skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think now that anarchism is practical, at least for a population of committed anarchists, and in the absence of hostile external forces.

I too classify all my physics problems as 'spherical cows in a vacuum', but unless you've ignored Twitter your entire life you should realize powerful forces of propaganda exist that ensure that this will never exist. Threats exist in the form of ruthless humans that will ally with the corruptible and greedy to consolidate power to the point of acting with wonton violence. These people use ideas of nationalism and shared identity (cooperation) along with propaganda that militarizes the group against common enemies, generally being other groups that have resources they can take.

In general having a 'stable' society with wealth can be an inoculation against this human behavior of falling for propaganda, but again, it requires stability against the environment, against disease, against economic swings, against competing ideas. Anarchist societies just seem to handwave these issues away.
I'm willing to bet the following has happened:

- You are customer ID 150 in your new carrier's DB

- When porting, a manual fat finger linked that number to customer 151

- Customer 151 is a reseller and has Neutral Tandem as a customer

- The new carrier's customer service UI only shows ownership based on the first number of the block

I run a telco and have seen similar issues happen many times. Have the tech team trace and see if a test call you make to the number routes via them. If so, it's their issue.
Do you know of any open English-speaking ones? (With other languages I fear I won't be able to easily understand their TOS agreement or navigate the site very well)
> Why not go to their website and take a look?

Sure. Given links I'll do that. I just did right now since you are the first person to actually provide links.

The claim was:

> literal hours of continuous footage

None of the links you provided come even close to that claim. They are FULL of cuts. Many of them don't even include the question that was asked!

And even you took quotes out of context. The quote "Twitter does not believe in free speech" was qualified by a followup that free speech allows bullying and that Twitter does not believe in bullying because it's bad for business! Which is totally reasonable if you are an advertising platform.

Can you provide what I asked for? The source to "literal hours of continuous footage"?

Also, please stop giving quotes to your links. You've done exactly what people already claimed: taken things out of context to try to make them look worse than they really are. Folks can watch uncut videos themselves and make up their own minds. If these "literal hours of continuous footage" actually even exist.
I think dexterity would be a problem for construction. Or if you re-engineer the building to accommodate machines, then you probably want more automation than a human in a mech suit. Mining probably is all set with much larger machines, though I know nothing about mining.
There is this team of fresher-to-the-field devs at my company who insist this is law.

To the point where if they are testing object equality, they check each field in its own test.

I have no idea where they got the notion from.
That's certainly true! I can use my current skillset to help connect users with new tech. And there have been many minor revolutions during the course of my career, many of which have been incorporated into the sort of work I do.

I guess the difference (for me, anyway) is that this change isn't incremental. It's a fundamentally new type of computing-- One that comes with a totally new way of approaching problems. Listening to Andrej Karpathy talk about Software 2.0, for instance, it seems probable that ML has a place in many parts of the stack.

It's possible I'm just projecting my insecurities, here, but my experience has been that changes to computing hardware usually result in changes across the entire industry. And this feels like a pretty meaningful change.
To me, there's no better description of backpropagation than this Sanjeev Arora's et al post from 2016 [1].

[1] https://www.offconvex.org/2016/12/20/backprop/
I suppose it means "we know you're going to notice this isn't how you'd spell it, and rest assured it's intentional".
How ironic, a unit test framework is so fragile and poorly covered by tests they are not able to determine if a change would cause any regressions.
Looking forward to when 3D printing reduces upfront capital costs enough that it is feasible for a single engineer to bootstrap a profitable hardware business.

The 'GitHub for hardware' of that time would be one heck of a sight, with a huge ecosystem of interchangeable tried-and-tested hardware parts, corresponding to open source software libraries and packages today.
Didn't NASA lose a space orbiter due to mixing up units in the code? A properly written library should not have the issues you're mentioning.
> lots of weird political hay has been made claiming some nebulous kind of "equality" that resists any kind of examination or analysis.

The resistance to analysis is often because they use it polymorphically. It will mean one thing in one sentence, a totally different thing in the next, and this will not be acknowledged in any way.

I'm not an arguer about what words mean, for me it's enough that people tell me what they mean by the word so we can have an effective discussion. But the word has to mean something and its definition cannot change within the same context.
I know people who write quickly huge amounts of very poorly thought of code that will be buggy and will have a bunch of completely useless functions, reimplemented functions that already existed within the project and similar stuff.

