skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You could argue that a private business should have the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason, and it shouldn't concern any outside parties. But when these actions begin to interfere with the ability of large segments of the population to go grocery shopping, use the toilet, get a job, or get an education, it becomes a larger social issue that is deeply concerning to anyone who believes in the principles that underly a free society.

I disagree. Historically, the only time people were refusing service to anyone, the people being refused service were black. Hippies were sometimes discriminated against. We've come a long way since the 1960s, but there are more than a few politicians/people who want to drag us back into the 1950s.

In Colorado, such an act would be illegal. Which makes many people in today's polarized society extremely angry as they want to discriminate as much as possible.

Rule 20.4 (page 18 of the PDF):

> No person shall post or permit to be posted in any place of public accommodation any sign that states or implies the following:

> “WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE.”

> Such signage implies that management may rely upon unlawful discriminatory factors in determining access to a place of public accommodation and thus is prohibited

https://www.sos.state.co.us/CCR/3%20CCR%20708-1.pdf?ruleVers...

These are regulations issued to support the administration of the state government.
You have conveniently forgotten a serious part of apple's history so let me remind you.

"
Steve Jobs and Bill Gates’ rivalrous friendship is the stuff of tech lore. The most poignant moment of that fraught relationship happened 20 years ago. In August of 1997, Gates stepped in and saved Apple, which, at the time, was on the brink of bankruptcy.

“Bill, thank you. The world’s a better place,” Jobs told Gates after the Microsoft exec agreed to make a $150 million investment in Apple.
"

So was it working brilliantly when it was 90 days from bankruptcy and was thrown a lifeline by Gates?

Jobs was lucky with the iPhone...
> "no public posting of internal communications"

If you're really a free speech absolutist then this is a violation of that principle (not of a law, but of a principle).

Workers should be able to freely talk about their condition with other workers, both internally and externally to the company. And as an absolutist, then the ability of individuals to freely speak without any chilling effects must take precedence over the companies concerns. The employees are effectively being "cancelled" and much more effectively than the people who most complain about that actually have their ability to speak being impaired.
It has been a mere days since the acquisition closed. The results of what Musk is doing today will play out over months, maybe years. Yes it may all crash and burn at some point, but if you are already declaring it a failure with zero backing data then it is simply your bias talking.
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Rightfully so, because 8€/month for blue stamp needs neither.
You took my comment the wrong way.

I don't trust Microsoft and I don't really like VSC.

VSC is made by Microsoft but they have the community who make plugins, report bugs, contribute, spread the word, etc. They have the critical mass to make something like this work while Atom doesn't.

Atom did not die because Microsoft killed it. They didn't have to. They only had to push VSC. Now the original Atom devs are working on another editor (zed.dev) because even they know Atom is done.
So punish existing property holders?
The funnier part was that it was pretty easy (by compiling some simple code) to abuse the protocol sending out net send packets with spoofed senders ;-)
Well, they are to quite some extend. But on the level of the owners / shareholders.
> There is - to me - obviously no chance that that would derail HSR, and Musk is definitely smart enough to understand that.

Well he seems to be that dumb then. That or Ashley Vance is a complete and total liar. fwiw I think it was a long shot but not as absurd as you see it. There was already a lot of opposition to it with decades of no progress and money spent without a single mile of track being built, meanwhile Elon was quite the rising star of green technology. He had a vision for transportation of personal automobiles + tunnels and hyperloop and all he had to do was get legislators to buy into it compared to an unpopular embarrassment of a project.

But either way, you're right I probably shouldn't have included speculation as to why he did it.

> annoyed at $100B being spent on something that probably won't work.

So instead he proposed something that definitely won't work?

Also I'm not aware of anyone at any point that thought it "probably won't work". A waste of money, mismanaged, is gonna get cancelled, etc? Sure, but it was proven technology 30 years ago.
Oh this would be hilarious. Let's get a kickstarter going
This is why I not only favor purchasing DRM-free media, but also keep a local archive of all such purchases.

$ ls /mnt/comixology | wc -l
239

(This can be a bit difficult for larger‐sized media, such as video games, but I do it anyway—my GOG archive is over two terabytes.)

I also have a small collection of DRM‐free music I had purchased and downloaded from Amazon that no longer seems to be accessible online. Certainly I have no plans to purchase anything digital from them in the future.
I’d say this is false. Accountability becomes easier as you go up.

For then owner, everything is on them. They’re the owner. They pick the CEO. They can lose their money.

For the CEO, everything is on them as well, but the worst that can happen is they get sued or fired. They pick the people who are responsible for sales, costs, etc.

