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It achieves a theoretical lower bound on the complexity. This is what the article says in like 1000 words because it's written for mathematical illiterates.

Yes, lots of people do things that are bad ideas.

Maybe it shouldn't be split up but burned, razed, and the ground salted so nothing will ever grow there again.

We used to have forums and blogs organised by interest topic or community. An elegant mode of organisation, for a more civilised age.

So vim but for finance?

You can @ the President of the United States on Twitter

Every time I come across a piece in that style I want to smash a screen. It could be a one-paragraph solution, but I have to scroll past three images and five paragraphs of worthless blather that assumes I'm a moron.

Unix man pages are amazing. Every technical help resource should be like that.

Twitter has been orders of magnitude more harmful to society than any *chan and Twitter bluechecks should be thought of and treated like Twitter bluechecks think of and treat chan users. All those articles about how scary chans and the ~~~dark web~~~ are and how they corrupt people's brains -- in a sane world they would be about twitter.

No, they did know for sure.

There's a reason RTFM was so prevalent, and we need to make it so, again.

No, Bethe and others knew in the 40s it could not have. Enough nuclear physics was known then to know that the atmosphere cannot be ignited by a nuke.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/bethe-telle...

Twitter weighs about a MB, a tweet is at most 280 characters, and typically of negative utility to the user and society. So yes.

Then why the fuck is the average website measured in megabytes

It's amazing that 3-4 seconds is considered a reasonable target in 2020 when 8 seconds was a target on freaking dialup. It's like having a Ferrari and considering outrunning a horse a success.

"The bomb could have ignited the atmosphere,"

No, it could not have.

That should say threats* not tweets, dammit.

POTUS tweeting nuclear tweets didn't convince you of that already?

You've just invented forums, but worse in some ways.

> is the only platform where interesting ML discussions happen daily with a large amount of actual researchers and practitioners talking about their work directly

arxiv.org

I have a shorter algorithm.

1) Don't.

Don't have the web be four sites full of screenshots of each other. I.e. go back to the blog and forums era. Outlaw social media with more than X users. Make content recommendation algorithms illegal. Personalised advertising should be punishable by public flogging for first offenders and death for repeat offenders or particularly large-scale operations.

> a smarter solution,

Add the following to your hosts file

  127.0.0.1 twitter.com

This saves you from even loading those DOM elements in the first place

Your hnews username is an identity. A small, weak, and reasonably disposable one, that you can have many of. Why do you want to use your God damn real name on the Internet unless you are a public person already? What do you have to gain? Hate mail, Death threats and calls for your firing? I've always wanted more of those. You do not WANT to be verified. Verified is a euphemism for doxxed.

You could trust it was Elon because it's published on his own website instead of on the worst thing to happen to human communication since writing was invented (I.e., Twitter)

For other cases we can evaluate merit based on previous performance and character of published material instead of "identity". I do not care who is behind a pseudonymous blog if the blog is good.

You need to stop thinking identity singular, and identity as valuable. Have many and treat them as disposable. Of course you can't do this on the 2020 web that consists of four websites filled with screenshots of each other, but that's just one of the many reasons to burn those websites to the ground and resist any attempts to remake them. And it turns out your parents were right about not using your real name on the Internet. Social media and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

USD, the WD-40 of social engineering

Real jobs have certificates and degrees that mean something, where you can avoid the whole "do you know literal 101 things" phases of the interview process by just going "do you see the line on my resume that says M.Sc."

Commercial airliners vary in size more than an order of magnitude anyway. There are commercial aircraft that are shorter than an A380 is tall.