skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does not seem like people pumping out "AI for X" products care about any sort of quality assurances regarding the products they sell.
Twitter employees: “we’re going to vote to unionize”

When you have nothing left to lose, why wouldn’t you? It brings the federal government in to provide support, on their dime no less. Worst case is everyone leaves, the NLRB finds against Musk, and he has to give folks their jobs back while Twitter is burning.

“The strongest steel is forged in the fires of a dumpster.”
+1. My wife and I have had lingering respiratory symptoms and sinus issues off and on for a month now. Tested negative for flu and COVID. Definitely some bad stuff going around right now.
I feel this is still framing it off? The hygiene hypothesis isn't just that your immune system weakens. It is also that you did not strengthen it. Not quite the same. And there is more to it than just getting targeted immunity to things. It could be that you get stronger nasal passages and lungs. Or whatever.

I'll underline that I don't know exactly what the answer is. I think there is plenty to research on this, and excited on us knowing a bit more.
What has Twitter innovated on in the past decade?

Bootstrap
Europe seems surprisingly alive for someone who has committed ‘suicide’.
I don't buy cars often but it seems like the last decade or so, the major dealers anyways, don't play a lot of games like they used to. They put a decently fair price out there and can maybe knock a bit off but with some much information about cars today (CarFAX, BlueBook, searching online) it's really difficult to swindle people. So they just list a fair price and go from there.

They make a lot of their money today selling warranties, service packages, and financing.

I was looking a few weeks ago and the sales associate mentioned that it's starting to come down but they've just struggled so much at getting enough inventory that people were willing to bid up from MSRP. He advised me it's still a bad time to buy a car and that next year will probably be better.
Jerry Pournelle once wrote that "unregulated capitalism will eventually end with human meat sold in market places, and slavery." Seems like Musk and his ultra-libertarian ilk are heading down that same path.
You may see a tree as an ephemeral carbon storage, but the forest is a much, much long term storage, that can be considered permanent (unless catastrophic fire).

The forest, at each time point, contains many trees, growing ones, dying ones, decomposing ones, seeds, etc. But its overall solid carbon mass is strictly positive and larger than, say, a meadow, and if you have the right conditions it can be slowly growing year after year.

So planting trees is a way to store carbon, just not to be thought at the tree scale, more like at the forest scale.

Edit: a lot of carbon is stored in the soil, too, especially in the thick humus of a healthy forest. Even if each individual component of the humus is decaying, disappearing and replaced by new fallen leaves etc, the humus layer itself is not going anywhere.
The good news is that if your revenue drops, so does your share of subscription. In that sense he's already helping the goal by doing the first part!
Like you have conceded, there are more than a few notable cases in recent years.

Often hiding their "secret sauce", which often turn out to be lies and deception for a variety of reasons.

It is no longer very very "unusual" when free loans, credit and liquidity has been floating around for years thanks to the money printer.
I've never really wanted to do this before, but I want to figure out how to place a bet against this story being true in any meaningful sense.
I feel like you read the quoted sentence and stopped. I talk about both the browser and simplification further on, literally the next sentence.
> Super, le pays des droits de l’homme !

Only folks who never left France still believe in that worn out trope.
No need to buy the company, anyone can always start a new one, it's very affordable, just a few hundred bucks. Then you can set whatever rules you want for yourself and your employees.
And the FDIC can afford to do that because there are laws dictating liquidity requirements to banks and disclosure requirements to inspect and enforce those rules.
He also had this zinger of a conversation on Twitter (quite relevant to the thread) a few years back: https://imgur.com/hLV4k :D
Syntorial 2.0
Submit a withdrawal order and find out.
I wouldn't even rate the app store duopoly in my top 10 to go after to be honest. Things like the Luxottica group seem like much higher priorities to me.
It generates audio from phonetic lyrics.
Neither; things like this are planned and scheduled on slower timescales than news cycles.

This one is likely due Biden being done his "settling into office" period, and having begun (over the last 6–12 months) to push regulatory agencies under the executive into more democrat-oriented stances.

If there was any recent event that caused the FTC to (be told to) "pull the trigger" on this, it was the midterm election effectively "taking the temperature of the country", and finding enough confidence remaining there to push through things like this without being likely to set off widespread discontentment in the news media.
1000 messages per month yes. We will reset that every month after release.
> I don't think that I should rob others of the ability to trade their privacy for better deals.

by allowing the practice, the people that are fine with being tracked are imposing a tax on everyone else.
> we do really like to anthropomorphize them.

Yes, people tend to over-anthropormphize in the sense they map to specific human concepts. But otoh, we tend to greatly underestimate the complexity of animal behavior. Sometimes people mix these up. So, just because an anthropomorphization isn't correct, doesn't mean that the behavior isn't complex.

