skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "regret is not apology" seems to refer to a specific type of regret. That is, https://sorrywatch.com/regret-is-not-apology-karl/ says:

> Regret is all about you; apology is all about another person’s feelings. Regret stands alone; apology reaches out to someone else. Also, shut up with the whole “regret the controversy” business. That phrase just means, “I’m irked at other people.” Regret your actions, then apologize for them. Do not say you regret other people’s responses to your being an asshole.

Note that it contains "regret" used two different ways.

Your "admittance of wrongdoing" is part of "regret your actions", while that chant concerns "regret other people’s responses".

You can see the book authors' "The Six Steps to a Good Apology" at https://sorrywatch.com/ . Your "knows their actions are wrong" is "2. Say specifically what you’re sorry FOR" and your "would take them back" is likely closest to "5. Explain the actions you’re taking to insure this won’t happen again."

(See also https://sorrywatch.com/the-parts-of-a-good-apology/ .)

Thing is, I don't think the author of the New Yorker piece really addresses the points of the book, but instead uses it as a stepping stone to a very different interpretation of the topic, and lumping the book into a lumpy mishmash of religion and Twitter mobs.

Which that book ... doesn't seem to be about.

The web site gives an example of a good apology that Lincoln gave to Grant, at https://sorrywatch.com/when-lincoln-was-wrong/ , and commentary on Grant's poor apology for ordering the expulsion of Jews from the Department of Tennessee, followed by his actions which help make up for that apology.
I think at least part of why we consider these to be successes is because they've been around a while without being killed. So newer products aren't considered successes on the same level as those mentioned by OP because they haven't been around as long.
I would recommend looking more closely at the article.

Stability.ai, the company who developed and released the model being discussed, have not added a safety filter to the model. As the article points out, the filter is specifically implemented by HuggingFace's Diffusers library, which is a popular library for working with diffusion models (but again, to be clear, not the only option for using Stable Diffusion). The library is also open source, and turning off the safety filter would be trivial if you felt compelled to do so.

So, "these tech companies" aren't overcome by glee over censoring you. One company implemented one filter in one open source and easily editable library.
Yes, but they need a god tier PM that can beat back the infighting with a big enough stick.
> No, I just show them the people who smoke, and ask them if they want to be like them.

What happens when they see all the rich and famous people on TV who also smoke and sing/rap about smoking? What makes you so sure they won't want to be like them?
Just a reminder: not every company has to have a startup mode of operating where new products are important to the success of the company and the satisfaction of its customers.

Exxon, State Farm, Keller Williams Realty, Five Guys, Morton Salt, your local dive bar, so many successful businesses out there have introduced almost nothing in terms of a new product in decades or sometimes even centuries.
The Complete Guide to Startup Metrics in 2023
Check it out if you're interested in the right financial metrics for tech startups to track going into '23.

