skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the most insightful analyses I've seen of how Musk's history relates to the mess at Twitter.
Not Tesla
If they reverse Musk's policies, Twitter could return to profitability and paying its debt. Twitter's problem is that if new management does reverse Musk's policies, Musk would just fire them like he did the previous people running the company, costing the company more golden parachutes and leaving it even worse off.
You must read a lot of right wing media. That's a very nonlinear cherry picking of news items out of context and a packaging of them to puppet a talking point.

You can wonder why all you want but hobbling together headlines some of which are 3 years apart and pretending they're related is the thing you actually should be wondering about.
> I still don't see why this requires a totally new language.

It doesn't require one, but never underestimate the perceived value of a wheel, except round.

> There is no need for a custom runtime, much less a new language specifically designed for that runtime.

I think the bet here is that Wing could be easier to learn/use, more productive, etc... that they can get enough developers into their product that they can make money selling and supporting it. There's a ton of products like this, and they do make money and provide value - just not to everyone.
A bunch of people in this thread are blaming the Democrats. Why aren't we blaming the Republicans? They fielded this candidate. Or the voters? They elected a dishonest candidate. Others have pointed out this information was available for those who had access to Google. What happened to personal responsibility?
Not once it's on fire.
Voice chat without parental approval is less likely to happen if the device is in public space in the residence.
Also, American rice is relatively arsenic heavy

https://www.nature.com/articles/news050801-5

Was the first thing I could pull up, but I've read that in a couple places
The FD had tried retroactively charging for fire services, but then spent more on collections than they'd collect. People living in the unincorporated part of the county were usually trying to pay as little as possible for anything. Three times they voted down taxes to fund fire services generally.

Not to mention the question of duress when the FD shows up and says "sign this and we'll put out the fire."
I have a mid-range Audio Technica one, the LPW40WN. Good enough for me, the quality of the actual LP you put on a record player seems vastly more important relative to the player than it does for a CD.
> MCT

Metacognitive Therapy. Effectively, when dealing with persistent unwanted thoughts, it teaches you to let them pass without judgement / evoking response, and to divert your attention elsewhere. I find that this complements CBT well if one has already done the work of recognizing that some thoughts are unrealistic distortions. Proponents of MCT seem to bash CBT needlessly; they needn't be mutually exclusive, and at any rate, evidence suggests that CBT is generally effective (and there's a much larger body of it than for MCT).

> someone who keeps you accountable and committed to a course of treatment/training. Many people could probably do these things by themselves, but many others struggle to keep it up for one reason or other.

It depends on preference and self-efficacy, notwithstanding that intrinsic motivation is necessary whichever way. However, most people don't seem to realize that self-administration is an option, and walk away from the prospect of therapy entirely if they deem it too costly.

The other problem is, as with personal trainers, whether you'll have a good one is a roll of the dice. Trainers have a perverse incentive to divert people to use machines and away from compound movement exercises like deadlifts. Similarly, many therapists don't offer much insight or homework. And all the while you can leverage the most powerful approaches by yourself at zero cost.

Seeing a pro is still a decent heuristic, most people will want to avoid the labor of doing research which can be daunting, tiresome, and is a skill in itself. Pressing the "just tell me what to do, here's money" button is arguably more optimal depending on the circumstances.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami.
I love it so much. I am sad that the Halas and Batchelor animated version I watched as a kid seems to be unobtainable :-(

I _strongly_ suggest searching out the modern Robin Buss translation (Penguin books sell it in the Uk) rather than the public domain version as the text is far clearer and several large redactions are replaced.
I basically didn't secure reliable, gainful employment until age 40. Prior to that I had, depending on how you count, two or three false starts at a career. But, I had become a hobbyist programmer in my early 30's. Briefly, in my late 30's I took a job as a software tester, but stayed only 9 months to give one last try at the career I was hoping for. When that didn't pan out and I finally had to rule it out, I returned to my software tester job. I was at the time a few months shy of my 41st birthday.

I stayed there 6 years, doing a tiny bit of programming professionally, and continuing to learn about programming as a hobbyist. I think I was 46 or 47 when I got my first programming job. I'm on my third now, and I'm 55.

I have been bitter, angry, and disillusioned—just like you. The only thing that helps is committing to something that will move you forward. Best of luck to you!
An Elegant Puzzle- Systems Engineering Management. The content is great, and the design and typsetting are fantastic too. It helped formalize a lot of half thoughts I had floating around my head in regards to engineering management.
Could not agree more, AMC+ is an absolute trash fire mess of an app. It is decidedly not competitive in every way. I bought all of better call Saul through Amazon video in order to avoid interacting with the AMC+ app.
Really? Email scaled. Internet scaled. Decentralization is scalable.

