skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There was an interesting critique of Musks futurism by Tom Nicholas. It definitely gave me another perspective.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OtKEetGy2Y
Am I high or is the picture of the flip flap railroad loop decidedly not circular?
I don't disagree, but I think in this scenario you'll end up with some illegal activity recorded/uploaded but the very illegal activity is yet to come. Like if Darnella Frazier's video stops before George Floyd dies, it's not nearly as effective as evidence.
Then don't do that. Python also has mechanisms for handling sequences of values, passing them to functions, etc. But that's getting off the point of your question.

You asked "what programming languages ...?". I gave an example of how the python language gets around the problem scenario you used as an example. I'm not suggesting you use python or any other language, just providing one answer to your question.
I actually don't mind the robocalls as much as I used to. What pisses me off now is the random text messages of people pretending to know me on WhatsApp and SMS.
I have an XPS with a touchscreen and I always forgot it’s there. UI elements are just too small for my finger
Congrats! I bought one on Amazon and returned it within 30 days. Had a blast
Okay, but if it's even questionable at predicting that, why then does everyone keep saying that dark matter is such a great explanation of a million phenomena and their grandmothers and especially the Bullet cluster? I thought that was supposed to be one of the things that gave the theory widespread legitimacy and now I'm hearing that I've been basically hearing fake news this whole time? I'm really confused.
Does Amazon have an incentive to fix this? This is the equivalent of Facebook or Twitter removing all bots. In this case they are much more directly seeing revenue. The only people losing are the authors and manufacturers of the original product. I see consumers don’t care and in fact actively buy the lower priced item and are happy about it. If they were to fix it, they need a huge operation to create a system to identify, vet, enforce originality across every single product on their platform. It’s almost impossible at amazon’s scale. They will never do anything about it. May be this is a business opportunity for a new company to come in and provide as Amazon will surely not be able to replicate overnight.
> in awe of the natural world as some do with religion

I have a real problem with the distinction between "religious people" and "non-religious people" because it presumes a distinction that I don't think exists. Everyone takes something to be the highest good. Most philosophers (for most of human history, anyway) and what you call religious people typically take God to be the highest good, the supreme summum bonum. Others worship pleasure or power or Man or nature or whatever else. In this sense, everyone is religious. We just differ about what the highest good is and what Man's orientation toward that good is.

What you call religious people do experience awe at creation. Indeed, God is not generally knowable directly, but creation is taken to tell us about the creator or first cause (what is in the effect must be in some way in the cause for you cannot give what you do not have).

> mysticism can be fun in a world with rules.

Two problems. First, mysticism isn't obscurantism. I believe Rahner somewhat obnoxiously called mystery "inexhaustible intelligibility" which is to say that true mystery is fully intelligible, but we cannot exhaust the knowing of that thing. I might imagine this to be something like trying to swallow the Nile. There's no end to it. The mystery par excellence for Catholics, then, is the beatific vision.

Second, what do you mean by "rules"? There are no rules, but things do have natures and what we call "scientific laws" are just shorthand descriptions of tendencies of things of a certain nature. There are no externalized laws "out there" that "govern" the world from without, imposing order onto what is otherwise some kind of unintelligible chaos. Things themselves are ordered by virtue of what they are. It's important not to commit the reification fallacy here w.r.t. "law". Furthermore, it almost sounds like you're saying that what you call religion is somehow antithetical to there being natures and principles. On the contrary, that is essential to something like Catholicism. Read the first few verses of the Gospel of John. Jesus is identified with the Logos, which is to say something like the order of the universe which was made incarnate in the hypostatic union. Natural law theory, something traditionally embraced by the Catholic Church, presupposes not only the utter intelligibility of the universe, but that things have natures and that the basis for ethics is human nature.

