skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve watched as the internet changed from this wondrous bastion of free speech into curated gardens acceptable to advertisers.

Just the other day Facebook flagged me for hate speech because I used some analogy that wasn’t at all hate speech or advocating for violence. Satirical in nature, but I’m sure I used some flag words like “Nazi” and “Hitler”.

We’ve all been slowly trained by an algorithm to make sure we don’t say the no no words, and more keep appearing. So you end up with people in Wall Street Bets saying they’re all “highly regarded” because they’ll get in trouble if they say what they used to say.

As I’ve gotten older instead of feeling like an adult I’m feeling more and more like a child being nannied by all these services.

If I worked at Twitter and Musk does precisely what he says, ensures you can say anything you can legally say in the US on Twitter, I feel like I’d be doing some good in the world to work for the company.
>knowing that y'' = y is a positive feedback loop (exponential growth) but y'' = -y is a negative feedback loop (oscillating) is really useful in all sorts of common sense scenarios.

I'm not sure what sorts of situations you keep finding yourself in, but I think they're pretty atypical.
As a brazilian, history teaches that inflation is a pain in the ass.

I lived in hyperinflation when I was a kid.
I rememore that my parents would receive and run to the market in the same day, and buy everything in bulk, because next day, their money would be worth half.

Markets would tag products once or twice a day.

I remember buying an X-men comic that was worth something like 1000 BRC.

Monthly inflation would be beetween 50% - 80%.

Also a lot of the commerce was informal and using barter.
What level of detail do you want? https://lilium.com/newsroom-detail/technology-behind-the-lil... has some discussion of it in Item 3 as does https://lilium.com/newsroom-detail/liliums-battery-strategy
No, that is not even remotely close to what was said. Perhaps you should read it before responding further.
They were not political decisions made by governments. They were technical standards developed by standards bodies primarily made up of engineers. Then government institutions like the FCC adopted them for their countries.
It's interesting to consider how Musk's behavior might change if his net worth was more liquid. I'd expect him to buy up a platoon of lawyers, send them off to battle in his stead, and go join Larry Ellison on his island for mojitos at sundown.
Fair, but it was only with 80% confidence and Twitter’s numbers are so heavily caveated I don’t see any way to claim that 11% is “wildly higher” than the SEC disclosure.
> have you ever debugged Java? It's barely even possible

hard disagree ... Java is a dream to debug. I've hacked into complex applications countless times by remote attaching the debugger and setting breakpoints to step through what they are doing. You don't even need source code in many cases. I'd pick Java ahead of any other language on that front.
I’m not sure what to make of your reply. You don’t offer any evidence that it’s not subjective. And I don’t even know what you mean by

> Case closed, apologist anecdata will not be considered.

Not sure this is your call to make?
You could passively record without having to force the CSR to engage. You could also then use that text to help prompt the CSR.
Technically just the D component :)
I'm not sure that Twitter could really sensibly demand damages if the sale went through.

If Twitter is still sold at the original fixed price, then Musk is left holding the asset he himself damaged and would have to essentially pay damages to himself.

The shareholders will still get the same payout regardless of the alleged damage to the company, unless they decided to sell before the sale, but I am not a lawyer so I don't know if they'd be able to sue successfully.

Of course, I don't believe Musk is the sole owner, so his co-buyers might have a case.
This is like saying we use quantum physics every day of our lives because physics. It's true, I guess, but you don't have to know anything about quantum physics and the vast majority of people don't need to know anything about calculus.

It's also clearly not the reason we are educating children in calculus. We can know this because we don't teach children to do weather calculations, we don't test them on statistical analysis, and so on.

The real reason public schools teach calculus is that they started doing it at some point for some reason and then never quit because they are bureaucracies resistant to change. All the people involved have a kind of status quo bias preventing them from saying "yeah, I guess that was useless, let's teach something else."

If I'm wrong, we could imagine a test. Take a comprehensive calculus exam from senior year of highschool or freshman year of college. What grade do you think the average adult would get on this test? How about top ten percentile adults for intelligence, wealth, or whatever? If, as I do, you think the average score would be F, can you explain why it's important to teach the general population of kids something that the general population of adults demonstrably do not know?
I think math feels hard and unpleasant to most students because the way it is taught is often extremely outdated.

In primary school for example, we learn maths by memorising times tables and solving thousands of basic arithmetic problems. This was important in a time before calculators as being able to compute functions is a skill that students might need.

