skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In a way I think this is ok though? Like, when I reach that age I sure as hell hope I'll have more access to doctors than younger people?
Wow! That's a pretty amazing story. Thank you for sharing.
Come on, these were professionals… they used slack.
I mean I have been a christian all my life, and I am also unambiguously very far to the left explicitly because that is the only way I can see to truly act within my religious beliefs in the world right now. So I'm not sure how far this framework can get you, really. I certainly don't find it to have much explanatory power on any of these issues.

I also think it could be rephrased in a way that would make it easy to see how it describes the american political right, but I kind of trusted the readers to do that and didn't bother. But things like refusal to wear masks, wide-spread gun ownership, these are the "self-actualizated rights" that conservatives understand as needing no forgiveness regardless of harm caused.
>Using X11? Sure, I love display servers that choke on high DPI and cannot do half the things modern compositors do efficiently.

X11 has XRender since ages. Now it has XCB and optimized setups.

And, OFC, composited Window Managers avoiding raw X11 calls with X11 extensions... since early 2000's.
I always wanted to make one of these with fully floating hands using invisible thread.
I thought that was the whole point: unregulated (or at least extremely minimally regulated, preferably in a jurisdiction that has a looooong history of looking the other way and in a perfect world with no extradition treaties), decentralized, anonymous financial systems. It doesn't surprise me in the least that these clowns were running across the high wire without a net using other peoples money. The fascinating part to me is that anyone didn't think this was the inevitable outcome. But then I spent an hour this morning with some banking industry blockchain folks spinning this as "well obviously this debacle is great because it finally will shake out the bad actors and leave just us good-guys taking crusty old banking into the glorious crypto future". Just like they've said about every debacle since Mt Gox.
Firecracker has been running AWS Lambda & Fargate for a few years now

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/firecracker-lightweight-vir...

There's also similar microVM project with a bit more container-focused support called Kata

https://katacontainers.io/
Let's fix the root of the problem and make Earth's rotation constant. How hard could it be? /s
I don't want to oversell Twitter -- I don't even like it (today). But most of the software we work on is frankly boring, even redundant or pointless at worst. Twitter may not be rockets or electric cars, but it is something most people are familiar with and its impact (Good, bad, whatever) is sizable.
Sure, but in the spirit of these games I guess there needs to be a balance between simplicity and realism. A single roll and table lookup is simple and fun but not finely grained so not realistic if limited to 1D6 or 2D6. So maybe a re-roll, like you suggest, but then maybe that doesn't have the same easy flow.

Nowadays, dice with more sides are common so that allows a simple 2D10 roll and a percentage lookup table. Maybe that's the balance.
Having this out of the way, it's time to address the short scale versus long scale issue. (ducks) ;-)
Which is stupid. It is annoyingly frequent that the common scale in the table is stated as powers of 1,000, not 10,000, but the scale itself is written verbally (e.g. "단위: 십억원" billion wons, much like "ten thousand dollars").
That's a great observation to make deep fakes more realistic

I often think about subtleties that throw us off a little, too bad that disclosing this subtlety reduces the ability to discern
> its competitors essentially exist only by virtue of being kept around by them

Just this competitor though...?

Apple and Microsoft certainly don't exist purely by virtue of being kept around by Google.
> He is trying to destroy the company, literally.

I don't buy this as he's doing it in a way that makes him look like an incompetent fool.
Tim Cook has been great for my bank account, and terrible for my life.
I believe the phrase is "made our beds" FYI.

No opinion one way or the other with regards to kids/no kids. Just thought I'd point it out :)
There goes the free speech absolutist.

(FWIW, I've always believed that moderation is a good thing on Twitter, and that free speech absolutism is just not tenable on the platform.)