Doing this hard work for investors can make it easier to invest in your business and if you're optimizing for the right numbers it will earn you a higher valuation to boot.
With training, people in wheelchairs can navigate cluttered spaces
A mind-controlled wheelchair can help a paralyzed person gain new mobility by translating users' thoughts into mechanical commands. Researchers now demonstrate that tetraplegic users can operate mind-controlled wheelchairs in a natural, cluttered environment after training for an extended period.
This reminds me of when you get 2 or 3 little mosquito fish in your tank, soon you have 50 in a few weeks and you're wondering what you're going to do. Eventually the brood sizes get smaller and the tank finds its own equilibrium.
Yeah that is similar to Aurora. Basically a query engine on top of S3. Not sure if it is based on postgres or not though. It wouldn't shock me if it was as I know AWS Redshift is a forked version of postgres.
There is an interesting analogy which came to my mind. Let's say we have $100 each and both decided to buy stock, only I bought e.g. Microsoft shares, and you bought Facebook. Who has more money (i.e. cash)? Hard to tell until we both sell and compare. Similar things happen with inertial frames of references. You can only compare time when you are at the same point in space and have zero relative speed (reminds me of Back To The Future moment when Doc Brown compared watches). E.g. time on the ISS is ticking slower. Really? How do we know that? We put one clock on the ISS (i.e. launch it there), wait some time and bring it back. Yes, it shows less ticks. Is it because ISS is moving? Not really, ISS is following its world line and is roughly an inertial system, so its time is proper. And proper time is always the shortest. We on Earth on the other hand are constantly crossing world lines (unless falling down with 1g of acceleration). Why is it in reverse then? Because we need to accelerate to get there and decelerate returning back. Now imagine that somebody from ISS sends one of their clocks down to the Earth then gets it back. Which clock has less ticks? You guessed it, the one that traveled to Earth and back, because it's our time that is dilated, not their.
Flutter has been great for me. Still think it would have benefited from focusing on only mobile/desktop and fixing some of those Github issues instead of web support. As a backend developer working on simpler apps it's been great. It's a product I would be more than happy to pay for.
This makes no sense. EV torque is instant. There are no benefits to switching. Get a sportier car if you need better driver engagement.
I'm not sure if any exist, but this link[1] pulls up this link[2].

1. https://pinboard.in/t:swift/t:linux/

2. https://www.kodeco.com/8325890-a-complete-guide-to-swift-dev... (formerly raywenderlich.com)
And for those that don't know - entering Basic code on the Spectrum (well the original one at least) was ALL single/shifted key shortcuts for keywords rather than typing them out.

eg https://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/sinclair_zx-spec...

The low cost and quirky masochism was mainly why we loved it.
People assume that empathy is something that nice people do. It isn't. It's just another tool. Back when I cared about liberal politics [0] one of the points I constantly made was that we needed to be sympathetic and understand conservative worries even if ultimately we didn't care. I had managed to get dozens of hard right people to consider ditching the GOP when attacking the party in a way that their base understood.

[0] Having OWS raided in the middle of the night with flashbangs and killdozers made me seriously reconsider who you support politically. Thanks Obama!
If you buy a property with a grave on it (knowingly or not), I wonder if there’s any way to legally move it to a proper cemetery?
The police were approved for, but did not use, a no-knock warrant. Their presence was entirely legal.

Breonna Taylor was listed on the warrant, not only her boyfriend.

Of the agents involved, the majority were innocent of any wrong-doing. The agent that plead guilty did so for a clerical error.
It's a question I've been thinking about during this. The current narrative is that Musk is destroying value, which he probably is, but what if Twitter was as bloated as he thinks it was. What if he gets a core of 500 people working hard and twitter not only stabilizes but grows and innovates and becomes worth 10x. That's honestly a pretty scary notion for a lot of software engineers. CEOs will (and some already have) look around and realize that maybe they can get rid of a lot of the people around them, save a lot of money, and end up with a team better able to make product.

Now, I don't really believe that will happen because software and technology is mind numbingly complex now, and I think only through large bodies of software engineers are we able to tame it, but it is one distinct possibility. Obviously it is the outcome Musk believes in.

Issue is, people kill themselves to make awesome electric cars and rockets straight out of scifi, but to make a better twitter? I'm not seeing it.

But I'm often (usually?) wrong!
Now I really want to see the naughty picture of a dolphin swimming in a sea of vectors that the model refused to show us.
Not sure about Vroom, but carmax actually performs proper car inspections before purchase.

Those CarMax inspections are so valuable that vultures patrol the parking lot, and if you leave without selling your car, they'll follow you home and make an offer on your car.

It happened to me. CarMax said the car was worth $8,500. I wanted to bring in my other car for an evaluation to decide which one to sell. A guy followed me to the grocery store across the street, approached me in the parking lot and started his pitch with, "I'll give you a thousand dollars more than whatever CarMax offered you."

