skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The same moral paradox exists elsewhere. Consider prisons and capital punishment. Can a person believe in capital punishment while simultaneously believing condemned prisoners still have certain rights and that prisons should be humane places, even on death row? Even countries that have executions do not usually sanction the physical torture of prisoners condemned to death, in large part because such cruelty is repugnant and unnecessary. (Some may say capital punishment would count as repugnant and unnecessary too, of course. But the point stands.)
https://archive.ph/KsqCj
It doesn’t follow that beliefs held negative about an opposing group are necessarily prejudiced, though.

Atheists aren’t anti-theists, for example - atheists who value empirical rationalism as a true and positive philosophy generate beliefs felt as negative (or even threatening) by devout theists. Nevertheless, it’s not fair to characterise atheists as anti-theists, or primarily motivated by prejudice against theists.
Google Fi and Google Fiber both seem to be chugging along. I know Fiber isn't expanding but they also didn't shutter either.

I don't know, I kinda like when big companies just throw stuff at the wall. They have the talent might as well experiment. If it doesn't work and it was actually something that had potential, a smaller company could make something similar avoiding some of google's pitfalls. After Google killed off the rss reader, how many other companies doing rss suddenly got an influx of people. I wouldn't be using the old reader now if it weren't for that.
Sounds reasonable. I'm a bit of a free speech absolutist, so I say no to censorship no matter how insulting the content may be, but that doesn't mean anyone is required to amplify anything.

The argument I hear most often from pro censorship people is that it's not as simple as having a voice, your voice is amplified by algorithms on these sites, you're giving someone a megaphone. This decision appears to solve that problem while not censoring anyone. I'd say a shadow ban would go too far, but just not promoting it sounds like a reasonable compromise.
What participation? The NASA finding is that he had no direct involvement.
Mozilla revenue 2021 increases 20%
Unlocking Deep Carbon's Fate
Carbon dioxide in the deep Earth may be more active than previously thought and may have played a bigger role in climate change than scientists knew before, according to a new study.
Asking due to the ultimatum Elon gave Twitter employees on Wednesday:

https://www.businessinsider.com/read-musks-midnight-email-te...
Ask HN: Why is Android not just another GNU/Linux distro?
I'm not asking why it's not classified as one, rather, why it wasn't made one.

Android's goals seem to be:

1. Make the UI play well with touch screens

2. Restrict the user's freedom

And I just don't see how either of those goals necessitated reinventing so much from scratch, including its own graphical server (instead of the existing X11), a GUI framework (and a laughably complicated one at that https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/architecture/livedata ), its own init system, the entire fs layout, or, well, mandating the use of and reimlpementing an entire language with its own quirks (Java where you can't even reuse the code from the desktop because e.g. jdbc isn't availble etc).

It all would be somewhat understandable if Android consumed a lot less resources that the desktop-oriented linux (like you would expect from a mobile OS), but quite the opposite seems is the case (e.g. Debian requires mere 256MB of RAM compared to 2GB for Android, and even with 2GB Android will barely crawl). On a side note, it somehow requires 400GB (!!!) of disk space on your computer to build, not even comparable to e.g. Gentoo.

What all this reinventing of the wheel results in is the lack of so many good programs: the only browser on Android that so much as supports extensions is Firefox and even that one is buggy as hell on this platform, virtually all programs are very limited in functionality and buggy, etc.

So why would any company put so much effort into something seemingly that useless, making such an outright bad product? I understand Google is a monopolist so they can basically sell any piece of shit, but I don't understand why take so much effort to make it a piece of shit.
You still have those same problems with hosted runners, don't you?

We're trying to re-create the hosted experience, but with self-hosted, faster, infrastructure, without needing to account for metered billing.
> The masters degree itself is not a good signal. Especially in CS, MS programs are viewed as pure revenue streams and explicitly treated differently from other programs in terms of rigor and signalling value

I discovered this recently. Working in the CS department at a large state school, the masters students are not respected. I have had professors tell me they don't care if they cheat (they mostly do) or share solutions, they are just there to pay their tutition and get their degree. Working directly with some of these students, I have found that they lack understanding of basic computing concepts, even fundamentally how computers work. It's breathtaking. Maybe some schools are exceptions, but I've come to interpret a masters degree in any computer-related subject to only mean that the person had the funds to pay for it.
I'm going to assume that this is something you are experiencing with your coworkers. In that case the primary question is whether the people you are talking to have anything to gain by communicating effectively with you.
He has been in the Bahamas for a while. Theoretically, the Bahamanian officials are keeping him from leaving the country. The US does have an extradition treaty with the Bahamas, but they have their own crimes they want to try him for first. It's possible he could beat extradition. I don't think that's likely, but it's certainly legally possible.
You're quite right! My mistake.
Or a payroll department. Good luck retaining any remaining employees if you can't pay them. And good luck hiring new payroll employees who will want to deal with the inevitable lawsuits in multiple countries about the firings, layoffs, and unpaid severance.
Consider a climate with a heating season. Imagine the use of air-source heat pumps (USA "minisplits"). Heating season arrives. Electrical use multiplies, perhaps 10x compared to non-heating season.

