skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn't mean it like 'think of the British', I meant 'think of yourself' - you want a strong brand identity right, that's the whole point of this kind of exercise I assume, and you have a much better shot at that with something unique/specific/weird.

Nobody outside of the UK is thinking about police foremost when they here 'met', (unless there's similarly named constabularies elsewhere perhaps, wouldn't surprise me if someone piped up from HK/India/Australia to say their city's police is also 'the met' for example) but that doesn't matter to that met.

Say there's some artist called so-and-so Park, you'd be ill-advised to start a gallery called 'The Park', it's not at all unique, it's poorly googleable, it's unlikely to ever be the first thing that comes to mind when someone hears the name.

Another example: I think OnePlus (or is it OnePlusOne? I honestly don't even know) - the phone company - is held back by its poor choice of name. I'm not denying its success, I just think it's despite the name, that it could be a lot bigger, have a much stronger brand.
You need to include the commuting time into the productivity calculation. If a person has to commute 1 hour for 200 days a year while working for 40 years, this would result in 8,000 hours of work-related unproductivity during a life, which is equivalent to 5 full years of work. This is the benchmark that you first have to surpass. In other words: such a person needs to be on average 12.5 percent more productive on site than at home to break even.
>> Markets do not optimize for ethical behaviour

This is speculation and pedantry, but: What if they do? What if they already weed out 90% of it, and the remaining stuff that you notice is the optimal amount given the cost to weed it out (no matter how said weeding is done).
It's difficult to staff with people who don't have opinions, and sometimes those opinions coincide with or bend towards other nexuses of power.

But finding an uncorruptible, unopinionated, independently-minded civil servant... who also values service over salary... is a pretty tough ask. ;)
> You may as well say "I don't listen to music that uses EQ" or "I don't listen to music that uses compressors."

Not the same as either of those things. You might as well be arguing that I'm claiming that volume knobs shouldn't exist.

Pick an equivalent like photography. In the photography world, EQ is like a fill light. A compressor you could compare to a polarising filter. Autotune (or drum quant) though, is like photoshopping. Removing all of the skin blemishes and imperfections at best, and at worst and more often than not, it's fake disproportionate waist and ass booty enhancement.
The article source is from a Stanford study, which was posted[0] 3 days ago: "Charging lithium-ion cells at different rates boosts the lifetimes of battery packs for electric vehicles" [1]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33516816
[1]: https://news.stanford.edu/2022/11/07/longer-lasting-battery-...
It can make sense if you squint & consider both battery companies
Whenever capitalism does anything wrong, it's socialism's fault.
Where does this Etherium-meme(?) come from? I’ve seen several people writing Etherium and Monaro instead of Ethereum and Monero on mailing lists, but never understood what it means and where it comes from.
Great idea, wishing you luck!

While carbon removal today is inefficient, it's not set in stone to always be that way. For example, olivine is super interesting - one of the most abundant minerals on earth - it absorbs CO2 from the atmosphere passively when ground down into small pieces. The Cascade Mtns in Washington state are full of the stuff and not far from the beach. The ocean grinds rocks into sand all day with zero carbon costs. With the right combination of luck and strategy, I don't see why some forms of carbon removal can't eventually be extremely cheap. It might be the greenest thing we can do to literally turn our beaches green!

This is nice for folks like me who make business SaaS so we can add a nice line item "removes some carbon!" to the checkout list. I know to some, that's probably disgusting and cynical, but I strongly prefer surrounding myself with optimists, so, it works for me!
Bankman-Fried’s Cabal of Roommates in the Bahamas Ran His Crypto Empire
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberté,_égalité,_fraternité
> Personally, I say screw the giant corps

Giant corps are the engines that drive the economy. Take them away, and you've got an economy in the dumpster. (Small businesses are the future. A healthy economy requires both.)

> we should expect that business take smaller profit margins to keep prices from inflating higher

Businesses neither aid nor retard inflation. Inflation is a monetary phenomenon caused by deficit spending. If you want less inflation, vote against the deficit spenders.

> which, again, is not true

Amusingly, your exposition admits they are all illegal, although selectively applied. Mostly for BS reasons, like Microsoft being charged with giving away a browser for free (no harm to consumers was ever established).
Looks like much of it was spent filling in the bezzle left from the early blow-ups in terra, etc. He was trying to prop up the whole ecosystem.
Trie in Python
I would be all for cocaine-based panaceas.
I can only hope Elon goes bankrupt. He and his man-child-fans are the most obnoxious people on this planet.
I'm always curious if he just set aside say $250k/year (2 year contract maybe?) to the top 100 content creators at Twitter/IG/TikTok today.

