skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>My work communication is 95%+ Slack, including shared channels with external vendors

>I think its demise is closer now than at any point in the past.

Quite the opposite here (we're b2b in Europe), most of business communication is via email. It's the easiest way to contact a business because virtually everyone uses it, as opposed to the hugely fragmented market of Telegram/Whatsapp/Discord/Slack/Messenger/whatever is the new shiny thing this week.

Our SaaS is about eLearning, we have thousands of clients in US, Europe and Asia, from all sorts of industries. A company usually registers all their employees in our system, and every employee has a profile where they can specify their email (which is optional). I worked with tech support and although I don't have exact statistics, my impression was that the majority of employees have emails assigned, it was the norm, rather than an exception. I've noticed it's usually retail where employees only have a phone number.

We do use Telegram/Whatsapp for announcements, but I don't see email go away any time soon. I can't imagine myself having an official business correspondence on Discord.
anecdotal corroboration: my cat recognizes and responds to 5-6 different words/phrases for food, even from a visitor, but does not understand a single other word in any language spoken in the house: food, snack, treat, cookie, nom-nom. he responds to each of these uniquely (we use them to refer to different things he can eat).
I don’t doubt that people are more likely to notice sounds in the suburbs because they aren’t habituated to them. But saying the suburbs are louder is like saying it’s actually quieter to live next to a gun range than it is to live next to the woods, because when the occasional hunter fires his gun you are more likely to notice it.
There is a theory that Elon declined it to not limit his stake to 14.9%; we won't know until the next SEC filing: https://twitter.com/JordanSchachtel/status/15133583677539737...

WSJ source about the 14.9%: https://www.wsj.com/articles/twitter-to-name-elon-musk-to-it...

> Mr. Musk’s board term is set for two years. So long as he remains a director, he can’t own more than 14.9% of the company’s stock, according to a securities filing. While neither Twitter nor Mr. Musk would give a reason for the cap, that means that Mr. Musk, for now, is precluded from taking over the company outright.
This isn't exactly what you mean, but as someone who also has not a great reaction to that type of thing, i can't believe how accepted it's become to just fire up tiktok _anywhere_.

I'm aware the internet and phones made noises before tiktok, but something about this app compels people to forget the sound-vironment is a shared space, it seems.
Like the time he specifically tweeted that he had investment to take Tesla private that affected stock price, but turned out to not actually have happened?
Bamboo is the worst CI tool I’ve ever used, and I’ve used CruiseControl.
Maybe you first noticed it while using earplugs (since they’d block out basically everything else) and now it’s become difficult to ignore? I had something similar happen with noticing floaters in my eyes constantly over the pandemic
It's probably bc he demanded to turn their Market St HQ into a homeless shelter as a prerequisite to joining the board. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1512966135423066116
The docs are light on details, but the compiler should figure out that red is async, and it does if you call it, but not if you take a pointer. I would describe this as a defect! We don't actually disagree about any facts though, just labels.
Also a musician, but also noise sensitive. To a degree I think the difference is that practice noise is completely different from playing a song from start to end. It's kind of like someone on the train talking on the phone -- you only hear their perspective and it really messes with your head since you naturally want to make sense of what's going on. Practice is scattered, filled with experimentation, and repetitious as hell. But it's difficult to fill those patterns in because practice playing is inherently unpredictable, ie frustrating.

Also, whatever instrument you're playing, I guarantee you the difference between everything else is that your neighbor can feel the music even with bulky headphones. There's a very unsettling feeling you get when you can't escape that, especially when you work from home. Maybe consider getting quiet equipmen -- you're a software developer, so you can surely afford it.

