skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hopefully it's slightly less pathetic than the "Police CyberAlarm".

https://paul.reviews/police-cyberalarm-abysmal-security-yet-...
https://scottarc.blog/2022/07/04/police-cyberalarm-uses-alar...
Sure they should, but there are a lot of moving parts, written in different decades. Bugs are found every day even in projects that have 100% code coverage

PagerDuty is a multi billion dollar company for a reason, and they're not even the only company doing what they do.

I don't think it's relevant if one has worked in a giant company to understand how bad on call can be, every engineer knows that. I personally assume on-call is much worse/harder/nerve wracking in bigger companies
> Respondents reported that exclusion was only the first step: shortly after that they started being subjected to defamation by the media, and disparaged as “anti-vaxxers,” “Covid deniers,” “dis/misinformation spreaders” and/or “conspiracy theorists”

Many people on HN still casually slap these labels on sceptics.
Then why'd he offer $45bil for it?
Some of those tradeoffs are made by the distributions - the kernel has (always) offered various schedulers but you have to pick one.
It’s actually quite common at certain types of organizations (typically foreign-owned) to appoint a local as CEO on a specific term and then to revisit when that’s up.
I think it's important that this makes it clear that this is fake. The title here is 100% a lie.

At least, it should be "AI Generated Fake Lex Fridman interviews Fake Richard Feynman."

Have some self-respect.
The first sentence of that article says "While almost all U.S. businesses (97 percent) say they offer some form of severance to workers, only 55 percent had formal, written severance policies last year, a decline from 2011, when 65 percent had formal severance policies."

That seems very not universal. Just because a company says something doesn't mean it follows through, and if it's not formalized it's worthless. A longer notice period both ways seems preferable. Besides, in the EU it is common to take paid leave for a large chunk of that notice period so in addition to having time to tie off loose ends and leave on good terms, you often don't have to work out that whole chunk of time if you don't want to.
its now owned by one of their competitors CEO

Interesting point.

We are closely monitoring the situation

Monitoring it for what? I'm genuinely not understanding why Twitter would be boycotted (at least yet)
I don't believe that's true. For copyrighted work, you can issue a takedown notice to the website - but copyright is federal law. NDAs are just private contracts. If you could sue someone for hosting/posting NDA content, then any leaks or whistleblower content could be hidden from the public just by suing the all the news websites.

Generally I think you can only sue the person who violated the NDA, not anyone further down the chain who posted the material. The same is even true for classified info in most cases - the NY Times won a famous Supreme Court cases about that over publishing the Pentagon Papers in the Vietnam era. Same principle that protected publishing the Snowden leaks, etc.
I've worked on a large scale website everyone knows. There are lots of interesting problems, and lots of super clever people who solve them in clever ways, but it's not literal rocket science.
I really think everyone under any manager/director/VP (directly or indirectly via skip levels) should be able to call a "vote of no confidence" and get them replaced with a majority vote. It's the only way to combat clueless leaders and raise issues like this.
Correct

"Who can receive services? Federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments, as well as public and private sector critical infrastructure organizations."

However, methinks US definition of critical infrastructure organizations, both public and private, will be quite broad.
How are goals set? How do goals account for macro economics? How do goals account for market constraints/problems? How do goals account for measuring against a theoretical "alternative" CEO that could have done better?

It's much easier to be a bad CEO in a good market than it is to be a good CEO in a bad market.
Do you employment litigation? Have you read the complaint? Why should anyone take you seriously? You just seem like a Musk defender on a bent.
Thanks! I was hoping to use my iPad to do the drawing, etc. as my drawing skills are non-existent. Is there a way to "screencast" an iPad screen and convert that into a video?
The story is about electronic paper vote tabulation.
Huh. Usually, the ones with the delusion that somebody can "destroy free speech" are those demanding that somebody else pay to carry their speech.

Now, we've got the carrier demanding that they pay him to carry some speech.

The shoe is on the other hand, or something.
That board deserves to be on display at City Hall or something. Inspiring work and I lament with you that you weren’t able to use it more than a few days.
Denial of service is in bounds - I'm not required to do business with you.

I can't stop others from doing business with you, though I could convince them
New Zealand plunges into recessionary spiral
Twitter and Meta – the biggest “pivots” of all time?
Companies pivot all the time. I did as a startup. We think of pivoting as a startup thing. Twitter and Meta are going to show us if companies with markets caps of tens or hundreds of billions can also pivot.
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No, account reliability tends to correlate with account age, but there's obviously no causation here.

