skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unfortunately, it's very likely that those technologies will never be able to remove a significant amount of CO2 from the atmosphere.

It seems to be more and more appearing that the problem is that we consume too much energy. And so the solution is to do less, not more.
Sure, dude. You're just as smart and capable as the world's most successful entrepreneur, but you're just a little too ethical to lower yourself to his level.

This is pure faerie-dust self-aggrandizement. If you want to make these assertions, you can prove them. No one else is stopping you, after all.
Never Before Heard Sounds Studio Demo [video]
Pretty mind blowing stuff.

Can sign up for the waiting list at https://heardsounds.com/

More info: https://holly.mirror.xyz/54ds2IiOnvthjGFkokFCoaI4EabytH9xjAY...

Showcase of Holly+ (related tech by same person(s)) singing the song "Jolene" https://youtu.be/kPAEMUzDxuo

I'm not affiliated, just stumbled on this today.
Crypto broker Genesis discloses locked funds on FTX
A nice quote that seems rather relevant right now:
> To do the most good for the world, SBF needed to find a path on which he’d be a coin toss away from going totally bust.
I wonder if the downfall of Twitter will herald the start of the adpocalypse—advertisers realizing en masse that the ROI of internet advertising isn’t worth the spend.

Have advertisers ever completely pulled out so abruptly from such a large platform before? If they notice that their revenue remains within forecast intervals, perhaps they will realize that their Twitter ad buys were doing nothing for their bottom line, and investigate whether ad buys on other platforms are similarly worthless.
Python is good enough.

Maintainability? Just if one start any OO features, one will gradually deal with modern day goto scenario. One can start another round of guessing, especially you have global.

I found it is easier to read a lisp or a c (functional mostly) source than python. But guess we have to use python these days.

Btw, your saying sound like the usual lisp meme - for every … there is a tiny untested lisp engine there.
No, when you take a loan out of a bank, the bank doesn't "create deposits" that it loans to you. The bank loans you existing deposits. The method by which banks end up creating money is less dramatic than you think. I wrote a long-form explainer here: https://www.attejuvonen.fi/money-out-of-thin-air/
Section of destroyed shuttle Challenger found on ocean floor
I've just now fixed it by passing the PostScript through ghostscript's ps2pdf:

man-preview () { man -w "$@" &> /dev/null && man -t "$@" | ps2pdf - - | open -f -a Preview || man "$@" }
The killer feature is "saving democracy."

I'm only semi-serious. But this is a thread about how social media needs to die in a fire. And Twitter collapsing would be a big step in the right direction. Now if the brainworms that have infected Elon could just get into Zuckerberg's noggin...
For $8, Twitter Blue users create a wave of checkmarked imposter accounts
This is the kind of response I expect on Reddit not here. To me it is indicative of being influenced more by personal bias than truth and reason.

To answer your point though, Zubrin does not and never has worked for any of Musk's companies. Watson did work at SpaceX 8 years ago, but works somewhere else now so he has nothing to lose or gain from Musk.

And here is an account of a top NASA engineering official's interactions with Musk who also has never worked for Musk.

> He dispatched one of his lieutenants, Liam Sarsfield, then a high-ranking NASA official in the office of the chief engineer, to California to see whether the company was for real or just another failure in waiting.

Most of all, he was impressed with Musk, who was surprisingly fluent in rocket engineering and understood the science of propulsion and engine design. Musk was intense, preternaturally focused, and extremely determined. “This was not the kind of guy who was going to accept failure,” Sarsfield remembered thinking.

Throughout the day, as Musk showed off mockups of the Falcon 1 and Falcon 5, the engine designs, and plans to build a spacecraft capable of flying humans, Musk peppered Sarsfield with questions. He wanted to know what was going on within NASA. And how a company like his would be perceived. He asked tons of highly technical questions, including a detailed discussion about “base heating,” the heat radiating out from the exhaust going back up into the rocket’s engine compartment—a particular problem with rockets that have clusters of engines next to one another, as Musk was planning to build.

