skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get the frustration but on the other hand there’s an expectation here that the software must be absolutely bug free and I just don’t see that ever happening.

To look at the metric another way: 10 years, 120 months. 95 comments (including all kinds of automated comments). So less than one a month, among a small group of people. Fixing the bug is clearly not just a one-line thing and requires a ton of effort (including the loading of external resources, which always requires security consideration), which doesn't bode well when compared with the size of audience clamouring for it.

The reality is that it just isn’t that important.
What if you want to have version changes to the diagrams tracked by git?
Yes, I've used it a lot on Ubuntu 22.10/23.04.
For HN in particular I feel I need to clarify this more often[0] -- but this comment is a joke.

It's riffing on the idea that Elon thinks "X" sounds cool but it actually just sounds like a porn site, that the valuation of Twitter would need to drop substantially for a porn site to be able to buy it (and that this rebrand is likely to further devalue Twitter), and that it would still be a terrible waste of money for Elon even if the fictional "plan" succeeded because he'd be selling at a substantial loss -- but in the context of the joke, it's implied that Elon wouldn't see it that way, he'd see it as a success.

It's meant to satirize Elon's plans for Twitter (and common defenses of Elon's mistakes that show up on HN) by implying that the downsides of "X" are so obvious that Elon would need to be aware of them and would need to be incorporating them into his "plan"; but even so he'd still be the type of person who would make a plan with obvious downsides (ie, selling his company off at a substantially lower price than he bought it for) and just not realize that those downsides exist. The joke frames itself as if it's going to be a defense of the rebrand, but then just goes on to describe an outcome that would be terrible for Elon anyway.

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The actual non-joke reality is likely pretty much exactly what you say -- Elon has owned "x.com" for ages and has always wanted to name something "x.com" and he has a grand vision of an everything "brand" that probably mostly just seems cool to him and that he's convinced would seem cool to everyone else as well. But he's unable to see that to everyone else it just looks like he's rebranding into a porn site.

He's convinced himself that this is a master plan that could lead to his Everything App dominating the Internet. But to everyone else outside of his bubble, the downsides are obvious and the plan just looks silly.

And thanks for the book recommendation, I'll add it to my list :)

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[0]: This is not a criticism of HN, I am myself much more prone to missing jokes than the average person and I regularly rely on context clues to figure out if someone online is joking -- and those context clues are usually missing from HN. So very much no shame to anyone for not catching a joke, I get the confusion and I also regularly miss the exact same jokes.
As in, they use tax to avoid reporting the earnings? That works fine for the scale of a lemonade stand.
What we also forget is that Chromium (+ HTML, Javascript, SVG, ect) is starting to be in a market dominance position where Windows was in past decades: We're at the mercy of a market winner who improves it at their pace.

At times, it appears that web standards have evolved from their open nature to primarily supporting Google's agenda. If Google wants a certain product to run the browser, they will bend the standards to do that.

I bet as soon as a Google product needs this feature, the bug will be fixed.
> If you have any trans friends, I'd encourage you to ask them about it, since the issues are doubly magnified.

This is like saying that blackface actors experience doubly-magnified racism, when they're actually just adding to the problem.

For women who want to be men, it is typically rooted in wanting to escape the harsh societal impositions of femininity, rather than confronting it head-on. This is also why many women these days are calling themselves "non-binary".

For men who desire to be women, it's mostly driven by a fetishization of womanhood, with their view of women as sex objects that can be male-emulated through cosmetic and surgical means.

For both women and men, the whole basis of "trans" is a perpetuation of misogyny, in one way or another.
The System Resiliency Pyramid
More examples of sequence diagrams with PlantUML, with renderings of dividers, actors, databases, etc.:

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/plantuml-examples
You must design interfaces.
> Chromium is open source isn't it?

Being open source doesn't mean that you can contribute to it at all. In this particular case, Google does actually take contributions, but only from people who signed their CLA, and many people aren't going to agree to that.
> unnecessary concepts of private ownership and hierarchy of command

Claiming that these things are “unnecessary concepts” is a significantly more extreme position than you make it seem. What are the alternatives that actually work?
Pioneering NASA 'Hidden Figure' Evelyn Boyd Granville Dies at Age 99
It kinda feels like asking how AI will impact TV and movies. We already live in a post-scarcity digital landscape, there has been a surplus of porn for just about as long as the internet has existed. The increased availability of porn probably won't addict people any more than they already were.

> or is it possible that AI can infact lead to novel ways to reduce harmful porn addiction?

This site asks the strangest questions sometimes.

AI is just AI. Sure it's "possible" that you could build an AI net-nanny for yourself, but that has been possible sans-AI since forever. The question is the same as it's even been, it's exclusively a matter of human willpower.
> Man is a religious animal in the sense that, as a rational animal, he must worship something he takes to be the highest good.