Today though, arithmetic should be taught, not because it might be useful, but because from arithmetic we can discover interesting properties about numbers themselves. I think maths would have been more interesting if you showed students how properties of pure numbers have this nice association with any set of real world objects that can be ordered.
I'm in similar boat however not nearly as skilled as you. I'm running out of time and money both in literal sense of age and finances. I'm capitulating between creating some "X"aaS services or creating/buying a biz. My problem is I've done my value proposition and I have too many projects. At the moment I'm listing them for quickest to ROI. Or just jump blindly head first and do the "just eat the frog."
I'm accusing him of lying in the past, yes. He certainly exaggerates way more than he lies, but to say he hasn't lied publicly means you have your blinders on.

https://elonmusk.today/ has a looootttt of exaggerations that ended up being completely incorrect. It also has plenty of outright lies.

Just from scrolling a bit you can find plenty of indisputable lies:

Lie: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1374619379929772034
Lie: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1256239554148724737
Lie: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1078010341651492865

Just to link to a few.

Scrolling through the list, though, you can't help but know that Elon knows at least some of his exaggerations are bullshit, which would turn them into a lie. For example: https://twitter.com/brenttoderian/status/1557224539267817472 turns what seemed to be an exaggeration of a product being ready into a straight up lie.

Does knowingly miscategorizing facts count as a lie? Because I'm not convinced Elon is stupid enough to know that Twitter was not lying about bot numbers.

If $80m turns out to be $10m, is that a lie or an exaggeration?
Well, that's only one of many reasons. GM Hikaru was laughing at him on his channel when replaying that interview with Hans - a lot of his answers were strange and deflective. A player at this level should be able to fluently describe their analysis at any move in the game.

At one point he described one of his own moves as "a weird move" without offering any explanation, sounding more as if he was observing the move rather than being the one who had actually analyzed it and chosen to play it!
> This is just absurd. Not only is this a period so different than a modern economy that it's not useful for comparison,

I hear that a lot. Nobody is ever able to explain what law of economics changed in 1914. The Law of Supply & Demand was just the same as it always was.

> but during that period it was a roller coaster of inflation and deflation, both of which are terrible for people. Those curious can see the volatility here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Historical_Inflat...

All of the spikes were the result of the US government meddling with the economy (such as bimetalism and other nonsense, see Friedman's "Monetary History of the United States"). Except for the big one, coincidentally coincident with the California gold rush. Or is that a coincidence? Tons of gold flooding into the economy, what would the consequence of that be? Hmmm.
Issuing debt is the same thing.
"Khrushchev’s mistake" was the bit that really made me blink. One has to wonder what nonsense he's been reading.
The secret is to travel with such a large quantity of homemade electronics that you get classified as "harmless nerd".
Your experience is what I think of whenever someone discounts a liberal arts education. It seems like the perfect second degree!
Where do you think all the products manufactured in China are going?

The west is taking advantage of cheap labor in China and pushing all the externalities there. You're using a computer or smartphone that was presumably largely made in China to post this message.

To then turn around and say that climate change is entirely China's fault is absurd. You have to look at what countries are actually consuming the products leading to the emissions.

You're also conflating localized pollution with co2 emissions.
my take is that western and developed nations are just exporting all their problems to developing/manufacturing countries. it's not like europeans don't consume products that cause pollution, they just export the processes that create that pollution to other countries. if anything, europeans/americans are responsible for the majority of the pollution in china/india as a vast percentage of the goods produced end up being consumed in the western/developed nations anyway.
i think europeans should feel guilty when they see the disparity in pollution- norwegian streams and beaches may be clean but they can only do that because they import their goods from factories in other countries and send their oil to be burned elsewhere.
I could actually cheat in that situation, if my people could hack the camera controls and dilate the iris or move it or something...
The slow, halting pace at which we are addressing climate change is the product of human stupidity and selfishness, as well as the immense difficulty of rebuilding our energy infrastructure from scratch. None of that is inherent to capitalism.

Show me a non-capitalist country that is combatting climate change better than a capitalist country. Countries that don't emit because they're poor don't count.

The closest thing to an example is France. And France does relatively well among developed countries because it has nuclear power, not because it is non-capitalist.
You can run a chess engine that can beat any human on a small portable device, so external communication wouldn't be necessary. Perhaps combined with a metal detector it could work? Honestly though I think the more significant reason is that that would require building the cages, and would prevent live audiences.
I responded to the parent comment if you’re interested in my reasoning.

You could be right though about the working conditions, I worked with some Tesla business analysts to do some software integration with them and it didn’t go super great. They wouldn’t communicate for m awhile, then they’d yell and screaming at us for not doing something they hadn’t asked us to do, seemed pretty bad. So you might be right! It’s possible I’d hate it.
@cebert have you checked out Scanner.dev? It uses sparse skip-list indexing and serverless components to let you query a terabyte of logs in seconds and pricing is around the same as Cloudwatch
> Music, history, and calculus are useful to some people, but not nearly as many.

