skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Got it. So to sum it up:

Elon Musk, who:

-Is CEO of an electric car company and produces solar panels to help mitigate climate change

-Donates mostly to Democrats personally and through his companies

-Did not donate to Donald Trump, and said "I feel a bit stronger that he is probably not the right guy. He doesn't seem to have the sort of character that reflects well on the United States."

-Was fined by the SEC when Trump & the Republican party were in power in 2018

-In June 2017, announced that he would be leaving Trump's business advisory council in protest of the president's pulling the U.S. out of the Paris climate agreement. "Climate change is real. Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world,"

-Has a net worth of nearly 300 billion dollars

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Wants to buy Twitter for $43 billion, because:

-It'll curry favor from Trump and the Republican party

-And if elected, Trump/the Republican party will make it so the SEC is easier on him (even though they were in power when he did get fined before)

-In a hypothetical scenario where he would get fined, this preferential treatment could save him 0.01% of his net worth

You are right, I am very confused, and this has to be the end of the thread for me. I do like probing conspiratorial thinking, but I think we've reached a dead-end. I bid you adieu.
Okay, it's clear you overparsed it, as you seem to be needlessly upset. Please take it easy, and try not to read minds on the Internet.
> just to satisfy a head cannon

Is this supposed to be written like this? I thought it would be canon in this instance?
I like to combine those:

const RESEND_DELAY_MS = ONE_HOUR_IN_MS;

Having the unit in the name saved me more than once and having non-contextual constants for sizes increases readability imo.
Yandex is pretty good for image searches.
Much of Facebook could be cloned by many startups see VK.

Google's product lacked purpose. It died because of a lack of vision and leadership and product mistakes (real names).

It died prematurely. Google treated the product like a pilot a network threw on the first week of September. It had solid numbers and given time it could have found itself if it found a backer in leadership.
I remember reading several times that the enormous number of bots on Twitter inflates their "active users" stats and therefore their stock price, which is why they aren't fighting it.
"Build one to throw away" [1] - Fred Brooks

Jim Coplien on how one of Dave Thomas' companies do software [2]:

"They build a prototype, then they throw it away. They learn from the prototype. Then they build the product, and throw it away. And then they build the deliverable; and ship release 1, release 2, and release 3--and throw it away. Every third release, they are throwing things away. Do you think they have any problems with technical debt?"

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Brooks

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPP7Bleg214&t=2339s

[3] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Thomas_(software_de...
Why? What is CCP covering up? Supply chain crisis? Financial crisis because of sanctions of Russia? What benefits could their totalitarian regime gets from this inhuman policy?
Not OP, but speaking for myself: I want to contribute to a commonwealth, but any modern nation-state is a very perverse construct that doesn't really deserve that word. There's no commonwealth without a true democracy, and voting for people who supposedly represent you every few years isn't that.
On the bright side, the moreutils version doesn't have a nag screen.
How about paint.net?
I wrote about this a couple of years ago

https://games.greggman.com/game/github-permission-problem/

Github has (had) some of the worst wording in the permission prompts as well as too many 3rd party apps asking for blanket permission to do anything and everything in all your repos. It might as well be "hey, give us root on your servers and our new service will do cool things for you!"

And even worse is the 1000s and 1000s of repos that have signed up for those services including all kinds of popular libraries. They've given the keys to hack the libraries at will to 10s or 100s of random companies that integrate with github. It's insane.
> One AI engineer from Tesla could solve Twitter's bot and spam problem.

Put down the Elon kool-aid , it has poisoned your mind.
I'm not advocating C for anything except low-level embedded but even there I think we could do better. I'm not sure what would be the optimal language for writing web backends but I'm convinced that we could do better than Java. I could even go as far as claiming that C# is a lot like Java with some of the worst parts fixed.
I used Gimp until I discovered Krita. It does everything I ever used to do in Gimp and is much, much more pleasant to use.
Any discussion of partitioning in Postgres which doesn't start with partial indexes (which go a long way toward the same performance results without all the complexity) is missing to educate the reader on proper steps to achieve performance in PG.

