skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What's with the resurgence of marquee elements lately? They're terrible for usability/readability and are visually annoying.

If anything this is a red flag for other aspects of the library.
Intelligence without wisdom is like energy without restraint: annoying.
A lot of developers are idiots. There is tons of code out there doing exactly this kind of thing.

People will copy random snippets from SO and smack them with a hammer until they seem to work then move on to the next thing. I've seen some incredibly stupid code out there, code I can only assume the author either didn't understand or truly didn't give a fuck about. Probably both.
It's such a radioactive opinion on here that you got downvoted just for saying it exists and is unpopular. You didn't even endorse it. Wow.

I noticed that Musk became unpopular here right after the media and social media turned on him. It's disappointing that even top-tier intelligent people don't usually think for themselves.
It is well established that certain genetic abnormalities result in severe cognitive deficiencies. You can analyse someone's genes, and without knowing anything more about the person than knowing they have three copies of chromosome 21, you can tell they have a severe mental deficiency. Is that dehumanizing? To me, that is just reality, and I think if you view reality as dehumanizing then the concept really is not that meaningful because then it is simply the default state.

Similarly, if I were to believe in astrology, I don't think I could be convinced that it is any more dehumanizing than believing genetics is real.
My previous explanation does apply to the Drake equation and all similarly constructed models because of its structure and lack of information.

However, I would agree that there isn’t much support for using the Drake equation as a model for the probability of observing alien life- it assumes too much.
I saw him in Machete and people were calling him the real life Tony Stark. With little other context I just assumed he was a cool guy. After all people were always super positive about his projects. In fact, I don’t think I actually heard Elon Musk speak freely until the cybertruck announcement. By then he started appearing on YouTube channels I watch and my opinion of him has done nothing but lower ever since.

I’m wondering if my experience was only my experience, was Elon Musk surrounded by good marketers who made sure the right things were said 10 years ago but he somehow lost them along the way? Because he is definitely not the man with the mystique he used to have for me.
I also find them annoying, but begrudgingly appreciate them too. Usually they are interrupting my flow to introduce me to a new non-obvious feature, and sometimes those new features are super useful.
The BBC reports:

> Ms Yaccarino wrote on the platform that the rebrand was an exciting new opportunity.

> "Twitter made one massive impression and changed the way we communicate," she said.
> but later found out user numbers to be manipulated and so on.

I think he complained about bots on twitter before he made the offer.
If only all those companies who got bankrupt knew this wise advice!

HN is trully a trove of business wisdom!
They auto-close when the top hinge is more to the outside then than the bottom hing, or the whole frame is tilted towards the inside (where the door does not swing into). You can try adjusting the hinges with a tool.

In an ideal situation everything is level in all directions.
Still shameful that they didn't just put a copy on Github. 5 minutes of "work" and we could have kept a bit of internet history around.
Except that YouTubers don't get direct payments from large advertisers and donors.
Turning unused office space into housing could solve 2 problems, but it's tricky
Yeh this paper is something else - I've never seen one written using a tone like this before.

My ex-GF was textbook BPD. Finding the survivor resources was so helpful - people who have never experienced someone who has BPD simply find it hard to believe what you say happened actually happened and those resources are almost as though someone has been dating your ex-GF as the experiences are so similar.

Either BPD doesn't exist and there's a grouping of consistent traits that many people have seen first hand or it does exist and either way the outcome is the same for those observing it.
He’s had his wrists firmly slapped by the SEC, but I’m not convinced he’s perpetrated fraud at the scale of Theranos.

If he’s lost his own money on stupid projects, that’s fine ? Hitting it for six once an over is still a good innings…
That's corporatism, not capitalism.
That's hilarious. I honestly wonder if Elon decided to do this change on Friday and had people rushing all weekend to push it out the door.
I don't know which timeline you are from, but even at v3.0 IE was noticeably ahead of Netscape Navigator, both in terms of speed and stability. Trust me, I browsed the internet back then on a 486 with 16mb. Every little speedup was noticeable.

