skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As much as I dislike Stallman's non-tech opinions and actions, I think his proprietary social media handling policy is probably the best:

https://stallman.org/facebook-presence.html

Assuming you must use proprietary solutions to reach your people, RMS's solution is to use the other platforms to convert to your open platform. Maybe that won't work for everyone, but at least it allows usage of cockroach motel systems to your open one.
https://github.com/you-dont-need/You-Dont-Need-Lodash-Unders... seems to be a more readable alternative to this website.
That might be it. I haven’t needed help with a specific library or framework in a long time. The problems I struggle with are more conceptual in nature. Like how to design a solution so the implementation itself is easy or obvious.

The tools are like a 3rd level concern. Just pick whatever gets closest.
This is true for backend frameworks too. In the PHP world, Laravel contains many helper functions that uselessly duplicate functionality already available in the standard library. Not only is this a waste of effort from the framework's author, it also unhelpfully silos some developers into Laravel-specific knowledge. I had a colleague who had worked professionally as a Laravel developer for several years but then failed a job interview because he'd literally never written a vanilla PHP script and had no idea how to go about it.
I'm not a historian. But "book" sometimes meant something much shorter in the past, at least in the West. Euclid's Elements is organized as "13 books" ... but it's one "book" today even with massive commentary included. Possibly that might account for one order of magnitude or so.
Are you suggesting that in Iceland it's legal to fire employees for having a disability?
Mind if I ask: do you feel any sort of stigma attached to driving your car these days? Do you feel like you get looks or anything?

I see Teslas in town and admire them still. But wondered if this is a thing now for some.
I swear I was better at this game 30 years ago than I am now.
They'd be able to publish updates to older versions of the library if they so wished. Like v2.6.0 -> v3.0.0 deprecates _.fill(), then a security fix comes along so they publish

3.0.1
2.6.1

> It doesn't make any sense to remove it.

It does. Once the native platform supports the functionality it's redundant to keep it around and makes it less clear to a developer that the library isn't required any more. I'd argue it doesn't make any sense to use it but I'm not going to tell you that you can't. It's possible to accommodate everyone.
Unpopular opinion: I don't think it matters too much that we lose all this.

90% of everything is crap. In the case of chat, I think that's more like 99.9% of everything is crap.

The good/important stuff will be repeated and spread outside of its original container. All the good tweets are already on Reddit or Imgur. If Twitter died tomorrow (not as unlikely as it was 6 months ago) then we'd still have a decent archive of the good tweets. All we'd lose is all the dross. The same is true for other platforms; the good stuff gets cross-posted and preserved.

I think it's important that we do forget things. We all say things every now and again that we don't mean, because we're human. I would hate a world where there was a permanent record of everything I've said. I already regret most of my Facebook posts. Also, some answers that used to be correct are now incorrect. We get this problem with tech - I often filter my search for "last year only" when bug hunting because old solutions aren't relevant any more.

I understand that maintaining an archive is important for history, don't get me wrong. I just don't think we need all of it, and I think the important stuff will get preserved through duplication.
> Notably, he was one of the highest tax payers in the nation after the sale of Ueno.

He's definitely a man that gives back to his community. And seems to be busy creating, and working.
The neuroanatomy of social trust predicts depression vulnerability in humans
> 1. Called out their boss (Elon, of all people) publicly on Twitter instead of quietly remaining on payroll.

It's not exactly known if he actually still is on Twitter's payroll. Besides even if he still were, it keeps him from pursuing actual productive work, alone from non-compete clauses.
That's a really good idea. You can't cheat it in the same way as you can cheat twitter (get the tick as Mark Cornly and then rename yourself to Elon Musk)
He's the CEO and the largest single shareholder of the company. Plus he's the face of it, and the cause of it's meme-stock status. I've seen this show before and I know that nobody is going to dislodge him until the company is a breath away from bankruptcy (or deep in it.)
French workers protest plan to increase retirement age
The speed of light in vacuum is a hard upper limit. Most signal paths will be dominated by fibre optics (about 70% of C) and switching (adding more delay).

