skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What are you going to do, lock them away in a compound until their term is up?

Meeting members of the general public is one of the few things that theoretically counterbalance the influence that lobbyists have over lawmakers.

And no one really needs to slip them a bribe, per-se, they just need to make a contribution to their campaign fund.
I said nothing of the sort.
That document (that you've poorly linked[1]) puts the percentage of British immigrants at 9%, Irish at 10%, of German at 18%, and of French at 0.9%. All those numbers are totally meaningless. The population of the US as a whole that was foreign born was 14.7%. That too, is meaningless. In the 1890 census, closest to when Tesla was naturalized, it was also around 15% [2].

I don't know what narrative you're trying to debunk, because 15% year by year for years and years is high. The UK, which is a top destination for immigration, has never been close to that number until very recently. [3] But really, what I actually find weird is that you're trying to debunk some narrative.

[1]
https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/decennial/1910/...

[2] https://www2.census.gov/library/working-papers/1999/demo/pop...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign-born_population_of_t....
I've seriously thought about going hiking with a raspi running something that really wants to get friendly with any Bluetooth devices in range.
Data Science / Data / AI news: https://www.datascienceweekly.org
LTT Breaks down the IBN Z16, fascinating video
It’s funny that the first paragraph of the letter says they believed it was best for Elon to join the board.

Then the second paragraph says that Elon declined to join the board and they believe it was also for the best.
Didn't he profit (in terms of net worth, I guess he didn't realize any gains yet) by not disclosing when he hit the 5% mark?
It's about 7% fwiw (although it would cost him some more in taxes to get the cash to do so, he'd have to sell Tesla and realize gains).
The article addresses the fact that, while the freight industry owns the track, Amtrak by law have priority. So either the law is being carefully tiptoed around, or the freight industry is breaking the law.

>Amtrak, a government-chartered corporation, was created in 1971 from the ashes of private carrier passenger service. As part of the deal, freight rail companies generally retained ownership of the tracks, along with the responsibility of maintaining them and running service. Amtrak received the rights to run trains along those tracks. By law, Amtrak’s passenger trains also have priority over freight traffic.
hmmm not sure how I feel about this. I bought Twitter stock after I knew he will be joining the board.
Hopefully he has something bigger in mind.
My pal nick and I built something called Cloaked Email for our startup Gliph back in August of 2012. [1]

Apart from our early integration to send and receive Bitcoin on Coinbase, Cloaked Email was the most successful part of our privacy focused startup, not only in its ability to attract press coverage but in generating revenue as well.

We believe our work contributed to forcing criagslist to introduce their email relay service. Craigslist went so far as to block email from cloaked email users. [2]

Doing this well and to take on the responsibility of maintaining ~forever is a huge thing.

It is great Apple has recognized the importance of this matter and brought it into their platform in such a straightforward way.

One of the most engaging actions we had was people re-rolling for a different random email address. People just loved seeing what they might land on next.

[1] https://blog.gli.ph/2012/08/14/delivering-privacy-gliph-cloa...

[2] https://blog.gli.ph/2013/07/22/cloaked-email-and-craigslist-...
I'm not in a super quite place - apartment building so we will still hear neighbors occasionally - dragging chairs, kids running back and forth (nothing unreasonable).

One that that's helped a lot for us is white noise, good earplugs, and eye cover. Since adopting this 4+ yrs ago I've not even thought about the neighborhood at night.

I do wonder if white noise can be considered a stressor, but personally I believe I've had a lot better sleep.
Is this type of manipulation really a result of social media? It was entirely possible before: rich investor announces purchasing of a large stake in public company, event is reported in traditional media (newspapers), rich investor is offered and accepts board seat, rich investor backs out.
> I keep the one that I'm trying to get through now on the bedside table. I've been making my way through it on and off, and it's going slowly but surely!

