skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me my gmail was not in bad shape until a particular social network leak, now it gets signed up for every single website with a weak CAPCHA. Probably 4 or 5 websites and mailing lists a week now. I have learned which sites will let you sign up multiple times with the same email address. Some dating websites apparently don't check at all and I now have dozens of accounts on them. Hooray.
That's obviously not how property rights work. Sam Walton was entitled to bequeath his wealth to his heirs however he saw fit, subject to any applicable estate and inheritance taxes.
The amount of data collection that's been present and is being added to B&M retail is itself terrifying.

This goes back to loyalty-card tracking, and now includes facial recognition, WiFi and Bluetooth trracking, and more. As well as purchase history surveillance through credit and debit cards or "smart pay" systems.
Do not torture your dog to death.

Co2 poisoning is scary and painful.

If you care about saving the vets fees over that then I don’t know how to communicate with someone like you.
> ... in the Sahara ...

I suspect the OP was in the US. Desert would then be something like Nevada - definitely a shortage of wars, and Sagebrush scrub (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagebrush_scrub) is probably less destructive than the Saraha's sands...
It's not as easy as just filing a correction, there are different timelines for when large share acquisitions must be disclosed. It's intended to make financial markets fairer.

If he wants to join the board he needed to have filed correctly disclosing his acquisition of the shares earlier. To do otherwise is illegal and the SEC will surely take legal action. Filing now can't make everything OK, Elon can't go back in time and retroactively disclose the purchase.
I'm sure plenty of Soviets became rich by providing value to other people today. The main way to become elite regardless is to be born that way, capitalism or not. The rest is noise
You seem to be deliberately misunderstanding a post to try to make a point. It was clearly about sites that ask you to subscribe with a modal pop-up when you hit their landing page.
> jesus christ is he immature

This seems to be the #1 complaint about him. Honestly, so what? Since when is Twitter serious business? To take it a step further... why does life have to always be serious business? There's plenty enough of that as it is.

I think it's telling that people are up in arms and furious that Elon Musk might... bring back a little free speech and equal moderation to Twitter? I mean the threat isn't that the left is going to be censored more, it's that the right will be censored less equivalent to how the left is currently "censored" there. And that's what people are scared of, evidently. Excellent ideas, apparently, require strict censorship and moderation to propagate.

One of the number one complaints about our last President was the same thing: "he's immature". So finally, we got a super mature President who's in office currently. Along with super high inflation, super high gas prices, supply chain issues, and a Putin who evidently thinks he can get away with anything now.

"Immature" isn't always a bad thing.
There seems to be some irony in this essay since the viability of today's "heresy" is particularly dependent on the use of computer networks, individuals, software and websites that are actively promoted by or otherwise connected to the author, e.g., through investments, mentoring and the like. Because the "business" of these websites is to generate web traffic for the benefit of web advertising, the operators can profit from the traffic that "heresy" generates. Imagine a "social media" or similar UGC-based website today that forbade the use of the website to identifiy "heretics". If that was the norm, would this essay have been written. Using the internet to pursue "vigilante justice" comprises such a large portion of UGC and associated traffic that it is arguably crucial to the "tech" company "business model." There are other uses of the internet. They might not be as profitable in terms of generating large amounts of traffic, satisfying advertisers and lining the pockets of "tech" companies and investors, but they might be equally or more beneficial to users.
For context, one of the main motivations for CRDT was multiple users simultaneously editing some document. E.G. Google Docs.

I was researching these approaches when I was implementing my own collaborative text editor. CRDT was too mathematically steep for me. Another approach is differential syncing. I think Google Docs was originally implemented with differential syncing and then switched to CRDT.

https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...

