skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article makes it very clear what the motivation for this is:

> In a March meeting, Laura Dehmlow, an FBI official, warned that the threat of subversive information on social media could undermine support for the U.S. government.

As the people running the US government - particularly the democratically unaccountable set - become increasingly divorced in their values and beliefs from a a large segment of the population, they become increasingly obsessed with control of the Other, which by its very nature appears subversive.

This doesn't end well for any of us.

It's interesting to see people see the exact same arguments people have made for centuries, always in service of the existing status structure. "Misinformation" and "disinformation" aren't new. Twitter didn't radically change the world. If anything, we have returned to the pre-20th century environment, where rumors and conspiracies led to mobs, riots, and all kinds of civil unrest. It was a major concern of people in the Constitutional Convention that "designing men" would use misinformation to rile up the people to take over the government.

> In Massts. it had been fully confirmed by experience that they are daily misled into the most baneful measures and opinions by the false reports circulated by designing men.

Truly, there is nothing new under the sun.

What's "different" now in the so-called Information Age is that the brief era of a small class of people having near total control over what is published has ended. And they really, really don't like it.
I recommend reading the GNU Make manual in its entirety.
In case of my death, I want to make it as easy as possible for my wife to carry on. Having access to our accounts (which I mostly manage) so she can do whatever she needs is a lot more important than the well-established processes you mentioned. Those processes would have gone to her anyway.

If we both die, then our extended family will have to work through the legal system but our will + a lawyer should help out a lot.

Edit: To answer the original question - I documented how my wife could do this before going on a week long motorcycle ride in 2019 :).
My take on the Fermi paradox is:

* Life may not be rare in the universe but it is likely short-lived; intelligence even more so (now the possible extinction events are not limited to asteroid impacts or geological disasters, but also include self-inflicted acts of war or environmental destruction)

* Space is simply too vast and chaotic to allow for any practical possibility of interstellar travel. Cosmic rays, micro-meteorites, supernovae, etc are going to destroy (or at least render inert) any artifact launched from one star system long before it could reach another one. Entropy will always win at these scales, essentially.

So – we aren't unique, we are just one briefly-existing civilization among many that will not persist long enough to allow for any meaningful expansion or communication beyond our own star system.
Congrats on launching Aman!
That's because you're probably in America, it works fine when viewed in Australia.
The doom square root trick. Reducing an expensive function to almost nothing with low error. Many writeups on the web far better than I could give.
That may be true but IMHO the more interesting thing connecting 'tech' to Mossad is Amdocs, which runs billing for a percentage of mobile carriers globally. What do you need to run billing? All the customer activity data. When do you need it? ~Live. Where do they run it? In some cases, off-carrier-premises/hosted. With the prevalance of SMS and phone for 2-factor (Google and Apple both ~require this), this gets more worrisome. I would hazard an educated guess that Mossad has, amongst intelligence services, global superiority in both real time personal surveillance and two-factor identity subversion through carrier integrations with Amdocs.

Also, if you're discussing overseas influence networks and nation states in the 21st century, China is known for strong-arming overseas Chinese to do or stop doing things for them under threat of consequence to their family members in China. As far as they're concerned, you're always a volunteer.

At least in the overseas Israeli community you do see some nominal protest and resistance.
> Also, if you haven't checked it out, typescript-json-schema has some REALLY powerful validation it can do for things like your example (https://youtu.be/HHTDCY5uh_M?t=1379). You can do stuff like this

Oh wow I didn't realize TS JSON Schema was capable of all that!

> but there's still nothing _enforcing_ that contract.

Sure there is, the schema on my REST endpoint. Express and AJV check all messages coming in.

It requires changes be non-breaking changes of course, new fields need to be optional, same as protobuf.

Removing a field means making it optional, removing it from all calling code, then removing it from the schema entirely. Real pain, but that is the price you pay if you want required fields. Only really doable if you can also control all the code, but since I'm working on internally facing services only, not an issue. :)
Doing so would also require the city to provide parking spots for them - which is the real reason for the bans. Drivers aren't interested in losing any parking spots to scooters/bicycles/???.

It's shooting themselves in the foot (because people driving less results in less congestion and competition for car parking spots), but as this thread demonstrates, there's no shortage of counter-productive thinking around non-automotive transportation.
Can programming be liberated from the keyboard-style input?
I think he would have known he was out the door since part of the reason Musk was saying he was buying Twitter in text messages was that he thought Agrawal wasn't up to the job. With a 52 million payout, I also think he wasn't overly worried about how he would do after Twitter.
A subject very near and dear to my heart. Asciidoc, flawed as it is, is still the best game in town, with conditional content, transclusion, and a particularly robust table model. Combined with S1000D architecture, it makes a passable method of writing publications for heavy industry in aerospace and defense. On the double cheap. If your team has some small amount of tech chops.

