skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Request for testing backlight changes planned for Linux 6.2
> some people will never accept the upsides as being worth it.

How is this any different from the selt belt case? "(1) believe they'll beat the statistics, and thus no statistical argument will convince them or (2) value their "freedom" a lot more than they value their own lives"

Would you really expect an article "The helmet is a biker's best friend" to convince them?

Everyone knows that a helmet helps prevent head injuries. That doesn't need to be explained. Whether the tradeoff of messing up your hair or whatever is worth it is up to the individual to decide, but there's nothing complex about the decision that needs an academic discussion.
Those guys are usually in charge of security.
Nice, good times ahead for us virtual pilots!

I'm likely going to do another CPU upgrade as well, probably end of next year once/ if DDR5+AM5 mobo pricing has settled down a bit - but mostly because I want my son to have a better PC for his gaming as well. (His 6850k system is getting a bit old.)
Goes beyond tech. There is a graveyard of elephant corporations out there. I'll say one day thing about capitalism: it is always in flux.
When my favourite Twitter people migrate (a handful of news types, basically), I'm sure I'll switch.

Until then.................
Completely different situation.

Apple was on the verge of being bankrupt and had a ton of projects that were never going to go anywhere e.g. eMate, Newton, OpenDoc, Cyberdog. And they weren't contributing to revenue at all.

At Twitter we've seen the entire ethics, human rights, accessibility groups etc go. Which directly contributes to revenue since advertisers want these in place to mitigate brand safety risk.
... but unfortunately .mod playback is more of a niche as it is not very compatible with protracker functionality (Travolta's condom corruption [State of the Art], e-On, and a whole bunch of others do not playback correctly). It is however good at chip-based tracking
Rarely does one have the opportunity to give themselves a 20% raise.
Facebook has jumped the shark with Metaverse. Have you seen those ads they are running? A bunch of people sitting around a table and instead of talking to each other they are all wearing these ridiculous goggles? Can you imagine anything like that happening in real life? It's absolutely absurd.
What laws are there against posting twitter spam?
Discord is an intranet-as-a-service non-public facing system. They are on casual mode.

Twitter has been the public space, the conflux where everything happens all together & becomes known.

Its laughable to me that anyone would try to compare the two. From a technical perspective, scaling discord is intensely stupidly easier, since few subdiscords have to scale to tens of thousands of active users. From a social perspective, scaling discord is eighty bajillion gazillion times easier, since each subdiscord has its own authoritarian dictatorial owners who have complete & total say over their regime. And twitter is just everyone, all together, one huge vast chat room, and theres a huge obligation to only boot jackasses if they really cross some hard set lines.

Twitter is 100x the engineering difficulty with far far far far far more fan out, far more engagement, and it's a million times more difficult socially to handle. This belittling shade you throw is grossly out of order & ignorant.
It's just figure of speech. The meaning in this case is I choose to have sympathy for those that are really down and out not rich tech workers.

The main reason I choose not to have sympathy for them is because they are rich (comparatively) tech workers.

The main drivers of sympathy (at least for me) are how well you know or identify with someone and how dire their situation is.

I don't know anyone personally in Ukraine, but they have all my sympathy because their situation is truly horrible.

Likewise, I don't know any of the laid off Twitter workers. But their situation is anything but dire or even bad. They might think it is, but objectively, it is not. It might turn out to be the best thing to happen in their life actually. So no sympathy there.

Look, your scope of sympathy is different that mine. Yours includes rich laid off tech workers and mine doesn't. I think that's ok. You're comfortable with your boundaries and I'm comfortable with mine. I don't think I'm a bad person for it. If you think so, you're 100% entitled to your opinion. Let's leave it at that.
Currently that seems to be the situation. I hope the input from our dollars will go to constructing green spaces and playgrounds.
It feels like LG and Samsung just came out of nowhere to take over the TV market.
Isn’t it a good idea to avoid spreading this until it’s 100% confirmed? It’s one of those ideas that we’d love to believe is true, but it’s pretty unbelievable anyone would actually do something so monumentally stupid.

I agree that it’s possible, but this rumor has somehow become a little too close to “accepted truth.”
I highly recommend anyone with any interest in space follow https://youtube.com/c/MarsGuy / he gives a weekly update on what the rovers find in great detail and it’s fascinating.

At the same time I continuously question if the findings they make wit these rovers continue to justify the multi billion dollar expense we make on these missions. I’d much rather we spend our limited resources on Venus and Europa, and actually starting to send interstellar probes than continuing to double down on Mars. It’s become a vanity project for billionaires anyway so let them figure out putting a man there. NASA can start focusing on the next step in exploration of space.
I feel like Rust isn't too bad at it: if you want the almost C++/Java level of wrist strain just use anyhow::Error, remember to put ? after fallible calls and downcast to extract the underlying error.

