skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this application. The major thing it is missing is a tool that lets you cut shapes arbitrarily. I know there is something akin to masking, but it leaves the original shape data in the file.

As an example. Say I wanted cut a semicircle out of a square.

If I'm missing something that already exists, let me know.
It's not a matter of taking Elon's word over the horde of haters, it's a matter of taking Elon's word over Elon's actions.

If he had evidence that his offer to buy Twitter was based on false information, he would have gone to court to fight it. Instead he caved before the court date, presumably because his lawyers persuaded him he stood no chance.
Musk isn't running SpaceX.

You can also be lucky several times.
Since Twitter is a neologism they are in a strong place: if somebody wants to sell “Twitter” sausages at the supermarket Twitter is in a position to do that…. Whereas “McDonalds” really can’t extend its brand beyond hamburger restaurants.

The next question is: “Is he really serious about the super app?”. The horror is that he probably is, but what business wants to deal with a mercurial leader who might stop payments, pay people extra, or impound money in your account for no good reason. What business is going to want to put an “X” logo up by their cash register when it means they are going to have arguments with customers. (I bet it will be a hit for “go anti-woke and go broke” businesses though.)
The evidence indicates that primary cause of homelessness is housing affordability. Shelters are over-subscribed and programs have so many strings attached that it is nearly impossible to remain on them. The trope of drug addicts who are homeless by choice is a talking point to distract from the real issue of housing shortages and gutless assistance programs. In addition, homeless people are often the target of crime.

Between 60-75% of homeless people are not on any drugs or alcohol. They are just homeless. In addition, Housing First initiatives have seen sharp drops in addiction.
If this happened like a year or two after Arab Spring I’d more receptive to the idea, but a decade later?
>Design your product to be understandable at first pass

implies never deliver any product complex enough that a design cannot be made that is understandable at first pass.
I think you're making some good points - Zip2 and X, whatever the ultimate "quality" of the tech / UI*, realizing the opportunities, pushing to ship quickly, etc., that was all key. Musk was a clear driver.

With SpaceX and Tesla, I'm not as sure about the facts - I believe there is / was a strong component of "Jobs", but also (especially at Tesla), plenty of pissing engineers off with really BAD proposed solutions. I.e., plenty of "thinking differently" (which can be very valuable, and Musk has had some notable successes here and there), but not enough "filter".

I would say, though, that as his value** has fluctuated on the technical side (and, I personally have the sense has likely never been that high), he did build some real strength in "branding" and selling / marketing. He created / built a personal brand, especially, that was quite important in raising money / funding for R&D etc. at SpaceX and Tesla, especially.

Ultimately, his arc is ... an archetype. His arc is a great example of a pattern that is seen frequently (enough) among ambitious people who become very successful through drive, risk-taking / (some degree of) unconventional thinking, etc. You see this with people like George Lucas, and part of it is the "yes men" trope alluded to in another comment.

Basically, early in their careers, their impulses and "visions" and the like are tempered by others and organizational structures of various types. This tempering is a key additional filter which helps keep their creativity and problem-solving skills etc. more focused / ~"pointed in the right direction". But, over time, they gain more and more power - more and more freedom to do what they want, to not have to listen to anyone else. The decline in quality / success / etc. of their projects and companies seems to very closely mirror the degree to which they are unfiltered / unconstrained / no longer (so) dependent on others.

Basically, classic human "ego stories" (that don't necessarily depend on "big ego", but even the simple blindness of "ego" we all have) recognized and well-explored by the Ancient Greeks, in particular (e.g., "Icarus", "Odysseus", etc.).

* Not really pertinent / germane to this discussion

** To the degree I have any ability to judge, particularly as regards actual knowledge of much of this history (similar to the vast majority of people)
Wouldn't such redirections break Google/Apple's checks? The whole point of this URL is to test if you can actually connect to the internet - if random urls are intercepted/broken then the test should fail.
This is more about hiding/perpetuating bad habits vs enabling stupid purchases. Not about impulsively buying something just because it was on sale, but rather buying something you know you shouldn't... but it's just this once, I promise! No more after just this last one...
Agreed. I'd also add deployment diagrams[0] to the "pretty darn useful" list.

