skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 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.

They don't need to convince us random HN readers, that's true.

But they do need to convince new hires, potential clients, and internal stakeholders that Rails is still the right choice. If you've ever worked on a large Rails SaaS app you know this subject comes up a lot.

Now when the subject comes up they can just send folks a link to the blog post, it's very convenient to have around for this purpose.
Unless I'm misunderstanding the quote, that's very much not answering my question: it discusses limiting reach (i.e. ability to disseminate one's views widely and easily) and explicitly not free speech itself?
> Musk is saying, you haven't demonstrated your numbers are accurate.

It has nothing to do with accuracy. Twitter is supposedly not providing the data: 'While Section 6.4 of the Merger Agreement requires Twitter to provide Mr. Musk and his advisors all data and information that Mr. Musk requests “for any reasonable business purpose related to the consummation of the transaction,” Twitter has not complied with its contractual obligations.'

> The letter complains that Musk asked for data allowing him to "independently verify Twitter's representations regarding the number of mDAU" -- but where does the agreement provide for that verification as a condition of the deal?

Section 6.11, the part of the deal where Twitter needs to provide necessary information to secure debt: 'and under Section 6.11 of the Merger Agreement, to information “reasonably requested” in connection with his efforts to secure the debt financing necessary to consummate the transaction.'

I have little doubt anyone lending that kind of money would require the buyer to independently verify the mDAU.
At least Reader mode works fine.
You're perhaps under the impression that OpenSSH was the original implementation: it's not, it's a relative latecomer :) The original SSH was (and still is) commercial software, see ssh.com. You basically end up with three groups:

- The original SSH and it's commercial competitors. Some abandoned, some still surviving.

- Various open source implementations. OpenSSH and PuTTY were the winners (PuTTY actually was released first). But there were more attempts (e.g. lsh).

- Those early open source implementations were designed as stand-alone programs (clients and servers). So you have a later wave of library implementations. With of course at least one per language.
This may be hard to believe, but HN is made up of thousands of posters with a wide variety of opinions.

The fact that some people want the deal to go through, and some don’t, and that they post at different rates in different threads, doesn’t mean that any individual person is a hypocrite. Nor that HN in general is.
I always use https://isup.me (https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/) in these situations, to find out if I'm losing my mind. :)
No kidding Twitter has spam/fake accounts, isn't that part of why Musk wanted to buy Twitter in the first place?

He publicly stated that he wanted to buy Twitter to clear up the fake account issue, he knew about the issue before entering the deal, when signing he waived due diligence that could have given him the opportunity to investigate the issue before signing...

Musk's own tweets will work against him if he tries to use the fake accounts issue to back out.
This reminds me of the baffling decision when Windows started hiding file extensions by default.
I’m not sure why you guys have not noticed his patterns: he always jumps-on whatever the hottest current topic is - whether kids stuck in a cave in Thailand, Ukraine war (making fun of Putin by inviting him to a fist fight), Twitter ( was active due to leadership changes; in-general the app is popular). His idea is - by staying in news, he’s driving PR for Tesla. He’s acting as a brand machine for himself and his companies.

Besides all his, he has no regard, empathy for his employees - the real people who made him, who he is. What an irony!
"Let's get ready to rumble." What a waste of every ones time. This will go for a long time since both sides have the money and it's in their interest to do it. But what a waste of time and resources.
That's a pretty ridiculous take on what "power derived from the people" means. Neither the UK nor the US are direct democracies. In fact, unlike the Ancient world, there are almost no direct democracies today (even federal Swiss democracy has representative elements).

