skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plenty of companies still run hardware. A lot of midsize enterprise and a lot of non-tech/non-software F500. And quite a few won’t move to the cloud - between retailers who don’t want to fund big bad Amazon, hyperactive security departments who (rationally or irrationally) see physical ownership as a necessity, and organizations who have needs which are poorly suited to cloud offerings, it’s not like the datacenter hardware market is completely dead by a long shot.

You can proxy this demand by looking at VMWare sales. Anyone running a large amount of baremetal VMWare virtualization has a large on premise deployment and could find managed rack products like Oxide interesting.
Taking your version of events at face value: Musk hired a private investigator to dig up dirt on someone who merely criticized his rescue plan, received some lies from said investigator, and uncritically repeated them to his massive social media following, thus smearing the person concerned ... and this makes Musk a tireless advocate for the truth and social media sanity.

Musk cultists are the worst.

PS, if Musk can so easily be deceived into spreading false information --- even when he, so incredibly rich and smart, hired the source of the information --- why would you trust anything he says?

EDIT: "Musk cultists are the worst" was out of line. I apologise.
Banter is no foundation for lasting friendship
I see the author's scepticism of the bots argument, but I don't think it's one that should be dismissed so easily. I don't know anything, but isn't the value of these big tech properties largely in the number of actual human daily active users?

When Facebook acquired whatsapp, I remember reading that it wasn't the tech per se that facebook really wanted. It was the daily active users. Whatsapp had (still has? dunno) a pretty big userbase. That was the where a lot of the value lay for facebook, or so I understand.

So, if daily active users are important to the value of the property, do we believe twitter's SEC filing estimates of <5% bots? Musk doesn't, or hasn't been convinced by what he has seen.

That really does seem like a legit reason to abort the deal. Twitter is representing <5% bots. Musk thinks that's a wildly optimistic estimate & is prepared to call bullshit. Seems fair to me.

A more cynical view might be that Musk is simply looking to lower the price. Exposure of Twitter's bot problems in a court might not be very good for the share price. Just having Musk pull out (9 kids, he never pulls out) probably dips the share price. So, isn't it all good leverage to bring the price down?
Thank you for confirming my point.

You don't actually care about states rights. That's just a talking point.

You care about power and control to enforce your personal moral code over people, however you can make it happen.
The link feels irrelevant, because it is not related to vim and text editing. Or does it?
Thanks for the clarification; I didn’t want to overspeak. Next question though, how do they onboard 42x that much fuel for a 6 week transpacific journey?
> But the constitution is silent on any guidance or requirement on addressing new power centralization problems.

The federal constitution says that voting is left up to the states, so arguably the centralization problem is ~50 different experiments which have all gone wrong in the exact same way.

You could say that the federal constitution should have put some guidance in place to stop exactly this correlated failure, but ironically that would introduce more centralization as there would be one rule forced on all the individual states.

Whether that's a good idea or not I think depends on how good the rule is in practice. Unfortunately the rule you suggest highlights just how difficult it is to write a good one. For example, how do you define "coordinated organization"?

If both major parties split into 50 different organizations that all happened to endorse the same candidate for president (but for nominally different state-specific reasons), should the SCOTUS have the power to ban those political organizations (and perhaps ban one and not the other)?

Fortunately we can look to other countries that have managed to avoid political duopoly by using voting systems which don't penalize people for voting for new parties. Even better, some US states have already implemented such a system[0], and, going back to your point about constitutions, the people of Maine managed to introduce RCV not because of a constitutional requirement, but despite a narrow (state) constitutional prohibition.[1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Un...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ranked-choice_voting_in_the_Un...
Yeah he’s a fundraising beast. It’s part of his job duties.
> I always gripe about Python not having built-in array type

Python does have an array type. It’s existed from at least v2.6 (released 2008). https://docs.python.org/3.10/library/array.html
So there's this great joke about cache coherency.

I'm sure you'll get it, eventually.
ShopPay is 100% a thing.
People who have to maintain servers in house for various reasons. Maybe they need to run some software that needs to run even if they lose Internet connectivity. Or maybe they're working on secret stuff and their CIO/CTO has decided that this needs to be on prem instead of on the cloud.
Agreed, this situation is uncomfortably similar to a number Trump crises. Much of our legal system is based on norms and good faith, which a sufficiently motivated and powerful psychopath can pervert to their advantage.

I have no idea what will happen here. Musk is clearly in the wrong both legally and ethically, but I suspect he will weasel out of resbonsibility for the damage he's caused. That alone will be bad enough, but the much larger risk is that it opens the floodgates for slightly less powerful scumbags to flout the law.

US law and democracy are shakier than I've seen in my lifetime, and Musk is actively taking a sledgehammer to a piece of that foundation for his own greed and whim.
It's not supposed to, however, most brands are not certified or tested in any way.

https://www.ewg.org/childrenshealth/monsanto-weedkiller-stil...