Add $25 million to the annual costs and have the chicken/egg problem semi-saved.
My point is, gestures like "you're coming into the office, so I'm coming into the office" are simultaneously empty and counterproductive. His job involves travel, period. And besides, he owns the place.
ESO images a wondrous star factory to mark 60 years of collaboration
Just a quick note - the "body" text on the page uses Alliance, also designed by the same studio I think (https://degarism.com/Alliance). The two fonts themselves are catered more towards headers / titles.
Funny, didn’t GitHub start the trend of using system fonts on their site? That was such a refreshing change.
Ever heard of Hatsune Miku? https://youtu.be/jhl5afLEKdo?t=65

Its just voice synthesizing
Call git every time you background a process? How would that make sense?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine
I wonder if he'll get himself retroactive added as a founder of twitter in the past just like tesla.
>then start hiring as necessary with the kind of people you want.

That assumes that people will still want to work for Twitter after all of this.

Given that there is no shortage of jobs for engineers even after massive layoffs at Facebook/Meta and Twitter, many people are going to think twice about signing up to work for a company and owner that have a reputation for treating people as disposable trash.

Employees are the company's most valuable capital - so if you unceremoniously boot out the most experienced staff that was keeping the ship afloat and expect to replace them with cheap new hires while maintaining productivity, security and revenue (which weren't great at Twitter to begin with), you would have to be delusional.

Some layoffs were likely justified but thanks to the hamfisted way they were done I am sorry for the recruiters that will have to look for new staff now. They will have a very unenviable job.
There were a lot of awful LBOs, but Elon may take the cake. Even the worst LBOs had a business case, even if in terms of asset stripping, outsourcing, channel stuffing, and other aggressive financial engineering.

When Elon bought it Twitter had no free cash flow, existing long term debt, no assets to sell, etc. It's an enormous LBO with strange characteristics done by a guy with no LBO experience, advised by Jason Calacanis and David Sacks.

This will be a b-school case study classic.
2023 FedNOW service pricing announced
So have <b> and <u>. Years ago.
I'm afraid that you shouldn't subduct to this tyranny in first place.
So forever?

Why didn’t we do this in 2019 or 1970 or 1813?
Double the population of Canada though.

I agree we're small, much smaller than the USA by any metric, but surely we're talking about population rather than land mass here.
Again you are comparing the real world with digital. Are companies manufacturing software from sourced resources, excluding people and labour? Is Apple physically distributing software in trucks to stores across the country. No, none of this applies to digital content hosted on digital stores.

You would think digital content would be cheaper, as it is not bound by real world restraints. It can be duplicated easily, moved quickly and made available at anytime to any person with a connect device.

Apple sets its own mark up of 30%, they can do this through anti-competitive practice of limiting sales to their store only. If companies where able to host their own digital stores and sell their own digital products, Apple could not afford to mark up to 30% on sales because no one would buy anything at the inflated prices on their store.
In TFA it's made clear Mr. Musk appears to have already violated the FTC Twitter decrees.

Can you guess what'll happen next? I really don't know what to expect.
Diagrams are great for communication and collaboration with non technical experts.

Code is great for creativity and working in the flow state.

Both are useful. I'd also argue that both are necessary.
If you never commented, how do you know you were shadow banned?

> Since elon actually took ownership... i have seen dramatic improvement to twitter

This needs a lot more context, what do you mean by dramatic improvement, and what data are you using to measure this?
From the Sequoia puff-piece:

> Something of the sort must happen eventually, as the current system, with its layers upon layers of intermediaries, is antiquated and prone to crashing—the global financial crisis of 2008 was just the latest in a long line of failures that occurred because banks didn’t actually know what was on their balance sheets. Crypto is money that can audit itself, no accountant or bookkeeper needed, and thus a financial system with the blockchain built in can, in theory, cut out most of the financial middlemen, to the advantage of all. Of course, that’s the pitch of every crypto company out there. The FTX competitive advantage? Ethical behavior. SBF is a Peter Singer–inspired utilitarian in a sea of Robert Nozick–inspired libertarians. He’s an ethical maximalist in an industry that’s overwhelmingly populated with ethical minimalists. I’m a Nozick man myself, but I know who I’d rather trust my money with: SBF, hands-down. And if he does end up saving the world as a side effect of being my banker, all the better.
"ANONYMOUS AUTHOR(S)"?

This is an interesting approach, but full body tracking with a few sensors is already much better than this at the $150 price point.[1] Because it will suffer badly from occlusion, it will probably do well in expected situations and terribly in unexpected and occluded situations.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImEKHrUp4QM
They wanted to roll it back in, but didn't do it because there is also a design limitation on the number of times it can be rolled.
Probably this

> In a note posted to Twitter’s Slack and viewable to all staff that was obtained by The Verge, an attorney on the company’s privacy team wrote, “Elon has shown that his only priority with Twitter users is how to monetize them. I do not believe he cares about the human rights activists. the dissidents, our users in un-monetizable regions, and all the other users who have made Twitter the global town square you have all spent so long building, and we all love.”