You can find in any representative democracy positions which, at some time, are majority positions yet not implemented in law. In the US, you have a recent example with the legality of abortions.
That's why I use Bell or Vidéotron
These observations are very true. A friend was living in a Toronto condo building, and I saw them choose to switch from Beanfield to Bell/Rogers for the same monthly price but higher Internet speeds. They took the bait and now everyone pays the price in the long run. And yes, Bell/Rogers gouges with high prices for houses/apartments that don't have an independent ISP like Beanfield, etc.
There's the board game version too, based on real events: https://www.zygomatic-games.com/en/game/timeline-classic/
They just use it to verify where you work. It's so people don't just falsely claim to be at Meta or whatever, but it doesn't keep people from lying about their workplace anyway. Enough people use Blind that HR/IT shouldn't care.
This ad hominem has nothing to do with Elon's legal standing with regards to whether or not he can back out of the deal without paying a large breakup fee.

Yes Elon has done great work for humankind, but that doesn't absolve him of responsibility for bad behavior.
I find the grandstanding and They-ification nauseating and possibly mastubatory.

It is possible to have someone who can say "oh there's a world shaking event in Japan" before paging engineers.

In fact, wouldn't this be an obvious efficiency improvement at world-wide scale?

It is also possible someone believes that is possible without them being a "negative cynic".

In fact, it's unclear why having this idea for an efficiency improvement would make one a "negative cynic"

I suggest coming with curiosity and asking why people believe something rather than working towards explaining what it says about people if they actually believe exactly what your mindreading says they do.
Comments mention printing, but the simple reason is that there is always some margin/padding around text in GUI controls. Look at text inputs, list boxes, menus, dialog boxes, Windows Notepad, whatever. So the client area of the first web browsers of course did the same and added some margin around the rendered text. Once web pages were enabled to specify a margin on their own, the previously existing margin became the default.
Mountain West state, middle of nowhere town. I have the option of choosing between a 1Gb+ fiber provider, a 1Gb fiber provider, a 100Mb fiber provider, multiple wireless line of site providers in the 30Mb range(more targeted to the people outside town but have line of site to the mountain), or T-Mobile home internet in the 30-180Mb. Small towns are super friendly and responsive to the 'work remote' crowd.
I think your 'only advantage' is a bit premature.

3 seconds thought: Robotaxis can't get covid (or warthog-flu or whatever new pandemic the next years will bring), which might be an advantage to some customers.

Having said that, I don't drive nor use taxis, so I don't care much.
Musk wanted to be warrior king of the internet edge lords. He was not playing chess.
This is perhaps meant to be tongue in cheek but Twitter is not just influential to Musk's concerns.

Twitter is influential to the concerns of Musk's competitors and potential regulators who might stand in his way.

Regardless of its deflated value, (all assets were way puffed up) Twitter is still extremely valuable.

Arguably, it is still positioned to be worth more than Facebook.
The theory presumes he never intended to actually buy Twitter stocks, just keep the cash.
Ah, yes, fixed rail. Great for locking assumptions about population and labor distribution over the next 50-100 years into multi-billion dollar financial commitments that have to be made today. And unmatched when it comes to moving people from one place where they don't want to be to another place where they don't want to be.
The "rain sounds" crack I got from your only product image. It was literally "nature sounds" though.

I agree meditation is a bit of a short fix, but without knowing what this app really does, I have a difficult time trusting that it's anything more.

45/mo feels like a marketing trick when the minimum charged is $133 :(

There's definitely a mental block with paying hundreds of dollars for a phone app. Most apps on my phone remain unopened. I've tried a few health aids like this before.

I'd download a free/trial version if it helped me get any amount of of sleep back, and then with established trust, pay $20+/mo for access to rest of features.

Otherwise maybe sell through those specialists? Help them manage their patients.
Premature abstraction?
Pedophiles? I'm pretty sure they would be forced to take down child porn. I mean, it's a public forum. If you are publicly announcing that you are pedophile or terrorist, that sounds like bad news for you.