The `include` is a problem, though, and the devs have known this since at least 2017. Two directives under work here. The `ainclude` is an extension that works in the subdoc direction, and `subdoc` is a directive under development that's on the milestones to go into core. Generic blocks is also on the roadmap, and it's available via extension.

However.

There's deeper problems, I feel, inherent in the DNA of component content systems themselves, as a basic concept. It plagues every CCMS (component content management system), whether it's DITA, S1000D, DocBook (with xincludes), ReST, or otherwise. It's not a markup problem. In S1000D, I call it "the applicability trap".

To put this very briefly, you incur risk when you replace any component of natural language with a constructed language. In the case of CCMSs, you have an implied content architecture doing the work of NL in between content "chunks", but not everyone architects content, or, hell, even their product. The writers won't know this until they start, and by then it's too late.

Without architecture, you have a bunch of chunks that used to be structured linguistically, and now they're not doing much of anything at all.

I can't tell you how many S1000D systems I've seen built around a product that existed as little more than a twinkle in a salesman's eye. You build out an SNS and an applicability model[1], all from a bunch of emails or a spotty CAD diagram, and tell the writers to get cracking. Then, N months and N millions of dollars later, scrap everything because, lo and behold, the actual possible product completely invalidates the content architecture. "How did the doc set cost 19 million dollars?". Well, it's not the markup, it's not the vendor, and whatever miracle editor your salesmen buddies are pushing won't do jack to fix it, either.

What the writers need is a quantifiable test for architecture before they start, or else, sooner or later, the Applicability Trap will get them. Either that, or write individual BDMs[2] for every single product variant that spews out of the pieholes of business development.

I feel a little dumb getting worked up here. All of this crap is going to be glitter in the river come 2030 anyway, because we'll be training our pocket AIs for most of this.

[1](sort of a structure of conditions to filter content)

[2] Big Dumb Manuals, like mamma used to make
I don't think documentation precludes doctors from caring for their patients, but it does limit the number of patients they can handle. This implies that healthcare is more expensive, which maybe seems like a bad thing for patients, but I think it's more of an indicator that we need to find a way as a society to pay for the societal good that is data collection and research--"medicare for all" is one conceivable incarnation.
Let's see, I responded to your first comment with an actual statute. You then immediately responded with an incorrect interpretation of a different statute and presented a false narrative, instead of looking into the issue and understand what I posted. During the time the story was on the front page, I was blocked by HN from responding to your incorrect reply. So your bad hot take was amplified making my initial factual response look incorrect.

You then never said I was correct, you said 'I’ll take your word for it' which can have implied subtext and connotation. I responded there was no need to 'take my word' when it comes to the facts and what the law says, and that if you want to stake out a non-factual position instead of 'taking my word' maybe educate yourself on the issue that you felt strongly enough about to post false information about multiple times.

I'm sorry but 'I'll take your word' is not even close to saying 'you're right'.

Even in the above, you try to redirect to Texas, when the Feds have established via constitutional challenges and studies that 'imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation'. Who do you think has delved into the issue deeper? The Feds or Texas? Why do you keep pushing that prison is rehabilitative when you have 1. nothing to back your position 2. made assertions relating to it that are PROVEN not factual? 3. You present nothing to disprove the Federal Judicial System's position that it is not rehabilitative? Why do you keep pushing a false narrative? If the Federal Judicial System declares imprisonment is not an appropriate means of promoting correction and rehabilitation you have a higher bar than 'your personal feelings' (which I apologize for hurting) that your personal opinion countermans the entire Federal justice system's position, along with Congresses' position and the Congressional committees that do extensive research in writing the statutes.
There is the situation where you and your spouse both die in m accident. Depending on whether you have kids you might want a Plan B as well.
> IMO the killer feature of JPEG XL is its ability to losslessly transcode already existing JPEG images.

It's a nice transitory feature, but I think improved progressive decoding is even more worthwhile.
Huh. I actually thought the manual was great, but you make excellent points that I happen to agree with.

I'm very comfortable with the manual now, when I need to look something up, but that's because I've spent years looking things up in it, so I have a fairly good idea where to find things. Even so, it's sometimes confusing, e.g. where to find the definition of automatic variables like `$@`, `$^` and the like? When I started learning Make I remember it being infuriatingly hard to find the entry about a topic of interest.

While the manual is great (as are most of GNU's major works!) compared to most of the software ecosystem [1], you're quite right that it can still improve a lot.

[1] It's kind of amazing how even a company like Apple can have some pretty underwhelming documentation, see today's post about ExtensionKit https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33409558
> If the “new” code is close enough to be considered a derived work then you will need a license.

