skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We don’t know if we’ll even exist a year from now.

Yep, that is the key. If I were a big company, I would not buy if I did not know you would be around in a year either. Large companies and government entities of any size move slowly. If you are banking on a deal with either one to keep your company afloat, you need to make other sales. Large deals before you are stable are bad for everyone - for them because you are not stable, and for you because one customer now has the leverage to dictate your product roadmap because you cannot live without them.

In other words - expand your sales pipeline.
Thansk, and agreed, i am learning ansible but won't be going too deep. If my job was in Ops/sysadmin/SRE then i would learn it more...but at that point it would be needed for resume and not just to learn as a hobby anyway. Since my job is not in any of those realsm, ansible will only be a brief, minor experiment.

Also agreed that in a few years i also feel that json, yaml will be considered the new "xml", and receive dislike from many.

> ...If you have time my suggestion is investing time in Emacs...

Thanks for the recommendation. I have tried emacs in the past but it just felt like too much work to get productive in. I've been liking more and more the philosopy about each tool doing only one thing, but doing it well. And, to me, emacs seems so overwhelming. This is not a bad thing, just so far for the times that i tried emacs, it didn't click right for my work flow. I'm not a super fan of vi/vim or nano either, but it is mildly handy that those editors are always available on any linux machine that i jump into. As far as my need for other functions like feed reading, reading email, etc....so far, sticking to the practice of using each tool for only its main function seems to work out ok for me...though i have to consciously ensure i do not go overboard. so far, so good. Thanks again for your comments!
FYI HN doesn't use markdown so to not have it be a large blob of text you need to insert blank lines between the items
Q2 2022 is now. Not next year? I'm assuming you mean Q2 2023.

Make sure to communicate with them so they don't forget about you. Think if there is some small preliminary work you could do, ideally something that showcases you in a really good light, so they will want you faster.
'Compel' sounds awful lawyery to me

Edit: down voting because you disagree? I'm more than open to hearing other viewpoints on the verbiage.

>compel
kəm-pĕl′
transitive verb
To force (a person) to do something; drive or constrain: synonym: force.
To necessitate or require, as by force of circumstance; demand.
To exert a strong, irresistible force on; sway.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=compel+definition&ia=definition
Who would've thought that decades of maximizing realism from the industry would lead to something familiar and unexciting, i.e. boring.

We need to evolve and democratize game development tools for creating more fantastical content. Less polygons, more management of complex systemic interactions.

The (traditional) roguelike scene has been struggling with this since its inception. As codebases grow and things get added, managing the complexity becomes a massive headache-inducing mess. But it's precisely this complexity of interaction that makes a game deep and interesting. Every thing added requires an exponential increase in logic, as code is needed for interacting with every other thing from before.

NO TOOL EXISTS today that makes it easy to add things to a game and define how those things interact with other things, on the content creation process level. How crazy is that?
People who want to spend the rest of their lives on cruise ships
A good tech stack guarantees that your product is of high quality and fulfils your consumers’ expectations. Hence, choosing a suitable tech stack for web development that is aligned with the demands of your product from the start eliminates a large number of future complications including fixing or updating cases. This may undoubtedly help you save a substantial amount of money and time.
> This BBC article [1] posted a little earlier seems to indicate it's not NFT's that are slipping here so much as interest in Twitter.

That’s not how I read the article at all, and Google trends confirms that NFT interest has trended down whilst Twitter holds steady.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=Nft,Twitte...
"but what exactly is Twitter?"

It's like a watercooler around which a huge bunch of people with interesting takes and things to say on lots of different interesting things have gathered. It takes a while to find the information streams as they are not made obvious, but at least for me I got much better first hand information of both Covid and Ukrainian war from the people I follow before media.
Why do they do it? I don’t get it at all? Do they lose anything from someone playing an old wordle on this site?
Activist investors almost never buy the entire company outright. The objective is to buy enough stock to have influence on the board, pressure them to make changes that they think would be beneficial and then sell. I think the last time twitter was targeted by actual activist investors, they never bought more than 5-6% of the stock but that was enough to force Dorsey to make changes.
Be what 1Password no longer is on macOS: no subscription; allow local vaults which can be synced by the user’s choice of service (iCloud Drive, Dropbox, …); built using Apple languages and technologies; interface which looks like it belongs with the OS.
For average cost analysis across a portfolio, yes. For marginal cost analysis, the question is “what’s the difference in cost between n and n+1 units?”

Whether other streams succeed, fail, or don’t exist doesn’t change the cost to make the n+1 unit.
There's a widely available OTC nasal spray that has been used for years against various respiratory viruses, which became engaged in a regulatory debate.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/nathan-jones-ceo-xlear-inc-11...

