skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really want to like to swim and I love some things about it, like the ability to not sink when thrown in deep water. But so many things about it kill me. Like, why can't I just sit in the water, and float to the top? Who thinks that drowning by default is a good idea? Also, why do I have to have a special way to move my hands and legs? Having to coordinate my limbs just seems so complex and unintuitive. And why can I not see anything underwater?
The frustration is that probably there are fixes for all these things, which if I were an expert swimmer I would know. But meanwhile I can use an ordinary kayak and I don't have to learn anything new.
Signals and Threads is equally as good as a CS podcast.
The modern car and associated destruction of alternate transport methods already achieves this. This is including the ability to remotely disable them and track the occupant and live upload of video in many cases.

If anything, slowing cars down makes it just a little bit more viable to exist outside of a car without getting killed by one and so gives back a small piece of the right to free movement that has been stolen.
Redfin seeing San Francisco Bay Area housing market slowing fastest in the U.S.
This is what I do too, including hacking PuTTY to support it. I offered the patch upstream, but it seems they were not interested due to security concerns (even having it off by default). Fair enough, I suppose, but a man can dream...
I suspect they are not going to be cheap at all lol, aside from being a very nice hardware package they also have an entire custom hypervisor platform which is intended to be one of the big plusses for the platform.
Yes, it is crucially different. mDAU is defined in the SEC filings which you can easily check. Basically it boils down to, there's say a billion twitter accounts. A shitload are inactive, or obviously bots, or joke accounts, or actual alts (don't double-count), or API users, or people using Tweetdeck, or doing all sorts of other things that Twitter can easily detect are not resulting in eyeballs on ads. Twitter boils down the number of "users that use Twitter clients that display ads" down to "just" 230M/day. Twitter then claims that, of those users, who are mostly just every day people logging in, maybe liking a post, scrolling a bit, seeing an ad on a real Twitter client -- of those users, when they sample them, they find that <5% of them are bots (like headless browsers and whatnot). That is obviously a completely different measurement than just overall bot accounts, or how often you will personally see bots posting, or how many of your followers are bots. Totally unrelated numbers.

Musk knows this but still knowingly confuses them to try to trick people into thinking Twitter is lying about that 5% number (since it's pretty obvious there are many bots on twitter)
Ask HN: Do You Write Stories?
If there was then a lot of America would become slaves by not paying their debts. There may be contempt here though if Elon does something to really piss off the courts.
My theory on this "problem" is that we are already data and echo chamber-driven society. If people "en masse" decide that they have had enough, uniformity and sameness will go away:)
Cars are only "useful transportation" if you can speed in them? Most forms of transportation people use have zero freedom at all and i think we still say they are very useful.
And that current mayor of Toronto and former Rogers executive John Tory was called in to mediate the family dispute.
You can make that bet with options.

https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/TWTR/options?date=1674172800...
For me, teksavy (wired home internet) never went down at all. Cell phone (fido) came back up sometime when i was sleeping last night/early morning. I am in vancouver.
Do you suggest any starting material or steps on how to get started
> There is no contempt of court for not paying these damages.

Then how does the civil court function? If nobody follows the courts order, the court is redundantly illegitimate.
I'm not sure how much the first line really matters, as I grew up in a rather diverse top 25 city, but yeah, experience was about the same.

In high school, everyone knew exactly who to call if you got a DUI. 10k was the going price to get a certain lawyer who gets the case in front of a certain judge and however that worked, the charge was dropped to a moving violation. Kinda sick how the system works.
You make it sound like the NSA can never fail. If it's monitoring you then you are likely doing something deserving of monitoring. They can be wrong though and you'll still have been spied on and information collected for future use. Consider a career in politics, perhaps?
Not really on the same scale but this exact thing happened to me with Pixies and "Hey" being used in the Suicide Squad.
I would save a copy of my main excel spreadsheet with the date as the file name. Once a day. Not perfect but it worked.
Negative doesn’t mean it isn’t constructive?
Change your DNS to 1.1.1.1 and 4.4.4.4 for secondary that should get you going for now.
Might still be worth it if there were a significant wealth tax and you did it in advance of an IPO or other event that greatly increased your net worth.

