skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my experience ORMs add a layer of complexity, instead of removing one. It's nice to e.g. have a "Pythonic" interface in Python, but when working close to the data I far prefer to write a concise, clear query instead of trying to remember some ORM syntax or what they're calling VARCHARS in this particular ORM, or how they're representing JOINS, or if the condition will be on the ON clause or the WHERE clause, or how they're representing GROUP BY, etc etc.
> - Our devops team has had to make it so we can re-trigger our CI (or add additional pipelines) via comment-commands, while in BitBucket we were able to add custom buttons to the PR menu. This means there's a lot of noise of comments that just say "/retrigger-ci" or some such.

Job re-runs are more than one click away unfortunately. But I'd be curious, outside a failing job due to flakiness or GitHub instability; for what other reason do you use this functionality?
that only looks at physical health metrics. Things like social enhancement and stress relief are not captured in that study and are obviously benefits of moderate alcohol consumption
I've heard that magneto-optical drives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive can keep your data for a real long time.

But I think in all honesty are better off uploading your data to github, Google, dropbox (and whoever else you can find), and relying on at least one of them being around for so long.
> I call this out as the bad rhetorical technique of "no, but this time it is different".

A lot of things are going to be different if longevity tech is successful.
I would not say that. Maybe a bit nicer, but they would not have the community effects they could find in the UK, where there are strong Pakistani, Bangladeshi, or Iraqi networks. You would not guess from reading the British press, but there is actually a large population of migrants who stop in France, mostly from Africa though.
When I'm on a high state of concentration, my internal voice shuts up. I like this because I feel that "the internal voice" eats processing resources from my brain to translate thoughts to language and vice-versa. When my internal voice shuts up, I feel like my brain is running compiled programs instead of interpreted languages.
PHP is currently my favorite language to work in, especially as a freelancer who needs to just get things implemented quickly. No strange docker log issues like I've had with python/node stacks of errors not showing in docker logs until a service restart; just reload a page and bam.
https://www.reddit.com/r/london/comments/cnkcaz/private_eye_...

It could be a similar to the technique used by trinket stores that was exposed by Private Eye.
Twitter has over 7000 employees, for WhatsApp's business model to work they'd need to cut this by 10x or so and there is no way they justify the 45 billion valuation if they do that.
possibly the actual financing details made the offer seem real, recent market downturn makes the value of twitter less, or they didn't get any other better offers.
I honestly don't believe he thinks that deeply about it and doesn't see any contradiction over what he says about free speech and how he acts. If it wasn't for the negative PR it would receive, he wouldn't think twice about booting the account. I don't think he realises that everyone has their own line at which point someone's "free speech" becomes unacceptable to them and that everyone has an idea on what the consequences should be for crossing that line. It's just "me and my pals are alright, we're harmless and shouldn't be cancelled but the guys I don't like can take a hike"
The trick is the trending algorithm. Not identities.
I agree that a real name policy would help remove the bots and anonymous hate speech. But there is plenty of non-anonymous hate speech that still make Twitter toxic.

The ad-revenue model relies on attention, and attention thrives on memes that inspire outrage, contempt, and fear. The solution is a freemium subscription model. But I don't think he'll do that. I admire the guy's accomplishments like everyone else but we all know he's got a bit of an ego. He'll not put a paywall in front of his Twitter army.
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Ads on Twitter have very low ROI. And that’s not because there are bots and toxicity, which certainly play a role, but mostly because there are no data points. Twitter doesn’t know its users, and thus can’t provide value to advertisers. I can’t see how Elon’s mindset would improve this.
I don't think most of those people are saying Musk can't do this, just that it's going to make the whole site worse. There's a reason I prefer Twitter to 4chan.

They can do whatever they want with Twitter, but I don't have to use it. Which is exactly what everyone complaining about "censorship" on Twitter was told as well. If Musk wants to make Twitter more hospitable to trolls and harassers, then they're welcome to go annoy each other in their new paradise.
Twitters stock price has been flat since IPO... I think the board and shareholders have been ok with them thinking long-term seeing as how they have 0 returns.
I can think of couple of reasons:

1. as a public company, they are afraid to lose so many accounts - see Netflix as an example on what could happen to their stock

2. bots are the future, at some point I think everyone will have a bot to post for them
"Half a billion dollars of aircraft that flew for about a year. A huge $85 million hotel that never opened, and sits in disrepair. Camouflage uniforms for the Afghan army whose fancy pattern would cost an extra $28 million. A healthcare facility listed as located in the Mediterranean Sea.

