skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am glad everyone has a platform. Yeah, I disagree with some of what Kennedy says, but I also believe he has a kind heart and good intentions.

You know that he has had his children vaccinated, etc., right? I took the time to listen to his long interview on the All In podcast and it seems like his big complaint was rushing the Covid vaccines. You might want to look into Pfizer’s interactions with the Indian government recently. They wanted some limited efficacy double blind tests and Pfizer decided to ignore the Indian market.

Anyway, I am an old man, and I was happy getting the Covid vaccination, but I always thought that everyone should get to make the choice for themselves.

There are really too many people in the world who are hung up on telling other people what to do.
It’s anti first amendment. This bill won’t stand up to judicial scrutiny if ever challenged.
From their support page[1],

> we may immediately close inactive accounts to comply with local data protection legislation

I'm not sure if that's actually what their lawyers think, or if blaming GDPR is a convenient excuse. The fact that no other company seems to do this makes me think they know its BS.

[1] https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/help/account/article/closure-o...
> Rather than paying tens of thousands for an undergraduate degree, students should just ask their parents to vouch for them instead?

No, to be really successful you need both the expensive fake degree, and the nepotism.
>There is absolutely no reason to rename Twitter

For him there is. Twitter at $44b cash was not a business decision, it's something he arrived at through a level of reality-deflecting hubris and vindictiveness that remains unmatched by anyone since.

Remember how he appealed to Trump to return to the site, and Trump ignored him and stuck to Truth Social? He then tried to back his rival DeSantis with a campaign launch on Twitter, which failed miserably.

It's not 2016 anymore, Twitter's lost its pull as a political kingmaker and/or disinformation platform. That was the one thing Musk could realistically have expected his acquisition to still be able to deliver. Now that users and advertisers are fleeing and news sites are using Twitter sources less, he may as well bury the site, as it's outlived its usefulness to him.
This isn’t really an engineering issue. It’s a legal and financial issue.
I wonder whether the best way to go about these massive software projects is actually completely different to hiring some business on a massive budget.

It might be an interesting idea to instead take your massive budget, divide it into 10 pieces, and hire 10 independent teams to implement it. Just pick out of whichever ones are actually finished on time.
This is a discussion that is much larger than what's available in a comment section like this. But I agree with you wholeheartedly.

I think part of the thing is Software Engineers haven't been a thing for as long in the industry. I'm the only Software Engineer I've met doing controls. My supervisor has a CS degree and an Electrical Technician diploma, but never another SE.

Second is I think up until recently, the work done by Control Systems has been what's capable of an EE or ME so having a SE hasn't been necessary. I've been with my company for 10 years now, and in that time I've watched the evolution of what my clients are seeking in terms of requirements to their systems.

I primarily work in Agriculture or Food Production. 10 years ago my projects were assembling plants and getting their motors to start, with the required protections then some rudimentary automation to align paths and ensure flow.

Today? I'm building traceability systems to report on exactly which truck load was the origin of contamination for a railcar shipped months later. Or integrating production data to ERP systems. Adding MES capabilities to track downtimes and optimize production usage. Generating tools to do root cause analysis on events... It's a different world and the skills of a Software Engineer haven't really been a super important role for quite a while.

I think the mindset is shifting, but it is slow.
Very well put!

People with low research effort or lack of domain expertise will definately have a hard time.

There might be a wave of writer who might leverage OpenAI & Bard for faster turnaround content, but it seems like a short term trend to skip the research.

Will content become a lot more about a person's opinion over informative content?
Thermal cloak keeps things cool or warm, without electricity
No, but also a lot of users enjoy them. It's like marmite, you either love it or hate it.

Also note that most product managers love them.

