skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is super cool! I particularly like that you render the route along transit lines to reach each destination, which is differentiated from other isochrone maps I've seen. I would love to use this while hunting for apartments in a large city.

I do think there are a number of things you could do to improve the UX here. Hope this doesn't come across as too harsh, but here are some suggestions...

1. Double-click to set origin makes sense, but hover to set a destination is a bit weird, for two reasons:
a. There's no way to "lock" a destination by clicking, so I can't pick a route I want to see and fix my view on it. The UI feels jittery as a result.
b. In some cases (I'm looking at NYC), loading the route to the hovered destination hangs for several seconds. I don't know if this is just an issue because your server is overloaded, but it's a weird state to be in.

I'd consider: 1) adding a loading state when the route to the destination is being computed, 2) enable clicking a point to lock viewing that route, 3) maybe disabling the hover interaction entirely, though if it were performant, it would be pretty nice to have.

2. The "arrival time" concept is a slightly odd. I'd prefer to just see the amount of time it'll take to get to a destination, rather than an arrival time based on a particular starting time. I don't think anyone's going to use this to plan a specific route at a specific time; instead, they'll use it to explore locations of interest, and explore how long it'll take to get to various destinations. I see you show the trip duration in the bottom-left, but having it be an arrow pointing to a gradient spectrum is much harder to parse than just saying "27 minutes".

3. The fade effect on the side panel is a bit weird. It does draw more attention to the map, but the side panel is still occluding my view, and having it faded just makes the text very hard to read. I'd consider making it un-faded, but adding some way to collapse it.
This doesn't contradict what you're saying, but note that the company was only re-branded to PayPal after Musk left it. I think it was just named Confinity after the merger.
Ah an old world vs new world linguistic issue.

Failure accepted.
I commented on Reddit's latest moves, downloaded their app just to use it for a while and give it a bad review. Deleted the app and haven't gone there in a while

Just because you comment on something doesn't mean you'll use it
This explanations have so many logical issues. It feels like hand waving.

- The false dichotomy between 'western' science and spiritual (eastern? ancient?) science. There is just one science that's defined by scientific methods. Almost every culture knew this method.

- The implication that at some point in the past, science also dealt with intangible things. Science is always based on evidence. Rest was always in the realm of mysticism.

- That spirituality is about the intangible. It has been shown that people can get spiritual experiences from many non-religious and tangible things like music, meditation, arts, nature and martial-arts.

- That 'western' science minimize and ridicule spirituality. Science practitioners ridicule illogical things like astrology. But spirituality and its importance has been the subject of several serious scientific studies. I haven't seen one study that simply dismisses spirituality.

- Though not directly said, there is implication that astrology is a spiritual experience. Sure! If you're deluding yourself. But having studied a bit of vedic astrology myself, I never found the practice to be spiritually touching at all. The only part that I found valuable was the ancient mathematics/astronomy that precedes the prediction stage. If astrology can be considered as spiritual, then flat-earth beliefs can also be.
The Xbox brand is very unique because they think numbers go from 0 to 360 to 1.
https://nitter.net/martingrasser/status/1683266038602010624 courtesy link for those without an $8 X Blue membership.
Let's level set here a bit. There is no coup d'etat. Here's the definition of a coup: _a sudden, violent, and unlawful seizure of power from a government_ that is not what's happening here on either side.

Instead here's a quick review of what's happening. Currently the Israeli supreme court can strike down laws based on what they deem "reasonability." As you might guess, this is a pretty strong power for the court to hold because it's subjective. The new legislation would remove much of this power.

Those for this change argue that this is a good move because elected officials should be working for the people that they represent, not a court that gets to unilaterally make decisions.

The opposition argues that this power being handed to the elected officials without the oversight of the court's reasonability power and thus might allow bad actors to take additional control and do things that don't represent a substantial, but minority, population.

