skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While as a product user I hate product tours, as a product developer I always wish for an open source alternative. Library looks super cool in terms of the effects which are slick.

Personally from over a few products have built, even the best designed product tours get dismissed 90% of the time in SMB & consumer products.
Well, shit. Time to look for an escape window faster. I’m suspecting that religion will soon encroach upon whatever is left of the secular Israel.
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We probably wouldn't have Mozilla, for one.

So the open-source energy that went into Firefox would've gone into... KHTML? Maybe?
Heuristics also provide the same benefits, and are the source of the "facts" in your comment.

Rationalism is a lot like astrology in many ways, interestingly.
I don't think this is the end game.

If you haven't read The Founders by Jimmy Soni, I'd recommend it. Musk has had a fascination with "X" for a long long long time.

This is just his latest attempt to make a platform that does everything. It's what he wanted PayPal to be.

He's not going to sell Twitter as "X.com" because X is his grand plan.
“I spent $100 on incidentals”

Vs

“I spent $100 on pizza and beer”

Cash doesn’t sit there in your ledger month after month reminding you of your weakness. Instead you have a generic line-item that doesn’t threaten your ego; it could be anything.

You will never know you spent $1200 a year on junk food and booze. It’s just some vague category you can safely manage.
I think there is a significant difference conceptually between the two. The novelty is that it was more like compensating users who are highly active in leaving popular comments on youtube, the more popular their comment the more they get.
> “Certain products are more guilt-inducing because they feel more like impulsive purchases, like a foam hand for the sports game,” Huang says. “Some are more rational purchases, such as books or stationery products for class.” Sure enough, they found that customers were more likely to pay in cash for harder-to-justify items like stuffed plush mascots and Christmas ornaments.

Or perhaps the group of people buying harder-to-justify items tend to be people who don't bother to learn the perqs of credit cards or don't have enough credit, so they'd use cash regardless of what they're purchasing, but they purchase junk, so they end up painting this author's picture either way.
They aren't. There is a white background behind the original image which makes them look filled.
exactly my thought. the stupidity of it, renaming something that had become part of the every day slang.
That reduces to solipsism or idealism, which have been explored extensively. Defenses of them are definitely over-complicated, which is why they aren't considered serious positions in philosophy anymore. Your questions are orthogonal to my answers.
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A prophecy is different to a concrete prediction.

People in the 1930s weren't able to use the bible to predict that Israel would be created in a day in the next 20 years. There's also the doubt over how long a "day" is in the bible, so it seems more a case of it only being a prediction in hindsight.

There's a better critique here: https://www.psephizo.com/biblical-studies/does-the-state-of-...
Oh, my mistake. Sorry for the confusion.
For me, I need to have it the other way around. Regular withdrawals of similar amounts on my bank statement tell me nothing about how I spent my money a month from now.

When paying with card, I leave a paper trail for myself to review later. I can also look at my banking app anytime I want to check how much is left. I actually do that before most purchases that go beyond a few bucks.
>This man is burning anything that had any value at Twitter

Good, never liked these massive social media conglomerates. Give me back my forums.
They're not comparable numbers. Tesla doesn't count profit per car the same way as the rest of the industry.
Hackers exploit Citrix zero-day to target US critical infrastructure
Apple Rules Out Bid for Premier League Football over Global Rights
This is a case study in how to destroy a company. Elon is doing it so effectively I have to wonder if it's on purpose.
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Coding an ad-hoc UI system in C
Some companies simply stop advancing when they’ve “won”.
Memory is the current spacetime location's fuzzy view when looking towards the past. Imagination is the fuzzy view when looking forwards to the future or with the many-worlds view, imagination is the looking out(?) towards multiple outcomes.

Consciousness is the step towards the next point in the many world multiverse.

Without the ability to be blind to the future, life as we know it wouldn't exist. Nothing conscious would take risks and so complexity couldn't evolve.

If you could glance to the future and see all of the laid out spacetime, there wouldn't be any interesting exploration of it.

So we have to be blinkered just to exist with this level of insight into the complexities of the universe.
Just imagining trying to search for anything related to x.com is ruining my day
> Matching the approproate monthly payment is all that matters.

I'm not sure you follow. Monthly payment, assuming the same loan term and the buyer not losing equity, is (amount borrowed + interest) / term. If the person selling their house was paying a lower rate and their house gained in value, and the house they are buying is worth the same (as the housing market got broadly more expensive) but the interest rate is higher, it means that to match the monthly payment one would have to buy a 'cheaper' house than their current. That just isn't favorable.
But let's say you want that data compressed and/or encrypted, you're going to need an awful lot of compute to exploit that 48GB/s if it's possible at all.