I think the tradeoff and why I leaned towards differential syncing was that the implementation was easier. There are some gaps / unclear implementation details in this white paper's algorithm that you kind of have to rediscover yourself, because if you followed the algorithm listed here it will not work. I forgot the details. I'm still not sure if that was intentional. I hope now the literature on CRDT has gotten more mainstream and digestible for non-mathematicians because that seems like the future.
Sure, but not everybody who is vision impaired is fully blind. in some situations they don’t use ocr or alt text, because sane websites can leverage zoom functions. Think: elderly people on iPhones, who may be able to pinch zoom if they’re technical understanding permits it.
I am a product manager and in my new job I also have to take on the role of product owner in agile, meaning that I manage delivery of epics, sprint planning etc.

I feel like a caged animal. I have no freedom whatsoever and I have to fit a schedule of grooming epics that someone else has defined. I am really unhappy and will leave asap. I have never felt like this at any other job and if OP is also part of an agile process then I would guess that is the issue.
This happened much less frequently in the past as it would ruin the taxi company’s reputation. With Uber we can get mad at the driver rather than the company and immediately order another car. So I feel that the convenience has also brought with it inconvenience.
To quote Oracle's 2021 definitive proxy statement, "As of September 13, 2021, Mr. Ellison, Oracle’s Founder, Chairman, CTO and largest stockholder, had pledged 317,000,000 shares of Oracle common stock as collateral to secure certain personal indebtedness". On that date, ORCL closed at US$87.91. So Larry Ellison had pledged approximately US$27 billion of ORCL stock to cover his personal loans. That doesn't tell us how big those loans actually are, but obviously the loan principal is in the billions not millions – it could easily be over US$10 billion. So if banks are willing to lend Ellison a few billion, why not Musk too?

Also, Musk may be able to find some co-investors (fellow billionaires, private equity, etc) who believe that Twitter would do better with a Musk-selected executive leadership team than with its current one, and so would be willing to support Musk in taking control.
>One offs always happen. Systematic, Enron-style ingrained fraud is quite another.

The fines for wage fixing totaled over $400 million, and although I realize that was collective and not only Apple, how can you possibly say it's not systematic Enron-style ingrained fraud? It wasn't $400 million stolen from one employee! There were all those other companies involved too!

As I see it, it's arguably not Enron-style only because the company didn't collapse as a consequence.

But that makes it more like compromised emails, not less! The more remote serious punishment is for something, the more likely the thing is.

Is it plausible that the worst possible breach of privacy would lead to Apple going under? I think not.

I also think you're arbitrarily excluding the possibility of anything between an all-encompassing plan and a "rogue employee". Pretty much everything that happens falls in between! Many things that are hardly planned at all happen anyway!

A thing that was in the news recently, that did not relate to Apple, was that thousands of PwC (Canada) employees were sharing answers to internal training.

The auditors were cheating on the exams that were supposed to test auditing ethics and skills! Clearly everybody was not aware this was going on, but also clearly it was not an isolated rogue employee!

Management apparently said "whoops, we'll add controls to prevent this" and got assessed a not-very-huge fine.

Which seems to evade the question and problem of how they hired so many people with no ethics to watch over the proverbial henhouses of other companies!

If you've worked for any large organization, you've seen how they declare they adhere to the dogma of finding the root cause of a failure and preventing it going forward. And yet, how often do you see people fix the exact thing that failed a test and blatantly ignore the wider implications?

It seems kind of frightening that the PCAOB (I think) doesn't really seem to see an issue with a slap on the wrist and a promise to do better being the penalty.
Agreed. when I started in the 90s I often got several months of focused work without many interruptions.

I did that too. Quite often the project failed after those months because we'd built the wrong thing, or the landscape had changed, or the customer had failed to spec what they needed well enough. This was the "Waterfall" methodology, and Agile, with all its meetings, is specifically designed to fix that problem.
The weekly pre-meeting to the weekly meeting on streamlining our processes.

