skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't say anything about the rest of the world. You made a statement about Sweden, even highlighting that it was "every single country" which, unless you want to qualify that statement, simply wasn't accurate. State-owned enterprises in Sweden weren't sold off because they didn't provide service or even didn't make profits but because of shifting politics in Sweden and the EU. Politicians who never wanted state-owned enterprises came into power and the EU made many ventures outright illegal as unlawful state aid. The same politicians who privatized everything else and ended conscription so Sweden had no choice but to join Nato. You can of course argue that "it didn't work because it wasn't wanted" but then the same thing goes for anything else that was changed like government owned nuclear power plants. Which these days of course also requires approval from the EU.
You seem to have a weird definition of “validation”.
Linode is absolutely trash, followed closely by digitalocean - almost all of the abusive traffic I see originates from those two in particular (ovh et al have pretty much dropped off the radar, presumably due to price or reputation or similar).

At this point I just drop both at the edge as they generally refuse to deal with problems and especially in the case of "researchers" who don't identify themselves, protect them.
Mastodoncoin
Sorry is this news?
Seems an unverified and unreliable source and likely to be fake.
I stand corrected. I thought I read at some point that bluesky was SSB.
Sorry the example was vague. It was a test for the migration library itself— something I wrote recently when playing around with building a 0-dependency web framework for Bun.

I wouldn’t actually write tests for migrations themselves.
Creating bloated bullshit has even more value in terms of measured changes than the initial bloat because it also creates the opportunity to fix it up later for even more changes.
How, you ask?

https://scalameta.org/metals/docs/editors/emacs/
FORTH seems to be most famous for what you can do in minimal lines of code.

I can't exactly say I recommend it for practical use though, it's everything I think a language shouldn't be, but it sure does attract some devoted fans.
> C-Suits are different than ground workers.

It doesn't matter because that is not what was agreed at the time of employment.

You are trying to apply your idea retrospectively without any prior agreement.

Now moving forward I can see your idea being implemented but be prepared for c-suite's compensation to skyrocket even more because the downside is much higher... The upside has to be much higher as well.
There is a book on this:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/308235.How_to_Grow_Fresh...
The availability of the chronological timeline is what's kept me on Twitter; hate the algorithmic. If they ever do away with the chronological, I'm gone.
They weren't interested as they might have had a better candidate. That is typically the reason. It is not about you not passing a metaphorical "bar" at least that is the case for senior positions.

I have been recruiting quite a lot and at the end of the cycle you go through making difficult choices. Often times you get 2 good candidates and only one spot. So you compare them and pick a better one. The dismissed candidate can be picked next year due to lack of better candidates.

Unless it has been clearly stated in the reply that you seemed to be below their expectation of a senior candidate. And even then... a lot can change over the year and if you feel like you are better you have every right to reapply. Most companies will inform you of reapply policy terms if your are outside of it.
^ This, particularly when viewed in terms of the square-cube law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Square%E2%80%93cube_law
What I found amazing about FEM is not the detail of how to implement it in code, but all the PDE theory & approximation theory -- how you can express the original continuous-domain infinite dimensional problem in a weak form using an infinite dimensional space of test functions, then approximating the weak form of the original problem with a finite dimensional Galerkin approximation, using a finite dimensional space of test functions, and use that to define a finite dimensional system of equations to solve. Then the theory for under what conditions you can guarantee that approximate solutions obtained from your finite dimensional approximation converge toward the true solution, as you increase the mesh resolution, and how fast the convergence rate will be.

Some of this is summarised in this paper in 2. model problem & 3. Galerkin discretisation of the problem, but not in a way that will communicate the mathematical ideas to anyone who hasn't already taken a course on the theory -- probably need a couple of courses on real analysis & a course on PDE as pre-reqs.
"I Just Blue Myself!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GYtgFdXCGE
Let me add to that list:
-- FSD promised Q1-Q2 2017 (never delivered)
-- Model 3 will cost $35,000 (starting price >$45,000)
-- Summoning your Tesla will be available around 2018 (never delivered)
-- No people in the actual Tesla production will be involved (Tesla employs thousands of people in production process. Elon has went back on this)
-- Tesla won't be needing another financing round (~20 more financing rounds happened after this announcement, at an avg of $1b)
-- By 2020 a Neurolink device will be implanted into a human skull (never happened)
-- One million robotaxis by 2020 (never delivered)

and so on and so forth. I dont care for his hyperloop shenanigans ("will never happen" to all of those announcement) nor his Mars dreams, but those are the ones I can think of. There are many more broken Elon promises.

Elon does deliver though. There's no denying that he does deliver good products.
I meant that a high PE indicates that investors have a high confidence in the company. Preferring to buy stock with a low PE is (usually) a contrarian position, i.e. you would only do so if you believe that the company will do better than the market expects it to. You might be right or it might end up being a value trap.