In any case, does twitter not already have a lot of "assholes" and people with "violent ideas"?
Sure, and Gitlab doesn't, because it's not practical
MQ-25

F/A-18E/F

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ITT

- Elon is a genius, he doesn't make mistakes

- Elon's Twitter purchase offer isn't an ego trip or a distraction, he actually has a plan to make Twitter earn its keep

- People keep saying that spending money on an overvalued asset that has zero fit with his engineering experience and ambitions will make Musk poorer, not richer, but none of those people are as smart as Elon Musk

- Elon's decision to waive due diligence and enter a binding contract shows he knows what he's buying and isn't messing around

- Elon deploying gagging clauses and/or financially ruining people for criticising him or his companies is actually more an indication of the important role he's playing in defending free speech, not his narcissism, here's why...

[a month or two later]

- Can't believe Twitter deceived poor little lamb Elon Musk into being the only user of their website unaware of the proliferation of bots on it. This changes everything!
This, totally.

It's great that they were able to spin it up in the cloud for recovery purposes. But it's more legendary on a real server <3

Yes I'm old :P
Musk's behavior increasingly suggests he has psychiatric problems. Even if there is someone around him with the guts to suggest he seek help, he probably wouldn't listen.

It would be callous of me explicitly to spell it out, but, going forward, his reputation may be the least of his worries.
Labor inputs make up a portion of a homes cost, so working to automate pieces of the homebuilding process that would lower that cost would lead to decreased prices
Shocking ... absolutely shocking ...

douchebags douching?

Anyway, moving on ...
I liked this one: "Linus Torvalds threatens to punish developers by putting Rust in the Linux Kernel"

https://lunduke.substack.com/p/linus-torvalds-threatens-to-p...

“I really didn’t want to have to do this,” stated Torvalds. “But you all screw around too much. Nothing seems to get through to you. Maybe a little time with Rust will teach you a lesson.”
That logic justifies slavery.
Pandas Query with Natural Language
Query Pandas DataFrames using Natural Language questions.
Honestly seems like he used the twitter deal to liquidate 8 billion of tesla stock without causing the price to collapse too much. One of the only things that'll change people's minds is if he repurchases some tesla stock
Yes, I was trying to get it to infer the types for some code I was writing as well (a generic funcopt for two different types) and it couldn't - made me specify the type manually.
I think what we need is trust, good faith communication, and actual science (rather than conjecture and bribes.) That's all gone now, possibly for a very long time.
What do you think the intended message is? I read this exactly as the comment above.
> we will have fewer open source maintainers.

That isn't necessarily a bad thing. I would be happy to lose every developer who is unwilling to enable 2FA. I am glad to see that that's what happened here. The developer has no responsibility to maintain their code, and PyPI has no responsibility to let them publish their code. Both sides discussed this and an agreement was reached - the developer will no longer publish their code to PyPI.

No one acted maliciously. Everyone wins.
I see some difference between tweeting stuff and signing binding agreements for purchase and using stock as collateral at a particular valuation.
Can we not jump to blaming a person's bad choices on the first medical condition that fits? I know Musk has said he has bipolar disorder, and I'm not trying to discount that.

I'm just saying what if... gasp... he simply did something foolish? The blame-it-on-the-bipolar out reinforces the narrative of an infallible person who only make mistakes because of a medical condition. Take that line of thinking one step further and you are now fully onboard the bipolar stigma train.
> They need to sum an array of int. So they spend 4 days getting a function and a generic type that can sum every numerical type, rather than 15 minutes to sum int arrays.

More likely they install a 3rd party generic sum function and don't have to write their own at all. Well, in the case of a sum function it's probably only 15 minutes to write to generic version, and there may even be one in the standard library. But consider something like a concurrent hash map. In Rust, You just `cargo add dashmap` and you have one that works with any type that works with a regular hashmap. This isn't possible without generics.
It's been a while since i've went through any Java code. Why wouldn't the Java code sample compile?
Sure, so I’m from a tiny town in New Jersey. I was used to having to drive 30 minutes to the train station as a kid, and there are no buses there, so car ownership is mandatory.

Took a long time to realize that next to one of the buildings in town was a train station. And twenty years ago there were buses, too.

