skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree that those ventures, besides tesla, are things where humanity faces existential risks. We don't need commercial space travel to counteract asteroids. If there is an asteroid that will become a problem for humanity, the whole world will scramble to address it. Those things don't appear out of thin air.

I have yet to see someone successfully explain how neuralink will protect anyone from "AI".

Electric cars may have some success shifting our oil based man-transports to electric, but the world fails to use the advantages that brings and just burns more coal.

Hyperloop doesn't address any urgent problem, it's a moonshot with potential to earn absurd amounts from public contracts.

Twitter is actively harmful for humanity.

So, besides tesla, for which there was probably the best monetary incentive, none of those companies achieve any higher function you advertise then to have.
Using chest freezers with an inkbird (or other PID temperature controller) is very common in beer homebrewing for kegerators or temperature controlling fermentation. I have 2 (a 5 cu ft one for fermentation and a 7 cu ft one for a kegerator) and they both rarely run.

I still have a normal upright fridge in my kitchen though. I think it's take some clever planning to make it so that a chest freezer fits into a kitchen decor since floor/counter space is usually the toughest thing to save when designing a kitchen.
A giant pyramid, they can last thousands of years even in our aggressive environment, much more in the weak Martian weather.
I wonder if it's possible to live on one of these full-time
How much impact do boycotts and buycotts actually have on brand sales?
I suspect the gain in efficiency is not too compelling compared to the increased up-front costs.
<pedantic>No, accumulator is the generic term battery is specifically the chemical storage: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/battery

“a group of two or more cells (see CELL sense 5) connected together to furnish electric current”

Battery is a generic term for collection of things working together, guns/generators/medical tests etc. This why batteries where initially called such, they are a collection of smaller cells operating together which doesn’t apply to say pumped storage.

Sometime battery is used descriptively Ex: “A Carnot battery is a type of energy storage system that stores electricity in thermal energy storage.” Note they said it’s a type of energy storage system rather than type of battery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnot_battery
No, they don't need to allow alternative stores on their store. They need to allow alternative stores on Android - which already exist (Galaxy Store, Amazon Store, F-Droid, et. al.)

They just need to give them fully equal status than Play Store (I think they promised this for Android 13, not sure what the state is.)
So, we have some giant coops out there. Some making billions in revenue.

But in the US it's really not well supported. If you want to found an LLC you click a few buttons on a form online and talk to any lawyer.

If you want to found a co-op, you generally have to file the paperwork in person or via the mail. No one in the municipal government will help, because they don't know anything except LLCs. You'll need to find a lawyer who can draft not only the articles of incorporation, but also can advise on the issuing of shares, democratic operation, and how new members can join.

Because profits are controlled by the workers, capitalistic investors won't know what to do with you, so you'll need to put in extra effort to find investors who are willing to be paid but not be made owners (or not more than any workers).

It's a high, high initial cost. But once it's going it can be incredibly self sustaining. Every dollar of profit ends up back in the pockets of the people working there, equally. Or they can collectively choose to use that profit to expand.
It's been known for a long time that the output of teams is highly variable, and difficult to compare within an organization. If your team isn't delivering, and you are delivering slightly more than the average - where does that leave the company?
Platformatic v0.5.0 – GraphQL subscriptions and microservice tool
Great point. Bezos didn't buy WaPo to make money. But I think Bezos is far less idealistic than Musk. Personally, I don't like Bezos one bit, and not just because his rockets are shaped like dildos (though that does not help).
The answer is it's not really possible to do a much better job. With unlimited time the result would not be that much more fair or effective. Firing the bottom 50% is impossible even with unlimited time to think about it. Employee performance evaluation isn't very effective, and Musk has no reason to trust Twitter's previous performance evaluations, and forcing people to work 6 months under a new performance evaluation process with the threat of a 50% layoff over their heads is not compassionate either, nor would it have a much better result at the end anyway. There is no silver bullet. Better to rip off the band-aid in one go.

You might say that a perception of fairness is important so that employees trust leadership. Well, what's likely to happen is the fired people will think it's unfair, and the people chosen to remain will think "well, at least the right choice was made in my case". Of course, the opinion of the remaining people is what matters to the company going forward.
Some aspects of progress are subjective but mass transit isn't
> would the Gibraltar population really be so much worse off if they were ruled by Spain? The hundreds of thousands of British that live in Spain clearly don't think so.

the tens of thousands of that live in Gibraltar clearly do think so
I highly doubt HR at Twitter is unaware of the laws here and not giving 60 days notice as part of the exit packages.

This is basic stuff easily remedied by corrected exit package details if it did in fact happen.
No they have recommendations and discussions and stuff like that. IRC channels too.
Sure, but that whole deal of "publisher signed an agreement with the author" only exists because publishers used to be necessary. They're not now.