If someone is selling a McDonalds that makes $1m a year for $5m and somebody else selling one with the same revenue for $1m either one of the seller is behaving irrationally or the second seller knows something you don't. Why would somebody give you free money otherwise?
Mastodon doesn't have a lack of moderation, in fact, it's architecture tends to segregate people out into instances by interest, making it easy to moderate as long as you keep your instance small (most of the really bad stuff will be on a handful of instances that allow it, so you can just block them and only have to deal with the minor problems on your own instance). Mastodon also tends to have one or more moderators per instance, so it probably has a lot more people with moderation privileges than a big centralized company, which can only afford to hire so many people in the call center to handle moderation.
The speed at which I can fix bugs is dramatically slower than the speed at which I can re-run a unit test.

Even when I do have multiple failing tests, I focus on and fix them one test at a time.
Turns out our brains are pretty good at math.
Could you all please get off my lawn?
> how do you balance speech, censorship and moderation?

Decentralization does help a lot here. The X, Y and Z server owners don’t have to agree or coordinate. The fact that they will disagree on their policies is part of the answer. There won’t be a one-size-fits-all policy. Different servers will try different things and ideas will be shared about what works and what doesn’t.

Z server can choose to allow saying mean things and X and Y server can block and ignore posts from Z.

Some servers may have a political bias one way or the other and individuals can choose which to join and pay attention to.
Dead Code Society ftw
this is written as if you don't understand federated services.

How will it be the same or worse? Which member of it?

Mastodon is simply a social federation enabling software; it's similarly abstract to refer to Twitter's software infrastructure.
I feel like he should have taken a long holiday. Not being rude or anything, but a new social network needs thorough thinking. For instance everywhere i read about the topic on casual forums, someone mentions myspace. Maybe it is time that such a network is built - fun customisations and neutral content.
I always link to nitter's mirror of the twitter thread in question, just because it doesn't require javascript to view.
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Hurricane Ian and EV Fires
This is an abstract of an article behind a paywall so we can't see this details but it is from 2021 and I managed to find an article discussing the concept [1]

> In this case negative energy is not required — rather it’s gravity itself which bends spacetime and gives rise to time dilation. In essence the gravitational field makes the passage of time within the passenger area much slower than the passage of time outside of it. A few minutes for them may be thousands of years worth of space travel, yet to leverage this powerful effect would take enormous amounts of gravity. The paper calls for the compression of an entire planet down to just a thin shell surrounding the passengers. The introduction of a physical warp drive model has changed the question from “Does something like negative energy even exist?” to “How do we compress the mass of a planet down to the size of a spaceship?”

And I'll pull out the most apropos sentence:

> The paper calls for the compression of an entire planet down to just a thin shell surrounding the passengers

Yes, no negative energy or negative energy mass, just an entire planet compressed into a thin shell that somehow doesn't further collapse.

So even if this were possible, how would you accelerate or maneuver such a massive object?

I've seen so many of these proposals over the years. It's all nuclear-grade hopium with a massive flaw or huge, highly theoretical unknown. Always.

[1]: https://medium.com/predict/the-first-physical-warp-drive-mod...
Moderation shmoderation, but irt "the masses" it seems like a lot of this fediverse stuff tops out in the hundreds of users per instance, not in the thousands or tens of thousands. I'd love to be corrected on this, as I'm afraid that if Mastodon gets one good news day, the entire network would instantly crash.
So Bezos has too much money basically is what I got from this.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real_interest_rate
Null modems.

Laplink cables had DB-9 and DB-25 on both ends with the crossover built-in.

There were some male to male cables that had crossover while others didn’t. Then there were null modem adapter dongles for straight through cables. They were either male-female or male-male depending.

Reminds me about older Ethernet: before Auto-MDI/MDIX on most NICs and switches, crossover RJ-45 cables were needed.
They learned that from Stalin. He even purged all the communists.
Does this mean the blue check mark no longer implies that the user is who they pretend they are? Anyone can pretend to be any celebrity or politician on Twitter and there is no way to tell which of the dozens of people who pretend to be Famous Person X is actually that person? Or is there still some form of real name policy and identity verification in place?
>Codex was trained on “millions of public repositories”

if people can learn from your code, so can AIs
I can part with a few monies, I'd rather not sign up to some newsletter though. Different free for different folks.
Pointers to std::string are almost never required, though. A pointer to std::string is not something you have to use to write a string handling C++ program or module; and such a pointer p is itself not a string, *p is (if p is non-null and valid).

About the only time you would need a pointer to std::string when calling some C API that takes a callback function with a void * context, and you'd like that context to be a std::string. Then you might take the address of string object to pass to that API. (That pointer would likely never be null, but could go bad due to lifetime mismanagement.)

