skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At the end of the day, it's your choice how you determine what's true, but I don't believe anyone has the right to tell you how to do that -- that the screening should happen between you and the content, not between the submitter and the platform -- kind of like XSS prevention (you must assume anything can get into the database, but all that matters is how it's executed by the end user).

I'll give my personal opinion, which you may want to treat as one of many possible viewpoints:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/just-go-on-the-internet-and-t...

The internet has run on the concept of trust and reputation for a while now, but IMO, if you want anything close to the full story, you have to put in the work yourself: Compile your sources, evaluate your and their biases, and come to a conclusion. Ground News is a pretty neat tool to help me with this if it's a widely-reported story.

Some examples:

- Something from a reputable news source? Probably true, but not always. I try to wait for a decent handful of other, diverse outlets to report on it before believing it, sharing it, etc.

- Something from a single account on Twitter on Hacker News? Probably not, but not always. I try to wait for other confirmations before believing it, sharing it, etc.

I personally believe it to be a case where free speech wins, people raise the bar for what's worth their trust, and fake news begins to decline as a result -- the opposite being one where people lower their guard due to blind trust in other entities, and fake news can therefore take advantage of that and flourish.
So you're saying that, if skyscraper engineering designs were considered confidential and proprietary, preventing you from being able to directly investigate them, it would be perfectly reasonable to fall back to evaluating structural engineers for skyscraper projects on the basis of how well they put together treehouses?
...but we can agree that it's not good, right?
The old(ish) Cyanide implementation of Blood Bowl used SQLite as the data store for all of the game data. It worked, but the game startup time was absolutely dominated by loading data from the database and took too long even on a fast SSD.
Yeah its shocking

I always find myself laughing at the speed and meme preparedness of the respondents though. Twitter has some of that but it really pales in comparison.

People will just have to find a different forum if they want something else shrug

I really like the potential for Elon to tell advertisers to pound sand since he wouldnt need to impress shareholders with the idea of ad revenue growth, and many people and organizations will still see the value of advertising there.
His whole life he's had to listen to shareholders. This is his one chance to just say "Fuck it" and just do whatever he wants. I would hope the businessman and him would prevent him from doing this. However like most gag orders he imposes, it would be completely hidden from us. He won't be tweeting about it.
They're also easily accessible in Haskell from package Data.Number.CReal [1] that implements the ideas in this paper [2].

[1] https://hackage.haskell.org/package/numbers-3000.2.0.2/docs/...

[2] https://repository.ubn.ru.nl/bitstream/handle/2066/29853/298...
> According to elon basically him, jb and martin eberhard founded tesla which was a holding company that acquired AP propulsion (i think it was called) and the basic IP.

That's not what the actual founders say though: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eblPwXFb7TE

They say he was not a founder within the first minute of the video.
We've been increasing the money supply and keeping interest rates low for a decade and a half. Even the "paying people to stay home" step happened two years before the actual inflation showed up -- and has long since ended when the inflation finally did happen.

Friedman has no explanation for the fact that we've been pumping money into the economy for a very long time without consumer price inflation. So it doesn't benefit his argument to claim victory when inflation finally did occur -- especially when there's another, more direct cause in supply chain shutdowns.

The Fed is starting to raise rates -- and it should have done so a long time ago. It wasn't raising consumer prices, but it was pumping asset markets. None of the money was making it to ordinary consumers.
"How do you know if I have enough assets? I'm just some random finance source."

You have enough assets because you've just created a loan of precisely that amount secured against physical collateral. That's the asset.

Therefore I can take over the deposit you have created knowing I can claim against that collateral in the final analysis.

And therefore I can create a deposit for my customer of the same amount.

That's just wholesale deposits.

"To transfer to another bank the banks will adjust central bank balances. "

That's merely a collateral optimisation.

First understand how correspondent banking works, then move to central bank clearing houses.

You'll find that a central bank is nothing more than banks swapping net liabilities with each other. The end result will always be that banks will lend and borrow from each other, and they do that or they lose customers.

A central bank has to accommodate the clearing process, or it can't maintain its interest rate. It can only set price or quantity, not both.