At 4.0 the gap widen. While IE's rendering speed got even faster, its integration with Active Desktop etc. slowed down the start up in Windows 98. Netscape got even slower across the board. It's funny that even without the fancy features Netscape 4 was slower than IE4.

By 5 the dust was largely settled. Netscape was on rapid decline and IE5 optimized/got rid of all the IE4 crap in Windows 98SE. My desktop (Pentium III 800Mhz) was faster with 98SE' IE5 than IE4, which was much better than Netscape 4.0.
I knew a therapist LOOOONG ago that used Tarot cards in their therapy. They absolutely, at the start of doing that with a patient, said there was nothing mystical or magical about them, but like you said, they provide a way to start opening up about something. To get people out of their shells and talk.
By going to your logical conclusion, perhaps we should not accept any of the world's religions then either, given that they are also arbitrary. Just because many are old and have many followers does not give them credence over astrology.
I don't think you understand how this fallacy (and logic ) works.

I don't think you understand how similes work.

There's no way to really know what extent luck is involved when a business succeeds, but it's probably not zero. It's entirely reasonable to suggest Musk has been lucky many times over. That doesn't mean he'll be lucky again, nor does it mean the lucky events he's had so far have been trivial. Believing that Musk will (or won't if you're not a fan) be lucky again in his next business because things will fall in Musk's favor again is the gambler's fallacy - the belief that past events influence future events. No doubt the things Musk can influence will go his way, but there will be things outside of his control that he might not be so lucky with. Even big, important things. Nothing about the gambler's fallacy says anything about how trivial or otherwise the lucky events are.
You absolutely cannot outsource talent acquisition. I’d go so far as to say it’s the single most important job of the entrepreneur— as Khosla has said “The team you build IS the company you build”
ClientEarth loses high court fight with Shell over climate strategy
Absolutely nothing he did, starting a year before he bought Twitter to now, makes me believe that anything you said here. He has completely ruined the reputation, lost good will among engineers across the world, proclaimed himself to be a terrible boss, shown that he has no idea what he is doing, all this without even going to the extreme fringe he seemed to have moved.
I have found these fun to work with, and ChatGPT has been pretty useful to play with: using it take code and create a sequence diagram, take a sequence diagram and create code (in one language, then another). It's pretty interesting and code generated can be tested so this feels like a good workbench to have for development. I am looking forward to trying Copilot Chat which should have these same capabilities (I hope).
If he stopped making egregiously terrible decisions in public, the attention would stop.
Aren’t those little share buttons served via a CDN or third party anyway? All you need to do is swap out the image that the URL points to and any site that uses that URL suddenly starts serving the new image.
Would you like the electoral college if something silly happened like Texas splitting into a Dallas dominated half and a non Dallas dominated half?
Tell that to the "little unscientific followers of science". They really need to hear it.
Why India's Parsi community is automobile-obsessed
Beautiful. I'm glad the art of calculators isn't entirely lost and that people still appreciate how well designed these machines were.

As a kind of "me too", I'll shamelessly plug my own pet project, which shows how much I value a device that is older than me: https://partsbox.com/blog/wireless-charging-for-a-hp-25-calc...
> I just hope Space X survives all this madness.

Should SpaceX even threaten to go off the rails, the US government can and will seize it faster than Elon can go crying to the Supreme Court.

Space access is too much of a national security risk.
What we need now is the fading away of Windows Outlook and its Word based html renderer. Emails need to start using conditional rendering to show an “Outlook is no longer supported. Please upgrade to Thunderbird” message
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I just hope Space X survives all this madness

Let's hope Musk's vision for SpaceX will not devolve into "Twitter, but in space".
Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools
https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.04761

Older one, but still very nice work.
Do any of these "yes men" have names or positions? Do you have an example? A lot of these criticisms read like "extrapolations on an unsupported basis that aligns with my current over-simplification".
I'm not sure I fully understand or agree with your take on the 9th amendment as it relates to originalism. Many of the problems I see and both issues presented by the go present due to a moving target interpretation of the Constitution (Filburn and section 1 drugs).

