skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was not easy, though I didn't find it too hard. Possibly only the desert and a place with lots of walking mushrooms were challenging. I think it was still possible to find a quiet corner to rest in both. Running away also worked :)
The article says that the hardware was generally sold at cost, though.
I'm inclined to believe this is true. The problem is that Twitter's challenges are social/political, not technical, and Musk has demonstrated little competence in this area.
These people behave just like the irrational fanboys, except they just do the exact opposite. Being a sheep and being a contrarian sheep are the same thing.
But it's a rock that we tricked into thinking! An electronic shelf-stacker is almost literally the starting premise of The Sorcerer's Apprentice!
Ever tried assembling a car in your home office?
> make sure not to keep your steering wheel straight

remove the "not".

> (or at least: know why you are doing what you are doing)

Remove that too, it's unnecessary.
Yeah the only thing I've found I miss in the world of piracy is reliable subtitles (sometimes they just don't bother with foreign bits) and Amazon's X-ray thing that shows you who the actors are. It's pretty useful occasionally.
I think EDSLs are the happy medium here.
The parent comment says that sipping gives a different experience to drinking which would explain preference for Coke vs Pepsi in blind vs unblinded testing.

I argue that this doesn't make sense as an explanation, as blind vs unblinded testing is orthogonal to sipping vs drinking.

So, if this is the explanation, they'd have to set the testsa very particular way, for seemingly no reason (expept, perhaps, such manipulation of results).
If you attend a gp they usually write a referral there and then or have a letter you can pick up at the end of the day/next day. In 100% of the 12 or so times I have got referrals that is what happened. Even gets printed off and a copy handed to me. If they don't there is usually a reason. I've also had GPs say I didn't need referrals (but I usually don't go expecting one). It is the GPs medical choice to not refer you if they don't see it necessary. They will usually always write the letter if you tell them you will do the desired medical pathway privately. They are more likely to gatekeep NHS resources as of course they will have to account for them. E.g. recent A&E referrals by GPS were being tracked by dinner A&E departments as lots of gps fob off patients to them.

A lot of the NHS is also just bad. Run badly and incompetent. I've had treatment follow ups go missing in the system. But, alas, I don't have a systemic discrimination pseudo complex to fall back on.

When you say refused to help them I presume you ask yourself why? And I presume your definition of the word refused is correct?

Lol. 20 years? What
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> Critically, the agreement includes no financial compensation for the Stockfish team, not even legal fees.

Why not the legal fees, at least?
It's a lack of democracy and autonomy in the workplace. This is what it looks like -- needless waste and bureaucracy.
Really? Has he ?
I think that gets to the crux of the issue. If Brandon is culpable for his actions, it's right he is punished. If he is not, then should he have the freedoms that allowed him to do this?

Let's assume culpability is a spectrum, not a binary. How do you assess someone's culpability?
what's the resolution on those? 32 bits, 100 years.. that seconds right? doesn't sound excellent for time ordering. 100 years also seems a little short but at least I'll be dead
When Trump told Russia to release his opponent's emails they'd hacked, and they did release them afterwards on the same day, he got away with it because he just did it in public on stage, and so cynics can't accept it because it's too obvious - it wasn't done on an encrypted Signal chat in a smoky backroom, so it must not be a conspiracy, so it must've been a coincidence.

Plus his campaign manager was working for him for free and instead being paid by a GRU agent for their targeting data.

You can try denying the Senate/Mueller reports on this, but you should read them, since they do say this.
Indeed. There's world football, the most popular sport in the world, and then there's American football which is this rugby clone with body armour that's only a thing in the US (NFL).

I never understood why Americans call it 'foot'-'ball' when the sport is mostly played with the hands rather than exclusively with the feet as in world football.

