skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For straightforward answers and navigating to websites, I often use what is the default in browser that I happen to use at that time.

I use DDG, FF, and Bromite on my smartphone. Sometimes Brave, too. I have Brave as my secondary browser (FF as the main, LibreWolf for personal stuff) on my daily driver as well.

I used Brave Search and DDG a lot. Nothing can go wrong with them if all I am asking is the capital of Belgium or trying to navigate to a subreddit.

With special, not so straightforward searches, I rely on You and Kagi.

I really appreciate You's different kinds of search results and grouping them. They are clear that they use some kind of AI model to tailor search results, and I have an account there.

I really like Kagi for showing me sites that I wasn’t even aware of. I can boost or shove down sites. I turned off Quora and Pinterest right away. No extensions, no scripts. Love that.

As I said, Google’s adbiz is in direct conflict with its Search division. Search should show the best result for the Searcher. Ad div would want the pages to be shown that are crawling, infesting with Google Adsense ad. When more of these pages are visited, they have better metrics to lure more people to Adsense thus making $$$.

This is clear conflict of interest.
> You can't start a trend comparing a democratically elected politician to Hitler and

See, in my opinion, you should be absolutely fee to do that

> expect no repercussions.

The first "repercussion" that comes to mind is to block their account or something like that but I think this is the wrong course. When they do or say something stupid In real life, the repercussions are that they are judged as a stupid person and not simply silenced. I think, this must be the norm in social media too. Just make sure that whatever they say sticks to their identity and if later they change their mind, they can apologise and ask for forgiveness.

I have this idea where your identity can be secret to the society but known to the platform. I.e. the platform knows you as a real person, you have just one account but you have an option to post anonymously too. You use your anonymous account to engage with the community about stuff that you normally wouldn't dare(i.e. controversial political stance, your sexual orientation kind of stuff).

If you post something very bad with your anonymous account(i.e. call for violence, hate speech etc), you get your anonymous posting rights revoked and your posts deleted. You can override the deletion by de-anonimization of the posts. If whatever you said is something criminal(plans to attack this, kill that, sell dirty bomb etc), the law enforcement takes care of it and the platform stops acting as a police.

edit: Oh I missed the part where your identity is actually encrypted, not known to the platform in plain format. To challenge the platform censorship and put back your removed comments you decrypt your identity. If you are afraid of state actors coming after you, you simply move on and your identity stays secret.
The platform doesn't need to be solving all the problems if the world. For example, if you are Russian dissident in Russia you first need replace Putin IRL, then you can use it as a westerner, challenging the politicians.
> I’m sorry this is just a horrible piece of advice. This only works out for people who have utopian management.

>

> You never know what kind of obligations your manager has to deal with that situation. They might be required to send that info up the chain.

What you're saying is that it might have a negative result. You're ignoring that it might also have a positive result.

It's a trade-off, with the risk that your manager will take an opportunity to sacrifice you to the organisational gods for his own benefit.

You gotta ask yourself, if your manager is willing to throw you to the wolves, why are you still working there? After all, if they are willing to hurt you for simply job-hunting, there's a lot more they would have done to you over the period of your employment.

OTOH, if they've never done you in before, why are you so sure they'll start now? If they have broke your trust before, then sure, you have evidence to support a secretive approach. But if they have never done it before, then all your evidence points to them not doing it now.

To get to be a manager, they must have demonstrated more networking skills than average. I doubt that they are going to pollute their network just for kicks; all the ones I've worked with mostly attempt to expand their network of contacts, not shrink them!

> You never know what kind of obligations your manager has to deal with that situation.

True, I don't. But my managers in the past, when told that I am looking, never sent the info up the chain, even when I knew that they were obligated to.

I've been working now for 24 years; only once in my career did it come as something of a shock to my manager that I had found a new job.
A shopvac filled with graphite, or perhaps short copper strands, set to blow should do the trick I imagine.
Words aren't, but their specific selection can be. As it was in this case. (Not a lawyer.)

Some mapping companies "invent" non-existing streets on their maps to prove copying.
This seems like a massive waste of money.
Firstly, it will kill remaining trust in twitter and secondly the opportunity cost of spending that much money, like why not expand Telsa into India, or Asia in a big way.
That happens all the time without the system though. People who drive tiny little cars that turn on a dime routinely underestimate the space it takes for a big van or whatever to get out.
It could be handy for nuclear power sources perhaps though.
They are constants without having to declare them and assign them a globally unique value.
Strings are for text (ui/parsing/values)
I’ve thought about this. I think one model would be to have successful treatments be “bought out” for public use through an appropriately priced awards process. So the pharmaceutical company would know with certainty that their costs and even profit targets would be satisfied upon success. Have the award process promise 2x their costs, or their costs plus a $somePercent premium above cost. Maybe one option comes with some public grant process along the way. Upon completion the underlying medication gets either publicly produced if market participants don’t satisfy demand and otherwise allowed to be produced by anyone.

