skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very believable.

Of course spouting a load of nonsense about former Twitter employees to the point that they have to evacuate their home is perfectly ok by that same token.
What is the technical impediment to writing one?
Thanks for the offer, but I think I'm on a different continent from you (I'm in California).
Why is Jxck's personal account banned? What did he do?

Applying bans retroactively seems very unfair. (Unless this is an automated mistake.)
So is Hunter Biden’s private media now banned again? Maybe not, as long as “Twitter” decides it is newsworthy (but in such a way that Elon’s media or location is not)? My head is spinning.
"Well, unless it is a previous employee on the Trust & Safety team or they use pronouns, in which case we will give you their home address..."
My age is in the range of 35-45. I'm also a scientist, nothing is "of course"
That's just him taking care of his friends.
This is a rare case where naming the language involved in the title text would be helpful.
>Creating complex type definitions for more generic components is hard and require knowledge about internals.

This is what turned me off of Svelte initially. Usually when I make websites I start by defining some primitive components like <Button> or <TextInput>. I could not figure out how to type my <Button> component so that it takes every single attr and event that a regular <button> takes plus some extra attrs that I want to define (theme, size, etc.) This is trivial in React so I was surprised that it didn't really seem possible in Svelte.
It always could be done in JavaScript, jQuery is written on it after all.

It’s just that it’s a lot better and easier. The fact that we haven’t standardized on jQuery’s API is one of the greatest missed opportunities in the field.
The fact that you don’t have to go through a dealership is a huge selling point for me. No markup, no dealing with high pressure sales tactics. Just buy it online.

As someone in the EV market I almost went for a Tesla for this reason.
Better yet, you can just type "..." for the same effect.
Any management style that results in your direct reports doing things wrong isn't their fault. It's the manager who didn't communicate clearly, didn't correctly incentivize, didn't set the right example, didn't create pathways to desired outcomes, etc.
Seems like coverage of a public sporting event is still allowed.

> Content that shares location information related to a public engagement or event, such as a concert or political event, is also permitted.
The comments from the FBI are really confusing. They seem to use terms like “dark web” to make it sound like these were sophisticated cybercriminals and the FBI had to use sophisticated tools to catch them.

But looking at the FBIs sophisticated analysis… it looks like the went to a clear web domain name, put in their credit card number, asked them to do an illegal thing, they did the illegal thing, and then they charged the owners of the domain. From my outside view, it looks like the FBI allowed DDoS as a Service providers to operate in public for at least a decade. Talking this up like it was hard work isn’t landing like they think it is.
This is a site made by a VC, for news on VC startups, for VC startup news consumers.

Its mind-boggling that so many users come here to rant against capitalism, or advocate against startups, or have absolutely no relationship whatsoever with the space. It's not only crazy for me, its crazy for the makers of this site was well!
wrt "undecidable byte escape" I think that wouldn't solve the problems with filenames. Files would have to enter Python land escaped which would mean my file really named \x00 would become \\x00

You can't escape only the broken filenames, because a valid unicode filename could contain an escape sequence, which would incorrectly be unescaped when returning to the OS

I think you really do need a non-str type that can be silently converted to str 99% of the time
https://mastodon.social/@elonjet
I do think, in 2022, anything of this nature happening on US grounds would not go over well at all. See the counter example, such as the Kent State shootings[0] which lead to a massive public outcry. It would, from a PR perspective at a minimum, completely obliterate public support for the railroad companies & the government and immediately give it to the workers.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings
I love CE, but it's a long game with 4+ players and far less interesting with 3 players.
It's laughable. Just an "average Joe"... until he uses force to subvert the workers' right to collective negotiation.
I’ve never cared about his jets before, but… well, I’m following now.

Streisand strikes again
This is by design (and implemented as explained in the sibling comments). The reason for the randomness is to avoid returning the same thing all the time. For example if you ask it "write me a poem" you don't want it to return the exact same one each time.

You can also set the "temperature" parameter to 0 to remove the non determinism (though I'm not sure that's exposed in the web interface).
Counterpoint police unions have successfully manipulated the public for decades.
Except that is an easy out. The truth is the emperor has no clothes here. The current DNC is pro corporate pro elitist and just grand stands using some “corporate safe” identity political issues to market themselves as “progressive”
> Bad execution can ruin good ideas.

There’s no good idea that the EU won’t find some way to execute poorly, alas.
Faster to hands off the wheels, is all I meant.

