skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>They love to debit any linked bank accounts to pay any fees or clawback any money so they can freeze it.
>And PayPal requires you link an account for verification now.

What's the problem here? If you give them access to your main bank account, you're an idiot. Just set up a separate account for the sole purpose of linking to PayPal. You should do the same for any case where you need to link a bank account to an external entity.
One radically different approach would be going for low weight, basically the bikes you'd see in road racing with some minor changes for longevity. For 10k miles you'd want to carry two replacement chains and three or four tires (not pairs), and a generous amount of tubes (the author's argument against tubeless is perfectly valid, they are only tubeless until they are not). Even with all routine spare parts (and some selected not-so-routine) much lighter than the "unbreakable heavy duty" bikes that keep breaking in surprising ways, 10k miles isn't much to those fragile-looking speed machines. But the caveat is that you'd have to radically minimize luggage, because if you'd pack the fragile-looking like the seemingly unbreakable, they would quickly cease being fragile-looking. Just like the seemingly unbreakable would completely fail to disappoint, without the load they usually get burdened with. (bags impose far more stress on the bike per unit of mass than the rider, because the rider separates his mass from the bike with active, predictive suspension while the bags just hang on)
None of my pawns are rendered on the screen (playing as black)
I recently closed my PayPal account - when they had that weird thing they were trying to add to their terms about fining people if they made posts that were wrongthink[1].

The total impact to my life has been about 35 seconds of inconvenience adding a CC to steam and a couple other things instead of paying with PayPal.

I'm in the habit now of divesting myself from any financial institution that attempts to influence or place controls on how I spend my money, or that gets involved with politics in pretty much any way, "right" or "left". I want my financial institution to be Switzerland and accountable only to their fiduciary responsibility.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/wrongthink
In this parallel universe I wonder if Fred Armisen still makes a show but calls it 'Bostonia'. Same number of syllables so the song still works.
You can google and see Elon sends the motivational 'bankruptcy' email to all his companies every so often.
Looked pretty respectful to me. Musk was throwing devs under the bus, a dev politely corrected them.
True, I didn't see that. Still, he wasn't her boss at the time, that was the day he filed the first termination letter of his attempt to buy twitter, so it looked like he never would be. (I'm assuming she pinned it after he fired her, but I'm not sure.)

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922...
I can’t speak to Twitter specifically, but Monzo are a company somewhat famous for their thousands of microservices which they’ve written about, so that might provide some insight to how a company could use so many: https://monzo.com/blog/2022/06/24/redefining-our-microservic...
I have to disagree. Using the dev tools in Firefox and Chromium is way easier than fiddling in Notepad and constantly reloading.
Everything about mastadon seems pretty bad in that way. You basically just need to clone how twitter works an go from there
I know - I also speak Czech/Slovak. They were harder for me to learn than Russian specifically due to the extra mental load of having to manage another set of pronunciations for Latin letters. This is solely due to English being my first language.
Puff pieces are part of the PR machine. From what little I know of it, they’re basically ghostwritten by PR agencies so they cost almost nothing in the way of journalists to produce. Also, there is the quid pro quo aspect where puff pieces are (presumably) traded for things like access and other newsworthy information
PayPal created an account without ID, they can close an account without ID. Using your logic, couldn't people just open a fraudulent account because they didn't present an ID? That is a much worse outlook.

The account (email) that created the PayPal account is requesting it to be deleted, that should be sufficient. If both accounts have been insecurely breached, that's really the user's fault. PayPal could even mark the account as pending deletion after 30 days if we're really worried about this.

You shouldn't be able to stand around and blackmail the user for even more personal information to sell or "accidentally leak" to advertisers under the guise of "security."
Amazing stuff. I thought I knew how to risk my career just for the sake of comedy, this lass shows that she's varsity and I'm
not even cleaning the jv bench
> You can't get banned from email.

Sure, you can host your own email server. Doesn't mean your emails are going to actually reach anyone (i.e., GMail, Outlook, etc. email servers). There's not much point in self-hosting your Mastodon service if it's just you and a few of your buddies (might as well just have a private IRC channel).

But the website, telephone analogies stand.
lichess is open source, feel free to add it
The 12 billion or so COVID vaccine doses given also only have a history of ~2 years. If the adverse effects of it were say for instance, minor cardiac damage that resulted in no acute symptoms, but instead an overall reduction in life expectancy by 5 years, the costs of such would not be known for some time. Another side of this is the possible cumulative effects of ongoing covid vaccination boosters that have no long term data.

