skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would spend 15% of my net worth on free speech. Wouldn't you?

A lot of people downvoting, so I'll expand; It's fair to give the benefit of the doubt given that Tesla is helping combat climate change and SpaceX is about becoming multi-planetary. These are civilization level problems and solutions.

The idea is to make twitter a TRUSTED public square. He suggests open sourcing the algorithm and making all moderation actions visible to the public. Makes sense as transparency is needed to rebuild trust in the platform.
Do you guys issue physical cards or checks?
I don't know if its that meaningful of a distinction. The property does generate profits in that you could rent it out. But yeah, you can finance traditional businesses like that. Buying with debt is generally a good idea because you juice your returns with someone else's money. Of course you give up some fixed amount and take first loss but in general debt is absolutely necessary to make the economics work.

If you can buy a valuable asset for $1 and have a bank cover $9 and it yields 10% return, you're making $1 from $1 invested (minus interest) compared to someone that bought it outright (making $1 on $10 or 10% return). The bank has no upside. If you invest in something bad though or the rate is too high the math changes and you lose 100% if the asset ends up being worth <= $9. That's leverage
Senators are also debating whether the US should have a digital currency. I don't have faith that they have the technical literacy to understand the nuances of that conversation much less the effects this would have.
I guess this makes sense to me. Each OS maintainer should be able to decide when legacy code is just too much work to maintain. Some people may not be able to use Fedora on their older hardware and may have to use something else. I imagine this decision will eventually find its way into RHEL and the CentOS forks?

I am currently using Qubes OS as a browsing desktop and quite happy with it thus far, but it does not support UEFI on my hardware despite the installer recognizing it. I probably could have figured out what was going on but I just needed to quickly load a new OS. I am contemplating turning one of my little Protectli firewalls into a Qubes browsing desktop.
> Your viewpoint is valid but it's a philosophical argument, not a pragmatic one.

I think not locking yourself to specific cloud architectures is quite pragmatic, but to each their own.

> stutter step

SSR advocates: parsing JS and interacting takes way too long, it's so noticeable and terrible!

Me: so if you serve a pre-rendered-via-SSR page AND a bundle of interactivity, there's going to be a nice set of static content that will be uninteractable during that entire terribly long parsing and loading phase?

SSR advocates: Never heard of such a thing, parsing JS and getting interactivity is instant!
I'm just afraid he's gonna let Trump back on and start the gear up for 2024 and continue that craziness in the US of what I though was settled in 2020.

Some things are actually more important than money -- Twitter can offer enormous power in setting a national narrative even if little economic benefit for Musk.
No square, Firefox 99 Windows, or in Chrome either. Heck even IE 11 renders it correctly!

I think you need to investigate Firefox and how it is using your GPU. Maybe try
disabling WebRender? https://support.mozilla.org/gl/questions/1345186
You may be right. My hometown's library and civic center (pool, gym, meeting rooms) are brutalist, and I always found them delightful.
Things go very south in windows if you ever use really much swap. Had this with a CAM process using a lot of swap.

You barely move the barrier until the backing pagefile cannot grow anymore (which with a fast but small nvm can be reached within a few seconds). After that you get stuff like a taskmanager without fonts, as there is no memory for loading it anymore...
Most of our day jobs are closer to engineering, but there is a very theoretical side of computer science, and algorithm design certainly fits there. As you said it has a lot of similarities to math, and there's no consensus on whether math is a science, so I won't comment on the "science-ness" of computer science.

But I can say that mathematics is an ancient "science" which has been studied by great scholars for millennia, but many of the things we take for granted today are relatively recent: modern set theory was introduced 150 years ago by Cantor and Dedekind, meaning things like Russel's Paradox [1], Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem [2] and the Peano Axioms [3] have all been discovered after that, despite being taught in many (university-level) introductory math courses today. Rings are also relatively young [4]. In comparison, imaginary numbers are about 500 years old.

1: https://brilliant.org/wiki/russells-paradox/

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...

3: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peano_axioms

4: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_(mathematics)
I think it's very interesting that the subtext is that no one believes he will run Twitter at a loss; it's not his nature. If making Twitter better while making money is possible, Elon's the one who could do it.
He launches a website?
It's not the lens thickness, it's the optical density (Abbe number). Different lens materials have different Abbe numbers.

