skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Who in this thread said "we wouldn't have EVs without Musk"?

I was attempting to paraphrase a common sentiment, and should have been more clear about that. It’s pretty easy to find people stating a varient of this idea in sibling threads.

> To say that the idea of one person changing the world has been discredited is so wildly wrong I don't even know where to start.

You could start by actually reading what I said, rather than making up for yourself and then arguing against that. Everything you said here is unrelated to my point, and directly countermanded by my actual words.
Do you view anything hierarchical as racist via associated Whiteness? I'm confused how the origins were an "explicitly racist project". Was Schenker promoting a race that he didn't even belong to? Is it possible to think American culture is superior over other cultures, without thinking that white people are superior to black people?
"I see tons of garbage view points that I don't agree with almost exclusively when I view a tweet."

Perhaps because you're on the fringe.
I think you're missing the point of nix. Unlike other systems, yes you can make it mix's business to provide that. And the threshold for "OS installed" becomes blurry enough that projects can include the definition of what they depend on from the system.
So if it's a "nothingburger", then why is the administration not just ignoring it?

You can't have that kind of harassment without the assistance of those you are reporting to. Being how I'm not there, I'm going to defer to the administrators to decide what's important and what's not.
I went to one of the MLM get-you-hooked events in a hotel ballroom. I knew what it was and was just curious what it would look like and an old high school classmate was trying to loop me in. It wasn't really cultish, just a bunch of people who didn't really understand business trying to scam you into selling their crap.
Only in person. I live in a major US city. When I was younger I would freely engage anyone who spoke with me. But I found myself in situations where I would be in physical danger sometimes being screamed at sometimes threatened after what began as a seemingly innocuous interaction. And I also got sick of people trying to sell me things or get money from me.

I remember in my late teens some guy on the street saying “Hey man! I like your shirt!” My Jimi Hendrix shirt? He must like Jimi Hendrix too. So I started talking with him and in a few minutes he was asking for money. Weeks later I’m wearing a different shirt and I hear “Hey man! I like your shirt!”

Once on a commuter train a guy struck up a conversation with me about a book I was reading. It was an interesting conversation. We kept talking as we exited the train and kept talking on the platform as all the other commuters went to their cars and drove away. Now he’s getting kind of excited and raising his voice. And I’m now aware of how large he is and how we are the only two people left at the station. I managed to politely get out of there.

Over and over again this kind of thing would happen until I just made a policy to not engage.
Especially because of heart disease:
https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/gum-d...
I, for one, still enjoy the plex server and plex app. The new version on nvidia shield fixed 4k performance issues, and plex.tv being an IdP for friends to login to my server is cool.

I don't think logging in locally with a cloud account should be required, but IIRC it isn't strictly required... just a dark pattern.
Because investors have options like sitting on their money until a recession comes along and buying things during the fire sale.
> You can scam so many people online for so little investment

Honestly curious, how does one do this? I hear this a lot, but when I have tried to actually advertise legitimate services online, the ROI is insanely bad. I can't imagine a cult leader would get better results, so why do people claim this is easy online?
> but when I did it was anything but user friendly

I have always found it very easy to use, but I spend years at a job where I wrangled Quark and PageMaker as part of my job; it felt very familiar and comfortable.
"I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members." --- or something similar, Groucho Marx, maybe.

I'm not so obviously desirable to be in a group that someone with no social connections to me should be inviting me in. It'd be different if the invite comes with context, but a cafe has little context; most people eat, and a lot of people drink coffee.

Anyway, on the subject of cults, if you want to join a quality death cult, that's stress free, with no social obligations, might I suggest the Internet Death Cult of Fun, https://deathcult.fun/
Some sources on which you base your argument would help.
Please don't respond to an account breaking the site guidelines by doing so yourself. That only makes everything worse.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Any bureaucratic environment turns people into antisocial psychopaths. Too many rules and too much competition. Every single thing, no matter how small, like a policy about removing Keurig pods from the machine after using it, becomes fodder for institutional politics.
I used iTerm from 2010-2018, but then I saw a respected colleague not using iTerm, so I decided to try out the Terminal.app bundled with macOS. It actually works fine, the only difference is that it never gets slow and is available on ever mac machine.
No, that's only your interpretation of responsibility. Causality still exists no matter what and that's where responsibility lies, in the chain of causality
Dope. I shall install this.
You're talking about Biden right?
Thanks. Quickly looking at the links, it seems all pre-WWI, mostly 19th century. Is that still true?
But in practice, it is the people at the top who believe they can get away with it, like in this case. Rules for thee, but not me.
Musk is the entrepreneur version of "Move fast; break things" - something like "Make it happen; no matter the cost" kind of guy. Leaving a trail of burnt out/injured employees and other negative externalities is just his way of "getting shit done".
Not sure how much or how little impact he'll have in the future direction of Twitter, but if I worked there I'd be a bit concerned!
I tested "What impact adding Elon Musk to Twitter board of directors had on twitter's share price" and I agree with you the result is much better that when you search the same thing on Google.