Most other uses of such a thing would be unidiomatic. Whereas, in some languages, string references that can be null are foisted on programmers as the standard, idiomatic string representation. That's a big difference.
Micropayments or similar will likely utilize a blockchain?
Yeah, Perl notoriously can have very compact expressions but shouldn't be recommended because of readability
I don’t think anybody outside the UK knows of or cares about the difference.
Picking people entirely at random would be better than picking them based on a nonsensical metric.
Hmmm, wonder if it’s a freedom of speech issue if a coalition of companies effectively prevent public discussion of issues that might significantly upset the status quo?

Loud, blatant lies that are repeated by authority figures continuously is one thing. That this is bad is almost universally agreed on. But does this advertiser worry really stop at that?

I think this is a very interesting question, hitting at the heart of the Twitter controversy. Advertisers have an incredibly strong influence on contemporary discourse; their concerns influence almost all publicly-visible discussion, opinion and debate. The attention economy, eyeball-and-click-hunting is just the tip of the spear, and this dominates almost every public communication platform in the world.

Elon Musk and his $44 billion «fuck this shit» purchase is the only significant challenge to this model. It will obviously upset the advertisers; it’s tautological.

Maybe the result is that it won’t work, but if it does, Twitter will be the only public communications platform that isn’t very heavily influenced by advertisers’ interests.
I personally prefer seeing everything that I broke, not just the first one
If that is the “normal people” tier, it’s too much. I should not pay the same as McDonalds or even a C list celebrity.

I would swing $4 if they added encrypted DMs.
Hopefully teams working on this will get some good sleep now
Dividends by the Numbers in October 2022 Send Recessionary Signal
> [Swift] it's such a great example of how you can have a language that feels like a scripting language but with much more advanced type safety.

There are great examples far older than Swift, for example ML that dates back to the 1970s, or OCaml that's as old as Java.
I think Bezos funding the Long Now's clock is such an odd take to select from this article.
LOC modified is a fine rough estimate. The issue is that it's a rough estimate and shouldn't be used in things like who to promote or fire without deeper investigation.

Usually LOC modified correlates with actual productivity but there are lots of exceptions. Like if someone copies an open-source library directly into the repo, commits a formatting change, is working on a critical section of code, is working in a different language, is writing new features while everyone else is fixing bugs, has been told they are going to be measured by LOC, etc.

The fact that you actually analyze your team members' contributions, know the codebase, and measure productivity in more ways than LOC is a good sign. The problem is when managers exclusively measure LOC to gauge productivity and make decisions. While LOC and productivity correlate more often than not, I bet you can spot at least some cases where the LOC is not an accurate measure.
Using sound to model the world
*if you know how to manage and maintain a server
Counting lines of code, commits, changesets or any other simple metric will destroy your culture.

The team _will_ find out, and then instead of contributing to the success of the business in earnest, they’ll be doing stupid things like maximizing their changesets or racing for “easy” large changes like deleting a module.

It doesn’t matter whether those values do or do not correlate with reality (IMO, if they do, it is for relatively junior engineers only). If you give off the smell of measuring people like that, you will ruin any collaborative team environment and you risk never being able to recover that.

There’s a good chance you’ll chase away excellent engineers with this sort of low-effort metrics management too.
Cartography shows that the Isthmus of Tehuantepec used as inter-oceanic passage
Can you share a pointer to setup information for this? I bought a Meta Quest Pro a little while ago (my first VR headset) and really have no idea what I'm doing with it yet.
There are definitely laws against spam
It's not ready.

It doesn't really matter which headset you use or what specs they have, they are all way to heavy and uncomfortable to use for work. And I say that as someone who enjoys gaming on them quite a lot.

John Carmack mentioned the concept of VR for work specifically in his latest presentation on the pro2... something he's clearly interested in and believes will eventually happen but in his words were something along the lines of "this is going to need a lot of painful dogfooding before it's useful". Once they are down to the weight of some very chunky sunglasses - then we can start to be a bit more serious about it. It will happen, in the not too distant future, but if you force it right now I believe you will be in for a lot of discomfort and ultimately bail.
I think as part to remain marketable in current technical job market, developers need to keep updating thier technical skills ..whether it is some CI/CD pipeline, cloud computing, devops or completely new language like Rust or Golang. Sometimes it can be quite distasteful and uncomfortable since we are swept outside our comfort zone.
Haha, I'll give that serious consideration.

Now, I read that NY Times article, and I guess the crucial sentence that you are referring to is

To do the deal, Mr. Musk, the world’s richest man, loaded about $13 billion in debt on the company, which had not turned a profit for eight of the past 10 years.

