skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’d have to agree that the current owners are “controlling the defacto public square” a magnitude less than the previous ones. I don’t think asking a tiny % of twitter users to use their products interfaces instead of third parties is very controlling, but shadow banning, and censoring topics is incredibly.
I think IBM is superconducting
They literally ask “How are you doing?” and expect a meaningless answer as a matter of course.

To me this sounds like an invitation to unload my worries.
Interesting fact about the Soviet union: the grapes of wrath was banned, because the government was worried that if Soviet citizens knew that even the poorest Americans could afford a car, they would revolt.
I understood what you meant. I was just saying that your case is different since it wasn't necessarily that way for you the way it is for Americans.

There are many domains where imperial units have a nice human scale that makes sense, and then there are others where it is total trash and useless. I still fail to see what's so terrible about using both.
You touch on something it's important to remember here: Orwell was an English author, not American, and lived in Europe for most of (if not all) his life. Even if the US's car ownership rates were in 1949 already what they are today (they weren't), the author's view of the world was certainly different, living in a place where car ownership was uncommon.
The vast majority of HNI wealth is not in treasuries. Some of them have astonishing amounts of money. They own everything under the Sun - obviously some treasuries. There's a lot of rich people - some of them at times are owning a lot of treasuries.

The reality is - a small percentage of treasuries are owned by individuals (including - and mostly - 401ks) - I linked to the data above.

Anecdotal evidence that you helped some people buy treasuries does not dispute that.

Something like ~5% of treasuries are not owned by The Fed, Foreign Governments, Pensions, 401ks, and Banks.

The vast majority of that is owned by bond traders. You're talking about maybe $600B owned by a group of people that has >$30T in wealth. That is basically nothing.
> Can you blame him?

Absolutely. Good business owners know their limits and how to utilize people that have the skills they don't have. It doesn't matter if he "hasn't needed to do it before." He's an adult with multiple companies under his belt. He should absolutely know better and that fact that he doesn't is breaking trust consumers have with his ability to lead efffectively.
The Medallion Fund by Renaissance Technologies has had an average annual return of 71.8% from 1994-2014.
Apps don't magically become accessible by neglect. It takes a deliberate and ongoing effort.
Chromebooks seem to be the standard nowadays. At least that is what are issued by the school around here (Midwest US).

My first thought is that if someone can't afford a computer, wouldn't they prefer to have a "lesser" computer and have the remaining difference in cash or necessities?

Maybe the donors are a little out of touch with what their recipients need. I'm sure they are appreciative of the computer, but there could be more impactful use of that money.
I understand Twitter doesn't gain any revenue from these but banning them overnight when they've been allowed for a decade is really weird IMO.

But anyway I was gone after a week of Elon-Twitter
I’m not asking if they’re interchangeable. Just if “it” differs from “they” in some way in the above context where it sounds like that’s the individual’s preferred pronoun?

Yes, calling someone “it” has been a ridiculously offensive thing to do in my life experience.
Kings and Generals: Battle of Kyiv [video]
A lot of the grain fed to cows is distillers grain [1] and brewer's spent grain [2], which is basically industrial waste that would otherwise go to compost.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distillers_grains

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brewer%27s_spent_grain
I'm thankful we had people like you, fighting the good fight.
The Art of Problem Solving series of books cover all of pre-college math and have complete solutions manuals available.
I am not sure this article will answer your question, but Karpathy has an article about RNNs.

https://karpathy.github.io/2015/05/21/rnn-effectiveness
I do this with some other services (particularly Hulu), but retain my Netflix subscription because there's (almost) always at least some shows/movies that I want to be watching on there every month.
Another document with the same flavor is “Larry’s Speakeasy: A Handbook for Spoken Mathematics.” Basically a notation-to-English translation guide.

It’s actually listed as a technical report from Lawrence Livermore National Lab, but the only online PDF I can find is here: https://www.academia.edu/28253460/Handbook_for_Spoken_Mathem...
That’s a very good point. Why not negotiate a deal over the past 15 years, why leave their customers and company hanging on a key invalidation.
Logan Paul Says His NFT Game Isn't a Scam, He Just Hired Scammers to Build It
> Ideally we want to describe why we've changed it but this information isn't always available

I struggle to imagine situation in which this is the case. Surely, even in the worst case of you being told to make a particular change with no explanation given, you can at least drop a "increased from 5 at a request of ${name of your boss}", or "increased from 5, see ticket #${ticket number}" in a comment, and/or a commit message.
You purchased goods from Amazon - and they promised to send some portion of their profit to some organization of your choosing.

It's firmly Amazon's money at that point. You bought something from them... their choice on how to spend it. They were generous enough to have this program at all, really.

