skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would guess his intentions were noble and were based on what was best for humanity in the long run (e.g. spacex, tesla). Social media is a cesspool where the companies that own them have no incentive to clean them up because cleaning them up would cause them to lose money and affect shareholder value negatively. Taking it private would allow him to make the hard changes that would have a negative impact on short term profitability but be best for everyone in the long run.
Good search is really a must for any forum though - I remember back in the day when more forums were independent (pre Reddit) and less moderated a common thing to tell a new user that made a very common (repeated) post was to use the search function. Some people were dicks about it but often people just were gently steering the person in the right direction. No need to have the same exact post every week clogging things up when a simple search can lead you to high quality discussion content on the same exact topic.
Probably not the best tl:dr, but -

It quite literally burnt/melted part of her vagina onto her leg/part of body that was not her vagina. I think pictures are out there if you google for them, it’s been quite a while but IIRC pretty gruesome.
> I wish this man got more money, and that this company would go bankrupt.

Because fuck proportionality and fuck every employee and shareholder of the company even if they had nothing to do with this?
If you're having a powershell issue, you can file an issue. I'm not a Windows user or powershell user, but when I tested the PR (before merging it) I was able to get it running in a minute.
Which-key – nvim plugin to show possible keys of the command you started typing
Trump had enough star power to get some 75 million people to vote for him, and Truth Social has been a flop.
JSONB is incredibly awesome, and should be extracted from PG and made usable on its own.

For those who don't know, JSONB is a binary JSON encoding that is specifically optimized for data at rest and compression thereof.

The key feature in JSONB is that most internal pointers [from arrays and objects] to values are in the form of lengths, with every 32nd pointer being an offset. This comes from the observation that offsets will not repeat, therefore are difficult to compress w/ off the shelf compression algorithms, but length values will often be the same and thus be compressible. This means that iterating an array (say) requires 31 additions for every 32 elements to recover the offsets to those 31 elements' values.

The story of how they came to this optimization for compression is fascinating. IIRC they implemented an offsets-only JSONB and were very happy with it until they discovered that that form of JSONB did not compress anywhere near as well as expected, and since PG was close to shipping, a feverish hunt for the cause ensued that culminated in the fix of mostly-using-lengths-instead-of-offsets.
> bought a few grams of mushrooms for everyone, and then set the rest
on fire on a beach somewhere,

Whatever happened to Josh Harris of pseudo/quiet? In that weird but
prescient doco "We live in public" he says something like all the guys
he knew who made dotcom fortunes "wasted their money" by not blowing
the lot on "surveillance art" millennium apocalypse parties. And KLF
certainly made a lasting myth, whether they torched the wonga or not.

I am just pondering the power, ethics and potential of conspicuous
destruction of ones own wealth. There's something profane in this, in
a world where it's getting harder to find. Wouldn't it be funny if
Musk bought Twitter, and simply shut it down, and pissed off on
vacation with no contactable number.
I feel exactly the same way. And the worst part is, they think they are in the right and are morally superior.
I think people are just somewhat annoyed because your comments seem argumentative. This is a very famous case and there is tons of material online to read, including the court documents themselves! I have also heard from friends who went to law school that this is used as an example of a case that isn't a frivolous lawsuit despite appearances.

It just seems like you are very set in your views and are demanding that we all argue with you, and if that's the case, make a new post about the mcdonald's case because this thread isn't even about that.
I have tinnitus - give yourself a wet willie. Seriously, suck your pinky, stick it in your ear, wiggle it around. Def helps for a while!
Aha, I see that now, that's probably 2280? Which seems to be the most common/mainstream size. That's a nice update!
Yes, I meant it as amplification, not disagreement, but upon review I see I did bad job. The post got away from me in edits. Sorry.
Sounds like a long way of saying they are cope cages :)
Yes, I'm sympathetic towards the circumstances that maybe led to the party happening anyway, but it seems like there was harsh retaliation against him for an issue that he forewarned against.
I find this hit or miss - often Google gets it right and often it does not. Definitely would be nice if they were able to fix this!
Elon taking over Twitter would be a good thing for Twitter and probably a bad thing for him.

Twitter is dying, and could probably use a fundamental revamp which Elon would provide. However Elon really has more important things to worry about.
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> Political chicanery and despotism had their part I suspect.

If you read the textbook that has 4 different accounts of what happened, politics is heavily featured in each one.
One reason some companies dont is because they have significant NON tech work force also in the same building, and they dont want to provide perks for X that they dont for Y in the same building.

If the first 3 stories of your building are call center level employees who make barely better than minimum wages and the top floor is your well paid software engineers, then facilities just says "no free coffee" to everyone.