This needs more solid arguments. As is, it’s obviously complete bollocks.
The Supreme Court has the authority to strike down any law it finds unconstitutional. It may have to work slightly harder, but I have no doubt that they can find grounds on which the Inflation Reduction Act is unconstitutional.

In fact, googling those last five words turns up an industry lawsuit alleging precisely that:

https://phrma.org/resource-center/Topics/Access-to-Medicines...

I am certain that some members of the Court will agree, and others will not. It will come down to a count of votes. And I strongly doubt that I will agree with the reasoning that justifies those votes, either way.
It comes down to how you budget and pay your bills. If you take out large chunks of cash at a time then psychologically seeing the cash leave your wallet might personally help you if you treat budgeting as a once a month task. It's easy to get into trouble with a credit card if you never look at your transactions until the end of the month and treat the amount on your statement as a big blob you just have to pay while just glancing through your statement.

If you actually use budgeting tools like YNAB which get you into the habit of spending a couple minutes every morning to confirm and categorize where your money went you end up with all the psychological benefits of cash, it's impossible to forget a transaction, you know exactly where your money went for years, and you end up with even more money due to the credit card rewards. I also usually take that time every morning to pay or partially pay on all my cards to make it even more obvious the cash that is leaving my checking account each day.
Tesla I get but SpaceX? According it its wikipedia he directly started this company.
> In my view, consciousness is the only thing that can not be an illusion. If it's an illusion, who is being fooled? Consciousness isn't the illusion, it's the audience.

I don't why people keep being taken by this silly argument. You've merely assumed that "illusion" requires a subject. Here's a definition of illusion that doesn't require a subject: a perception that entails a false conclusion if taken at face value. There, now "consciousness is an illusion" is simply, "consciousness is a perception from which we falsely infer the existence of subjective qualities".
I agree this is ideal, but my point is, there were instances where you try to cleanup, and you end up pulling an infinite thread because the feature you're working on is stacked on top of 10 other features, each of which were duct taped together, and product forgot about this, and they think if it's working it must be very straightforward to just add this one thing. Your choice is to duct tape again or to refactor the 10 features. So you dare change one like of code that optimizes one of the previous features and the reviewer asks you to also optimize A, encapsulate B and replace method C with new and improved method D that does some of what you need but you now need to rework your solution to conform to that. So I often leave that semicolon alone.
Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA) – (Trans-European Trunked Radio)
RNA demethylation increases the yield and biomass of rice and potato plants in field trials (2021)

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-021-00982-9
I strongly disagree that the bold symbols are better, even though they’re what blackboard bold was originally conceived to approximate. The reason: Bold font draws attention (ask a typographer about type color), but usually, the bolder symbols are not the ones requiring that attention. (If I read a text about real analysis, I know that the domains and codomains will be the real numbers, for example.) The blackboard bold versions stick out much less when looking at the greater composition of the page.
The site is getting hugged to death. https://web.archive.org/web/20230724143835/https://lock.cmpx...
Thus to Cosmopolitan; thus to being told that the celestial bodies will grant you true love.
Not really, because almost no one comes to YouTube for the comments, so paying people to comment would be stupid.

In contrast, most people are on Twitter to read tweets produced by a tiny minority of Twitter users. These users are directly analogous to YouTube content creators (and indeed, many YouTubers are also active with large numbers of followers on Twitter). It doesn't take great business acumen to see the parallel, all you have to do is look at the distribution of follower counts.
Anywhere you have data with high dimensionality. E.g. gene expression datasets.
T-Systems to offer customers access to IQM quantum systems through the cloud
Which is beautifully ridiculous. Are any real slurs banned there?
I understand that but and I think you missed the point of my post.

If I had multiplied the advantage provided by my upbringing in the same way that Musk had, I'd be massively wealthy (but not nearly as wealthy). From a relative perspective, Musk is still a massive success.

I haven't come close. I'm ahead in some ways and behind in others.
Elon Musk is the founder of SpaceX in every meaning of the word.
You can use channels not allowed in your country. The firmware doesn't prevent that.
Great question! Say this happened:

* CREATE TABLE user_test (id int primary key, name text);

* INSERT INTO user_test (id, name) VALUES (1, 'foo');

* UPDATE user_test set id = 2 where id = 1;

When the UPDATE call is invoked, there will be 2 events emitted to Kafka.
1/ A DELETE event for id = 1

2/ A CREATE event for id = 2

Here's the detailed events that get emitted: https://gist.github.com/Tang8330/7a9450f95fbae486a4393abdd49...
>Throwing all of that away so Elon can use a domain he's sat on since '99 seems exceedingly foolish.

Elon is driven by emotions not rationality but I wouldn't be surprised if he goes back to the Twitter logo and brand after he realizes that nobody cares about his new logo and brand.

