skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course. I’m speaking from a biological rather than cultural perspective (as much as you can separate the two, at least). I’m more so interested in what supports longevity as opposed to what supports dating prospects.

I suppose my question is, all other things being equal, would we be healthier if we were of smaller stature? Some data indicate this might be the case, and that’s interesting to me. I suppose my upbringing and culture encourage a “bigger is better” mentality.

A lot of data indicate this could simply be a case of people growing larger because they have access to more food. Genes express, people grow, but the main issue isn’t stature so much as having so much food readily available after they finish growing. Perhaps we eat too much and stature has little to do with it; it’s just a byproduct of access to calorie and protein rich food.
Many trees grow as fast as weeds in the first few years of their life. A single tree can output thousands to millions of seeds in a year. Something can be easy to control when there's 10 of them and impossible when there's a billion of them.

Add to that some tree species can be nearly impossible to kill. Cutting them off at the ground does not work, the roots must also be dug up. Any green braches left on the ground can take root and form a new tree.
Glassdoor not so anonymous
"Due diligence" is the diligence (= carefulness) that you should exert before signing on the deal. Don't trust what the other side tells you. Instead, check.

"Due process" is the legal steps that have to be followed in a court case (especially a criminal one). You can waive due process - if you're not going to make the government work through all the steps, because you know that it's not going to get you any benefit in the end, say.

Musk waived due diligence, not due process.
You say that and yet every year billions in box office revenues go to movies that are aesthetically equivalent to the image of the astronaut riding a horse.

It also seems silly to compare billion parameter AI models to polyester and try to reduce their value to the trite "artificial is bad" argument which has plagued human thinking for centuries.
They don’t mean the same thing, but the reason he’s giving for walking away (an estimate of the fraction of mDAUs that are bots) is not a valid reason under the contract. It would have to be a material statement (ie. affect the value by 25%, iirc), plus the phrasing in the filings was “In making this determination, we applied significant judgment, so our estimation of false or spam accounts may not accurately represent the actual number of such accounts, and the actual number of false or spam accounts could be higher than we have estimated.” The filing basically says nothing, so it can’t be wrong in a material way.

It’s just not a valid reason under the contract.
Not having any trust your government will somewhat do the right thing for its people must be such mental burden.

The world before cell phones was also one where people movement was incredibly easy to anticipate, a vast amount of people would have never traveled farther than a few gours by car from their birth place, buying online was an outlier and news sources could all be fully controled.

That wasn't some eden where a government had no idea what the average people would be doing or thinking or had a hard time controling.
Of course, if Elon's right, and Twitter has been showing ads to way more bots than anyone else has realized[0], than that's gonna seriously tank Twitter's value.

So my question is: what did he learn between the point when he decided to buy all those shares at a high price and the point where he started making a stink about bots? He hasn't made any claims based on new information. Did he just spend a massive amount of money on Twitter stock with zero idea of how much it should actually be worth, and only have second thoughts after signing a deal to buy the company? There's no scenario where his actions look economically sound, so the implausible-on-the-face-of-it "do it for the lulz" argument seems like one of the last best guesses available.

[0] the internet ad space is filled with players, and generally a low-trust industry for obvious reasons, so this claim strikes me as extremely dubious, but here we are
They are significantly easier for kids to climb on than adults. And kids generally have a good sense of their own limitations. Most playgrounds nowadays are deliberately designed with different levels of difficulty, which kids self-select on.

As a parent of two kids and a teacher, they don't make me nervous.
The link posted is paywalled. Here is a free but different article on the same issue.

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/copi-fish-asian-carp-invasi...
> virtually every mobile app

Reminder to readers to use F-Droid
https://archive.ph/4d4Pl
I don't follow any of that. If I have an idea about a new type of toaster...how does DALL-E help me by giving me a bunch of computer generated toaster images? If I want to make a painting of a solar system floating in front of a nebula, I could ask DALL-E to do it, and maybe I'll get some ideas on composition/style, but is that really such a "gatekept" process? And does it even matter? Is my art better or more meaningful after DALL-E gives me some random references?
Sounds like a win/win incentives alignment.
Perhaps the fungus causes dead male flies to attract other male flies.