Even reputable brands like Bob's Red Mill have had issues. After some of their products tested positive, they apparently took some measures:

https://www.bobsredmill.com/blog/healthy-living/bobs-red-mil...
I've been to a few Blue Angels events and the sneak pass certainly gets the intended reaction (the rest of the crew is flying slowly in the field of vision and the fifth plane crosses the line perpendicular, from behind)

Like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrYmOEvDEUE

It's a neat thing but the idea of doing sub-mach flight over populated areas always stuck me as a little extreme. Those people sitting at home not at the show didn't ask for a military jet over their home at 500' and Mach 0.95.
That’s not how any of this works. E.g. the contract he signed already has the price he agreed to buy Twitter for.
Agreement on terms and context is critical to discussion.

(Applies to this entire thread, not just parent comment.)
Pharma has thought about it. They are working on drugs it hopes to never use.

https://www.merck.com/stories/antimicrobial-resistance-an-em...
Good catch! I didn't think of that. Chords/fifths will only work with MIDI input for now. I'll see if I can come up with a fix for keyboard support
Migrating from cgit to stagit
> We only get value from finishing projects, and getting a project over the finish line is the magical moment it goes from risk to leverage.

I think all too often people structure projects as very large batches of work that only all work together and otherwise are waste. And in that case, the author's claim is true. But it's undesirable. That's an incredibly risky way to do things.

If, instead, the author means that a project is the atomic unit of work that creates value, then the claim is also true. And less risky.

But if a project is a set of smaller independent chunks of work that each incrementally add value on their own, I'll disagree. Delivering the project is not the only thing that matters. It may not be the most important thing.

delivering value > delivering projects

I think this tends to be lost on people who manage projects instead of value.
now I need to use vim to reconfigure apt sources just so I can use a more normal editor

Prepare and paste this into your terminal:

echo "another line" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list

Sorry for your pain, but choosing hard ways is a person’s business.
Well, minus a discount for however long you think it will take before that actually happens, taking into account such things as inflation, interest rates, and market performance (due to the opportunity costs of holding this stock until then).
https://about.usps.com/forms/ps1500.pdf
One of the problems with working on what matters is that 'what matters' isn't always apparent in the moment. Things that seem enormously important in the moment, may turn out to be unimportant in the long term. While it is important to work on 'important' things, do spend at least some time on 'unimportant' things. Those may turn out to be more valuable than you think.
https://spectrum-os.org/ at least in its goals and design looks promising in that regard.
It's hard to take these grand career advice articles too seriously. Unless someone can prove they have been able to live thousands of times, then maybe it is worth taking seriously. Otherwise, just another data point to keep in mind but not much more.
The unexpected logic behind rolling multiple dice and picking the highest[video]
He's sold plenty of Tesla stock over the years. No real need for him to make up a story.
This is very kind, saying "pretty similar." The example exercise seems nearly identical!
Regen braking would operate through the same electic motor which powers the wheels in the first place.

https://connectorsupplier.com/regenerative-braking-systems-r...
Submitted because it hit very close to home.
We’re to believe that before buying 11% of the company, before making a bid to buy all of it, Elon or his advisers never considered the possibility of bots but all of a sudden in the due diligence it occurred to them?

The timing makes no sense for bots to be a legit explanation. Elon is just a troll.
I’m sure that there are plenty of talented musicians working today. I haven’t heard of gen z kids needing to listen to 80s music, that might a mirage caused by an incredibly popular TV show throwing its entire weight behind one song from the 80s.
One aspect that might be interesting, depending on what you are looking for, it's eurorack and more specifically software like VCV Rack that lets you emulate the experience in an app really easily.

https://vcvrack.com/
Thanks for the feedback! I'll see if there's a good way to manage the octaves.

Curious why the sound isn't working, are you using MIDI & which OS do you use?
Shop Pay by is powered by Stripe
Help me identify possible tracking device found in my car
Maybe they should construct a list of n-grams indicative of "non-depressed"/healthy people, and run the same analysis on that list.
Armin, how much of the opposition to 2FA boils down to the "criticality" cutoff? Would you be less opposed to 2FA for publishing to these repos if everyone was subject to the same requirements? I say this because I like cargo-vet (and cargo-crev, etc.), but also I often feel like these package hosts should just have mandatory 2FA anyway as an extra level of security, but also it seems like there's quite a few people who are just opposed to 2FA in general and see it as burdensome.
oh.. I had assumed this referred to the _technical_ dark side ..