So what I sense here is a number of presuppositions, among them that "religion" (a word itself too broad and vague) is essentially (and only) an emotional phenomenon, which, in the case of something like Catholicism, isn't true.
I also read somewhere that if Elon ran Twitter into the ground in the next decade, using it just to advertise Tesla cars, he would have paid an amount in line with what GM pays for advertising their cars (at least what they paid pre-pandemic) https://www.statista.com/statistics/286522/general-motors-ad....

It blows my mind how much (non Tesla) car companies spend just on advertising.
Perfect Dark – the Challenge 7 bug
I run O365 for the obvious tools and AD but use GSuite for email. SSO for GSuite using AzureAD makes me laugh, plus your employees can use both ‘sign-in with’ Microsoft or Google account for other services and have a single log-in page that ends up just being Microsoft. There’s some tedium with creating accounts on both GSuite and AzureAD, and I’m sure that can be fixed and combined, but who can be bothered when it’s at most 1 employee a week to on-board for early days. Pick your poison, both is an option and works surprisingly well.
At this point, they should be offering the highest salaries of any company in the aerospace industry to recruit the best talent, same way google does.

But they're not. That's... the whole problem really.
People talk about the happy and glory years in the US in contrast to what is happening today as if both aren't borne out of the same root cause.

When you don't have regulations, strong federal oversight, high taxes, or invest in social programs, then you can have a fucking excellent party nearly all of the time.

Until the economy tanks or the American Taliban decides their party involves telling you what you can do with your body.

It's a very immature/libertarian way to run a society. Wonderful when things are good. Horrific when things are bad.

The stakes are higher than individual hedonism now, though. American Prosperity is boiling our atmosphere and by the end of the century, excess American contributions to carbon emissions will have killed more people in the 3rd world than Hitler and Stalin put together. This is not an exaggeration. Hundreds of millions will die in Bangladesh and India from rising seas and heatwaves because Americans wanted the freedom of the house, the picket fence, the 2 F150s, and the 2 hour commute, and Next Day Shipping From Amazon for All The Things.
Yes we will. So far the institutions that have been built up have continued on cruise control avoiding much in the way of large scale or persistent corruption. But, the 4 years of Trump demonstrated that our institutions are currently pretty helpless against brazen corruption. Many millions of our citizens will shrug their shoulders at, or even cheer on corruption so long as their side is winning the all important cultural trolling wars.
Why the move?

Hopefully it’s simply M5 didn’t have a server ready and they’ll migrate back.

Vultr has a great assortment of bare metal servers.

https://www.vultr.com/products/bare-metal/#pricing
Second jobs to pay for gas, food, etc?
Craft-produced firearm used to assassinate Shinzo Abe
Network is not a SPOF. Poorly implemented network can be though. My team manages a global network. We run outage simulations quarterly ( to check for unintended consequences of changes ).

Part of that process is to down all circuits and services from a vendor.

Could vendors be sharing upstream Concentrations that create SPOF. Sure they could. That’s why we contract a single vendor to create truly diverse services.

We see 100x outages and failures from craplications vs network.
Haha, wait until he grows old enough to do the math on that and leaves it in for a few years.
I very much enjoyed Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman.
Except for many (most) middle and lower class voters?
He did deny historical fact, he led the society for revising Japanese textbooks to downplay the extensive war crimes.

Plus, visiting the shrines can be a personal matter, but as a politician he knows exactly the connotations of his visits.
I have accepted that I will eventually see Musk put behind bars--all of a sudden--by the SEC. I get the sense that they are always building a case on him. He would be a great "Martha Stuart."
You can still 100% just use whatever language and build a library, instead of sending json or binary data through network calls, you just use FFI.
I was going to reflect on how a gun that resembled an iphone might affect this conversation. I did a quick search and saw that they are easily available. So now as a Police Officer when someone takes a phone out of there pocket you have to immediately assess the risk. Am I going to be shot or recorded? Being in law enforcement is getting more dangerous by the day. Damn.
While I would agree his offer was absurdly overvaluing twitter, and reason enough to back out after sobering up, if what is being stated in the letter is true, twitter has likely been committing serious fraud.