There's no magic, just the fact that a set of banks have pegged their liabilities to each other and one of them acts as a clearing house. It's all just loans and deposits within that.
They're looking forward to 4chan but better... do they really need to?
Currently at 1.8m ish total comp:

- 1.2m cash
- 300k RSUs (probably worthless or I leave before 4 year vesting cliff)
- 200k equity (only one job is at a publicly traded company)
- <150k cash bonus
they did this in like the 90's why make it out like SpaceX is the only one capable of doing this? some of those engineers are now working for blue origin
Oh, and if you think that being called a pervert for sending a stranger dick picks is man-bashing, please turn in your Man Card and don't pretend to be anything other than a supporter of sending dick pics to strangers.
Aboard a US nuclear submarine. What is missing from this article is the context of how much the boat impacts the culture. A Russian or British submarine will have a different training system not just because they have a different military culture but also because the boat is physically different. Communications pathways, be them electronic or physical, dictate how decisions are made. A Russian submariner probably won't make a move without orders not because he doesn't know what to do but because there might not be a direct electronic report back at the command as to what is happening. Doing things without orders on a Russian boat can result in command loosing awareness of a situation. A US submariner can have better confidence that his actions will be automatically reported back to command via various sensors and monitoring systems.

This article focuses on the fact that the US submarine experience special because everyone is expected to have a working knowledge of every system. That is different than the rest of the US military where people remain very specialized. But mandating generalist knowledge is actually a norm in other countries. The Brits/Canadians tell a joke about US soldiers: Whereas each member of a british or canadian gun crew is expected to understand and perform all the jobs associated with firing a gun, an American is likely to respond "I pull the rope." Such hyper-specialization just doesn't work in a submarine because people are not able to physically move around. The environment, the submarine, dictates the culture.
My prediction is that this tech will remain an unviable experiment. Until Apple just goes ahead and integrates it into the M3 chip at which point everyone on Hackernews will have to have one.
Elon did exactly what he said he'd do about Thailand
Okay, think about why that might have happened. Clearly they're running their servers on legacy code. What does that code do? Well, probably... everything. At this point they've been building on it for decades, and nearly everyone who was there when it started has retired or died. So they have a huge, mission-critical business platform that no one truly understands. And everyone is afraid that minor changes could have horrible, unforeseen downstream consequences, so it probably just gets edited at the margins at this point.

If you're the CTO of Cisco, what do you do there? Do you risk your job and the continued existence of the company, spending God knows how many developer hours refactoring your codebase? Or do you just deal with 8-character email addresses?
And all "things no one else could" are equivalently difficult and take the same skills, so if he could do a couple of them, of course he can do all the others.

/s, in case it wasn't obvious.

Building SpaceX is not the same set of challenges as fixing Twitter. They are different enough to be completely unrelated.
I think author has gotten out of hand with the avatars. They now have three talking to each other. One was fine, but at this point it's just a distraction. Just write the article.
Elusive ivory-billed woodpecker not extinct, researchers say
> both limitations are considered part of the appeal

I don‘t think so. That‘s why you get people posting screenshots of text, or 50 tweet threads including a link to a thread reader "unroll" service.

Many people want to use Twitter like a blog. But it is terrible for that use case.
> Sorry for keeping such rude tone up

You're not really sorry. And you won't be re-doing anything, all you will do is write longish comments about your worldview.
You can just unfollow people I think?
I can't fathom why Russian soldiers who are massacring civilians would care to limit their crimes based on a clock. What's the difference if you murder innocents at 3pm rather than 4pm?
But then you ignored the other part. When you know the people on your block, you know who should and shouldn't be there and will probably be more likely to intervene is you see someone you've never seen before walking around Billy Bob's house while Billy Bob's car isn't there.
> The fact that white men weren't "oppressed" historically

In addition to which, plenty were. Look into the treatment of the Irish in the 1800's. Or the coal miners in Virginia.
sorry, I mis-typed. I meant not clearly.

> to make it harder for the press to ask questions

entirely different from censorship or suppression of speech - in fact this is the right not to speech. Free speech implies to right to information.

> The next reviewer

Same issue with paid reviews, these motivating examples are not much of a challenge to free speech.

> how is refusing service to right-wing users on Twitter censorship?

Because twitter is a platform for speech, buying a Tesla isn't the same. That said, if there weren't a few large corps monopolising social networking (and usually via shady methods) it wouldn't be so much of a free speech issue either - There would be an issue if Teslas was one of a few car manufacturers also.
This space isn't sexy to write about, there's no fame and glory in it.
Census Has Thousands of Errors Added on Purpose
so why didn’t you pay him more so he would not need to juggle jobs?
> Although advertised as low latency their pause times are comparable to G1. SOTA low latency collection is now <1msec and still falling. Their benchmarks don't really show this because they appear to be overdriving both ZGC and Shenandoah, which then totally collapse (e.g. >800msec pauses) due to the lack of generational collection making it hard for them to keep up with high allocation rates. This is an acknowledged limitation which at least the ZGC developers are working on removing, probably Shenandoah devs too, but the authors only mention this in one sentence right at the end.

This quite a lot. From my experience with ZGC once you push it too hard to cause it to allocation stall you are in for a bad time. But if you manage to keep the load under that (usually by giving it larger a heap or more gc threads) you should expect pause times under 0.1ms.