I was leaning into it being a social thing. If you care about reducing fatalities and such, public transit has been a thing for a long time.
> If you can’t survive as a business without causing punishing suffering to your workers, you don’t have a right to exist as a business.

It's not that they can't afford it, it's that they really don't want to and they know that the government will never allow the workers to strike so there's no reason for them to negotiate on this in good faith. The problem with illegal strikes from the workers perspective is that they won't just lose their job, but also their pension that many have been contributing to for a decade plus.
Elf vs. Self
Elon mostly cares about Elon and the rest of the world are cardboard NPCs to him as far as I'm interpreting all of his actions for the last two months.
Always been disappointed that nowhere went with arbitrary length numbers for phone numbers, with the excess/end forwarded on to wherever the prefix is. I suppose that's not possible with the amount of time needed to actually do the switching, and would tie up a lot of switches before a call ever connects.

Or, assuming every number ends with many 0s that are omitted when dialling. Mainly to make extending the numbers easier, though you would lose 10% of the available ones.
In certain circles they'd call "making it up as they go" iterating on a product...
There must be some kind of a "ShitElonDoes" subreddit that would be more appropriate for this endless stream of Elon related spam.
It's on Mastodon: @elonjet@mastodon.social
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> It's almost like the designers for these native-API's look at what the community uses, and then decide to do something similar, but different just because.

This is an understandable interpretation, but I think the real explanation is more nuanced (and more favorable). Web APIs do tend to be inspired by existing use cases like you say, and that’s a good thing. But from there they tend to be low level—in the sense that they’re designed for library authors, at least as much as they’re designed for end users—either as an explicit goal or as an implied general principle.

Taking inspiration from real usage is unambiguously great. Lower level APIs might feel more painful for end users (and can lead to dependency-itis which is a constant target of scorn here and all over). But the benefit is that these less friendly APIs are also well designed to be used in a wider variety of ways, without much influence on their own higher level interfaces.

More concretely, the DOM as designed allows jQuery and React to coexist and thrive for their own target audiences, in a way that would probably be much less likely if the DOM had been designed more like either one of them. This is similarly true for APIs like Intl (which I’ve used directly, and it’s fine… but it’s definitely better as a library target than for every day usage).
Beauty of frequent updates is no two trips have to be the same. Bonus points for AI models no single human can understand.
Lol how does it make sense to connect the public data plane tracker with someone following a car
For a more schematic + signal analysis, less breadboard IRL approach, EveryCircuit is just as good looking.

https://everycircuit.com/
Yes except for the part where it's a car not a plane and some random LA road not an airport. Except for these things it's a perfect match, grateful for this context. Although this "Elon Musk realizes he is not alone on planet" arc is quite interesting.
They are obvious winner among EV cars based on sales.
Yep. It is the first package I install on a new project. Followed by React.
That place doesn't look like it will be very open to trans people.
It absolutely is corporate greed rearing its head here (Railways are some of the most profitable industries in the US). Railways should carry more of the financial weight that will cut into the profits.

It should also be easier to hire people who want to work in these positions and staff beyond so that there is slack in the schedule and allow people to call in sick.

However note that in industry where there is slack and a relaxing of licensure, this represents an attack on the protectionism of jobs that is built into existing contracts to make it harder to fire people.

If you don't require licensure or as deep of training in spots, or have slack in the workforce, it becomes easier to fire people and that is something that is difficult for many union contracts to accept.
Thank you for drawing this distinction. I had not mentally realized the difference before, this makes me interested in trying TUI programs. Will go check lynx out today.
Same reason there’s a code freeze around Christmas. Fewer changes means fewer chances to mess things up.

If you fire 80% of the operations staff you better fire 80% of the eng staff too.

As changes get made and released I expect to see some more outages.

Also good staff made the plans and laid the groundwork for resiliency. That work continues to provide benefits after they’ve gone.
Favourite game from this year: John Company 2nd ed. Very complex, but in an interesting, understandable, and thematic way.

Favourite old game discovered this year: The King is Dead. An area control game with restrictions that interact in very interesting ways.

Perennial favourites:

Orleans - the most played game at my weekly board game group. Worker placement and deck building combined.

Concordia - a great resource collection game, plays well from 2-5 players with no rules changes

Hansa Teutonica - brilliant worker placement game. Looks bland, plays well, and now comes in a well-priced box with all expansions.
For anything involving inference you’re much better off with one of the many inference model servers such as TensorFlow serving, Triton Inference Server, etc.
The honest argument is that we have seen Tesla’s technology exposed to unsupervised and uncontrolled adversarial conditions across hundreds of wildly diverse cities in the USA, whereas we haven’t seen Waymo vehicles doing anything outside of curated geofenced areas or curated marketing videos. Right now if you dropped a Waymo and a Tesla on an unsealed road in Michigan, one of them will drive at least as well as a human learner driver and the other will probably refuse to drive.