I think something like that the government side is more akin to good accounting practices than heavy handed regulatory oversight.
How is that not market manipulation? Isn't this sort of thing regulated?
For anyone wondering what this was ... looking at the last Archive.org link here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220401002723/https://www.devan...

...it looks like this might have had playable versions of daily Wordle puzzles going back to the start of the game? (Which would be pretty trivial since IIRC Wordle is entirely client-side and they just update the JS each day with the new word?) If so then his statement - "to be honest, I was wondering what took them so long" - would sort of make sense.

EDIT - Github repo before NYT-inspired deletion: https://github.com/DevangThakkar/wordle_archive/tree/23cfba6...
Kiev is something like 100km from the belarussia border, Kharkiv (second biggest ukrainian city) is 20km from the russian border. We're still waiting for Russia victory. No "they just take care about the civilans", we all know it's a lie, they use artilery on civilians zones and commited insane war crimes during the last weeks.
Kharkiv was a mess, russians got destroyed in this city, just take a look at any photos/videos from Kharkiv. Russian bodies and burned armors all over the place, it was a nightmare.
Russia was supposed to be one of the best army on earth for the last 15 years, but they can't enter a city like Kharkiv, Ukraine being one of the poorest european country. Good luck with the "not a botched war" theory.
It was supposed to be a less than a week operation, we are closer to a 2 month war. Russia is already economically on his knees, they need billions to stay in Ukraine and more sanctions are coming...
All they can do is bassicaly blindly destroy cities with artilery and commits war crimes out of frustration until the money runs out.
Russia will probably make ukrainians suffer a lot at least for too many weeks, but they won't win the war. Even China and India aren't going to fully support them, there are a lot of negative signs for Russia, like this one : https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20220316-live-un-security...
Germany and Switzerland broke their neutrality traditions. Sweden and Finland were neutral since the WW2, now they are probably about to join NATO. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/13/finland-and-sw...
Russia basicaly lost everything. Their economy was already stagnant for the last 8 years just with a few sanctions, I bet they'll have a lot of fun during the next 5/10 years.
But they'll have Mariupol (after killing thousand of Mariupol's civilians) and some east countryside, good for them.
Well yes ordered list of words are often copyrightable under the name of "books".
I'm not saying it is applicable here, but presenting things to a simplistic form isn't really correct either.
> How can Twitter possibly get even more liberal in terms of free speech?

They literally banned the President of USA. Are you seriously asking this question?
The problem is not if there is free speech on the platform but how it's perceived you will always have an extrem loud minority (no matter what political orientation) that will drown out the rest of the platform just by crying about censorship. It will be interesting to see what will happen to them when there is nothing to cry about anymore.
Elixir (and Erlang) have atoms which are exactly the same thing. They're useful in any dynamic programming language - in a static one, the equivalent is different values of an enum.

Python notably doesn't, and as such you get functions that take arguments that are strings with special meaning, which I always found a bit clunky even before I discovered Ruby.
Yet, do they? You haven't addressed the fact that this isn't confirmed; Nor that SA financing wouldn't require an invasion anyway.
Nah, mechanical pencils are a niche, and those Japanese ones are a niche within a niche here in the Netherlands too. In Japan they are common, mainly due to the writing system that is very well suited to mechanical pencils, so they are common in schools.

I use the Uni Kuru Toga in its fancy aluminium variant for both Dutch (mostly random notes and DIY measurements) and Japanese (I'm Dutch, but proficient in Japanese). For writing kanji, the self-rotating core just can't be beat. The line thickness remains a very neat 0.3mm with 0.5mm pencil lead due to the cone at the writing end staying, well, a cone.

Fortunately, these pencils can be ordered worldwide these days via various resellers. In Japan you get the luxury of just being able to walk into a 文房具屋 (a stationary shop) and buy one starting from ¥500 or so.
I don’t understand how [0] suggests Twitter is dying. Is a power law distribution of content production on a social network that strange? What % of HN comments come from the top N accounts? Is Twitter lying about growing user numbers?
One potential option I haven't seen mentioned is to make references (i.e. `&[mut] T`) not use capabilities, but raw pointers (`*(mut|const)`) to use capabilities. Since the compiler already guarantees that references are used correctly, at least theoretically this is best of all worlds.

Now it's possible that CHERI would make this impossible, but it's definitely an angle worth recognising.
I don't think on Twitter we should be 'free speech absolutists'. Its a private company, no need for lots of people.

What I would actually like is seriously shooting down these idiotic bots. Like seriously, they have the exact same name and picture as the main account. How the fuck do we not have machine learning, fuck a bunch of bash-scripts to figure this out?