If male flies normally don’t produce the sesquiterpene pheromones, and the fungus does, and pheremones are the primary way females are recognised, then . . .
judging by recent political events in the UK and the US combined with the level of obesity and overconsumption in these nations I'd say we're already there
A tree is just a type of graph. A graph can be represented as an adjacency matrix. So come up with that matrix, then drop it into lapack for inversion. Lapack is well optimized so this is probably a very good solution.
Re 1: the "average" may not matter all that much. The study's suggested 2 drinks per day is the same as the American average, which according to some web sources I found is 1.94 drinks per day (among adults). [1]

The difference may be that the variance is not that high. 16% of Americans binge drink [2], which drags the average up - a significant plurality doesn't drink at all. The truth in this case could be consistency. No binge drinkers, a consistent level of wine purchasing indicating a high level of wealth in the community.

[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/28/ho...

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/alcohol/data-stats.htm
Most of them do!
An internet protocol for short message services with an established user base. This was Dorsey's vision, and one Musk appeared to nod to. A t.co product could compete with Signal, Slack, and WhatsApp. Further Slack has wasted what I thought was a huge opportunity to create a Twitter competitor where channels could have public facing boards that published curated highlights from Slack chat. They could have done federation without the body odor. A t.co product could just adapt their existing userbase into using private IRC-like experience, with all of their celebrity and social proof stuff intact.

The product level stuff has huge opportunity, but I think the company became too indexed on their nannyishness, so much so that some billionaire got pissed off and is taking their toy from them.
It’s really handy in comprehensions to do assignments outside the normal syntax.
Thankfully this changes with latest generation brought up on 60fps YT and Twitch.
There are infinite limits on growth. The death of almost all plankton is one such limit. Look up.
https://eukaryotewritesblog.com/2021/05/02/theres-no-such-th...

What is and isn't a tree is not as well defined as one would think.
Glassdoor has posted a notice on ZURU's page regarding this: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Reviews/ZURU-Reviews-E2286297.h...

It appears a few other companies are doing this too, including Kraken (https://www.kraken.com/) as you can see here: https://www.glassdoor.com.au/Overview/Working-at-Kraken-Digi...

EDIT: If anyone from Glassdoor is reading this, please advise on a way to either unlink my profile from my identity - or remove my profile and contact information altogether. I believe GDPR may provide some assistance here.
>Let me dispute it then. Try Wise (formerly Transferwise). It is cheap, fast, and easy.

Just checked it out, sending $5 costs at least 13% (they receive $4.33) and doesn't transfer until tomorrow. Some currencies cost far more. Sending $5 to my friend in Brazil would cost a whopping 28% (they receive $3.54). Some currencies don't allow you to send $5, but have minimums that are higher.

Sending $5 of litecoin costs me about .75% (they receive $4.96) and takes anywhere from 10 to 30 minutes.

And although I haven't tried the service, I'm sure they block payments to people and organizations frowned upon by the banking system and the US government. Would my payment to Wikileaks go through? Or the Julian Assange defense fund? I find it highly unlikely.

Finally, individuals like myself who in the past played online poker are blocked from using transfer services like Moneygram and Western Union for engaging in blacklisted behavior. Why would I struggle to enter the walled garden when it is cheaper, faster and easier to use crypto?

>FWIW, I know many people working abroad (from expats to domestic helpers), and none of them use crypto for remittances, as far as I know.

I know dozens of people who work here in New York who use crypto for remittances. In fact, although I don't use it, there is a nearby laundromat with a bitcoin machine that is almost entirely frequented by migrants from South and Central America. Search for "bitcoin machine" in the NY metro area and you will find a huge number of them are located in landromats and bodegas frequented by immigrants who use these machines to send and receive funds.
There are no "backdoors into Google and Apple." The government has to request specific accounts' data with a court order.

