skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Might be wrong, but looks like the body text is just using the mono font. They've named the fonts Alliance1 (mono) and Alliance2 (hubot) in the stylesheet.
I'm surprised for 3 pubic tech companies in this space that there are not more comments here...
You see, before Putin they were drowning in dough.
The FTC issue is a problem.

But did anyone expect any of the leadership team to last this long? He's been ultra-critical of them. And Twitter, per Musk, isn't making money. He lost a team, the leadership tag is debatable.
Real (untuned) vocals are like real (unquantised) drums or real (unphotoshopped) photographs. They're no longer real if they have been artificially manually edited after capture.

There is nothing wrong with that. It is still art, I never claimed it wasn't. Deepfaked actors can still constitute 'art' (see Sassy Justice with Fred Sassy for a notable example). Photoshopped photos are still 'art'.

However, we don't refer to those 'real actors' or 'real photos'. They are examples of creative expression through manual editing. Photoshopped photos can be real art without being real photos, but there's a reason why National Geographic photographers don't crazy with the spot healing brush.
Since when is bad spelling a meme?
> Sorry but it falls into the realm of audiophilia to me

Perhaps so. I'm not one of those people that picks up on (or claims to) these subtleties, so I wouldn't know. I wonder if any studies have been done on this.
I am always surprised that people are surprised about Fortran's activity! It works and your code will likely still compile 10-20 years from now. (It is certainly not perfect and sometimes it is annoying, but the same can be said about most programming languages).
> If the future "holds more data" than the past then it's random with respect to the past, by definition. This is one of the major interpretations of QM.

Yet, we don't say whatever is on the X axis is random with respect of the Y axis in a 3D space.
You can keep claiming it’s out of touch but that doesn’t make it real. There is still a heavy demand for software engineers. It’s not as great as it was a year ago but it’s not so dire companies can’t now start demanding no work life balance.
If it only took 1 day to reverse a decision then he probably made the right choice in optimizing for fast, if sometimes wrong, decisions.
Just because Android devices can allow for alternative stores, doesn't mean in anyway that it's easy to setup, nor is it simple to write software in the limited sandbox provided that needs to work independently of Google services. This is all by design.

So, how successful do you think a store would be if its made difficult to install and difficult to create software for? Is it any surprise there are no successful profitable apps?
I agree. And Synthesizer V v1.8.0 has just been released with diffusion probabilistic models, which improve the quality even further.
Or people that are unethical use charities as a front to do illegal things without remorse
Yoel Roth leaving is huge. I don't think anyone expected things this bad so quick
That's sad. HP was a great company, and I'd guess some documents gave insight into things we could learn (or re-learn) from HP leadership.
Didnt he personally cancel a bloggers tesla order?
Also I love it when you say its literally impossible to become a monopoly.
Do you think wechat started as a monopoly?
Google?
My comment itself goes like if it ever becomes a monopoly like wechat in CHINA, you come back to me saying how X isn’t a monopoly, who asked?
I am speculating on future.
I never once spoke about becoming a payment gateway monopoly but a popular app becoming defacto payment solution.
Like Wechat.
Like most everyone, I didn't believe in dropping the food pyramid and going keto/carnivore/atkins/whatever else the new fashionable name will be for dropping carbs.

However, the amount of change and the efficiency of the diet shocked me.

> After all, anyone can just ignore Tufts’ findings, because they’re obviously crazy. But in the field of public health this is precisely the kind of work that matters. Studies like this are what lead to the last half century’s famously misguided dietary guidelines, which have coincided with the sickest Americans our nation has ever seen.

It's appalling that we allow the people who came with the food pyramid to keep sprouting nonsense than can be disproved so easily. It's not just about wasting million, but the fact that bad science tantamount to misinformation has a government backing or public health seal that'll cause people to act on the obviously bad advice!