But, yes TrueTime will not magically allow data to propagate at faster-than-light speeds.
Re: banks, you can find the ads under "___ offers".[1] Ditto any "special" partnership they have, e.g., TrueCar is a popular one right now.

[1]: https://thepointsguy.com/credit-cards/credit-card-merchant-o...
I think the slow responses are the real generation rate when you time share the GPU. If you are willing to let GPUs occasionally sit idle though, you can probably get a faster generation rate by dedicating more of the GPU time to that one client.
Why? If critical levels of "unhealthy stuff" is exceeded, it's not safe.
Your spectrum is on the threshold of "unhealthy stuff"
For those who are starting to learn creative coding from p5js/Processing like me, this framework can appear quite challenging. P5js and Processing are designed to smooth the learning curve of programming for designers and artists without a CS background. Nannou looks more like it's designed for those who already have experience in creative coding but are looking to achieve higher performance with their sketches.

It's worth taking a look at OPENRNDR, which is a framework based on Kotlin. Personally, I think it achieves a good balance between performance and accessibility.

OPENRNDR: https://openrndr.org/
> Dude is out for blood and Musk falls for it.

I'm not sure he's even out for blood, doesn't really seem to be the MO of someone who sells a company for millions and decides to take wages instead of stock just so he'd pay more taxes (he was one of the top icelandic taxpayers in 2021, but much further down the list of top incomes).

More likely wants to know where he's standing (figuratively, sadly) as he's apparently been spending weeks of the little time he still has trying to get answers from HR.

I like that he got Musk to basically admit publicly he's being fired because he's disabled and they won't accommodate him, though. Only thing I wonder about is whether Halli likely working under Icelandic law makes it worse or better than if he'd been covered by ADA.
To add context to point 1, they said they'd repeatedly reached out to Twitter HR multiple times and contacted multiple people but they couldn't get any answers on if they were still hired or being paid so decided to publicly reach out. I assume HR couldn't give answers because it's probably running on fumes with a skeleton team
> The problem is that due to the system of water rights and allocations, California is effectively subsidizing Saudi Arabia by selling water to local farmers at below market rates. Thus we have a water shortage which impacts everyone while benefiting only a tiny number of farmers.

The problem is that farmers are being blamed for poor city planning and management. Los Angeles, for example, lets tens of billions of gallons of fresh water flow into the ocean. [0]

The farmers are at least using the 40% share of the water they get and in return Californians get affordable food.

> According to the Pacific Institute, California's urban areas are letting between 770,000 and 3.9 million acre-feet of water spill away every year (depending on how dry or wet the year is).

[0]: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/us/california-drought-sto....
[1]: https://www.latimes.com/california/newsletter/2023-01-16/ess....
In my experience with Hired there are a lot of companies that started around 2010 that chose RoR and haven’t quite made it yet.
Author doesn't mention that several of those machines with 36-bit words had byte instructions allowing you to point at particular byte (your choice as to width, from 1-36 bits wide) and/or to stride through memory byte by byte (so an array of 3-bit fields was as easy to manipulate as any other size).

Also the ones I used to program (PDP-6/10/20) had an 18-bit address space, which you may note is a CONS cell. In fact the PDP-6 (first installed in 1964) was designed with LISP in mind and several of its common instructions were LISP primitives (like CAR and CDR).
Do Americans Like Donald Trump, Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis?
This is the battered spouse argument in our relationship to our living environment. Well of course the air is unhealthy, but see, you need to understand the whole story!

