skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Systemd has admittedly grown on me, in the sense that the pros have begun to outweigh the cons, when divided by the amount of time since I began using it, multiplied by the amount of time I'll likely still be using it.

Homed might take another decade or so. Gives me the goosebumps on my arms just speaking about it.
It’s not the only thing which matters but it’s important to remember because these guys get so much public praise for being visionary geniuses while there are a ton of people who are just as smart and hard working but didn’t have the resources and luck to hit a high-return jackpot. For example, Bill Gates has been the subject of so many business books which love to describe him as a genius but while he’s far from stupid he wasn’t noteworthy compared to his peers: MS BASIC & DOS worked but they weren’t better than the alternatives – but those competitors didn’t have parents on IBM’s board, either. Prior to the Meta debacle, Zuckerberg got tons of laudatory press which tended not to focus on how much his early success was due to leveraging the Harvard network, or the almost forgotten classmate who went around the country getting sororities (and thus fraternities) to use it, great boosting its reputation as a place to be.

That matters personally because you want to set realistic expectations: if you can’t afford to write off a couple of year’s work, launching a startup probably isn’t the best call for you compared to a more staid job which means you don’t need to worry about rent money or health insurance.

It also matters societally because these guys really want to influence our laws, educational system, tax code, etc. and that context is critical. If a billionaire says we should cut taxes on startups to help people climb the ladder, the first question should be how much of the money will go to rich kids from Ivy League schools versus the ones featured in the ad. Similarly, if they’re pushing kids to drop out of college for startups or turning public schools into coding camp, we should be asking how that’ll work out for everyone: the prospects for a kid with affluent high-status parents and a robust social network are quite different from kids who are poor, brown, in the wrong part of the country, etc. and such a policy might be especially dubious if it meant that they have lower negotiating power to get better jobs at the companies run by people making such suggestions.
They might be diligent, but in comparison, copywriting was in another level in the Steve Jobs era.
The assets of the company are exactly the same, except that $1*num-shares that was previously on the company's balance sheet is no longer there. The company is less valuable and so the stock goes down.

Having an attractive dividend policy can make a stock more valuable to certain investors, but the act of actually paying out a scheduled dividend basically only makes the stock price go down.
> I really don't get where this meme of "impulsive, erratic, hotheaded Musk" comes from

The same guy who tweeted "Funding secured". His tweets about starting boring company, and buying twitter. His email exchanges that are now public. He is VERY impulsive and erratic (maybe not hotheaded).

All his tweets on Bitcoin:

https://www.rockwelltrading.com/articles/coffee-with-markus/...
it's the common curse for emulators - Cygwin, Wine, WSL1 - subset of features of supported and not always right/can be done right. And you always chasing the origin with a lot of efforts.

I highly doubt things like mounting filesystems ( I do run BTRFS for LXD in my WSL2 system) or other just-slightly-beyond-posix things would work reliably or at all with such kind of emulation that WSL1 do. In other words - it would never be Linux enough as native Linux (with VM type of WSL2).

I.e. I still use both WSL1+WSL2, but WSL1 is basically a very small shim when I need some socat/grep/shell & where it needs to share networking with main system, while main work is much better in WSL2.
Also not equivalent in terms of tax treatment.
Not solving but alleviating, by rerouting transiting traffic through bypass routes underground. For example, in Washington DC:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9th_and_12th_Street_Expressway...
I agree this is what his issue is likely to be.

I'd be pretty surprised if those accounts were obviously using the API, too easy to ban them by application.
At some point big social media might have to be made a utility and or nationalized, assuming we want a de-jure government to be our real government, and not a constellation of corporations acting as a de-facto one.
If they made $1B profit before counting the loan, they would spend that profit on the loan. Effectively the same concept: they need to revenue to clear operating expenses PLUS a $1B loan payment.