It has continually been one of the most underperforming platforms of it's size. Head of Data Science resigning doesn't bode well during a deal hinging on the accuracy of the data.
It is noticeably slower now.
I too have no idea what OP means by saying it's "available through Cloudflare"

$ dig +noall +answer A news.ycombinator.com
news.ycombinator.com. 0 IN A 50.112.136.166

$ nslookup 50.112.136.166
166.136.112.50.in-addr.arpa name = ec2-50-112-136-166.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com.
Of course it makes sense. “Material” is a financial term that is used all the time. It’s not a surprising term at all and fits here.

Twitter doesn’t have to be caught in a lie. They can just be caught with having a materially different numbers of fake accounts from their stated numbers.

If 25% of the amount you paid to Twitter for ads went to bots and fake accounts, you don’t think that you deserve a refund? You don’t think advertisers would take advantage of that to get refunds? You don’t think the SEC would be interested in this?

The whole point is Musk’s team is going to dig up stuff that Twitter won’t want to fix because the cost to find and track it will overweigh the amount of money they make probably. But it will have ramifications in terms of things like refunds and customers leaving the platform entirely. It will make them look really bad. It’s inevitable.
Unicode has code points for superscript/subscript digits. That one is U+00B9: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+00B9 (So it's "normal text", as far as HN is concerned. Note that HN does filter some things, like emoji.)

I was on macOS when I typed it, there it's Control+Cmd+Space, and then search for "super" which gets close enough.

On my Linux machine, I can either do Compose, ^, 1, or Super+e and then search for it. (But both of these require configuration; either setting a key to be Compose (I sacrifice RAlt), or setting up whatever it is the IME I have is for Super+e.)
That whole episode was deeply wacky. China is a much stranger place than anybody likes to think.

They launch orbital rockets successfully all the time, but they also have dozens of ghost cities packed with skyscraper apartments but exactly zero people and no (e.g.) plumbing, built just to sell to one another... sort of like Bitcoin, but concrete.

(Bitcoin is almost as weird as ghost cities, if you think about it.)
For books, especially self-published books, this is not a hard problem.

Google and Amazon could solve this sort of piracy in a week of they wanted to...
DocTR: https://github.com/mindee/doctr

It also has TensorFlow.js version to run in-browser: https://blog.tensorflow.org/2022/06/ocr-in-browser-using-ten...
but... the s3 buckets are in us-east-1, and postgres in ap-southeast-2. More regions better than one, for maximum impact with minimum effort.
X has some fundamental security issues:

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/4641/why-are-pe...

The lack of problems on X and the problems on Wayland are mostly an issue of maturity.
Yeah but NLB can offload TLS from the app, which is what the parent commenter linked to.
It’s not just passing through the TLS from the app(which is also possible).
"Banging your head" usually means lots of trial and error, that is all error. But beyond uploading information, every experiment creates new information. ("I haven't failed - I've discovered 1,000 ways that won't work!" https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/07/31/edison-lot-results/)

When the search space is exponential, with too many combinations to try, pruning off a branch is enormously helpful (and perfectly harmless... provided the solution doesn't happen to lie on that branch - those are my most stuck times).

One signal is when I can't think of anything else to try - that means I've extracted all the information I can. The trouble is, I'm pretty good at thinking of things to try.
If Starship can get reusable, zero-disposable flight working, and on-orbit refueling, all of those issues become quite surmountable. Mass to Mars (or the Moon) ceases to be "what's the most we can fling in a single launch", and the flight can be shorter if you can depart Earth orbit with a lot more fuel. I can't find numbers for the current iteration, but they were batting around 90-110 day transits with the older ITS proposal.

You start talking about being able to build propellant depots in Earth orbit, build Aldrin cyclers, send large amounts of supplies (or even a whole station on the slow, efficient route) in advance to Mars, etc.
Maybe, maybe not. Sometimes unemployment or their previous job paid more or had better benefits.