Finally also the danger of immunological imprinting[1] possibly resulting in less than optimal immune response. The fact these vaccines have little impact on transmissibility means basic evolutional biology theory is at play, driving selective pressures for antigens humans are less capable of mounting defenses against thanks to an already primed imuno response of the original virus' antigens. This is evident with the proliferation of variants and sub variants.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org//wiki/Original_antigenic_sin
I don't think you can use ordinary market dynamics to regulate healthcare. During an emergency you should be driving to the closest hospital, not the most affordable one. And during an emergency you really have no insight as to how much of an emergency you have on your hands. Healthcare can essentially demand your entire worth. The market also has not even provided sufficient incentive for hospitals to announce their prices up-front.
I mean, they do, to some extent. Not enough I guess? Here's an idea - how about you protect us from you.
Private companies still are 'valuated' by external third parties regularly and hold 'liquidity events' where private investors buy a combination of stock from employees and from the company itself. Usually once or twice a year.
It is extremely brutal
> So it is "good" for a company to destroy the thing it spent 15 years building, put all employees out of a job, and harm society in the process, because "shareholder value"?

Isn't that something to consider before taking a company public? I understand disagreeing with Musk's management, but from what I can see, the company did the best they could for the shareholders, which is by definition their job as a public company. If someone or some group placed a greater value on the company, they could have bought it. It's definitely a callous system, but it comes with the territory of being a public company, and is part of the reason why many good companies avoid public markets. Anger against the board and shareholders is misplaced
Common LISP?
And none of those would explain why Gusto crashes for the person you replied to
Iran protests: Tehran court sentences first person to death over unrest
What does it mean, that it's replacing set theory? Is it more fundamental than set theory, in the sense that the latter can be defined in terms of it? Or is it different from set theory entirely, meaning different math comes from each?
> I'm not sure if any of the proposed latinization variants would retain this feature.

Maybe Slovene alphabet? (Slovak went with Russophilic y/i in 19. century).
> The technology for webrings was owned and managed by webring.org

> A webring offered a free and decentralized experience

Which is it lol? Decentralized or owned and managed by a single domain?
Many small time make big time
>It's really an opportunity for the employees to make that a reality. Elon (like his other companies) is going to put the engineers in control.

Please, consider investing in some real estate. I have a fantastic property in Brooklyn and it is a deal that you would not believe!

Or a less sarcastic response... You mean he'll put them in charge after firing them? Twitter literally barely works right now. I'm not sure how you came to the conclusions you have, but they are unreasonable on their face.
I believe that balance sheet supposedly contains Alameda assets too, but I'm not sure there. If so there is still an interesting question of what Alameda Research did with the funds -- as the reports of their assets had them mostly holding stuff FTX related companies printed.
Covid was hardly the start of the conservative antivax or alternative medicine movement. Naturalnews.com has been right-wing and antivax since 2008.
Can't you spend it? Perhaps on some kind of donation where you can specify the amount.
>You can't get banned from having your own website.

You must have missed the Kiwifarms controversy.
That’s quite the generalization.
>> Profile the function that is called if object is not found in cache ? Have pluggable cache with plugin that just doesn't cache? That is not hard problem to solve.

>The more the dynamic behavior of the profiled system and the real system deviate, the harder it is to isolate what's causing the slowdowns.

Whose quote you repeat without thinking ? It's not that relevant if you know how profiling works...

>> Well, they delivered (I'm guessing) 10x improvement in a month by adding cache.

>Yes, but by doing this they also tremendously increased the complexity of the project

Not really in most cases its pretty simple to add it, and if you profiled correctly you'd start with only adding extra code in hottest part of the app

> and (unless the team has someone like GP in it) prevented further optimizations.

Uh, just no. It might've fixed problem well enough to not be touched but it ain't stopping anything, just a different solution.

> It may still be a good trade-off, but the overall sorry state of pretty much all software everywhere suggests it may not be a good one usually.

The assumption here that the same developers that fucked up caching would somehow manage to achieve same speedup with "just" optimizations and less bugs is bold one.

Hell, many low level optimizations are also basically "using cache" (but CPU one) well, althought compiler usually gets you out of most egregious mistakes (unless you decide to write multithreaded C/C++ carelessly I guess.

>> And frankly ability to use profiler and knowing some architectural optimizations seems to be pretty rare skill.

> That's kind of reinforcing the parent's point, though.

What point exactly ? That average developer is bad at their job ? Poster above explicitly said that the worse developers claimed it can't be optimized more in the first place, what else you expect from them ? Cache was the most cost-efficient solution most likely.
The last bullet point reminds me of the description from a game in China Miéville's Kraken.

> The “universal leaper” was usually thought the most powerful piece, he read, as it could go from where it was to any other square on the board. But it was not. Kraken was... It could move to any square including the one it was already on. Anywhere including nowhere.
While that's true, the phone numbers without the name and other information cannot be weaponized.

