skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “Can I confirm that March should be the launch date?”,
> don’t say “I assume we’re all aligned that March should be the launch date”.

...only if you really aren't sure. I would actually say something like "We're planning to launch in March unless there are reasons not to."

If someone has a really great reason, they'll speak up. Getting "confirmation" from a group that may be indifferent can sometimes be even worse. How many people in the group aught to "confirm" before we move forward? What if one extremely uninformed person loudly confirms? Then a person with a real issue may feel like they don't want to stir things up by disagreeing.

Tangentially related: This is why you should say "If you can't see my screen, please let me know." when you start sharing your screen on zoom rather than "Can you see my screen?" Who on Earth aught to answer that in a large meeting?

Assuming a "yes" and allowing for the "nos" to speak up is much more successful in general I think.
like I said, none of your business
Assembly allows to use all of them, and there is no need to reserve any for ABI, other than syscalls or specific opcode requirements.

On high level languages one needs to hope that the register allocator does a good job.
No one is forcing those entities to use Twitter. They can post on their own website that they control if they so wish.
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But it would keep resetting to the algo Timeline until recently.
I really respect Drew and his work/advocacy. I think what most enchants me about Hare is that it's not a "take over the world" language. It's pure FOSS engineering: there's nothing out there that does what I want, so I'll (build a community to help me) build it. Love it.
I have been on this path for a while. I still need my home lab infra to do it. I'm waiting patiently for my ZXSpectrum Next Issue 2(4 now) but in the mean time have been looking into lighter weight systems. I've got the Clockwork Pi DevTerm and have built a couple other lightweight systems and have been looking at what the Amiga community is doing and am pretty interested. I haven't quite found the sweet spot yet... but yeah. Definitely this.

https://www.clockworkpi.com/product-page/devterm-kit-a06-ser...
You missed what the original poser was saying. Their point was that if you're capturing the CO2, it's better to keep it captured, rather than just releasing it again.
This is what can be accomplished with a homogeneous society. The US is too multicultural and has too many competing interests (both people and companies) for something like this to even be thought of.
People thought the same about the 45th, and yet the world was forced to endure these full four disastrous years.

I don't like to take chances in politics these days...
Looks like the deal is done:

https://twitter.com/paraga/status/1518664847768006656
No? The entire purpose of reddit was to scale bans and site moderation by offloading that responsibility to the users rather than the site administrators.
It sounds like we’re aligned that that subreddit is in danger because of its political opinions, not its communication style? Which is exactly counter to Yishan’s claims.
The bit about "following the law" was so poorly thought out. Musk's comments at TED made it seem like he both:
(1) confused Bill of Rights guarantee that the government won't censor speech with some law that prohibits private companies from moderating speech on their platforms (not a thing)
(2) failed to consider what it means to "follow the law" when your platform operates in multiple countries with incompatible laws. Do you comply with an authoritarian regime that demands you take down tweets (https://www.theverge.com/2021/5/24/22451271/police-india-rai...)? How about content that is specifically banned in some countries but not others, like Germany's strict hate speech laws (https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/twitter-germany-nazis/)? These are actual problems Twitter has had to deal with, and I don't get the impression that Musk realizes how complicated it it is.
> Musk said last week that he doesn’t care about the economics of the deal and is pursuing it because it is "extremely important to the future of civilization." Fine, but who anointed Musk to decide the future of civilization?

Who anointed the previous board? Every criticism leveled at Musk by the author applies equally to the current owners of Twitter, Facebook, and many others. Except the bizarre observation that Musk won't be constrained by shareholders - this must be the first time shareholders are invoked as guardians of societal responsibility. All the stranger because the author follows it with:

> They pushed America from stakeholder capitalism (where workers and communities had a say in what corporations did) to shareholder capitalism (where the sole corporate goal is to maximize shareholder value). Inequality skyrocketed, insecurity soared, vast swaths of America were abandoned, and millions of good jobs vanished.

The author also states Musk's goal is to be unconstrained by "laws and regulations". He does not explain how owning Twitter makes one less beholden to laws and regulations - presumably the law still applies, even if Twitter is privately owned?

Ultimately it's nakedly obvious what's happening - the same actions tolerated or applauded when done by my friends, are strongly condemned when done by my enemies - The specific political distinction to which political actions and motives can be reduced is that between friend and enemy.

