skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fed is raising interest rates to execute a deliberate policy to target aggregate demand by making the price to borrow money more expensive. However, for every borrower, there is a lender. So money is redistributed from borrowers to lenders. Secondly, the US Federal government is a net payer of interest. So, they are paying out much more in interest to Federal debt holders. This increases income, increases deficits, and stimulates demand (mostly for rich people who earn interest). Is this a vicious feedback cycle ? Nobody is really talking about it but a select few. See Argentina. Not going to well as far as fighting inflation with monetary policy over there.
It's hard to measure progress by lines of code (1982)
They are a bit hard to find at the moment.
The same is true of leadership at all levels. The US political situation isn't looking that great because of the popularity of all kinds of jerk behavior that has become the norm. Ironically, Twitter itself is partly responsible for that, as crapping on your political opponents has become more important than having policy proposals or solving problems. It's a downward spiral when we accept shitty behaviors from leadership, because of exactly this copycat tendency of people--they emulate behavior of elites, sometimes unconsciously.
The reaction seems kind of ridiculous, given that he's not really done anything yet.

As of yet, there's been no high-profile unbannings, or even changes to the ToS, AFAIK. Just a plan to turn the blue checkmark into something that's not an exclusive status symbol.

Yes, redundancies can be brutal for those involved, but they're not exactly uncommon when the economy isn't doing so well, or a company changes hands or is restructured. And so far, the scale of the redundancies seems to be mostly speculation?
The super-rich NEVER see a bill: they have people for that
Downtime for me lasted almost 4 hours.
Uber Plans to Advertise to You at Every Stage of Your Ride, Using Your Own Data
Health insurance providers have guidelines that need to be followed by doctors for almost every intervention (procedure, medication, etc.). Typically those guidelines are evidence based, that is, there must have been a study that shows the intervention was helpful for a given diagnosis. Even then, the guidelines may not reflect the studies that your doctor is using as the basis for their treatment plan. If you have a rare disease, this is problematic since there is often little evidence applicable to your treatment. Quite often patients will get a denial first, and then the doctors have a "peer to peer" where they must justify the intervention to the insurance company; often these peer to peer requests are also rejected. Finally, there is an appeal process with more extensive documentation requirements, which may take 10 days (and this is the expedited timeline). During those ten long days, the medical condition of the patient may be rapidly changing.

There is suggested legislation regarding peer-to-peer problems, namely cases where the doctor assigned by the insurance company isn't even qualified to understand the medical condition or its treatment. See https://twitter.com/OffWhiteCoat/status/1559609045027266566

I don't know the prevalence of insurance denial cases. However, from discussions with my care team, the initial treatment denial by insurance companies is "standard operating procedure". If an application for treatment doesn't check every single box in the procedure guideline, it is denied pending peer to peer, and then quite often to appeal. By the time an appeal succeeds, the treatment may no longer be relevant.
National Public Transport Access Nodes (NaPTAN)
I think they're saying we don't know anything until we have details.
Thinking about life after Twitter
>What's implied by your argument is that the US is good.

I disagree because I didn't make any value statement on the US. I did argue that the countries you listed have been historically antagonistic towards the US, so that fact that this is reciprocated is quite understandable.
Absolutely based. There are more morale virtues than just “prevent harm”.
This is a good reason to stop using busses, not add tracking.
Sure, no social network has maintained prominence ever.
Absolutely agreed. But they're also an old school manufacturer as opposed to the more modern form of IP-focused tech company that tries as hard as possible not to be in the manufacturing game.
One of the richest people in the world overpays capital holders and slashes labor by 50% in order to own "the world's town square". Remarkable demonstration of labor weakness.
> I have steadily become convinced that we should make a multi-billion year backup of all of humanity's knowledge. All of it.

And I'm over here hoping humanity extinguishes itself ASAP so the rest of life can thrive before we kill it all.

Intelligent life seems highly overrated.
What You Need to Know Before You Go to Re:Invent
Overflow should be named hunter2 or sudoer2
Why do you timestamp it ?
Here's my trick - convert the number to $ per family per year.

So for a public library, you'd take 50k and multiply by 12 and get 600k/yr. Then you'd find the number of families served by the library, and divide that out. 600 families? That's 1k per family per year, too much. 6000 families? 100 per family per year, still high but not insane. 60000 families? Now we're down to $10. And if it were Chicago with 1 million families (or households which can be an easier number to find) we're at 60 cents per. Not bad.

You can do similar things at state and national levels to get a ballpark feeling. Student loan forgiveness will cost $400 billion over 30 years, let's say. There are about 122 million households, so forgiveness costs $3300 per household over 30 years, or $110 a year. At this point you can decide how much it's worth worrying about.
Technopoly too, for an easy to digest mash-up of McLuhan and Ellul.
People typically use the "Real GDP" (adjusted for inflation) when making that argument: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/GDPC1

It did shrink for two quarters in a row, Q1 and Q2 2022. Q3 went back up.