Though even in places that you would think would be stingy give out free coffee and snacks more and more. Most of the purse string people like having nice snacks too. Even small business owners will cater meals and buy nice coffee because they get to have a nice meal that counts as a business expense and their premium coffee blend they get on order and have every day gets to count as one too at that point.
Virologists Identify More Than 5000 New Viruses in the Ocean
If they paid competitively, yes.
The domain seems to have been picked up as a false positive for spam/malware in places. They were blocked by Quad9 too due to one of their underlying data sources (I forget which), but they were unblocked after I submitted a false positive report.
Fuck toxic work environments.
Honestly, birthday parties are so incredibly fraught with potential issues they should really not be "celebrated" in the office on an individual level. You have all sorts of people who'd really rather not - not just people with anxiety issues, but also religious prohibitions (Jehovah's Witness), and just personal preference. Some people don't like it when others even know their birthday.
I'm not sure if I understand you, but with EDITOR=nvim it'll do just that. To "commit" w/ the message you have in editor, ZZ. To abort, use :cq
"Other documents obtained from McDonald's showed that from 1982 to 1992 the company had received more than 700 reports of people burned by McDonald's coffee to varying degrees of severity, and had settled claims arising from scalding injuries for more than $500,000."

We know why coffee vendors make the coffee so hot. It expresses more caffeine. It is very simple. They decided that the value in keeping consumers addicted was worth the risk.
I'm struggling to understand why it's a bad thing that a municipality wants to levy taxes. How do you expect these places to pay for infrastructure and maintenance and public services?
Ben Bartee is a Bangkok-based American journalist with opposable thumbs. Follow his stuff via Armageddon Prose, Substack, Patreon, Gab, and Twitter.

Help me out Germans (because there's a word for everything in German). What is the word for hearing a fantastical new claim about decades old historical records that would fail the 'shout it from the rooftops test' if true, but I won't bother to try and refute it because there's so many of these provacateurs and only one me and I'm tired?
Are poison pills usually challenged successfully from someone with non-binding offers?
> is much less reliable version-to-version

Source? We have an extremely extensive test suite for the built-in client that must pass for every merge, and we currently have ~30 open issues on the issue tracker (with a good chunk of those being feature requests).
I'm not a court of law and have no obligation to act according to the principles of one.
JSONB is optimized for compression, but also pessimized for writing.

What we should do is teach jq to read and write various binary JSON formats including JSONB.
Genuinely not sure if you're trolling or not, but....

> Ok, then I want to hear the reasoning behind those rulings/awards.
...
> Edit: why disagree with this?

You're asking internet randos to explain something to you that is an easily researched matter of public record. I too used to think the McDonald's coffee case was a punchline for an overly litigious America. Then I read the horrifying details.
>but it does contain lysergic acid which is colloquially LSD the drug

The chemical differences between "lysergic acid" and LSD areas significant as the differences between morphine and heroin, if not more so. Pure lysergic acid is closer to LSA, which is still categorically not the same thing as LSD - to the point that many people will refuse to take the former when a test kit reveals they got that as opposed to the latter. They are not colloquially equivalent.
I just recently played with an online quantum computer simulator to get a better understanding of how quantum fourier transform works, it's a lot of fun:

https://algassert.com/quirk
If there are any „cartoon villains“ in this story, it’s your characterization of „the press“.
The concept of shareholder value really got started in the 1970s, pushed by Milton Friedman and others. And value seems to be interpreted as nothing more than the stock price.

Hence the idea that anything is justified as long as it gooses the stock price, and that a corporation has no social obligations whatsoever.
If one thing you need to know about Musk is that he does not back off that easily. (He already mentioned in TED interview that he has a "Plan B" if this offer is rejected.)
The culpability is two parts. First part is serving a beverage that was much hotter than what an average consumer would expect, without a warning such as "this product will cause third degree burns within 3 seconds of touching your skin".

But the biggest issue that I don't see mentioned most times this case is brought up is that the coffee cups at that time were defective by design. They relied on the lid for structural integrity. When you grasped the cup and squeeze it hard enough to keep it from falling, then if the lid pops off the cup collapses and the cup falls, spilling scalding liquid on you. Notice that the current cups don't crush as easily even without a lid on, they still hold their structure when squeezing it hard enough to pick it up.

Also, the old cups would cause discomfort when holding them, which indicates that the liquid lost a lot of its thermal energy to the environment in a short amount of time. Due to that, customers that had to transport their coffee for some distance before wanting to drink it would want it to be served hotter than normal. Then it would be the perfect temperature when they get to their classroom / office. The newer cups have much better insulation properties, so this is less necessary.
The best interest of the shareholders at this point is to accept the offer.