0 - https://www.uml-diagrams.org/deployment-diagrams.html
Cool - and I can’t argue with the rationale! Here’s a vote for Chicago: it’s considered to have one of the best public transportation systems in the USA and it’s rather different from the east coast models. Might be fun!
The Deceptive Simplicity of LLMs
Like Threads?
As far as I've heard, yes, though I'm not sure why it would be relevant in this conversation. I don't expect there are many rich or famous people who haven't.
@xvideos seems to have been banned since at least 2018: https://archive.li/wH3B3

xvideos.com's account is @xvideoscom and is dated 2010.
It's clear from your other comments that you prefer to be disingenuous and ask ignorant questions as opposed to actually advancing the discussion forward. No matter what I say, you will move your goalposts. Taking this further would be a waste of time.
So, who founded spacex?
Zenbleed
I was going to object that:

- this data misses people who transitioned to gig work or other types of self-employment, and

- looking at average (mean) can be misleading due to large numbers at the top

BUT... it appears that median household income has also gone up faster than CPI, which means those objections are likely irrelevant.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N
this was nearly impossible to find on duckduckgo https://tandoor.dev What a name, the only thing you get when looking for 'tandoor' or 'tandoor grocery list' are recipes for tandoori

In my quest, I've also come across other promising-looking things https://kitchenowl.org and https://recipesage.com
no chips though
I think we agree. Your first two paragraphs are the point I was trying to make.

I disagree with your opinion in the third paragraph, but I think we can agree to disagree.
Source: https://whynowgaming.com/atari-launches-new-range-of-replica...

Store: https://atari.com/collections/hardware?filter.p.product_type...
I prefer D2 lang over MermaidJS for diagrams because the diagrams just "look" better and you have more ability to customise the look. And after all if the purpose is visualisation the visual matter.

(Shameless plug: Intro to D2 https://victorbjorklund.com/build-diagrams-as-code-with-d2-d... )
This is just an ad. They've been posting this stuff repeatedly.
Uhhh what. Credit gives you a literal list of all the dumb purchase you made.

Cash is just pieces of paper.
Is this an example of reference rot or did it never exist?
No, it's not. I feel that I exist. I can represent time/space in a computer program. Nothing would feel that it exists there.

Overall, I feel I'm trying to push against another philosophical maxim that I know: "If somebody tells you that consciousness does not exist, it's all just measurement and neuron signals - believe them"
When it comes to UI concepts I've seen this and popups about downloading the app and email lists and downloading the app and following them on social media and downloading the app called "the nag" a couple of times probably because calling it the "fuckyou" is too many letters.

There isn't a fine line between helpful and hostile, there's a big honking obvious one with flashing lights and sirens on it.
Sounds like a drug addict looking for another dose
and this orb... can i ponder it?
You are a body. Consciousness is your UI to the world that you generate and you use. Don't over-complicate this shit.
> This, though. This one makes me angry and disappointed.

But why are you angry about the rebrand?
It's not. None of the donation-based instances are in the black, if you factor in the cost of the admins and moderators. Every other month there is a big Mastodon instance going offline because it became too big for its own sake, the admin couldn't handle anymore then shuts it down.

