skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me, it was that I wasn't sure if I would be picked up in the EU. To protect myself I just did what I could to prevent it. Better safe than sorry.

But yeah.. if google just stopped working in EU for a day (not paid for Gmail), I suspect the EU would be a little less emboldened.
This logic is flawed. X is not in Y, so we shouldn’t add it, because currently in Y no one is using neither X nor some crippled parody of it.
Demand your money back!
Well it cant possibly be worse than its already been, so here's hoping..
Imagine if those sanctions had been successful and the “moderate rebels” had taken over Syria. It’s incredulous how atrocious Western foreign policy has become.
Not a single advice, but David Goggins "Can't hurt me" was a game changer for me.
> There's no point in migrating to some perfect encrypted federated free software platform and being alone because everyone I know is still using Instagram.

If everyone went by that logic no one could ever stop using the social media sites they are using today. If you've found a good platform your best bet is to get people to use it in addition to the bad ones they use now and as more people join and use the better platform people could find themselves using the old ones less frequently. By enjoying and getting used to having the benefits of the new platform they could grow increasingly frustrated by the limitations of the older ones.

As long as the perfect encrypted federated free software platform is at least as easy to join and use as the old one asking a friend to add one more app to their rotation wouldn't be putting a huge burden on them.
Put a character in the address bar, paste the text, then ctrl+left for a while then hit delete. (Not like it will do anything, but that's how you can put the text in the address bar.)

Firefox address bar is broken. When you want to copy an url from it (e.g. wikipedia link) it url encodes the text, and makes it unreadable (especially when your language contains non latin characters). I copy links starting form the 't', and manually add the 'h'.

Also when you copy something in the URL bar, then ctrl a then ctrl x, it will copy the original url, instead of your text. But if you do it twice, it will copy your text instead. (Same in windows, linux, even in palemoon.)

It looks like a normal input field on the screen, and it tempts me to use it, but bites me most of the times.
"Authoritarian government" is a redundant statement in 2022.
I've just finished The Coming of Neo-Feudalism: A Warning to the Global Middle Class by Joel Kotkin and I share many of its worries.

On a more light hearted side

The Diary Of A Bookseller (Shaun Bythell)
A Factotum in the Book Trade (Shaun Bythell)
Children of Hurin (Tolkien)
Free speech absolutism, eh? It only sounds good until the reality hits. There already exist platforms which have it. Twitter becoming one of them is not compatible with keeping ad revenue (and probably carries legal risks on top of that).
... vs Daniel Naroditsky's commentary.
Most people will use time to save money. However, your time on earth is limited unless the Silicon Valley weirdos happen to be right.

Money is infinite in that you can earn more or get a second job or get a better paying job or whatever. (Obviously only to a point but stay with me).

Also: your time does have value or it should since it is limited.

What would you pay for an hour of your life "back"? Or an hour to do whatever you wanted?

The truly smart play is trading money for time.

I've been a freelancer for a while but there was a point when I got laid off from my full time job so I ramped up to make ends meet. And I was fortunate enough that I was basically able to work for myself full time...

But when you are doing that, especially in the early stage...like I know that if I burn a couple hours at my billing rate of $50 an hour trying to save a few dollarydoos on a TV by standing in line for a big sale, am I really saving that much money when I effectively paid $100 to stand in line for two hours, something I don't like doing anyway, instead of just paying a bit more and getting a TV right away and not having to do that?

Another example. Changing the oil on my car. Could I? I'm pretty sure I could. I know the process. I'd probably want to watch some YouTube videos and there's tools I'd need to pick up, but I could be a real manly man and change my own oil and not get screwed by the shop.

But...

Let's say it costs me $40 at Autozone for oil and filter.

Let's say it costs $80 at the shop. A real shop not a jiffy lube. PFFT THOSE GUYS ARE SCREWING YA JUST DO IT YOURSELF.

I'd save $40 doing it DIY.

Most people would be on their way to Autozone...but on the other hand, I am not a mechanic that does 20 of these a day. Between watching videos and trying to figure out where everything is and inevitably covering myself in oil and whatnot.

Let's say it takes me 2 hours and the shop 1 hour. Doesn't matter, I saved 40 bucks! Whadda ripoff!

Would you pay 40 bucks for an hour of your life back? Maybe you like tinkering on cars and thats legit. Satisfaction is another benefit.

But for me, I am effectively paying some other person $40 to get dirty and bang his knuckles and whatnot while I sit in the AC and watch cable and dick around on my phone (which I enjoy much more) AND a lot of places will check and top up your other fluids and top off your tires and do an inspection to see if anything else will need work, which I don't know how to do and obviously they know what they are looking for.

AND because the guy knows what he's doing, it's done faster.

