skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is weird position to contrast with the widespread fawning coverage Musk received until the last few years ago, not to mention the claim that public opinion is set by progressives which ignores both the massive conservative media ecosystem and the generally centrist leanings of most other outlets. Conservatives like to dismiss the NYT, WaPo, NPR, etc. as progressive but that’s a ploy to avoid engaging with stories which make them uncomfortable and shouldn’t be confused with sober analysis.

The reason Musk has PR problems is simple: he creates them. No other CEO at his level has such an unfiltered stream of consciousness going public without a filter, and few have his taste for pointless stunts. The stuff which hurt his reputation wasn’t things like dating rock stars or having children with women other than his wife (this is largely priced in to the reputation of very rich men) but stuff like very publicly calling someone a pedophile out of pique from being outdone. He could stop that at any time and pretty much every employee and shareholder of his companies would be grateful.
As far as I can tell this is a non-issue. A single byte is written potentially outside a dynamically allocated buffer but the original contents is restored before the function returns (sudo is single-threaded). At best it could be a crash, but even that is unlikely unless using address sanitizer or valgrind.
That's nothing. There are far more powerful removal tools than automoderator these days, and that was already very dystopian itself. See:

https://www.reddit.com/r/reveddit/comments/sxpk15/fyi_my_tho...
I love the way Automat makes me feel every time I look at it. When I first started reading your comment I got defensive. After some thought, of course I agree with you.

I've enjoyed some of your other comments on art. Are there any books that you would recommend to someone who enjoys art but knows little about art history (or art in general)?
I also enjoyed the square dollars example.

A type system is merely a tool to encode information to help better model things. If you want to prevent multiplying dollars together, types can help you do that. If you want to enable multiplying dollars together, types can help you do that, too.
I'm all for doing smart things: planting trees and creating gardens and doing what we can to live in harmony with nature. Reducing/Reusing/Recycling where it's wise: not the paper straws that don't work after 30 seconds and not paper bags that break if you put more than 3 items in the bag.

But I'd say that the smartest thing any of us can be individually doing is focusing on making money and creating a prosperous, stable society that has the resources to research/implement new energy sources and adapt to any environmental challenges.

The future techs that will really matter (maybe better nuclear or more efficient battery storage and better desalinization methods) will not be likely to come from poor areas. The poor areas of the world are busy chopping down any remaining nearby trees for firewood and trying to survive.

And I'd say this. Don't listen to the "experts". Go fucking make babies. That's what makes preserving the future worth it. If you're not having kids, asshole politicians who are only concerned about GDP numbers and finding a bunch of new people to load with credit card debt will simply import other people and give them your future.
I had to clean my cup, FML!
> What is then supposed to happen is that profits are taxed sufficiently, feeding back in to the system, but that part appears to have broken down lately.

right. with the right accounting processes, i could buy the rest. but when spending and tax collection are as decoupled or loosely balanced as they appear to be today, public investment into private industry is super risky.
then you should complain and check what's in your mail. The fact that a delivery method is generic isn't a problem, delivering things from A to B is a generic task. The recipient of the packet handles the content, the deliverer doesn't care what's in the box. deliver_to ought to be reusable, there shouldn't be 50 versions of it.

When we send json over the wire do we rewrite methods globally to make sure we're all in sync about the content? No, you as the message recipient make sure that what you got makes sense and how to deal with it.
This is what the Python test framework Pytest does, among many other similar useful and magical things. I believe that the Python developer ecosystem as a whole would be substantially less productive without it.
The thing about Mathematica / the Wolfram language is that it's quite a bit harder to create an open source interpreter than it was for eg R (which is actually a FOSS interpteter for the commercial package S) or for Matlab (not sure what the status of Octave, the FOSS interpeter for Matlab code, is, I read an entry on a mailing list a long time ago that its sole dev was giving up). A lot of the symbolic solvers that are used under the hood are Wolfram's IP, and it would be a monumental effort to recreate something similarly powerful from scratch.
Makes sense to want to ban alcohol if no one wants to have a beer with you, it's okay.
This might be the only solution. At any point in the near future we may learn that our previously-emitted GHGs have locked us into a climate feedback loop that ends with unsurvivable temperature increases (at least, unsurvivable for global civilization.) At that point what's the alternative? (And yes: it is catastrophic that we've put ourselves in a situation where this might be our only hope of surviving, happy to discuss the allocation of blame for that mistake.)
I am saying that an object has a type, rather than is a type or some augmentation of it.

An object is a term-level construction and therefore is not really comparable to a type. Types can be given to both state and behaviour. For example, a function type describes pure behaviour.