Yes, you shouldn't arbitrarily decide anything. You can today, however, meaningfully conclude that "publishers are kind of useless, how are they still in business when much of what they do isn't necessary?" You'll find the answer is probably old law.

So, yes -- bring on the lawsuits. Let's see what happens.
> Even if all of that is true, I'd be surprised if Musk manages to make a positive return on his investment.

+1. It's hard to see how the ROI works out here. The price was 50% overvalued if not more, and Twitter has had severe problems with monetization.

On the other hand, Musk actually uses Twitter at scale unlike the previous management of the company. That might give him more insight into the possibilities than his predecessors.
When I voted in this year's election in the US, I used a computer which printed my ballot after I filled it out digitally. That ballot was then scanned by another computer and put in a ballot box for any potential future recounts. That seems like the ideal way to do it to me - I eliminate the risk that my ballot isn't counted due to my admittedly poor scantron filling skills but I still get a paper ballot in a box that a human can count if need be.
This is a discussion board. Therefore, commenting at all requires something to discuss, and there is nothing really to discuss specifically around the topic of empathy towards the laid off employees.

It sucks, we all know it sucks, and it shouldn't be minimized but there's no "other side" to that viewpoint, so what is there to talk about? People aren't "heartless" because they choose to talk about the bigger picture rather than wallowing in sympathy.
Why is one guaranteed to work VS the other one not? Seems a bit simplistic.

There are electronic voting systems that have been running without issues for decades, why couldn't the US accomplish the same?
From the start google has allowed alternative app stores on android, samsung phones come with the samsung app store installed by default and there are many, for example f-droid you can install yourself.
Or the "lifers" with no other job prospects.
Already thought of and also partly tested experimentally, cranes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17789456

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32240546

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29910248

Rail loop:

https://aresnorthamerica.com/gravityline/
Yet people want to either spend extra hours commuting or working to pay expensive rents in crowded stressful cities instead of embracing remote work and actually enjoying life after work hours. Remote work should be an employment right where possible for those of us who know whats up. That way you are less stressed and more productive.
Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam-Webster

>"Noah Webster

In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.

In 1807 Webster started two decades of intensive work to expand his publication into a fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language. To help him trace the etymology of words, Webster learned 26 languages. Webster hoped to standardize American speech, since Americans in different parts of the country used somewhat different vocabularies and spelled, pronounced, and used words differently."
"Needing" to reduce reliance on cars is debatable; that's certainly one way but not the only way. I doubt Musk would deny that replacing all cars with EVs would be enough. That's why Tesla also offers the solar roof (which needs more attention from Musk IMO) and grid level energy storage.
Ready for the CFP! :^)
But you can't install the store itself (e.g. fdroid) from Play Store at the moment
Is the lawsuit itself not evidence? Do you think employees are sitting there thinking "let's waste money and time on a lawsuit that will have no impact." There must have been some good faith believe that Musk had no intention of providing severance. Is that really so hard to believe from the outside?
what would "fully equal status" mean? for as long as I can remember, as long as you give the store permission to install apps, it works basically the same?
So... how DO you deal with it?
My mom's hip hurts progressively more.
It's destroying her.
If anyone knows a remedy, not ibuprofen, I'd be glad to hear it.
Internet and doctors say there's nothing that can be done to cure it, which I refuse to believe.
There must be something she can rub into the hip or drink or eat.

Her father had Reuma and he had a field of nettle im his backyard. He sat there for hours every day covering and beating his body with nettles. He got cured.

There must be a natural remedy. Doctors and the pharma industry have no interest im curing it. It's a source of income.

So long story short, if anyone knows anything about hip pain, a remedy, please share.
The title is misleading. New Hampshire uses paper ballots and ballot counting machines. Hand-counting is used in some cases such as recounts. They are trialing new ballot counting machines, not electronic voting machines.
The headline is "5 Minutes That Will Make You Love Ornette Coleman".
No company would exist with major budgetary support from the government.

Energy is subsidised, roads exist, international commerce, the internet, laws, money.
Justifying affirmative action based on stereotypes of Indian parents "gaming" the system is absolutely racism.
Did you mean to post a link?
but the sprig team just wants to have fun. its exciting for them to NOT use a major engine. It feels new and exciting to work on things that are new, and not go along with the crowd. Time might be money, but we're still teenagers after all.
No to both.

The crown prince already owned a large stake of twitter, and decided to maintain ownership stake after the buyout. They are still a shareholder, like before, not a loan holder.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/10/31/saudi-prin...
So is modern economics - a post hoc justification for greed.
The same has been said of modern conservatism:
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
I still fail to see this as a win given the waste of time.
I couldn't get that Reactor Incremental to load in order to compare it, but what you're describing sounds like https://factoryidle.com/ which I love
Jax preallocates 90% of available GPU memory when first operation is run to minimize allocation overhead. Can PyTorch grab that VRAM for a similar reason?
The biggest difference we found is that sudo is a little more convenient to manage with a config management solution, since each piece of config management code can just drop a file in /etc/sudoers.d. With doas, we have to coordinate a bunch of parts of the config management manipulating one file, /etc/doas.conf.