I've developed the same exact system for sticking with one book - it's so hard to pick one to read when they're all in front of you.
For what it's worth, I have concerns about legalizing suicide, and I'm not religious. My main concern is there's no changing your mind. A friend tried to commit suicide, and she is grateful every day she was stopped. I'm deeply uncomfortable imagining a legal and economic reality where people in distress can make such a decision quickly and permanently.
This is not the same thing as euthanasia, and not intended as an argument against it. I have some concerns about a slippery legal basis, but I'm confident we could successfully separate these issues.
There seems to be a defect in the type inference. In TFA's programs, using (but not calling) red gets you a value of the wrong type. Adding an explicit callconv(.Async) to red causes you to get this error:

./src/main.zig:42:32: error: expected type 'fn(*u64) void', found 'fn(*u64) callconv(.Async) void'

const fns = [2]@TypeOf(blue) { red, blue };

After that, changing the array to be an array of @TypeOf(red) gets you a working program. That is, it's apparently fine to store blue in a value of red's type and use blue with @asyncCall as if it was red's type at runtime, but trying to store red in a variable of blue's type is a compile error.

here's a gist demonstrating this stuff that a user posted in the Zig Discord: https://gist.github.com/sharpobject/49bd88416e68606d7812d609...
I’ve looked at P2P CDNs over the years and they seem to be solving the wrong problem. At scale bandwidth isn’t a problem it’s recognizing the DDoS and filtering it while letting through legitimate traffic to a dynamic website or API. That’s complex. Not saying it can’t be done in a P2P manner but it’s hard.
Hard disagree. People already kill themselves. They already reason about how much of a burden they are and they already kill themselves because they think they are too much of a burden. People already do everything that you said.

The only major difference between the two worlds is that in one, death is grizzly, painful and traumatic and usually preceded by an enormous amount of suffering — and in the other death is none of those things.

You are clearly very naive and you clearly have never been in the position of needing to die.
One of my favorite privileges is renting in coveted neighborhoods or propertied for 10-30 days just to see what its really like

A “tour” or walkthrough doesn't assist with this at all
Highly recommend the Thinking About Things newsletter [0], it's one link every other day.

[0] https://thinking-about-things.com
I feel similarly about Asianometry. Nice title, cute video style but something is missing.
O RLY? https://floss.freebox.fr/

Edité: Liberté, égalité, cyberité!
maybe his lawyers informed him he made a mistake. he filed the disclosure on Schedule 13G which prevents him from joining the board, rather than 13D if he wants to do so.

but then again, i wouldn't put it past elon to do all the things that the SEC explicitly tells people not to do.
I assumed it was the older fellow in the 4th pic, but I guess it is the younger woman since they say 26 years flew by at the end?
In my mind there is a big difference between banning particular views versus banning someone for their particular views.

Like, Cloudflare or Twitter should be free to choose what speech they publish and what they prohibit, but they (and banks and electricity providers) should not be banning someone because of who they are as a person or for their political views expressed elsewhere. Cloudflare should be free to ban Daily Stormer as they did, but if the same people from Daily Stormer were just running a cat picture site through Cloudflare (and publishing their neo-Nazi stuff elsewhere) then IMHO Cloudflare should not ban their cat picture site.

To choose an extreme (but less-political?) example of paedophilia, it's obviously okay to ban distribution of child sexual abuse material, but IMHO someone who's just came out from prison after being convicted for child rape should not get automatically banned from platforms (or banks, or electricity providers) as a person despite being a paedophile child abuser, they should be able to participate in the society unless/until their ongoing acts become criminal and they get removed from the society by the courts. And if that's the case, then it also applies to the less extreme views.
We spend millions optimizing performance and efficiency. Then these guys throw a straight pipe at it :/
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30984215
Be legally restricted by fiduciary obligations and prevented from purchasing more stock in order to gain... what exactly? Elon made the right call here.
Archived: https://archive.ph/Jem19
I had a look into this and the price difference between a train and a flight was about $4USD: $26USD vs $30USD. The flight was a lot cheaper than I expected, so much so that I'm genuinely suspicious of it. They were both a lot less than $50USD though.

