skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone in any kind of social media role, pretty much. And, although not literally forced, many others cannot ignore the advantage the platform brings: writers, gamedevs, journalists, etc.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackboard_bold
I use this X character in my name on Telegram, now everyone will think I'm an Elon stan.
I’m in Europe so I’m more familiar with GDPR than privacy regulations for other jurisdictions but it would be a gross abuse/misinterpretation of GDPR to use it as an excuse for closing down accounts of customers who have already paid for their games. GDPR does require data controllers to remove data subjects from their database but only if there is no legitimate reason to keep their account information.
Happened to me on a VPS also
They're different; notably, the crypto market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the rug-pullers, who seem to be patient until they become invisible and unfindable.
> Last year, Top Gun: Maverick took a similar approach and it paid off

I’m inferring from this statement that the movie was somehow more successful due to its reliance on practical effects. That seems like a pretty good incentive to lie.
I get it. I try to always earn enough to pay down my debt beyond what I owe every month. Still, my accounts for savings are separate and I put the maximum into them annually. I've got a Roth and a SEP and I find myself gambling with them to keep ahead of inflation, individually trading stocks. And I wonder if this is normal or not in this community (since this is the closest I have to a community of people sort of similar to me).
it's really good. very easy to import and work on multi-page docs, even with different page sizes. the developers did an amazing job there.
As far as I know, there is nothing specifically like it. But you can always do (and I have seen that before):

Ask HN: ELI5 Why is the banana crooked?
> to reduce the freedom of speech

This is giving me "homophobes are actually raging homosexuals" energy.
> In fact, after the war surveys showed French people overwhelmingly credited it with winning WW2. It was decades of american propaganda that reversed that.

Contributions aren't judged by polling random people.

Russia would have lost if it wasn't for American supplies. In fact the biggest US mistake was feeding 10 million reds a day during the 1921 famine[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Relief_Administration...
I get that whois, but the redirect.
It's not general knowledge among people who only sometimes drop down to root (such as me). Although it is mentioned in an early paragraph of the man page, it's easy to miss. It could use an attention-drawing "IMPORTANT SECURITY NOTICE" there.
About a third of Newton's surviving manuscripts deal with physics. The rest deals with esoteric biblical exegesis and alchemy. Just another dumbo, I guess.
…for some value of “easily understood”. ;)
what is possible is not the same as what is regularly implemented. that same page suggests that !#$%&'*+-/=? should all be valid characters in an email

are they in practice?
Twitter's New “X” Logo Is Reminding Plenty of People Around X.org
The Unbearable Ambiguity of Emoji
It is amazing how many people complain about "kids these days" while every measurable statistics shows that their generstion was much worse.
appropriate the new name is the universal symbol for close application
Estimating RDS Costs
Nolan not using CGI is like Tom Cruise doing Mission: Impossible stunts himself. These affirmations are ambiguous and misleading.

In the case of Oppenheimer (and other Nolan movies) they use a lot of practical effects but they are eventually digitally composited, color corrected and edited.

> The director was not attempting to claim that there was no CGI in Oppenheimer at all. He was instead stating that there are no shots in the movie that were entirely created using visual effects.

see https://screenrant.com/how-much-oppenheimer-real-cgi/
> X will not cancel you.

From the amounts of bans since Twitter was acquired, I think you'd have some work cut out for you assuring people of that.
One of the things that can be done is to maintain the illusion of a high rent by working out lease terms. For example, a 60-month lease at $75/sqft might come with the first 4 months of rent in each calendar year for free, making the actual price $50/sqft. Or, a ten year lease on biolab space might come with the landlord paying for the initial buildout and equipment installation, equal to a 30% discount.
I actively trade and my usual go-to for when I don't beat SPY for the year is that no one else can either, (on a consistent basis), but at least I had fun. And a hell of a lot of extra stress.
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There are multiple subjective reports of Google search quality going down the toilet in recent months/years, probably due to multiple reasons (SEO, AI), but I haven't seen this kind of report.
Another fun `ldd` fact: some executables can be run, even when ldd says its libraries cannot be located.

This is thanks to $ORIGIN rpaths.

1. Create an executable in `./bin/exe` with say `$ORIGIN/../lib` rpath, and link it to some library `./lib/libfoo.so`

2. Create a symlink one dir up: `ln -s ./bin/exe exe`

3. `ldd exe` will tell you `libfoo.so` is not found

4. `./exe` runs just fine.

This is because the kernel resolves the symlink path, and the dynamic loader receives that, and uses it for $ORIGIN.

`ldd` on the other hand will interpolate $ORIGIN with the symlink location, not its target.

This only "works" for the executable, not for dependencies of dependencies: if a library is located as a symlink in a different directory from its target, $ORIGIN is relative to the symlink, and it's likely to break.