You might be unaware that you are not such a great manager.
I assume they meant post Musk acquisition
In the dreamland libertarians seem to live in.
For personal use, I would recommend Ted Unangst's honk.

https://humungus.tedunangst.com/r/honk

But that is mainly because I value straightforward installation and simple administration. So that converges well with honk. If you(or your users) value features more you will probably want to use something else. but you will suffer when it comes time to administer the thing.
Yeah, the ISP I founded in 1995 (elite.net) was a PM2ER for both dialup and routing with a Pentium 90 as the shell & web server. We quickly hit the 30 line limit and went up to the PRI-based Portmaster models. Fun and exciting times, just bringing a rural community online for the first time ever.
While Wired has a great digital version I still love reading it in print. Their long form feature articles are always great!
if they take it to the basement that would mean they are conspiring. the government will hear about it and they would be in the same situation but with less support since nobody heard about them before.

he is not doing anything illegal, he just wants a better life for everybody including the guys who jailed him and their children. His best bet is that some of those guys would understand his motivations and help him.

Now he probably does not fully understand the regime motivation and how the police state lives in a paranoia. Not because he's stupid, because sometimes the only way out of a situation is to trust your opponent with your own life. Sometimes you do what your guts tell you to do
Yes it is normal. It doesn't necessarily imply the wrongness. It's an unusual spelling in British English and the annotation tells you the spelling is reproduced verbatim rather than someone at BBC mistyping it.
Also, Jack deserves credit for roping in Elon and selling Twitter at $44B at peak market. Every employee (with stock options) got some of that upside. Assuming the $4M per day loss is accurate, any CEO would be forced to make cuts in this economic environment. I credit Elon for doing it all at once rather than doing a cascading series of layoffs. That said, I feel for everyone who lost their job...
One thing that doesn't get talked about enough is the impact of programmers writing software for free[1] on what programmers as a whole are paid.

It could be argued that such free labor reduces the value of programming as a whole, because many if not most people would gladly use "free" software than pay for it, so if those "free" options didn't exist then the non-free software which did exist would be both more attractive and more valuable... and so programmers as a whole would be paid more.

But it's not so simple, because virtually the entire internet, all the tech giants, and arguably most companies today rely on "free" software, and their success is partially if not largely due to such software.. and, it's because of their success that these companies can afford to pay the relatively large salaries that programmers earn.

So the relationship between programmers working for free and programmer salaries is a complex one, but it's still intriguing to wonder what programmer salaries would be like today had the free/open source movements not flourished.

The other thing to remember is that programming used to be a pretty esoteric discipline, which was dominated by Americans... who could demand relatively high salaries because they didn't have to compete with the rest of the world. Now there are exponentially more programmers and people from all over the world can program.

Not to mention that math education in America is pretty awful compared to much of the rest of the world, and good math skills help people to be good programmers, resulting in even tougher competition from outside the US. If language, culture, and time zones weren't an issue the competition would be even tougher.

[1] - the term "open source" is often used as shorthand for this, but it's obviously imperfect as there are many programmers who are paid to write open source software, such as those employed by Red Hat, Mozilla, Google, IBM, etc..
Same for "apologize [sic]", in the same paragraph. That's a bizarre decision by the journalist or editor. Will they [sic] every ou vs. o and s vs z?

I'd either ignore it, or just change the quote to British English, I assume that's not going too far.

edit: apparently it is going too far. Quoting across the Atlantic is a common issue faced by writers, and it seems the consensus is that you always just quote letter-for-letter.
The question is : why did these companies hire massively in the pandemic era ? It was clear that cautiousness was the best policy. Not in hindsight, but even at the time. Did tech CEOs suffer from a kind of mass hallucination?
I would hope that their production deployments are fairly stable. If the app was crashing and riddled with known bugs at this point they’d be one of the worst run.
Why would we continue to renew H-1B visas if citizens need those jobs?
From my French perspective, I would say developers aren’t paid enough.

For one reason: market price manipulation.

Half the IT market here is handled by service company. Their main business is to hire IT guys and sell them at daily rate to customer (final company).

This works very well for market price manipulation when the middle company owners are also the owner of the customer company.

Let me explain: let talk about bank. They are the biggest IT service customer on the market followed by military.
So in the late 80, when they get bored to be milked by freelancer cobol développers they united and created a service company, which business is to hire IT guys and resell them to themself ( the banks).

They hired cobol dev from North Africa, for far cheaper than hire locals, they invented business rules in buyers département, defining that the bank cannot make business with small company (too risky). Most dev freelance run a little company for accounting and billing.

Then when the locals were looking for new job, they didn’t have choice, they have to go through the service company which was allowed to make contract with banks (because she is far bigger than one man company) and the poor local dev was pressured to cut by half his price cause he was in competition with the North African dev.

We can also talk that as far as the service company and the banks are owned by the sames guys, this eases a lot of accounting and tax optimisation, to say the least.

