skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost completely disagree.

There are a few sacred cows here (I won't mention them by name, though the do exist), but I have earned my rep by posting mostly contrarian opinions, and I almost always have quite a few net upvotes - sometimes dozens. It's not too difficult: First, I cite facts that back up my claims from sources whose narratives would typically go against my argument. I cite the New York Times, Washington Post, the Atlantic, NPR, CNN, etc.; I only rarely cite Fox News, and never cite anything to the right of Fox. Second, I really internalize the rules about good faith, not attacking the weakest form of an argument, not cross-examining, etc. Sometimes I have a draft that has my emotions, and I'll edit it to make it more rational before posting. Third, I ask open-ended questions to allow myself to be wrong in the mind of other commenters. Instead of just asserting that some of my ultra-contrarian opinions are the only way anyone can see an issue, I may propose a question. By doing that, I have at times seen some excluded middle I hadn't considered, and my opinion becomes more nuanced. Fourth, I often will begin replying and then delete my reply because I know it won't add anything. This is the hardest one to do, but sometimes it's just the way you have to go. Some differences are merely tastes and preferences, and I'm not going to change the dominant tastes and preferences of the Valley on HN. I can only point out some of the consequences.

The content moderation rules and system here have encouraged me to write better and more clearly about my contrarian opinions, and have made me more persuasive. HN can be a crap-show at times, but in my experience, it's often some of the best commentary on the Internet.
I won’t phrase this properly, but: maybe you did understand recursion, but not as the mathematical or computer science abstraction you needed to learn.

I remember when it clicked for me and I wrote a function that conditionally called itself, I had this distinct sense that I already understood this concept perfectly well. I was just struggling to understand it in the way a specific programming language needed me to.

The idea of recursion is very simple, but can be complicated by the rules and syntaxes of their abstractions.

Apologies if this wasn’t your experience and I’m incorrectly assuming it must be similar for other people. I’m really not sure if it is or not.
It’s more nuanced than that. Social media has created watering holes for everything. Once communities of people who earnestly believe crazy shit.

If you believed in alien lizard people controlling the world or in 1980, your options to collaborate with fellow lunatics were limited.

Today, that’s a real thing with followers.
Musk did not get trapped into a deal. He thought he was being cute and it blew up in his face.

First he was on the board, then he wasn't. Then he thought it would be funny to agree to buy Twitter for a price that had "420" in it, then the markets declined and he sued to get out of a contract nobody forced him to sign.

Either something changed recently in Musk, he has been hiding the fact that he has had a few screws loose for years, or both.

I guess most people just get depressed when they hit middle age. When you are wealthy, you can knock up one of your employees and buy a company on a whim.
I can’t really speak to the market right now, but I transitioned to Rust from Python and Typescript in April of 2021. I started learning Rust in I think 2018. I had a couple of decently sized Rust open source projects under my belt, one of which I had managed to get some time to work on at $previous_job, since we integrated it into our react client via WASM. The company I joined is working on HTTP network proxy stuff in relation to fraud prevention.

I didn’t have any professional experience in low level languages. I had some hobby/school experience with C and C++, but nothing recent.

Learning rust was not too bad. Took me a couple of tries to get going, but once I got the basics down, expanding from there was pretty straightforward.

At the time I was looking for a job, a solid majority of Rust jobs were in cryptocurrency or adjacent companies. I wasn’t interested in that, but I still found plenty of places to apply to. I got responses from almost all of them, and was able to pick between my top choices. My understanding is that now there are many more non-crypto jobs than there were, although I don’t know to what extent that has been affected by recent economic conditions.
Interestingly, according to Quran it's crow that first taught human how to bury the dead:

https://islamicreminder.org/quran-on-crow/
See you back on 4chan!
NB-IoT or CAT-M1/LTE-M are a far better fit for this frankly.
but if you followed the advice of modern portfolio theory, you would've purchased a diversified set of stocks (cap weighted) during the dotcom bubble, including companies such as google, amazon, and apple.

I think even if 99% of the purchases went to zero, you'd probably still be ahead if you're diversified properly.
We're talking about a social media service adhering to one of the most liberal set of speech laws and norms in the world, not the imposition on the population of an unjust law. Tell me I can't say the word "gay" on threat of imprisonment and I'll say it more but that's not relevant to this discussion.
Jorts the Cat has caused a denial of service for a Twitter to Mastodon bridge
It’s 5k for a family for 3-4 days if you stay at a resort
I know several people who have done this.
I can't speak for "the left", but he went from someone I respected for his contributions to... not that, not because of his views on free speech, but because he started publicly acting like an asshole on a regular basis.
Twitter to make job cuts after Elon Musk takeover
> But even without that, the layout difference between pages with or without scrollbar is so tiny that IMO its a nonissue.

