skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VMWare Player is honestly great. I've been using it for years for all work stuff on my personal device. It's software that I'm happy to pay for.
The bird is a lot more recognizable, no? Maybe even beautiful?
The author is right about one thing. If NULL means "unknown", then the result of the comparison A > B where either or both values is NULL should itself be NULL, not FALSE.
Logos never could be. You're thinking of trademark.
Yep, just posted this because of the price increase, will be funny to see if someone will be buying it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36846309
Wow, sweet. The NYT is finally changing its rhetorical stance from blaming racial inequity to focusing on the glaringly obvious class inequality that's the actual driver of unequal starting points. Is this a sudden shift toward true Marxism, a marker that we're finally getting rid of this false consciousness identitarianism bullshit they've been happily peddling for the past ten years?

[edit] I'm not a Marxist at all, but I really just hate hypocrisy of any type. I prefer the honesty of noting that it is, after all, about money.

[edit2] Also, WTF is wrong with the money of people in the 70th to 90th percentile and why are their kids being undervalued? The giant boost for the top 1% doesn't really displace those kids anywhere near as much as the artificial subsidy for the lower end. Did you ever play with an audio mixer or a mastering equalizer long enough to figure out how no matter which treble or bass parts you push up, you always run into the "wall" of compression and flatten the sound? That's what that chart suggests to me.
Yeah, this sort of thing happened a lot. The UK confiscated the remaining village within the Salisbury Plain training ground. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imber

Then there's all the Pacific islanders and the post-war nuclear tests, all the way up to the French government carrying out a lethal terrorist attack against New Zealand in 1985: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinking_of_the_Rainbow_Warrior
> in comparison to VMWare they practically went backwards.

Well that's interesting. I recently went from free virtualbox to a paid vmware workstation license because of some frustrations with vbox, and found that vmware is not better or worse but just frustrating in different ways (e.g. clipboard sync doesn't have a directional option and shared folders are harder to set up, but usb passthrough is much more stable). Performance is identical for various workloads as near as I can tell, except that vmware's VM displays freeze for 0.5 seconds every time you focus/unfocus one (virtualbox is seamless). If vmware went forwards compared to that, one would have to have been crazy to pay if you can just apt install virtualbox
Is it rational to believe in humanism? Is it rational to believe in social progress narratives? Is it rational to believe in science as a "force for good"?

I have only met a few "true atheists" -- people who do not deeply believe in some narrative that provides meaning and exists outside of the material world.
I dislike Spring JPA for the same reason.

It just magically understands your query based upon the name of the function.

There is far too much "magic" going on these days which has a massive learning curve for the newbies, and a headache for everyone else when something stops working because they've changed how the incantation works.
I think it's extremely uncommon for most people to need either rdp or PCIe passthrough, and I'd guess it's still quite uncommon (though more likely than the previous two) to need usb passthrough.
Gotcha! Fair enough.
An analog one could be built with 3 phase motors, but that's another project.
You could make a similar argument that the Soviets supported the emancipation of women far more than the west in the mid 20th century, and that women in the USSR had more right to work.

That framing of course is absurd because women in the USSR also had more chance of their brothers being disappeared, etc.

To rephrase the comment above slightly, the gain of rights for a particular group isn’t a replacement for a loss of universal rights. The loss of universal rights is always more serious because it leads to the darkest paths that a society can take.

Many western countries have not experienced repression in two or more generations and cultural memory is starting to fade.
Sure, but why would you shift focus for those reasons? Psychedelics in this context are just a tool to get new insights. Same as reading a book, watching a movie, having a deep conversation with someone, doing therapy, etc... Insights are neither good nor bad on their own. They need to be evaluated before you act on them.
I'm curious, what are the chances to python you don't like?
Imagine if Google rebranded it's core product to Alphabet Search :).
I'm sure some are, but I wouldn't know how to determine what proportion of the market is just entertainment versus people being misled by charlatans who promise good fortune after having to pay a literal fortune. This applies to all New Age gimmicks; not just astrology.
No, I'm saying even though some thing is legal, it could still be imoral. And vice-versa.
If Google/Yahoo/etc have first-class support for it, then yes, in practice, they are valid.
The old houses of the people rich enough to own paintings in the past had much taller ceilings than the houses that are affordable now for most people, while now anyone can have a copy of a famous painting or a cheap original painting or photograph.

