skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Mathematics of Artificial Intelligence (2022)
The "dirt" is that Elon is a massive troll who flaunts SEC regulations on the regular.
Thank you for providing a total ordering for the algebra of press releases.
"is going to provide" is a bold statement given that molten salt reactors are still not ready.
> Luxury apartment at $4k a month? No insulation between units, and the guy above you comes home at 2am and never takes his shoes off.

With this one you're getting into the intersection with US cities' rabid opposition to actually building enough housing, so new units become labeled 'luxury' whether or not they're actually luxury, because zoning and permitting requirements push the prices of new units into the stratosphere.
I was going to post this too. He's exceptionally skillful in explaining, lucidly, the small wonkish details of financial market matters that make the gem of the story. I'm also impressed by the breadth of markets that he's able to cover with that clarity.
“Do you have your own division at the SEC?”
Is there anything he could do which would not be judged by hacker news to be “the right call”. Kinda nuts that him joining the board is assumed to be genius, and then him completely reversing within a week is also genius.

Maybe we’re a bit biased about Elon.
I'm inclined to agree that this is the correct parsing. Elon joining == best for Twitter, Elon not joining == best if Elon doesn't want to [and maybe by extension for Twitter].
The word "had" would have been useful.
This absolutely correct yet very few seem to know this.
What if Sun Microsystems acquired Apple in 1996?
“rather larger group of us in the center who have been screaming bloody fucking murder about it for over a decade now”

Citation required.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/23/opinion/inter...
So I read the 7 month old thread, and I found this comment particularly interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28332803

Basically, it answers the question, "why do Rust GUI frameworks use enums rather than closures for messages in the Elm update pattern?" It is very insightful, but doesn't tell the whole story. In particular, as a major counterexample, Druid does use closures for stuff like buttons, and they update state exactly as expected. That said, the Druid approach does have major drawbacks, chief among them that the app state needs a `Data` bound, which (oversimplifying slightly) means that it only works well with immutable data structures.

As it turns out, I've been thinking about how to solve this problem - closures that have convenient access to mutable app state without strange bounds on that state, or strange control flow when doing things like adding and deleting widgets, and think I've finally cracked it. I will be doing a writeup when I have time, but for the eager and curious, there is a code sketch at https://github.com/linebender/druid/blob/lasagna/lasagna/src... .
Yep, he’s owe fiduciary duties to other shareholders if he were on the board. This way he can tweet and make demands that might be ostensibly bad for profit-seeking investors.
That URL doesn't work. It's https://www.thinking-about-things.com/
> One use of "unsafe" that was not mentioned by Nora but is important for the embedded community in particular is the use of "unsafe" to flag things which from the point of view of Rust itself are fine, but are dangerous enough to be worth having a human programmer directed away from them

I thought there were subtle language differences such that if you took ordinary, perfectly valid as safe rust code and marked it as unsafe the result could be incorrect? Am I mistaken-- maybe that was some pre-1.0 property of the language and it's actually okay to go peppering around unsafe for typechecking like usage?

Separately, if people are creating unsafe interfaces to protect them against uses that fail to uphold their required invariants it would probably be really useful if they could be tagged with specific required unsafty-capabilities such that if a function requires foo-stability and bar-stability you don't accidentally call it with code that only guarantees foo-stability under a mistaken impression that foo-stability was all the unsafty of the function was related to.
I built a similar service. The benefits include; 1. Custom domain , 2. unique email addresses, 3. don't have to be a Apple user.

https://mailphantom.io
I tried this, it didn't work well for my team.

For whatever reason, my team generally likes having scheduled times to discuss certain topics. I always give them optionality on the meeting however (i.e. we regularly review if a given meeting is causing more pain than it's solving)
> my emacs config is a work in progress

And so it shall remain
Please don’t

CO2 causes extreme stress for a period before causing unconsciousness

Do a little research

And just pay a decent vet to do it properly.
Here's a thought: some languages have a defer statement that runs when the function is exited. This allows for cleanup code to run even with early return. Perhaps a block-level defer could be useful:

int i = 0;
while (i < 10) {
defer i++;
// ...
continue;
// ...
}
I simply don't understand why we have to put up with this kinda shit. Dogs barking I mean.

The one thing i noticed when visited Dubai, there were no random dogs barking even in dense condos.
What makes you assume you will outlive your dog? I mean, you probably will, but are you facing the reality of the human condition that our life can end anytime? The author was 26
What does “finished” even mean?
> I heavily disagree with this idea that the parent should be brought into a discussion involving their child when the parent is a danger to their children.

How do you know when a parent is a danger to their children? Who gets to decide? On what basis?

