Have you seen this: https://youtu.be/j800SVeiS5I
>Spain, Italy, Portugal and Greece is de-facto OTC (you can go to a pharmacy with an A4 blank piece of paper and 'be your own doctor' by writing in what you need by hand and signing it off still as 'your own doctor' with a fantasy name and a cool autograph).

Cannot say in the other countries, but in Italy you definitely cannot do that, the pharmacist wants a valid prescription (usually by a known MD, you may have even issues in getting some medicines with a valid prescription signed by a doctor in another city/region).

It is the first time that I hear about "invented" prescriptions, though probably making fake ones is not difficult.
Very cool, I've ordered a Raspberry Pi touchscreen this weekend and it should arrive today. I want to make a MIDI sequencer with it, or at least play with the idea. I hope my old Raspberry Pi can work with MIDI (over USB) without too much latency..
He wasn’t even fired yesterday, he’d been cut as part of the recent layoffs of acquired founders that also included Esther Crawford and Leah Culver. He was just trying to get ahold of HR!
It can definitely causes issues. The risk factors are:
- High-current power cables
- Analog signal wires
- Low-voltage signal wires

In practice it is mostly a solved issue. Applications like Ethernet, HDMI, and professional audio have been using balanced signal pairs for decades and they cancel out most interference. We figured out how to do that in the 1880s.
The lesson I've learned from his Twitter acquisition is that (1) he has vast influence over his companies, when and if he chooses to, and (2) he is sometimes willing to use that influence in ways that cause harm to his customers and the business (even to his own wealth), even in cases where his actions violate explicit contractual promises. And (3) if/when he chooses to do this, his business partners, C-level employees and fellow investors will facilitate his behavior rather than providing any counterweight or cautionary advice.

I'm a current Tesla owner (2018 Model 3) and really like the car. But these are all reasons why I'm uncomfortable investing in another 5-7 years of Tesla ownership. Right now Musk has chosen to not destroy Tesla (or at least, not harm it much) but at any point he might decide to illegally void all warranties or triple the price of supercharging just for fun. Plus I intensely dislike the guy and want to encourage the growth of the EV industry away from a single, potentially unreliable supplier. And this is sad, because two years ago I would have gone to the mat to convince my friends and family to buy Teslas.
Based on Conal Elliott's new formulation of two dual parsing implementations [1] using inductive regular expressions and coinductive tries, where the former corresponds to symbolic differentiation and the latter corresponds to automatic differentation, the dual statment of "parse, don't validate" might be: "Do or do not. There is no trie."

[1] http://conal.net/papers/language-derivatives/
ChatGPT has this annoying habit of crashing or having extended downtime.

If this UI can capture my query in the case of such a crash and keep retrying till I get the answer, and then notify me (browser, email, etc) - that would be great.
I love that Discord is ephemeral. The right to be forgotten doesn't exist on the searchable web no matter how much the EU wishes it were so.
> a Monash University study has found that only 0.18% of the global land area and 0.001% of the global population are exposed to levels of PM2.5 - the world’s leading environmental health risk factor – below levels of safety recommended by Word Health Organization (WHO).

I can't quite suss out the details, but it seems like they're saying that only 0.18% of global land area had levels of PM2.5 lower than the WHO's recommended levels _every day_.

Most of the study seems to be looking at how those levels vary by day, but the big claim doesn't reference % of days at all, which is odd. Their bullet points are a little confusing as well:

> Despite a slight decrease in high PM2.5 exposed days globally, by 2019 more than 70% of days still had PM2.5 concentrations higher than 15 μg/m³.

Where, though? They measured different geographic areas, but this has no geographic information. That leads me to believe that the claim is that on 70% of days there was at least one geographic location with PM2.5 concentrations higher than 15 μg/m³.

> In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM2.5 concentrations higher than 15 μg/m³.

This is much clearer but suggests that my interpretation of the last bullet was wrong... maybe that one meant a global average?

I dunno, maybe I should read this again after some more coffee, but it seems to be written in a confusing way that goes back and forth from global averages to local averages to number of days above a threshold to annual averages.
> Note that since the server program exposes an HTTP server you can actually navigate to the IP address of your PI from any device connected to the same wifi and control your pedal chain from there.