Anyway, solve the last mile by funding transit and rebuilding trains. We had them before, we should have them again.
That's a perspective but TWTR is currently trading higher than in March when the rumors started, and MUCH higher relative to Facebook (which is highly correlated and in a substantially related business).
I like how that article’s thumbnail was generated by DALL-E lol.
There is a difference between believing something to be a personal truth and a universal truth.

I don't know if it would irreconcilable, but I think I would have an issue if someone tried to openly judge me and think me a lesser person based on their personal truths.
Yes, HBC has a Royal Charter from King Charles II which granted HBC exclusive economic activity in the lands that drained into Hudson Bay.

HBC lands were surrendered to the British government in 1868 ahead of confederation.
Vanishingly few things are purely practical decisions.
I did indeed. I thought it was OK to do that. I noticed they both made their own directory in the EFI partition. And it was what Ubuntu's installer did by default when it detected windows.

Good to know, thanks! To be honest in this day & age of virtualisation I hardly ever dual-boot anymore.
It’s irresponsible to do something eccentric when poor people bear the brunt of the consequences because you can afford to lose a billion here and there while people pay for that with their jobs, homes, lives.
given the SEC's regular lack of enforcement, their inaction would not be evidence of lack of wrongdoing
He's late
Mr. dang, can I use the opportunity to suggest to turn the tiny upvote and downvote arrows into links, separated by sufficient distance? My fingertip is 15x larger than these arrows and it takes quite a bit of precision to hit the right one. I bet, half of upvotes and downvotes are erroneous for this reason.
An established platform's most valuable asset is the data of the userbase.

Twitter can leverage a huge amount of data about personal preferences, interests, relationship status, political leanings, income, usage profiles, message habits and content, social graph, and location.

If you specifically wanted to clamp down on certain demographics, it would be an excellent way to locate them.
https://twitter.com/Videotron/status/1360324916176896007 last year
I think the point is that even if Musk had done normal due diligence it would be irrelevant once the agreement was signed, so his problem isn't having "waived due diligence" it's having signed a binding agreement to buy the company.
One simply uploads it to Amazon. They (Amazon) don't vet it and the pirate gets to ride on your coattails. All of this pirating would be easy to prevent, but one wonders why they even enable this?
Yes, indeed--although weirdly the jobs report out today was quite good (372,000 over the expected 250,000) so this might be a somewhat different type of recession if there is one. But yes, interest rates will rise and make long-term mortgages much more expensive for new borrowers.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/07/08/jobs-report-june-2022-.html
Is there any hope that this time he will pay for his shenanigans?
They gave higher rate limits to existing enterprise customers.

Pretty hard to argue that is was "adverse" in that case.
Note that that doesn’t seem to work if you have a bookmark with that content (as it seems to find the bookmark, which is reasonable behavior but caught me out when I was trying to change the URL to an internal tool and didn’t realize why it wasn’t working to delete the auto-complete).
...and aside from Goodreads (which is owned by Amazon), bookfinder is also hosted behind Amazon Cloudfront.

No matter where you go and what you do, Amazon wins, lol.

There's https://www.indiebound.org/ at least, which lets you search the inventory of local bookstores.

I've also had good luck ordering used books from https://www.thriftbooks.com/ instead of Amazon.
>Linux desktop experience does suck

There are sure a lot of improvements to be had, but I would literally go crazy if somebody took away my Linux distros and forced me to use literally anything else.
Every other option on the market forces a completely different way of computing that is just ugly, inefficient, non-free and generally shit.
What is a theory you have dismissed because it seems too competent?
Java primitive types are not objects :/
There is no registry in America, (it's actually explicitly prohibited in statue) except for
title II weapons federally, and in a handful of states.
There's also Vidéotron and Cogeco but these are not Canada wide so .. yea.
Another bait-and-switch headline for an article with no data or insights.

> …the numbers don’t work anymore.

