skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Push the language analogy further. In a sense, a child really I s raised by parents speaking a made-up language. It just happens to be a locally shared made-up language.

Like math, you brute force language learning. Imitation and memorization. Only after years, or decades, can you go from basic language understanding to appreciating the beauty of words, poetry, literature. I don’t think there is a short cut in language or math. You have to go through the unfun multiplication table, spelling test phase to build the foundation for higher level appreciation l.
I wouldn’t ask a world class surgeon to defend me in criminal court. Self awareness about domain expertise is crucial. Otherwise, your Dunning-Krugering your way to value destruction.

“I am brilliant and will succeed at anything” runs into a wall when your acumen in a specific domain and a string of luck hits the wall.

Twitter was not an engineering problem to be solved when purchased, for example. Which makes sense! It was a social network, and driven by the whims of the system of humans using it. Does Elon know people? Enough to sell Teslas, but not enough to protect or grow the value of a social network.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
As someone who protested the 2003 war while living in Texas, what you're wanting to hear about never happened.

A lot of us at the time knew the run up to the war was bullshit because it was logically incoherent, which is an easy metric for that kind of thing. So on one side we never generally had a moment of "it's all fake"- we knew it was fake.

At best we had moments of "all these assholes who made me question if I was dumb /immature /irrational /misinformed were clearly incorrect". If you're around enough folks who think you're an insane idiot, eventually you question yourself. But since we on the anti-war left were wholly correct on so many counts it's been helpful to have some occasional reckonings- the folks running the US have not gotten "more correct" and the voices who shout down those of us who question it haven't gotten quieter so that has been useful to remember when I feel dumb for my political dissent.

On the other side, still, what you're looking for did not happen.

In my experience, none of the people who were pro-war in 2003 never really figured out how fake and wrong all of that was.

Most I have asked think one of two things. One group is convinced that "knowing what they knew at the time" they were correct. It's easy to fudge a bunch of facts to make that feel like an okay position, even if it's just wrong.

The best I can manage with the other subgroup of folks is a metaphor. We used to have to set our clocks forward and so people were conscious of time changes. At some point, most of us rely on phones, and as such the time changes happen but are only noticeable when we see that the clock on the stove needs to be adjusted.

At some point around 2012 a group of folks woke up thinking that they'd always known that the Iraq war stuff was all fake. That just became the "received opinion" and their thoughts from 2003 were all so murky, no need to look into anything, But, of course, US foreign interactions were probably well motivated and just so why would all that stuff from a decade ago matter, and besides that war criminal Bush was out of office (but was he really a war criminal? these folks might disagree with such strong wording).

Anyhow, that's my view as a 45-year-old on-the-fringe-of-the-Professional-Managerial-Class worker in tech and education: no pro-war adults in the PMC who I know had an experience of learning that they were wrong.
I miss it. I would love to have it back. Guess I'm a minority.
Ah, the Reverse Kobayashi Maru.
Are Americans not part of the world?

Edit: the parent used to read "Americans and the world". Ergo, my comment.

The edit is as silly: "Americans and the rest of the world", why not say "the world" then?
Name one other example of Google betting on an external solution in a key strategic area where that bet is a minority interest in a company co-owned by a big competitor.
> Space is also hot.

Yes, of course. I was wondering if there are materials that once cooled down would harden but then remain as such also when temperature rises again. Assuming it's doable, it would likely suffer from dilation and contraction anyway.
> Then the revenue is not a problem

Elon is wealthy, but not cash rich. The revenue is absolutely a problem given his financing.
It’s simply a reflection of the immaturity and terribleness of the state of the art in programming languages.

People eventually got around to things like restricting bytes to be eight bits, using a standard character set, and so on. Eventually we will find some language factors that “stick” (e.g. abandon the stupid distinction between statements and expressions) which will become baseline and the space of variation will diminish.
sorry, everyone is losing their job. we have no chances of living in future.
Thank you for this. I was wondering why Click is around when argsparse works great and has everything needed (and does not enforce positional arguments).
> The real delusion is mastodon being a reasonable replacement

Personally, I've found Mastadon to be a fantastic replacement. What do you believe are the things that make Mastadon not a decent replacement? It definitely fits better with the public and open service that people wanted Twitter to be.
He is a well-known British writer, fondly known as the Gorgeous Moonbat. His book mentioned at the link, Regenesis, is good.
Ah, yes. The difficult decisions to brashly say you will buy a company at an inflated price, attempt to weasel out of the sale after later regretting it, only to be forced by a judge to go through with it.

To push Russian propaganda, to threaten to blackmail advertisers by removing their verified status if they don't spend more money, to utterly destroy tens of billions of dollars in valuation in mere months.

Not to mention the renaming of a company that had achieved a household name status that many marketers could only dream of, etc.

