skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think some people are under the impression that it’s possible to build a useful search engine that is completely algorithmic and unbiased. It’s just not possible, though.

Any algorithm for which there is incentive to game, people will game. And legitimate sources often have no incentive to game the algorithms. There’s no one algorithm that will do everything perfectly. Eventually you’ll have some phishing scam, life-threatening suggestions, or illegal content popping up as a top result, and you’ll have to add manual exceptions.
I agree stock splits broaden your investor base because you are now more affordable. It's psychological magic.
What alternative does Elon have at this point? Is there a poison pill to the poison pill?
Right, though it is an interesting question of whether those values either have to be (1) directly fiducial (2) couched in some theory of fiducial return or (3) can be entirely non-fiducial. Doesn't really mean much in practice because management can always just cover their ass by saying that the other aims are also good for the bottom line - even if it is nonsense.
> Are there guardrails on this?

If you've ever wondered why corporations have authorized and issued shares, there you go. Increasing the authorized share count requires a shareholder vote. Issuing shares under that cap does not. When shareholders increase the number of authorized shares, they are delegating that decision making to the Board.

It wasn't always like this. But as finance sped up, particularly towards the end of the 19th century, a railroad company which had to hold a shareholder vote to raise emergency equity because their free banking deposits in Nevada went bust would find itself systematically outmaneuvered by the ones who had pre-approval to plug the hole. As a result, most corporations now authorize the maximum number of shares reasonably possible, in almost all cases only moderated by some states' franchise taxes varying by number of shares.
Not really, as a counter argument, there is every reason to believe that Musk will make a mockery of twitter and run it into the ground. A social media platform with a lot of responsibility is not for someone as egotistical as Musk. If Zuckerberg is bad, Musk could be catastrophic.
I'm not. Though I wouldn't have been too upset to pocket a 20+% gain, I bought at the start of 2022, bolstered by Jack's ouster. They need to figure out a paid tier for celebrity accounts, cut the fat from the staff (it's really not that complex a piece of software relatively speaking), and get profitable. Scott Galloway saw the potential well before Musk got involved.
> Roundabouts generally require a driver to look in a direction other than their direction of travel, to determine if it is safe to go.

True for stop signs... and any other traffic control solution in existence, frankly. Yielded merges are the most obvious form of specifically unbroken traffic flow that requires the same.

> They are also designed to reduce the amount of time any given vehicle has to actually stop if there is no reason to.

So it works like a yield. That's a good thing because it reduces congestion.

> This varies based on left/right side driving countries.

There are much bigger issues resulting from switching between left- and right-side driving standards which don't have anything to do with roundabouts, so this doesn't say anything about roundabouts so much as the difference in standards.

> Lights for pedestrians might help, but then the benefit of continual traffic flow is reduced.

Comes with the territory, and is also true of every other traffic control solution in existence. The complete solution to this is to completely separate pedestrian and vehicular traffic, which is also not limited to roundabouts.

It sounds like you don't have a problem with roundabouts so much as traffic control per se, if you believe these to be reasons not to implement roundabouts.
They are not allies though, they cooperated against US and that's it. In Central Asia for example Russia is an opponent when it comes to influence.
"ultimate owner" is too broad a brush. Long and detailed debates went on for generations over this. The origin of the USA is in the right of States to determine quite a lot of the details. Federal taxation is only a hundred years old here. Texas and the mid-west are different than California which is different than Florida.
It doesn't have to be complicated. The shareholders should have a right to decide through a proxy vote on whether to accept the offer
And what of other dependencies? Imagemagick, say? There's another way to achieve portability and exactness, although it requires some setup.

#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
#!nix-shell -i bash -p imagemagick

Voila. A (mostly) self-contained shell script, dependencies auto-installed when needed.
Is Yahoo still active in the FOSS world? I remember some good things coming from their devs, like Hadoop once upon a time.
As potential regular shareholder any of that type provisions just sounds extremely scary and overreaching...
I suppose that’s true in some sense. But working in tech, you run into all those biases and prejudices just like anywhere else.
No apology needed. My own post could have been worded better so I was taking the opportunity to clarify it.
The shareholders no longer care what happens to Twitter once they are shareholders no longer. (Except insofar as they are Twitter users.)
Hopefully I can buy a PS5 soon.
WSB is basically a marketing forum for pump and dump schemes now. There are hundreds if not thousands of entities trying their hand at it. I mean - even Elon Musk is doing it. Remember what Michael Burry said before the 2008 crash: one hallmark of a bubble about to collapse is fraud running rampant. It happened in the late 1920s, in the runup to 2008 and it's happening again now.
The Concept of Classical Herd Immunity May Not Apply to Covid-19
Realistic thresholds kick in around 99.9%, IIRC. So this is good, but not quite enough.
I wouldn't bother with rust under any circumstance.

