skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This seems to be a complaint about something but offers no alternatives that would help gain desired outcomes. By being a professor and writing this article the author seems to embody the principle of those who can, do, and those who can't, teach.

There's also what seems to be a false distinction of summative and formative grading. Every example that's given there is no difference in the testing and there is no difference in the evaluation of the test but it is simply the application of the outcomes from that test. So it's okay to administer a test evaluate what is correct and incorrect and then apply those outcomes to teaching someone their knowledge gaps. This is what the author indicates as a formative test.

Doing the exact same thing except applying those outcomes to make a decision on whether you want to admit them to your institution (work, school, etc) is a summative test and is bad. The reasons that are given can be summed up in the point that it makes someone feel bad when they get rejected. There seems to be no acknowledgment that many institutions are not institutions that are built to teach people, and that it's appropriate for institutions or other individuals to take subsets of information they gain through testing or questioning and then formulating a guess as to whether the person would be acceptable in their institution or not. Is this a perfect predictor of acceptability? Obviously not and no one thinks it is. Simply making the argument that it's not perfect therefore throw it away for a non-existent alternative is a useless argument.

If you're going to make argumentation that evaluations used to make decisions (which is what tests and grading are) are of no value because they make people feel bad, then this applies to both the authors summative and formative applications of outcomes and it's the height of ignorance to think that they are different in how they impact feelings. You additionally need to propose an alternative that provides a solution for what the institutions need and solves for what you indicate is the primary problem. This article made zero attempt to do that. So I'm back to, those who can, do, and those who cannot, teach. Because this person embodies that wholly useless principle that many people have of I can do something and it's totally fine as in they use grades every day when teaching their students, but if you use the exact same thing you are bad. Zero acknowledgment that their failure in teaching is what caused the failures of their students in evaluations. Perhaps teaching people to live in the world you say you're preparing them for should be your goal instead of saying that the world is wrong.
You answered your own questions really with "Musk can seem to do no right atm" - for some of us, it's just incredibly funny to watch the hubris of a self-proclaimed genius cause them to fail so often in such a short space of time. A seemingly endless string of stupid decisions because he's surrounded by boot lickers and sycophants with not one of them willing to put their hand up and tell him he's not a genius.
Long term everyone is dead. If these companies continue to exist, how do they handle this? Will Valve maintain your steam login waiting hundreds of years for a user who will never login?

It’s an interesting question and it has never been directly addressed, though Facebook and similar have enabled memorial pages.

I could see a service like steam allowing a death certificate and closure resulting in a $10 refund so they don’t have to maintain the database entry.
Astrology makes its predictions in a vague and personally flattering way as to overwhelm critical facilities. This is not very different in how religion uses the language of threats and social coercion to deliver doctrine over one's senses. In both cases it's a defeat of rationality (and sorry I dismiss your whole first paragraph as sophistry).

> (FWIW, the Catholic Church rejects astrology, not as some "competing" doctrine, but as a pseudo-science and a superstition [0].)

Russian Orthodox church also rejects astrology as a superstition, or rather manifestation of paganism which is a competing doctrine. It also blesses missiles with holy water.
Somewhat ironic, since the mine was in Zambia.
Who is favourite?
If that were true there would be a 50/50 split between extroverts/introverts. (Or shy/outgoing, however you want to define it)

But there are statistically more extroverts than introverts, so this is empirically wrong.
A solid move to instill faith with advertisers that what is left of "the platform formerly known as twitter" will be stable, avoid confusion with their users, and be a brand-positive environment.

What's everyone's timetable for either shutdown or sell-off of twitter, 18 months. Ad revenue will continue to shrink, effective 'cost per' rates will decrease while Ex-Twitter will try to squeeze out stable or higher, likely push brands toward longer term campaign spend, engagements so as to reflect long-term dollars on a balance sheet.

Only reasonable counterpoint would be if this is part of a strategy to convert X to a portal with Ex-Twitter being one app/platform tied to central identity graph with other services/platforms to be connected later.
And that tracks perfectly with what he's doing, because he's betting on the fascists winning the next election cycle, so they can bail him out by making X-Twitter the official "free speech" platform of the new dictatorship.
Reminds me of when Blackwater renamed themselves Xe to try to get people to forget their little problem with killing civilians.
Ireland was very much an agrarian place at the time, with very little manufacturing or heavy industry. I'm not at all sure there would have been support for industrial-scale canning.
Should T | null narrow to T | never inside a !== check ?

I'm not sure what this would imply.
Recently my wife and I looked up our signs. I guess we aren’t compatible at all! Someone should have told us a decade ago and saved us from 10 years and counting of happiness.

They’re kinda fun but I hope people aren’t making big decisions out of them.
I can't speak for the p___g contest others want to engage in, but why not, lets make bare metal LLMs happen!

https://github.com/rreilink/PiPyOS <-- seems like a good starting point, bare metal python.

I appreciate the clarification earlier in the comment chain for what you meant by bare metal -- I had interpreted it as on-prem.
Average Joe and Jane still aren't buying Raspberry Pis, that doesn't mean the Pi didn't change hobby and DIY computing for the enthusiasts. Is your definition of success complete adoption? To me a 100% open phone that handles calls and data would be a huge win. I don't even need a camera, I don't use it. I don't care what the masses do, they will follow when the day comes just like they always do the mindless zombies that they are.

