skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This guy is the same that started to peredict that Twitter will go down.

He was clearly wrong, for me Twitter already works better than before (multiple people who I was following were shadow banned, now I can see what they were writing without going to their profile page one by one, Elon is one of the examples).

I specifically set up Twitter to show all tweets from Elon (and some other people). It wasn't working, and now it works. I think this is a basic feature that doesn't need 8000 engineers to implement.

It seems like the author of the tweet can't take ownership for a bad prediction.
Children can be adopted. Thats a thing.
Forgiveness is about your commitment to move on from the wrong independent on the other person's action. It is more often an ongoing personal effort, and one you should always aim for after allowing space for appropriate anger.

Reconcilliation is about the other person acknowledging the accusation of wrong. A confession of sorts. I'd suggest in the face of sincere apology this is always desirable to reconcile (turn the other cheek and what-not).

Restoration is about returning to the person trust and its associated privildges. Not everyone deserves to be restored depending on what they've done. I would argue the true mark of contrition is an acceptance they may be forgiven but never restored (depending on the nature of offense, of course).
> Their premise was "we figure out where the luxury stuff is made and then make our white labeled stuff there without the markup" and (at least originally) charge an annual membership fee for access.

"Luxury" stuff, even t-shirts, are generally "cut and sew"[0] and not made with sourceable blanks. So I assume they were being a little weaselly with the word "luxury".

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cut_and_sew
ORT (Only Read Title, sorry) What I'm hearing is "put a non-deterministic black box between you and the man command."

Nah.

I recommend a stiff dose of Mickens: "Why Do Keynote Speakers..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k ) and a good lie down.
The article does not say they have access.
Ask HN: Pluralsight emailed about 3 days of free access since Nov18 and nothing
I've got an email from Pluralsight that there'll be 3 days of free access to their whole library of courses starting from Nov18 Friday, and still
the course I've chosen per my search prompt is locked as of Nov 18.
> Precisely. And that’s as good as it gets. There won’t be another group able to make the decision.

As long as those running the show in this "democracy" continue to have their way...which I suspect is the case as long as people run on a cognitive model where they are unable/unwilling to distinguish between predictions about reality (for example: the future) and reality itself.

> The initiatives were signed off in that citizens elect representatives....

The election of representatives is not an agreement with all the subsequent decisions made by those representatives, but if the minds of the public can be conditioned appropriately, it can cause it to appear that way to them (and: they will typically defend this clearly false belief passionately, if the conditioning is adequately powerful).

> There’s no way for a citizens panel to evaluate these kinds of details due to their secrecy.

I agree that there is no current way, but that was true for many current human capabilities prior to humans figuring out how to achieve them. But if you never even try to figure something out, there's a decent chance it will never be figured out.

> One way to improve it would be something like directing the entire portfolio to reduce carbon by 10% or something. But that would probably result in planting lots of trees or something.

Agreed. And I suspect there are many, many more opportunities for improvement. A plausibly decent way to come up with a shortlist of ways of more: utilize the human mind's capacity to think, ideally: free from all constraints (conditioning, censorship, etc). Easier said than done perhaps, but the true difficulty can only be discovered if one tries. If we continue to refuse to try (or even think about trying), then we may be stuck at this local maxima forever.
We semantically agree. There is a starting point to "processing" and the commentator's question for whether something applied falls into scope. Whether the connotation is agreeable to denotation is sort of a separate discussion, IMO. Separation of degree, not kind.
> The person who is forgiven doesn't need to know they are forgiven. Even if they are told, the feeling of freedom and the actual forgiveness comes before that.

I was with you until this last bit. My experience is that people will beg for forgiveness. Even if you forgive them, you’ll then find it’s reconciliation they were after. They will then ignore your forgiveness, or rather continue asking for it until you provide them a sense of reconciliation. I usually cut ties by then. They typically don’t really care how you feel and it’s all to boost their own ego and right the wrongs they’ve inflicted in their own mind.

Maybe not universally applicable but my experiences seem to follow this pattern.
> Billionaire venture capitalist Doug Leone said there wasn’t much his firm Sequoia Capital could do to predict the solvency crisis at FTX.

Due diligence? Independent accounting and governance/controls audits? No money left for risk management in the budget I suppose.
I thought he gave everyone who wanted Thanksgiving and Christmas and new years (and Hanukkah) off with pay.

They just had to not click on a button by 5pm yesterday.
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> This is patently untrue.

proof or gtfo.

> What do malloc and free have to do with computer architecture?

You're talking about a library at this point, but ultimately the root cause for allocating memory is because memory is limited, unlike, say CPU time. We do not allocate CPU time explicitly, even though there could be a CPU architecture that could support that, and C would run on it.

