skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Depending on diff between your current pay and potential pay, one might be better off quitting and searching for the new job to create best possible outcome.
Could you provide a beneficial contribution besides writing 'deranged wokies' ?

Comments like this add _nothing_ and just make people angry at each other.
> I would also love to hear the justification.

Here's a link to the Wikipedia editors' terse description on curated lists:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Copyright_in_lists#S...

A fact you may not know is that the creator and his partner curated the two lists of words-accepted-as-guesses and words-eligible-to-be-daily-targets to remove so-called "Scrabble gibberish."
"Best and final offer" is certainly a weak claim but it doesn't seem your argument about Twitter's value is much stronger.

Yes Twitter was $70 a share in the past but it was also sub $30 in the past and it's not clear which is the "right" price.
I'd suggest you to explain the intended usage pattern without assuming people are familiar with Pinterest. You are not an add-on to Pinterest, so why give them free ads. If you can't explain what you do in 3 mins to a lay person you are doomed anyway.
Nationalized media has historically always turned out so much better.
Thank you for debunking that comment and spelling out the problems. Without this explanation I'd have no idea.
Twitter only needs one change, and is as simple as this: make users confident that they will never be censored for saying something that goes against management's politics. Twitter has seriously violated this trust. That's why current management cannot save Twitter. Even if they say they will accept all speech from now on, nobody will believe them.
By their own words they are political - "F-Droid is taking a political stance here."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20466730

They should get points for admitting they are political I guess? Not sure.

Obviously it started something, there have been a few small issues since.

But I'd like to see how much time is wasted on talking compared to coding since.

The lowbrow who can't code will say words like Nazi which holds back the people who contribute to society by construction. Gay marriage was because of coders not activists.

This is what Wiki should fear.
A local app will have less latency than a networked one running in a browser.
> They lie, get sued, pay fines.

That sure stopped Purdue from telling everyone Oxycontin isn't addictive.
Thanks for this.

It's like, other people would rather ignore reality, life and death, than budge on their uneducated opinions.

Ego is the enemy.
What about aluminum? I looked up a table of electrical resistivity:

resistivity $/kg
Cu 1.7e-8 10.3
Au 2.4e-8 63600
Ag 1.6e-8 827
Fe 1.0e-7 ? (cheap)
Al 2.8e-8 3.23

But I don't know how important any of these numbers are. The table suggests that iron is about 6 times more resistive than copper or silver and 4 times more resistive than gold.

Gold itself looks about 50% worse than copper while being more than six thousand times as expensive, so for gold to be used, resistance to corrosion must be important.

Silver is the best metal listed in the table, and slightly better than copper, so I assume the cost difference explains why we have lots and lots of copper wiring and not so much silver wiring.

Aluminum is a bit (17%) worse than gold for resistivity, but aluminum is cheap. Why use gold? I can imagine a few reasons:

- This table gives values at 20 centigrade, but things change at a more relevant temperature.

- There's some kind of important threshold around 2.5e-8 ohm-meters, so that gold is on the right side of usability and aluminum just misses it.

- Aluminum's corrosion resistance is different in nature from gold's, and the difference matters.

Are any of those true?
I hear you, and our perceptual lenses are part of our tooling. Our mental tooling.

A change in mindset can be brought can be encouraged and developed by a combination of process and community. This includes educational processes supported by public policy, market mechanisms, and communities.

I believe we need a revolution on how we educate ourselves. How we get there is non-obvious.

If sound statistical thinking was taught, nurtured, and synthesized across many domains, I think it is likely that humanity would be better off.
The internal representation isn't pure UTF-16 for quite some time now.

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/254
Which is why it's a shitty article to have upvoted to the front page, and everybody is right to complain about it.

But you are absolutely right, this article is about misrepresenting mentalism and promoting the author.
Of course both the privacy policy and TOS are very explicit about this.

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

> We don’t show you personalized ads based on your content from Drive, Gmail, or Photos.

https://workspace.google.com/security/

> Google does not collect, scan, or use your data in Google Workspace services for advertising purposes and we do not display ads in Google Workspace

https://workspace.google.com/terms/2013/1/premier_terms.html

> Notwithstanding any other term of the Agreement, Google will not process Customer Data for Advertising purposes or serve Advertising in the Services.