This can be problematic if you wanna put symlinks in say `/usr/local/lib`.
because elon renamed twitter to "x corp", bought the x.com domain and shoved this character on it.
Ask HN: What apps do you use to focus?
As I find myself distracted this morning on this very website...

Do you have a favorite app that cuts out distracting websites, helps you stay on task, helps you avoid lots of task switching, etc?

I use OSX, but really I'm curious what people find useful.
If I were claiming that something which was knowable as a fact, wasn't, then sure.

If I'm claiming that like, tarot helped me develop a spiritual relationship with the world (this isn't the case for me personally), then no, that isn't propaganda.

I sure you can see a substantive difference in these claims.
> It is not the greatest of modern scientists who feel most sure that the object, stripped of its qualitative properties and reduced to mere quantity, is wholly real. Little scientists, and little unscientific followers of science, may think so. The great minds know very well that the object, so treated, is an artificial abstraction, that something of its reality has been lost.

-- C.S. Lewis
I don't understand how the government can force something upon its citizens and call it a "sacrifice". It's not a sacrifice if it doesn't come from you.
Another random (self) plug for a rust version, this uses the candle ML library we've been working on for the last month and can be run in the browser. https://laurentmazare.github.io/candle-llama2/index.html
The non-web version has full GPU support but is not at all minimalist :)
people will just end up calling them posts and reposts or something along those lines
@isaacremuant

There is no excessive severity in a law that most people can follow while leaving a full life.
Clearly I am not young, but over the last say 5 years I have been visiting a specific astrologer and has been very useful - primarily for decision making, managing stress.

It is like therapy with dos/dont's and checks against any of your immediate worries. It basically helps you work out a near-term plan, typically 12-18 months, and helps to manage when things do not go your way.

In a abstract way, it fits to the fatalistic world view and that is why it works for people who use it, even if they do not fully accept. It really is therapy.

It is not everyone obviously
I assume it is a sign of the times: young people facing a crisis of meaning, given global issues such as climate change. I guess it is quite welcome to accept a meaning that is given from the outside instead of having to define it yourself.
That does not tell us much about how causality follows or make statements about objective reality. Definitively it only shows that one conscious agent influenced another conscious agent’s (or own) state.
Honestly this is the thing that scares me the most, for non-trivia portion of the population the apocalypse isn't necessarily something to avoid, its almost equivalent to their "endgame".
> "Tweets" will also be replaced, according to Twitter's owner Elon Musk, and posts will be called "x's".

Is this real life?
Can someone explain what we are talking about here? Something having to do with Musk's son's name?
Could you anyone explain how the same person that founded SpaceX could be so bad at managing Twitter?

I mean, he is so bad that a child you'd have managed it better.

On the other side, SpaceX is a pretty well managed company, a market leader that manages to sell its services for 30% cheaper than its closest competitor.

(I'm not referring to Tesla, as it might just happen that Musk took over when the teams were already efficient and the roadmap well defined. Tesla's success might be pure Musk's luck)
"ex" is what I think.
When I was in high school, I have read in some magazine a variant of this "blood type personality theory".

To my amazement, that theory matched extremely well the personalities of all my colleagues from high school and of a few other friends and relatives, whose blood type I knew, unlike the predictions of personality based on astrology, which did not seem to match the known people more often than by random chance.

I have no idea which was the origin of that variant of the "blood type personality theory", but it was something very different from what is described in the Wikipedia article.

For instance people with type B blood were not classified as "spontaneous and creative" as in the Wikipedia page, but IIRC, as people who become mature in thinking at a lower age than the others, who are better at independent work, who may be stubborn and less influenceable by the opinions of others, who may be more trustworthy, but more introverted, and who may be inclined to careers in technical domains or in scientific research, or to military careers.
Again I ask: Is it really piracy when the sales, well, aren't?
Magicians can do what looks like turning water into wine easily. Is that seriously your biggest issue with religion? If there's anything to be really skeptical about its that a person resurrected from the dead, rest of the miracles are pretty mundane in modern standards. And the way I understand their epistemology, they know it happened because people saw him both dying and living afterwards, so it boils down to whether you believe their accounts. I don't expect more evidence to that than witnesses, but then again, it's hard to believe when the only evidence is witnesses.

Either way, I don't see a huge epistemological problem with a person believing these things. They might be believing wrong things but at least they do it for reasonable reasons.

You need to distinguish between epistemology and logic. It's much more important to get your epistemology correctly than your logic. It's ok to be wrong with your reasoning, you can still have an intelligent discussion. But talking to a person without epistemology is like talking to the wall. You're playing chess and he's playing checkers.

