skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow that’s crazy, I love learning new tidbits about how older tech like cobol or mainframes or something are still around and plugging along
duckduckgone
Language evolves. Trying to fight that is a losing battle.
Thanks for a lot for the insights on this, second mention of 10X, seems interesting indeed and pretty much what I had in mind originally.
All these complaints about security and stuff that's "for our own good", I'm just happy to have a well documented source for my mostly offline windows VMs which is

- < v11
- easy to find (versus looking on torrent sites for ...)
- debloated
- will not update and restart itself if granted internet access temporarily!

The last one has really screwed me when setting up fiddly product demos on win environments the night before an early morning meeting.

BTW, torrent is also here if you don't use telegram. Review comments are meh but we'll see. https://archive.org/details/windows10-ame-21h1-2021-08-09
Janet vs Babashka vs Fennel - anyone have thoughts?
> If the data is critical, use a temporary file instead

Use a temporary file always. Sponge process may be interrupted, and you end up with a half-complete /etc/passwd in return.
if they added basic telephony & internet to the steam deck, then I would get it.
I inherited a stupendous number of framed pictures (dangerous glass!) from my parents and was frankly resentful of it until the day I took them all apart and stored the pictures.

These days my main side project is a frameless ‘decoration system’ motivated by that experience (and others) but you do have to be more careful in your materials choices if you don’t want in framed prints to fade quickly.
Not to be a nihilist, but 200 seems like a ridiculously and surprisingly low number for impact of such an expensive and broad program. Does it really validate what the author posits?
Can't agree more about Tom7!

Do checkout MarcosRep, tons of humour, highly recommended! And of course AvE...
What does it mean to keep shareholders in a private company. Isn't there a limit of 2,000 or so?
I don’t understand how any board can implement a “poison pill”, not just Twitter but Netflix and others, and not be found working against the interest of shareholders. Can anyone help me understand?

You’re categorically changing the profile of the stock. This has a chilling effect on large investors, including but not limited just to Musk, right?

Correct. Hence the term poison pill. Now nobody else will be interested in buying them either and Elon selling out will tank the stock. As a reminder their stock steadily dropped all the way to $14 after the initial IPO pop and they've been losing money since before Covid.

Woke means broke I guess. I think his plan B will be to start a competitor. I'm very tempted to heavily short as soon as he walks away definitively.

As to your question of, won't the other shareholders get mad at the board and potentially sue them - I think the board is drinking their own koolaid.
Medicines in general can effect people very differently based on their individual biochemistry/proteome
Can you give us a list (or partial list) of sites that are pulling scripts from duckduckgo? We can look at what they're trying to do.
That's an interesting point: my view is not much abut "the bad vs the good élite" or how much percentage of bad/good élites incorporate or "who are the élite" but about why we have a certain pyramidal setup.

In my view we all have different kind of people in a society, the bad, the good, the ugly and any intermix of them in between, the point is that nature can self-regulate the percentage of those toward stability so a Democratic society in the classic demos sense (demos does not means the working class/the poor but the People in the sense of those who are, feel to be Citizens, active in their community, participating etc) we do not need a pyramidal structure.

The French Revolution divide a bit the power from all-into-one in few separated and that can't touch/interfere each others, we need perhaps just more subdivisions. Any of those surely have a kind of hierarchy but not with single subjects at the top nor with a very little oligarchy that rules on many others. Something much more like Renaissance society of the municipalities where there are competing powers, good and bag guys etc but a sufficiently subdivided power and crossed/contrasted interests that no one power can rule the others and the society keep changing at a certain peace, not issueless, for sure, but still in a turbulent but flourishing society.

Those systems in the history have worked in many different times and societies but they never last long, pushing toward too much resource usages and polarization, culture IMVO can compensate. In the past culture, basic ones eh, not all PhDs, was expensive, now can be cheap and easy to be accessed enough for nearly all. The quid I miss is how in the past when those kind of society start can start out of an age of darkness?
Good luck if there is any single malicious device on your network.

