skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In her latest book …, Anya von Bremzen goes on a multi-year quest … In the process, she “crushes” bowls of noodles with a ramen otaku in Tokyo, learns to make pasta puttanesca in a former brothel in Naples, and drinks ceremonial cacao at her own wedding in Oaxaca.

The primary purpose of a book like this seems to be so that the author can go on a tour around the world and write the costs off as a business expense. If the book sells well, that’s just gravy (pun intended).
Yeah that works great up until the people who distribute memos act like Facebook, and then the people who sell you ink, and then the phone companies, and then ....

Really why is this so hard to understand. There's nothing special about tech firms in this story except the naivety of their executives, who have ended up looking like utter tools in this whole sorry charade. These idiots systematically suppressed discussion of the lab leak hypothesis for over a year and then once the Biden admin started taking it seriously decided, whoops, maybe it wasn't misinformation after all and stopped banning it. Twitter was systematically banning stuff even whilst expressing serious reservations internally because they knew the claims were true. Yet these firms are nonetheless still doing better than Google, at least Facebook and Twitter realized they were wrong in the end.

This thread seems to be full of FAANG employees desperately trying to come up with some reason why their employers are not in fact easily duped rubes who would sew the mouths of their own mothers shut if a 100% conflicted mid-level nobody at the CDC suggested it.
Here are some benchmarks,

https://www.dragonflybsd.org/performance/
I agree, HTML does seem like what I'm looking for, except I don't want to edit the tags directly. I really just want an editor that displays headings, bulleted and numbered lists, and hyperlinks, without forcing me to deal with soft vs. hard wrapping issues (on the Markdown / basic text editor end of the spectrum) or styles (on the Libreoffice end of the spectrum).
GPT-4 API General Availability
Being able to do it before has never stopped meta or google from wanting to do it harder and more effectively.
Who are you competing with, speed runners? I've played all of them but I never thought i should look online and find some other player to compete with in kill time or something.

Edit: oh funny. I forgot they had pvp in them. Because I've always ignored it and in Elden ring you can't get invaded unless you ask for it, so I never was.
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I tried python-docx with a bunch of docx files (downloaded from Google Docs). It returns empty strings for hyperlinks and I couldn't manage to fix this. So if there is a sentence like "This is an important link to another doc or url." and the "link" is a hyperlink, python-docx returns "This is an important to another doc or url."
Twins are against the meta EULA
In many East Coast cities, the expected cost of a parking ticket is much lower than the guaranteed cost of garage parking. Fines have not kept pace with inflation at all.

In NYC, parking tickets cost $45-125. Fire hydrant violations are at the upper end of that range. But when garage parking is $10-20 an hour, rolling the dice on the fine is the economically rational behavior. Yes, this is sociopathic when you apply it to fire hydrants, but NYC drivers are sociopaths.

They ought to add a zero to all those fines and start heavily using the carrot to discourage driving. But the thing is, the city quite likes the status quo. If those fines were more of a deterrent, the city would get less revenue. The fines need to be low enough not to actually discourage the antisocial behavior. Isn’t neoliberalism awesome?
Not a Canadian lawyer, so I stand to be corrected by someone who is. But in common law jurisdictions generally, there is no such thing as a "valid" or "invalid" signature for simple contracts. Certain types of contract like deeds etc do have formalities that need to be observed for them to be validly executed. But in general, a basic contract requires (a) an offer, (b) an acceptance, (c) consideration and (d) an intention to create legal relations. Whether these things are present is a question of fact, not of law. In theory you can communicate your acceptance of an offer by a text message that just says "k", or a handshake, or a nod, or a grunt. There is no reason why you couldn't do so by sending a thumbs up emoji.

Of course, doing business this way introduces evidentiary difficulties that may make your (or your counterparty's) life hard later on. A lawyer would certainly never recommend you document a contract this way. But a court will nevertheless look at the evidence before it and do its best to determine whether the elements of a contract referred to above are present.
I do remember... have been doing web stuff since Netscape Navigator, before CSS and JS were invented. I remember that long after HTML5, CSS ACID tests continued to be a problem for years, not to mention JS incompatibilities despite ECMAScript. It wasn't the standards that actually made cross-browser rendering realistic, it was polyfills, CanIUse, and later, the dominance of Webkit + Blink.

Even these days, compatibility is done through transpilations and automatic polyfills. JSX DOES fix that behavior because it completely abstracts it away (together with webpack, esbuild, etc.) and renders it an afterthought. You can write and think in meaningful components, not HTML soup. The build step isn't just a meaningless cost but makes a lot of the problems of the old days less relevant.

