skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone has their own ideas of what would save twitter or make it stop sucking.

For me:

* Let me opt out of all recommendations. I only want to see tweets of people I follow or tags I follow. Nothing else. I'll find more people to follow via the people I follow. Do not post random popular news, people, related stuff in my feed, period.

* Let me choose the types of tweets I see. Personally I want to see zero of (@person liked, @person replied to, ...)

* Remove the 280 character limit (but possibly only show the first N characters in the feed). I don't personally believe the 280 character limit is important to twitter's success. Twitter's difference from most other places is that people are talking from their account, in public. It's one giant flat public forum. It is not FB (friends and family) and it is not Reddit (moderated sub forums). That alone is it's strength. All the 280 character thing does is amplify hyperbole as there is on room for nuance.

I'm sure Musk has his own ideas (no censorship?) but as for me, I won't personally use twitter without the changes above. I have an account, I check about once a month or less. I see lots of the stuff above and quit. It's like having a pushy salesperson following you around and constantly recommending stuff. Rather than more sales I'd just leave for another store.
Just a thought: If the constitution prevents things that would work to prevent this problem form reoccuring, maybe the constitution needs fixing. After all it is rather old and contains a whole bunch of other bugs as well.
With people that thought he has done a good thing by actually turning the EV market into something other than a VW in Ed Begley's garage. By others who think he has found a way to make Space and Space Exploration a reality. I am sure he must wish Twitter had blocked his "Pedo" tweet about the divers who saved the Thai children.
It's pretty sad that people put that much money into towers when the cost of hooking a home up to fibre (even rural) is in the $1800-2500 ballpark.
These are just the pwn2own vulnerabilities. Nowhere did Mozilla ever say they were being exploited in the wild.
Ah yes, get 2/3 of the states to agree to amend the constitution, so simple. I was just thinking how we could solve climate change by banning all cars and making everyone vegetarian, so simple!

Edit:
Okay I realize my comment was a bit flippant. It is a pet peeve of mine when solutions are proffered like this that don't take into account the many obvious difficulties in actually making it work (political, social economic etc.) as if nobody has thought of this. Sure, many people would love to ban and confiscate all the guns, but due to politics there is a 0% chance of that happening in the US, so it is not "simple".
Indeed. The causal model is simple and two factor: motivation, and access to firearms.

If we reduced access to firearms, we can still work the motivation angle in a lot of ways, but have overall reduced gun violence. Other countries show that the offset increase in violence through other means would still be lower than current death rates.
As a foreigner, I have an impression that americans can buy a gun at 18, but cun buy a cigarette at 21. Maybe I’m wrong, but still... Call me an “old-timer” but I do think you could use better psychological tests before letting them buy a gun.
No mention in the article.
Of course! I'm just pointing out that getting rid of GDPR wouldn't get rid of the popups.
State is a well known source of error after all.
With the cathedral of the powerful that bestows prestige within our political culture.
I am very excited to see what Jack can do solely focused on Bitcoin.
Environment isn't "nurture". If you were born in the 70s your parents weren't intentionally giving you lead poisoning and lowering your IQ and making you prone to violent crime; it just happened on its own.
India has 4 times the population of US and I've never heard or read about a school shooting or a mass shooting. There is way worse poverty, mental illness, lawlessness, corruption at every level in India. The only difference is easy access to guns. Not sure why it's so difficult for gun worshippers in US to understand this.
Were MS Windows and Its Developer Community Distro-Maintainers for Power Users?
What? The far left has _never_ liked Musk. He's a billionaire. He's the perfect representation of all they decry.

Unless by far-left you really mean neoliberals.
Do we know the terms of this raise? I wouldn't be surprised if it's released in tranches based on KPIs.
For any such agency, a handful of Tor nodes gives your own agents a useful secure channel. An overwhelming majority of nodes would give you good insight into what other users are doing, but it's very hard to get such a majority since of course all your competitors think the same. Putting in place a handful of nodes to benefit your own agents is very possible, so that's what you do.
I think it's because these devices do not always make the correct decision between two values.

Lamport's paper covers this in the interrupt example: a computer must decide whether an interrupt line is signaled or not in a finite amount of time (the next instruction). The interrupt is continuous: it passes through some halfway voltage level like 2.5 between 0 and 5, and so it can be called the wrong way.

Basically the whole result is a restatement of real numbers not being computable.