To be honest that's impressive for complex queries
Blacklists are bad things. Whisper campaigns where people can't defend themselves are bad things. #metoo is a bad thing. The creeping realization that you're being surveilled by potentially any and certainly some of your peers is a bad thing. The incentive to snitch on others is a bad thing.

All of those exhibit cowardice because snitching is attacking someone without allowing that person confront the attacker.
I think the author has some sort of crank fear that they're filling the air with bad particles.
This was one of the brilliant aspect of Knuth's web system: You could have change files that would be applied to the immutable source to manage ports to individual platforms.¹ I really wish that this sort of patching had spread to other programming paradigms.

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1. It works even on somewhat actively developed code since the likely to require porting parts of the program could be clumped together in a web source file and, once isolated, generally saw few if any changes. I remember maintaining the public domain vms change files for the TeX 2–3/MF 1–2 upgrades and as I recall, even with these significant changes to the programs, no updates for the change files were necessary.²

2. Most of the work that I did back then in maintenance was centered around enhancements to the VMS-specific features. For example, rather than having iniTeX be a special executable, instead, iniTeX features could be enabled/disabled at runtime from a single executable.³ Similarly with debug code.

3. This feature appeared soon after in the web2c port of TeX and friends, but I think that Tom Rokicki might have got the idea from me (or else it was a case of great minds thinking alike in the late 80s).
So far as I can tell, people still call ARM RISC because it's load/store and x86 isn't (feel free to correct me on this, I'm not a CPU person), and ARM's instruction proliferation gets glossed over.

I do remember writing asm for the arm26 (arm2) chip in my Archimedes and that was definitely actual RISC, but obviously these days not so much.
I have been using the built-in macOS terminal every day for years now.
With all these fusion companies popping up... The energy in - energy out might not work out (yet?) but why can't they supply helium? I assume the reason is economics?
Does he do it for those who haven’t asked for his recommendation letter? Or he does it for those who asks for his recommendation letter?
Use pass3d Linux tool to create HASH ID out of any 3D object: https://github.com/3Dpass/pass3d

Android app: https://github.com/3Dpass/threedpass
I understand how optical works - its just that my receiver only has optical or RCA. Early 2000s receiver. Roku only has HDMI out and Toslink. Trust me - definitely the best (and I believe ONLY way) to get 5.1 to this thing is using Toslink. No S/PDIF connections on either device.
Imagine you're using a terminal based text editor full-screen with say 364 columns and 77 rows. You've got it nicely split into three vertical windows for code, with a tree display a fort window on the left-hand side. One of these three code windows is split horizontally and is tailing a log file, and you're quickly paging through code on another.

This is a lot of terminal I/O, and you want this scrolling to be fast, smooth, and to not flash or blink awkwardly.

I do this because I'm running my editor on a remote machine over SSH, which has a ton of cores, memory, and fast disk. Just firing up the LSP server on this giant monorepo causes the fans on my laptop to spin like crazy and takes forever to initialize. Blazing fast on this remote host.
Because a large portion of the US population, his supporters, believes the the last elections were "stolen". He says that he plans to run again in 2024. It's not over.
I wish it was.
It is validation that (in theory) someone has peeked behind the curtain and done some due diligence on the startup and put money on the line as a bet that the company has a chance to be a success. Compare that to some other startup that was unable to get any investors.

That said, I would rather be a bootstrapped startup with revenue than one that raised a lot of money.
Warp engineer here. Thank you for the kind words.

We do want to support linux once we get the product experience right. We decided to build in Rust and set up a UI framework because we wanted to make it easier for us to port to Linux.

For now, every platform we support entails additional engineering overhead that takes away from getting to product-market fit. Once there, we will invest resources into supporting Linux, Windows, and the Web.
I upvoted this earlier today, and just now came back to reading through the thread. Now I wish I could remove the vote, what a mess.

Some things only happen on HN. This is one of them.
Those things you mention hardly justify thousands of expensive developers to maintain and create. I bet a team of 10 top notch engineers could create Spaces+Blue+Crypto pfp's in a couple months and run it at Twitter scale. Don't forget Instagram was acquired when it had 13 employees serving tens of millions of users.