It annoyed to me enough to make me activate overlay scrollbar on Firefox and inject custom CSS with scrollbar-gutter on Chromium. Otherwise, when moving from a repo home page (without a scroll bar) to the another page (let's say the contents a folder with a scrollbar), the box containing the contents of the repo experiences layout shift.

This is still an issue on GitHub and many other sites.
https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...
There's no ramp on taxation after 40 hours in any jurisdiction I'm aware of-- just a ramp on income tax based on amount earned.

If you're making $800/week ($20/hour) and seeing withholding at 10%, the marginal withholding might be 20% on a step up to $950; on the other hand, you're getting time-and-a-half, so you still go from taking home $18/hour to $24/hour.

(And, of course, for occasional overtime work, you're going to get a lot of the additional tax withholding back, since your uneven income causes you to be overwithheld).
Well, I don't disagree with you, but also all of these things you list in the parentheses are just how humans generally behave. They are real obstacles.

And regardless of where we place the blame, at the end of the day:

> In life, there are a lot of obvious things that are very difficult to teach.
"Something something PATRIOT Act. Looks like we've got another 'domestic terrorist' here..."
that might work, yes. I wouldn't expect it to last forever though because the US gov doesn't like jurisdictions that evade their power. Russians could seize it if they felt like it too. I have some experience with that.

Ideally you would exploit bad diplomatic relations between nations to keep things running. Mutually non cooperative jurisdictions can actually be good for the internet. I do think the intention of the US gov is to completely control the internet though, copyright and DRM violations being a major motivation. As much as they claim they are about 'cooperation and collaboration' or some other nonsense, it's really about hard power.
Unfortunately, regardless of what one wished to do, the economics of this deal and the amount of debt means that there is a very short leash. The layoffs are a way to extend that leash.
> It would make me hyperalert like a more subtle version of caffeine. I had insmonia for random days.

That's phenylalanine. Its metabolites are interesting.

One of them is tyrosine, which itself is the precursor to dopamine and adrenaline.

Another is phenethylamine. That's a fun class of drugs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substituted_phenethylamine

Phenethylamine itself becomes N-Methylphenethylamine, not at all dissimilar to its structural isomer, A-Methylphenethylamine, better known as amphetamine.

How much phenylalanine is metabolized into each of these is complicated and depends on a lot of things, but sounds like you did something to cause it to be more.
Fair. It was the "otherwise they would have devised a better system already" bit.

I'm saying that people who are not capable of writing a bestseller (solving a complex problem) are still capable of editing a bestseller (their judgement would improve the overall system).
At work we’ve been experimenting with what amounts to a pre-calculated/pre-shared dictionary to allow for compression of small data, but just picking what data you send and it’s representation gets you very very far.

Because we need to put nearly arbritrary data into our NB-IoT UDP socket, Inmarsat or Swarm, saving bytes let’s us pack more data into a message so we can send fewer messages: saving money and increasing reliability (because if you miss a Swarm upload time you can have hours before the next one, for example, or our Simcom modem might hit a black spot and such)
So hypothetically speaking if Twitter goes to 0 or close to it, no monetary penalty will be slapped to Musk as it is private?

Damn!
What are you doing, Mozilla? I thought you are dying?
The company goes bust without the workers. There’s more to it than just the extremes.
Nobody in the comment chain was talking about left-wing vs. right-wing ideology. I get that Musk is a partisan figure now, but this thread isn't going to get any better by turning it into yet another ideological battle.
If the majority of customers for a given book are libraries and whatnot then it's no longer viable to make such a work. Mind you, I still think the whole thing is broken at its core and that we'd be better off if it were abolished, but would that sort of major change in incentives qualify as a moral difference?
Reads like a bot wrote this.

The TLDR is Bitcoin seems like something charlatans use to take advantage of others.

Here's the flip side, the Dollar seems like something charlatans take advantage of others.
> You people really miss the bigger picture from the business side of things - Musk now owns the most impactful social network on the planet.

This is an extraordinary claim. Most impactful as measured by what? Twitter isn’t even in the top 10 for dau/mau.

They are almost exactly the same size as reddit in terms of active users.

> (Im obviously not counting Facebook as a top social network at this point)

That’s just being unreasonable.
That’s $5k per kid or $500/day per kid. Not bad at all considering.
Loans under his name count as his money since he's presumably obligated to pay them back.

Just like how we colloquially refer to mortgaged houses as being owned by the buyers and not by the bank.
MIT explicitly states that it does in the license.
Maybe because they enjoy work and the learning that comes with it? Or because they want to outdo the preexisting products?
And set code formatting line width to 5.
If a book (even an ebook) is in the library, it's already bought and paid for so the author gets whatever compensation they get as if it is a normal sale. I don't think arguing morals makes sense because of how subjective one's morals are, but, by using libraries, you are supporting the arts, whether you liked the book or not, and this is not a silly distinction.
You’re saying that with hindsight on Steve Jobs full career. You don’t have hindsight on Elon’s.
Musk undeniably made these things happen sooner than they otherwise would have done. I would argue though, at least in terms of his public persona, this sort of abrasiveness has intensified significantly since those accomplishments. So yes, I think it is possible.
All? No. Obviously he'll be keeping a bunch and obviously some key people are productive. But, look, what are new revenue streams and features added in the last 5 years? One hand's digits can enumerate them.