I kid you not.

p.s.: "I have an idea as to how we could streamline our processes!"
How’s the honking? I’ve moved around quite a bit and shared some of your experience from the sound of it.
Yeah, that certainly sounds like an issue of race and not of class. I guess in racially homogenous societies wealthy people don’t get any preferential treatment by police in any way whatsoever.
> tweeting nonsense that could damage the company/brand

Oh, I think Twitter has done enough to itself to damage the company/brand as it is. Most people in the real world think the site is an absolute joke.

Musk can only bring good things to Twitter, and as a result, the world. The era of corporate censorship (in favor of their favorite side, of course) may finally be coming to an end!
I mean eating cake is best thing I want to do but not eating cake is also the best thing I can do.
HN makes sense because votes shouldn't decide about the value of a comment. That's why the votes are hidden. You would destroy threads where people reply to your 'bad' comments.

Github on the other hand doesn't make sense at all. People participate voluntarily. Which infringement did the lawyers bring up?

This is still such a nice idea. Have you considered relaunching it with gitlab and sourcehut?

*edit: You have pitched your project differently:
"Show HN: Give and Get more GitHub stars" [1]

That's ranking manipulation. No social network can tolerate that. I would restart the project and keep the ranking on my site. People will still benefit because their projects get known. Additionally, they will receive genuine stars from the people who discovered and liked their projects.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17593827
On death, what right do you retain to that property? Under a more capitalist system, your children could not inherit, and instead have to start from the bottom like everyone else.
Who would buy an Nvidia alternative with same price and same specs if it is known that Nvidia has decades of more experience in writing drivers targeting specific games.
> Nobody lies on their deathbed wishing "oh, but if only I'd been able to increase my employer's stock shareholder dividends a few percent more...". Go live your life before it's too late.

Plenty lie on their deathbed and worry for the financial well being (among other things) of loved ones being left behind. You can’t take it with you, but it would be nice f your kid didn’t have to worry about affording college.
It's telling that you interpret an attack on heresy as an attack on the left.
That's not how he was using the phrase.
So one of the requirements of being a board member is not exceeding a certain amount of stock ownership. And then he says "nevermind, actually."

Sounds like Elon wants some more stock.
I knew a man in Australia. A really crude guy, but also very sweet and kind. My friends and i met him in 2007, and he drove us around in his classic convertible Cadillac. We learned he had been told he had about 6 months until cancer would kill him. I met him again in 2009, and he seemed about the same, with his oily black hair down to his shoulders. He shared his expensive wine cellar with me and my friends, and drove a dozen of us to the bar in the back of his box van. He still had a 6 month prognosis. I met him again in 2011, and he was bald. He had sold all of his classic cars, and he said the doctors were pretty serious about the 6 months that time. I haven't been back to Australia since, but presumably he's passed on.
Right? This sentiment reminds me of the French guys that think all americans make blanket statements.
Now wait a second...
My Samsung Galaxy S5 has IrDA. Never actually used it yet though.
I’ve been loving the 90’s computing nostalgia theme on HN lately - keep it coming.

Sun are obviously best known for their Sparc systems, but their x86 workstations were beautiful and well ahead of their time in terms of serviceability. The classic design would still look modern today.
Not to mention hidden variables. i.e. him joining (on their terms) would be best for Twitter in the future (as his influence would be limited), him not joining (on his terms) would be best right now (as his influence is limited).
That was after there was a public backlash.
While there certainly are local differences, with the exception of Alaska basically no part of the US is infeasible for solar. As the prices for panels fall, the region of economic usage extends northwards. Germany does very well with solar and the southmost regions start at 48 degrees north.
Leaf blowers are the worst. Several cities in CA have banned them. I don't know why more haven't followed suit.

There's a myth that groundskeeping is more costly without them, but the city of LA reported that costs didn't significantly increase after banning them.[1]

[1] https://www.dailybreeze.com/2018/08/21/redondo-beach-bans-le...
I agree. I think "unchecked" booleans which could contain 5 should be unsafe too.

I'd be happy to extend the definition of "unsafe" to mean "If you misuse this, you may violate some internal invariants of the library. And that may cause unexpected bugs."