Regarding abortion, the Commerce Clause should already protect the people from federal prohibition of abortion, as well as explicit federal prohibition on states prohibiting abortion. The transaction happens wholly with a state. 10A should apply here, imo. I don't see how 9A presents in such a way that it grants a right to abortion, but I do have trouble with the blanket extension of innumerated rights and their interaction with 10A.
That's Spaces.
I was impressed by the Voyager paper on a GPT-powered Minecraft bot.

https://voyager.minedojo.org/
Via Ukraine war footage I learned that "getting off the X" is an established military idiom (for leaving a dialed-in target area of e.g. artillery). Now it might find a newer even more popular meaning.
There were tons of 100x richer kids who didn't manage to throw succesfully any such darts, much less do so on highly competitive, highly unrelated domains...
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~tullsen/halfandhalf.pdf

Half&Half: Demystifying Intel’s Directional Branch Predictors
for Fast, Secure Partitioned Execution
I thought he wanted to just buy a single rocket to fly a plant with a webcam to Mars to inspire people.
> Human beings need spiritual experiences

That is debatable. Spiritual explanations are just easier and we humans are lazy
All of theses old ideas are simply ways to look at yourself from the outside. Any value is the insight it provides to oneself.
This could be the case, but he himself claims it to be more the way I said it. The details are obscure but I tend to believe his word rather than the passionate hater-horde and an army of mis-representers that are so many in number today. It’s Elon’s blunder so I don’t care all that much. Too bad for him!
I just posted the Voyager paper at exactly the same moment you posted this - a lot of the same ideas. https://voyager.minedojo.org/
Which is all a polite way of saying the author is disingenuous and the article is garbage. If opening garbage bins yields a survival advantage to cockatoos then whatever underlying biological factors are driving that ability will tend to prevail and increase in the cockatoo population.
Naval cribs a lot of his musings from various books, but never credits them, passes them off as his own. Folks who have read most or all of the same books he has can recognize the source. He so desperately wants to be a philosopher, but is cheating at it.
If the plotter is big enough to hold the whole piece of paper (or move the paper through on its own) there is no registration to worry about, and flatbed and large-format plotters do that.

Flatbed ones are like this: https://www.flickr.com/photos/anachrocomputer/5183771083, https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/control-vintage-roland-pen-...

Large format ones are mostly used for vinyl cutting nowadays, but they look like something like this: https://www.signmaster.co.uk/hardware_item/graphtec-ce7000-s...
They have. Canada.ca is the "marketing site", basically, and all of the federal internal systems and departmental apps are in .gc.ca, usually on a cryptic subdomain which is the English and French acronyms for the department.
Inkscape is not using GPU at all, which makes the interaction laggy to a unbearable degree, even has been upgraded to 1.3.

On the contrast, those successful programs like Adobe Illustrator or Affinity Designer are all using GPU acceleration. Though very basic operations like transformation or antialiasing still make a great difference.

Maybe you will interest in a research project about rendering paint strokes on vector lines in GPU-only method.

https://github.com/ShenCiao/Ciallo
Can you imagine using the big five in corporate team building?
Oxide hardware is more comparable to a midrange computer. Though they are apparently planning to add support for having multiple physical racks in a single managed "silo", which enables HA scenarios and gets a bit closer to what mainframes provide.
The issue is we have a bunch of puritan teetotalers who think the best way to "fix" society is to criminalize the parts of society they find morally objectionable.

It doesn't matter that the social sciences have found that rehab works WAY better than prison [1]. It doesn't matter that incarceration is WAY more detrimental both to the individual and society [2]. Nope, sinners need to be punished.