However, it is a signal, and a fairly strong one, for authenticity.
Not to fall into a gossip-rag mess, but Elon Musk was allegedly on acid when he tweeted "Am considering taking Tesla private at $420. Funding secured." so this isn't some sort of insane off the wall claim being made here.
Imagine an enemy nation-state of [insert your country] decides to create a "recording" of a political candidate admitting to pedophilia.

Yes, those of us in tech would be skeptical. But 99.9% of people don't read technology or political news and don't know this is possible. They haven't been inoculated against it.

What would happen? You can't make that stigma go away.

One of Trump's only drops in polling during his first presidential campaign was due to an audio recording. In his 2023 campaign, any recording that comes out could easily be AI-generated.

If that doesn't terrify you, I don't think you've been paying enough attention to the tactics of modern authoritarian regimes.
source for breaking laws? I've only seen speculation over the past few weeks that he's not paying severance, however in actuality we now see he's paying them until beginning of Feb to not work.
He did something similar at Tesla with layoffs that violated the WARN Act. The lawyers filing this case were the lawyers on that case. They've seen this happen before.
He waived his ability to do due diligence which is part of the normal business process that allows for backing out of a deal, because he was so confident in buying Twitter. Then he almost immediately tried backing out by claiming that things that would have been found out during the due diligence phase were a surprise to him(bots).

It was forced because he left himself open to the deal being forced which was the idiotic mistake

I think we can take it that you haven’t been part of many businesses that actually had to compete and operate with other businesses with equal leverage. The way a business negotiates when it’s getting bought out due to failing investor goals is a lot different than when the two opposing parties have equivalent leverage
When it becomes trivial to 3d print gray goo (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_goo) I wonder if you'll sing the same tune to humanity's destruction or if you'd admit that there's a spectrum and there's some threshold past which a technology becomes condemnable. Because right now your statement basically implies there is no such threshold (since clearly the person you're replying to thinks podcast.ai is past it).
Sure, I used too big words.

Tesla is arguably doing more than any other company to decarbonize the world, but that is very far from a complete solution.
> 3.2.1 1x (INPUT)

> Status codes beginning with 1 are INPUT status codes, meaning:

> The requested resource accepts a line of textual user input. The <META> line is a prompt which should be displayed to the user. The same resource should then be requested again with the user's input included as a query component. Queries are included in requests as per the usual generic URL definition in RFC3986, i.e. separated from the path by a ?. Reserved characters used in the user's input must be "percent-encoded" as per RFC3986, and space characters should also be percent-encoded.

https://gemini.circumlunar.space/docs/specification.gmi
You don’t shower or eat breakfast? Just roll out of bed into a zoom meeting?
And not just Musk. Big companies regularly put themselves in a position to be fined by regulators. Either their lawyers are stupid (they probably aren't) or it's just a cost of doing business (it probably is).
To champion the little guy has nothing to do with rhetoric, right? In my exprerience it's the uneducated masses that pretend to champion the little guy but don't understand that their actions have unintended consequences that often produce the opposite result. I would think people are starting to understand the inverse correlation between words and actions, at least where power politics are at play (not to mention specifically in corporate entities that make their dough by brainwashing)
My reading was that the judge had thirty seconds to regard the grieving family and changed her mind and asking her to reconsider gave her an easy opportunity to change the sentence.
This basic idea (thermal mass energy storage) is perfectly sensible, and has a long history.

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

Coupled with a well designed ventilation system, a Trombé wall can also be used for cooling.
> i hate Lex Friedman and Richard Feynnman

That's pretty harsh.
Another ADHD founder here. I've found that having someone else around when I need to to that thing, or a "body double" ( https://doubleapp.xyz/blog/body-doubling-proxy ), is a super useful tactic to "unblock" myself and overcome motivational hurdles like the ones you may experience.
Because C can run on almost everything? For example, take Doom and the whole "Can it run Doom?" meme
I think the beginning and end of the value of these is as a tech demo. At this point in the lifecycle of the technology, I don't think anyone is trying to achieve novel, valuable content.
Is it worth mentioning org-mode [0] and Racket's documentation system Scribble [1]. Docs as code and the tangle functionality in org-mode's Babel seem to fit right together. I am only familiar with Scribble by name.