Thats a broader, but in my opinion much more clear definition of unsafe, which covers how the keyword is actually used in actual code. (In std::String and elsewhere).

I've implemented high performance b-tree and skiplist implementations in rust. There's plenty of functions in both libraries which I've marked as unsafe because if you use them carelessly, you'll violate some internal invariants. Will the library break as a result? Yes. Will the resulting bugs include memory corruption? I really have no idea, and I don't really care enough to go in and test that. So I've marked the methods unsafe, and provided safe APIs for consumers to use instead.

Do you think this is an appropriate use for unsafe? If not, I'm curious to hear why.
Or he can buy more than 14.9% now, get more of his own people on the board, and fire everyone that way.

The uncertainty isn’t going away for the wonderful balanced people running Twitter /s
> Sun & EMC were both engineer led organisations in the old days

Isn't that exactly the problem? Server and storage HW were rapidly getting commodified. That's why the "vacuum cleaner salespeople" of the IT world (Dell, Compaq etc.) won, there's little value add in server HW engineering except at the bottom of the stack (Intel, NVIDIA, AMD, etc.).
See Facebook founders

:shockedpicachu: when Americans find out that corporate governance isn’t nearly as restrictive as democracy.
And what is the speed limit right outside your house/apartment?
Did you know that Arne and I have been working on a more universal secure base storage spec (ie everyone should stop reinventing the base blocks that underlie a secure CAS)?

Just curious. :)
In most cases people don't even have the means to leave their home town or province...
Jira cloud doesn't have an official backup process...
This is one example of many where a wrong diagnosis could destroy a life...

I'm sure OP wouldn't decide to end their life of it was a disease that'll cite itself.
I do the same thing, but instead of rolling my own UI, I use ViMbAdmin [1] (listening on my VPN). It's a great tool for managing aliases.

[1]: https://www.vimbadmin.net/
It is better to use this scheme with an underscore or hyphen as they won't be rejected by incompetents like plus is.

name_nospam@blah
Whatever inspiration can come from confronting one's own mortality, I'm all for it, but keep in mind, if you're not on your deathbed, you probably have rent due next month.
I've been fascinated with this phenomenon as it pertains to our conception of our selves, and the role the Internet and social media have played in mediating this.

In particular - how much of our identity is tied to, or even dependent on, our digital footprint? To what extent do we judge someone based on their Twitter bio, and whatever carefully curated selection of photos they have decided to expose to the public?

...and what of those who have dutifully abstained from social media all this time, sounding the alarm bell _almost a decade in advance_ of Cambridge Analytica and 2016? Are these people now without identities, personas - digital vampires without a reflection in the black mirror?

How accurate is the reflection, anyway? Online personas, identities, are a construction; I would even go further to call them participants of Baudrillard's "order of sorcery" - mere brushstrokes, assemblages of pixels suggesting an actual person behind them, but on one extreme are faithful representations up to the fidelity of the medium (e.g. candid photos), and on another are pure personas, people acting out a role (e.g. an actor on screen). VTubers [1] are one particularly salient illustration of this logic taken several steps further.

From the article:

> Narratives shape our perceptions, which form our realities and influence our choices.

Is it possible to seize hold of one's personal narrative, and thereby reinvent the self?

> You can be whoever you want to be. You can completely redefine yourself if you want. You don't have to worry about the slots other people put you in as much. They don't look at your body and make assumptions. They don't hear your accent and make assumptions. All they see are your words. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VTuber

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Internet,_nobody_knows_...
> I'm curious to learn more from people who are handling this well.

Working as an IC I just don't accept invites and don't attend. With the following exceptions:

- Weekly review/Agile flavour meetings with my team

- Meeting with a team member to solve a specific issue

- A manager/VP/CTO _explicitly_ makes it clear _my_ presence is required

Perhaps I've been luck with my managers or perhaps it comes with seniority but I've never got any negative feedback on this. Most people invite you in for stuff just as a passive listener.