It's even more shocking that some countries like in the EU are trying to shame meat eating for global warming related reasons: at least there's a plausible link, even if I'd suggest prioritizing health over other concerns like agricultural subsidies, carbs lobbying groups and the weather.

But cheerios and lucky charm over steak FOR HEALTH REASONS? Nope.
There is a quote.

Around computers it is difficult to find the correct unit of time to measure progress. Some cathedrals took a century to complete. Can you imagine the grandeur and scope of a program that would take as long?

-- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982

Well, we have our cathedrals in programing, only we as as software engineers tend to be barbarians and call them "legacy code" or "obsolete systems" or "needs to be torn down and replaced with something new". Think of when people do this to actual cathedrals.

I like xterm, use it daily, I think Thomas Dickey is a pretty great guy for his role in maintaining the program.

https://www.invisible-island.net/xterm/xterm.html
If your enemy is the White House, intelligence and strategy aren't what's going to determine the outcome.
It doesn't come from me, it comes from people who care about brand image.
He had the daring and resources to transfer his consciousness to a brain simulator.
I love the McMaster website. It is very much function over form. It's clear that the website is a modern adaptation of the gargantuan multi-thousand page catalogs we used to have.

The website is built first and foremost as a way to find what you need. Buying online is almost an afterthought, there's one link in the header, and the only other indication that there even is an online store is once you click the exact item you want. Exactly where it should be.

It does exactly what it needs to and not much more. It's beautifully functional.
Interesting. I would have expected each class of ships to have the same operating procedures on the technology side.
Ah, sorry. I read it to mean compression. I see that I'm wrong now. Thanks!
In other words, marketing budget big and needed to be used up or else shrunk next fiscal cycle.

/s

Realistically, this is probably very cost efficient as it’s a relatively low effort project compared to a fully fledged feature, and something that can make someone say “hey, that y reminds me of GitHub”.
I'm sure he can drag some Tesla software engineers in for a few months to fill the gaps. That's how this works, right? /s
You will like this more elaborate attacks you can do to those bots https://www.hackerfactor.com/blog/index.php?/archives/762-At...
well let's just see how 'alive' Europe is

Inflation is in double digits already https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/31/business/economy/eurozone...

energy prices are going through the roof https://www.euronews.com/next/2022/10/26/energy-bills-are-so...

steel mills are shutting down https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-25/european-...

factories are shutting down https://www.lemonde.fr/en/europe/article/2022/10/12/europe-s...

manufacturing activity is all time low, and now there are talks of deindustrialization https://english.almayadeen.net/news/economics/eu-to-backtrac...

nearly 70% of Europe's ammonia production has been halted since August due to high gas prices, meaning no fertilizer for spring https://www.freshplaza.com/africa/article/9475830/nearly-70-...

There are strikes and growing protests across many European countries as people are losing their jobs and are no longer able to afford to pay their bills. But yeah, aside from that Europe's totally alive and everything is fine.

You clearly have no clue regarding the subject you're attempting to debate here.
The (now) Netflix series "Bee & Puppycat: Lazy In Space" features a character (Puppycat) who's voiced by Vocaloid.
Enlighten us. I am saying that time is an human construct and don't fundamentally exist in a linear past/present/future way. Which is a simple explanation to all quantum events.
This doesn't make any sense. Vocal compression alters the source signal significantly more than pitch correction, generally. Like getting -10, even -20dB of compression across multiple compressors (some of which are "character" compressors like the 1176 or LA2A, so doing more than just dynamics) is not uncommon. Every vocal runs through a de-esser (a specialized compressor, really) that removes sibilance, which is much more analogous to "removing all of the skin blemishes and imperfections".
It doesn't seem you fully grasp the concept of brand recognition.