And how is that determined... in court at trial? By an unbiased 3rd party competent enough to understand both codebases?
> Meta needs to generate $200B+ of profits on metaverse during 2030-2039 to make it worth it

Is it too late for Meta to admit the Metaverse has been a mistake and shift their efforts to something else? And what would that something else be?
I mean people are also trained on GPL code and I bet you can find a ton of functions copies from GPL projects in million other projects.

But as long as these are tiny parts of codebase (which will most probably be the case), I doubt anything can be done with that. No one will go to court because of a few generic functions.
Honestly the 1700s and 1800s were far worse in terms of both misinformation and mob violence than what we are going through now. Look at what happened to Andrew Jackson's wife, for example.

There was no golden age where everyone agreed on the same basic set of facts.
You might be reading into my sarcasm a bit too much. I'm saying the links aren't relevant. That's it.

As to your demand that I calm down, again, you're trying too hard.
I prefer to think of the NSA as my cloud backup provider of last resort, paid for by my (overly abundant) tax dollars and responsive to a FOIA request ;)

/s
How do you know that we're able to measure most phenomena that exist in the universe?
The main problem continues to be, in my view, that we don't have the equivalent of plain text for formatted documents or trees. Plain text can be copy-pasted, read by any program, edited anywhere, and that's great. Binary formats are inaccessible and hard to work with by comparison, but this is only because of mundane technical reasons. We could easily make new binary formats that would be terrific for lightly marked up text, and the editors that go along with them.

Today bold, italic, tables don't fit in plain text, but carriage returns and tab characters do, as well as Halloween pumpkin emojis. There is no good reason for this, this is just where we kind of ended up. You can't put a floating point number in text, or a price, or a phone number, or date. And when you don't have standards that support this you can't have any meaningful kind of data exchange. So forget about copying a table from a spreadsheet anywhere. Everybody ends up shoehorning this necessary functionality in text editors and it won't ever work.

How can computing still be at the stage where if you want a table you have to conjure up a bunch of pipe and dash characters that hopefully compiles into a table that looks presentable? And then you have to switch between "code view" and "presentation view" to check if you did it right. It would be funny if this wasn't so tragic.
Now that's job security!
Swapping two variables without a temporary using xor.
Protobuf is really easy to write a working but slow version for.
Yeah this is unlikely to be positive on revenue and very well might be negative. It's extremely unlikely that Twitter put that registration wall in place without extensive testing and micro-optimization. Musk is just throwing his weight around and declaring himself smarter than everyone else.
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It's not misleading, it's wrong. Deprecation means you can still use the thing. This is removal.
I imagine this is getting ruled illegal before the next race!
Good answer. OP didn’t specify “blew your mind in a good way”.
Because corporations already have more leverage than individuals like 99% of the time.
I think there is no point arguing about the price - it's Leica, and it's got to be expensive.

The news is more about the statement - releasing a new film camera in 2022.

There is an increased demand[1] in film photography, and we can see that the market is answering. I hope other manufacturers follow suit.

[1] https://www.rochesterfirst.com/news/business/kodak-hiring-fi...
Discord could almost replace Twitter
Here ya go (not a hypothetical example):

https://slate.com/business/2022/10/san-francisco-toilet-mill...

They beat out Seattle, that spent $250,000 on a portable toilet a few years ago.

On my own street, the city water outfit installed a fire hydrant. It cost $10,000, including architectural drawings of the installation. When the crew came out to install the hydrant (the main water line runs under my property) I asked them if they'd seen the drawings. They said "what drawings?" They'd never seen nor talked to the engineer, nor had any idea there ever was one. I asked them what the hydrant cost. They said $2,000. They had a machine on the back of the truck that was able to dig the hole, drill the main, and clamp on the new hydrant in 15 minutes.

This was 20 some years ago, back when $10,000 was real money.

The IRS now requires any business that sends out payments to an individual of more than $600 per year now has to file 1099s. The threshold used to be $20,000. A lot of ebay-ers are in for a big surprise. Do you have receipts for what you paid for items you sold on ebay?
Most FANG senior software engineers have the majority of their comp as stock, so by that metric they are more "executives" than "workers"
I'm not talking about quality or authenticity. Literally just the topic.
Per-capita wealth probably a more accurate, better indicator of how well the economy is doing compared to productivity.
I must admit I've heard of this format, but it seems good...

Although I do wonder how much value this would add for most sites. WEBP is pretty good and well supported today. Plus internet speeds are fast enough now that images tend to be much lighter than all the various tracking libraries and frontend frameworks that the browser needs to load anyway. Unless you run a very image heavy site the performance impact here would probably be negligible over WEBP and in many cases it might not even be worth the dev effort to switch to JPEG XL even if you're still using JPG.