So it was normal for the paintings to be hanged at a place higher on the wall, so you had to look somewhat upwards to admire them. In this case, a significant tilt forward was just right to view the painting as orthogonal to the line of view.
$44,000,000,000 well spent
My (very personal and unsubstantiated) opinion is that his thinking was something along the lines of "You say I can't buy Twitter for 44 billion $ and then drive it into the ground?! Ha! Watch this!"
Does this have anything to do with the cage fight/dick measuring content with Zuckerberg? I think almost everybody thought renaming Facebook to Meta was a bad idea, but maybe Musk knows something we don’t. ;-)
I wonder if you ever think 'why don't I get a lot of dates'. If you do...this is why.
Yes, I believe these massive superstates(U.S., China, India, E.U.) need to be dismantled into smaller components - move the power closer to the people.

You can still have interstate trade, regulations etc.
> ability to make diolague shrinks due to overconsumption of naratives full of fear

I think you might refer to how political discourse in western democracies increasingly seems not appeal to reason and common ground, but to "feelings" including fear, but also disgust, love of tribe and similar.

It seems to be that way but I'm not sure it wasn't always. Maybe people who want rational discourse about policy should seek forums that does just that, and not look to be informed by campaign slogans and the mudwrestling that goes on in social media. And maybe that's how it always was.

I'm not sure.
> All arguments of this kind rely on some kind of shaky or dubious foundation.

No, they do not. Aristotle's Argument from 'Motion':

1. Some things in the world are changing. (Observation)

2. Whatever is changing is being changed by another.[1] (Lemma 1)

3. There cannot be an infinite regress of instrumental changers.[2] (Lemma 2)

4. Therefore, there must be a changer that is not itself being changed by another.

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/11/first-way-part-iv-casca...
I assume you are referring to the SpeechRecognition interface of the Web Speech API. Unfortunately this is not supported by Firefox and even for Chrome it doesn't work offline.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/SpeechRecog...
I hope not. I’m still using 𝕏Compose.
You have it backwards.

Only if you can prove that there is not a person with access to the account and intention to access it can the account be deleted.
> respond to a woman’s nonsense flirtatious mysticism by lowering his own standard for discourse

Flirting is an informal process for obtaining answers to questions about a potential partner in advance of any significant commitment or risk and without having to deal with matters of any particular importance; questions such as "how well do we communicate?", "do I enjoy spending time with this person?", "how do they perceive me?", "how do they describe me to others?" and "how do they respond when we disagree on something?"

Reacting to these situations with denigration and hostility is very unlikely to leave a good impression; though certainly it does yield valuable information to the recipient.
A lot of the medium to large instances use crowdfunding subscription services like Patreon, Ko-Fi etc. to cover costs.
I still use a descendent, the HP 50g for a lot of stuff. I've got programs I use regularly that are 30 years old now!
> Once the data are tied to email, IP address, SSN, eID, ID card or even a name, they are personal data.

I don't use these game services, but do they really mandate that you provide this?
> We eradicated smallpox, and completely suppressed measles and polio in most of the world. We rid Europe and the US of malaria. We had multiple chanches to stop covid: right in the beginning of course, but also in the summer of 2020 when the incidence numbers were suppressed to single digits per 100000, at least in most of Europe.