Like Gil Amelio said[0] about Apple, I would now say about Twitter: Twitter is like a ship with a hole in the bottom, leaking water and Elon's job is to get the ship pointed in the right direction.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv1pvRDFFqs
Stacking the Supreme court with likely-minded people is not limited to any party, and has indeed been used by both. I think this is a feature, not a bug, and it's there by design.
Why would a government spend the time and effort to create accounts on a social media network which only reaches .1% of their population?
I agree with what you are saying.

But this guy from Russia came in, threw a fit and was never heard again in this bug.

And still, the reply was polite.

I am sure there are tons of more bugs in the chromium project that are 10 years or older. Some things are just more critical than other.
This is not nor has not ever been true.

Now, you've got `dbg()` and running whatever you're running via `iex -S <whateveryouweredoinghere>`.

Prior to `dbg()` you had `IEx.pry()`.
If it did exist, there's some delicious irony in an original paper on replicating data in a highly-available manner being lost.
I think for humans our memory is why we only feel connected to a particular causal timeline of consciousness. For myself I am conscious of the present moment and of my memories and of my imagination.

For us to be conscious of our experiences in other universes or timelines we would need a way to know what those experiences are like. In our universe memory is a cheap way of recording what the causal past was like vs. needing to compute/simulate what happens in other timelines with enough accuracy to be as fully conscious of it as we are of our memories.
Access and benefit-sharing following the synthesis of horsepox virus
> where authors see the citation in a previous paper and simply copy it into their own.

Without opening the paper to even read the abstract? To me it doesn't sound like “innocent” at all, and borderline malpractice…
Discarded DNA: The controversial clue that's bringing serial killers to justice
> I fail to see how legality is relevant to the question of whether choosing to take a drug is choosing to become addicted.

A substance being illegal basically everywhere should be a strong hint that it may be dangerous. Most of the people on Earth not using a substance is a strong hint that it may not be necessary.

Illegal, dangerous and not necessary: several good reasons not to use it, and no good reason to use it.

Concerning cigarettes, look at how much money has been spent on dissuading people from smoking. With dangerous substances, not using them is the only sure way not to lose.

In conclusion, while I reiterate my support towards helping people already addicted, it is important to pass the right message to those who are hesitating.

Dependency is not an illness that comes on its own: it cannot come without prior usage, thus stay safe and don't use.
Two specific cases I've heard of:

Twitter honoring censorship requests from the Indian government has gone up from 20% to 90%:

* https://theintercept.com/2023/03/28/twitter-modi-india-punja...

* https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/05/twitter-accuse...

Musk defended censorship of the Turkish opposition saying he "had no choice". Jimmy Wales disagreed:

* https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/05/musk-defends-ena...
Haha, same here. I think my brain actually translated the title to "Unicode Character (right argument as a function)".
Let the onboarding be a forcing function for usability.

Sure, you always want usability and discoverability. But to suggest that everything can always just be discovered seems a lot like discussion of the elusive "sufficiently smart compiler." Eg, an unattainable ideal that doesn't exist in the real world.

I am not convinced that the current state of UX is such that it's possible to make a UI where there is zero need for product tours, documentation, video tutorials, etc. At least not for moderately complex products and beyond.
Yes, I should have Googled that before using the wrong word.

I am also operating on old information, perhaps the law changed and this it varies by state now.
It really does not. SVG is not sRGB-only. You can embed an ICC profile that describe a CMYK-based color space and use colors available in that color space, in native CMYK markup, with sliders and stuff.
The Shuttle was reusable and NASA built that in the 1970s.
Amateurs, Firefox has 20+ year old bugs open and just recently fixed an 18 year old one.
Indeed, an old life hack: "If you can't decide, flip a coin. If you're disappointed by the result, follow your heart." Tarot is just this with more bits of entropy.
This hasn't been true since Dodd-Frank in 2010: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durbin_amendment

"included provisions which allow retailers to refuse to use credit cards for small purchases and offer incentives for using cash or another type of card."
For a pcb. No components.
heart emoji.
Some examples:

https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/monzo/

https://www.avaloq.com/solutions/products/avaloq-core
The non-cynical, snark-free definition would be “built from the ground up to be used and deployed in various kinds of cloud based environments”.

Whether that’s just marketing BS or real depends on the project. Wether it fits your particular kind of cloud environment is also a different story.

In the specific case of NATS I love how I can start with a single server on localhost, then maybe upgrade to a single fly.io instance, then later move to a larger AWS, instance, then later add some fault-tolerance by turning a single server into a cluster, then later have multiple clusters in various AZs around the world, hosted on different cloud providers.

NATS makes all of these changes (and a lot more) a breeze. Any component or application using pub/sub, KeyVal, durable streams, request/response will just keep working without a single any changes.

