skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Signal deletions aren't an act of God.

Upon receipt of a preservation order, those Signal conversations should've been preserved. Give an intern the task of screenshotting them all. The same rules apply if, say, you delete email after 30 days; you have to pause that process once you've been required to retain evidence.
As I understand it, the $1B purchase agreement clause isn't a "breakup fee" per se - it's not something he could just choose to pay to be able to walk away from the deal. It pertains to some legalese "specific performance" conditions under which the deal wouldn't be able to go thru.

Note that Musk's immediate loss, if the deal goes thru at $44B, is going to be way over $1B (more like $10B perhaps) compared to what the market had been valuing the company at, so I'm pretty sure he'd have jumped at the chance to back out for "only" $1B if that was an option!
> If you start "self hosting" on a cloud based instance, all that you learn in doing so will carry over to when you finally are able to move everything to a machine in house.

I would say this, but first the exact opposite of this…

Run your own entirely local copies at home first. Then, when you are comfortable that you can set things up right, and you understand their security (setting up user accounts, handing out & managing access rights if you aren't the only non-read-only user, keeping things patched up-to-date, tweaking any options that have might have security repercussions, …), you can chuck a copy on a publicly accessible server for others to see.

Then, if you have the local resources for it (a decent speed and reliably enough connection) at home, consider moving it back “in house” but publicly available.

Those first test local-only instances can be on small machines (a Pi if you have one or are lucky enough to find one to purchase that isn't from a stupidly expensive scalper) or VMs on what-ever other machines you have. You can keep them around to play with to test new things later, before adding those new settings/add-ons/other to your public instance.
Google seeks largest-ever order for Pixel 7 launch
Great for half the country that has had to endure at least 6 years of the DNC weaponizing the platform against them.
Wasn't his back to the office order just a few months ago?
Story time:

When the BBC micro arrived at my tiny rural school the elderly teacher had been given instructions for how to type in and run a simple "hello world" style program to demonstrate what this amazing machine could do.

She began copy-typing in the program and then invited each of us to sit at the keyboard and add our names to what I imagine was a simple print statement.

Finally, after quite some time going around the whole class one by one, the program was ready and she pressed return and ..

Syntax error

The machine was promptly powered off and put back in the box.

It would be a few years before it reemerged and, thankfully, captured my interest.
Oh for sure, if you pick out a high consumption CPU then it'll be high for sure
John Gruber (from Daring Fireball) summarises Musk's move nicely:

> Basically, Twitter is taking Musk to court to make him go through with his legally-binding offer from April. Musk today is proposing that if Twitter drops the suit, he will ... go through with his offer from April.

https://daringfireball.net/linked/2022/10/04/bloomberg-musk-...
Others did try, before and after he did. Are you arguing that all that was needed to get Facebook to where it is now is owning Facebook at the time and having the access to engineering team? There is the whole problem of hiring them, managing their manager,and in addition to the tech, there's the whole domain of the business.

Mark is famous for keeping decision privileges to himself and for being central managed who's very involved in the business. Are you arguing that the successful results of his decisions are arbitrary? That doesn't make sense - like I said, others tried before him, even got some traction but lost the game. Others tried afterwards, Google for example, and lost. He survived snap. He incorporated Insta and Whatsapp. Do you really think that any average fool with the ship and the money could get some smart guys to sail the seas for him?
> One wouldn't need special high frequency coax. Bog standard RG-58/U for example has about 1dB loss per meter (or yard).

It's also not too close to 50 ohms up that high above design frequency and the connectors make huge reflections.

> Quite possibly most WiFi radios can reach low transmit and high receive levels, as some devices are placed in proximity and some at large distance.

Path loss of even adjacent antennas is pretty high.

Again, though, this is all a huge diversion: all I did was point out that Ring does actually offer PoE doorbells, and you came in and "corrected" me.
Technically yes. It's a gas, so it'll permeate through anything that's gas-permeable. And being a noble gas, it's pretty small, not as small as Helium, but still it'll wander right through membranes that're gas-tight for diatomic molecules and larger compounds.

However, that is almost always a rounding-error in terms of basement soil-gas infiltration. You can sometimes feel a literal breeze coming through a crack if the house is badly depressurized (windy day and stack-effect), you will never feel a breeze coming straight through a solid concrete or cinder-block wall.

The spikes probably come from depressurization events like that. Sometimes the wind is angled in such a way that the house effectively forms a whistle or a manometer, and soil gas migrates at a greater rate during those times.

This is somewhere that _passive_ sub-slab ventilation (drill a hole, connect a vent pipe to the outside, no fan) can often help significantly, along with caulking all the cracks. Seriously, don't bother with anything else until you've caulked.
Global VC Pullback Is Dramatic in Q3 2022
Maybe that is not a bad thing? If you don’t have internet then go for a walk. Touch some grass.