Categorical thinking is not always because of a lack of nuance or of zealotry or stupidity (which are generally more modern dismissive interpretations). Delineating categories is a useful framing to firmly separate what is on the one hand good and virtuous (clean air), and on the other evil and depraved (polluted air). It's an excellent way to identify when exactly rationalization, submission or complaisance kicks in. Well, it's not as bad as it used to be. It's even worse in xyz country. It's not reflected in the average life expectancy. It's the price we pay for modern luxuries etc... etc... Having firm categories, and these will read as fearful or callous defenses.

Good categories should compel to action. In this case, what can be done to move from Box B into Box A. And then do those things (because Box B is inherently evil).

The real world is grey. For sure. And multiple opposing things can be true at once. Nonetheless, we need to cut through that, and I'm fearful we've forgotten how. The reason our cities are degraded is in large part because we have failed to think in categories, and have rationalized away (categorically) wrong habits.
That problem will probably solve itself once gasoline becomes so expensive (because of it becoming a niche product, because of rising taxes, or both) that nobody will be able to afford it anymore - except maybe drivers of 30+ year old Porsches or Ferraris...
fascinating there is a private company accrediting foreign pharmacies (pharmacychecker, they guy they quote in the middle)

private accreditation feels simultaneously problematic, and something that will fill huge voids left by public licensing systems that have gotten slow or otherwise bad

mirrors uber / crypto in that the opportunity is working around something the state wants to own
I don't have acquaintance in Ohio, so it seems your belief was misplaced. I'm sorry to have disappointed you.
How are they ruining the world?
You probably have HTTP access logs and can use that to run your own calculations based on UserAgent and caniuse. We are in enterprise, and 90% of our users are on evergreen browsers, and the next 9% have a browser version from the last 18 months. For the last minority, we conditionally include a polyfill from polyfill.io

“Browser support” is not an issue anymore unless you do something cutting edge, sell to regulated industries like healthcare, or serve many users in China/Africa et al.
It sounds like a joke when you say it straight out like that. But yes, his actions have made clear for quite some time now that petty vindictiveness is a high priority for him, one he's willing to sacrifice other goals to accomplish.
Consider he is instead gaining new fans and goodwill from the right.
I wonder what ramifications Elon's unprofessional and aggressive management style will have on start-up culture in the long run. My instincts are that for many he'll become a sort of anti-role model, but for other's he'll affirm their existing beliefs that to be a great leader, you have to disregard employees/users feelings and focus purely on doing your best to optimise.

That being said, this makes me curious how (if?) Elon manages/measures his reputational impact, and if he even cares how he comes across when he says things like this. Is there an upside (for Elon) to him acting like this?
Half a dozen subscriptions? I’d need all of them, and they still would fall short. We’re talking hundreds/month to cover a good percent of media in existence. The marginal cost of storing and streaming a video is basically zero. There are so many shows and movies that do not exist on any services as far as I can see. Capitalists are too damn greedy for their own good in this case. If services provided everything at fair rates the arguments against piracy would hold water. Instead they create artificial scarcity that actively pushes people towards piracy. The individual actions of these gatekeepers may seem rational in the immediate context but lose all rationality when put into proper perspective. Unfortunately vast wealth and strictly hierarchical organizations have shaped these people to reject compromise and collaboration - the foundational survival adaptation of our society.

Podcasts are the same way. I have like 300 subscriptions and over 200 of those have patreons or similar with minimum donations of $5. The UX of rotating through the premium subscriptions to each is terrible. Ignoring the $1k/yr minimum, I don’t have hours every month to waste on signing up for and cancelling subs. I’d happily pay a non zero amount to support all these casters but the default easy path of paying over $1k/mo is so ludicrous I won’t materially support any that use platforms with such high minimums out of principal. Once again, these are conscious decisions made by patreon and credit card processors to actively prohibit true micro transactions. This has a deleterious effect on the industry by keeping people like from supporting podcasters. I’m sure this state of affairs is seen as a positive by the incumbents whose interests are threatened by these bootstrapped creators.
It also helps them plan out their daily boarding and verification activities with a minimum of effort. Governments seem to have an increasing need to know where everyone is, all the time, and what they are doing.

