skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most humans were illiterate and had a small vocabulary consistently of only a tiny portion of their languages actual vocabulary. The modern world with its high literacy rates is exceptional. As a direct result many words have completely lost their meaning and in some cases even taken on opposite meaning to their original intention!

I believe this a direct result of people fighting to be accepted by the small elite that could read. Write a paper in the 1700’s using the phrase “literally famished” to mean you haven't eaten since lunch and you would be laughed out of the building. Write it now on Twitter and no one in your in group is going to call you out because they know what you mean and ‘sanctity’ of the language is much less important to them then social cohesiveness, if they even care at all.
my job :)
I don’t know if that is the consensus but I struggle to find a major program there that isn’t completely rotten.
I provided a reasoned conclusion and spelled out the facts that brought me to that conclusion. There's no opinion involved.
It’s pretty well documented that straight men have a harder time finding partners for anonymous/casual sex than gay men do. It’s like a whole complex for people, almost to the level of being a meme. https://www.quora.com/Why-doesnt-Tinder-work-for-average-guy...

As a gay man, I could absolutely be getting a blowjob in the next ~2 hours (conservatively) if I dropped my standards enough - almost anywhere. I don’t think that’s true for straight men; self control isn’t the limiting factor.
Wow, this is almost as embarrassing as the Las Vegas Tunnel...
there are at least two if not 3 or more ad divisions at google

1) ads on search results

2) visual ads (banner ads), used to be double-click

3) ads on Android apps

personally I want the search ads. If I search for plummer or doctor or even database or jeans or apple pie, I want to see ads

I don't think search and ads based on the query should be decoupled. That will be arguably worse for me, not better

banner ads and mobile ads can die in a fire
I can show you hundreds of news stories of defensive gun use from the past 6 months, or you can be satisfied with a single study, which also claims:

>women never use guns to protect themselves against sexual assault

I don't know why anyone would choose to believe something that is so easily falsifiable with a 2 minute google search[0]

0. https://www.kfvs12.com/story/9273275/accused-rapist-shot-kil...
Well on the plus side I got a lot done today
I used to know at least 20 people's phone numbers. I barely know my own, now. What's your mother's phone number?
What my school teacher used to say about

- cold feet
- impetous
- eccentric
- breathlessly arrogant
- astonishingly careless

pupils
Wikipedia has a section on this. It's called "correlated failure." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAID#Correlated_failures
I wonder if they are jumping the shark?

I intensely dislike the paid search results or sponsored recommendations. The nonsense-name brands that are either chinese or secretly amazon that prevent brand names from showing up (and many good brands ship counterfeits). The fake reviews. The popup "extended warranty" screens where if you close the tab/window... the item doesn't make it to your shopping basket.

I remember when I had an iphone, and a few years ago when apple did not prevent abuse I just stopped installing apps. The app market had jumped the shark and become a cesspool.

Nice apps I liked were bought and monetized in unethical ways, and apple didn't care.

For example, I had an app called gas cubby, which let me locally - on the phone - keep track of all my vehicles. I could enter detailed information about each car such as year, make, model, vin, insurance policy, gas purchases, oil changes and the like. It would tell you gas mileage and remind you of upcoming maintenance.

One day, the app was updated and all my local data was uploaded to the cloud!

Another app, camscanner plus purchased by tencent basically did the same thing.
Seems like he could just start a twitter competitor that he fully owns. Then short twitter while he IPOs.
This seems to happen with some regularity in Musk's timeline.
> There's no way nuclear can compete with cheap Russian gas

Unless relations with Russia go south. That's some short-sighted economics there.
It's comforting to know that after we inevitably destroy ourselves in nuclear fire whatever crawls out of the leftovers will eventually find a strange plutonium signature at this moment in time and argue vigorously on their version of the internet about what it means.
It applies to Blacks, females, and Asians. Etc.
I don't think this is universal among all states. After a quick search, I found sales tax does not apply to gifted vehicles in a number of states: Kentucky, Tennessee, New York, Minnesota (between immediate family members). In Texas, it's a $10 gift tax in lieu of sales tax.
There are a number of examples of non-monarchies that existed before the US did, such as Switzerland or the United Provinces, and at least the former had some elements of democracy built in early on (Landsgemeinde).