Even animals like spiders and ants demonstratw incredible complex behavior, for social, hunting, sanitation purposes etc. So don't feel bad about anthropomorphizing, as long as you are aware it's just fun speculation. There are infinite mysteries in animal behavior and it's absolutely fascinating. There is so much left to explore.
I don't see Mastodon becoming the next Twitter. It has a marketing problem. Whereas on Twitter one "tweets", what does one do on Mastodon, "masticate"?

I predict a temporary influx of new users, which will leave once they realise that Mastodon is full of shrill geeks. In the interim the shrill geeks will moan that their beloved platform has become overrun with "normies".

I don't use either so have no skin in this game, happy to be proven wrong. Sitting back with a very small bag of popcorn until all the noise blows over.
FWIW average rents in seattle are about $1600 a month for 1 bedrooms on craigslist right now, so you'd only be saving $7200 a year living in Columbus Ohio. I know salary data online is what it is, but from zippia.com at least average SWE salary is $75k in Columbus, and $115k in seattle, so even with the cost of living difference of $7k factored in, there is a huge bump in pay for this job market of engineers versus the market in Columbus, OH.
Well, yeah. There was an imbalance in the market between the supply of cars and the demand from consumers for cars. People were willing to spend more than ever, especially with super low interest rates making it nearly free to borrow money.
I guess Sonic did not extend their network to your part of SF yet?
In the U.S. generally [0] a court can force [1] disclosure of a password or location of a physical key or whatever unlocks access to documents whose existence and contents is a "foregone conclusion".

The idea is that "we know you have contraband <details>" so your being made to produce that contraband is not a violation of the 5th amendment right to not self-incriminate.

This idea seems rather twisted to me, but this is what the courts have gone with. There might be some protection against other incriminating documents being found this way than those that were being sought, but I'm not sure.

Looping back to your comment, if it is a foregone conclusion that you do know the password, then "I forgot it" won't be a defense. But if it can be shown that you haven't used that password in a long time, then it might be a defense (but idk really).

IANAL. Do not rely on any of this.

[0] This may vary by state, but I believe in Federal court it works this way.

[1] Via the threat of contempt of court incarceration until the defendant or witness complies.
If FTX were a real company that Tweet would be enough to be put in handcuffs by the SEC.
> You can't innovate and software engineer using 1950s style "butts in seats"

This seems to be pulled from thin air. Nobody would have murmured it 3 years ago. You really think the whole world changed that much in the past 3 years that you can lay down such a superlative?
It would be great for this to be a no-op (except the sandboxed() function) on non-FreeBSD platforms so you could use it without worry. It would be trivial to do so with rust’s conditional target-based compilation.
I do not personally feel victimized, the shitty logo is the victim.

The point is that a redesign wasn't necessary, it was a good logo with a long and interesting history. But it was redone to signal that they are falling in line with the prevailing ideology of the day.
In the US at least, even if you're categorized as remote, the company can almost certainly pull you back to an office and fire you if you won’t. It probably wouldn't be considered as "for cause" (IANAL) but a company can pretty much unilaterally change work conditions, responsibilities, etc. so long as no labor laws are violated.
There's no "Fediblock central list". At the moment it's just a search hashtag that federates with other toots (it federates as toots because it is just toots). It is entirely up to instance admins what they do with what they see in that hashtag.
4th or 5th declension esoterica ftw!
In my opinion, one of the most fundamental human rights, maybe even the most important human right, is the right to refuse to answer to a question.

Any law that says that there are circumstances when humans must answer to a question otherwise they will be punished is wrong and abusive.

Obviously, when people are suspected to have done something illegal, but they refuse to give answers that might dis-incriminate them, then that can be used in conjunction with evidence that makes probable that they are guilty to conclude that they are indeed guilty and sentence them accordingly.

However, in such cases any punishment should be for the crime whose authors they are believed to be and not for refusing to answer any question.

I do not care if a bunch of mean or stupid people claim to "represent the will of the people" and they make Draconian laws that punish those who do not answer questions. I will never recognize that they have any right to make such laws and I pity the people that are so naive that they accept the existence of such laws.

I have been born and I have grown up in a country which was governed by a criminal organization which had received the political power from a foreign invading army, even if they also claimed that they have been elected democratically and they "represent the will of the people".

To maintain their power, the government imprisoned and killed any opponents, which were identified through mass surveillance.

Any honest citizen did not have any greater wish than to get rid of the government, but it was impossible to organize any kind of opposition, due to the mass surveillance and due to the confidential informers who infiltrated any institution or company.

In such a country, answering the truth to any question of a law enforcement officer could lead to grave consequences for other innocent people, from destroying their professional careers, up to even death.