Twitter became a de facto official communication channel for many organizations and politicians. Despite all his flaws Trump showed how important Twitter was to political discourse. I'm hopeful that the move to the Fediverse / Mastodon will allow organizations to maintain official discourse, but using their own server instances, such that they're not beholden to the whims and changing owners of a VC funded corporation, who apparently stopped caring about FTC decrees.
I don't think this is true: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11977233

>Downloaded videos can be played offline for up to 29 days. After that, you'll need to reconnect your device to the internet.

That sounds like DRM. The page also seems to suggest that you need to use youtube.com to watch videos, not a file on your system.
Maybe an "unfiltered" machine learning model trained on real world user generated content is showing something different and "unexpected" when compared to what the mainstream "approved" search engines would show you... Hmmm, who would have guessed it right? And you can't even argue that it was game seod to show you this results.
Diablo 2 taught me this. Along with my other favourite word: Gargantuan.
I think he's implying exactly that. I don't necessarily agree with it, but there's something to be said about possibly spiking infections driven by the "we're free!" effect of long term lockdowns followed to removal of any and all restrictions in less that a month. It felt like towing a jack-knifing trailer. One moment we were proceeding off the road, and the other we were careening into oncoming traffic.
Wow, two brand new fonts in 2022 and they still make lowercase "l" look exactly like uppercase "i", I thought we were past that by now :(
Would legit pay extra for the fun ha
It is absolutely a blockchain failure. Blockchains are intentionally designed to facilitate this. They have no possible way to stop this kind of fraud. Even if you built an elaborate set of smart contracts that could audit participants, they would still not stop anything. That activity can just be moved to another chain and avoid the audits. This kind of thing can just keep happening over and over again, as it already has for the last 12 years. Remember Mt Gox? Nothing fundamental has changed about blockchains that could ever prevent this from happening. It's viewed as a feature that everyone just loses their money sometimes. The designers of blockchains want this to happen. From speaking to them, they view any kind of fraud prevention as an affront to their definition of "economic freedom" and what it entails.
Down votes make me think a lot of HNers are in for a brutal shock.
Let's compare the daily grind of a factory worker to that of an engineer at a place like Twitter (tech worker is really broad):

FACTORY WORKER:

- Gets up early, leaves late

- Performs work that is rote down to a T

- Works extremely hard, physically

- On their feet for large parts of the day

- Must join (and pay to be in) a union for benefits and such

- Extremely fungable

- Paid at or around the US median

TWITTER ENGINEER

- Gets up early...if they want to. Gets out late...if they want to.

- Or they just pull up before your team's standup and peace out at 3pm

- Work on extremely creative tasks b/c software is creative; so much so that some have really cool blogs where they talk about the 0.01% elite engineering shit they do

- Work is extremely demanding mentally while you sit in >$1000 chairs and type on >$1000 standing desks

- Need the standing desk and occasional walk to force themselves to be mobile

- No union, but amazing benefits (see laid off Tweeps getting three months of pay)

- Generally not very fungable

- Paid several times above the US median, and that's before we consider their equity

TL;DR: Come on, dude.
It's wondrous to know that MIT professors conduct extracurricular activities outside their profession. *Joke

TLDR; John Donovan a MIT professor who is successful in the technology consulting sector, later in life after having 5 kids, begins to stage that such kids are trying to kill him for their inheritance. Charged for filling a false police report, after staging an assassination, and even to this day attempts to claim that his family is trying to steal his fortune.

https://archive.ph/kqOTs
I would bet every dollar I have that if you had to live in imperial Rome, or Paris during the French Empire, that you would be begging to go back to this "terrible, unlivable, ugly nation."
What does DeFi have to do with any of what is happening with FTX?
Of course there was, especially in Roman times when most couldn’t read. The gods all had their symbols, as did the many vendors. Many cities had emblems they added to things like gates, walls, and money, and prominent families had seals they would use for official documents as well as decoration.

These came in many styles and had a lovely variety which sprang from the message the person wanted to send and what they thought looked cool.
obviously not true - in so many ways. what exactly in a wavefunction knows whether it will encounter other wavefunctions? i think what you're claiming leads to many contradictions.
1 million Mac and 3 million Windows users most of whom probably don't know what docker is let alone run it; would like to disagree.
I was confused at what you were saying at first. For those that may also be confused:

You can add something like this to your robots.txt:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /some/unguessible/url

And then you ban any IPs/bots that visit that URL.
Well yes, the actual best approach for the wellbeing of employee is to combine these two moves. Give employees the choice between taking a voluntary severance package or coming back to the office. Make it known that a round of layoffs is possible depending on the number of people who take the severance. That way no one is misled into moving and the company doesn't have to be as concerned with the distribution of people who refuse to work in the office.