Will you be retracting your claims, or are you planning on moving the goal posts instead?
Absolutely there is a problem. That was my point. If we fix the monopolization of these industries, we solve the moderation issue as well via the free market.

Obviously solving the kind of monopolies created by social networks is hard. The best proposals I've heard is forcing them to open up their social graphs/APIs to competitors, but that's not without its own issues (e.g. bad actors siphoning off user data, like Cambridge Analytica).
You mean like photopia and office live or docs or whatever?

I still pirate tons of other stuff to use and try and eventually buy. I can't buy Photoshop so that is a perma steal until they go back to $800 boxes of software.

Media is available but just this year I bought three CDs and one cassette tape.

I love moving backwards
Edwin from Stripe here. This isn’t really new—we first introduced it in 2014 but started renaming it last year (https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1375611432331407363).
Worked until it didn't. When it was a small forum, yes. When it became just a popularity contest, much less so.
And since Java 9 there is some compression going on.
Mentalism is a large part of the plot of Nightmare Alley. Personally, I enjoyed the 1947 film a lot more than the recent 2021 film. Both are based on the 1946 novel.
Is there a source for that? I don't doubt it, but I would love to be able to cite it.
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Because you're seeing it through the lense of western media.

If you start with the assumption that Chinese government is trying to do good for its citizens, those are straight forward decisions.

CCTV protects people from street crime; credit score seems to provide tremendous value in establishing trust between strangers, let's build a better version; people > algorithms, let's regulate the latter.
Because that's probably when the GP bought in, and the GP is mostly concerned about what their return would be from this.

A 54% premium on the current price is absolutely in the ballpark of "tremendous potential." If you think it's not, it's easy to vote against this. I'm not sure I buy Elon's "the company has to be private to make these changes" argument, and if there was a path for current public shareholders to remain private shareholders and potentially reap the rewards of a future acquisition or second IPO, I think a lot of them would be all for it.
I always enjoy calling out those excessively pedantic users. Their pedantry is just annoying, adds nothing to the conversation, and half the time is just outright incorrect.

Luckily, HN is not as infested with them as it used to be.
"It could go both ways, nobody knows how it will play out."

"Let's use math to calculate the probability!"

...

"It could go both ways, nobody knows how it will play out."

No hate, just thought it was kinda funny.
I misspoke a little. I wouldn't generate the whole thing as a blob of text and then split that. I would traverse the tree depth-first making HTML blobs for new comments that that hasn't been done for already, generate a linear list of comment items that each know the size of their own subtree (set that when you traverse back up to the node), and make a list of the indices of the top-level comments as I go. Then you can go through the top-level comments, adding them (and their subtrees - everything up to the next top-level index in the list) one by one into your webpage and adding up the total size so far until you reach some threshold of "too big", at which point you finish off that page and start the next one.

I think caching would be important to make it fast, and you could cache the HTML of each comment or subtree. Actually, if I was making my own forum and not copying HN I would probably have the comment tree structure represented in the DOM tree, as that seems better for navigation and accessibility. All of this is totally theoretical of course! I haven't actually done it, so may be wrong.
I don't know where all of that came from. My point is just that there's no proof Musk is a better CEO/visionary than thousands of other business leaders. You seem to have constructed a lot of other points that I was not commenting on at all.

I agree that many of businesses survive only because of subsidies and that "free speech" does not mean that private entities cannot censor themselves.
Thanks for this! Can you elaborate a bit more and maybe give me some pointers where I can read about these things in more depth? I of course know about the MMU on traditional dGPUs but I was not aware that “integrated” GPUs also have a separate MMU. How does it work and why is it necessary given that the GPU shares the last level cache and the memory controller with the rest of the system?
Unfortunately, you don’t have to go out and look for it though. Twitter was not supposed to be a worse RSS-feed, so if that’s your use case, nice, but that scope is ignorant to the reality of its market-fit.
I do not believe the payment was ever attempted. If I remember right, I approved a max spend budget, put in payment details, and then the account was immediately suspended before anything could be charged as the ad campaign never ran.
No, it’s the selection of facts that makes it a shill outlet. China is twice the size of Europe, I’m pretty sure someone in Europe also killed a dog once. It’s just that there aren’t hundreds of millions of US money spent every year on anti-European propaganda.
as far as I understood it, it was a tongue-in-cheek, a joke...
or are you trolling too (in which case joke's on me :D)?
Didn't he also try to shut down a Twitter bot that publishes flights of his private jet?