A similar history was shared by all the countries in the Eastern Europe, but there are also many other such countries.

It worries me that after a decade when it seemed that the political conditions have greatly improved in many countries, after 2000 the actions of the governments from North America, Western Europe and Australia have become each year more and more similar to the actions of the former communist governments that they previously loved to criticize for their disregard of human rights, and the legal rights of the citizens of these countries have become more and more restricted, under various pretexts, such as "war on terror" or "save the children".
It's trivial to find if a hidden volume is in use or not. It's a good defence against an abusive family member who isn't very tech-savvy, but it's useless against law enforcement.
Suggesting Saul was actually a bad lawyer? He always told his clients to shut up.
yes - he absolutely is. I'm not sure he knows that though.
DebugBreak
> what does one do on Mastodon

toot
That seems unlikely for a high entropy password.
Isn't it ironic that serfs were private property but socialism stands accused.
Miles/year of old cars is a lot less than new cars. So demand for gas in 10 years might be about half of what it is now. Some stations will still do well, but a lot of marginal stations will disappear.
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/posting/

You "toot".
I don't see how you can so confidently connect labor issues in a Gigafactory to his beliefs surrounding the efficacy of remote work. You still have not addressed this part of your claim:

> He's banning remote work because he's an authoritarian micromanager

You don't know why he's banning remote work, and you're guessing that its the most inflammatory reason you can come up with. You do not know.
Tether will stay very close to 1.0 until, some day, they can't make a redemption. The number to watch is their "market cap". Note that Tether can make that go up by minting more Tether, but when you see it go down, that usually means someone cashed out.

Stablecoins have only two stable points: 1 and 0.
Until apps start adding native code via the NDK, then you need one binary per arch
> it’s countable it follows normal rules, if it’s not, it goes back to singular form.

You'd have a hard time counting all the stars, but "sky of star" doesn't work like "head of hair" does. I love how expressive English is, but it's got issues for sure.
> You can pretend an entire city spending 7 days locked in their house

You do understand that people were not actually locked in their houses in NZ? There were reports of people literally being locked in to their apartments in China, but don't confuse "lock down" with "locked in" when it comes to NZ.

In practice lock downs (at least in Aus) were stopping people going into offices or non-essential places of business, or congregating in parks or other places. Whilst definitely an imposition on people, it wasn't equivalent to what was described as happening in China.

Of course they stopped it eventually because the costs were unsustainable, and it was never intended to be a permanent solution.

The whole point was to go hard at the start, get the population vaccinated, then open back up.

I haven't checked recent numbers, but last time I did, the number of deaths in NZ/AU per capita were far lower than in the US. Which you might not consider worthwhile, but we might have different value systems.
“He has every right to call them Negroes, after all he owns the plantation”
If the worst violence to fear in police custody is being held straight so that your phone can be pointed at your face I'd say you're quite safe...
It's weird how people are trying to divine his actions. He's been against remote work at every point. He tried to keep the Tesla offices open when the Covid Lockdowns were starting.
ISPs are natural monopolies. That's not to say the government shouldn't do anything to improve the situation, but I think it's quite different from what the FTC did today.
>Yes, WhatsApp seem more complex.

So that was meant as a joke, probably should have left that out.

>Nobody asked Musk to acquire the company

Technically I believe he was forced to buy in the end, but no. You're right, no one asked him to do anything. The shareholders saw an out. They had a failed company on their hands and now the PayPal guy shows up and stupidly promises to buy the whole thing for way more than it's actually worth. Of cause they are going to dump the stock on the idiot, by (legal)forced if they had to. Now it's Musks problem. He has zero ideals when it comes to Twitter culture. He doesn't care. All he currently see is 7500 people who needs a paycheck, paid by him. He stupidly thought he could run Twitter successfully, like most of us HN backseat drivers. When he realized that he can't it was to late and now he stuck and have to either save the company or at least not lose to much more money.
> The Policy Statement lays out the Commission’s approach to policing them. It is the result of many months of work across agency departments.

If it was a particular event it would've happened many months ago.
Really interesting thanks!
France is not a socialist country.
> The US has uniquely good protections against abuse by government officials.

I hear even civil forfeiture is in decline.

Though too many cases still end by plea bargain. Which has interesting parallels to torture
https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?arti... from 1978.
With others arguing that plea bargain is coerced confession, and some legal scholars even thinking thoughtful torture would be better
https://www.econlib.org/how-thoughtful-torture-beats-plea-ba...