Much like any tech company, hardware and operational costs are a small fraction of the total expenses.
i don't necessarily mean prod DB going down as an "honest mistake," though. I think that is pretty deserving of a postmortem. What i meant is like, a bug making it through that stops something critical from working because the dev didn't write a test for it. We already know the resolution, we know who fucked up, we understand why it happened. There's no need for a postmortem to painstakingly add another layer or process for devs that screw up. Like, a lot of companies will then say "okay how can we prevent developers from forgetting to write tests" and start thinking about auto-generators for code, or adding some CI check, or a level of bureaucracy when all that was needed was the dev to own up to the mistake, or maybe their manager to tell them "c'mon, this can't happen again" and we can all move on with our day. And, if it keeps happening across differing folks, only THEN would I start thinking about process additions.
> People keep telling me that consciousness is just some illusion

In my view, consciousness is the only thing that can not be an illusion. If it's an illusion, who is being fooled? Consciousness isn't the illusion, it's the audience.

> If you have a mathematical universe with seed 42, which you spend a lot of effort actually simulating, it is not in any way different from a mathematical universe with seed 43

Yes, this is the key point of the mathematical universe (for me). No simulation has to occur.

There is no way to tell, from within the mathematical universe, whether or not anyone is running the simulation. The simulation helps someone outside find out what happens in the universe, but the stuff that happens in the universe happens whether you simulate it or not.

All of the possible mathematical universes "exist" and are equally valid.

"Existence" and "the passage of time" are things that only make sense within the mathematical universe. There is nothing outside.
duno,

pretty much everyone I know on twitter is like "I don't feel like using it anymore." and only stays around due to the remainder of the network effect and the fundamental issue of transferring followers to another platform being hard.

and that it's a pretty bad branding doesn't help either, I don't want to eX my friends, imagine saying to your spouse you want to eX them etc.

and I mean people often act stupid but it has limits and if you first go around claiming you will buy twitter to protect free speech and then aX anything which tried to protect free speech in twitter from the inside and have way higher censorship numbers people might wonder if buying X products will aX them and their values and their health at some point. That he aXt anyone believing him to be a serious reliable person due to his public appearances probably won't help either.
Please include a Skip button if you use these
That sounds like a pretty interesting setup, how do you have it work with your bank accounts?
You also don't need PHP to return a static status code with no content.
What on earth makes you think that license looks open? Read carefully, its license is very restrictive.
And before this, PlantUML was good enough too. It's always worth it to have alternatives. Pikchr is made by the guys who wrote SQLite, and it doesn't need to install a billion NPM dependencies. I think it's worth a try because of this.
> He gave us reusable rockets.

The Space Shuttle would like a word.
> 2000 - 2017, X.com was property of PayPal. Musk then buys it back in 2017... and then here we are.

I was just wondering how in the world did Elon manage not to sell "x.com" to a porn company for shits and giggles. It being in the custody of PayPal explains that.
I love pgcrypto and Postgres in general. In this case, I'm wondering why you'd perform such widespread encryption on a per-column basis. If there is that much to be encrypted, there's whole-disk encryption at rest. For network transport there's TLS. Many column-level encryptions/decryptions would seem to me to put an undo CPU load on the database instance(s) when that load could be spread horizontally more easily at the app tier.

If you encrypt within Django, all Postgres needs to worry about are bytea columns. If the concern is being able to effectively use the decrypted data in relation joins, I think back again to whole-disk encryption. To use this stuff, it has to be decrypted in memory anyway.

As a thought experiment, you could create expression indexes for fast lookup, but that leads to data leakage through index queries, and you're right back where you started, only with higher CPU load.

For per-user encryption, that also seems best/most flexible at the app tier.

In short, for a limited use case like saving passwords or an opaque data blob, pgcrypto within Postgres makes sense to me. As an overarching whole-database encryption strategy, I'm far less sure of its utility.
Who knows?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hard_problem_of_consciousness provides some interesting reading though.

Maybe we have it backwards, and consciousness is the underlying firmament of reality and the material world emerges from that (if it even exists, of course).
To be fair, I find myself calling the things I post (and read) on threads tweets.
I'll put this on my Celeron fanless home NAS that's running already (and sipping well below 20 watts)
People have been doing this for the last decade.
D2 lang (https://d2lang.com) can do that.