In 2020 twitter had a net loss of $1.14B. The loans will kill twitter.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/twitter-announces-f...
You're thinking about the Basij:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basij
Like 5 people "migrated" to Mastodon, and Discord isn't a comparable product
I overreacted. Let me try again.

Your original question was, paraphrased, "how do we give non-tech product owners early access without a staging environment?"

The canonical answer, from organizations that do this, is to use feature flags that are tied to user accounts. But this requires a certain level of engineering maturity—specifically, something that looks a lot like continuous deployment.

There's a bunch of things that go along with continuous deployment, but one of them is continuous integration (the practice, not the poorly-named build servers), which is a combination of trunk-based development and frequent merges to the trunk. This requires programmers to hide incomplete work behind feature flags (or keystones¹). There's an associated set of practices for dealing with schema changes that I'd be happy to describe.

People who are using feature flags (and associated practices) don't have "code that's not ready to merge." That's the whole point of the feature flags—to allow them to merge and deploy unfinished code.

So when you put the constraint of "our code isn't ready to merge" on my "use feature flags" answer, I thought you weren't engaging in good faith, because it's kind of nonsensical—like saying risk of sunburn prevents you from using sunscreen lotion. I apologize for misconstruing. I assume what you really meant was, "We aren't able to use feature flags to merge and deploy incomplete code."

That's a perfectly fine answer! But you asked how people share incomplete work when they don't have a staging environment, and the answer is, "feature flags."² Specifically, they deploy incomplete work to production and use feature flags to selectively hide and show it. If you can't do that, then it's probably best to keep your staging environment.

¹Keystones: https://martinfowler.com/bliki/KeystoneInterface.html

²For teams that use keystones, but not feature flags, pairing with stakeholders (screen sharing) is another approach I've seen used. It has the advantage of being simpler. But I agree that it's more constraining.
Mad Rush to Buy I Bonds Overwhelms Clunky TreasuryDirect Website
> there is nothing more annoying than someone assuming context I don't have

I worked with a senior developer when I was a junior who would answer any question by starting from first principles.

I understand sometimes a question can betray a misunderstanding of foundational principles but this was decidedly not the case, at least in most of the incidents.

I eventually learned to just not ask him questions unless I was absolutely desperate, because it would take him 5-10 minutes to work up to the critical piece of information I was actually missing. I think he just liked to hear himself orate.
He has to surpass a very very low bar...
> The only way to stop the endless cycle of imperial nationalism, Mr Navalny argued, is for Russia to decentralise power and turn itself into a parliamentary republic.

I love a decentralised parliamentary republic as much as the next person, but to say that reduces the risk of imperial nationalism is madness. The reason to use decentralised parliamentary systems is because they are much more effective at picking, fighting and sustaining wars with a strong economy.

A very significant reason the world transitioned from British Empire to American Totally Not An Empire All These Military Bases Are Normal is because they are the most successful decentralised parliamentary systems.

Dictators win wars against smaller dictators, and sometimes manage to take out a rotten democracy that has overcentralised. But democracies are military beasts and totally compatible with imperial ambitions.
Yes. I buy my SD cards from B&H to try and minimize chances of getting counterfit product. I have never had a corrupted card that I can recall, and I just unplug them.
The question is, who will decide who to fire? And how many of the wrong people to fire will get fired in the process?
> "Some Neanderthal sites. Note concentration in the Basque area"

Then they proceed to show a map with neanderthal sites concentrated to the West and North of Bordeaux. Only a few locations near the frontier in the south of Nouvelle Aquitaine could be really included in the current basque culture, that is posterior and southern, and none of then appear marked as Neanderthal sites in the map. If Nouvelle Occitaine is the same as Basque, then UK would be Italians, as it was part of the Roman empire in some period of its history.
This feels like a pretty uncharitable take, for a start sugar is pretty addictive and reducing / cutting it out of your life if you're used to having lots of it isn't easy.

