skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Her tweet from 1.5 years ago argues that the First Amendment does not prevent companies from removing hate from their platforms. That is true. Private companies can remove hate from their platforms and no one's first amendment rights have been violated.

Her WaPo editorial from 2.5 weeks ago argues that even though the First Amendment exists, the government should force Twitter to remove hate from their platform.

One could simply turn the charge of hypocrisy back on Ellen Pao - if she cares so much about the first Amendment (see the tweet that preceded the one I linked), why does she want the government to regulate speech on social media?
Ok, so I did get it. And French people say "le". I just didn't understand why it's considered so funny. The YouTube comments especially praise this as the funniest comment ever written but it's pretty obvious?
Prediction: he’ll force them to add an edit button, and put Twitter up for sale again within 6 months. Like a social media fixer-upper
Not as big a problem as you might think: https://ideas.4brad.com/tricking-lidars-and-robocars#:~:text...
When debriefed, you are given a rough heading for the near bases. You can decide on which base you want to head to, remember the heading.

But you can cheat too: scroll the document window to reveal a handy map of the bases. I can hold my finger out to approximate the angle to where I want to go — scroll back to the main screen to set my heading to be at the same angle.

(In fact though, it doesn't matter which base you go to. I guess everyone is happy with whatever you happen to land with.)
That's not currently in the plan, but as Echoes models the engineering organization you could easily see how much of your engineering capacity goes toward maintenance versus new features.

I'd be happy to show you a demo of the product and how it can fit your use case! My time as engineering manager for the maintainers of the Docker open source project was a significant inspiration in creating Echoes, and I'm very familiar with the difficulty of highlighting maintenance work.
With 'as this point' you mean since Peter the Great right?
Sounds like maybe you need some new coworkers because where I work we laugh and joke around all the time and nobody ever gets offended (or offers offense).
> cites some external work showing tracing garbage collection as a lazily evaluated form of reference counting (using a saturating 1-bit counter) taken to the limit.

Yup. The paper you're thinking of is "A Unified Theory of Garbage Collection":

https://courses.cs.washington.edu/courses/cse590p/05au/p50-b...
Take this with a huge grain of salt because I am by no means an expert, but I currently am working on some scripts that import a few million rows into SQLite. I am using bash and the sqlite command line. I was getting a lot of concurrent write errors from sqlite (bear in mind i am only doing inserts of separate rows so in theory there is never an actual conflict), so I tried using WAL mode. It actually resulted in more contention. I ended up just going back to non-WAL mode and implementing an exponential backoff in bash to retry writes.
Superb! Sums it all up nicely.
doesn't seem to work in Firefox :-x
Really? When/Where did he attempt this “coup”?

If anything, as time goes on it’s becoming more obvious there was a continual coup against him, including direct collusion by the opposition political party with foreign governments and actors to try to prevent his election.

Confession through projection.
And on top of that the market for Twitter has always seemed to be baby boomer aged people. The entire design of the site / word limit / text to tweet functionality seemed like it was a way to make it easily accessible for those not regularly using social media or internet forums in general.
This laptop doesn’t use only domestic components though. Only the CPU is kind of Russian (but manufactured outside Russia).
>You left out the "within 20-30 minutes of a high paying job" limitation.

Nope, again using the Detroit example you have Warren, Oak Park, Southfield etc literally sharing its border and within a 20-30 minute drive of anywhere in downtown Detroit or further out in ritzy Oakland county. Same goes for Arlington, Irving and several other suburbs of Dallas. I'd keep going down the list, but you get the point. Pretty much every major metro areas has housing under $200k with less than a 30-minute drive of downtown or major job centers in suburbs.