Hopefully with the generational ZGC that is in the works this gets better and one could run with smaller heaps/less cpu overhead.
Saudi Arabia's genocidal war in Yemen should be enough to make anybody ashamed for having anything to do with the autocratic KSA.
Just glancing at his feed, Elon seems to talk about spam bots, free speech, making the extreme left and extreme right equally unhappy, and shadow banning. Sounds like he wants more fairness and transparency in how Twitter moderates content.
I'm confused, are you talking about banning Trump (after he lost the election)? I'm not saying the decision is right or wrong, but Twitter thought a long time about it. I'm pretty sure the board wanted him banned even earlier, but they waited for the right moment.
> Where do people approaching middle age meet friends these days?

For me it was parents of my kids' friends, often via sports or other group activities that the kids were all involved in.

Those friendships fade quickly once the kids grow up, by the way, as there is no longer the common connection. I've made some attempts to maintain these, but they generally are not reciprocated and at some point you just stop with the one-sided effort.

I have not discovered the secret to long-lasting friendships, if there is one. They all seem to rely on common proximity (school, work, gym, etc.) and they don't really hold up if and when those things change. I have not had any friendships that ever lasted very long past graduations, job changes, moves, retirements, etc. I think that's basically natural, and that friendships really depend on some outside set of factors that keep people coming together for the same things.
yea and its 1$ fair with those amazing 150mph pods that bring your car down from road level via a elevator... its amazing i wonder why they made their video of it private.
I agree (with some reservations, see my other reply to my post)
"FAANG+similar : Low 7 figures compensation (staff level), technological lead on compute (~10 yr)"

I don't know where OP is getting these figures from, but I doubt that FAANGs offer 7-figure comps to Staff-level people. It's probably more in the higher 6-figure level (400K - 600K).
It is Verdana for those who wants to know the font in HN.
I think it's a difference between: "reinventing the wheel because I didn't know better", and "reinventing the wheel because I feel like trying to make it better". There's usually a distinct difference in how the code shakes out between the two.
Sikhs [0] are humans, and presumably have the same human nature everyone in this thread shares. If the parent contends that what the Sikhs [0] do is a "commune", then the facticity of their continued success shows that "communes" do not always fail. If what the Sikhs do is not a "commune", then the parent has set up and defeated a strawman unrelated to the example set by Sikhs [0]. Which is it?

As the facticity of Sikh [0] food distribution is not at issue[1], it's obvious that organizing this work based on altruism actually does work, and altruism at this scale is possible. The parent's emotional opposition to the concept has led them to make, and now defend, unrelated claims -- and ignore the reality on the ground.

No one, beyond the parent themselves, brought up communes, forcible or otherwise. Even if this were relevant, the Sikhs [0] do not force anyone to participate in or accept their voluntary food distribution, so I'm at a total loss as to why any of this was brought up at all -- unless the parent is actually trying to advance an ideological position, which seems to be that cooperation doesn't work at scale [1]. Oops, I mean a slightly larger scale [2]. Perhaps that's true in whatever culture the parent grew up in, but as Sikhs [0] prove, it's obviously not a human universal. Perhaps the parent doesn't consider Sikhs human?

What a repulsive argumentative style.

[0] via langars

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31150154 <- in which it's suggested that since Sikhs [0] do not currently feed the entirety of their home country, this demonstrates that their approach cannot be scaled up any further

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31151819 <- history shows that most countries that attempt to feed all their citizens are naturally regime change'd by the CIA, so this one checks out
The problem isn't necessarily the leaves but the cellulose that's driven out of the leaf and onto the steel rail when it's run over. Additionally, the steel wheels of a train get really hot and probably turn the cellulose (and whatever else is in a tree leaf) into a pretty hard to deal with substance that coats the rail and (likely) the wheel. That makes braking difficult and can probably contribute to safety problems.
For me the “pictures” in my mind are very diffuse and can’t hold much complexity. It’s certainly very different from clear actual seeing with your eyes. I also have a hard time remembering faces if I don’t see them frequently. But I wouldn’t ever say that I can’t/don’t picture things in my mind. While there’s probably a spectrum in how clear people’s mind’s eyes are, I wonder if there’s also a difference in how people conceptualize their internal perceptions. I.e., I could conceivably imagine that someone with the same internal picturing capabilities as myself would deny that it constitutes “seeing” something in their mind.
Lol, Freud would have a field day with phone keyboard auto-corrections and fat-fingerings. :)
No desire for musk to run twitter. Watch it turn to a shitshow.
> Have reactionary forces lost control of the elites after centuries?

