skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This should generally hold for housing as well. Even though land is finite, we can build upward, so each individual new unit uses a negligible amount of land.

Perhaps the author has forgotten that the land base required to support a given human population cannot be expanded upward? The minimum area of productive farmland required to support a rather subsistence-level diet (95% vegetarian say) is about a hectare - two football fields - per person, according to most studies I've looked at.

Technology can mitigate some of these issues to some extent, and already have - extensive inputs of fossil fuels to agriculture in the form of fertilizer and diesel powered water pumps have doubled per-hectare productivity, but at the cost of fertilizer pollution and eventual exhaustion of groundwater supplies. Hence, we have to conclude that there really are hard ecological limits to human economic activity.

Property developers and their affiliated investors have an unfortunate habit of ignoring these realities, and for their own pockets it might make sense - build some housing, ignore the demands on the surrounding area, sell the housing, take the money and run. Most communities can see through these efforts. Now there is an argument for Tokyo-style tiny apartments (i.e. subdivide existing housing into smaller units) and little houses to lower prices and house the homeless and so on, but these approaches aren't really that profitable in terms of return-on-investment.

P.S. If you want to examine 'artificial scarcity driving market prices' the place to start is the diamond industry.
Board may have accepted the terms but the valuation of twitter has since tanked as have the equity markets as a whole. As have musks fortunes from an equity perspective so unless all the numbers recalibrate to everyones liking deal is dead imho. The world outlook has changed since this was getting hashed out.
Is he the one who gave final approval of the anonymous login-wall, which pops up after 2 screens of scrolling in Twitter?

If so, good riddance, as that is an incredibly hostile user pattern.

BTW, maybe it's purely coincidence, but after refreshing my browser cache it seems to have gone away today.
David Chalmers on AI and Consciousness
TIL Stockholm Syndrome also exists for terrible UX.
I may be wrong, but I assume that once Twitter becomes a private company there will be no more board and Elon will be the CEO. Parag may stay at the company in a different role.
I wonder if you get how much we've moved the goalposts on "intelligence."

Once upon a time, it was considered "intelligent" to be able to add.

Then "intelligence" was tool use, which we thought only humans could do.

Then we swore it took "intelligence" to play Go as well as a beginner human.

What set of tasks would you, right now, consider to be demonstrative of "intelligence" if a computer can do them? Then we can look back later at your response, and see how long it took each one to happen.
The problem is, if they decided they wanted to move on, when would it be "appropriate" "PR-wise"? After he comes back? A few weeks after? They all seem like bad options.
it might have been better said

"for some change only comes from pain"?
I cannot replicate this, I believe the twitter use got hooked on a red herring here. To be fair anything anti-apple is a quick way to get clicks.
its probably higher than that. Imagine what it would be if it had crashed along with everything else in the market. If the deal breaks the stock is probably worth 25-30$
The difference is that people actually did a lot of useful things with jQuery instead of just talking about its potential nonstop for a decade.
+1 for hugo. Also Gatsby has some out of the box blogging solutions and also works with netlify (where you can also host github pages)
Only reason twitter hasn't tanked is people holding on hoping this deal goes through otherwise it would have dropped significantly with the rest of the tech index. My point is that its market cap is artificially overvalued currently on hopes that elon buys at 54$ (which i doubt he will)
This is the correct answer, Elon will not be as generous when cutting numbers.

I'll never forget letting go of staff in France and Italy. The employees were overjoyed we were letting them go and got into fights over who would be taking the packages. I learned that they received 1 year of salary upfront tax free with a bunch of additional benefits to help with job training and placement.

An average middle manager friend has had this happen 3 times, each time after a US acquisition. He now has a chateau in the south of france and is very happy with himself.
What's the state of browser security these days? Does Chrome still have a lead over Safari and Firefox?
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> is preferred by

But International English is Oxford, not Cambridge. The convention came to be OED.

> So I think it needs no explanation which DNA would prefer

I do not understand. "DNA"?
Here we go, two days ago:

https://kfor.com/news/local/wife-accomplice-screenshot-857-c...
> Parag asked me to leave after letting me know that he wants to take the team in a different direction.

I interpreted that as he was asked to resign. Which in practice most people consider the same as getting fired. At this level it's rare for someone to actually get terminated though, you would have to do something illegal or highly inappropriate. It's almost always that you're asked to resign and you get a generous severance package to go with it.
"If you're the CEO of Twitter and you believe the temp guy is doing a better job, why not make the change?"

Well, it's a big lawsuit, for one thing. Firing someone on paternity leave is not a great plan in the US.

At this level, a company may just accept that as a cost of doing business. But this is at least an answer to your question.
People buy gold on the expectation that it won't lose to inflation. That's why it isn't a pyramid, an exponential curve is well contained if the exponent is exactly 1.
I mean, yes I know how to quote and escape. My point was that only I know what my intent was. Do I want local shell interpretation, remote shell interpretation, awk interpretation or a literal string? I'm not sure how great an autoquoter is going to be if it doesn't know my intent. In the end, I'll need to do it myself, since I know what I want.