I hope always being in a work state isn’t seen as a plus.
> The only way to fix it is to set planning rules strictly at the national level

You don't even need centralized planning. Just implement a proper land value tax [0] so that the desirability of a plot of land has to be commensurately paid for by the owner.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_value_tax
Most my friends had Spectrums, i was looking forward to gaming when Santa would surely bring me one too. Alas i got an Acorn Electron. Turns out, having the different system that my extended friend group meant i spent time messing about with coding than gaming. So whilst 'young james' was probably unreasonably unhappy with that Christmas, i think in hindsight it was amazing :)
I agree,

You can /always/ go from `f : t -> r` to `f' : t option -> r option` with `Option.map` (ML-syntax, translate to w/e type syntax you're most familiar with), but the reverse is not true.

I think that the example is super-simplified though and I think that the central point still stands if you have multiple errors though.
Why wouldn’t you ask? You’re afraid of not getting hired by a company that would work you to death?
No, I think it requires more. How many more is the question though.
Well Adobe has also done a lot of acquisition and (many of them they then failed to maintain those products, until a slow death. what they did to Macromedia still hurts.) let us not forget they purchased photoshop and most of what is there PDF software today came from the acquisitions of several companies.
In America, much of the downfall is due to Congress prohibiting innovation. Or fouling things up, such as requiring USPS to fund all retirement expenses 75 years into the future. Which is why - on paper - it looks like the USPS is bleeding money; it has to pre-fund pensions for people who have not been born yet. My theory is that there will be an attempt to privatize the post office (selling it to some campaign contributor for $1) while carefully ignoring the $56B pension fund that Congress required.
Ask HN: Why does story I added not have discuss link?
I just added a story to https://www.hostinger.com/tutorials/the-most-visited-website-in-every-country 19 minutes ago, and there is no discuss link - what gives, I noticed some other ones that don't have at same time but they're [dead] and mine doesn't have the [dead] warning so - why?
I don't enjoy "games" like this where the outcome is determined purely by chance and there is no or little opportunity to implement strategy. It's basically watching the game play itself.

Many of the mobile games these days are like this as well. I understand not everyone wants to think and strategize when they play a game but unfortunately i do and without that component i don't even call the activity "playing a game"
A Plaintext email would show the html tags in plaintext. It’s probably not something this library wants to solve since stripping html tags from an html email isn’t necessarily a coherent plaintext email either.

Generating a plaintext message dynamically isn’t much of a pain point but html emails can be.
Everything old is new again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
Yes sure - if it becomes a pattern, it makes sense as a language feature. Conversely, if it is a language feature there is the danger of it becoming a pattern without need.
I find this the most effective way to do things as well, although at times I lack energy to do it properly, and end up banging away on the keyboard before I’ve properly thought things through (spending more net energy than if I’d done it properly, by the time I’m done).

Reminds me of Rich Hickey’s Hammock Driven Development https://github.com/matthiasn/talk-transcripts/blob/master/Hi...
always wonder where is part II.
A former Facebook engineer wants to help you make your own cell network
The $1B isn't sufficient, though. He would be subject to some serious scrutiny by the SEC.

The $55B isn't all other people's money. He sold a ton of Tesla stock to put up his share (about half, IIRC). That alone would draw SEC ire, manipulating the Tesla stock price under apparently false pretenses.

I suspect that this is the reason his lawyers finally got through to him: go through with the deal or be in very big trouble. He will spend a lot of his own money on it, but he does at least get a major social media corporation for that money.

Whether it's worth it, either in future earnings or in the power he gets from it... I have no idea. Probably not, seeing how poorly considered the whole thing has been so far. But then I don't see the appeal of Twitter at all, so I can't predict what will happen to it in the future.
> "At this point in time, it seems the overall community would prefer a system that flags more potential bugs, even if it means more false positives."

I'm not sure this is true. While people who want static types are vocal about it , those who are happy with Elixir's current balance of dynamic typing with help from guards and pattern matching are generally quieter since they're well served by the language. At least of the Elixir devs I know, the overwhelming majority are not looking for a typed language. On the contrary, many of them moved to Elixir from Java or TypeScript because they didn't like the rigidity.

It's primarily people who haven't ever really used Elixir or Erlang for significant work that make the most noise about "needing" static types. There are some exceptions, but for the most part this is the dynamic I've seen.
Early versions of MJML used JSX class components.
America is history’s most successful failing state
This is really sad, I used to see his drawings all the time on my Instagram and it was so sudden. He got me into drawing and really thinking about understanding perspective; I'm not good at drawing but man did it help my photography.