It makes the platform borderline unusable how much crypto spam bots exist on it.

That said, not a fan of Musk waste his time with Twitter. SpaceX, Tesla are plenty.
wouldn't be the first fine he got from the SEC... he'll get the laws changed at some point if he keeps being himself, maybe that's half the point?
That's not quite how it works if you make a formal takeover offer. It's basically telling existing shareholders that he'll buy their stock at $54. If enough of them don't want to sell (depending on how it's structured), the deal falls through. It's a one-off purchase at $54 if it does go through. He can't buy more stock in the interim (I think).
Logically, if nobody reports any bugs, there must not be any!
All cars bumping others in your videos are already pretty damaged though and they are all in Paris, which is pretty much agreed upon in France to be home of the worst drivers in the country. I'm not surprised their drivers are doing this, but that doesn't make it a normal thing to do. Also, the "c'est normal en France" comments and applause in the second video are obviously sarcastic.

These are 100% just bad drivers that are lucky the owners of the other cars weren't here (and would have probably fled in that case). As I said, this behaviour results in filling an accident statement if the victim is present (and if actual damage is observed of course).
Platforms like Twitter have become de facto utilities. They should be prevented from censoring anything that is not breaking the law, which means filtering tweets on a per country basis to comply with national laws, nothing less, nothing more.
Symbols are garbage collected now so it’s just shorter strings

IMHO it’s a style choice
Sometimes being reckless and a heretic helps society move forward.

I'm starting to become a fan of Musk. Guy is sitting on $256B in net worth. That's so rich it's like trying to picture the distance from the earth to the sun, your brain struggles.

I get the sense he's going to be the Howard Hughes of our time. Weird ideas and a ton of money make for some interesting moves. Not everything he does will be positive, but his imprint will be one for the history books.
He made the offer at a 40% premium on the April 1st close.

Twitter is a dying social network - sounds like a pretty good deal.
I have two different headsets I use for conferencing, on a USB with a mid-cable control for volume and mute, and a BT headset with physical buttons on the ear cups. I have messed with both, under Linux and Windows 10, and when they are muted, they are really muted.

I have not disassembled them, I am certain that the USB HID is inside the mid cable control unit, but the headsets themselves must be muting the audio stream.

If you use the mute button on the conferencing app? Then I assume all bets are off, but with controls on an external headset, I would assume all behave similarly.
>Having 90 degree car wheels (that can only go 90 degrees at ~rest) combined with the sensors on a modern EV might make it feasible. But I'm not a mechanical engineer so "90 degree car wheels" might have some other feasibility problems, even at rest.

Should be easily possible to get almost the same effect on any RWD car if the engineers feel like designing for it (they don't). It's just a matter of allowing enough steering angle (amount depends on wheelbase). Every forklift made in the last 70yr can pivot about one of the non-steering wheels if you turn the wheel far enough. Some commercial trucks have enough steering angle to get almost the same effect (though they're much longer so the required angle is less) With ABS to brake the pivot point wheel it would be pretty graceful and you'd avoid the "just plowing straight" that forklifts tend to do when you try and crank the steering to max on anything other than pavement.

But there would be a lot of tradeoffs in order to get the range of motion you'd need out of the steering wheels so it makes sense that they don't.
That they are using gold for the mirror isn't a good sign ? Though maybe a cheaper mirror metal would do ?
There's a nuance there though, in Europe while there's probably no copyright on the words per se, they have a separate but related database rights (which exactly sounds what you think).

The design and feel of the site is probably unarguably copyrighted though. While other clones could argue that Wordle is actually a derivation from a much older game, it won't probably help if the design, feel, "dress" and colours are one-to-one to the original thing.
Well you should have nationalized it while you could've

BTW why is this called hostile?
> you might want to consult an engineer. Preferably one at SpaceX

I suspect that they would tell us that the idea that every machine can be broken down into a series of simple machines was a cute theory in the Renaissance, but is not a usefull model to explain how a Raptor engine works. Maybe the theory of simple machines and compound machines is usefull for purely mechanical constructions, like a bicycle or a clock, but fails to account for the fluid mechanical effects which dominate in a rocket engine.
And the only reason you would make it private is?
They banned the personal account of the president not the official account. The official account was tweeting until after the election. I would have loved to see if they would have banned the potus account if he tweeted from there but we'll never know.
With zerotier you should be able to play multiplayer duke nukem 3d over IPX/SPX
Not the OP, but also selling B2B software. You can hold a user accountable that they'll actually use the software purchased. The company is spending a lot of money on it, finds value in it, and wants to ensure it's being used and implemented correctly.

B2B software with figures like the OP means you're building a professional relationship with a customer (as opposed to a transactional one), and can push back when they're complaining about something, for example.

> "Your software isn't giving us the numbers you said it would!"