For exactly the same conditions you'd partition a table, consider creating partial indexes on them.

And sure, there are cases where partial indexes simply don't do the job, but it'd be good to highlight those as reason to go to partitioning.
It sounds like Musk received the offer, accepted it and changed his mind afterwards. That is, after accepting the terms, not after receiving them. If that’s the sequence of events, I don’t think Levine is being disingenuous.
Of course you can do gradients with Paint. It’s just more work.

A bit like a lot of coding in Vim.
When you do, just make sure you use the `--directory` option of `mktemp` to use the same directory as the final file. This makes sure both files are on the same filesystem, so `mv` is atomic (and faster).
Does this really need an argument? A primary mechanism for segregation and social inequity over the past century has been the exclusion of "undesirables" from spaces and the simultaneous, "coincidental" allocation of resources to those exclusionary spaces.

It's impossible to have an informed discussion on this topic in the US without acknowledging that basic reality.
Right? People have been getting “canceled” for things since humans have had fire. Probably before. It was possibly also more lethal.
“Let them eat cake” <- doesn't go well
I don’t get it. The same article said he made $60 million from a book deal. $400K is a nothing burger. He would have made money from the speaking circuit regardless.
Also in Switzerland: an ambulance was called for me in the middle of Zurich, they arrived after driving only a few kilometers, performed an EKG, and didn’t transport me anywhere. I was billed over $700 for that, which I had to pay out-of-pocket as the theoretical 50% insurance coverage was below my deductible.
Do I really have to explain that part out loud?

Fine.

Pretend instead of "1 second" it was a tenth of a second. Or a hundredth of a second.

Surely at that point both cars are arriving "at the same time". "same time" is not measured with a laser interferometer. It's about human perception.

So yes, sometimes "different times" are "at the same time"! Especially when you're measuring something with a very vague threshold like "arriving" at an intersection.

In the opposite direction, if it was ten seconds, then it's blatantly obvious that the cars aren't arriving at the same time.

At one second, "same time" and "not the same time" arguments are both plausible, and in the real world I think I'd lean toward treating it as the "same time". But it's not an objective truth either way. One second is in the fuzzy range.
Every square inch of America is governed according to the philosophy that what makes it valuable is having not too many people. Save for a few dozen blocks of half a dozen cities. And even then we’re suspicious. Our most iconic and beloved streetscapes are mostly non-conforming with postwar codes. But we obviously - obviously! - love these places. They are our travel destinations, our movie settings, our identity and sense of place. Superheroes defending the American way of life don’t defend Developer Model #4 on Pleasant View Court or the Denny’s in the strip mall, they defend fucking Manhattan. Yet our entire planning and zoning regime - including Manhattan’s own, to a surprising degree, treats it like like some kind of nuclear accident.

I would like proper urbanism to be be on a few hundred more blocks, or a few thousand blocks, maybe even a few hundred thousand blocks. Still nowhere near 10% of the developable or inhabited land area.

But no, not only does “not everyone want to live stacked on top of each other,” we must make sure walkable communities are kept so rare that one of those little hell boxes “nobody wants” costs $3 million. Every single unit permitted is its own little bloodbath, because no place, not even the heart of a city, is allowed to grow as a city anymore. All sprawl, all the time, exclusively.
> Wouldn't a breakup penalty address the breakup problem?

No. If you’re at a table negotiating a break-up penalty, you’ve already crossed the Rubicon. You have indicated that the price was at the very least worth considering.

