skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Matt Levine:

>What Musk apparently wants is to pause the trial while they can work this all out: He offered to “proceed to closing of the transaction,” but only “provided that the Delaware Chancery Court enter an immediate stay of the action ... and adjourn the trial.” What Twitter wants is sort of the opposite, to keep the pressure of a trial on Musk until he shows up with the money. This feels like a solvable problem — basically, you write some sort of agreement that says like “we’re going to work together to get the closing done this week, but if we don’t we’re gonna have an extra-super-bad trial,” and you get Chancellor McCormick to bless it — but they have to work together to solve it. They have to negotiate and draft an Agreement to Stick to the Agreement. If you’re writing that agreement, you have some trust issues.
Traps for Unwary Technical Founders
Splunk is/was a damn fine tool, but I had to stop using it 5+ years ago because they priced themselves out of the stratosphere.
Oh wonderful. The state sponored proganda group will mark things in mass.
> Meta did nothing wrong here

Doesn't this depend on whether Meta is actually guilty of what the FTC is accusing them of? If they are, then clearly the wrong thing they did was behave anti-competitively.

If they are guilty of that, then it is fair to blame them for being dragged into their defense. While everyone has the right to defend themselves, it is fair to be upset at having to be called in the defense of someone who broke the law.
I guess that’s better than AI? I’ve seen some major AI errors I. YouTubes fact checking.
Protest needs to be the very beginning, not the end. Someone being grumpy or complaining on sosh meeds is not protesting, they are fueling the machine.

> Social media eat modernist ideologies

I agree, but I believe that is the intended effect.

Social media is a void that people scream into. Unless your organizing on social media has any direct action in the physical world, it is functioning as intended.
> They tend to imagine themselves as more intellectually capable people

Are they aware of, or perpetuate the stereotype of the CS/IT student who memorizes braindumps to pass certification exams or post simple homework questions online or on StackOverflow, asking others to do the work for them?

As an aside, I work with a lot of engineers/PhD researcher types who think they are the smartest, nothing could ever be their fault, their systems etc are fine and it must be something simple that some other idiot messed up...
‘Innocent is innocent, period’: Richard Glossip on facing execution again
They did slightly more than contributions to Apache Thrift :)
Glass PC cases; so much for EMI compliance. The old computers had metalized plastic cases for a reason.
Sure?
How do you find a controll group of people vaccinated but without corona virus infection?

The virus is more likely the cause if there really is a spike in heart attack cases because pre vaccine studies already showed higher heart disease rates because of an infection.
I would like to see any form of objective evidence for “if you're actually a talented engineer these languages will hamstring you and your art”.

Even in C that lacks any form of sane abstraction capabilities, people have come up with object systems and what not if they fit a problem domain better. While I think that the language optimum is well past C, there is no significant difference between modern managed languages in any way besides ecosystems — and that is the most important thing.
He probably believes he has the unique ability to make it the next big thing.
It's an accurate headline. The firmware under quesiton was NOT included before.
This issue imploring Yusuke Endoh to write a paper about it is amusing:

https://github.com/mame/quine-relay/issues/10

> p-e-w:

> This is more than a cool program – it's a computer science breakthrough! Apparently, you have discovered a method for constructing quines based on an arbitrary blueprint involving any amount of languages.
>
> Please write a technical paper describing your approach. I'm sure you'll have no trouble finding a CS journal that will publish it.

> mame:

> Okay I'll submit to the Journal of Universal Rejection.

Later:

> mame:

> I'll soon publish a book, "The world of obfuscated, esoteric, artistic programming". The book explains how to write a uroboros quine. Hence, I proudly close this issue.

> It also contains my almost all (about forty) works, including alphabet-only Ruby program, radiation-hardened quine, etc., and explains many techniques to write such programs.