The discrete sample value you get from an ADC is not based on knowing the underlying real number absolutely, and then choosing the nearest value. It's a time limited process of discovering the value partially. Since the value is not partially known, it is not known whether the reported sample value is the closest one.
If we give up a right every time someone commits a crime using this right, soon we'll be left without rights. The next obvious target is speech: it's often used to incite violence at scale, and strict speech control would prevent that. But I'd rather live in a free country and accept the risks.
The ruling you're talking about was not the CA supreme court, which would be unlikely to rule that way. It's a federal appeals court; it was a politically motivated 2-1 decision. https://news.yahoo.com/californias-under-21-gun-ban-23182808...

Checking your activity on social media during a firearms background check is not a violation of the 4th amendment.

You can certainly enforce the second amendment militia requirement, although it will require a vast different SCOTUS than the one we have now.
Seriously - this makes using google so damn annoying. The fact that verbatim is buried behind multiple clicks and you also have to quote is confusing and slow. You can easily permanently disable something like safesearch - why is verbatim not the same? And why is there not a simple equivalent to quotes to search verbatim?
This thread reminds me of high school. A kid tries and fails to argue with a teacher, so they resort to trolling in order to "win". Meanwhile the rest of the students are just rolling their eyes and hoping the kid gets over their fragile ego.
More upside presumably, since if you do wait the time, and the stock isn't underwater, then you can sell and be taxed as long term capital gains.

I really don't think that's a good gamble for an employee to take, but oh well.
Similar to https://ngrok.com/ except this uses wireguard, and doesn't require any custom software.

With ngrok you need to trust their binary, with this I suppose you need to trust the generated config file.
What if guns were treated similarly to cars? Mandatory training, License w/ renewals, registration w/ renewals, insurance mandatory, yearly inspection mandatory, etc.

Personally I feel people should be able to defend themselves while at the same time deterred from stockpiling and accessing mass casualty capable arms.
Oh, right, good catch! So <number>.toString(2).padStart(8, "0") then. I still expect it to be faster than this clever hack though.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
Yeah those moonbats, when will they learn that exposing yourself to a flight attendant and offering her a horse in exchange for sex is actually great for the economy?
Came here to say this, it's one of the first things I investigate about a company. If the company does habitual layoffs or has done rather large ones in the past five years, I'll move on 90% of the time.
I have yet to understand how anything one click can beat something like Apple Pay for sites you don’t have an account on.
If we're going to talk numbers - most gun deaths involve gang/drug activities.
The real numbers once you remove suicide and gangs all point to mental illness and DV/Violent individuals.
Also, bot detection is a quixotic quest. If it were that easy they'd have done it by now.
Well for one: They have had a monopoly over twitter censorship and feel threatened by this disruption.
Publicly implying won't let him back out for free. He needs to prove twitter acted in bad faith or "material adverse effect." No such evidence has been provided. BTW material adverse effect is an very hard standard to prove it needs to “substantially threaten the overall earnings potential of the target in a durationally-significant manner."
How about, you're born on the "can't purchase" list and stay on the list until you've reached the age of 21, passed extensive background checks including having every single thing you've posted online carefully scrutinized by the BATFE, taken and passed a gun safety course and having completed the above, applied for and received a federal license to own a firearm or ammunition.

If this sounds expensive and cumbersome, that's the point. It should be expensive and cumbersome to get a gun. The fact that it's so easy to get a gun in the USA is the problem.

If I were Biden, I'd get Congress to pass a comprehensive gun ban. No guns or ammo of any type without a federal license. Assault weapons completely banned. Mags over seven rounds completely banned. Trafficking in ghost guns or information on the manufacture of ghost guns including CAD files for 3D printed guns -- banned. I would get the IRS and the BATFE to conduct enhanced audits and investigations of businesses who sold guns to ordinary schlubs including gun shops and gun and ammunition manufacturers. Yes, this will raise constitutional issues, but the lawsuits would take years to work their way through the courts, during which time I would binge-nominate Supreme Court justices who aligned with my views on the matter, bringing the total number of justices to 12 or 14 or so, and ensuring that effective defanging of the Second Amendment becomes national precedent when the cases do finally reach the Supremes.

There is no excuse for so many guns being on the streets of a civilized nation.
Its because buying a gun is a civil right.

Smoking is not.

That said, the 21yo requirement may be unconstitutional as well.
Not engaging with your claim about what is the "correct answer" to this question asked of another user about something they said, I assume this comment is being downvoted because it blatantly violates the site's community guidelines.

> Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.

This is an extremely sparse remark about a controversial issue.

> Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

Enough said.
QSBS cutoff is $50M in gross assets owned by the company, not $50M valuation. There are many cases where a valuation can be far above $50M yet still qualify. That said, I have no idea if Bolt would qualify here. FWIW financial services companies don't qualify for QSBS at all, so Bolt may fall under that
He waived contingency on due diligence. He has no right to back out on the basis of the due diligence he should have done before he signed the contract. A court can order him to complete the purchase as committed ('specific performance').
You don’t care about stock price. But credit ratings are the bastion of truth!