Here is a biz-dev at TWTTR: in her own words: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/skmAZHNuEP0

Same, with MST 3000-style commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk6T1pmHCAE
WARN is Federal, but states can have their own stricter versions.
Almost all long distance Amtrak routes deviate quite far from civilization. Once you’re out of the cities and away from a highway you get cell pockets.
My understanding so far is that it's a "thing" in Lesswrong/Rationalist circles [1-2], but I'm not sure about outside of that.

[1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/axmxy7kiqwcRPSGXH/are-long-f...

[2] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6yiayg5QWtWme4JN8/anatomy-of...
You should try tiling WMs
I'm not here to debate the legality of child porn or lolicon images, and I fail to see the relevance of what you've written to the provision of moderation tools to the users of Twitter.

> Laws don't enforce themselves.

What has that got to do with Twitter? Please try to stay on track.
Ooooh that is dark. Must have been fun for the smokers who have been around for a while. Having worked at a company that went through a few years of trouble, there were all sorts of little signals like that you'd learn to pick up on.
> the procedure for upgrading to a newer release of ubuntu it you run sed as root to fix your sources.list, then you do-release-upgrade

Are you talking about upgrading an lts release to the next dot.1 lts release, without dodgy third party apt-sources enabled?
> 575TB

I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few bored and cashed up engineers with private plex servers this big out there. 575TB is way smaller than I would have guessed, although 575tb of SSD is still much more expensive than 575TB of HDD.

I guess it makes sense - Netflix' library isn't that big.
UEFI as such is horrible. (Just have a look at the spec; 2.5 k pages of stuff that looks like copy&paste of Windows APIs)

But its boot mechanic, and the added crypto stuff (secure / attested boot) is really nice.

Using UKIs is like boot should have worked since the beginning: You just copy a (signed) boot image onto the (firmware managed) boot partition. Done.
This brand of leadership is how you end up with companies like SpaceX being able to build a Raptor engine per day (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33436918) and Tesla advancing the electric car industry by many years. Now we'll see Twitter pivot from a stagnant rest & vest to high productivity.

Here's Andrej Karpathy's (ex-Tesla head of AI) explanation of Elon's leadership style and effectiveness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbxladysbTE
About $5 a mile + all the expenses of having the car itself.
This feels odd to read as an American. I have a hard time understanding how anyone could make the next AWS on just a 9-5
That license is neither free nor open source, so you'd be stooping to Microsoft's level by using it. And it wouldn't help anyway, since they're claiming fair use, which if true, means they don't need a license. (And if false, then they're in violation of the existing licenses anyway.)
> Actors masqueraded the archive utility WinRAR.exe
by renaming it VMware.exe to evade defenses and
observation.

Microsoft Windows at its finest

I now understand why people didn't appreciate my take here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33372353
CDC issues new opioid prescribing guidance
A 23-hour-long “game” to raise money for abortion funds
Does anyone know if you can rent private cars? How much?
I’d look for businesses or industries that provide childcare and try to find conferences that their HR people attend.

Figure out how and why they do it, and use that to figure out how to market:
On the contrary, password managers will be more relevant in the future, because they will be more important for people who don't use a pw manager today (most people aren't very good at 256 bit elliptic curve arithmetic).

Even though Apple (and likely a couple more) will provide their proprietary passwordless system with cloud sync, a lot of people don't want to rely on an iCloud account to be your backup in case you lose your phone. Which means that cross platform password managers are in an excellent position to compete in passwordless, since it can span all your devices and browsers. They are already keeping sensitive secrets, integrate with biometrics and device-specific soft-locks, audit logs etc – all they need to do is add some integrations for WebAuthn and certain platform APIs that Apple and friends have to provide.

The main adoption-risk with password-less is fallback for when the user's browser isn't fully integrated with a pw-manager. Not that it's impossible, but if you need a backup you now have a multimodal and more complicated system, and if that burden is shifted to individual web/app developers it will certainly delay or even stop the transition.
And are those features going to be developed in the best possible way? If I had ideas for how to revamp a service I would talk to the people who knew how it worked and come up with a plan to develop those features and make a big deal about every feature that got launched. I can also imagine hacking something into production this weekend and getting fired next week. I can't see how demanding big changes like this in a week will result in anything but massive technical debt.
Our use case is industrial IoT sensing in extremely remote deployments.
Other than the ZFS-on-Linux situation (which is only a problem because the CDDL was intentionally written to cause it), what is the GPL "too restrictive" for? In the ideal world, literally all software would be AGPLv3.
A grift indeed, but the target market are boomer retirees. Millennials are more likely to have some kind of sprinter conversion.
Yes, trapped in a deal.