> You can buy my book on amazon.co.jp. Unfortunately, it is written in Japanese, yet another esoteric language. I hope anyone can translate to English.
What is this a solution to?
Its still unethical. First off its not that big enough of a deal to warrant the financial obliteration of a small buisness via legal fees/airfare/hotels etc. Nobody died or has their life at stake here. Second off the company should be compensated for their expenses(lost buisness/airfare/legal fees). If this doesnt happen, then its clearly a court unjustly financially harming a small buisness. Thankfully we live in an era where its now possible to operate a company anonymously and not be beholden to unethical national legal systems operating at the behest of the ultra-wealthy.

You try to downplay the severity by saying "only Meta lawyers can see the contents" but that is still wrong. Whos to say these lawyers wont steal your trade secrets and use them to their own advantage? These people are still on Meta's payroll and nothing prevents Meta from asking its lawyers to divulge those secrets. To trust them not to is incredibly naive.
A few guys going to jail for unpaid taxes decades before does not help your view that the Mueller Investigation was a smashing success. They ruined a bunch of lives for cheap political gain, found zero evidence of collusion with Russia, and proved the insinuation of collusion was fake from the beginning as we now know but won't admit.

You only make this point even stronger.

> And now we know that he stole Top Secret/SCI documents from the country, and has yet to return all of them

This is very much an unfinished story.

But, nothing I say will change your mind, and no real facts coming out will change it either. Which is the point the GP was making... despite reality, we all pretend our team does no wrong.
Most psychiatric treatments either don't work or have terrible side effects. People go off them not just because they're crazy. Which means that mandated treatment boils down to jailing many of these patients indefinitely.

I can't find it right now but Freddie deBoer had a pretty good, and by good I mean harrowing, description of psychiatric medication, then medication for the side effects of psych meds, then... It's definitely not like taking antibiotics.
It doesn't prevent it, but it gives you recourse to make yourself whole again, and in a sense prevents a lot of funny business because people are afraid of getting caught and being put in jail.
Please see my related comment here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33110323
Could something like this be used with polling to show a discrepancy between election outcomes and what voters want?

For example, for a presidential election in the US we have the electoral college results and the popular vote (which often differ). It would be nice to also have a ranked-choice result to compare against. Especially when it comes time to consider a revote or when courts become involved with elections (a sign the electoral process has failed in some way).

I suspect that election results would differ from ranked-choice polling to such a degree that it would become apparent how elections are manipulated by parties, the media, incumbents, etc etc etc:

https://journalistsresource.org/politics-and-government/the-...

Economic elites drive nearly all policy change in the US through campaign contributions and lobbying (highly correlated), while response to the average citizen's preferences is flat across the political spectrum (no correlation).

IMHO this mismatch is driven nearly entirely by election results being uncorrelated with voters' preferences. Then the vitriol against outcomes is used by the parties to keep us divided so that much-needed legislation can be simply politicized to stop it. Once support approaches 50/50, it dies in committee.

There were 395 bills that died via division this way in the Senate as of 2020:

https://americanindependent.com/mitch-mcconnell-block-bills-...

I tried to cite the most independent article I could find, but they all mention key politicians. Please don't let names muddy the waters, as the motivation behind divisive politics is the constant here.
This is not a useful distinction: most cryptocurrencies and "DeFi" startups seem to be propped up by shady, unattested corporate entities.
Well, here's 16 attempts of regular Stable Diffusion with that prompt [1], and here's what it things a technical drawing of it might look like [2].

Maybe two papers down the line :D For now you might have more luck with something less specific.

1: https://i.imgur.com/RPNCwyM.png

2: https://i.imgur.com/c9pfM8U.png
Hey, I've been around here a long time and I mouth off more often than most: no moral judgements from me.

But yeah, it's a pretty gritty tone and at times it tends to blur a bit with the complaints about the interviews being too hard and the pay being too high, which isn't an awesome vibe.