The NSA isn't "vacuuming up all the metadata and a good fraction of the content from the main nodes." It does full take in some countries with national security interest and collects data to or from some endpoints outside the US known to belong to foreigners with a court order.

We know all of this from the documents Snowden leaked and the documents the government declassified.
You don;t necessarily have to be able to spot the trick to know there is one. If you know that the expectation value of any combination of bets is just the sum of the expectation values of the original bets, you'll know there cannot be a way to combine zero-expectation bets to get a positive expectation. Because no matter how you sum up zeroes, you'll end up with zero.
The compiler does not know the inner layout of how the system TLS variables are stored (could be musl way, bionic way, glibc way, etc). It only knows that for system TLS variables it has to go thru __tls_get_addr(), stated by the sysv ABI. Indeed, you are not forced to use pthread TLS to cache the value, you can use your own thread allocated memory, or keep it around on the stack/regs. On x86_64, once you have resolved the address with __tls_get_addr() you can use the same address value for all threads, then use common to all thread storage.

I think we agree.
What kind of engineering culture do they have? Can people continue down the technical route without needing to jump into management?
There is also a string of videos saying otherwise.

I believe in science and data, not videos.

I'm not into "videos that corroborate my opinions" religion.

sorry.
The list you gave quite neatly illustrates why EMSEC zones exist. If your security posture includes physical exclusion out to a distance where these signals are no longer discernible above the background noise, and/or you have faraday cages built into the walls as in the case of a standard SCIF, then these attacks aren't likely to be effective.
I worked at a firm who had the same policy in 2014.

It was more common than you may have realized.
That… is the question being discussed
Slightly OT, but Can you move your business from your current cloud provider, to another one?

I have a simple life, simple requirements, I roll all my own services, I hope I can.

I went to an AWS seminar targeting start ups in my City and I was reminded of Tom Lehrer:

"He gives the kids free samples
because he knows full well
that today's young, innocent faces
will be tomorrow's clientele"

They were very keen for us to build businesses on their proprietary systems, which would be "free".

Once you have built your business on the proprietary services and APIs of AWS, Azue, or whomsoever, they have a lot of power over you.

In my experience the mistake that costs a lot and is most often made is to ignore portability.
Copi, short for copious
What I do is I reject (with an error message) all messages not sent to an address in the /etc/aliases file. I will add a new alias for each correspondent. If there is spam (or otherwise too many undesired messages which cannot be removed), then I will delete the alias. Additionally, I do not have HTML email; it is purely plain text, and ASCII only (no Unicode). I use the "exim" email software on my computer to do this. This has worked; I only very very rarely receive any spam (less often than once a year).
Snapchat is the only widely used messaging system in the U.S. that's delete by default. That's huge for young people. Like Snapchat or not, its messaging model is an innovation, and an important one.
That's pretty much a The Economist trademark. They really go for cleverness in heds and ledes.
> And it is this feeling of disconnect from the real consequences of the post-Roe era that is causing most here to completely miss the vast political project that is underway, a project that cares not for philosophical arguments, because it really cares about control and obedience.

God this whole comment is a breath of fresh air. Thank you.
> I think Python would benefit as a whole if PyPA was just dissolved

STRONG agree. And I hate the cult of personality that was previously (still?) strong.
Resolving mass shootings isn't the purpose of the surveillance.
He’s not claiming that he actually didn’t know everything, he’s claiming that Twitter lied in public filings not related to the deal.
Because man like to make mistakes at scale.
> "do it for the lulz" argument seems like one of the last best guesses available

Or Musk is, was, and always will be, a financier, and is doing all this because at some point it made sense to his broader financial plans - dumping Tesla stock near its peak and minimizing the fallback.

