skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
a) He's not the richest person on earth.

b) His track record in general is not without faults.

c) His track record with Twitter is clear for everyone to see. Revenue has plummeted, Twitter Blue subscription numbers are just embarrassing and BlueSky is every day attracting more and more key content creators. Twitter is slowly but surely going to end up being nothing more than a Truth Social / Gab clone.
I've been thinking about this comment for a few days now, just wanted to say thank you.
Ask HN: How does TikTok get contacts that have been deleted?
I've noticed tiktok and instagram are able to recommend me people "from my contacts" that haven't been in my contacts for close to a decade and were deleted MANY phones ago, although the phone number remained the same.

How is that possible? I don't know where else to ask.
That's not the dichotomy. It's whether or not she was coerced, and there's a presumption of coercion with minors. It's still wrong if she's 18 and being trafficked.
I appreciate the book lists :)
Could you please stop feeding flamewars and/or using HN for ideological battle? Regardless of what you're battling for or against, it's not what this site is for and destroys what it is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
There's a lot of cool stuff in this library. It's been submitted many times to HN, the authors had some discourse here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35484673
While we're on the subject of music softwares, let me point you to exceptional ones:

https://www.bitwig.com : it's basically Ableton live but next gen, where everything can be modulated

https://www.renoise.com : the modern tracker

https://www.beepstreet.com/ios/drambo : this one justifies buying an ipad, it's incredible
We've banned this account for using HN primarily for ideological battle. Regardless of what you're battling for or against, that's not allowed here.

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
100% agree.

But I like to think that ideas and solutions and products can be legacies.

It's semi-uncommon to write code that legitimately lasts 5+ years.

But it's very common to work on projects/products/companies that last 15+ years.

And I have to be content with that.
>How did you go from a chronic project starter to actually finishing and releasing projects? What can you do to keep your focus on one thing long enough to bring it to fruition?

1. Keeping extensive notes

Write down your new ideas in a location you trust and will review again in the future. If they really were good ideas, you can then come back to them.

2. Anticipate friction in-depth

I too have frittered away lots of time on disparate projects that never went anywhere. What would happen is I would lose to start and do all the fun stuff. Then I would hit a frustration of some kind and give up. You have to account for this before you start.
How do you monetize? Do you disclose the source for your datasets
I’ve been getting semi weekly letters from an anesthesiology company (because of course they would bill separately) due to time I spent on hospital last year.

Except my insurance paid and said I owe nothing. Then I received a bill a year after the fact, and I contacted mY insurance who again said I owed nothing, said they talked to the company and the company said they would correct the mistake. Then a week later the bill came again, and I repeated this again.

I’ve now done this weekly for the last two months waiting for them to try to harm my credit rating.
I resisted learning Make because of the clunkiness around it (Tab-indentation? C-specific features? Gross!), but after using it a few times now I've come to appreciate it.

Most recent case was for Starbound mods. The macOS and Linux versions of Starbound don't ship with any built-in tools for uploading mods to the Steam Workshop (unlike Windows, which apparently has a dedicated GUI for it), and I didn't want to have to manually go through a bunch of SteamCMD steps every time I wanted to publish an update, so for my first real mod I put together a Makefile to automatically pack all the files together (using Starbound's included asset_packer CLI tool), populate a metadata.vdf for the Steam Workshop, and run the right steamcmd incantations to get everything up. Once that was reliably working, I condensed everything into a GitHub template repo (https://github.com/YellowApple/Starbound-Mod) and ended up with a pretty straightforward (albeit a bit clunky in spots) universal Makefile:

MODNAME = StarboundMod

ifeq "$(shell uname)" "Linux"
PLATFORM = linux
endif
ifeq "$(shell uname)" "Darwin"
PLATFORM = macos
endif

SB_PACKER = ../../$(PLATFORM)/asset_packer
OUT = ./out

SRC_DIRS = achievements ai animations behaviors biomes \
celestial cinematics codex collections \
cursors damage dialog dungeons effects \
humanoid interface items leveling liquids \
monsters music names npcs objects parallax \
particles plants player projectiles quests \
radiomessages recipes rendering scripts sfx \
ships sky spawntypes species stagehands stats \
tech tenants terrain tiles tilesets treasure \
vehicles versioning weather
SRC_EXTS = config macros patch png wav