I asked him if he wanted to look under the hood and take it for a test drive or anything, and he said he didn't need to, because CarMax had already done the hard work for him.

(My life situation changed shortly thereafter and I didn't end up selling either car.)
What should I say, trying to go sub millisecond, one profiling run at a time, sigh...
> left wing political ideas like global warming

There's your problem. That's not a "left wing political idea," that's a fact that right wingers just don't like.
Circa 2001 I was working with an entrepreneur to develop a voice chat service aimed at the Brazilian market although we were based in the US. The company was registered in a Caribbean island known to be a "jurisdiction of convenience" and I would occasionally get phone calls from vendors who asked "is this a scam?" and I'd tell them "No, there are many legitimate corporations large and small that are registered in 'offshore' jurisdictions."

Many big US corporations (e.g. Google) are registered in the US state of Delaware, for instance, which is one of the least transparent jurisdictions in the world.

This doesn't mean they are legit, but I wouldn't necessarily hold it against a company because they are registered in Gibraltar. On the other hand if you decided you wanted to have nothing to do w/ a crypto exchange I wouldn't blame you.
Props for being able to articulate coherent and reasonable principles, independently of your own final determination.
It's not ironic. I do find OP's post annoying.
Think of all the time that could be better appropriated than on fintech in general. Seems like such a waste of resources siccing a bunch of computers against each other in a zero sum game of stock arbitrage. I will admit some of the stuff tech comes out of it is cool on its own at least.
Is that Windows 10 or 11? I haven't encountered any of those issues in Windows 11.
Musk himself has said multiple times Twitter might go bankrupt. They were already losing money and it wasn't really a sustainable business when he bought it given economic trends; something had to change.

The particular melodrama aimed at Musk right now is just cope amongst the milieu he is purging from Twitter and/or hurt feelings and ressentiment of the media class over Musks stance on free speech. They want him to fail and will go overboard at every little attempt he makes to change direction of the company.

This is a good take here. It's all performative outrage:

https://twitter.com/ShantMM/status/1593649293927202816
The c++ interop would be nice in rust. The main complaint I'd heard with swift was how slow it is, especially if you dont compile with -Ounchecked. So a lot slower than rust even with -Ounchecked, and with it, slower than gc languages in general ocaml haskell that sort of thing. Has that gotten better? If so, safety and performance with c++ interop would be nice.
Yeah, it really depends on context.

It makes sense to give a subordinate a directive. That he is a subordinate, however, doesn't mean a direct question will lead to effective communication.

I've worked with both types of managers - the ones that ask direct, pointed questions and the ones that ask open ended ones. I think the latter are more effective, but it really depends on the role (you don't want open ended discussions in emergencies).

For me, though, "We have problem X. What are the options for resolving it?" has a better chance at success than "We have a problem X. Can you look into Y?"
irreparably is overused

on the contrary, almost nobody remembers anything where they weren't a main character
> For whatever reason (for obvious reasons that is, but doesn't matter) UTC was chosen in virtually any software system to keep time.

What was chosen really isn't UTC. Several UTC seconds in the past are not accurately representable in unixtime. Several unixtime seconds in the past are ambigious as to which UTC second they are.

Unixtime is awfully close to UTC time, but it's not the same. If UTC time stops inserting leap seconds and never has negative leap seconds, then they will be equivalent going forward.
Burying the lede counts as misleading, especially in corporate press releases, which are usually designed to obfuscate*. So this is a legit edit, covered by the "unless" in "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait."

I hesitate to point this out for fear of opening a loophole for abuses, but it really is a consistent pattern with press releases.

The other option, of course, is to find a good third-party article reporting on the same news. Whatever is in an organization's interest to obfuscate, is in a good reporter's interest to uncover, and if the story is important or popular, such an article probably exists somewhere.

* https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
I'm guessing it's fiat@[Alameda], but I have no clue.
Or just keep hammering away with the same question until you get an answer.