Note that statically-typed OOP languages have a name for the nominal types of objects: "classes". One could say that a class is a type representing both state and behaviour.
Same lesson that every RTS or 4x game has ever taught me! Just need to have the generals play more command and conquer.
i use Feedbro extension in firefox daily on windows.
It's not inconceivable that people back then were sincere about their religious beliefs. Imagine going to St Peter's Basilica and replacing a crucifix with a statue of Baal. Or placing a statue of Krishna on top of the Kaaba. These could start a war.
Years ago the resized them so they don't fit LPs, or so the legend goes. When I was a kid, every grocery store had a mountain of these behind it and every audiophile had a wall of records in them. When you get dairy deliveries at a restaurant, in my experience no one is counting the crates that closely so we'd just borrow a few.
the lengths people will go instead of learning proper linux administration for the 21st century.

this article reads like a joke for anyone who knows systemd and machined (not even need to understand the underlying kernel apis). all the isolation, process management etc is there.

instead they go around and reimplement (badly) everything so it might work with docker.
Why do you need microphone access? Can't you use text instead? I'm not giving mic access to some random website.
He literally didn't though.

https://twitter.com/yoyoel/status/1588657227035918337
IIRC the problem is you need to bake in support for CSI sensors into the firmware itself, and for that you need datasheets... CSI is only the communication interface, not the protocol - for webcams, UVC exists on top of USB, but embedded doesn't have that luxury.
If they do, you can easily cancel your service (no lock-in contract) and go with a competitor that offers a better deal.
Esperanto.
Climate activists block private jet take-offs at Schiphol Airport
india basically wants everyone to know that it wants to goto bed with everyone a little at a time rather than be a wife or a paramour.
grow plants to pull carbon from atmosphere -> create plant based plastics -> use plastics -> bury plastics forever

we need to sequester carbon, this seems like one good method
The audit found that the ballots had been folded "incorrectly" (Is there a right way to fold the ballots?) and if the crease went through the mark for a candidate, it would count the crease as a mark. This meant if the voter had marked another candidate, it would think it was double voted and not count it, and if they had not marked a candidate, it would count it as a vote.

I am not sure having the source code of the machines be open source would help, but maybe make it easier to audit and detect that the crease would lead to a miscounted ballot.
This is a surprising characterization of alcohol use at mcmurdo, and seems PR-focused.

I hiked with a guy after he finished up a season working on the base, and here is what I recall of how he described it:

Everyone is so bored that alcohol is the default entertainment, crown royal is virtually the only choice for daily drinking, and drinking is rationed to keep the problem down.
Isn’t that how most political ads/disinformation campaigns already work? Many absolute truths in politics are self-evident, but if you need to get some lies out there… buy some ads.
Flow is not better than typescript. People who say it’s “better”, what they mean is it’s more strict, which really means more rigid. The rigidity is a complete pain in the ass that’s not well suited to web UI development and leads to all kinds of convolution.

To take one example: I use a Graphql to flow type generator for query fragment. That tool generates inexact types. So I’ll end up with an array of values of this type from a Graphql query, data objects with 10 keys for example.

Then I want to pass this to a charting library, but I need to add a “color” property to each data object for the charting library. This is not possible with flow. My options are:

- create a new type with color property and spread the existing type: this is not possible because the existing type is inexact and I have no way to convince flow it doesn’t already have a color property

- just add a color property: this won’t work because I get a flow error later when I try to read the property, plus I don’t get the type check I’d like

- create a new type plucking every other field from the existing type 1x1, then create a mapping function moving every property to the new type 1x1

- use $FlowFixMe to disable type checking altogether

The only options that work are the last two, and they either break typing altogether or require dozens of additional lines of code that serve no purpose but satisfying Flow. And or course you need a comment to explain why the hell you’re mapping properties over one by one.

I don’t need a type system that’s this “correct.” I’m not writing mathematical proofs, I’m writing web UIs, and this level of rigidity just gets in the way and leads to weird, overly verbose code.
Speculation. Eventually any text-based markup language, as it gets more complicated, will go full circle to the WYSIWYG or other authoring tools, spawning new plaintext formats with a new promise to be the ones.
No, it means diversity of opinion.
Some people dislike repetitive emails. Some people dislike political emails. Some people dislike irrelevant emails (like, perhaps, they live outside the US). I'm sure there are other reasons to dislike emails.

But as has been said all over the place, "free speech" means you face no government action when it's exercised. It does not mean that speech lacks consequences, or that people have to host it, listen to it, etc. There's an xkcd on this as an exercise for the reader.