Edit: What this ecosystem allows you to do is build on top of other people's work. So one team can spend days/months just publishing polyfills and builders, another team can build components, another team builds UIs, and together they can work together to build a cross-browser, cross-platform app -- something that is relatively doable now, but was a huge undertaking in the barebones HTML days. It's only a "de facto" standard, but it did more for app development than any HTML standards body ever did. I say that because I DO remember, and how businesses struggled year after year after year not despite but because of the fake "standards" that browsers never fully followed.
I have ported code from Cinder to CPython . The fork has some optimizations that can be easily put in CPython and Facebook is open to port features. I’m not sure if Facebook wants to continually have a fork but CPython is open to have those features merged in if they make sense.
What exactly do you do? This sounds like a JIT/Interpreter/Language dev job. Is this correct?

If so, do you have any recommendations or suggestions for someone getting their feet wet on this?
If you really dislike Java that much, there are other I2P implementations like this:

https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd
I'm not sure what you think this changes about what I said. It's literally not a merits decision.

There are even plenty of times they get issued and dissolved days later.
Yes ban them. The cookware usage is unnecessary and hard to purchase without. Clothes get replaced so often that stains are not and issue worth dying over. Carpets usage is down. Firefighting foam that is more effective sounds good until the other choice is poisoning firefighters for slightly more effectiveness.
You don't need to get out the hoses to break the windows. You just need to have the FD drive by and break the windows, then receive an unexpected higher priority call so they just jump back on the truck and drive away to that next call. Hell, you don't even need to send a truck. Allow the citizens to take civic pride in their city and institute a "no charges will be brought" type of situations for breaking windows of cars illegally parked in front of hydrants.
To add to your point:

An H100 could fit in a Tesla, and a large Tesla car battery could run an H100 for a working day before it needs recharging.
We make products that intentionally hide any aspect of computing from the user, make up branded terminology for what they do, and vaguely threaten people with the police and financial ruin who dig into them or try to use them in a way that they weren't intended to be used. We do this in order to lock them in. Over the past couple decades we've done our best to keep users ignorant and fearful of switching from our products because all of their skills and data will be lost. I think it started with the "ribbon" in Office, but it was full blown after the introduction of the iPhone (and Android, later.)

A reckoning is coming. You can't intentionally make an entire generation stupid and not feel the consequences eventually. Who's going to teach their kids?
Am I wrong? To clarify, I'm not looking for a Markdown editor with a preview pane. I'd want to see proper soft wrapping in the editor pane itself.

Edit: I also want the line to to be indented past the number or bullet, e.g:

Right:

1. first line of text

second line of text

Wrong:

1. first line of text

second line of text
Python is just fine for all the 100 users Threads will manage to acquire. :)
So much nostalgia. I remember playing and building with tons of Legos back in the day. Then id destroy them and build my own stuff.
Why is a universal success "imaginary"? Very few people are on Twitter for neighborhood gossip. They want to hear and discuss celebrity news and political developments and tech releases and sports scores. The more people join the network from different countries/industries/walks of life, the higher these signals get.
This isn't a new problem.

The standard legal remedy is distributor liability, for importing unsafe products. This has been part of EU regulation for more than 30 years
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Alternatively, such a department might not be funded by the fines, but merely funded at a flat rate, like an auditor.
When you don't have to struggle to learn the basics of how to use something, you won't develop the mental model of operation you can carry forward.

We (Late X, millenials) did have to struggle just to operate a computer. We had to build a mental model to work around inadequate tools in the OS and beyond.

Younger people have had adequate tools to interact with computers, so they've never been forced to build that mental model - to build an intuitive understanding of how a computer works. So, yeah, it's not too surprising to me.

They can absolutely learn such models, but it's going to take more effort and intentional digging for rough spots to do so. For the most part, it's not like we can just give them a '95 PC with Windows 95 and say "go for it."
"From a constitutional perspective (which is the perspective Supreme Court Justices swear to have), the ability of the government to limit speech is not allowed. Full stop. Sources below."

The Supreme court has never said anything like what you just typed in 200+ years of american history. Do you type this every day, constantly knashing you teeth at the existence of trade secret laws, copyright laws, libel laws, and the like, or does the rheteric come out in service of special goals?
Until a panel van parks there.
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads app
I hope the story was lost in translation or surely doesn’t apply to fire hydrant fines.

If not, seems very unethical -> see fire, park in front of hydrant to get the story, impede fire department fighting the fire
Not an analysis, just speculative opinions.