> The Government tells people to wash their hands; Yet COVID-19 is an upper respiratory illness. Most COVID-19 infections start in the nose. It makes commonsense to wash your nose. People have been using nasal cleansing to fight respiratory illnesses going back thousands of years.

March 2021, https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20210324005241/en/Xle...

> Xlear previously filed a pre-EUA seeking approval for use of the nasal spray as a medical device in combatting COVID-19. However, because the FDA determined that Xlear “works against the virus,” the FDA told Xlear it would need to be considered as a drug or combination product EUA. Xlear is currently sold in over 50,000 pharmacies, grocery stores, and online as a nasal spray. “Xlear doesn’t require the EUA to be sold and used—we only need an EUA to be able to inform people about the benefits of using Xlear to protect themselves from COVID-19".
Yeah, I get that, but for someone who talks a lot about his singular desire to do more space exploration, things like a tunneling company, a rocket company and an electric car company make sense. Twitter doesn't fit in that group too easily.
Arch Linux. When using Zsh the last char is always a '%'. When using Bash it does no show a '%' but there's no line break. Possibly an weird interaction with my $PS1.
I think one thing that makes an external stream deck work, is that it is a separate context sensitive device, that is mentally separated from the keyboard.

So when you go to the deck to perform an action, you mentally context switch away from the keyboard, so your brain is looking for different clues.

So even with a touch bar + function keys, the function keys stay in keyboard context, but the touch bar requires that switch in any case. Maybe taking your eyes to the touch bar is enough of a context switch, mentally.
So he is pumping up the share price and, if he doesn't get his way he will dump his shares.

I wonder if there's a name for this sort of behaviour?
Standard terminology for when an acquisition is pitched directly to the shareholders against the wishes (or irrespective of the wishes) of the board.
I don’t get it and it seems like a jerk move and one that the author didn’t do. Now that NYT is trying to maximize commercialization it seems more like how NYT is ruining a good, fun thing.

But I would like to know what I’m missing and appreciate that you may be able to elaborate why.
It’s so interesting that I can’t tell if you are a troll, being sarcastic, an antisemite, a Q believer, etc.

But also I don’t think your comment adds much to the discussion. Generally, non vaccine treatments have escaped the “Bill Gates and his microchip” skepticism.
If you are taking this article at face value then you are missing the point.

This is 100% a marketing piece. It is a standard part of modern Mentalism to pretend to explain how it works by psychology, powers of suggestion, and deep study of human nature. This is misdirection. Mentalism is an illusion, like any other magic show.

Source: Like the author I also have a stack of books on Mentalism.
This is pretty much about learning to deal with your feelings. Different things work for different people. Mindfulness and acceptance have been interesting concepts to explore for me. Though there too exist a variety of approaches. Explore related literature.
Agreed on RTK cost. Two RTK receivers cost about the same as a commercial robot lawn mower.

I have half-finished contraption on my garage desk, consisting of hoverboard electronics and motors (cheapest battery, motor, power electronics combo), PX4 autopilot and a spinning disc with Husqvarna razorblades as cutter. Time will tell if I muster enough energy to deal with the rest of the plan this summer- Raspberry Pi running ROS and Kinect for SLAM.

Right now though, it's just a scary RC vehicle capable of doing wheelies (hoverboard motors have a lot of torque).
Yeah. I mostly left Twitter about 9 years ago (!) for the same reasons.

I wonder if a celebrity like Musk is overestimating how important Twitter really is. Because in my view, it's a cesspool of self-promoters, hate, corporate marketing and superficial populism. I believe correcting that course is impossible. It's been like that for 10 years with no change.
Avoiding the requirement to file quarterly earnings reports.
There is nothing wrong with treating G13 as an IMR GPU. But might be able better performance and efficiency when doing for example image processing (or a task that maps to it conceptually) via the rendering pipeline with tile shaders. This way you can process your data in small chunks, using very fast on-GPU memory file. In the end, tile memory is the same thing as shared memory in CUDA, but you can persist its contents between multiple different compute and fragment shaders. It's a very powerful programming model that makes local data relationships explicit.
Fascinated and would love to hear more! Any success so far? If you put out a write up I’d love to read it.
Usually, dark fiber means that you got that cable (with one or more hairs) completely for yourself, as a customer. It is not leased line, you are not sharing it, it is your fibre to communicate with. It is more expensive, for sure, since Carrier could make lot of $$ out of it (many many Internet Customers for example), but at the end of the day it is cost efficient actually since you have no other interference on your cabling. You do not share bandwith, you do not share services, you decide about your techonlogy at the endpoints (GBICs, etc.).
I think it depends on population density as well. I grew up in a rural area in the US and now live in Philadelphia on a tiny side street barely two cars wide. Every single car on our street has scratches/small dents on the bumper and fender from others parallel parking. If you live here you have to accept that "bumpers are for bumping"!
US condemnds Indian human rights because it's not on side with respect to Russia -> India condemns US in retaliation...