Quite often they are a symptom of a UI that isn't descriptive to particularly discoverable.
I’ve always found dialyzer errors to be quite straightforward and easy to understand—the challenge is finding where a poor typespec originates in a codebase (or dependency) with poor typespecs.
A History of Shark Week
Pinning depends on the requirements you as the consumer have, and the specific package manager (pip, conda, poetry, etc.) so it's hard to give guidance that's helpful when you're a library maintainer. Generally when consuming any dependency you should pin though...
>Elon was wealthier than 95% of the people in the United States, the second he was born. He's been playing with a stacked deck this whole time.

So like 16,595,000 other US citizens?
I know the person who wrote the astrology forecasts for a major publication. She would boast about how she made it all up.
Rate limits, even more censorship, more blue checkmarks, blue checkmarks sorted to the top of threads, can't see accounts if not logged in, growth in scam ads, musk's tweets promoted to everyone's feeds...

I'm sure there's more. I stopped using the service because it was never great but now it's one of the worst properties on the internet.
Pentel features an Axidraw in their ad for their self-feeding Orenz Nero mechanical pencil:

http://pentel-orenznero.jp/
> critical introspection is a strength that Elon doesn't possess

He absolutely does. We’ve seen it in his prior reversals, when fortunes at his firms were down and he changed course savvily. The sycophants he’s surrounded himself with, namely, Jason Calacanis, Chamath Palihapitiya and David Sacks, do not. And that’s rubbing off on him.
Removing Randomness with LLDB
Intelligence is multi faceted. You can be an excellent lawyer yet not stop to think about whether Astrology is falsifiable and what were the results of experiments that tested it. It can be fun in the sense that it appears useful and uplifting.

Not every intelligent and capable person is a rationalist. I'd say that normal people reflect little about truths, instead relying on feelings and word of mouth. It got us to survive all the way to 2023, it's not such a terrible approach.
You're assuming here that there has to be "real" value at the root. This isn't really true.

Astrology, Tarot, the I Ching, or any other kind of divination all serve the same purpose: To provide certainty where there is none. To measure the unknowable.

People fear the unknown and risk, divination lets them feel like they have some certainty about the future.

Myers Briggs, DISC, and all the other "personality tests" are the same thing, for contemporary times.

They provide no actual measurement of applicants, Myers-Briggs is especially easy to cheat and dubious in science.

The benefit is that managers feel like they're taking less risk when hiring, but that is mere delusion.
Debian, stable on servers, unstable on workstations and laptops. Using the cloud variant on containers running on Raspberry Pi 4s running Proxmox (well, 'Pimox' but that is just Proxmox tailored to the RPi) since the default version fails to boot.

Using Mate where desktop environments are 'needed' for those not used to 'Linux', Xmonad otherwise.

Having used Linux from 1993 (SLS -> Slackware -> Redhat -> Debian -> Ubuntu -> Mint -> Debian) I have come to appreciate the longevity of a Debian installation, especially the way in-place upgrades tend to work mostly reliably. Debian stable may be somewhat stodgy but for those occasions where newer versions of packages are required there is always the possibility of pulling in some from unstable or testing. Even though this is 'officially' discouraged I have yet to encounter stability problems with such installations.
I agree with this statement.

Twitter as a platform and product works better today than it did a year ago. Less bots makes a huge difference.

It's also not hard to imagine why they lost 50% of their advertisers. 50% kind of lines up with the percentage of "woke" (horrible label, but whatever) companies out there who basically "had to" pull their ad dollars to not piss off the camp they put themselves in.

Prognostication is fun, but to be honest, we don't really have any idea whether or not this rebranding and redirection will work. Time will tell.

I, however, applaud people willing to take moonshots.
It's what would be cool and would look good on my resume. (Only half /s)
Love to see anti-intellectualism on "Hacker" News.
he was never really a product genius. he was an inspirer. And he inspired people to work hard and dream big. and so they did. and he let them be. yet borrowed their knowledge. And looked smarter than he really was.

Now he is full of himself and he doesn't know how to move forward. So he stumbles repeatedly. And then regrets it. But never is humbled by any of that.

