skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disclaimer - I don't even program in Java, but:

> Language-exclusive build chain

I'm not sure I agree here. Bazel / Make / Ninja still exist. Most of the tooling that exists extant to that usually leverage some knowledge of the conventions of both the community as well as actual knowledge from the code itself (Cargo for example understands the module system in Rust). You kind of touch on this by mentioning "language-aware parsers" for dependency management, but this existed in C and C++ long before the JVM came along, so it's weird to place the blame there.

Make has many things wrong with it but I wouldn't say that a "one build tool to rule them all" is something it did well. Even with stuff like CMake or GNU Autotools the final makefiles are almost exclusively used for C projects. I rarely see Make used in any other context, which I'm not convinced is a machination of language-specific tooling rather than some intrinsic property of Make itself.

> Language-exclusive packages and repositories

The proliferation of packaging systems is frustrating, but would you rather learn pip (PyPI) / cargo (crates.io) / npm (npmjs.com) across several OS's and platforms or learn 5 different OS / platform package managers? I know for certain there's nothing like that on Windows!

This isn't the JVM's fault, and I think you're looking at it in the wrong order here. These language-specific package managers and repos are made to make the language run consistently in different environments. Most repository maintainers do not and cannot have the bandwidth to package everything under the sun for every programming language.

> The OS doesn't know how to run your program

Oof. The program you're running is the JVM, which as an input is taking a jar file and as output does some work. The OS knows how to run that just fine. Doesn't this criticism basically disqualify every single useful program that isn't a compiled C binary on Linux? ELF isn't that hard but also I'm not sure we need to tie all our boats to that sail either.

If I'm trying to be charitable, I think you're experiencing a lot of frustration with your tooling and expecting something out of the JVM and programming in general that isn't necessarily true. You may just want to stick to C / C++ and tooling built 40+ years ago, but dismissing most of the tools that people use every day seems a bit "cut off your nose to spite your face."

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> One of my hobby horses is pointing out people that bend themselves in knots predicting that Uber will fail tomorrow (still waiting!) because they, personally, _don't_ _like_ Uber.

Just 3 days ago, Uber announced another quarterly loss of over $1 billion. They are failing, if you judge by profit and loss.
Is reverse voyeurism when you don't want everybody to look at you naked? Because I'm pretty sure most people suffer from that. It's similar to reverse murder and reverse fraud, when you don't kill people, and you tell them the truth.
I think Uber published a study about this. Deployments and changes cause most issues.
Does it ?! Wow, that is tempting...
What they are good at is predicting what's after the text. The problem of predicting what's next could be used to create a universal artificial intelligence (there's a mathematical definition for this). I.e. if you have a system which is very good at predicting what's next, you could get to very powerful AI.

The intelligence of human beings isn't unspecifically good "predicting what's next" but rather is good at particular sorts of predictions in particular contexts, often involving the person having helped create the situation. I'm fairly safe at driving because I maintain an arrange of my vehicle in a fashion that allows me to predict easily what's next as well as allowing me to adjust if my predictions are wrong. Self-driving software might predict what's next as well as me in normal circumstances but it's neither aware of larger context nor does it things to maintain "smooth traffic flow".

Opposite, being able to predict anything generically would certainly be limitless intelligence but you can't describe any system with just that. Copilot is trained with a certain window, with the transforms special element giving more context but I don't think very many people doing current research expects that become generic prediction. I think I'm describing the consensus that it's a "better Google" for finding code one can use - and Google is a pretty good resource for this - if you aren't doing something unusual or difficult.

Jeff Hawking also makes "prediction is intelligence" claim but I think your and his approach misses that human intelligence is good not by being generic but doing more specific things.
I'm a big fan of RSS and curate a number of topic-specific feeds of highlights available for people to subscribe to (in my profile for anyone who is interested).

I wish more feeds had this kind of focus- sharing the meat of something in the item body rather than a bland summary or a plain click through to an article.

The feed item should give me a reason to go through to the article/link/comment, not just be a spammy list of things that might be interesting but probably won't be (but I won't know until I click through and find out for myself).
I suspect that you did not read that carefully.
For the attention (and maybe for being stoned)
docutils is a mess, sphinx tooling and extensibility are much better though.
Same, it is very hard to do lots of small tasks related to managing the company or very small bugs fixes / tests, and then deep dive / being in the flow for hours for coding..
Stripe gave:

- Pay until at least February 21, 2023
- 2022 annual bonuses even if you're not around at bonus time
- Pay for unused time off
- Six months of healthcare
- Accelerated stock-option vesting
- Career support
- Immigration services support for visa holders

That's public, since Stripe published the relevant email.

Twitter didn't make their terms public (there's a difference), but reports are:

- Pay for 60 days (January 3rd, 2023)
- One additional month of severance if you sign a release

Those two packages are not similar.