My guide: https://victorbjorklund.com/build-diagrams-as-code-with-d2-d...
Most likely, both are true.
All biologists interested in agency are keenly aware of Templeton's religious slant. Unfortunately we live under capitalism and scientists have to get paid from somewhere. Most standard funding bodies are not willing to fund agency research as teleology is seen to be deeply unscientific.

Johannes Jaeger is one such researcher in this area who has written a blog post about this concern: http://www.johannesjaeger.eu/blog/pushing-the-boundaries

Quote from the article:

"I've been trying to get my research into organismic agency funded by public funders for years now, without the slightest chance of success. The project is heavily transdisciplinary, trying to redefine how scientists see evolving spaces of the possible, expanding our view of what is a valid scientific explanation beyond strict mechanicism (yet still rigorous and naturalistic), challenging our mechanistic view of organismic behavior and biological evolution, while attempting the impossible task of simulating a whole cell or organism (see below). No panel at any funding body other than Templeton was open minded enough or could muster the transdisciplinary expertise to judge such a project properly and fairly. Also: gatekeepers will be gatekeeping, especially in committees set up by public funders. Templeton offers me a unique opportunity to escape these problematic institutional constraints. Whatever their motives to do this, this project is almost sure to drastically reduce the space for supernatural mysticism in biology rather than justify it in any way."
It seems similar to the locks you buy in typical hardware stores. While not sold that way (rather the opposite!), they have widely known weaknesses that allow compromise by any motivated actor with minimal work, while providing the illusion of security.

And no one is interested in ‘fixing’ it near as I can tell, because it seems to work well enough most of the time, and is convenient for a number of parties. Weird huh?
This piece of news is more than 7 years old, and Ubisoft has previously confirmed that the only accounts that can get deleted are the ones with absolutely nothing in them. The writer for this article should have done additional research on this. Seems to me that it came up on Twitter
again and the writer took advantage of that to write an inflammatory article that's sure to get a bunch of views.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcgaming/comments/156ukmv/ubisoft_c...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/40ye8e/ubisoft_may_s...
I think he actually wanted to change it to Titter and have the bird logo have tits. Seriously.
A girl is curious about you and wants to talk about you, and you take it as an opportunity to argue? To show how "right" you are? Then you lecture her on how her interest in you is akin to racism?

Maybe the person was just wanting to know more about you. It's incredible that you would take someone being interested in a minor thing as an opportunity to flex how right and correct you are. Let someone be incorrect, or laugh about minor things with you, or enjoy your company. Don't take situations like that to try and show everyone how much more logical you are - nobody is impressed.
> First time for ML that is not deep learning

What do you mean by this? Virtually all "classic" or "shallow" ML can be GPU-accelerated, from linear regression to SVM to GBM.
Yea, kinda feels like X.org would have a decent trademark case if they wanted to pursue it. Both the name and logo are really similar, and it seems like both companies are operating in similar enough categories that its not too hard to imagine there being confusion between the two.
Yeah, that's not Google having a say on whether captive portals exist and deciding to keep them there, that's just Google deciding that it wants to know your IP whenever you connect to a network.

I don't know why this is such a big issue, given that they have your more or less exact location at all times, but changing it is so easy that, why not.
That's one viewpoint, but it's not "over-complicated" to consider others.

You are a consciousness. Your body is your UI to the world.
Billionaires are not immune to the reduction in attention span that their own products cause. We are living in a feedback loop.
Populating those would be a huge pain as it appears all pads are soldered shut.
Things that are "super obvious" aren't always true.
> ("country club membership", really?)

Yeah, I know. I wasn't raised part of that class and don't hang out with many people in it, either :-)

Books I've read on the topic and the handful of people I know in it, yeah, that's just what you do if you're in That Set. Country clubs.
I mean, it'd be already pretty simple ... Make an app that covers several areas of peoples lifes and bring it all under one hood.
X.com: terror from the deep.
Checkout kroki as well which is collection of various tools including plantuml, tikz, mermaidjs, graphvi etc.