Amazing how self serving most geopolitical moves are.
Cannot it be just on cicd?
It’s not such a bad idea, and it was the initial intent of blue checks: proving that an account wasn’t impersonated. But they couldn’t roll out verification at scale, so they only verified high-ish profile accounts. As a result, over time, the blue check has come to be a sort of class signifier and lost its original purpose (I sometimes see verified anon accounts, what even was verified?)

Rolling it out at scale could improve the rampant spam/astroturfing problem, even if it would be imperfect.
This time last year he was the reason why Dogecoin skyrocketed. Look at where it is now.

Don't let him do this to Twitter.
> ...update the JS each day with the new word

Even more hands off than that. The script contained the entire list of words and each day it just moved to the next entry in the list. It makes sense, in that originating as a fun personal project the author wouldn't want to be burdened with a daily update task.

Edit:

Out of curiosity I had a look at the Wordle on the NYT site, and it's still the same script.
> Musk buys at $39 pumps all month to $54. He can either sell and easily make billions profit or take over the entire company at what can only be described as a discount compared to potential.

He can’t sell his whole stake for a profit. There’s nowhere near enough liquidity. The moment he tries to sell billions of dollars of stock it’d tank.
I'm always surprised by how confused people get about various types of "intellectual property" because they're actually quite different. I'm not a lawyer and I'm sure it varies from one part of the world to another, but generally...

Copyright applies to works & derivative works. Think: movies, music, books, etc.

Patents apply to inventions. Think: methods of doing something to achieve a particular application.

Trademarks apply to things associated with a brand or product. Think: logos, "the Intel sound", the pattern of colours used in the Google logo, the brand name used, particular characters, etc.

I think there can be a little bit of overlap between these, in that a logo might be trademark and also might be a copyrighted work, but generally the distinctions are fairly clear.
This is terrible. A person like Elon Musk should not hold more power.
If there is anyone on the planet that can start a new social network and get millions to join just by asking it’s probably Elon.
Also makes it a lot harder to set up an army of bots.
It has been a constant battle of SEO improving and Google improving the page ranking algorithm. For a long time Google was winning that battle, but more recently they haven't seen as interested. The economic argument you're making may be the reason, but it's short termist if people slowly get driven away from Google by poor quality search results.

Five to ten years ago no other engine was close - the fact that duckduckgo was even try was comical. Google had an effectively monopoly. That might not be true at all five to ten years from now if the trend continues.
Non-hostile version of a takeover requires a board approval at least. Depending on the jurisdiction and the company bylaws certain amount of the shareholders (say 75%+) has to vote for the takeover to actually happen.

Edit: Under normal circumstance, single entities cannot 'easily' obtain a large share of the stocks even if they actively buy.
They could offer an archive themselves if they thought that was a positive. They don't, and to me the fact that you can only do one a day is a brilliant yet counterintuitive strategy that helped get Wordle popular. But that strategy is defeated if others offer what they choose not to.

I really like the idea of them being able to say "don't worry, you can't get overly addicted because we only offer one a day and don't let you binge." And as owners of the IP, they do have that right.
The Q12 survey for employee engagement
Twitter totally missed the opportunity to turn Vine into Tiktok.
I have a small one in my garden and it's filled up with all kinds of insects.

Obviously if you place on in a parking lot with no other habitats around insects won't find them, but they do work wonderfully.
also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mecanum_wheel

"The mecanum wheel is an omnidirectional wheel design for a land-based vehicle to move in any direction"

Would be interesting to have a bunch of these extend out from below the car. It would double as an inbuilt jack too.
Should the US president get some special protection because of his job? Surely the same standards should be applied to all users?
If nothing else at some point they will run out of five letter words and presumably NYT is making money off of Wordle. So they will have to start from the beginning at some point. So they do lose if you can just binge on the game in this archive.
I finally have a word for that (headstrong), thank you. I have observed this about myself in many situations. People need to convince me of something, by "subjectively rational argument" rather than "because I feel so arguments". While I might be willing to do things that do not take much effort, even when they do not make that much sense, depending on the standing the other person has in my book, I am not willing to do things, that I am not convinced are making sense, when they go against my principles. And I do have some of those. Headstrong it is then.
The game is copyrightable, of course.

(and words, well, of course. Books are words, right?)
I get "Unsupported Browser" with Firefox Android 99.2.0 (April 12 2022).
I actually had this as a planned footnote in the article, then cut it because I haven’t added support for footnotes yet lol
one has to wonder why those dumb old economy guys have never taken twitter apart and tried to turn it around like Musk proposes? they are probably too dumb
Perhaps but I'm in the UK not the US and background checks outside of specific industries (finance/law etc) aren't a thing.

