skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think this thread is missing the main point, which is people are being cancelled for the content of their speech, not their behaviour.

That is the key difference between free speech and censorship. You can support free speech and still remove people for horrible behaviour, but as soon as you start removing people because of the content of their speech, you move to tyranny.

That is cancelling and why people self censor (you're full of it if you say that's not happening), because their content is considered dangerous, not their behaviour.

Just watch, if Musk buys Twitter the mass of woke narcissists will immediately move to demand social media be regulated, after feverishly admonishing Trump for desiring the same thing...
Spamming "$$$ $TSLA to the moon! Get latest tips on my free Discord bit.ly/ocozxc #TWTR #GOOG #AMC #GME $$$" thousands of times for days before suspension is hardly the hardest problem on the Internet

Heck, you could even just limit the number of hashtags in a single tweet (say, 2) and fix 95% of Twitter's spam problem without harming legitimate users in any way
Question: does anyone actually know what Microsoft do with the data that they get from Duck? Other syndication partners of Bing I have spoken to told me they are expected to pass on first three octets of IP. So with other data, for example useragent, location this could likely be used for fingerprinting.

Another syndication partner of Microsoft is far more transparent in their privacy policy than Duck: "Bing: IP address (obfuscated), user agent string, search term, and some settings like your country and language setting. We never communicate IP addresses along with search queries. We only send IP addresses to Microsoft in obfuscated form, meaning we remove parts of the IP address when we sent it."
Microsoft Is Building an Advertising Program for Xbox
"Almost every employer will violate their employee's rights without a second thought"

What's your source?

"unimportant but necessary to the business"

What examples?
Gotta get those engagement KPIs up somehow. This is the simplest and most obvious explanation.

Also see reddit, with most small Reddits being spam/porn. These are in many ways Potemkin websites. The emperor is naked.
The standard advice I've read is "find a problem you need solved".

Do you collect stamps and wish you could quickly check the price of a given stamp? There's a problem you can solve. Do you wish you could sync your music to your exercise level? There's another. Make a list of those problems, and then pick one.
You don't need a house after you die. So, you borrow money against the increase in value of the house. The OP is saying that when the estate (wealth of dead person) is concluded the balance will be such that loans against the property (aka 'equity release') will ask be paid easily by the sale of the property. Ergo, no loss to the hypothetical improver of the locality.

I'd say also, anyone who is capable of producing all those improvements should be able to make a good living, and their wage should improve with the monetary value of land in the area. Meaning the land tax shouldn't, on average, be harmful.
"Null hypothesis" comes down to agreeing on a prior that is "reasonable". Most of the time, that indeed means not assuming dependencies, e.g. when testing the outcomes of a medical treatment. But that's not always the case, e.g. does it seem reasonable to you to assume a priori no dependency between a person's age and their height? Does the result "People get taller until the age of 20" merit a journal article? There's a very strong correlation there after all.

As I've written elsewhere this all comes down to the prior, based on my life experience the prior "people are generally capable of self-assessing their performance" is much more likely than "people have absolutely no ability to self-assess their performance."

To state it differently, when you assume no dependencies anywhere, you've already jumped to a conclusion that is more far-fetched to me than the results of DK. Do you really think people have zero ability to self-assess their own performance? In all domains and all contexts, as this is your "null hypothesis"?
Nobody is coming to kill him. The scenario as a whole makes no sense when you think about it with even the most gentle level of scrutiny.

His only danger at this point is jail.
I'd still show them my bad code, since I do pretty much the same thing. It would be a good opportunity to show how I'd refactor the side project if I could dedicate more serious time to it.
With less security guarantees too.
Work created in 1-2 hours is very different from a work created in 1-2 months.
Yes, but what data do they pass onto MS and what do they do with that data? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31051050
I used to do

Hi <name>,

<email text>

Regards,
<my name>

Recently I've been influenced a bit by reading https://twitter.com/TechEmails and I'm trying to be even less formal and go without the "Hi" and "Regards".

Long corporate signatures with logos and stuff are an abomination.
Oh Writing Code is easy: copy and modify ;)
Pros remove the edge cases that allow exploits from stackoverflow examples, but you seem to be qualified to do that.
Oh my bad, i had a bit of a stroke writing my comment lol.
Who is Yishan?
I don't want the global newest comment, but I do want the similar "comments newly added since I read the comments a few hours ago"
It's amazingly smaller than the original. Author says he's removed quite a few non essential features ; but I wonder how much of the difference in footprint is due to technological advances in PSU components. (I am assuming here that the original PSU was a switchmode design as well?)
Kane Tanaka recently became "the second oldest verified person ever", and the oldest if Jeanne Calment is a fake.
Gstreamer in YAML (Example)
" just a bunch of perl, rexx, sh/bash and python scripts written just to automate some work. I doubt anybody would think those should be cleanly written"

I do. Even though my quick and dirty scripts are not always clean either, I still profit from the times when I take some more minutes to document what a certain script does and clean out at least the rough edges.