Secondly I vaguely recall the shift as a university student routinely eating take away to cooking for myself, it's not a trivial step, you have to pickup habits around shopping, meal planning and cooking. There's a lot of steps someone who's not used to doing it can drop off on.

So yes, I can believe that people both know what are healthier options, but have no idea how to actually practically execute them in their life. It is deeply unhelpful to give people advice that they can't action and then expect them to thank you for it.
The lead times are too long on power plants. It takes years of permitting and studies and then years of procurement and construction for large projects.
Will Musk actually cut 75%? Musk tends to do a lot of “thinking out loud” - so even if he really spoke that number, he won’t hold himself to it.

Whatever the actual figure is, it is unlikely to be the same figure across all departments - likely some departments will be cut much more than others. Probably engineering will experience significantly less cuts than marketing, PR, HR, government relations, business development, etc. Even in engineering, some cuts may be due to things like adjusting the manager:IC ratio.
yep, it's there. Seems to be bit unstable, I've noticed glitches couple of times, but still, great step forward!
This has nothing to do with ethereum.

ETH is "Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule".
https://ethz.ch/en/the-eth-zurich/portrait/history/overview....
well he did just put the company he bought $13bn more into debt, good to take a breather

https://www.wsj.com/articles/elon-musks-twitter-takeover-see...
Those who enjoy this might also enjoy "Creating a NES emulator in C++11" [0] [1] [2] while not short in bytes of code(space) there is a nice video series short in minutes(time).

Bisqwit takes you on a 30 minute tool assisted coding journey of making an NES emulator and also provides a 15 minute followup Q&A video explaining different aspects.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y71lli8MS8s

[1] http://youtu.be/XZWw745wPXY

[2] http://youtu.be/QIUVSD3yqqE
Then why can't I go to any news site without seeing a fresh new story of some rich/famous person getting caught red-handed being terrible and then gaining popularity from it?
That is precisely what they did. "(Objectively innocuous statement X) is being understood by certain people to mean (Y) instead".

Count how many times weasel words like "is being understood as" or "could mean" are used. Understood by who? How many people? Based on what? "Could" mean? This kind of unsourced and unsourceable fuzziness is a telltale sign that you are reading someone's opinion, not a recounting of facts.
I never said anything about believing the news. Wikipedia labels the political leanings of people they identify as political commentators, and they don't label the political leanings of people they identify as journalists.

In this case, both Maddow and Carlson have used the argument in court that a reasonable person would not take what they say as fact. Regardless of our personal opinions about him or his employers, Blitzer has not made that claim.

If we're trying to ascertain whether Wikipedia is biased in how it describes people on television, comparing a political commentator to a journalist is not going to be a very instructive example. Comparing to another political commentator is going to be more useful. I'm not making any assertions about how I feel regarding these people.
Presumably it was a used drive and sold in the three hours between updates.
What're the thermal dissipation requirements?

How densly is it possible to structure them and still provide adequate cooling?
what I'm loosing not doing so? I'm running Docker not even every week, but when do it works
> ... and now you want to tell them they're gonna have to buy a whole new PSU?

I saw the connector and did a double take, it has a third row of smaller signal pins which none of my existing power supplies have. Not even my newest which is a 750W from last year. Sone new gpu power connector. So I assume most people had to buy a new psu anyway.

I am all for higher voltage. 24V is the standard in industrial automation as well as off highway machinery and european trucks. 48V is common in telco but positive ground though it is common in industry; I use 48v supplies for small stepper and servo motor amplifiers for motion control.
Someone told me a while ago that if you hit "log in" a close button appears in the top left, and you can close the dialog without signing in.
Bangkok, at least pre-COVID, metal detectors at all underground station entrances and all department stores. All with security guards. All waving people straight through while the things beeped alarmingly. Worst was when a tourist paid attention to the signs and attempted to show the security guard the contents of their bag. Eyes rolling everywhere as the crowd backs up, waiting for the guard to get them out of the way as fast as possible. But despite all that, they still insisted everyone actually had to walk through the detectors and you would be blocked if you dared try to enter through the exit door (without a metal detector).
For every example you stated, there are more for things he has changed his mind on:

> https://www.teslarati.com/tesla-snake-charger-elon-musk/

> https://insideevs.com/news/326869/elon-musk-comments-on-fail...