And let's be honest, Musk isn't doing it in this order for the wellbeing of Twitter's employees.
Nov 2022 FreeBSD Vendor Summit: Lessons Learned Implementing LinuxBoot [video]
No advertisers? Catastrophic server failures? Elon just pulls the plug?
(NB: No relation to the widely-used Android/Java DI library)
From my casual understanding, Amazon is executing the same vertical integration strategy used by Standard Oil which resulted in its breakup.
Google talk had XMPP which is very similar to Fediverse, but then XMPP (mostly)died and Google talk survived
Scryer Prolog 0.9.1: Greatly improved metacall performance
> At least in the US, there is a very reasonable argument that the administrative agencies have overstepped.

Only if you ignore most of the text of the congressional acts that have created them. If the FTC's charter consisted of that one paragraph, it would be a reasonable criticism. It doesn't, and it's not.

It's true that there's a reactionary movement in the current SCOTUS that comes up with very odd interpretations of these congressional acts (like concluding that CO2 is not a pollutant, and thereby can't be regulated as one), but just because Amy Coney legislates from the bench that the sky is green doesn't necessarily make it so.
> What drugs are you on?

Why does all the pro-restrictions, pro-mask crowd always stoop to this level of discourse?

Science depends on critical thinking. Even if it goes against your own thoughts and beliefs.
It is directly linked to the XKCD page.
They really ought to get around to building that transatlantic track
You are neglecting to consider the other fundamental needs of a filthy rich person like an Elon Musk, two that are of greater priority than sheer wealth even, name and fame.
They operate mostly in Germany, but the Slack community around it is broader, I think 90% is EU based though.
Except he has fired exactly those. Like the entire information security team. Giving Twitter your payment/CC info now is likely a very bad idea ...
The Accidental Superpower is a good book that goes deeper on this topic.
Not a pilot, but I've flown in the MD-80 once, and I've found it much more unpleasant than most planes due to the engine noise in the cabin.

But on the other hand, I've never experienced turbulence that's made me more than barely uncomfortable in any plane.
> physically forcing someone to incriminate themselves is self incrimination.

You can't physically force someone to testify. It's not a thing that is possible, unless you kill them and attach electrodes to the muscles of their mouth, throat, and diaphragm. The testimony that results from that method will not be convincing.

> The whole point of laws regarding self incrimination is not to stop people from being electively able to incriminate themselves, but to stop the government from being able to force them to incriminate themselves.

Again, the government cannot force people to incriminate themselves. It can threaten people in order to convince them to incriminate themselves, it can punish people if they refuse to incriminate themselves, but it can't force people to incriminate themselves. It can put their finger on a phone. You can put their finger on a phone, if you're bigger than them, or they are asleep.

The point of laws about self-incrimination is to declare that refusal to self-incriminate cannot be punished.
The purpose is to make it so that if he appeals a case and wins, he still has to pay out everything he owns. It's the same reason why some people get charged with enough crimes that even the minimum sentences are multiple human lifespans.

I also think these torts are in different jurisdictions, which may impact how the payouts are managed, how bankruptcy's are interpreted, etc, etc.

I think it's well known that the liabilities are far beyond his ability to actually pay.
Back when the Boring Company was new, although I thought it was weird even then, I had enough trust in his business vision to be motivated to guess how it might fit.

Best I got was, experience with tunnel boring machines would be really useful for Marian and Lunar colonies.

Now though? Well, now I think it was always merely the billionaire equivalent of me picking up Blender, modelling half a spaceship before I get bored, quit, and forget I even have Blender installed for another six months.
Yeah sad but true can confirm as a tree planter that has put more than 300,000 trees into the ground the last three years it is a carbon positive endeavour
Nice idea have another 4chan with less gore
I suspect it's all about his process and he doesn't really have a grand plan but a general strategy. He is really good in few things and as a result he thrives in precarious situations. IMHO, he really believes in Twitters potential in he is trying to find the solution to dig himself out of the pit he jumped in.

Notice how He re-discovers everything that people were saying about running a social media? I think His hands on micromanager approach is good for finding a solution through iteration. Of course, if a solution exists.

It is like going back to the basics and look at the situation with a fresh eye and understand why something doesn't work, create a solution and try again if the solution doesn't work.
I think the eye chart still has use. The machine spits out a field of numbers but my eye doc uses that as a starting point to refine from. Since I have some astigmatism there is no perfect answer, it's a matter of finding what deviation from perfect is the best and I get the strong impression that that's a matter of the individual, not something the machine can measure.