Any failure in these areas is very simple to attribute to the executive in question because it all flows into their area of responsibility.
I love when Europeans repeat Fox News talking points. Really shows how "progressive" they really are.
> The app is simple but doing simple things at scale is hard. I wonder if we'll see more downtime and issues now.

So, here's what I've never figured out...

Once your app is built, and you've figured out how to scale it, and everything is autoscaling nicely, and you've reached the critical mass Twitter has...why do you still need all the engineers? Why do you need to keep growing?

At some point, isn't the scaling solved? Once you have a platform that can handle 400M MAUs, what more is there to build?

Does it really take 1,000 engineers to maintain? I'd think automation could take care of most grunt work involved with maintenance.
Oh, I see you drank the Kool-Aid all the way down...good for you!
Not to defend Elon Musk since I generally agree that this whole thing is a dumpster fire of his own making but he couldn't have backed out by paying the contract breaking fee. Twitter was suing him for specific performance, meaning they were asking the courts to force him to close the deal. And everything I read during the saga seemed to be in agreement that Musk had ~0% chance of getting out of the deal.
The majority of the tax base not employed by the massive public sector.
I see two use cases of an RSS reader. You can use them as a stream of news and just dive in when you want, or trying to read every article. I personally do a bit of both, mixing feeds, but with good tagging and filtering.
Each US presidential administration I've been under has always cited cherry-picked, sound-bite US statistics -- and has the gall to take credit for them. It's like someone's constantly watching the metrics, and every positive blip becomes a candidate for being a talking point.

They take cruel advantage of how opaque the connections are between the macroeconomic, political, and social inputs, and the outputs as experienced by individuals.

Even worse, talking points like that prime people to expect the government to be constantly manipulating variables in the economy, which causes inefficiency and necessarily leads to more unelected officials running more of the country -- since constant manipulation is inaccessible to legislators.
Why do people only to evidence that disproves their claims? Do you think no one will click?
Plus pay for the people that put up their money in advance and risked losing it if the show flops.
Well it's not like you have a choice...

Most banks will give 5 years fixed at maximum and the interest rates were always higher than variable.

Most people signing for the variable rates didn't expect this sort of massive increase within a year, given its been fairly low for a decade.
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More like 0.1% or less.
There's literally a war in Europe right now because Europeans underfunded defense. Luckily, America will save you again :)
Most of the people on the platform are addicts so they're not gonna leave. Your favorite forum is going to be safe.
The capex cost is still above $1500/MWh according to US NREL. While PV modules might be dropping in cost and increasing In efficiency stuff like labour, transformers, inverters, fire suppression systems, transmission lines are not perhaps not seeing the same reductions.

https://atb.nrel.gov/electricity/2022/utility-scale_pv
There are already a handful of organizations that scan the entire internet and feed the data to western governments.

You can poke around at https://viz.greynoise.io/ to see who is doing what.
The reason why is quite clear if you ask whether this would happen at a company that you owned 100%.

The problem of a diverse shareholding base supervising a company has not been solved. If you are an unhappy shareholder, you don't push for change...you just sell and move on to the next one.

Within tech, there is also a cultural issue because so many of these companies end up with VC-led boards or VC-selected managers who are, to be frank, quite terrible (that is the problem with 20 year management teams...the problems of a large company are different to those of a smaller one). Growth at any cost always ends badly. Interestingly, I think some of the companies that went through the late 90s ended up internalizing that...telecoms did, some of older chip companies, unf most companies will always end up learning this lesson too late.
You think just a few days into Elon's lordship of Twitter he was able to "turn-on" fact checking for the current administration? (Assuming it wasn't being applied being equally before.)

I'd imagine it would take more time.
Well they've already acknowledge the changes in the firmware, so our interpretations aside, they have materially altered it. Now the question becomes is there a user agreement that allows software updates / changes that may limit or restrict features in future upgrades, that i'm not aware of.

The nature of the software change was an intentional action, the result of which may not have been the outcome but it was still intentional. That's their argument.
> This isn't how it works. If a website is hosting content that infringes on some NDA, then you are supposed to sue the website (and not the person who posted it to the website -- who are often anonymous and can't be directly sued).

That's nonsense, because under that interpretation of the law no news agency could ever report anything with anonymous sources, or people "familiar with the situation", because under your definition they are now violating an agreement about which they know nothing.
Right?! I was thinking the same thing. Some kind of pull up gantry that lets you access everything. Or how about a vertical carousel? Like a paternoster on its side?