Here's a "Real GDP percent change" graph that makes it easier to see: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A191RL1Q225SBEA
Also odd since Jason Calacanis promoted this idea via "essays":

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/1515094823337832448
The only thing I'd recommend is exposing "eval()" or something to let users tell you when they want you to evaluate things. It'll save a ton of time when it comes to hot-fixing performance and memory use issues. It's really hard to determine when to evaluate, and although it's a fun problem to figure out, it's nice to have an escape hatch for users to just tell you. (Flashlight has explored this and written about it here: https://fl.readthedocs.io/en/latest/debugging.html?highlight...)

If you're interested, I've looked into symbolic laziness, which allows you to infer correct input sizes even when the constraints happen later. Can be useful for errors. https://dev-discuss.pytorch.org/t/loop-tools-lazy-frontend-e...
All the hysteria around the purchase proves that Twitter, as it has existed, was very, very important to a lot of people.
It's almost like blaming the new president for having to raise taxes after the last president spent too much $$ and raised the deficit during the good times.

When Twitter massively expanded their headcount over the last 3 years their stock price was nearly 30%+ higher than it was before the stock market tanked.

People here aren't paying the bills or looking at the financial sheets. We're taking a human look at it (which is good) but there's more to this stuff.

The C-suite was probably waiting for Musk to take over to make any hard choices that were coming anyway.
What to expect from COP27: “It’s pretty grim”
Some of this advice is a bit counterintuitive to me. I mean I understand owning vs renting but you know it hasn't been ingrained yet, I think. So thanks.
I'm wondering if Exasol is the TPC-H contender in question, as they lead the upper categories by wide margins.

"...and a 14-23% decrease in TPC-H throughput for a widely used commercial database."

https://www.tpc.org/tpch/results/tpch_perf_results5.asp?resu...
About rockets? Or websites?

I’m writing from a faang office with a few decades of experience. I know some people in aerospace. They’re on average smarter than 4/5ths of my colleagues (who are also clever).
This might be true for internal applications. Once you plug anything into the Internet all bets are off. Who's auditing for vulnerabilities, patching, rollbacks. Changes aren't made on a whim. There is either a business, strategic, or security need for them. And it's that last one where everyone is worried.

No system is perfect. It's how you respond to them that matters and if no human is in the loop what sort of response can you expect?
Gold is extremely common in the solar system.

In the next few hundred years it's pretty likely that gold price will be marginal, as asteroid miners looking for less useless materials such as nickel, cobalt and platinum mine an excess.

So no, unless for some hidden reason asteroid mining doesn't work out, which is pretty unlikely given how badly the developed world needs that material.
How many races are on your ballot? Next Tuesday, I'll have 11 races to vote for, plus 4 ballot referendums. That's probably a median election ballot in the US.
I'm curious about whether a paid-for social media business can survive. We so thoroughly educated everyone that social media is free, and there seems to be such resistance to the idea of paying for it, that I doubt it. But I tend to agree with ol' Musky that this has to move from the ad-supported model to improve.

I'm also curious at the rumblings from US politicians. What would happen if the USA nationalised Twitter? Given that politicians from all over the world use it too. A case for a UN intervention?

So many people I know are leaving Twitter, but the political class seems to need it, so I don't see it dying any time soon.
Why would that be? Musk's dream of a Mars colony seems easier than trying to co-ordinate that 1.5C global warming plan or prevent myriad of other apocalypse scenarios. It seems pretty intuitive two planets are better than one. Thinking from Musk's perspective, as a proud Homo sapiens who "must secure the existence of our people and a future for ~~white~~ human children", will he have better luck trying to prevent global warming by coordinating a global (including China and India) response, or starting a company to reach Mars by himself? Surely it's the second one.
Anyone mention Nexus on IPFS: http://k51qzi5uqu5dk9ji4oek1h08rg5ksqc4fjsqtyi43h3z6zuddwpgu...

Works just like libgen and is getting larger over time.
Ironically, I think some of the mudge leaks can cast light on this. One of the allegations he made was that "Twitter faced a non-negligible existential risk of even brief simultaneous, catastrophic data center failure, and had no workable disaster recovery plan."[0] Without more details, it's impossible to say but to me, this speaks to somewhat fragile infrastructure for an organization of this size and importance. I've worked at organizations with and without strong cold start plans, but the fact that Twitter didn't have one suggests it might difficult to do given the maturity of their infra.

[0] https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683/twitter-whis... page 28
Jobs wasn't like Musk or Bezos, cared deeply about employees, despite the famous youthful tantrum stories (probably also true, but salacious so more famous): my friend's wife had a hard to diagnose condition (autoimmune it turned out, I believe) and Jobs offered unlimited use of his private jet to get her to any doctor anywhere.