The latter he said was due to low uptake (which is nonsense - you can find YouTube videos of how unfindable the place is).

> https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1017149641991680002

More stuff he has given up on.
So... only vaguely "famous" people should be able to get verified? The current system is much worse than that, you can find PR firms online right now that charge $5-10k to get an article written about you in Forbes, come up with a fake Spotify profile so that you're a "musician," etc so that you can be verified.
Pretty much. Conda installed with miniforge uses a different channel, with a focus on having packages available for more architectures.
Congrats; american cheese is still trash
ASRock Industrial have a product line but finding resellers can be a challenge.

https://www.asrockind.com/en-gb/4x4
The world is full of stories of companies desperately looking for revenue when their on the downswing and I can't think of any which have worked out.
I love blog articles like this. Someone posted one recently that had the mechanisms of a watch beautifully programmed and very smooth. This one was captivating in a general sense but I'm a little ashamed to admit I don't quite grok the significance of the programming portal in the way it is being celebrated in this article, but it does give me warm feelings about old Macromedia software the way that they're presented. What a pleasure to read. Thanks to those involved for making this!
The headline is disingenuous given the overall market decline. No doubt the Meta decision was a massive drag on Facebook. It would be interesting though to see an estimate of the loss due to poor management / vision, vs other factors.

Also, (as someone who thinks Meta - by which I mean the metaverse - is stupid) I want to defend Facebook and say that doing nothing would also have made them quickly irrelevant. It's not like they could have rested on their laurels and expected FB and IG to be long term drivers of their stock valuation. Meta was imo a poor direction, but it was a direction, which is better than nothing
They use git.
(2020)

I'm interested in the next step of the plan, which is:

> Stage 3 -- Python 3.12 (requires runtime code generation)

> Simple "JIT" compiler for small regions.
The terminology of the debate gets confused a bit because while indeed the expectations of people’s behavior, dress, etc. based on their sex is indeed a social construct and has been probably since the beginning of humanity, that wasn’t what “gender” meant until very recently. As far as I can tell, “gender” and “sex” were completely synonymous until 50 years ago, even in niche academic communities, and until maybe 10 years ago among the general public.
I'm sorry if that sentence made you think you had enough information to assess my political leanings, and I'm even more sorry if I gave the impression that I care about the politics of TV personalities. I'm strictly speaking in terms of how Wikipedia describes people on television. I may as well have said "You've confused Wolf Blitzer for a political commentator," as Wikipedia doesn't classify him that way, and he's never represented himself that way in court.
That seems really inconvenient to be honest.
At this point it feels that systemd has also grown its group of fans that try to silence any opposition, and the colour of your post is surely evidence.
"I'm going to buy Twitter"

- Elon Musk
Related: this front-page post on Decker.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33377964
I guess so, maybe? Though I can barely think of a less interesting tech-y thing to own than something like Twitter when you already own SpaceX and Tesla. In terms of Tech-y-ness, Twitter is a spectacular downgrade.
It's very common to build bots for Twitter. They post on Twitter because there's an audience there. I'm sure there's lots of places I could get an rss weather subscription, but I stopped using rss.

This is a Twitter account that started relatively recently - I like it. https://twitter.com/_restaurant_bot

This sort of bot has had a good place on Twitter for at least a decade, going back to @everyword.
I would say 'orthogonal' is used for conceptually independent, not causally independent nor statistically independent (uncorrelated). So i would say that sex and gender are conceptually independent, although in reality statistically highly correlated.
>Even after we asked him why, if hard drives were truly binary, that secure disk erase tools were so complex and slow he still insisted that everything was binary

Well, the argument was bad though: whether hard drives are analog is orthogonal to why "secure disk erase tools are so complex and slow".

