skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Ubuntu since 8.10 as my only OS. A HP nc8430 until 12.04, then a HP ZBook 15 since 14.04. Both laptops came with Windows (XP and 7.)

I had my share of problems but none as bad as the ones you wrote. Currently there are two problems

1. Poweroff is reboot, so I press the shutdown button when the BIOS starts. It has been like that for ages through more than one LTS but I shutdown very few times per year.

2. The fn brightness control keys don't work so I made two hotkeys to run a X11 brightness control program that steps up or down the backlighting by 5 points, 0 to 100. This is probably on NVidia's driver.

Everything else is fine and that's great considering that probably HP never tested these laptops with Ubuntu.

Two nuisances is still better than the alternatives: the very same hardware with Windows or an Apple machine with OSX (I can't stand the UI.)
> you weren't the greatest

Says you. I believe he was one of the greatest PM they have had.

Apparently the Japanese people think so as well because he was the longest serving.

Your entitled to your own opinion, but don't pass it off as fact, and it's not a great time to insert it imo.
Was going through the who is hiring thread then noticed it was down, took a nap than got supper
U.S. opens special probe into fatal Tesla pedestrian crash in California
I just cancelled prime this year. It has reached a point where I just directly shop from AliExpress when required or I buy from local stores.
But if google makes this change, it will likely follow that other (more self-referential) companies might also follow.
Honestly, so what if he's out $60 bn. I don't think this would affect his lifestyle in any way whatsoever. But it would affect his high score. I'm guessing at one point he realized the former but later realized the latter and cared more about that. Though he's still got a 88bn lead on second place so I'm not sure why he cares.
> it'd be really cool to have a full featured PPC Mac in a more compact form factor

Good reason to find a G4 Mac Mini: https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_mini/faq/differences-...
Elon Musk withdraws $44bn bid to buy Twitter
Do you really believe that the "if" in 1) is true? Really? Enough to make that comment?
>> It's less clear to me why he almost immediately started trying to back out.

That's what you do when you sober up and realize what a mess you've made.
The new frontier of the Modern Data Stack: data-driven operations
Insinuations of homophobia are not helping your case. We're talking about having anonymous group sex vs. breathing air. I would feel the same way and see the same glaring distinction if we were talking about a heterosexual orgy.
It's not confined to just the gay population. The UK has a child in the ICU over it for example: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1614153/monkeypox-British-...

Many states in the US are confirming there is community spread happening, i.e. it's not restricted to a subset of the gay or hetero community. Here's Seattle for example confirming there are cases with no known sexual encounter or link: https://publichealthinsider.com/2022/07/06/monkeypox-update-...
Comfort is coming.
He made risky bets his entire life and was mostly lucky up to this point.

Most folks who subscribe to the "Musk Principles" aren't nearly as lucky and go bust much earlier.
I assumed at first there was a problem with my mobile data connection, before I realized it was actually HN :)
I'm not sure how that is related to my comment unless you are suggesting that I also hold those beliefs.
He achieved something good though: he exposed Twitter as a corrupt, biased company full of spam bots.

Thank you Elon
As a user of some software, I would certainly hope that the developers would prioritize fixing bugs over their own egos.
Yes, people who like them outside of their respective bubbles of influence are far and between. Maybe I should have phrased it more precisely…
There's nothing unfriendly about that. It just doesn't go out of its way to exude overt friendliness, is all.
In Jersey City I can get xfinity (cable) Verizon 5g, or Fios 1gbit unmetered for $65 a month

It's probably the density and income levels that make it worth putting out the infrastructure
Can twitter agree to release him from the agreement? For a fee? I know he has a $1B penalty but I didn't think that covered this current situation. Perhaps Twitter would be willing to forget the whole thing for $1.5B
This happened last couple of times I switched laptops - my old habit to visit "guardian.co.uk" by typing "guar" and hitting enter no longer works because I've now accidentally searched too many times for "guar" :D
I think this highlights a larger problem with technical equipment. Why is it still so difficult for end users to verify if hardware they purchased is genuine?