Like, I don't necessarily care that the toddlers stomping around above me are having fun, learning new things, etc etc.. they're still stomping around. Don't be that person.
Thank you, its a great check list
Unfortunately IDNs aren't allowed to have emojis. :( That definitely would've been fun though.
I see you're not a connoisseur of socially-inept subway phone DJ's
Man, I'm right there with you. I'm 26, and feel like none of my friends care about these things. I am quite sensitive when it comes to input like light and sound, and I would love to live in a quieter place than the city I do now. Everyone wants to be around stimulation and novelty when they are young, and I used to understand, the pandemic has sort of shifted my priorities I feel. Part of getting older, I guess.
Very true. I could use some advice for where to start. I replied to your Twitter DM!
This is directionally true, see here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30984356
God, the thought of being treated like a skilled professional and trusted to actually do your job, rather than a code monkey who has to report their progress every single day on how many of the endless "user stories" they got done the previous day...
> I bought Twitter stock after I knew he will be joining the board.

Buy the rumour, sell the news. The time to 'buy' was two months ago. [0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30252537
Matt Levine on point:

Twitter’s relatively new chief executive officer, Parag Agrawal: Welcome, Mr. Musk. We’re so glad that you are our biggest shareholder. We have prepared a presentation showing how we are executing on our strategy of being more technically nimble, building new products and growing revenue and active users. Here on slide 1 you can see—

Elon Musk: Make the font bigger when I tweet.

Agrawal: What?

Musk: I am your biggest shareholder, I want the font on my tweets to be bigger than the font on everyone else’s tweets.

Agrawal: That’s not really how we—

Musk: And I want 290 characters. Again, just for me.

Agrawal: …

Musk: And it should play a little sound when I tweet so everyone knows.

Agrawal: I just feel like we want to make a good product for all of our millions of users? I feel like that is going to improve profitability in the long run and, as our largest shareholder, you in particular stand to benefit from—

Musk: Oh I don’t care even a little bit about that, if your stock doubles that is rounding error on my net worth, I just love tweeting and want to meddle a bit to optimize it for my personal needs.

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-04-04/elon-m...
If Elon was on the board, then he would be even more liable for what he tweets. And i think Elon wants more liberty to tweet without the sec on his back even more.

Sounds like he has the best of both worlds holding the stocks and staying out of the board.
He'd have to convert first.
He did not pass the background check because he claimed to co-found Tesla. Here: https://www.tesla.com/elon-musk -- "Elon Musk co-founded and leads Tesla"

But actually he wasn't a co-founder. He simply bought shares of Tesla 1 year after it was founded.

This is the red flag, so he failed the background check.

True story.
Couldn't he take out a loan using his Tesla stock as collateral, and use that to fund a purchase of Twitter? That way he'd avoid selling any stock (and having to pay taxes on the sale), although he'd have to somehow fund the interest payments on the loan (which could be done through smaller stock sales, which would incur taxes, but he'd still pay less tax selling to fund the interest than selling to fund the principal.)
What about "statements are separated for you" implies line breaks split valid statements? The issue in your example is your first statement "console.log('a')(1 < 2)" tries to pass "true" to the return value of console.log triggering a runtime typeError. If you define an appropriate function for console.log (remember it's not part of JS) e.g.

console.log = function(value){console.error(value);return function(value2){console.error(value2)}}

Your example runs just fine because there was never actually a syntaxError anywhere in it to begin with, let alone a sytanxError that could be fixed with a ; by ASI. Similarly if I define console.log = 2 all of the above will throw typeError but that also has nothing to do with ASI.

This is precisely what "but if you need them to be separated in a special way you can add semicolons to manually control separation behavior" was referring to.
Sure, but neither do suburbs. You could mandate everyone drive electric vehicles with tires optimized for low road noise.
This is a joke right? I should keep a diary. Someone did a study and apparently the 'city that never sleeps' (NYC) has better sound quality than my city (PHL). Between inept and behind by 115 years and counting on gas line repairs and ATV squads... not to mention the broken exhaust fan of the corner pizza joint, one cannot exist in Philadelphia and expect a modicum of peaceful bliss.
I was looking at Alpine.js but Vue is even better! Thanks.
A New History of World War II
He shouldn't have any clearance given his continual violation of federal law nobody else is given a pass on.
Heresy – A Further Explanation
Being a doctor must be tough. My brother is a doctor, though we aren't close or even on speaking terms. But I hear his tales via our mom.