If that buyer then walks before agreeing to the break-up penalty, the damage has been done. Board seats have been lost for less.
Would you extend your analysis to mockery of creationism too? That’s part of people’s identity too, and creationists are undoubtedly offended at being mocked.
You can split and encrypt your backups usually though. Not a full solution for deletion but good enough for most. Your case sounds rather unique: not many people will ever see that volume. Most b2b saas solutions won't be bothered by the performance hazards you mention but yes, it is a tradeoff.
Yeah, Spinlaunch is going to dump a lot of energy into the lower atmosphere, shed its glowing white hot shell, and then need get enough deltaV to put up a payload.

Anyway, the earliest patent I could find was a steam centripetal launcher in 1918. It never went anywhere and it has been followed by a number of improbable reinventions that all faded away.

NASA and the US Army tried again in 1982 and thought they could put a 60g projectile down range at 3 km/s. Mach 8. Guns and rockets could perform as well or better with simpler systems and the idea was shelved.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US1332992
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1982ITM....18..209F/abstra...
Do you believe everyone has a right to housing in any place they might desire to live?
I reported child pornography on twitter. It took a while for it to be taken down.

Yet people talking about hunter biden’s laptop in October 2020 had their accounts deleted immediately.

Twitter is very good at content moderation when it threatens the manufactured narrative of the global elite which they serve. And then completely incompetent otherwise.

I don’t buy the line that the problem is too complex because I see selective competence.
I think I gave one example: if the doc includes the rationale for the value, it needs to be updated.

But your more relevant experience tells you that’s wrong. I really don’t understand such aversion to a one or two line comment, but let’s just not work together in the future. ;)
I make a lot of homemade ice cream using my own cows’ milk. Adding a small amount of xanthan gum helps produce a smoother texture that mimics what you might find in store-bought ice cream. I now find myself wondering whether I should continue to use this ingredient, but the article does not appear to provide clear guidance. Okay, it changes my gut micro biome, but is that a good or a bad thing?
> all modern water pipes are already plastic.. too late for that.

This is not correct. While PEX pipe has become popular, a lot of homes are still built with copper plumbing. And lots of municipal water infrastructure contains a lot of metal.
We've had guys on our team recently get some patents issued in their name, because what we are working on is a hard problem at a massive scale, and we are solving things that have never been solved before.

I will agree that Amazon has some weird stuff around their internal development environment, which I think is well documented elsewhere. OTOH, when you're building services to handle billions of customers all around the world, there are some things you have to do a little differently.
And for completeness, miniexpect which is a small C library implementing the same sort of thing: https://rwmj.wordpress.com/2014/04/25/miniexpect-a-small-exp...

$ wc -l miniexpect.[ch]
489 miniexpect.c
110 miniexpect.h
What specifics? Wouldn’t they just pay MS for access to the API (though with some special volume discount that won’t be public)?
As of January 2021 there is a whole bunch of new reporting requirements for beneficial ownership to combat money laundering and hiding assets. Structuring a stock trade to conceal the actual owner of securities (note the parent poster didn't offer to vote HIS shares) and failing to file disclosures is absolutely criminal.

The Yale Law article you cite is just about groups of investors working together, which is within their rights.
Elon Musk Interview on German TV (In English)
> I think a lot of places have them. Denmark, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands, the UK ... basically any European country. I mean it's not like every (or even most) one-way street is like that in those places, but they're common enough.

I think this warrants a further response.

One of the best things NYC has done was to reduce lanes of traffic.

So there’s a lot of QoL improvements to narrowing.

However, driveways will pose significant danger to two-way bike traffic in one-way roads; especially near corners.

It’s safer cycle center or the opposite side, to be fully visible.

How is this addressed?
Yishan Wong , the CEO of Reddit until 2012 have tweeted a long thread about how Musk doesn't understand the current state of moderation necessary because he was much more involved with an earlier Internet. But I am of opinion that Yishan is also behind as one half of the debaters simply left facts and reality behind. This post here is an example.
60,000 people have FSD beta, they've got further than everyone else.
In most other countries, such a poison pill would be illegal as it violates the principle of equal treatment of all shareholders. Also, in most other countries, the decision to issue new shares requires a shareholder vote and cannot be done by the board alone.
Multiple studies have shown that alcohol sits in the top two of most destructive harddrugs for both the user and the user's surrounding. And still we can buy it everywhere.