And the shame of that is that there aren't a lot of tools to help. Utility functions like shell_escape() would be nice, but you still need to handle escaping for the local shell. That's essentially true of any programming language.
you should read this more
from the perpective of a dude who just lost his job and will need to soon get rehired. not really a US culture thing.
Thats not what is happening
BPFdoor: Stealthy Linux malware bypasses firewalls for remote access
It's incredibly annoying in Outlook. Every other Microsoft product I've used like Word supports the key-combo, but of course Outlook has to be different.
Uber CEO backtracks after calling Saudi murder of Khashoggi “a mistake” (2019)
Wikipedia says Windows 10.. but that was the previous terminal emulator in Windows, right? There was MS-DOS prompt and then cmd in NT (4?) and HyperTerminal..
Neither of those are side shows.
for me my company stock has erased the gains since ~late 2018. BTC is up 10x in that period.

People have just lost a sense of proportion that investing timelines are 5-40 years. Investing for "moon gains" in time periods less than that is for suckers, save for maybe people who are building a new business.
That one taboo falls quickly is not proof all of them will. The eugenics taboo has endured for more than a century, which sounds like particular durability to me.
I would think taking orders from someone who is not yet in charge could open up Parag and the board to shareholder lawsuits.
Swagger Editor dev which now works at Airbnb here. This is hilarious!
You don't understand what a commodity is - or you don't understand what Bitcoin is.
On pat leave too. Ouch.
It was unclear to me after a superficial reading - is there a story for packing non standard-library dependencies? Let's say I need library X + my own code. Is there currently possible to ship pyoxy + a tar file of all the extra code? What about libraries with C (numpy and friends)?

Very cool, even if it standard library only. I am frequently annoyed at the hoops I jump through to distribute Python onto Windows machines.
Musk's financing is secured in part by his Tesla stock. Rumor had it that $740 was the share price where the lenders had the contractual right to withdraw their financing. As I write this, TSLA is $716. (Don't remember where I read that; but whether or not it's the actual price, I'm sure such a clause exists.)
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2203.03509.pdf
So exiting a crashing fiat is like a fire extinguisher or a pistol, worthless until such a moment it is the only thing that isn't worthless.

Drugs, too, I defend the actions of the victims of the opioid epidemic in seeking drugs, they were actively tortured for most of their waking hours by a multi-level-marketing pharmaceutical scam. Those drugs weren't recreational, they were an anaesthetic in response to malpractice. Like the Sacklers are literally hard drug dealers, they literally have a monopoly on legal heroin and cocaine. Or should I say OxyContin and Adhansia. They did that through legal bribes as a cover for additional fully illegal bribes, inviting doctors to hedonistic islands to get compromat, treating the FDA like their personal lapdog, disgusting acts of philanthropy with their ill-gotten gains, medical media, and the ordinary media.

So like if they are cornering the market and intentionally cheating the patients out of antidote while increasing the doses of poison, you know what, don't tell me black is white. The legal market is shit and the illegal market is superior. And in fact the only limit to their cheating their patients out of medicine is presented by the black market, that's the resistance and why the problem wasn't even worse.
I agree about the dialogue between current method skeptics and optimists. It's been this way since the start and it's been productive and fun.

...one pick.. I don't think agi pessimists raise the bar out of bad faith. It's just the nature of observing progress. We discover that an ai can do X, while still struggling with Y.

What's the alternative, conclude gpt is sentient? The bar must be raised, because the bar is supposed to represent human intelligence... and we don't know how that works either.
It would be wise for Musk to rehire him.
I strongly disagree. Firing someone while they’re on leave sends a direct signal to anyone else considering taking leave: “watch out, you won’t be able to defend yourself if you aren’t here.”

ICs follow the lead that executives set. A chilling effect like this will cause folks who most _need_ the leave — single parents, people with family in need of care, or those struggling with their own health issues — to second-guess their choice, while those who can just walk away w/o any real risk can go ahead and try taking time away.

It also puts the lie to the idea that employer-subsidized leave beyond the federally-protected time window is an entitlement rather than an easily-canceled perk. We all know that rationally, but a BigCo obviously exploiting that trust is a good reminder that the company (any company) is not there to help you, they are not your family, and you have to be ready for this kind of “switcharoo” whenever the numbers (or politics) justify it.
Pretty laughable, considering Parag as CTO presided over the slowest product velocity at pretty much any major tech company. The product is almost unchanged, except additional censorship, since he started as CTO in October 2017.