Now that he had a friend inside of NASA, Musk kept up with the questions in the weeks after Sarsfield’s visit, firing off “a nonstop torrent of e-mails” and texts, Sarsfield said. Musk jokingly warned that texting was a “core competency.” “He sends texts in a constant flow,” Sarsfield recalled. “I found him to be consumed by whatever was in front of him and anxious to solve problems. This, combined with a tendency to work eighteen hours a day, is a sign of someone driven to succeed.” Musk was particularly interested in the docking adapter of the International Space Station, the port where the spacecraft his team was designing would dock. He wanted to know the dimensions, the locking pin design, even the bolt pattern of the hatch. The more documents Sarsfield sent, the more questions Musk had.

“I really enjoyed the way he would pore over problems anxious to absorb every detail. To my mind, someone that clearly committed deserves all the support and help you can give him.”

https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/k1e0ta/eviden...
what do you mean "alleged wealthy upbringing" is this point contested somehow?
Doing things incrementally almost always feels more expensive. And sometimes it is. But it is always a net positive in the long run.

When you're starting those "replace X system" projects, what you're not anticipating is that half of those projects fail: they're either end up taking way longer than planned, or they don't get finished at all because they miss some critical requirements. The bigger the project, the more risky it is.

Your login system has two problems:

1. It has a specific bug

2. It has tech debt

The issue is that you're using current bugs as a justification to remove tech debt. Because, let me guess, you want to refactor, but you can't sell refactoring to the management.

Here's how management might look at your arguments:

> password resets work in a way that allows an attacker to effectively lock out accounts and do a DoS

Did it actually happen? I worked at a SaaS startup that had over 50K users, it had the same potential problem. It never happened. Side note: some security standards actually require this DoS vector to exist.

> Looking forward we have customers asking

And how far in the future are we looking? It might be years before it becomes a real problem.

You might be absolutely right in your desire replace the login system. Or you might be a perfectionist that's eager to solve problems that don't matter. The great thing about incremental process is that for a relatively small cost those risks go away.
Ah, I just decided to stop learning new things before tailwind came along
In 2020 the company I worked for did ~25% temp salary reduction so they could feel safe that they could keep everyone employed and such. 3 months after everyone did it they said "thank you thank you we are so happy we don't need to let anyone go". 2 months later they laid off ~50% of the development team and people throughout the company...

At the end of the year they said no bonuses, followed by an email saying despite covid they made a profit.

Companies lie to employees all the time.
Incorrect. Yescarta, Tecartus among others are approved for certain types of lymphoma.

Multiple myeloma has Carvykti and Abecma

https://www.cancer.gov/sites/g/files/xnrzdm211/files/styles/...

With respect to institutions:

East coast: Sloan Kettering in NYC and Dana Farber in Boston

Middle America: MD Anderson in Houston

West coast: City of Hope and UCLA in Los Angeles.
What is the sound of jingling money in this story?
I would suggest he is indeed brilliant, but also a fool.

Fools are often brilliant, but they are parted from their money all the same.

The question is: does Musk have enough brilliance to achieve escape velocity from his folly?
Those are the people most in need of unions.
Was this already satire at the time of writing? This whole effective altruism community has to be some kind of joke, right? Heal with your left hand what you destroy with your right hand?

Sometimes life is stranger than fiction.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/st...

<strong>: The Strong Importance element

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/hr

<hr>: The Thematic Break (Horizontal Rule) element
Imagine constantly using doomsday threats as a cheat code to lengthen your stay at the world leadership table.

The cheat code might feel really cool to use, but eventually the cheat code starts to define you, including your past, present, and of course future-you, to an embarrassing degree (see quote at end of article).

(This is part of the reason why I believe Putin could have been effectively replaced by a PRNG and simplistic factor-weighting system resulting in more successful outcomes from as early as 2007. From at least 10-2022 I'm certain a system with no weighting at all could have done better for both Putin and Russia)
A service that allows for arbitrary scheduling of future events has been at the top of my wish list for AWS services for a long time.

