skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The point of the black swan is you can't model it. You can't predict COVID-19. You can't predict Russia renouncing it's debt, leading to the collapse of LTCM. You can't predict Hurricane Katrina hitting just so as to push feet of water into Lake Pontchartrain. You can't predict the the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. You can know everything there is to know about epidemics, finance, weather, and seismology, and you still can't predict those events. So don't. Do you best to build robust systems, looks for places with excessive efficiencies, and plan mitigation strategies in advance.
One thing with depression is that every ache and discomfort gets amplified and seems endless and indicative of the terrible nature of existence.

So taking care of yourself in numerous ways is helpful. Not sure if that’s all that’s going on with the probiotic link but it’s a factor.

Unfortunately, depression saps your will to care for yourself so eating better, exercising, sleeping better are all easier said than done
'Over optimization' means that a lot recommendation systems, A/B tests, forecasts in business are nearly irrelevant, or rubbish i.e. a lot of cost for very marginal value add. Such a small margin that it's within variance of what might even be considered a positive outcome.

There are few business that have the kind scale in which a lot of that will be hugely useful (at high degrees of sophistication), let alone, afford the teams of researchers. Most of the optimizations are low hanging fruit which can be achieved via some kind of basic algorithm.

I believe you could nuke Snowflake and all their giant lakes of historical data and the world would not skip a beat.
It's a bad law if it ends up punishing the people it was intended to help. If the building code had a clause about building decks and max occupancy where the easiest way for a contractor to comply was to post a gigantic sign permanently attached to the deck stating the weight limit, the end-user would view that as terrible as well.
I think you'll change your tune on this when too many firms fail at once and this becomes a systemic issue.
The distinction isn't between functions and values in general, it's between the function being called and the arguments passed to the function being called. The difference isn't in the things themselves, it's in the role that they play in the specific expression we're reading.
Writing like a pro with Vale and Neovim
Fair enough. The idea was that the left wants to lower the barrier for "asylum seeking" or perhaps just admit more asylum seekers irrespective of their educational value or their ability to support themselves (i.e., minimal selection criteria). This isn't a criticism or value judgment.
There is very little research on satiety and practically applying findings into the real world, but this is very slowly changing fortunately. Everyone saying "it's just CICO, duh!" sounds to me like they're telling someone suffering through clinical depression, "it's just your perspective, duh!". They're describing the "how" without supplying the "why", thinking the map is the territory in a shallow analysis. The world is more interesting than that, fortunately.
That is terrifying and sad to hear ...

I guess you want mechanical knob on the inside to mitigate this? I know multiple friends who have a both-side "smart" door knob. I.e. the inner one is not connected until you turn it and something does something inside with a buzz.
My money is indeed on the environment. You'd want to know what that donor was eating, and try to replicate it.
New discovery tool for Wikimedia technical documentation
I suspect most experienced software engineers would find that all rather obvious. Bugs are a fact of life. Even formal verification can't save you from this. Good software is built to be resilient to our own bugs, because they are simply inevitable. It's not about good or bad programming, every one has the ability to make a simple mistake resulting in huge consequences. It's basically a rite of passage to have crashed a service with a code push.
A few issues aside, the Biden administration has been in the continuity of the Trump administration on almost everything international.

They still haven't gone back into the JCPOA, for instance.
Quite confused as to why the army is doing this?

Schlepping fragile glass panels into battle doesn't sound viable and if their aim is to green up their operations there are likely better ways.
There are a handful of potential reasons depending on where in the US you're looking at, as usual there is wide variation by state and by urban/rural divide:

- some states have little in the way of tax or other financial incentive to help offset initial installation cost

- some neighborhoods have various visual restrictions, self-imposed or otherwise, that may not accommodate solar panels

- some power companies have campaigned to limit net metering, which limits the cost savings homeowners can see from solar to protect the utility

- some local or state government officials view renewables as a "political" issue in the sense of "yuppies getting bent out of shape about global warming" and make efforts to limit renewable usage for political points

- owners of most rental buildings don't pay for electric, the tenants do, but the tenants cant make capital improvements and the owner has little incentive to
I think about how Apple does things like this: What they are showing you right now is at least 5 years old to them.

> what on earth are they working on now?!

Exactly. Maybe they are working on a search engine powered by Siri, or even an Apple Car which they started years ago or perhaps AR/XR Glasses.

Who knows, I could be easily wrong. Only Apple and the future knows.
I was in the same boat, and I also now swear by the MX Ergo over the M570/M575. I have two complaints with it that (neither of which seems to be addressed by the MX Ergo+): the thing still charges with micro-USB (not a deal-breaker, but it's annoying that I need to keep an adapter or cable around for that one device), and that it's stuck on BT 3.0 (I'd prefer 5.0, as running trackball+keyboard+audio over BT from my old work laptop was enough to cause drop-outs, and 5.0 helps mitigate that).
How the debt crisis of 2008-09 fueled populist politics
actual article: 'Sporting a range of around 220 miles'
excerpt is: 'Sporting a range of around 2770 miles'
I made a robot snake for the cat [video]
He's not guilty of genocide, or even murder, so there's certainly much higher bars that can be set.