I know California is a different world, and that's fine. But the US is quite large with many large cities where you can find good careers and affordable housing. It just may not look as cool to post on Instagram...which I guess is the bigger problem.
Show HN: Laptop mount for your mechanical keyboard
I travel a lot for work and can't type for long on my laptop keyboard due to RSI. To solve the problem, I 3D printed a platform for my laptop that I can put a mechanical keyboard on top of without pressing the built-in keys: https://imgur.com/a/mfAYQj6

If you like it, let me know, I'll post the CAD file so you can print it yourself! EDIT: file and schematic are here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1-cB9qJt8CPm76u1VAFvuilYKR_HwshkT?usp=sharing
It sounds like they're talking about deployments where a new process is spawned to handle each request, but for the most part no one deploys Python web apps that way, so I'm not sure.

PHP may have some advantages in terms of deployment, so I guess it's a question of whether those advantages outweigh the potential advantages of using Python for development, which is of course subjective/situational.
I tried doing this a bunch of times and most of them ended up requiring a migration, most often to postgresql. I can only remember one such case that still uses sqlite for a web service.

It always goes like this:

1. I start a new "lean" web service and decide to use sqlite.

2. Some months down the road I figure I need some slightly more advanced db feature. The ones I can remember are postgresql numeric arrays (for performance where I can test for membership in a where clause) and jsonb (again with its special syntax for querying and its performance implications).

3. For some time I postpone the inevitable and do various hacks until I fully hate myself.

4. Suddenly realize that migration to postgresql will reduce the complexity, even with regards of infrastructure, as I usually have redis et al. in the game (which I wouldn't have to use had I started with postgresql initially).

3. I waste several days migrating and wondering was it (my initial stupidity) worth it...

My advise is - if it's going to be accessed via the network (and you'll have to operate a server either way), make it two servers and go with postgresql. If you are not 100% sure about the opposite (no chance of it becoming a web service), go with postgresql. Is it a desktop app? Postgresql (just slightly joking here). Mobile app? OK, I guess you have no real choice here, go with sqlite.

And no, you can't "just use an ORM", because when the day comes, you will need to migrate because of features sqlite does not support and you will have made mistakes. If you used an ORM, now you'll have to migrate off both sqlite and the ORM.

PS: Ah, yeah, and now I remember one other instance where I had to migrate off sqlite solely because I needed to provide an admin interface (think PGAdmin) to the production system.
You have to be doing something wrong or applying for the wrong types of jobs (lots of MLE jobs are just glorified dba jobs at certain job companies).
This is not at all easy for neurodivergent people. This comment reeks of "why can't you all just be normal and not weird?"
What's the "full 180"? Where is the hypocrisy?

"it's a private company they can do what they want" is a response to the right-wing claim that moderation is somehow illegal. It isn't, and it still isn't. Online forums are allowed to moderate as much or as little as they want to.

Moderation isn't illegal. Reduced moderation also isn't illegal. I hold the the opinion that some moderation is preferable to no moderation, and I am disappointed that this move may lead to a reduction in moderation and an increase in spam and trolling on the platform. That's not hypocrisy.
The problem is that what you think is funny may be uncomfortable to a other people, and for some reason, it's always the funny guy who thinks that the onus is on everyone else to shift their behavior to accommodate his comfort.

It gets worse when half the team is laughing, and the other half are praying for you to be struck dumb already.
Carbon Neutral Concrete – The Numbers
Exactly. And if you're Elon Musk, you run amok like a bull in a china shop, breaking everything while chasing after whatever shiny object caught your eye recently.
Especially if you have Python experience, then yes the opportunity definitely exists.

For example when I hire MLEs (which I am doing now if anyone wants to apply - supportlogic.io) I am willing to look at people who are solid Python/backend engineers and who have been "ML adjacent" or who we believe could learn the ropes of ML enough to contribute. The stronger an engineer, the more flexibility we have in ML knowledge. Some ML engineering is task-specific but a lot of it is automation, data engineering, and improving data scientist code (for which you do need ML experience