Otherwise it means rewriting the same thing again and again, which costs more time in the end. Or it means executing something you barely understand yourself anymore, which can be dangerous.
> one of Musks strengths is marketing

I don’t deny that, but it is not what he is doing here.

I am not sure why people shy away from the obvious: another of Musk’s strengths is market manipulation.

On 4 April, the announcement[0] of his becoming the largest shareholder jumped his Twitter stock[1] from a 73486938×33.03 = $2.4B purchase to a $3.7B asset, a $1.2B gain.

He sold 371900 stocks, for a $6M gain.

His 14 April announcement[2] of his offer to purchase Twitter was likely intended to boost the price further before the expected poison pill would justify him divesting everything as he stated he would do in the SEC filing[3], thus netting an even bigger gain.

It didn’t boost as he expected, but the value has remained higher than it started at. He will still make half a billion and his actions, this time, are hard to sue, since he did not lie on anything but intent, which is impossible to prove.

[0]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/04/twitter-shares-soar-more-tha...

[1]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922...

[2]: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1514564966564651008

[3]: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001418091/000110465...
Put that in your regex and parse it.
I think you're right. Put it down to immense frustration. My apoloigies.

On the other hand, if we don't call this stuff out, we're going to continue in in reverse gear.
Whoa, the T1200 was my first computer as a child and I found one a while ago without a power supply.

This could be extremely useful for me, so thank you very much for posting this! :)
>It could just be an American thing, though.

It's not. You'll find plenty of anecdotes outside the US. Even just outside SV is enough to put things into question, as salaries outside SV are way lower.

>Doctors and lawyers do a period of internship after and during the degree that perhaps mitigates the uncertainty around hiring.

Two problems with this.

For one, this is changing rapidly. Any institute of higher education is becoming a worker factory focusing on what the industry wants in candidates rapidly. Despite this, interviewers continue to complain about the most minor things which in reality are very easy to grasp for people with a degree and some projects.

For two, this problem still persists after having some years of experience under your belt. If an internship mitigates the need for other professions to go through this, surely having verifiable experience should do the same. But it doesn't, and it takes away a lot of time from people to build their own portfolio to get through interviews with too.

>It must surely boil down to the profession aspect.

I don't believe so. Hiring is plagued with perfectionism and idealism, looking for the perfect candidates and failing candidates over the most minor things. You could actually be the best candidate in the world, and you'll fail because you said something or did something in a way the interviewer preemptively labels as "unviable".

The problem is actually as you point out: hiring managers are pushing risks onto individuals in the name of "calling", and loads of developers are doing nothing to push back on it. Or worse, they are encouraging it. See also why the average junior requirements includes an entire IT department's worth of skills.
I am not saying I would do that (I wouldn't). I am just not sure how a computer can be locked down so tightly that it is impossible to send text from it to another computer.
Disable your email client's default signature from advertising itself.
My Sharp MZ-80K[1] and BBC Micro Model B[2] are still in working order and I tinker with them from time to time. Recently I've spent a lot of time messing around with 1980s/1990s French Minitel terminals:

https://blog.jgc.org/2022/03/using-minitel-1b-as-serial-term...

https://blog.jgc.org/2022/03/voiding-warranty-on-1993-minite...

https://blog.jgc.org/2022/04/setting-up-and-running-mame-emu...

[1] https://blog.jgc.org/2011/11/back-from-dead-with-power-suppl...

[2] https://blog.jgc.org/2009/08/in-which-i-switch-on-30-year-ol...
Yeah, but at this point you're not left with many other options other than sticking your finger in the air and hoping you can detect if they know how to write code.
The "derivative" at a certain point is defined as the limit of the ratio between function differences and argument differences.

In the context of derivatives, "exists" means that this limit is a finite number.

If the derivative function has an expression which is a fraction whose denominator becomes null at a point, the derivative may exist or not exist at that point.

If the corresponding numerator at that point is non-null (i.e. the derivative is infinite), then the derivative does not exist and the original function is not differentiable at that point.

If the numerator is also null, the derivative may exist or not at that point, depending on whether the limit of the derivative exists or not.
Do you think his location is some great mystery? The actual reason he is not dead is because there is no political will to conduct an operation on Russia soil to murder him.
> The legal discovery process is basically also "digging up dirt"

Except that Elon hired a PI to do that way before he got sued.

Also, if child rapist is a common insult (this is elon's main defense in court), why would he need to dig up dirt on the diver?

Because Elon wanted to figure out if the diver had some history related to sexual assault.

> Yes Elon is known for manic states, it's not a new detail.