[0] https://orgmode.org/manual/Working-with-Source-Code.html
[1] https://docs.racket-lang.org/scribble/how-to-doc.html#%28par...
After clicking around, here’s something I wanted to mention: You mentioned in your post that if you have ADHD or “think you do”, you encourage people to check it out. I’m in the camp of, “I probably don’t have ADHD, but boy, some of those self-diagnosis survey questions hit close to home, and I wish they didn’t, so this might be worth looking into whether I have ADHD or not.”
I understand that you aren’t in a position to offer diagnosis, but I found myself looking for something in your FAQ or description that spoke to me. I don’t know what it would say to me that wouldn’t sound like it’s trying to convince me i have ADHD, but maybe how to investigate further, or how to know whether to give your service a shot? I might not have found a statement like that because I’m not in your target market, and I’m cool with that too. There is also a fear I have (and that I’ve observed in others) of being one of “those people” who claim they have a problem and go to the doctor and fear they’ll discover nothing is wrong. So it was reassuring when you said, “or think you do” in your pitch, and I think I was looking for the same reassurance/guidance from the website.

I hope that is helpful.
> I was curious if this was a saying I'd never heard of or if you just came up with it. Seems you just came up with this?

It's just a variation on similar sayings like "the devil's putting on ice skates".
Fun fact, factoids are always false.
> > he hasn't personally guaranteed them.

> Source? I imagine the terms of the loans for the Twitter purchase are not publicly available.

We can't know this, I suppose -- but it's quite uncommon from my understanding.
> In the U.S. for security purposes - you definitely cut off email access before actual termination.

This is done on the scale of hours, not months.
HN is a great place to gather RSS feeds. Any time there's an interesting site I always look for them. These days I usually see articles that appear on the HN front page a day or so before they hit HN. But HN isn't the only place I practice this. Back in the 2010s it was obvious reddit was going under so I did the same there till 2015. I have 1000+ RSS feeds now and very little need for news aggregators on the day to day (except finding new feeds).

QuiteRSS is an excellent native reader that handles my thousands of feeds well. It is so multi-platform it even has an OS/2 version. https://quiterss.org/
Not a fan of Bezos by any means imaginable, but I think that the revenge porn thing that happened to him was the work of a state actor, more exactly of Saudi Arabia.

Not saying that that makes it better, quite the contrary, just that most probably it wasn’t something personal, just a raison d’etat thing.
I've added a section in the README clarifying that this directory is only for demo purposes.
That depends on who you follow and how you follow them. If you follow non-toxic people using Lists instead of the algorithmic timeline, it's not bad.
Funny enough I did a similar thing for my country (Austria). Found quite a few strange things and even made a collage of screenshots of all webservers hosted in Austria - https://blog.haschek.at/2019/i-scanned-austria.html
Governments, businesses and politicians do though..
the number of things he has proposed that were lies / scams (solar tiles, tesla self driving), or incredibly stupid (hyper loop, whatever these shitty robots are now, boring company etc) is too high for me to think he is a particularly gifted engineer. he is a salesmen as you say. to me he is more elizabeth holmes than nikola tesla

"If all it took was assembling a team of ace engineers then Musk would be unremarkable and we’d have no end to amazing things" ever heard of bell labs?
Thanks! :) I definitely thought about seeing if I made a polished version, if I'd be able to sell a copy to the local transit authority, or something. But it made for a great conversation piece, and was tons of fun to build, so it's definitely a success as far as I'm concerned.
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I have no doubt Elon expects to hire a bunch of people to replace those hire laid off.... but I suspect he wants different people.
It is a federal statute. Basically, one of the remedies that courts can impose is that 60 days pay in lieu of notice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worker_Adjustment_and_Retraini...
The complaint: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/23264502-cornet-et-a...
Did I say something stupid because of the downvotes?

If a company chooses to reinvest the profit into the company, and therefore increases the valuation, it can be a gain, right? In that case no profit is made.

If you have $1 loss and gain $3 valuation, that's a gain of $2, right?
Given the percentage of global internet bandwidth that is video streaming, and the immense expense that entails, I find your >50% figure hard to believe.
At Amazon, near Black Friday and Prime Day, there are company wide deployment freezes, where no one is allowed to push to prod.

When I was oncall for my team, I found there were less pages, less issues, and the system was generally more stable.

Entropy, leading to availability problems, grows with rate of production changes.