This was for the 30th of April between Berlin and Frankfurt.
Twitter probably doesn’t allow people with access to space-based lasers to be on the board.
* also people who didn’t find it appealing enough to notice. (Seemingly most, looking at the numbers.)

When developers assume qualified UI designers merely wield arbitrary personal preferences, FOSS loses.

- it buttresses a disdain and devaluation of the design discipline, in general

- developers feel entitled to obnoxiously impose their actual arbitrary personal preferences and folk knowledge on the fruit of someone’s intellectual discipline. It’s rarely an improvement.

- designers give up on a FOSS projects in general

- Your see conjecture and debate. Anyone who knows what they’re talking about sees Dunning and Kruger.
You could try reporting him to the SEC...
Twitter reverts change that left blank spaces in place of deleted tweets
Joining the board "the best path forward", whereas not joining was "the best".

From this we can deduce that the destination of the "the best path forward" was for him to leave the board ("the best").
One picture says Scotland.
I have a clinically diagnosed ADHD. But I get your comment, I used to feel the same before I was diagnosed that maybe I am just lazy.
You're right about banks in USA, but I think that this is wrong and indicates that the ability of these middlemen to prevent people from interacting in society (being able to pay one another is essentially part of freedom of association) needs to be restricted.
> A very odd set of events and no explanation regarding Elon's change of mind.

I don't know about the regulatory guidelines which would or would not have barred Elon from exercising any sort of control in the board, but my sources from Twitter are telling me that folks were not happy about the prospect of Elon wanting to change Twitter to be in his image and it's likely this that the higher-ups communicated to Musk and told him to please back away (hence the 'I believe this is for the best' affirmation line from Agrawal himself).
Yet this can sit on the first page and novel + interesting technical content disappears with ~2-3 votes, never to be seen again frequently.

Oh whale.
Laborers at most levels in our society deserve better compensation and treatment. The lower on the socioeconomic ladder, the more so.

That some are underpaid compared to the value they deliver than others isn’t controversial to me. What is controversial is the suggestion that because some in the labor class are somewhat better paid they shouldn’t complain about also being underpaid relative to the value they provide.

I have more in common with the $35k/yr teacher than with the CEO of the company I work for. Not just because of relative economic position, but because I have personally been more or less homeless and impoverished in my life at various points.
Yeah, I was quoting the annual fee. After having a few apps acquired and disappeared (e.g., wunderlist acquired by ms), I liked their strategy of charging just enough to stay independent.
It's worse than most places that aren't China tier if you simply observe what happened there over the past two years, but it's true that basically the entire world with very few exceptions to lesser or greater extent really draped themselves in shame over the same period. Australia was just by far the worst of a bad bunch.

https://thetruthiswhere.wordpress.com/2021/11/09/dan-andrews...
- "CEO of Twitter has posted an image of text (from the iOS Notes app?)"

At least he made the effort to include accessible alt-text. (Interestingly, the accessible text differs *slightly* from the picture-of-text version -- different draft revisions? Even social media CEO's don't seem comfortable with this workflow).

edit: here's a diff with highlighting: https://i.imgur.com/R9wf2H5.png

I'm relying on Verge's transcription of the screenshoted text,

https://www.theverge.com/2022/4/10/23019802/elon-musk-not-jo...
Yes, major upgrade of Ubuntu version.
But they might lie on the deathbed wishing "oh, I wish I'd made more money so I could've bought a house by the beach, that convertible Mercedes 190 SL, travelled more, eat more fine food, and been less afraid of splurging on expensive marvels of art and engineering".
IMHO the way to avoid it is to avoid nonlinear [1] control flow. If you can convince yourself that early returns, continue, etc. are harmful, you'll avoid the pitfalls that come with them. It's an unpopular position to take, though.