Whereas on mainframe the service processors can deal with it transparently to the CPU using specialized hardware.

And let's say it's financial transactions - fixed-point decimal arithmetic. On mainframe, that can be hardware accelerated too.
Rendering ‘God of War Ragnarök’ [pdf]
Very impressive work, would love to see the source code!
> Women outside of tech are entitled to their opinion. But if their opinion is that hot women should be more likely to get a job in tech, then their opinion is on the wrong side of history.

Could you point the place where the parent actually said that? Because it seems to me like you are responding to something else.
I've gotten some mileage out of the PlantUML JSON visualization, as well as the REGEX graph, gantt, salt, and wbs for org charts.

XEARTH is also pretty neat, if you don't want to bring in a full mapping API just to show a point on a map. I realize it's a pretty crappy map in XEARTH, but the point is, I don't always need a good map.

Mermaid's nice though. I love the git graph - I use that thing every day. If I'm not dealing with ITAR data I just render everything remote through the kroki service, and take what I need from each graph spec.
For me criticism has a "judgey" connotation whereas I see this as more of an observation, but I understand associating a negative trait with Asperger's as if it inevitably leads to that trait being off-putting.
You are almost certainly right. I blamed all the memory eating on the tabs, but it probably had nothing to do with it.
“Shake to undo” also doesn’t work more often than it does. You’d assume an OS-specific keyboard interaction would work anywhere there’s text input, but no!
I really like your map styling! It's slow but nice when working.

People interested in this might also enjoy:
https://www.mapnificent.net/

Or if you're in Ireland:
gaffologist.com (disclaimer - I made this and it only focuses on rail)
Why AI? Probing the collective unconscious
Related discussion from 2017:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15637074
How does this compare with intro.js?
Likely he just has a fetish for the letter x
My support for the Electoral College is not due to outcome.

My Support for it is because we are a Union of States, i.e the United States. Our founders rightly believed government is most responsive at the local level, as such they only engineer one 1/2 of 1 branch of the federal government to be popularly elected. I believe this is the correct measure.

Direct Democracy tends to devolve into dictatorship, and we have seen this in American History as we become more and more "democratic" in our processes, more and power power has shifted to the federal government, and as more and more power has shifted to the federal government that power is further concentrated not in congress but in the Executive Branch, and the Administrative State.

So much so today that agencies of the federal government on a whim or executive order can simply establish new regulations that make millions of people criminals, or completely change entire economic markets with no input from Congress or the people, and in fact it takes an act of congress (or worse the Supreme Court) to stop them.

This is a complete and utter bastardization of a republican form of governance.

Eliminating the electoral college further drives us towards a more direct democracy, something I oppose
Not the OP, but sequence diagrams show individual scenarios, by definition. And there can be a lot of scenarios in a complex system. Thousands, perhaps.

Relation (box-and-line) diagrams show the static relations between resources in a system, not individual scenarios. This typically gives a better overview.

Long story short, you need both. If you want the long story, I wrote (a lot) on this a couple of years back: https://www.ilograph.com/blog/posts/the-two-fundamental-type...
Not all of the things they cut out are nonsensical, though. They laughed at the ifdowhile loop, for example,

if (C) { do { /* THINGS */ } while (C); }

but on a puny compiler and/or CPU this seems like a fairly reasonable way to express that C is unlikely to be true, but if it happens to be we’re going to spend a while to turning it false. Whether such code belongs in a TLS implementation is a different question.

(Cutting out inline assembly for rotation operations is even more obviously dependent on the presence of a modern, heavyweight compiler, as only those have—or can afford—an explicit list of idiomatic AST templates they match against your code.)
"social credit score"?
Can anyone explain to me the advantages of Pikchr over dotfiles?
A changer that initiates a single change is themselves changing, from a state of not implementing change to a state of implementing change. This also assume a foundation of before and after, that there is a sense of time.

This is like looking at the big bang and asking why caused it. If something caused it, why did it cause it when it did and not before or after? Is there even a before or after when discussing the cause of the big bang?

The answer is that is we don't know. We have no knowledge on what is before then, why did time start when it did, and if logic even applies to given the lack of time or the possibility of other dimensions of time that is harder for us than seeing in 4 spatial dimensions is.

There is also an issue with Lemma 2. Why can't there be an infinite tower going forever? Even if something caused the start of time, something had to exist before that. Suggesting a first event might be akin to suggesting a starting number.

At most, even if we ignore all these problems, you just proven a starting point exists. Nothing about the starting point, nothing to claim it is a deity, much less the Abrahamic one. The beginning could also just be the big bang, a starting point with no before.
I’m very well acquainted, too, with matters mathematical.
It's a horrible take because it suggests that parliamentary sovereignty is authoritarian in nature, which is actually bonkers to hear. As expected, he mentions only what the court could do, but doesn't mention what the court has already done(starting with Barak in the 90s) in terms of shaping the country.