When I'm doing contract work I make it clear I am available for milestone review meetings and everything else is surcharged billable hours.
He seems to have cleaned up some of them.
Good info, didn’t know that.

But, if he acquires a controlling stake he can vote his own board and go that route. Either ways I don’t see this ending well for Twitter - though may not happen in time for the midterm elections. 2024, who knows..
When it's Elon, you got to wonder if he did the whole thing to embarrass them. They can't stand him, but for a brief while he made them pretend to welcome him.
"Two of the most successful companies in existence"

Tesla, at bill profit, is about half an order of magnitude away from being in the top 10 most profitable: https://www.investopedia.com/the-world-s-10-most-profitable-...

So surely a successful company. At this juncture, one of the most successful ever in existence? Hype.
Plenty of websites also seem to consider email confirmations optional in their sign-up flow. Which is to say, if you never confirm your email address, plenty of websites will still consider your account active enough to spam you.
> At least in capitalism you become rich by providing value to other people.

You become rich by capturing value. Often times, as Silicon Valley and its investors like to remind the world, a lot of value is also being provided so it is indeed a win-win. But you don't become rich by providing value.
round me its just leaf blowers for ~4 hours everyday a few months a year

Its really annoying for WFH
>The realistic estimate is that the US will face 300 to 500 warheads.

Does this include boomers?

I suspect that, given the a) greatly reduced number of Russian SSBNs at sea since the USSR's dissoluton,[1] and b) improvements in Western technology since that event, the US and allies a) have every Russian SSBN under 100% surveillance by a SSN, and b) can take every Russian SSBN out with a good approximation of success. Am I off base in my thinking?

[1] Yes, I know about the Russian ability to launch in port. Events of the past month have made me less confident about this ability's functionality.
>WhatsApp Business is a free to download app available on Android and iPhone, and was built with the small business owner in mind. WhatsApp Business makes interacting with customers easy by providing tools to automate, sort and quickly respond to messages.

So it's a way for small businesses to communicate with customers. Not what I was talking about (business-to-business interactions)
I don’t think that’s right. They could issue new shares to dilute him but then you’d need people to buy those and the money needs to arrive in the business.

It would also probably mean Twitter shares crashing to 0 in the public markets, not exactly in the interest of the 75%
Legitimate interest is not a valid legal means of processing data that has been scraped for marketing purposes.
Kids have obvious value to their parents. That’s like one of the most basic evolutionary instincts.
> I don't think I've ever had a functional connection slower than that.

I _may_ still have a 300 baud modem in a box in the garage. Possibly a 1200/75 one too. (1985 sometimes doesn't seem _that_ long ago...)
Can’t help but notice the user name :)
For the non-german speaking readers, it is jitter movement
Hiccup[1] in Clojure and spinneret[2] in Common Lisp are implementations of a similar idea.

[1]: https://practical.li/clojurescript/hiccup-style-syntax.html

[2]: https://github.com/ruricolist/spinneret
Ask HN: What jobs can I have knowing Python?
I have known python for a long time but have never done a proper project or earned money through writing Python code.

I like the core Python but I'm not interested (don't like them personally) in any frameworks. I have used python to write small scripts to do small things like automation and stuff but honestly writing (or even working on) big projects seems terrifyingly arduous to me.

As far as I have seen almost all jobs related to Python are either back-end development using Django or something related to data.

Considering I like neither of those, is there any other careers I can pursue? Especially if it involves writing many short script! I know there must be other jobs out there related to Python but the number of those seem to be really low and hard to find.
It can be trivially shown to be not true by considering that some people are a toxic drain on a company, costing them immense amounts of money, torpedoing productivity, ruining morale and yet continue to draw a salary for years and years.
Oh my word the caltrain! I had no idea before I moved here. I live miles away from the track now, and I can still hear it.