I know this because I've been on the hiring side a lot and have never done it myself.
I have said negative things about someone's favorite product and then abandoned a thread (not here on this site) because the stream of hate that followed drowned out the original message.

People can be irrationally attached to the things they use.

As a farm kid growing up, you didn't step between two guys arguing the merits of I-H and J-D farm equipment (1970s...)
> Are words copyrightable

Have you literally never heard of text being copyright?
I don’t see why he couldn’t buy more stock at the current selling price? As long as someone is willing to sell anyway.

This takeover is aimed at people that wouldn’t ordinarily sell their stock at this point in time.
It's optional. By default strings are mutable, but you can freeze them individually, and you can set a directive that makes all string literals as immutable on a file-by-file basis.
The consequences for politics are literally the only thing that matters here. Even if Musk doesn't intend to reinstate Trump's account (and certainly, nothing he's said indicates he wouldn't do that), the second he controls Twitter he will be under enormous pressure to do so. If he declines to do so, it will be damaging to his business with government. If he agrees to do so, there will be a huge amount of public discontent with Musk and his companies.

Worse, from that point on everything that happens as a result will be on Musk and his companies. There won't be any more repercussions for powerful politically-motivated speakers, even if they explicitly call for violence. This will motivate extreme behavior and extreme responses. Boycotts for Tesla and Starlink (whose customers almost certainly tip liberal) will absolutely be on the table.

Even if you personally love Musk, the success of his consumer-facing businesses depends on broad adoption by consumers. That's all at risk now. CEOs of this kind of business may have politics, but they traditionally avoid political firestorms because of these concerns. Musk is obviously rich enough that he doesn't care, but his shareholders probably should.
Also, if there are people complaining of censorship you can always give them a '4-chan mode' and watch them come back asking how to switch it off after 5 min.
> I'd guess that the majority of HN readers don't do this, assuming they represent average technical employee across the industry.

That would be the disagreement then I think: you and him have different models of the majority HN reader. Based on my experience in the industry and on hn, I also don't think the typical hn commenter represents the average technical employee. Perhaps the typical hn reader does, but then I have a lot less information about that group.

I don't think it's right to say he's "out of touch" for an off the hand remark like that, even regardless of this discussion.

e: also, there is a poll option for hn posts, it might be interesting to find out more about who does/doesn't do this.
Primary school is 5 - 11, no? That would be Elementary or Grundschule. Kindergarten is for 4 or 5 year olds, like pre-school.
> What unrealized potential does Twitter have left after 16 years of existence?

How much potential communication was left in the human race have after the first 7,000 years since written script started appearing? The answer is, most potential was still unexplored.

Everything in modern civilisation is still young. Especially new communication platforms.
Good. Bureaucracy is what protects us from hypercapitalists raping our planet's environment for personal gain. European standards are stricter and produce cleaner everything from food to appliances to cars. Our lives are generally better in every way and for less money sunk, even accounting for supposedly higher taxes.
He'll have to do it the same way he bought his current stake: slowly, over weeks and months, a little bit every day. A totally standard thing to ask your investment bank to do.
You don't have to please your shareholders.
It’s a reference to They Live
It's popular but it's mostly garbage where people scream at each other, among the bots and scammers. You can improve the interaction modes, improve discoverability etc. thus improving its value per user instead of inflating total number of users.
Concerts and plays are a real things that happen in the real world. So is teaching. They don't exist in a virtual space where everything is duplicable ad infinitum and where the next machine is just as capable as the first.
Do you pay for music and movies on the internet? I don't, and most people do not directly. They go through platforms because otherwise people just avoid paying for them. Copyright and the Internet are kind of conflictual by nature, you probably know that. I'm not saying it's good or bad, i'm just saying things on a computer... it's weird to us. Everything is scalable on a computer, nothing really is in the real world, it feels like cheating. To me the debate is really about proprietary software and and the nature of computers.

Where I live education is mostly free anyway, and artists are heavily subsidized by the state. Greatest artists of the past had benevolent patrons, for a reason.

Actually I'm fairly familiar with Marx, not in a classic leftist way though. Not sure he could have predicted the whole information industry thing but I've always seen the whole GNU/Linx/free software paradigm as the only True Communism™ that exists, and maybe that's why paying for software is a difficult thing.
>>> If you squint enough, building software looks a lot like building a house.

Ahahah
No, It doesn't
I mean, I agree, but to be fair I had a positive experience once by letting my employer know when I had already started interviewing elsewhere (really just giving them a heads up that I was planning on leaving within the next 6 months) and to my surprise they were more than happy to match the salary and make changes (for example going fully remote) to accomodate me. I'm still there nearly 3 years later.

Really depends on the employer and on how much they want to keep you and how willing you are to stay there.
I'd rather be nice and not an asshole.

It's funny to see someone on the internet justifying leaving landmines that eventually blow up and maim future generations of people. Keyboard warriors will never change.