These are part of a catalog of "waste, fraud and abuse" complaints made against the United States' reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan -- an effort totaling $145 billion over 20 years -- made by the United States' own inspector general into the war. But the in-depth audits detailing these findings have, for the most part, been taken offline at the request of the State Department, citing security concerns."

https://edition.cnn.com/2021/10/07/asia/us-afghanistan-spend...
Ah, a chopped-up, out of context quotation in a clickbait hit-piece article about a 3 hour podcast. Thanks for that. Just the kind of nuanced and thoughtful contribution I like to see.
Blame the FAA. ADSB data is stupidly simple to receive with an RTLSDR and a raspberry pi, and there are community sites where you can upload. Point being: his plane can be tracked as long as it’s flying legally with its beacon on. This wouldn’t be a problem if the FAA just pushed back harder on the FOIA request for his jet data, then it would just be another anonymous private jet in the system instead of Elons Jet.

FOIA wasn’t meant to make every record the government has public, it was meant to prevent the government from hiding things from the people. I can’t FOIA your social security number. I probably shouldn’t be able to FOIA the cell phone tracking data firehose that the FBI has, either. What I should be able to FOIA is the fact that the FBI has such a firehose.
> Why is it so hard for businesses or people to understand

To have a proper answer you need a proper question. The proper one would be "what is the difference between an office and remote worker?". And the answer would be:

1. You have the easiest KPI to measure: butt-in-the-seat/hour. Because making some valid KPIs tied to the business performance is hard and requires to at least to think.

2. If something isn't right you can always come to the drone's desk and shout at him all you want.

3. If something isn't right you can always call a meeting and blame everyone for the fault until some without guts would accept it or just would be tired enough to want it end right now with any means.

With all the points combined it becomes crystal clear what the need to "see and touch" your office drones is because the management is absolutely incompetent both in the business and a human interactions and this is the last option for them to have a sense of control.
9-track tape is common enough that you can pay to have it read at reasonable cost.
This one is fun, the original Atari Lunar Lander in browser http://moonlander.seb.ly/
If anyone is actually able to land at a base (and is lowered down to be refueled etc.) let me know. The game is looking to be either too hard or has a serious bug. (And I'm not sure which is preferable.)

EDIT: looks like it was a bug (fixed now?). Of course, it occurs to me that it might also be too hard of a game — that both the above could be true.
> The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy

Nope that is not the only way. Federation can also solve moderation issue. Basically you host a server instance and set some ground rules of what is allowed and what is not. But federation cannot generate revenue so I don't think that will ever happen with Twitter unless Elon figures out how to make money from a federated social network.
It's little-oh, not Big-Oh (o(1) is not O(1)). Instead $f(n) = o(1)$ means $\lim_{n \to infty f(n)} = 0$. So $m^{1+o(1)}$ is smaller than $m^1.00001$ for large enough m.
But what if - and just hear me out here - there are not ways around the fundamental problems of social media platforms as they exist today?

I think we've had plenty of years to demonstrate a way to make it work without the toxicity and damage to society, yet we've not done so - even with the most scrutinized platforms in history and the world's most capable software engineers.

We are social creatures. Social media is not at all an incarnation of 'society' in which we can function.
I agree that a real name policy would help remove the bots and anonymous hate speech. But there is plenty of non-anonymous hate speech that still make Twitter toxic. Those people would have an easier time harassing other people if they knew real names.

The ad-revenue model relies on attention, and attention thrives on memes that inspire outrage, contempt, and fear. The solution is a freemium subscription model. But I don't think he'll do that. I admire the guy's accomplishments like everyone else but we all know he's got a bit of an ego. He'll not put a paywall in front of his Twitter army.
So what? If they target 20 or 10h doesn't matter. The fundamental point is that they clearly outperform VW there their CEO admits it and they are doing major investments to catch up.

And the claim that you need 10h for quality control is utterly ridiculous. The reason they likely are not targeting a lower number is because their production centers are far more distrusted and they don't have full vertical integration from battery cells to cars in one building.

There are other possible explanation. You can't just assert whatever you want without any evidence at all.

If VW has a higher quality standard then Tesla (questionable) then that fine. That literally changes nothing about my argument about production argument.

And Tesla quality issues have been far less in Shanghai were they have faster production then in Fremont. We have yet to see if Berlin will have production issues.

And outside of VW or whatever. Its unquestionable that Tesla made major gains in manufcaturing that is a competitive advantage. So the claim that Musk is dumb because he wanted to increase automation or simply wrong.

The idea that they cut 20h of production by 'cutting corners' is just a delusional take. Sorry. If that was possible do you think GM would not have done that in the 2000s. Do you think Nissan wouldn't have done it?

Tesla first attempt at that automation was wrong, but they adjusted and actually did make real innovations. Denying that is just making you look silly and uninformed.
The old rules don't apply because the old interest rates were so very much higher.