C++ and Java exceptions have non-local flow and it's hard to determine what function can throw what, so if you do want to add error handling cases you would have to inspect every function to know if it throws or not. Yeah, there's noexcept and checked exceptions but one was a late addition that legacy codebases don't use and the other everyone just does throw new RuntimeException(err) anyway.
> might affect unemployment eligibility since it would be a refusal of work

If I offered every unemployed American a job in a cesspool, that wouldn’t magically invalidate their eligibility.
so? the gist of the mit license is, "use without restriction". without the license the default is that you have no right to the work, so the license is what makes it a gift. you're welcome
Especially because the average homeowner can’t afford 10-1000 plants per square foot of flooring.

If you have helpful data, please share. I was just skimming as you kindly pointed out and would love some concrete numbers other than holistic senses of the goodwill of houseplants, $150 houseplants or others.

Actually, the only other study I’ve seen says that houseplants are of zero benefit in regards to VOC purification, but I doubt a startup would invest this much into fraud.
Best of luck finding a cooperating judge in San Francisco.
This tool should have a born filter then
Oh 4chan? Great! Everyone is going to love that.
I don’t understand this response, all of us judge each other all of the time on secret, unspoken metrics, that’s human nature. Our entire culture and society is partly built on what is not said.

Your bank is scoring you by machine, so is your insurance company, and loan companies, are their algorithms 100% open and publicly available? No. Because they are secret metrics. Your bank knows more about you than you know, and so do the loan companies, I know, I used to work there. The datasets the loan companies have are insane, I could see if you are in financial distress or not, the value of your house, whether you were a “complainer” or not, your favourite music, whether you’re a foodie or not, and heaps, heaps more, I think 250 attributes on each person in the USA at one company.

What difference does it make if some metrics are collected by machine and not fuzzy, vague, human intuition? I think it’s an improvement.

Yes the metrics inform the seniors decisions partially like I said above, and yes they are taken with a grain of salt, like I said above, they are inputs for deeper investigation, that’s it.

Here’s an example that happened just the other day: I noticed heaps of CICD failures for one dev and I reached out to him. He told me he couldn’t easily run the test suite, so I spent an hour peer coding with him and showed him how to use VSCodes debugger.

1 day later he called me up and told me that “using the debugger was a life changer” and he was thrilled to be working so quickly, the faster feedback cycle from code->debug had restored his enthusiasm for work.
Quentin Tarantino's Cinema Speculation: An Obsessive Insider's View of Hollywood
Archived: https://archive.ph/P3T2W
NFT London yesterday was a bit sad. Big empty rooms
If it were me I would only come back on the condition they double my salary
>but I suspect your assumption that "100,000 lines of code of python tend to be safer and more manageable then 100,000 lines of C++" might be wrong.

I can give you my anecdotal experience on this aka "authoritative" in your words. I am a really really really good python engineer with over a decade of experience. For C++ I have 4 years of experience, I would say I'm just ok with it.

Python is indeed safer then C++. Basically when you check for type errors at runtime, you actually easily hit all reasonable use cases pretty quickly. This is why unit testing works in reality even though your only testing a fraction of the domain.

Sure this isn't a static proof but in Practical terms static type checking is only minimally better then run-time type checking. You can only see this once you have extensive experience with both languages and you see how trivial type errors are. Practicality of technologies isn't a property you can mathematically derive, it's something you get a feel for once you've programmed enough in the relevant technologies. It helps you answer the question of "How often and how easy do type errors occur uncaught by tests?" Not that much more often and not hard at all to debug.

The thing that is actually making C++ less usable are the errors outside of type checking. The memory leaks, the segfaults, etc. The GC basically makes memory leaks nearly impossible and python doesn't have segfaults period. What python does is fail fast and hard once you write something outside of memory bounds. Basically it has extra run time checks that aren't zero cost that make it much much more safe.

All of this being said, I am talking about type-less python above... when I write python, I am in actuality a type Nazi. I extensively use all available python type hints including building powerful compositional sum types to a far more creative extent then you can with C++. I am extremely familiar with types and python types. I have a very detailed viewpoint from both sides of the spectrum from both languages. That's why I feel I'm qualified to say this.

>No contradiction, really, it's just that we are talking about two different programming goals: I emphasize the goal of producing well-behaved software (especially when it comes to large software systems), while you emphasize the goal of producing software in an easier (more productive) manner.

I'm actually partly saying both. Python is both easier and more well-behaved and more safe. The "well-behaved" aspect has a causal relationship to "easier". It makes sense if you think about it. Python behaves as expected more so then C++.