I would recommend finding a decent charity organization that speaks to you and what is important to you - and donate directly. Use services like Charity Navigator (or similar) to find reputable ones that maximize your impact.
Not doing basic due diligence on a topic you’re commenting on is willful blindness, that’s literally the definition. You seem to demand pedantically accurate statements from everyone but yourself.
I recommend you watch the video.

If the cops ask you about a missing kid, you don't know that you are not a suspect. You cannot know, actually. If you are a suspect -- regardless of your innocence -- and you talk to the cops without a lawyer, you may implicate yourself in some way. Yes, innocence doesn't matter one iota. Having factual evidence about the kidnapping could conceivably implicate you faster. Recollecting what you thought happened and making an honest mistake can potentially implicate you. The video goes into examples of this.

Really, watch the video.
This could work for the pulling side but really what jamsync does is both pull and push. Having changes that are always present in the remote means that merge conflicts are less likely. If you were to do this with Git, you would also have to automate the git add, commit, and push steps which would ruin the log in addition to being pretty slow.
>> you can choose to go bankrupt or you can choose to pay it.

There's another option. One that's far more politically favorable:
You simply take out more and more debt, until finally the whole world sells US treasuries. at that point the fed prints unlimited amount of money to buy up all that debt. And when the US pays interest on that debt, it just pays it to the federal reserve which then sends it back to the US. This is the end game, we're looking at. And the result implies inflation and LOTS of it. that's what I mean when I say, they will default on the currency.
"It" is not generally used in English to refer to people, and generally carries a dehumanizing or even pejorative connotation when used to refer to a person (it's not unheard of to see "it" used as a slur against binary trans people, for example-- using "it" in place of preferred pronouns).

Use "it" if someone specifically requests that "it" be used to refer to them. Don't if they do not.
The QuickDraw code (LISA_OS/LIBS/LIBQD) is just glorious. While reading it, I am overcome by the creative genius of Bill Atkinson. [1]. Bill went on to become quite accomplished at cooking lunch for the team at General Magic. [2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Atkinson

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Magic
Because it is not your donation - it is Amazon's donation out of their profit from products you purchased. You just got to (allegedly) specify where they donated it.
Because they are built and marketed to "non-developers", instead of for developers who just want to be more productive.

They are always missing features that most devs would refuse to live without...

Language features to support high reusability / modularity, robust dev tooling for navigating the software, support for proper a sdlc, etc...
>>demonstrate they will use it responsibly.

The problem is to define "demonstrate" and the criteria. Remember the gatekeeper is now an unemployed gal who "know lot's of things about cyber security" according to her main page. Seems likely a competent bad actor could easily impersonate a well-meaning reporter...

Yes, security through obscurity isn't security, but this also seems incredibly irresponsible for any "security researcher". AFAIK, just basic standard good practice is to report the flaws and allow a reasonable interval before publishing, and there seems to be no hint of this.

Modern society really is held together with duct tape, baling twine, and a few pieces of bubble gum...

[EDIT: pronouns]
Basically yeah, look on reddit for tutorials on how to strip the cruft out of windows, and start with W10 LTSB rather than retail. Handling the comms blockade is best done on the edge and not the OS itself imo. Disabling windows update permanently is so beautiful, I love having a computer I can expect to work exactly the same way tomorrow as it did today. It's an incredible QoL improvement.
At least the first line of commit messages shouldn’t describe WHAT changed but WHY the change was made.
Look just accept that all "meat" in the future will be vegan. i.e. "Taco Bell Is Vegan in the Future" Article:[0]) according to the movie 'Demolition Man'. :)_

[0] https://www.livekindly.com/taco-bell-is-vegan-demolition-man...
Bubble in the sun is a great book on it
This is on the same level of crazyness as the Z-Machine interpreter written in PostScropt.
But they do have better cooling than a Macbook Pro, so probably somewhat better sustained performance.
Terrible pun, but A(WK) for effort!
US law is neither a universal law nor an international one.

Accessing computer systems owned by a US company based in the US might constitute a violation of US law, but the hacker is based in Switzerland - where US law does not apply.

As you can see in the linked Wikipedia article, accessing these systems is probably not illegal in Switzerland, thus, for all intents and purposes, no crime was committed.
electricity consumption to measure economic activity is another technique, but judging by your reaction, "fake economy" hit a nerve.
> somebody who actually has a guilty conscience.

If working for a murderous government that sends drones to bomb kids overseas, invade vietnam and iraq, imprisons innocuous non-violent offenders for decades, funds nun-raping militias in central america, etc doesn't give one a guilty conscious I honestly have no idea what would. It's got to make you feel far more guilty than whether you put on a form you grew a bad plant or not.

>How do they find that person? How do they blackmail them?