The prices are based on the ability to repay based on the income - with lower interest rates the same income and service a much larger loan, hence the increased prices.

The world has changed, from very high rates to current very low rates, and seems like it might be changing back to middle rates.
Consciousness, as I understand it, evolves out of complexity. The simpler things are, the less capacity for consciousness they have. Fundamental building blocks of the universe must then be the least capable of consciousness. That's not to say they aren't "conscious," but that the conciousness they do possess is practically non existent when compared to the consciousness we, as complex systems, possess.

I still hold that our ability to create far outranks anything in the observable universe. We are actually so freakishly different from everything around us, that we might as well be aliens to this universe.

That's why I don't like being put on the level of atoms. And I already feel atomized enough in this increasingly antisocial environment.
>> My read is people find reasons to hate him due to ego, they see someone running like 6+ successful companies when their lives aren't going so well, and go looking for all the moralistic things he must be doing wrong.

He’s doing cool things, it’s impossible to deny that (especially with SpaceX). But you only need to look at his Bill Gates related tweets this weekend to see why people think he’s an asshole and it’s nothing to do with jealousy. He acts like an edgy 14 year old and it’s really cringey.
Formal verification doesn't scale to global properties in the general case. Global properties that are simple and type-like (in that they match the syntactic structure of the program in a fully "compositional" way, like Rust lifetimes) can be checked with comparable ease. Complex properties can often be checked within a single, self-contained, small-enough program module. Trying to do both at the same time - check complex properties globally - is highly problematic. That's why the Rust borrow checker has to make simplifying assumptions, and use 'unsafe' as an escape hatch.
I just get a welcome message about a smooth landing and nothing further.
I'm fairly sure they won't be crashing the plane in a place where people live.
Interesting. What picture do you have for something like "I promised to meet my nephew I never met before next Tuesday at 3 Av/E 117 St I never visited before."?

When I shut down my internal monologue I have trouble thinking about things beyond routine procedures and memories.
4chan got much more popular again in the last years because other platforms banned their worst users. If people would just have ignored tasteless internet comments we would probably see much less polarization. Suggesting as much will summon some wrath itself though.
Twitter needs a strong leader with a vision, IMHO
Especially rich coming from a VPN vendor, whose business happens to be threatened by Apple's relay.
If you're in a marginalised community then the objectional content comes to you and can't be avoided. We simply aren't provided with the tools to block this.

There is a fundamental asymmetry in harassment.

My account is important to me; I don't want to abandon it or give it up. If my account is under attack I cannot continue to use the site as I would like.

The accounts used for harassment are either disposable and it doesn't matter to the harasser whether they get blocked or banned. And non-disposable harassing accounts that get blocked can either just move onto the next target or continue to direct the harassment through screenshots etc which encourage the disposable accounts to do the dirty work.

The cost to the victim can be meaningful, but the cost to the harasser is non-existant.

And this isn't just applicable to concerted harassment campaigns.
There is also a lot of "drive-by" harassment from accounts who will just reply to any black/trans/queer/woman who posts online.
His argument is far from data driven, just the opposite: he interprets data to suit his argument.

And indeed, if someone is a prominent Satanist, but describes themselves as a simple kind hearted participant on a UN panel, and decides that the true outcome of the meeting is that people love Satan and need black magic in their lives to PROTECT THE CHILDREN then yes, omitting their selling their soul at the crossroads at midnight is quite a deceitful omission.

The omission here is the context free nature of links on HN. We are urged to assess the words of people without context, without knowing that they have a history of the most wild and divisive rhetoric, where the dice are loaded with depleted uranium. No, that does not make sense.
I've said it on HN before. You need to be willing to spend some effort self-curating your feed. Only follow people you're interested in, use the settings feature to mute tweets containing certain words or phrases, and make heavy use of the lists feature.

Once you've done all that it's much better. Of course you can't think of everything so some stuff slips through but that's a given for anything.
I liked this video summary about the book: https://youtu.be/PZ7lDrwYdZc
Since around the 1960s, we've had large economic forces greatly increasing the supply of labor affecting wages:

1. Women entering the workforce, essentially doubling the labor pool.
2. Immigration - at least a million a year, every year.
3. Globalization - instead of local workforce, many companies can now outsource labor to cheaper countries without regulation.
4. Manufacturing - due to NAFTA, companies who once manufactured in the US can now get much cheaper labor to Mexico. This is related to #3.
5. Automation - The amount of labor needed to perform a task has been greatly reduced.