With that track record, one must assume his head will be one of the first on the chopping block.
As a parent, the answer is yes. I have literally, on multiple occasions, had middle-aged women stop their vehicles and ask my children in a panicked voice where their mother is. This, despite me being ~30 feet away in the front year overhearing the whole thing. My neighbor has shoed them off on our behalf. It startles my kids. They're asking to ride their bikes in the neighborhood and my main concern is that someone will call the police to "save" them from whatever fantasy they dream up.

This doesn't comprise 100% of our experience of life, but it definitely impacts my children's freedoms and my friends have conveyed similar experiences. A person wistfully contemplating their own childhood experience is different than "watching children for recreation" and the punishment thereof is a symptom of a greater problem with (U.S.) society.
Operating without his influence means not inviting him into the boardroom and not taking directions from him. They can still make their own decisions on how best to prepare for the acquisition. That's something every company in that situation does.
> In other words, a person who is happy outside their relationship is far more likely to be happy inside their relationship, as well.

Feels unsurprising.

Also, not sold with all the hand-wavy "machine learning" thrown into the article.
Plain text copy/paste should be the default and crtl+shift+v to include formatting
I worked at a company that served 3 million MAU, deployed 30 times a day with PHP and a 4 TB Mysql database. Most of these tools are for companies like Twitter and Google. 99.9% of companies will never need them. The problems are made up, end of story.
You're discounting the very real possibility that Parag is operating as if the deal will not go through, and is making large strategic decisions in anticipation of that being the case.

For Parag, I don't see it "burning his reputation" at all, considering either a) he's right and will face the tall task of helming a Twitter that continues to disappoint its investors or b) he's wrong and it won't be his problem when Elon fires him next year.
Why not just bury the stuff? That's a ton of carbon that isn't going into the atmosphere. They are kind of going the wrong way. If you depolymerize the junk it's going to degrade to CO2 eventually.

In fact, plastics are an excellent carbon sink if we ever need a durable method of sequestering carbon. Plastics wouldn't be nearly as terrible if we weren't making them from oil. Sequestering atmospheric CO2 and polymerizing it using enzymes would mean that we are taking it out of the atmosphere and putting it back in the ground where it belongs.
I use notepad
what should they have done? waited til he returned? they very likely are giving him a severance, so why wait?
No, not especially. If you don't care for it, ignore it.

And if you think that a crash is going to clear the way for anything you want, there's a principle from PT Barnum about sucker production. The get rick quick schemers will "pivot" to something else.

Some higher-end video card prices will go down. That'll be nice.
Interesting thought. But if he doesn't go through with it, he will be on the hook for a $1B penalty. Is that perhaps a selling fee that makes sense for him to pay?
> They will buy what's available and seems to get the job done and seems like less of a hassle.

Enter AWS and GCP. People wonder why businesses seem to burn 10s of millions of dollars by choosing AWS instead of self-hosting, but the personnel and time advantage of offloading to AWS is often worth it.
Anything apple (both ways) is a good way to get clicks on hackernews at least.
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It was already a low ball deal.

Knowing Musks shenaningans, it's likely he wanted to sell his Twitter stock but wanted to pump it first with a semi-formal offer. Same he did with Crypto/Tesla.

Not surprising that Twitter board would call the bluff. Even if Musk tries to renegotiate to save face, the Twitter board will look better to shareholders by saying no to even lower offers.
no matter how much you believe in any investment, diversification is key to building a winning portfolio. I am really sympathetic to these people, but if you're reading this protect yourself financially.
So there's a few things that could be in play here.

1. The tech market right now is a shit show, Twitter has only been saved from the general market trends because of the Elon offer. Once the Elon offer closes or falls through, Twitter's stock will correct. While Twitter is healthier is the time to get set up for that inevitable correction. The current market is driving fairly drastic action in the Tech Sector, just ignoring it because you're, potentially, a lame-duck CEO would be irresponsible.

2. These firings and changes may have been in the works since Parag took over so this is a course of action that predates the Elon offer.
Personally I am skeptical of any "learn to X" attempt that doesn't actually address some need - so learning to make a simple website for a club or nonprofit, or getting a BBC Microbit and making it act like a stopwatch for brewing a cup of tea, something semi-practical, will stick better.
Fair, I was actually referring to the typical maven module pattern rather than packages. You can split the same java package across multiple maven modules.
Have you seen the reference you are talking about?

https://www.dezeen.com/2019/05/09/notre-dame-roof-vincent-ca...

I see nothing smug there, just a smart and appropriate upgrade. It fits seamlessly onto the rest of the structure, while the former roof was just a boring affair.
What do you think are the best investment play for a decade right now in the crypto market?
I've always viewed SELECT * as a convinence for schema discovery and a huge bonus for subqueries - our shop excludes its use at the top level in production due to the danger of table definitions changing underneath... but we happily allow subqueries to use SELECT * so long as that column list is clearly defined before we leave the database.