Was it a patriotism thing, to ignore the world's most popular sport, and make their own one where America will always be no. 1?
You'd really want to show that people bought more stuff due to Alexa than they would have otherwise. Tapping out an order on a smart phone is already pretty damn convenient so that's actually a high bar to clear.
Privacy considerations aside, I switched from Alexa to Google Home Assistant because Google is a search/ML company and best poised to understand a question and provide relevant context (like Google search result snippets).

Search is not Amazon's or Apple's main business so they will have a hard time competing. (last I checked, Siri just does a Google search and provides links when it doesn't understand a question)

However, both Amazon and Google seem to sell their devices at cost with the hope of finding a revenue model while Apple charges a premium for their Home Pod. That makes the Apple approach most sustainable at this point.
Look at his claim that Twitter is slow in India because of poorly batched backend calls [1].

He's simply regurgitating what he thinks he heard from others without really understanding how anything works. He knows less about software architecture than an intern picked at random.

1. https://mobile.twitter.com/elonmusk/status/15921762028730859...
Good read, which smart contract chain were you using for the technical implementation? At least I missed that part.
> With the Fiat, it would use up about 30-40 miles of indicated range to go uphill less than 10 miles. But it would only recover 2-3 miles on the downhill side.

Yeah, if you aren't riding the brakes, I agree with you that it sounds related to the Fiat. 35mi of range for 20mi of hills seems off.

> To be fair, that's precisely what I said: Hills kill EV range

Sure, but efficiency is a factor in range. What I'm saying is that, unless your EV range is so small that it can't get up the hill in the first place, hills shouldn't have a substantive impact on its range (much less so than an ICE).

I don't know a lot about the Fiat, so perhaps something strange is going on with its regen breaking. For example, with its smaller battery capacity, it's likely to have a lower max regen limit. Perhaps you're driving in cold weather and it poorly regens under those conditions. It looks like the Fiat does blended braking, so perhaps your using more of the friction brakes than you expect. Etc.
Ali G was on in the United States longer than it was in Britain, first on HBO re-syndicated way later on FXX -- the U.S. seems well aware of Ali G.
Just ban him from using the internet. That was what happened during his bail and the article seems to indicate he was happy to follow the rules he was given.

Prison is only a deterrent because people know they did something wrong and know they shouldn’t do it again. Putting someone in prison who doesn’t know why they are in prison makes no practical sense. It’s only going to make his condition worse.
The information Apple holds on users is valuable so they don't want third parties to get it for free.
Well, since tailscale doesn't auto update, it doesn't matter how fast the response is. Updating it will take a long time anyway.
I’m increasingly noticing that the word ‘burnout’ has very different meanings in the US and in Europe (or at least the Netherlands).

Where I’m from a burnout is a disruption of the stress system leading to feelings of fatigue, brain fog, lack of concentration, etc. It’s caused by stretching yourself too thin for too long, but not necessarily caused by work. I know of stay-at-home moms suffering from what we here call burn-out.
You didn't mention data scale. Just because the disks have room, doesn't mean the data access patterns in perfectly stable code will perform well at continual multiples if old data isn't somehow moved to colder storage.
You do have to add the /s, else its confusing
The quote is: "Slander is spoken. In print, it's libel"
Patients prescribed heating as part of health trial
The fact that they're fighting the suit to this extent implies that that is not the case.
If you go there, then the blame should be placed on the parent, not the kid, since he was the one giving access to "the tool". But this is a serious lack of empathy. Being the parent of a neurodiverse child is difficult. The first thing is that you cannot relate to him in the way that you can with a neurotypical child. You have to understand the full spectrum of his differences, but how can you ? This is a job psychiatrist already struggle to do.
You can observe your child, ask him question and infer based on those observation, but that will not necessarily give you the full picture.
The article is a prime exemple, the kid was "happy" and never displayed before the behaviour that landed him in trouble with the law, so how the father should have expected that his child might go online and say horrible thing ? And to be fair, the same is often true even for neurotypical child.
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There's also a non-free program called Grid Cartographer which is aimed mostly at tabletop game developers, I think, but it can also be used for playing old RPGs. It supports EOB and EOB2 and a few other games.