(I first learned of this here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19315650)
How JavaScript works: implementation of gRPC in a Node.js
"+70 year old farts debate to keep the status quo"

There are 32 senators over 70, they should be all retired
I remember playing it at the store thinking we had reached the pinnacle of computer graphics, and that there was no way they could get better. Boy was I wrong! Still one of my favorite games of all time.
Russia’s ‘Satan 2’ missile changes little for U.S., scholars say
The developer whose task branch had merge conflicts was responsible for resolving the merge conflicts, and doing sidebars as needed where a discussion of the approach was warranted. They would resolve those conflicts in their branch before the PR was submitted. If the conflicts happened between submission and approval then the conflicts would still be resolved on the task branch before merge.
Serious answer: expensive synths are the new expensive guitars. For the previous generation, guitar makers began cranking out premium priced guitars for purchase by people outside their prime music making years and into their prime earning years. Said guitars frequently just hung on the wall, which was fine because they were designed to be status items anyway.
Analyze Infrastructure Networks with Dynamic Betweenness Centrality
It means between himself, and a group of others, he has collected enough money to buy Twitter, as evidenced by the letters of intent.

Those are legit. Banks don't sign notes without some intent. They can back out, but they are not meaningless.

It's important so that the current shareholders and the board know that Musk's bid is legitimate, and not something he's just making up.

In order for the banks and others to back him in this bid, he will have had to provide with with a lot of info.

This could be a big PR move, but Musk will have had to hire very expensive bankers to actually go through this as if it were a real thing.

"Why can't you do this?"

Because Goldman and other Private Equity firms won't back you (well, assuming they won't). And they won't give you a letter to the board of Twitter saying they will.
Incoming Yaupon tea shops!
Hey founder (and OP) here. This has been a labor of love for the past few years and I'm super stoked on what we shipped. Would love any and all feedback, thoughts and questions!
ToB almost certainly isn't the first person to notice this. This paper the post cites is from 2016.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/771.pdf
What you can do if sharks attack your underwater cable?
This kind of stuff is fascinating to me, that we can react so differently to music and specifically to various chord progressions.
Of course personal taste is inscrutable in some sense, but could it also be about conditioning? E.g. if you listen a lot to certain types of jazz you might get used to some stranger chord movements.
I have a lot of friends who cant stand Steely Dan progressions for example, though I love them myself.
Here's an example of strange chord movements that I personally like a lot more than the Sergio Mendes song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXnUa6SNJFQ (Video showing the chords more clearly)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPIaw-MgNzM (Original song)
A loathsome practice which irritates me unreasonably.
> The whole thing about fiduciary duty is a bit of a meme.

Fiduciary duty is very much a thing. The Twitter board with such a tiny amount of equity may incur risk from "honest services fraud," if they block shareholders from recieving the material and obvious value of the offer.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honest_services_fraud
I'm not sure why this is getting voted down. It seems relevant to me that archive.org used to believe, and perhaps still does believe, that the archived history of a domain should be under the control of the current owner of the domain.

An alternative might be to delete history only when someone fills in a form claiming to own some copyright. BUT ... what about the situation in which your web server is temporarily taken over by a hacker and the hacked contents gets archived before you can restore the web site? In that situation it would perhaps seem reasonable for the owner of the domain to get the bogus content removed from the archive even without owning any copyright.
For clarity, this post was more creative writing exercise than technical treatise. Thanks for reading!
> It's not like you can ramp a coal-fired or nuclear power station up and down on a whim either though.

You can with nuclear: thermally it is kept running, but the steam bypasses the generators and so there is no electrical production.
Super interesting - what would you like to see? Like USD/USDC swappable accounts or something?
Gotta mention https://www.pushing-pixels.org/fui/ then also as I love checking them out.
He can make Twitter worth more, while using it as his personal soapbox. It's actually rational.
No, just the string "binance.com".
By coincidence, Teenage Engineering is on the front page at the same time as this article. I’ve enjoyed playing and creating music on their pocket operator devices, specifically the PO-20 chip tune one. The sound palette is a bit limited, but the chord opens up a lot of opportunity for creativity, especially with a little bit of music theory to help.
> it's true, twitter == government but not twitter === government.

Let's not start coding political documents in JavaScript now. (Insert additional joke about the interpreter engine running on 9 robed meat processors).
> Why do you think Besos bought the Washington Post

Because it was cheap and he wants to support journalism. Seems a lot more likely than your conspiracy theory.
So many others here are saying negative things. I hate that people are even allowed to be billionaires or that they don't pay their fair share in taxes. But I do believe that Elon has a master plan and him buying Twitter is a key element in that plan. Starlink + Dogecoin + Twitter. It all makes sense and I'm in full support.
>This makes it appropriate for buildings that are looking to evoke anti-human ideals; churches and monasteries

Have you seen an actual monastery? An actual old church (at least 700 years) kept in its original style?

They are as far as you can get from just utilitarian, to the point that they are impractial in many ways.

Nobody needs, or have any use for, a 120 foot ceiling, except to impress visitors by showing them the glory of God. Nobody needs the entire outside of the building having a row of stone Gargoyles hand carved in the smallest details, but they are there.
I've built over a dozen prototypes, spent my own time, money, and energy on them for at least a month in some cases, only to have the non-tech co-founder get cold feet once it's time to market it.

