skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is he working though?? It seems to me that he just spends all day on twitter. Not all that different from myself actually, except no one is writing books and stories about me and my mythical 100 hour work weeks.
This is an incredibly effective - presumably accidental - clickbait headline by agweb!
> I was referring mostly to the way one structures their thought and expresses it to someone else.

1. it's still relevant in spoken language. Perhaps more so -- inflection, intonation, volume, and speed add a lot of subtlety to vocal communication that is even more difficult to pick up on than written communication. Pauses indicate punctuation. Tone can indicate something is less important. Volume and speed can be used in place of parentheses or even footnotes. Those are just the obvious things. There is so much information that is very difficult for non-native speakers to pick up on. Or at least is very difficult for me to pick up on.

2. They might be speaking in a way that parses well to a native ear but is deeply confusing to a non-native speaker.

> Also, the question was referring to native speakers (I'm not an English native speaker myself).

Here's a really important question: do other native speakers in your group express the same frustration about these SWEs?

Communication is a two-way street.

If they are 3/5 on communicating ideas and you are 3/5 on understanding ideas, then you may have issues that a person who is 5/5 on understanding ideas does not have.

I want to stress that even if you were a 1/5 (you're not!!!), the onus would still on BOTH you and your team mates to communicate well. It's not just your job to get better at understanding their mediocre communication; it's also their job to be empathetic and learn how to communicate better with you.

Example: I communicate a bit differently with non-native speakers in spoken communication. I slow my speech just a bit (not excessively -- I talk very fast naturally, so my slow is others' normal). I avoid complex wandering sentences with clauses that resolve on different sides of the sentence. I try to add more roadmaps and use more explicit communication. I rely less on intonation, inflection, and pauses to convey meaning when speaking. I made these changes after I worked in a country with a different language and realized how damn hard it was to understand that last 20% of information that everyone else seemed to be catching.
Doesn’t seem like a huge stretch for the AI to check uname and see what system you’re on in order to clarify the answers.
Which, if they can be spread outside of Twitter, refutes the earlier point that "influence stops at the water". The web is the platform.
For anyone not familiar, this movie is worth checking out:

> Monty Brewster is a Minor League Baseball pitcher with the Hackensack Bulls. He and his best friend, Spike Nolan, the Bulls' catcher, are arrested after a post-game bar fight. A man offers to post their bail if they will come to New York City with him. At the Manhattan law office of Granville & Baxter, Brewster is told that his recently deceased great-uncle Rupert Horn, whom he has never met, has left him his entire $300 million fortune but only if he can complete a challenge with several conditions.

> Brewster can choose to receive $1 million upfront or attempt to inherit the whole estate by spending $30 million in 30 days. In the former case, the law firm becomes the executor of the estate, collecting a fee for performing this service and dividing the remainder among several charities. In the latter case, Brewster may not own any assets that are not already his at the end of the 30 days. He must get value for the services of anyone he hires, he may not give it away (except for 5% in gambling losses and 5% to charity) nor may he willfully damage anything bought with the money. Finally, he must keep it secret. If he fails to meet all terms, he forfeits any remaining balance and inherits nothing. Brewster decides to take the $30 million challenge, and Angela Drake, a paralegal from the law firm, is assigned to accompany him and keep track of his spending.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewster%27s_Millions_(1985_fi...

Richard Pryor stars, along with John Candy playing his best friend.
> Foreign game developers like Blizzard are required to team up with Chinese publishers to distribute their games to Chinese customers.

Does any other country do this, or just China because they have the largest market?
He wasn't the founder of Waze, he was the CEO.
I agree that some people tend to be more inclined to focus tightly, while others tend to be more broad. But I really doubt the physical layout of their neurons provides any insight into their thought patterns. Or at least I’d have to see some serious research into the topic to believe it.
How about I isolate the red meat and dairy products I purchase to local farmers markets once a week and we'll call it even?
I wonder if that’s why people are moving out of California at a record rate. Same with companies.

https://www.ppic.org/blog/whos-leaving-california-and-whos-m...