If we want a better society, make drugs legal and send public funds to public rehab rather than private prisons.

Let's leave prison as a last resort for people that are actually dangerous to society; Not your uncle who grew weed in his backyard.

[1] https://www.apa.org/monitor/julaug03/rehab

[2] https://www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/05/13/mentalhealthimp...
I don't see a problem with the syntax being similar. However, if you examine Jule in more detail, you can see that it is not exactly the same, Jule has different syntax approaches and solutions.

I understand the logic of using an already existing language and solving problems. But here there are problems that are solved by different approaches. Even if they have the same goals, the solution approaches are different. So, here is the alternative option for developers.
"Fully open systems are an entirely ideological win at this point with a now sub-$50 entry point setups available today."

It's not entirely ideological. The advantage an open, license-free, RISC-V brings to the table is ISA flexibility and freedom, the ability for people to bring innovation in terms of extensions, create their own flavours.

And where we'll hopefully see this innovation is in realms like AI and graphics and vector. e.g. bringing compute back in from the GPU, by chip producers bundling extensions into their custom RISC-V implementations and then providing the requisite add-ons for llvm, SDKs, etc.

We've already seen the excellent things Apple was able to do with ARM because they had the chip under their own control and were no longer beholden to ARM^H^H^HIntel (or Motorola/IBM before that). I am hopeful we'll see similar excellence around RISC-V. (EDIT: I had typo'd "ARM" here but meant to write Intel)

Though this will all come at the cost of some amount of fragmentation, at least the base instruction set is standardized, and a standard method for extension put in place.
> Buying a movie from google for that certainty sounds pretty good huh. I wonder if the purchase might also dissuade any accidental deletions of a google account.

I feel like I must mention here: I anal. I am not a lawyer. That being said, Google accounts are complex. Here is what it says near the top of the page in the same link I posted:

> Google also reserves the right to delete data in a product if you are inactive in that product for at least two years. This is determined based on each product's inactivity policies.

My personal opinion is that Google isn't committing to deleting your Google mail data at exactly two years whether you bought a YouTube movie.
However, Google is also not committing to preserving / storing say your location history (for example) in perpetuity because you bought a YouTube movie.

Once again, this is just what I read.
I am not a lawyer, and definitely not a Google lawyer.
I just realized, they (or a government mandate) could force a redirect under specific circumstances to a site under google.com, and if they're using the browser engine for the request, they'd get the cookies of that user as soon as they get on the internet. Maybe even trigger an exploit in the browser.

This is the most fantastic way to target and exploit any single Android user anywhere in the world that I've ever heard of. Automatic, hard to avoid, easy to implement, and the user has no idea.
>> "You have to see astrology as porn for women", he said.

If that is the case, what is the pleasure they get out of it? Porn triggers the pleasure centers that sex triggers... but astrology, what does that trigger? Sense of security that you "know" your future after reading your horoscope? Or what? Did the guy have any theory about that?
I’d take that bet only on the condition that if you can’t render the 1mil (tanked) worldcoin, you’re not responsible for any other form of payback.
Show HN: Json5Cpp, a JSON5 Parser for C++
Lmao. I know any people who don't care what you believe but if you are an atheist they laugh behind your back and feel bad for you. You have not had any real experience in this life yet.
Yes, it was a disappointment. It lacked color (something the Apple II already had), had buggy software, and all at a price that rivaled the Apple II.

$1,298 for the Apple II
$2,495 for the Macintosh

It completely destroyed the progress they'd made. Jobs took this project opportunistically at a time when Steve Wozniak was recovering from a plane crash. If he'd approached the project more strategically, it could have positioned Apple to take a place in the market share of cheaper PC's of the time.
I really, _really_ wish I could generate SVGs of these without JavaScript and a headless browser.
This only says "Join waitlist" and "coming soon". Not exactly helpful.
Elon Musk has hit the tipping point I like to call "too big to succeed" (a riff on "too big to fail"). He has successfully failed upwards his entire career and bought into his own hype. This isn't new. He was ousted from Paypal for incompetence.