It's embarrassing how many words the article spends poorly trying to disguise this, and even more embarrassing that some will take the article at face value.
Musk had no qualifications to run a rocket company. He didn't have much qualifications to run a car or solar company either. But he has done well by any measure of success. The only qualification that he seems to need is clear thinking based on first principles and genuine conviction and perseverance at super hard problems even while facing total personal destruction. And total personal destruction is always a real possibility with him – as he always seems to be all-in betting everything every time. So, if he fails spectacularly at his stated goal for twitter, I wouldn't be surprised (and neither will he be, I bet), but it would be sad to see that.
maybe i can get my twitter unsuspended now. the fact that there are monthly reddit megathreads for people to complain about random suspensions/bans by the algorithm and that reaching out to twitter to even asked for a reason why go un-answered and auto-replied is really annoying. https://www.reddit.com/r/Twitter/comments/rtr4t6/january_202...
Some exceptions would be if it conflicts with their products

Amazon has that provision in its employment contract. The problem is that Amazon has its fingers in so many pies, no matter what you write, you could potentially get in trouble with legal. One person I knew there had to wait six weeks for approval from legal so they could work on a Lisp interpreter.
> You think Google and Apple have dodged government scrutiny

No. I think they've been frequent, intense subjects of government scrutiny, including antitrust litigation.
There is no reasonable expectation of privacy on someone else's network, particularly an employer's. Arguably network operators have the ultimate authority on what should and shouldn't happen over their networks on their equipment.

I understand that ad companies have a vested interest in circumventing this and trying to move internet standards to opaque protocols, but until that particular fiefdom is unseated, we have to make reasonable tradeoffs.

In the meantime, we block a massive amount of malware by blocking their ad domains.
Oops, forgot to mention .NET too. To be honest, the main reason of my confusion is that I've been surfing on the internet about those languages for quite a time and have read some threads on HN too (I mean people comparing them). Some people say that this is better than that but other say the opposite, I just don't want to regret my choice in the future and still be in demand with my skillset in, let's say, 5 years. Thank you for your time tho.
You use CO2 blasting to clean optics as it can be quite gentle when the system is tuned right. For some optical coatings, CO2 is pretty much the only way to mechanically clean them without damage.
I disagree. I find their examples a good collection of the kind of viewpoints that get caught in the crossfire and disallowed when content moderation goes too far.

To be clear: there is often a lot of gray area and some middle ground to be taken in complex debates. When one side (eg: far-right American trollish behaviour) goes too hard in to the paint, the (over?) reaction by the opposing side(s) often loses perspective and it's the more reasonable opinions in the middle that get squashed in the well meaning attempts to supress troll like extremist influence. I think the above post highlights exactly these kind of opinions that get steamrolled away, even though many of them are within the realm of sensible debate.
I think it also died because styling could so easily destroy legibility. If text display areas were specifically designed with some fancy script like Helvetica in mind and I preferred Courier New the UI (if poorly designed) would often just break whole-sale.
I tried to hint at this by using quotes, I don't doubt that L6 is possible. But, please elucidate, are there L6s at Google making "low 7 figures"? From levels.fyi, there are no such reports. The average is about half and matches what I know from other companies. Those that are approaching 7 figures have at least a decade of experience. Anyway, the pay he describes is much closer to L8.
Yeah right. In the south, they are all about everyone being American as long as they can recite some platitudes about the Constitution.

France has a much fairer system for integration. Everything is based on how good you perform. Until you finish your studies, every major test is completely anonymous. You can become a doctor without ever having to pass in front of a Jury who may be biased by the way you look, what you believe in, or where you come from.

France has not suffered from the same deeply rooted racial discrimination the US still suffers from. During the 19th and 20th centuries, France was a refuge for oppressed minorities.
If they did the poison pill they have to show strong results to prove that the company is more valuable than the offer and that they are better shepherds of the company. If Twitter announced weak results in the upcoming earnings call in these market conditions, their stock would fall hard. If his bid were to be rejected, Elon would sell his 9% stake which would be another blow. The current board can't survive this. They will be sued for not performing their fiduciary duty.
Ominous Mr Burns inside voice, "So that I may fully control them, muhahahahah." #evilfingertenting
> make it possible for board members to strengthen their ownership by issuing new shares to existing owners

This poison pill does not strengthen Twitter board members' ownership because they don't own much Twitter stock.
Pasteurization is not a free lunch. You also destroy enzymes, vitamins, and all the beneficial bacteria. The enzymes help to digest the milk and the beneficial bacteria compete with pathogenic bacteria in the gut (the above links to peer-reviewed studies and is by a PhD in Nutritional Immunology).

Pasteurized milk prevents illness from contamination but it may not be as well tolerated by some people. Some children show greater skin-prick reactivity to treated milk over untreated milk [0][1], treated milk tends to have a lower threshold of provoking an allergic reaction [2], and heat treatment is shown to abolish the allergy-protective effects of milk [3]. Children who were exposed to raw milk tend to have better allergy tolerance as adults compared to those who consumed processed milk [3].