Not at all. They've discovered that by casting their enemies as "elites", even though they themselves still control a lot of the actual elites, it's easier for them to get support among the disaffected lower classes they're actively oppressing.
My inner monologue can be visualized as phantasmal gray words floating in a blank black space. When I imagine what that monologue sounds like it is mostly has my own voice but occasionally has no definable voice, or it takes on the lilt of some unknown reader as if it were telling me a bedtime story or reading a poem that it knows by heart.
1. xkcd-script.ttf

2. Opera Lyrics Smooth

3. Crete Round

All others should be banned. Especially creepy spidery fonts on some ebooks.
Fair point!

The way it work is this: you can copy multiple filetypes to the clipboard. So here, I copy a "text/html" and a "text/plain". When you paste to Google docs, it reads "text/html", and outputs a div that I've reconstructed to look like a joker card. When you paste to most other places (your address bar, a `<textarea>` element, terminal, etc.,), you get the plaintext fallback. So you can have two entirely different outputs, based on where you paste!

MDN surprisingly has no examples/API on this (the only time I've found it to be the case), so I instead link you w3c for reference: https://w3c.github.io/clipboard-apis/#clipboarditem
Good definition. But we are not a free market country, so you gotta play by the current rules.
Introducing Media CDN
Labour can potentially provide some capital but the mechanism by which it has to do so in the socialist system would be the wildly impractical an equal amount from each labourer. Anything that causes investment to break one worker, one share for the ownership structure of the business is not allowed. This means if some workers have enough capital to invest they aren't going to do so since it doesn't give them any practical returns. Only if all workers can agree on what to invest and all workers can and will do so will the required ownership structure work with investment from workers.
The quotes in the actual docs are stunning. They were literally hijacking DNS traffic at the White House.

Capital punishment should not be out of the question for these crimes.
> Miscellaneous: joke less, laugh less

Over my dead body.
I could turn it around but haven't had the chance yet. You might be able to as well. Musk has a better chance than both of us.

The group in charge now caused more bleeding. Other social networks are doing great.

There is a lot of low hanging fruit.
I especially distrust companies using outsourced payroll and benefits startups for this reason.
At rest encryption is a complicated subject (in general, I bet most people get negative net security from it). For SQLite, you can either encrypt your disk or get one of the versions with added encryption (I only know of proprietary ones).

You don't do row level permissions on your database. You keep it all on the application layer.
This is essentially equalization payments, it's not at all unique to Japan. Even Canada does it.
can't tell if your being sarcastic ?
Stable home environment = GOOD married couple of biological parents living together until child becomes adult

Stable home environment = GOOD biological parent until child becomes adult (if other GOOD parent dies, not leaves)

Leaves = child trauma, parent BAD = child destructive behaviour

One GOOD parent dies = child trauma, but lesser extent

GOOD = morally, respect, supportive, nice, kind, good-feel stuff

/eli5

Lesson: Marry not for looks, but personality eg. Johnny Depp and Amber Heard
> I don’t really get the response here.

A reasonable response to the problem of “companies are trying to push dubious clauses in employment contracts” would be “make those dubious practices illegal and/or unenforceable”, or maybe “make obfuscated or hard-to-read contracts illegal and/or unenforceable”. Your response was instead, as in the linked comic strip, “let’s make an app to fix it!”.
What's the advantage as with guacamole and/or spice?
I'm working on a self-hosted analytics like Plausible but that allows to use SQLite as primary database. Of course it should be used for small websites and side projects but it will have all the Plausible features.
Am I crazy?

This is the project:
https://github.com/a-chris/faenz
I’ve historically used IP over DNS tunneling to pull this off.

A major advantage of this approach is that it leverages a port and protocol that’s rarely blocked, and if 53 is blocked, you can generally still use the approved local dns servers for your data-carrying queries.

These days, it looks like there are at least a few well-known pieces of software to do this, e.g. https://github.com/yarrick/iodine
The idea that we can bring meaning and permanence into the world with art is a similarly hubristic one by your own metric. Surely you're not selfish enough to believe that the universe is unimportant without an overlay of human 'meaning' on top of it?
It's like Reddit, or uh, a billion other things in life. People complain about it because they don't have the will or emotional health[1] to be disciplined about how they use it. Despite following a decent number of econ- and politics-adjacent accounts, my feed is high-quality because I keep an extremely high bar for intellectual honesty, and remove those who violated it, even when accounts were previously high quality[2].

Though to be fair, I do have to avoid reading the replies in every post. This feels like an actual loss, since they often contain thorough, intelligent rebuttals or supplements. It's just not worth wading through all the insane people.

[1] I say this with empathy. I think outrage addiction is real.

[2] eg Nate Silver and Matt Yglesias both turned into trolls at one point, though silver has since improved
Does that stipulation that they write into the contract have teeth though? A lot of companies put a lot of stuff into contracts, it doesn't make it enforcable.