skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Go after the churches and religious organizations first, in that case, as they’re also tax advantaged and their leaders and congregations have a profound pull upon politics and politicians

Plenty of people do.

Gay is being terminated for plagiarism. Her ethics breaches simply came to light because she fucked up answering an incredibly simple question that points to a fundamental disconnect from how most people view the world.
Crypto-currency was a test-run for what happens when you put a financial transaction API on the public Internet. And those servers were written by smart people with no regulatory compliance to worry about.
On my 486 I don't remember being able to play MP3s in realtime. I remember having to convert a 3MB MP3 to a 50MB WAV that took up my whole HDD just to play it.
> There are still wars but not ones in which entire continents are destroyed and entire generations across dozens of countries are lost.

Yet. Nuclear weapons are an existential threat and may yet destroy human civilization. We've come very close many times already to starting a nuclear war and we're all basically lucky to be alive. Pour one out for Stanislav Petrov and take a look at https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_close_calls
It's keeping the users and making money, that's what matters.
I have an account there, but I wouldn't even see if I got a DM from someone I know because I eventually got sick of the recruiter spam to my email and marked it as such. I check it like once a year maybe? Do people actually use the site when they're not actively looking for a job? So far I've never even used it for that, and don't really know why I have a profile.
https://archive.is/f3YPu
For those that haven't played it, Planarity is a graph untangling game.

https://www.jasondavies.com/planarity/
I have always heard this when talking about approach to solving problems...

Once to understand the problem, once to understand the solution, once to do it properly.
I’m guessing the difference in pay was because of commissions? Sales is about the only role with fairly crystal clear performance metrics that can be evaluated unbiased (ie how much they made in sales).

For most other roles, compensation is largely based upon negotiation (which is not a core job skill for a random engineer), and variability in salary tends to be more inequitable — if they have he same job title and responsibilities, metrics on performance are not going to be clear cut like sales numbers, but be more subjective and interpreted by management.
I think the author of that WSJ article has a political motive that is greater than her academic discontent.

Many of the people she plagiarized thought it was "OK" that she did so (not sure why).
Same guy, I think.
I'd believe this more if it wasn't alleged that they were going to _LinkedIn_. Who the heck uses LinkedIn? And of those that do, how many of them are the target audience for Disney?
Yes, it does integer-overflow. I mean on the d axis, but on the points axis.
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This feels a bit like saying “apart from the fact that the apartment building is on fire, why are so many people leaving it?”
Controls would be better if left arrow went left, and right arrow went right. As is, they both toggle, which can lead to wrong inputs when trying to stall (left/right in succession)
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If you actually read what he said about magically transforming twitter into wechat, the only actual new feature was payments. Everything else was basically already possible on twitter (watch videos, live stream etc).

The truth is wechat for the west is the phone's operating system.
This looks so much like the bin packing problem [0] if you generalized it you could do a lot with it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bin_packing_problem
Yes, I know, but I'm always adding like 3 different types of reminder which is a lot of work.
If it says 6/8, it means the bar has a duration of 6/8th note. To play that, you play six 8th notes in a bar. Eight 8th notes have the duration of a whole note, so six of them fit in a bar.
Finding solutions that are not necessarily optimal but good in practice is often a tractable problem.
Another interesting thing by the same person that got pretty popular on HN:

The Joys of Small Game Development
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37799387
When I worked at Google the efforts to port Chromium over were seemingly tied in large part to needing to have parts of it to get the Chromecast ecosystem running on it. Because the devices they were targeting for Fuchsia to use were built on top of that. (though a lot of that UI also got rewritten in Dart/Flutter instead, so)

I wasn't directly involved but was a tiny bit of a voyeur. I seem to recall (this was 3-4-5 years ago) that there was a lot of push to try to componentize things in a more Fuchsia-ish way, but this naturally ran up against the realities of how huge and big the Chrome codebase is. And Chrome has its own IPC system (mojo) and its own component model(s), its own threading system, etc. and assumes POSIX stuff throughout, etc.