It's been fascinating to watch this guy come in and absolutely crush any dissenting voices then immediately start restricting speech on the "free speech zone" platform of his.
Not a good analogy. You can't easy rebuild or upgrade car. In software you rebuild and upgrade every day without stopping.
Exactly. The plutonium in nuclear waste is not waste, it's a fuel at least as valuable as ²³⁵U. Reprocessing not only reuses the Pu, with fast reactors it can be used to convert almost all ²³⁸U to ²³⁹Pu which is a valuable fuel. This allows us to get 60x more energy out of natural uranium -- we can stop enriching uranium and fuel our civilization for hundreds of years based on the "waste" that is already above.

The waste that remains after reprocessing in a fast cycle are fission products that will decay so much in 1000 years that the waste is less radioactive than the original uranium ore.
I suspect it IS a real hospital, depending on if the show was set in a hospital or not. If they only needed it for a few scenes, you just rent out a hospital or something that looks similar enough.
Charity and presumption of innocence has long since gone out the window these days.
Not every address in the nation. No availability in Hawaii, at least not on the Big Island.
> "Isn't censorship also speech?"

That isn't my argument at all. My argument is that for you to stop me from shouting over your speech, you would be limiting my speech. I could argue that I am shouting so that everyone can hear me. I could be shouting important things. Limiting my speech is censorship.

Free speech absolutism is a paradox. The only way to resolve that paradox is to limit speech that limits the fundamental (so-called "God-given") rights of others.
Dang can you clarify why you found "Columbia CS" credentials more credible than "UNC CS"? I'd like to say that's a pretty shocking position but sadly it isn't.
> the statement "you should follow accounting rules" is so vague it's meaningless

We aren’t quibbling over GAAP versus IFRS. Anyone looking at FTX’s lack of accounting and control and seeing even a shade of familiarity at their firm should speak to a lawyer. Start-ups will be start-ups, but if you’re taking outside money and literally can’t say where your bank accounts are, run the hell away.
Or we find out that certain population groups have different blood flow patterns, which the system incorrectly identifies as proof of fakery. Or perhaps for some, it's simply not detectible even though they are real live people.
Contrary to a lot of people I know, I think nuclear weapons are largely a good thing and the reason we‘ve had peace in Europe for 80 years. I will stand by my claim that Ukraine wouldn‘t be in their situation if they had not willingly disarmed themselves.

Of course I wish that we wouldn‘t need nuclear warheads capable of total annihilation to keep peace, but I‘m afraid that‘s just unrealistic.
Stop overthinking it. Settle down and have kids. I know no one else will give you this advice, because it’s generally bad advice, but seriously…just start trying to make the baby and let nature do it’s thing. If you wait for the perfect time, it may never arrive. Or when it does, you’ll regret having waited so long. Nothing in my life has been as worthwhile as raising my children. It’s not always easy, you have to work on resolving conflicts between siblings or you and your kids (teens amirite?) and you’ll have to think of more than just yourself in pretty much any decision you make, and everything has extra steps. It sounds like a pain, but I wish I could do it 4 more times! My mother had me at 16 and thankfully I survived. I’m in a better position but not by any means well off or able to stop working, but I am happy with my lot. I would definitely say make sure you are a functional adult and in a relationship with someone you are going to be forced to deal with for at least 18. Aside from that, let the adventure begin!
Payroll can get complicated, especially when companies allow direct deducts for stock, perks, etc.
I think I mostly agree. But let me play Satan’s Lawyer for a moment:

Google wants to avoid resembling a monopoly on browsers. But they also don’t want competition. Keeping Mozilla on palliative care may actually be worse than letting it collapse, the monopoly becoming obvious, and regulatory bodies forcing corrections of the situation.

(but who am I kidding, that won’t happen… maybe in Europe)
Is this part of the $300+ billion that John Podesta is in charge of distributing?
The BBC's TV weather forecast goes electronic (1985) [video]
is that all your evidence?
Manifest v3 is the only thing I can think of that spawned a lot of “I’m switching to Firefox” online conversations over the last year.