I've found it's a lot easier to teach an engineer enough DS/ML fundamentals to do ML Engineering than it is to teach a data scientist engineering skills. A lot easier...
My comment was about the known requirements for air travel. You have to register your flight and that information is available. He has other options that would more safely guarantee privacy. If the privacy of your travels is more important to you than the convenience of having a private plane available, then you choose another option.
Previous related discussion on Istio, CNCF, and Open Usage Commons:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23776994 (Why IBM doesn’t agree with Google’s Open Usage Commons for the Istio project)
You're 100% right. There are tons of bots on twitter spamming the same exact message over and over. Most aren't political. Try searching for "4k monitor", you'll find thousands of bot accounts tweeting the latest 4k monitor deals. It's a form of advertisement that leeches on twitter's service without paying twitter the usual advertising fee. Not sure why Twitter's ARMY of software developers can't figure this one out, but maybe the threat of a new boss with an eye for incompetence will get them to do some actual work on the issue.
aka Twitter about to become useful
We're talking spraying rail lines with CO2. It's not going to heat the planet. That's like dropping a table shaker of salt in the ocean and worrying about the impact on salinity.

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2016/carbon-dioxide-fer...
> What happens in busy places when tens or hundreds of vehicles or robots illuminate the environment?

I think about this one a lot. While I haven’t looked into it I wonder if this will impact insects and birds somehow
I'll fix it, find a consistent scalar. I really didn't expect people to be "doing math" playing the game, ha ha.
KeePassXC: There is nothing “simple” about Snaps
I suspect you're right and the article conflates the means (managing) to the end (achieving an outcome). It's not unlike the military priority of 1) mission accomplishment and 2) troop welfare.

But in fairness, "achieving outcome" is equally vague and it seems most leaders know they want Outcome X, but falter because they don't know how to get from their current state to that end state.

Can you elaborate on how you'd fill those gaps of "achieve outcome"?
especially because without content moderation, it's going to be ALL BOTS. His money is probably invested in a bot provider.
> I also think it's worth noting that he brought the best of current "good enough" manufacturing practices to luxury automobiles. I think this is the fairest examination of that, since it includes Elon himself:

I wouldn’t say best of ”good enough” .Tesla is actually one of the worst in terms of ”normal” car quality, even when compared to non-luxury cars.
It has great battery, electric motors and even software, but normal items which you can see in normal car, are in the lowest side on quality. Also the way how you feel the car when driving is critized being B quality when compared for example German cars.

In many countries it has been listed on the best place on fault statistics (have most of then)

When you buy Tesla, you invest on EV research, not so much for luxury car while it might drive itself. You get a glance for the future.
For SWE or other programming/code related positions I can see that making sense. You may only write 30 minutes of code in a day but the other 7.5 hours is spent either cogitating over the problem and creating the environment that allows you to solve the problem or participating in your team to make sure everyone is on the same page.

You split that 8 hours between 2 companies and unless you are significantly under-employed at both jobs (2X in both locations or more) you're not going to be able to give your all.
As an engineer, I have never worked under a manager who wasn't previously an engineer. YMMV
Patrick McKenzie on the unsustainability of yield farming
>the real question is whether current moderation practices in Twitter are blocking us from meaningful discussion

And that question is another one than "does twitter censor climate change-discussions?", right? My point was: yes, it does.
Apple Is the Last FAANG Standing
> I always wondered why you want to deserialize JSON as ab object tree instead of associative array.

To prevent [] and {} from both being deserialized to an empty array.
Elon Musk is a manipulative internet troll with little respect for others. His Twitter will not be dissimilar.
Don't forget his "FREE AMERICA NOW" phase in April 2020, getting hundreds of thousands of likes when he echoed right-wing anti-lockdown talking points. And when he claimed the US would likely be down to zero cases within a month in March 2020. Or him going after the British diver he referred to as "pedo guy". Or his stock market manipulation tweets.
> If he was anyone else he would've been banned a dozen times over.