So effectively, yes, I will absolutely pay 40 bucks to hang out and watch basic cable in the air conditioning and make sure my car is good to go and all my fluids are topped off and also I get a whole hour of my life for doing whatever I want.

Don't trade time for money. Trade money for time.
My guess is he wanted to lower the price... He's friend with Jack Dorsey, who said the bot problem is worse than Twitter is admitting. And nobody want's a social media platform discussion is ran by sucky AI.
The BBC website is full of sloppy writing, not to mention straight-up clickbait, these days. It's kind of sad.
I'll try to give you the most charitable read, but even if I do, the simple fact that inflation is happening world wide seems like there's no way the cause can simply be what you said.

It also ignores the flip side. COVID relief packages have also helped in many ways, it's unclear what outcome is worse, current inflation or what else would have happened without that assistance.

Finally, I tried to do some fact checking, and what I found is that Trump actually provided even more handouts, 2.2 trillion in COVID handouts through the Cares ACT under Trump, while Biden only provided 1.9 trillion as part of the American Rescue Plan.

And if you look at the direct payments of those plan, Trump totalled 459 billion in direct handouts, and Biden totaled 402 billion.

So Trump actually gave more Covid handouts than Biden did.

Now the argument that COVID handouts might play a role in the inflation is okay, maybe it does a little, but your singling out of Biden seems biased partisanry, and it makes it even harder for me to take you in good faith.
New decoders improve Stable Diffusion quality
High-indignation, low information commentary is... I feel, almost inevitable here.

Elon himself has not really, IMO, provided any information about his plans. His points about making Twitter free, bot problems and such are themselves low-information, high-indignation. The "business plan" regarding advertisers, revenue and such that we have seen so far is basically boilerplate. It reads like generic business school wordage, rather than an actual plan. We don't really know anything.

So... what we're left with is a detached, high-level commentary that is more about the commentor's broader views than Twitter or this acquisition specifically.

I suspect that ambiguity isn't just a communications strategy. I don't think there is a real, ready-to-use conceptual model for free speech on social media. Elon doesn't have one. These problems aren't Twitter specific. Facebook, youtube and other meta/alphabet sites have even deeper issues. Those sites are just less prone to meta debates about the platform itself.

Compare modern social media to Wikipedia, for example. Does Wikipedia uphold free speech? You could argue either yes, no or n/a. I would argue not applicable. Meanwhile, Wikipedia has been far more resilient to misinformation, politicisation, and such. This despite being a high value target with far less resources than comparably important sites. Also despite being more user-controlled.

So... I think free expression related issues are artefacts of what Twitter is, not what the CEO of Twitter does. One giant, centralised, social media site will have the characteristics of a Twitter. The focus may shift around. The political orientation may shift left or right. Maybe content policies go from being US-centric to something else.
“Latour for Architects” is now open access
Shukhov Tower on the Oka River
* Clean Architecture by Uncle Bob

* So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport

* Deep Work by Cal Newport

* The Freelance Manifesto by Joey Korenman (even though I am far from being a motion designer, it still has a lot of good principles)
As a fellow swiss, I wouldn't recommend raising in Switzerland if you can compete in better markets like US. Swiss investors tend to invest at way lower valuations and are a lot more "stuck up" / don't understand what early-stage startups are really about (there are exceptions of course). This is from experience btw. Book yourselves a flight to SF and try to run into people there [1].

Re. financial projections, you should understand _why_ you are raising. It is very unlikely that your product vision as of now is going to work. The game is about failing as quickly as possible and iterating. Many startups pivot to something different from what they started with. Hence, raising should not be about how much you need to execute on your current plans, but how much you need to validate whether the plan works, with some ~2y of runway to fail fast & iterate. Once you validate that your ideas work, it will be much easier to raise a bigger Series A and execute fast.

Also, don't forget that raising isn't just about money, it's about smart money: Raising from reputable angels and funds can give you excellent connections that grant you a competitive advantage. E.g. raise from people with high reputation and connections in your target market, raise from people who are connected in the AI space, etc.

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[1]: Being labeled a "swiss startup" does give you a competitive edge re. distribution in the regional market since the swiss are into that sort of thing. It can be a worthwhile strategy to rely on that, but chances that you scale out of it are slim, so you'll at best end up with some mediocre SMB. Choose the hard path, it will teach you how to succeed.
It is very unlikely that this affects OpenSSH regardless. Only the cryptographic primitives are used from OpenSSL, and none of the complexity of the SSL functions. The cryptographic functions themselves are small and extremely well tested.
> 1. It enables a killer feature - CTFE that can allocate memory. C++ doesn't do that. Zig doesn't do that.

As anything but a compiler expert, I don't understand how GC is a necessary condition of having memory allocation within CTFE[0], can somebody expand on that?