But I have a deep aversion to trolls. They cause pain deliberately. That pain is diffuse and hard to account, but so widespread that (a little bit) times (a lot) adds up to a large number. And I think it's pretty clear that Musk enjoys inflicting pain on people.

Perhaps that's too low a bar to set for the title of "terrible human being". But that's my bar, and he sails right over it. I tried to ignore it for a very long time, and I'm not sure how much longer I can.

He's also running a company that is making enormous strides in getting the world off of fossil fuels -- and pushing others to do the same. (I have quibbles with continuing the multiple-cars-per-household lifestyle, which I think will need to be reconsidered if we're going to stabilize our effect on the environment, but at least he's doing something -- and it includes reducing fossil fuels in areas besides transportation.)

And he's running a company that is revolutionizing space transport. I don't believe in his goals there, but I think good will come of it. He's doing it for real, not just running his mouth off.

And yet, on balance, he's contributing to an American social climate which keeps nudging closer to literal civil war. You probably think that's hyperbolic, and perhaps it is, but it's undeniable that its making a lot of people angry a lot of the time. He's in a position to know better, and it looks to me as if he enjoys it. To me, that merits the designation "terrible human being".

You can legitimately disagree with that, but I think we can agree on the reasons I say it.
That activity is protected, but not during working hours and using company resources (ex. you can't use internal email to spam the entire company with pro-union information).

That's not speculation, it's quoted by the SpaceX president...it may not be true, but it's not speculation.
Difference is the ease of getting online and global reach means all the crazy persons on the street corner can collaborate and grow communities.
We're not slaves anymore. You as a human being are allowed to express your thoughts and opinions. Would we know how awful it was at Activision/Blizzard if those employees had not said something? Elon and C-Suite execs own and control everything, no need to bootlick.
>And why doesn't Twitter have the same rights that you outlined

They do have those rights, which is why they can ban people. The argument is that they've produced a de facto public square, not a legal one, because it's where a massive amount of "public" discourse takes place. Musk is trying to buy them to make their product more consistent with a legal public square.

Personally I think it can't be done without the government getting involved at some point.
What's the brand/dosage you use? There's so many different brands out there.
Total Generalship: Commanding Pre-Modern Armies: Discipline
Chronicling the Faces of Juneteenth with iPad Pro and Apple Pencil
Fair enough. I didn't know that phrase was loaded. I just meant it in opposition to highly-selective admissions processes.
Tesla cars are not garbage, speaking as an owner - we currently have both our 2nd [2018 Model 3] and 3rd [2022 Model Y] acquired-new Tesla vehicles.

Other than tire rotation, cabin air filter change, and wiper fluid refill, our cars have required no maintenance.

But arguing from anecdote doesn't really help.
I love how crypto "banks" are subject to bank runs just like traditional banks were prior to the Great Depression, because techies have no knowledge of history.
This may not be the answer you're looking for, but a good start is just to go with the ones that humans have been eating for millennia: whatever's in yogurt, sauerkraut, natto, fermented pickles, etc.
So, firing James Damore was the correct thing to do, after all? Him and his manifesto, and his subsequent behaviour were pretty distracting, political, toxic, critical of his employer, and wasted workplace resources...
This is a good point. And it is verified by:

https://www.wired.com/story/labor-board-rules-google-firing-...

You can't be fired for wanting to make your workplace better. You can be fired for making it worse for others. Often the same behavior can be seen as either or both. And courts exist to adjudicate these disagreements.

That said, I hate the example. However discussing that would be a derail, so I won't.
- I am not the author of this video :)

- There are English subtitles.
To put things in context, the astonishing amount of five employees were fired. And more than 9400 employees weren't fired.

It sounds like most Space X employees are doing fine. And we are talking about an example of "soviet management" here?
Probably cheaper energy, and also perhaps a different subsidy/regulatory environment. I know in California, the utilities are fighting to make solar users pay more than they currently do, saying the solar customers don't pay their fair share of distribution and transmission costs.

Also, as a former leased-solar customer, there are some downsides. Having solar in my area adds a few thousand dollars to a roof replacement. Furthermore, solar panels are sort of an acquired taste, aesthetically speaking.