> "It will, if you use it as you were instructed, we're happy to review that with you again, but you have to have the internal SOP that you'll use it in the way it was intended if you want the numbers it can provide."
Ironically I tried to find a blacklist extension or similar through Google search past week, and couldn't find it due to blogspam talking about how it used to be. So added reddit and clicked in past year, but reddit now doesn't show accurate dates on posts so that didn't work.

Thanks, will add this!
> deduplication, which other languages already give you with strings.

Aren't Ruby's strings mutable? I'm not sure, but I seem to recall they were/are, in which case you can't really intern them. Python and Java have immutable strings, with the ability to optimize allocations being (probably?) one of the reasons.

On the other hand, Symbols in Ruby seem to be immutable, which allows for their interning.
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Yes, but if they do not agree the price will:

1. Go to above $54, in which case musk profits and he can try again later (headwinds are strong in tech generally right now)

2. Go between $39 and $54 in which musk profits

3. Drop under $39 in which musk can further solidify his stake, for much cheaper than his takeover offer.

There’s basically no scenario in which musk loses assuming he’s serious and is willing to play the long game. Musk will either make a lot of money, or own Twitter.
> Gold rushes of new users tend to wear off as new areas calcify into
established concepts.

I hear ya. It's the crowd he's buying. But to me Twitter has no
"established concept". Maybe I'm the stupidest person on the planet
right now, but what exactly is Twitter? Does Musk have a brilliant
solution looking for a problem. Or is this just playing games with
money and power for it's own sake?
Look at Oligarchs Yachts and that tells you everything about the ego of Billionaires. It is not about the money.
As someone who has worked for the NYT and has also been requested to takedown data later on (I scraped crossword data for fun), I do get why they did this. It’s sucks, but I get why.

Kudos if it was a ‘request’ and hadn’t gone too deep into lawyer mode.
You have not sailed anything that will make 20 knots almost directly into a 10 knot wind. You may well have sailed a multihull that makes 20 knots on a reach or broad reach with a 10 knot wind. And when it did that the apparent wind would be at best 20 degrees off the bow.
lol .. don't put this into the textarea: <script>alert('MIAU');</script>
"Free speech absolutism is possible and is beneficial once you ensure that someone is not gaming the system, i.e. someone pretending to be more than one person."

This is probably the core motivation behind the $2/month blue checkmark fee proposed by him. You don't need to moderate social media if you can just send the cops credit card details of the person spam-posting swastikas, agitating for violence or breaking other established laws. I hope we all agree that laws against libel, glorification of crime, threatening people are not exactly censorship.
Nothing better than the CIA having a say on what tweets are allowed.
"he could easily build a much better rival with different values."

Steretypically of social media - I see Twitters greatest asset being it's current network of influencers, analysts, thinkers, artists and colleagues. All the people I want to follow are already on twitter. I don't care about the platform or the tech, I care about all of the interesting people posting there. I would claim that is the true power of the platform atm - it's network.
If you don't need/want it yourself, and no one's paying you to do it, yes, you'll lose interest. I don't have your problem; I reach for code as a solution pretty quickly. Probably key is I'm not trying to "finish" personal projects or make a product, just doing as much as I need at the time.

Since you know web development, maybe install TamperMonkey and start "fixing" or improving websites you use regularly. You can often make a significant difference to your experience with a few lines of code written in a few minutes (changing/adding CSS rules, making links visible instead of hidden in dropdown menus, reordering/recolouring things, presenting information in a more sensible way, adding shortcut keys, converting static tables to DataTables, etc.). Over time some of my user scripts have grown to many hundreds of lines, and even been adapted to be essential components of workflows of me and my colleagues. They make my job/life easier dozens of times a day.

(Most of these are for internal websites or idiosyncratic to my needs, so there's no point in sharing them.)
I'd add that even if by doing this he ends up destroying twitter, it will still leave room for the growth of something new. Twitter has a lot of legacy baggage, and either it had to be shaken up dramatically or burned to the ground in order for this social media landscape to change. This could go either way.
Because he filed the takeover offer with the SEC (the regulator) today. This is the way it should be done.
> He is absolutely right over its enormous potential

What unrealized potential does Twitter have left after 16 years of existence?

Twitter is incredibly popular, but as Docker already showed, being incredibly popular doesn't have to translate to financial success.
It's not a historical article tracing the lineage of the feature.

Ruby took some things the designer liked from Lisp, from Smalltalk, from Perl, from other places. He liked symbols because they're good for performance (and compile-time correctness) at a low cognitive cost, and that's why Ruby has symbols.
The actual reason to make ones bed is to let air circulate in the parts of the bed, that potentialy have been sweaty all night, which increases hygiene. At least in my book that is the main reason. Secondary reason might be, that it is nicer to let oneself fall into a nicely made bed at night. Third might be, that it looks more orderly.