The fact this doesn't just queue up events and instead is capable of calling any of the services supported by the AWS SDK with arbitrary templates and execution roles was a very smart choice.

And at $1/million invocations (no charge for CRUD) and a very generous 14 million invocation free tier I can't think of many ways to implement this cheaper except at extreme scale.

Also, them allowing you to set a timezone for a schedule shows a lot of insight from the team. Whilst UTC seems like the only thing you'd need to support from a tool used mostly be developers/devops, if you're setting schedules that interact with the real-world, having them be aware of daylight savings is extremely useful.
Both What and Waffles were launched in the aftermath of the OPP shutdown. Oink was the only game in town when I first got into torrenting, save for a few small "scene" sites whose main claim to fame was releasing major albums a few minutes sooner than everyone else.

After OPP got shut down, both What and Waffles were stood up in a matter of days.
I'd like to read this in context; do you know where this declararion could be found? Who is speaking? Thanks!
The economic repercussions are from Europe choosing to cut itself off from Russian energy, 60% of which cannot be replaced. Without Russian energy Europe cannot function, and it was Europe under pressure from US that decided to start the trade war with Russia.
The subsequent articles written by other Tufts writers fell for the same fallacy.

It is like arguing the top amateur football club is better than the worst pro team.
It was a crate-diggers haven. And as others noted, lossless, organized, with high curatorial standards.
If the turn is coordinated you can't tell the difference. I've been in small GA planes turning at 35-40 degrees and it doesn't feel like you're sliding at all, you're pulled back into your seat and "down" (relative to you) into the flooring.
Oh no! I have error and uptime monitoring, and it hasn't reported anything. As I'm clicking through, everything seems to be online.

So, hopefully it was just an intermittent failure! Would you mind trying again?
> centralized trust and human financial fraud. Uniswap and Aave withdrawals are working just fine.

Finance always follows commerce. It’s commerce which ultimately creates an organic price floor for assets.

Given that no commerce exists in the cryptospace there is no such floor.

You are describing a decentralized casino, but it’s taboo to say it and hence the word “asset” is being thrown around
Which portions specifically? Gave it a listen and didn't find any parts that came close to not sounding robotic. Maybe in comparison to the other examples linked here, that one was better (but I'm unsure if that's actually true), but if that's state of the art, I'm not sure it really comes close to hitting the mark.
> That’s like saying OS should use AI to try and figure out what buttons are to make them clickable, rather that developers actually building an interface for users.

That's actually a really good idea.
100% that. I my 20s I would have overworked myself at SpaceX without remorse. But doing that for Twitter?! Ridiculous
Sure they are common in modern English. (I only speak that version, being modern myself ;) [1]

>Is what you're talking about a bit different? Can you dive in a bit?

Sure I can. Thanks for asking.

Yes, I was talking about something different. But I seem to have been misunderstood by a few people in this subthread.

No worries, it happens. Human languages are not perfect, nor are they always unambiguous. Nor are humans perfect, in writing or interpretation. :)

I wrote the comment casually, so did not think to check how it might be understood differently by others.

When I said

>many such short forms come from or are unique to Indian English.

, I meant, first of all, just "some", because "many" does not necessarily mean "most", let alone "all". It just means "many", for some value of "many". It does not necessarily imply a comparison or relative valuation, such as, "many" relative to the total number of acronyms.

(5000 is a big number on its own, but not compared to 5 million.)

And secondly, I had first come across usage such as gf and bf in emails between Westerners and Indians known to me, some 15-odd years ago, and Indian (techie) English has many :) possibly unique acronyms such as o/p for output, i/p for input, so I thought at the time, that gf and bf might be Indian English acronyms, having not come across them in general Western English usage, at least before that.