I'm the last person to judge someone for shooting off, I get heated myself, but I try to be honest about what exactly the pebble in my shoe is.
If you are asking about Memgraph in general, overall it's a graph storage + analytics system. DGraph is probably more on the pure storage side, while Memgraph is more about graph analytics (in-memory graph storage but it also stores data on disk). In terms of the API, DGraph exposes GraphQL, while Memgraph is Cypher + Bolt protocol. There is much more, which aspect are you most intrested in? :D
Is it a fair heuristic that higher wattage PSUs are higher quality?

Also since the desktop market is pretty much servicing mostly gamers at this point, can you even get a ATX PSU under 500W anymore?
Article ended really suddenly! A smartphone can crush any human alive but I was just getting excited for the difference in methods or something.
Growing up I knew a kid who's leg had been run over by a lawn mower. He still had it, but half his calf was missing and he had horrific scaring. I never saw the lawn mower that chewed his leg up, but I'd bet it had warning stickers on it like all mowers do. Don't stick your fingers in the blades, and certainly don't run over your younger brother with it..

The warning stickers won't fix stupid, but everything dangerous gets warning stickers anyway because lawyers make bank throwing lawsuits around whenever stupid people do stupid things to themselves. The stickers exist for liability reasons, not to protect people. The stickers are magical wards meant to keep the lawyers away.
You think the site isn't getting something out of allowing users to click a social media button to sign in?
Truthiness is not and has never been the problem. Virality is.

Let the lunatics say whatever they want (within the law). Stop promoting it. Eliminate the algorithmic recommenders (automated hated machines).

If that's not enough, start eliminating the other dopamine hits; remove (or nerf) retweets, likes, and whatever other gamification features there are.

As for "truthiness", the workable alternative to factchecking is authenticity.

Social medias should enable the following:

share your work
cite your sources
sign your name

Bonus points for enabling:

errata
retractions

This isn't hard. All the monkey motion about fraud prevention and factchecking only serve to preserve and protect the hate machine.
I'll try a different tack than the OP. What percentage would you assign to libertarianism likely leading to better outcomes?

If it's a relatively high percentage, it's not a modest position.
TikTok Parent ByteDance Sees Losses Swell in Push for Growth
How can you determine it is cheap when Google is anticompetitively subsidizing the cost with advertising and data collection? You could be getting hosed and never know it.
Welcome to the American legal system. Facebook did nothing wrong here. When I was an attorney and involved with these kinds of subpoenas, we always worked with the third-parties to make document production less burdensome for them. SimulaVR should be working with Meta's attorneys on this instead of throwing a hissy fit online.
> What’s needed is a single agency, let’s call it “New York Psych,” to address this growing crisis

That... doesn't sound like a great idea. If you're all-knowing and all-good, great. Otherwise seems like a pretty gross violation of basic human rights - what about the false positives (people who get forced treatment while claiming that they are not ill and don't need it and then that turns out to be actually true).

We could temporarily solve many of the world's problems if we had more authoritarianism, but it never ends well in fiction or in real life.
I keep joking that all we need is one good Git GUI to go viral that defaults to --first-parent in every view and we might eventually convince more people they don't need to squash/rebase as much. One of these days I may even take the joke far enough along to prototype something.
It also has to be considered that Adobe has a large number of developer contractors that aren't included in the employee headcount, yes?
Sadly seems as though the headphone jack has been permanently removed from the entire Pixel line. Really a shame, will have to try and make my Pixel 5A last. Any good Android recommendations that still maintain a headphone jack?

What happened to the proposal to fund production of a reasonable-size stock Android phone that was going around a few months back? Did anything come of that?
> Birdwatch notes only appear on tweets if they’re deemed helpful by people who tend to disagree with each other.

That's kind of an interesting twist on the game mechanic! I really hope it works. I'll continue to not use Twitter either way.
I am not sure these places are nice to the mentally ill. Are we going back to lock them in the madhouse like it is a century ago?
super impressed by this platform
GitHub does the same. There is a compare button that appears after a force (with-lease) push of a rebased branch.
What do you call it when you abuse your insider role to close your own position in your failing investment fund, while hanging your customers out to dry?
To anywhere else, I'd rather be poor but alive in South America than dead.
Jetbrains products have started prompting if you'd like to open a new project in "safe" mode that disables the build tooling until you've had time to evaluate the project.