When I had solar, it was nearly a wash in terms of how much I saved vs how much I paid monthly to SunRun, the company I leased them from. It did allow me to run my air conditioner nearly all the time because I was incentivized to use the power I generated, but it also meant I had a loud box outside my bedroom window and the clicking of the relays woke me up many mornings.
If by "escape hatch" you mean unsafe blocks, then whole C++ is an escape hatch.
I've heard that most of a probiotic dies in the stomach. That what you need is probiotics: foods that make the gut more friendly to the right types of bacteria, which basically amounts to 'a range of vegetables'.

I haven't studied this topic however.
Nobody has argued that Twitter cannot ban people from their platform at will because of what they say. The argument has always been that it's a bad idea for them to do so for a whole variety of reasons:

1. The inevitable inconsistency in application creates hypocrisy, which makes people upset.

2. It attracts political attention if/when the enforcement is politically biased.

3. It costs large sums of money that could be spent on other things.

4. It isn't actually necessary.

5. Public forums in which ideas can duke it out are essential for a healthy democratic society. Someone needs to run them, so if you decide to create an explicitly public forum open to everyone then you have a moral duty to protect and implement free speech policies

etc etc. Not an exhaustive list by any means, just a subset of the arguments that can be mounted.

But note that none of these apply to the case of employees criticizing their employer.
I think they're willing to lose the panels in the event there's a battle at Fort Bragg.
> Same for gas, except it wouldn't ignite, just possibly blow up the apartment.

For any sane stove the gas only flows when pressing the nob unless it is lit.
in GTK when you instantiate the window you pass what is called the "transient for" property (https://docs.gtk.org/gtk4/method.NativeDialog.set_transient_...). That informs the dialog what it belongs to. If you were to re-engineer this to make the file picker its own process, then you would have to fundamentally change the way it functions, sadly.

Edit: And I think Wayland would make this impossible? Someone correct me if I'm wrong here, but don't you lose basically all inter-window introspection with it? There may be some negotiation process, but I don't know how you would go about accessing an entirely separate application's context under that pipeline.
I find it ironic that you're worried about a 'woke culture' while speaking on behalf of other people's feelings that you don't know or work with.
Yeah, silencedetect only finds the silent parts, it doesn't do any cutting.

My first attempt at this problem before Recut was basically this, but in Node, and creating an EDL file.

It works fine but the feedback loop is annoyingly long - run the script, import the result into an editor, listen back, realize the silence threshold was too high, try again... so that's what drove me to make an interactive version.
This argument is completely harpooned by the fact that the number one threat to the internet in recent memory was the repeal of net neutrality which was pushed for and funded by big ISP corporations. If the pushback for net neutrality is any indicator, a huge number of people would use, if not their vote, then their voice to defend the public internet.

History has shown time and time again that corporations have perverse incentives for public utilities, electricity for example. Privatizing the electrical grid was a complete disaster for Texas. Yet we seem to keep having to relearn this lesson because people think “government bad, corporation good.”
I suspect it was the act of switching that was key, not the trackball itself. I had horrible pain a year or so ago due to working with the lovely designed Apple Magic Mouse for so long. Eventually, I learned that for me, I was better off switching between devices. So now I flip between a trackpad and two different mice. That’s what worked for me.
I'm darn sure that the Monolith wasn't an ordinary black hole, but a sophisticated multipurpose device created by an ancient alien race in Clarke's universe. And Bowman didn't just come back out of it - he was changed.

Also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24940086 - far richer source of this story
The handicapper general will see you now. Why invest in developing better connectors like lightning when someone is just going to mandate that everyone use the same thing?
Very similar experience here. I found I’d also prefer scrolling with my ring finger than thumb. I still need to make the DPI adjustment in firmware
That sounds just like Musk’s job description!
Definitely! I generally get summaries in the form of 5-10 minute daily news podcasts though, when reading I like whole articles that go into some depth.
I don't (because I have 3 24" displays), but at least two of my coworkers have 32" and larger 4k displays and use i3
Define games.

I don’t think you can make wow in dreamweaver
Could this be a protected concerted activity? In the US, there are some basic protections when two or more employees work together to improve the conditions of their employment. I don't know what does or doesn't qualify for this protection, though.
"On Thursday, NHTSA said it had discovered in 16 separate instances when this occurred that Autopilot “aborted vehicle control less than one second prior to the first impact,” suggesting the driver was not prepared to assume full control over the vehicle."
Due to the way the internet evolved, it is now the case that the majority of discourse flows through a handful of private companies.

If you are a private company absolutist, I guess you could argue that these companies have the same rights to prevent people from saying whatever they want on private property.

Others believe that these platforms are large and powerful enough to warrant a different set of views and regulatory scrutiny.
I’m regularly asked to talk to AWS recruiters, but always decline unless they assure me up front they will never ask me to sign a non-compete agreement. They’re still not hurting enough for that common sense step to have been taken, so I will not be talking to them.
Please use text/plain for email (2016)
> TikTok says all user traffic being routed to US Oracle servers now

Where does it say that? The post talks about US user traffic / data only.
The weird side effect of all this is that almost all networking classes and books explain TCP using ... the OSI [OSI] model, even though it doesn't really apply and can itself be confusing trying to make everything fit [1122].

