skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Have you actually been to downtown Seattle/Portland? I have fairly recently. It's really not that bad.

But to that, I'd also point out that "refusing help" is hardly the reason seattle/portland have so many homeless people. A lot of these people have been priced out of apartments. Some have suffered from mental health issues (or have developed mental health issues after becoming homeless).

My son's teacher's aid was temporarily homeless while being fully employed. She was simply priced out of living anywhere. Do you think that was a result of substance abuse?

The attitude of your post is actually part of the reason homelessness is so bad. It's the view that people are homeless because they did something wrong to deserve it. Addressing homelessness requires compassion and funds. You can never make it go away all together, but you can relieve it simply by giving people a place to exist.
> I don’t really see what Musk is trying to accomplish.

Have you taken the time to understand?

> No product improvements

I disagree. Musk owns Twitter for less than 9 months. Just off the top of my head:

* view counts

* revenue share with creators

* fewer bots

* long videos

* improved spaces

* no censorship

> This is what it looks like when inept MBAs try to squeeze some more life out of a dying platform

Inept MBAs do whatever it takes to bootlick advertisers. Not the case with the today's Twitter.

> He’s supposed to be a product genius

According to whom? I've never heard anybody saying so. However, here is an anecdote from my personal experience: I recently purchased Tesla and the UX was as simple as buying shampoo on Amazon–just a few clicks from the app.

> He was supposed to bankroll exciting new ventures

Isn't that what he is trying to do? X is the experiment to launch an exciting new venture. Give him a chance?

> Instead it’s kind of like MySpace meets SourceForge

I'm confused on this analogy–cannot see the connection. Please, elaborate.

P.S. Your reactstudio.com certificate is not valid.
Probably X fits into the story then, for most of us seeing an X means "close this window".
Should add (2007) for the publication date, or even (13.8 bya) if referring to when that took place.
I still don't understand why bidets are so hard to find in the US.

They are so much better and sanitary than toilet paper in every dimension.
Related link:

https://wiki.debian.org/PortsDocs/New#Bootstrap
Malicious people love it!
Most HN users likely do. But HN users are not representative of overall population.
> in that he looks like he’s failing until he succeeds

Is that true? When I look at very old SpaceX or Tesla posts on HN the comments are generally very positive on product direction.
He even named his child “X Æ A-12”
IIRC, calling die() or exit() explicitly when you know it's time to _end_ is a good practice to prevent erroneous or malice including.
Then what is consciousness?

People keep telling me that consciousness is just some illusion which happens inside brain neural network.

However, in case of mathematical universe hypothesis, nothing really happens.
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, which you don't. Neural networks have exactly the same zero amount of consciousness in both cases.

Why do we feel that we exist? Who does the feeling part?
I open it on mobile and got an entirely white page
I agree that Vue is much better than React in this regard. Svelte and HTMx are both steps up from Vue in my opinion.
Elizabeth Holmes, Bernie Madoff and Sam bankman freid have entered the chat.
"People like games that xyz" is a conclusion, not an explanation. Why do people like them?
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Hello, I am running into difficulties finding inspirations, examples of good and bad marketing campaigns and research on B2B marketing for construction industry.

What is your go-to source? Really appreciate your suggestions!
I don’t think these “leaders” are being “drawn” in the sense of an expressly intentional selection, it’s just how things end up going.

As an example, a few years back, a study showed that law school graduates from about the top 20 or 30 schools took effectively all the top clerkships and large firm jobs. Among the bottom half - half! - of law schools it was close to zero with a few exceptions. It turned out many low ranked schools gave a full ride to a handful of top applicants, valedictorian material, who could be the exception. The school could then legitimately claim they had placed “students” in these competitive jobs.

The expose depressed law school admissions for a decade. There was a major article in the Atlantic, should be easy enough to track down.
He is an outlier, nobody is disputing that. Regardless of the odds to end up a multi-billionaire from a wealthy background, the odds of doing that from the working class are much lower. It does not mean that it never happens, I am sure there are examples.