Apparently whether it's used is configured at build time, because I get different results trying it on Arch and Alpine, but doas absolutely has a /etc/doas.d

EDIT: Oops, apparently Alpine added that - https://git.alpinelinux.org/aports/tree/main/doas/configurat...
> Do you know of such a thing?

I'm afraid I haven't read any C++ books. I'm sure that's where some of my strong biases come in; I'm all self-taught with some cppcon videos and attendance sprinkled in for topics that I know I'm weak in.

I can recommend a Slack [0] or Discord [1] though. There are plenty of other C++ people who can make such recommendations.

[0]: https://cppalliance.org/slack/

[1]: https://www.includecpp.org/discord/
Why do you describe your product as "coaching", and not "therapy"? Is this a marketing decision because of a perceived stigma around the term "therapy"? (The re-branding of CBT/ACT to "coaching" and "training" instead of "therapy" strikes me as odd, I don't understand the emphasis on avoiding the term.)

Will your company be accepting medical insurance? $350/mo (~$90/session) is roughly half of what billed-to-insurance therapy costs have looked like for me ($150-200 per weekly session), which could make this a competitive option for people who are uninsured. However, with insurance I've usually paid $25-40/session out of pocket.
NASA Asteroid Threat Practice Drill Shows We’re Not Ready
According to a leak to Business Insider[0], they are still "employed" but are not allowed to work.

[0] https://www.businessinsider.com/read-blunt-email-telling-twi...
How are they unjustified? In my world, our costs have gone up over 50%.
> manipulation doesn't seem that easy

I wasn’t suggesting manipulation was easy. But for a sufficiently motivated and resourced actor with direct or indirect physical access to the machine all bets are off.
Prolog is probably less of a general-purpose language, in the sense that writing things such as games are probably not a very suitable goal for it.

But for any problem involving the exploration of a solution space, prolog is absolutely stellar and actually quite fast, and even faster to write: solvers, irregular data processing, symbolic reasoning... It also lends itself quite well to "I just want to query a database" apps, including websites. Have a look at the "power of prolog" YouTube channel if you are interested.
Wondering when Egyptians started routinely building modernish staircases. It seems like Valley of Kings tombs still had, at least mainly, ramps.

Were they a Roman import?
Incredible. It's not Elon's fault for wrecking the company, it's those darned activists that he bent over backwards to appease!

It's not exactly shocking that large brands don't want to be associated with this dumpster fire.
There is no need to implement an ad-blocker as a VPN. It provides a strictly worse experience than implementing one via DNS APIs (as Blokada have done).

The only reason one may wish to implement as a VPN instead is to get a lot of data about users to sell. They otherwise provide less control, use more battery, are less reliable, and have privacy issues.

iOS even provides some good APIs for this that apps can hook into so that they don't need to deal with networking at all. Much faster, and the app receives no data about network usage.

Edit: Misunderstood Blokada's comment, they use DNS to do their filtering now.
> A company with a 20x PE implies a 5% yield this year.

Isn't this kind of a useless stat?

https://www.slickcharts.com/sp500/returns

https://www.multpl.com/s-p-500-pe-ratio

the market typically doesn't follow this "this P/E must yield this much return" rule from what I can tell. We've had many many many 8-10%+ ROI years despite whatever the "this P/E implies this much yield/return" rule dictates.
Why do you need a custom VPN client to do this?
> Those outside of the US who subscribe to this ideal seem heavily influenced by US culture in my experience. I'm not aware of non-US sources of the idea.

The idea predates the existence of the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech
Yeah extremists gonna extreme
Well well well if it isn’t the consequences of my own actions.
No. There are also fines to the state/federal government. I saw one number (CA?) of $500/person/day. Don’t know if that was it or minimum or what.
The vast majority of voting machines in the US creates a paper trail. Usually, you vote and the system prints out a receipt showing your vote which is then kept in the case of later hand audits.
Thanks! I just tried it using Tor (ExitNodes {us}) and it works as well.
You mean Antarctica, not the Artic. The Arctic refers to regions/countries along the Artic Ocean which includes Canada, USA, and Scandinavia. The reason Antarctica is not developed is because of an series of treaties known as the Antarctic Treaty System [1]. It's an agreed upon 'pristine environment' for research. Development is prohibited and there are extreme measures to maintain its relatively pureness. For one fun example - poop cannot be disposed of on premises. It needs to be bagged up and shipped back home to be disposed of.

