skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard some pal of his (owner of the big MMA league or something? IDK, some other Saudi-loving guy I gather, I don't know much about combat sports) interviewed on NPR a couple weeks ago and he was still saying Musk is a business genius (but he also had some weird "once someone's in the circle, they're in the circle, and Musk's in the circle" thing going on, like from goddamn Meet the Parents—dude was a living caricature, the interview was fawning but the guy was just an absurd human being).

Look, everyone makes mistakes, but the whole Twitter thing, from the beginning, has been the equivalent of hiring a fry cook and then he sticks his fucking hand in the fryer, on purpose, on day 1. Then he sticks the other hand in.

You wouldn't say that dude's a genius chef—or, if he ever was, he's either gone nuts or is on way too many drugs to trust with anything. Or both.
Confluence has a mermaid js plugin [0]. This is in fact why I switched from plantuml to mermaid.

0: https://marketplace.atlassian.com/apps/1214124/mermaid-plugi...
I remember a long time ago, on a talk by Benoit Mandelbrot, who visited my university in what may have well been a "Farewell Tour"

that towards the end he says: but the only "practical" application is gaming financial markets, and proceeded to talk about his work in this area; or something like this, my memory is a bit vague. I remember feeling disappointment.
It could be right, if the equatorial regions are above the extrovert threshold.
over the last two decades, the enabling big steps happened at TSMC+NVIDIA+Google+OpenAI

Those big steps are standing on the shoulders of decades of academic work, and were carried out by people who had spent a great deal of time in academia.
> because the package manager can assume [...]

Right.
"Formed from the most ancient clay, by the secret ways of the deepest dwarfs, burned in the deepest kilns of the darkest mountain homes, was forged an artifact of supreme power - a mug, capable of holding both the heart of an undead goddess and the spit of a fiery dragon! This mighty mug was the only mug in the universe to hold the most powerful elixir in time and space: the dark elixir of spirits, inspiration and power. When the mighty mug fell into the hands of Kraxtan, the evil necromancer, the black elixir spilled into eternal darkness over the world..."

Yep, 100% the into to a power metal album. Just need someone like Christopher Lee to read it and off we go.
I am not OP, but I am facing issues with the common solution of "similarity search your documents --> pass the top ~5 chunks along with the query to the LLM"

Is there a better way?
careful on that,favorites is a label,i use favorites as bookmarks, i rarely agree with or like things in my favorites, i use it for quick access.

my favorites wont display common interests
That's fascinating! Thanks for providing more color, support for geometric shapes coming! https://github.com/artie-labs/transfer/issues/155
Have him claim he's homeless. At least when I was in college they didn't and couldn't really check, and allows him to claim $0 parental income.

Do not go into debt for college if at all humanly possible. Fuck the system, it's designed to fuck you.
A lot of public companies are managed in such a way that an LBO is basically financially infeasible. They do this intentionally.

Musk's LBO of Twitter should not be expected to be going well.
And if you start a markdown codeblock like

```mermaid
graph TD;
A-->B
```

Many things that support markdown (e.g. github, gitlab, typora, ...) will render the resulting graph.
paid by whom?
Primary and backup accounts is a feature not a bug.
Differences in superagers vs. typical older adults
While I don't want a "WeChat of the western world"...

> Facebook parent Meta has spent years trying to make its flagship platform a destination for everything online

> Google, Snap, TikTok, Uber and others have also tried to jump on the super app bandwagon, expanding their offerings in an effort to become indispensable to people as they go about their day

Snap, TikTok, and Uber haven't. That's just a lie.

Google maybe? They haven't offered banking, they barely do social, and they haven't consolidated everything into a mega-app. A mega OS, maybe.

Facebook, perhaps the closest, but not really. The opposite: Facebook even separates its messaging out into their own apps. Creates many small apps rather than one mega app.

I would say nobody has tried it.
I really appreciate that this includes UK specific stuff! So many things are US$ only.

I'm slightly confused by the pricing. Is the free plan persistent only in 1 browser? Have I understood that right?
No the arab spring that is coming soon. Remember why it was there: because many countries could not pay for food anymore because of the high grain prices. And what is happening now in ukraine? Exactly: they cannot ship cheap grain anymore to the arab countries that need it the most.
I can't help but feel astonished how salient the classic Carl Sagan quote is here:

"I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...

The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance"
Can you please not break the site guidelines by fulminating, name-calling, snarking, and so on? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

You may not owe $CEO better, but you owe this community better if you're participating in it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Right, what a genius move. Pivoting your 17-year old startup company from 'social messaging' into the 'most successful and useful' category.
Don’t worry, Sam will give you a pittance in the form of worldcoin for allowing his company to commandeer everything that humanity has ever or will ever produce. Nothing to see here.
Only while it's stored unencrypted in memory, right?
> Do not forget that his wealth initially came from changing the way people pay online, he's got a thing for that kind of market.