Speaking out of experience, most engineers in big tech are bike shedding on internal tools that don't do anything useful. A small minority deliver the majority of the impact. On top of that at companies like Twitter and Google some of those useless employees spend their time complaining about social justice initiatives rather than doing work.
This is region dependent. In the US South its normal to have light conversations with strangers in public spaces (waiting in line, for example).
It's a great way to breed corruption and decay. Turn the other way here and there and before long rules don't matter at all. Even a majority can be on the wrong side of right.
Pharo follows from Smalltalk, particularly through Squeak. It started off as a fork of Squeak and retains Smalltalk's syntax, but has gone its own way in terms of the capabilities it provides and rewriting portions.
You could use a layer 7 firewall for this purpose. I use Little Snitch on macOS and Opensnitch on Linux. Given this application is macOS only right now, I would bet OP used LS since its popular on macOS.
I was stoked to see the Necromancer poster used as the header image. Have a print of that in my house. Love the artist's style.

https://citadel9.com/
and none of them care one whit
...Absolutely?

When we get unsolicited communication over phone, text, email, IM, etc., we consider it spam. It's almost always someone trying to get you to give money to them or their interest group.

As someone who spends most of their day online, it's not hard at all to see why I might start thinking that way about in-person communication from people I don't know.
This was an annoyingly skillfully written piece. At numerous points I felt I knew better than the author, only to confront my own foolishness a few sentences later. This kept me reading while my mind drafted the HN comment about how the author is too naive and can’t say no. But true to form, the last paragraph had me questioning everything – was it I who was duped?

That said, this definitely wouldn’t have happened to me, given how cold and unapproachable I am. This is great for avoiding scams and people who want to take advantage of me. However, I suspect such standoffishness has denied me many opportunities for social connection. Someone like the author is more likely to stumble into a cult, but also more likely to meet new people. So I guess you take the good with the bad.
40% of California's small businesses died in the last two years
Pregnancy and birth are work, and most importantly, only women can do it, and they can only do it once every 9 months. It is a skill that is highly in demand (male sperm not so much), so a woman could potentially get a lot more in exchange for it than "nothing".

One thing women usually get in exchange is the privilege to choose to stay home with their children.

Now how hard it is to stay home and provide for the children every couple has to decide for themselves. But yeah, I personally will claim that it is not as hard as most jobs, putting a roof above the families head and so on.

You can also check the cost of household services (cleaning, cooking, washing) to estimate the value a male housekeeper brings to the table. I think a husband as housekeeper is usually more expensive.
That changes the discussion from, 'do drafts in democratic countries temper civilian perspectives on the military' to 'is Israeli military policy justified'. Tangents happen, but what do you think of the former issue?
In my experience Twitter is way more appealing to younger people than Facebook.
Isnt brave just chrome (blink) with different clothes and tons of cryposcam ads
Zoot Allure. And what pray tell if these people fell in love? Is this not the plot of countless romance novels and movies for a reason?

Nobody is special. Must follow rules. You will be reported. Zero sympathy. No exceptions. Are we in East Germany?

Imagine if you were French. Or had a pulse. I swear, society is overrun with gross troglodytes.

Look, lets be real honest here. The snitch is usually an unattractive jealous busybody, regardless of "rule breakage".
biff (https://biffweb.com/) is a little more batteries-included but seems like a nice successor in this space
I’d say the author took a very large risk and gamble by engaging with these types of people. Many criminals and intelligence agencies employ the same tactic, one of them will be a very attractive woman, and while you’re distracted the male will rob you or follow you in your car to your house.
Much better article:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2022/04/04/oberlin-colle...

news, non-paywall, not fulminating op/ed.
My favourite thing about my Indigo2 (bought second hand for relatively cheap in the early '00s) was that unlike all the x86 kit I had running, it survived power brownouts with a line logged to console mentioning it had happened.

When the area I was living at the time was having periodic power issues I'd check the console any time I got home, and if there was a new log message I knew I'd need to bring all the x86 kit back up once I'd had a coffee or three.
I kinda thought twitter was just a porn company now.
Exactly the same, clicked "comments" as I was downloading it, saw the first comment, deleted the installer.

I'd be supportive of "report issue" buttons (I'd use them, yes), and occasional "Hey, you've used this app for a week/two/month, may we send some telemetry? We need it to better understand how the app is used. Here's the data, is it OK to upload it?" prompts. Yes, as long as I don't see anything sensitive in the payload - it sure is okay, you respect me and I respect you (with bonus points for politely asking); and I'll be sure to reaching out if I'd see anything sensitive.