But that’s in the nerdiest, most niche programming circles, so I can’t believe its impact is actually measurable.
He calls himself a free speech absolutist, and he's already banned parody, racist but legal (in the US) speech and criticism of himself and his technical knowledge - which is more restrictive than Twitter was prior.

As is the plan to "deboost" negative and hateful tweets - I'll remind the court that when Youtube did the same thing, many people here considered even demonetizing and downranking content to be censorship, and antithetical to free speech.
It's real odd to be the only alternative to Chrome yet be almost entirely funded by it. Google allows Firefox to exist, and Google can decide it's tired of sponsoring competition tomorrow morning. I don't like that Mozilla allows that to be their (and ours, and the web's) reality and isn't more adventurous in monetization. Also that they pay their CEO an outrageous amount of money, but I guess you're free to pick what your kneepads are going to be made of.
> It's going to send a message that companies are more overstaffed than we thought.

Consider the FTX news, where the new CEO appointed to clean up the mess called it a complete failure of corporate governance.

There is a huge amount of work that isn't directly related to keeping a website running that is required to sustain a large corporation and keep it legal. You can ignore all of this for a while, but not forever.

From various reports it seems Twitter has fired everyone in security, privacy, media relations, regulatory compliance and we probably haven't heard of everything.
My remark wasn't regarding public poo-flinging from employees to Elon, I agree, it is unprofessional and I would expect more. However, I would also expect my CEO to also not be a poo-flinging memester, too.

He sent an email out asking for employee loyalty (to him?). That is behaviour that is in line with someone who wants only sycophants. Perhaps you read it differently to me.
Without a specific example its hard to pin point why your conversations are like this, but what works for me is giving the other person a "conversational framework" in which to fill out information, and giving reasons why that information will have influence on your mental model.

But imprecise communication is something you'll have to get used to if you want to do important work. The most precise communication you will find are in higher level math textbooks, where the proofs rely on predetermined axioms and careful logic (and when proved these statements are called "trivial"). Issues in the real world are built on top of imperfect information.

Reminds me of a Feynman quote on what makes a topic that we can have a discussion on:

"We can talk about the weather; we can talk about social problems; we can talk about psychology; we can talk about international finance–gold transfers we can't talk about, because those are understood–so it's the subject that nobody knows anything about that we can all talk about!”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

To be fair, you are correct in the mobile space, and that is now the lion share of devices, but Firefox does have a healthy 7.5% usage in the desktop space if the metrics on this page are to be believed.
In Argentina Wikipedia is notorious for parroting Kirchnerist propaganda. There are people whose entire job is to make sure every topic related to Argentinian politics follows Kirchner's narrative
This right here? This is why people don't take climate change seriously - because those who claim that they do take it seriously so clearly actually don't.
Right, the command and control server -- but that server does not need to be part of your private Tailscale/WG network. The Tailscale server is only required for coordinating the WG configuration. My point was that this was all done without the Tailscale server needing to actually participate in your private network. That is to say, the Tailscale server can't monitor your traffic or private servers.

Except of course in the case of Funnel... which is the original subject here. In this case, the Tailscale ingress server is added to your private network/nodelist. This it so that it can communicate with whatever private service you are running and then proxy that back out to the public Internet.
This. I've seen to many times how some people ask direct question which doesn't have simple answer. So they instead get answer with some context, questions and conditional statements.