Why doesn't anyone remember how shitty Twitter was when it was growing. Slow and constantly breaking.

Mastodon is working fine even after millions moved to it. Yes, Admins had to scale up, but they did it.

I like that I pay my admin. No ads. No bullshit.
Typed exceptions convey a bit of information to enable specialized handling at runtime, they are not meant to try and make debugging easier.
My goal: build an outdoor robot to keep the deer away from my plants. Learning goals:

- Brushless motor control: has now reached cheap commodity status and would be good to learn more about. In the past I was always stuck between DC toy motors and full 6 wire AC motor control.

- Vision system on a small micro with edge-AI model for deer detection. After decades of classic machine vision I think it's time to overcome my neural net reservations and plunge in with one of those microcontrollers that can run pre-trained models efficiently

- Battery charging dock that robot drives to autonomously: learning goal is Oregon weather capable contacts or even wireless charging

My instinct would be to do all this in C++ with some Python as high-level glue but maybe time to learn some Rust? Not sure yet.
Easily The City & The City by China Miéville.

The premise is great, the characters are fun, the plot will keep you engaged.

A noir detective story about a murder that happens in the space between two cities which are in superposition. That is, they share the same geographic space, but citizens are forced to live in only one of the cities by a seemingly omnipotent power called Breach that maintains the borders of the two cities.
I sympathize with parents, but I can only accept the naiveté argument up to a point. It's one thing to be naive. It's another to make your naiveté a problem for everyone else. At this point, it is simply not reasonable for a parent to be completely oblivious to the dangers of the internet for little kids.
I know how you feel because I believe that I've been through the same amount of hardship. First of all, you're not alone, so get help. Second of all, you can learn to use the emotions you feel and use them to your benefit. It's possible to transmute these by using the energy and redirect it onto what you'd like to achieve. This can be a extremely powerful catalyst. Try it. What you focus on will create the momentum and goal you move towards. Focus on what you want or where you want to be.
I can't remember where but Rich Hickey at one point said himself web development isn't a solved problem

If you agree web development isn't a solved problem, do you want to couple your entire language to a massive framework that is committed to solving an un-solved problem in the general sense using technique X that presumably will need to be replaced Y years down the line? Or not work in situation Z

Personally I don't want that for Clojure, instead I see lots of different approaches in Clojure (and some outside) that could be the next big thing:

- https://www.hyperfiddle.net/

- https://github.com/whamtet/ctmx

- https://github.com/leonoel/missionary

- Unison

Ultimately I want to go long on my programming language and short on "the one true framework" until we have a one size fits all approach for solving the general problem of web development, until then give me low coupling libraries that I can mix and match

And that's exactly what Clojure is doing right now, maybe in the end it will be something like chatgpt just mix and matching the approaches for you but for now I'm personally not looking for a framework to be the only way to use Clojure
> almost zero regen-braking

Are you sure this is related to the cold, and not just that the batteries were fully charged so that regen had nowhere to put the energy?

[Edited to add]: I say this because I see this in all types of weather: I live on the top of a hill, and if the car is fully charge there will be no regenerative braking when heading down the hill.
Any tools you would recommend for the scenario where you'd use monorepos?
It literally just happened with FTX, which was off-shore exchange that wouldn't have been under the jurisdiction of American regulators.

Ironically, a lot of Americans were using VPNs to trade there and lost their savings. Why? Because FTX.US is regulated so heavily that it isn't as attractive of a product.
Lodge 49 was excellent. It was a shame that they dropped it.

Also, while trying to remember the name of Jim Jefferies' very original show, Legit, I looked at a list of FX original shows and they really have had an astonishing number of high quality shows.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programs_broadcast_by_...
I'm feeling this way at 36 and a 12 year career failing up with startups and VC finally catching up me. I'm broke and living at my parents house trying to rebuild while fielding lots of "I told you so" outbursts from family. It's weird how your investors will care less about failed investments than your own family does haha.

Anyway, how do broke Founders afford therapy?
Having done customer support, I think moderation would be a lot easier because you don't have people screaming at you all shift. But otoh, I bet they deal with a lot of disgusting stuff.
Twitter investors are divided on Musk moves
Why “the West”? Crypto is anti-state power generally, not anti-West (most repressive countries crack down on its use).