"What's 2+2"?
In response, the person explains how addition is.
"Okay, thanks for that context, but I don't think we ever actually got to the original question - what's 2+2?"
The person tells you a story about something cute their kid did when learning addition.
"Again, I think we're getting off track - can you please tell me what 2+2 is?"

If they continue long enough, you need to start cutting them off or addressing the issue more directly.

"I've asked four times what 2+2 is, and you've told me several stories about addition but haven't answered the question. Is there some reason you're not able to tell me what 2+2 is?"

Repeat until you either get an answer to the question or an explanation of why the person you're asking can't answer the question.
Winklevoss twins’ Gemini crypto exchange caught up in FTX meltdown
Even the old deci/deca/hecto/centi prefixes are largely avoided, especially in science/engineering.
While fully acknowledging that Elon is a jerk…

Most engineers should be able to run “git log -p —author=myname —since=‘12 months ago’” and find 10 examples of non-trivial code.

And those that can’t, should be able to provide a good explanation of what they contribute instead.
One thing I found super interesting was that the participants in that study rated both diets equally tasty, which points to some other reason why one diet was easier to overeat than the other! My guess would be that the ultra-processed diet is simultaneously more calorie dense and less satiating. It's true that that's not inherently bad, per se, but if we can prove that those factors cause weight gain and related health issues then I'd be pretty comfortable calling ultra-processed foods bad.

Have you heard of Stephan Guyenet? His book The Hungry Brain is a good read on the neuroscience of obesity. He proposes that eating highly palatable calorie-dense foods changes the brain in various ways that ultimately drive us to consume more of those foods and to have difficulty changing our eating behavior. Unfortunately his suggestion is to eat an intentionally bland diet, which is obviously unappealing, but my anecdotal experience is that highly palatable but less processed foods (e.g. a wheel of brie) are far more satiating than similar but ultra-processed foods (e.g. queso made from velveeta).

I'm not sold on the idea that we need to eat bland foods, or only foods familiar to our hunter-gatherer ancestors, or only plant products...it seems to me that we only need to go back 50 years or so to before the dramatic rise in obesity started, which points toward avoiding ultra-processed foods. I hope we get more studies on this eventually!
Maybe you mean DAI? I don't think Rai is particularly stable.

Bitcoin is widely enough used to be a viable option. In Argentina, Tether is even more widely used. DAI and Rai aren't.
I think Twitter pioneered some pretty cool streaming technologies in its day.

Now Airbnb, those people caused untold suffering by both their impact on housing market, and by creating Airflow ...
Tidbits that I find intriguing:

* "The team found that the better feature discrimnancy is not only a result of machine learning of the device but also learning in the brain of the participants."
* "It suggests machine learning alone is insufficient for successfully maneuvering such a mind-controlled device, Millán says" (sic)
The thinnest video on YouTube [video]
SwiftUI is about 90% production ready if you're targeting the latest OS. The other 10% can be very nightmarish though if you run into any issues.
For what it's worth, Anbox/Waydroid can run the Android-based GUI quite well. The Android subsystem doesn't integrate too well with native applications, but for things like basic sync and even document editing it works, at least.
Usually that means something like keeping two sets of books.

In this case, there's... half a book? Or at least seems like that's the extent of it. Also a half filled out spreadsheet that doesn't make any sense.

It would be surprisingly bad even for a fly by night scammer who skimmed $100k before the cops caught up with him, let alone a billion+ dollar operation.