Spend some time researching the subject and it will make more sense.
People are selling their ftx.com logins the same way today.
That description of the 1990s brings back memories for me.
Yea was just reading how this likely prompted facebooks giving the November vest to their laid off employees was likely driven by similar labor protection laws. After having worked for a Georgia headquartered company for 2 years I don’t think I can work for a company outside a blue state again. The worker protections, minimal as they are in the US, kicked in multiple times as the company kept trying to fuck us over
No. The points made seem to be like asking if it is a good idea buy something that costs 25% more when you have a 5% coupon.
I wonder if we could train a "Font Copilot" on a bunch of fonts and then claim the output is license free
I know T-Pain is an incredible singer. I know artists use it as an intentional effect. I don't think I'm forgetting anything though, I'm not sure of what your argument is here.
Sometimes it makes you less self aware that you might be wrong.
The slowdowns are because it still has to hold every connection until it can check which program it is coming from and whether that program is trusted or not, even when the same program creates multiple connections.

To get around the slowdowns, I made an alternative program called picosnitch which only monitors connections since I just stop using anything I don't trust or move it to a sandbox. It also uses BPF, has fairly low CPU usage, and some other features for improved reliability and detection of programs.
Trying to pass the compliance risk on to the engineers is insane. And I don't think the FTC buys it. It's a long shot because the ultra wealthy rarely have to face real consequences in America, but there's a real possibility that Elon Musk goes to prison over his flippant disregard of the FTC.
my (limited) understanding is that, most of the time, the problem lies in aggregating demand vs owning the supply. it's harder to figure out demand.

it is a good thought experiment here (and HBS business case-worthy) to see who truly has the power - the creators or the platform.
> Come next year you'll have either completely forgotten about this, or have no opinion at all.

I doubt it. There are still so many rebrands / logo changes that I get angry thinking about. Off the top of my head (in addition to the ones mentioned in my replies to other comments in this thread):

- Meta. It just confirmed what I already knew but had been desperately denying: Facebook is dead.

- The new, nearly indistinguishable multi-coloured Google Apps icons. (Were _no_ UX researchers involved in this decision?)

- Apple imposing the squirkle on macOS icons. (My laptop is not a tablet!)

- Google imposing the white circle on Android app icons. (Phone icons were already small enough before they were shrunk so as to fit into the stupid circles!)

- The new Slack logo.

- Instagram ditching their original camera logo/icon for that god-awful squirkly gradient monstrosity. (The day I saw that was the day I knew I would _never_ install their app on my phone.)

- American Airlines dropping their previous Vignelli-designed logo (and Helvetica).

- The London 2012 Olympics logo (the pink monstrosity described as "Lisa Simpson giving Bart a blow job") that replacing the London 2012 bid logo (with ribbons in the Olympics colours forming the shape of the river Thames).

That goes back at least 15 years. I have a long memory and hold grudges, at least when it comes to awful rebrandings.
> Giant corps are the engines that drive the economy. Take them away, and you've got an economy in the dumpster.

I didn't say take them away, I said don't prioritize them. There is no reason to cater to big corporations. No one will voluntarily not make more money, so there is no reason to assume that regulation will disincentive growth. Same way taxes don't stop people from wanting to make more money.

Make corporations do things that are in societies interest, not their own. Why do we require people to sign up for the draft or pay taxes? Not because people want to enlist, but because its good for society. Why do we require drivers licenses and car insurance and air bags? Because having competence and protections is good.

> Businesses neither aid nor retard inflation.

Today, there is record inflation constantly in the news. Many businesses are also posting larger profit margins. We could lower prices closer to their pre-inflation values if they lowered their profit margins to pre-inflation values too.

> your exposition admits they are all illegal, although selectively applied.

Yea, thats the difference between legal and not illegal in most cases?

Driving 50 mph is illegal in a school zone but not a highway. Its even more illegal to drive 50 mph into a group of children crossing the road in said school zone. The laws protect against behavior that is bad in a certain context.

> Mostly for BS reasons, like Microsoft being charged with giving away a browser for free

The Microsoft case rested on the fact that bundling the product restricted market entrants ability to compete, not on pricing.