Literally I repeat: Python (even without types) is categorically safer then C++. I have a total of 14 years of experience in both. I would say that's enough to form a realistic picture.
Typically, if a question is super logical and fundamental to the thesis of a finding, you can assume the reviewers asked the authors to address it, and typically they do in the paper. And they do in this paper.
Ruling on those basis in a case doesn't make that the only test for whether something infringes copyright or not. You have to qualify for all of those things.

Also, there were four tests.

The general principle of the ruling is that:

- it was mostly about APIs; organization rather than implementation.

- it was sufficiently transformative

- it was a small amount of code of insubstantial value

- it was serving a different market

So, I suppose you have indeed proven that we can have different interpretations of copyright law.

Taking a small but substantial piece of implementation code and using it in a similar way for a similar purpose to solve a similar problem would appear to fail all of those tests, and at least to me smells like rancid infringement.
Eh, I’m not gonna partake in it, but I’m also not going to judge someone who treats stories about musk with the same reverence for the truth that musk holds
> I'm not sure why there is a such a media frenzy

I've been in tech for 20+ years now and never seen a situation like this.

In a single week, Musk has single-handedly put them on a course to bankruptcy. The firings have been sudden, indiscriminate, short-sighted and ineptly executed. Advertisers who Twitter desperately needs are fleeing the company in droves and may never come back. The level of debt is clearly unsustainable and its revenues are declining rapidly.

The only thing that comes close to this is the Digg V4 redesign.
Scream test for human beings.
Not to dispute your points in any substantial way but the fundamental R&D for China's solar panel industry was substantially funded by the Australian tax payer. See, for instance

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-09-19/solar-panels-...

Also I think Delhi's air pollution is the worst of the major cities now.
A locked door is not going to stop someone entering your house if they really want to get in. Doesn't matter what lock.
That is completely wrong. Society is able to function (or not) based on agreed upon behavior. The police is mostly useless if someone broke into your home and stole your keyboard. Most people, who needs keyboards, will not break into their neighbor's home but instead will buy one from a store.

Most suburban homes are actually unlocked. If the front door is locked, there is a high chance you can get in from the backyard or from a window. It's easier than you think to break into a home. Most of your neighbors are working in the day, or even if they are not, they are not actively checking your home. It takes less than 2 minutes to break in.

You can also bring a van and two uniformed men and take all the possessions there is. People will think you are moving out; and not being actually robbed. When you have a higher criminal population, life become hell and no amount of policing or security will help. (ie: Some countries in South America and Africa).

> keeps honest people honest

More like keep curious people out. Most people will not enter your house even if the door is left open.
I agree with you, but I'm saying things from a practicality standpoint.

Let me put it this way. If you have type checking I'm saying that from my anecdotal experience you probably catch 10% more errors then you would normally catch before deployment. The reason is you're bound to run runtime tests anyway and these tests cause you to correct all your little type bugs anyway.

And this isn't even errors you would'nt've caught. It's just about catching the errors earlier.

That's it. Catching 10% of errors after deployment rather then before... that is not a huge deal breaker. Type checking benefits are marginal in this sense. Yes agreed it's better, but it's not the deal breaker.

I'm trying to point out the deal breaker feature. The delta difference that causes python to be BETTER then C++ in terms of usability and safety. Type checking is a negligible factor in that delta is basically my thesis. This is subtle. A lot of people are going on tangents but that is my point.
And the Sun rise/sets would be in the opposite direction from Earth. Imagine watching the sun setting in the East!

https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/26/what-is-the...
If you’re gonna have your house robbed anyway you might as well save on the lock. Even better if you don’t add your name to a database of people with weak locks.
I remember looking at this lock. I really wondered how strong it was because the battery is in the deadbolt. How easy would it be to smash the door open?

I never even considered a bump key might work. And raking? It’s like they’re not even trying.

You’re right with the $5. This now sounds like a $5 lock with automation around it. I’m not saying it needs to be the best lock on the market but come on.

And Level’s response is just sad. It’s very clear they got caught flat footed (shouldn’t happen) and are trying a bad move-the-goalposts to save face.

By their argument you don’t even need a key. Just let someone insert an Allen wrench to turn the bolt directly! No one breaks into houses that way. It’s secure!

Wow.
It is quite possible that Musk has given California more in taxes than everyone commenting on HN today, combined. A quick search suggests [0] he has order-of-magnitude billions in Californian tax liabilities.

If he doesn't think there is value for money, it is appropriate that he moves. He doesn't have a moral responsibility to prop up California if he doesn't think they are spending his money effectively.