Where does the power come from? Home installations generally won't cover it. Centralized installations may (hopefully will), but the power is needed even more overnight than during the day.

I still think you're going to need pretty substantial central storage facilities.
> I don't get what you say in the last paragraph. Isn't the mapping of zero and one to nothing and something kind of the easiest thing (e.g. one photon or no photon)?

You can map and mapping is useful, but the map lives in your head and isn't the territory.

> For the first paragraph it is my understanding that the universe is discrete/quantizied and it is not running on 'real numbers'.

This is a widely believed folk myth among software engineers, but it isn't supported by evidence. There are some speculative theories that try to solve some problems in physics by quantizing space, but right now they are no more empirically supported than other speculations.
My take is that there's a personality type that sees Elon hyping up the "hardcore-ness" and WANTS to get in.

Remember that some people willingly put themselves through extremely situations - obsctacle races, bootcamps, etc. 80hrs/week doesn't bother them. Work-life balance isn't something they care about. The David Goggins types.

Elon has built his career seeking out such people. Couple all of this "hardcore" talk with some elaborate BS about "Twitter's mission" (and he IS an excellent hype man) and I can totally see certain type of engineers jumping through hoops just to get in.
Ask HN: Business case for Rust outside high performance or embedded devices?
Context: A few people and I at my current company are into Rust. So far we mainly use
Python and Typescript. However in the mid- to long-term we might need languages/tools for
higher loads and some CPU intensive tasks.
Personally I would like to use Rust, however I am not so sure from a business perspective.
Onboard new developers to Rust takes time and effort and people change position, jump teams,
get sick etc. leading to some fluctuation in staff. You could make a case for Rust here if
we assume it saves time down the line due less bugs in production and easier reviews as
reviewers can relay certain compiler guarantees and focus more on the business logic.
The question is, do Rust tradeoffs make for a good business case or is it just wishfully
thinking.
Revenge Bedtime Procrastination?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedtime_procrastination

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28573544
Every day, decide what you’re going to *finish* that day (not “work on”)
> Why should some sober people's consensus trump the criteria of people in altered states of consciousness?

Because hallucinating people usually aren't in consensus about what is real, while sober people are. Consensus is the only criteria for reality we have, don't we?

Not saying that consensus makes it a reality, but it's the best indicator of whatever we're calling reality.
This had 3-4 upvotes quickly, then got to -1. It's about the meaning of the name, and I thought in the same vein as the article.
Glad to see they are still working on differentiable Swift.
>investors and employers

When retirement is tied up in stocks for the majority of Americans, everyone is an investor.
As someone with a liberal arts degree who also, charitably, is a pretty decent developer, this is spot on. (No disrespect to those educated in different contexts, or those who have difficulty for other neurodiverse, cultural or ESL, or other reasons who excel in other areas.)

After years on non-technical or customer-facing teams, followed by a dozen years in technical roles, I've noticed that my ability to effectively communicate abstract concepts has greatly diminished. This has held even for things I deeply understand at both a micro (the technical details and dependencies) and macro (the business context) level.

Unedited, this comment full of parenthetical statements and loaded with commas, is a prime example of what's happened. Is it due to over-training one's brain to account for all the little details? Anxiety about all that could go wrong? Over-excitement about being on the precipice of nailing something? Or more general cultural trends in the way we process information? Time will tell, unless the Singularity catches up first.
Let me reverse that for you:

> - don't directly address the point of your question / provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question

- Discusses a point that is not relevant to the subject matter / Expects simple answers to complex questions

> - don't stay focused to the point of the discussion

- Overly rigid and unable to explore the problem space / Keeps bike-shedding unimportant detail

> - don't have some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech

- Expects fully formed thoughts and opinions on a new topic

> - generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion

- Unable to follow discussion through related topics and unwilling to consider the broader perspective

--

There is also a big individual difference, during discussion, some people will quietly think out their entire argument, reach a conclusion and present it, they "think to talk".
However, another group of people cannot do this to any useful extend, and will have to speak to make their arguments and conclusions.