Disclaimer: I love NATS, it’s the most promising piece of infrastructure technology I have seen in a long time.
Meta wanted to create a Twitter without the messiness and chaos that was Twitter.

But, that isn't Twitter. It could never be Twitter, because that defines what Twitter actually is. It's AOL vs the Internet all over again.

Threads will be dead within months as it fails to hit critical mass; instagram'ers are like, "this is it? it's instagram but without the photos."
> the logo looks too much like the button you click to close your browser

… which is exactly what many us do now whenever we hit the paywall.
> It would be better to have a more coherent communication strategy ready for the next time.

I don't think the problem was an incoherent communications strategy as much as having imperfect information. Plus, the way that news organizations and other popular media handled things made everything much worse.

At the start, everyone was figuring out what the threat vectors actually were. The changing advice was a result of investigation leading to better understanding.

What happened was better than the alternative: in a fast-moving crisis like this, waiting until you have a very high degree of confidence can be worse than doing the best you can with what you know, even if it turns out not to be great as understanding develops.
It was always implementing proprietary stuff and breaking w3c standards following their predatory business model. It only gained traction because it was bundled with windows and MS lost that case in federal court. Maybe a MS dev believes it was good tech, but nobody I knew shared that opinion.
I think the view that mathematics and logic are static is incorrect. Computers are mathematical as well.

I think viewing mathematics as the study of structure, and structures can be transformed into other structures via a mathematical procedure we know of as computation resolves the difficulties.
`dbg` is relatively new but [IEx.pry](https://hexdocs.pm/iex/IEx.Pry.html) has been around for a long itme
And now we've hugged the archive to death. Nice job!
The popularity of MermaidJS makes me wonder why I cannot have that natively in Confluence.
I think Julia solves the two-language problem within a range of project complexity. If I am writing a simple machine learning model to classify MNIST digits, Python and its libraries is still the easiest way to go (although Julia is fine too). If I'm writing a large language model and processing large amounts of data, perhaps with some fancy plotting downstream, Julia makes more sense. If you're building a large, stable production application then you still might be more inclined to use Rust or C/C++ or the like.
I don't think there's data showing it's a fetish for most trans women, you'd need polling on that. If we assume the hypothesis it's a fetish I would still support people in indulging in said fetish.

I don't think the state shouldn't allow someone to identify as whatever they want as there should be equality in the law in the first place according to the liberal democratic values I have.

I don't think women should have the right to segregate spaces based on femaleness any more than males do. Feminists fought for this for some hundred years and closed many male centric spaces in the process, how come now it's unfair? They're both unfair, either abolish single sex spaces or let's discuss how unequal some demands of feminism are.

If we segregate sexes to prevent sexual crimes why not segregate every other section of people to prevent every other type of crime?
Aristotle had a poor understanding of quantum mechanics, didn’t he?
It seems like he is not the only one (in case he did not use a pseudonym here): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Shard_(database_architect...
Terrestrial Trunked Radio (TETRA; formerly known as Trans-European Trunked Radio) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TETRA
An interesting attack I have never heard of up to now. Do you have a reference?
Man, that comment has a lot of “I’m the main character” energy.
> As I write this, it hits a Godaddy parking page.

Some people have assumed this is just him trolling, but I have no idea anymore...
Israel is a self proclaimed Jewish state. What leads people to think it maintains secularism?
Next up, our researchers investigate the properties of water. #3 is surprising.
They're null pointer objects /s
I wonder if the URL in the article to Marky shouldn't point to https://lib.rs/crates/marky instead of to the NPM package.
> after the government spent decades brainwashing ...

Please, not that rhetoric again! Do you even know what a democracy is?
I guess it’s effective because it is similar to Markdown and other lightweight stuff: things like bullet items are just written like bullet items, with hyphens (or similar). You write it how you want it to be displayed. Granted for a diagram it’s more complicated since it’s a graph and not a tree, and you write it with declarative arrows rather than as ASCII art, but perhaps that in practice strikes a nice balance between being non-finicky and at the same being simple enough (syntax-wise) in order to deal with.

That aside the “unreasonable effectiveness” allusion to “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences” is clearly overwrought. Let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

> Reaching for code to solve my code problem seemed like something that would only appeal to someone that loves code so much that they're probably no good at visualizing.

It looks more like a pseudo-markup to me.
Yep, this would never happen in a system without private ownership.

As such a system would never give rise to Twitter in the first place (hence problem solved).

Or such a system will forever reside in the Platonic ideal universe forever avoiding any real-world flaws or criticism.
I always feel annoyed when I see this. Users don't read and skip everything.
So what, it's still a logo design.
If several million per resident was spent annually on infrastructure and support in Phoenix like it is in Antarctica, there wouldn't be a water shortage -- that's more than enough to pipe and desalinate water from the ocean.