I was similarly told to be with my very sick parent, no time constraints, and I was part of an inner sanctum engineering team, and later similar when I had a pet get ill, in all cases because we all had one another's backs, and we all were NOT fungible assets, but, rather, harmoniously integrated by years of working together and a strict hiring filter in the first place.
Any reason this is flagged?
Lots of past threads: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26387179
>banning/shadow banning of those who went against the group think, fun police, and thought-gestapo.

Why would they agree to a ToS that clearly lays out things like "don't intentionally misgender people" if they fully planned on breaking their agreement

"But no one reads the ToS!" sure, but when you have your account suspended until you agree to delete a specific tweet and are given the exact area in the ToS you agreed to that you violated, then you should revoke your agreement to the ToS

When it's brought to your attention that you signed a document agreeing to Twitter being the thought Gestapo, just... cancel your agreement. Don't continue to agree to it in writing while whining about it publicly.

I agree with the rest of your comment though
Blackmailing is when you demand payment/value from someone in return for not revealing damaging information about them.

How are advertisers blackmailing Twitter?
> trying to unionize despite being the most privileged class of people in human history.

That's absurd. They're not even close to the most privileged class today, let alone in history. The most privileged class of people today are old money, born wealthy. Apart from them, there are plenty of new-money C level execs, finance people, celebrities, and so on who are rich enough to never work again, let alone unionize. Religious leaders can be extremely privileged as well.
With how many careless programmers there are, writing massive quantities of security-critical code...why would they bother? (Outside of a maybe a few narrow, high-value contexts.) That's like surreptitiously working to make sure that there are plenty of cat pictures on the web, and that water flows downhill.
Oof. The last recession I remember people asking "what recession" just before everything really came tumbling down. There are moments when sentiment shifts in comments seem to portend doom, and I feel right now the way I felt back in late February 2020, when it started to sink in that the tone in HN comments was changing and I realized COVID was going to be a very bad thing.
Sure it is necessary to understand the problem to fix it, I am not denying that. Sure, “refusing to pay” vs “paying a lot and accomplishing fuck all” are different problems.
But the context of this discussion is “can US healthcare system be objectively called third-world-like” which it can. Whether it is bad because of X or Y reasons is not relevant and comments like the one I responded to, come off as trying to diminish how dire the situation really is.
Installing Clojure, because of its dependence on Java and plethora of IDEs, is a major pain in my experience. I have tried several times and usually just give up because I find it difficult to get up and running with a simple project that allows me to write code. I don’t understand the seemingly complicated project systems.

It takes literally just a few minutes to download, install, and get going with Racket, Elixir, and F#. It’s the main reason I have not got into Clojure yet, despite trying.
Patagonia does the same.
Even if all of that is true, I'd be surprised if Musk manages to make a positive return on his investment.

However good you are, if you pay way too much for something, you're worse than someone who just didn't overpay and made no other changes.
>If a government has a history of interfering in your internal affairs to cynically advance their interests, maintains harmful policies against you for not aligning with their interests, and has an aggressive diplomatic posture, then it is logical to adopt a hostile stance towards that country until that pattern of behaviour changes.

The countries in questions have a been quite antagonistic towards the US and this antagonism has been reciprocated. That is perfectly understandable.

Your argument is that this antagonism is justified because "the US started it" or maybe "the US deserves it" ... I'm not so sure about that.
Why is it important to directly communicate with or even "listen to unfiltered" the world's dictators and billionaires? As for communicating directly with politicians it's very unlikely that the vast majority of them manage their own social media accounts. You probably have the same level of direct communication as you do sending their office a letter or an email.
Are you saying that you've come across non-English-speaking communities that don't have this problem? If so, could you elaborate?
Been maining opendoas for a while now. The main problem I have with it is that the "don't require a password for ___ seconds" timeout is unconfigurable as far as I'm aware. So you have to enter your password fairly frequently, which can be annoying on non-sensitive machines.

But for simple systems that aren't running complex user privilege management, doas is very much a great replacement.
Times are getting so tough that people are stealing jokes [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33283106
Couldn't the person just signing me in record my vote on paper & then add it to a tally?
> a conflict of interest

why would it be a conflict of interest, unless the CEO of twitter is deliberately stopping car companies from advertising on twitter?
> Last I checked, Musk created Tesla to counteract the existential risk of climate change

Musk didn't create Tesla, he bought it. I don't claim to know why he bought it, but here are two options: maybe it was to solve climate change, and if so it was a failure. Maybe it was to make himself immensely wealthy, and if so it was a success.
Yeah, cracks me up with people wanting to terraform mars. If we can terraform mars, we can terraform earth and stop the greenhouse effect.
FTT 24h volume is ~$100M according to coinmarketcap.com

Alameda hold $5.8B FTT according to the article.