I couldn't imagine not introducing my kids to History, Music, the Classics and so on. I value them far higher than my experience with Computing, Finance, Law, what have you. What a pointless life to only have interest into things that are productive.
I was hyped for Classic for YEARS and when the release date got announced I booked a full week off work (and with the missus lol) so I could no-life it just like old times.

If the community could have had their memory wiped of Vanilla on launch day it would have been a different experience. But instead we just ended up with a bunch of seasoned veterans min/maxing everything to the extreme and burning through content they'd already solved more than a decade ago.

I still re-visit Classic every now and then, maybe just to level another character up to level 15 or so and re-experience the starting zones I like so much. But it doesn't have the same allure as when it was brand new and that's kind of sad.
Federalization of everything isn't a panacea, and the history and internal culture and politics of the USA mean certain societal problems are most pragmatically addressed at the state level.

It sounds like a pretty nice deal for mothers in Brazil, though. Googling the paternity leave policy, fathers in Brazil are only entitled to five days paid leave. In my personal situation, 8 weeks seems pretty nice in comparison. For a nuclear family, that's potential for 16 weeks total, vs. Brazil's ~18 weeks.

Also keep in mind that, legally within California, there's a distinction between paid leave for parental bonding vs. paid leave for recovering from injuries related to pregnancy. I believe mothers in CA are entitled to up to 52 weeks of paid leave if their medical situation warrants it. What's the equivalent social policy in Brazil?
Are you familiar with professional Starcraft II? Those guys are executing ten moves PER SECOND. While streaming.

This is two to four orders of magnitude faster than chess players in a classical game. One to two orders of magnitude faster than blitz.
Kind of tongue-in-cheek, but I want to know what's the project that scores the most fraud points, while still being serious - blockchain, electric-powered, self-driving/flying airplane/car/submersible hybrid sold as NFTs?
I'm sure Russia and China are paragons of clean energy. Presupposition that this is capitalism's fault is ridiculous from the get go.

It is the unchecked human instinct to drive the Machine of Progress forward that is at fault, and neither anti-capitalist narratives nor ESG idolatry is going to capture that out of the air. We are broken on a far more fundamental level - we just acquired the technology for that fact to manifest itself at global scale.
Listening to SQLite creator podcast (https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/# ), it does feel that Glauber is right about weird collaboration standards. The guy is against gmail, git, etc. Fossil may be better for SQlite today, w/o many contributors, that's the problem Glauber is trying to solve
Humans has terrible intuition for these things, it was just 300 years ago humanity figured these things out but once we did we did all these things afterwards in just 300 years. Learning this one thing is the key to so many things.

Basic math and physics education helps build intuition for it, but without people are really bad.
Cute, but i'll counter with this one:

> Any sufficiently complicated Clojure program contains an ad hoc,
> informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Spring.
Just this week I have watched two videos on YouTube where the presenter is trying to address the comments on their previous videos where people are suggesting (something like) "connect an alternator to the wheels on an electric car to generate "free" energy to run the car".

These comments show a thinking, inventive mind wishing to be useful and improve things, but such a basic lack of understanding of physics. I can only think that these people weren't paying attention at High School, were (poorly) home schooled, or have some sort of incapacity to understand/believe the established laws of science.

Yet they think that they can invent simple solutions which have somehow eluded the experts in the field. Perhaps it is some form of Dunning-Kruger effect.
Heating and light, yes.

You can, and people have throughout the last century and a half, both for heat and light. In terms of winter, the fact that kerosene lanterns provide "a bit of light and a lot of heat" is useful - though the light coming off a good cold blast lantern is just wonderful, year round. A nice continuous spectrum, cooler than candles, but still a very nice yellow-orange, with more than enough to read by.

I've been experimenting with them for a while now, and as far as I can tell, a properly burning kerosene lantern doesn't put any measurable particulate in the air, at least as far as PM2.5 or PM10. Run them too high, they'll certainly smoke, but run properly, I can't measure any real difference with the meters I have. They should be burning cleanly.

The same goes for the wick type kerosene heaters - either convection or radiant. They should be burning clean, and if you get any smoke off them, you've got a problem that needs fixing (the good news is that it's almost always either just burning them dry to remove tars from the wick, or at worst replacing the wick).

You shouldn't be getting any carbon monoxide off them either. That's from incomplete combustion, which, again, shouldn't be happening. A properly designed and operating lantern or heater will be feeding a strong draft into the burner. A window slightly open should provide enough venting for a typical unit burning - though I'd have a CO meter around any combustion heat as a normal habit anymore.

If you're burning 1K, you'll get some kerosene odor on startup and shutdown, but it shouldn't be much during operation. However, if you're in the US (perhaps other places too), you can get Klean Heat, which is a kerosene substitute that's somewhat more expensive (~$15/gal vs about $10 for 1K out here), but burns significantly cleaner. It behaves the same, so can burn in the same lanterns, but just burns cleaner all around - less odor, less wick fouling (though that's not usually a big issue with 1K, just the red dyed stuff), etc.