http://gridcartographer.com/
Why not? The precision one sounds convincing and I don't have any obvious counters
I worked for a bank with 28000 total engineers. I know because part of what i did was crunching github and gitlab data and detecting double accounts (and deleting account from people not there anymore). I'd say 3/4th of them were just cost of doing business. Including me (my role wasn't really necessary, the stuff i did was cool and everything, but a bit useless).
There's a popular English show with the same theme: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07mddqk
It's way too soon to tell. On a dramatically smaller scale my team went through a big drop in headcount. Day 1 the impact was nil. Day 10 the impact was negligible. Day 30 some minor problems were identified. But it wasn't until about Day 90 that we had our first outage and Day 270 that we had our first lengthy outage.
So 1-3 people have a big impact, the other 7997 must not be doing anything? I don't think that logic follows.
I cannot read the article so I'm possibly talking out of line, but still, do you have evidence to back this up? All of my anecdata of the ~20ish autistic people that I know is that they fully understand basic horribleness.

I read that autistic people might have trouble reading the moods of others, not that they don't actually give a fuck.
> Only afterwards were they told which wine they had tasted.

Well that spoils the next tastings. You can remember what the expensive wines taste like and score them higher in the future.
There’s a type of comedy that is funnier if it contains some truths.

On his case, the social criticism is the true part of while other parts like the self deprecation and random bits of pop culture references (“how many movies has this actor done this year?”) are there as supporting jokes.
It's not going to be much use with ballistic weapons at that size. So the weapons themselves will be of very questionable types too.
> The dash-separated hexadecimal format takes 36 characters to represent 16 bytes of data.

You can use a different formatting. I would suggest looking at https://github.com/oculus42/short-uuid Of course if you just want a random ID, then you might not need a UUID. But UUIDs have the advantage that there are different versions and you can distinguish them; e.g. you might want a unique ID that gives you some debugging information (where/when was it created), so you use v1 and later you can decide to switch to v4 if decide you want the IDs to carry no information.

Indepedent of how you generate the ID, I think the base-57 encoding that shortUUIDs use is quite good when the IDs are user facing. Not using O,0,l,1,I in the alphabet makes IDs more readable.
Margin Call. I have no idea why it wasn't more well-known. Kevin Spacey, Jeremy Irons, Zachary Quinto, Paul Bettany, Demi Moore, Aasif Mandvi, Stanley Tucci. It's about a thinly-disguised Goldman Sachs realizing the housing market was about to collapse in 2008 and unloading all their toxic assets in a single day.
Yeah, but there's always the option of showing a "fallback" when loading and inserting content in the middle of a feed - one link at the top "go to last bottom of top" and one at the bottom "go to last top of bottom".
So outside of the UK people often falsely use GB, UK and England synonymously (sorry Wales). Similar to how people call the Netherlands Holland, although that is just one part.

I think at some point people should just accept that the meaning has decayed completely and GB/UK/England means the lower half of the island on the right (up to Scotland). Maybe introduce "BI" for "British Ilses"? Unfortunately, .bi is already taken as a TLD.
And after that, visit the Tokyo Parasite Museum (https://www.tofugu.com/travel/parasite-museum-tokyo/ -- probably best not to visit this link while eating breakfast).

In all seriousness I have been to this museum and it's fantastic.
I think it's the classic formula: rich person marries artsy person, children get to engage in artsy pursuits with little regard for the here and now of paying their heating bill.
The english wikipedia [1] agrees with you.