I am in the latter group, in a discussion, I write (or speak) to think, I'm simply unable to prepare an entirey line of reasoning and then present it, I must make it up as I go, and this naturally leads to a bit of redundancy, backtracking and "moving around" the subject matter before reaching a conclusion.

Just like it is unreasonable of me to expect you (the think-to-talk type) to externalize your entire internal chain of thought, it is unreasonable of you to expect me to internalize mine.
From 2035 it's going to be less accurate in exactly the same way. I'd argue bombcar's method is more robust.

I don't know of anything that actually requires UTC to be within 1 second of average rotation-based time; having it within 2 or 3 seconds is extremely unlikely to actually break anything. But we do generally want to have measured time roughly in line with Earth time in the medium to long term.
My point is that the interview request isn't special like your title suggests. You could say "they're a fraud BS company" in response to any single thing this company does (and you might be right, that's besides the point).
That is a benefit over DIND and socket sharing, however it doesn't allow for running containers or K8s itself within a job. Any tooling that depends on running "docker" (the CLI) will also break or need adapting.

This also comes to mind: "root in the container is root on the host" - https://suraj.io/post/root-in-container-root-on-host/
I was just looking into the market for my own comparison. I bought a 9 year old minivan back in January, and I can't find any deals quite as good as what I got (granted, I spent a few weeks finding that.) So I guess in my area (Virginia) I upgraded at a good time.

I'll confirm your sale anecdote though. I sold a 16 year old car in May for 19% more than I paid for it in 2018, having driven it about 45,000 miles over that time (120K -> 165K)
I think we all are aware here that we're talking about liquid equity that one can actually exchange for money.
At the cinema, when there are multiple exits, everyone goes through the door the first person went through.
Unless your social / situational awareness skills are highly developed and you think you've found another use for your skills in the same firm that they haven't thought of, no I wouldn't even consider this. Even then you would probably have better luck cold calling a competitor.
There's also a benefit in visibility. Even if you fix everything else constant (same number of cars, at the same distance, etc.), it's safer to cross the street when someone else is already crossing than it is when no one else is crossing. It makes sense that someone being willing to cross at a red could push others over into deciding to cross.
The company description was part of the the interview request.
Spiteful against who? The previous owners and shareholders got paid well above market value when the company went private. The resigning employees aren't being "tortured", they're getting a fresh break. Musk appears to love Twitter and constantly tweets to his fans, it's his own toy that he's destroying.
Hiding errors saves less than a second of typing, at the cost of making every five minute bugfix a one day bugfix. Don't do it.

You can't build your own programming language inside of Go. If you absolutely cannot mentally handle functions returning an error and you having to type "if err != nil { fix the problem }", you really need to find a different programming language. But, errors happen all the time, and handling them correctly is the difference between an unreliable piece of garbage that randomly fails and software you and your users can trust. There is, unfortunately, no automation around making software reliable.
> Surely nobody at this level could be this brazenly incompetent when it comes to communicating a vision and building some sense of unity.

Why don't you think someone at that level could be so incompetent? Megalomania and being out-of-touch reinforce each other. History, from ancient to the present, is full of wealthy, powerful, and paranoid people acting incompetently and thereby doing tremendous damage in the process.
Did you take a look at Dotnet Orleans?
This is less of a tech layoff story and more of an overlevered business with crashing asset values against very difficult short term liabilities

You say "potato," I say "potato."
What about Chinese nationals?
The claim isn't that writing is faster, the claim is that there's less pointless boilerplate to write, read, or think about. You didn't write your comment as:

"quote fast unquote is not relevant hyphen the runtime would be just as fast if the code was written in plain words period code size is also irrelevant unless you apostrophe are called initial capital elon musk period the only claim left is that it apostrophe s a productivity boost comma but i just can apostrophe t see how a language that needs a special keyboard to be written can be written more productively than actual words comma especially with modern initialism ide s period"

because symbols are useful. And people don't have a problem with peppering code with chorded symbols like () ++ {} : <> ? without demanding that they be turned into words because words are easier. In fact people struggle when making new languages (Rust, C# new versions) to find more symbol combinations, reaching for things like Python's triple quote strings """ """ and :: and ""u8 and so on.

There's nothing inherently better about shift-2 shift-2 shift-2 shift-2 shift-2 shift-2 than altgr+i

Why aren't the common operations of transforming collections short, sharp, and getting out of your way? Why are they ceremonious "map a lambda which takes a parameter with a name and ..." when you don't need that.
Users provide a number of hosts and run a simple agent. We maintain the OS image, Kernel configuration and control plane service, with support for ARM64 too.
Isn't it amazing how they use this ill-defined term "lavender scare"? Like it's just some fact of history. No one in charge could have prevented it. No one is to blame. Not even the literal NASA Administrator.