[1] I might be sloppy with the terminology here, but you catch my drift.
Probably they are trying to stay well clear of the word "accident".
It’s worth voting, too. It’s one of few things I’ve advocated for in my life but I’ve actually seen real progress in my country and in many others.

I also watched my mom suffer a terrible death (a rocky 7 year decline into pain and madness), and she literally asked us to help her die many times along the way. She only stopped asking once her mental faculties left her. Her suffering was intolerable and we weakly watched her endure it out of fear of repercussions if people found out her death was assisted. It hurts so much to think, had she gotten sick only a little later, she could have left with some dignity and knowing who her family was. If only more people had supported the movement sooner!

It’s absolutely worth every ounce of support to give people (and maintain) the right to die.
I think you’re right. It is too complex for a thread like this. But instead of literature my opinion is informed by my own firsthand experience with terminally ill people and my own fear of dying in an uncontrolled way. But you’re so right that the complexity of these things must be appreciated.
Ubuntu. To be clear it's a major upgrade, ie 16.04 to 18.04. I've never had anything break with the usual upgrades.
> Or maybe the solution is just to stop reading the news?

Partly. Always be skeptical on what is reported on the news, especially the mainstream media. Twitter is just an echo chamber of brainless parrots manipulating users for their clicks who believe everything on the platform, even with a silly verified checkmark.
Probably, I was lazy in my miles to km conversion. I assume the distances aren't on the nail anyway, so probably $1b/km is the reasonable number in this context
Find a way to meet with them regularly.

The problem with one off advice is that it’s really hard to get context.

The best mentors will have context on you, you want them to be all up in your business.
"Developers are expected to attend meetings more than ever. The focus required to deep dive into complex issues get's broken with meetings that developers shouldn't be attending. You can attend meetings or you program rarely can you do both effectively on the same day and rarely can you get the focus you once had."

Agreed. when I started in the 90s I often got several months of focused work without many interruptions. Nowadays you have to attend meetings and always have somebody breathe down your neck. Hard to accomplish anything that requires experimentation over months until it works.
Malfunctioned pitot-static system caused 'dive' of Boeing 737-800 MH2664
Is it ironic that a text image is used by Twitter to bypass character limits on a post? This has to be a usability nightmare for differently abled people.
>do you believe lasers have thrust?

Absolutely. How do you think solar sails work? Light has inertia. If you emit large amounts of energy with any form of light, you'll get a thrust.
Highly recommend getting awesome noise cancelling headphones if you’re sensitive to it, i looove mine (Sony WH1000XM4s) and basically wear them all day. They even do a decent job at low frequency cancellation.
I suspect this is involved - and it will be easy enough for Musk to support someone for the board at the next election.
Elon's companies have a unique and very different culture in comparison to Twitter. Of course, Elon was not set to be CEO, but to your point, the prospect of "Elon-ification" of Twitter was going to upset a lot of employees.

The part I don't get: why is Elon still tweeting ideas for improving Twitter and shaking things up?
I have seen worse PR releases, I haven't seen worse PR releases from a company of this size and profile.

There is some kind of irony in a communication platform offering a presser that contains so little information and so many words...particularly as the platform limits the number of characters that users can communicate.

Really earning that $30m/year. I would fuck up an important press release for half that price.
This will be a great tool!

Think about how many hours you’ll save creating concept boards. The only trick will be to get this thing to spit out several different styles of the same image so you can match the style your going for.

I’m not seeing much competition for this thing to create a visual language for an idea.
Scuttleblurb, David Kim's SubStack, sends out in-depth write ups of companies. It's technically an investing newsletter, but it's really more about the mechanics of a given industry and how a particular company or group of companies operates within that industry. Similarly, and these aren't newsletters but they do come out at newsletter-like frequencies: the Company Man and the Wendover Productions YouTube channels.