Undoubtedly, the American Revolution was huge and created something novel, but it's not like it all happened in a vacuum.
I'll tell you how it turned out for me in the end:

Got vaccinated so I could travel. Got Covid after that anyway, mild inconvenience. May have gotten it before vaccination, hard to say. Symptoms were mild and not different than a cold or the flu in all cases for me.

For the people I know, several got mild symptoms, including one who had not only the vaccination but 4 boosters. Some had not been vaccinated and still are not. Didn't seem to matter.

If I had never heard of Covid-19, all of what happened could have been explained by the usual illnesses we always have around. I understand that for some people things were different.

For instance the very old and the very obese, I am glad the vaccine was available for them, and I hope they took advantage of it as well as socially isolating themselves. To help protect them, I wore a mask whenever around them, and kept that time to a minimum, in case I was contagious. And yes, I understand that not every single serious Covid case involved the old and obese, but the great majority did.

Endpoint? Everyone is fine, even the 90-year-olds I know. That's how it turned out for me. Only one data point, but you did ask :-)
because that doesn't work.
Watched the latest Shut Up and Sit Down board game review video. Now I’m wondering if I should get the Air, Sea, and Land expansion and/or Space Station Phoenix.
The buyers must know. The quirks / bugs of various networking companies equipment is well known.

I wonder if the buyers are possibly defrauding their employers…
Linux desktop experience does suck, but, BUT, the powerful tools and applications more than make up for it.

Desktop isn't unified (X11 or Wayland), libraries are not unified, the drivers/sound system isnt unified. Its basically a bunch of different flavors with issues that you are stuck with, locked in with.

Google Android has the same binary blob hell for drivers. Chrome OS has some powerful containers (on supported hardware), unlocking more power.

Ubuntu versions are tied to projects, so google and other corps make you use what version they want to dev on their platforms.

Redhat has the same issue, killing off centos community releases for a streamed os platform. (Same as Suse)

Arch at least tries to fit the need of letting you upgrade, but you still have the same issues with a unified platform, but provides the applications, some apps are stale but at least they exist in their community repos.

WSL is really just a platform to allow you to take the power of the terminal to do so many powerful things, skipping the desktop, allowing a windows desktop that solves all the issues linux has.

Pretty much, Windows with WSL, and Android emulation, you can do anything. The only pure linux I have at home now is pi machine, and I only use it as a console box.

But I still play with Arch in vmware (vmware supports nested virtualization, virtualbox doesnt). Its amazing the power windows can unlock linux

Now when the m2 mac mini's come out, I might just have to play with virtualized linux as a desktop. Gaming, android/streaming can fill the lack of games, just as you can do on linux.
Not notice
You're arguing that smartphones would also have destroyed their memories, you're just saying that's a good thing.
Both Dell and Lenovo sell Linux Laptop preloads. I think you may be overestimating the market for such devices.

As an anecdote, every developer that I know and I personally use Windows or Mac laptops and desktops. 1 guy in the group has a linux setup, but primarily uses Windows or Mac. While most of us have installed Linux on a device at some point, none of us use it as our daily driver. I'm talking about a network of roughly 100 devs that worked together or are a friend of a friend that chat on Slack daily. Yes, it is a small sample size, but it is relatively representative of what I've seen from devs at all of my previous companies over a 14 year software dev/engineering career.
The deal includes a "specific performance" clause, which allows Twitter to force Musk to carry out the deal. He can't simply pay $1 billion and walk away, he's in for a very messy legal fight. This pretext about bots is incredibly weak and he's in no way guaranteed to win.