[0]: CTFE seems to be an acronym for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compile-time_function_executio... (I was not familiar with it).
Oh no. Just because they donate their time and effort the community can't criticise them; even if how they work and interact with the community hurts and embarrasses the community... it was all free after all and the community added nothing to it! /s

That's really not how it works when you work with others and use other's resources and time. Nobody's entitled to their effort, but they're also not immune to criticism from others for that effort if they hold that effort out for others - if they expect immunity because it's 'free' they're just wasting people's time and preventing the development of a solution which doesn't.
> We need help. Join us on Telegram.

Nope, thanks, do not promote this shitty KGB-affiliated service.

Also if you're talking seriously about privacy - forget about all services hard-locked on SMS or phone numbers.
“Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche” by Ethan Watters.

I have been chronically depressed since I was 6 years old. I have had suicidal tendencies as long as I can recall being sentient. I would estimate this book singlehandedly cured 90% of my mental “disorders”. If you have ever suffered from depression or any “mental disorder” you will thank me after reading it, trust me.
I think there's place for both. When I build software installers for our embedded systems, the "frontend" tools production uses are written in a "sane" language, but the actual installation of software and configuration of the systems is done in shell. Because for running a bunch of apt/tar/cp/ln/sed commands to configure a Linux machine, it is the sane language.
It doesn’t even need to be a disaster.

A parade or block party closure is a closure of a public road, so is closing the street and digging a tunnel.
Stolen stuff is a common problem. People having fun putting rocks in the railway or emergency cases where you need a human controlling the behavior of a group of panicking people are still not fully resolved problems
I think you can decompose stock into 'money that is in circulation', and 'money that is not'. In some sense, the only relevant partition is the quantity of money that is actually in circulation. If I take $100bn of cash and bury it and hide the map, I haven't actually decreased the quantity of money (the total amount that exists), but I have effectively decreased the quantity of money (the amount that is in circulation).

> i take a loan at 2% to save in my bank’s savings offer of 5.25% then flow stays the same (i still spend on the same things each month) but money supply went up

Arguably the quantity of money the bank has created for you depends on the bank's net lending to you, so if you borrow money but hold it at the same institution, you haven't really increased the money supply at all.
Righty tighty, lefty loosey
Apple wouldn't have revitalised without the iPod though. However you slice it that 1 product is responsible for everything.

Twitter is the product though, there's not an underserved market that they can move into.
Seems like a good way to crash Firefox.
It’s possible to believe both that the 2016 result was legitimate, and that Russian Psyops influenced the result. After all it’s incumbent on the electorate to inform themselves and employ critical thinking in the information they consume, but at the end of the day it’s their choice. That doesn’t mean Russian Psyops is ok, it doesn’t mean CIA Psyops is ok (while noting that you didn’t actually say that they are).

As an external observer (full disclosure, conservative Brit) I deplore both those who try to malign the legitimacy of the 2016 result, and the 2020 result. Even so, I hold a special contempt in my heart for those Americans trying to excuse, justify or even in some cases explicitly encourage foreign covert influence on US elections and obstruct efforts to counteract it. Those people are not even borderline traitors and enemies of democracy, they’re all the way over the line. All IMHO, and it’s not my country.
This sounds like container kool-aid to me. One can implement exactly the same processes using regular OS management tools as with container tools. They both still need the same information about order, testing, etc.

If you’ve only ever put the effort towards doing that in a container instead of at the OS level, then obviously your container procedure will be better because you already built it. Someone who already built it at the OS level will also have similar ease. (And those containers still need to run somewhere, and that somewhere invariably has an OS involved, so you always need the OS update process no matter what your container strategy looks like).

But you’re also thinking “small” in the sense that you’re only focused on your own app. I find it striking how so many developers these days have simply forgotten that they’re not the only ones who actually do tech stuff, and how limited their views are. Running IT at a company involves hundreds of applications that are not built by you. Just because they’re not the main thing you sell doesn’t mean you can ignore that they exist.
You can also paste it into the JS console in the dev tools (minus the javascript: at the beginning). Still doesn't work for HTTPS enabled sites.
I'm done too. Where would you go now? I'm going to Fastmail.
“21 Lessons for the 21st Century”, by Yuval Harari. I am blown away.

His first book, “Sapiens” clarified a few cultural concepts which made the world a little easier to understand. This book is a firehose of more of that.
Harari explains complex political, sociological, cultural problems through a practical lens. The book provides little advice, but a lot of tools for understanding. It’s left-leaning, but carnal and if you are sensitive about your views, do not read it. On the other hand, if you are curious, looking for perspectives and tools for understanding the world around us, and are not afraid to have your views challenges or upturned, give it a go.
The richness of his father mostly a myth. All that gave him after he left home is a $25k loan in a second round of investment.