Absolute loss. I don't know if it was a heart attack or maybe a pulmonary embolism... he had covid before and I think the long flights might have been taking a toll.
LiDAR is finally getting cheap. OEMs (like VW) are very price sensitive. It is estimated the sensors from Valeo cost about 500 dollars. The fact that you see more and more normal passenger cars with higher resolution LiDARs means that LiDARs are getting cheaper.

The Audi A8 used Valeo's (with Ibeo) first generation low resolution LiDAR Scala 1 from the automotive supplier Valeo. Mercedes new models will be using Valeo's second (or third) generation LiDAR. All these are used for L2/L3 assistants. Valeo is a traditional large automotive supplier.

Luminar, a public company from the US, cooperates with Volvo. Some models will come with a LiDAR in the base configuration. These are "new LiDARs" with high resolution.

Innoviz, a 'startup' from Isreal, will supplies LiDARs to VW. Its angular resolution is (in its focus area) about 0.1 (or 0.2) degrees, which is sufficient for higher levels of autonomy and surpasses/equals the resolution of the expensive Velodyne sensors of the past. They will probably be in the same price range. Due to the limited FOV due to the technology, you will need multiply LiDARs.

Many new models from Chinese car brands will also ve equipped with a LiDAR. Most of them with Chinese LiDAR manufacturers like RoboSense or Hesai. Some are equipped by European manufactures like Ibeo/ZF. For example, there is the automotive sensor AT128 by Hesai. It targets normals vehicles (see price range above) and claims a similar performance (except for FOV, so you need multiple) like the Velodyne Ultra Puck (~$50000).

So costs of LiDARs are a not the very expensive obstacle they were in the past. The only problem could be that the new LiDAR manufactures cannot scale up series production. For example, Ibeo just filed for insolvency because they could not close another round after aggressively increasing spending in the past years.
According to Wikipedia they employ 85k. 10% of that is a big deal.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_Platforms
> the government has the ultimate way to do it: just outlaw the competition

> So, it becomes oppressive and horrible and the government decides, hey, let's make everyone use this thing for essential services like payments and democracy

These things can only fly in a non functioning democracy, which, while the US is coming dangerously close to, is not there yet.
(pdf)
Then there would be procedures for redress and emergency injunctions that could be made, with enough time to do so.. The situation would have to be unfucked by hand. 'The computer said so' does not overturn election rules.

This kind of scheduling is not critical, because it happens early enough that you can actually correct mistakes with it without compromising the election.

That's the whole point of defense in depth. Compromising this layer does not actually break the system. Because any failures from it are both visible and redressable.
Build C++ Graph Analytics Without Worrying About Memory
Still red, no change, no conspiracy.
Fascinating. I don't think I'd call it "streaming fatigue", though.

"22.42% of respondents report spending more time with YouTube's free version." I hope that means YT will have good content again, or maybe a better algorithm soon. I feel like it's been lacking lately, and I've heard others say the same.
Except for WhatsApp, from what I can find on Levels, all of the companies you named pay on the low end of even enterprise dev salaries.
Mark Mobius: Clients Don't Want to Hear About China
Those use a converter in the cable itself though right?
> Expressive types are that next step up.

Maybe, sometimes, ... - in practice, I've often seen them pave the path to madness. When types become "expressive" the problem is that now you have to deal with 2 languages. An ok one and a soul suckingly bad one.
This is the way to do it. And if you're charging anything reasonable for SaaS service consider just registering a domain for your customers if they can't figure out how to delegate a subdomain CNAME.
He is mocking the former President's penchant not just for photo ops, but for clumsy hyperboles.
Ehhhhh. The rules don't apply if you're a billionaire. Where Musk screwed up was engaging in a conflict where the other side is _also_ billionaires.
I see better ways to do something.

As you become more senior, "better" is more and more measured in terms of business value.

Creating friction for coworkers generally does not create business value.

Engineering judgement is the art of determining what is good enough. The art of applying the right amount of resources to the right places.

That includes in the interpersonal domain...let the junior engineer own and maintain the design change that might be more work to maintain down the road so that they learn...or you learn that your intuition was wrong.

Good luck.
Fascinating how expressive just solid-colour squares can be. In his "The Assassination of Julius Caesar" video near the end, seeing the red square wiggle and then spin felt very emotional.

Is there a name for this type of animation style?
I mean that's fine for code that you write, but most python code is not like that at all
Yotta likely doesn't solve the issue you bumped into though
> less accountable

Governments are always more accountable than private companies, because the only way an ordinary citizen can force a private entity to cease its abuse is... through the government. (No, "voting with your wallet" isn't a thing, especially when the abuse is profitable.)
Nah, everybody with an agenda has "weaponized" Twitter (read: used in any way to their advantage). Even whoever it is that you might support opposite the DNC.
> still presents a disincentive for non-Christians

The CCCoC presents a disincentive to non-progressives or progressives who just happen to disdain identity politics and the race to the bottom in search of ever more fine-grained intersectional levels of oppression that involves.
From their post, it appears that Simula don't intend to comply with the subpoena. IANAL. Does receipt of these documents carry an obligation to provide the documents and deposition requested? Does this open them to later legal action if they refuse? It seems like a strange thing for a corporation to be able to demand that other companies hand over stuff like this, no matter the circumstance.
I don't think he's worried about his own health so much as formulating the excuse as an insult. The subtext is pretty clear to me, at least.