There is no problem controlling the fisheries by simply auditing the catch when it's brought ashore.

I can see a problem with tuna and other fish being transferred directly to Japanese ships and never brought ashore, though.
> Developer machines are not something for you to “have control” over.

That's exactly right - you want developers to set there machines up however they want. You also want a controlled enclave inside that, that is automatically set up and works consistently to make engineers lives easier and more consistent.

One approach people have taken for this is to use docker - a container with all the tools built in. Run the build commands inside this, problem solved. Using Nix achieves something similar, but with some benefits over the docker approach.
Alternately there are professions that women are shuttled into and men practically excluded with serious social consequences.

It sounds incredible, but I’ve seen the figure that just 5% of newly licensed clinical psychologists are male which could be harmful to patients who’d feel more free to talk about their problems with another guy.

For all the talk and considerable progress in getting women in the pipeline for scarce STEM jobs that face intense competition from immigrants (e.g. Albert Einstein back in the day), there is little effort or progress into getting men into women-dominated MEAN jobs that are rapidly growing and hard to fill.
Hi, I'm not involved in the backend positions, but responses for the backend position can currently take a few weeks, due to internal alignment on current needs for backend candidates. I was informed that you should receive an update latest in a week.
The cost of the Twitter acquisition to much will have been much more than $40B. Since he had to liquidate stock to make the purchase happen, you don’t get face value for the sells and the lowered stock price is then reflected in the rest of his net worth.

I’d be surprised if the hit to his net worth from the purchase as less than $80B
And how do they square the circle that with the deindustrialisation and move to central heating that those particulates production are at a century low in many western countries yet seem to be more deadly than ever.
It's worthwhile to repost it again.

https://www.tumblr.com/numberonecatwinner/701567544684855296...

Excerpt

Managing Elon was a huge part of the company (SpaceX) culture. Even I, as a lowly intern, would hear people talking about it openly in meetings. People knew how to present ideas in a way that would resonate with him, they knew how to creatively reinterpret (or ignore) his many insane demands, and they even knew how to “stage manage” parts of the physical office space so that it would appeal to Elon.
I thought this was Hackernews and people fixed tech inconveniences with random scripts! I’m sure someone on here could hack together something to check for updates and run the update or automate that process with a click from your phone.
Well, that can happen about almost anything, having data and mains cables separated is anyway a good idea, but (with the correct cables) is not (anymore) against code in many situations.
FlashBlade//E starts with 4PB of capacity

$800,000 starting price (estimate, but .20 per GB is probably for the max size)
So there is a magic point, greater than zero, where it simply switches from healthy to unhealthy? That seems improbable.

Edit: Downvotes but no comments. That's a pretty low effort way of admitting your position is faith-based, not scientific.
> Password validation is a degenerate case of parsing

Really? How is that degenerate? Compared to what?

My guess is that you just decided to use a dictionary word you don't fully understand.

> In fact you could use an invalid password

Where does this nonsense come from? No. I cannot use invalid password. That's the whole point of validation: making sure it doesn't happen. What kind of bs is this?

> But that doesn't mean that `string -> Password` isn't parsing!

It's doing nothing useful, and that's the whole point. You just patted yourself on the head in front of the mirror for using some programming technique that you believe makes you special, but accomplished nothing of value. That was the original point: if you want results, you will end up doing validation, there's no way around it. You renaming of types is only interesting to you and a group of people who are interested in types, but doesn't advance the cause of someone who wants their password validated.
RustPython – A Python-3 (CPython >= 3.11.0) Interpreter written in Rust
I have backup codes saved in 1Password for maybe 10% of the online accounts with which I use 2FA + Google Authenticator.

I'm concerned about the online accounts for which I don't have backup codes.
I am in awe of @iamharaldur's response. Bravo.

Here's what will ruin Elon's day: Even with the algorithm now artificially boosting Musk's tweets¹, Halli's response has more likes.