Square changed the game on merchant accounts with Point of Sale systems.
It’s also self hostable.
We maybe have some hope of doing something about mental illness. Not so much for the condition of male-ness. If the demographic is the intersection of mentally ill and male, it's the illness dimension that's potentially treatable.
I think it’s Evan Williams (the other Twitter co-founder) who was on the Blogger team, not Dorsey.
I'm a little worried about the people not worried in this thread. Especially the older ones having experienced it before.

Every recession 'first hand experience', had as a backdrop a rising China and more valuable world population by the end simply by the relative size of the boomers.

China is facing serious challenges to the point that I'd stay clear of them, and the boomers are retiring. changes them from high spenders and risk takers into low spenders who don't want risk.

It's going to be a bumpy ride before the generational accounts balance out, and i fear we're going to have a shitload of grumpy old people waking up a lot poorer than they ever expected. A good recipe for even worse political decisions.
Canada is the U.S.'s neighbour and is probably closer, culturally, than any other nation. Gun ownership is also high in Canada. In terms of guns per capita, the U.S. is #1 by a long shot, but Canada is #7 [1]. In Canada, guns owned per capita is one third of what it is in the U.S..

Canada also has mass shootings. The annual deaths from mass shootings per capita in Canada is 0.032, which is about one third that of the U.S. (0.089) [2].

As a Canadian, it's actually shocking to see that Canada's rate of mass shootings correspond well to the U.S.'s if you simply control for population and the number of guns owned by that population. I'd have expected us to be doing better. Where gun ownership laws vary wildly in different U.S. states, Canada's laws are under federal control and are, hence, consistent. Where some U.S. states have virtually no requirements of testing or training to own guns, Canada requires gun owners to have mental health checks and complete firearm safety training courses. Gun owners undergo regular background checks and will have their guns confiscated in short order if they ever commit a criminal offence. Where many U.S. states permit concealed carry of handguns, handguns are virtually illegal to carry in Canada. Transporting them from your home to the range is legal, but they must be unloaded, locked, and permits are required for the transport.

With all of these additional precautions, Canada really should be doing better. The harsh reality may be that the number of guns per capita floating around really is an important factor.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...
[2]https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shoo...
When you leave something you have put so much effort in, and the future doesn't look good then you feel regret. When the future looks good you are usually proud.

But no, you don't feel pressure to build it again. Because first this is a lot of work and second it is not even likely that you will succeed again at it. Especially in b2c
For example rush hour is an emergent phenomenon. But it's something that is happening pretty regularly depending on typical work schedules. You can simulate thousands or millions of agents with their intricate goals of their daily lives to have it emerge naturally (and it's very fun to program that), or you can just hardcode fixed times for rush hours. In a big-picture view of country-wide statistics the difference between these approaches is underwhelmingly small.

It's sort of like simulating every atom of an object vs using Newtonian physics. There is a difference in accuracy, but it may not even become apparent or matter for gameplay.
Are managers and senior middle management more protected from being laid off ?
Ravio OTP on iOS
are children of lesbian parents incarcerated at a higher rate?
I have. I worked for an enterprise that used OneLogin could only use the OneLogin Protect app for 2FA. I thought 1Password was broken but I tried a different app with my phone camera and it said the QR code was invalid.
Also to mention soda’s kernel was patched to kprint() a rootcow at boot, before even the network driver was loaded. Dedication to style.
I think it’d be cool if all the players in a server are part of a country in a constantly changing state of warfare and alliance with other countries in a huge world. Where your goal is not to level up, but to participate in actions that expand your homeland or fend off invaders or expand your economy.

The larger and wealthier your country becomes, the more you become a threat to other powerful nations who will want to stamp you out. Or maybe there would be revolutions, alien invaders, etc. if you become too powerful.

Alternatively, if the players of the realm fail to defend their lands or make peace with their enemies, they might be conquered and forced to live under another empire, fighting their wars and paying high taxes, until one day they can scheme to win their independence again.

Of course, this does essentially mean your world can become irreparably messed up, but that’s life. Maybe people would give up on a server and move on to a new world with new ambitions about how they can do better next time.
> In New Hampshire, the process for buying a gun is easy — easier than getting a driver’s license.

> You go to a gun store, you show your ID, and if you pass a background check that looks at your criminal record and some of your mental health history...

I'm not sure how that shows getting a gun is easier than getting a driver's license. The ID in the sentence is generally your driver's license, and even if it's not, the process for getting a different kind of ID is roughly the same difficulty as getting a driver's license. If you grew up outside of a major city, you were also likely pipelined through the driver's license process while in high school.