The phone numbers can be generated - there are only 8 changing digits in Australian mobile phone numbers (the first 2 digits are always 04).
Not really.

The purists care about independence from government but they also don’t like centralized exchanges so they don’t care if they are regulated.

The other people are in for the gamble rather than the fundamentals of crypto. A certified casino is probably more trustworthy to them.

As long as the government doesn’t try to regulate the chain, both groups are satisfied.
Why would this ever be a smart move? Afaik he couldnt realistically dodge more taxes than he lit on fire at Twitter.
you shouldn't start a new project with microservices, even if you're sure your application will be big enough to make it worthwhile.

https://martinfowler.com/bliki/MonolithFirst.html
Elon's "free speech" is just marketing. He himself is not qualified to moderate Twitter. They're offended easily and throw tantrums when they don't get their way. If this is how the boss acts the rest of the staff will be taking notes and doing it to you too.
> Storage is the big cost problem. Where does all this stuff go, and who pays for it? IPFS was supposed to be the distributed answer to this, and Filecoin was supposed to be the way to pay for it. That didn't work out. On the other hand, if someone wants it out there, then maybe they have to pay to store one copy.

> That didn't work out.

Can you expand on this point? At my end, IPFS runs along just fine: My IPFS instance in particular continues to serve its content without much fuss. For Filecoin, the content hosted there is still on the network, there's just much less speculative fervor surrounding it & other networks like it.
I understand but that reason/excuse only works to a point. They might not need to close it right away but should still close it soon. They should lock the account attempt to contact the person using their contact methods and give them perhaps 30 days (90 at most) in case:

- The person asking to close the account isn't the same person the account belongs to, and the person who created the account is on a vacation or something

- There is some nefarious activity in progress and closing the account would hamper dealing with it

...and after this they can close the account without demanding the ID.
I'm removing my account and subsequently removing all other accounts that uses PayPal, like turbosquid, but I'm having a hard time. They say they don't delete accounts [1], I'm sure that's not legal. Does anyone had any tips on it?

1 - https://resources.turbosquid.com/how-do-i-close-my-account/#....
Don't be a doomer. We have the technology.
There's even been posts about this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30222736
Don't overthink it. Elon's a huge ass.
Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and most recently Kazakhstan have switched their namesake languages from Cyrillic to Latin alphabets. Some of these languages have been written in Latin, Arabic, and Cyrillic over the years, but there's definitely a movement away from Cyrillic after the Soviet Union.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazakh_language#Writing_system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmen_language#Writing_syste...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzbek_language#Writing_systems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azerbaijani_language#Writing_s...
How were they simpler?
> For all practical purposes at this point in time, if you don't assume your exchange is lying about their reserves and at high risk of a run you're in for a massive loss.

I'm a cryptocurrency advocate and I agree. This is why users should 1) never put more funds at risk in an exchange than they are willing to lose (at least, not at the same time), and 2) should demand Merkle-tree based proofs of crypto reserves, like the Kraken exchange has done out of their own initiative, or some other kind of proof of crypto reserves by cryptographic signature and 3) should demand periodic financial audits of their exchanges from reputable financial auditing firms (not the clown show that FTX's financial auditor was, which had offices... IN THE METAVERSE).

Points 2) and 3) are not infallible (especially because exchanges can get hacked) which is why point 1) is so important.

I also think that crypto exchanges should require new customers to pass a relatively strict test about crypto, investment and trading basics, before they could start operating with cryptocurrencies or with any other such trading products. Especially since crypto exchanges are the most common onboarding vector for new crypto users.

Because it's obvious that many crypto users do not know what they're getting into and all the risks that they are taking.

> I am heavily against crypto, but I will be the first to point out the decentralization purists were right: not your keys, not your coins. If you're going to play this game, putting complete trust in mostly unregulated entities who have conflicting self-interests from you...yikes.

Agreed, although I would nitpick in that by itself, regulation is hardly a guarantee that the risks have been eliminated. In fact, many bank failures and financial crisis, for example, have happened despite massive regulations. Also, many regulations are pointless burocracies or even have massively detrimental and/or have unintended consequences in many ways, such as limiting competition unnecessarily, promoting inequality and unfairness by preventing savvy investors (with non-massive amounts of funds) from being able to invest, etc, etc, etc.