Total nonsense. SARS-CoV-2 exists in animal reservoirs, and all the available vaccines for it (or for any coronavirus, for that matter) are decidedly non-sterilizing. It's a total non starter, even China-level control of people's movement and interpersonal behavior wasn't enough to keep up Covid Zero forever.
which version of designer have it? i didn’t upgrade to latest yet.
Most likely explanation and headline would be “Journalists TikTok feed showed 5 videos of young people doing X”
I would be most interested to read about that, can you provide a reference or links?
I still will prefer a mix of comic sans and wingdings.
UFO whistleblower to go before House panel
What is sigbovik like, and did he present this at that conference?
I don't shop on twitter. Why would I shop on twitter?

Honestly I can't follow the example at all. What does banking (one thing billionaire genius Musk wants to do on twitter) have to do with sending 140 character text posts? I don't see any kind of connection there at all.

Meanwhile Flight Search is a type of Search. The name kind of gives it away.
I can see users misreading this as a "close" icon in the "share on..." section of every article
It’s already got to search 1000s of Chinese characters, a few more doesn’t make a big difference.
Not only science itself, but humanity being a grand progression of scientific progress leading to our year 2023.
Worse: with JSON NULL is considered a type not a value of other types, which can make validating nullable values with JSON-Schema a royal pain.
But how to represent missing values in left/right/outer joins?
The team have no idea as the folks who knew how to affect the change was fired.
Isn't a trademark always tied to its respective business domain?
That's why I said "all else being equal." Go took it too far.
I'll disagree with your disagreement. They carry with them the reputation from the 00s, which most of us seem to be incapable of letting go of. There a fundamental assumption being made here that they are incapable of change.

To me their actions speak louder than slogans and have proven themselves good citizens in many areas. Scrutiny is good. They should constantly be scrutinized.

Yet we have Google and Apple who regularly escape the same scrutiny that they ought to be getting, and instead are given a free pass for more nefarious actions than ms have committed.

If we're going to take a stance if distrust, it needs to be extended to everyone. Otherwise it's just politics and brand loyalty.
But only because it reflects human nature.

It's still the place to go for on-the-ground breaking news witness/reports, etc.

The new logo looks like it's for a "gentleman's" nightclub.
If only there was a common phrase that could describe this change, hmmmm - perhaps something like:

"Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic"
There's plenty of ways to do that today already including ubiquitous SWIFT transfers almost any bank supports. Plus several startups and tech companies who offer similar services.
One doesn't need twitter for that (nor crypto currencies, which was yesterday's 'money transfer to foreign lands' big promise)
Why do pointed sets not make sense from first principles?
But the automated tool (static type checker) does not actually produce reliable software. Only extensive testing does that. And if you do extensive testing, why do you need that automated tool?

The static type checker is only useful (in the sense of making the software more reliable) if the testing is inadequate. In which case, the software is going to be crap anyway.

You might argue that enforcing static type checking cause the software to be structured in some way that's helpful, but that's a different argument.
FDM 3D printers squish molten plastic onto the previous layer, and that probably helps balance out the limited "resolution" of stepper motors. Also I'm guessing the inertia makes the extruder movement a bit more continuous, after all it's enough to cause artifacts like ghosting when printing at higher speeds.
He's trying to relive his glory days as a Paypal executive.
I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish.

Everything he’s done to Twitter carries the foul stench of Death by Private Equity. No product improvements, but worse reliability, more spam, and a weird desperate-looking rebrand. This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform.

The strange thing here is that Musk’s acquisition was supposed to be the exact opposite. He’s not beholden to private equity masters. He’s supposed to be a product genius. He was supposed to bankroll exciting new ventures. Instead it’s kind of like MySpace meets SourceForge.
is this due to "bestmatch" suggestions being shown first? I turned off alot (and made the results rather long) to get more out of it. These are modified values from the defaults:

browser.urlbar.maxRichResults 22
browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.migrationVersion 2
browser.urlbar.quicksuggest.scenario history
browser.urlbar.showSearchSuggestionsFirst false
browser.urlbar.suggest.bestmatch false
browser.urlbar.suggest.remotetab false
browser.urlbar.suggest.topsites false
browser.urlbar.suggest.weather false
browser.urlbar.tabToSearch.onboard.interactionsLeft 0
browser.urlbar.tipShownCount.searchTip_onboard 4
browser.urlbar.speculativeConnect.enabled false
browser.urlbar.shortcuts.quickactions true

the code and sql that determines the behaviour for this is at

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compone...
https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/compone...