I love the US, and part of that love is to help it see its weaknesses and injustices so we can fix them.
According to the email, Musk expects subscriptions to make up to 50% of revenue. Assuming that Twitter’s revenue is around $5bn, and the subscription is at $8/month that’s some 26M subscriptions, or 5,7% of its users. I don’t think that a number so high is achievable, unless they pull a rabbit out of their hat.
Looping in ansible/terraform is exactly the problem. Logic and control flow in YAML/hcl is a nightmare. Plus there's no debugging! You can't set breakpoints in a yaml file or HCL.

Adding more YAML to be parsed by other YAML is just terrible at scale.
To be noted, there is a subtile nuance with the meaning of this ruling.

It does not really says that "it is a crime" but that "it might be a crime under certain Circumstances".

In the current case it is like there is a password, it is known, it is needed to unlock a phone, not encrypted data itself. And the guy is plainly refusing to give it. This is the case that was judged.

But hundreds of variations of this still might or might not be a crime in a future case.
> From being asked to review every product you buy to believing that every tweet or Instagram image warrants likes or comments or follows, social media produced a positively unhinged, sociopathic rendition of human sociality.

This actually reminds me of a larger issue than social media. I personally don't have accounts on any of these services. Hacker News is the closest, and it's a pure pull model where very little of the content is user-generated and you can't follow individual users.

But I also live in a major US metro downtown and I walk all over the place, frequently. Often several hours a day. And even there, people are screaming for my attention. Mostly, these are homeless pandhandlers, but also sometimes religious nuts, political signature campaigns, people with storefronts trying to get you to come in, and fundraisers for charities.

At one point when I first moved here, I'd actually respond to some of these people, but I just can't do it any more. At a certain level, there are so many people asking for money that, no matter how much each might individually deserve it and I can afford to help them, I'd go broke helping everyone, and have no way to triage when I have no idea who is going to come next and what their story will be. Even more than that, though, the sheer amount of time it takes just to stop and listen to each pitch becomes overwhelming when you add it all up. An hour long walk turns into three hours, with two of them spent not walking at all.

Social media seems like people who don't leave the comfort of the nice walls of the house and car still managing to experience this same thing anyway by subjecting themselves to the interjections and interruptions of everyone else in the world, somehow convinced that whatever tiny nuggets of value they find every once in a while are worth it.
I'd image the biggest reason is that risk tolerance is lower for cargo companies than for passenger airlines, and that cargo companies are more inclined to run a subset of their fleet as an "experimental" model vs the consistency that passengers expect. They probably also have the biggest potential gains given there's only so tight you can pack people.
> I like the idea that corporate librarians and archivists know they have a professional and ethical responsibility that supersedes what the current corporate leadership believes is their current business interest. [...] Engineers could use some of this too.

The history of the Web shows this hope to be futile. HTML started out from SGML - which, as a reminder, was introduced with the expectation that

> [computer users] will no longer have to work at every computer task as if it had no need to share data [...]; they will not have to act as if the computer is simply a complicated slightly more lively replacement for paper [...]; not have to appease software programs that seem to be at war with one another [1].

But then the dilettantes and bogeymen of our profession found ways to smuggle tons of unnecessary additional syntax and multiple language runtimes into document languages.

[1]: https://books.google.de/books?id=RilvKya0EnwC&pg=PR7&source=...
Wish they serviced my neighborhood.
Factory production lines
L'oubli vous vaut l'oubliette.
It's not a loss or near-loss.

I see it as a dodge around unit pricing. Every price has the price per item and the price per 100ml/100g/whatever is appropriate. It's the law that applies to all shops that aren't small.

Easy to compare, until you come to the discounted prices which don't have unit prices printed. They can be multi buys, Clubcard offers, bundles, or whatever.
A long standing maneuver that companies have is the "your job is now in Houston" when you live in New York. This has an interesting side effect of basically removing anyone from your company who is old enough to have a family with kids in school, wife working etc. Basically it "legally" removes the older more expensive employees. RTO will remove people also like you said, but I wonder what demographic?
Count me as one of the people who doesn't know about it. Can you explain more?
Understanding QAsConst and Std:As_const
Whats to say those engineers aren't taking PTO time or a leave of absence and getting paid a consulting rate by Elon/Twitter?
I would make them fire me, then file for unemployment.
Why do that as opposed to leaving and competing against him if they have a better idea of how to operate a social media site? His naysayers are convinced he's going to destroy it anyway.
Show HN: FingrPrintr – Chat with others sharing your browser fingerprint
Hello!

Introducing FingrPrintr: The Internet's Loneliest Social Network

This is an idea I had rolling around in my head for a while (I even had a beta version on heroku back when that was a thing), and I finally took a couple days to sit down and flesh it out.

It's built on Cloudflare Pages, which enables it to fully support browsers without JS!

See the source at https://github.com/JacksonKearl/fingrprintr
But I was talking about airwaves, and they do regulate what's on those. It's not just physics.

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