A recent tale is that a family member got a bad cancer. Our mom called him to get the scoop, who he'll only give to her, apparently. He said 'Mom, she'll be dead in two years. She'll initially respond really well to treatment, then just get worse until the end.'

Doctors know these things, but many won't tell the patient because it's depressing, and also there's a tiny chance they're wrong.

Of course neither told said family member, and she's currently in the responding well phase. It's shattering hearing their hope, so I guess their doctor wasn't blunt either...
Thank you for your kind words, and for checking it out! I'll look into it.
Here are some audio fiction podcasts that buy + produce stories from a broad community of authors:

https://escapepod.org/
https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/
https://www.drabblecast.org/
The modern notation contains a very similar 'ambiguity'. Compare: x---y, x-- - y, and x - --y.
> He most likely has an active TS clearance and works with ITAR.

Not necessarily. It's as equally likely that he does not have any clearances and could not pass a background check, either with the government or the kind that Twitter's regulatory compliance people want.

In the case of companies that do work with the Department of Defense, it is not unusual for managers to have people who work for them who hold clearances but the managers themselves don't. Where I work, we operate a medical clinic in a federal facility and some of our staff have access to federal employee patient data. As a result, some of our physicians and nursing staff have a clearance as does one of our practice managers and some of our technical staff, but no one else does.

Also, remember that Musk has publicly consumed drugs that are illegal at the federal level and had some very visible run-ins with the SEC. Some federal investigators and companies would not have a problem with that, others very much would.
That's not clear. Eliezer contradicts that in both the articles and the comments. Others mention a private draft of an article in which Eliezer makes formal arguments in favor of this position. There's also a comment which points to a google doc that enumerates all the times recently in which Eliezer has reference "dying with dignity" in recent public talks and articles. There has been lively discussion on LessWrong after April 1st which has taken this article seriously.

It seems that it was purposefully released on April 1st as an opportunity to introduce a controversial idea and as an excuse to go a bit overboard in the exposition.
Had the same thought, and looking at the SEC guideline, it seems 13D is the comprehensive one to be used by default, and 13G can only be filed under specific circumstances.
At Elon’s level, it feels a lot more malicious than “oops, wrong form”

https://www.investor.gov/introduction-investing/investing-ba...
Peak LTT right there. Haven't watched them in a while, but gems like this are why I watched them in the first place. I do hope they do more in this area.
Practice. Conversational style of writing. Audience that is used to long posts with minimal editing (Dealbreaker had shorter articles but his posts grew in length, references added, and the audience grew into that style...old Dealbreaker was hilarious, I seem to remember Matt did the CFA Level 1...he was going to hit the strip club for lulz during the lunch break, didn't but went to a Mexican cafe and got drunk...Dealbreaker 2008-2012 was pure gold, nothing like it today).

I wouldn't try to replicate his style. Lots of people try, but it is like a virgin turning up to a BDSM orgy: you can't hang, don't try, find your own path.

EDIT: wow, that Dealbreaker story was over 10 years old...what have I done with my life.
Used websites like:

https://findamentor.com/

Find one that is a good fit for you. Don't just contact people randomly find one willing to mentor you.
Gosh, this is utter nonsense. Pretty much every anti-woke person on the left was just as critical of illiberalism when the right was flexing its cultural muscles. Are you under the impression that Paul Graham was in support of post-9/11 restrictions on speech? Or that eg the comedians now complaining about cancel culture were totally cool with people losing their jobs for insufficient "patriotism"? For God's sake, Bill Maher lost his show under precisely the same norms that he criticizes now, except that the illiberalism at the time was right-coded.