So first off, I want someone who won't do that. Experienced people who have built successful businesses have done that. Normally reliable long term friends and colleagues have done that. People who have more to lose from failure... they're the most likely to back out.

What I like to see is someone dedicated, who really believes in what they're doing. Those who talk only about market and money often back out as soon as an opportunity with a more money comes up... and if they're qualified, they have a non-stop stream of opportunities.

I'd also like to see a somewhat validated business model. Be creative in validating. One of my favourite examples is a friend who wanted to start a car rental business, but before buying the car, he put up ads on the car to check that the market existed.

When someone comes up to me with an idea, I ask them why they haven't built it in a spreadsheet, or WordPress first. One guy did a Airbnb for musician gigs. He had a static site with a profile for each musician with manual payment and people were paying for it.

This doesn't apply to all products, and usually not SaaS. But I want to be able to trust the co-founder to reduce risk, sell, and understand the user/product so I can focus on building stuff. There will also be a lot of pivots. Make sure that the pivots are at least thought out and not too late.
Oddly enough, I just realized I do both
Aren't most new technologies discarded once we realize that they are just a waste of time and money unless they deal directly with the financial system, sports, religion or the law in which case we cherish and protect them with great zeal?
The twitter buy isn't about money its about power. Money is only a proxy for power. Controlling the largest distribution source of worldwide news is a pure power play.
Piggybacking off this.

If anyone reading this has the gut reaction that hunting and conservation don’t go hand in hand, please listen to Steve Rinella and Shane Mahoney’s podcast episodes about the North American Model of Wildlife Conservation.[0][1]

As an American, it is a huge source of pride.

[0] https://www.themeateater.com/listen/the-hunting-collective-2...

[1] https://www.themeateater.com/listen/the-hunting-collective-2...
I think you overlooked that Putin's Business Empire is itself private industry, funding itself via the work of the Russian people and land, and is trying to do just that.
Wait, is it 10 other commits, or 10 other pull requests? For medium-sized projects (5-10 devs) it's generally good practice for devs to make a separate branch per feature, make lots of commits on the side branch, then merge the side branch into master in a single PR once the feature is ready.
Those users deserve what they get; not only does Sort() explicitly not guarantee a stable sort, but the library provides --- directly next to Sort() in the package --- a Stable().
Lenovo issues fixes for laptop backdoors
> I'm sure others were, to think of streaming as new media vs. old media.

I still think that's true.
The fact that there is a maximum saturation level is unsurprising. Because internet speeds and availability equates to netflix availability, I was surprised Netflix saturation took this long.
I don’t even think it was enough to trick a regular viewer. It was pretty over the top!
Was the alleged death of libraries a good thing for academic publishing?
Bingo. Sting had a quote that was something like "All chords are ambiguous until I decide on a bass note to play."
Then it's once again a misguided purchase.

Trump didn't own any media back in 2015-2016. He won because he sucked the air out of the room by making hyperbolic statements and riffing off the huge news cycle generated by his hyperbolic statements.

A good and effective PR team and a charismatic deliver is all you need and it comes for much less than 40B.

This is what kids learn in nightclubs fairly early: if you want to command the club you want to be a DJ. Owning the club will leave you with both a huge hole in your pocket and in the shadow of the DJ every given Friday.

The answer to Musk "problems" is to become a good public speaker and work on his in person social game, not monopolizing an online platform on which he has by far the biggest account already. Pushing on a string that's what it is. That's about the only thing he can do to expand his virality, owning the platform is kinda redundant.

Real life still happens offline (thankfully)
That or it's aimed at people trying to have it both ways.

I know a couple of people like this, they claim they want to get out of the city, but also aren't willing to live more than 5 minutes from a supermarket. The result is a compromise: suburban sprawl.
Looks amazing. Would love to have this in the UK.
I was talking about the structure of its governance, which I think is currently more like an oligarchy and if Musk buys it, might be more like a monarchy or dictatorship, not like a democracy.

I don't claim that the current oligarchy is doing it well, I don't claim that a Musk monarchy would not do it better, and I don't claim that even a democratic structure would do it well.

I was merely trying to point out the different governance structures and question our collective faith in democratic structures.
You don't have to debate or acknowledge every idea. That's different then censoring it. I don't debate flat-earthers, but I also don't censor them.

Free speech is measured by the tolerance for speech that you hate.
Why would I "know" that? SpaceX is a private company founded by Musk and levels.fyi indicates Software Engineers there receive a hefty amount of stock: https://www.levels.fyi/?compare=SpaceX&track=Software%20Engi...
Yeah the Sheldon station is right by that Monolith project. Fun to drive by for sure.
There is no cto till now . They are starting the company and yet to build mvp .
The usual trick is coverage-guided fuzzing. https://google.github.io/clusterfuzz/reference/coverage-guid...
Total Texas energy production during the worst part of the crisis last winter was like 60% of maximum though. Most generators were running. If consumer had to pay a 2x premium then no one would have even complained; we'd have all said the system was working.