[1] An arcane reference to an Asterix comic issue, maybe Asterix in Rome (or Italy), where they talk about learning modern languages such as Latin :)
I really liked Hebert's Property-Based Testing with PropEr, Erlang, and Elixir. It's in Erlang and Elixir, but the concepts transfer well to other languages and property-based test systems.

https://pragprog.com/titles/fhproper/property-based-testing-...
> The fixed logic, at least judging by the commit message, still feels very shaky on correctness grounds

This was my experience as a dev on a team at Google for a few years. I saw a LOT of exceedingly lax treatment of correctness in the face of concurrency. There have even been multiple decisions I've seen to guess at how to fix concurrency bugs and just say "well, looks good to me, let's see if it does anything."

It's par for the course, and folks get (got? =P) paid handsomely for doing it.
Yep. I've kinda gone full circle on this. My view now is that it's increasingly difficult to say exactly what makes humans special or unique, if anything [0]. So it's overly anthropocentric to deny the possibility that other species have analogous experiences of the world, or experiences which are richer than ours, or completely inconceivable by us [1].

Sure, there will be people that do anthropomorphise the octopus' actions, but this doesn't deny the possibility that an octopus can experience something analogous to feeling pissed off. (See: my table has four legs therefore it's a dog.)

To preempt those who might say "ah, but you can't prove that an octopus does have any form of consciousness" I'd point out that it's practically impossible to do that with humans too.

[0] It's certainly not one single ability. Perhaps some fuzzy superset of fuzzy sets.

[1] I include consciousness in "experiences", and I'd suggest that human-type consciousness is just one among very many.
> That would be the same thing as storing the Private Key in a safe.

Same thing with LUKS. Password just unlocks the encrypted master key stored on the disk, which is then used to decrypt actual data.

Not sure why this one layer of indirection would matter to purpose of the law.

If you erase the LUKS header (by some tamper detection mechanism), then you will not be able to provide any means to decrypting the actual data, even if you give up the password. That may matter to the law, since nothing it does may ever yield the decrypted data.

But this same effect can be achieved with direct password->key transformation. Tamper detection can erase the data itself instead of the master key.
Employees need to get everything in writing as part of a contract/agreement. If a company won't put it in writing, then you should assume they are lying.
> If you're seriously interested in this topic, you should look into some vocal processing courses or videos on YouTube, because you are quite misinformed on some of this stuff.

Recommend one, I'd appreciate it.

> Many famous compressors are known for the color (saturation, technically speaking)

Are you comparing colouration / saturation from a classic compressor to autotune?

I agree with you on most of the last paragraph. Thanks for the explanation.
Right, really punish the rest of the team who has to make up for your absence. That'll teach Elon.
https://archive.ph/CshEo
What do you mean about selling some? He didn't get anything out for himself by effectively putting them up for Twitter collateral. He's effectively setting them on fire and causing panic.

He'd cause less panic by saying "I need to sell some because I wanted to buy a small country".
But fundamentally and crucially, nobody is bailing these banks out. Bitcoin itself, and its holders (other than those who left their money in FTX) are untouched. It seems to be unironically working as intended, no?
> To me the most interesting part to vocaloid is the ability for a sole producer to make a complete song without any external help. The vocal parts have always been a barrier, and while emotionless and still lacking in some areas, vocaloids are “good enough” to support a well produced song.

An early example of this was the debut album of Boston which was mostly recorded in Scholz's basement with him on every instrument except drums, then the tapes were mailed to LA for Delp to record vocals. I think it's rather funny in particular that Rock and Roll Band was written and mostly recorded before the band even existed.
> Companies lie to employees all the time.

My friends and I have no loyalty to our employers at this point. Big or small, we've all been burned. Some places are just less unpleasant than others. My bar is so low that as long as no one is screaming at me or threatening my coworkers I usually call that a good day. Getting out of retail helped.
That would make for a great fundraising gala. The Mets at The Met
It's weird how many people are experiencing sudden onset amnesia. Prior to Elon getting control, everyone understood Twitter was a mess, was losing tons of money and not able to get anything done for the past decade.