Job numbers up doesn’t mean people are doing better. It just means more people got jobs than lost jobs this month.
From what I’ve seen of desktop environments that try to emulate gnome 3 (and what I vaguely remember of toying around ubuntu ~10 years ago), wasn’t gnome a bit of an attempt to look and feel like Windows?
> High end network switches are effectively a commodity now, and often are not much more than a board built around a single chip/chipset, which does everything.

Is this really the case? I worked on the Cat6k in the late 2000's, and it was definitely not a single chipset. Maybe it's different when you get to switches that can support 300+ ports.
I’ve been using bookfinder since it was mxbf.com There have been some long out of print hard to find books that I was able to find thanks to them (although in one case early in the site’s lifetime, I found a book I’d been searching for for over a decade and placed an order only to have the bookseller discover that they apparently had either sold the book, lost it or had it stolen). It’s my go-to for used books.
It'd be great to have an option to filter by seller.
Your argument doesn’t hold water. You can have a sense of the amount of bots but if it’s wildly off, then of course it’s going to be shocking.
I disabled the personalised advertising in my Google account and it's astounding how many ads that look to me like scams are permitted on YouTube/Google's ad network.

All using the same old over dubbed Musk videos from years ago to sell me trading software which they could easily detect with their own Content ID but they choose not to.
This is a laughable concern. There's no reason to think there will be a rash of guns-shaped-like-iphones being a thing.

Being a cop is less dangerous than, for instance, being a pizza delivery driver.
Counterfeit DVD box sets are pretty rampant. For example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Zwa9uKIYhM

I remember getting obviously burned DVDs run through terrible label makers back in the day. Now they're copying all the the art and packaging for box sets.

I'm both impressed at the work they put in, and also confused why they occasionally leave obvious errors like typos on the box after all that work.
Related: ‘No Aliens, No Spaceships, No Invasion of Earth’ An oral history of Contact – https://www.vulture.com/2022/06/an-oral-history-of-contact-t...
So when you say anything not illegal is allowed, do you mean that I can post porn anywhere? That spammers and bots can't be banned?

Any remotely reasonable approach here has the state deciding which attributes can be used for moderation decision and which can't, which also isn't feasible.
I bounced around distros and ended up going back to Pop-OS. It's been the one that is the most stable and has all of the general features that I want in a daily driver. I don't want to have to mess around with my host and would rather spin up VMs for things that I'd want to tinker with.
You say OSINT, I say, you just used google with quotes.
Yeah, this exactly, and arguing the difference of 10ft vs. 7ft from a phone could be tricky, to say the least.
“I haven't failed! I’ve discovered a thousand ways that won’t work!” – Edison
Hey Duggee is animated in Flash

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hey_Duggee

http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/interview-hey-duggee-creator-g...
8 feet seems reasonable... I don't think you'd be able to capture much action any closer to be honest.

Then again, laws like this are a slippery slope.
So, let's take a look at the Axios' front page that fits 20 headlines:

4 headlines are about Musk and Twitter, as if this event has any importance to our lives. In any case, there is no need to rehash the same thing four times.

4 headlines are about abortion. Yeah, we know what's happened, you've told us ten times this already. It seems they just need to fill space with something.

2 talk about the Japan's Abe. As if they didn't talk about him yesterday.

Then there's a bunch of cheap space-fillers like "The summer of subvariants" and "Handshakes are back". Trying to resuscitate the corpse of covid. These are budget click baits: mouse traps without the bait. GPT-3 would do a better job.

The style of most content there is a mix of fearmongering, opinion forming, omission of details, and so on. Needless to say, they never ever report the opposite side of things: readers might start thinking, forming their own opinions and we don't want any of that.

Where are the actual news, Axios?
There's a documentary about past Tesla crashes that hilights the recurrent issue with crashing at speed into stationary objects.

IIRC: Elon Musk’s Crash Course (althugh there may be several, I'd have to check my records for the one(s) that I've viewed).
Great news. Now tackle "real estate opportunity" and "off market" robocalls. I get two dozen of them a day, for which I thank TMobile for filtering out most.
IMO this is not funny -- think of "God" surrounded by "Shit" and think again how many people would be irritated.