Good luck if explorer previewed wrong file.

Good luck if trusted website has been hacked and serves malicious content.

Good luck if you do npm install.
My first thought was: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wolf_of_Wall_Street_(2013_...
>Using subkeys without the certify key has always been a bit of a hack.

I am not sure what is meant by this. Standalone subkeys are impossible. I think this might be a reference to the case where you store the private key for the certify key somewhere safer than the rest. Which, BTW, IMO, is something very few people need to do, although it seems to have become somewhat of a fad.
Most coffees do that tho. That part about McDonald's coffee being unusually hot was BS.
This thread is an interesting perspective on social media "censorship" that you don't hear often.

Of course everyone working at a social media company has an ideological bias, and that can come out in the product. But consider also that the latest censorship controversy creates negative PR, makes people leave the platform, attracts regulatory attention, and ultimately, hurts the company's profits. Content moderators are at least as worried about that as they are about making sure their ideological opponents aren't given a voice.

Social media companies are in the unenviable position of playing referee in the culture war, and like referees in any sport, they're going to constantly be criticized for doing it, right or wrong. These companies are global and universal, and there's no way they can satisfy all parties. Sometimes, the values of left and right, or Iran and the US, or Israel and Palestine, are just irreconcilable. You're better off just trying to avoid as much trouble as possible, and avoiding negative media attention.

Reddit is probably the most ham-fisted example of this approach. Their content moderation is pretty hands off, but as soon as any subreddit attracts negative attention, it's quarantined or banned, no matter if the controversy is justified or not. When Russia invaded Ukraine and Russia Is Bad Now, they just straight up banned /r/russia and any link to an .ru domain! That does nothing to address the conflict, but it does keep those NYT opinion pieces from showcasing Problematic Russian Bot Behavior on Reddit.

I'll note that I don't think this model fully explains moderation policies at Twitter or other social media sites. I genuinely believe moderation leans left due to an ideological monoculture (I've seen it first hand). But it's important to recognize the difficult situation social media sites are in.
> Most studies on the topic shows that having health insurance in the US doesn't impact people's health much or at all.

I can't speak to "most" having not seen all of them, but studies have shown it matters.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/24/us-healthcar...

These came up a year later:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323087/

https://news.gallup.com/poll/268094/millions-lost-someone-co...

Seems there has been some prior evidence for supporting the idea that health insurance (the only way to get affordable healthcare in the US) matters.

What are examples of studies that show it has little to no impact?
> Doesn't this, essentially, underpin the whole endeavor?

Not really—the poster (ie, a previous CEO of Reddit) is trying to tell Elon that what he wants to do is impossible, and Elon attempting to do so will just make everyone mad at him, as well as making him completely miserable in the process. One of those "this will kill you, and it will hurt the whole time you're dying" sort of things).

I don't know if he's right or not, but I do agree that running a social media company is messy for social, not technical reasons—and brilliant engineers generally struggle with complex social dynamics. (As always, there's a relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/592/)
I don't think an analogy can be a lie and I find it rather fitting. Ukraine has been molested by Russia since 2014. Ukraine wasn't focussed on threatening Russia (far from it) but Ukraine was focussed on bettering their lives and keeping Russia away from escalating in the Donbass.

Russia willfully engaged in a war of aggression to make Ukraine a vassal state in line with Belarus.
If you're in the US, have you looked into what resources the Office of Education Technology has? https://tech.ed.gov
What's wrong with a leveraged buyout, for example? It seems like the norm these days, not the exception.
'sort -o file' does the same thing but I like the generic 'sponge'. Not sure why it's a binary, since it's basically this shell fragment (if you don't bother checking for errors etc):

(cat > $OUT.tmp; mv -f $OUT.tmp $OUT)

Hmmm ... "When possible, sponge creates or updates the output file atomically by renaming a temp file into place. (This cannot be done if TMPDIR is not in the same filesystem.)"