I'm sure glad someone had to step in and make all these tough decisions.
YMMV. I have less bots and more followers than before.

But the number of interesting exchanges are decreasing.
Their costs are also down 60%+ so their cashflow's probably a lot better now, but that's not what really matters to Elon.
> "don't by Samsung, ZTE, etc, they will lock your phone"

I may be in the tech industry in the US, but this is absolutely the message I got as well.
Closures are nice. I'm a fan of simple objects with prototypes myself.
Clearly, the solution is to use ChatGPT to infallibily produce our journalism for us
It's basically a fancy receive-only radio antenna that can be tuned to any frequency.

Normal antennas are great, but it's very difficult to make them work over more than one "octave", e.g., 1-2 Ghz or 2-4 GHz. A single Rydberg sensor can tune from 1-40 GHz no problem.

The Rydberg sensing element is a glass tube filled with gas. You use one laser to excite the gas into a state that's sensitive to radio waves. You query the sensor with a second laser, whose wavelength sets the radio carrier frequency of interest.

You can set it up as a spectrum analyzer or even coherently demodulate an IF or I/Q signal. But the fundamental advantage is tunability.
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I just checked it, seems to work fine under Wine, no clue about windows

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/3r649q0mij35sbwooufih/cholo.z...
> I would not consider the investment as a % of market cap since Google doesn't own all that market cap.

Market cap does matter because you can use it to gauge how easily Google could hypothetically raise the same amount[1] by issuing additional shares without a shareholder revolt.

1. Or complete an all-stock deal or acquisition.
Musk has a track record of proving skeptics and commentators alike wrong. With Tesla and spacex. Now one should assume the same with twitter. Even if my experience with the platform has made me move further away from it. Maybe it will be a totally different thing in a couple of years. Time will tell.

Edit: I made a pretty unbiased and rational comment. But I can see how many people are biased and despise musk for some reason or the other. I do not have any bias or baked interest. I’m just stating facts as I see them
SDF is clever, but not as much as triangles. :) SDF is unfortunately slow because of the ray-marching loop.
> I do not get at all why 3rd party companies would be allowed to do something like this

Governments increasingly use services from private companies: they have specific capabilities and they get access to specific personal information.

> If I need a way to give a digital proof of something like this, I'd much rather have my government handle it

Your government, and your view of your government, and your guesses about your future governments, may vary.
https://morbotron.com/caption/S02E07/121811
Sometimes it feels like that here.
You do know the difference between market valuation and profit and revenue, right? Because it doesn’t sound like it.

Tesla is bigger than ALL of the major car manufacturers summed if you compare market cap (# shares x share price).

But let's look at reality today and not hyped up 10 year numbers:

Tesla's revenue and profit is a tiny fraction just Toyota alone. Toyota's revenue last year was $10 TRILLION, with a profit of $500 B and a market cap of $289 Billion. Tesla? 25B revenue, 2.7B profit, market cap? 649 Billion, twice the size of Toyota's despite 1/100th the revenue!! That's a full on LOL. And Tesla only became profitable a few years ago after 10 years without musk and 10 years with musk (roughly, and putting aside the first year's profit due to BitCoin investments).

Source data:

[1] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TM:NYSE

[2] https://www.google.com/finance/quote/TSLA:NASDAQ

Now, Musk revealed in the recent earnings call that their margins are around 7%.

The real numbers paint a far dimmer picture than those of Big Casino.

I'm really interested to see what the second decade of Musk Tesla looks like. Will people buy used Teslas? Will batteries last 2x as expected? Will people second-life their car batteries as home backup? Will it really cost 2/3rds the price of a Tesla for new batteries? I have a feeling Tesla will remain a small niche brand (it describes itself as a carbon offset company), and instead focus on charging stations which seems far more profitable.

Familiar with the old cliche about who made money during the gold rush of 1800's California? The people making pickaxes and shovels. Infrastructure with endless rental fees is the way to go IMHO. Also, I'm a terrible investor. :)
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Tip; Syncthing is available for Android and is really really good to keep your data distributed.

Thought it would kill my battery when I installed it, but it's very well optimized. Even Google Play services drains more battery.
It seems that people who serve the public against the political establishment, like Assange and Murray, are awarded with the title of honorary brown person.
Not using neighbour, but Autogen has a multi-agent pipeline where if a question is not answered by top K docs, the agent can request "UPDATE CONTEXT" and pull the next set of results.

See example 5 here:
https://github.com/microsoft/autogen/blob/main/notebook/agen...
I think you’d really enjoy the book Visual Complex Analysis.
That has its own obvious problems.