STEAMCMD = steamcmd +login $(STEAMCMD_USER)
STEAM_ID_PARSER = awk '/"publishedfileid"/{print $$2}' \
metadata.vdf | sed 's/"//g'

$(OUT)/pkg/contents.pak: $(SRC_DIRS) $(SRC_EXTS)
rm -rf $(OUT)/pkg
mkdir -p $(OUT)/pkg
$(SB_PACKER) $(OUT)/src $(OUT)/pkg/$(MODNAME).pak

$(OUT)/src:
rm -rf $(OUT)/src
mkdir -p $(OUT)/src
cp _metadata $(OUT)/src/

$(SRC_DIRS): FORCE $(OUT)/src
@cp -rv $@ $(OUT)/src/$@ 2>/dev/null \
|| echo 'No $@ folder present in mod root; skipping'

$(SRC_EXTS): FORCE $(OUT)/src
@cp -v *.$@ $(OUT)/src/ 2>/dev/null \
|| echo 'No *.$@ files present in mod root; skipping'

upload: $(OUT)/pkg/contents.pak
mkdir -p $(OUT)/workshop
cp $(OUT)/pkg/$(MODNAME).pak $(OUT)/workshop/contents.pak
cp preview.jpg $(OUT)/preview.jpg
sed 's,{{PWD}},$(PWD),g' <metadata.vdf.template >metadata.vdf
$(STEAMCMD) +workshop_build_item $(PWD)/metadata.vdf +quit
$(eval STEAM_ID=$(shell $(STEAM_ID_PARSER)))
sed -i 's/"publishedfileid" "0"/"publishedfileid" "$(STEAM_ID)"/g' \
metadata.vdf.template

clean: FORCE
rm -rf $(OUT)
rm -f metadata.vdf

FORCE:

All in all, it works well enough. Certainly nicer than trying to do it with shell scripts IMO, and I don't have to worry quite as much about whether someone else using my mod template (including my future self) is able to install some fancier build tool / task runner given how ubiquitous (GNU) Make tends to be.
That person has a TikTok account and they still have you in their contacts list (and they have it synced)
See also https://www.wsj.com/articles/upside-down-mortgage-policy-212...

“A new federal housing rule will make reliable borrowers subsidize risky loans“
As an American (though not the OP), I think it's fair to start with the interpretation that any American medical bill is an admin mistake until proven otherwise. Until each line item has gone through a few rounds of verification, it's very likely that it contains at least one error.
I’m self taught. I enjoyed messing around in computers and learned programming.

My first job was as a senior developer. I knew the stack, other devs didn’t, so I had to teach them. I knew how to negotiate. So I started as senior at a big corporation.

I bumped around startups for a while. I’d regularly go from “developer” to “senior”. Then the company would bust. Then repeat.

I’m currently “non-senior” at a unicorn, but have more responsibility than I did anywhere else (unless you include 5 dev shops).

Eventually I’ll hit “senior, for real” where I won’t be willing to go back down.

What I really need is some mentoring (which I’m getting). Making the jump to “senior for real” means getting planning and management skills I don’t have, and won’t get from YouTube.

I’ve benefited from really good mentoring in the past, and plan to do so again soon.
Absolutely, that's why I'm trying to move to management, to leverage on my non tech experience. I'm 40 and younger colleagues are faster learner if not already "expert" on new stuff. I often have to "forget" what and how I learned old things to learn new techs, the effort can easily double.
Google Fixes Pixel Update Error Leading to Overheating, Battery Drain Issues
Source though? I'm really curious if that's true. It's really hard to imagine some of these people saving my number; we haven't spoken in 10 years and barely knew each other to begin with.
Most of that was replaced by their own .net core and Google's efforts to optimize JavaScript and establish Chrome as the defacto browser, which remains as one of Google's few ongoing projects.
Yeah, it’s full of drivel about random subjects.