There are small farmers all over industrialized countries who have no problem drinking raw milk (most of them probably, because the machines are expensive). There are people in rural, non-industrialized Sub-Saharan Africa where non-Pasteurized milk is a staple. The key is that the milk is coming from mostly healthy cows and is drunk fresh. Here is a thought experiment: why do human infants tolerate raw human milk and calves tolerate raw cow milk despite having undeveloped immune systems? It's consumed fresh.

Edit:

> because there is simply not nearly enough evidence to make a strong case

I would also add that the burden of proof and Precautionary Principle cuts both ways. Pasteurization was standardized at a time in history before biochemistry, immunology, and modern nutritional studies. The assumption that the nutritional quality of milk (in vivo) is unaffected by flash heating is what needs to be demonstrated.

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30945370/

[1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3284399/

[2] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29025431/

[3] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30439365/
My thoughts work much like this. For example, if I'm discussing some kind of design or graph relationship, I actually see what I'm talking about vividly. The problem is it's really hard to make eye contact while doing this. It's not that I find eye contact uncomfortable in conversation. It's just that discussing many topics, especially technical ones, it's not possible to see my ideas while looking directly at someone.

I find this most frustrating in work that is interrupted and explanation is sought. So for example, if I'm thinking through the most efficient way to accomplish X, taking into accounty Y and Z, and someone walks into my office and asks me what I'm working on it's frustrating stating my thought process on the spot because none of that reasoning was assembled using language.

What are others experience with this?
I disagree, there are plenty of amazing advancements in the last 2 years you can't write off like that (especially Instruct GPT-3 and Dall-e 2). For example I have worked on a ML project in document information extraction for 4 years, and recently tried GPT-3 - it solved the task zero shot.
Interesting. So dark money can remain secret, but on Twitter you'll be forced to doc yourself to prove you're human. I don't see how that's improved anything.
> It is really a revelation that love is what makes life meaningful?

Yes. The original researchers considered all kinds of things that might correlate to long term health and happiness. They did not consider quality of relationships as one of them.
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I am taking advantage of this comment to ask a general question hoping to read some insights into it.

On different occasions after doing some casual war history reading, I ended up with the diffuse belief that the ability to delegate initiative to low ranking soldiers was one of the key attributes of the winning side ( for example during different israelo-arab wars ).

Then I stumbled upon a military evaluation of how the german army performed during WWII. It spent time stressing the point that german officers were constantly encouraged to show initiative and independant thinking, more so than other western european armies.
Supposedly, it was a cultural trait dating back from the prussian army. It shattered my cliché view of the german army as first and foremost an organization built on discipline.

So here is my question: Is is possible there is a tendency/bias to simply view ourselves as more independant and any adversary we face as more "drone" like ? ( The same way ancient kingdoms would simply label their opponents as savages ? )
As a user you have made the choice to both enable private relay, and enable a VPN. Now PR isn't itself a VPN as such, but clearly there's some level of potential conflict in making such a decision. If you don't want Private Relay interfering with network traffic routing, pretty much it's job as advertised, for goodness sake just switch it off and the whole problem goes away.
I've looked at various networks for detection of incivility/hate speech/insults/profanity, and it's a train wreck.

The best models barely reach >.5 true positives in German. And the incivility which they find are the easy, shallow parts.

So, even though I have only read the article and not the paper, I predict that this will absolutely, totally not work in any real setting.
Understood your point, thanks.
Based on what I'm reading here, U.S. law more than just a "little" different from German law in this regard. The word "imminent" in the U.S. standard does a huge amount of work, restricting liability to things like direct incitement (e.g., "Get him!"). And the "Z" itself is a perfect example, since it would almost certainly be considered protected speech in the U.S.
Netflix is served from a Netflix openconnect appliance inside your ISP datacenter, not from the cloud.

They just send one to Mars and it’s good to go.
I've been using C++17 since 2019; C++11 since 2013, and we're starting to scope out upgrading our toolchain to C++20.

Depending on where you work at, my experience suggests 2-5 years for adoption.
> People read 11% slower for every 20 years they age.

How can this be anywhere near a useful or accurate statistic? Surely the rates depend on the age, and there’s likely space for significant improvement in someone’s 20s.

I can read in the neighborhood of 750wpm with good comprehension while verbalizing. I’m pretty sure I never was able to read at 900wpm no matter how many years you go back. I don’t think there’s been any meaningful drop at all in the past 20 years. Further, in the next 20 years I wouldn’t be surprised if my reading speed took a huge hit, say 30%-50% (or more.) Even if that averaged out to 10% per year, it would be a misleading statistic.