Its a 25% premium, quite typical for buyout offers.
> you have to understand the meaning of the symbol that is the sign.

Isn't that what reading is?
Oh, had no idea!
Asking "Is this not so?" and then saying you were not implying it is a betrayal of the cooperative principle, in the most generous of interpretations.
Have you seen the photos of the injury?
Atlassian finally explains the cause of ongoing cloud outage
You always have the right of way in the U.S. unless there is a stop sign or a yield sign. If both directions have stop signs, then the person who arrived first has the right-of-way. To me, it's more straight forward to always have right-of-way, but that's probably because I'm used to it.
Source article has more details: https://linknky.com/news/2022/04/14/man-awarded-450k-after-f...
Comments are literally the whole point of forums - what the point be if people did NOT want to read the comments?

I agree there are a lot of crap comments on the bigger default subs (as is the same with any forum) but those are relatively easy to ignore and recognize with experience. Or maybe I just have been using internet forums for too long !
What Hobbes thought about war – Generations of politcal theorists (cont)
If two men are fighting side by side, carrying out the same acts, and one has a card in his pocket that says nazi and the other doesn't. I'm meant to understand that we're talking about one nazi, not two?

Sorry I do not accept this contortion.
I expected this to be about system design, not team design.

I question really only the last claim. Integrated doesn't beat distributed every time. Rather, spending money/effort beats hoping for the best. Every time.

To that end, if we will see this work, we will see ways of increasing effort in the area. My gut is that this will be by getting more ways of encouraging inefficient encounters. Think of it in terms of hits. You can try and ensure your one effort is a hit. Or you can do what you can to maximize the effectiveness of an effort, while also increasing the number of efforts you make.
Hello, co-author.
I like the solution of the pedestrian triggered stop signs. The don’t literally say stop but they flash yellow and cars have to stop even if there’s no one in the street.
is there a solid reason for using Solaris over Linux? at this point in life, Linux has won in my opinion. i don't see the use for Solaris at all.
> Four days later, after his office managers confronted him about his reaction to the party, he was fired from the Northern Kentucky company, court records show.

I feel like we're burying the lead by suggesting he got money because of an unwanted party. He was fired because of a medical disorder triggered by the party and was compensated for wrongful termination.
> It seems patently obvious to me that all of the actions he's taken over the entire time he's been in the public eye have shown him to be an incredibly vindictive egomaniac and serial liar interested only in his own aggrandizement.

I still think the world, and the USA in particular, would be better with him at the helm than the current biased leadership.

Would be more fun too!
I don't really understand why anyone thinks a Musk social media platform would be much more serious or likely to succeed than a Trump one. Musk is more successful than Trump but Trump was the US president so it kind of seems like a wash. Neither of them seem to have the capacity (by choice) to fully focus on a social media platform the way they'd need to for it to be successful.
I agree with the general premise that consistently shipping and chunking your work to make that possible is very important.

Personally I know that I feel a lot better on weeks I ship vs weeks I don’t ship.

Obviously there is no 1 size fits all solutions for, well, anything.
I'm not sure what you mean. All I wanted to know was the reasoning behind the culpability. Saying "other successful suites" is like saying "because it always worked that way". It doesn't show the reasoning.

The part about bad corporate actors was not specific to the McDonalds example. I was merely saying that we could label any company as bad. For example, some might say abortion clinics are bad, while others might say gun makers are bad.
Germany did not slowly slipped into dictatorship after Hitler took power in 1933. It jumped right in with crackdown on democracy supporting parties, first concentration camps (for political opposition), arbitrarily search house searches and arrests. Within few months, all political parties except one were banned.

The first measures against Jews were also taken instantly.

Meaning, whether you felt free or not severely dependended on who you were - generally you needed to be pro Hitler to feel free.
I’m reminded of the bit in Netflix’ “Death to 2020” where Lisa Kudrow claims conservative voices are being silenced!!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNZTtoQBmA
anyone looking to enter the environmental lab/chemistry space can look at pace labs.com and https://www.pacelabs.com/company/about/careers/
Still using traditional client server apps with sql databases with some win/linux services on backend.
So slow down hundreds of people to 5 miles an hour..... versus stopping at a few stop signs...

cyclist mentality is very interesting.
No. Yahoo played that situation smartly. They knew they were worth more than the $45B Microsoft offered due to their stake in Alibaba.