Most PC manufacturers have some sort of sticker / device ID that you send to their website. That isn’t perfect but it is an attempt. Are there other software based solutions that do a better job of solving this problem?
Same

Early on /. was amazing! Remember Cmdrtaco it all out, often taking us for the ride?

Good times, frequently good discussion.

HN has been better for years now, was better at inception, for the most part.

/. has improved a bit. Good to see, or I caught it on a good day.
Bryan Lunduke (former community manager from OpenSuSE) does a "Linux Sucks" Video every year where he (sarcasticly) points out all the failings of Linux on the Desktop.

50% painful.

50% fun.
Gosh, I hope he was serious at the point he signed a contract with a $1B penalty, or else he’s the world’s worst businessman.
> Is the United States Exceptional?

Fun fact, it is a formal heresy to believe (a historical form of) this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanism_(heresy)
They had firehose access - there was no limiting
Reading through that site, I see some things that... aged poorly. Like https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2006/11/21/choices-headaches/ which tells you to avoid giving users choices, which is hiw you get problems like what's happened to some Linux desktops that keep hiding useful functionality. Or https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/09/06/its-not-just-usabi... which promotes the idea of not giving feedback to abusive users, which is an ancestor of the Kafkaesque policies where Youtube or Facebook or Google Play bans you with no explanation of what you did wrong and no way to appeal.
Well, any successful nation cannot be successful without believing in itself. True.
The Twitter deal always felt like a cover to sell a bunch of Tesla stock at the peak and cash out. Looks like it worked out for him.
Can ‘chief vibes officers’ keep things positive amid the crypto collapse?
They who and they who?
> If a human driver is lost or in distress, the default behavior would be to find the nearest safe spot to pull over and put on your hazards.

Well, it should be…
Agreed, although, Rogers has had notably more vaguely explained outages. With this, if the CRTC does not revise their decision to let Rogers acquire Shaw (CRTC 2022-76), then, as Canadians, we must expect to continue to overpay for shotty telecoms. But hey, there's maple sirup and affordable health care.
I'd suggest giving the CRTC a call with your thoughts... but their phone system is down :)

https://twitter.com/CRTCeng/status/1545421218534359041
Yeah, a Chinese wall like that worked pretty wall for journalism back when it was a profitable endeavor. Google certainly is.
Yes, the robotaxy will be much cheaper. Maybe not the first generation, but once it matures any little bit, it will be cheaper.

They will also be available at 3AM at a medium sized city.

And yeah, that's basically their benefit. That's enough to displace all the human competition, anyway.
HN is my default 'is the internet working' site and that genuinely threw me for a loop across multiple devices today dealing with hotspots while our power was out.
The second paragraph of the Wikipedia article [1] about the term agrees with you, although I think you stated the idea more clearly than Wikipedia currently does. You could propose some enhancements.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_exceptionalism
Tbh i haven't read the agreement and i'm not going to but representations and warranties is generally grounds to terminate.
Anecdotal evidence is great for appeals to emotion, but the data tells a different story[1].

[1] https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/hicrc/firearms-research/gun-thr...
Hah yeah, the stability of the Performa 6400 and iMac G3 I grew up with was anything but stellar. SheepShaver feels more touchy than either though.
They did go bankrupt, and Motorola (their original main funder) lost billions on the initial investment [0]. But shed of debt and reborn with new investors, they are now profitable [1]. They have now deorbited the first generation satellites, but since 2017 they have launched the Iridium NEXT constellation and that is what is functioning now [2].

[0] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/air-space-magazine/the-rise-a...

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-fall-and-rise-of-iridium-14...

[2] https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/iridium-next.htm
If he can just walk away and get sued that would probably be cheaper than spending all those billions on Twitter. I'm not a lawyer tho so no idea what's going to happen.
Neither of these hypotheses precludes the other.
I took 2 semesters of Calculus because it was important in life according to my teachers and counselors. I was going to take more but I realized that I was learning something that had very little use in every day life. I now consider it a total waste of time. Except for an Economics course, I've never had any need for it. Even in the econ course it was minimal and could have been taught as part of that course.

