skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is full of misleading claims and outright falsehoods.

Police were never defunded, Chicago does not have as many tech companies as San Francisco does, SFs age-adjusted mortality from COVID is way lower than Florida, etc. etc.
He definitely has a vibe of seeming to think he's above the law, IMHO.

TBF, he is in most cases, just not that particular one.
Yeah, quantitative reasoning is for the little people.

The "simplicity on the other side of complexity" is one of those facile stories that appeals to the student who says they understand the subject but can't solve the problems. If only the high-status person can wait, the grinds will do the work to make things simple.

It's true that the complexity of a system can increase in early development and finally decrease when people find some of the things they thought were essential weren't, some of the things that you thought were dual are unitary, and that some things can be done in a better way than you think at first.

On the other hand, many projects fail because the attempted solution doesn't address essential aspects of the problem. See

https://www.panarchy.org/ashby/variety.1956.html
Twitter has already done essentially nothing about overt threats, much less vague ones, against anyone who wasn't a twitter-staff legible good-guy celebrity.

The toxic threats even sometimes come from twitter staff and insiders, for example when Coinbase announced their no-politics-at-work policy, Twitter's former CEO Dick Costolo tweeted in reply that that Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong would be "lined up against the wall and shot in the revolution. I’ll happily provide video commentary".

The fish rots from the head.
In the name of little green apples, seriously? Just what we bloody need. Another stupidly complicated, brittle, cryptographic blackbox to hand over to literally no-one else but corporations, to give them another knob to turn to extract profit from consumers, and generate waste.
Of course it is. The contract is merely an agreement that you won't exercise your right. It's actionable in a civil court obviously. That however says nothing about your right to publish or that the content must be removed just that changing your mind might have repercussions.
> I'm not sure how you came to the conclusion that "Akamai is whining" about this

I largely overstated that. Of course. However, my feeling throughout the entire post is that it was like they were announcing bad news about which they were not too overly about this because they based their optimization strategy on this. I was like "the world told you so".
I have a killing machine on me every time I leave the house. I haven't killed anyone. I never will until someone threatens my life, or the life of someone close to me. I am quite certain I walk past many similar people daily. It reassures me when I think about it.

I'd rather be around 7 people concealed-carrying at a business, than at a "gun-free" business.
Well, TBF it gave three people more free time. Oh, you were expecting compensated free time??
I would say he (and other billionaires like Thiel) is immature in a very classical sense: he goes through the world like a child without appreciation for how difficult it was to create a society in which everybody could (say) engage in discourse safely; he sees some flaws in the system and thinks that because he is a special person and he saw what he thinks is a flaw he is entitled to pull it apart. But there is no methodical improvement being proposed. People like this are simply destroying the work of their forebears (of creating a stable pluralistic society) for personal benefit. It is not the behavior of responsible humans, much less leaders.
> The big one was the fact that silently installing apps was a privileged permission only allowed to preloaded system apps (with good reason). This prevented 3rd party stores from background updating apps because you had to manually confirm each update via system dialog.

It's been a long time since I last looked at this, but not even Google Play installed apps silently.

IIRC, what Google Play did was to tell the Google Play servers that you wanted to install the app, and the Google Play servers sent a message through C2DM/GCM to a system service on your phone, which downloaded and installed the app. The same thing happened if you opened the Google Play site on your desktop browser, and told it to install an app on your phone.

Obviously, a third party store cannot tell the Google Play server to send that "install this APK" message to your phone; and even if they could, it would have to be one of the APKs available for download on the Google Play servers.
Speaking from my heart. There is a reason we have convoluted big software like GRUB - to have a single familiar software solution supporting wide range of broken hardware/firmware. Fixing all the firmware is theoretically correct and would be great, but hopelessly unrealistic in the present. We need change of culture in HW and FW vendors before we can say "that will be fixed by the firmware guys".
I highly recommend Reeder. Been using it for years. Solid.
It really was. I still see ghosts from that time as I move through the city.
Rare how? Charlie Parker famously used it on Jazz at Massey Hall
CA is an “at will” employment state. Employees or employers may terminate with no cause and zero notice. Simultaneous terminations are not exempt.

That’s a fact, friend.
or cats
Just as with chopsticks, this only works if the food contains the cultural knowledge that it will be manipulating with two points of contact, or food will be tossed/shoveled from the plate/bowl held in close proximity to the mouth. Forks allow scooping!

Perhaps a pincer where one tine has a semicircle, allowing it to be used as a spoon, when pinched?

Regardless, surely the future of food is hallucinogenic flavor crystals, matching your desired flavor, texture, smell, and atmosphere!
the leaked email to a Twitter employee (if true) says that they are not actually being terminated, but rather suspended with pay. So it seems that Musk is in fact staying within legal bounds (which means the lawsuit won't go anywhere).