The answer for this law is that the state already has criteria for that, and those criteria are to be used. Which means the teacher's personal opinion, by itself, is not enough. And that's as it should be. If the teacher really believes the parent is a danger to their children, they have a process they can follow to get that judgment checked by others, and if necessary acted on. But they can't just cut the parent out of the process based on their personal opinion. That's what this law says, and it's correct.
Or that the CEO always believes what the majority share holder believes at the time they hold that belief.
Ask HN: How to identify niche fields that would flourish with the aid of tech?
The proliferation of data and computational methods have proved to be beneficial to a handful of fields (Computational "insert physical/social science here"). Rather than assuming that marrying tech with existing practices would solve everything, are there more optimal methodologies in identifying fields that would see an exponential boost in utility?
Elon Musk has issued a reply: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1513373170333487104

> [Face with Hand Over Mouth emoji]
"So we decided that Elon would join our board, and that was in the best path forward, but then Elon decided that he would not join the board and that was also the best decision"

You have no idea how much I hate this corporate speech of fried air and buttlickers
The forum link mentions it is rubber dome, not mechanical. Are there different versions?
The world uses about 556.63 exajoules per year. Say your nuclear reactor produces 3GW. That's more than 5000 reactors to power the world. You can probably safely cut that in half because electricity is a better source of energy for transportation and heating that fossil fuels, but still. Do you think we can scale reactor production sufficiently to build thousands of reactors in two or three decades?
There are zero reasons why graphical support is unavailable on WSL2 on Windows 10.

I wish Microsoft would pull their head out of their fundament and just allow the install to work. If my laptop didn't have a stupid Nvidia graphics card I would just install Debian and be done with Windows altogether.

I figure Microsoft and Nvidia are in some kind of race to see which one can be the most user hostile in paying lip service to Linux support, while deliberately undermining it with pointless difficulties like this.
I feel the same, the exclusions to ASI (such as on "return") turn it into a pain if you try to use it and the feature itself makes it a pain if you don't try to use it. The worst of both worlds in that regard.
From an article titled "Elon Musk to address Twitter staff after internal outcry"[1]:

> Employees raged on internal message boards, expressing fears Musk will sabotage their culture and make it hard to do their jobs

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/07/musk-tw...
So amusing. If you haven't seen some of Elon Musk's antics leading up to this, you really should:

Today - [image] 'In all fairness your honor, my client was in "goblin mode"'
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1513244730720616448

Yesterday:
"Everyone who signs up for Twitter Blue (ie pays $3/month) should get an authentication checkmark"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512946176244473863

[poll] "Delete the w in twitter?"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1513045405029711878

[poll] "Convert Twitter SF HQ to homeless shelter since no one shows up anyway"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512966135423066116

[retweet] "Most of these “top” accounts tweet rarely and post very little content.

Is Twitter dying?"
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512785529712123906

I really feel like he did not like the terms for joining the board (eg not freaking tweeting about Twitter) and cancelled last minute out of a tamper tantrum

This guy has done great things, but jesus christ is he immature
I don't know what to do about airplanes, but I want to see cities be designed to rely much less on motor vehicles.

"Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTV-wwszGw8

"The Suburban Traffic Contradiction" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqQw05Mr63E
This is the answer. It's really unfortunate but it's no longer worth while to do a roll-you-own email solution unless you are willing to accept some delivery issues. The big players control the game and you have no say in the matter.
I'd argue he lives to be seen as a troll.

As an actual troll he hasn't really done much but post tired memes until buying a large stake in Twitter. Time will tell whether he's actually going to do anything interesting with this stake but based on track record I'm going with no.

Most of what qualifies him as a troll could be gleaned from a ten minute crash course in /b.
I don't think he's stupid enough to unload now. He'd be doomed.

I appreciate you setting the right tone with "Enforcement is what discourages manipulation."
In that situation, I think just the goal of minimizing the amount of meetings to the best of your team's ability would still help. Preferably 2 hours or less total, but 3 or 4 might be okay if special care is taken to when they are scheduled.

My meetings all get scattered throughout the week haphazardly such that getting even a few hours of dedicated work done is almost impossible on many days.
Would you push a glass of champagne on someone you knew was a recovering alcoholic for a toast and mock them for not taking it, or would you make sure that champagne flutes with orange juice were right beside the booze?
The text surrounding the images stated that the author was sharing a recent travel experience before her health deteriorated even further.

So no, not Scotland.
No one here has mentioned the most horrific noise that has come into existence only a few years ago.

I am talking about apps like Facebook, Instagram suddenly playing sound of a video at full blast when it scrolls into view in a feed.

God I hate these apps and this thing called smartphone that has taken over our lives.