If this really were part of some grand master plan, I think he would have left himself an easier out.
I promise I will only peek into the Pandora's box, and not let everything out...
You “take it” wrong. SUVs didn’t exist prior to the 80s and are relatively rare outside of the US. People get along just fine with minivans and station wagons which are far safer for other due to their lower weight and far safer for those in the car due to their lower COG.
Rails can use either threads or processes for parallelism.
If you were to post rude comments in Hacker News, you probably wouldn’t get a response, because it would be delete. It kind of proves the very point you’re opposing - being polite begets good responses, rudeness to being ignored.
Of course it's not 100% true, the only thing you should take away is that by TSLA shares crashing, Elon lost a significant amount of wealth that would have been used to purchase Twitter.
That includes spam though
Seems really promising as a detection mechanism. However, the ideal time to detect autism (and I assume ADHD) is very early in life (sometimes as young as 2 years old). One might wonder if it could work at that age.
> It says in the first paragraph about making misleading representations.

It says that after, and modified by, the phrase “appears to have”.

Musk’s lawyers are saying that Twitter actually breached the agreement. They are saying it looks like Twitter may have done other bad things, too, but that's not the same as claiming that Twitter actually did the other things.

> Secondly, the ceo was firing aka asking for resignations from key people, no?

The separately call out people being forced out and people resigning. Absent something not in the letter, the former is a much more reasonable, on its face, complaint.
Mitigation isn't a solution. The immigrant children will struggle to have kids as well.

The point of a government is to support human life. If the system is prefering wealth and control over human life, why bother with it?

The gov is openly failing at it's job to create more families. Which is it's tax paying base.
Couldn't he have sold Tesla as part of an offer that still had due diligence and was in negotiations rather than waiving due diligence and committing to a deal?
Crypto payments accepted?
I'm super excited for this to go to court. If nothing else we've known Twitter has massive internal issue on how it polices content, reports number, bans people, etc. The leaks out of this case are going to be so juicy.

Hopefully they are bad enough we could get real legislation that if you want protection from user generated content you can't just ban whatever you feel like.
Pulling out doesn't help after you've already spilled the ink
We definitely can have it both ways. We don’t want him to buy Twitter - because he is an idiotic blowhard. Also we are happy he is backing out, because it demonstrates what an idiotic blowhard he is.
Didn't even notice
> we now have an entrenched group of people that seem to be opposed to all vaccines, not just those for Covid-19

This group existed in the US long before COVID. I'm curious to see evidence that the messaging around COVID vaccines increased its size.
"COVID-19 leading cause of death for 45-54 year olds in 2021"

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/public-health/covid-19...
While there are scenarios where 2FA can maintain security where a password is compromised, it's absolutely true that for a large swath of practical threat models, almost the entire benefit of 2FA comes in the form of assigning the shared secret instead of letting the user pick a weak and/or widely-reused password and the "having a second factor" bit doesn't really factor into the picture in any meaningful way.
Elon Musk is a bullshitter who also occasionally delivers very impressive things.

I'm not aware of many examples of that, and I don't think people quite know how to process it.

My approach is to disregard anything he says unless it appears to actually be happening in a verifiable (by third parties) objective way, at which point it hard flips from bullshit into quite possibly revolutionary.
Yeah, but ultimately they are pretty much owned by the big Telco so we are fucked
He spent a billion dollars to troll hand-wringing Twitter users
Miss me with this stuff. You chose the words "honestly flabbergasted", not me.

Part of the ethos of "we're not doing stupid stuff for SOC2" and "we're going to be direct about how this stuff works so other people can hopefully benefit" is assuming that we're all reasonable adults who want to understand how SOC2 works, and aren't looking to score dunks off unintended subtext.
Stereotypically, straight men are rate-limited by straight women, so the stereotypical self-control of straight men is not terribly relevant. It's not the bottleneck, so doesn't enter the equation.

With gay men, since they are having sex within their own group, the amount of self-control for that group directly affects the rate for that group.
Well shit, he shouldn't have sex as much maybe? It's a very avoidable behavior.