That’s also ignoring comprehension and reading level. At 30, I could focus throughout tearing through a Homeric epic and retain a huge amount about the text, including themes, symbolism, metaphors of note, etc. I couldn’t do anything like that at 20, even if my raw reading speed was faster.
But that isn't becaus vim or emacs lacked an API for completions. The hard part isn't displaying completions, it's figuring out what good completions are.
After you suffer some years, dealing with enought pain that you can't sleep, discomfort of having pills that will take out all your basic common sense (to the point that you get into crazy risky situations you can't even explain), you'll prefer to die - or, even better, to take a chance on a surgery where the worst outcome is already your daily life, and the best one is getting your life again.
Totally agree unless they want to complain about it to me. If a peer or employee tried to sell me a sob story about 500k not being enough I would tell them to hit the road
Something that gets missed a lot, is how much the news media relies on Twitter now. The percentage of stories that get run on online news sites which are built entirely on a few Twitter hot takes is astonishing.

This is allowing journalists to write a lot more stories without leaving their desks, which means they can likely pump out a ton more articles each week than in the old days.

If Twitter changes such that it's no longer seen as appropriate or acceptable to pullquote tweets as the basis for an article, a lot of Blogs/News sites are in serious trouble.
My read on it is that the shareholders didn’t want Musk controlling the company (owning 51%) and dragging them along with him. Being the absurdly rich person he is, he’d likely not care too much about how service changes would affect the stock price.

However they are quite happy to let Musk buy all of them out (owning 100%) at a reasonable price then let him do whatever marketshare-tanking moves he wishes. They don’t actually care about the fate of the company, they just don’t want to lose money.
Curious what counts as unmaintainable for you. The HTML is certainly uglier, but cost-of-copy-paste is very low compared to cost of maintaining abstractions. That for me is the primary value add for Tailwind.
I can't see any connection with the SEC issue. Nothing would change. Doesn't matter whether he owns the platform or not, he's not supposed to tweet market manipulating lies or exaggerations, which is why he has to run them by legal first.
It’s going to be a long while before lawyers and judges will be confident enough to pursue and make judgments about generative AI and copyright, exactly because so many novel considerations apply when the association between any given input and the work is essentially inexplicable.

There’s precedent in musical sampling, visual collage and assemblage, and poetic cutups, but they don’t provide authoritative answers.

By the time the courts or regulators are ready move on the issue, the practice will be so established by big commercial efforts like Copilot that my money is on a fairly permissive approach if only because of inertia.
> I literally can’t tell if this is a joke.

Ambiguity is a spice in life. I was thinking the name "twit-coin" would give the game away.

> actual people exchanging ideas

I enjoy exchanging ideas with ideas and with people. Anyone here may be an actual person or a biological process hosting a meme collection.

> conspiracy theorists

Are "conspiracy theorists" individuals who theorize about conspiracies or groups of people conspiring to promote a theory?

Thanks for bringing up the NFT. I had that in mind to add in but got distracted during composition. Imagine the possibilities of fractional ownership of 144 characters--it would open up a whole new world of ETFs.
> I find it really hard to imagine that there is a significant number of such companies that is just waiting for Milo Yiannopoulos, Steve Bannon, and Alex Jones to be unbanned, so they can finally resume using Twitter for their commercial purposes.

Perhaps My Pillow?

But yeah, the claims just don't pass the smell test. You bring in more people like those (and more of the TheDonald.win crowd), and you'll either polarize the platform by driving off existing users or have more of a toxic, polarized, trollish, bitchfight that isn't good for anyone or anything except maybe Twitter, Inc.
Not terrorism but not a good look for Germany.

> The Böhmermann affair (also known as Erdogate[1]) was a political affair following an experimental poem on German satirist Jan Böhmermann's satire show Neo Magazin Royale in late March 2016 that deliberately insulted Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan using profane language.
...
After the show was aired on German public television channel ZDFneo, the Turkish government released a verbal note demanding that the German government begin criminal prosecution of Böhmermann. German Chancellor Angela Merkel further escalated the situation by apologizing for Böhmermann's "intentionally hurtful" poem – later she called this "a mistake".[2] On 15 April Merkel announced in a press conference that the German government had approved Böhmermann's criminal prosecution, but would abolish the respective paragraph 103 of the German penal code before 2018. Intense criticism followed the Chancellor's decision, with speculation that she decided to allow the prosecution in order to protect Germany's refugee deal with Turkey.[3] The case was dropped in October 2016
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Böhmermann_affair
Agree. Anonymous dissent has a real place in a functioning democracy.
I characterize the organizations he creates as pragmatic. They exist to objectively look at problems and solve them. You cannot solve hard engineering problems in any other way.
No. The reason is because when I and others investigate some code we like to make small refactorings as we go along. Change a variable name here, redefine a type here, and see what breaks. If you think those changes could ever be pushed upstream you save them in a github repo. That it looks "random" to hiring managers is something I've never thought of.
Not in this use case.