Fuck all this modern shit. We should have never come out of the caves.
VisiCalc creator on Responsive Web Apps (2013)
In his own words, he pumps, but he never dumps.
I thought high CO2 levels in blood induce panic? It was my understanding that the reflex that causes us to want to breath are not based on a lack of oxygen but a buildup of CO2.

CO on the other hand doesn’t have this impact and you pass away without the panic.
> There will be distractions ahead...

That's very telling, Parag implicitly admits major changes coming up. There is a theory on Twitter that Elon will attempt an outright takeover.
Or they would try to board in states where having a license to carry gives you an "oh, I forgot" defense to trying to carry a firearm through security at the airport.
> The only other solution I have thought of is to charge for email. Say a few cents per message would go from sender to receiver. That would definitely reduce spam.

Spam would still come from hacked boxes, being charged to the owner of the hacked box.
There are formalization of C, e.g. compcert, which also compiles to machine code in a way that should guarantee proofs all the way though execution (assuming the machine modeling is correct).

It seems like it is a long way off from being possible to do that for rust.
They’re only required if your site is dropping spyware or stealing user data, which you shouldn’t be doing anyway.
It was always clear to me as someone who has seen his share of Elon tweets. He was literally just trolling with his tweets and had no intention of ever joining the board as he doesn't have the time or the passion for that job.
I'm with you. One option I've seen is to wear gun range noise protection muffs and wear low volume earbud. Avoiding active noise canceling but still giving isolation.
Another in memoriam https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/06/20/Erik-Nagg...
Hesitate to say it, but I think a lot of my current noise issues are because I moved into an immigrant Mexican community without realizing it. While I'm posting things that might sound bad, I think I've noticed a correlation with more noise and lower economic class people
Why do you dismiss hydrogen, ammonia and other forms of chemical storage without giving any arguments? Many people believe that they are suitable for the task.
Log5 – estimating probability that team A will win a game vs. team B
"Thank you for the language, horse barbarians, here, have some dumplings as a token of our gratitude"
Visible run-ins led to a settlement, btw - https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2018-226
> Did Elon profit from that? i.e. He bought at the bottom and sold at the top?

That same quarter, Tesla reported almost $500 million in realized capital gains on BTC.

And Elon owns Tesla stock.

The rest is left as an exercise to the reader.
"Another example is orange, which originated in a Dravidian language (likely Tamil, Telugu or Malayalam), and whose likely path to English included, in order, Sanskrit, Persian, possibly Armenian, Arabic, Late Latin,[citation needed] Italian, and Old French."

Which leaves me with the question of what word was used for the color orange before the current word was imported. Or was there simply no word for the color previously? Does not having a word for a color change one's perception of the color?
So Elon's not going to unleash the Kraken and reinstate Trump's Twitter account?

https://www.newsweek.com/conservatives-elon-musk-reinstate-d...
At this point, there are more essays decrying "cancel culture" than there are rabbit's noses. On an ideological level, many of them are rousing, but if they enter the realm of everyday life by listing specific examples, the arguments weaken.

Many forbidden ideas are taboo because they, often obviously, have little potential to help society, and great potential to harm it.

I've deliberately avoided mentioning any specific heresies here.

I'll give the author credit for bringing that to the reader's attention. Then I also wonder if he wrote a draft with examples (the heresies of anti-feminists? groypers? race scientists?), and realized he would disgust his audience.
I never noticed, walking around the nicer European cities, that any of those things made nearly the same level of noise as the cars. Seriously, walk through Paris or something and tell me that clubs and bars and helicopters and AC are even nearly as loud as the cars when you walk next to a busy road.

I can't think of an exception to this in any city I've been in, honestly. Which cities have lots of clubs and bars with loud speakers out the front? Is that common in the states?
Japan's Nissan plans 'game changing' electric car batteries
The first paragraph applied to the time before they performed the background check.

The second paragraph applied to the time after they performed the background check.

Uh, oh, Spaghetti-Os!
Differently abled?
EEE from a years long ago still makes this effort seem troubling
This is one noise that I’m absolutely ok with them keeping for safety reasons.
> The teacher will absolutely face litigation and censure, which are the words I used.

Litigation? No. As I've already said, the teachers aren't legally liable. The school district is. So it's the school district that faces litigation, not the teacher.

Censure? By whom? By the parents? Well, yes, if the teacher is doing something that the parents strongly disagree with, they should expect to be censured by the parents.

Censure by someone else? Who? And on what basis? If it's because other people also think what the teacher did is wrong, isn't that, again, just what should be expected? And if other people don't think what the teacher did is wrong, why would they censure the teacher?