Are you implying it is okay for Elon to make false child rapist accusation?

I have no idea how his general trait is relevant with this specific event.

> Apologizing and making this clarification are not mutually exclusive things.

Nobody said they were mutually exclusive.

I am saying that he didn't apologize.

> And a jury decided, unanimously after viewing the totality of the case

First of all because BuzzFeed email wasn't included in the case

Second the diver had to prove damage, which was hard to do.

This is like Donald trump never commits sexual assault because he is not convicted.

Stepping back, are you normally calling your friends and families child rapists as a fun insult? Are those normal insults to you?
I've hired about 25 developers so far. So far, the 8 developers out of those 25 who had actual side projects (even not production ready and with caveats they told me ahead of time) have ended up being head and shoulders above the others.

Of course, there's not enough data to make a foolproof conclusion but I'd say that so far for me, having side projects that a dev can show is a clear indicator that they are an interesting candidate.

And when counting side projects, I count tools developers make to make their life easier and in my experience even great developers with edifying jobs will have situations where they create some small tools to help make their life easier.
Yes, I think it's supposed to be sort for "best wishes" or "best regards". It's part of a trend in email correspondence where people seem to think that typing an extra few letters will cost them too much time (which of course is money). The same way you get people typing "pls" and "tks" in emails.
Migadu seems to be a better deal, and unlike Fastmail it's neither Australian nor American, which is good for privacy.
> I don’t think the invasion was justified per se

No kidding, glad we got that out of the way.

> I think it was a predictable outcome of what the west was doing.

Aka the 'Mearsheimer' doctrine. Which is patent nonsense, but it gives cover for what you apparently want to believe.

> NATO reneged by gobbling up Eastern European countries and pushing ever closer to Russia’s border.

NATO didn't gobble up anything. The countries that joined NATO did so because they were scared shitless of Russia re-invading them at some point in the future, because all the signs were pointing in that direction and none of these countries felt like becoming the next Belarus. NATO doesn't 'gobble', no country was ever forced to join NATO that did not want it, but Russia does.

Those countries have to date been proven right on four occasions where other countries, not in NATO were attacked rather than them, and there is a fair chance that if Ukraine had joined NATO before the 2014 invasion that that would have never happened to begin with.
What you describe is exactly the issue, because there's no "obvious fraud". You need to understand these instruments, simply:

Banks didn't deceptively mix mortgages (which isn't fraud, anyway) and sell them to unassuming buyers. They constructed portfolios of mortgages (assuredly some good, some bad), a third-party rated those new financial instruments as AAA without fully accounting for risks, and sophisticated buyers purchased those instruments, also without fully understanding the risks.

If anything, the blame should be on the pension funds and large institutions who purchased these things and who pay people large salaries to manage this money. But I have a hard time seeing fraud in this process.

I mean, you can read this in The Big Short. Characters like Michael Burry read the prospectus' for these securities and could see what was in them, thought much of it was crap, and made their investment decisions based on that. Anyone who purchased the instruments had the same opportunity, and in the case of pension funds the obligation to do so.
This is all I’ve ever done. Every other convention has always seemed at best quite fake, and at worst like you’re someone’s grandad sending email for the first time.
> giving them a buffer in Eastern Europe

This is so surreal. Like trading with colonies. You really thing that people in Eastern Europe should not have say in this?

This whole point is not rooted in reality because Ukraine was not joining NATO. It was not possible for them. They were maybe going to join EU. Even after invasion it seemed like real option but this is now probably not going to happen as well for different reasons (diplomatic relations between Ukraine and some EU countries).

So this invasion has nothing to do with NATO. "Buffer states" are not going to change situation between Russia and NATO. Putin has nukes - he does not really cares about NATO.
And if that came to happen it only strengthens my argument, as I'm sure car manufacturers aren't asking for that change either.

Life changes and there are a set of people affected negatively by those changes. Those people never ask for those changes. They happen anyway.
Ask HN: I want to open source a my SaaS project. What should I know?
My current side project is closed source, and I want to make it open as I believe it can benefit from some community love (also I'm not making money off it, so not much to lose!).

Besides the usual things like good documentation, purging secrets, easy dev/deployment process, what else should I know?

Also, its currently hosted on Gitlab, I like the CI/CD better. Is it worth switching to Github for the starzzz?