Note that Musk's merger agreement included some other things:

- Performance bonus paid out at target
- Cash contribution for healthcare
- Equity vesting accelerated by three months

But so far I haven't heard anyone saying they got those. We'll see.
> And I already commented on your "As it's private land" in my "fantasy libertarian future where everything has been privatized"

Ah, that's actually a real example, from London https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/jul/24/revealed-pseu...:

"Outside City Hall on the south bank of the Thames, home to London’s democratically elected mayor and assembly, private security guards working for the More London estate (ultimately owned by the sovereign wealth fund of Kuwait) prevented the Guardian from carrying out any interviews.

Security officers intervened within moments of a reporter attempting to ask questions of members of the public, and immediately escorted him to the security office where it was explained that unsanctioned journalistic activity is banned on the site.

So the example of a city hall leased from an investment fund with private security moving people on for unacceptable behaviour is, unfortunately, not merely fantasy.

> Further, how do you want to change it?

Who says I want to change it? My beliefs don't include defending to the death other people's right to glorify the holocaust.

I recently lived through a pandemic where offline means of communication and assembly were severely curtailed - and everything from education to concerts to job interviews to doctor's appointments to courts to funerals to national legislatures ended up reliant on multinational tech companies' servers.

It seems to me, in other words, that almost all communication was in the hands of private companies.

If someone says they support free speech except when private companies are involved, IMHO they might as well say they support free speech except on days ending in Y.
It's probably why many users choose to use their real names.

(Or at least that's why I intentionally chose to use my real name, linked to my blog, etc., so that my comments would be easier to take seriously.)

Accounts with pseudonyms have a higher threshold to clear.
Maybe an optional plan that costs a little extra but allows for last minute rescheduling within the week. And everyone starts with this feature at no extra cost at the beginning. The company leaves extra slots open for this possibility, treating it like an insurance scheme.

Also last minute rescheduling means last minute scheduling for other people too. They may find that they just offer this to everyone and the costs balance out. It does seem like imposing too many scheduling constraints on a specifically ADHD audience could lead to a lot of friction!
> If you walk away, you lose your investment, but you aren't on the hook for the money that the bank put up.

Well, not always. Banks can add clauses which make you responsible for any losses on the price of the house. In other words, when the price goes below the money owned then that can cause a margin call.
Seems like it would be also possible that they were fact checked before and deleted it before and it happened quickly enough that it wasn't picked up on by media.

This thread was started by an "As far as I know," and I'm not sure it's one of those things that could be definitely proven either way.
Trump announced his run for the Presidency and began shit-posting his way into the White House in 2015, the year Twitter had over a 50% increase in revenue.
The tweet wasn't lying, it was actually missing context for once. You're just so used to the former white house account holder lying that you now assume fact check == lie...

But I guess ignoring that and implying that some shadow cabal at Twitter turned off the fact checking for Biden, then Elon turned it back on, but claimed to not have not turned it on, despite things like that literally being his motivation to buy the site... is more exciting?
I think the author confuses primary keys with surrogate keys. The article compares various surrogate keys in technical terms, but doesn't address "Choosing the best database primary key." A natural key usually makes the best primary in terms of database design, usability, and longevity. If you can't identify a natural key that indicates failure to normalize or even the wrong model of the data.

Optimizing for storage, "performance," or "exposing the primary key to the world" (why?) may matter in some cases, but at the expense of not having an actual relational model, just a pile of data wedged into a relational database management system.
Show HN: Brace Lang – parse brace groups and evaluate them however you want
If a reasonable person can't figure out what has happened in a job contract they can treat the other side as at fault and any competent court sides with them.

Was this incorrect notification process or a lock out? Both are at odds with the job responsibilities and benefits.
So he fired another truth arbitration team that uses quantitative analysis to justify censorship?

Let's say a bunch of tweets were trending that questioned the safety of the covid vaccines. Do these researchers think "how can we adjust the algorithm to promote more reasonable voices from health authorities?"

I don't see any other explanation. What they call "ethics" has to be a value judgement on which content is appropriate or not. And if Elon keeps his word of being a free speech absolutist, I think getting rid of these people would be first on his list of things to do.
An anecdote I share, recognizing the risk of downvoting: I've been an anarchist for years, and so do not normally cast votes.

I have offered to sell my vote to anyone in my area (a swing area of New Hampshire) who wants another vote for their side in any election at any level. I've never even set a price.

Not one person has ever offered a cent for it.

I mention this just by way of making the point that small-scale vote buying, which would be the hardest kind to detect, isn't happening.

Theoretically at least, detecting and preventing vote-buying at a scale significant enough to change the outcome of an election should be much easier.

Would-be buyers have to get word out to enough people for it to matter, but if most people assume this is unethical (or even just undesirable), it shouldn't be hard to get nearly everyone else to be willing to rat out the buyers.