Basically, a private twitter feed (but using free software!)
Lode's Computer Graphics Tutorial: Raycasting
No, it's worse to have selective censorship. Selective censorship is more insidious and influential.
C++ traits struct to retrieve info about any function (complete implementation)
This project is an excellent answer to a question I asked 8 years ago: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28509273/get-types-of-c-...
This was a bizarre thing to read. I felt like it was straight out of the uncanny valley of human interaction. “No one talks this way!” I thought. Except for that little voice in the back of my head that reminded that, yeah, some people do actually talk this way, and reading this feels like I’ve crash-landed on a planet full of them.

Regardless, “data lake” is a fucking stupid and nonsensical metaphor.
Following link to Journal summary;
'and≥65 years old by the start of follow-up.'

This is interesting and may warrant actual studies beyond lookback data mining.
That last bit is how I sometimes feel about figuring out how the brain works compared to casually learning computer science stuff on the side. I love being a part of improving our knowledge of how the brain develops and sometimes goes wrong, but it's way easier to debug obscure source code than the brain.
aren't pdftex and xetex just patched versions of tex82
This article has a good explanation: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-02-05/robinh...

https://archive.is/ij2Q3
The name of the province - it's pronounced pun-jab, not poon-jab. (pun intended)
> because using sex workers is categorically immoral

Disagree, but voted up.

Unless using any workers is immoral, in which case I may agree . . .
How is it related? That doesn't seem obvious to me. For a different example, does it mean tax law enforcement normalizes taking money from people thus and increases property crime?

People usually have separate magisteria for this kind of thing... it's quite obvious when you see how libertarian try and fail to break thru the latter one, trying to make people think of taxes as extortion. I think it's even more disconnected for death penalty vs murder...
Kindle Direct Publishing. It used to be called CreateSpace (I was an intern there!) and their process is decent and the printed quality is good!
Unfortunately we ended up in a world where corporate spying/survelliance is out of sight and out of mind. Never mind the fact corporate spying has achieved something dictatorships of the past could only dream about in their wet dreams.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jpmorgan-chase-employees-des...
It’s perhaps in the training dataset but unless your code is extremely common and duplicated, it’s probably not in the final models. They aren’t that big.
Don't define your career by the technologies you've used, but rather by the problems you've solved and the knowledge and experience you've acquired.
They adopted ethanol because of the farm lobby
Medical debt falls off your credit report after 7 years.
I don't disagree with your points. However should your system attract criminals then I eould not use it myself.

Partly because then the chance I'm talking to a criminal goes up, and partly because of reputational damage to me.

In other words, you are focusing on the service itself, and the appeal to non-criminals. I'm focusing on (my projection of) your user base, and my desire to be associated with them.

Good luck with your endeavour.
>But embodied is the real limit. A datacenter can simply be turned off. It's the question of how it interacts with the real world that matters. And for almost all of those you can substitute "corporation" or "dictator" for "AI" and get a selection of similar threats.

I think this is an important factor that gets overlooked - we already have organizations that are essentially superintelligences that have an alignment problem. Governments fight for their own survival first and foremost. Some of them expend millions of lives just to expand their own influence.

What would limiting AI development look like? It would be government intervention, wouldn't it?

The other point to consider is that human/natural intelligence might one day also pop up with superintelligent individuals (or maybe it already has). We don't know enough to say that this cannot happen any more than we can say that it can happen with current day AI. Should we be worried about individuals that are 'too intelligent'? What should we do about them?

Limiting AI development because it could plausibly maybe become an existential threat doesn't seem any more appropriate than strictly controlling humans for the same reason. AI is likely going to provide us with an abundance of quality of life that no other method will be able to match.
~$0.45
Billing is incredibly complex, especially when insurance is involved. There only 68,000 ICD-10 codes, which will be what almost every care provider uses in billing. Providers notes supplement these (sometimes), but those aren’t always complete or accurate, and because every encounter has some unique elements it defies rigid finite classification.
>He’s the richest person on earth

Mainly because of Tesla, which is overvalued also according to him.

>bitter commenter.