> I'm also pretty sure with his first company sale he made much more money than his family ever had to begin with.

Well yeah. But he got there partly because he had some money to invest in the first place, and partly because he had useful connexions.
> separating for you and following

Are you counting the fact that those are now different UI tabs as a new "feature"? Twitter always had the ability to switch between chronological feed of just accounts you followed, and an algo-curated feed of those tweets + other tweets you may have interest in, sorted by interest rank - that's exactly what "for you" is now.

> blue checks

Really not sure what you're claiming here. Verification was already a thing, as was Twitter Blue (editing & long form tweets for paid accounts) - the only "feature" elmo introduced is ambiguity about what that check represents - is it someone who has spent the last 15 years on twitter as a notable public presence with a verifiable identity? or some rando with $8 on a prepaid credit card? Who knows, now.

> unlimited video

to count this as a feature the video player has to actually work reliably. it does not, by any metric. endless buffer, glitching, skipping with no way to reload lost chunks. the 10s videos were an annoying limitation but they just worked.

> This is more change than twitter did for 15 years before Elon

Circles. Spaces. Communities. Community Notes. Co-tweets. Alt text tagging as a first-class citizen of image posting. User tipping options. NFT profile pics. These are all features released in the last 5 years of twitter before elmo took over.

If we're talking about intellectual honesty let's apply it evenly.
The sheer genius of throwing away the brand of one of a handful of companies that has a phrase that has entered common parlance: hoover it up, google it, and tweet it.

Feels like Musk has caught some of the PriceWaterhouseCoopers 'Introducing Monday' nonsense. At least we could attribute that to the dotcom madness.
Thanks again for your effort.

I had a look at all references, but still consider Robert J. Bobrow's 1971 text the first use of the term "object-oriented" in a CS publication.

Ref [1] looks like yet an earlier hit, but the book is about systems engineering and management, not computer science; though I did only have access to a few pages of the book, so it could be a borderline case; the PREFACE says, that "Volume 6 comprises a collection of authoritative papers on techniques and standards specific to systems engineering, or on [...] organization therory, psychology, operations research and mathematics". Your hit apparently is in Volume 6.

Ref [2] is not a hit from my point of view; it uses the terms "object" and "class", which was the official terminology of Simula 67 at that time. The use of "block-structure/procedure orientation" looks like an early attemtpt for a term to differentiate Simula from the other contenders, but it's definitely not related with the term "object-oriented".

Refs [3] to [7] document the early use of the term "object" in computer sciences, but not "object-oriented".

So I think we can conclude the search in the sixties, and in any case you deserve credit for finding the earliest use of the term in 1971. I will next focus on the earliest use of the term for a programming language, which so far seems to be - as already mentioned - the 1976 MIT CSG Memo 137 by Jones and Liskov; I will check other publications by Liskov from that time.
The point isn’t to be “right” — whatever you define that as.

The point is to be understood.

Use blackboard bold when it’s what people are most familiar with and will engender the least confusion.

You call this the “tabs vs spaces” debate, but I’ve literally never heard anyone advocate your position until you did, just now.
the logo reminds me of xerox
That's good. Another physically plausible correlation would be effects of weather upon early development. Babies born in the springtime being likely to get more sensory stimulation during months of prime brain growth: sunshine, outdoor hours crawling around among the bugs and such.
False dilemma. Try Svelte.
Not necessarily.

But they certainly are throwing away the Twitter brand.
In this book

https://www.amazon.com/High-Performance-Mind-Anna-Wise/dp/08...

and elsewhere I've seen "theta state meditations" that start with calming down and then, for instance, imagining that you are doing a lot of motion in a complex 3-d space like going down a shaft, slide 40 feet to the left, go up some stairs, turn around and run forward 100 feet, fly up into the air, ... Then when you stop you go into a daydreamy state.
In a perfect world, yes. But I'm pretty sure the majority of websites uses something that isn't quite "off the shelf".
Sorry, this isn't practical for everything. Sure, a phone should be intuitive. And more importantly, you don't have to know how everything works at first pass. You can build it over time.