Elon Musk had no more support than the son of any upper middle class (doctor/pilot/lawyer) household in America would have.
Where I'm from, minimum wage is around 15k per year. So hiring 5k people would cost 75M in salaries, and let's just double it for other operation costs, 150M. People don't work 24/7, so we must quadruple it for triple shifts + weekends. That leaves us at around 600M: yes, that's terribly expensive. 1

But maybe we don't need to review all the reports! What if we rank them? Correct reports grand a user positive 'report karma', and they climb higher. Posts that are 'trending' in reports should also climb higher. New posts take priority over old posts, ie let's police new content, not everything that has been ever written. And of course, we can also use modern techniques, ie AI to score the reports.

If Twitter did that and could review the top 10% of reports, at 60M per year, would that be worth it? If successful, I think so.

1: this number is biased because it assumes all reports are independent, but I suspect a significant amount of reports would concern a low number of posts, eg controversial or political posts from accounts with a large follow count.
It's sad that this doesn't get the same attention as when Apple tried something similar.

Google's not using PhotoDNA (a preexisting hash-based list). They're using flawed image recognition algorithms to try to recognize never-seen-before CSAM. Apple's proposal was actually far better for privacy than this; and though it was done on-device, it had a threshold of 30 images. Google is doing far worse than Apple proposed, and nobody seems to care.
Isn't that how it works Pre-Elon, Twitter had protected classes and ideological profiling of enemies.
Using Speakeasy to implement 2FA in Your Node.js APIs
Essentially, yes. The GAAP income statement is a very poor proxy for cash flow generation ability. That captures 80% of it.

There’s also operating leverage. This business should trend to 50-80% gross margins and 30-50% profit / free cash flow conversion, similar to Facebook, Google, or other similar businesses.

Further, there’s a bunch of pre- and post- transaction adjustments that hit the financial statements (for example stock based compensation will likely go away in a private company, thus raising profitability), so you can’t just take last years profit and tack on the new debt structure.

Last, the amortization on high yield isn’t necessarily linear. In the most extreme example (where the debt costs >12%) you could have pay-in-kind (PIK) interest where the interest payments accrue to the balance of the loan (like a credit card) and for amortization, it could be anywhere from straight line (1/x periods) to a “bullet” with no amortization at all until a end period where it all comes due at once (you typically refinance in that case).

All-in, it may be risky, but the bankers that committed billions of capital to the deal aren’t exactly brain dead and all have internal credit approval processes which require them to do all the work outlined above and a bunch more.
The obvious approach to that issue is to support garbage-collected objects as a special address space within the program. You could use normal read-only pointers to address these, but write pointers to them would be specialized and incur that memory barrier overhead.
> He really hates the bots, so he'll probably close up the API.

That term bot conflates at least three distinct meanings. Not sure how blocking the API would affect #2 or #3

1) Automated accounts probably using the API that are run by a program to post content. Can be benign. Here's an example:

https://twitter.com/happyautomata/

2) Large accounts that push a particular point of view, often state sponsored, run in teams. Does not need an API. Here's an example:

https://twitter.com/sprintermonitor

3) Small accounts paid to push or disrupt a particular agenda in replies. Often state sponsored. Example I suspect:

https://twitter.com/DaBoy1804/with_replies
I would argue objectively that you are wrong, or at least that a significant percentage of the population disagree with you. The Ionic 5 at the moment has such a long waiting list that people are selling them second hand for more than they actually cost to buy new.

Regardless, it doesn't change the fact that the Tesla aesthetic is due for a refresh. Whether they have to go as unconventional as some other manufacturers have is up for debate but that they need to come up with something new surely isn't.
> Battlefield mortality was exacerbated by commanders’ fixation on 19th century tactics.

This is a cliche, and it doesn't explain the tactics.

If that were the case, then surely there would've been an advantage to be gained for not "fixating on 19th century tactics". Given that they had 4 years to discover such tactics and failed, they didn't exist.
There's an API call into the GC that does just that, tell you if it points into the GC pool or not.

Unfortunately, it's not fast enough.
France has very low developer salaries. While 50K is towards the bottom of the barrel with his experience, it's definitely not uncommon either.
The GC made sense in comparison to C style memory management. But with with Swift, Rust and modern C++ the argument can be made that GC doesn't bring anything to the table.

In the beginning the biggest drawback seemed to be performance, so people have been hell-bent on fixing that for decades now. Completely ignoring that the "don't need to care about memory" mindset is flawed. You always need to think about memory, and if you do you might as well do it yourself. It doesn't take more time to do in the long run and you are forced to design a better system because of it.

For scripts it is a really nice have. But for a proper language writing large-scale applications? No thanks.
Drag and drop a scroll bar: now you have a scrollable page.

Do whatever you want to it.