Like you say: the drinking culture must change.
I tried Venmo for a short time, and I think their dumpster is on fire too.
It’s really nice on HN when the administrators detach a reply from the main thread. Folks can carry on arguing about vim/emacs but the number of newcomers piling on drops away.

Twitter, on the other hand, does this: #vimVSemacs is trending, click here to wade in!!
Java language design decisions affect JVM design, and JVM design affects other languages that run on it. Additionally, it seems that JVM languages justify their existence by FFI to Java, so the Java worldview leaks to other languages that way.
In their examples section they mention how a double agent was charged with tax evasion based on $2m of undeclared income from bribes.

But if the agent WERE to mention the income on their tax documents, even as "Unspecified due to 5th amendment protection" that surely would be incriminating enough to cause further investigation from the state. (I assume the US government keeps a close eye on their agents papers).

I'm just not sure how you're supposed to declare ill-gotten gains without 5th amendment worthy self-incrimination.
What Can You Learn in 50 Hours and Start Earning Online?
A friend of mine did the CFI Financial Modeling and Valuation qualification [1] and started using Upwork. He started off working for $15 an hour but he charges $60 an hour now and will likely raise his rates again to stop being so busy.

Are there any similar technical skills that one could learn quickly and use as a base to enter the technology industry, to make money while looking for a junior job or to gain experience?

[1] https://corporatefinanceinstitute.com/certifications/financial-modeling-valuation-analyst-fmva-program/
Isn't a button on side that you can press with pointing finger much simpler and faster way for achieving same thing? Was shaking in the video exaggerated and single flick of wrist sufficient or do you really need to shake that much? Looking forward hearing from someone who has used it, from the video it looked more like a gimmick than practical improvement.
If you want to go property rights absolutism that’s fine, as long as on my land I can build a five story condo building.

I think the provocative thing about Georgism in the present context is, while NIMBYs have gotten a lot of mileage out of a theory of community interest in keeping uses low-intensity that supersedes the rights of owners, we can actually articulate the same kind of community interest in making those uses intense and productive. A vacant lot is anathema to a vibrant block in the same way that an industrial plant is anathema to a residential neighborhood.

It would be fine from my perspective if those two simply cancelled out and we reverted to more individual autonomy.
No, of course not. The point is that there's a more nuanced discussion to be had here about what these limits and rights ought to be.
Throwing in my own anecdotal example and tiny sample size: many years ago I was part of a trio of 20s, 40s, and 60s front-end devs – all rare and elusive Bay Area natives who grew up in very different part of SV history with very different backgrounds.

On first glance, we really should not have worked well together. But the group clicked because it shared a value system (be it for writing clean code, good documentation, user experience, collaboration, etc.).

And it was two introverts and one extrovert, to boot!
And yet they're still useful for learning patterns and techniques that can be applied to the newest, shiniest versions of whatever languages and frameworks you'll be using. Some of us also prefer reading from a paper book over reading from webpages when it comes to ingesting large amounts of information on a new topic. We'll still augment that info by reading the official docs online when the time comes.
> Question: does anyone actually know what DDG does with user data? Like they market themselves as a "privacy respecting" search engine, but how much of this is truth?

It doesn't matter.

Why? Because when going through the exercise of identifying risks in the system one can't assume the actors are benevolent and won't ever use the access+data they have for evil.

That's not at all to say all actors are evil and will always do the most harm possible. Many risks are never exploited in practice. But that doesn't mean the risk doesn't exist. It still does! And it might be exploited in the future (with companies, all it takes is a reorg that puts someone less ethical in charge).

Thus, when doing your threat modeling exercise, for the purposes of identifying risk, assume the various actors could do as much damage as they possibly could with the access they have.