Things like HTTP/3 confuse it even more.

[1122] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1122#page-8

[OSI] The theory that OSI stands for "over specified interface" is calumnious lies.
Looks like a great start! Your attention to programmer ergonomics is admirable. Added to my weekend hacking reading list.
Because it is a purge trial. The US regime tries to silence its opponent and to send a warning signal to other journalists.
I haven't used reddit in a while, but it wasn't uncommon to make a throwaway for some additional level of psueo-anonimty, authoring a post, submitting and then instantly getting a message saying you don't have enough karma.

Iirc it's more common in large subreddits, or really anything that has a decent amount of traffic and a somewhat organized moderation approach.
Sometimes sleep on my left side. Sometimes on my back.
Do you have any example of where a state labor dept. or court applied your logic to a closely matching situation in a sustainable/unambiguous way (meaning it wasn’t overturned on appeal or settled)?

I ask because in your many comments all you’re doing is stating a hypothetical complaint that sounds plausible but I, as well as many others evidently, think would not have legs, ultimately. I can think of several examples in my career where employees have been fired for disruptive behavior or being a negative influence on morale - well within an employer’s rights. Those examples seem to line up more closely with this example at SpaceX than actual workplace conditions complaints I’ve seen.

I mean, props to you for going to the mat on this, but it’s past time you provide some evidence of your logic carrying the day in a real world example. Otherwise you’re just proposing wishful thinking as reasoning.
The US military is sometimes quite involved in disaster relief efforts, so I feel as though this makes sense. Also, I think they're constantly tinkering around with new toys and techniques.
There has to be something going on with Amazon's pricing model when the paperback of the book you linked is $500.

I'm thinking back really hard, but I don't know if I've ever looked around a 50's/60's Beetle more than a quick glance. If they built a new electric car as cheap and easy as those supposedly were to work on, I'd be very interested.
Strange Code
Fire yourself out of your today's job description for tomorrow's. Groom them. Gradually increase the complexity of their role beginning with involving them in the larger scope of the project and seeing where they saturate, and asking someone else on the team to help them.

More content you may find useful:

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31710673

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31718705
Louis Theroux Became a ‘Jiggle Jiggle’ Sensation at Age 52
> There are people who can fire the CEO if they think he's damaging the company's reputation. They called the "board of directors".

Sounds like getting enough employees to write a letter criticizing the CEO and damaging his reputation is a pretty good way to get the board's attention then?
You aren't engaging in argument, you're just doing this childlike back and forth of "Yes I am!" "No you aren't!".
I cannot take this list seriously. Let's start with the conflict of interest:

"Personally, I run my own mail servers, but about a year ago I signed up for and evaluated many different service providers available today so that I could make informed recommendations to people."

This is akin to someone saying "I bake my own break and brew my own beer but since people who will never do either ask me my advice, I've tried some breads and beers in order to make some recommendations."

Also, the criteria are almost laughable: "Support for open standards including IMAP and SMTP." I'll grant you that IMAP support isn't universal but is there any service anywhere that calls itself an email provider that does not support SMTP?

Beyond that, disqualifying Protonmail for lack of bringing in your own domain is factually incorrect. I've had a custom domain with Protonmail since 2018 (had multiple domains at one point but moved most of them to Fastmail.com because I don't need THAT much encrypted security).

It really depends on what a person needs. Gmail, while less than ideal from a privacy perspective, is more than adequate for most people. Office 365/Hosted exchange as well as G-Suite are perfectly valid options. As are Fastmail, Protonmail, and dozens of other providers. And if you're adventurous then running your own mail server is always an option too.

There are MANY valid options for answering this question: boiling it down to just two and basing it on information that was factually incorrect at the time is a disservice.
I'm going to bookmark this post to point people to when someone asks me what Poe's Law is.
>supposed to?

According to whom? If that admonishment had the desired effect and had occurred in his PayPal days, we wouldn’t have SpaceX, Tesla, etc etc etc
I think that’s one of the points of the Ploopy mice/trackballs. They are all open source, so it’s possible to reposition components (if you’re into 3D printing, etc…).

Maybe it won’t be long before someone does come up with a similar design.
> you defect on the company by making anything public which should be an internal matter.

I assume they tried making it an internal matter before going public. Pushing your employees to have the feeling they need to go public instead of being able to solve this internally is a failure of the company.
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3) Being a manufacturing business, it's bad for company culture. It further divides your executives and 'pencil pushers' as their own privileged above that of the grunts actually creating the products.
Um, net neutrality lost and so the current internet is on fire and ceased to work.

https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/net-neutrality#post-nav...