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

That way it all stays in the chest
I think you probably have a different idea about what constitutes success in higher education than the commenter to whom you're replying, and possibly also to admissions officers at prestigious universities.

It can be true that the SAT is a good predictor of university grades, and also that there is more to university life, and life in general, than grades. The parent comment is suggesting that optimizing for grades may not produce the ideal set of university students/graduates. But if you think that graduating with high grades is the whole point of the endeavour then obviously you'll disagree.

Certainly I enjoyed spending my time at university surrounded by people who had more going on than just academic excellence.
I don't particularly like the name either, but it already had a name before it existed — that's the way JPEG works, the ones who write the Call for Proposals give it a name, not the ones who actually bring the proposals and design the new codec.

Anyway, I think "jxl" will in practice be the more common way to refer to JPEG XL images, and the full name will at some point become a matter of etymology and trivia questions.
Small world indeed.

> then we stored a moving average of time between each pair of stops and that was about it.

Modest. It got a little more sophisticated once we brought code inhouse.
this is very useful, the first video I hit was a very educational one with no fluff.
Do companies have "contracts" for ads on the internet these days? I thought most ads on social media, Twitter included, were self service with an automated bidding system that allowed each advertiser to tweak how much they're willing to pay per ad view in real-time. You can essentially just login to your account and hit the big "OFF" button whenever you want.
Simple Scalable Unbounded Queue in Rust
>Would saying that in the US I struggle with bread, cheese and wine give too much away?

No, it was pretty clear you were a smug Frenchmen from the start
Will you be satisfied with that slip of paper if your vote was never included in the official count because the software was bad?
By “in public discourse” you meant specifically within the direct replies to Musk’s own tweets?
The US weirdness of 30 year fixed-rate loans that the customer can call at anytime and the bank can never call except for non-performance is substantially subsidized by the US Government.

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae or whatever they are/were take those mortgages and basically convert them into government bonds that are then sold out.

Otherwise getting 2% for 30 years would be nearly impossible (and it IS impossible in many countries).
I agree this is weird. I guess it is meant to highlight the other party wants to get rid of social security. It is strange though to take credit for not doing something that someone else says they will do in the future.
HN is full of contrarians. They aren't Trumpers but they like arguing with people who hate him.
It's the BSI (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_Information...) and I found the one warning I got years ago useful. ElasticSearch open default port I think.
It was hard from my perspective because I would rather not ban anyone. You're right that failure to ban could cause players to leave because they are being harassed, but it's hard to know when to step in.

If you're too strict you'll drive off a lot of players, which sounds acceptable, but nobody wants to play on a near-empty server. If you're too lenient you'll have too many hostile players, but at least your server is not empty.

This was by far my least favorite aspect of managing a server, but I still had an overall positive experience and it is a huge part of me becoming a software engineer.
> HP executives were slow to grasp the huge shift toward cloud computing in the early 2010s.

2012 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ntPxdWAWq8

We Have App

This was bitterly funny when I worked for HP in 2012.

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No mention of "disruptive innovation" in these comments or the article. Interesting.
I don't think that slaves in the US enjoyed free speech.
So then you have to keep 6k engineers on payroll?)
In my opinion the website could be written to a much better job of explaining exactly what is being offered.

In the first 30 seconds of reading the website it's not obvious if you are providing an email account ie email hosting, or charging a monthly fee for some software.

Nowhere does it say "this is an email client that can connect to your existing IMAP account to use your existing email address and has features you need" which is what I guess it is.
That's true. As a kiwi in the US, I was surprised by how many mortgages here are fixed term for a long time. When I last bought a house in NZ about 30 years ago floating rate (potentially changing every month) was the norm and "lock in your rate for five years" was advertised as an option you could take.

My American father-in-law who is a retired realestate / financial industry professional seemed to have trouble getting his head around that when I told him. Not only that long term fixed rates were not available but also when you're in a short term (5 year) fixed rate, you can't easier refinance if the general rates go down. That seemed normal to me at the time because it's a gamble for both parties. If I sign a contract to pay X% for the next five years then it doesn't seem like I should be able to change my mind part way through any more than the bank can renege on the deal. That said, I never suffered significantly so that's easy for me to say.