It happens often when question goes through 'occupation boundaries'. Eg you are manager (judging by 'my experience is with SWEs') and you ask 'simple' direct question from swe "can you implement this feature". And instead you get wall of text. Which might be frustrating, but is it SWE to blame?
You might be able to get everyone to stop paying attention to twitter but good luck doing the same for rockets and electric vehicles.
It's going to be centuries until the difference between astronomical midnight and UTC midnight is more than an hour, which is the exact same amount of error we deliberately inflict on ourselves to have more daylight in summer evenings and half the error that residents of Spain experience by as a consequence of the political decision to join the same time zone as Berlin. If human civilization exists long enough for this to be an actual problem, we're probably going to have to figure out how to coordinate time with multiple space settlements, which is going to be a much harder problem thanks to time dilation.
My most downvoted comment on HN was expressing a similar sentiment about this woman few years ago.
I had a strong reaction to that too. Of course we devote more health-care effort to people in the last 5-10 years of their life, which primarily (but not entirely) means older people. There is practically no world in which that wouldn't be the case, because everyone's health trajectory eventually trends downward. By the time someone reaches the ICU (other than as a result of trauma) not only the immediate problem but likely several others will have progressed to problematic levels. That's also where the most labor- and dollar-intensive treatments tend to be applicable. It's just basic statistics, really. Cars also cost more in maintenance late in their life cycles, and so do many other things. A flat age distribution in the ICU would be super weird and probably an even worse allocation of resources.

I don't think the author really meant that to come across as callous as it sounded. Probably just poor choice of words. I'm only addressing it because someone else reading it here might interpret it in more of an "older people stealing from younger ones again" kind of way for demographic or ideological reasons.

ETA: it already happened as I was writing this.
Well Quetta gets in the news for different reasons for once
Yeah, a better analogy would be stepping out of the driver seat while you're on the highway. Sure it'll coast for a while, but on the first turn...
For personal: Proximity[1], a flash game that ended up being added to hundreds of flash sites and, from the stats I was able to easily find across several popular websites, got up to over 10 million plays after only a couple of years.

For professional: Built a large and involved interactive speech application (IVR) from scratch that allowed hospitals, doctors, etc to call and check a person's health insurance status for a Fortune 100 health insurance company. Was used in over two million calls while I was there and was still being used when I had quit a few years later.

[1]: https://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/183428
You handle ghosting by setting some kind of deadline, with what happens if you don't hear back. This lets them know you interpret their lack of response as lack of interest, but also clearly sets the expectation you're in demand, there's other fish in the sea, and you're moving on.

> Hey, thanks for chatting! I'm very enthusiastic about this [role|opportunity|etc]... I really enjoyed my chats with Sue and Bob...

> I just need to know by Monday next week if we're moving forward the the process, as I have other opportunities I'm simultaneously pursuing.

Then if/when you don't hear back, you move on with your life, and treat it like they're not interested.

(I would also try to do this verbally as well, being really clear you want to know next steps, when you should hear back, and that you're not putting life on hold forever)
To work off: We Will Find It https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SssjOT7E_Jg
Ask HN: What if Musk's strategy is to destroy Twitter?
Elon Musk is clearly taking the hammer to Twitter. What does HN think of the idea that he is doing so intentionally? Is there a possibility that Elon is trying to bankrupt Twitter so that the creditors call their loans, only to sweep in with a bit of his own cash and buy them out for pennies on the dollar? Such a strategy would carry a great deal of risk. Creditors could sue him if there's evidence that he intentionally trashed the asset. But Elon Musk is known to take extreme risks. He may view the possibility of owning Twitter for a far smaller price to be worth the risk of losing it all.
Hey, I wanted to propose a mindset for thinking about what you should learn, instead of a particular skill or domain. Thinking about what you should learn to benefit your employer is nice, I'd think more about what skill you could learn that would help you most over the next ten years, for job satisfaction, income, life quality, etc. Something fun, which also makes you more valuable in the marketplace, sounds like the way to go. Anyway, having a manager that looks for feedback on stuff like this, sounds like a good problem to have.
I like this article on skill-stacking, might be a frame you think is good, maybe not.
https://forge.medium.com/how-to-become-the-best-in-the-world...
Thank you! Took me by surprise when my client phoned and said my weather station was on the evening news.
hmm is this effective altruism, seems like they used it to cover massive fraud.
I wonder if a descent to full-blown Soviet "Vranyo" (brazen lying) can be prevented.