Are you so unable to conceive of a person holding a principle that you need to create an alternate timeline to resolve the cognitive dissonance? It's always truly horrifying to be reminded that people like this exist.
>Is it irrelevant, though

Yes, it's as irrelevant as Aristotle's opinions on slavery is to his work on formal logic. The words bear no evidence whatsoever of the author's opinions, therefore it's fallacious and irrelevant to bring them up.

>there's a reason you haven't edited your post to say

Correct, and that reason is that I don't care. I'm entirely ok with quoting a white nationalist, I have quoted worse human beings.

>Notably, you're employing a fallacy as well -- "Tacitus or Voltaire" functions as an appeal to authority here.

I think you're overreaching here a little bit to fit my words to a fallacy rather than the other way around. I don't care one bit who said the words, you can attribute them to whoever you like, go ahead and attribute them to Einstein or Ghandi, that won't increase or decrease their truth value. It's a tautologically true aphorism, anybody can say it and it would still ring true.

>A resistance to correctly attributing the quote

No such thing, I immediately conceded that point when it became clear to me it's a misattribution, the reason I haven't back-edited the comment is that my comment doesn't depend on it, you can substitute "X" or "Santa Claus" for "Voltaire" and you would still get a comprehensible argument that you can either side with or oppose.

>people complaining about them are employing their own

Eh, I wouldn't say your rather stretched interpretation of my words are evidence they are an appeal to authority, sounds to me like you really just wanted to use the words "Appeal To Authority" in a sentence.

Regardless, if the mention of Voltaire annoys you, remove it from your mental cache of the comment and I will defend every single word of the resulting argument, provided you didn't remove or add any other thing.

>I don't care about debate fallacies, really

You should, they are convenient names for extremely common and sometimes-involuntary logical shortcuts that people take all the time which make arguments and conversations blurrier and less fruitful. Me naming a fallacy in an argument doesn't automatically mean that argument is invalid, it just means the argument defender wants to hide something (possibly from themselves), it's not a gotcha to catch your opponent doing then declare victory, it's a "code review" tool to make conversations clearer, more honest and consequently better.
Currently no, since this was just meant to be a toy project. But I agree with you that I have to deal with moderation if I intend to keep this up. The only countermeasure is to peek into the URL without having to be redirected cause each shortened URL has a stats page. e.g https://emojied.net/stats/%F0%9F%8D%8A%F0%9F%8C%90
I've said before the culture gulf isn't political, it's now in theories of mind - and this Schwab piece defines it. They have a view that the self and the individual are just artifacts of language, and they can use narrative to reshape almost all of human experience.

His argument reduces to separating people from "reality," then placing himself and his ideas as the centre of the ensuing chaos, and managing the conflicts his network has caused itself. He has a zero-sum view of the world based on power actuated by language. He's really bad news. They should call this The Nihilist Manifesto.
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TSA doesn't give a shit about drugs - """anecdotal evidence repeated to a degree that makes it real data""" suggests that they put drugs through their fancy MS machines, inspect them visually in secondary screening, etc. and allow them to pass through. Being a presentable looking person might have something to do with it.
There seems to be an issue in Chrome in general. Thanks for reporting, I'll look into it. :)
Thanks for the diff! But for the love of god would you please enable word-wrapping?

I'm so sorry to continue: please introduce some padding while you're at it; the text being so close to the window borders in stock emacs is so offputting. Signed with love, a recent emacs convert.

edit: I see word-wrapping now, thanks!
I thought the same, his later content is very similar to a lot of YT related trash and if I had to guess it's pertaining to the fact he's having to make so much content.

But this video was 100% awesome beginning to end.
> Why would those changes be outside the FTC's "comfort zone"?

I am also confused. Perhaps foregoign Ad-tech revenue would be against the supposed fiduciary duty?
There’s really not that much road noise in a lot of cities unless you live near a couple of particularly busy streets.
"Stochastic parrots" is a disparaging term coined by SJW propaganda. As if the brain is not stochastic, or we don't parrot from cultural sources. Language models have been accused of bias and lack of explainability, but humans are biased too and can't really explain how we take decisions.