I'm not arguing for either side, but calling this a coup is wrong.
I just saw Walnut.io [1] demo for another product today. I skipped through most of the demo, did not really understand anything about the product. I think it is not the tool but really depends on who and how these product tours are built.

I can imagine some products are complex and needs explanation or hand holding by solution engineers, account managers etc. No product ever is so amazing that you don't need help or product tours.

[1] https://walnut.io
> downgrade them to mere advisories which people can ignore.

Your terms are acceptable.
HK has an interesting business model in that the MTR is majority owned by the government and the government grants the land on top of train stations to MTR. MTR then generally builds shopping malls, offices and residential developments e.g LOHAS park, there making it a property company which operates (very profitable) rails between its properties. Hence, the average person not only travels on the MTR but also spends money at MTR Malls and may live and/or work in an MTR property. MTR corporation also provides consultancy services and even runs other railways in other countries e.g the Elizabeth Line on the London Underground.
If you'd like to ask anyone in the Human Factors space for literature on this topic they'd be happy to load you up with so many books it'll break your arms.

Not to mention philosophers.
I'm just someone who cherishes the quality of discussion on HN, something you obviously don't, since you've decided to take my remark personally and answer with a pathetic attempt at a personal attack, another mechanism that's frowned upon here (but very appreciated on reddit, maybe you could try going there instead?)
There is no way you are serious, it’s just a website. You can’t compare it to one of the most famous works of art.
> It is frustrating to watch people continuously buy into his complete lack of vision or execution.

"Hey, look over there! I'll make the 6 Million Dollar Man!"

I'm pretty sure he just watches 80s TV for vaporware announcement ideas to use when there's bad press to suppress.
I don't think Musk knows enough about WeChat. WeChat controls and monitors people in a way that is intolerable or even unimaginable at all in the western world.
Heaven forbid someone should type out a comment to voice their disinterest about something.
I wonder if we can add it to the Google death pile?
Yep, my understanding is that one of their datasets is basically the ebook dump of z-lib. Honestly, they're likely to get away with training on copyrighted work unless someone can get the LLMs to spit out whole pages of copyrighted material. I don't even think small excerpts would be breaking fair use
Mnyeah. I prefer simpler pleasures:

Eyes bulging from their sockets
With every swing of my mallet
I smash your fucking head in, until brains seep in
through the cracks, blood does leak
distorted beauty, catastrophe
Steaming slop, splattered all over me

https://www.lyrics.com/lyric/29118769/Cannibal+Corpse/Hammer...

Or, you know:

Drink from the goblet, the goblet of gore
Taste the zombie's drug, now you want more
Drifting from the living, joining with the dead
Zombie dwelling maggots, now infest your head

Zombie ritual
Zombie ritual

https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/124887/

Gets the point across, no fuss, no frills.
I never worked on z/OS, but I did work on AS400 (Series I, or whatever it's called now).

I think the main things missing is how much IBM really brings to the table here.

> If one crashes or has to go down for maintenance, the other partitions are unaffected.

Effectively, IBM often does that for you. The machine detects an issue, and calls IBM, who sends someone out (in my day it was immediately), and they fix it. Then it's fixed and they leave and most of your staff has no idea they were there at all.

Plus, there's not enough that can be said about using a dedicated stack of hardware and software owned by one company. If there's an issue, it's IBM's. They are the ones who need to fix it. No trying to get HP vs Microsoft to agree to take the blame (which can take literal weeks). Just call IBM, and they take care of it. (In theory)
The collective sentiment is that using "X" will make searching and referencing the platform and actions in the platform more challenging. "Did you 'X' it?"

Someone in the branding team will make a juvenile tag line of "X marks the spot" and ironically it might catch on for the sake of people calling the platform "the spot". "Did you find 'the spot' for it?"
Google Trends has literally nothing to do with twitter succeeding or failing as a business. Literally nothing. If twitter went offline, it would be skyrocketing in Google Trends, does that mean twitter is successful then?