If the other person doesn't epistemologically need cause and effect relationships to believe in something, and it doesn't matter to him, I can't have an intelligent discussion. I can't reason without cause and effect, and if it doesn't matter to the other person it's completely hopeless.
> A soulless job in finance is better if you like(d) ML at all, because then you can keep your interests separate from your job.

I did read somewhere that for someone trying to write a book in their spare time, a job in editing is the worst possible thing to have for a similar reason.
The vast majority of software written is private code that serves specific business requirements. That's not always going to be services, but it often is. Coreutils is statistically zero percent of all software.
I don't mean to be factitious, but I'm gunnuh answer your question with a question.

How do you know someone loves you?

Because everyone I've ever met has been convinced certain people love them or don't, it's tremendously meaningful to their lives, and none of them used science to do it.
It was added as a part of the Latin (and also Greek) alphabet in various incarnations for mathematical use.
sure I did oversimplify things a lot, well too much

they didn't win the 1932 election and only got 36.77%.

but you can't at all compare it with "US party receving 37%" because it was a fundamental different system. And 37% with a turnout of 86.21% ((first round), 83.45% (second round)) is not low, that is percentage of population wise more votes for Hiter then for Trump in 2016 and slightly less then for Biden in 2020...

This might not have given them direct legal power (they still didn't won the presidential elections), but a lot of implicit influence.

At that point in time the congress of the Weimar Republic was already dysfunctional (actually, not just people complaining it is). And a major reason why Paul von Hindenburg did win the presidential election was due to some groups being seriously worried about Hitler winning.

Important is that P. Hindeburg was not part of any party and many hoped that he would find a way to fix the Weimar Republic.

After this failed, he did hand the power to Hiter on his death bad, yes. But that it was "against regulations" kinda wasn't that relevant as the whole political system was collapsing anyway. What mattered a lot was that Hiter had a quite high number of votes in the 1932 election and support for him had only grown since then, so handing the power to anyone else would likely have even further destabilized the political system potentially leading to a very devastating outcome for Germany. He knew Hitler was dangerous through as far as I understood he did expect other forces to be able to constrain Hitler more and Hitler not going anywhere as far as he did in the end.

Anyway I did oversimplify things to a degree where you could say they where not right. BUT the core idea still stands without so many people voting for Hiter in 1932 he likely would never have been able to take over the power and a good reason why he got so many votes wasn't because people celebrated him hating Jews but because the promises for a better future he made.

> He was never elected. Never even managed to falsify an election.

He didn't really need to.

In 1933 the NSDAP (his party) won (in not so democratic elections) the congress elections, they didn't had an absolute majority but by teaming up with the KSWR they still won which removed any remaining barriers for transitioning the Weimar Republic into a dictatorship and in turn removing any need for falsifying elections outside of PR reasons. (KSWR = mixed party union of conservatives, nationalist, emperor-monarchists and more which had quite a big overlap with the NSDAP and was also promised quite a bit of money).
Twitter is rebranding to X.
> instructions on how to efficiently overthrow a government

lol the examples people give for AI safety are always so ridiculous. Here I am thinking I’m bad at estimating when I misjudge a week’s worth of work for a month and this guy thinks he can overthrow a government by following a few thousand word plan written by an LLM.
He (or a company of his) has had the x.com domain for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.com
This is actually really clever!
* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36091710

The tricky bit is the auto-paste into and auto-copy out of the message app where the people that make the app might be actively hostile to your activity. See Mailvelope[1] for an example of doing this sort of thing for webmail.

If you are willing to do things manually then PGP works with anything already.

[1] https://mailvelope.com/
𝕏 is used as a symbol for a generic metric space. E.g. if your result is generic over ℝ², ℂ³, etc, you can write 𝕏.
No it's about the renaming of Twitter.

[0] https://nitter.net/elonmusk
ꓫ.com (U+A4EB) can be bought for $91M
> and there are so many "notre dame" colleges that I'd only heard of this one from my gf who got her PhD from Northwestern nearby.

It's weird to brag about living under a rock
Of course it is. People claim Elon never wanted twitter, and that he was interested in trimming it up and selling it. It's my view that now that he has mated it with his beloved x brand, this is just not the case.
He owned x.com decades ago and it was part of paypal's acquisition, then they sold the name back to elon a few years ago
Twitter has been rebranded as 'X'. Elon has the domain x.com and I suppose he wants to use it
The parked page happens to not be a redirect. It's probably DNS TTLs. If you get redirected to twitter, you're seeing A records like 104.18.16.213 (Cloudflare). I'm seeing an A record of 34.102.136.180, which gives the parked page.

I think they changed the NS records to Cloudflare and the TTL hasn't run out on the original for many downstream DNS servers....

$ host -t ns x.com
x.com name server ns71.domaincontrol.com.
x.com name server ns72.domaincontrol.com.