It's not that I disagree with the speculation, but none of it is backed up. User stats as well as revenue are private. When you put out a strong statement like "revenue is collapsing" you deliver it as fact, whilst it's guess work.
(responding to GP) “Full table scans are expensive” is a better way to reframe the pricing model (at least before this pricing change). The distinction is between rows _examined_ vs rows _returned to a db client_. Even the latter is a tricky concept with vitess since it’s a routing/sharding system that sits on top of vanilla MySQL instances.
You skipped the rather pertinent bit where these restrictions apply only to people who chose of their own volition to take them on.

You are, of course, free to not take on the burden of employment from a particular organization if you find their demands on your conduct while they are compensating you for your time to be unacceptable.

This relationship is purely transactional. And, sorry, the idea that this is actually a bona fide problem is facile.
> Google throws hundreds of engineers at this [building Chrome] and they have full-time people working on it around the clock.

It was many hundreds already about a decade ago. I haven't done any recent research (the Chromium Git repo is where you'd get the source data to analyze), but I assume it's in the (several?) thousands now.

Edit (ran into some problem replying to the comment below):

An in-depth analysis performed today would need to consider that some of the active chromium.org committers are working on non-browser-related things like Chrome OS.

That said, I'm assuming 75+% of active chromium.org committers don't work on those non-browser parts. I also consider the Chrome Web Store a part of the browser - but I can't imagine that needing lots of developers in comparison to these large numbers, even when you start thinking about the abuse aspects.

Having said that, it should be easy to filter out those by just discarding certain directories.
that's why three and I think the fourth will leave our company after original developer left undocumented and hard to understand code (it's pretty complex and has tons of hacks to work on different OS'es), first year they learn what the hell is that code, how it works and they are not allowed to comment anything (I asked few times why we waste so much time for basic stuff, they said it is unnecessary...ok I guess). Now they hired original developer for tons of money just to consult newest developer and explain him code. Reasonable I guess.
No, budgets get rearranged to put the money towards other items when certain items can pay for themselves like this. There's only so much money raised via taxes. Income via fines is an unlimited well to be tapped by those with the creativity to find them
We should absolutely ban the use of PFAS in applications where it isn't strictly necessary, like the (relatively recent) explosion of fast-food containers that are marginally more waterproof and/or cheaper because of it. This isn't even an interesting question.

Use of PFAS in (airport) firefighting foam is a more complicated question, but that mostly illustrates that the question isn't well-formed.
> Any reasonable person considers it an affirmative response.

Affirmative response to what - have received the message or have agreed to the content of the message? That is the issue. I can easily see farmer's side of the story.

EULA by nature of its delivery does not have these state - have landed on the webpage page, and agree to the content of the page.
Is "support" always transitive? To support someone is necessarily to support everything they support? What does "support" mean, anyway?

To read and enjoy a book by him necessarily means I'm "supporting" everything he has ever supported, including in the past?

Why would it work that way?

(This is not meant to say anything either way on whether Delany "supports the sexual abuse of children". I suppose that's another transitive property of support... if I 'support' Delany who 'supports' NAMBLA which 'supports'... )
McKinsey Alumni Outperforms PhDs in Founding VC-Backed Healthcare Startups
Recent data challenges Vinod Khosla's claim that working at McKinsey might be a waste of time https://twitter.com/vkhosla/status/1672678596778016768 .

In fact, McKinsey alumni are leading in venture-backed business creation, especially in the Healthcare sector, even outpacing tech giants like Google and Microsoft in other sectors.
The thought that a bunch of people will trust this tool and make some terrible decisions is unsettling. On the other hand it could be pretty powerful if you know what you are doing.
Correct, yes, because you are wrong in trying to calculate those so-called facts based on your naïve reading of Genesis. As I said, not a science text, not a history report. If you can't interpret Sacred Scripture properly, then of course you will come to absurd conclusions.
Using ChatGPT for AWS service questions is actually pretty good. For instance, I asked it for a Cloud Practitioner study guide (using a small set of crafted prompts), and GPT performed quite well. While I have yet to query GPT about Solutions Architect or DevOps material, I know I can feed a set of URLs and GPT will "learn" the material and summarize it in ways meaningful and relevant to my prompts. In this way, ChatGPT is quite a powerful assistant on its own.
Thank you. The fact that it cannot be true that "life exists and no god exists" sums up the situation perfectly.

We can determine the truth of this statement empirically due to our understanding of information science, entropy, chemistry, and physics.
I think AWS must be the slowest of the bunch tbh. Too many meetings.
Serum mineral levels are not super useful because many minerals are stored in bones and tissue.
Women can be drag queens too! For me, drag adjacent to Cabaret and Burlesque. I'm not a fan of any of those, but I appreciate that they are art forms that people should be free to express themselves in.
I've built 5 small browser-based game-jammy games (e.g. nothing that took me more than ~2 weeks) in Godot 3.5 this year[1] and have largely enjoyed the experience - I'll echo other folks and say that you might just be happy using Godot 3.5 until Godot 4 has functional web exports.