A wealth tax would also have the effect that people expecting to generate lots of wealth would just move somewhere else to do so, or not come to the US in the first place.
A little more nuanced take: the transfer agent maintains a list of shareholders at the company's behest, the DTCC is one step further down the chain, operating as a clearinghouse between brokers and banks. The list of shareholders is managed by the company or it's bookkeeper, the "transfer agent". Insiders and people who own paper certificates are on the list kept by the transfer agent, directly owning their shares on the company's books, alongside Cede & Co (a partner of the DTCC), who owns the bulk of all publicly traded shares. Cede & Co, and it's partner, the DTCC, then maintain a list of which shares beneficially belong to each of the DTCC members (brokerages, banks). The brokerages and banks in turn maintain lists of which clients beneficially own the brokerage's shares.

For one commonly used transfer agent's take, see:
https://www.computershare.com/us/becoming-a-registered-share...
I've been using Vim since 1994, but only this past year have I started getting better at juggling large numbers of buffers. There are three main improvements in how I use Vim compared to before and they are simple.

1. I switched to :autochdir, so that in any buffer, the current working directory is that of the file. Then I dumped :autochdir due to certain annoyances and found a nice way of emulating its good behaviors.

2. I started using sessions to save and recover the states of the buffers. I associate sessions with certain tasks and can return to those tasks quickly.

3. I started using a buffer navigator.

Regarding (1) here is the setup:

:let $top=getcwd()
:au BufWinEnter * exec "lcd " . expand('%:h')
:au BufWinEnter * if expand("%") == "" | exec "lcd $top" | endif
:au BufWinEnter *.git/* exec "lcd $top"

I know you don't need the colon in your vimrc, but I have it anyway.

The $top variable captures the top level directory on startup; I refer to it in command lines when I need it using $top. Why the dollar sign? Ah, this makes it an environment variable. Vim is much better about interpolating environment variables than other variables; there are more places you can use them thanks to the dollar sigil.

The other three commands above set up a local chdir (lcd) to the directory of the file containing the buffer. The third rule is smart: if we are editing something under .git/ then we go back to the top. This is what autochdir gets wrong. What do we edit under .git? Oh, COMMIT_EDITMSG, for one thing! I want to be in the repository root when editing a commit message.

Regarding 2, here is my setup for working with sessions:

:nmap + :wa<Bar>exe "mksession! " . v:this_session<CR>
:command -nargs=1 S exec "mksession! " . expand('$top/') . expand('<args>')

+ becomes a command for saving the current session. Then I have a :S <whatever> command to save a session under a new name, relative to the top directory: the $top variable rears its head.

Regarding 3, there are many buffer navigators. I'm using bufexplorer (version 7.4.32). I make the following tweak to the plugin/bufexplorer.vim file:

" added before the other maps

if !hasmapto('BufExplorer') && g:bufExplorerDisableDefaultKeyMapping == 0
nnoremap <script> <silent> <unique> <Leader>\ :BufExplorer<CR>
endif

In Vim the "leader key" for hot key commands is backslash by default. Instead of using the default key binding for launching the bufexplorer view, which is like \be or something, I map the backslash key to do that. So just by hitting \\ (backslash twice) I get the buffer explorer.

Mostly I use the LRU view in buffer explorer (most recently used buffer goes to top, pushing others down). Should be called MRU, but everyone who knows memory cache hierarchies understands LRU.

The above three things are very simple, and have a big payoff. I have many more tricks in my vimrc. For instance I use a C program called autotab to analyze a sample of lines from the loaded file and adjust the indentation settings.
Show HN: I Made 3D Color Picker with Chakra-UI and Next.js
Untrue. They use Stripe.
How is it so obvious given the state of the market?