And I doubt the North Korean or Russian governments are using Binance.
I feel that the rumors of Twitter demise are greatly exaggerated. I my opinion, on the last 5-7(?) years, the Twitter has become a platform predominantly focused on woke/progressive agenda. One of the problems with that is that people in other categories, such as liberal Democrats for example, can no longer trust a word of what is printed there. You just don’t know if these are the users that are saying something, or you are only listening to the Twitter algorithms taking to you. It’s kind of lost its value as an information source. This is all now changes. Perhaps, it could have been be done more gracefully, but, regardless, the value as an information source and a discussion platform is now being restored. This ought to be worth something…
EU warns Meta over Facebook Marketplace antitrust breach
> Not all ideas are not all equally worthy. The hard problem always is "who decides what is worth and what isn't?", but "everything is worth something" is too simplistic an answer, in my opinion.

We agree - I'd just like easier to understand rules.
> White rice and pearled barley have their hulls removed.

I haven't read the article, but the title says "whole grains", which to my knowledge do not have the bran ("hull"?) removed. Maybe the corn hull is uniquely strong enough to withstand that inner pressure and pops the way it does? But as far as I know, a "whole grain" should have little-to-nothing removed from the seed.
“Was led to expect” or “expected”? It may be the former, but I don’t see any clear evidence for that in this page.

The case that Apple led users to believe that, for me, would require showing what they tell users when you allow Apple Music to sync with your old iTunes library.

Do they even use the word “Sync”? I wouldn’t know, and AFAICT this page doesn’t tell me.
> I think these Bitcoin exchanges need to be regulated the same way banks are, or we are going to see a repeat of the early days of banking where banks would disappear overnight along with people's life savings.

What is the gift of predicting events that have already occurred called?
Contemporary social media is not a "public square."

Weaponized speech is real, and "more speech" is zero defense against it.

Content moderation is a hard problem, in multiple dimensions, and blundering erratically from rookie mistake into rookie mistake serves by design or by accident mostly to enable and empower the worst exploitation, and the worst voices.

The pretense that there is some design and genius behind pathetic Dunning-Kruger narcissism and cognitive errors and neurological deficits has expired.

How's that anagram go, "a man, no plan, root canal: painful yawn"?
Fiction

I discovered and read Blake Crouch this year

- Dark Matter

- Recursion

- Upgrade

- Pines

I also discovered and read

- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

- Gravity by Tess Gerritsen

- A Man by, At the End of the Matinee Keiichiro Hirano

It's between Recursion and Project Hail Mary for me. I am leaning more towards Recursion.

Non-fiction

I discovered and read the following this year

- Deep Work by Cal Newport

- The Millionaire Fastlane by M.J. DeMarco

- Zero to One by Peter Thiel

- How to Start a Business Without any Money by Rachel Bridge

- Creative Gene by Hideo Kojima

- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

- Show Your Work, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

- Press Reset by Jason Schreier

I would say Deep Work and Steve Jobs had the biggest impact on me.

Programming

I am learning Elixir using Elixir In Action by Sasa Juric.
> Puffed rice and wheat are done in machines that lower the air pressure to create the same conditions as popcorn.

You mean raise the air pressure. They cook them at very high pressure, and then suddenly release the pressure and they all explode. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puffed_grain
This has a lot in common with Polylith architecture https://polylith.gitbook.io/polylith/
The First Law trilogy by Joe Abercrombie. Grim and gritty, with phenomenal character development that hones in on the fallibility of people. The narration by Steven Pacey is incredible, if you'd like to go that route.
I can't speak for the person you replied to, but I don't think the quote you provided really invalidates the point.

Maybe you two are talking past each other. One way to phrase the core question is: "did fire companies let competitors' buildings burn, regularly, as standard practice?" And I think the evidence in the article pretty strongly indicates "No." I think that's what you're referring to.

Another way to phrase the core question is: "Did it ever happen, at various points in history, that fire companies let competitors' buildings burn?" And I think the article indicates that it very well may have. And the possibility was absolutely used as a threat, even if it never actually came to pass.

I feel like even a handful of such incidents would have been so terrible as to get etched into social memory and passed on, and I think that's the sort of thing the person you are replying to was referring to.

So... I think you're both right (:
Came here to say this haha. It's a trigger at this point
all true, but the conundrum remains, especially as there's been talks to rejigger S230. but again, it's all a smokescreen for creating advertiser-friendly websites.
Seems like sabotage. Germany can surely engineer a functioning tank.
https://archive.vn/LvDCN
These stories came from a former Tesla manager. But if you want a reputable source:

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-tesla-life-inside-giga...
And yet, Musk has never solved "the trickiest problems." He simply does "first order thinking" that conveniently ignores the real issues with whatever he claims he's solving. (See, e.g., Hyperloop, Boring Co, Cybertruck, FSD, Tesla's robotic factory, the cave submarine, etc.)