That's a killer feature for me, hiding at the end of the README. I have a Fractal Audio FM3[0] at home, and the only way I edit my patches is using their editing software over a USB connection to the device. Adding the ability to program (and even control) my patches live over any wifi-enabled device is even cooler!

[0] - https://www.fractalaudio.com/fm3/
Europe in cities? Maybe. Europe overall? Absolutely not.
Elon likes to dish it out, but he doesnt like taking it himself does he.
One was Norman's Awesome Experience (three people get sent back to Ancient Rome) and the other was a documentary Desmond Morris's The Human Animal which I eventually found a rip that claimed to be from DVD that was better than any that I managed (even though I haven't found the actual dvds for sale which makes me wonder if it was sourced from dvd)
Show HN: Screendown – Talking Screenshots from Markdown
Screendown is an easy-to-use tool that allows you to create beautiful screenshots of your Markdown within Visual Studio Code editor content.
The free version is unfortunately hobbled but slack is a lot better than discord at least at critical things like "getting caught up on messages that were sent since you last read." Some friends and I recently started a discord server for an async D&D game and it's a real pain to get caught up. They have the same red "you were here" line and the same "X new messages" banner as slack, but discord's default scrolling behavior works against you.
Just the people living in Greenland, Lapland and the Antarctic scientists probably passes 70 thousand.

Unless they include people breathing in smoke from their wood fires as they roast their wild venison or salmon.
The way you see legacy IP addresses is also an abstraction layer, their actual form is as a 32bit integer.
I don't understand why it is implied that Java is slow. A running JVM is not slow.

A "monstrosity" as you put it could have been written in any language.
Obviously just trying to appeal to THE COBOL MAFIA
Building the Component Model for WASM
There are architectures where all you have is word addressing to memory. If you want to get a specific byte out, you need to retrieve it and shift/mask yourself. In turn, a pointer to a byte is a software construct rather than something there's actual direct architectural support for.
> Having worked in the JS ecosystem for far too long now it's enormously satisfying to remove these dependencies.

Assuming you're working on commercial products, how do you decide when to move to new-ish native functions? For example, do you log feature detection for the function a month or two prior to the planned change?
Use an air purifier. I have a small one from a Korean company. I run it non-stop. It's very quiet normally, but when it detects higher concentration of stuff (almost always when I open a window) it spins up for a few minutes.
When going outside? Probably very little unless you can overall reduce the pollution producing factors in your surrounding area.

As for inside your home, there's a few things but the effectiveness will depend on your situation specifically.
The US EPA has a good starting point with information.

https://www.epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq/indoor-air-qualit...
> he worked his way from printer's devil to Postmaster in the capitol of Des Moines (a thankless job back then)

Postmaster was a patronage job then. Considering how much it was sought after, I wonder just how thankless it could have been.
One way I like to use to understand and explain what the author is talking about is IKEA furniture that can only go together one way, the "right" way. People are inevitably going to not look at the manual and just start fiddling, so you design the pieces themselves to reject the wrong combinations.

I don't know if Ikea actually does this, but I just mean as a concept that's one way you can use to imagine it. There are so many examples of this in the wild, for important things, e.g. you can't use the washing machine unless the lid is actually closed all the way.
Yes, you can use the median wage earner to make statements about the 50th percentile wage earner. What does that have to do with homes?

You have not explained how you've connected the 50th percentile wage earner to "50% of homes".

Bringing up other unrelated items which obviously don't have a %50 <-> %50 mapping should have made that clear.
Sizes in paintings have gradually increased over the past 7 centuries
> I routinely run into the problem that can't I send someone a screencast because it's over EIGHT MEGABYTES.

Same. I can't just hit print screen and paste it into Discord, a single frame of my 3440x1440 resolution is too big for their free file size limit. I have to crop and/or scale it first. Just frustrating and an extra few steps.
These drives aren't for retail sale. They go into various products. With the newest product they are offering 20 cents per GB max capacity 19.2PB and three years of support. See FlashBlade//E https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/03/01/pure-flashblade-e/
Yeah, maybe there's a confusion between percentage and fraction, and this was meant to be 0.001 (not 0.001%). But if so, the error is not the journalist's: I clicked through and the original paper also contains this improbable figure.
I wonder if he's going to ask security to escort him to bathrooms
The Art of Splicing
??? A clutch after only 90k ???