> (no harm to consumers was ever established)

Thats not necessary to prove anti-competitive. Anti-competitive is when you're bad for competition not consumers. Specifically, the FTC claims that their purpose is to prevent monopolies, not to prevent consumer harm...

> ...the legislative history is replete with statements to the effect that Congress wanted the FTC to stop monopolies in their “incipiency"...
Twitter under Musk would presumably have less bloat, a lot faster decisions, I'm assuming an easy escalation path that doesn't have to go through multiple layers of management, and you can be confident none of your peers are coasting.
No, it wasn't! We explained the reasons in many places (forums etc), and people were free to trust us or not. We also promised to open the sources when we thought it was the good timing, and that's what we did.

And I completely agree with you that a privacy focused rom must be open source, of course...
I'm claustrophobic. Having the window there and next to me is essential for me. Mentally, i need to feel like there's an exit i can jump through if things go awry. Of course, thats not realistic. But some artificial screen doesnt give me the same comfort. Looking out and see the outside for myself is the only thing that does it
I have about the same opinion of him, but there’s still something i don’t understand : to build something like tesla or even more space x, you need to attract extremely talented indivuals. How do they keep working for musk if he’s a total fraud ?
A normal computer has features I want to avoid, such as size, heat, fans, large power supplies, etc. A single-board ARM or RISC computer has all the compute power and peripheral connectors I need. The only missing piece is sufficient RAM.
Well in a leaked email, Yoel admitted he lied to Elon.

It's no wonder hes gone.
Interesting, but I think they're over-thinking it. A lot.

At any given moment, most companies can probably justify cutting 10-15% of dead weight. But when you cross that line, that's a much different smell. The most talented get a whiff, update their CVs and head for the door.

The goal is to cut the bottom and leave the top. Take off too much bottom and your top will leave "voluntarily".
This. First and foremost, Twitter's product was never its software but its users, and people who remark cynically about this in every other instance ("If you're not paying for the product, you're the product.") seem to have forgotten the maxim when blinded by politics or celebrities. There are plenty of start-up Twitter/FB clones, like Tribel and Gab, but none of them have a large userbase. Twitter's is big and international, despite whatever demographic quirks it may have. Musk bought Twitter for its userbase.

Musk has already said that he more or less intends to turn Twitter into a global WeChat, an all-in-one app that does payment, micro-apps, social media, video, etc. The steps he's taken already, even in the short period he's owned Twitter, point to that. He's already integrating payments by getting people to pay $8 for a blue check, which means payment validation of identity; there's a way to turn your Twitter avatar into an NFT, but only if you attach your crypto wallet—logical next steps are to turn Twitter into a payment platform, get people to order food over it, verify identity and attach online identities to financial records, develop a financial/speech surveillance system, and pretty soon you have WeChat 2.0 but with the NSA lurking in the shadows instead of China's equivalent. He can't get to that point without existing users.
It sounds like the "treating people with infusions of modified T cells" approach.
No and no.

I think his approach here is to cut as many people as possible in order to find out which roles are actually needed and then staff back up from there.

It’s been done in many other industries over decades and is an effective (albeit ruthless) way of clearing out unneeded positions.
I use "402 Payment Required“ right now, which is sent to the client. Didn't know about 444, which isn't listed on the Wikipedia page about HTTP return codes ...
A fundamental principle of capitalism is that goods will sell for what they will be bought for. That's part of the deal.
right to jail, right away.
Doesn't seem like this is the type of decision tree Elon uses. Parent comment seems more like what I'd expect Elon to optimize for.
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Fair enough. How many of them say something more than "Mallius d."?
I’m all in support for having everything in one text editor for embedded devices. Python is a human language; it’s not going to teach kids anything, anyone can code in python overnight.
Python has taught kids to code in the less efficient ways possible.

But, arduino and jeroo.org should really make C language more inviting to children.