Obviously it needs a major shakeup.
This issue could happen in any language, as a matter of fact it was happening in native JVM code ( C++ ).
From a Machiavellian (? I think) perspective, better to do the layoffs first and flood the job market with people before making other unpopular decisions that may drive people away. No idea if that was the plan but it makes sense.

(Even if the number cut doesn't amount to anything market moving, they probably share a lot of the same network, and it will definitely looks like a flood of job seekers in most twitter employees bubbles, and those of their immediate networks)
Ai Dee by Mitchie M is famously tagged [Miku & Luka sing like humans] on the original upload, so that was an explicit goal. Of course, it may not sound as impressive today as it did in 2012, but it's a reasonable attempt.
The sacred 80-column rule. Why still?
There's a lot of interesting philosophical/metaphysical implications of quantum mechanics, not the least of which is the particular observationally-equivalent interpretation (e.g. Copenhagen or Von Neumann-Wigner[0]).

This essential subjectivity opens the floodgates to all sorts of quasi-profound nonsense. This is unfortunate, because quantum physics is easily a Copernican-level revolution in the relation of the mind, observation, and the world observed, but these lines of investigation have become radioactive due to association with the crystal-power crowd - who are among those trying to turn back the clock to a non-universal world of humans occupying a distinguished place at the center.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Von_Neumann%E2%80%93Wigner_int...
Anyone in a position to be sent to prison isn’t currently being oppressive.

The Terror (1793-1794) really was more about political opponents than addressing past oppression. Approximately 2% of the population was arrested and about 1/8th of them where executed including many aristocrats but also a high percentage being clergy etc. Basically anyone labeled as counter-revolutionary was killed off, a classic culling of political opponents after a revolution.
I hope our leaders are measuring the right things. It's discouraging to read how Mayers came to her decision to ban remote work.

> She said the decision stemmed from her first few months at Yahoo, when she was spending a couple of hours every day in the cafeteria talking to any employee who wanted to chat.

Selection bias.

> Mayer decided on the ban after spending months frustrated at how empty Yahoo parking lots were and consulting Yahoo’s VPN logs to see if remote employees were checking in enough.

Confirmation bias.

Both clear examples of cognitive bias: reading into easily accessible data as a proxy for relevant valid data and using it to justify decisions.
It's ok, for good Java dev I assume they know at least how to troubleshoot performance issue with JFR, if you need to go deeper in native / perf events that's more the job of a very senior or perf people.
Contra Resident Contrarian on Unfalsifiable Internal States
I agree.

I feel like any discussion around remote work often involves comments that take personal anecdotal evidence and applies it to all remote work.

I do agree with losing social aspects. That being said, it's helped me realize that I should focus on being social OUTSIDE of work, rather than relying on work to be social.
If they reasonably cannot determine its owner, they get to seize it, but if you show up with proof it's yours they have to give it back (and go through the normal process).
Musk loves Twitter. You don’t have to point to the billions he spent on it, you can just see that he loves using it. He might want to change it, might destroy it accidentally in the process (like a kid who hugged their beloved pet too hard), but he didn’t set out to destroy it.
I hated those tags back then, but they crack me up now...
Every company has a cool tagline for how they are changing the world. Very few are.
Musk was the CEO of the merged company for a few months, before being fired for incompetence by the board. Afterward, they renamed themselves "paypal." Musk was rich enough to not have to sell his shares until the IPO, so he made a big payday.

I think of Elon Musk as being that guy who goes on a winning streak playing "double or nothing" coin flips. Enough people are doing it in Silicon Valley that one of them was going to hit a run of several heads, and get rich.
I really like these Netflix tech blog posts. They actually dive into areas that I’m not aware of and show me some technical details instead of high level waffling.

It’s interesting because the longer I work, the better my own code becomes, and as I make fewer mistakes myself, I’m starting to see more unexpected issues that have their root cause deeper down the stack. In my case that’s mostly dependencies.

At Netflix they go a step further and find issues with the JVM itself :)
If they were able to be guillotined they could have been imprisoned.