Granted my mom bought Toyotas, but we never did any clutch changes, and drove them to 150k at least.
With a name like this, I was hoping it would be perfect for writing compilers.
I can't wait to be Overweight
> Meanwhile, most people don't sleep well, dont drink enough water, overindulge in alcohol, don't get enough excercise, and don't get much sunlight.

A couple I know in their mid-60s were both diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. They were both sedentary, overweight and ate horribly. They embarked on an ambitious diet and exercise plan, have both lost a lot of weight and are both no longer diabetic. It truly is fantastic, and I'm happy for them.

One of them is convinced that people just don't know that they can beat type 2 diabetes; she wants to publish a book about what they've done. I keep trying to tell her it's not a lack of information, but a lack of will for most people, that she and her husband are very much outliers in that regard. Her publishing their method won't change things for hardly anyone.

I'm 59 years old and have been a moderate athlete my whole life; I keep my weight decent (not as low as I'd like but well under official obesity levels), eat pretty well, get enough sleep. I am having a medical procedure done tomorrow (that's completely unrelated to anything here), and the nurse who did intake for the hospital was shocked that I don't take any prescription medications. I call that a win.
Exploring Seinfeld through the lens of economics [audio]
As somewhat close to this, I can't think of one.

I know a guy in the family office of a very wealthy celebrity. A the peak of SPAC hype he was listed as a director on at least 4 they created under the celebrity's name. I can't imagine the family office's strategy was anything more than using their owner's fame to lure in retail investors. None of them went on to generate anything of value for their investors.
People shouldn't be downvoting this because Karwebnetwork is providing the text of the tweet in question.

They probably should have (and it's still editable as I type) marked it "here is the text of the tweet in question" because if you don't know that it does look like Karwebnetwork is the one making the offensive comment.
At least in the American system, as long as people have an alternative computing platform (and they have several), there aren't a lot of backstops on what Apple can do to its users in terms of money charged or constraints placed on the devices they manufacture.

The market is "computers" and if Apple tightens its grip too far, they run people off to another solution. Everything else is economics as far as the American system is concerned.
It sound like the person we're replying too implied they were also not very effective at their jobs.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-cost-per-gigabyte/ Has some sad looking graphs.
How does an employee, much less a CEO, get away with openly mocking another employee's disability?
It's not 100% control over everything as I occasionally work with a contracted dev studio that's building a couple large utilities that would take me individually a very long time to complete. So I work with them occasionally (but very infrequently - enough that it feels refreshing to collaborate when it happens).

I found it on Indeed. It looked just like any other "Software Engineering" job description on the listing, but when I came in for an interview, it was in a warehouse (with an office space) in an industrial zone, which had already intrigued me. Then the owner walked me through the warehouse and explained the products they sell, the machinery they use, the process of it all. Pretty cool to see where I fit in with my own eyes.

They run their own server on-site, too, so I've kinda gotten to be a sysadmin as well. Which I also enjoy. Mixes up my daily tasks and keeps things fresh.
Their focus group seem to be rather big enterprises, not indie devs/small
teams like with insomnia so it's not surprising.
Why women are shut out of Web3
Collection of substring search algorithms (1997)
At the moment, it’s the third tweet down on the Replies tab on his profile.
Low-voltage and high-voltage wires are not separated for interference but for safety.

OPs point is that if a 230V wire somehow got damaged it could end up touching the outside of an Ethernet cable, and if the Ethernet cable is not rated for that it could cause serious damage to the attached equipment.

You either need to keep Ethernet away from power, or make power 230V+-tolerant.
Ah, you are right, i was under the impression that the compiler made it more specific.

My bad.
maybe, but I'll keep doing it anyway.
Just another programming language? Is it open-source? Any performance stats to compare w/ other languages. :/
I… wow. I don’t know why I continue to be surprised by it at this point, but Musk’s behavior is just so disgusting and appalling.

I’m just genuinely stunned that anyone would behave this way. I used to be such a big fan of the accomplishments of SpaceX (I still remember where I was when they successfully stuck the landing of the Falcon 9). Elon’s behavior just… gives it all such a sour note. It’s impossible for me to be an unabashed cheerleader for SpaceX anymore. I will certainly never be giving any of his companies a penny of my money, though.
It can with people making some sacrifices. What I don't like about this is which people will make said sacrifices, meaning the low income part of the population. Which will have to either pay more rent by moving into the city where they can easily access public transport and/or waste hours of their life each day.