Granted, these aren't specialized in terms of a single industry or single tech field, but, if you're a business enthusiast / love learning about industries you previously didn't know about, these are excellent.

https://www.scuttleblurb.com/
Company Man: https://youtube.com/channel/UCQMyhrt92_8XM0KgZH6VnRg
Wendover Productions: https://youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions
Those beliefs occurred at different times (one is past tense, one is present tense.) And only two significant events are cited as happening between them: a background check and Elon deciding not to join the board. Either the basis of the change in belief is “whatever Elon wants is best”, that implies a background check problem.
Read through EIPs: https://github.com/ethereum/EIPs

Not just accepted and popular ones, but also on proposals and rejected ones. It’ll give you a taste of what people are thinking about and what’s upcoming.
This is why I left New York City.

For some reason, being inside / covid lockdowns did something to my head and now I'm super sensitive to noise. Prior, I lived in Boston for six years generally in very loud (third to fifth floor) apartments with reasonable amounts of street / city noise. Oddly, for a time it actually calmed my ADHD and distracted me enough that I felt I could focus.

Initially I was lucky and had a great deal on a 26th floor apt in Hell's Kitchen with decent roommates - something clicked a few years later and I could no longer stand roommate noise (kitchen / dishes / gaming past midnight) and / or late night garbage collection / horns at all hours.

I had enough, moved to CO. Have my own space - it's quiet and I get measurably better sleep.

Does this make me feel old at 27 - yes. Do I care - no.
+1, was looking for this. Some of the articles are rewarding, though.
Opposing anecdata: the not-so-secret secret to beating the lines at In-N-Out is to park and order inside or at the window. That's just because the drive thru lines there are always insane.
I’m talking about a genre of emails where the targets are those who’ve simply starred a GitHub repo. Even if they get the actual email addresses from a git log or off-platform, they’re still abusing the GitHub API (or screen-scraping) to discover users to spam in the first place. It is possible for GitHub to guard those list pages with captchas and use reports to catch API abusers.
The alt text has the full contents.
There is decent alt text on the image, but I can’t speak to how well Twitter works with a screen reader in order to access it.
Does he do that?

What did he Invest in something/Tweet/Violate FTC/Profit from?

If you're referring to Tesla, you missed the part where he: Lead the delivery of a ridiculous amount of value to the company unrelated to any tweets.
Starlink needs local licensing for radio spectrum. Even if downlink may not require such licensing, uplink (from hand terminal to satellite) certainly does.
https://archive.ph/KuX0I
The key functionality of the major tech platforms is to convey data to other people. Almost none of the data we give them is private or proprietary in the sense you’re suggesting. We only give it to them because we want e.g. our friends to have it. Now it is unfortunate that the service provider also gets it in the process, but that’s more an issue of end to end encryption than centralization per se. We can have highly centralized yet end to end encrypted platforms, like WhatsApp and Signal. We can also have highly decentralized platforms which are panopticons, like cryptocurrencies.

One of the main reasons we “hire” the platform companies to convey our data to other people rather than opening TCP sockets to each other directly is precisely async delivery. No one wants to use a social network where we can only see each other’s content if we’re using our laptops at the same time. Just make a phone call at that point.

Now maybe you could ask for federated, open standard queueing mechanisms. But we have one of those! It’s called SMTP, and it’s not really up to the needs of modern social applications. And maybe we could do something about that. But it’s also in the nature of federated open standards that are widely deployed to ossify. The other service that Facebook and Twitter are doing for you besides pub/sub is having the coordination and agency to update their own deployments over time, something that e.g. the set of all relevant email operators does not have.
I've learned long ago: always read the original source material. Its amazing how, not just a game of telephone develops, but groupthink when people are taking their cues from others instead of their own experiences. A lot of people will even read the original source and then force it to mean what some smarter dude or "everyone" already knows. Meaning is so rapidly lost when its second-hand.
> they believed it was best for Elon

The way I understand it, they believed it was best for twitter (since as a fiduciary he would 'have to act in the interests of the company)
They’ve been rad for years, and a lot of work has been done around them.

Usually people find that there are simpler/better ways to get the job done.

I think they’re better left as an implementation detail at this point.