I in general do not understand why these dudes do these insane sexual things. I always knew there were people out there who made sex a big part of their lifestyle, but group sex with double digit partners in the last month?

Holy shit not only is that incredibly bizarre to most people, but it's unreasonable to suggest it can't be avoided. Is there just no monogamy in the gay male community?
According to this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32024485

each server has a pair of mirrored disks, so it seems we're talking about 4 drives failing, not just 2.

On the other hand the primary seems to have gone down 6 hours before the backup server did, so the failures weren't quite simultaneous.
That's because writing destroyed people's memories.
First of all, this is not true. Anybody can install a distro like Linux Mint or Ubuntu, it doesn't require any tech knowledge. Many Linux distros are perfectly fine for the average user. Second, requiring complicated BIOS changes constitutes an artificial hurdle for any Linux distro to be easily installed by an average user. So even if you were right, the measure would also ensure that future versions of Linux that are decidedly more beginner-friendly would be prevented from being installed, creating an artificial, anti-competitive barrier.

In a nutshell, this is bad no matter how you look at it.
> If it helps, in the US you can get a taxi/uber/lyft to take you home from the bar. Some bars even offer free rides or can help arrange one if you need it.

I was more thinking about people with an alcohol addiction still getting to/from their job on a daily basis then people going home from partying.
Why would he spend $44B on a company worth $28B today? I’d make a new offer of $35B. They’d probably accept.
44 - 20 = 22 != 10~15
No. "Crown Land" in Canada is owned by the provinces.

There is no such thing as a "British Crown Corporation."

Crown Corporations are a Canadian thing.

I lived in Canada for 30 years and now live in the Scotland. CalMac and Scottish Water are not "Crown Corporations," but are nevertheless owned and controlled by the Scottish Ministers. This is contrast to BC Ferries, ICBC, and BC Hydro which are Crown Corporations.

In the UK there is something called the Crown Estate, which is somethint again different.
We agree that he didn’t suspect the backlash from buying Twitter. I think our disagreement is just that you think he expected a large backlash from selling Tesla shares and I’m not sure history really suggests that was something to be concerned about.
Agree. And likewise it seems Twitter is going to court to collect the breakup fee rather than complete the deal.
I can understand how physical copies of counterfeit books get co-mingled with legit inventory, whether they are printed from PDF or "re-covered" from destroyed copies ... but how does one simply upload a counterfeit Kindle edition at all?
I'm about to NYS DMV, they don't want social accounts, but they require to see your original SSN card, copies not allowed. Had to order a new one since I cannot remember the last time I saw it or used it
A society where 1% live in hell and commit suicide and 99% are perfectly content, is more happy than one where 100% are just happy enough to not off themselves and no more.
Not sure what your point is. I said misrepresentations is lawyer talk for lying…
Their cli commands generic, but their product name has always been distinct. It has always been Visual Studio Code and now Visual Studio Code Server. VS Code, VS code server for short.

Your branding, "coder" and "code-server", is just super generic and popular terms. That's what makes it hard to search for, not the cli command names.
That interpretation has been disproved a number of times, including by multiple SCOTUS opinions of multiple courts.
US citizens contribute to US greatness by continuing to accept values such as free speech, free market, personal responsibility and limited government. Which in turns drives economic and cultural innovation and provides sufficient tax revenue to pay for defense of other countries that would otherwise be taken over. Many Australian citizens would not have accepted higher risk from COVID in exchange for greater personal freedom for example. Yet without great freedom, great innovation like Silicon Valley is impossible
Twitter gonna pull the UNO Reverse and sue him most probably for that 1B break up fee. This is going to be once again a media spectacle.
Those straight men's urges are kept in check in by women. I've been responding to several of your comments and it seems you don't have a good understanding of the dynamics at play in the MSM community. As I bisexual male I most certainly do.
I don’t believe his purchase was contingent on anything. I don’t think he’s allowed to back out.