"domaincontrol.com" is the parked page service.
Classic situation: too many yes men, needs some real friends who know him and can ridicule his bullshit until he thinks better of it. We all need real friends!
Not being super knowledgeable about Bruce Lee, I was completely blown away by the movie Dragon: The Bruce Lee Story [1]. I'm sure it's pretty fictionalized, but from what I've read later it's not too far from the truth. Obviously it focuses on his positive aspects and glosses over his negatives, but damn it's a great movie. As far as I can tell it's sadly not on any streaming platform, but I highly recommend it if you can get it.

[1]: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106770/
It's not a union type, but an option. INT | NULL --> Option<INT>.
I studied and believed astrology between the ages of 12 and 16. At 16, I found a few ways to strongly falsify it. The problem is that the readings always end up being somewhat true and people become enthusiastic about the readings. All I did was follow a particular book, but yea that was tough to falsify for me at that age.

In any case, it depends on what you value. If you don't care that someone is into astrology, then go with the flow. If you deeply believe in science and it's one of your core values that people close to you believe in that as well then a short and polite conversation is all I see happening. I'm of the latter kind. I'd have never made such a strong comment though as it is my experience that people aren't really open to change their minds on this (having done readings on a few dozen people as a kid). So why waste the time?
You're describing undertaking people on roundabouts on wet gravel. Maybe the problem here is your driving style and not so much the handeling of EVs.
Do we enforce antitrust laws often?

He may be looking at Google, Amazon, and Apple as examples that big tech can destroy all the trust they want and monopoly away with little regard for legal implications
IMHO defence against this is not using computers, personally.

Worldcoin appears to be yet another attempt to solve an actual problem, an that is preventing simulation of a biological being in a electronic network.

Back in the day a password and a username was good enough to assume that a biological being is authenticated through a keyboard and taking actions in a system. As the automation become easier and ubiquitous we started using Captcha's, then we moved into fingerprinting and behaviour analysis however at the current stage we mostly lost.

I have no idea if Worldcoin or anything similar will work or if they will attempt to create some kind of dystopia but the problem is fundamental one to using electronic interfaces.

Maybe the solution for all this is going back to being human, and leave all the communications to the machines who would serve us. In other words' assume machine when in not in person. The end of symbiotic life with machines, going back to humans using tools.
"Here's a really stupid thing someone did in the past, look what happens when you do this, don't do this" is a fairly normal business school thing (I think the classic branding one is New Coke). _Why_ they did it is somewhat beside the point.
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.
>not to be the bearer of bad news, but this really feels like it's about 80% your fault. yeah okay it's shit that their sign up and log in use different standards, but why on earth were you trying to sign up with an email containing a plus?

For added security? For ad canary?

+tags have been normal way of handling email for multiple decades (probably longer, but I have used them for close to two decades now)

Before recently switching to iCloud email hiding I tagged every service I used with unique tag. This makes it harder for my credentials to be used in mass scans and I have caught few services selling (or leaking) emails to spammers since the spammers have contacted me with `+companyname` tag.
The only reason I'd ever use anything like that would be to send money to a person (not a business) in a non-SEPA country. And for that, I'd use PayPal. What's the business case for this X? How does it improve anything?
With encrypted email you get perfect deniability simply by not signing the message in the first place.

* https://articles.59.ca/doku.php?id=pgpfan:repudiability
What interests me about the article is the fallout between astronomy and astrology, akin to the fallout between medicine and magic.

Western scientific culture is so obsessed with the tangible that we minimize (and to some point ridicule) spirituality, although science and spirituality at some point were once one and the same.

Human beings need spiritual experiences, and "young" people flocking to astrology seems like a response to this evident lack of spirituality in Western culture.
The command palette in the Windows version of Inkscape is inexplicably slow very often, not only on first run. 5 seconds to open slow. Is it spending time making fancy command predictions? Does it request and rebuild a list of existing commands each time? It is also missing some commands, like the Shape Builder tool. I'd rather have a stupid static list of all possible commands that opens instantly and filters super quickly as you type.
1. recognise the fault is with the service

2. blame the user for the effects the system's faults cause

3. provide a possible workaround

6/10 not terrible, i'd drop the victim blaming though
I really REALLY wish people would stop assigning sentience to LLMs.

> In other words, a hallucination is an error in (or a false) perception of something real or concrete.

an llm has no "perception" it doesn't "believe" or "think" that the answers it provides are "correct" or "true" or even "false". It's just autocompleting strings with the most probably next words.

If we keep treating these things as if they're sentient entities that "want" to provide "correct" answers we're going to keep tripping over our false assumptions about their answers.
I made a CLI called nowify that might help:

[0] https://taylor.town/nowify

[1] https://github.com/surprisetalk/nowify

It’s pretty janky, but it might give you some ideas :)