Was just toying around with porting a friends very successful shopify store to another platform .. noticed the main home page weighed in at 89MB .. wowza. [ To be fair a lot of that was large pngs which are much smaller as jpg or webp ]

Scrolling thru the endless html/css/js page sources injected plethora of 'liquid' inclusions, I can only describe as otherworldly.
I was going to suggest this. I heard this cover before the original, somehow. I prefer this version honestly.
This is a different problem and has to do with privacy. The government can't compel you to disclose everything you're doing without cause, and without due process.

Having a court ordered judgement entered against you is cause and is a result of due process. It's an entirely different scenario.
For the past few weeks, I've been collecting and refining prompting tricks for getting GPT-3 to emit and understand various types of non-prose output. Many of these are discussed in the Twitter thread the OP links to, but I'd like to highlight a few of my favorites here too.

- GPT-3 can produce simple SVG diagrams (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1545883023719239689) from an English description, or incrementally modify a given SVG diagram (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1545888869207400454).

- GPT-3 can produce diagrams using Graphviz dot notation (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1545109709035900928), including diagrams that incorporate real-world context (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1545112039147847682) not given in the prompt.

- It can emit and understand HTML and Markdown, including table markup — e.g., "Produce an HTML table giving the members of the Beatles and their instruments"

- It can accept/emit multiple named files, with arbitrary content, simply by embedding those files as values in a larger JSON/YAML document. Here, (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1545848754883919872) I demonstrate completing the file tree of a trivial Python package given a README.md.

- It can understand the raw JSON file contents of .ipynb files, successfully following directions given to it in markdown cells, emitting multiple code cells, etc.

While all this is fun, as many people have pointed out the model has a bad habit of "hallucinating" — producing highly specific, wrong output. Avoiding this (https://twitter.com/goodside/status/1545793388871651330) is more of an art than a science. Be highly skeptical of any output you get from GPT-3, and search for verification methods where you can.
I just say my house never burned down in my entire life either, that's why it's ok to leave flames unattended and probably we should even disband that waste of money local fire department whose services I have never needed once.
Still surprised to this day there isn't some installer that just handles everything once you give it a webhost and the payment processor you want.
I find it amazing that not one of the top comments gives Elon ANY consideration that maybe, just maybe, he has a legitimate case against Twitter. We don’t know what he’s found, what he was told, what he was promised, what changed on Twitter’s side. Some very top level people bailed or were fired shortly after Elon’s acquisition proposal was announced.

It sure appears that Elons is just balking, but what is far more likely is that he has uncovered some deep Twitter bullshit and he plans to unveil it in court. Forced to air the dirty laundry by the court, he avoids defamation suits.

Elon is extremely intelligent. Not perfect, not omniscient, maybe he screwed up? Or maybe he has a lot more info than any of us internet loons at the moment?
I recommend checking out Pigments

https://www.arturia.com/products/software-instruments/pigmen...
Russian oligarch yacht seizures are a better argument for them than for you. They're worth tens of billions of dollars, and all the US can get is a nine figure boat.
Still uses stripe.
You say that like it’s natural that Tesla’s success makes billions flow to the one person at the top. Musk obviously isn’t making cars and managing the entire company by himself and doesn’t deserve to be richer than literal countries for making the right bet at some point in his life.

What should have happened is wider distribution of profits among Tesla employees, who are the ones actually doing the work. It’s fine if the CEO is considered an extremely valuable employee and gets a larger share, within limits. Pretty sure he could live a great life with a few million dollars, which would both limit his undeserved power and benefit everyone doing the work.
Any non-treatble illness that causes a buildup/environment for bacteria that trigger debilitating symptoms.

The human body has many defenses and mechanics to keep bacteria in balance. I would point particularly towards the gut/intestant, the skin, ears, anus, bladder and genitalia for places where bacteria need to be constatly kept at the correct balance. Some things are treatable. Some things are possible to cut off. Some things are less known/fixable, in which case symptoms is the only thing possible to addressed at this time.
Maybe also mention eligible maintainers can also get free titan security keys (with free shipping). This should reduce the burden even further.

https://pypi.org/security-key-giveaway/
I wouldn't be so sure a hypothetical federal law enshrining a Roe-ish right to abortion would itself survive the inevitable challenge to its own constitutionality.
There's a significant chance that the majority of the libraries you will use will be Java libraries.

That means when you Ctrl-Click a third-party method to understand what's happening, you're going to get dropped into Java code.

This being said, Java is dead-simple -- and since JDK 17 with introduction of pattern matching, sealed types, multiline strings, records, and other things, it feels much more like C# or other modern languages than the Java you're likely thinking of.

Kotlin is probably my favorite language though, highly recommend giving it a shot.
I rather agree, and must apologize as English seems to be slipping from me lately. I spent some time trying to think of the right word, but ended on insult, debating whether that was too negative of a word to use. Perhaps dismissive would have been better?
They could certainly try; you can start a lawsuit without any real basis if that's how you want to spend your money.