Also that billion dollar number was not a get out of jail free card. He can’t just decide to pay it and walk away. It only works under certain circumstances.

I don’t believe your analysis is correct. At least it doesn’t match what the legal experts at CNBC seem to think.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/13/elon-musk-cant-just-walk-awa...
Me too! I was, shamefully, in the middle of work so had a mini panic thinking my 5 min HN scroll was gonna become an hour long battle with my connection!
"when it comes to managing diseases the value is in acting before things have gone bad"

There is no value to acting at the government level. If there's any work to do here it's with pharma firms. Governments have shown repeatedly that they lack even the most basic skills needed to fight disease. They are literally incapable of even accurately defining their goals and basic words let alone actually defeating a disease:

- COVID case counts in 2022 are now much higher than at any time in the past.

- Highly vaccinated places have more cases than lower vaccinated places (e.g. Scotland vs England, former DDR vs rest of Germany). Almost all "deaths in proximity to a positive COVID test" are in the vaccinated. Fauci, vaccinated 4x, has now had COVID symptoms for a month and counting after Paxlovid failed to cure him.

- Mask mandates were repealed with no increase in cases.

- Birth rates 9 months after vaccination reached women of childbearing age (never tested in the trials) are now ~15%-20% lower than normal.

- Lockdowns are now widely recognized to have had no effect at all. Shanghai's toughest lockdown in the world led to people starving because they weren't allowed out to buy food, whilst simultaneously failing to reduce case counts.

- The vast sums of money required for these failed anti-COVID policies have now wrecked the economy, leading to the highest inflation ever seen for people under the age of about 45.

- Public health officials have repeatedly made scientific claims they knew were false in order to manipulate people's behavior and then admitted to lying on the record in major newspapers.

That's just a tiny sampling of the recent failures of public health. What we need is for these people to go away, reflect on their failures, learn about 1000 lessons and come back in a decade when they have managed to clear house and fix the systematic vulnerability to pseudo-science that typifies their field.

Of course, what they'll actually do is ignore monkeypox because fighting it means inconveniencing gay men, whilst waiting for the next virus they can try to make into COVID2.
Why do you want to see ads in your search results? Wouldn't you rather see results based on quality rather than who can pay the most?
LD_PRELOAD is also useful for working around hard-coded file paths inside of closed source (often commercial) software. This is how we make some closed source software work on NixOS, where we need a way to redirect file IO to corresponding paths in the NixOS file system (when those paths aren't the same as on typical distros).
It's neither in the PYPL nor TIOBE top-20, or even top-50, for popularity.
Yrvind is such a legend - he has had me on a micro-cruiser kick for quite a while now. He has a youtube channel that's worth checking out - he's a character that's fun to listen to as well.

Other interesting boat designers (this is sort of my obsession):

You might check out Matt Layden's designs for similar micro-cruisers.

A totally different but equally iconoclastic designer is Dave Zeiger, of TRILOBOATs. Those are great big liveaboard boats sailed up in Alaska, but they tend to be built on the cheap and breaking all the rules of traditional boat design.

The late Phil Bolger influenced Dave Zeiger, if you want to go even deeper. Well known for his "brick boats" and pioneering the "instant boat building" techniques that leverage plywood and epoxy.

There's also James Wharram, who pioneered Polynesian-style catamaran designs and making them at home, and is pretty much single-handedly responsible for the boom in catamaran designs we've seen over the last ~50+ years of yacht design.

OK, infodump over.
the contract says they can't make any demands that have materially adverse effect on the company

if he was hitting up against rate limits, it's easy for Twitter to call his requests adverse
More than one financial analysit/money manager has floated this idea in our circle. It seems reasonalble; an pointing to the last time he sold a bunch (11B?) and told everyone it was to pay his taxes. They seem to think it was to just convert some high-risk (TSLA) to low risk (Cash, etc).
You're basing this on the law of averages?
Kinda heads down in PR reviews today. Didn’t notice.