But, for example, I recently signed up for HubSpot as a CRM and while I think that overall, the product is well organized and intuitive, it's just difficult if not impossible to make it as intuitive as a smartphone. The product tours really help.
Interesting observation! Thanks
and do they?
> Wow. Historical revisionism if ever I saw it. Netscape imploded like the fall of Rome

It looks you concede the fact that IE was clearly better in its 4.0-6.0 releases than its competition (chiefly Netscape), but hate this fact so much, that you then still somehow dispute it.

MS had its usual anticompetitive practices, but that does not disqualify the fact that IE was at the time also technical state of the art.

(My teenager MS hating me at the time reacted similarly and stubbornly used/advocated Netscape/Opera anyway).
Ah hah, the marketers are at it again.

If you go to Safeway.com, there are clearly a couple different ‘markets’ or sub-verticals in olive oil. Glass bottle ‘fancy’, plastic jug ‘bulk’, and large metal jug/tin ‘medium fancy bulk’.

Looking at the sub-categories, it
it seems like Italian extra virgin is typically about 2x in price of Californian equivalents within a given sub-category, but there are some Californian brands coming close to equivalent.

Like Californian wines vs French.

Each sub-category for oil has its equivalent of 2 buck chuck of course.
Near-libelous is fitting. I'm a Bruce fanatic since childhood and there are a lot of personal accounts of Bruce and they never painted him as the guy in Tarantino's movie. I love Tarantino but that was bad. Tarantino likes to play with his characters but in this case Bruce was a real person and a hero to a generation(s). That was unfair to do that to a real person for some comedy.
Build a contacts management system with Supabase and Flatfile

- Add all your contacts from different resources
- Edit them inline dynamically - like an Excel sheet
- Get live updates when somebody else changes the worksheet
I thought such throughput would cost around 30 274 560 USD/year (60 * 60 * 24 * 365 * 48 * 0.02) on data transit fees alone.
The bible is a clear about a lot of things that are utter nonsense, I wouldn't use it as a guide for anything related to things like measurements of anything.

And a day is a day, no matter how you try to spin it after a couple of thousand years of peddling nonsense to try to make the gravytrain go a little farther.

This is no different than the Jehova's witnesses changing their 'due date' whenever it doesn't work.
let's hope this goes as well as MySpace did under the wise stewardship of the Murdoch oligarchy.
> Let's not forget that the initial plan of SpaceX was to meet and get drunk with Russian leaders to buy missiles from them and resell them to US market. Imagine the nightmare if it actually had worked as planned.

The story I've heard is that he wanted to buy a single missile, but regardless.. where is the 'nightmare' in disarming Russia by buying up all their missiles in a firesale? It seems doubtful that such purchases would have effectively funded the construction of new missiles since Russia is/was so corrupt. I think the money would have gone into the hands of some oligarchs, and not been invested back into new missile development.

Even if that plan had gone through, it would have been child's play compared to the ESA and NASA as well as numerous western corporations buying rocket rides from Russia since the mid 90s up to the second Russian invasion of Ukraine a few years ago. Go down the lists of Proton launches on wikipedia and mouse over each of the payloads, you'll see that most of them since the mid 90s have been for American or European organizations. Even ULA and Orbital Sciences have bought hundreds of engines from Russia and used them to launch US payloads. I don't see many people raking them over the coals for this. Has this even proven to be a nightmare? Western money has kept Russia's space program alive, but has that funded any successful 'Wunderwaffes'? Russia's military is still running off the fumes of the Soviet Union and their supposedly amazing wonder weapons either don't exist or aren't relevant. Most of that money probably went up their noses.
How have Americans drinking habits changed?
I have deployed industrial microSD cards, swissbit offers some for which you can choose if they should run the flash cells as mlc or slc trading capacity for endurance.