The reality is that Harari and secular Jews realize that over the next 50 years they are toast in democratic elections due to simple demographics. They need to figure out ways to protect things which they care about, and the Supreme Court is how they do this.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36844079

Also https://xn--vm8a.com which is on sale for $91M
>Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.

She must have been the previoius CEO at MONDO.com! You can do ANYTHING at Mondo.com!

Dammit, thanks, it was ZOMBO!
Might want to hide this character from Elon... shh.
How much of this is due to Elon wanting to pretend "I built this?" insert meme.
Where is the original “Overview of SHARD” paper? (2021)
For what I can tell, Elon bought Twitter to take it off the stock market, fix it as a private company, creating growth and profitability, and then list it later to make his money back.

He sees the X vision to make Twitter become the Everything App, where people turn to it for more than just messaging, but video calls and commerce. Very much like WeChat where it serves as a platform for things like restaurant bookings and hailing a taxi.

I do agree though, it doesn't feel like renaming it to X is the right approach if this is the longer term vision. Personally I would have thought about Twitter X with these additional services and a much slower migration to X to align with the Everything App vision.
I did this a long time ago, for a while I kept myself on a strict monthly cash budget to deal with some debts. In those days it was still relatively easy to get everything you needed locally for cash. It did mean that it didn't really matter that much what you were spending your money on, as long as the total didn't exceed the budget. You just had to be conscious of the choices. Even now, with the debts paid off I still live that way--I don't buy things unless I know I can pay for it, and I save some money every month. And I don't care that much about the details. I like spending cash just so I can forget about it. Do I really need an eternal record of that scone I bought on the way to work last week? I do not need that.
Simply someone getting a break to philosophize about a crowning achievement in my eyes as the entire idea of free and open had yet to even be fully defined let alone on the precipice of realization four decades ago when I signed on to this free information roller coaster that changed the world.
As with any climate-appropriate architecture, you don't use it in regions where it's unsuitable (in this case, places with high heating demand).

FTA:

"A skywell, or "tian jing" (天井) in Mandarin, is a typical feature of a traditional home in southern and eastern China. Different from a northern Chinese courtyard, or "yuan zi" (院子), a skywell is smaller and less exposed to the outdoor environment."

Based on pictures, the buildings surrounding a courtyard can be closed off from the elements, unlike the open floorplan design used in a skywell.
> anyone who claims to hold an purely objective viewpoint is a liar or delusional.

Is this purely objective? Can you think of no exceptions, under any scenarios?
Best part is that Apple is already using this in production, and no one has complained their phones got slower by using bounds checking.
> This is like analyzing the details of how people use vinyl records to play music. It won’t matter in 1-2 decades.

Sounds like what people were saying about vinyl records 2 decades ago.
Why are ChatGPT plugins so hard to discover and use?
Twitter is not a neologism, but a word in the english dictionary: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twitter ("to utter successive chirping noises"). As is tweet: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tweet ("a chirping note").
My knowledge of trademark law is limited, but I guess if someone would like to sell "Twitter"-sausages, they would have to apply for that trademark in the respective category and it could be anyone, as the-company-formerly-known-as-twitter propably doesn't have the trademark for food?
> Who does the feeling part?

An even more intriguing question is if there are meta-consciousnesses on humans.

Let's assume humans have consciousness, and we are all just a bunch of cells.

Does a cell feel conscious? Maybe, maybe not. A bacteria doing gradient descent perhaps doesn't make that many decisions. But perhaps this hunt has something similar to our hormones, and they can feel happiness.

An arm? A brain? The neurons of just an eye? They can't really affect their survivability on their own, so perhaps there was no evolutionary advantage in being conscious.

For something with arms, feet and brain and two eyes? They can compare the world now, to what used to be, and reason about what should be. This awareness of time and the space I effect, I'd argue is a huge part of consciousness.

But what about some group of people, or the species as a whole? I'm fairly sure my cells don't understand that together they are "conscious." The same way, how could I tell if some meta-organism that includes me is considering itself conscious? Surely, if I'm capable of consciousness, anything that includes me would inherit that property?

If consciousness is transitive, that would be a huge result. Then the "who" is no longer of relevance, because it's all relative: a single consciousness could be a meta-part of multiple other consciousnesses at the same time.

And then we go all the way up to galaxy clusters. Are they conscious? I'm part of one. The slowness of information travel alone would make it incomprehensible for me to even observe it. If they are conscious, I would die long before I could even communicate the question.