> Today is your last working day at the company, however, you will remain employed by Twitter and will receive compensation and benefits through your separation date of February 2, 2023.
I think it's orthogonal. There are tons of smart people who believe in God. (Knuth has already been mentioned.)

If God wanted, He could make himself apparent to everyone. Clearly that isn't the case; there is room to doubt or to believe no matter how smart or accomplished you are.
There are few unorthodox ways to side-load apps on iOS that don't require a jailbreak:

- AltStore and AltServer

Apple lets every user "side-load" 3 apps, but the caveat is that they expire in 7 days if not renewed on time. AltStore uses a mail plug-in on Mac to sign those apps in the background so you can keep using them indefinitely

- $99/year Apple Developer Program

You can "side-load" apps and they don't expire for 1 year. This is supposed to be for developers to test their app, but Apple may restrict this to stop side-loading in the future
If I’m reading that data correctly, it also looks like Florida’s age-adjusted COVID-19 deaths per 100,000 is 8% higher than California’s. Is that supposed to be interpreted as equivalent?
The Boring Company didn't install a legal septic system for the families living at their HQ in Texas. And it goes downhill from there: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-15/elon-musk...
> The demographics is mostly teenagers.
>the very air between the grains acts as insulation.

That seems like a benefit if you're looking to stretch release of energy over many hours?
That's two major jazz saxophonists. That's rare, in my book.
The Pandora Directive
Strongly prefer NetNewsWire, which is free and open source. www.netnewswire.com. Available on Mac and iOS.
I mean, TFA literally pulls up NYC as a supposedly-flattering point of comparison:

> An ambitious young person can now have that awesome Google job while living in the Meatpacking district and walking to the Google office in Chelsea.

Although this is in itself a bit of an odd take given that this has been the case for over fifteen years— I was literally living this life as an intern at Google NYC in 2007.
> This is getting posted again and again and I don’t understand why

Maybe because we're majorly affected by this whims of this supranational corporation and the only power we have to respond is to have as-visible-as-possible discussions about it.
Tweets are subject to copyright so I doubt the Wayback machine has any legal leg to stand on for continuing to host someone's tweets after a takedown request.

When copyright expires in 125 years or whatever if the archive still exists they can publish them again.
> My Chinese in-laws have vertical fridge which has 3 sections, top regular door fridge, middle drawer which goes directly outside (not sure whether it's chilled or frozen), no need to open anything and bottom freezer with door.

We have these in the US.

We also have some with a door-on-a-door for the fridge portion, so you can grab e.g. a can of soda or some mustard out of the inset door which only accesses a little storage on the door itself, without opening the entire fridge.

Neither is as common as other styles (the latter especially—that's kind of a gimmicky expensive-fridge feature) but they exist.
Yes. The key difference is that I am not a fucking payment monopoly, jackass.
I have not tried pincers so keep that in mind. I appreciate that they are easier to use, however the economics come to play. Chopsticks, the disposable ones, the ones presented to most diners are incredibly cheap to make about 2 cents. Some diners prefer disposable cutlery for perceived sanitary reasons.
So these pincers need to beat the economy of Chopsticks and consumer uptake.
You may want to reevaluate your claims, such as the mortality rate one, now that we have more information available to us.

Let's look at the situation in the Toronto area, for example. Remember, greater Toronto is Canada's most populous region, and the seventh-most populous metropolitan area in North America.

We know that the counting of deaths was done very questionably. Toronto Public Health itself admitted that as early as June of 2020:

"Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."

https://twitter.com/TOPublicHealth/status/127588839006028596...

Later on, we saw news reports like this one:

"Patients died from neglect, not COVID-19, in Ontario LTC homes, military report finds: ‘All they needed was water and a wipe down’"

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-canadian-mili...

We should also consider the role of ventilator-associated lung injury and ventilator-induced lung injury, as well.

We also saw news reports like this:

"Hamilton Health Sciences takes down field hospital that didn't see a single COVID-19 patient"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/hhs-field-hospital-c...

Like I'd mentioned earlier, there was severe overreaction displayed by many people and organizations, and it resulted in irrational behaviour.
Maybe nowhere. But since total US unemployment is 6 million, it's not a big deal in the context of "national recession".

I get the impression that it's unlikely that Twitter employees will remain unemployed long in Silicon Valley, unless they want to take an extended break. Lots of places are looking to hire. It may be a step down, but right now unemployment just isn't a national issue. (Six million total unemployed sounds like a lot, but economists expect about 4% of the ~200 million American workers to be unemployed at any moment due to the inevitable friction of people not finding jobs instantly.)
The Labor Theory of Value is true: value is created when human labor is applied to raw materials. Just because the Marxists adopted the idea doesn't make it wrong. They were wrong about other things.