Only semi-related, but a Russian once told me that in the West people lie to manipulate, but in Russia people lie to your face to insult you. Whether he was lying to my face is a question left as an exercise to the reader.
Except that web apps have become pretty thick, with most of the computation going on in the browser in many cases.
Lifespans of Famous People
I want to add that I think even attempting to get help is helpful on its own.

You can at least find out what help looks like and get à better perspective on your problems.
Two of these already exist:

> Allow adding delay. 'Im on holiday, don't deliver any mail for me this week, I don't want someone breaking into my house to steal it'.

"Royal Mail Keepsafe" - https://www.royalmail.com/receiving/keepsafe

> Super express services

"Royal Mail Sameday" - https://www.royalmail.com/sending/uk/sameday
> That doesn't help anyone.

True enough, but Debian is trying to have a property - "this software is free!". If non-free stuff is included, it will no longer have that property.

I'm not going to second guess the Debian project, they are being reasonable. But guarantees that the software is free are important. New users are all very well, but the experienced users who make up the bulk of Debian's audience don't want to be drilling down into a bug and winding up running in to proprietary code.

The software is the way it is because it believes in freedom. Its successes are because it is free. If the point is to be cheap, go pirate windows or something.
That's what code generator are for.

The Go community has a rule of committing both the code generator (for later regeneration and maintenance) and the generated code (to avoid rebuilding it every time).
How to connect to PostgreSQL (and other data stores) reliably
I think the authorities are stupider than what you think.

When they arrest someone in a demonstration, they will confiscate their phone and open the apps on the device. If the account is inactive, they can not see anything.

May I ask you to delete your comment if that is not a problem? You basically gave the regime an evidence we said the activists are trying to hide away.
maybe a better app would be a chrome extension that fixed all the bugs on Treasury Direct. You could do all the hairy things in the extension without data leaving the users browser.
Can it not work on individual software programs though? And use a shim to access non-safe buffers?
Musk reminds of Trump more with each passing day.
Alternately. 50% of CEO were over reliant on cheap debt and need to reduce headcount to stay afloat as interest rates rise.

Another more conspiratorial take. Since wage growth finally started again for the average worker, talks of recession are an attempt to crush that growth.
> Has all the incentive to make people use it. So, it becomes oppressive and horrible and the government decides, hey, let's make everyone use this thing for essential services like payments and democracy!

Any examples of this? The USPS doesn't seem to have much power and other shipping companiea do alright.
I know it is easy enough for a developer to use the endpoints for OpenAI but for example I have close friends who are writers that would love to play with some of the functionality but do not code. Single page react app that allows users to input full or partial text, and guide AI with suggestions and commands to re-iterate and produce a new piece of work. This is using the 'Edits' end point for OpenAI.
UN mandate
Except conditions were worse when he wanted to open his factories. We have vaccines now, COVID is more endemic than pandemic, and the current variants don't have the punch of the initial strains.

He's trying to play "gotcha". Either they do care about COVID and grant his request or they've been lying the whole time about COVID.

But that's a false dichotomy. He's betting on the court not saying "You're being disingenuous about your concerns" or "Our protocols for COVID have changed due to X, Y, and Z, so there are no more exceptions".

He believes he can play semantic games to get out of doing things. Because that's worked for him in the past. But the only reason that worked for him in the past is because of money. The people he used it on had no recourse against his resources. He's running into the hard wall of reality most of us run into a long time ago. He's finally up against someone who has even more resources than he does.
What argument? I don't know why he does it. But I don't envy the role and I'm saying I think that his 'feels like getting punched in the stomach' statement is probably a true statement about what his role feels like.
Human speech is not formal logic. The only point of saying ((bad thing)) is a consequence of an action (using free services) is to imply that not doing that (using non-free services since you can assume that not using anything is not a realistic opton) would have avoided ((bad thing)).
Lots of stuff recently reeks of linkedIn self-help bullshit and vapid insights. Add to that people who were never engaged with the site promoting their BS as well. It's still a fun place to visit; For how long, we'll see.
I see comments like this all the time on HN. It's a bit pointless replying, because your views are so black and white, but you really have no idea how much value there is in taking risk, leading a team, and executing well. These are gifts given to very few people on the planet. That's WHY there are so few 1trn companies.

The ultimate question is:

There are hundreds of thousands of good dev teams, why don't they all build $1trn companies.
Compile large code base.