His wealth came from PayPal investors paying him to go away, not because he was actually good at it.

WeChat exists because that's easier for China to regulate. There's no particular demand for an everything payment app; there's already Facebook and Venmo.
You cannot transform a mathematical structure. The only thing you can do is find another structure with linked properties. But both structures are immutable.

It is not possible to transform a sphere so that it turns into a cube and no spheres can be reasoned about anymore.
Exactly.

It's easy to see in retrospect, but hard in prospect: the original paper [1] on GPU acceleration of NNs reports a measly 20x speedup. Assuming a bit of cherry-picking on the author's side to make get the paper published, the 'real-world speedup' will have been assumed by the readership to be less. But this triggered a virtuos cycle of continuous improvements at all levels that has been dubbed "winning the hardware lottery" [2].

[1] K.-S. Oh, K. Jung, GPU implementation of neural networks.

[2] S. Hooker, The Hardware Lottery. https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.06489
Slight aside: does anyone know how mermaid/planutml layout functionality is implemented? I'd like to do something similar (but much simpler). I have a few entities (boxes) that are part of a DAG, and I'd like to lay them out somewhat optimally.

It's not the interesting problem that I'm trying to solve so I'd love to reuse something if I can.
I get a ‘godaddy parked’ page for x.com (not even a ‘y’ or a ‘z’):
https://thetaplane.com/x.com
> If everybody gets paid, a winning strategy during the contract is to not really try; if only the winner gets paid,

You pay everyone to participate and you give a bonus to the winner. People who don't make a reasonable effort won't get selected to participate next time.
Show HN: Build for fun – Environmental friendly bubble wrap
Some might call that “an operating system”
It’s been good for consolidating votes around a crypto crackdown, engaging the evangelical right and privacy-sensitive left in a focussed manner.
> So now you can't ctrl click to open pages in new tabs, which was a big part of my workflow.

I came across the exact opposite recently. With Ghostery enabled, one of the company owned websites won’t work with regular clicks. The only way to go to the link is to open in a new tab/window. Infuriating.
https://sequencediagram.org/ is the best sequence diagram tool like that. It does diagram-to-text to if you draw a line etc with mouse. Can right click and have context options too.
Its interesting given that it would probably be easier to just hire a few competent managers to steer Twitter into profitability rather than Musk actively managing Twitter into the ground.
If you think Summa is word salad, then what makes you consider him extremely intelligent?
X, the moonshot factory
NAT, the bane of my sysadmin existence.
By the same token, the users of XXX dot com will probably still refer to their posts as tweets. Though as OP points out, "tweet" isn't genericized like kleenex or google, so it is less likely to survive the sudden brand shift.
They don't want. Where there is no information, people are like zombies just do what the manipulator wants them to do.
something fun from recent times:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36740357
I am reminded somewhat of the ride & delivery apps here. While they did use tech to enable some cool things like demand pricing and efficient route planning, a big part of their innovation really came from using that tech to shovel most of the risk and cost of providing the service onto independent contractors.

LLMs are a genuinely exciting technology, but I am worried that a part of what they enable will turn out to be a sort of "content laundering." If you train your AI on a bunch of someone elses work, you can make it produce something very simiilar. You can extract whole aspects of an artist or writer's style and replicate their ideas much more easily now, and because it is generated inside this black box you have a sort of deniability when it comes to accusations of copying.
Pretty sure I just spotted the wahabi. Not sure why wahabis are against the term wahabi. Wahabis follow Islam according to the teachings of Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab right?
Built-in software “death dates” send school Chromebooks to recycling
I'm not condemning him at all. Not even judging his choices for himself. I'm only questioning him as a role model and teacher. I though I made that clear in my comment.

I mentioned this because I see young people sacrificing their health for performance in bodybuilding, MMA, etc. They are not being presented the full picture of that kind of life style, the costs it involves. Making a informed decision means having all the data.
Not available online doesn't mean the paper's existence is made up.

True, but note that the post you're referring to does say:

I've emailed dozens of academics, libraries, and archives - none of them have a copy.

So this isn't somebody just saying "I couldn't find it with Google, therefore it doesn't exist."

From the available information, this looks like a technical report by a, probably now defunct, company back in the 80s.

Yeah, I think that's the key point. An internal technical memo from a private company, from that far back, isn't likely to be easy to find. It's quite possible that it's never been digitized and put on the 'net, and it it wasn't published in a journal, it may never have been archived by any university libraries or such-like.

That said, I'd be a little surprised if a copy didn't turn up somewhere, even if it means a former employee of CCA finding a copy in a desk drawer and providing it. But who knows?
Thank you very much for the feedback!

1. This is actually related to the Beta and does not happen on iOS 16. I will make sure it doesn't happen anymore when iOS 17 RC approaches.

2. Will try to reproduce and see what I can do. Thanks a lot!
They're in good company—the C standard also has something called an "expression statement" which is similar.