And here in France only a des service companies are managing now half of the IT market.

And guess what ? There isn’t any union for IT industry.

And also this situation helps to create the fear about not enough IT guys, pushing government to open wide the frontier to allow foreigner to work.
How ?

Well when a bank open a position to be filled, she sent the proposal to several service companies, and then those service companies publish proposal on job board. So there can be 5 or 6 open position on a job board, for the only one real open position at the final customer.

And after médias are writing article about how it is difficult to find people, there is much demand and so few candidates, we must open the border and let all peoples around the globe onboard in France to fill the job market. All that while we almost have 10 000 000 of unemployed.

I don’t know how it works in other countries, but this is mostly how it works since late 80 in France.

Let’s not forget about the public money (state money from tax) thief scheme. When ministry is opening an it positon around 1500 euros/day rate, and when the final working (the guy doing the job for real) is only able to bill around 600euros/day. 900euros days are going to a multilayer of middle service companies which most merit is to have a guy able to use a phone, and whose boss has often an uncle or similar into ministry or gov.
We should not be so sensitive as a society that we expect people in powerful and significant positions to conceal truths to protect feelings. Dorsey is, possibly, giving a candid thought on a major American company that he has unique insight into - that's worthwhile.

If Dorsey was ranking employees by the pleasantness of their odor or by how attractive he personally found them - I'd agree. No value, even if true, it could hurt feelings and you shouldn't say it. That's not what this is though.
It's not mentioned in the style guide whether to use [sic] when quoting American text so I guess it's up to the individual writers.
Your interpretation could be valid too.

The other equally valid interpretation: It would have been better for twitter and him if he didn't hire those employees.
Yeah, I think that's a bit of re-writing history. It's certainly true that the Intel partnership was a shitshow, but Altera shares traded at a pretty constant ratio to Xilinx and were bought at a big premium. Intel weren't exactly savvy in their acquisitions during BK's tenure.
How would the BBC handle it if Jack [sic]'ed it himself?

If he tweets "I realize [sic] this is a silly question", how would they quote it?
Indeed. This is the relevant part of the specification:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...
I feel for these individuals who are suffering but let’s be clear.

This attempt at overthrowing the regime in Iran with the help of the western media is probably not going to work. This is not the first time that it’s been attempted. If you’re willing to stand against your own government then you’re definitely brave but you will likely deal with the consequences no matter where you’re from. And that’s not something anyone can help with.

I posted this a few months back and I was downvoted but I’ll say it again. It’s important that we all remain neutral and promote non-interventalisim on this platform. One life harmed or lost is not worth it!
There are employment agreements doing this already, just time-boxed with signing bonuses and RSUs.
I agree with one point of exception:

Saying post-Musk Twitter is using the private equity playbook assumes that Twitter is being handled according to a playbook rather than being done by an incompetent narcissistic sociopath who hyped his way to being a very overvalued) billionaire, bought a company on impulse, and is now has to make more money off Twitter than is likely even possible in order to pay back said loans.
Fewest lines of code, or fewest expressions? Suppose you open/read/process/writeback/close on one "line": in principle that is five expressions, and it is supported by a vast volume of code in the lower layers, which shows that it is all a matter of complexity management, particularly as expressed in the definitions of the interfaces between layers.

Also, legibility is a crucially important aspect of complexity.
Wow, you weren't kidding. That's more than a bit crazy that they would do that. Maybe they want to stave off letters to the editor?
> We show that a class of subluminal, spherically symmetric warp drive spacetimes, at least in principle, can be constructed based on the physical principles known to humanity today

This is awesome. Ever since I read about the Alcubierre paper and it’s followups it seemed obvious to me that while there are huge basic physicality issues with FTL those same issues don’t exist for a near or at light speed warp drive.

Such a drive would not necessarily reduce the energy requirements of travel near light speed, but I wonder if it would eliminate some of the other huge problems. Things like a single dust particle annihilating you or blue shift turning all incident radiation into a gamma ray laser aimed at the front of your ship.

Would it have any impact on time dilation? If you approach the speed of light conventionally you can experience the trip subjectively as near instantaneous due to time dilation. Is that still true if you are in a warp bubble?

Light speed gets you to the centauri system in about 4.5 years Earth time. With time dilation the main cruise phase of the flight would seem instantaneous on board the spacecraft. (It would be years on Earth of course.)
I wonder how many redundancies are for technical roles and how many are for non technical roles (the "political/editorial wing" of the company such as the "curation team", the "human rights" team).
>Anyone using force to achieve their aims gets removed from society,

I think I see a fatal flaw in the logic here....
The linked article has an interesting "out" for WARN protocols using an "unforeseeable business circumstances" exception, such as the "free get out liability" ace twitter/musk received with advertisers pressing pause.