Snowden went to Hong Kong first rather than Switzerland or Dubai. Of course he ends up in Moscow.
So you can avoid it by not setting up Samsung/Google account?
They can switch to HLS and dynamically insert ad segments randomly in the video duration. Of course it costs them to build such a system, but if the adblockers are already costing them money to begin with...
At least with MacBook you can use an opencore project to update your OS unlike with the more locked down smaller brother
Oh? Nice, missed that. Is it on the level of Erlang's VM or at least Go's goroutines?
If you liked Uplink, you'll like Bitburner.
The alternatives are only slowly taking shape, and the network effects are pretty strong. So I'm not surprised that it is slow, but my impression is that the efforts to move away are getting more serious. It varies by topic, but in some areas I've seen a lot of people on Bluesky now. A large number of them still use Twitter as well for now, I suspect this could change once it becomes clearer whether Bluesky will work out well enough.
I’m confused by this. Christianity, for almost all of its history and in the present, espouses this bigotry as its doctrine, justifying it with the handful of references to homosexuality in its texts. What should be returned by such a search if not these sections? Some specific textual interpretation that elides this reality?
i think elon himself is actively trying to have it both ways - he's attempting to run it like the for-profit business you've mentioned but he's also continuing that "town square" idea/rhetoric:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1585619322239561728

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1666945495334256642
> That is simply not true.

Wtf is that "argument"? You proved nothing. Methane is the way because of ferrying all the fuel to mars isn't an option, full stop.

> bla bla because we dont have bases on 10 planets/moons we aren't multiplanetary

With the more urgency we should press on then. Humanity has advanced on other fronts enough that it's becoming a real inconsistency/risk because we can die to nuclear, viral reasons due to tech while still being trapped here

> free of NASA's hope-ending bloat

You actually don't know what you are talking about. Please see SLS's budget per launch/kilo VS SpaceX's offerings. NASA was not going to get much of anything done by itself when it comes to not just science, other than scamming money from congress for things that look good but don't work towards realistic human off-world migration

> Moon

This is part of the NASA-specific not hurrying out when your house is on fire strategy. Yes Spaceship will go to moon, but that's far from the main goal because it's not good enough. The mission to go to the moon is literally more of a PR thing funded by that japanese billionaire for SpaceX
Also common in China. You can even get printed cards with a space for the number. Probably a healthier attitude to engage first and get angry second then a furiously passive aggressive social media rant or damaging the car, both of which I might expect if I blocked someone in over here.
> What do you believe are the things that make Mastadon not a decent replacement

Nobody uses it. Talking to yourself was not a mainstream use-case for Twitter users.
It's mostly the association of the founding people, like being announced by Bari Weiss, and what their press releases look like.
There are too few big players in the industry for the "most" to carry much weight
That's what everyone said about Tesla and SpaceX. Software guy trying to make hardware. The established guys were going to eat him alive.
There is an argument to be made Tesla and spacex successes to date are despite him
One of the most private things your phone knows about you is where you are at any given time. It's completely possible to design phones and cellular networks in such a way that they don't reveal that information to third parties, but we haven't, and that's bad.
World Geodetic System – WGS84
> There is no Apple secret sauce.

Except for secret sauce like super wide instruction decode and enough registers to keep all their execution units filled[0], sure I guess there's no secret sauce.

Caches are only useful when they're serving execution units and Apple packed their chips with them. That's special sauce. If it wasn't special then every ARM chip would have the same levels of performance. It's not like the M1 was Apple's first chip. The A-series have been kicking the shit out of other ARM chips for almost a decade. If Apple didn't have any special sauce in their chip designs this wouldn't have been the case. It's not like Qualcomm doesn't have good chip designers and hasn't tried to compete with Apple's chips.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25257932
How the U.S. Made Progress on Climate Change Without Ever Passing a Bill (2021)
Make it then...
How do you know the number of people that said they'd leave?
> a means by which remote transmitters on Earth were turned on and off

This sentence was real confusing. The transmitters were turned on and off by the people on Earth, but they were remote transmitters _on other parts of Earth_, not turned on and off remotely by the astronauts. The astronauts weren't turning Earth's transmitters on or off. Right?
Your broad interpretation of the law is silly.

99% of the scripts sent to the browser are not required, we could just live in a text world.

Privacy is about reporting information back to somebody or collecting information. A script running on the browser who does not consist of a privacy issue simply for running. You might have a case if the browser then sent back details.

But we can use your same logic to say, Google has delivered scripts to the browser to ensure that the content that is to be delivered IS being delivered. In such advertisements are part of the content you requested to deliver.

Your insane view of the wording of the law would mean 100% of every website that uses scripts to deliver its content are violating the law. Because zero scripts are required to make websites as they exist today.

Conflating running a script your browser downloaded (that you told it to do) to a privacy issue is insane. If your insanity spreads to others you can basically say good buy to websites as we know it.
Eh, not quite sure about that... I was never really concerned about "The thing I am about to do will be recorded for all history and played to the entire world" generally wasn't a concern. Yea, you could do some screwup of epic proportions that made the news, but you'd have to try really hard.