He is also no longer surrounded by people who are intelligent. He is surrounded by sycophants.
> They sold their company at a very good price, much higher than its actual worth.

Yeah, I get that, but in doing so destroyed a thing that lots of people found value in. So yeah, they made more money than the thing was worth, great business decision, but I'm not willing to award "this nice thing is worth more as scrap than it is on its own right now" as being called "smart".
If this were remotely the case one would expect Americans to be the ones clamoring to get to India
While I agree that the free model is unsustainable, there are better ways than charging £10/mo for one social media site. A lot of people are struggling at the moment.
Skepticism, including skepticism about your skeptic reasoning, is the scientific ideal. Adherence to published literature is not.

Questioning popular scientific beliefs in no way implies that things like astrology gain credibility. It is not a simple two way spectrum of truth.
Someone who’s committed to learning them will understand them, so that usually works backwards: someone becomes a fan of a band, they feel motivated and committed enough to learn the lyrics so they can bark along.

Screamed metal vocals are a rhythm instrument and intensity amplifier. They serve as a focal point for the atmosphere that a band is trying to create. They provide a path for the audience to connect with music in a visceral way. It’s akin to listening to music in another language. I don’t need to understand Italian to appreciate opera or comprehend the emotion behind any particular moment, the presentation alone is enough when it’s done well.

The lyrics themselves serve different purposes depending on the band, genre, and topic. They often act as a signifier of identity, something that helps readers categorize genre and properly contextualize the complete package. Sometimes they’re just fun for the vocalist to bark, offering some combination of rhythm and sound that lets them perform with the intensity that they’re looking for. Some bands use more personal, meaningful lyrics, at which point they’re poetry. The DME piece is a brilliant glimpse into one kind of death metal lyricism but it’s far from exhaustive where the genre is concerned.
Statistically shouldnt someone get lucky 2 or 3 times?

Say there are million people with 1 million to invest.

Then 1/100 chance to get lucky. Do it 3 times (1/100)^3?

Maybe the general idea was nor bad and he got lucky in recruitment? Recruiting young people believing in his idea and getting overworked to reach them?
The northern US is the original thirteen colonies north of the mason Dixon line. It’s not a bare geographic term. Just as the “Midwest” is actually in the east.
> the bots have been culled

Source, please?
Are there any really good Notion alternatives? Preferably Open Source?
I thought Musk is his PR people?
Jung wrote extensively on the idea that people flock to new age ideas when traditional religion declines.
Bailout or not, the loan was however repaid nine years ahead of time in 2013.

https://www.cnbc.com/id/100759230
I wonder if IBM can offer a mainframe in the cloud. Its everything a mainframe provides but all off-site and priced for my size.
I was about to go do this, because it seems cool to have a log of all the IPs that my phone has been on and not to leak this data to Google

Then I remembered how much trouble I already have when my server is offline for any reason: no email, no grocery list, no backups, no VPN, no git, no link shortener, no IRC, no website with various tools like 'what is my IP' or bidirectional latency testing... self hosting is great but you're also on the hook for everything and it all has a single point of failure unless you want to run a dual-uplink server farm.

And yet I am still tempted to add this 204 service, but maybe then I also don't have internet on my phone anymore because it keeps believing it's behind a captive portal when the service is offline
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/X.Org_Server
This is done on GrapheneOS by default. It also allows you to change the URLs without connecting your phone and using adb.

https://grapheneos.org/faq#default-connections
Note that ROMs like GrapheneOS or /e/OS do not connect to the Google connectivitycheck server (instead they use their own servers).
(2017), but still worth reading again.