Now, I'm not privy to the deal's details, but since you appear to be more informed, maybe you can clarify something for me.

How could Musk load with debt a company that he did not own yet? Legally, how does this work? In the end someone has to sign a piece of paper. Can I sign a piece of paper making you owe some money to someone else?

I can see how this could work. The then shareholders decided (indirectly via the board of directors) to borrow the cool $12.7 BN so Musk can use his own money and that debt to buy them all out at twice the fair market price. But then was it Musk who loaded Twitter with debt, or the outgoing directors?
At least to the point that the society is left to itself without being invaded. That was the issue for the anarchist experiment in 1930s Spain, it was shut down by fascists and Soviet-aligned communists. Would it have survived if left to itself? I guess we'll never know.

I find the general unwillingness to experiment with alternative models of society, whether they are libertarianism, or anarchism, or whatever, quite disappointing. A few "special economic zones" doesn't seem like too much to ask for.

Instead, we just replicate the same old model, which these days is a mixture of capitalism and government authority. The government authority supposedly either suppresses the worst outcomes of capitalism, or is a source of corruption and abuse in itself. Now we have well over 100 such governments around the world, with varying degrees of success for the majority of their populations, and I'm not sure we are really learning anything.
Really? You mean this one?

> See what’s happening
> Join Twitter to get the full story with all the live commentary.

I’m still seeing it.
Will. It. Blend?
Makes me wonder if this could be used intentionally, as in a recipe that calls for baking soda left next to certain aromatic ingredients to infuse it with flavor.
I expect a lot of software companies don't make any money, only living on investment dollars in some hope of making money someday, so margins may not matter much.

But if the companies were to be become sufficiently poorer, the amount they are able to pay has to come down at some point, and once that happens you've got a reduction in demand. That doesn't necessarily mean firing anyone, demand simply measures desire and ability to pay a given price to attain what is wanted.
Tweets are near real time so how do they keep up with them when it's a consensus system that could take a lot of back and forth? The period between when a tweet is sent and when its reviewed is posted could be enough time to indoctrinate a lot of people, no? I think the average tweet impression over time graph looks like a reverse exponential.
This is somewhat like saying the person who pulls the levers is responsible for the productivity of a factory. Have productive gains in the last 20 years been that high? It seems like mostly a roll out of productivity gains from the digital computing/processing and communications hardware which came in a rush 20 years ago and has been incrementally improving since then. They just did a poor job of capturing the benefits from their new hardware. Other than Apple and a few others perhaps. Maybe Qualcomm? This is why it's good to go vertical like Amazon.
Eating it isn't going to kill you. But I think of it more as a backup kitchen fire extinguisher.
I think Elon did not so much lose a game of chicken than he threatened to make Twitter share price increase if the Twitter board didn't do what he said.

I cannot discount that Elon may have a master plan here but it did seem he was being outplayed every step of the way because he was so... Elon?
I've done a bunch of work with RS232 in the machining industry (CNC). Getting my mind around both software / hardware control sequences was the most challenging part.

You can overcome the baud challenges with scripts that loop through common baud rates until alpha numeric characters are found.

It's also nice that the same few windows applications have been in use for 20 years or so (I specifically worked with RS232 to TCP/IP).
The meaning is the same; the syntax is different. All triple-backtick codeblocks in doc comments, unless annotated 'ignore', are run as tests when you run `cargo test`. So from this file[0], this doc page[1] is generated. And there's more flexibility than 'run or ignore' too, e.g. one on that page is marked ```compile_fail,E0277 to fail the test if it compiles or has a different compilation error than expected. And then every code block known to be runnable has a Run button you can click to open the snippet in the Rust Playground.

These are API docs, but mdBook[2], which generates documentation that looks like this[3], has a test command which checks the code blocks the same way.

[0]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/src/alloc/string.rs.html#76

[1]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/stable/std/string/struct.String.ht...

[2]: https://rust-lang.github.io/mdBook/

[3]: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/
Raising the price is only necessary if you can't figure out a way to dispose of it properly. Maybe that's the case. If so, then we shouldn't be using it at all. So it would be a good outcome in that case if it is "unreasonable to use".
Mastodon Explained
Wait. So of the ~3500 employees left at the company, 2000 are content moderators?!
Or a cryptoransom gang.
Yeah, Milky doesn't work great with a Mac keyboard layout either.
If the ads produce results, then the advertisers will be back as soon as the dust settles. This isn't even a question. Businesses follow the money. If Coke doesn't advertise, Pepsi will happily pick up the slack, etc. It's only a question of short term losses until Musk learns to shut his mouth.

If it turns out ad money is just being flushed down the drain because most of the views are in fact bots, as I suspect, then Twitter has a whole other challenge.
What evidence is there of dark patterns or antagonizm?
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