Worst, by far, than a column you didn't expect being added is a column you did expect being removed. Depending on how thorough your integration tests are (and ideally they should be pretty thorough) you could suddenly start getting strange array key access (or object key unfound) errors somewhere on the other side of the codebase.
For semi-structured cards, try kanbantool.com - it does not require you to follow kanban method, allows for great customization of cards, and even has an extensive SDK (https://kanbantool.com/developer/sdk) which you can use to easily tinker with the board.
I started working on the project (one that I'm currently working on) around the beginning of 2021.
I stopped though after a month because the alpha version I made looked terrible (and got some mean reviews on places) and I thought maybe the product just doesn't fit in anywhere.

I got contacted by a few VCs, upon realizing my crappy project had some potential, I started working on it again, regularly started contacting the potential users, launched 3 private versions until July 2021. The bunch of users I had liked it but then... I stopped updating it and it eventually sorta died.
I just couldn't get out of the private beta in time.

Stopped working on it for ~8 months. Recently got in a startup pipeline program of a large accelerator for this project which made me realize how stupid I am to keep throwing cool opportunities that come my way.

So, now I'm back at it hoping to get out of that grim cycle of not shipping on time. I've got the 2.0 version of my project in works shipping later this month.

And, luckily enough, all those old private users (and new developers I started contacting again) really do want to get their hands on the 2.0 version.

Hopefully, this ends well for a "shipping story".
I don’t think this does anything if maps isn’t running?
Yep. Aside from Musk having the attention span of a 6 month old puppy: the margin loan requires Tesla's stock drop less than 40%, otherwise he has to personally bankroll the Twitter purchase.

Right now it's down 26% this month, more than twice the general market drop, and shows no sign of slowing.

Musk has already started trying to ditch the margin loan.
Just out of curiosity, have you seen our official Redux Toolkit package? We specifically designed it to eliminate the "boilerplate" concerns and work great with TS:

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/essentials/part-2-app-structu...

- https://redux.js.org/introduction/why-rtk-is-redux-today

- https://redux.js.org/tutorials/typescript-quick-start

I'm also interested in hearing any particular features in Kea you find useful that aren't covered in RTK.
I’m going to give you an answer that I hope gets debunked.

It seems to me that if she can’t install Python then she may not in general be a good candidate.

In my experience a whole lot of programming jobs involves things not directly linked to programming, such as installing languages, deploying projects, dealing with internal tools, and so on. If you lack the wherewithal to install and run python after reading or watching a few tutorials, you may not be cut out for the job.

I say this as a guy who learns very very slowly and who has to work extra hard to get the basics.
What's the issue? Using the adverb "insanely" in a positive light? Or that he's proud?
Says a lot about this site's bias that this even needs to me said (how under a rock do you have to be not to know the macro crash happening right now isn't localized to crypto?). Your comment should either be so obvious that it isn't necessary or so obvious that its the top comment.
I think Parag is making decisions that he sees as inevitable, whether the deal goes through or not. The deal, and all of the discussions that have come from it about the future direction of Twitter, is probably enough of a catalyst for certain changes. Twitter is likely not left unchanged even it falls through.
People are doing useful things with public distributed databases and cryptography as well. Unfortunately it has been largely overshadowed by the greed. This is an artifact of human involvement.

Mathematics implementations and new data storage paradigms are still our friends here at HN. Aren't they?
I mean, it's still getting fired heading into a recession shortly after having a kid.
This is a difficult question to accurately answer because the only source of this information is an unreliable one (the Chinese regime). We can, however, assume via observation of how efficient and diverse their manufacturing is, which leads to some baseline assumption they all have above average infrastructure, housing, and other services, in addition to affording salaries to those millions of people that does not result in unmanageable civil unrest. Plenty of experts believe China's infrastructure is ahead of the US at this point. They build 100 miles of high speed rail for the same cost we build 1 mile of tunnel, or 10 miles of toll lane that 90% of commuters won't use.

There are other educated assumptions we can make based on the rapid response to the Wuhan outbreak and the surrounding cities, but in my opinion, based on inference from what we can observe from the outside, the answer is firmly yes.
Appeals to humanity do not convince me of anything. I do all those things (well, I dance terribly) but again, those are not indications of will, and it's entirely unclear what magical bit in our bodies is doing that, when computers cannot.

Even if you don't want to have anything with such a science, such a science will move on without you.

"A version of an oft-told ancient Greek story concerns a contest between two renowned painters. Zeuxis (born around 464 BC) produced a still life painting so convincing that birds flew down to peck at the painted grapes. A rival, Parrhasius, asked Zeuxis to judge one of his paintings that was behind a pair of tattered curtains in his study. Parrhasius asked Zeuxis to pull back the curtains, but when Zeuxis tried, he could not, as the curtains were included in Parrhasius's painting—making Parrhasius the winner."