Also: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1680082007873953794
It's a bad example. Here's some actual reporting on the health of the company: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/may/31/twitters-....

To say that "Elon has no doubt pissed off [...] some advertisers" is such a hilarious understatement.
And to make that a bit more concrete, ProtonMail accepts Bitcoin and will let you create a truly anonymous account if you pay for their premium plan via that method.

Though to be fair it's actually pretty hard to obtain Bitcoin anonymously. Monero would be better. And this doesn't really solve the phone number problem.
Exactly right. The leaked Google AI "no moat" memo applies to the technology itself, but not the data.

Without formal agreements with content owners, OpenAI is just another scraper. One can easily imagine that content cooperatives may ultimately own the GenAI space.
Easy, humorous fix for the problem: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/copyright
I read this one in the manner the Invictus poem is read in the movie, imagining Russel Crowe's voice.
Poetry is one of the activities that has filled the void left by all the social media experiences I quit years ago (hn is the only one I allow myself to occasionally get sucked into, because of the quality of the comments, the moderation, the minimalist non-sensational aesthetic, and the fact that it doesn't take long for me to run out of things to do here before I catch myself getting lost and close the magic portal for awhile- I like it this way). I read poetry to my child, to myself, and I talk about poems with a friend.
Stardines, by Jack Prelutsky, is a gem of crisp rhymes and a quirky theme, and Dr. Seuss remains evergreen. A World Full of Poems: inspiring poems for children, selected by Sylvia M. Vardell, has been fun, too.
> Having been raised in a conservative evangelical church

What's their stance on Usury [1]? I have no doubt that if say tax credits were tied to having World Coin as opposed to a SSN that they would end up going along with it.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usury
Funny. I read your previous comment (with the ?! ending) as sarcastic. Now I see you were serious. I would be astonished if most authors have actually read even a fraction of the sources they cite.
Should I not mention Masterlocks 'high security' line, which can usually be picked in seconds by anyone with a paperclip and 15 minutes to an hour of training?

Or the numerous 'high security' locks with trivial bypasses?
They're still around. I'm seeing them Thursday.
California Considers Driver’s License for Electric Bike Riders
> Voting on a decentralized platform.

That begs the question, presuming that voting on a decentralized platform is good.

> Decentralized governance and decentralized UBI in general.

I can parse those words, but I don’t see how they’d depend on the widget from the article.

> Even when both eyes are missing - the article mentions other ways to verify proof-of-personhood (at the expense of privacy compared to iris scans.)

“Privacy for the normal people!” Oh, I can’t imagine that starting a firestorm (and for good reason).
This is how often people search for "twitter" on Google, not how many people are happily using the platform. Of course there's substantial search volume for a company that is in the headlines every other day for some controversy or another.
Having a critique of a thing is orthogonal to being interested in the thing.

There are plenty of topics I find fun to engage in dialog about, despite having no interest in the topic itself.

We, as humans, seem to generally enjoy being a part of the zeitgeist, being swept away with whatever the latest fascination is, even if we aren't interested in the actual topic. And that's ok. We are allowed to enjoy that social experience on both the micro ("all my friends are getting really into houseplants, I will too!") and the macro ("lol, Elon Musk is an unbelievable idiot") scale.
> Every sharp insight gets dulled by “AI protections”, every hot take is two-sided to death, etc.

This is a OpenAI thing.

Run a "uncensored" llama finetune, like airoboros 70b. They are as hot and spicy as you want them to be.

EDIT: Actually someone is hosting 65b here, so you can test it and see what I mean: https://lite.koboldai.net/

Note that you have to get the instruct prompting syntax right.
Ethereum’s Buterin Expresses Concerns over Sam Altman’s Worldcoin
There were plenty of factories in nearby Manchester and Liverpool.
I bet that the "modern" application, given its 20 years vintage, is probably a J2EE application running on whatever is the modern incarnation of IBM Websphere and it was written as a mind-boggling soup of EJB 2.x Entity and Session beans.
Toronto vs. Vancouver Cost of Living
It is not a human but it is a fellow intelligent system.