My shell fragment already beats sponge on this feature!
You're not totally wrong here. However the same is true of computers - a computer "fleet" makes much more money than the profit on the components, but Intel is not out there operating AWS-style datacenters.

I think there's such a thing as "core competency". It's possible that Musk views Tesla's core competency as building vehicles and vehicle software, not running a logistics-heavy operation like a robot taxi fleet.
> not a generic term for violent xenophobia

Nazism is when violent xenophobia becomes state ideology. That is invention of the 20th century.
I feel that, I find that when I want the answer to something I add "reddit" to the end of the question or query. I dont use a lot of reddit but I have found that usually you get much better / non-paid answers on there. So much of todays internet are just advertising in disguise.
Usually when it comes to questions or comparisons with products, at least with reddit its more likely to be akin to a customer review than some random article that who knows who paid them to tell you x is better than y.
The pushback is simple: Twitter stock price was higher than Musk’s offer for most of 2021. We are in a downturn affecting the entire tech industry, and it’s likely that prices will return to previous levels at some point. Elon’s offer is a lowball and Twitter can bring more value to shareholders with or without Elon.
Imagine someone sets fire to a masterpiece, art conservatives don't take a reactive stance and say "hey you shouldn't have done that", they take an active stance using safeguards to ensure that it doesn't happen in the first place because it can't be undone.
"Elon said" is not a stamp of trust anymore. Elon also said TSLA would accept Dogecoin, which he had accumulated prior to communicating it. Then he sold it off.

History should be a lesson here, it's almost Deja Vu with Twitter
Because a lot of effort went into trying to convince people that this particular result was correct rather then failure.
When I installed moreutils v0.67 with macports just now it said:

moreutils has the following notes:
The binary parallel is no longer in this port; please install the port parallel instead.

i.e. GNU parallel
Wisej Community Version is available for free
>They'll need to pay taxes on the realized gains

The bulk of the holders of stock in most public companies are institutional investors that don't need to pay taxes on the realized gains.
Edible tags can suss out fake medications
If you could reduce the search space by 99%, it will still be too large.
My feeling is that certain kinds of governments create certain kinds of administrative cultures, and sadly, post-soviet states often end up with gangster kleptocrats, whether or not they are Russian. The fish rots from the head down, and so soon, everybody starts thinking like a gangster. (I mean, Stalin was literally a gangster, so you can see how that would trickle down).

Boris Johnson is not that bad by any means, but I still worry about politicians that test the boundaries of what you can get away with. Johnson has pushed that boundary further and further, and so far, he's been able to stay in his seat. It sets a bad precedent - before long, you end up with all the rules not mattering, and a jackass like Victor Orban in power.
When you say "8+ seconds", is that the startup time for the postgres instance?
>Up until very very recently they were losing money on every car they made

For others in the crowd, this phrase is extremely useful for spotting a short seller (or someone who was primarily influenced by the short-n-distort crowd from 2016-2019).

This statement is a lie, and was never true. Every car Tesla made was produced and sold at a profit. Their high margins fed crazy growth. You can only get to these bullshit statements by counting their reinvestment into factories as "loss".

For example:

-Make car for $40k

-Sell for $50k

-$10k/per car profit

-Make $xM in profit from cars for that quarter

-Raise $1B to grow based on the above

-Spend some of that $1B on factories, such that the total
spent of that $1B is more than $xM

-Short n Distort campaigners argue that because you spent more than you made, you are "losing money on every car".
Underestimating the complexity of autonomous cars, overestimating his abilities and domain knowledge, continuous lying about it (even if not consciously) sound pretty stupid to me. Like, textbook Dunning-Kruger.
So that selection bias seems to project that buying before a share split is actually not an educated+good decision
A parameter in assessing the relative value of the offer to shareholders is the time horizon.