I don't think the problem is nearly as hard to solve as you're thinking it is.

The odds of your vote swinging an election at any level are lower than the risk of being struck by lightning twice. Nobody wants to buy one vote. They need to buy hundreds or thousands before it will matter, and that makes them easier to catch.
Which, as an American, seems wild. How many people are prepared to have their mortgage go up 2x to 3x just a few years--which doesn't even require an increase to especially outrageous rates from historically low interest rates?
To be honest, your solution sounds far more hacky than a suid bit. A suid bit is effectively just a mechanism to implement privileged access in user space. I don’t see what’s hacky about that.
Let's be clear, the federal reserve does not belong to the USA, and is not beholden to any direct representation to the people of the United States.

I'm not familiar with how the Reserve Bank of New Zealand operates, but if it's anything like our federal reserve, the country belongs to the bank, and not the other way around.
I work in advertising.

It is very typical for big advertisers to have a change of ownership exit clause. It is also very typical for these contracts to only establish the unit rate, but without a required minimum spend amount.

The bigger nail in the coffin is IPG recommending their clients pull out; they probably represent a third of F500 ad spend. I would not be surprised if the other three firms in the big four are recommending the same. It's not just car brands.

edit: it'll also be interesting to see if other social media sites (primarily Facebook, Reddit, Snap, or TikTok) or advertising platforms (Google) retaliate against Tesla now that Elon owns a direct competitor. Tesla enjoys quite a lot of "free" word of mouth advertising on their platforms, and those platforms all have the means to bury positive sentiment and/or amplify negative sentiment towards Tesla.
Come on! You're on hacker news and this snark is the best you can come up with?

I challenge you to do better.

How about:

- shelves that raise vertically
- shelves that swing up and out to the sides or front (bet gas shocks could work for easily moving shelves)
- preplanning so that your meal ingredients for the week are on top

As with many things, you can change your surroundings or change your behavior.
Coming to terms with having been in a cult
SolarCity and Tesla did step 3 years ago.
> What is Diffy?

> Diffy finds potential bugs in your service using running instances of your new code and your old code side by side. Diffy behaves as a proxy and multicasts whatever requests it receives to each of the running instances. It then compares the responses, and reports any regressions that may surface from those comparisons. The premise for Diffy is that if two implementations of the service return “similar” responses for a sufficiently large and diverse set of requests, then the two implementations can be treated as equivalent and the newer implementation is regression-free.
Hedge fund giant Elliot warns they may not be able to continue exploiting the population
I'm talking doctors who look into your genetics, lifestyle, psychology as a whole, versus looking at symptoms.

A GP who says "Quit smoking, drink less, lose weight, eat better, and exercise more," fits that profile.

Whether a patient follows that advice is another matter...

Good luck.
This isn't how it works. He wanted to buy Twitter and in a typically impulsive Musk fashion, he signed a contract and waived due diligence. Once you sign a contract you can't just back out of it and act like it's not your fault when they force you to abide by your word.

And he does own Twitter, yes. Everyone is just laughing at him spending billions of dollars to destroy something due to a problem he created. It just also sucks for the people involved being hurt by a billionaires tantrum.
US has 30 year mortgages backed by government. New Zealand and Australia do not so the overwhelming number are either floating/variable or fixed for 1-5 years.
The world’s melting glaciers are yielding up their secrets too quickly
copilot only generate copyrighted when it seen the code many many times and that called memorization in machine learning, machine learning researchers will always try to decrease the amount of memorization in their artificial neurons
See any managers response during stand up: "in meetings all day, oh btw Blarg I need to talk to you about a release process". That's it? That's all you want to share?
https://archive.ph/Ykc9n
It's possibly not that foolish depending on how hard you believe the Peter Principle applies to billionaires. Musk didn't start Tesla, he swooped in and meddled exactly like Twitter, because he had extra money and wanted to swing it around. Is picking a good bet, one that survives your meddling, a skill or just luck? It's possible to believe the Peter Principle applies and it was entirely luck.
>You seem to be using terms like "brigading" and "shadow ban" without any understanding of what they actually mean. It could be that this sloppy communication leads to many of your downvotes, more than some nefarious cabal.

Here's 3 pretty good definitions of brigading, and these agree with me.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=brigading

In terms of shadow ban, also proper usage when clearly I haven't been "posting too fast". It's an obvious shadow ban that lines up with the hour.

The discussion of definitions is silly however. You blame me for sloppy communication. I accept the criticism. Perhaps I am using terminology people don't know or understand. I didn't communicate my message as properly as could have been. This is a failing on my part.

Lets try without either term.

Overall, I find when you go against the echo chamber and get harassed and manipulated on HN and aren't allowed to post for hours because they don't like what you said. This is not conducive to have conversations or discussions. All HN seems to be is everyone agreeing with each other.