I get a lot out of this
I love the name! However, this does seem to replicate some of the feature set of more-itertools: https://pypi.org/project/more-itertools/
I have been using Virtual Box for years without needing any of those.

When it finally came down to PCIe pass through to get better 3D support I moved to qemu/kvm, no one forced me to pirate Oracles software for that. Of course qemu/kvm can be an absolute shit show to configure, so I still default to Virtual Box.
IBM teaches you to use and program those: https://www.ibm.com/z/resources/zxplore
Well, unlike a book, psychedelics are altering your way of thinking directly through chemical means. That's a big difference I think.
Walking on water (or parting it at will) is rather unambiguous. The whole resurrection thing also would be mocked as taking Walking Dead seriously if not most people grew up seeing that believing this is acceptable.
The Fail Finch?
Tetra: Burst
It can be probably be trademarked though.
Ridiculous.

Which do you prefer, a Ferrari or a Geely? It's purely on the merit of the product, right?

Why do people wear t-shirts with 'GUCCI' or 'Balenciaga' on them instead of just 'GREAT' or 'Ballerina' or whatever?
Lol my wife intentionally threw a astrology question in the dating app as a filter. I passed, clearly, and I haven't heard her talk about them much since.
There are like 8b people in the world. With that many people trying so many things, someone is bound to be successful. Elon was in the right place at the right time with his first big exit, which compounds to create additional opportunity, but you're right: that's no guarantee of continued success. However, someone at some point is going to be in the right place at the right time successively 3 or maybe even 4 times. That person will become exceedingly rich and everyone will think, as you have, that it must be due to their skill. However, eventually their luck runs out and they're exposed as being just as frail as the rest of us. Elon is no smarter than Jeff.
Not a drill sergeant; not a Zen master: How Builders Think
They're such totally different products that I don't think you can meaningfully compare them. The big thing about Twitter is the social, mass-market angle that Musk seems to not get.
> Maybe I'm reading it too literally, but I think the question is just badly formulated.

It's not. The definition of astrology is literally the study of how bodies in space affect life on earth.

And if you don't believe in astrology, how exactly do you explain tides?
Being common has nothing to do with it. “FedEx” and “Coke” are common.

The issue is when it becomes generic which is a difference concept.
This feels like a lot of decisions of Musk w.r.t. Twitter have been, impulsive and hastily implemented.
Infosec/cybersec. If you just want CVEs, automatic updates, and LinkedIn-style influencers, Twitter is still fine. If you want the stories, the how, the why, and reading humans live updates, you go to mastodon/Activitypub (bonus if you're a student: make your own activityPub reader!)
Ubisoft is doing you a favor, none of their games are worth playing. I seriously don’t even know how they’re still in business.

I wouldn’t be surprised if someone took them to court over this and Ubisoft gave a Fox News-style legal defense where they argue that their content isn’t fun enough to be considered entertainment that has any monetary value.
How do you decide which characters to index? The current Unicode release (15.0) includes 149,186 individual characters. I suppose you can probably ignore U+237C (Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow) seeing as nobody seems to know what it denotes.[0][1]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012865

[1] https://ionathan.ch/2022/04/09/angzarr.html
I wonder: if we were more peripatetic about talks -- meaning, if we walked, in a group, rather than all sat down -- would we still struggle to get so much out of talks?