Likewise for deposits. It seems a lot easier to break a CD early (forfeiting some interest) in the US than it is to break a term deposit (like a CD) in NZ.
mere days after takeover and already laying off engineers, getting class action employment lawsuit in CA, and advertisers are leaving in droves.

very productive start
Over time one learns to take the comments of green accounts with a certain grain of salt without discarding their opinion entirely. Wrongthink is a serious offense these days. Throwaways effectively work around this injunction.
This is a community-provided note. Elon had nothing to do with it, but confirmation bias is in full effect.
It’s entirely possibly to have ADHD and opt out of medication. If it’s appropriate or not is very individual though, probably not something we can settle on a message board.
I liked it a lot and am very surprised about much negative comments here. The episode of Rogan vs. Jobs is interesting as well.
Hey! Yes, very crowded! But also ripe for change as me and you are doing. Very excited to see how people will use Step CI, Checkly and whoever else wants to join this mission.
> ML could easily reduce this number further

Seeing how poorly ML works for moderation (Too many false positives), I don't think it belongs anywhere near it.

The problem is that you could offer a user a path to request a human review moderation action taken by ML, but bad actors that knowingly break rules will just request human review and at that point, the ML is worthless.
> How is it that everyone is already declaring it a failure?

The article does touch on this a bit. Elon went in "with a red pen": his entire first week from an outside perspective was spent looking for costs to cut, departments to toss, and things to shutdown. It culminated in a 50% (!) layoff in the first week. That's not usually the sign of a healthy start, especially if you assume that the previous owners weren't that crazy and had somewhere upwards of 100% redundancy where you can just fire 50% of the company without consequences.

> How can you argue the richest man on the planet is bad at running businesses?

1) The Peter Principle: incompetency has a way of failing upward in businesses.

2) The "Gravity" Constant of Money: once you've made enough net worth it attracts more automatically. Billionaires are basically "black holes" of passive income no matter what they think their day job is.
well no, i was saying that the information moves faster than the electrons. speed of light in vacuum remains unbeaten afaik
AFAYK seems to be a big downside, AFAIK the Brazilian elections were quite "hot" ?

P.S.: Sure enough, here's an example of a "contester" :

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-lindell-hints-brazil-election-...

AFAIK not a Brazilian citizen, but this gives an example of democracy-sapping claims that are avoided with manual vote counts.
Have there been these "context notes" before?
The whole accessibility team has been fired, which would make sense... probably not huge LoC, but very crucial work nonetheless
I've also ranted about this, and how it should be one of the NSA's top priorities (including doing it for our allies).

It's interesting because there are two main methods for what to do when you find a vulnerability: 1) hold onto it so you can later use it as a weapon or 2) disclose it and patch it. The offensive method has problems because as soon as you use it you are disclosing it. It also has the issue that your enemies may be able to (are likely to) find the same vulnerability and exploit it first. But the second method means you're losing your weapons but instead gaining a shield.

As I see it, the shield is a lot bigger and has far higher utility. But part of that is that I see democracies as having differing vulnerabilities than autocracies. Attacking autocracies is more spear phishing, very directed attacks on the specific people that control power. But attacking democracies is in some sense easier (and in another sense harder) because more power is held by the average person. People who are more vulnerable to manipulation, especially at the large scale. But now we're edging into the data privacy domain and that's probably out of scope here.

I really think there should be a very strong blue team effort by these organizations. I am okay holding on to a specific vulnerability if you're going to attack a specific person in the ,,immediate'' future, but these agencies should also be working with companies to patch these vulnerabilities. That is the government providing a social good. You know, the reason we have the social contract and government in the first place.
No. Medicate when you think it will help you at a cost-benefit trade off you’re happy with. Same with a coaching service like this, or regular therapy, or other treatment. You aren’t going to stay the same person throughout life, no matter what.
It would be helpful if someone would go find some older whitehouse tweets that were similarly misleading and ought to have been contextualized in the same manner. Otherwise it's just speculation.

Besides, if the handling were really equivalent to the trump whitehouse people would be alleging that the tweet's removal violated the law because it removed the 1A protected 'fact check' text and/or violated records retention laws (both of which were argued WRT Trump). :)
Yeah, switching between different modes in the same day (or same half day) can be super scattering.

I try to select 1-3 main objectives for the week and then chunk the work I need to do into things that require being in a more extraverted mode of talking with folks vs more introverted deep dives.

E.g. on the day I did this podcast recording, I did user conversations bc I was in talking to folks mode.

On other days, the focus will be more writing focused - user insights / roadmap priorities / code.
It is NOT possible to have the UEFI access the RAID device so that if one of the mirrors is broken it can continue to boot in degraded mode.

It requires manual intervention of a knowledgable person to boot a UEFI system into the default OS if the ESP is broken or missing.
You could sue the website, but it wouldn't go very far, because website operators are not liable for user uploaded content because of Section 230 of the CDA.
Would be nice to see how it looks like when the message is received. And when multiple messages from different computers are received. Anybody has an screenshot?