Kids these days have a pretty good understanding of "Everything you do is being recorded by someone, even if you don't see it"
Imagine believing that X has made efforts against bots. Every day I get hundreds of necro-likes on ancient tweets from zero-follower accounts with profile pics of almost-naked women. The bot problem is way worse than it ever was before Musk.
They’re also in very different “legacy” manufacturing industries that hadn’t been disrupted in a while, not in consumer facing software. PayPal was his last foray in that.
Fun fact: when the Quindar tones were no longer needed, NASA initially removed them. However, it caused confusion in mission control since everyone was used to them, so NASA added them back.
> People seem to forget the web existed before widespread advertising

They haven't forgotten anything. This claim is so barely true it's not worth considering.

The web both became accessible to ordinary users and gained support for inline images with the release of Win/Mac Mosaic in August 1993. In October 1994 the first banner ad appeared in HotWired, the online version of Wired magazine.

Given that that web went only one year between gaining support for images and people starting to use them for advertising, the idea that the web existed before advertising isn't really true. There have been ads for as long as there has been web content created by paid professionals, as is to be expected.

> I'd be fine if every last ad supported site on the internet disappeared.

You are of course welcome to create a list of websites that don't advertise and then only browse those, although recall that HN obviously wouldn't be usable by you as it is supported by ads. The rest of us will get on with living our lives.
He literally tried to back out of buying it.

Tesla and SpaceX are successes because of government programs and legitimately competent leadership outside of Musk. Twitter has neither of those things.
This is really only because he's moving it more towards something like an utility - it still is a for-profit company, one can't easily just change that especially considering the hostility towards freedom of speech in the world currently.
I don't believe it's abuse of the term, it's not part of Firefox's source code -- as far as I'm aware it's literally a web extension that's batched in after build time.

It also exists in isolation with exactly the same featureset on the demo link on that README page.

With regards to "written by the same team", from the same file:

> PDF.js is community-driven and supported by Mozilla.

Glancing at the contributors, the vast majority of the additions have come from (in order of most to least) a Google developer, an unidentifiable internet rando, two mozilla devs and someone who works for a Dutch IT firm.
> Education being compulsory for students who don’t want it is an extreme social mistake and one we should remedy as soon as possible

This is foolish. Contrary to the current insistence, children do not know what they want. They do not understand what they need. They are not small adults, they are children and children don't think ten minutes ahead let alone decades. Adults with the best interest of children (ideally their parents) are the ones responsible for thinking of their futures and making them do stuff today so they can have a good tomorrow.
Curious whether you considered any other frameworks?
You might be right. There's a link for deployment to Oracle cloud, but that seems to use a different way to login.
Can I ask why ease of deployment makes you want to turn from IT? The speed of deployment cant be beat.

Earnestly interested in your take.
Junior year in college is when they start doing proofs. This is a crime.

"Back in my day," my school district adopted a math curriculum that introduced sets in first grade, and eased us into proofs. We were not unfamiliar with proofs when we hit high school geometry, which was almost entirely proofs. Also, by doing proofs we could recognize that the manipulations we were doing in the regular problem sets could be seen as mini-proofs, rather than just guessing the right algorithm and grinding through it without knowing why.

When my kids took math, no proofs. Even geometry was all problems and no proofs. Moreover, kids are all aware of the conventional wisdom that "you just need math to get through school, you will never use it after you graduate."

For me, proofs were what made math come alive, and I started college as a math major. Today, despite my theoretical bent, I'm one of the few people at my workplace who is willing to solve practical math problems that don't have a canned solution in a software package.
Being able to simulate other people's experiences in your mind is a base skill required for empathy.

Facing difficulty happens to be a shortcut to empathy: you can imagine how others feel if you experience difficulty in many aspects of existence. You end up with a lot of parallel experiences to run simulations with.

These things combined create someone who can regularly act with empathy, or...an empathetic person!

Although spooking people by pretending to be an empath is fun.
I would be terrified of "learning" falsehoods.
Sweeping new Biden order aims to alter the AI landscape
I should've stipulated more clearly and will do. Thank you.
Bard is so stupid that I tried the take a picture feature, asked a question about a picture, then when I asked a followup question about the picture it said "Sorry I can't look at pictures."

I do expect it to get much smarter by the end of next year.
This is a political post.

Tell me more about threads and mastodon. Next year; you’re still going to be talking about twitter.

That’s fine. But please stop pretending it’s not political and these are all attacks on facts and merit.
Musk has an even better track record of proving supporters and enthusiasts wrong.
Elon has actually tried to do some good things for Twitter, like maintaining free speech, for which he has been largely castigated by the liberal media and avoided by advertisers, who hate "controversy".
Try tweeting about how you like a t-shirt design.