So at least some IDEs are more cautious about this these days.
"I convinced them to pay real money for fake money, stole the fake money, and exchanged it afterwards for real money" is not an argument that is likely to convince the SEC (or a jury).
Also reminds me of Feynman, who Fixes Radio By Thinking!
Interesting choice of name (and logo) given the proliferation of Snowflake DB.
Show HN: Konf – Manage Lots of Local Kubeconfigs
I've written a small cli to manage local kubeconfigs for Kubernetes clusters. Its main aim is to make it easier working with multiple clusters or being in multiple namespaces.

With a lot of tools already existing, here's what differentiates konf:

1. you can be in multiple clusters and multiple namespaces at the same time → essentially each shell session gets its own temporary kubeconfig file, allowing for full customization. So no more `kubectl config` commands ruining your other sessions. I would say this is the main differentiator from tools like kubectx/kubens

2. it executes directly in your current shell and does not need any subshell, making it really fast → essentially it just sets $KUBECONFIG and does not need to spawn another shell, thus making it a lot faster (no need no source your whole .zshrc/.bashrc) and less of a security risk. I would say this is the main differentiator from tools like kubie

Hope you enjoy it and feel free to ask any questions here on HackerNews or create a GH issue.
The instructor at the branch college where I learned C++ in the late 90's taught us that those were the preferred operators and that the old operators belonged in the wastebasket of history along with printf and str* functions.

It made for some amusing group projects when I got to university, when classmates had never seen those operators and were trying to figure out where they were coming from and why I would write such silly things. I trolled them by replacing all my brackets with `begin` and `end` in the next assignment before moving to the standard use of C operators for the rest of the class.
Is the AWS us-west-2 region experiencing an outage?
Our startup's EC2 instance in the us-west-2 (Oregon) region is down. This despite the AWS dashboard saying there are no problems. Is anyone else experiencing an outage with an AWS resource in that region?
> I would think that we should have a good medical and legal framework for their use.

That's...that's what legalizing is.
How much money have you lost from your private bank account...?
>Common Sense: Honest news for sane people brought to you by Bari Weiss.

Interesting branding. I don't think I've ever seen e.g. a newspaper or magazine marketed as "for sane people."
Yes, we have built a tool that makes this method easier.
However, the method can be used without our tool, of course.
Thanks again :)
If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting success, then a person who got trounced in the California gubernatorial election twice is clearly insane, therefore it’s time for mandatory treatment of Michael Shellenberger.
This. I will never give money to Meta for anything.
That’s relatively low considering what kind of test it is. Elementary school sees a 0.7 correlation between IQ and academic performance.
Right, so you can imagine this evidence would be useful to Meta if the boundaries were drawn differently than how you are imagining.
I had an hour long (ish, maybe a bit longer?) brain scan in an MRI for a control in a phd friend's study. I snoozed and the only notable thing was me sleepily snapping at her for waking me up to tell me what was happening...

The ear defender/headphones were pretty great
PC-MOS/386: a complete multitasking/multiuser DOS-compatible OS, now FOSS
> But thats not what the word _actually_ means, people using a world incorrectly does not change its _actual_ meaning.

It's how virtually every native speaker of English understands the word. It's what the people accusing Russia of genocide want people to think.

The word "genocide" carries enormous weight, precisely because it is understood as meaning mass murder on the scale of the Holocaust, one of the most evil crimes ever committed. That makes the word very attractive as a rhetorical tool, particularly for people who don't mind massively exaggerating.