They looked for
"Notable examples would be any documentation/correspondence which James Webb was either presented with actions on the firing of homosexual employees, any policy documents requesting his approval/review, or any reports in which additional information concerning the firing of homosexual employees was presented to James Webb."

So, since no one complained to Webb about gay men being fired, Webb has no culpability?
*"end is good" meaning "he is all right && he didn't harm anybody else in the process".
The concept is great but I never really saw the point of Carvana when CarMax already exists.

Unless your plan is just to leverage easy capital to push CarMax and traditional dealers out of the business like Uber and taxis.
> At this point its best to hope markets dont start reconsidering your other companies as risky business.

I think this is inevitable.

One, Elon is trying to prop up Twitter by using SpaceX money to buy ads. He's dipping his hand into other companies to keep his new toy afloat for a while longer. I don't know if the word "contamination" is appropriate here, but it's pretty clear that Elon doesn't see any kind of sharp boundaries between his various enterprises.

And two, I think a lot of customers are going to start rethinking Elon's offerings. Tesla used to be a status symbol. Driving one meant you were forward thinking, that you were on the bleeding edge, and probably conscientious about the environment. Now, Tesla is "that company Elon owns." There is no way this doesn't hurt Tesla's bottom line, and there's no way investors don't realize this.

All Elon had to do was shut up and bask in the accomplishments of others, but he couldn't manage to take his own ego out of it. Will it ruin him? Probably not. We he still be the richest man in the world in a year or two? Also probably not.
Hopefully not. This would bring Twitter back to where it was, just swapping one bias for another.
I keep trying to figure out how many employees actually built twitter in the first place.

I've been on there a long time, but have never been a heavy user.

Twitter seems like it was mostly complete a long long time ago. It's changed far far less than say facebook over the years. I'm sure stuff has changed but I would struggle to remember what's different than say 10 years ago.

They had 2000 people when they IPOed. But that was 5+ years after launch. If a hundred people had 90% of the functionality working the first couple of years it really does make you wonder how they got to 7500 employees.

From the outside it doesn't look like that much to show for 7500 employees. It makes me wonder what the infrastructure looks like. Is the software to sell ads that most of us don't see much bigger and more sophisticated than Twitter itself? How many people are taking care of data centers and doing "toil" ???
It saddens me a little that the world's top VC firm is going to take fewer chances. Wouldn't it be more responsible to just say we're going to exercise more due diligence and caution when it comes to crypto startups? Why pump the brakes all across the board?
SwiftUI was historically pretty dire to debug, but in the 3 years since release it's come on in leaps and bounds - Apple, for once, released something before it was production-ready and actually listened to feedback
Because we have to distinguish the two concepts. With timezones we already did it: computers save time (usually) in UTC format, and time is converted to the user time zone only when displaying it (at an higher level).

This is obviously better, when you save a file for example you don't care about the region of the user, and thus the save timestamp of the file should really be an absolute number, so if you take your laptop and go from one country to another your whole system doesn't break because it sees timestamps in the future, same thing when daylight saving is applied and the clock is brought back/forward by an hour.

Leap seconds, if we decide that we should keep them (to me not, because the difference is so little that we would start to notice that in centuries, and who knows not which computer systems we will have but if humanity still exists), should really be handled at time zone level, by shifting of an offset that contemplates leap seconds, and not by slowing up/accelerating clocks.
Eliminating leap seconds was only a half measure. They should have finished the job by adding rockets to the Earth to ensure that its rotation will stay at exactly 24 hours.

If they weren't going to do that, then why eliminate leap seconds? Kicking the problem down the road doesn't really solve the problem, it just makes it worse later.
Not sure what's semantic or controversial here. If you take an unpaid year off work, you permanently lose a year's worth of wages. Yes, you will earn again next year, but the year you weren't earning isn't coming back. It's lost.

Same here.
> Brandenburg test

The Brandenburg Test doesn't apply to free speech absolutism.
Learning to control a BMI-driven wheelchair for people with severe tetraplegia
Also Parler started from a bubble, and also Parler was open to all. It matters more what the platforms become, because if the entire alt-right Twitter decides to move to Tribel, that bubble will surely be quickly busted.
There are many other products especially privacy focused, ente.io[1], PhotoPrism[2] that look interesting but as of this writing they can't touch Google Photos in many respects, which is why my wife and other family members still use it heavily. It's probably the only reason I'm still holding on to my google account.

[1] https://ente.io/

[2] https://photoprism.app/
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And I-- I took the one less testified
and that has cleared all the tech debt