And in any case, I'm wondering about compiler-writing resources, not compilers.

I daresay you didn't even read what I wrote and just typed "hurr, Rust is good." I've seen a million comments like this, and it's largely the reason I'll never bother.
Yeah, but had he not compromised and instead just pushed through a single payer solution ("medicare for all"), it would have passed along the same lines, given us the same data, and have been harder for Republicans to gut since it would have given no individual mandate, or high priced low coverage marketplace plans, to attack.
The Pied Piper: A Parasitic Beetle’s Melodies Modulate Ant Behaviours (2015)
A computation is basically anything that follows an algorithm. While Math is usually a definition + proofs derived from the definition. I personally think of Constructive Math as being Math as computation. But I am not an expert so …
Monitoring the kernel.org Transparency Log for a year
Just going to say that this is the kind of scenario I was discussing in https://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/59353.html . RFC 8705 actually provides a mechanism for dealing with this, so I guess I'm going to be trying to implement that for our infrastructure in the near future.
As an Australian, I think you're wrong :).
That's Hanlon. He has a "razor" that says that anyone who maintains plausible deniability should be assumed to be innocently blundering, no matter how much that blunder benefited them.
Yes, I did and they verify the Nazi ideology of the Ukrainian Azov Battalion. Nobody denies the Azov Battalion is full of Nazi's. That's why you're being coy with your responses, rather than providing a source that would dispute it.
> In the US, you'll see a sign that's 9 lines of text that you're supposed to read & comprehend at 35 mph = 56 km/h.

Signs like what? The only signs I can think of that have a bunch of text are stuff like valid parking hours.
That need not be what the board wants and long term shareholders want. This pressure to accept an offer is for institutional (hedge funds) and short term investors. This thought process is similar to when the company decides to invest in the business at the expense of stock buy backs for example, the way Bezos ran Amazon for a long time.
> It's the poor use of land right now that I believe is the main driver of poor affordability of housing.

If someone has their property for 30 years and decides not to sell, isn’t that a reflection of the market not sufficiently valuing their property? Everyone has their price in a free market, exorbitant as it may seem to others.
Ownership of land is damaging to those who don’t. Not owning land is a tax to be paid to those who do. There is no perfect solution but incentivising people to sell their tennis court filled country castle pad so that 1k people have somewhere to live (and knock on effect would be fewer homeless people) sounds like a balanced compromise.
Here's an ancient HyperCard deck/marketing material my mother collected at some point.

https://ibb.co/album/y4t3vT
> Do FAANGs hire such old ICs?

I can only talk about one of the letters in FAANG. Just my observation.

We definitely hire 50+ or even 60+ people. In my experience, all of the internal processes are designed to remove individual bias. You can get hired and be successful.

The problem arises when there's a mismatch in expectation. Suppose you look at your years of experience and shoot for IC7+. The bar for IC7 is _high_. From and IC7, they expect to see org-wide impact in your current role. An org is 1000+ people. Most ICs can spend an entire lifetime and not have that level of impact.

Basically, experience has little to do with level or comp. If you can lead a small team with a few people, are willing to come in at IC5, and fine with making 450k+, I don't see a problem with age.
> The highest administrative court in France revoked SpaceX's license to provide internet services in the country via its Starlink megaconstellation, citing monopolization concerns due to the size and scale of the company's operations.

I struggle to see the monopolization concerns. Starlink will never be relevant for urban areas where most people live since the bandwidth provisioned is per area not per dwelling.

80% of the US population live in urban areas (just 2% of the land.) Even with infinite satellites eventually radio spectrum becomes the limiting factor. While you can have many low power cell stations in cities, satellites are far away and antennas not perfectly directional.

It's a long time since high school trig but with Starlink's narrow beam width of 1.3 degrees and satellites 550km up that's 12.5km diameter. So would be like everyone in SF sharing the bandwidth of a single cell tower.
> Either way I'm fortunate that these things aren't used around me, and I'm not in any danger.

At the 2m20s mark, they claim this leaves personnel 10m away unharmed. So, it seems you can watch from quite nearby. You’d have to avoid being hit by the incoming stuff, though, and I guess wearing hearing protection is strongly advised, too.

As to countermeasures, I would guess this doesn’t work well against kinetic energy projectiles that don’t explode but depend on mass and velocity to do damage. Or would it?
I personally believe it'd be great if people like you could completely divest themselves from nation-states. You don't want to contribute to a commonwealth, that's fine, you can rough it over there and live a sad, cold, hungry existence.

The vast majority of the comforts of modern life are afforded specifically and only because other people contribute to the common cause. You reject your responsibility to contribute to same but gleefully consume the benefits which are allocated to you. What an ass.