But, yes, I very much do refer to kerosene as a backup for heating. I prefer it over propane - it smells better (propane has a bit of a metallic tang, kerosene is a far warmer smell), and I don't have a pressurized bottle of flammable gas in the house. Kerosene is combustible - not flammable. The flash point of the stuff you should be using is around 140F, which means below that temperature, it doesn't emit enough vapor to ignite in regular air. Gasoline's flash point is -40, give or take, so it will happily generate vapors in regular air looking for a thing to light them of. Especially in the winter, at 40-50F, kerosene is quite safe compared to other heating solutions.

Anyway, it's something to look into. Our energy systems are not in good shape globally, and being able to stay warm with the power grid down and the natural gas empty seems like the sort of thing one might want to consider more lately.
I agree and nothing about waterfall denied making prototypes, ever. We all know modern agile is nothing more than mini-waterfalls anyway.
I don't disagree, but I think the Darwinian part transcends the idea of incentives. You wouldn't say that a tree has an incentive to reproduce, as a byproduct of a Darwinian natural selection they are guaranteed to have that property. Similarly, civilizations that have economic activity are guaranteed (in a Darwinian sense) to have economic growth.
Do they not use computers or smartphones in China?
That would be looked on by Delaware judges about as kindly as using a cigarette lighter to burn the only copy of a contract in front of them. He had the financing contractually agreed, that clause was in case something happened like Tesla or one of the banks providing a loan going bankrupt (actually writing that makes me think I remember that the clause was only applicable to the loans part of the financing and not even the other investors - but I'm not sure I'm right, and too lazy to go find and re-read the purchase agreement they signed).

Some people did speculate that the reason Musk started publicly disparaging Twitter was in the hope that some of his financing would try to pull their agreements thus triggering this clause, but the expert opinions I saw were that the court wouldn't accept that, especially after Twitter filed suit against him, and sure enough that strategy (if it was a strategy) didn't pay off - otherwise he wouldn't be where he is today. (Matt Levine covered this particular theory well in his Bloomberg newsletter.)
i mean, even with hiring freezes and layoffs i'm still getting emails from recruiters (this month i got one from google amongst other companies).
Musk is modern day Howard Hughes.

Brilliant man who worked in aviation and aerospace and did many things. Eccentric person with serious mental issues.
Fair-weather friends. Shouldn't have played it so risky, I guess.
Atomic Commitment: The Unscalability Protocol
> I'm skeptical of that claim since the rich hold more assets than dollars

You should be. I doubt the rich hold any dollars at all. They invest it all. There aren't any Scrooge McDuck cash vaults.

(Criminals often do hold lots of cash, and they try to get rid of it by laundering it.)
Perhaps also/instead:

These lessons help bring you up to speed with foundational concepts and ways of thinking that took humanity a very long time to discover and develop. Learning these things while you are young will, at a minimum, help you keep up with others and avoid being scammed, or at best, help you quickly reach the current limit of our understanding and possibly expand our capabilities.

You can also think of it like stretching and exercising your brain. You may not need to actually do that work, but it's still good for you and helps make other work easier.
On the scale of evil things in the world, modifying ~10 minutes of a popular fantasy movie does not rank highly. The implication is scary, but the act itself is profoundly unimportant.
You need to learn how to think. How to solve problems. How to express your ideas clearly. Maths is excellent training.

And it can be enjoyable for its own sake without being practical!
That is incredibly short sighted.

The reason why you don’t see that much pollution in your country is that it has been outsourced to other countries with more lax pollution laws and less worker protection laws. This means that fabrication of an item produces more pollution than if it was built in your country (where there’s more regulation). And then there’s even more pollution due to the long transportation haul.

But you get a cheaper price tag. And your rivers are clean.

But think about these things when putting blame.
That's just one of several problems. Another one is that economic systems often tell people what to value, and what products to associate with what feelings. People rarely start smoking because they like the taste or sensation.
Yeah, that was shit, when someone beats you with the rules you yourself wrote, don't be angry.
That's called disaster capitalism.
Does the law require only USB-C charging or must charge by USB-C? The language of "will have to be equipped with a USB Type-C charging port" makes it sound like it's only required to take USB-C power not that it can't have a higher power alternate port.
> This will never happen . [...] Better to worry about how to adapt.

In ecology, there's talk of population boom/bust cycles that result from biome variation, like a predator going away. This results in more members of a given species than can be supported by the rest of the biome.

Then comes the bust.

In human terms, adapting is probably mostly about hoping the right warlord owns you.
I found my job of the last 2.5 years from that thread. It's hit or miss but sometimes a strong match happens!