There is a lot of tailwind for California's economy. If I were starting a new company, I would stay away from California. Every possible metric is worse except for network effects and access to capital in SV.
Check this internet.nl how-to on parked domains: https://github.com/internetstandards/toolbox-wiki/blob/main/...
>Imagine if that didn't exist? Biden visits Qatar and gets arrested for dis-respecting their leaders? I can see that all working out.

I do not have a problem with that. If you want to be part of the civilized world, you have to act civilized. And if Qatar wants to arrest Biden for disrespect, then either Qatar’s leaders will find out what the US spends its military funds on, or US taxpayers will find out how much of a waste all those aircraft carriers were.
Yeah, this is a setup for hard to understand bugs unless you have a corresponding rule (imposed by a linter) that a concrete type cannot be cast into an interface and then checked against nil (mostly this means when returning a concrete type from a function it should be assigned to a freshly declared variable rather than re-using a variable that could already have an interface type.
Yes, and actually Tesla is similar in that their staff donates 94% to Democrats. That's not an issue because it's not affecting the output of electric cars in a negative way. Perhaps it's even positive since they are more motivated in the direction of electrification and its role with regard to climate change. But Twitter is the public square and needs to be neutral.
This is what activists fail to understand for ideological reason. Oil will flow, one way or another: be it truck, rail or pipeline. The only thing that would stop the flow is cessation in demand. Which means their efforts would be better used agitating for wind, solar and other renewables.
Nitpick: 1/10⁷, not 1/10⁶. They picked the power of ten that gave a reasonably-sized unit of length.

They also made things complex by then picking a unit of mass that’s inconsistent with that: a gram isn’t the mass of 1m³ of water, but of 1/10⁶ m³ of water (a cubic meter is 10³ liters, and a liter of water weighs 10³ grams)

Centimeter-gram-second (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centimetre–gram–second_system_...) really is superior in that sense (but of course, that’s relative to the arbitrary choice of using water to convert between mass and volume, and from that, length)
Are revsets like ClearCase config specifications?
Don't worry, we purchased bilge pumps.
> However, I wasn't referring to missing words (which can be inferred) or bad grammar. Actually I wasn't referring to written speech in particular. I was referring mostly to the way one structures their thought and expresses it to someone else.

It would appear that your initial post failed to communicate that clearly to awb.
The wikipedia one has an extensive edit history going back to 2006, the Infogalactic one seems to have a single revision, presumably copied from Wikipedia at some point in 2016.
agree, on all counts
Thank God it’s not—lest your tasteless sarcasm would be trapped for all eternity. ;)
I've seen this too. Others are noticing it in this very thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33652976

Talking about this Tweet: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961

It's marked as "unavailable" when I view logged in to Twitter, but it's there in incognito mode.

Edit: Actually I just tried refreshing a couple times and it seems to be stochastic as to whether I can see the Tweet or not. Sometimes it's there, sometimes it's "unavailable".
> Because you don't jump off a bridge because Johnny jumped off a bridge.

Sorry, no, that analogy doesn't apply.

Here is a better one:

You invite Johnny to your home and he keeps hitting you and stealing from you (and you are banned from his house), you need to respond at some point.
All could, and one of them passed through full employee replacement when it failed to raise a round of funding. They would have to suffer and hire good people, not miscellaneous cogs, but they would survive.
that's cool and all, but if they are already anchored, why not have winches that drag one side more than the other to position the arrays towards the sun, instead of propellers which I assume you would have to run continuously? or did I miss-read something?
Much needed service! Keep us posted please!
Similar. I went from being glued to the couch to training for my third half marathon this year!
We have recognised this problem and to that end we have produced a Stable API standard https://www.mongodb.com/docs/manual/reference/stable-api/

I realise this doesn't help you with historical API changes.