I'm not excited by the current number of cars either, don't get me wrong. It just saddens me the working class has to pay the price, again.
> Employment attorneys are going to tear Elon to pieces over this.

Not clear as the employee appears to live in Iceand, not USA, much less California.
Sorry to be pedantic, but the GP said "to solve this, we need AGI", implying that it is a goalpost.

More generally, I don't think you have to be an "AI positivist" to note that expectations have shifted a lot, which is really all I meant by "moving the goalposts". If you had told me even 10 years ago some of the things that can be done with AI now, I'd have thought it was completely impossible -- the kinds of things done routinely now are exactly those that we used to think were particularly hard tasks for AI. And yet the consensus (which I agree with!) is that AI is still not actually intelligent.

There are a couple of downsides to your strict "counterexample" approach. First, it can smack of gatekeeping a bit -- it's like trying to define art. If you can't actually say what art is, except to point out which artworks you like and which you don't like, are you saying anything useful? Is "art" even a real concept? I would like to think it is, but it's a very complicated question.

Second, a lot of humans have trouble with the same kinds of things that AI has trouble with! Does that mean those humans aren't intelligent? Or are there different kinds of intelligence -- but if so, why can't AI be one of them? Right now of course you can generally tell the difference, because AI tends to fail in certain in-human ways. But if that's not a goalpost, what will it mean when it becomes difficult or impossible to tell the difference between AI errors and human errors?
That doesn’t make sense, because if their costumer isn’t satisfied, they can use another online store.
> more and more I am directed to their discord to ask questions - many of which were, in all likelihood, asked dozens of times before

It becomes painfully obvious and a little funny when the question triggers a bot to reply with a link to a pinned comment answering FAQ#36, and you see it happen a dozen times a day.
Newspapers still work.. Why are you here at all instead of writing a letter to the editor of your local newspaper with good old pen and paper?

New technology has benefits, if you don't know what they are then you need to learn about them properly. Sticking with old technology because you fear the new is not a good plan.
What an incredibly fragile person Elon has shown himself to be.
I agree. For me the journey has definitely been that learning about and working on things that interest me and I care about eventually presented the opportunity to have a shot at a viable business, rather than some innate desire to create a business that works no matter what (which, rightly or wrongly, I look down on a bit!)
Maybe another vague reason: when PCs came about in the era of the 8008...8086s, 64K of RAM was like a high, reasonable amount. So you need 16-bit pointers, which require exactly 2 bytes.
Could it be that “women are too smart for that shit?”

That is, men are notorious for falling for get rich quick scams. In the movie Boiler Room they told trainees “Don’t Pitch the Bitch” and to not let a guy they were talking to discuss it with their girlfriend or wife because surely they’d get talked out of it.
> my account was live again and posting weight loss scams

Disappointed but not surprised.

I kept my accounts because I feared they'd become sock puppets. Facebook, LinkedIn, etc.

Now I'm just squatting on my own IRL user name. No content, no profiles.
Because heavier vehicles cause more damage to roads, bridges, etc:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_power_law

And repairing/maintaining those things more often does require natural resources and creates emissions (and waste). It also takes money, which could be used towards other things like education, healthcare, or simply lower taxes if we didn't have to fix things as much.
I don't think you should be worried about Unicode in particular. Although the derivation formula on paper is parameterized by a character, you don't have to compute the derivative for every character separately.

It's actually easy to compute classes of characters that have the same derivative (it's done in the linked "Regular-expression derivative re-examined" paper, although their particular implementation favors simplicity over efficiency), and it's not even necessary when using Antimirov's partial derivatives.

Actually, the complexity of the derivation is independent of the size of the alphabet. You could even define derivation on an arbitrary semi-lattice, not necessarily a set of characters. (Or a boolean algebra if you care about negation/complementation).

The difficulty in handling unicode has more to do with the efficiency of the automaton representation and manipulation rather than in turning the RE in an NFA or DFA.
That’s an obvious, “No”, as there are many competitors to Amazon…
Remember when Elon Musk, someone with like 50m followers at the time, called a random guy on the internet a pedo?