This thread dives into how Microsoft lowballed Yahoo: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31029289
I bought a Pocketbook 301 from 2007 for 13€ recently, as it is one of the few ebooks without internet connection. It has buttons, an SD card slot, it reads all common formats (FB2 works best), and it has an audio jack plug. You can use it for reading, and that's it. Probably the best product I ever bought.

No note taking obviously.
Yes, to be clear I (and I don't think parent) is disputing the jury's decision. I'm pointing out that the article (which is what everybody here is reacting to) isn't providing any info about what the "violence" was, or even acknowledging that it exists other than the part where they quoted the company rep.

If the "violence" was him saying something mean/inappropriate or something (which I don't consider violence but many people do think speech can be violence) that would be largely irrelevant. But if he beat the shit out of somebody, that would make this case far less egregious and IMHO would make many of the reactionary comments here look terrible.
Check out Crescendo (http://refined-audiometrics.com/wordpress1/) -- an engineer/musician with a hearing loss similar to yours has developed a piece of software that's like a "super" hearing aid (non-linear compression per Bark band) that helps to bring the sparkle back for music.
Patently obvious? I think there are multiple plausible explanations. Building things people want gives credibility.

I find it more bizarre people have such passionate anger towards others.
Court docs said ...

> When the company threw him a lunchtime party against his wishes, it triggered a panic attack and he left abruptly to spend his break in his car. Four days later, after his office managers confronted him about his reaction to the party, he was fired from the Northern Kentucky company

Julie Brazil, the founder and [COO] said ...

> My employees de-escalated the situation to get the plaintiff out of the building as quickly as possible while removing his access to the building, alerting me and sending out security reminders to ensure he could not access the building, which is exactly what they were supposed to do, we have a zero-tolerance policy and we stand by our decision to terminate the plaintiff for his violation of our workplace violence policy.

The plantiff's lawyer said ...

> I believe (he) was so happy and relieved that the jury recognized that he was not some violent and menacing person and that it was not okay for Gravity Diagnostics to just assume that he was without any evidence to support those misconceptions.

So the case seems less about

> @manager please can we not have a birthday party for me please

and more about the

> @employee you're fired for being violent even though we do not have evidence to back this statement up

...

Whole article smells to me like the company blaming the employee for something he warned them about anyway, but that's just my opinion.
There's a lot more context that can't be explained easily in the size of the average HN comment. When the McD representative was asked by the judge when/how they were planning to fix these burning/scalding issues the McDonald's employee was extremely nonchalant and casual, and indicated that they didn't really care about it. That was also a major factor in the case.

Also I don't know if you realize it but your comments are making you come across as a major <rude adjective of choice> which is likely why you're getting downvotes.
> I heard that Linux and FreeBSD is also free for production use, but maybe you know more....NOT

We try to avoid that kind of crappy reply here on HN.
Strangely, this did not stop the jury from ruling in his favor. At what point can we give this person the benefit of the doubt that he was mistreated by his employer?
I'm struggling to understand why it's a bad thing that a municipality wants to levy taxes.

I'm struggling to find where OP said any such thing.
Out of curiosity, if the tool was compiled for MinGW doesn't that mean it would run natively on Linux? Why was your friend trying to run the MinGW version?
> I can use my editor over ssh and edit anywhere, I don't need a GUI to even be installed on the system where I have all of my cores and RAM for compiling the kernel,

I can use VS Code in the browser: https://github.com/coder/code-server

> it starts up instantly,

I launch my editor once a day. Why do you need to keep killing and starting your editor?

> and it's completely free and open source,

OK, so is VS Code, or at least the OSS version, which has all the key features anyway.

> not driven by a corporation,

So this is your philosophy.

> and there's decades of documentation on how to use it.

Most of it out of date, probably.

> I guess it's the systems developer in me

Guess what? I'm a systems developer too! I also work on the kernel! But I use VS Code.

> that can't fathom someone that wants to use a tool to make a living without understanding it fully and being able to tweak it to their exact liking over the course of their entire career

VS Code is open source, so there's nothing stopping me from diving in if I want to. And it's also highly extensible.

Now that I've answered all the supposed benefits you list about (neo)vim, I have one question:

Can (neo)vim show text in two different font sizes? Or fonts? Like, what if I want my documentation popups to show up in a sans-serif font? No, don't tell me I have to open up the documentation in a browser or whatever. I want it in the popup.
Setting aside the fact that the gutter is often full of uncleared debris that are likely to puncture a tire and there’s often not actually enough space there for a car to safely pass while staying in the lane next to it…

You might be having a conversation with the person next to you in your car. Why is that okay?
This is the very definition of a corporate poison pill.
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