Then on top of that there is a background check.
I’m not going defend Musk the human being. Maybe he is a total a creep? I don’t know him.

But this case you’re citing here is unproven and seems like a political hit.
If it's prohibitively expensive for everyone, how is the black community targeted unfairly?
Maybe a series of thin plastic layers that can be pulled inside a container every few months, sort of a carpet-umbrella.
McNealy is the one I knew the least about, but when just another billionaire describes themselves as a "raging libertarian" (big surprise that is) and does things like say "you have no privacy. get over it." and openly supports Donald Trump, one has to wonder where their empathy is.
Not a war game but the city builder strategy game Cities Skylines have an option to
import real terrain data from OSM. So say you can rebuild your own town for example
Supporting dragontamer's claim regarding number of firearms:

According to a report[1] by Small Arms Survey in 2017, there were an estimated 120 civilian firmarms per 100 people in the USA:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estimated_number_of_civilian_g...

That's almost twice as many as the next-closest nation.

[1] - https://web.archive.org/web/20180620231909/http://www.smalla...
> Currently, when you authenticate with GitHub using OAuth, we request repo scope… As GitHub OAuth integration is designed, it provides us with greater access than we need to get the integration working.

> In an effort to improve the security model of the integration, we are exploring additional enhancements in partnership with GitHub…

Github permissions possibilities continually confuse me, but integrations are always asking for more github permissions than I really want to give them, more than it seems like they should need for the integration; I'm never clear in an individual case if this is because they are doing it wrong, or because github doesn't offer granular enough permissions. Some vendors with integrations in the past, when I've complained, have _claimed_ it's because github does not offer any more granular permission that includes what they need.

This announcement still leaves it unclear which it was in this case.

I wonder if the fallout of this thing will result in github fixing whatever it is about their permissions system that is leading to integrations asking for and getting more permissions than should be required?

I have seen most blame over this kerfuffle focused on heroku, but I suspect github's too blunt integration permissions could use some ire, which might help motivate Microsoft/github to improve things.
> They didn't overhire compared to the initial plan...

Frankly I don't care what their plan was if they "planned" to spend ~350M in 2 years while making 10-40M in annual revenue while getting sued by their largest customer. That is an absolutely insane level of spending. Just because you had a plan to do some unsustainable and irresponsible crap doesn't absolve you of responsibility when it turns out to be unsustainable and irresponsible.

> The ycombinator downturn letter ...

You really think that Bolt, and Bolt's ex-CEO, saw a letter from YC, and thought "Oh ya, let's definitely doing what YC said. YC definitely knows what they're talking about. I personally trust all of their decisions and statements."?
Respect for all the suffering, NCommander. :)
You didn't watch the video of the current prime minister of Israel describing his nation's intelligence op to promote pro-Israel propaganda on the internet, did you?

Also, anyone can look at the ADL's explicit mission statements, and years of rhetoric and activism, it's not even something they hide that they are a pro-Israeli activist group. That's the reason for their existence, I don't even think it's a particularly bad thing from their point of view to do whatever necessary to promote Israel's interests. Just like US, China, and Russia do for themselves through their own interest groups.
Thats pretty orthogonal to the issue at hand.

There are over 350 million legal gun owners in the US, we're statistically safer than any other country.
Hey, they recently redid the user interface for it!

I mean, yeah, the new interface is unusable with anything under a Xeon workstation, and it's very mobile editing focused, for a blogging platform, and it drove me and a variety of other people off Blogger entirely, but... they've not just left it alone. That would have been an improvement over what they did to it.

My extensive thoughts on their "improvements" here: https://www.sevarg.net/2020/10/10/end-of-blog-new-blogger-in...

Which is now a Jekyll based blog, hosted on my own hardware.
My personal view is that anyone can own a gun but should be required to take mandatory "militia" training courses twice a year (like 8 hours). This alone will probably limit the number of people wanting to go through the process. Another thought is that people could keep their guns in their locally ran armory that they could go and practice whenever they want and checkout guns for hunting purposes. Also no semi-auto for hunting (so no need to checkout a semi-auto from the armory), we already limit shotgun capacity to 3 for bird hunting so maybe this could happen.
Yea violence is. RIP all victims.
> is it also technology?

In a very meaningful way yes! Business plans are a form of incentive bundling, which is itself an example of a social technology and social technologies are a thing and they follow much the same lifecycle and trade-offs as any other non-social technology. Indeed we can derive a lot of useful insights by using insights derived from looking at social technologies to examine non-social technologies and vice versa.
NOOOO!
Now is that because they don't want to or is it because it isn't feasible to?