Without jeroo and arduino, I wouldn’t be familiar with C language.
> type man-preview

man-preview not found
Here's the text

Ill Ill Ill Ill Ill

in Mona Sans:

https://i.ibb.co/3mv1Myx/Ill.png

What a pleasing symmetry.
Do you even know the story of Nick Leeson?
The font matrix is actually interactive. Now about UX: I had a brain-something when I first scrolled past it... it seemed some fonts changed weight... but I couldn't understand - is it my eyes going wonkey when some char is closer to monitor upper edge rather than lower or what? I scrolled again and again and again, trying to parse whether my eyes are OK or my eyes don't like that font and kind of didn't notice anything... then few more times, by spending at least half a minute trying to figure it out. I figured: they are being changed automatically! I thought: It would have been better to design some kind of carousel, so I can switch between modes.

I revisited that page after reading HN comments and then noticed that mouse pointer is actually changing weight and width... doh.
In Australia we would never refer to pizzas as pies. Is this a US-only thing or does it happen elsewhere?
Do those industries rely on delicate advertiser relationships to keep the company from imploding?
This is genuinely delusional at this point.
The regulation and risk-aversion is far more impactful than the funding.

It's not entirely unwarranted regulation, but fundamentally Intel can mess up 20 batches of 5nm chips before getting it right, and nobody cares. If a CRISPR trial kills someone, it's a BIG DEAL, and could potentially set the field back by years.
I haven’t tried the electron version purely due to its subscription nature. Plus, v2 has been great in my experience so i haven’t really needed to. It couldn’t hurt to give it a whirl if the trial and subscription model isn’t a showstopper for you.
Regardless, when you are this rich, you can do whatever and it will probably result in net gain of both social capita and USD.
He got rid of the grey checkmark in ~2 hours[1]. I'm curious what metrics one could gather in that time for that decision.

https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1590382566921543680
An ever-expanding animation scene rendered in the browser
Bingo. Had this happen to me. I stayed 2 years on an “around the corner” promise. Don’t let this be you.
> The interesting proposition here is that Twitter could have lost the organizational capacity to comply with these consent decrees

Since Musk has taken over (2 weeks) they have, unless I misunderstand something, lost the head of trust and safety twice: the first fired for being part of the team that held Musk to his cobtract, the second resigning today.
I am possibly simplifying a bit too much, but: Build world-class products around their protocol themselves!
$8/month sounds cheap for an actual, continuing verification of identity. The proposal that blue checks be an indication of some sort of process rather than a gift handed to powerusers is nothing but egalitarian.

If you and your non-paying friends are commenting on each other's tweets, I don't know how oppressed you would be by blue checks floating to the top of threads. Are there tons of blue checks in your threads now?

In case somebody needs an existence proof, I'd prefer blue checks rising to the top. It would cut down on 99% of abuse if 20x<firstname><bunchofnumbers> couldn't get anywhere near the top of the thread. If blue checks also got the ability to prioritize the the people they follow (or a separate priority reply list, rather than using their follows), we might see some civilized discussion without all the brownshirt disruption.

This would absolutely panic the administration, and the intelligence and military communities, though (and probably a lot of PR agencies) so I don't see it happening.
I've been using fail2ban to kill this for years. Seems to be quite effective: https://github.com/fail2ban/fail2ban
These core counts are insane. I’m curious about any programming languages that are designed to be easily to parallelize and how they will work on these 96 core chips
Ah, I see the error of my ways now. The post to which I was responding was indeed correct and this is not, per se, an illegal tactic if the worker did not belong to an otherwise protected class. Twitter just owes them the same legal benefits as if they had been laid off.

I stand corrected; thanks for setting me straight.
> There is value in art done honestly, "bad" or not

If I think it's "bad" then it has _zero_ value to _me_. Why does this bother you or anyone else?
md88 was shit as pax if you didn’t like cold and loud.