If you look for help in the MongoDB community and tag me (Joe.Drumgoole@mongodb.com) I will make sure you get help migrating your app.

https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/
I think it's the same thing as what we call the unconscious/subconscious (e.g. the place where dreams come from), which I think is more accurate to call a "different" reality as opposed to not real or a sub-reality. From Jung and Freud we know how much of what we usually call reality is just projection from this unconscious world, as well as just how real and autonomous, and likely sentient, the beings that exist in this unconscious world are
Whataboutism failing spectacularly.
Show HN: Play a leading role in making humanity a spacefaring civilization
Millions of years from now, future historians will remember our transition from single planet species to spacefaring civilization as one of the most critical steps humanity ever took. It’s pretty special that we are alive during this period and can witness it first hand + contribute to it directly - so I built Stellar Jobs to get more talented people working in the space industry, with the ultimate aim of accelerating the transition.
> Isn't there tremendous real value in meta-analysis?

There's also tremendous value in doing the dishes and mopping the floor. Without it we'd get diseases and live in filth. And when we do this, we should be respected and appreciated. But - not as brilliant trail-blazers.
Well, we can't get a full 360 degrees because of the zone of avoidance caused by the center of the milky way.

Also after a particular number of degrees it doesn't matter quite so much, the universe is isotropic enough that looking in any direction pretty much gives the same results.
> This guy has oil. This guy can therefore do whatever he likes.

The article explains that as head of state internal law grants him immunity.
Obvious but of course I never thought off it.
rules are a tradeoff. being restrictive has downsides on what you can and can't do, you may affect negatively something that had only good intentions, you don't know. when you know someone is a bad actor, it is normal to make rules more restrictive, as you know that you're not negatively affecting good uses.
Not even contracts, but they own the venues via Live nation who own ticketmaster, they essentially have a monopoly, at least here in the UK, all the main concert venues of scale are owned by Live Nation.

Live nation also runs most of the major music festivals too as they bought them up.
Ok - but they don't claim to be otherwise (except state-backed, I guess). That doesn't make the factual claims in the GP's post false. If you ever catch them getting into wiki edit wars you can hold them up as an example of political propaganda on wikipedia too.
Ask HN: What services/apps are you self-hosting?
Just got into this business and I have a few ideas from running a personal wiki to Bitwarden, Plex etc.
I'm curious what you folks are running so we can all share and explore more ideas.
Thanks!
Sounds awful. I don't go on Twitter to "learn" from my betters (presumably, the founder includes himself in that category).

If you look at FTX, you have these supposed "journalists" quoting from "Autism Capital" on Twitter...that is where their sources are. I am guessing "Autism Capital" is some random guy, in his mom's bedroom, making no money from this...and there are journalists taking down $80k/year just ripping stories from that.

The question this should raise is: why do we need the journalists? These people are pointless, they don't have interesting opinions, they are just information tollgates, Twitter removes that friction totally (equally, I worked in finance, I started working just before the Twitter age and assumed that everyone else was very diligent/knowledgeable/doing lots of good research...and then all these people hopped onto Twitter, start outputting more information, and you realise they are just total idiots...which I also realised after working in the industry, Twitter exposes the man behind the curtain).

Give me the anonymous cesspit. If it makes you mad and upset, don't go on there, that is on you. The doctor can't be blamed for the needle being sharp.
Kind of curious but I think people can get side-tracked by the idea of "scale". The thought that if something doesn't scale in the traditional way to a few very large installations, it won't work.

Consider things like battery storage for the grid etc. and you might think it is a dead horse. However, what if every house had solar panels and a relatively small number of cells with a grid-tie unit. I no longer need to store an enormous amount of energy, just enough for perhaps a few hours of demand for my house. You get to soak up most of the high-sun days into batteries, you can also feed each other a little if someone is using a fair bit more energy along existing small cables.