Perhaps the board believes the value of the shares over the next year or two is substantially higher than Musk's offer, such that they should reject the buyout so that shareholders can reap that gain.
If you expect Twitter to 20x in the next 5 years, then

a: You're dreaming.

b: You're absolutely expecting a quick short-term gain.
Sure, but that would be illegal and won’t happen. The SEC has filing requirements and the poison pill, if triggered, probably requires certain representations to be made (e.g. the buyer of the newly minted shares does not hold more than X% when aggregated with anyone they are acting in concert with).
The Porsche Taycan has a two speed transmission that works quite well, so while Tesla couldn't pull it off, it's clearly possible.
Awesome! Thank you for playing!
Similarly, I remember reading that in terms of game theory, it’s optimal to only have two powers with nuclear weapons. Chances for instability increases with more agents added, especially of lower power due to compensation or posturing. Something like that.
Twitter already has a lot of debt, far too much to fund this.
The Mesopotamians were more preoccupied with writing down contracts in cuneiform than writing down historical fiction to last through the ages. Maybe because they were one of the first civilizations to thrive and to invent writing at all, they didn't know their oral traditions and history would be lost to the sands of time without writing them down.

We do have more insight into ancient Egyptian pharaohs and architects, however, as these details were more carefully preserved.

That being said, I'm sure 500K years from now, these details will all be buried on some thumb drive in an underground archive and our descendents will lack the drivers to decode them.
Having some gentle music helps me a bit. Something without lyrics. Orchestrated video game music works well, as does the famous "lo-fi beats to relax/study to" playlist on Spotify [0]. I like classic late '90s era Trance music as well, but after about an hour or so of it, the regular bass kicks start to grate.

[0] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0vvXsWCC9xrXsKd4FyS8kM
Both the website and the GitHub are top two results at my end, in India.
Once Elon owns the company, HE is the one taking the risk on the loan -- NOT the board of directors.
I call it the imaginary web. I'm making an imaginary web browser and a blockchain to enhance the trust. Imaginary/fake web is useful. If you want to live in a curated web, go ahead, but web3 is the way to embrace the full imaginary+real internet
"L5 autonomy by the end of the year" (since 2019 or so)
I think last year was some serious bubbliciousness, not the true value of Twitter and all the other tech companies (and shitcoins and NFTs and basically everything else people were throwing money at)
having also not read the original paper recently, I'm in the camp that says the question is interesting and valid, but you've got to be careful about interpretation. how much the scores correlate (or autocorrelate) with self assessment IS an interesting question, and it's not apparent a priori what the answer will be, or whether the real effect we're interested in will differ for different levels of expertise.

but the use of percentile to percentile (or quartiles, but those are just grouped percentiles) to give the impression of a particular kind of effect (lower groups overestimating and higher groups underestimating) is a flaw i think. it's a common one, in my experience, when dealing with percentages.

if you think about it, percentages/percentiles have to be bounded at 0 or 100. for a dunning kruger effect not to appear, participants at both ends of the ability spectrum would have to be eerily accurate in their self-assessments. if they aren't, there's just more space on one side of the measurement scale for each group to make an error (if you score 1 in ability, there's ~99 percentiles available for you to make an overestimate and only 1 to be accurate, ditto for those with high ability. those in the middle of the ability group have equal chance on either side and so appear statistically more accurate even with a purely random distribution of guesses). so if there is any measure of central tendancy towards the middle percentile in the estimations of peoples abilities at all (and i would argue there is a priori reason to believe there would be, as the alternative would require those at both ends of the distribution to be getting increasingly accurate, which would be really weird), then practically any real world graph of percentile performance to percentile estimation will show a dunning kruger effect (with lower ends overestimating and higher ends underestimating). the article does a good job of showing this by plotting just random estimations and observing one appears.
it will stick, I suppose. Perfect thing to supersede high art sales for money loundering/tax optimisation etc
I meant he accidentally started WWIII at the same time he made it clear Russia's military is collapsing from the inside out.