My suspicion at the time was that as something like Chromium gets ported to Fuchsia the result will be less that Chrome becomes friendly to Fuchsia, as much as that Fuchsia becomes less distinct, and more a "typical" OS, out of pragmatism.

I dunno, I'm curious to see how that effort is going. But I think it accords with your point. Porting big applications to "alternative" operating systems with more interesting or exotic models... you either end up losing the OS's distinctiveness (in which case why not just run in a VM), or having to rewrite a lot from scratch.
It's not perfectly isometric, but neither is it a stretch to call it orwellian.
I've been doing things like this my whole life. It's very easy for anyone to criticize things. You know what's not that easy? Building something the people can criticize. Once you have something, even a proof of concept working, you can improve it; given more time and or resources.
Weird, I couldn't get it to work on a bunch of different files, even using very simple file names. Kept getting this error:

Error: The operation couldn’t be completed. (WFBackgroundShortcutRunnerErrorDomain error 1.)
Coca-Cola -> New Coke -> Coca-Cola Classic. Brilliant!
We all agree step 1 lost the battle.

This implies that the business which did step 3 is more successful than the one that did step 2. It would be interesting to know what Apple and Google think of their businesses relative to each other.
If I look at that person's profile, are they going to be more noteworthy for their scholarly work or for their strong political opinions?
Wow, that's fun. I wish I could articulate why the music and dying sound effect are both so great. The gameplay has a great rhythmic feeling to it. It's also really tense. I scream every time that damn ghost catches me.

The best part is when I die I feel like I made a dumb mistake, and that if I improved just a few things I could be way better.

Too many games these days give you the allure of depth and complexity by making things difficult in the wrong ways.
Netscape had market dominance at the time so Internet Explorer had to keep bug-for-bug compatibility with Netscape to keep up. Given the amount of bugs and the lack of documentation of JS, this must have been quite frustrating for MS who was used to calling the shots.
Yep, NP-hard! This is using an optimization engine. It's not brute forcing. But hopefully it's getting pretty good approximate results.

You can keep trying harder from the state, just click again on the Optimize buttons.

I admit, I haven't optimized the optimizer yet.
I think its a subset of bugs. A glitch usually is not fatal, allowing the program to continue in a possibly degraded/altered way. In games it most often refers to a bug that allows for some unintended behavior that may be advantageous for certain desired outcomes, although it also can be just a visual artifact or it could get you stuck. But I wouldn't expect it to be used to describe a bug that caused the game to shut down or end instantly.
Cool to see a project using optimisation <3
Sure, I don't have an account there. I'm doing all right.
> The US has the highest rate of incarceration of any country in the world.

Among those other lower-incarceration countries are Iran, Saudi Arabia, and China, which moderate their incarceration rate by means of considerably easier standards for execution than the US.

I assume that's not the solution you have in mind.
Well, I think the vast majority of LinkedIn ‘users’ never actually log in to it. Like, I have a LinkedIn account, because it’s virtually mandatory these days, but, given that I’m not looking for a job, I maybe look at it once every couple months to accept/reject connection requests, and that’s it.
On the other hand, in software-related matters, I have the increasing feeling that kludges and temporary decisions made in the "First do it" stage, tend to get carried on to infinity through the other phases.

Thus, lots of stuff that falls in the "Important, but Not Urgent" category of the Eisenhower Matrix end up never getting its proper development time. One could argue "well, then maybe they weren't actually that important, were they?" but I'd reply that usually the criteria to define something as important is measured with growth potential, and that's the wrong bar to use.

That's how we end up with "we'll build it in Electron for the time being and later will rebuild in proper native apps if the idea works" ends up being still Electron 10 years later. Or how "we'll make our own controls and later worry about accessibility" turns out never worrying about it.
xkcd’s what if had a video about the earthquake scale last month that was interesting https://youtu.be/e3uk7jU3RHo?si=RULnWlFTqUMqgWZe
Yes? I deleted my account years ago, and the only repercussions I suffered was decreased spam.
Unearned money has no accountability provenance. Recall allowance $$ versus paper route $$ that was earned after delivering, collecting $$ and keeping your share.
Twitter/X hasn't traditionally been cheaper than other brand-awareness ad spends, and has performed worse. The best argument for Twitter/X was always that the audience size mattered less than the audience influence.