Mankind had this discussion before. When Darwin published his theory about evolution. He faced a lot of hatred because it made humans less special.

Now we go through the same dance again. This time, intelligence in silicon makes humans less special.
Let's see if anyone is still commenting in a few years!
Such a super app controls and monitors people in a way that is intolerable or even unimaginable at all in the western world.
I went to a talk on "general purpose GPU programming" at the Colorado School of Mines around 2001 that covered exactly that topic. It was very disappointing to have my interest in FPGAs for this purpose be so entirely destroyed by a quirk of graphics card design.

Hinton also addressed the contribution of hardware performance advances to practical deep neural net applications in his talks in the mid-2000s.
Except that's now how people think about it or use it. It needs to be called out for what it is: bullshit and taking advantage of people.
He made the offer impulsively without due diligence, then got cold feet when the market dropped. Real genius business moves
If speech is not offensive it wouldn't be suppressed therefore making the right to free speech irrelevant.

You're free to say you like pickles over carrots in Saudi Arabia. Offensive doesn't necessarily mean demeaning of human rights.
Ah, I only recalled that there wasn't a way to prevent DMs from everyone, not even people I follow, and indeed Elon's innovation doesn't improve that. Oh well.
> Syntax sugar that translates `foo.bar(x, y)` into `bar(foo, x, y)`

For that to be syntactic sugar it would have to be the case that foo.bar(x, y) and bar(foo, x, y) always produce the same result for any given values of 'foo', 'x' and 'y'.

Is there a language where that is the case?
Is it finally going to get to 12 or are they going straight to weighland?
Use your guide dog as your iris scan!

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.
>If the US government and law already is using a number of different metrics to account for inflation impacts for different purposes, it absolutely makes sense to debate which particular measure is best for this area.

Fair point, but in the context the previous comment, "wages" is basically never considered a serious contender for measuring inflation in economics.
a sequence is a projection of many interactions between modules, which can often be described fine on a 2d graph

i hope it makes a bit more sense
Tough to overflow when bound to a loop, I guess
> It's not like Elon could make that much worse

Musk is swimming upstream, having notched the top-tick LBO of a decade-long ZIRP run.

With Twitter's original finances, in a strong economy, the debt would have been difficult. As currently configured, with ad revenue down 50% [1], it's obviously unsustainable, a reality reflected in its bonds' prices.

> he claims it's break-even now

Musk expected, last year, Twitter to break even this year [2]. He claimed break-even in April, but conceded profitability was still away [3], implying an unlevered definition of breaking even, i.e. before financing costs.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-says-twitters-c...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/technology/elon-musk-expects-twitter...

[3] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-is-opera...
mac os x

10 is actually a pretty special number
Understandably and I concur. However, I haven't met anyone outside of the apple company that would pronounce it OS 10. That being said, they don't even use the nomenclature anymore.
What this technology needs to succeed is some kind of scary worldwide disinformation plot that scares everyone into adopting it.

I don't think the Internet filling up with AI spam is scary enough, we need to dream bigger on this one.

Whatever the plot is, I think people should remain indoors while it's going on and watch their televisions or iPhones.

Next, we could make people scan their eyeballs before they eat at restaurants, go to the gym, or perhaps even visit the mall or ride the subway. We could have a greeter at every door who points the orb at you before you go in. This will create jobs, and also drive up the price of stanchions and someone can at least profit from that.

Finally in a few years we could relax the restrictions because the human population will be accustomed to KYC before every transaction.
Only in the past few years did I realize that most of the bird sounds in my neighborhood were robins; they make a wide range of sounds.
To the best of my recollection, usury is not mentioned in Revelations.
God that thing is fucking terrible.

You can't change font size? But what if I don't like to read walls of tiny text?