There is actually a more "traditional" way of doing this, which is to convert a regular executable to an ASCII one using a separate tool: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16312562
Is the Bank Secrecy Act Effective at Stopping Crime? No One Knows
When in the "billions" range, the deals are going to be light on cash. That's how Adobe can "pay" $20bn for Figma using stock.
From my computer when going to x.com I get an http:// only site that has a blue background but has no content. If I try to go to https:// I get "Secure Connection Failed". My phone is showing the godaddy parking page, wonder why it's not working on my computer.
They are an accessibility nightmare. I read a comment here recently from a blind person that had to give up on math education entirely due to all of the symbols not being supported by screen readers. It was pretty sad.
Speech has been broadly interpreted to include many "outputs" from human action/work/communication. It extends beyond literal speech/talking. For example, decorating a cake is considered speech, and a baker can refuse to decorate a cake for customers they don't like, because the government cannot compel speech.

I've seen arguments that the encryption algorithm itself is speech and should be protected, similar to the cake decoration.

In addition to protections on speech, the Constitution also has protections on privacy (albeit not literal - that protection has been interpreted by courts over the years - the Griswold case being the most recent/important interpretation of that right [google: "Griswold penumbra"], and now Dobbs could see some of that protection walked back).
Nailed it ^^^
> Google suddenly came out with Chrome, it was faster, smarter, and cleaner than IE and others. And worked best with google.

... and it got bundled by default with the installers of many free software
You can also employ a hiring manager who will hire smart people for you? He is definitely not operating on startup money, he can do that as well.
Isn't the whole scene like a memory from an unreliable witness, who (gasp) didn't like Bruce Lee? From that point of view it makes perfect sense.

I thought it was hilarious myself, and however "correct" or not did establish his character as completely badass.
Show HN: An Open-Source Platform for Raspberry Pi with Robust OTA Updates
Over the last few weeks, I worked on a set of tools which enables (1) a modern workflow to build customized images for Raspberry Pi, (2) robust over-the-air updates with rollback support of the entire system, including firmware files, and (3) managed state which is preserved across reboots and updates. The goal is to have a reliable platform for creating Raspberry Pi-based products. The initial motivation for the project came from one of our customers who uses Raspberry Pi to control test benches for pedelecs. The entire project is open-source. Feel free to check it out and give it a try.

The project is still in an early stage and I am eager to hear your thoughts and opinions. Also, feel free to ask any questions! :)
Follow up article:
https://www.cato.org/blog/follow-bank-secrecy-act-data
Dan Abramov announces retirement/leaving Meta
Thinking about twitter as an e(x) is quite helpful in weaning myself off the hellhole of a website.
Where does the FCC specify the delivery format of firmware? Or what "firmware" is as a concept in general?

Non-modifiable - by whom and to what degree? One-time-programmable memory? Accepting only signed updates from the vendor? Where are these things specified in enumerated FCC regulations?
That's not merely your pet theory, theologians come down to the same conclusion with regards to the use of religion in old and modern society versus the lack of religion in our modern society. There is a good reason religion is banned in communist countries; people are supposed to believe in communism.

I've grown up with the Christian moral framework, and I'm happy with it even though I'm atheist (OK, technically agnostic but in practice atheist).

The difference is that Myers Briggs was thought to have a scientific underlying background while it turned out it hasn't. Still, compared to what we used before such as the four temperaments [1] it is an improvement.

Like candiddevmike, Tarot can be used for good by using it simply as an inspiration tool instead of 'the truth'. The same is true for MBTI. Or even the four temperaments or DISC.