Adam Smith and David Ricardo both believed in the labor theory of value.
How do you verify the scanner software is telling you the truth though? Also what exactly is the point of doing this?
We blew past the natural limit many many years ago, except the limit was artificially raised by the normalization of performance enhancing drugs (namely tea, coffee, etc.)
Nice to know that YouTube does RSS.
Brigaded? Or downvoted by a number of people who saw it and recognized that it contained an specious accusation?

As I understand brigading, it involves calls from outside for people to come in, which I don't think it happening here at all.
Freedom to choose is well under the umbrella of respect.

For example, if you respect your girlfriend or wife, you give her the freedom to choose her own clothing at the store and don't force her to wear only what you've authorized for her to purchase.
Single prong pincers would not let me hold my food in position while cutting, it would need more than one tine on each side.
Lambda function for executing pg_dump and streaming the output to S3
I'm very familiar with Demings (I wouldn't say he saved the US car industry. He was ignored here. It wasn't until Japan took his works and almost destroyed the US industry that he was taken seriously).

But that brings ups up a specific example of where Tesla has struggled. They used to keep HUGE backstocks of excess inventory (I believe they have since tamed this) which is a classic manufacturing mistake. So if you have any production mistakes or improvements in the part, you have to scrap or just cycle through the entire inventory until the improvements show up in the car.

This is why Just-In-Time is such an important concept in manufacturing. You can iterate constantly. Meanwhile, Tesla would crank out huge batches of identical fenders and doors and mirrors to maximise efficiency (economies of scale) but then struggle with part fits and panel gaps.

Tesla has since dealt with a lot of this when they went through their production hell period. But a lot of what they had to do was re-learn things like Lean Manufacturing and JIT.
Knowing the possible shitstorm it would cause, Twitter upper management sold the company anyway. Not that they care, they got fabulously wealthy off the deal.
Another formulation is that technology augments the impact that a single individual can have. The productivity gains allowed by silicon are the greatest single economic advance in human history. Businesses become increasingly more productive to the degree that they are founded on, or can reorganize themselves to be in alignment with, this trajectory.

I say this while sipping my morning coffee, browsing HN and waiting for an amount of computation to finish on a single machine that required either a supercomputer or multi-million dollar cluster 20 years ago.
If you've went with chicken scheme, I recommend installing it from source code (has very few dependencies, so it isn't a time wasting process). The reason being that with the version that you might get from the OS package manager static libraries aren't shipped (at least that was the case in Fedora) and you won't be able to build statically linked executables.

The other upside of using chicken is that their FFI interop with C is really streamlined. From one of my projects; in order to expose the `getpass` C stdlib function in my program I only had to write the following line

(bind "char* getpass(const char *prompt);")
Can't even read the article about these ads because of the amount of ads on it
Not only controversy, but probably lots of lawsuits in the EU once their market freedom bill (or whatever it is) goes into effect.
But forks can scoop, poke, and cut. I'd rather the versatility than multiple task-specific utensils.
You can indeed pluralise lengths, it's just when you write numbers as digits, you specify a specific value. You couldn't say for example that "a widget costs a few £100".

What's written would sound odd spoken too: a few one hundred metres.

"a few hundred metres" is perfectly acceptable, but means "a [few hundred] metres", not "a few [hundred metres]". 100m has the meaning of "[(one/a) hundred metres]", so you can't modify it.

Note that you also wouldn't say (for example) that you "walked a 100m" (at least, not without an implied additional word like 'race').
>descended that elevator

escalator

My favorite was the Twitter account to see if it would get banned by only retweeting Trump's account(s). They wanted to show how the rules were applied differently between accounts.
or quality TV (esp. non-American TV)?
The housing bubble occupied the front cover of the economist several times in 2004.
> I hardly use it, so if it implodes it won't bother me too much.

that’s akin to saying, I hardly drive so I don’t care about the price of gas. Doesn’t bother me.

twitter has influence and reach far beyond what the mDAU implies.
This makes absolutely no sense. Newspapers and cars have high societal value but reading the paper while driving a car does not.
Why would you want to drive into work just to get fired?
They definitely make adjustments and I'm sure they are very smart, but given that the productivity and inflation charts change trajectory at about the same time, I think the it's reasonable to suspect it's a measurement artifact rather than everyone reaching a breaking point all at once?
Im really surprised to see the intense skepticism here. As someone who is just stumbling into this world and studying ADHD as an otherwise successful adult, Chris’ description (and $99 price frankly) resonated with me and made me think I might be in the target market. Even one of his responses to someone thanking someone for feedback is being downvoted. Is there a connotation of ADHD being associated with snake-oil or scams that I’m not familiar with?