You can then feed in a much smaller number of larger power plants who can make up any remaining peaks and troughs. Don't need to store 1TW of power into a grid-scale plant, just 20M 10KW systems distributed round the entire country.

Don't need to point the panels at the sun all day then!
It is not that they can't - they just keep more money if they don't. Which shouldn't be surprising in an industry that is literally destroying the world to make money.
I believe it referred to the level of absurdity of their leadership’s actions, all done in public - reaching the point of performance art.
Fist Bump
Good article. Firecracker is something that has definitely piqued my interest when it comes to quickly spinning up a throwaway environment to use for either development or CI. I run a CI platform [1], which currently uses QEMU for the build environments (Docker is also supported but currently disabled on the hosted offering), startup times are ok, but having a boot time of 1-2s is definitely highly appealing. I will have to investigate Firecracker further to see if I could incorporate this into what I'm doing.

Julia Evans has also written about Firecracker in the past too [2][3].

[1] - https://about.djinn-ci.com

[2] - https://jvns.ca/blog/2021/01/23/firecracker--start-a-vm-in-l...

[3] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25883253
It's not impossible for other countries to affect US internet companies. The EU GDPR is probably the best example. Once that went into effect, every website began showing popups enabling users to control cookie settings for that website, even within the US to US citizens not subject to GDPR. If there's a country or block of countries with large enough population relative to US, and where US companies operate, it can have some influence on US.

That said, yes if you use FB/etc you should assume your data could be used by US intel agencies for similar purposes. Just don't use those apps. Heck, I'm American and refuse to Facebook or any of their other services (Insta, Whatsapp, Meta). None of this stuff is actually necessary to live a happy healthy life, and often even detracts from it.
Not sure if they have legal, compliance, or privacy at this point either.
I Can't Focus Without Blocking more than 100 sites
I wrote this post not too long ago. I've a lot of trouble with being productive and this is one of the few things that's actually helped. Still run into trouble from time to time, of course, but I'm more focused than I used to be.
Only two days ago, there was a more nuanced discussion about this topic:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33621591
I mean how do they plan to interop between C and Rust code. Either in the same library or across shared libraries (if written in Rust, what does it export on the API surface such that C code can call into it)?
If you don't think Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Marathon, and ConocoPhillips aren't a de facto arm of the US Government I'm not sure what to tell you.
> If we can't do that either, there's not much we can do

In case this is serious, the Saudis have a lot of stuff in America our courts could seize.
Well, from the pov of the person being "detached", to be treated as an object is rutheless.

What we are saying, after all, is that the other is "a mere product" of nature; a symptom, not an agent.

This, I think, is the most "anti-Western" notion 'inside' forgiveness, and why it seems so counter-intutive.

The thing we do not want to give up is that people are agents who bare responsibility for their actions, that people are our objects of concern, that people are special.

When we forgive we, ineffect, dehumanise -- at least, for the moment of that forgiveness. We step outside of a world in which they matter. And that seems a more ruthless and radical gesture than just hating them.
More importantly one should either be an ally or be useful to the US too,
Head of state or not, the very concept of immunity is a travesty on every juridical principle.

It should have no place in civilized society.
"Gal Gadot wearing green suit" triggered it while "Tom Cruise wearing green suit" didn't.
Nitric oxide being another big one.
I suspect he is working but probably has a very short attention span.
China has uniform rules that any internet company operating in China has to follow, whether that company is Chinese or not.

Some foreign companies follow the rules and are allowed to operate in China, while others are unwilling to follow the rules, either because they have ethical qualms about the rules (which involve censorship), or more cynically, because implementing those rules would be bad for PR back in the US.

More broadly, American tech companies do a massive amount of business in China. Apple is the largest smartphone brand in China. China is the or one of the most important markets for Nvidia, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and many other American tech companies.