Finding someone's ex is not complicated. We're talking about blackmailers so I think a blackmailer knows how to... blackmail. And the example I gave was just one of a million possible scenarios I can imagine an enemy using. The point was using something fake is likely as easy or possibly even easier than using a real crime for the purposes of the enemy, and thus the ratcheting effect you describe is immaterial to whether they start with the bad plant grown that wasn't listed on the form or because they told the compromised person that they'd reveal the false criminal allegations.
I like it. Inflict the pain where it belongs.
1948. War just over. The 57 Chevy and the culture it represents, one which I consumed in Hot Wheels form as a 70s kid, did not exist yet. No society, not even America, had put in a thoroughly modern highway system (aside from the Autobahn, maybe, but...), let alone rearranged their entire society's topology around individual use of high-fuel-consumption pleasure vehicles. Even here in North America, that was being planned, but not here yet.

And Orwell was an Englishman writing in bombed-out, austerity-ridden, digging-itself-out-from-an-apocalypse England. Even today, they don't have the car culture that we have here, and I've seen a lot of pictures of horse and carts wending their way around the ruins of post-war London. I'm sure there were plenty of cars around, driven by dignitaries and princes and whatsorts, but I don't think they were used daily to get to work by your typical file clerk, or your typical village farmer, etc.

It wouldn't even have occurred to him to write about a character's relationship with their car, or their even owning a personal car that wasn't tied to their profession (milk truck, taxicab, chauffeur), anymore than he would write about their tractor if the characters were agrarians; as much as the industrial revolution was in the distant past, the age of ubiquitous personal technology and obscene consumption had yet to be born.

I am reminded of something from way deep in my brain's cellar, some sort of quasi-fascist screed by a Futurist artist or writer from the 30s about a marvelous "race-automobile" or something, but it was something completely different from the 50s-diner drive-in-movie car culture that is the background mythology we live with. More of a "let it all burn and bring the future forth!" kind of nihilist thing. I tried to google it but this was literally a class I took in high school in the 80s, sorry.

Anyways, 1984 is an incredibly pessimistic novel about the future he saw coming, so any of his characters enjoying the sort of expansive freedom that I have, where I could literally walk out my door right now and be thousands of miles from here in a couple of days with nobody saying boo about it... even if it was a story of a personal struggle against a totalitarian state, it would be a different story than one where he runs the risk of being denounced by name in front of his entire society if he doesn't work hard enough at his morning exercise under the state's watchful eye. One that it would have been fairly magically prescient on his part to be able to extrapolate from his lived experience.
I can't even remember people's names after they introduce themselves how am I meant to remember their pronouns as well.
> What I always wanted to have is a tool that syncs my uncommitted changes of git repos between all my devices.

can't git do this with a fork, and you put all your devices on the fork, then merge the fork when you're ready?
Find-and-replace exists.

Having a separate string for each level of progress also lets you do other kinds of customizations: you could have a rainbow progress bar, or put little bits of encouraging text to the right of the progress bar, like "Almost there!" at 90%.

Essentially, you're making one type of customization (i.e., changing the symbols) slightly easier, at the expense of making other types of customization harder.
yes in fact they made iphones before apple. (apple stole the name and later licensed the trademark from cisco)
Venture a guess: how much is the US Department of Energy investing in research in: 1. renewables (solar, wind, hydro, geothermal), 2. fission, 3. fusion?

Answers (from DOE FY 2023 Budget [1]):

1. renewables: $1.27 BN (p. 43)

2. fission: $1.66 BN (p.58)

3. fusion: $0.72 BN (p. 36)

[1] https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-04/doe-fy202...
And for those who might argue that Musk has empathy for the survival of the future of humanity - (a) this isn't empathy by any technical definition, and (b) even if it was, and he was truly committed to it, his specific rash actions at Twitter are far from an optimal execution of any kind of strategy to ensure that survival.
A ChatGPT-generated message, pasted without editing, is purely functional transformation of the code, adding zero information. This means I could just as well run it on your diff myself, if I thought it would be useful. More than that, when I do it a year or two after you made your commit, the then-current ChatGPT will likely do a much better job at summarizing the change. So perhaps it's best to leave auto-summarization to (interested) readers, and write a commit message with some actual information instead.
I don't know.

But it looks like they basically have distinct roles: media company CEO for Sarandos and tech/product company CEO for Hastings/Peters. A little bit Hollywood, a little bit Silicon Valley.
> They are lovely and compassionate people, they're simply unable to extend that to me

Imagine that I told you about a group of people who, for example, "are lovely and compassionate, they are simply unable to extend that to black people". Would you agree with those adjectives?

> It's bearable. Therapists exist for a reason.