To sum it up in my mind, US companies have more or less fixed poverty at a global scale while making a profit at the expense of US workers. #3 and #4 are largely a result of removing tariff and trade regulations. #2 is also a result of government policy. Easing any of these things over decades, one at a time would have been preferred, allowing the economy to adjust. Unfortunately they all happened in a roughly 30 year period between the 1970s and the 2000s, and have accelerated since.
Same here. In MoonDebriefState.js, the marked line errored out, because departedLocation was null.

var departedLocation = LunarFeatures.locationForBase (baseDeparted);
> var deltaX = departedLocation[0] - _base.loc_x; <
var deltaY = departedLocation[1] - _base.loc_y;
_distanceTraveled = Math.floor (Math.sqrt ((deltaX * deltaX) + (deltaY * deltaY)));

(Safari 15.4 on macOS 12.3.1)
I think it's called 'chunking'. So 'Could you explain' (concept #1: explain -> describe / analyze) 'what happens' (concept #2: happens -> series of events, a process) 'when you read text' (concept #3: reading -> interpreting symbols).

For me it's all visual / mechanical, kind of like playing with Legos. No 'inner voices' are involved; though sometimes I will sort of internally mutter to myself, 'okay, let's get to work' at the start. For example if I read the word 'seventy-two' I visualize the decimal numbers '72' as an image.

I read a lot of scientific and technical literature, and I've found that trying to verbalize it isn't of much use and just leads to confusion. In contrast, I will 'hear voices' when reading a work of fiction but only when it's dialogue.
According to one study US GDP would be 9% higher if SF, LA, and NYC made room. They estimate NYC would grow to 40 million people.

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388

Originally found via:
https://www.worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-e...
Have you ever spent a decent period of time (>3 months) being immersed in another language? When you do it becomes clear that there is a language component to your thoughts, even if you don’t think in words.

My personal experience is similar to GP. My thoughts are very non-linear a jumble of images, emotions, sensations, sounds, colors, and intuitions. Organization into anything resembling a coherent sentence takes conscious effort.

But there are words mixed into that jumble somewhere, and I experienced a tipping point during language immersion / acquisition where I realized those words were no longer in my native tongue. It was around the time I started dreaming in the other language.
A mascot existing wouldn't inspire towns to invest resources in developing their own. Sure, they mah have had some hopes that it would lead to similar merchandizing sales or tourism growth, but that dream likely died quickly.

A cute character regularly reminding people of their home to take advantage of this tax makes more sense to me.
It's not only the government that needs that data, it's other pilots. These transponders are used to prevent in-air collisions between planes. That's not a centralized system; it's peer-to-peer. Your plane has antennas that are directly receiving these signals and ensuring that no other plane is too close, or on a collision course. These signals are also read by ground-based antennas for similar purposes (and also by avgeeks who want to collate the data, e.g.: https://www.flightradar24.com/add-coverage ).

The system fundamentally doesn't work if you try to make it non-public. The end result might end up being more privacy for Elon's jet, sure, but also way more mid-air collisions, as it would no longer be able to serve its function of letting a plane tell other planes where it is.
A gastroenterologist recently told me that I may not see improvements until I've eliminated all gluten for 4 months, I wish one week was enough (recently diagnosed celiac).
> Self-hosting is a very last-millennium form of wankage

You're reading way more into my comment than I wrote. I asked a question.
> I've been using Migadu for about four years. My main complaint is that the support is not good.

I've been a Migadu customer for a few months now, and my experience with their support is contrary to yours: I've always had a reply which addressed the issue within a day or two.
What about whistleblowers

We know how Musk feels about whistleblowers:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-03-13/when-elon...
Of course it won't [stay a platform agnostic protocol]. They'll leverage it as soon as they think they can get away with it. MS owns Github. They have already rolled out AI auto-completion. This LSP will be used as another way to get between users (in this case the users are devs) and the machine and "extract rent".

Ultimately, complexity itself is the enemy.
That’s why you always carry your personal pocket-cellular WiFi modem with custom firewall settings.

Then turn on Airport mode on your cellphone.

Sign on to your WiFi.

IP address Privacy, pretty much assured (assuming you have your own backend WireGuard and remote VPS-based gateway. )
> So, why not use a safer choice to begin with?

I know several people who build projects like that. It take them months to get a working product, just to discover it doesn't interest people or doesn't work like they expected. If for every piece of tooling you go for the "safe" and most performant one you gain bloat and complexity real quick.

People underestimate "simple" tech performance, in 99% of projects by the time your bottleneck is your DB system I can assure you that it'll be the least of your concerns
You could go part-way and just limit anonymous accounts a bit more.

Currently users can choose to only let followers/mentioned users reply. Maybe add an option to only allow real-name users to reply.
Minimising power usage while keeping the system as a whole running. "Light sleep mode" as it were.