I agree that Waymo could well be far ahead of Tesla, but there isn't enough information in the public domain to say this with confidence. We don't have the ability to make a proper comparative assessment.
What other mechanism do you propose for communally-owned goals? A special assessment every time you want your private road plowed?

No one wants to pay to maintain anything, but having an organization to do the maintenance on time is far cheaper than paying to repair neglected issues.
I think you must not have read the article nor my comment. I think those are preqs for engaging in conversations here...
A lot of those games suffer from a kingmaker issue: where a player can't realistically play for first-place but can advantage or disadvantage players who can.

Catan is particularly bad at this; if you have 6 points and someone with 9 points offers you a trade, your decision will choose who wins.
You could write a Tell HN about your opinion, although better to do a blog post. Or do an Ask HN asking what tech/app people think is amazing/are super-grateful for.
Nice! Thank you!

The tooltip example in particular strikes me as a convincing demonstration that there's a fairly coherent vertical stack of tools in D3->Plot around which a useful and flexible ecosystem of plugins and extensions can be built, all in SVG too (of course!)
I think we fundamentally disagree about this. Teaching those skills is what an entry level job is supposed to do for someone. Then they level up, make mistakes, and learn some more as they gain experience in their profession.

It sounds like the argument you are pushing is that anyone but the business owner is at fault for what employees know and how they behave. While some of that is true, it’s disingenuous to demand that employees will come in knowing what a business owner expects out of them or have the context specific skills to do a job. Reflect on your own experiences here. Can you genuinely state that your personal work history shows a perfect employee who always knew what to do? C’mon. Be real.
>It’s funny because broadcasters have notmalized ads at +6 dB compared to the rest of the radio.

This has actually be regulated against by the FCC. While the FCC is pretty much a feckless shell of an org, there are rules and ways to make complaints for their violations[0]

[0]https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/loud-commercials-tv
Elon Musk is taking legal action against the operator of the ElonJet account
Is he afraid of a stalker following him in a plane? He uses this as an excuse, then discredits himself by going on to threaten legal action against Sweeney. Wants it both ways.
Given that it's suspended again - if I create an account that tweets where Elon's jet was yesterday, would that be ok?
Just delay the stream by a few seconds and process before you play it. You could simply do this by inserting some filler audio in the front, or slightly shifting frequency lower until enough of a buffer was built.
Nobody said it tracked him all the time, "but it gave real time updates of where his jet took off and landed. It would be pretty easy for a crazy person to wait outside the airport with a gun and follow him. Why would you need a missile.
Non-JS Readable Version [1]

[1] - https://archive.ph/v5sxD
No argument there, but I think the third point helps address that somewhat.
The problem he's going to have to contend with is that you can't be a partial free speech absolutist, especially not when all the exceptions have to do with your own person. It puts the lie to most of his statements on the subject so far. Not that there was any doubt.
Self driving freight trains are basically impossible given the rails they run on
Interestingly, the intermingling of organized crime and organized labor was a pretty symbiotic relationship. Crime Syndicates need an above-the-board way of targeting people and companies that step out of line, which the unions provided by stopping work. The unions need an under-the-table way of dealing with scabs, strikebreakers, and uncooperative management, which the mob provided with violence.

Unions seeking out parallel power structures separate from the dominant government is a direct consequence of the government actively siding against labor at every turn.
Well so long as it's no longer the government asking him to censor things that aren't illegal and ban people they don't like, it's a private company so I don't see what the problem is.
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This comment is completely in bad faith. You are literally saying that anyone criticizing this new policy -- which directly contradicts what Elon has promised in the past in regards to free speech in general and this account in particular -- is doing so only because they think Elon Musk is evil.

This is clearly a self-serving action that is hypocritical on the part of the new owner of Twitter. Please engage this story on its own merits, and not based on your own assumptions of the HN audience.
If you pay, does it still force commercials on you?
Elon Musk now says he will be taking legal action against the college student who runs the account (https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944).
Actually, it isn't.

Their arguments are of the form "this statement could be false."

If you evaluate it as a true statement, you have no problems. It could be false; you have to evaluate it for yourself instead of trusting some authority.

It's only if you assert that it's certainly false that you have a problem. Because then it's clearly true -- since otherwise these authorities would be telling you something false, which proves their assertion true.