So concretely, when I evaluate risk on google vs. DDG: I won't take into consideration any "privacy respecting" marketing, that's not important. What matters is how much damage can each party do, which one is less risky?

Both get my search queries which is inevitable for a search engine. So there's that risk but it's a wash.

But google has its tendrils woven into far more points from which they can and will correlate data. Google analytics, AMP, gmail/gsuite, chrome (for people using that), also most people have an active login session with google most of the time, etc.

DDG has a much smaller footprint on the internet from which to correlate data.

Therefore, even assuming both parties are equally evil, DDG presents a smaller risk.
In the uk, we had (have) a decade of austerity caused by the “banking crisis” so we have suffered quite badly from it here
Chief ICC prosecutor Karim Khan says Ukraine ‘crime scene’ after visit to Bucha
Unfortunately this is probably the most likely scenario. And in turn also the hardest to handle.
I never ever trade individual stocks , that's not for ADHD people. My savings rest in unmanaged index funds.
I haven't worked at GitHub either, but I did work at AWS, where a change to a production database required filing a detailed CM (change management form) with step-by-step details of the operations to be completed + monitoring criteria + rollback plans. That CM had to be approved by the senior eng staff of all affected teams, plus the full management chain, and in a high-profile issue like this, the PR/comms teams as well.
More PCs Running Windows XP, 7, and 8 Than Windows 11
People arguing about one ai engineer point are missing the philosophical premise that spam and bots to some extent help with free speech and thwarting them are a form of censorship. Which would be antithetical to the argument of taking over for reasons of free speech.
More than disincentivizing the borderline ideas of today (something that has always happened everywhere) it also disincentive the borderline ideas of tomorrow (something that is generally correlated with oppressive regimes)

something fun happened a few weeks back:

someone made a compilation of all the time Joe Rogan said the n-word;

the Young Turks made a segment how inexcusable it was to say it "so many times"; someone made a compilation of all the time the Young Turks;

some time later on an unrelated topic regarding dwarfism the Young Turks went on a rant about it being impossible to know whether the word dwarf was a slur or not and worrying about a new d-word compilation in 5 years

the particular details of what is cancel culture elude me, I am not smart enough to define it. but I find this future-based self-censoring (not based on visible trends but hypothetical ones) to be corrosive
The thing is, nobody except this dude has actually explained the situation properly.

The context of the "world of pain" is that nobody convinced everybody it's just damage control and profits and not about their ideas being bad.

Do you think Elon could convince everybody? would that make it less a world of pain?
And so I learned of mktemp today.

Just was intrigued, googled it, read about it and know it solves a problem I had elegantly. Some new tool in my belt from now on.

Thank you.
Beautiful instruments. Personally, I still opt for a faber-castell clutch pencil, alvin lead, and a dahle or staedtler sharpener. In the event it's misplaced, it's not much of a loss (financially).
You clearly don't remember the 'smoking causes cancer' debate - yes, there was a debate and it was hotly contested, and it was very emotionally charged. It played out similarly to the topic of climate change has so far. There has never been an era of reasonable public discussion and consensus building.

If that's cancel culture, then it's nothing new.
They have to recommission gas handling facilities, industrial plant takes months to bring back from mothballing and worldwide gas consumption is longterm contracts. Even just hiring a gas tanker takes months.

If they declare force majure and seized a boat to ship now, there would be hell to pay for some other consumer.
The body also needs some other nutrients than the carbs you‘d find in potatoes and rice…
Having used GHC Haskell's software transactional memory features to build a concurrent service with caching, I do think there are significant practical benifits. To program threaded code without needing to worry about global reasoning of fine-grained locking is a godsend. Transactional memory solves the issue of writing composable code that works on shared mutable state. Task libraries do not solve this problem.

Of course retrofitting such a feature into C/C++ in a satisfactory manner might not be possible. But the practical benifits are real.