As in: "They lie to us, we know they're lying, they know we know they're lying, but they keep lying to us, and we keep pretending to believe them."

Pretty much the only brake pad on that machine is that capitalism actually requires at least some efficiency from the players, and a web of lies like that will destroy any institution. But I am far from certain.
Many commentators seem to think this is a sudden, recent backpedaling from a previous absolutist view on free speech. However, Musk has been promoting the "freedom of speech" vs "freedom of reach" distinction for a while, at least months before his takeover, including describing how such a policy should be implemented at Twitter.

Here's one example quote from June, 2022:

“I think there’s this big difference between freedom of speech and freedom of reach in that one can, obviously, let’s say in the United States go in the middle of Times Square and pretty much yell anything you want. You’ll annoy the people around you, but you’re kind of allowed to just sort of yell whatever you want in a crowded public place, more or less, apart from 'this is robbery' — probably that would get you in trouble.

“So but then whatever you say, however controversial, does not need to then be broadcast to the whole country. So I think generally the approach of Twitter should be to let people say what they want to do within the bounds of the law, but then limit who sees that...”

Source: https://www.teslarati.com/elon-musk-china-censorship-twitter...
You could do a lot of things for 40 billion though. Same could be said about Tesla, building a car from scratch and mass producing is almost impossible, no way it could challenge the entrenched car makers. Yet look what happened.

And again, he overpaid, massively. Just to fire 50-90% of entire workforce and to lose a lot of Twitter's biggest customers due to his erratic behavior.
Rockets and electric vehicles are fine. This era of "Big Ego" needs to go.
oh wow. you were adamflowers? did you just get out of prison? glad you have no regrets, I can't imagine how much serving that much time must suck.
Simulating blood flow is a technique currently used in high-end VFX animation for movies.
https://www.fxguide.com/fxfeatured/maleficent/
Bingo. It could be argued the relative failure of Groupon was largely driven by key stakeholders/insiders cashing out way too big way too early.
The whole circus is a mass delusion. I would really like to see some academic studies on the phenomenon.
(I'm Indian.) Yes, India groups the first three digits and then subsequent groups are two digits, eg 12,34,56,789. So instead of hundred thousand it's lakh, and instead of hundred lakhs it's crore. We never learned any numbers above crore in school. I remember hearing about arab from other kids but never saw it used, and I never heard about the others you mentioned.
I don't care how many hours people work. Sometimes in business you need to do a lot of work in a short period of time. He's being fairer than any employer I've had, they would just assign me the work and expect me to put the time in, Elon letting you opt out with 3 months severance to find another job is a decent option I might have taken on a few occasions.
I think an optimistic look at important things being broken is that you have an opportunity to learn more about those things, and make changes both to fix it and avoid the same problem again.
What is a "negative tweet" or a "hate tweet"? Those two concepts sure seem ambiguous. Hate tweet, I suppose, is marginally easier to understand than a hate tweet, I guess...

But what does this mean for like, the Babylon Bee or The Lincoln Project? I'd say both of them can be negative at times.

What does it mean for libertarians or anti capitalists who are strongly averse to the way things are run today?

(I deliberately tried to highlight that this sort of change could impact people of various political persuasions, trying to not "pick a favorite" by only showing how this could impact my "team".)
I'd love to hear more details about how that interaction went!
>It is easy to detect insults.

I would fully expect the next thing for you to say is "I can program my own Twitter in a week"

Trying to figure out language intent is just the kind of thing an engineer/moderator says is easy and then is in deep water a month later after a phrase that means "you're great" in one language means "you're a donkey's anus" in another.

When you're moderating a small group it can be somewhat easy, everyone tends to speak the same language, and quite often it just falls into a groupthink that excludes situations like this. But when the situation scales you don't just have users that actively want to use the service, you have adversarial users that want to abuse your service and make it hell... and those users can be exceptionally clever.