If he was anyone else, Twitter wouldn't have rewritten its rules specifically to retroactively excuse it's history of not enforcing them against him, before yeaes later, after he lost reelection, finally seeing it's interests no longer served by bending over to enable him.
That would come up against the interpretation of the First Amendment espoused by the Supreme Court in 1969, in the case Brandenburg v. Ohio. Before then, the First Amendment was not interpreted nearly so broadly, and speech regulations at the federal and state levels were common, beginning with the Alien and Sedition Acts soon after the Constitution was ratified.

If/when the Democrats restructure the Supreme Court to have a liberal majority, overturning Brandenburg with a single ruling becomes on the table, and the door is open for hate speech legislation.
How many projects have you attempted?
This is just Elons version of the uber rich dude buying / starting a newspaper.
Think of the case we might have at my company: we occasionally need a load of GPUs to train a new ML model. We spin up some beefy VMs with stonking great GPUs, churn away for a while, and then spin them down with our new ML model ready to go.
I do, though not every single morning. I've interpreted it to happen when the climate is drier, but I guess if we're even having this kind of discussion, I might as well just go to a professional and have them clear it up.
>G's logging system, from my perspective as a gcp user, is slow as balls and the UX is the incarnation of scroll jank

does GCP use G's internal tools?

Inquiring minds would like to know
I had a colonoscopy a few years ago. I didn't need any anaesthesia at all. It was merely intermittently rather uncomfortable. I got the impression that this was perfectly normal and that Norwegian medics are much more reluctant to use anaesthesia of any kind and especially total anaesthesia than in many other countries.
Pixel Watch prototype is left at a bar, gets photographed
For some things, Twitter can be cool. I don't subscribe as much to the "Twitter is entirely a cesspool" idea that a lot of critics have, but I dislike it because it encourages lack of context and nuance due to an artificial character limit. What are you gonna use up your space for in a tweet: detailed information, or something to grab someone's attention? Usually and most likely the latter.

For this reason, I don't use Twitter at all. I prefer to stay on sites like HN or even Reddit. All of them have their issues and rage bait, but at least those two in particular generally have more long-form content. Reddit, when used for hobby-related content, is actually pretty great, even though it gets a lot of crap (granted, the crap is kinda deserved). Just don't use it for political stuff and you're fine.
> It is really a revelation that love is what makes life meaningful?

It does not intends to be a revelation. A study can prove what everyone always believed all along. People believe all kind of things, some are true some are false. A properly designed study shines a dispassionate light at facts in a way which can show if the common belief was false or not.

> Analyzing happiness with this cold academic rigor is just absurd,

You are entitled to think that. The history of humankind is full of people being dead sure of themselves while also being wrong. This is why it's worth to check our assumptions in a dispassionate way. Especially the things we are sure about.

> it is like a depressed species of alien studying our planet to figure out why people have happy lives.

That is your projection. One can be full of joy, happiness, and love while still applying logic and dispassionate reasoning to study a question.
Great link, more informative (even if not so newsy) than the submission IMO.

And that's a fine term for it.
As you do, but the length, anyway I explain my view, giving examples, on your side do you have any valid counter-example?

For instance can you state that there is no such polemics about low quality/dangerous buildings, more or less across the entire world with few tragic examples here and there (like skyscraper fires)?

Can you state why since we veeeeeery rarely, at least in the west world, have a puncture/flat a car tire we still have or a spare wheel or something to try repairing the aforementioned puncture?

Can you state why the entire world after the supply chain crisis start talk about resilience, the yesterday just-in-time Toyota-system mania now is depicted as crazy, "we need stocks" etc?

Just for few samples. I'm really curious to here them. Oh, of course, I agree that such disruptive events are very rare! I just counter the fact that we can ignore them in designing such infra because they are so rare.
That's an unnecessarily personal reply. I've met the person you're responding to and think he's a lot of fun.

... and I say this as someone who agrees with the argument that twitter is deeply toxic, that it systematically rewards, promotes, and monetizes toxicity, and that in this case Elon was behaving in a manner which within the abhorrent norms of the overall platform. [Though, I'm sure Mr. Gates will be fine, and that ultimately the comment mostly just makes Mr. Musk look bad...]