But good point. Essentially, 'less evidence to shred if we never had it in the first place'?
My friend, sounds like you need a good lawyer.
You do you. Just pointing it out in case it hadn't occurred to you. I can't say how likely people are to interpret "Idio" one way or the other, or how important it is to you. It is your project, after all. (I don't mean this comment to be antagonizing...)
It is worthwhile to look at the past; before leap seconds the disagreement with UT1 was handled by changing the rate of UTC slightly, and that's probably even worse than leap seconds. And for a while the unit of adjustment was less than a second, varying from 0.05 to 0.2 seconds. I believe enough people have complained about subsecond adjustments, and thus leap seconds have survived only because not enough people have complained at that time.
For comparison, Reddit has only 700 employees. How does Reddit handle scale and moderation with only 10% of the number of employees Twitter had in 2021?
This can indeed happen when a significant portion of humanity lives in the space, and can trigger the biggest change to how we keep date and time.
I buy older cars than Carvana seems to deal in, but I love the Craigslist and FB cars.

I get to the meetup point early (better if it's at their house where I can make judgments from that), and then I watch them drive up. Talk to them for a while, see if they're knowledgeable, etc. Then inevitably you get a name over the course of messaging/texting/email, and you can get more insight about their background. You get to talk to them for a while and find out why they're getting rid of it. If you've gotten to the point of trusting them (otherwise, you're long gone), ask specific questions about car history, and you can have reasonable hopes that they'll tell the truth.

Anyway, the car's been great, and he told me some problems that I would have taken 6 months to discover on my own.
Question: What does 7500 employees do at Twitter?

I cannot fathom what they do. Can someone help me with some general percent breakdown? How many are management, support, coders, testers, etc?
I'll try that out.
Things I've noticed while visiting the ICU
It's good for challenges with lots of tabular data with a consistent shape and relatively simple business logic. You can get data in and out via CSV, HTTP, websockets and more, so it's not too hard to connect up with other systems.

I think it's at least worth learning because of the way it makes you think about coding.
To me, i think it seems weird because its disconnected from stable diffusion.

I think the comparison would be if google maps had a terms of service forbidding using it to plan getaway routes during bank robberies. Like yes bank robberies are wrong, but if someone did that the sin would not be with google maps.
They give various reasons for their view based on observations of recent events at Twitter, in the comment you are responding to. What reasons do you have for attributing their views to personal animus? It's hard for me to imagine a way you could know the contents of the mind of a stranger on the internet, and I wonder if maybe you would make this remark about any comment expressing a similar sentiment, regardless of the evidence they provided or what their motives may be.

I submit that people who make this type of comment should be prepared to offer up not only what evidence they have that criticism of Musk (or whatever is being discussed) is insincere, but what sort of evidence they would need in order to accept the criticism.
Neat. I had figured the hour hand had a tiny gearing mechanism in the connection between the two hands. A magnet is a much simpler solution.

An old acquaintance of mine designed and sold an awesome wristwatch that used two ballbearings attached by magnets. [1] Not only was it useful for blind people (it was a much better mechanism than the old watches with an openable face, which could get misaligned by touching) but it was also fun to play with, as you could spin the ball bearings around and they could get caught again by the magnet. The video of the person spinning the hour hand reminded me of that.

1. https://www.eone-time.com/
Carvana did deliveries to your home (apparently), while CarMax would deliver to their nearest lot, which might be a long way away.
The thing is that there will be entire Java-like ecosystems that will have shorter longevity than the time between leaps. So practically all of them will have no facility for a leap at all.
Most officers involved were NOT criminals, have not been charged, have not been prosecuted.

Please avoid extremist talking points that avoid and obscure the truth, this is a site for discussion.
If you don't provide clear criteria for what counts as a "product launch" and "successful," most of the discussion will be people arguing over those definitions. Why is Cloud Platform not on your list, for example?
Link to Elon's reply, in case you're not logged in and it's buried: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592976585858351105

Interesting exchange considering Elon and George have had some back and forth in the past.
Nah I worked for a fortune 50 company and loved when I was able to interact with the CEO. I was able to often as I headed up some important infra. The local (CEO was stationed overseas but visited occasionally) execs were also fun to work with. Unless you like assaulted them or were extremely rude they would never go and try and get you fired for a mistake or for being off. Not that they were probably exceptional people or anything but more likely they just didn't care.