Overall this term says "limited to the intelligence of a parrot" which is false, models can solve math and coding problems, generate passable art, translate and speak in hundreds of languages and beat us at all board and card games. When was a parrot able to do that?
Yet, plenty of bitterness.
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For AR/VR, https://youtube.com/c/SadlyItsBradley is cringe, but he has solid supply chain info leaks about upcoming products and a surprisingly good understanding of the technology. Meanwhile, https://kguttag.com is by far the best place to learn about the many fundamental unsolved problems that are preventing the grand vision of metaverse AR glasses from being realized anytime soon, and the reality of what upcoming products will be like as they work around those problems in various ways.
Pioneer used to be the highest quality and most expensive drives back in the day.
> They went at it with the delight of dogs chasing squirrels.

Indeed, some people chase heretics to take their wealth / power.
Rich people do this to buy yachts and sports cars (for I dunno, tens of millions), but borrowing $15 billion? I'm kinda skeptical any banks would bite here.

The collateral would be a huge portion of his Tesla stock, enough that a crash in TSLA could put the whole loan at risk.
Actually a whole lot of us did. There are dumbasses on both the right and the left constantly trying to forcefully silence people who they don't like, and there's a rather larger group of us in the center who have been screaming bloody fucking murder about it for over a decade now, but you all keep pretending that we're inconsistent and actually just Republicans (or libtards/groomers, if you're of the other persuasion). It's maddening.
The American military needs Boeing (and Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, etc.) to supply parts for their jet fighters, missiles, etc.; enough so that if these companies were owned by selfish individuals rather than profit-driven corporations; and those selfish individuals pressed the issue of "maybe not making any more missiles for the military" at just the right time, then they'd not only not be charged with treason, but instead would get whatever they wanted, up-to-and-including having laws rewritten to serve them.

As well, such a hypothetical individual owner of Boeing, together with a few other such individual owners for other military industries, could independently declare a "vote of no confidence" in their country, and "hand over" power to some foreign nation invading them, simply by cutting off war-time logistical supply at just the right time.

These types of power, are exactly the sorts of power that made classical aristocrats, aristocrats, rather than just courtiers.
I’m a side sleeper and have slept with ear plugs in for nearly the past decade (hard for me to sleep without them now).

I currently use Mack’s ear plugs, but I imagine they are pretty much all the same. Just look for some foam ones. The first couple of times it feels strange, but you get used to it quickly.
Maybe he was going to fail the background check? But that is curious.
FBI Didn't Knock Down a Suspect's Door Because 'It Was an Affluent Neighborhood'
Can we get binaries for Linux, Mac & Windows
Cookie overlays are absolutely horrible, easily among the worst UX developments to be adopted en mass across the web.

They represent to me a major reversal in user perception of the web as a platform vs native/proprietary app stores, which in contrast seem to only get easier/remove friction over time.

When those rolled out, almost every site virtually overnight became objectively worse experiences. Nobody asked for it. And nobody benefits, except maybe app stores, as people find more reasons to distrust the web and its increasing lack of usability.

Just overall an absolute embarrassment to be associated with as a web developer, and something I would like to see abolished forever.
Frankly, that's no better or worst than any other wiki I've used. It's certainly not something I blame Confluence for particularly.
How about the non-stop construction and non-stop road work? How about clubs and bars with outdoor speakers? Helicopters, industrial cooling/HVAC. I could go on. It's far more than just cars. What are these quiet cities that magically have none of these things?
At some point for a few weeks and months, there is a strong vibration in my whole block and my entire floor for 24 hours, it's a terrible nights that I couldn't sleep.
Pastrami is Turkish too? Those Ottomans knew how to eat! You know what else is Ottoman and nobody knows? Steamed dumplings (baozi). People think they're Chinese, but there's a clear Ottoman transfer lineage through Central Asia to Tibet and Mongolia as well as China.