Bezos has also sold off a massive chunk of assets?

There's nothing odd at all about shorting the market during this time.
nice!

Edit: I realize most folks won't get that, so https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nice_biscuit
So true. In communism, nobody would have power over you and you would never have to fear your superior. History has shown this to be true.

/s
That story and the followups have always been and remain extremely suspect. https://www.google.com/search?q=bloomberg+supermicro+story
Wasn't that Bloomberg article found to be false? Don't take my word for it, look it up, but I remember hearing Bloomberg take a big reputation hit after that one.
Just because they’re Canadian doesn’t mean they’ll be Nortel. Nortel had one money making division and a bunch of money losing ones. Gross mismanagement ended them. Shopify looks very different than Nortel (or Blackberry) did.
what's leading you to that conclusion?
That's exactly how I feel too. I just started using neovim a few weeks ago. I'm using `nvim .` to get to a navigable tree, but have no idea if that's the right way to do it.
Allegedly Victor Hugo sent a telegram, which at the time charged by the letter, to his literary agent shortly after the publication of Les Misérables to inquire of its sales:

?

The agent responded:

!
The NSA isn't interested enough in you to send somebody to your house to break into your car and install a gps tracker.
"...if you believe in the court's ability to force Musk to buy Twitter, you should continue to buy up stock..."

"If you don't believe he'll be forced to pay..."

Those are two very different statements.

I absolutely believe the court can compel Elon to satisfy the contract he's gotten himself into. I don't necessarily believe the court will do so. Specific performance isn't a popular result in those courts, apparently. That being said,...

"...you should sell and/or short until it's at whatever you think the right market value for a stock of Twitter ought to be."

Yeah, no. If I thought like that, I'd have shorted Tesla long ago. I also know that "the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent."
Look into RETRO, which greatly reduces the model’s tendency to confabulate by teaching it to query a document database known to be truthful, and justify its answers with specific references: https://www.deepmind.com/publications/improving-language-mod...
Internet in Canada isn't a monopoly, it's a government-protected oligopoly.

And yes, it sucks. And no, nobody's going to fix it, because Canada's telecoms are far more motivated to lobby to protect themselves than Canadians are to lobby for the government to fix them. It's a classic collective action problem. It's why we can't have nice things.
Considering he owns 8% of shares and can't buy more than 15%, I doubt he went through all of this to shock down stock prices or for the luls, as the author assumes.

He is rich but doesn't usually like burning money.
Following that link on Firefox ESR led me to the following Bugzilla issue about a 10+ year old issue with Firefox not implementing Web-MIDI which was just resolved two months ago:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836897

Needless to say, I went down the rabbit hole a bit. :)

I found it weirdly interesting to see the advocacy among musicians and music apps (I dabble with synths, and MIDI is pretty important) and the dismissal of the issue by a few maintainers.
Is this actually true?

If the entire internet is routable but dns is screwing anything that is not major player, that raises a whole host of other questions and is inconsistent with everything i have heard about this outage so far
Just did the same thing with Comcast. They let the future renter of my address take over the address and cancel my service a month in advance. Complained to the FCC and got a call from the executive customer service a couple of days later.

Still took multiple hours to resolve, but it was at least done right, not barely patched until I have to spend 2 hours on the phone again for the next incomplete patch.
I think some aversion to certain social situations is part of the core human condition, not to be blamed on any particular socioeconomic system. I imagine that if email had existed in their times, a similar one from Thayendanegea, William The Conqueror, Jesus Christ, or Karl Marx himself would lead to similar consternation.
if polyphonic aftertouch interests you, then you may also want to look into MPE (midi polyphonic expression) iiuc.
He could offer a horse and pay a 200+k settlement for sexual favors to a flight attendant, or pedo project and people would still defend him.
Read the Cloudflare post:

=======

Cloudflare Radar shows a near complete loss of traffic from Rogers ASN, AS812, that started around 08:45 UTC (all times in this blog are UTC).