When you deploy some controller module in a water pumping station in a mountain, you gladly pay 25€ for a better card to make sure you don't have to fly out a technician who knows what to do to restore that module because the flash thing failed because of logging data.

SD card flash quality and specs are a huge rabbit hole, no info about tlc/qlc or static/dynamic wear leveling is available for consumer cards, its pretty annoying.
> Did Chinese people suddenly become smart for some reason?

Yes, they stopped following strict communism. They pivoted to authoritarian capitalism and got wealthier.
iPhone user since switching from a Droid X. You just taught me something that I have been dying for… thank you and way to make your point.
> api rate limits have some possible argument

API rate limits for external API clients sure. API rate limits for their own application is insane (caveat, super high rate limits to prevent against truly exceptional use would be fine, but anything that impacts even the 98% user is nuts).

There’s no argument for it. Every goal of these sites is to increase time on site. A rate limit that kicked normal users of the site off in 10 minutes is… well, a truly and unambiguously bad choice.
But automated testing (unit tests) does not actually produce reliable software. Only extensive manual testing does that. And if you do extensive manual testing, why do you need that automated testing?

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

You might argue that enforcing unit tests cause the software to be structured in some way that's helpful, but that's a different argument.

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If you have a counter-argument against this in manual vs automated testing debate, then you also have a counter-argument against your own position above.

Also, from my personal experience: I've started to write more and more functional code lately. Not only static type checking, but "almost-Haskell" in Typescript with fp-ts. And I find that when I write code in this way, the only place where I actually find and fix bugs are... unit tests.
Doubt anyone who worked on that still is employed there. And even if, they surely weren't asked their opinion, nor informed about the decision.
super common as in a few technical people use it, and the rest besides . and _ are pretty much universally unimplemented
The only route is to wait for it to fail further and be reposessed by its creditors.
> I've never used or even seen a mainframe in 26 years in the tech industry.

40 years here. Although in theory I've used a mainframe in college, but it wasn't IBM (Burroughs) and just seemed like "a computer" at the time. I also worked a bit on a terminal emulator for ICL mainframes, so probably at least logged in. So 40 years of saying "I wonder if the mainframe people already have a solution to this?"

Probably mainframes haven't been much used for HPC since the transition to Cray in the 70s.
I get where Rich Hickey is coming from, but his analogy does have gaps. Not every piece of music is for a cello, and in fact, much of it is for discretized and not continuously pitched instruments such as pianos and guitars, which also take out the variable of bowing.

The innovation of discrete pitch was practical -- for many songwriters, the point is to get out the song and not focus on "implementation details" -- and I think there are a lot of similarities there to software.
You said I was claiming

> data isn't important as long as I agree with the conclusion

Your quote does not contain a claim that pretends data is not important so long as I agree with the conclusion. It in fact contains a claim that the data is not possible to acquire. And I think it’s kind of dumb of you to pretend otherwise. You cannot practically do a good study or even surface stats on company performance vs sexual orientation diversity when companies do not collect sexual orientation data. That is not a controversial statement. Observe how I am not making a claim that pretends what that data would say in either direction.

I’m not really interested in trying to find this thing. But I don’t feel like you’re reading what I’m saying. It is very likely a real dataset. It’s just not very deep. It’s public info like stock prices, leadership profiles, and published diversity stats. You can find similar datasets if not this one precisely. And if you would again look at what I said originally, it should be expected that there is a relationship. Why? Because the fastest growing companies of the recent past are generally growth stocks based on the coast in naturally more diverse areas. As I already stated it’s probably not causal.