Then there was you know, an economic collapse, shortly after this started going into motion. Maybe, I don't know, the financial collapse had some impact on the cost/benefit and changed the course?

Why do people always throw out the simplest most obvious solution in favor of conspiracy and cult-of-personality worship ("do it for the lulz")?

1) Musk wanted to offload Tesla (which he himself said was overvalued). Twitter was as good a reason as any to do so.

2) Economic collapse made the deal unfeasible.

3) When you owe the bank a billion dollars its the banks problem, Musk knows the deal is worthless and is more then happy to let the courts settle it to optimize his personal costs.
It's not that they are being run at 110% of designed standards, it's that are being 'run harder' by skipping maintenance windows to keep uptime. Things will break.

It's clear a lot of people in this thread have no exposure to operations.
With respect, I fail to see how a public website is a privacy matter.
>Nothing is unlimited. If it cut into our tank budget, or anything old retirees care about, something would happen.

Nothing is unlimited, especially inflation. The idea of a "budget" when the FED can (and does) create trillions of dollars out of thin air with a few keystrokes is antiquated. They can - and do - devote whatever resources they desire for "national security".

https://www.usdebtclock.org/
The amendment also references "involuntary servitude", which would apply to penal labor absent an explicit exemption on that.
Ultimately I think I trust any given two pizza team more than a corporate behemoth.
"Copi" strikes me as quite a terrible name for a fish. It sounds very "cutesy".
In thay case RESTful API is an oxymoron, because if it is REST it isn't an API.
USPS: 1995 Grumman Long Life Vehicle: Regular Car Reviews
Growth cannot continue forever without either changing the resource landscape (itrasolar / multi-planet / interstellar) OR exhausting resources.

Resource contention... usually wars get fought over that. Sometimes regional, increasingly global, and increasingly against the destruction of the commons. As we see with the rise in energy accumulating in the global weather systems due to changes to the composition of our atmosphere by unchecked industrial side effects and land use in previously ecologically carbon sink regions.
Related articles:

https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/08/semiconductor_enginee...

https://semiwiki.com/events/314964-a-crisis-in-engineering-e...

Smallish, recentish discussions:

America's chip land has another potential shortage: Electronics engineers - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32048654 - July 2022 (5 comments)

Where Are the Microelectronics Engineers? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32012660 - July 2022 (32 comments)
Even 20% would not fly, winning with MAE in Delaware is basically impossible - the one case where a buyer actually proved MAE there is still referred to as unicorn. Given that Elon waived due diligence and even openly talked about the bot problem, this would probably still be a coin toss if he somehow proves that there are 90% bots.
"the situation is hopeless but not serious" is a wonderful way to describe it.
What makes human behavior distinct from "personality theater"? What makes human comprehension different than advanced layers of mimicry and cross-functional adaption of learned experiences? Is this not what AI does?
I think the reference to Elton John and Bieber is more a dig at the quality of Bieber's music, not anyone's (actual or perceived)sexual orientation, and that it's inclusion on the same CD is tainting Elton John's legacy.

So if anything he respects and likes the famously gay person, so wouldn't characterize that as homophobic.

Won't speak to the anal sex reference because I haven't read the whole thing yet.
First world version of the resource curse.

We're an oil and gas state, 14th largest producer in the world, 2 million jobs, $10 billion economy, owned by oil and gas lobbyists.

Lifelong Texan, will never understand it, but fear of any disruption to that world stops any discussion about green energy in its tracks.
The ASTRO America and Additive Manufacturing programs are great examples of this evolution, with 5 major Department of Defense contractors committed to sourcing 3D-printed parts from domestic suppliers.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases...
That's not how it works at all.

Say a machine gets installed at work that increases productivity by 20%. In a sane system, you could now work 20% less for the same output, a vast improvement in quality of life.