What happened?
Cloudflare data shows that there was a clear spike in BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) updates after 08:15, reaching its peak at 08:45.

=======

BGP storm first, outage second.
> But meanwhile I can use an ordinary visual text editor and I don't have to learn anything new.

Then do that?
Tesla didn't buy Twitter, Elon did.
Asking the ISP will do nothing. The government needs to step in and fix this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News#Suspected_fake_...
He has also violated it multiple times, with no sign of any consequences. That is pretty strong evidence that it was, at best, pointless.
It's the "tyranny of the minimalist" in my opinion. And it's not just fonts - it's app design, housing and architecture, retail, etc. The sterile, uncluttered-to-the-max ethos has simply infected all aspects of design, even to the point of obvious negative impacts on usability. Not sure if I'd say "Apple started it", but they were certainly on the forefront.

I read an article recently (think it was on HN) about how, not too long ago, wealth and status was displayed with impossibly intricate designs - think the Belle Époque or Victorian designs. Now it's all expanses of black and white. I joke if I see another black-and-white "modern farmhouse" go up in my town I may just throw up on their driveway.
Totally agree with not being able to hide owner ship (especially when are a director, major shareholder, and ceo) but I think DTCC is really only in the mix when you buy/sell shares via an exchange, and their focus is the settlement between brokers and exchanges. The registrar and transfer agent is who maintains the list of share holders (Computershare is the resgistrar and transfer agent for Tesla).
Routinely breaking the law and then paying fine? Jail is a good way to put routine offenders away from the civil society
> EVERY ONE OF THE 12 [editors] is a scholar of gender or race. [..] Of the 12, only 1 of them has actually published an article in the APSR prior to actually running APSR.

I'd prefer the article's prose was more moderated, but this is very damning.
I guess you didn't read the article because Levine explains that scenario in this and previous articles lol?
That's a great way to hire people who care.
Also … bad routes can cause outages for sure but this long lasting?!?

That raises other questions about their ability to recover from what isn’t an entirely unique situation (bad routes).
I think having a good understanding of the ways the Canadian incumbents can screw you out of a business is certainly helpful.
Check out Community Fibre's submission to the CRTC here (the 3.7MB document): https://services.crtc.gc.ca/pub/ListeInterventionList/Docume...

It has lots of specifics about how Bell in particular will use anti-competitive tactics to hamper your business.
Also, in many parts of Canada there are simply no other transport providers other than the incumbents that could transport your traffic from your community to an IXP. To stay out of trouble your best bet is usually using a company like Zayo (if you're close to CP rail lines, ex-Allstream fibre) or using incumbents outside of their residential service area (eg. using Shaw for Transport in Ontario if you happen to be close to their fibre).

I really recommend reading the entire 44 pages and then giving Benjamin a call if you have any specific questions. He's a great guy that has experience bootstrapping a fibre ISP (albeit in Ontario, not BC) and can talk about important topics such as pole attachment and dealing with hydro/Bell. I remember our discussion ending up focusing on funding issues with regards to a lack of grant or venture funding of 30+ year horizon infrastructure projects. I think we spoke for almost 2 hours.
> Attempts to artificially reduce instability can often have the opposite effect, by socializing the harmful effects of irresponsible risk taking, and thus creating moral hazard.

Can we put this in less technical jargon that describes what happens based on the structural system of how the feds actions make its way to economy as a whole?

Attempts to reduce instability create stability for wealthy class, like wall Street and bankers, while socializing the cost of maintaining stability by increasing the cost of living for everyone else, which most disproportionately hurts people on fixed incomes, and makes social welfare harder to provide by government and private charity alike.
They are probably going to turn the units into condos. They found a quick way to kick everyone out in one shot. That's usually a long a tedious process.
Weird seeing this. I was a natural at biology didn't even have to study and aced any exam to the point where kids would let me cheat on other exams so long as they cheat off of me on biology (not proud if it now but "everybody did it then").