I think it’s unnecessary to suggest anything here is “VERY suspect”. That’s unlikely. It’s just not very interesting. Like, they’re showing p values of 0.1 on some pages. Shrug. You’re reframing this discussion, which could have been mild agreement off the top of insufficient evidence to identify a causal effect, to an annoying about whether the exercise is a lying conspiracy or not. I’m just not interested in engaging with that.
Is it my imagination, or does Fesser always leap into an accusation of the poor reading skills of people who disagree with him?

Anyhow, I can't really find a decent answer in that blog - my understanding is that he hand-waves it away by declaring that it is beyond physics and thus can't be confirmed or denied by such. Not a satisfying answer to my mind and I consider that tower of logic to be on shaky ground.
are exceptional at something

Not even remotely true. At best, most humans are good at something. Not exceptional. That's massively rare.
Works with Paris at least
Off topic: LoRa is forever low-power long-range communication for me (as in LoRaWAN).
Sure. Avoid the platform, continue to mock it and companies that use it to drive down its valuation to the point where he gives up and sells it for a massive loss.
>The Biblical concept of Hell as we know it (the place of eternal punishment) didn't emerge until the New Testament as it was in a way redundant.

The OT did have a concept of Hell. It is called "Sheol"[1].

"Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat, and opens wide its enormous jaws,
and down go Zion’s nobles and masses, her revelers and carousers!"

Isaiah 5:14

"As drought and heat consume the melting snow, so Sheol steals those who have sinned. "

Job 24:19

I could go on.

[1] https://biblehub.com/hebrew/7585.htm
Introducing Worldcoin
Sure, it seems like ethnostates seem like they lead to poor outcomes. But you're also saying that to criticize an ethnicity who found out what the outcomes were for non-ethnostates, so it falls a little flat. And since they're the ones you have to convince, not me, you might need to work on your argument a bit.
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I think what you're describing is a subset of sarcasm, or potentially a separate thing that often utilizes sarcasm (significant overlap). A friend of mine will often suffix such statements in speech with "if you know you know" in the event that the delivery alone isn't sufficient to trigger everyone's memory, and "IYKYK" in text.

Pure sarcasm has no such prerequisite, which means that delivery alone (tone, cadence, and smirk) is almost always sufficient. These give away the fact that sarcasm is happening to roughly the same extent that "/s" does, just that we have more experience with the former so the latter tends to feel too spoon-fed.
I wrote this[1] several years ago to help with that.

It lets you write a function in nodejs that actually executes in plv8 inside the database.

To your project code though, it mostly looks like a normal js function (with some limitations).

Amongst other benefits, it allows you to manage your plv8 functions as a normal part of your repo.

[1]https://github.com/claytongulick/pgproxy
> rent by incompetent business leaders and crumbling from unassailable technical debt.

I think you've mistaken this for a brand-off between IE and Netscape. Netscape got very, very bad, then died. That allowed IE to stop working at all on the browser, and even to use their bugs as a moat.
Ironically, Microsoft wanted a web based Outlook, and thats what essentially gave birth to XMLHttpRequest, which was a huge factor in web apps becoming a thing, and launching the web 2.0 era that saw IE get unseated by competition.
Well that’s just people bad at stats.

*because the claim is not noteworthy
Pikchr was created by the same small group that did SQLite, and it is what creates the SQLite diagrams like the ones on this page:

https://sqlite.org/lang_select.html
Half the time it does something, I don't know what I did, and I'm in a rush and so instead of sitting down and having a happy little moment I'm annoyed at having it do some unexpected, unrepeatable thing.
> medical industries complicity with stigmatizing drugs

I know nothing on this subject, but I trust you checked your sources.

Anyway, concerning public health, or any other public policy, would you rather listen to people who devoted several years to the study oh the human body and psyche, and whose profession consists in helping others, or to people who pour money into heinous criminal organizations without a second thought just to spice up a party?
https://archive.ph/2wYhT
This is amazing, considering that I can't really use Mermaid because of its puppeteer/headless browser requirement, and that the documentation is written in... itself.

I'm going to see if there is a Python wrapper for it already, or try to hack one up over the weekend...