> Students should be allowed to confide in educators and expect that those confidences will not be betrayed

I don't see where the law requires a teacher to reveal something the student told them in confidence. The law says teachers should encourage the student to talk to the parents, but it doesn't require the teachers themselves to talk to the parents. (I agree that this means the teacher is not required to do what I suggested in my previous post, to bring the parents into the discussion themselves. I still think it's a good idea if it can be done, but it's not required by the law.) Nor does the law require teachers to reveal something that isn't part of the student's school record--which a confidential conversation wouldn't be. And the school district can't prohibit a teacher from talking to the parents, but it can't require them to either.

> if the student asks me to call them "they/them", suddenly things should be super different?

Nothing in the law singles out this kind of discussion between a student and a teacher. But note that asking the teacher to call them "they/them" in public is not a confidential request. (If it's just in private between the student and teacher and not in the public classroom, that's different.)

> social mores about gender are fundamentally changing

And there are deep divisions in our society about such changes. A teacher might have strong opinions on one side or the other. But as a teacher, they should not be pushing their personal agenda. They should be respecting all viewpoints, and that includes the viewpoints of the parents. If a teacher believes that any parent who objects to their child wanting to be called "they/them" is automatically abusing that child, that teacher has a personal agenda that should not be allowed to intrude into the school environment.

> You just get to choose how much it sucks for kids in the process.

I certainly agree that having adults in their lives who strongly disagree about basic aspects of life sucks for kids. But that strong disagreement is not just the fault of parents who are unwilling to consider change and let their kids explore new things. Ideologues who push their agendas on kids without regard for the viewpoints of the other adults in those kids' lives bear responsibility too.
Or just I wish I made more money so I could afford to have a wife, a house, and kids.
Maybe that’s why Dorsey left
Waterfall development was coined in a paper describing how it is bad.
why? i never understood the "point" of pinterest and we now have alternatives but the question remains, why? isn't world moving towards instant and ephimerial content anyways ?
Well said, and I definitely sledgehammered the nuance.

Are we going to see the pendulum gathering momentum in the swing towards unionization? Could be I'm already late on that call given that Amazon employees have already had a recent victory in pursuit of this.

The world at large* seems to be reaching a breaking point in their tolerance of the widening wealth gap, manifesting in this collective burnout / great resignation / cynicism of purpose. Interesting times...

*may just be projecting myself onto the rest of the world and / or my media bubble's limited view.
I remember very vividly these couple days a year where Toronto would close some of its main streets for the day and people could go out, bike, meet each other, and activity for kids were organized in the street.

It was lovely and I remember being so surprised you could actually hear the birds like in the woods! Any other day it was so loud it could be difficult to even talk to each other (not to mention the stench)

And yet it was a major struggle to keep this happening every year with people and counselors fighting the event organizers every single year because how are we ever going to survive without our cars for 12h on a weekend once a year?

Same city where I couldn’t get anyone to do anything about the garbage trucks picking up and loudly banging metal trash containers at 3am. Fuck this noise (literally), I’m never living in a city again.
There is absolutely no chance that this was Elon's decision. He was pushed out, most likely because of his recent shitposting about turning the Twitter office into a homeless shelter.
It's amazing someone with that much money can still act like a total loser.
I found the forum thread really hard to follow...

I'm not sure it matters if Sun buys Apple. Jobs probably ends up taking NeXT in the direction he took Apple upon return.

Steve Jobs is the key to a lot of stuff and the revolution in personal and consumer computing in the 2000's. I don't think it matters what company he does that under.
Who cares what people say?

They all talk to themselves, anyway.
This is an ancient phenomenon. I would posit that religions are its earliest manifestation.

Reality is a consensual process. Societies are continuously negotiating and renegotiating, amongst themselves, the borders of the map we call our worldview. Sometimes this process involves wiping the slate clean as we completely re-imagine the territory.

This is not a value judgment of this piece, or of this process as a whole.
For anyone interested in the future of city infrastructure and technologies:

- [NextCity](https://nextcity.org/)

- [Shareable](https://www.shareable.net/)
What is causing you enough pain to justify suicide?

Don’t forget about carbon monoxide. It would be much easier and less painful to just get a tent or car and a propane heater. Shooting yourself is way too risky in my opinion.
I live next to a car alarm that randomly goes off every day.

It definitely stresses me out and an important factor for where I'll live next.
Speaking of Psychology: The psychology of climate change
Serious question: Who cares?

I am not trying to make a joke or seem edgy. Literally, what group of people is actually impacted by this by first or second order effects of…whatever the hell this story entails?

In other words, this is on the front page of hacker news. Why?!
What’s a Gunter’s chain, you ask?