It's a Motte-and-Bailey argument because the people using the term want others to think of the Holocaust, but when challenged, they retreat back to arguing a much narrower position. They argue, as you're doing, that everyone misunderstands the word "genocide," so it's fine to use it for things that have nothing to do with what everyone thinks of as genocide.[0] Once the argument ends and they feel they've defended their narrow position, they go back to shouting "genocide," knowing that everyone will understand it to mean mass murder. The narrow position is only used as a fallback when the broad, shocking claim they want to make comes under attack.

0. Their argument isn't even technically correct - they're misreading the Genocide Convention - but that's largely beside the point.
Neither statement is falsifiable, so it should be meaningless from a policymaking standpoint.
Are we going to forcibly medicate them?

I don't have a good answer to the problem here myself. But I'm pretty nervous about forcibly medicating folks...
> in a democracy you are not lorded over by party functionaires

Every democracy in the world is ruled by party politics, left right, blue green these are parties not policies. Politicians all go to the same private school thats heavily financed by their party.

The term checks and balances is a very American thing no other democracy has it and America is not even a democracy its a republic. For example the only check and balance on the UK parliament is the unelected house of lords who get their place because they are born into an oligarchy, besides that the only other check is the crown.
I'm confused. Is the author not simply advocating for a federalized version of Florida's Baker Act[0]?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Act
Once the side effects of the medications kick in nobody will ever find out they didn't need them.
> Yes

Alright, so it works for you, but not GP. That still means that it's poorly optimized.

> even if I had monster computer "instant vs 30 seconds" wouldn't be irrelevant

You're stating the negation without providing any argument, so I guess I should explicitly clarify why it's irrelevant: because the topic of this thread is about medium-to-low-end machines, and not about high-spec ones.

To be even more clear, the difference between "instant" and "30 seconds" is categorical in almost every situation, let alone the specific context of interactive software tools.
Great write up, thanks for posting.
Are you sure? If I go to store.google.com/au, I can see the obsidian one for A$1,599. It's not available for the other colors, it was the same for the 6 Pro (the 512 model was only made in black).
Looks at his pile of spare PSUs I'd probably have stuck an 800W in there just because that's what's sitting unused in the cupboard =D
Thanks for the nudge! Great to have fresh eyes on these things and love your thinking. I added an "automatically" to step 3. More importantly, I changed "Voters rank." to "Voters rank once" in the headline of that section.

P.S. Gotta love Webflow for making changes like this super quick.
Reminds me of what happened to Alan Turing.
Shouldn't there be some Coq or Agda or gasp Rust code that implements all these voting algos that we can agree on and share?
You have to apply to the program (just went through this with my own son this year). If you don't get accepted into your preferred major, you can apply to a different major and then switch, but applicants are warned that that's harder than just getting accepted into the program in the first place.
Key step in generating 3D – ask Stable Diffusion to score views from different angles:

for d in ['front', 'side', 'back', 'side', 'overhead', 'bottom']:
text = f"{ref_text}, {d} view"

https://github.com/ashawkey/stable-dreamfusion/blob/0cb8c0e0...
OIRA: Reclaiming the Deep State
Isn't that the exact opposite of what you said above? "If you serve customers in another country, their laws apply. You can either follow the law or not serve in that country." That would seem to imply some overarching legal enforcement regime, rather than law of the jungle.

As to the law of the jungle, if embedded Iranian agents have enough power to do anything to Twitter, then the right framing is that Twitter has a massive security problem. Also it would be foolish of Iran to burn such resources on damaging Twitter rather than continuing to silently exfiltrate data that interests them.

If Iran performs arbitrary attacks on hospitals in "retaliation" for Twitter's actions, then that still doesn't affect Twitter. And similarly, that's best framed as said hospitals having abysmal security, rather than focusing blame on Iran. The Internet is hostile noise.
I mean, you could say the same thing about jail sentences right? Presumably this forced treatment would be done via due process. Maybe in cases where a medical sentence is issued, half the jury are psychiatrists or neurologists or have some appropriate qualification.