The article's author has lived most of his life without needing it. And is only learning it to fill a life long doubt.

I realize that knowing a bit about Calculus is important but full semesters of it are a waste of time. It should be briefly included in one of the many other math courses we have to take.
Ok, now do positives.
Kinda sick of Musk's shenanigans and I wanted to see this happen. Is it all a bunch of excuses, but ultimately due to TSLA stock getting rocked?
You can’t bribe the judges in Delaware. They can force him to go through with the deal at the agreed price, now at a significant premium on market value, and it’s reasonably likely they will. This was not a genius move.
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This is awesome, I might use that list in the future! I used HN's "Who is Hiring" as a starting point and added more jobs from the companies that posted there.

You can see the list of companies here: https://remotefriendly.com/companies/
>This is good for Twitter

Well, especially with that billion dollar termination fee (well, if they get it since Musk is probably gonna lawyer up now).
The whole package has now been deprecated by the maintainer:

'PyPI wants me to enable 2FA just because I maintain this package, and both that and the mess resulting from a stunt of mine, I thought it'd be a good time to deprecate this package. Python 3 has os.replace and os.rename which probably do well enough of a job for most usecases.'

https://github.com/untitaker/python-atomicwrites

Edit:

From the bug report

'I decided to deprecate this package. While I do regret to have deleted the package and did end up enabling 2FA, I think PyPI's sudden change in rules and bizarre behavior wrt package deletion doesn't make it worth my time to maintain Python software of this popularity for free. I'd rather just write code for fun and only worry about supply chain security when I'm actually paid to do so.'

I can see the maintainers point, even if it may be inconvenient.
Lol, same boat. Not sure if I'm the old wise guy who really knows his sh*t about what's important, or the old useless guy rambling and moaning in the corner.
Either he was breathlessly arrogant or astonishingly careless in the first instance.

Perhaps he didn't expect the Nasdaq composite to drop 2000 over the next several months? That could have been careless, depending on the sort of agreement he signed. I guess he can afford a $1B penalty, but good luck finding another buyer after that. It's not as though Twitter are overflowing with ideas for profit...
Is there a country more accessible than the US? It’s not perfect, but ADA’s ramp access across the country is remarkable
The EU’s top court says mass surveillance is banned. Governments do it anyway
I think both parties are within their rights, but I also think this is a stupid move on PyPI's part. Maintainers are already working for free; start making them jump through hoops and some will decide it's all too much work and leave.

I think it would be much better to throw up a warning (potentially a loud one) when a dependency is maintained by someone without 2FA.
> or else he’s the world’s worst businessman.

According to this hypothesis, he would still walk out with 7.5B in hard cash instead of 8.5B in Tesla share. I'm not in his boots, but I see how it can be seen as worth it.
Apparently it does - with another Rogers connection.
Basilisk II supports color but AFAIK Mini vMac does not.
Stocks went down almost immediately after the deal across the tech sector. Financing got harder, he would have sell off a lot of TSLA at a discount to complete the deal.
The systems in kubernetes for horizontal auto scaling are extremely nice and work very well for our large monolith. At this point I can't imagine deploying any system with significant batch or online workloads any other way.

We switched to k8s early on in the company and that little bit of work to get it operating with HPAs, etc has paid off in dividends over time.
Yea, with COVID, we found out the hard way that moralization and shame does not work on people without morals or the ability to feel shame for their actions--a significant enough portion of the population. It's why unenforced, voluntary restrictions were doomed to fail. Sadly, I don't think most countries learned this lesson, and when the next COVID comes around, we're going to make the same mistakes and act surprised that they cause the same results.
Unless he thought he could be a big enough pain in the ass that Twitter folks would rather walk away from the deal and let him skate with a few million penalty while he liquidates Tesla stock with little repercussion to the share price (unfortunately for him, the market tanked in the interim and now his deal is an absolutely amazing one for Twitter shareholders so no way they let him walk away, $1B penalty isn't even an option as this was about outside interference)
Wonder if Rogers bought any.
I replaced the LCD assembly on a MacBook someone gave me with one I bought of eBay. Somehow I succeeded and I didn't even break any of the ribbon cables.
The best thing that could come out of this would be Twitter forcing Elon to make the purchase, then Elon closing the company down out of spite.