And what the hell is with the video playback UI? I want to see comments under a video post, why do you take me to full-screen video playback no matter what I do? About 50% of the time I manage to tap something somewhere which makes it work on 3rd try, but I wish that percentage was higher.
Not to mention the X.org logo.
I think that the Unabomber was a few decades too early in his thesis.
A dispatch from the dawn of the green hydrogen era
What makes you think this? IMO he really wanted to not buy them but was forced to do it.
he didn't read the article at all and just wants to rant about his favorite pet issue ofc
It's not an example at all. It's just as baffling to use it as an example when there are much better sources.

Pre-Elon, you have financial statements showing the strength of the company. Profitable before Covid before they hired a massive number of people (like a lot of companies during covid) and then dropped below profitability. It's very possible that a smaller layoff and a focus on fundamentals could have brought them back to profitability.

Elon has admitted that they've lost around 50% in ad revenue since the takeover and that they're not cash-flow positive. Reports are saying 59%-70%. I'm inclined to believe that Elon is under reporting to the public (based on his history of exaggerating/under-reporting/lying about this kind of stuff). Either way, it's clear Twitter is in a much weaker position now than pre-takeover.
Please visit this group in FB which was created to register all the concerns from hosts and guests from all over the world. We can collectively work together to fix this situation.

https://m.facebook.com/groups/1316864141779135/
Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture is the first novel by Douglas Coupland, published by St. Martin's Press in 1991.[1] The novel, which popularized the term Generation X, is a framed narrative in which a group of youths exchange heartfelt stories about themselves and fantastical stories of their creation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_X:_Tales_for_an_Acc...
They do over the domain 360*Z_719
To add fuel to the fire, Elon has been quite vocal about his disdain for Larry lately. According to Elon, he got upset at Larry for not taking the risks of AI seriously. I wouldn't put it past Elon for this to be a bit of him thumbing his nose at Alphabet.
This is really cool! I see the plotter the OP got was like $700. Is there any way this is different than a $200 3d printer from Amazon with a pen mounted where the hotend would be?
There's trend amongst the start up crowd to turn to abstinence from alcohol. Wonder where it leads?
Combined with "Our [bird] logo is our most recognizable asset. That’s why we’re so protective of it" I think it is indeed a bit funny
Are there even examples from a decade ago?
What about Elon Musk leads you to believe that he would see that as a problem?
Large publishers are not writers. It would probably be better if large publishers died and there were more small publishers or independent writers.
> Drugs are not the problem, mental health and lack of social services is.

Why can't both be the problem? There are plenty of people who don't have mental issues that take drugs recreationally and do dumb shit.

There are also people who seriously need help.

I don't see why we can't handle both of those issues separately.
This is not the same as "lol logo is bad" and "all news is good news" there's a legitimate case for confusion across these companies
Rinetd – Internet Redirection Server
Eberhard and Tarpenning had the idea to make an EV sports car (rather than the traditional "green" branding that EV's tried to go for), so I think they deserve credit for the "sexy" approach. Musk deserves credit for recognizing the opportunity, commandeering it, and keeping the idea going.

The concept of reusable rockets isn't new, but Musk and Shotwell helped make them reality. What really made it work and where Musk doesn't get enough credit is in the iterative "fail fast" approach to rocket design... something untenable under risk-adverse bureaucracies like NASA and Boeing.

His contributions to Paypal are dubious (IIRC) at best.

I think his true genius was building a fan base with the technocratic class that appealed to their techno-libertarian dreams of a future utopia. This allowed him to raise huge amounts of money despite constantly failing to meet his promises. Trump for us nerds, basically.
If anyone is looking for a jQuery days version of something like this https://zurb.com/playground/jquery-joyride-feature-tour-plug...
Coup d'état - an illegal and overt attempt by the military or other government elites to unseat the incumbent leader.

How about not exaggerating first. I had to run to Google to see if Israel was actually having a coup, lol. A coup is not something I'll even wish on my worst enemy.
You didn't read the last paragraph of the linked article.
X-server
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