If no one touches the code, my guess is the system is more stable rather than less.
I'm former AWS. Yes, it's true. You'd be surprised how much human intervention is needed for large-scale SaaS/cloud stuff. A lot of it's just scale and probability. If an IT problem has a 0.0001% chance of happening on any given day for an org, a single organization will likely never see it happen during its entire existence. But if you're managing IT for 10 million organizations, it'll statistically happen 10 times per day!

Giant tech companies do obsess about reducing the need for human intervention. Teams in my org at AWS kept track of failures/intervention rates per thousand instances. If it gets too high, it means you're spending too much engineering effort resolving on-call issues and need to fix it.
Don’t want to be defending plutocrats, but consider how hard it is to be fired in general whatever the role. Honestly think it’s just par for the course.
This is a stupid idea, and there are some great YouTube videos that explain why[1].

tl;dr We already move enormous amounts of drinking water, and reservoirs are much better (and cheaper) candidates for batteries than sand/cement/etc.

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGGOjD_OtAM
The rebrand makes a lot of sense, as the interest and support for Python in the DS/ML community keeps growing. I prefer R for data exploration and visualization, but knowing and leveraging both languages seems to be the way forward. Shiny for Python is a very interesting development.

Kudos to RStudio (Posit) for delivering great product over the last decade+ and growing a kind, helpful community!
I can tell you that there are lots of great conversations among people from same domains of expertise or interest. The general exchanges with random folks are indeed meaningless and quickly devolve into rants. But once you find experts in niche areas, it is great stuff to follow, read, and interact with.
Show HN: Auto generate images from Figma using an API
There is a company that uses electric trains to drive the heavy weights to the top of mountains. They claim 90% round trip efficiency:

https://aresnorthamerica.com/gravityline/

which sounds plausible, since rail freight companies have spent 200 years micro-optimizing train efficiency.
Thanks for the reference, I didn't know that project! I've added a link.

As far as I can tell the main differences are 1. ip2unix is AF_UNIX-only (but does map AF_INET6), and 2. that it maintains an internal mapping instead of using dup3.
This can only be done if workers have actual ownership stake in the company enough to do this.
It does not seem at all obvious to me why training an AI on public code examples should break any license terms.
4chan has a literature board
Didnt you just explain how current social media work ?

Who decides what is „news” and what is „fake-news” ? (Few PC ppl in big corpos?).

Why sayin that „sure you can say what you want, but you have to defend your words” is so controversial ?

Are ppl afraid of being proven wrong or look stupid ?
Well if a company's stock is down 42 percent like the average for fired CEO's in the article, it may also be way more expensive to keep them.

Are you counting CEO's that retired (ergo possibly forced out nicely) to spend time with family or whatever?
Same, I've really missed it. I'd love for someone to do something similar.
I thought heat output was the main effect, thus the talk about "district heating pipes" in the list of components.

With nuclear power generation I thought there was no need to store energy, since it can generate at all times and ramp up/down pretty quickly.
You'd still need something to handle the nights around new moon, so you'd have to overbuild enough to be sufficient when all you have is starlight.

A bit of Googling suggests that the combined energy per second that reaches Earth from all the visible stars other than the Sun is around 0.0000002% of the amount from the Sun.

I recall reading that the area needed with current solar panel technology to power the entire US would be 10000 square miles. With starlight being 0.0000002% of sunlight, that suggests we'd need 5 trillion square miles of panels to get the same amount of energy at night.

The surface area of the earth is a little under 200 million square miles.

That suggests that it isn't possible to overbuild enough to work off of starlight.

It would be even worse on cloudy nights. On cloudy days you still get a significant amount of sunlight coming through, because the Sun is giving us so much more than we need. Not so with stars.
It bugged me back then, too.

IDK. In my job, just fixing an issue isn't enough. I want to know what exactly happened to cause the issue, why it happened, and what I can do to prevent similar issues in the future. I want to know how pervasive the issue is, if it's just for some users or all users, if it's getting better or worse.

Seems like too much of how doctors are trained is "you're not paid to look any deeper than the bandaid."
I meant someone overloading your email or phone so you couldn’t use the service. I agree with what you’re saying is in bounds.
That is your educated perspective. A larger share of Americans place greater trust in what they hear about public issues on social media from interesting personalities than in the NYT, sadly.
corporations are not democratic institutions
The BBC certainly broadcasts criticism of the BBC from time to time. Here’s one of the more trivial examples (easier to bring to mind because it’s amusing): https://youtu.be/MBWfCV4PjyU