But that's not how it works, because as I mentioned the demand curve is non-linear. When you have 60% power, yet 60.1% of your capacity needs to go to "must keep the lights on" customers, then prices go to infinity (or in practice to the credit/spending limits of those customers making bids).
Pardoned by Trump. We should name and shame each one until this stops.
May I ask why you prefer Debian?
What does "chartered" mean?
Gregg shorthand is often contrasted with Pitman, an earlier system. The 1922 edition of Gregg's book is available on archive:

https://web.archive.org/web/20131101115345/http://gregg.ange...
Twitter is a weapon. its economic condition is only secondary in consideration IMHO.
Or split the project into multiple modules/services?
I could really do with this, it seems that it would solve some problems, simplify my workflow AND mean I get to sell a couple of pieces of gear. I own an OP-1 and feel that it's worth the £850 I paid for it second hand but this TX-1 is over twice as much as I'd be prepared to pay. Shame given its design and feature-set. Maybe Behringer will put out a shitty £200 clone in a year or two ;)
Because Java.
Musk cares about free speech in the same way as the US South cares about states’ rights.
Personally, my issue is that taking loans against equity is the reason billionaires don't pay any income tax. Sure, they should be able to take loans in order to keep their voting share, but not as a tax loophole.
Are you kidding? It's been a slur for a long time and you were clearly using it as one.
Don't know if it was really community management or its architecture. But the incentives to monetize the site ever more aggressively is probably the most important factor.

Ads and bundling malware (here: unwanted software) with downloads won't be received very well. The malware even had a negative influence on projects themselves. Example I know of was filezilla, which many never used or trusted again.

I don't know if you can compare sourceforge with github because the former was also used by many to get ready-to-use binaries where github is more exclusive to developers and peers.
The problem is that “the tippy top of the seniority ladder” are the only ones eligible to earn close to 170k
if i wanted a simple mixer and usb audio interface with fx send and i didn't want to spend a thousand dollars on it, what's the range of alternatives

i've spent under $150 on every individual item in my kit so far and it feels silly to blow past that on a mixer.
Apple fined $1000 for not including charger
I noticed on the form:

Citizenship or Place of Organization: USA

I know that he was born in South Africa to a South African father and a Canadian mother. I assume this means he is entitled to citizenship (and passports) in both places.

Does anyone know if he still has both of these citizenships? If yes, I am surprised that he is not required to declare them on this form. Maybe SEC does not care about other passports, if already a US citizen.

One idea: Maybe he renounced the others so that he can run a rocket company in the US. As I understand, Space X is crazy strict about security requirements, and many of those are dictated by the US Federal gov't.

For example, in New York City, I knew many Jewish people that were native born US citizens, but also had an Israeli passport. It made it easier to visit Israel (much lower security requirements), and it was an important cultural link for them.
This is good. Good penmanship and the pursuit of it is a very enjoyable and rewarding practice. Since you mentioned you experience with fountain pens and a desire to learn a spencerian derivative, I want to give you a heads up that fountain pen experience doesn't necessarily translate but you still have an edge of course.

As far as recommendation goes, I think you should see if you would be content with learning something like the afore-mentioned D'Nealian method, which involves a lot
of printing and shape reproduction, and stick to it. You can get far using a fountain with this.

However if you have the desire to reach for something more, I would recommend looking into a good "Business Writing" hand. There should a introductory book on a decent business hand produced by Ziller Inks on the Apple book store. I'd get that, it was pretty affordable last time I checked.

The business hand is a beginner friendly entry into the spencerian family and let's you carry your progress into more refined spencerian hands when you are ready for them later. Download a copy of the book "C.C.Canan - Collection of Penmanship" to see the kind of spencerian hands you could aspire towards.If you chose this path, it's a long journey so it depends on your personality like most hobbies.

Penmanship is a weird hobby, it looks both simple and intimidating at the same time. If you feel like you could use some personal advice, leave a comment and I'll reach out to contact info on your profile. I'm not an expert(I've seen what experts do and boy am I not one) but generally enjoy sharing penmanship learning advice so I don't mind a consultation or two.
> Although I didn't keep up with all the simplifications so maybe that is already in here

That one isn't there, because the original motivation of the post was trying to design a chord input system for an instrument. In which case I'm happy telling the instrument in advance "this next song is in Dm" but not changing that on the fly (hands are full)
> this assumes Musk is acting rationally

No.. it assumes Musk is only trying to maximize his net worth with this move, which is a ridiculous assumption.
Yeah the way I originally learned to do it is with no bottom bar and a short, 45º, straight serif. The french way has a lloooooong curving serif, at least as long as the downstroke. Or at least I think of it as french since that's where I ran into it. Maybe that's the norm in europe?