That's not to say I think it should be removed, but just an acknowledgment that there's probably point of dismissing return here in which it doesn't make sense to support a slightly better image format, because the effort to support it exceeds the negligible benefits.
> You can argue that Israel is a nation which has processes in place not to use these capabilities in the wrong way. But it's not wise to argue that "There is no Israeli spy network, it's a conspiracy, etc. " That just makes it seem like you have an agenda.

Absolutely agreed. Pretty much any sufficiently powerful nation (and some that are not) has those spy networks that do all those things (including the US). And regarding those capabilities being used "in the wrong way", same thing. No matter how advanced and good your nation's processes are or how trustworthy that nation is, those processes are not infallible. There will be usages of those capabilities "in the wrong way".

I am not disagreeing that those spy networks exist and that they sometimes could be used "in the wrong way". It's just that I dont have any factual evidence that Israel is being some special and unique "shadowy controlling entity" in that aspect, in a way that a lot of other sufficiently powerful nations aren't.

The only nation that I would single out in this conversation is China, given how regularly their spies and PLA overseas agents seem to get caught red-handed. But still, I am not sure whether it is simply due to sheer numbers of them or due to their incompetence.
That's really cool. I love hearing stories like this, it's nice to know my code is getting used in interesting ways :)

The RAM disk tiering thing has come up before, and it always strikes kernel developers as a gross hack because that's what the page cache is supposed to be for.

Perhaps we should expose a knob that completely disables fsync, for applications like this - then, dirty pages would only be written out by memory pressure.
> If there was a way to determine the least performing 50% of employees in a matter of two days, they wouldn't be there in the first place anymore.

This would assume that the previous management had an incentive to cut costs and remove 50% of their workforce... which is probably not the case at all.
Twitter hasn't, but it seems that there is some internal tension around it. Making working conditions worse to force people to quit, setting impossible deadlines to fire en masse "with cause," and just generally shedding employees but not calling it a layoff all seem to be in play.

Elon is interacting and trying to dodge this act. He seems to want to cut Twitter's workforce at a scale that the WARN act covers.
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What is the license for the generated code?

Are you using copyrighted code without attribution and in violation of the code's license?

Copilot is "auto-completion on steroids", but what risks does it introduce?
>And why aren't these small business owners buying and building their own property as it would be cheaper for them in long run.

Why don't homeless people just build their own houses?
The Legendary Fast Inverse Square Root with "Voodoo Black Magic"

https://medium.com/hard-mode/the-legendary-fast-inverse-squa...
Not sure about McMurdo, but South Pole Station has a greenhouse, which is an awfully nice place to stick your head into now and again if you're doing any amount of time there. They grow tomatoes and lettuce, among other things, that sometimes make their way into salads for folks on-station.

I've been several times to the Pole for work (years ago), and going into the greenhouse and smelling tomato plants after days on end of smelling nothing but people, galley food, cleaning products, and fuel exhaust, is a pleasant memory.

They do not (or at least did not) use human sewage for fertilizer there -- unlike at McMurdo, human waste at Pole does not get shipped off station.
This is from July 28
Ah, yeah, that's an interesting distinction I hadn't thought of. Any idea what the first example of that type of extension was? My gut says that'd still been done long before android
I'd be surprised if more than 20% of employees at Twitter are developers.
Well, if the estate has any assets, the creditors legally have a claim. Just makes things smoother and quicker to identify all of them up front.
I love hackadau but did not know they accepted submissions! Excellent!
> But it's a bit weird to uphold HTML when it seems to really be valuing the underlying syntax and not the big heckin' standard that details the valid elements, attributes, and their semantics. :)

SGML?
absolutely - your consciousness is your most precious resource!

the hardest part is the tension with the external guilt - but that is the point of the guilt after all
Having a will is the correct Plan B.

It needs to be Plan A, as well. But a shortcut to get access to your accounts without having to go through a will and lawyer will be appreciated by your wife if only you die.
Tamiya Mini 4WD [0] is that in miniature!

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Maybe that would be an explanation for USA, except that the same phenomenon occurs in many other countries, all over the world, where the current generation is no longer able to buy houses as easily as their grandparents, even if in those countries it cannot be said that 50 years ago or 80 years ago there was any kind of systematic oppression of minorities and women, which could have affected in any way the ratio between house prices and salaries.
Was it particularly well written or optimized in very clever ways? Bob Miner was supposedly a beast of a coder from what I've read, so wouldn't surprise me.
> it is hard for market participants to accurately price goods and services when they are working with insufficient information.

Ridiculous. They already have to get enough information to make an offer and negotiate at some point.