The deal was always contingent on the confirmation that bot accounts were accurate. This was a precondition from the beginning.

Twitter did in fact lie about the bot numbers and Musk somehow caught wind of it and tried to back out.

I know it’s popular to hate the guy but facts matter more than your disdain.
Private car is in the “less than million” range, so it’s basically a smallish land yacht.
10 years ago:

"Apple is bigger by market cap than Microsoft, Google, Amazon & Facebook combined"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4447454

https://thenextweb.com/news/apple-now-bigger-market-cap-micr...
General Mills, Audi and Pfizer Join List of Companies Pausing Twitter Ads
If my local library already owns the book and it is not checked out, what is the difference between driving there to check it out and downloading it illegally online? The impact to the author is the same: absolutely nothing.
It seems to be popular among mildly autistic tech workers.
Lunchclub
This is going to be interesting whichever way it eventually goes
- Either Musks pulls this off and turns Twitter around
- Or he manages to destroy it

There will be lessons learned either way and I have a feeling this will eventually lead to major changes in tech. Industry culture.
There are mirrors and torrents and extensions of the Z-Library collection, off the top of my head see:

https://libgen.fun/

http://pilimi.org/
Ironically, I think Twitter started actually building product for the first time in a long time recently.

One frame through which you could view Twitter is it was the place where famous / popular / important (athletes, movie stars, government officials) talk to the public. Spaces, enabling audio conversations for those people, makes tons of sense.

So also Twitter Blue letting you read certain news w/o a paywall. If you're a serious consumer of news on Twitter, wsj/nyt/wapo/latimes/ft probably cost $1500/year. If the economics worked for the news orgs, there was huge value there.

Of course, they really sat on the product for 5+ years, so oof...
The method of consistently updating was actually advocated by manufacturing guru who saved the US car industry, Edwards Deming. He advocated for this to improve quality. The engineer who pointed out how good Tesla is doing with this iteration worked with Deming at Ford.

"5. Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs."
- Edwards Deming

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Edwards_Deming

This does make version and revision management and service harder, but that you can manage with software and its worth the cost.

However, what you say is partially true, its not all positive. If you endlessly make the same car with very little change you can also hit very high quality and reliability. That is why sometimes cars like Jeep look good in quality rankings.

Overall however, I think there is good reason for iteratively interdicting changes.
Any coherent text that can actually be read somehow with human eyes can trivially be de-DRM'd. If nothing else with a physical book scanning machine that swipes instead of turning a page.
*5 years to citizenship, which is not bad but not the best either.
You also have to upgrade it to current safety standards and get it inspected.

Lots of railroad museums will have old private cars, some even road worthy.
> The cost of being a jerk online is too low - it's almost entirely free of any consequences.

Some people don’t care and have different value systems/goals - or the jerk behavior is valued by their community

Wonder if that is something the behavior can catch, ie prevent quote tweeting/ screenshot a particular person etc
i tried and it does not requieres to login to browse the site, but to download a book is says that the limit of downloads has been reached (apparently a tor connection appears as a localhost one 127.0.0.1) and then asks to login.
I've had that sort of schedule, except for me it was more like leave early to catch a movie (happily that coincided with the summer that Moviepass was big).
This feels like it'd be about as effective as the evil bit.
If they patented, they aren’t closely guarded.
What moderately healthy large tech company cut half of its employees before?
It's probably uncommon to deal with a human at Vanguard. I know I never have.

Plus, I have my own story about Robinhood - they couldn't or wouldn't change my email address. I think they expect users to upload pictures of ID and such.

That's crazy and completely disqualifies them for anything serious, for me.

If something is really important, then you do it in person, with a local representative or notary or something.

If it's not that important, then they don't need ID theft material in digital format. They already leaked the info they have!

It is not a feature to have the ability to make critical changes without friction from anywhere in the world over the internet, with the right bitstream. It's completely unacceptable.

My entire relationship with Robinhood involves a trivial amount of crypto that I don't trade, on the assumption they are the (one of the) most government compliant or least shady ways to hold that. That is based on my outlook being the complete opposite of the cliché "not your keys, not your coins".

Other than my "free stock" I don't own any non-crypto and never will.

Confirming my negative attitude was their recent data breach, which we will never know for sure the scope of, but I suddenly started getting investment scam spam from known scofflaws at the email address Robinhood has and probably leaked.

The SEC has a "catch and release" program for even small-timers; it sure is a disincentive to report criminal activity when you see in the public record someone already was caught and paid a fine and kept right on keeping on.