But having a different opinion on that doesn't make someone a killjoy. Someone isn't humorless because they think that mocking someone's appearance like that-- particularly outside of special context like a comedy club-- is gross.
New proof reveals the hidden structure of common equations
Elon Musk, probably.
A much-better “Kitchen of the Future” article was posted on TreeHugger in 2021. Decrying kitchen designs by people who don't cook, the article referred to a lesson by the USDA about applying experience from the US Army to home kitchens; the video is available at https://youtu.be/2N9RCQjPqh4.

It introduces the now-common idea of a “work triangle”; organizing everything needed to cook a meal around a single station.
And that’s fine, maybe you are the only sane person left in a would of cryptosilliness.

I don’t parrot others, I am the Bitcoin influencer. Folks are parroting me.
The prevailing opinion on HN seems to be that it can't be solved. Of course, less than a week ago the prevailing opinion on HN was that Elon wasn't serious about buying Twitter, and didn't have the money, and it was all fake and part of a pump-and-dump

Just see the top comments here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31109355
Had no idea. I haven't thought of myself as having sleep issues, but if the potential consequences can be as bad as heart problems, then that's definitely worth investigating. Thanks a lot for the info, I'll find a time to make an appt now.
He may have been the leader of the people who made that spaceship and car, but he didn't do it in his garage, he leveraged a previously vast amount of money into getting other people to do those things for him, don't belittle, it's unbecoming.
It's because PHP uses a CGI process-per-request style model, while there's no good or modern for support in Python for that execution model these days (the community is built around WSGI and ASGI instead). Opcode caching isn't actually relevant because PHP reuses the processes and in-memory structures these days as much as possible.
> Sadly, not just in Turkey but increasingly in what you'd consider developed "western" countries. This is concerning.

Bullsh*t alert! Name one western country that charges people for terrorism for criticizing Erdogan.
Why editing the title? this should be against the rules
Would you get arrested for protesting against climate inaction?
Is there a better study you can point to? From what I remember looking into this topic the research has always provided ambiguous results with lots of context-dependence.
Clang vs. Crc32c in RocksDB
You can make concrete, however, with entirely different chemistry.
I think most people who people think are shills on Twitter are actually real people. This is the problem with all of the "quick fixes" y'all are suggesting, unless Twitter adds a downvote button.
It wasn't the response to it was illegal, it was the response to it wasn't right.

Noone was saying what they were doing was illegal, they were saying they didn't like what was happening and perhaps it should be illegal.

So people said "it's a private company, go make your own Twitter".

Turns out the network effect is hard to overcome, so the solution is new management.
I think one of his strongest skills is recruiting young engineers who are ready to work harder for him than they should for less pay than they could get elsewhere.
This will be huge for VR/AR progress.
So your concern is he might influence too many people with wrongthink?
That is two unsubstantiated claims in one sentence :)
Amazon AR/VR product in the works
I think you're really under-estimating the difficulty of changing these kinds of things but if Elon buys Twitter we'll both see soon!
> Or sleep on people's couch. The guy can't afford a hotel?

I question whether he actually sleeps on their couches. He may sleep in their spare bedrooms, or spare master bedrooms, or spare houses.

But possibly he's sleeping on couches—I guess I imagine it's more likely part of his business model, which mostly appears to me to be raising capital exceedingly well, getting other people to pay for his ventures. It's a hard sell to get investors to say, "Hey, I'm going to use all your money on these mansions." Much easier to say, "All the money you invest, I will spend on making you profits." In a way, his main model seems to be similar to nonprofit fundraising and in nonprofits, funders seem to hate if the people running the show look to be too wealthy, as it may appear to be a waste of funds.

But I could be off on this, just the vibe I get.
Wow. You've really gone down the rabbit hole.
Iain M. Banks once wrote this: "It's brains, not gonads that matters".