This fits for Elon too.
Yeah. Good riddance. The credit system as it exists today is abusive. I fought a medical group fraudulently double billing me and took it to my attorney general and TransUnion. You can imagine my anger when my credit monitoring told me that I have a mark against my credit.

This stuff with medical organizations should be criminal, but for whatever reason, they get a pass harassing citizens. Put a bill to this absolute nonsense, and I'll immediately vote to punitive damages for these corporations taking advantage of people.

The bigger problem is that this is a cure for a symptom of a dysfunctional medical billing lifecycle that in its current incarnation should be outlawed.
It acts like an aileron. If you blow air up from the right wingtip trailing edge, the right wing will go down.

What is key here is that it affects the airflow and the effect is bigger than just the momentum of the blown air itself.
Strange response in my opinion. They seem to explain step by step how to add trust for the new keys, but fail to explain how to remove trust for the old leaked keys.

Am I missing something?
you don't need 4-sigma iq to find good strategies, as Warren Buffett and others have shown . sometimes the best strategies are the simplest and just waiting to be discovered, like one such strategy of selling short bitcoin when the market opens, 6;30 am morning and going long QQQ, split 50/50. Then close both at 1pm, pst. This has returned 45% over past year.
How can you be sure that phone number remained the same if you have deleted it a long time ago?
So you'll be willing to sell me calls in an Elon owned company then, yes?
> Yes, there are (mathematical!) measures of genetic diversity; they are trending down

Mathematical models of natural behaviors are, without exception, time-local. The net benefit on any timescales that actually matter have yet to be seen.

> Remember food? You like food, right? This is bad for the food.

Maybe I’ll starve. Maybe all of humanity will starve. Only one thing is certain: something else will come along to fill our niche.
I feel like we are missing a GOTO in this one
/shrug I wrote most of the book before I was a FAANG guy.
So like, next week then?
>The real question is... will AI in the foreseeable future obtain general intelligence (in a broad spectrum) that is different in big amounts with our intelligence.

But why not: will humans/other species in the foreseeable future obtain superintelligence? Nature has been playing this game for a lot longer than we have. The hardware we have is already proven to be capable of general intelligence. Should we be afraid of a human being born with greater capabilities too?

Life seems like a much greater threat, because it also comes with built-in replication capabilities.
Thanks for the breakdown of why this is a bad idea. I was considering using this for a Windows Rust project I maintain, but now I know better. Ideally tradeoffs like these should be mentioned clearly in the readme.
This is nonsense. This isn’t a data mining opportunity. One of the reasons this works is that retail investors are relatively uninformed compared with larger players that are selling large blocks of shares. There are usually as many retail investors selling as buying smallish lots that doesn’t create a large price movement.
If you read the article it mentions that this weed has a tendency to kill the native plants. So yes, in this case, it's harmful.
"MongoDB’s default level of write concern was (and remains) acknowledgement by a single node, which means MongoDB may lose data by default."

Cassandra doesn't do that, consistency level is fundamental to the documentation and user guide. That is AWFUL.

"Curiously, MongoDB omitted any mention of these findings in their MongoDB and Jepsen page. Instead, that page discusses only passing results, makes no mention of read or write concern, buries the actual report in a footnote, and goes on to claim:

MongoDB offers among the strongest data consistency, correctness, and safety guarantees of any database available today.

"

That is fraud. That is clownshow. Enjoy your increasing revenue.
I own a 16yo VW Golf 5.
235000 kms and still has original clutch.
Internal buttons and textile are falling apart, but mechanically speaking my Golf 5 is better than same price level Golf 8. For example, I have multilink rear suspensions with a 102hp engine, now you must buy 150hp engine version at least. Hood now is kept open with a simple manual stick, my Golf has an automatic hydraulic one.
Yes, I don't have all those fancies electronic stuff etc, but I drive a car, not a smartphone, if I have to pay more to have less, mechanically speaking, no thanks.
Too many Netflix (and Disney recently) writers/show-runners put too much agenda into their works these days. Specifically when adapting or remaking existing works.

I say that as someone that generally agrees with what they are trying to push, just not -how- they are doing it.