Maybe the things that are "bearable, but require a therapy afterwards" should be improved.
That's Perl.
Here's my two cents: it's oblique because they're talking to lawyers about suing Twitter and want to keep their options open.
Erm, that isn't how the real world works. I'm not entering into an agreement with Twitter when I pay for a Twitterific subscription, I'm entering into an agreement with Twitterific. They are responsible for fulfilling the subscription for which I am paying, not Twitter. If they are unable to then it doesn't matter why, they have still broken the agreement. This is simple business.
Textbooks aren't that bad. Here's what Pearson's Algebra 1 says when introducing the novel concept of the radical sign:

> The radical symbol √ indicates a nonnegative square root, also called a principal square root.

I quoted that one because it's available on libgen ( http://library.lol/main/BE522034F8D3680B248162CD2C35D455 , page 16), but obviously every basic algebra textbook covers this. The symbol is never discussed -- or used -- in any other terms than that it uniquely refers to a positive (or zero) square root.
Why one would store secondary information instead of the original ones is beyond my comprehension. If I’m about to study human voices, I’d store samples of human voices, compressed maybe but not just the output of some processing program.
Previously on HN:

Concerns about Trustcor (70 days ago, 36 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33541718

Mozilla moves to distrust the TrustCor CA (49 days ago, 64 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33813660

Mozilla, Microsoft yank TrustCor's root certificate authority (49 days ago, 354 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33810755

Linux Certificate Authority root stores have a too simple view of 'trust' (44 days ago, 118 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33876949

Being able to partially distrust a Certificate Authority is good (43 days ago, 14 comments): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33890823
>Hasn’t it always been the case that you could use “they” as a way to refer to a singular human without implying any gender?

Yes, since Shakespearean times.

For example: "I saw someone walking down the street the other day, they were carrying a guitar" -> a normal use of they as the 3rd person singular pronoun.
By the time this was voted on, 9 or so of the council members had already stood on a stage at a protest and promised to defund the police.

There was no one in the city who had any delusion that the "research" would produce anything but the amendment to the city charter. The only real surprise was that they had done such a terrible job at writing the amendment - it was very vague and hand-wavy.
No, 'it' is not the same as 'they' here. To refer to a person of unknown pronouns, they/them/their/theirs/themself should be used. However, if one's pronouns are specified to be either they/them/their/theirs/themself or it/it/its/its/itself, use those preferred.
Wayfair Is Preparing to Lay Off More Than 1k Workers
I've noticed two personality types on this one. Those that don't mind trading one sort of "shitty" working conditions like you describe (challenging/dangerous work), because for lack of a better term you are treated like actual human beings.

The other personality I've noticed is someone who prefers a much more "sane" (boring but very predictable work) working environment with a ton of rules around it. They enjoy being treated more like robots.

I could be projecting here, but I've seen more than a dozen or so datapoints - of course directly connected to my personal bubble so there is bias at play.

I'd absolutely never take an Amazon warehouse job. I'd be looking at jobs like you describe.
I don't think this is true. Reddit is a corporation. If they decide they want to replace the mods in any sub with new mods they can do just that. There is no property ownership in the reddit domain. They just avoid doing so, but they can, just like how they shut down subs they don't want to see around. They do have control of the platform. The reddit mods are unpaid de-facto employees as they perform work on behalf of the corporation. I also suspect that some of them are actual employees of reddit.

Reddit does have access to capital, one of their owners is Tencent.
Is it the artificial marble/stone materials? My understanding was that it's caused by silicates from real stone. It's not even that the work has to be dangerous. It's due to cutting corners and not providing/requiring the necessary respirators.
I dunno, I played a lot of AI Dungeon when it was GPT3 powered. It was quite nonsencial sometimes. ChatGPT is much better due to reinforcement learning and optimisation they did with it
FAQ says 1 developer.
It turns out that most fast food burgers are made from heavily processed meat that includes various preservatives and whatnot that make it noticeably less healthy than plain hamburger, unfortunately.
Most people naturally stepped from awk+sed+sh to Perl.

At least for scripts longer than 30-40 lines where sh looks clunky with too much var substitution and clunky sed regexen.

Perl is something between sh and C on syntax, but easier and with builting match/replace capabilities.
17 million privately owned cars in 1991, about 1/5 per capita than Europe at the time.

Unless you are talking about 1948, when the country was a burnt-out desert recovering from 30 million war dead.
Any suggestions for calendar syncing? It's basically the only thing I use iCloud for.

Would like to avoid Google and don't mind running my own server to manage it so long as I can use the default calendar app on iOS.
The Daily Dot article specifies that it's the United States' (the Terrorist Screening Center's).
Twitter is a private company; it’s basically impossible for him to do so.

And if a company officer is shorting the company’s stock, that sounds an awful lot like a breach of fiduciary duty.
How did you all at Ann Arbor (I assume) get into Mac development? Did you have Lisa versions of software and decided to move to Mac? Did Mike Boich or Guy Kawasaki convince you to start developing? I am always interested at what makes someone decided to pour resources into a new platform. I have done it more than once myself and it is usually very high risk.