We sit wayyyy too much in business and tech. There is not nearly enough movement. Yet our bodies are built for movement, not for sitting on our duffs for most of the day.
The problem with a lot of historical predictions is that they were too vague to be useful i.e. could someone armed with a bible have known enough about an invasion of Tyre to make a bet with someone before it happened? e.g. I bet they get invaded in the next two weeks.

Predictions of that nature are usually just re-interpretations based on knowledge after the fact.
I was also disappointed by the rather unimpressive mushroom cloud.
The essential operation here is not decomposition, but compatibility normalization. Both NFKC and NFKD result in a regular “X”.
sadly no they aren't... thus the word "incredibly" -> "to a great degree; extremely or unusually."

Most people are average, many are below average.
I suppose idlewords is already saving coffee money, so he can buy Twitter for a few hundred dollars in a year or so. ;-)
> When every one of 100 libraries you depend on, does that once a month,

That's not the rebuttal you think it is. I mention this specifically in my post: how often do programmers actually relax constraints? I don't think they do it very often.

> Yes, and there's another, simpler way which proved to be working well: dynamic typing.

Funny thing: I implemented something close to Clojure's map stuff in C. It really is dynamic, with checks at runtime.

Having only dynamic typing in a language is as much a mistake as making it complex
This is much worse that the blandification of the Slack logo.

Actually the X logo itself is good on it's own terms. And would be great for a newcomer startup, but not for Twitter. Twitter is the household name. This looks like a midlife crisis.
"equis"
I rarely use Twitter, had the amount of band really increased compared to the list 3 years?

I don't know if that data is actually public anywhere, but I'd be really shocked/appalled if they're banning more today then when Twitter (and others) where regularly working with the federal government to control what could be discussed related to CoV-2 and the pandemic response.
How do I, as an investor, make money with mastodon?
Given an inactive account that does not respond to emails and the risk of PII theft, what is the best interest of a customer? Now add the costs of maintaining such accounts, which did not accept the latest ToS, did not migrate to the latest version of software etc, what is the best interest of the business?
I do not think that the answer "keep the data" is obvious.

In real world nearly everything has an expiry date, beyond which product is no longer usable if you do not invest in maintenance. Who said that in digital world it should be different?
how does one make a shit coin profitable?

force the unwashed masses to use it to be recognized as human.

now it’s a shit ticket. not a coin. even though coin is in the name. like how openai isn’t…

> To get a World ID, a customer signs up to do an in-person iris scan using Worldcoin's 'orb', a silver ball approximately the size of a bowling ball.

“mark of the beast” has gotten a bit worn out over the last few years or decades, but this feels like a contender.
There is a reason why Facebook/Whatsapp/Instagram is not in one app called Meta.
It does not work too well with western audiences - cluttered and too busy mobile apps do not succeed.
That is simply the definition. A definition can't be wrong as long as it's consistent and not entirely superfluous. Slogans are however factually incorrect all the time, including the one you base your opinion on.
Not all "shaking up" is good shaking up. I'm reminded of this[0] comic about wanting change.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/CXoUdMC.jpg
You mean when you read a book and it changes your way of thinking or challenges currently held beliefs, makes you sad or happy, makes you laugh, etc. all of that happens through no chemical means?
> I think almost everybody thought renaming Facebook to Meta was a bad idea

Do they? Why?

I don't see how it did any harm, and people are way more willing to admit an association with Meta than with Facebook.
Is it? My point is twofold:

1) The scenario proposed seems...outlandish. I could argue for a host of provisions in law or the Constitution based on the possibility of widespread development of bulletproof skin, but I fail to see the utility of doing so.

2) Even within the hypothetical, it is possible (I would argue probable) that banning the evil rage drug would simply make the situation worse than alternative solutions, in which case the proposed amendment would be a positive.

Edit: You could argue that the above amendment is also ridiculously unlikely to pass and isn't worth debating either. You'd probably be right.
"No way! Why should he change? Musk’s the one who sucks!"