I see what you meant ("if they were digital you could just tell them to flip to zero and that would be easy and fast").

Sure, but there are many other reasons why secure disk erase tools could be complex and slow even in an imagined all-digital disk (and of course the imaginary digital substrate operations could just be a slow tech, the way RAM is slower than Lx caches, etc.). And while for delete you just need to change some directory entries to mark as none, for "secure erase" you'd also want to "reset" every bit, so at least similar time to the work you do when you write a file of same size.
It is joke being taken seriously that he was forced to buy it. No one will spend $43bn to avoid paying 1bn (opt out fee)

He decided to buy because he feels its better to own it.
Oooh I forgot! The Something Awful forums approach. I think this is the best one.
and yet there continues to be a movement to defund all liberal arts and humanities departments in colleges, turn everything into a Google code certificate and eliminate the English classes while claiming it is because people dont like wokeness.

English = writing. History = writing. Art History = writing. Philosophy = writing. Technical Writing = part of the English department.

You aren't going to learn to write in math class or database class or ML class.
> Most people who work with Musk 1:1 know he's unpredictable but pretty mentally unimpressive.

Sources?
Twitter will owe > 1B/year in interest. If it doesn’t start making money, it either goes bankrupt or Elon bails it out.
> since I don't think he did an insanely great job as CEO

TBF he did the one thing he needed to do - sell Twitter at an absurdly high valuation, great for all stockholders especially in this market. And, he kept Twitter chugging along without any failures. I can't expect more from a CEO.

EDIT: I see the rest of your comment is about why Elon wouldn't need him. With that, I can somewhat agree, though Parag has been at Twitter for a long time, and as CTO as well.
There is an opt out of 1bn. That is the only thing he would pay if he wanted to walk...
Perhaps https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ - this site is filled with amazing visualizations.
You gotta look both at odds and also at returns...

You bet on (a) and (b) because nobody else has pulled it off so if you can do it, you can win big, and you aren't just one of many players in a crowded sea.

(c) is a rough bet since you're already huge but you still have a lot of competition and it's a crowded market and you haven't always made as much money per user as people would like...
Source Code for SunOS 4.1.3 (1992)
Using open-plc-utils in Linux with Powerline (HomePlug) adapters (2021)
What does freedom of speech mean, in your mind? Is it ok to shout "fire" in a crowded theatre?
Allow me to introduce you to the X and Y chromosomes.
So the title of this post is actually just the author's hook to get you to pay for their article.....
I think maybe you misread "People without that will just assume people know what they know..." to mean "without autism" but it actually meant "without a good theory of mind [as is often the case for autistic people]"
> Their behavior was a part of a harassment campaign against someone who is largely a private citizen in this instance.

What you call a "harassment campaign" happens constantly on Twitter, driven by Twitter's own site and algorithms. Twitter frequently has a "main character" of the day, driven by the "What's Trending" sidebar on the home page, as well as quote Tweets by people with thousands or millions of followers that encourages and incentivizes the dragging of people who have little power. If this is a bannable offense, Twitter should ban itself.
Pretty soon the sales rate of EVs will level off because they haven’t gotten landlords of apartments to install battery chargers yet.

It doesn’t evn make sense to be having power companies installing megawatt battery pack substations then have millions of Private EV chargers due to poor efficiency loss.

It still doesn't scale.
The majority of scams are not bots written with the API. They’re stollen accounts of real people that are semi-automated, semi mech turked using a variety of techniques.
Yes! Thank you, what a creation.
YouTube’s richest creator MrBeast is seeking a $1.5B valuation
Wengrow & Graeber’s Dawn of Everything is a fantastic read related to this
No, they usually are very brazen about that, but this time they are generally clueless.
I think it's more the inflammatory comments that systemd seems to bring.