Personally, I try to not be an asshole or associate with assholes. Therefore, any behaviour that smacks of asshole-dom has an increased chance of ending up in the trash. This includes solicitations and "marketing"...
> He's a stop gap against fascism

The point is that those pissed off teenage GenXers would be horrified to vote for any Dem candidate for the last 20 years. All of them were/are part of “the machine” but time has had its opportunity to form basically all of them into conventional adults.
Most people, both in developed countries and across the world, rank climate at the bottom of their list of concerns. Some enlightened elites care about it, but they can only do so much.

That situation will remain exactly the same if we buy more time with geoengineering. But at least with geoengineering, hundreds of millions of people might not be driven from their homes by literally unlivable heat conditions in this century.

If those people want to live in your backyard, does geoengineering sound a little more appealing now?
Hey I can't resist showing what I am working on: https://datum.alwaysdata.net .

The goal is not that far from what birdwatch wants to do, but it's restricted to adding data context to online discourse.

I am frequently pondering those kind of thoughts regarding, low trust and crypto. And I would love to discuss it with you, or other people, if you are interested.

Basically the design dilemna is you want to anchor the moderating behavior to some hard identity or value, without ruining the collaborative spirit task.
its been a few years since they did any psych testing for mcmurdo or pole
Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google.

I am assuming this is either Apple or Netflix in Seoul? Because Google, Amazon and Facebook dont have much of an office in SK.
I hope that you’re right as well. I think you would be right if the CCP still existed and was ruled by a committee. Unfortunately, China is a dictatorship run by Xi now, and his opposition seems too weak to fight now. The more power is centralized the more it exacerbates mistakes and bad decisions. Sadly, the era of Deng Xiaoping’s pragmatism is over.
The analogy you're using is binary (seat belt on or off), whereas an infrastructure cut is more like reducing your thermostat by a couple of degrees, then concluding that no one froze to death, therefore it was an acceptable cut. Many parts of Europe will be running this experiment, in fact.
And some of us just plain don't want to use voice interfaces.
>It's the same, until one day India will discover that Russia is useless against China and the US and the West are not. And then there will be a realignment. When it happens it won't be about any fancy ideals, it'll just be interests realigning.

This binary choice of aligning and then trapping oneself into being subservient to one sides is exactly what India is trying to avoid.

Ukraine may be fending off Russians with help of the west and may even push Russia all the way back, but their families, cultural & human capital, infrastructure are all being eroded, significantly. Future generations of Ukraine will have to pay this debt.

India voluntarily making a choice which would bring it in the cross-hairs of China or the West would be a catastrophic failure of imagination.
Kubernetes feels like the lower level engine that some great abstraction system sits on top of, this thing with great defaults, fault tolerances, self-repairing and developer-friendly interface, unfortunately the higher level abstraction doesn't exist. Kubernetes makes that all possible and its ingenious and revolutionary, its just that its a terrible terrible experience to actually use in practice.

We need like what pytorch was to tensorflow, its clear that google has completely lost the plot again with this insane unmanageable complexity that blows up in your face every 5 minutes.
https://archive.ph/7DS7V
Where in Europe bills you to use an ambulance?
This is just my opinion, but anything that makes advertising revenue no longer no longer a dependency could potentially be a viable path if properly thought out now that Twitter is a privately held company and there are fewer investors with voting input. Adult content could be one path but there are a few obstacles.

One potential obstacle would be existing investors in the middle east that would not want to be associated with something that breaks their laws and conflicts with their ethics. I suspect those investors would have to cash out first. Or perhaps things have evolved and this is no longer an issue?

Another potential obstacle that could be overcome is a payment processor. Elon could probably find a way around this, but corporate banking payment processors will threaten to drop Twitter should they accept payments for adult entertainment. Perhaps Elon would embrace this and just require everyone to use the virtual currency of his choice? Does Elon own any currency exchanges? Perhaps another way around this would be to split Twitter into multiple companies similar to how Facebook is under Meta and Google is under Alphabet. Twitter legacy could remain with Mastercard/Visa and Twitter Ultraviolet could use virtual currencies.

Another obstacle for a mainstream platform to officially support the financial aspect of the adult entertainment industry would be the compliance with the 2257 [1] regulations and associated verification. Not impossible but there would have to be an entire org in Twitter that manages this. This is why I dumped one of my forums. I am too lazy to do everything required to be compliant. Twitter could probably manage this however.