> Most of C's difficulty is deficiency of the language unrelated to its low level nature

Do you think that comparing signed and unsigned integers is also unrelated to CPU architectures?
This is what I hate about politics and political reporting. People can make a vaguely plausible sounding insinuation about anything being connected. And then noone can disprove it.
It is on completely different level, sandboxie doesnt use virtualization and is achieving its goal using API hooking. This means practically zero overhead.
> Processed meat refers to meat that has been preserved by smoking, curing, salting or adding preservatives. This includes sausages, bacon, ham, salami and pâtés.

> If you currently eat more than 90g (cooked weight) of red or processed meat a day, the Department of Health and Social Care advises that you cut down to 70g.

https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/eat-well/food-types/meat-nutrit...
Of course they will, until something materially horrible happens. They are all members of the CEO club and will defend each other out of a vested interest in avoiding knock-on effects. Why would they want to introduce additional volatility?
Then don't do it!
That's a fair point, and reasonable as someone who's looking for actionable insight. But papers are supposed to contradict each other. This is how scientific knowledge evolves.

I will not claim that nutrition science has achieved methodological purity, because obviously that is far from the truth. But the system doesn't seem to be as broken as folks think.

I think the field just has a long way to go before it settles on methods that are reproducible. Until then, opposing papers are literally the only path we have to get there.
I confirm you can pass cookies. You can also add data in the local storage via a user script.
A lot of this comes down to available resources too. I used to hate how many third party things we used on principle and because I directly felt all the pain of tying them together. Now I’m a lead and I still dislike it but because I have a realistic read on how much bandwidth my team has I think this has balanced my view. I also still feel the pain but sometimes more indirectly (code reviews, for example).

I think where I still struggle is “rules for thee but not for me”. At some point, someone on the team (usually the person in charge) is just going to be better at picking which external libs to let in. I find this really hard to teach without it seeming arbitrary. I find it a lot easier to teach good coding habits.
Because it is not useful or cool at all? If some politician, VIP, or other billionaire want to declare a war or inform about their career change and hit the reader with a sign in wall, they can get a blog. 1/6
Environmental impact of meat production is one major one, but it depends on what meat we're talking about. Beef and similar are absolutely terrible from an environmental perspective. It takes significantly more water and space to produce comparable quantities of beef to other meat sources, or plants. Chicken and Turkey are usually better on that score.
I worded it very poorly. Ethnicity is, historically, the primary vehicle for the sustainment of culture, values, and ethics.

The degree of homogeneity of culture, values, and ethics are a major factor in policy success or failure.

Therefore, an ethnically homogeneous area is much more likely to have homogeneous culture, values, and ethics and policies that reflect those things.

Sometimes, that homogeneity entails characteristics that lead to a generous, happy, high trust, flourishing society, like Finland. Sometimes it leads to Nazi Germany.
Here’s the announcement from the NCLA: https://nclalegal.org/2022/11/ncla-files-class-action-agains...
The bloat is deliberate. It comes from investors asking what you as a company manager are doing to put their money to work. One of the things you can do is hire more people, ostensibly to create more stuff to create more income. This lasts until the investors tell you you're being wasteful with their money by employing so many people. This is all that happened in the past couple of months.
Agreed. He is not entirely wrong on the principles, but his management style is clearly extremely risky here.

I am curious to see the outcome, difficult to predict, I don't know if there are any precedent.

I believe that software only companies can be run with a relatively small staff, but this is not easy and should be built in the company culture from the start.

My intuition is that company culture can only change quickly when it is degrading.
The World Cup is starting Sunday. That usually would be an all hands on decks event at least ops wise, but there are very few hands left and the door to the deck is closed anyway...
> most likely

> probably is correct

Yeah I don't know...
What non-seed oils do people use for moderate/high temp cooking? I

use olive for almost everything, but it’s not the best choice for high(er) temp so I go for the sunflower oil.
This is interesting.

The idea of having a standard library of types related to what are effectively program keywords... could be really good. Or hideous like global vars.

I wonder if any language has tried this?
Oh it's another ad disguised as an article
As someone going on 5 years vegetarian:

Environmental impact (both carbon and water), animal cruelty/welfare in factory farms, high cost of more sustainable/lower cruelty options, general distaste for most of it
> By that logic Walmart is a tech company because I can buy stuff on their website.

And Uber is a tech company because its a taxi service with an app.

And Airbnb is tech company because its a house renting company with an app.

etc.
I can confirm the GP matches my experience in academia (PhD, published a paper based on my dissertation, left academia shortly after).

There is immense pressure for early career researchers to work on low-hanging fruit that will give easy guaranteed publications: make a minor change to previous work and write a paper about it; write a paper about what other people wrote papers about (either a review or a meta-analysis); etc. etc. This is how you rack up publications for your tenure review. It's also how you rack up publications to get funding.