Trying to argue, in court, that you are entitled to have your investment insulated from loss due the primary owner selling it?
Urbit docs and app dev has come an amazing long way in the last 10 years. You don't see many projects with the staying power of urbit, despite being constantly called a cult poo-poo'd every time it comes up on HN.

Feature not a bug. They day HN gives any positive feedback on it, I'll have to re-assess.
If you look, you’ll be unable to find a metro system in the US that does not have custom rolling stock. BART has unique requirements, but you’ll see that everywhere you look.
Misleading title.

In this study (in mice), a high-fat diet led to diabetes, and diabetes led to Alzheimer's.

It doesn't state that a high-fat diet will lead to Alzheimer's in humans.
Usually a lot lower than that - article mentions 50 feet. Which is insanely low. I got to 100 feet in training in a super hornet and was petrified.
Now I wonder what would happen if we finetuned GPT-3 on stackoverflow. Would it become better at code ? Good enough to assist any beginner in learning ?

That would be huge
There's a cool demonstration of the Fairlight CMI by Peter Vogel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOlPCpSmhRM
> One of his hobbies is that he sometimes likes to pretend that he will acquire public companies...He seems to find this fun....When Musk pretended in 2018 that he was going to take Tesla Inc. private, he had to pay the US Securities and Exchange Commission a $20 million fine and stop being the chairman of Tesla’s board.

One past example doesn't make a hobby, and I wonder if SEC interference had any impact small or large on the privatization failing. Not to add to the defense to Musk, but deals fall through all the time when scrutiny is applied to them, whether exterior or interior.
In mice.

Also, without being able to see the actual paper at this point, there's no way to draw any conclusion from this whatsoever. After all, how do we know what composed this high-fat chow fed to the mice? I've seen other studies where both the control group and the high-fat group were fed chow that contained substantial amounts of sucrose.
Thank you to the people in this thread for bringing the Hydrasynth to my attention. I've been looking for a synth to get invested in and this one ticks every single box for me!
Denver luxury apartment serves all tenants 30-day notice to vacate
We bought two of them during the pandemic! One is my office and the other is my wife’s music studio; they’re about 12’x16’ each, with a storage loft above the door. The company we bought them from in NC has a website that lets you design the layout, add windows, etc., and then you can have it unfinished (for a workshop) or finished with insulation and electrical. They construct them offsite and then deliver them to your property—all told they’re on the order of $10-15k each depending on options chosen, and then you’ll need to arrange a gravel pad for them, electrical hookups, etc. Not bad, especially financed, and cheaper than an addition on the house. :)
This thread corrects your misconceptions[1], you might also be wrong about the first part.

[1](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32027341#32027416)
Similar bland uniformity we saw 100 yrs ago.

There used to be a dream in the 60s in my country where everybody would be free to design and build there our home. The public would kind of vaguely become their own architect.

The public on the whole doesn't spend years in art school discovering what makes something attractive and pleasing. They don't value paying extra for looks and meaning, they just go all in on functionality and features.

People are limited by their taste and limited by what builders can easily and cheaply build. This was always to be the outcome when economic and political forces took over culture. It's only really those with a creative desire or faith based desire for something attractive that are willing to spend on it.
>consistently given boards wide discretion to act as they see fit in their fiduciary duty

That discretion is highly limited in the context of an acquisition, where there's a high risk of conflicts of interest between the Board and Shareholders. Delaware courts have consistently limited the Business Judgement Rule in takeover situations.
This. I'm not sure why L2 is even being discussed at such a high level. I've worked for Tier 2 carriers and have deployed fiber across multiple states (transport) and have experience dropping out into FTTH solutions. The last thing you want is an unscalable L2 dependent solution that's a royal PITA to debug when things go wrong (and, they will).

IMO one of the core components to think about when doing a buildout is your total solution. I've worked with Infinera in the past for both long haul and PON solutions and the important thing is getting the most return on investment out of your deployed glass. DWDM / band splitting is where you really need to engineer up front.
What's your source that's an outrageous claim
No, they still own the stock, the government hasn’t taken anything from them. The stock might be worth less money the same way a house might be worth less money if a city government decided to stop repairing the road in front of it, or if the city relaxed zoning laws, but the price of assets in the market isn’t a responsibility of the government, and it generally does not incur liability when it causes them to change.
IMHO this is the key point. Twitter has a strong case in court but courts usually take a long time. Probably at least a couple years for all the appeals to run their course. And at any time during that process Elon can decide that he actually wants Twitter and complete the transaction.

It's a huge distraction for Twitter and probably won't be worth it in the long run. I expect a settlement with Elon paying some cash as a breakup fee.
This is exactly the idea behind GPT-3 Codex, but using GitHub instead of SO. It does, indeed, become much better at programming than the baseline model.