What numbers? None were given as an explanation for a “bust” except for a mortgage rate that is less than 6% and an increase in home prices since January.

We are not in 2008. The market may cool but the economics of home purchases are still pretty strong: lack of supply and increased demand from the large generation now ready to buy houses.
Which track? Silver Blade uses "Boymerang - Soul Beat Runna" as the source
apparently they prevent long term death
I assume/ hope that this is PyPI's first step in rolling out mandatory 2FA? Otherwise the whole "you're critical so you have to enable it" seems a bit silly in that you're going to have developers who get critical decide they don't want to do this, and at that point pull packages/ stop maintaining.

Just having a 2FA requirement from the start (or some grace period like 7 days) seems like the way to do it.
PearPC may be worth a try.

When I last looked the original dev wasn't working on it as much, but there is at least one fork that brings gets it working fairly well in the 64 bit x86 era.
I've paid many thousands over my life time to improve my sleep. I almost blindly clicked BUY on this for $188. But given what it is I have great doubts. It's a bit steep for a dice roll.
Then make a law requiring people to stay out of proximity to the action. Don't make a law against recording police.
The danger of license plate readers in post-Roe America
Repaired a bicycle. Thankfully Shimano's site was up.
Collaboratory: The Future of Academic Research Collaborations
> I actually really hate this website

Why hate this site? Because it contains interesting/useful content often enough to make you come back? That'd be a weird reason to hate the site. I too have a common impulse control/executive functioning disorder, but I don't hate the things that it makes me vulnerable to. If I were feeling resentful, I'd have to put the blame on my condition.

I don't have to ask why you hate reddit, the valid reasons for hating reddit are myriad
The "colloquial" definition has been popularized by those who demean the US rhetorically. You can paint as a fool anyone who claims that "American Exceptionalism" even exists by contrasting the phrase to any statistic that makes the US look less than "exceptional."

However, the classical definition, that the U.S. has a historically unique operating agreement, is generally understood in politically conservative contexts.
I haven't looked into Go's actual implementation but isn't this kind of downcasted better suited for interfaces. Your code, as is, wouldn't translate to something like Rust which uses monomorphization; you are doing a runtime "inspection" of the types. This looks more in the domain of duck-typing than something that generics handles.
Someone on Reddit [1] ran their own version [2] of the query PyPi used to make this determination. Over the last 6 months, atomicwrites was downloaded 38,497,903 times, good for just under #400 by rank.

[1] https://old.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/vuh41q/pypi_moves_t...
[2] https://gist.github.com/jack1142/efe5c89b861a41616aaf8587838...
I think about Jack Dorsey's endorsement early on:

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/26/jack-dorsey-elon-musk-is-the...

This most of all makes me think he was really into it and then fucked it all up. Or Jack was just trying to get back at the board.
Yes, but get ready to go in if that's the case. People waste the opportunity to get in at a lower price since they think it will go down even more when it's going back up. Just remember that you'll be unlikely to buy at the bottom. Just buy when you need to buy and hope for the best.
They did. PowerShell.

WSL is for the folks that buy macOS instead of supporting Linux OEMs, because they couldn't care less and are happy witb whatever POSIX CLI they can get.
Linux desktop sucks, in absolute terms. Relatively, not. Windows desktop sucks. Mac desktop sucks. Chromebook sucks. Android sucks. Ipad sucks. Ios sucks.

Our standards are just really, really low.
Others have mentioned browser add-ons / DNS providers who can limit/blacklist sites. Maybe try one of those? The thing that's worked best for me though is leaving my phone in another room for a while or taking a walk without it.
> A nation founded on the principles of all men being created equal, along with inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

Isn't the legacy of these 'founding principles' tarnished from the fact that many of the founding fathers owned hundreds of slaves? We are still within a living generation of segregation in southern states, an injustice that owes directly to how the founding fathers applied those principles.
applepay works fine. not on the interac network.