Interestingly, I always assumed that “fast food” meant the type of food; so a hamburger, even if not made from mass produced ingredients, would always be a “fast food”.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_food
any company that is doing something that is web-based. many have huge functions that have zero to do with the web.
An “internal DSL” is a library with a a design which makes it “feel” like a language. JQuery is the classic example. An “external DSL” has its own syntax, like regexes.
He can just sell more tesla stock, its a fake financial problem he’s being loud about
Your broad point is obviously correct (most outages are caused by code or config changes) but there are still classes of failures that can happen without any real changes, like various performance degradations (maybe your table grows too large) or occasional catastrophic failures from things like disk space or id overflow or something.

There's also the stability of third party systems: forced deprecations, security EOL, etc. The cert expiration stuff people have been mentioning is in this category too. I wouldn't be surprised if something does slip through the cracks at Twitter in the next 4 or 6mo.
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How? Because I spent 12 hours yesterday wrestling with ESM loader issues and trying to get some basic Typescript running.

Programming sound romantic in theory, but in practice it's a messy, nasty business that breaks people.

Kinda like parenthood, actually.
The SRE team mentioned in the article is SRE for one component of a complex architecture.

There are probably many such components; I'd imagine SRE alone would be 200+ people

How many of the remaining staff have the knowledge required to keep all of those components running smoothly?
What do you mean by "right"? He grossly overpaid for a business that isn't profitable and likely made it even less profitable. Even if it limps along and some husk of Twitter survives, it's hard to see Musk as making the right move here.
How difficult can a platform like Twitter be? I am convinced you can run the entire tech stack with a team of a 100 people.
This is more like a car with just the bare essentials: an engine, steering wheel, brakes, and the like.

No: radio, air-conditioning, seat padding, wipers, lights, radar, etc...

Oh, and no maintenance.

It'll drive... for now. But that's it.
Also an eye opener that the original BASIC implementation used a JIT based REPL, only with 8 bit home computing scene did interpreters came into play due to hardware restrictions.
Something doesn't compute in this scenario though. Either his tricking everyone around him or is unfortunate enough to slip up publically. Not knowing what GraphQL is and talking about RPCs in HTTP is a very revealing slip up.

My guess would be that he has some knowledge but also is very good at faking it which is not necessarily a bad thing - those are good traits for a CEO. Though people should be aware of this fact when evaluating the whole persona.
Can people stop attributing Space success to Musk when it's Gwynne Shotwell's work (with lots of public subsidies)
This is one point that worries me about Kotlin (which I like a lot). Is it even practical developing in Kotlin using something other than IntelliJ?
All of its toolsets come from the same company, which could kill it one day.
> Bicycles aren’t very useful vehicles compared to cars, which is why a very small share of the US population uses them on the roads in the first place.

It's because the infrastructure for biking is almost non-existent. Thanks to people who keep saying "just ban bycicles because cars!".

Read and watch this: How the Dutch got their cycling infrastructure https://bicycledutch.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/how-the-dutch-...
Kudos for nice work!

What did you make of Mudge's report regarding resiliency of data-centers?

> Insufficient data center redundancy, 59 without a plan to cold-boot or
recover from even minor overlapping data center failure, raising the risk of
a brief outage to that of a catastrophic and existential risk for Twitter's
survival.

- https://techpolicy.press/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/whistleb...
Even if it were not misleading, this is not really interesting is it
never displayed before the behaviour that landed him in trouble with the law

How do you know that? His word? His parents' word? All we know is he's never before harassed someone to the point they went to the police and the police followed it up with the relevant platform, got his information, and filed it.

Being the parent of a neurodiverse child is difficult.

What's this have to do with the price of tea in China? I'm not saying the police should have showed up and shot him if he didn't cooperate like a neurotypical person would. I'm saying being autistic doesn't make the consequences and liability for your actions just evaporate.
That is why one of the aspects of experience in tech is to learn to identify what fashion trends to ignore, what to actually pay attention to, and to learn from past waves for stuff that comes back as revival fashion.
Didnt TFA break as well? And im seeing mass twitter account dumping reported via reddit.
Sitting on beanbags in group therapy sessions talking about imposter syndrome.
GNU Guile was supposed to be such an ubiquitous language but AFAIK it didn't really take off.
don't forget the hilariously dangerous strcpy that they "fixed" with strncpy, which would happily create unterminated strings, so has was fixed again with strlcpy. At least std::string doesn't have these problems (it has its own issues because the anemic API surface means you keep needing C APIs that require null termination)
The story of Darius McCollum is brilliant and tragic at the same time, he was trained on the side by the drivers who were fascinated how much he enjoyed the trains and they let him drive them while they would go off for lunch or whatever.