I didn't pursue anything related to it because it just wasn't my personality. I hated hospitals or touching body parts or even talking to random people. And I hated school with a deep passion (still do long after) can't do much with just 4yr degree in biology might as well lock me up in prison in solitary.

Goes to show, you don't need to be natural at something to do well in it and even if you are a natural doesn't mean it's your thing. There are very few things you can't make yourself learn and be good at by compensating for talent with effort and perseverance.
It was a study I read years ago, but it'll take me a while to find it. Give me a day or two and I'll try to get it for you!
I got one a couple of years ago too. It's kind of mind blowing how powerful a few pieces of painted metal can be.
Your complaints are totally unreasonable and sound ridiculous to me. "dang's intervention is often the most toxic behavior in a comment chain" is laughable. If you look more into dang's comment history, he has often explained at length about the kind of issues you link to. Often his comments link to a whole lot of previous long explanations. I've spent hours down those rabbit holes, and it's the most impressive, insightful writing I've seen in my years on HN.

I was 'danged' once, after I angrily responded to someone who made an outrageous comment to me, attacking me strongly for saying cheating was bad. Dang objected to my comment. I said, what the other guy said was much worse! Dang hadn't even read the other guy's comment, which seemed so unfair.

He explained to me that it doesn't matter what the other guy said. "Punching second" or in any order, is not ok on here. Read the comment guidelines. He said that being on HN is a continual exercise is not being triggered, in not commenting while angry. They were wise words which I think greatly improved my HN comments, or at least I don't do those triggered, snarky, cutting responses any more, or almost never. No matter what the other guy said. Silence is often the best response, or the only good one. That someone else is being an asshole on here is no reason to join them.

You are apparently fairly new here, and seem to have little idea of the massive number of comments written on HN each day. I looked at the first couple of pages of your recent comments, and most of them have a very unpleasant, hostile tone. You are in no position to criticize dang. Read the "In comments" section of the guidelines, the part starting "Be kind. Don't be snarky." A lot of your comments break them.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
*EDT
Correct; vi was born on this layout: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_Terminal_ADM3A.svg (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi). Notice the arrow keys, and Ctrl and escape. In this case, the history of the program basically explains everything in my opinion.
> Under what circumstances do we investigate the death of a newborn as a criminal matter today?

Are you absolutely sure you want to apply the same standard? Do you know how many pregnancies end in miscarriage?

> I don't understand the line of thinking that says you can't care about stopping intentional killings unless you also want to give them a bunch of free stuff.

It's not about the free stuff. When the power of the state stepped in to force the pregnancy to continue, they took responsibility for the life of the person.

You care about "intentional killings of babies". I believe that. I believe that you can imagine the life of the potential person when you see a pregnancy. Do you believe that people should be able to have sex without getting pregnant? Is preventing the fertilization of the egg an acceptable way to prevent the "intentional killing of a baby"? Should the power of the state enforce your belief about contraception? Is preventing the fertilized egg from implanting in the uterine wall acceptable? Should the power of the state step in here?

At what point in the act of intimacy should the power of the state be enforced?
If an internal route goes down, the information is propagated to adjacent networks via BGP. So the BGP storm could have been caused by routes becoming unreachable (possibly intermittently).
> I would estimate the average IQ of these apparatchiks is 110, meaning they are more mentally suited to be ditch diggers or janitors or DMV clerks — or mothers! — than scholars.

The guy really wanted to rant.
Lol.. you should be his lawyer. Your honor, his affluezna made him do it. It isn't his fault.
Corporations have a wonderful and easy way of measuring how much your time is worth.

Your salary.

If it costs less (salary * time) for you to decipher the cryptic email than it would cost (their salary * their time) for your bosses bosses ... boss to write a non-cryptic email then you deal with it.

This isn't kindergarten and it's not about your feelings.
In fairness, a lot of software doesn't come with good documentation built-in anymore, so it's understandable that people would get out of the habit.