This is why the abandonment of Twitter/X by large audience segments has been such a compounding effect. Even if they can replace 1:1 people they're losing with new users, if the users aren't the right type of demographic, ad spend is going to collapse.
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> Everywhere it really went wrong was when Sun got involved.

Java is a Sun product in the first place; i'm misunderstanding what you mean.
Shutters are complicated, as they are really are several different things.

For example, interior venetian shutters are closely related to blinds, but are not especially common in the US. Blinds with slats (venetian blinds) can perform a similar function, but can be raised to prevent any blocking of view, while interior venetian style shutters usually swing open and require additional wall-space. such shutters might win on maximum amount of light blocking (even vs wooden slat blinds) but that will vary by shutter design. Cost is certainly a major factor of them being uncommon (but far from unheard of, we even have multiple different names for them) in much of the US.

Roller shutters could be considered an exterior equivalent to roller blinds (or roller shades), although roller shutters are often designed with proper blackout capability, which most blinds and shades lack. I presume cost is one of the major reasons these are rare in the US.
https://twitter.com/BillAckman/
Yep, I'm targeting an optimization engine at a more specific problem that might be useful to lots of consumers.
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This is pretty interesting! A related algorithm that may be useful is Wave Function Collapse, which can be taught using seating constraints like this.
Yeah I don’t understand why they are so cagey. I’ve been flown out, stayed at hotels, burned hours of their employees time in interviews, and then get a ridiculous low ball and things grind to a halt. Maybe I have a very punchable face and they think they can get me on the cheap? No idea
You can't put the Elon BS aside because it continually impacts the efficacy of ads on the X/Twitter.

A larger percentage of the ads are scams surrounding trends like NFTs because of his dictated moderation and staffing changes.

Views are amplified for himself and his preferred posters - which for all you know may land your company's logo next to Alex Jones.

> Putting all of the Elon BS aside. Can someone in marketing shine some light on how does X compare to other platforms?

Brand/PR/Reputation is a liability and most big enterprises will continue to optimize for diminishing liabilities by moving to more reliable platforms.
People who want a job or need to maintain a professional network. Who uses Twitter?
> The most insightful comments usually receive more upvotes from everyone (including non-readers).

That's highly questionable.
> Short of working to create a complete revolutionary change, (as is happening now in Argentina, for example)

Hyperinflation? Some revolutionary changes are best left untried.
I didn't even know LinkedIn had ads. I assume they made all their money from charging companies to post job postings (which are ads I guess) and recruiters to be able to reach out
Because Elise Stefanik, the Congresswoman in question, cosponsored the “Protecting Free Speech” Act and the “Restoring Academic Freedom on Campus” Act which are supposedly meant to “prevent colleges and universities from stifling the free expression of diverse viewpoints”. As usual, it’s only to prevent stifling the viewpoints they agree with.
Yep! I was scratching an optimization itch. Glad to see someone noticed!
I agree. I call it “something to throw stones at”.
Email spam where they put the sender name as a person you know and write the subject line like it was written by that person you know. Incredibly deceptive.
> the vast amount of luck

Intelligence and who your parents are, are certainly the luck of the draw. But, why are hard working and industrious people overrepresented amongst the “lucky”? There’s plenty of evidence that merely being lucky doesn’t make you hard working so it would seem that being hardworking and industrious tends to allow you to take advantage of the luck that comes your way.
BYD does not sell NEV's; their cheapest model (the Seagull) has passed European safety rules for highway speeds.
I spent a significant amount of time on LinkedIn this past year. I don't think I'd really engaged in the platform in any meaningful way in over a decade.