In that case, everybody I don't like loses, which is pretty close to me winning, I think.
Bad faith has been Musk’s MO since the beginning. He even deliberately crashed Martin Eberhard’s roadster (allegedly, Tesla claims it was an accident.) https://jalopnik.com/tesla-co-founder-eberhard-sues-elon-mus...
Well, yes, when you are unable or unwilling to build the product to modern safety standards, you should be forced to cancel it.
Yes, but they could potentially get sued by their own shareholders if they let him off too easily.
It says in the first paragraph about making misleading representations. That is lawyer talk for lying. Lying in this context is fraud.

Secondly, the ceo was firing aka asking for resignations from key people, no? That is not maintaining the business, that seems like sabotage.
Well if the developer does choose to prioritise their ego, you can always get a refund.
If he's claiming fraud, doesn't he have to prove it?
Came here to say both these things. I also read it every ten years, and take something entirely different from it each time. A philosophy book, a novel, a road trip story, a discussion of mental illness, and a father and son book alll rolled into one.
"Don't use tools aimed at Google levels of complexity" is a take that has become quite popular, but it's definitely lacking nuance. Tools are pretty multi-faceted and rarely have a single selling point. For example, Kubernetes solves a whole boatload of general service orchestration problems in a unified way; perhaps it's true that you only ever need this at Google scale, but you can certainly benefit from it at almost any scale where it runs. (Which is a lot. k3s is pretty light.)

Does that mean you should write microservices for your toy? Probably not. But the trade-off calculus for microservices is not scale. It is a lot of things. If you had an application that was extremely trivial to run as decoupled services, and the boundaries between them are not liable to change much, maybe you really should use microservices from zero, and benefit from better failure isolation among other things. But yes, probably not.

Still, I think the idea that microservices are not really a great idea is a flimsy justification for Ruby on Rails in general. It's fair enough to say that if your language, framework and library choices are working for you and your product, you aren't beholden to justify them really. That said, that doesn't mean they couldn't be better with different decisions, and it's sincerely hard to determine that. Sometimes, I get the feeling that articles in this vein are just as much about convincing the authors that they made the right choice as it is convincing anyone else. But it's not really that important, since I don't really feel you actually need to convince much of anyone, if you like your decision.
That's not what difference means.
And if applicants say "I don't have any"? Or applicant creates a fake one?
> He's clearly eccentric in his approach to decision making

Being called Eccentric is the luxury of the rich. If he was poor one will say "irresponsible" or even "crazy".
I would like the consequences of his actions to catch up with him.

A Joe Boggs acting in this fgashion would have been taken to the cleaners long ago.
If you want to move $40B, this is just a two percent transaction fee to avoid losing $200B by spooking the public investors.

That’s smart.
https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/3716/is-mathe...

;)
Where can I donate to Russian war victims like elder grandparents who cannot get any help from the EU anymore?

If I can’t, it’s politics.
This argument is a sleight of hand. Nobody has claimed that Musk waived his right to information from Twitter. What he waived was his right to diligence, which is the right to information along with the discretionary right to terminate the deal based on it. What he waived was the ability to do anything with the information absent an (impossible to obtain) MAE discovery.