If the irony of that just dawned on someone, you're welcome :)

A simple analysis of day 1 to day 3 operations makes that a quick thinking decision.

"https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/fair-warning-co...
> The dollar value of something is a good approximation of the environmental damage

It's an rough approximation, not sure if I'll agree it's a good one. (CFCs comes to mind)

> But does that actually help the environment

I agree that's not necessarily the case for all usages. But if such an regulation would decrease the amount of plastic pollution, that would go along way making up for those instances. I also suspect easier-to-recycle sometimes are primarily at odds with branding and marketing and not essential material properties.

EDIT:

I don't think the regulation "packages must ensure all packaging is recycled" necessarily is the best possible regulation.

A less steering regulation would maybe result in more incineration (which I personally think is a decent option as long the emissions are properly filtered/cleaned and the energy is utilized). But somehow pushing more of the external cost associated with packaging (and plastic in general) is surly the way to go.
Thus, "many". Game coders would not be among those.
> Programmers are incredibly productive.

Some developers are. Most aren't. If you work in a startup, or on some new project within some big company, you are very likely to be producing vaporware that will impact zero users, either because the software is bad or because of some issues in marketing or management beyond your control. In either case, your real economic productivity is negative.
I understand USB is a serial protocol, but it's the worst I have ever used. (Was just clarifying for Camera Link.)

Your example is exactly the type of stuff I had in mind. We had the same issue with a camera. We also wanted to power cycle part of the system, since the camera was water cooled to turn it off, but this was basically impossible with the USB communication without farming out the camera communication to an entire other OS process/program such that the communication could be restarted. That manufacturer, for whatever reason, only implemented streaming the images over Camera Link but didn't implement their settings over Camera Link. And I swear to god, another USB camera in the same system wouldn't work through a hub and only worked reliably when directly attached to a specific USB port on the computer. Mindblowingly frustrating.
s/alternators/inverters/, d’oh.
That is a good question. Given the short lifespan of the creatures, one hypothesis is their evolution is stuck in a high-walled local maxima.
Writing as Microcosm, Part One: Publish and Perish
I’m betting on the opposite. If it doesn’t completely fail just trying anything is likely an improvement. I’ve never spoken to anyone who liked Twitter. It’s always just a means to an ends
Subluminal warp drive only needing positive energy seems like cool method to get around conservation of momentum (remember EmDrive?). I wonder if it could be used at very small scales with lower energies for some applications.

Another interesting reactionless drive within possibility:

> "Swimming in spacetime" is a general relativistic effect, where an extended body can change its position by using cyclic deformations in shape to exploit the curvature of space, such as due to a gravitational field.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reactionless_drive#Movement_wi...
This is just the “weird nerds” meme with a very rich weird nerd.
In this market 3 month severance is not much. Much of the value of these big tech jobs is in unvested stocks that these people will lose entirely (i.e. rewards for most of the work they did during almost half decade) while CEO who screwed up in overhiring walks away with golden parachutes and full vesting. Every big and small tech has now hiring freeze. Many of these people moved to expensive SF area with their entire family.
But why would you use integer arithmetic when dealing with fractions?
I think it's better to catch errors sooner than later. This is where type checking helps. I've seen plenty of Python code that takes a poorly named argument (say "data").. is it a dict? list? something from a third party library like boto3? If it's a dict, what's in the dict? What if someone suddenly starts passing in 'None' values for the dict? Does the function still work? Almost nobody documents this stuff. Unless you read the code, you have no idea. "Determinism" of code is determined based on inputs. Type checking helps constrain those inputs.

As for C++ "non-determinism": If you write buggy code that overwrites memory, then of course you're going to get segfaults. This isn't C++'s fault.

I've seen plenty of code in all languages (including Python) that appears to exhibit chaotic run time behavior. At a previous company, we had apps that Python would bloat to gigabytes in size and eventually OOM. Is this "non-determinism"? No, it's buggy code or dependencies.
OpenSea already does tag NFTs as having "Centralized" or "Frozen" metadata, verifying the URI as you say. ERC721 spec only deals with EVM and Solidity, where it would not make sense to try and force the token contract URI state to match a specific hosting protocol.
This makes no sense.

If you build a machine and sell it, and this machine kills someone even operated correctly you'll have a problem. A big problem…

AI is a machine.

So the case is actually quite simple.

Regarding the sibling's Uber example: There the argumentation was that the machine was not operated correctly. So this is not a comparable case.
The HP G2 is much better than any AR product for reading text. It comes close to desktop monitors. It’s also under $300 on eBay and frequently on sale