(Meta-comment questions aside, congrats on the launch!)
You can't slide a shelf unless there's space to slide; which is space that you can't then use for storage. Unless there's some kind of chest freezer I don't know about that has spring-loaded vertical sliding shelves or something.
The first amendment isn't even particularly strong protection - it only forbids Congress from restricting freedom of speech, but doesn't set out any specific rights, or preclude states from setting their own laws restricting rights.

E.g. the Portuguese constitution has much stronger guarantees. It explicitly recognises freedom of exprssion as a right, but it also explicitly recognises freedom of access to information as a right: you have a right to inform yourself, and the exercise of that right cannot be limited by any form of censorship.

It also specifically recognises a bunch more rights associated with media. Some rights protect journalists, such as the right to source confidentiality (which isn't even law in the US, let alone a constitutional right), and the right to elect representatives to their employers'editorial team. On the flipside, there's also rights protecting the public from media interference: regulators have the power (and responsibility) to prevent the consolidation of media ownership, and the media's ownership and sources of income must be made public.
I agree that it's an apples-to-oranges comparison, but for the record: Manhattan is surrounded on 4 sides by water, and is much hillier than people think (only the southern part of the island is flat). The parts that flat are filled-in salt marsh.

There's a reason the top 8[1] most dense municipalities are in the NYC area: there's limited developable land.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b...
Also a great choice and has been around for a while!
Honestly, what? Every job I have had in IT/programming/universities/heavy industry have been "at will". We can fire you at any time for any reason.

Is silicon valley not like this? What is this "advanced notice"?? No, really, I am not taking sides, but is this how it works at some places? I have been working for several decades, I have _never_ heard of this.
Elon Musk is great at building new things. Time will tell if he can re-invent an existing thing. So far, it's not looking great.

Corporate raiders / PE usually have a well defined thesis and plan to hit the ground running - Elon clearly does not. His plan seems to be "I need to double free cash flow ASAP, we'll figure out how along the way". Trying to figure out how to lay off half of the company, without negatively impacting free cash flow, in a week seems like a fool's errand.

I think his success has gone to his head. But time will tell.
SpaceX is unique because there are a whole lot of people who want to work on space exploration and very few big companies that are making serious progress in the field. Many people will put up with lower pay and extreme working conditions just for the chance to be a part of something like that. I don't think we can say the same for Twitter.
If he's having money trouble, maybe Musk shouldn't be eating avocado toast every day.
> they reserve that power for actual malware only.

Was Vanced Manager actual malware?
Well, there are two types of inflation. The one that you identified is when prices go up because demand goes up -- more money in more people's pockets allow people to bid more for goods and services.

The other type of inflation happens when prices go up because the amount of supply drops -- people and businesses bid up on critical inputs like toilet paper and manufacturing process inputs.

So while it's true that an economy can experience inflation when "the government prints money", it's also true that factors that lead to reductions in raw materials and intermediates (like a war between the 1st and 4th grain producers) will tend to cause prices to rise.
I think the comments here should tell you all you need to know. The reaction to Musk is your typical virtue signaling.

Mind you, 90% of the people complaining about Musk for things like "spreading conspiracy theories", "misinformation" or being a "sexual harrasser" have almost certainly voted people into political office who have all done the same thing.
> They make it so much easier to eat anything from sushi to chicken wings

I don't see how one would pick up a sushi roll with the pictured pincers. It looks like their default opening is not large enough.
It's in many way ironic that the Web was "technically" born in France, which was also the home of the Minitel, which probably slowed down adoption for the Web/internet access due to how popular it was (in France).
Turn data analyses into websites, documents, presentations, dashboards and books
Non-electic. Direct heat storage for district heating with zero high-tech involved. Resistive heaters, air ducts, a silo, sand, and some fans -- all established enough for utility use.
Plenty of measurements - the most accurate being record profits while people worked remotely. Cleaner air, rivers and streets are also well known to have happened while people worked remote. Basically, other than rents going down and restaurants and shops closing there is little data on why remote work would be negative.
For cinema, the PassThePopcorn torrent tracker has a really nice community with forums and lots of user-driven content (reviews, collections, etc.). I used to browse it to discover new films. Unfortunately, it's really difficult to get an invite and my account got disabled due to inactivity.
I find it interesting how the domain of things people think they're entitled to is constantly expanding. As usual, at someone else's expense and backed by all sorts of rationalization.
That doesn't help at night, storage is still necessary.
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I hope you're not in a management position
All true, but there's still the night. Perhaps paired with transcontinental energy transmission (like Australia is planning for Oceania/SEA, or the Gibraltar idea for Sahara->Europe transmission) we can route the excess energy away from the local grid and to places where it is night time.

Whether this is better than local storage is another question.
Or just uninstall sudo, at least on opensuse it is optional package.
The class action in violation of WARN has already started.