Shows like Rings of Power, The Witcher, Pater Pan, etc and what is meant to be a docudrama aren't appropriate properties to exercise creative licence with casting to further said agenda.

Existing loved stories/franchises which have established cannon around appearance, personality and development arcs of characters should be respected. If you don't admire the source material as it is, just don't adapt it - create new and interesting stories instead.

It can obviously be done tastefully as House of the Dragon proves, they didn't butcher existing loved characters they fleshed out lesser known ones and casted diversity in a way that didn't undermine the established cannon.

We have had some amazing original stories in the past years that fit the themes that are trying to be pushed in these adaptions. Can we stick to doing that instead of alienating fan bases of established franchises?
I could go for a while, at least a year. Business still in R&D phase, but I’m not trying to build the next tiktok so that’s ok. :) best of luck whatever you try to do
Vera Molnar is still active at age 98+.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Moln%C3%A1r

https://dam.org/museum/artists_ui/artists/molnar-vera/curren...

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/reviews/pioneering-computer...
> This is technically wrong or badly worded

Could you explain why?

> Is it just saying since you run their software on your device they could steal your private key?

No. It's saying that because there's no indication of which keys the conversation key is being sent to, if Twitter added an additional public key to a users's set of registered keys, anyone who initiated a DM with that user would have no way of knowing that they were sending a copy of the conversation key to Twitter. This doesn't involve any modification of the client code.
I stopped reading when the author starts alluding he/she did not even watch nor intend to watch the show...

Why post this? It's a fluff piece on a supposedly bad Netflix show the author did not even bother to watch.
Give me a legitimate use for void* that isn't a conversion.
Its really rare to get a Verilog related job with stock options/good pay though. You can do an infinite amount of it making terrible money working in defense; doubly so if you want to live somewhere awful.
Is that a big deal in the UK? In a lot of states in the US, everyone regardless of age has to renew every 4 years, and nobody considers needing to renew a reason to stop driving instead.
It’s Time to Privatize (US) Air-Traffic Control
> I interpreted <snip> which I interpret as <snip> assumption

Right. Interpretation, layered upon interpretation, layered upon assumptions.

That's why people can't have conversations. They hear what they want and read what they want into what others are saying.

My problem isn't at all with a class about XYZ. It's about being FORCED to take a class that has nothing whatsoever to do with the field of study.

It's also about wasting people's time and adding tens of thousands of dollars in debt that will never be useful to them. If this XYZ is useful, by all means, make it available as a degree-enhancing class to be chosen freely and not as a condition for graduation.

If someone just wants to get a bachelors in three years and go to work, they should be able to do it.

This is where European education diverges from the US.

In Europe (and other parts of the world) kids exit high school having covered more material and ready for university. Next, once at Uni, they focus 100% on degree-relevant coursework. No English (language), History or almost anything that isn't relevant to the degree.

They are organized to receive a quality education before university. A bachelors degree in the US is four years, in Europe, typically three.

We make them waste a whole year to make-up for what our secondary schooling failed to deliver. No employer in the STEM fields values this at all.

In this country there's a severe failure to understand that our system of education is seriously broken. A high school graduate should be useful to society right out of school. We graduate ignorant young adults who are barely good enough to stack boxes at a warehouse or make coffee.

I was just in Singapore visiting a friend for couple of weeks. The level of education his 15 year old is receiving in state-run high school is nothing less than mind-blowing when compared to a 15 year old in the US. The system of education in this small country puts the US to absolute shame.
It's embarrassing, really, truly embarrassing.

We can stick our heads in the sand and pretend this isn't happening, or we can be honest in assessing how we have gone wrong and fix it.

Your trade-school vs. university argument is empty. Universities in throughout Europe manage to graduate Electrical Engineers, Mechanical Engineers, Software Engineers, Biologists and myriad other STEM professionals in three years...because they cut out the bullshit and provide quality education before university.

We have a problem.
It's hard for me to pin it down, but after blogging for 10+ years and working on my second book now, I kind of just have a good feeling for what will work. The topic and my approach to it feels true and speaks to my experience.