I found the rise and grind culture really off-putting and was delighted to delete it from my phone last week.
A fun problem to attempt. I bet there are a lot more parameters!
Isn't there usually "head table".
Maybe its obvious who would sit there?
This is so bittersweet. First release without Bram, but his legacy is continued by his peers.
> are they going to be more noteworthy for their scholarly work or for their strong political opinions

Swain researches the "representation of African Americans in Congress." Gay's work was "on black congressional representation, electoral districting and descriptive representation." Any work on those questions will require voicing politican opinions; the work is deeply political.
Yeah I only found it recently and that seems about right. They're fast which is nice but that doesn't that outweigh the constant info-wars talking points
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For a violent crime, he can serve the time. Especially being a brother on meth-- he's as much a risk to family as he is anyone else.

Write bad checks or panhandle or steal bikes or rip copper out of walls or something for fuck's sake. The line is crossed by going straight to infliction of violence on the community.
Are you imagining some change in the overall system that would serve to increase the amount of manual work done by humans in a way that would disproportionately hit the billionaire class?
Very cool, and seems handy!

I’ve always had good results from the Preview.app. I wonder how this engine compares for number of errors in a difficult source versus Free alternatives.
People care if you steal their original ideas and/or forget to cite them entirely. They don't care about fragments of a sentence, or whether you cited them on every page. That stuff is more "sloppy and embarrassing" than offensive.
I was trying to figure out why I despise the controls. I think you are right. The first time I hit left it did something, the second time it ignored me.
What do you mean "Harvard allows the Westboro Church"? Harvard has no power over the church.
Clever idea! I'm planning mine for April, but having trouble understanding how to use this tool. In your default data, Liam is listed as a couple but when you drag to a table it says "1/4". Should that be 2/4? How do I change number of tables and how many at each table? How do I create the "tags"?

The other thing not intuitive is that I was dragging people over to the tables instead of using the 'optimize' button. Which kinda defeats the point. But I figured that out eventually.

I will say, my family lacks drama so it's not so much I need to keep certain people away from each other as I just want to figure out who might want to talk the most to who.
Maybe a role where you can make use of your design skills as well would be a good fit as well?

How many applications did you send out so far?
On iPhone, it's more than just the grey background that gets the noise.

The noise is being applied to everything on the screen (like buttons, sliders, etc).

It might be more readable if the noise was only on the background grey.

Just my 2 cents.
OK, I did jump to the opposite conclusion.
Just downloaded and tried. It took some time to download the weights but the overall experience was quite smooth. The super resolution function is very handy. Very impressive quality.
> Looks like trading long term flammability for initial rigidity lived up to the design intent.

What if a plane catches fire in midair?
Yes, take off and landing.

Typically the phones have to be off by the time the safety video is happening. I think they do this on purpose so you are paying attention. Seems like they occur very close together.

I might be assuming too much overlap, like if there is longer delay waiting on tarmac. There probably is a lot of variance in this, so maybe it isn't really good point.
Good point! Yea, I'm putting that on the roadmap as part of "table ranking" and "prioritizing guests". So maybe the head table is "rank 1", and "parents" get "min rank 1".

Also, for now, you can lock certain people to certain tables and then Optimize again.
>lprm - in the terminal, is your friend.

I'm curious why this is on the list. According to Google, it cancels print jobs. Is this a common issue on Mac?
By market share, Android is over 80%. But Apple still makes 100% of the profit. I think I'm referring more to the diffusion of technology than the success of the company in the space, there's other examples.
Netflix is the only one I'm left using but I'll cancel that soon. Not because of the swelling price tag (although that doesn't help) but because of the increasingly diminishing catalogue. I used to watch and re-watch People Just Do Nothing, Fresh Meat, Peep Show and Inbetweeners (judge me) until they were removed. My Watch List is shrinking, not growing. I can't remember the last time they added something to the catalogue I actually cared about (Dahmer, I guess).
WONDERFUL.

It better be landscape only on mobile. Add a pitfall bomb (what was that game that created a hole for the critters to fall into, and you could walk over them, but the climb out and the hole heals in a short period... ? Let the ghosts to fall in a hole, then you can place more than one ghost on the path, but you need as many "hole bombs" as there are ghosts on screen+1 (or N)... to not make it rage quit-worthy.
You're right, I do realize!