What's the point of HN if you cannot have conversations with others?
I received their emails a couple of times.

Not sure if a cost-benefit analysis would find such ops positive for the society.

Think of the time wasted by people who read such emails vs the money spent protecting from attacks.

Factor in the cost to the taxpayer.

That's a good topic for a Master thesis in Economics.

Anyone interested?
Singal claimed that the NHS removed a claim from their website that puberty blockers were reversible. Hobbes showed a screenshot from the NHS website showing that the claim was still there. Singal (and you) changed the topic from whether the NHS made a claim, to whether there were unknown long-term effects of puberty blockers. Hobbes is obviously correct here.

GIDS is being replaced with multiple centers providing similar services primarily due to issues with capacity, extreme wait times, and overcentralization, based on advice from the Cass Interim Report, which also noted issues with inconsistent care. Other organizations, including the Endocrine Society [0] and the APA [1], also describe puberty blockers as reversible.

Your second paragraph doesn't seem to be true. "The site in question" is 4thWaveNow, which is a blog; you don't 'join' it like a forum. I think you've got it confused with the dating website.

Your third paragraph is unsupported.

[0] https://www.endocrine.org/news-and-advocacy/news-room/2021/e...

[1] https://www.psychiatry.org/File%20Library/About-APA/Organiza...
>Then, after a stock market downturn, and when the Twitter acquisition looked more like an impulsive decision that Musk might regret, the prevailing mood was gleeful. He was stuck with a white elephant. Schadenfreude. And since he clearly no longer wanted it, the consensus now he was legally and morally obligated to buy. Twitter itself demanded it. They weren’t going to let him weasel out of that one.
Now that he seems to have accepted his obligation and the sale has gone through, we’re back to opprobrium.

Could be part of a pump of the stock. Something he's done in the past, see FSD,coast to coast trip with no driver, battery swaps, the Cybertruck roadster and Semi, whatever that robot was,4680 batteries..........
It's a huge undertaking, that's for sure, which is probably why Musk wanted to back out. But $44B may seem like pocket change if it can get Facebook, Instagram, or TikTok level engagement and monetization. Twitter has been stagnant for a decade and the rot has set in.
Vector Search in a Nutshell
If he wanted to manipulate market then just the rumor about the purchase would send stocks higher. In fact, after his announcement on April 14th, Twitter rose 7.5% on the next session (18th). No need to actually sign the deal to make few hundred millions of dollars.

On the other hand, how would he cash out his gamble? You cannot announce that you want to buy 100% of the company stocks, and then start selling off the 9% that you already have, that would be a dead giveaway that the offer is not serious.
I worked one place where they brought in a new director who wasn't functionally competent. I have theories of why which are all probably partly true. Like he saw actually engaging and managing his division as a distraction from social engineering a lateral move up the ladder.

Eventually everyone under him in mass went to his boss and HR and told them flat out he needed to go. And the company did nothing for 18 months. And then just pruned him and the whole division of 25 experienced RF chip designers.
But they never claimed to be an equitable platform with regards to that issue, did they? Musk might idealistic, but not that idealistic.
Check out CityMapper. It handles your use case, as well as multi-transit hops (e.g. bus to subway walking time) as well.
Small world. I did this on behalf of BlirpIt for UVM back in 2009 or so. We had trackers on each bus, and they would report location on a certain interval, or whenever the speed changed by a certain threshold from the speed at last report. We had server-side geofences on each bus stop, and defined a "route" that was just a chain of stops, and then we stored a moving average of time between each pair of stops and that was about it. One of the more fun projects I was doing back at that time!
"He paid someone to not dispute his lie" is not the defense you seem to think it is.
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Well, the entire market is cheaper, not just Meta stock.

Housing is cheaper if you have available cash, it it isn’t if you need to borrow. The reason it costs more to borrow is because cash is more valuable now.
I have a sneaking suspicion it's somewhat more than three days. Unless isp's are in on the game and keeping traffic/ logs for greater than the three.
It makes sense if you go by size of English-speaking population.

…but then it might be replaced by an Indian or Nigerian flag in a few decades :)
"time /bin/false" and "time /bin/true" consistently give me 0.001s though
> Maybe I just have more to learn...

As someone who has been with large multi-nationals for a very long time let me give you some examples.

1) "failing up".

Sometimes you cant deal with your manager or the situation except to make them look good, and eventually they get promoted up and out of your way.

2) "Protected class"

Think "nepotism". Let's say that "B" doesn't do well, but he is very close to the "CxO". who in their right mind would fire "B"? We call this a "CLM" - Career limiting move.

Alternatively, lets say I hired my best friend.. How wiling am I to fire them?

If you are the owner/founder, it is really hard to get rid of them no matter what they do (Go read up on WeWorks).