Background: Ive managed large OSS packages, but nothing SAAS-like.
That's out-of-order on two counts. I see there are plenty of others in the same boat. Our thus far smaller but 5+ billion index has you covered: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=site%3Awww.espositosoftware....
Oh no you are right. I am in so much pain right now lmao.
Related SEC filling https://www.sec.gov/files/litigation/complaints/comp-pr2022-...
Perhaps the backups are a separate process, run beforehand or after this process once several changes (perhaps to several files) have been made, so not backing up intermediate states?
I generally just use "Kind regards" regardless of context because it's in my muscle memory and therefore the quickest and requires the least thought. Honestly I don't think anyone really cares what form of sign-off is used, it just seems kind of strange if you don't use one at all.
I don't see myself reviewing your 2 months of work at an interview. Showing me a prototype of something you thought was interesting and walking me through, pitching the tech and debating pros and cons would be enough for me to estimate what it would be like to work with you and my estimate of your experience level.
I'm confused by this discussion about development speed: are you talking latency or throughput?

Because in my experience, reviews and PRs certainly Ven damage latency, but overall throughput remains the same as it would be with subsequent follow-up fixes of these issues to the trunk.
Most of them are nice to have, but they still ship an incompatible suboptimal parallel, which you explicitly have to check against in your configure, if you expect GNU parallel.

Name it at least c-parallel
"Imagine that instead of yelling stuff in the disco you were to talk to people and getting to know their point of view. The issue is that you can't do that on social media because you are always in the spotlight"

You can, with a direct private message/email. (not sure if that is possible with twitter, though)

That works very well to solve many issues, but of course it does not get you the same attention like publicly responding to someone stupid/insensitive and most people are on social media for attention.
(FAKE: Medvedev announced a task is given to destroy Starlink satellites)
Yes, it's true that a significant fraction of certain populations have an intrinsic disulfiram-like reaction to alcohol. (Affected individuals don't produce the enzyme that disulfiram interferes with.) For sure these people have a good reason to avoid alcohol.

Whether this inherited intolerance of alcohol is the norm depends on which populations we're talking about. For example among people with European ancestry this genetic variation is uncommon. And indeed alcohol dependence is a huge issue in many parts of the world.

In my experience disulfiram is only useful with people who are motivated to quit drinking. Forcing alcoholics to take disulfiram is asking for catastrophe. (Courts used to impose this condition on people charged with driving while intoxicated.) I've known individuals who drank anyway and wound up in the Emergency Department. Fortunately none died but it can happen. Anyway it's an issue because having an anxiety disorder often leads to abusing alcohol.

But the article's real story is not only the potential antianxiety benefit of disulfiram, but the intriguing finding regarding novel mechanisms of action, and that is worthwhile exploring further whether the drug ever gets approved for this new use, or not.

Not at all contradicting your point. It just goes to show we have to take things in context, the context itself being subject to infinite variation.
I disagree. Why doesn’t time-bounded deletion of backup keys work?
> If only a single bit is 1 a vertical line runs through the centre and ends in that bit's corner

But that's not what the image shows?
Okay then just die?

I mean, it's an option, but a just society could easily do better.

The majority are screwed over by an ultra-rich minority, personally I think that deserves addressing.

Positive rights for all do not require violence provided those who benefit from others not having simple rights will give up their excess for the greater good. The demos may need to use violence, but that's only because those who, by no greater virtue, have acquired wealth refuse to act justly and recognise the equal dignity of man.
The memory required to test. Moreover, we do not have random access to the string, we may only read one byte at a time and cannot go back. You may call it "streaming access".

More formally, we're talking about finite automata: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deterministic_finite_automaton
The body of work that reached the present day is the refined version of that. All the duds were forgotten.

I'm sure back in the day, Salzburg people were also rolling their eye about yet another Requiem.
I'm biased so here's an independent take on your options: https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe...
You can't protect lives at all cost. What's the point of living without quality of life? We certainly don't take the zero risk approach with other aspects of living.

Just an anecdote, but I know far more people who are struggling with mental health problems as a direct consequence of covid lockdowns (myself included), and it seems practically impossible to get any reasonable mental health help any more. Even private services are overwhelmed. My partner works in the hospital and some days nearly all admissions are mental health, even during the peak of the second and third waves.

I certainly wouldn't have wanted a strict China-style internal lockdown, and the more porous western internal lockdowns didn't seem to make a huge difference anyway. If anything seems to have made a difference, it's travel bans and quarantine hotels (despite WHO claims). However, against Omicron, everything seems useless.
Oh yeah you're right.. Didn't actually notice env xxx
>>For all the idealistic calls for free speech, I've heard almost no one forward an actual model for free speech that could be applied twitter or some other site.

Twitter acts as a public square, so people should be free to express themselves in any way they want, up to the limits of the law. We want Free Speech in places that act as public squares for the same reason we want the government to respect free speech: it is the only way to ensure critically important contrarian voices are not stifled.

Blocking/filtering algorithms should be open source, with every user free to implement any one that they want for their own feed.
> On 4 April, the announcement of his becoming the largest shareholder jumped his Twitter stock[0] from a $2.9B purchase to a $3.7B asset, a $779K gain.

You mean a $779m gain