¹ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-15/musk-forc...
Congrats, sounds neat!
It's because he is a bully and enjoys feeling powerful by being snarky to someone less powerful to him and then having a bunch of people compliment him for doing it. Like I wish that wasn't the reason and was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for awhile but it's pretty clear at this point it's just because he likes to do it.
Yes the self defeating actions seem to be a loss of agency because he is so deliberate otherwise in marketing and his words are marketing for his businesses like it or not. His petulant sociopathic fans make it even harder to like Elon or buy his products because I feel the need to silently counter these assholes from having their supply. He seems to have cultivated a following of uncaring cynical dick heads.
Also don't forget that Tesla Inc. (and by extension Elon) has root access to your car's onboard computer.

He could literally brick your car tomorrow, or make it play an endless loop of Nyan cat at full blast or grab the camera footage and publish it on Twitter if he felt like it.
I Will Never Use Alpine Linux Ever Again
> Europe will not be ready for the ban of new ICE cars in 12 years

Maybe. Yet I still think setting a hard clear deadline is a good thing, even if it ends up getting delayed in the end. It creates clear goals and focusses what we want to work towards, rather than a vague "in the future we'll be able to solve things, somehow".

And who knows ... lots of things can be possible with sufficient pressure.
What is the relevance of #2?
I don't think that the overseas pharmacies have locked on to tirzepatide and such as of yet.
> Unfortunately attempts at holding Elon accountability via the legal system have all failed

Well, except for one recent notable exception involving a blue bird.
12 years is a long time.

12 years ago, the $30k nissan leaf had a range of 85 miles in a 24kWh battery. A 2023 nissan leaf is $28k, with a 200+ mile advertised range and a 40kWh battery. If you're willing to inflation adjust a little, a $38k nissan leaf today comes with a 60 kWh battery.

12 years before that, we're talking about cars getting 30mpg running on Petrol/Diesel, and we were on euro 2 standards. 12 years is an eternity in technology.
The problem with these utility functions is that they're not chainable. It would also be nice if they made more use of Array.map or reduce rather than using for loops and mutating things. If I couldn't do it using a simple Array.map, reduce, filter or sort, I'd still use loadash or underscore if it was loaded.
Elon Musk is proficient in perpetuating his own relevance. These arguments, and how people respond to them, are irrelevant by themselves but the outrage or counter-outrage they produce has a multiplier effect of media attention. This is publicity on the cheap (for both parties involved).
> airport SIMs are way more expensive than actual SIMs you get in town

That's definitely not true for many of the places I've visited. Additionally, the airport SIM shops are often the only retailers that know how to register/KYC SIM cards with international passports and/or where the staff speaks English.
Is it assumed that these engineers lack knowledge of design patterns? Can you clarify the definition of function programmers here.
Yeah, the best you can do (as the "leader" or dev or whatever) is pick ONE and stick with it religiously. And "reddit" is probably the best of the worst available, at least it can be linked from elsewhere.

But for large groups of the world (who are not 'gamers' or 'computer literate' or whatever) Facebook wins because everyone has Facebook.
I think you have a point. If there were no people on Earth, what would the PM 2.5 look like? If it would still be too high, then it seems this measure while, baseline to know, wouldn't be practically useful. We'd have to then control naturally occurring PM2.5 in the environment.

That's not to say the obvious is not true, that Regions of China and India suffer from too much PM2.5 due to human activity and should be addressed. However, a chicken little situation is not helpful as people will tune out.
That’s a very odd way to look at it. Seems like he’s been trying to find out whether he’s been fired for nearly 10 days, and as a last ditch attempt contacted Musk, and was quite courteous about it until Musk decided to suggest he was let go for being lazy (and also seemed to think “Figma” was a joke like Bofa/Ligma).

Very odd…
Everything is running to a large patchbay that helps with this, but your concern is entirely valid