As a bonus, niolesk is a very good frontend on top of kroki. You get an editable link of your diagram which you can share with teammates.

You can find docker image on github running kroki and niolesk.
Correct.

As I recall, Microsoft actually stopped development of IE, saying the job was done, the web browser complete.

Am I correct? Can anyone verify this?
Define boatloads. Canadians going out in subzero temperature also isn’t impressive. They’re used to the cold.

Your articles aren’t convincing me anymore that these were crazies. The second article for instance isn’t scientists saying lock downs weren’t needed but that it wasn’t scientists, and that committee of medical scientists in particular, role to be making wide sweeping changes to society. A completely reasonable position that doesn’t change whether or not lockdowns were needed
> So is cooking or curing meat before eating it, but sushi restaurants haven't been blanket banned. There's a difference between driving one farmer that poisons people out of business and prohibiting it entirely.

I'm not sure why people always bring up sushi restaurants so incorrectly when discussing this topic.

Much like the requirement to pasteurise milk, when fish are caught we require they are processed to destroy bacteria and parasites via freezing.

> Even stuff like fugu which can genuinely kill you remains legal.

I had trouble establishing how widespread the legality of Fugu is. Some articles claim it's widely banned, whereas others that it must be imported from Japan, which requires the individual to be licensed.

The other difference is that fugu is entirely safe when prepared with care. Applying safety measures to the production of unpasteurised milk can reduce the risk of introducing new/more bacteria but it cannot remove any already present.
Goes to twitter.com for me
Do you have any more current data on wage growth vs inflation that include more current years? 2020/2021/2022? The data you cited stops in 2014.
Llama2.c Running in a Web-Page
How quaint. Countries around the world are gradually phasing out cash, and forcing banks to report any transactions that add up to more than $600. They want the tax revenue and ultimate control — but they’ll claim it’s mostly to prevent “money laundering”.

This is like analyzing the details of how people use vinyl records to play music. It won’t matter in 1-2 decades.
Have you used CityMapper? I haven't used it in NYC, but I use in in London, and it's solved this problem much better than Google/Apple Maps.

Edit: Though, CityMapper doesn't actually provide a travel time map, alas.
I would guess that they did the calculations, but interpreted it as "5 nines after the decimal point", when it's really "5 nines in total".
Not at the moment, but no reason(s) why we shouldn't. Debezium already supports this [1] and it'd be a minor refactor on our end to support. If that's something you'd want, LMK!

[1] https://debezium.io/documentation/reference/stable/connector...
Fun fact: this has happened before!

> Apple's adaptation of the [⌘] symbol — encoded in Unicode at U+2318 — was derived in part from its use in Nordic countries as an indicator of cultural locations and places of interest.

> ...

> She was browsing through a symbol dictionary when she came across the cloverleaf-like symbol

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command_key
> Can you point to a post where you were savagely downvoted for criticizing elon and anything having to do with twitter?

I see more people complaining about hidden posts than hidden posts (which I do read every time, and I have seen once or twice a hidden post that should not have been). It’s difficult to take seriously people banging on about a down-voting cabal being after them because they’re so edgy and right.
Essentially, most NATs are symmetric, with some port forwarding rules, which operate in Full Cone mode.

More interesting questions are "what happens when there's multiple NAT IPs?" "how long do the symmetric rules stay around for?" "what keeps them around?"
Looks like people are divided on this - I would say, when paying by card, it only stings once (if you even bother to go through the list regularly); when paying with cash, it stings twice: once when you have to fork out the actual money, and a second time when you realize you are out of cash (again) and have to get more from an ATM.
The United States has many negative things about it, and its democracy is flawed at best, but you don't get combo points for tacking on adjectives. It is plain by reading the dictionary that the US is not totalitarian.
What is PIC, referenced in the title and the site copy? The only PIC I know is the microchip line.