I also recall him firing people who supported unionization and employees who talked to reporters.
It’s especially crazy because because all the major engine manufacturers have already certified many of their leaded gas engines for high octane unleaded. Some of them are just waiting on FAA rubber stamps. https://www.aopa.org/advocacy/100-unleaded-avgas
It will be end of Twitter, or beginning of the end.
It's absolutely nothing to do with Biden. TWTR start sliding in October, 10 months after he took office. It's currently the same price as late 2020. It's almost like there is a war, another wave in the pandemic, and sudden inflation and those things are effecting the markets overall.
Is there equivalent of "open source alternatives" and free forever plan for those other industries?
No, there's no evidence.

But it seems trivially obvious that, if Musk owned Twitter, that account and ones like it that target Musk will disappear.

As much as I like Tesla and respect SpaceX, I do note that Musk rarely misses an opportunity to benefit himself.

The whole crypto market manipulation event is one obvious example; what abstract ethical behavior was driving that debacle? I say there was none and that it was a transparent attempt to make money while trolling the crypto community.

Not that I actually fault him for doing that. It just points out how broken the entire cryptoverse is. But my point is that he is prone to doing things for his own benefit and/or without regard for the consequences.

What I haven't seen is evidence that he would take some kind of high moral position on free speech absolutism against his own self interest. To me it's more a question of "prove that he won't do it" than to prove he will.

If he ends up buying Twitter, we'll find out either way.
Just a different kind of strongman political fantasy.
As if the current board of directors were “ourselves” when they are nothing but rich people just like musk, just a left wing political leaning.
Basically if you don't like Musk then all this behaviors can be explained as hostile.

I certainly don't agree with this viewpoint but this is functionally what is happening.
Good science just doesn't reduce to a script. You need to actually understand what you are doing to interpret the results correctly.

It's why people spend a decade getting a PhD, and many years more still to become a professor. You can't do good science by putting numbers in a spreadsheet and have the computer do all the thinking for you.
This is it getting baked into the price.
All of my grass is native, not a cultivated lawn. I also have a lot of acreage, and a cover crop would be prohibitively expensive to prep and seed.

Even if you can establish a perennial crop, the native grass can still creep back in and outcompete it. And if it can keep the grass down, the cover crop necessarily will grow enough to create the aforementioned problems with pests. You still gotta mow it periodically to keep everything under control.
The mouse is a big problem for me. I didn't used to care either, but started using a 144Hz monitor years ago and now it's hard for me to go back. Even my TV is 120Hz.

I just notice discomfort when my monitor isn't >90Hz or so. On Windows it occasionally will reset to 60Hz, maybe due to video card driver updates? I could probably re-adjust back to 60Hz in a few weeks but I don't see the point of going through the discomfort, especially when I occasionally do play games where the higher frame rate makes a much more drastic difference.
Psychedelics caused me to have ongoing dissociative panic attacks. So, you know… it’s not all rainbows :P Hopefully with careful study a safe treatment can be developed.

(Certainly without any study people will keep tripping, so certainly I advocate continuing study!)
This is one of the scenarios where Java being more high level than .NET wins out.

Additionally to what is being discussed, string compression and deduplication exists since several releases.
The current "stewards of free speech" on Twitter appear to be from the military-industrial complex (recalling when Twitter implied "undermining faith in NATO" is a bannable offence, since confirmed, and unironically citing ASPI as an "independent source" on which accounts to ban), so I personally view an eccentric oligarch as an upgrade.

Of course, he might just continue this trend.
"Value for money, it's probably the most effective $43B anyone has spent in the US."

Yikes.

A more realistic take: this is a petty reaction on par with Peter Thiel suing Gawker into oblivion. Musk doesn't really care about Twitter's role as a tool for good, he cares about his ego.
It's easy to imagine how Twitter can be worse because you can just look at Facebook.
> I'll be powerful and influential one day, and I'm not using Twitter at all.

how would you know you won't be using twitter when you do become powerful?
It seems like you are conflating simple websites with the aesthetic of websites of web 1.0. these things are mutually exclusive and going back to web 1.0 will allow you to just download an epub of a very very simple text heavy website.
Yes, that is how and why free speech was established. My argument is that we actually were reacting to the availability of information, but since the government (and outside of the US in some places the Church for whatever religion the state follows) was the only source of the monopoly, we assumed the problem was government. Like if you have somebody running around committing arson and you exile them but don't bother criminalizing arson; you addressed that particular actor but not the underlying problem.