It probably won't escalate to a shooting war outside of Ukraine, but that's mostly because the rest of the world will probably be able to stop him via a proxy war.

He showed spectacular lack of judgment. I'm sorry if anyone thought I meant he lacks responsibility for his actions. I hope Putin is charged and convicted of war crimes.
Sure, let's play "what if" for a minute.

What if the US invaded Canada back in 2014, taking southern Ontario (the industrial heartland) and southern Alberta (the oil region), and set up two US puppet states called "The Republic of Ontario" and "The Republic of Alberta"? What if since then the US repeatedly said things like "Canada doesn't exist as a country", "Canadians are really USAians", and "Canada is full of Nazis and needs to be purged"? What if the US held yearly large-scale military drills on the Canadian border? Do you think that Canada might be alarmed enough to go looking for allies, even if the ally was Russia? Do you think they would be right to do so?

What if Mexico saw all that, and decided that they had better find some allies too?

Countries trying to join NATO didn't happen in a vacuum...
Fair enough.

This might also come down to editors and things that I didn’t cover in the post too.

There’s probably a happy path for clojure/jvm via an IDE that I didn’t try (I use neovim) or something else I might have missed in my clojure years.
What’s a concrete example of speech that you’d make which is specifically banned on Twitter?
They're all worse in terms of size and/or speed, but not disastrously so.

Ring-LWE is faster than ECC, but has keys and ciphertexts of 600+B instead of as few as 32 B (for eg curve/ed25519). NTRU is pretty similar, with slower key generation and slightly smaller ciphertexts. If you go to the bleeding edge, you might be able to cut these to 300-400 bytes with severe compromises in eg error rate and security margin. There are also structured code-based systems with fairly similar sizes to the Ring-LWE ones, but they aren't finalists.

McEliece is fast to encrypt and decrypt and has small ciphertexts (as few as 128 bytes), but has enormous public keys (multi-hundred KB) that are also slow to generate. The biggest benefit of McEliece is that we're pretty confident it will hold up to analysis.

SIKE (an alternate) has reasonable keys and ciphertexts (200-250 B) but is pretty slow, on the order of 5ms on a laptop for the smallest parameters. The bleeding-edge CSIDH is much slower, but has even smaller keys, but we can't be at all confident that CSIDH is secure.

On the sig side, Falcon is fast but extremely complicated, and has as low as ~660B sigs. Its main competitor, Dilithium, is modestly slower and larger, and also significantly simpler. The much more conservative SPHINCS+ is very slow and produces ~8kB sigs.
In the 90s, commercial Unixes really still ruled the roost. Linux was getting traction, but slowly, so for big-biz use you were looking at AIX from IBM, Solaris from Sun, HP/UX from HP, or something like it.

The Sun hardware was materially better, or so I recall. It was also more attractive. I actually still have an Ultra5 on a shelf in my office that, for a time, ran Oakley's online store (which my old company built). It's still a good looking machine.

Solaris, too, was widely viewed as better/more workable/easier to use than its competitors. It had more polish.

If you're looking at Solaris with the latest build of Ubuntu or whatever in mind, yeah, it's gonna look neckbeardy and hokey. But that's not the world Solaris was the king of. Back then, using a commercial Unix meant you got a LOT of shit that Just Worked out of the box, and generally an easier time getting your shit running.
Yes, Elon was unlawfully pressured to settle with the SEC against his will or best interests.

At the time Tesla was in a "precarious" financial position with the Model 3 ramp up. The banks told Elon they would suspend his lines of credit/hold loans if he did not immediately settle with the SEC.

He chose to settle with the SEC and admit to lying when he did not in order to save Tesla from going bankrupt. All of this aligns with publicly known information.

If we lived in a functional open society this claim would result in a special counsel investigation into the SEC and the responsible banks, with multiple bureaucrats ending up behind bars.