I think this time scale problem will limit our understanding of consciousness for a long time. Even just looking at groups of humans, how would we recognize if they feel themselves? We can study biological systems on our scale, but anything beyond that... Well, it just sucks. Because I'd really, really, love to know the answer.
"It is not even close to being a problem"

This is not true. Teleology is one of the most controversial concepts in biology and many are very scared of it. I was trying to target those with these deep seated fears when asking those rhetorical questions.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/teleology-biology/
You could lock the account and require a higher standard of proof of identity to recover it (e.g. you prove who you are and steam runs a credit report on you and validates your prior phone numbers and addresses against authorization and billing information that they have for the account--that would increase the barrier to require identity theft which is unlikely to be used just to take over steam accounts and spam).
“Battle” is the wrong word here. “Fine tune” is closer to accepted nomenclature.
No way would SpaceX happen without him
I could not find a github link etc., why is this open source? Can I download all the icons at once or access the source code for the app?
Attention Is All a Manager Needs
> you might want to consider your life choices and what they represent

For most people who commute that far, their "choice" is not being able to afford rent anywhere closer where it's sufficiently safe and schools are sufficiently good.

It's also a catch-22 because even if those people could live closer to work, they would then need to park on the street, which would make the range just as -- if not more -- important.
Beyond the ego, what is this conscious stuff providing awareness qualia? It seems we must assert one of these options:

a) consciousness is an emergent system of matter (materialism).

b) matter contains elements of consciousness (panpsychism).

c) matter/energy is consciousness with varying levels of complexity (monism).
Very few people seem to make any effort to distinguish between totalitarian and authoritarian, and even authoritarian is used very loosely.
and his kid, X Æ A-12
> He made electric cars sexy. They were decidedly unsexy before he bought Tesla.

True that.

> He gave us reusable rockets. Without that, the US would now be embarrassingly dependent on Russia's Soyuz.

Well, NASA decided that building rockets isn't their core purpose anymore as rocket building isn't as scientific, experimental anymore and could be comodotized and financed private industry to take over.

Musk was in thebright spot ant the right time, with enough capital and hype to take over the engineers and and funds and found the right executive team.

These are achievements, but I he hadn't blue origin or somebody else would be in the spot.
Good question. All supervised learning is a form of search with three components:

- Specification: what are you are looking for?

- Search space: were are you looking?

- Search mechanism: how are you going through the search space?

Program synthesis is simply learning where the search space is syntax.
In deep learning, taking the ImageNet paper as an example, the specification a bunch of photos with annotations, the search space is multi-variate real functions (encoded as matrix of floats) and the search mechanisms is
gradient descent (implemented as backprop) with a loss function.

I think this paper uses regular expressions an example of how to search fast over syntax. It claims not to be tied to regular expressions.
The question he avoids is is it possible for the supreme court to have too much power? This is exactly what the other side says is happening. Today's vote was on a concept called "reasonableness" which means that the Supreme court (mostly left-wing) can veto legislation they deem "unreasonable". This is a power US citizens are not familiar with.

If any one of the branches has too much power there is a problem. I don't know if the right-suggestions are better, but I understand what they are fighting for.
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I wish there were a CL/Clojure alternative to MermaidJS with a predictable interface so I could build diagrams at the REPL avoid searching/remembering what weird DSL to use when making diagrams. MermaidJS does seem to be a solid tool though. I use Omnigraffle when I want more control over the result.
When I started training Muay Thai a little over a year ago the first thing that struck me was how kind everyone was in the gym. There's something about training that hard that really starts to remove the ego. I've had a long standing, daily seated meditation practice, and it wasn't until I started training my body hard (first ashtanga style yoga, now muay thai) that the meditation practice really started to deepen.
Fiction is already different by being labeled fiction.
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Strange headline. Compiled languages can't compete for scientific computing except as an engine language for some calculator (a ray tracer, a finite element solver, etc). Model setup and analysis will always be done in some kind of interactive scripting language, and these days it will be done in a notebook interface. So you're right back at the two language problem.
They ride in on your grocery store produce. They also seem to hang out in/near soil in house plants.
This article is discussing TETRA, an European system standardized by ETSI.
How does US domestic politics apply to this?
You didn’t ever think the same. You’re an anti-science, anti-intellectual because it helps prop up your fascist desires.
Junior high male marketing. X is soooo coooool!
I thought the AlphaZero paper was pretty cool: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.01815

Not only did we get a whole new type of Chess engine, it was also interesting to see how the engine thought of different openings at various stages in its training. For instance, the Caro-Kann, which is my weapon of choice, was favored quite heavily by it for several hours and then seemingly rejected (perhaps it even refuted it?!) near the end.
Oops. Mistyped. I meant, "General Radiotelegraph Operator License."