At every step of the way, Musk is just cosplaying as an engineer and interfering with the actual work being done.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*** by Mark Manson?
The discussions how a decentralized system like Mastodon won't work reminds me of the early days of networks. People were saying the same thing about the web and the internet and claiming CompuServe and AOL would dominate.

Twitter is like CompuServe and AOL, Mastodon is like the internet. One based on proprietary systems, the other based on open standards like ActivityPub.

History showed that centralization is ultimately extremely fragile.
In my experience you need a Bazel expert on the team.

When everything works it's amazing. When it doesn't or additional work is required the hope your local expert is online and willing to sort it out.
> For example, on brands.town, Fox News has a verified badge

You realize that this is a parody account that posts pictures of foxes, not the American cable news channel... right?
Sooner or later, every investor learns it's so much better to not try to beat the market. Trying to beat the market results in failure for the vast majority of investors: even some of the most informed ones. I would go with the SPY or VTI.

I know nothing and This is NOT financial advice.
kinda does though. floating point exception vectors are a thing and settable from most compiler impls
This looks great! But after looking through the docs and Github, I don't know what the architecture is beyond there is a CLI and a browser UI that interact with some sort of central service.

The main thing stopping me from using Vault is that it can become a central point of failure. If the cloud provider secret managers are down then its likely that something else in the cloud is having major issues as well so from an uptime perspective and easy of operations that has always seemed a safe approach, although the pricing is kind of outrageous. But just storing (e2e encrypted, etc) in cloud object storage is also an option. Berglass for example gives the option of storing in the secret manager or in cloud storage directly: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/berglas
A house that now requires tens of thousands of dollars of repairs.
Of course not but that is one thing among many other possible things. It is just as silly to assume they are playing games all day. The whole point of the original comment was this is speculation as supposed to actual research.
1492 by Charles Mann
> I would be much more convinced by a modern meta analysis

There are many modern meta analysis assessing the (in)efficacy of psychoanalysis and comparing it to other approaches, such as cognitive behavioral therapy (which is the gold standard nowadays) and other approaches, which back my arguments.

I am not really interested in going more deeply about this, but I encourage you to research it, if you are interested. There is a lot of research about this.

And by the way, I am sure that you can also find meta analysis which will tell you that psychoanalysis works. This does not mean that it is necessarily true (or at least, not for the reasons that people think it is true), for various reasons, some of which I'm sure you can deduce.

The problems with psychoanalysis are not just about its (substandard) efficacy. There are many other troubling issues with this practice.

This is why it is important to follow a field of study and what current scientists, field practicioners/experts and academics know (from various disciplines and fields of study, in order to get a consensus as best as possible), and not just read some isolated meta analysis and extrapolate conclusions from it.

> I think you’re jumping the gun a bit.

I think what I'm talking about is pretty well established at this point, it's not news for someone who works in this field.

I suggest you do more research before arguing about a field you don't seem knowledgeable about.
Screen readers work perfectly fine with mathml. At worst one can just get the screen reader to read the latex for maths and browse the rest in nice HTML.

On the other hand, PDFs generated from Latex are completely useless for screen readers.
> It's possible none of them have been exchanges

There have been exchanges, as far back as MtGox, and as recently as FTX and FTX.US.
Tandem solar cell achieves 32.5 percent efficiency
> I'm going to take the minority position here (no pun intended), and say that I think these initiatives are in fact helpful and important.

I partially agree. Some of the suggestions for changes are good in some contexts, but there are also many problems with this list, too.

(There are also some things I would suggest to change to be improved even though the existing words are not "racist", but they tend to ignore such things; nevertheless, I think they can sometimes be helpful, too (e.g. I think "megagram" is better than "tonne").)

> It has completely reaffirmed my belief in the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis--our language influences how we think.

Of course it does affect it at least partially, but it seems that the language has a greater effect on the ability to communicate than it does on the ability to think; some things you can think of but not communicate very well, due to the language being in use.

> Intentionally changing the words and phrases we use is one of the most powerful tools we have for changing our behavior, and correcting both logical and social biases.

It can help, if it makes it clearer and more precise. Sometimes that is the case, but sometimes not. (And, sometimes, using more words just makes it too long, rather than actually being good.)

However, bias is not only due to words (although it does have an effect, especially when communicating), and using different words can ahve different bias, so it does not truly completely avoid a bias.