What fooled a lot of people (including me) was SpaceX but it's become clear that SpaceX has succeeded in spite of Elon, not because of him. Someone in the SpaceX leadership has done an exceptional job of insulating SpaceX from Elon's terrible and random micromanagement. Some might say Tesla. I think the jury is still out on Tesla. The business doesn't justify its market cap but irrational hype can last a very long time. Just look at Bitcoin.

Eventually these fail-sons make a bet so large it costs them everything. It's why wealth rarely lasts more than a few generations. It's why the wealthiest people in America aren't named Astor, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Morgan or Carnegie. Eventually some fail-son destroyed the fortune their forebears built.

Elon wants to turn Twitter into WeChat, basically. An all-encompassing destination and platform. Chat, banking, etc.

Elon has done the Mckinsey or Private Equity thing of just raising prices and cutting costs without regard for long-term consequences. His actions have caused a huge drop in advertiser revenue, one that won't be recouped at $8/month. He has to come up with the money to cover interest payments and the Tesla board and shareholders have limited patience for him selling Tesla stock to do it. Should Tesla crater, Elon could well go under.

To paraphrase something I saw on Twitter (sorry, "X"), Elon has thrown away a 15 year old household name for a delete button.
These tweets by @SawyerMerritt seem to have been the "inspiration" for X's logo:

https://twitter.com/SawyerMerritt/status/1683150433806692352

Correction to my previous reply: @ajtourville designed the thicker X logo below for our (now discontinued) @OfficialXPod. The thicker logo was inspired by a font he found online (bottom right). I created the video above using the font logo, adding a glow and little lines in the logo to make it look “imperfect."

https://twitter.com/ajtourville/status/1683151957723160576

Correct. This is the logo I designed and, if @elonmusk wants, he can have it for free.

Maybe I haven't had enough coffee, but the allegedly "designed" thicker X, "inspired by a font [Alex] found online", seems to be exactly the unicode 𝕏, but bold? And this Alex guy is taking the credit for designing it?
Isn't the entire point of Israel to remain a Jewish ethnostate? I'm not sure, but something happened a few decades ago that really soured them on the idea of not being in absolute control of the government of the state in which they reside.

Sort of unreasonable, really. I'm sure the Palestinians would be more than gracious if they ever achieved significant power.
The rollout has been embarrassing. Well maybe not, if you work at Twitter these days you probably are past being embarrassed by technical failures.

When they manage to serve a redirect instead of a free GoDaddy domain parking page, the redirect was to ".twitter.com". Complete with broken leading dot.
You would know, because in the alternative setup, it wouldn't fail silently
Best by Test
While a developer might like that, but an end user expecting a notification that gets nothing now will be asking, “Why do I not get notifications?”.
> It’s not a popular opinion on this site

Oh come on.
Getting the same performance out of AWS as a local mainframe is neither trivial nor cheap for a lot of the workloads these systems are running.
how do you power a tiny robotic bee?
Sleep Like the Dead
The Mathematical Universe Hypothesis (2007)
Sure, IE4 was the turning point where you couldn’t laugh at MS any more and Netscape was only referred to in terms of “what the hell is up with Netscape?”. Still, that “4” in the title means it had taken a bunch of “much worse than Netscape, but we know how to cheat real good” versions of anti-competitive behaviour before we got to this point. Might Netscape have survived had MS not been the amoral business demons that they were?

Of course, MS were still competing at that point and shear kinetic energy of the behemoth got you through the next couple of releases. Before how many years of nothing? And internet years are like dog years, it was basically infinity time before chrome burst onto the scene to actually move things forward again. Where might we be right now, if MS hadn’t have been able to leverage their OS install base and complete lack of integrity to kill Netscape dead before it had a chance to threaten their business model?