Put another way, it can get you from the undesirable position of blindly trusting authorities to the desirable position of questioning them, but not the other way around. Which is the intended result.
Most model it as an actual enum, if backed by strings. Typescript, by comparison, requires being able to indicate a type just from a string argument
And on the good software the 2D interfaces take customizable color parameters, any level detail you like 3D files, customizable fonts.

Just take 20 minutes to customize a settings file and reuse for every new project after, iterating as you go and you'll get yourself pretty realistic outputs long term.
Agreed. It's the same when someone packages the Linux kernel + some user space apps and calls it a "new Operating System".
The issue with "get out of the way" is that railroads would shut down which would basically close the economy after a week or two. Power plants would be forced to shut down and there would be blackouts because they can't get their coal. Grocery stores would have empty shelves. Allowing that isn't a political reality, and the opposition party knows it, so there's no reason for them to give any concessions to the ruling party.
"I like walled gardens" - hacker

What?
Whatever your position on various companies or products this is not an intelligent comparison by someone who knows or cares about VR or the VR market. There's almost no information at all in fact.
do you like Agile sprints and changing priorities?
> It may not be the end of the world, but it is a pretty drastic change that people are dismissing as "allow alternate browser engines," when it's so much more than that.

It doesn't seem possible that Apple would not have coded Safari up in a way that they would be able to replace the engine. I don't see why they would have couple it so tightly. It seems un-Apple like. What if they wanted to replace the engine?
Countless literal death threats didn't do it.

https://twitter.com/dataracer117/status/1519167734910619649?...

But when it starts getting that close to kids, maybe you'd start to take it more seriously too.
That doesn’t make it a public event, the sentence even gives examples of what they consider public events - concerts and political events.

I’m not arguing about anything here except for Twitter’s new policy. I don’t think it’s a good policy and it makes the lie of Musk’s “commitment” to free speech but it says what it says.
He should just make a rule that you can’t post about his plane. People would appreciate the honesty
Yeah but that doesn’t make Twitter’s new policy any less than what it says.
https://archive.vn/5tlBD
Zinc bromide flow batteries.
This theory presumes "really what Musk intended" is normally a meaningful concept.

As I say about my current and some previous employers' management, "the word 'why' doesn't apply here".
Okay, isn’t finding the car of Elon in a city as big as LA much harder? The plane tracker didn’t solve the needle in a haystack problem
I was jQuery’s target audience at its heyday and at least for me, the big thing it brought to the table was $ and what’s now called a “fluent API” ($ methods return $ instances unless they’re getters for primitives; it’s pretty much still my preferred way to explain the general concept of monads to people familiar with the pattern). Browser compatibility was just delicious icing on the cake.
This! It happened to me on my last job search. Was talking with three companies and two of the had the usual 4-6 meetings across 2-3 weeks stuff… the one I accepted did two interviews (technical and with PMs) and had an offer for me about 1 hour after I finished the last interview. I was blown away and the other companies couldn’t really compete, nor they were affecting anything so much better that would be worth the wait!
Shift Ctrl T to undo. Shift Command T on Mac I think.
This is what we like to call “the long arm of the law”.
Some collective organization is unavoidable, but perhaps HOAs could be encouraged to evolve in more homeowner-representative directions, balancing intrinsic motivations of board members. At a minimum, positive precedents and case studies could be amplified.

How about open-source reference contracts/clauses for HOA best practices and their most debated requirements, tested in multiple jurisdictions over time?

Edit: HoA anecdata, , https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27348079
HOA's then need to reduce their scope. Creating Disneyland-like tracts of grass and groomed plants, and other things that don't have to do with the longevity of the common hard assets, should be reduced or eliminated as an HOA bailiwick.
> I have always wrestled with the ethics of adblocking YouTube

have you considered the ethics of the ads themselves? Ads are all too often nonconsensual, manipulative, and harmful. They're designed to exploit us. You should respect yourself enough to avoid them when you can.

While I haven't verified the attribution, I can't really argue with this sentiment: https://i.redd.it/43f9y0p4ni281.png

Ad-blocking really isn't a problem and there's zero reason you should feel at all guilty about it. It certainty isn't theft.

If there is an artist, entertainer, or content producer you want to support there are almost always ways to do that directly without involving ads.
It's because of fingerprinting. See https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/#anti-fingerprinting for the official standards position.
Elon now says he’s going to sue the developer https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603190155107794944

a billionaire with unlimited resources suing a 19 year old for using public APIs. no one should support that.