Astrology goes a step too far though. Tarot can give you meaningful insight about why things are the way they are or how you could improve. But based on your own interpretation (if you DIY). Astrology takes it a step further by making things up, generalizing it, and publishing such in a magazine, newspaper, or website. But its among a lot of low effort pulp commonly available these days.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_temperaments
British banks add monitoring social media customers to privacy policy
I think they are good when you can both skip them and do them later. Usually you can skip them but rarely can I find a way to restart it once I’ve decided I want to commit the energy to learn the app.
Larger models are not always more accurate. Overbuilding a model often leads to "overfitting" the dataset. A good example: the iphone text prediction model. It now has so much data that the suggested completed words are often useless and irrelevant in context.
The people who did the work deserve credit. So does the person who had the vision and brought them together. Those engineers didn't get together of their own accord and nominate musk as a mascot. Regardless of how you want to summarize Musk's career in the context of his current behavior, which is getting tiresome, I think this is a false dichotomy.
"Word salad" - I can't understand it, so surely it's meaningless.
https://archive.is/k8Ahp
It's also unclear to me if the architectural assumptions made in GC & VM engineering 20 years ago still apply today. I'm not an expert in this field, so take with a grain of salt... but I do wonder if a VM engineered from the ground-up today targeting recent ISAs would look substantially different.
Just marvel at how much data/metadata they get from that little trick when multiplied by millions users.
This is a straw man. I was not equating changing the logo to Elon making things better at Twitter. My argument for changing the logo is "why not" with my observation that Elon has made Twitter better since he bought it - therefore the hypothesis is that this could make Twitter better.
Usually feels like a crutch for bad design, but some products just have a certain level of complexity
Also https://xn--u1a.com is for sale (where х is a Cyrillic letter, see [0]).

Would be funny to buy it and make a redirect to threads.net.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kha_(Cyrillic)
Or based on a misunderstanding, but still coming from a real observation. For example in the US, apparently there used to be a stereotype that polish people are stupid, which came from language differences - polish immigrants had a lot more trouble with English than everyone else, or even were less likely to know any English.
One more trick: Use Algolia search with an unspecified term but a defined date range.

What you'll get back are the highest-voted stories for that period, sort of a best of day / week / month / year thing.

With some more fiddling you can search specific date ranges (Algolia's date-selector UI/UX is a bit fugly).

Note neither HN's voting nor its karma are especially good indicators overall quality (they tend to reflect popularity and/or posting/commenting frequency far more), but they do tend to filter out the really low-value stuff. Capturing and promoting true quality is far harder.

There are a lot of really interesting members with relatively low karma, often barely into three digits.

(I spend far too much time on the site, as I suspect most of the other leaderboard listees could claim.)
Most search engines for languages like English are indexing words as opposed to characters so choices as to what characters are indexed are made as part of deciding which words to index.

Search engines for CJK languages do tend to work at the character level so a search for “Sona” on a certain site run by (I think) Chinese people will turn up result for “Persona”.

I was involved with an A.I. startup where we had lots of meetings about what to do about all the strange Unicode characters and right now in Mastodon there is a lot of concern that screen readers will choke on 𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 while it doesn’t seem that difficult to squash them down to ordinary characters or treat them exactly as <b>unicode bold characters</b>
Reminds me of the internet outrage surrounding the "know-nothing" Bridenstine being appointed NASA Administrator, which ended up not only unfounded but aged incredibly poorly in retrospect.
The obsession with WeChat's success is honestly disturbing. Even if that would work in the west nobody actually wants that, right?

Anecdotally, in Japan and SEA we have Line which tries to be an everything and fails everything but the messaging itself because individual components are simply better elsewhere. AFAIK it's losing market to Whatsapp and Telegram pretty badly these days too.

Launching a different app is not that much more difficult than going to a different window within an app. It's almost like we already have everything apps in the form of app stores and web browsers huh!
Go Elon!

I fully support this motion. But who in their right mind would want to take over at this point?
This is about the business itself and NeXT Inc. was a commercial failure for workstation class personal computers in the market.
“People like games that offer low-stakes predictions about their personality” has both more explanatory power and is much more parsimonious than the explanation you’ve presented.

Unless we’re prepared to consider consuming Cosmopolitan an “occult practice” as well, of course.
Agree, I never desired that either. I also like learning how to do repairs and renos to my house. Although I'd hire out the drywall next time.
I'm sorry to be the one to let you know but 2017 was under two decades ago.