Godot 4 _does_ come with some language improvements that I'm excited about, particularly around better typing support and fewer places where you need magic strings (e.g. you can refer to signals by name!) - I suppose if that's a big sticking point for you (totally reasonable!) then waiting might just be better.

I will say that at times I've been frustrated by the Godot 4 team's perspective that the MacOS breakage is a Chrome bug and not a regression in Godot[2]. It's really a question of semantics and prioritization more than anything but it's hard for me to not see the behavior as a regression when a feature that I rely on in Godot 3 is broken in Godot 4.

That said I'm very grateful for all the work that's gone into Godot 4 (and prior versions) and I'm very excited for the day that I get to use it!

[1] They're all over at https://eieio.games/ if you're curious!

[2] https://github.com/godotengine/godot/issues/70691
Tell HN: 5+ Year Twilio Account suspended without Warning
Really upset with the lack of customer support I am receiving through Twilio.

I have recently had some messages filtered by carriers. For those that don't know some new industry practices and standards have been introduced.

I went through the A2P campaign approval process and had all of my campaigns approved. Yet, I still had a few messages filtered. I asked Twilio to look into the issue and asked to talk to their compliance team.

After days of back and forth of one sentence answers from their support staff, Their compliance team without warning suspended my account. They stated I am in violation of their TOS due to the nature of my business. Oddly enough their TOS doesn't explicitly prohibit my line of business, nor does The Campaign Registry (all my campaigns have been approved). Due to the nature of A2P messaging on-boarding with a new vendor this problem will take a few days to mitigate.

I wish I never asked for clarification! We've spent tens of thousands of dollars on Twilio over the past 5 years and I didn't even get so much as a courtesy phone call. The nature of my business hasn't changed since we started. If their compliance team didn't want to do business with us I feel like they should have informed us and we would have looked for another vendor; instead they continued to approve our campaigns and messages. This about face was very unexpected and now I have nobody to speak to on their team.
I'm a paid user of Threads[.com] – No trademark?
Title with a 10 digits number, meaningless first page figure and no experiments related to the main claim. Did a rogue author posted it without permission again?
The sweet potato is an extremely unusual case in that it was transported across the Pacific by Polynesians before the Colombian exchange! In fact, this is some of the most reliable evidence that the preindustrial Polynesians reached South America.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweet_potato_cultivation_in_Pol...
> Kinda like the p2p network: the kids with the skill to set it up probably don’t need any extra help on the exams.

Thank god they can just copy the program that the smart kid wrote.
> Lab leak is dead.

Is this satire? One biased source parroting another is not news or fact.

Also, does anyone in the real world give a shit about who wins a Pulitzer?
With what money is Twitter going to use to hire lawyers to sue Meta?
15 feet. Multiple reasons given here:

https://www.quora.com/Why-do-firefighters-need-15-feet-of-sp...

https://archive.ph/ELmoa
I would take their data with a grain of salt. It's basically a viral marketing site for filter manufacturers and they're biased toward showing scary numbers. My city has two water sources depending on where you're located and they don't break down the figures to that level of detail but the county water quality report does.
The threat of more aggressive tax audits or regulations or whatever is always there. It doesn't have to be spelled out. Piss off the government and they have a billion ways to make you feel pain. It would be absurd if the government could "suggest" you do something and this was considered not an abuse because they didn't literally, at that exact moment, spell out the penalties they would impose for non-compliance.

Of course in a theoretically ideal system laws are precise enough that governments can't simply make your life worse for getting on the wrong side of them. But nobody seems willing to stomach the level of rigor that would require from lawmakers. Three Felonies A Day and such.
I know you're being hyperbolic, but during my time there, your impact was measured only on measurable things like performance gains but never on lines of code. So engineers would always go in the direction of whatever gets you the biggest win.

Sometimes that actually meant rewriting the thing from scratch, and other times that meant adding something else as a middleware to prevent touching the original thing.

For the most public success story, React was a complete rewrite of the thing before it, for example.
> Would be more just to seize them and auction them off for enough funds to do 1-5% cleanup

A good portion of the companies behind superfund sites, in the US no longer exist, or are the US government.

At this point, subsidized reverse osmosis systems would probably be cheaper than cleaning up the mess.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Superfund_sites
Planetscale advertises up to 10,000 concurrent connections on their $29/mo Scalar plan (https://planetscale.com/pricing - click on "Compare all plan options and benefits"). Being based on Vitess as well, I believe that number.
Probably Python is deemed as more appealing to hipsters than good old PHP.