Any market makers able to advise how much is normally held relative to daily volume/mean transaction size?
Does Twitter have the ability to have a mission vision that people will sacrifice for? That's what keeps the recruiting pipelines full for the other companies and allows for the "we put up with Elon's BS" culture.

Tesla, saving the work through EV

SpaceX, projecting humanity into the cosmos

Twitter, ?
Bless TOR, it is such wonderful piece of software
> None of it supports a claim that bot numbers were fabricated

'In fact, Mudge learned deliberate ignorance was the norm amongst the executive leadership team. In early 2021, as a new executive, Mudge asked the Head of Site Integrity (responsible for addressing platform manipulation including spam and botnets), what the underlying spam bot numbers were. Their response was “we don't really know."'

If they don't know what the spam numbers are, then where is the 5% figure coming from?

I already quoted this part but this is also relevant:
"The company could not even provide an accurate upper bound on the total number of spam bots on the platform."

They aren't able to provide an upper bound on the total number of spam accounts.

None of this is to due with the spam accounts that are known, and not counted as part of mDau. Those spam accounts are KNOWN, and not included in counts.

These documents are stating that twitter has no information on the actual total number of spam accounts.
It looks like the repos are blocked now. What was there?

I can't imagine the repos were useful. If they were developing a new algorithm to make misiles fly 10% more, I guess they would have been using a secret server inside the Kremlin instead of a public repo in GitHub.
That's very interesting that there isn't enough resiliency baked in to keep it going forever.
If you want a new raspberry pi 4 8GB today, you basically have to buy from a scalper at a cost of around $200 [1]

Or you can try to monitor https://rpilocator.com more than the scalpers do, and you might be able to get one for $100 instead.

[1] https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2380057.m...
Microsoft's "Project Silica" is in early production.
Literally from the second paragraph from Wikipedia: "Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. The company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. In February 2004, via a $6.5 million investment, Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of the company."

How does Wikipedia disagree?
WeTac: A small, soft and ultrathin wireless electrotactile system
> unless you spend a lot of time at dock or have a big generator.

Even full size residential fridges can be powered by the smallest portable generator.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.08069
JetBrains Aqua – A powerful IDE for test automation
Using a language that stores the length as part of the type is the real fix here.
True, but I think part of the point is that the GTFS data is subject to the technical competency of your local transit agency, and that seems to vary widely— sometimes they lie about where vehicles are, or pretend that schedule-inferred positions are GPS positions, or they're missing vehicles, or the data is delayed, or whatever.

When Transit captures this information from their own users, it's much more trustable— basically all they'd have to watch for is someone maliciously poisoning the data by telling the app they're on a bus when they're really in a car, but that would be a lot of effort to go to just to be a jerk and end up shadowbanned.
Alternatively, if Musk is successful then it will show that a lot of firms are bloated and this rot is maintained under the guise of "treating employees nicely", in the same way that union featherbedding is considered a "nice" practice.
Elon musk is no friend of the climate. He proposed hyperloop to distract California from building its high speed rail system, a rail system that will do more to help the climate than any electric cars will.
These are popular to keep kegerators dry:

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It's basically just a silica gel pack, but you can plug it in when it's saturated to recharge it, and it has a wet/dry indicator.
Oh hey! thanks for posting, this is my new favorite TV show. It's started kinda slow, but I have a feeling it's going to really ramp up here soon.
When will people stop being incompetent at their jobs?

In the case of computer engineers maybe they need to be legally responsible directly for this kind of stuff.
Any mid level tesla swe that joined five years ago is a multimillionaire most likely.
That CONV is only used on the older backends. The GPU and LLVM backend rewrite CONV as MUL+SUM, to be fused later, and thus only use the 4 OpTypes.

https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/lazy...
Tesla and the electric car industry is a scam. More car-dependency won't save our environment. Instead, we are just digging giant holes in the ground for lithium using slave labor.

Space X is just the privatization of NASA, and the promise of a Mars colony is nothing more than a marketing tactic, or possibly an unrealistic backup plan for a small number of billionaires (probably not you) when our planet fully combusts.
Pay attention to the timing of your ride! I rode this trip once and didn't get to the Rockies until it was too dark to see much of anything out the windows.
You are an active detriment to progress
This shouldn't be surprising, of the FAANG they all have elements of taking advertising money, for some it is their entire business model/cash cow. Up until recently N wasn't doing advertising.

It seems like that is the only solution Tech companies have to the constant growth cycle imperative that they or the shareholders imposes on them.
You can buy a purpose-built device like one of these:

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>Why would they agree to a ToS that clearly lays out things like "don't intentionally misgender people"

Where in the ToS is this explicitly stated, and when was it added there?
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