My favorite part of this is the required changes to HR training. Everyone except for the people at that table are prohibited from viewing porn at work. We received some inquisitive looks from everyone else.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_film_industry_regulation...
I ran into a Heinz imitation of this at my local supermarket and it wasn't particularly spicy (as could be predicted.) How spicy is the real stuff? https://www.heinz.com/product/00013000001267/heinz-57-collec...
In my city, the curb appeal of the wealthy suburbs with good schools is absolutely there too. But the inner city knife-fighting schools actually get more total money per student (because the state makes up the difference and then some). That translates into generally newer school buildings in the city, but generally worse outcomes. Which points to the fact that money isn't everything. Good administration matters. Teacher-student ratios matter. Home life matters. Without those things, more money doesn't solve education problems! Money helps on all those fronts, but it in itself isn't sufficient without good execution
> Embedded loves contiguous blocks.

Quite the opposite. When you have no dynamic allocations, vectors are out of the question, while pool of nodes is fine and sound.

And quite often you can't copy elements from one place to another in embedded or operating systems, since many consumers can store a pointer to this element. Of course this could be solved by usage of vector of pointers, but this completely ruins the ``cache locality'' argument.
dummy accounts that have corporate email domains? While not impossible, it's a non-trivial hurdle.
Linked lists also work great in a sharded distributed data structure. You can make changes to the list structure by simply changing reference at nodes and don’t need to move anything.
No, this is also misinformation. This is the story the left wants to push, but no republicans wanted Jan 6 to happen.

Yes they’re names, does this mean the position of the left that speech can be hateful is invalid?
Maybe he's not a citizen or has whatever national insurance? I had a family member (US citizen) have to pay for hospitalization in belgium. On checking out the staff were apologetic. "This is going to be expensive...". It was somewhere around a few hundred USD for him being in for ... 3-4 days, IIRC. It was insanely nothing. "Maybe you can contact your employer for reimbursement" he was told a couple of times.
I don’t know where they got that number from. It’s depending on a multitude of factors like, type of supernova and orientation of the supernova (like if we’re in line for a gamma ray burst)

*edit

For anyone interested in this topic I suggest Phil Plait’s book in the subject
> hobbyist

At least there's a minimized version in Raspbian. It ran fine on an old B model, snappy enough to play around.

https://www.wolfram.com/raspberry-pi/
> I have been on the receiving end of a campaign organized by a somewhat popular forum in order to fill up a direct democracy platform with as many memes and random shit as possible.

I'm curious what platform you are referring to here?
> "Pull out your credit card and pay" is a nice anti-spam feature and verification is a bank duty anyway

And if you wanted to pivot into also handling payments, you'd now have a payment method to settle with your customer, massively removing onboarding friction into the payment system.
At the time it was very reasonable to assume Saddam had (more) WMDs. Stating otherwise is suffering from hindsight bias, there is really no reason to assume malice here.
I’ve always grokked primitive types as mapping to different concepts used when storing values in memory.

A string is some bytes in a line with a terminator at the end.

An integer is a group of signed or unsigned bytes.

An enum value points at another value with a pointer.

Etc.

What I think this describes is some validation classes, which don’t need to be built into a language’s runtime. Primitive types have a real reason for existing when compiling these apps, a validation class doesn’t. It can just be a library, in which case this is a nice API for validation!
This appears to be the code repo- https://github.com/votingworks/vxsuite-complete-system

But it does not have a license file or any license headers... meaning it may not be under an Open Source license at all?

Some of their code- the audit program, looks like it is AGPLv3... which seems like an odd choice of license for this sort of system. Still happy to see more work on Open Source voting systems.
Some layoffs, perhaps. There’s no reason to think they would be this large or haphazard, and without billions in new debt Twitter’s financial pressure would be far lower.

Their most profitable years would have been cancelled out by the new debt Musk brought, and that was before he tanked their ad sales.
Some readers have such option build-in (e.g. FreshRSS). There are also services like:

https://createfeed.fivefilters.org/

https://feed43.com/

https://politepol.com/en/
No. It’s the echo chamber that leads you to believe all content that disagrees with the echo chamber is crap.
Keep the "diversity of opinion" in the tweets but not in the fact checking.
It may have been the "worst thing" he did politically. Do you not understand that?
Convenient way to remove yourself there. No you made it left v right as well.

So how come BLM and Antifas actions are not condemned by the left?
>I assume there's some reason big hollow wires don't work.

So pipes then. The internet really would have been a series of tubes. ;-)
It depends per country, generally its free or super cheap, but there are some exceptions to services covered and ambulance can be one of them (its around 500$ in Switzerland - this still could lead to paying 0$ for patient depending on situation, don't know about other countries).

And dental care is probably not free anywhere anymore that I am aware of, but its still cheaper to take trans-atlantic plane to get some more complex work done in cheaper places here than doing it in bigger cities in US.