In reality, you might lose your job. Or if you keep it, you'll work the same hours as before. You'll definitely not get a pay increase due to the higher productivity. Meanwhile, cost of living keeps rising.
SBIR grants require a lot of expertise about the arcane application process.

There’s an entire service industry around helping businesses apply. The companies that I’ve seen be successful at it hired several people with SBIR experience specifically to handle the grant proposals.

I had 3 successful NSF proposals and could not have done it without an experienced team helping me just with the legalese and process.
Also in ducks (no need for fungal encouragement): https://www.theguardian.com/education/2005/mar/08/highereduc...
I've done this a couple times.

The last time I needed to present in a class I wrote each slide in markdown, slapped some css on there, and called it a day.

Not perfect, but good enough.
I own a T-shirt which says "Haters gonna make some good points". People do indeed only complain about the things which are used and not the things they don't care about because nobody uses them. But, we should not think this means the complaints just signify success.

People are complaining because they care, but also because it's not good, or it's not as good as it should be.
> Both are now discontinued, but can still be acquired from online stores and auction websites such as eBay.

Sad that this will never be the case for any software released past like 2015. Now if/when the servers are shut off, that is it.
Copi. Seethe. As the kids say, I guess.

Chilean sea bass vs Patagonian toothfish all over again. Personally the second name sounds much more metal.
Cottage food per CA [0]

[0] https://casetext.com/statute/california-codes/california-hea...
Nuclear weapons were developed by the Soviets before the end of the 40's, so it was a very narrow window where the US was the sole holder of all nuclear arms (about five years).
> Crazy?

Not crazy. More like a garden variety conspiracy theory that sounds especially silly due to its use of poorly cloaked expressions like "the party". Why not just say "Democrat[ic] party"? Obfuscation doesn't make the theory any more credible, and probably makes it less credible.
Let me rephrase that, anecdotally I’ve found there is a relatively higher percentage of upstanding people compared to the general population.
Well pound for pound most websites want to sell ads to human eyes and categorically block any robot that doesn't have a human piloting it.

Your best bet at finding standardized public data is projects that _want_ to be read and stored and don't make money, like Wikipedia
The marginal cost of software is basically zero. The marginal cost of hardware is high.
If a simple implementation provides 80% of the benefit - just use the simple implementation.
You should also check out nnn (https://github.com/jarun/nnn) if you're looking for terminal-based file manager.
*Much better than Google. Two Sigma is one of the top paying companies: https://www.levels.fyi/leaderboard/Software-Engineer/Entry-L...

They pay _interns_ $70 per hour
Marginal cost of an additional user is zero. And instant global distribution with the internet.

And then there’s the freemium B2B SaaS business model (Slack, Notion) that is just insanely lucrative…
As a reformed CTO of a rather large bank, your two posts above make me happy.

Not that you faced this. For that, just regretful empathy.

Rather, happy to recognize the “there is no excuse” attitude, the concrete and informed feedback, and the determination to keep digging into the problem till coming up with specific workarounds.

Neither the vendor nor your company understand what folks like this are worth.
Are you saying that lobbying is a bad thing, but you’ll accept it if it’s you that’s the recipient?
Still waiting for them to build an Apple Silicon build. Great player though.
Upvote if only for

> "Schwangerschaftskonfliktberatung" (Pregnancy Conflict Counseling, gotta love German).
Performance is quite unstable AFAIK
In my opinion, SQLite has good documentation, and so does the Fossil version control system.

(Unfortunately, a lot of modern software lacks documentation, making it difficult to use. Do not assume that the user interface is understandable. If you do not include comprehensive documentation, then it will not be understandable.)
I ate this stuff once years ago. Loved it. Can't find it anywhere around me though.
Or <file cmd, to preserve the order.
And the "not related to the deal" part is the problem - even if he wins this claim, this does not necessarily constitute MAE and therefore does not get him out of the deal. Due diligence includes verifying those numbers or at least checking where they come from, especially if they are as important to the deal as they now appear to be.