> If US companies can't operate in China except through a joint venture with a Chinese company, to which the US company must transfer its technology to, then same should apply to Chinese companies operating in the US.

Your understanding of how things work in China is out of date by about a decade. China has continuously reduced joint-venture requirements over time. There is a select list of industries that require joint ventures, and that list shrinks every year. For example, automobile manufacturing was removed from the list a few years ago, which is why Tesla was able to build its own plant in Shanghai.

> It should be clear at this point that negotiations with China won't change anything internally in China.

China is actually willing to negotiate over many aspects of how foreign companies operate in China, trade barriers, intellectual property, etc. If the conflict with the US were only about regulations on American companies in China, it would be relatively easy to solve. The Chinese government is very pragmatic about those sorts of issues.

However, the conflict is about something much more fundamental: the US government believes that China will soon surpass the US in overall geopolitical power, and the US government desperately wants to prevent that from happening. The US views the high-tech sector as China's Achilles' heel, and believes that it can blunt China's economic development through sanctions (for example, on imports of high-end chips, or on companies like Huawei, SMIC and YMTC). There's no way for China to negotiate with the US over this issue, because China is never going to agree to not develop its economy.
Has the court given him immunity? Or is the President just telling the court he should?
Latest update on the use of Google Analytics (GA/UA/GA4) in Europe
There are numerous alternatives.

Here's a good list https://daily-dev-tips.com/posts/9-google-analytics-privacy-...

And of course there is CNIL https://www.cnil.fr/fr/cookies-et-autres-traceurs/regles/coo...
Yes, C is portable and assembly is not.
Not much of a plot hole. Judas betrayed for greed. He fulfilled the resurrection through his evil, which does not make him good. In any random Hollywood movie, the villain would not be redeemed by accidentally helping the hero in the course of their schemes.
Inspired by Tweek https://www.nextevent.dev/
In the University I studied the very first course, for anybody wanting to study there, is about logic and epistemology. It makes wonders.

Lots of people keep asking: "what do I need it for, I just want to study X". They just don't realise how important that is.
although it never really sacrifices any control.

It feels like it sacrifices control wrt when you allocate and free-memory.

I understand it's deterministic in rust, but it's not explicitly controllable - or at least I've seen it be.
> On 20 October 2022 she pleaded guilty to causing the death of Harry Dunn by careless driving. Sentencing will take place at a later date.

Am I missing something?
I can just barely count the times I have seen a production failure due to someone assuming a millicent value from a column with ambiguous naming was in centicents or vice-versa.
TikTok's policy enforcement is pretty unreliable - sometimes it's very overzealous and sometimes it leaves bafflingly obvious stuff up. Folks on TikTok are pretty good at gaming it, there's lots of substitute words used and so on.

You won't see people saying "I love Hitler" or something, but you will hear Nazi ideology rephrased.
We didn't recognize the government of the Taliban. Different situation.
Cartel collaborates with state to remove upstart competition.

Surely this would be a more accurate headline?
In no particular order: ADHD, anxiety, a poor night's sleep, lack of interest in the topic, disdain for co-workers, TBI or concussion, low-grade fever, a hangover, tight pants, too cold, too hot, overtasked, caring for a sick or elderly family member, caring for a sick child, the list goes on and on.
My favorite Easter egg when helping to write the style guide was including a reference to Full Metal Jacket within it. See if you can find it.

In all seriousness, I am very proud of the team’s work in both writing and publishing this externally. It was a lot of work.
This looks absolutely brilliant! Thanks a lot for sharing!
> 2. How do you know that Twitter employees were disengaged?

Some are posting "kiss my ass Elon" on Twitter. Other's tweets mocking the code review and "hardcore" engineer stuff. I'm sure you're going to say "But that doesn't mean all of them" but Musk hasn't fired all of them.
Activists understand that. What's unreasonable is not adjusting pipeline routes when they destroy livability of areas
We're obviously going to ignore Finland here.