Sure, the author is free to put any text in the explanatory image. But I'd say his arrogance is going too far...
Public opinion is bimodal in the US, shaped by the two party system. During the broadcast era media were forced to tailor their message for the median because you can only broadcast one message. However the median is actually smaller than the two modes on either side. When multicast messaging became technologically possible, it made economic sense to tailor your message for one of the modes, both to differentiate and to tap into a more engaged audience, the extremes of which had been ignored during the broadcast era.
Come on there is a pretty clear difference between getting sick because you just existed along side other people and breathed the same air vs repeatedly inserting your penis inside multiple other people in a single night knowing the risks. There are tons of happy monogamous homosexual couples who are not at risk. If you cant see that you are very much willfully blind. Puritanical feelings have nothing to do with it. No none deserves to die from any virus but the assumption of risk implied is very different. It doesn't make any death less tragic than another though.
Australia has many flaws, some of them quite significant.

Note that I never say a single thing about Australia being perfect or model citizens, that is your fabrication which you interpreted as 'US Bad and Parochial, Australia Good". Very zero sum of you, which fits exactly into the type of personality I am talking about.
Find as many flaws in Australia as you can, it wont offend me because unlike you I dont see my country as beyond reproach.

I did not invent American Exceptionalism, I did not write the article we are discussing, Americans are the ones who refer to their country as the best or greatest.
A TON of investment properties were purchased over the last few years, so those may be sold as investors need to balance out the huge losses they took on stocks, crypto, etc.

With rising rates, the counter pressure on prices from buyers may not exist in large enough supply to prevent the investors selling from driving prices down.
GitHub repo https://github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
During a merger, discovery is absolutely a right the purchasing side has. The target company should open its books, your assumption about them not disclosing is incorrect.
> “Material” is a financial term that is used all the time. It’s not a surprising term at all and fits here.

Yes, but it's only well-defined with regard to specific circumstances. It makes no sense to say something material to this deal will inherently be material to completely different circumstances like the contracts signed with advertisers or users.
and "two weeks to flatten the curve"... "gee guess we didn't need those emergency wards after all, oh goody we saved the world"
He didn’t waive due diligence. He chose to forego any due diligence before making an offer.

This isn’t like buying a house…
Except no, those are not the same thing. Stuff in the repository, for example, is exposed to a much higher cumulative radiation dose, which causes huge and unacceptable changes in many materials.
Bloater
He opted to buy the company, and very shortly afterwards said the 5% number - which they've consistently submitted to the SEC for years - is obviously wrong.

Unless he can convincingly explain how he went from naively believing the 5% number to certain it's massively and fraudulently incorrect - in a matter of weeks and with no new information - to the court, he's pretty fucked here.
I am not entirely sure where that comes from.

Let’s take a look at GM, as those numbers are readily available.

GM Financial: $13.419 billion in 2021
GM: $127 billion in 2021
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GM_Financial

Seems to be a lot more revenue coming from the cars than the financing…
Having driven Tesla's value down (below the market decline) by nonstop trolling, …
Indeed Web MIDI doesn't work on Firefox, for example. But I was under the impression that the webviews Tauri uses are all chromium based.

Regardless, it was just curiosity on my part - the approach you chose not only is cross-platform now, but also future proof.
Who are then?
Denial doesn’t keep any of us safe!

Annecdata: having successfully avoid COVID for 2.5 years and been pretty careful (incl 2 vaccination + 2 boosters) my wife and I still managed to catch it a few weeks ago and infected my parents (after 1 visit). However 5,000 miles away my friend, my sister in-law, and husband all caught it. While this isn't a statistic, it is a remarkable coincidence that all of the mentioned people caught COVID for the first time, approximately at the same time. It certainly seems remarkably contagious and I have to think that I caught BA.5.