[0] https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/11/30/elon-musks-california...
Oh, they were around in the eighties. Except at the time they made crap bought by those who could not afford a Sony. LG was called GoldStar at the time and had to rebrand as the original name was in tatters due to their poor quality.
However, they ground it out patiently into dominance, over decades.
It’s possible this only works when only some animals in the neighborhood have stripes, I.e., the insects have other targets available and they’d just choose the less distracting one. In the absence of any other alternative they might end up still biting the striped animals.
That is absolutely not my experience at all and wish people would stop with the hysterical hyperbole. The tool typically produces code that would only make sense in my codebase because it uses internal types which only make sense in my code base. That is not and cannot be copyright infringement.
This Group Has $100M and a Big Goal: To Fix America
Mastodon has a feature where you can choose not to cache content separately, so that it’s served from the original server. I’ve turned that on for instances that host lots of weird content.
Archived: https://archive.ph/fmQR8
I don't think you can impact him any worse that what he is doing himself. The chaotic nature of his purchase, staff layoffs and general communications have already decimated Twitter's 2023 advertising revenue. We'll have to wait and see how much content will leave the platform.

I'm not too bullish on his new revenue plans either. I don't think there are that many people willing to pay $8/mo for verification and to avoid ads. Most people on Twitter are consumers of content and have no need for verification.
Elon is understanding why Twitter had to seem so "woke". It turns out that "woke" consumers make for the most lucrative demographic to serve ads to. I don't believe he had to reckon with advertiser psychology to this extent at Tesla or SpaceX.
That Twitter thread doesn’t say that they lost this revenue. Just that they didn’t get the early commitment.
How does this compare to Real-ESRGAN?
And a marketing benefit from the controversy.
A móóse once bit my sister...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79TVMn_d_Pk&t=1m48s
> Wouldn't be. The "$ quintillion" figure is just clickbait.

Source? At this point we can't know for sure, which this mission is supposed to determine. But we know its size, and estimating its composition puts it into trillion or quadrillion dollar territory, which is still a crazy amount.

And we're talking about a _single_ asteroid. The possible value found in the asteroid belt is—literally—astronomical.

> Ore on Earth is worth a lot more, and is right here, ready to be dug up.

Not quite. Ore on Earth is limited, and increasingly difficult to mine, requiring costly processing, deep sea expeditions, and producing toxic side effects for the environment. It's also politically problematic, as countries control access and exportation.

Asteroid mining would be much more expensive, but the ROI could potentially be much more lucrative. Once the space operation is setup, costs would eventually come down, and it opens up many further space exploration opportunities.

SpaceX is in a unique position to be one of the first companies to launch such missions, that I'm also surprised that Musk is not jumping at the opportunity.

It would still be a political challenge, and it creates new conflict arenas, but this is inescapable human nature.

Asteroid mining is inevitable and we'll get there eventually. Beltalowda!
> which is set to investigate a rare metal asteroid that could be worth a reported $10 quintillion dollars if mined.

World GDP is ~100T per year. I'm guessing that estimate was just the amount of rare earth metals times the current price, but the magnitude it ignored economic realities is comedic.
That could be a hint to reflect on your thought process
"I guess the trick is instead of saying "no," say nothing so you can play dumb. "Must have been marked as spam.""

...or you can say "I'd like to come back for double the pay."
> what's wrong with moving to Texas?

It's overrun with Californians
The irony of you pushing the agenda that i should not be pushing my agenda that people should not be pushing their agenda through spam is through the roof. I want to be able to somehow vote for tags to be removed from posts. Instagram is suffering from the same issue. You search for vr or gaming and pop there is some thot or basic dude spamming the topic with an unrelated post. No option to remove their content or have them blocked from showing up again. Basically i want us to be able to train an ai that will filter out content from tags or topics.
Maybe in the US. Not elsewhere.
I agree, except that I want checked exceptions. It’s really not different from the error part of an Either return type — and it could be implemented that way on the ABI level.

(And I’m not sure about the local variables idea, because that could become really slow and could effectively duplicate the stack in size, or even more in the case of “suppressed” exceptions).
> it’s pretty unbelievable anyone would actually do something so monumentally stupid.

tbh it's more monumentally stupid to try and rehire employees one day after laying them off.
If I scream at my wife that she is an ugly, useless person, that is legal. If ten minutes later I say ignore that, I want to be with you, that is also legal. It would still be abusive.
CEOs are the new politicians
That’s very exciting, I think. Problems that can be solved by people outside of the ecosystem are exciting. I think as long as VR can be taken full advantage for display management, we can make due until more niche applications of the input systems can be developed.
What about me, who never used Twitter and wont use this either? Did I make a bubble because I don't want people to challenge my opinions? How many tweets do I need to read a day until I have sufficiently challenged my opinions?
If it is true that the economy is shrinking and we are heading into a recession, I would guess that many companies are going to pull back on advertising buys. Their hardest decision would be where to do that. Elon has answered that question for them and delivered it on a silver platter.
The employees are not prohibited from looking for other jobs.