He was arrested so many times though and wouldn't hire him for those reasons but always felt a bit cruel.
> Dedicated, competent and highly-funded attackers are at work. Central/commercial banks, Treasuries, etc. cannot abide any fire-exit

First-world tech bros drinking cool-aid and shoveling money by the truckload with zero understanding of finance, and in it just for scams, get rich schemes and money: check.

"It's a coordinated attack by the Big Money and State Actors" whine: also check.

> So, the stakes for attackers are high. The stakes for liberty-valuing citizens: even higher.

Spare us the bullshit.

"DeFi" is literally just currency speculation and flash loans, all of them happening with fantasy tokens. But it's a big circle jerk because blockchain and programs in esoteric programming languages on inefficient esoteric VMs (yes, that's what "smart" "contracts" are).

All of the crypto scams and failures are entirely on those in crypto space. No highly-funded attackers needed. You're busy doing it to yourselves.
Why shouldn't his autism give him a pass? Should a person with coprolalia be found in contempt if they interrupt a judge in court?

What should happen is his caretakers should ensure he can't do the things he does. But punishing him doesn't make much sense.
> What difference does it make if that hole that opens to your network is in tail-scales servers (with a public IP and port) or yours?

Are we comparing clients knowing my ip vs not knowing my ip while connecting to my server? Because there's a huge difference. I would obviously want my ip to stay unknown if possible. With my ip you can roughly geolocate my server, DDOS it, try other ports like 80, 443, 22, 3306 to know more about it, etc.
You can learn about feelings, but that means you misunderstand or is completely ignorant of the mechanics of the feeling until you are taught about it, once you're taught about it you can try to interpret the signs, but it's still hard and error-prone work, even though it's probably work worth doing, for the benefit of other's perception of your actions.

There are feelings and mechanics I wish I'd learned earlier.
Though honestly it appears it was dumb of me since he was actually documented saying this.
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New version of conanex 0.8.5 arrived with support of hash for packages
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I'm only picking things up passively but as far as I have read, it is because the App Store does not track you across OTHER COMPANIES apps and websites. If they only track you within their own Apple ecosystem, they don't need to ask for permission (same as other apps).
> Darius McCollum [...] In 2015 he was charged with stealing a Greyhound bus. The judge accepted his plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, based on his autism, but sent him indefinitely to a mental institution.

Ah but it's worse than that

> In October 2018, a Judge ruled that Darius was dangerously mentally ill. In New York State, after a “mentally unfit” plea, a judge decides how dangerous a defendant is. There are three options. “Track 1” - the most dangerous, to “Track 3” - for non violent offenders. Darius’ attorney fought for him to be designated as a “Track 3” offender, meaning he could receive services while retaining some freedom. The judge, however, ruled that Darius was “Track 1,” the most dangerous assignation available. This was against the recommendation of the state’s psychiatrists, who all testified that Darius is not dangerous and should be “Track 3.”

Would've expected the Hannibal Lecter treatment to be dependent on a prior record of violence.
Here's a youtube video where they tour the Casio G-Shock factory in Yamagata: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C1wrXF1Tc_I
Musk says Twitter to hold off relaunching blue check verification
SpaceX is subsidised (and so is Tesla) and automotive industry was already in the process of electrifying. Tesla just put pressure to speed it up. Haven't checked but it would not surprises me if Formula E predated Tesla.