Once you have tenure you have a bit more freedom, but you still need to worry about funding (generally). And by that time you've been in the habit of grabbing the lowest-hanging fruit for 1-1.5 decades, assuming you were ~well trained~ in graduate school. After so long reinforcing that habit it becomes hard and scary to build a ladder and go after the better, higher fruit.
Are you going to be able to do it under the conditions of massive brain drain? Better hope the engineering and SRE teams had up to date SOPs that work well. Oh, and you’re new. So that means you need to probably start getting access granted to services on the fly first to even see dashboards. But it sounds like that team has also seen massive attrition…

Are you sure you can be effective coming completely cold into a company with massive attrition?
I don't think there's any doubt that many tech companies are hideously, bafflingly over-staffed (3000 people working on just the music functionality of Alexa? What could they possibly be doing?). But maybe take a bit of time to understand what everybody is (and isn't) doing before throwing half out and alienating the rest?

This is just a masterclass in how not to do it. He doesn't look dumb because he's reducing the headcount. He looks dumb because he's going about it like an absolute lunatic.
It's a gradient. More processing makes it more processed.
It is interesting how certain posts on HN elicit a compelling discussion and others more of a "everyone yelling into the void" situation.
> My copy seems to be out on loan,

Drifting off-topic, but I wonder how close to the top of the list TMMM is for "on loan" duty cycle in the software world. My copy also seems to be persistently in someone else's hands.
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It's just people having different interests and expectations looking from different angles. He is is right though, most people don't have the experience of being in the shoes of a company CEO and are trying to analyse Musk actions within a mental model of a company created from the perspective of an employee.

What's funny though, when I clicked that link Twitter failed to display the tweet content, giving me an error message about the tweet not available or something. It worked after a refresh.

I don't remember this happening before.
My guess: the customer isn't the fan; the customer is the ticket seller.
Only former Twitter employees can join that server, it's not meant to be a place for users who want to emulate the Twitter biases or something. It's meant to be a community of Twitter alumni.
The Nutritional Science field is such an unmitigated disaster of bad science, unethical science, sponsored "science", and contradictory science. The rot starts at the top, with a gate-kept Academy of Nutritionists that is far more concerned about increasing Dietition wages and responsibility at hospitals (for instance, they want dietitians writing "food prescriptions" directly so they can bill insurance) than the quality and origin of the research they approve for their database.

It has been multiyear battles to get their "official scientific consensus) moved off things like "eggs are bad" and now finally "meat is bad". Glad to see there's progress being made. Also glad I got out of that field.
I have to agree, it's like one of those 'inspired' researches back in the day that promoted the health benefits of smoking.
Self-treatment of psychosis/C-PTSD with LSD and DMT
Yes. That's far less processing than separating out but molecular structure and only eating one kind of molecule.
>As can be seen, these patches are slowly building the in-kernel Rust code up so that real functionality can be implemented in Rust, but this process has some ground to cover yet. It's not clear whether more Rust code will be proposed for 6.2, or whether this is the full set. The pace of change may seem slow to developers who would like to start doing real work in Rust, but it does have the advantage of moving in steps that can be understood — and reviewed — by the kernel community. The Rust-for-Linux work has been underway for a few years already; getting up to full functionality may well take a while longer yet.

Me too, I agree.
Idk if you’re an engineer or not but there’s an aspect of “reading the room” that your comment fails to capture. You can take the superficial tweets on usage for what they are but there are larger things happening around those specific statements that would lend themselves to “Twitter is actually dying this time.”
It's going to be hard to sell the premise of extreme work and unwavering dedication with the looming knowledge they will cut you out at a moments notice.
Those salaries are gross salaries, not net. The much higher tax burden is on top of that.
Can Elon Musk turn Twitter into an ‘everything app?’
The demo starts at 7:21 and is all JavaScript. There are moments where he discusses Clojure, but the refactoring illustrations are in JS.
Doubling down on local development with Workers: Miniflare meets workerd
>Twitter usage apparently climbing,

Over what timeframe? If only recently, are people joining just to rip the piss, and play with the muskovites?
I like the use of the expression "vandals".

It is appropriate to use derogatory names for people that do stupid acts, even if these acts are for a "good" cause (e.g.: vandalizing art in museums as a protest against GW).

In Brazil, supporters of former president Bolsonaro are "protesting" in front of military barracks demanding an authoritarian coup by the Army to "preserve" democracy. The rest of the country just mocks them.