Rocketry is a similar story. Rockets, since the 60s, have gradually become less capable and more expensive. For instance Boeing/Lockheed have been granted defacto unlimited taxpayer money to develop a basic functional 'homegrown' rocket system - the SLS. The goal was achieve little more than we did in the 60s. They started work 11 years ago, have received more than $30 billion, and and have yet to manage to get off the ground. Stay tuned for their latest failure - they will [fail to] launch on November 14th! For reference, we went from nothing to putting a man on the moon in 9 years in the 60s.

If it ever manages to be fit for duty, the SLS is estimated to cost an average of $2 billion per flight, and is completely incapable of landing massive-load cargo on Mars, let alone transiting things back. It's completely and absolutely unfit for duty. Most of everything Musk has done with SpaceX was being mocked as literally impossible by Boeing et al (by Tory Bruno) while he was struggling to achieve rapid reuse among various other technologies which have completely revolutionized the industry.

We would not be getting to Mars had SpaceX (or a similar company) not emerged.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Antarctic_Treaty_System
why on earth is sudo so complicated. All I want it to do is: ensure authorization, raise privileges, call exec.
Something like this sounds like the best solution. I want a paper ballot I can inspect before it gets fed into the counting machine (and which is kept after scanning for recounts, should the need arise). If that ballot is marked by machine to avoid "hanging chads", all the better.
> your medical coverage is usually (and by usually, I means pretty much always) tied to your employment.

That has not been true for ten years now, with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). It used to be that pre-existing conditions tied you strongly to continuous employment (except for periods of COBRA coverage avaialble), but those are no longer grounds for denying you new coverage. And if your income has dropped a lot, most if not all of the coverage will be subsidized by the government.
You can be terminated for cause without notice. Layoffs are different, and different again in each jurisdiction. Both the federal government and California, where Twitter is headquartered, have specific laws for this exact situation, and Musk et al are in clear violation of those laws plus the agreement under which he acquired the company. Either your partner in HR (notably not legal) is misinformed, or you misunderstood what they told you. Regardless, you're the one who's confused - and that's trying hard to give you the benefit of the doubt.
Tons of corporate debt has been issued in last ten years at historically low rates. If floating, they are screwed, but anyone with a smart treasury / corp fin dept will use a tenor-matched interest rate swap to convert float-to-fixed... so fine. However, if you need to roll-over expiring debt... uh oh, that will now be more than twice as expensive. Junk debt (and rated just above) will see more bankruptcies and "loan workouts" in next year than we have seen in last 10 years. Still, I cannot see a crash. I do see a "major slowdown" -- recession -- but not a depression.
I've been a firefox supporter for so long, but it feels like mozilla isn't interested in it anymore. I hear a lot about brave but the crypto/ad stuff really turns me off
Thanks! I'm looking into Rust because I'd like to try programming Node.js native modules without using C++ and writing some VSTs for fun.

Is this[1] the first book you're referring to?

[1]: https://nostarch.com/Rust2018
It's legal to use psilocybin, or 'magic mushrooms, in Oregon. That could change
> I hope I live long enough to see copyright die.

I actually agree. However this is not what's happening here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463441

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33463800
How does this differ from XLA? Would tinygrad's lazy approach also just see the same unrolled loop right before compilation?
Have you considered some people don’t like remote work? It’s not like it’s an unbridled good, that’s just your opinion on it.

I have to pay more to have an office, never see anyone from my team except for a few off sites a year and a sync communication is way lossier than in person.

I miss my commute, 30 minutes each way on a train — it was my reading time. Now I don’t read, work or something else fills the slot.

The commute also provided a hard boundary, both mentally and physically at the end of the day from carrying work home with me.

I prefer that the job enforce all of these boundaries and not that I have to reimplement what I had gotten for free this time with my own mental effort to make these new boundaries.
the people who have wealth and control media are completely disconnected from my reality, or, are absolute sociopaths.

This is a response to an article in the Washington Post (that was discussed earlier here): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33405389

The Washington Post is owned by Jeff Bezos. It's clear what's going on here. The corporate backed media is trying to convince Americans that their compatriots are lazy, quelling support for expanded workers' rights/compensation. That this is happening so close to an election may not be a coincidence. In my neck of the woods, I see ads in support of candidates who label their opponents' supporters as lazy & unwilling to work.
I am seeing an average of 0.0008 over 100 runs on Linux (i.e. less than a millisecond).
I have pihole in my local network, the router defaults to it as the only DNS server. Amazon FireStick still serves ads, even when I set the DNS on the stick to the pihole.

I think the ads are encrypted end-to-end from amazon-ad server to stick, using likely the same channels as the regular video content
Now they will be forced to allow them on Google Play directly with user-friendly install.
> The "A" players will surface and they will do more with half the staff (or less even) than they ever did with 7500 people

It's still not obvious to me what they did with 7500 people that couldn't have been done with 10% of that