The obvious legalese thing to do in Musk's buyers-remorse situation is to use the information rights to make demands so unreasonable no acquiree can reasonably honor them, which is exactly what he seems to have done here.
Exploitative. This is a free app I've used on iOS that implements the same CBT-i techniques: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/cbt-i-coach/id655918660 Not pretty but works perfectly!
we use this architecture at $job. the cells being kube pods. That's just on the platform side of things.
I'm sure it was based on something on someone's promotion doc.
given the recurrent problems we've, it hasn't helped at all.
I suspect Musk violated these terms himself:
> Parent will use its reasonable best efforts to minimize any disruption to the respective business of the Company and its Subsidiaries that may result from requests for access under this Section 6.4 and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein
When he made a public m spectacle of the requests for users, etc and publicised data.
It does not allow you to turn on until you store the keys on an external disk or print them.
I think Elon asked it to be done after a slew of Tesla's got keyed/vandalized by people who hate EV's. It's gotten a few people arrested

https://futurism.com/tesla-sentry-mode-caught-vandal-model-3
To be fair, none of those 4 countries listed have quite the level of control over their currencies' supplies like the US Federal Reserve.

On the "contrarian argument", I see the case for that having deflationary pressure. However, I believe the Fed will try it's damnedest to prevent deflation, at all costs, for the foreseeable future. I also think the US birth rate will find a floor sometime in the next 20 years, at which point (very hopefully) politicians will have gotten serious about immigration reform.
At issue, where "exceptionalism" is concerned, is not what we do for ourselves, but what we do for and to others. Domestic policies are domestic, and not germane.
Forcing people to use a token that can be lost is not an improvement. This shit is going to hit the fan when Github turns on mandatory 2FA.
yes, because no Alphabet employee will ever talk to a Googs employee where one happens to work in ads and the other in search. Those conversations will never happen to discuss things that could work for the betterment of either/both.

do you really think that Alphabet would do anything to lower their profits by making ads less viable and search less ad driven?
He's always very right in his criticism. He points out all the legit ways in which Linux sucks.

Each year I think to myself "yeah, it's terrible", but then realise there's nothing better anyway. It sucks like we all do.
Using that logic, I could just as well argue that since you don’t pay me to debate this with you, you don’t deserve a reply from me, since I am not your indentured servant.

In other words: There exists roles and relationships, with attached obligations and expectations, other than those involving money. Free software development is such a relationship, as is this debate.
> The vast majority of time for most web apps is spent in database calls.

Which is why I wouldn't reach for a webserver that can only handle one request at a time per process
A lot of these rate limits would have been designed off the rubble of the Cambridge Analytica scandals, and would've been designed to prevent a lot of analysis.

I still find it dubious that they couldn't long poll sufficient samples. I'd love to see the raw feedback of Musk's "Data Experts" versus whatever awful telephone game it became through several layers of Executives and Lawyers. I wonder if Musk just has a nepotistic data team next to him.
idk. the fact that the price had already sunk nearly 40% from his price over this period could clearly indicate that his assumption isn't without merit.
The due-diligence-waive thing isn't really relevant according to Matt Levine, who has been pretty consistent about this for months (see the thread @ https://twitter.com/matt_levine/status/1545151445057536001). A couple of choice tweets here:

"""
the reason that elon musk can't get out of the deal over the bots thing is not that he "waived due diligence." it's that he SIGNED A BINDING AGREEMENT TO BUY TWITTER, and that agreement does not have any outs for "i think there are too many bots.
"""

... and ...

"""
yes i know that this is a small petty thing. but part of my point is that even if he had demanded extensive due diligence, and done it, and then signed the agreement, we'd be in the same place. the waiver or not of due diligence doesn't matter; what matters is we're past that.
"""
Thanks, TIL! Obviously I have no experience in Nim. This convention reminds me of Perl, which works much the same way.

How is it possible, then, to call a function that lives in a different namespace as part of a dot-chain of methods?

The Elixir approach does not rely on currying; like much of the language's fancy parts, it's a macro.
Read this a few weeks ago when the newsletter arrived. Money Stuff by Matt Levine is very worth subscribing to!
What's the point of this plane? It's not that cheap, it's not that good for fuel efficiency, it misses most modern (decade old) systems like eicas. Seems another odd Boeing plane that woukd only sell because the competition cannot fill all orders.