Everyone wants to believe they'd be great survivalists. Very few appreciate the level of knowledge and skill needed to do it alone. Even fewer can ever gain all that knowledge and all those skills. There's a reason humans organize into packs: division of labor is nothing less than a paradigm shift in productivity for groups of people. Civilization today is that same basic concept scaled up to support your consumptive ass along with the rest of humanity.
This is my experience as well! On several occasions, when going straight in an intersection, I’ve almost been hit by left turning cars with drivers who haven’t seen me until last second.
If I'm gonna use a biased engine why use a shit one like DDG?
I can’t find this info anywhere, does anyone know if I can keep everything but email and keep using the accounts as they are? I’m happy to move email to another provider but I can’t move decade of google play purchases.
Ask HN: How's your relationship with your parent(s)?
Long story short, I was a stereotypical "good boy" in my youth and was very close with both of my parents. I started finding my own way in university and I've grown so much, but to them, I "changed". We barely talk anymore and there's tension all the time. Story for another time.

And for some reason, in real life I seem to be surrounded by peers with successful jobs and picture-perfect families.

So yeah, curious to know about you folks.
Yes, however spoon feeding provides focus. A poor newbie could spin their wheels for a long time traveling down the wrong coding avenues.

I wish there were more opportunities for pure UX CSS jobs, without the complexity of frontend coding. Just make pretty themes and charge for that. A gentler learning curve than HTML JS React Node Express SQL and on and on and on.
In a world where veteran voice over actors have gone to their fate, Don Lafontaine comes to mind too:

https://donlafontaine.com/
> This is a lovely way to look at it!

I wish I had thought of that example too when I wrote about idempotency!

I wrote a post about idempotence as well a couple months back (https://chrisprijic.com/idempotency-is-key/) and use the definition: "its the output + side-effects that should remain the same, regardless of how many times the function with the same input is run".

I had struggled with "on the same input" when I was putting the post together until I thought about how it usually is due to side-effects that idempotency becomes desirable.
It has remained free for test and dev use during the entire time Oracle owned it, yes. The big deal about this announcement is that it is still free for test and dev, but you get updates! Previously, you could get Solaris 11.4 from 2018, with no updates. Now you can get 11.4 with updates through December 2021, and it sounds like future updates will be made available.
If you can afford to source meat grown with regenerative agriculture you can be doing something positive both for the environment and your health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYLWy3hkH2Y

This has been excellent for my own health. I'm working my way through a grass fed cow I bought from a local rancher. It's quite pleasant work. In a year and a half of carnivory I've lost 75 excess pounds, all of my diabetes symptoms, and several inflammatory complaints.
This is absolutely the easiest solution. We did this for open.media.mit.edu in order to archive the old wordpress site. Used wget to fetch all of the HTML and ran a script over it to remove some obvious clutter. Happy to help out. Your writing really shaped the way I thought about the potential of an open internet.
Unclear to me from the comments why that submission was flagged. It seems reasonably on topic to me and not intrinsically flamebait-y. I guess enough people just hit the flag button.
You basically invented composite armour, which is a thing already, and actually somewhat outdated.

The problem is that at such high velocities, during the impact everything acts like a fluid. Tensile strength and shape is almost irrelevant. You can think of the atoms in the armour not as a solid but as individual particles just hanging in space. Their mass — and hence inertia — is more important than anything else!

Modern armour design is about trying to have moving components that present “fresh” volume/mass to increase the effective thickness. Either via rubber layers that can distort, moving steel plates, or explosive reactive armour that do the same thing but faster.
Also Milton Friedman! Important qualification to recognize this is not just a leftist policy.
This is the type of stuff regulators are effective against, in grand scheme of things quite meaningless activity and enforcement. And affecting those who no one should even be touching without very good reasons or deep understanding...
I’ve been a huge JetPens fan for years. Something about the over-engineering makes it almost hobby-like to collect these pens and pencils.

On the downside, I probably own 500 or so pens and pencils of all variety, plus a requisite number of over-engineered pencil cases.

The habit extends beyond JetPens into somewhat exotic materials, like the pens from Tactile Turn out of Texas. It’s easy to spend $400+ on a pen there. It makes a fun conversation piece but very few understand the “cool pen” impulse some have.
Income taxes in California + US Federal are high enough that I don't really think it's worth it to try to get my income above, say, $500k a year. So, for me, income taxes absolutely disincentivize work. I actually had a second job for a while and quit it because of this.
It was funny to notice my mental knee-jerk reaction of "ought to be enough for anyone" (referring to 640K RAM). I've never used args with env until last week in the first place and even then it was a (mental) debate of solving it in code (wrapping print() in a function that also flushes stdout) or adding the argument instead, so I guess that's why that was my initial thought. But of course that doesn't mean there can't be legitimate uses of long argument lists. Java code comes to mind (although I do question the sanity of many things Java).
As explained in the comment, the puncher didn't know that it would smash hidden glasses and bleed.