But yes, in general I agree with you and I think more transparency for crypto exchanges is definitely needed and maybe should even be required by regulation, given that most exchanges are not doing it themselves out of their own initiative (even though it would be in their collective best interests in the long term).
I've noticed no pattern with me or my friends. I haven't gotten covid despite spending days unmasked, indoors, with people who were infectious. Some of my friends have gotten ridiculously unlucky, getting covid and taking weeks to recover despite being young, healthy, boosted, and wearing N95s everywhere. Of course general rules apply: A mask is better than nothing. Vaccines reduce the risk and severity of infection. But these interventions aren't as effective as originally claimed, and the variance in outcomes is massive. You can't just put on an N95, live life normally, and expect to avoid this disease.
Everything he's doing is bringing Twitter inline with how SpaceX and Tesla already operate. It's a massive culture shock/change. Insubordination is not tolerated. Everyone is super mission focused. No one is irreplaceable.
If "business-related" means: "what contributes to earn you money", then they are. The boundary is typically not the amount of money, but whether there is an intention to make a profit over a longer period of time.

So if you have a permanent Website of your open-source product to promote some other product or service, or ask for donations or put ads on the site, you intent to make a profit out of your open-source product. (Almost?) every possible answer to the question: "How can I generate revenue with my open source project?" describes a business related context.
I mean, yes self hosting a Linux computer in the cloud requires certain skills and time. This is the basis of the business model for the biggest companies on the internet - we will run a service for you so you don’t have to run your own server. This is true even for hosting a basic HTML web page - a whole lot of people do not want to operate their own server, and this in no way means the service is bad.
Where have you been? I think you may be uninformed on this.

Here's some details: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/26/technology/twitter-musk-b.... Later when Elon sought to pull out of the deal, Twitter threatened to go to court to enforce that $1B fee, which led to the buyout proceeding.
It feels like Big Tech frequently settles to avoid discovery where the public would find out what is really going on.
Modern polymer textiles are a beast. One time, my fencing coach had to replace the clip for the electric connector at the back of his jacket which had worn out and broken off. The tailor couldn't puncture it to sew in a new clip, and had to get some specialized equipment to perform the repaier.

Accidents can still happen, though, especially if a broken weapon slides into the sleeve. But still way safer than in the past.
I respect that! I’ve found Twitter as a drama generator has always affected my mental health negatively after inhaling too much.

It’s like purposely designed so you can take anything out of context, zap it to everyone worldwide, get angry at people you agree with, pile on, bully people. It’s so bad!
Apple Card Credit at the Apple store does not work like this, neither does Amazon's Chase card.

Their suggested auto payments pay everything off with 0% afaik.

This is all US info I have.
> the central question of “would you be able to convict an ex-rep for having a sudden upwards change in job?”

I think the problem here is that you believe it's the central question, whereas I don't. It's a minor issue in the larger question of whether sortition is better than elections.

Anyway, I'll close this by dropping these links: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_polit... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_state_and_loc...
"A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer you didn't even know existed can render your own computer unusable."

-- Leslie Lamport
There's definitely some connections between analysis and category theory though! There are "self-adjoint operators" in analysis and there are "adjoint functors" in category theory, and it is sort of fun to think about the analogy there.
I played some 10 games or so, before I couldn't reach the server anymore.

Pretty fun, I like it! I'm going to try it tomorrow with a friend of mine that's about my level and see how it goes, hopefully those practice games will serve me well ;)
> And you'd never want to use wire ($18+) for paying friend back for pizza

Sending and receiving wire transfers is free with my bank, but even still no way I’d ever use it for that use case.
It doesn't seem to have chat which from what I've heard is one of (if not the) most valuable part of Bloomberg Terminal. From a quick read of the landing page linked, it seems to just be an analysis platform, not the full fledged platform that Bloomberg is.
I worry the hand wringing about truth being revealed about rich/powerful due to concerns about "right wingers" is in some way contributing to the lack of accountability these people face
> Do you think uprooting your life is a piece of cake?

I'm an immigrant in a non-English speaking country, I'm well aware of how difficult it is to uproot, and I can tell you that what I'm doing (on the surface) is much harder than going from India to North America.

> That's living in a mansion with servants kinda rich.

That doesn't counter the problems with the infrastructure. If you stay in your mansion then I'm sure it's great but go outside…

Funnily enough, I used to wonder if I could set myself up in India with a VOIP number with a London area code, so I've considered it. But now I'm older and wiser and I'd choose Canada too (just).
I think this attitude about "bad judgement" needs to evolve. We need to consider whether a worker's profane tirade is a reflection of their judgement or a reflection of working under an extremely abusive boss.
I'm not a Tcl expert, but now that I think about it, I'm not sure you're correct. My recollection is that Tcl is one of the few to have a true hybrid engine. So if you use look-around or backreferences, then Tcl could provide an exponential runtime. If that's true, then Tcl would be included in "Nonetheless, every popular programming language (except Go[1]) has included an exponential backtracking regex implementation in their standard library," with perhaps a caveat or special mention. But it's still a categorically different guarantee than what, say, RE2 provides.
No, that's separate property. That's his as long as trust funds are not commingled with community funds.