When political activism becomes so stupid we shouldn't refrain to call it stupid.
hey no, that may look like that in america, but even there it is not true, the deep cultural characteristics of americans (e.g. hard work) won't change if the media tells them so. Popular culture is not the whole of culture in general
I think this is it, good people will sacrifice a lot to work very hard on rockets or cool cars. Selling ads on social media not so much.
So does Java, yet it is still considered a real programming language...
Yes, and my mother founded an AMI school so you know why I said AMI. :) Though the gentlest person you’ll ever meet, she talks trash at the drop of an hat about AMS, charter schools and nearly every other sect. Hey, her trainer was trained by Mario Montessori. That said, she’s a little off the AMI orthodoxy, and every school does have its own style, so you gotta observe at the schools you’re interested in.
this smells like an ad for GoLogin
I read it till waitlist... I get it but also... I don't want to wait, by the time they send me email, I will forget what it was.

I think there is a place for, not Twitter alternatives, but for newer ways how we can be social and connect and discover interesting people. And I do welcome those explorations and want to support it, but waitlist is not something I enjoy.
God the whataboutism that pops up everytime tiktok is discussed is suffocating.

Some people are just so desperately trying to divert attention away from it and others are trying to hijack the movement to make it into some kind of constitutional level privacy reform.

Tiktok can die, everything will be fine, and then we can focus on our own issues here.
Zeiss has more than just SMT (the guys that build the EUV mirrors), they have consumer products, a medical technology arm and one that is working on optical quality assurance and research microscopy. Alltogether 40k employees and around 6 or 7 billion Euros of annual revenue. Small on a global scale, but not that small.
Great company for engineers, by the way.
I hope there is no mother called Ronna somewhere. Terrible joke.
> A variable created at file scope

How does one declare a variable to be of file scope in Go? An ordinary "var x int" has package scope, visible from any file in the directory (aside from the special cases around _test.go files).

Scope of package import declarations is narrowed to a single .go file, but these of course are not variables.
Both are only relevant if you grain feed, instead of allowing animals to graze on grass.

For example, let's say we remove cattle from the rolling, rocky hills of Quebec. We let the land go fallow, back to nature.

Ok, now endless deer, bison, moose, groundhogs, and endless other critters do a horrible thing. They eat, and they fart.

When people complain about meat, and carbon, they are complaining about the worst part of it.

Much of the world does not dump fertilizer on land, grow crop, and feed it to cattle.

It is very unfair to lump this all together, especially in a thread about people taking extreme positions.
Elon’s tactics have been to eliminate positions regardless of individual strength - e.g. his recent “hardcore” email. That is culling but it is not whaling. In my experience, whales have the most freedom to leave and will be the fastest to employ it. So, one could argue, this is anti-whaling.

Whatever the case, it’s clear he’s not in on some master scheme us mortals can’t understand. He’s just a man with an inflated ego who wants to feel above the rest. Just like the Twitter poster here.
Damn, I was really hoping bronto or hella would get some traction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unit_prefix#Unofficial_prefixe...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hella#SI_prefix
Slave-making ants get rough in New York (2001)
What is tons in this case? Thousands? Tens of thousands? Hundreds of thousands?
> The essential premise of the book, which Postman extends to the rest of his argument(s), is that "form excludes the content", that is, a particular medium can only sustain a particular level of ideas. Thus rational argument, integral to print typography, is militated against by the medium of television for this reason. Owing to this shortcoming, politics and religion are diluted, and "news of the day" becomes a packaged commodity. Television de-emphasizes the quality of information in favor of satisfying the far-reaching needs of entertainment, by which information is encumbered and to which it is subordinate.

The argument isn't wrong, but it is outdated. We've figured out that we can dilute and commoditize text as well as we can visual media (see Twitter). The core idea ("people medicate themselves into bliss, thereby voluntarily sacrificing their rights") is still valid, but the rest of it seems to incorrectly pit textual against visual media and it lacks nuance and sufficient depth. It's more of an ideological argument, which I find less than useful.
Related: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-....
Because appeasement worked out so well!
Hey! my framework/language/app will be different because I'm smart.
I describe it as best in class rather than best of breed. Having one instance of Nextcloud rather than a bunch of different containers for the different functions is easier to maintain and backup. I don't know when you tested these apps, but they have been progressing rapidly. I find most are really good now.
The main connection I believe is exploiting xenophobia with he goal of internet gatekeeping. There are always those wary of outside influences destroying local culture.

Still, even if they are the best at removing videos, they are also the best at breeding new issues which go viral before they are even recognized as a threat and siloing that content so only people vulnerable are exposed. A second possibility is that they may be creating a forum of disruptive content on purpose to keep people distracted with local issues. Additionally there are foreign agents, trolls acting from patriotic intent or even those who are paid, seeking to encourage problem activity or create anti-government movements.
A close family member of mine became a schizophrenic after doing hallucinogens. Last time I looked at some research it is suggested that hallucinogens can “activate” dormant mental illnesses.