> Free speech as a concept has definitely been abused by people distributing mis-information. That's more of a modern problem as network effects and technology made mass distribution and co-ordination of mis-information affordable outside of governmental organisations.

This is true, however, I would say it needs to be balanced against the situation before, where institutions acted unchecked and it was often impossible to act at all outside of them. I am sympathetic to the argument that misinformation is a problem and I even agree with it, I just think the ways we discuss solving the problem would be worse. It's not enough to solve a problem: We should try to solve it in a productive way. Otherwise we end up with a Pyrrhic victory.

> In terms of "extreme places", the Internet is pretty free from restrictions already. You can pretty much set up a website with content that's not acceptable on any of the large media platforms.

This is why I focused on things like pressure to buy out, DDOSes, immense legal resources being brought to bear, etc. You can set up a website, but if it becomes big enough, people start going after it with things other than just speech, and THAT'S where I draw the line.
Does anyone know how to get in touch with media outlets to run these stories?
I can't help but notice how some of the issues brought up by John Oliver made decent progress after they ran an episode on it.
They have an episode on lead, but it was focused on Flint.

Everyone here should send an email to the address at the bottom of "FAA, do your damn job" and to one of the writers of John Oliver. That may get people to apply the right pressure for a change.
Lots and lots. Opensourced everything I could (some were made for employers), under different names. Even maintained them for a few years. Won't name any of them, sorry. But mostly 2D/3D CG-related tools, file conversion utilities. C/++.
How would you even enforce this? You'd require a minimum of 10 companies at all times and mandate user distribution? That wouldn't work
I think you can simply move your DNS to Cloudflare and enable the proxy on the DNS record for Netlify.
It's a bit funny that there are already a bunch of comments that are stating "There already is, it's called 'X'", each with a different value for X.

I think this paints a better picture of the situation than any one person can provide.
I had not seen a video before, but you can work out this production technique by close inspection of a heatsink. The fins are clearly bent up and have a root that is thicker on one side.
The thing that is absolutely puzzling to me in these conversations is it seems that people who generally believe in the free market desire what amounts to regulation on social media platforms, inversely, to protect 'free speech' when in fact Twitter has the absolute right in the free market to moderate as they see fit when free speech only protects from governmental actions.

And to those who would make the argument that Twitter is too big to not be protected under free speech, I would say that Twitter is _excellent_ at making its user base seem more important than it is. Go outside, talk to people. Twitter is just a shitty microcosm.
The obscenely wealthy control it now. He would be a much better steward of free speech than they are, that much is obvious. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
Exactly. It's sickening to see a billionaire like Elon Musk push around the ordinary people who currently own Twitter! (The ordinary people are Morgan Stanley, BlackRock, and State Street Corp.)
Exactly. If I have to leave I will leave forever as well. To the point of buying a mac / iphone, and completely leaving the google ecosystem. That's how much this pisses me off.

Its now about the principle rather than how much it actually costs.
Do you have a counter-proposal?
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Is this the origin of the term to skive off school? I don’t really see the connection.
Nope, sorry

You're about half a century too late for computer science to be a "viable field"

Nobody uses computers any more, they're less and less a part of daily life, there is no room for improvement (because they're on the way out) etc

Hope you find something else to spend your life on!

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{The above is stated firmly tongue-in-cheek}
> i'm sorry, i interpreted your point to broadly be "free speech with limits", which i understand to be at-odds with the constitutional definition.

Ugh, my main point is that the concept of "free speech" in the US is not relevant at all to the question of whether a private entity can remove you from their platform for saying something they don't like.

You can claim that in the colloquial sense, the phrase is used more liberally to mean any censorship whatsoever, and that may be true. But in my opinion that is conflating two concepts, and those doing so are either 1) confused or 2) being deliberately dishonest by trying to smuggle some sense of constitutional/government mandate into the conversation.
.NET StreamReader and StreamWriter already default to UTF-8. The only thing that is changing here is the default encoding when Java serializes a String to bytes and deserializes a String from bytes, which will both now match .NET. The .NET String constructor that takes a byte array still has the problem that Java has now with using the system default charset.
You must not work in IT with end users.