It was a dare, not a job. It's not about the payout, it's about the challenger having a little skin in it.
At very busy roundabouts in the UK, drivers usually yield in turn to traffic joining that in theory they have priority over.
Wow. I would find it super annoying to be interrupted twice a day to do a 10min task. Can’t you try to narrow down the underlying bug? Or somehow automate the restart?
We're discussing what the trigger was for the 2014 invasion. It's also worth discussing whether the response was justified, but it's a separate discussion as to what caused Russia to invade & annex Crimea in 2014. That was the reason. Pretending that Putin just woke up one day and decided to invade Ukraine isn't helpful to anybody since it makes it seem like you're being dishonest.

Common sense can tell us Putin was itching for an excuse to annex Crimea, but then that leaves us with the very uncomfortable question of why the US pushed Ukraine into this situation knowing how Putin would respond.

Ukraine is being used a pawn in a proxy war between the US and Russia. People need to call it what it is if they actually care to understand it.
There is no reason to think that issuing more shares would have the same effect as stock splitting because they are very different things.
Back up encrypted data and discard keys selectively to delete data from the archive
elon is very popular. how would he run it into the ground
Good thing they didn't say the rule should be for above average drivers only?
> Elon is arguing that Twitter is mismanaged.

Anyone who thinks this is manifestly true should read this take from an ex-CEO of Reddit:

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1514938507407421440

tl;dr: managing human interaction in any environment with limited accountability is a lot harder than it looks

Also, there's the question of by what metrics one would argue it's mismanaged. Revenue and engagement trends? Profitability trends?
I believe it. I’ve met many people who would do far stupider things for $100.
It's Musk day at HN. Some might be exhausted.
lspconfig maintainer here, minor info dump:

Lspconfig currently has 3 parts, the default settings for the servers, an implicit project detector to trigger when to launch the servers (conditioned on filetypes and some patterns), and the infrastructure to manage launching/shutting down/attaching buffers to servers as you open files within the same project.

Eventually we'd like parts 2 & 3 to be in core as a "projects" module, leaving separate "project patterns" and "server settings" as mostly metadata containing repositories.

That would open the door for third party plugins to create customized project templates which map keybindings, set formatexpr, pass custom server settings, etc. similar to how coc.nvim has coc-pyright, coc-gopls, etc. These plugins could also handle installing language servers automatically should they choose to offer that.

There's also nvim-lsp-installer, but I really don't like the approach it takes of hijacking lspconfig's setup.
Yeah OTC trading is almost exclusively fraud. It's the model for crypto trading. A knowledgeable investor has no reason to invest in OTC, and naive investors don't even know how.
Yeah, I see the advantage of the US health system - all those people who shuffle papers to handle costs and payments, all those people to enforce the rules and deal with infractions, ... People's health should not be a profit centre, maybe a regulated utility but as far as "for the general good" goes, health is up there with fire and police in "things a modern society sorta needs".
90% of Twitter stock is held by institutional investors. Feel free to sell your shares. No one will notice.
>I have repeatedly seen HNers argue that COVID is harmless to children (no qualifiers), and that the cure is worse than the disease.

HNers?

How about UK's JCVI (Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation), a government advisory panel?

"Covid-19: JCVI opts not to recommend universal vaccination of 12-15 year olds"

Source: https://www.bmj.com/content/374/bmj.n2180?ijkey=350e95850073...

UK JCVI declined to recommend the vaccine on risk/benefit basis. That is a scientific fact that, in your own words, "the cure is worse than the disease" for some.

JCVI membership:

Professor Andrew Pollard, Chair (University of Oxford)
Professor Lim Wei Shen, Chair COVID-19 immunisation (Nottingham University Hospitals)
Professor Anthony Harnden, Deputy Chair (University of Oxford)
Dr Kevin Brown (Public Health England)
Dr Rebecca Cordery (Public Health England)
Dr Maggie Wearmouth (East Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust)
Professor Matt Keeling (University of Warwick)
Alison Lawrence (lay member)
Professor Robert Read (Southampton General Hospital)
Professor Anthony Scott (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)
Professor Adam Finn (University of Bristol)
Dr Fiona van der Klis (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, Netherlands)
Professor Maarten Postma (University of Groningen)
Professor Simon Kroll (Imperial College London)
Dr Martin Williams (University Hospitals Bristol)
Professor Jeremy Brown (University College London Hospitals)

Source: https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/joint-committee-on-vacc...

Looking forward to your explanation on how these world-renowed immunologists are spouting tautologies and are morally and intellectually bankrupt.
what type of supplement was it ? what type of symptoms did you experience ? always worried about things like that.
Oh, certainly. Lots. Most regularly and most personally, I wrote the code editor I used as a daily driver for several years: https://www.github.com/marssaxman/ozette
An intentional experiment that saved no lives?