Phoning home from the get-go for anything but an anonymous update check and requiring some account is a hard "no".
Absolutely not. I cannot listen to people talking about anything and focus on my programming tasks. Podcasts are great for driving or doing chores around the house/yard, but I'd rather listen to music while I write code.
Can't help but wonder what my ancestors did to earn this last name.
"Maximum call stack size exceeded" is probably a general bug, not an issue that appears due to trying to load too many rows. Unless they really did something crazy, each new row shouldn't add to the call stack.
I think this is a charitable interpretation of what’s going on, unfortunate to see so many IMO reasonable comments getting downvoted here.
That changes with kids fortunately.

Parents bringing their kids to playgrounds, that have not much to do except talking to other parents. Being at a playground with their own kid filters out most mentally unstable or interested parties.

Very easy to strike conversations if kids have the same age. Lots of opportunities for new and sane friendships, with who you can then double-date when their kid come home to play with yours.
A login-required terminal that sends telemetry to multiple sources is on the front page...why? Is it just because it's written in Rust? I don't see any other reason. It's not even fully open source.

> After 20 years of programming, I still find it hard to copy a command’s output; I always forget how to use `tar`; and I always have to relearn how to move my cursor.

Huh? I think if it takes you >20 years to do basic stuff like that, you need to revisit your approach to learning new things. If I play chess for 20 years and still don't know how to move the pieces, it's not the game's fault, it's mine.
Class list: https://erikdemaine.org/classes/
What to do when your GH email gets scraped
Unfortunately, the issue was deleted shortly after. I'm curious if this kind of spam is going to get worse soon.
> The reality is that the docs are fine

then show me where `nix-env`'s `--arg` and `--argstr` is documented.
Those rules only exist because that same class of craven snitches becomes highly litigious when they feel scorned after getting pumped and dumped by a colleague.
Everything "goes up" when Elon first gets near it. That's the benefit of an army of Twitter worshippers. Whether there is any lasting value to his involvement beyond the pump is the question.

If he kills the stupid pop-over login box that's supposed to force me to make an account I'll call that lasting value.
There's a ton of wisdom in this. Seriously. Humour is a social
lubricant and barometer/test signal.

To the OP: Interesting and enjoyable story. You already said your gut
instinct alarm bells were set to red alert, but you were not following
them. Why? What did you hope get out of this interaction that let it
go to four rounds? There's one phrase that sticks out from a training
on social engineering we had here recently - "you can't con an honest
person". And that means a person who is honest with themself. All
this time you are thinking about "what did they want?" Maybe the
question you should be asking is what did I want? To get back to
work. But you didn't.

If the answer is really "nothing" then a genuine friendship might be
in the offing. Otherwise, one or both of you is playing a game. Test
that by pushing away - not just politely playing within the polite
parameters of normalcy - a good con artist will already have those
exists mapped out. Chuck in an unexpected dirty or ridiculous
joke. Humour throws a swerve-ball that should reset the power
relationship. If you get back "psychoanalysis" instead of a belly
laugh, take a walk.
I'll take that as a given.

I think what you're missing is that most people don't want to run into vitriolic hate speech while they're going about trying to organize their neighborhood parties (and so on). We can talk about the idealism of free speech all we want; the problem is any platform that stakes a claim as caring about Free Speech almost immediately gets overrun by that sort of vitriolic hate that most people don't want to be around in their daily lives.

I went on one of the "free speech" video platforms about a year ago because I was curious, and on my first visit, right on the front page, were videos about how the Jews rule the world and Holocaust denial. I'm not remotely Jewish and I was immediately put off from ever revisiting.

This is a core problem that people who legitimately care about censorship and free speech need to address. It's extremely unfortunate, but "anti-censorship" has well and truly become a dog whistle in the modern era.

Remember that free speech is about the 'market of ideas.' In even totally free markets, not every product sells. An anti-censorship social network startup cratering because its platform immediately got overrun with hate is not censorship, it's the market at work. The vast majority of 'regular' people I know do not consider Facebook's rules prohibiting hate speech to be censorship. They're just grateful they aren't running into it every time they open their phones to scroll their feed.
I think this is a clear story where conceptual clarity is both necessary and sorely lacking. It's unfortunate when academic disagreements degrade into accusations of racism, or when social awkwardness gets amped up into harassment charges, or when people file fake complaints in retaliation for writing articles they don't like. But beyond the emotional compulsion of the term "snitch", is there any reason to think that these are all facets of the same problem or that the same strategies would effectively handle all of them?