Getting Debian officially supported is one of the necessary steps towards that goal.
Might be the (2008) bit? I remember there was a bit of political hoo-hah here in Perth about a big desalination plant back then. Now most of our drinking water is from either desalination or waste water reprocessing.
> eavesdropping requires encryption to be breakable

This is false.
Vbox makes it work and it’s convenient.
> edit: apparently it's command-line only, and the GUI I saw on an image search is on Windows Server only

It's not server-only, but AFAIK does require the pro edition, though. But I suppose that or enterprise is what people usually use in a professional setting. The feaure is called "Hyper-V management tools" or similar.

> But which other "native" virtualisation platforms do you mean? I don't know that the Linux Foundation has an official virtualisation product, and couldn't name one for macOS or iOS either.

I meant KVM for Linux. I don't know what the Linux Foundation recommends (I never interact with it), but KVM is integrated in the Linux kernel, which seems as "native" as can be.

There's a macOS virtualization framework, but I've stopped using that platform right around when it came out, so I can't recall its name.

> Edit: and Hyper-V is apparently missing basics like any audio support at all, so that makes it useless for most users.

I didn't know it missed audio support. I also wonder whether "most users" actually require audio from their VM. I'd expect the main use of a VM to be running random programs that don't work on the native OS. On Windows, that usually means running some Linux program. Those don't often require sound. KVM supports sound, without issues.

> Not sure this would be anyone's default choice when you can use cross-platform, open source, and more featureful software

Because it's already there, mostly, and doesn't require you to carefully read a known-hostile company's EULA.

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edit: Don't these nice functions (sound, mouse integration and folder sharing) actually require the VBox "Extensions"? IIRC, those aren't open-source.
For the record, I'm not the author, nor do I agree with him. But I posted this because there was no comment section and I was curious if anyone would either

1) Agree with the article (virtually no one has)
2) Point out that the breaking changes Rich Hickey pointed out might be worth it, or not a big deal

A few people have responded with sentiments of #2. Not because it's not annoying to change these things, but that it's a smaller price to pay for relatively good type systems (I'm thinking more F# than Haskell)

Unfortunately, the talk Rich Hickey gives explicitly says Clojure spec doesn't have a solution for a flexible type system either, and the solution they proposed is still in alpha 4 years later. So while I appreciate the insights he offered, I'm torn between the problem of refactoring with the extra work of a finicky type system, or the work of hoping my tests are good enough to refactor my Clojure code.

Types in Clojure is the number one requested feature in their surveys, year over year, and despite the reputation he has, Rich recognizes that it can really help refactoring a code base. Good variable names aren't going to help you with this. Pushing Spec2 along would be a big win without having to implement a full blown type system.
Xcrete and reXcrete

X is full of Xcrement
He's no Steve Jobs, but sometimes when you don't say something people fill-in context themselves. For example when he makes a long dramatic pause, so he seems deeply contemplative. Or when he stops himself midway through a sentence and corrects himself, he seems earnest.

We're ready to forgive a lot if we suspect behind the awkwardness hides a genius. The trope of the distracted professor, the autistic savant is at least centuries old. He leans into every such trope, and he's very careful in cultivating an image of a "founder", of an "inventor" of an "engineer". Most people by now know he hasn't founded Tesla, or PayPal (was fired from it in fact), he hasn't engineered the SpaceX rockets (although he had a hand in those that blew up), and he in fact has no engineering degree despite claiming otherwise.

So I'd say all this means he's building this image very intentionally, and he's trying to turn his weaknesses into strengths. The more he stutters and repeats, the less we notice how much of what he says is kinda... vapid. Trump has some similar patterns by the way, you can ask him a specific question and he'll say he has great ways of answering that, some of the best people told him he has the best answers, his history of a businessman speaks about long experience providing great answers to all kinds of questions... and he won't answer your question in the end.

Trump and Musk are very different in some ways, but very similar in others.
For me it was more than api prices. They are free to set the prices of a service they provide. I took issue with the misleading and slandering of Christian, one of the developers. They shut up pretty quick when Christian provided proof through call recordings and email transcripts. Pretty egregious imo and that was what drove my decision to abandon Reddit completely.
From Busy to Productive: Time Management Tips for Engineering Managers
No these behaviors are core to our humanity. You have a responsibility to pay for a smokers medical care and to help addicts.
Do you really need a brand name to tell you what to do?
It’ll probably go back to the generic “posted”, “re-posted”, “quoted”, etc.
It's about cost. If it takes a web dev a day to progressively enhance a page from html through css and JS, then it's a day they're adding value to a small slice of the users.

Even if you multiplied the 0.2 by 10 or 20, you're still looking at a slice not large enough to build for.
Also VMware player dual screen guest setup is not as good as vbox
It might work. We don't like silos but they're handy for users.
You can adjust the radius of a circle when the circle tool is selected. You can also place circles centered around a specific point by holding down shift while drawing them.
Elixir Is (Still) Safe
> Twitter is getting increasingly hard to use without paying for it

nitter.net works wonderfully!

> DM limits

I've been wanted a way to forbid people to DM me for a long time. Thanks Elon!
> I automatically assume they are not intelligent, irrational,

You sound like a Taurus.

Let people enjoy things, the general socio-economic situation is already as shitty as one could imagine, asking people to be rational 100% of the time, with no beliefs, no nothing, is just a sign of socio-economic privilege.
$ curl -i 'https://xn--971h.com'

curl: (6) Could not resolve host: xn--971h.com
It was certainly worth making your employees work over the weekend to do a half-assed rebrand for no reason, now the site is full of "interim" X logos and text referring to twitter. Pointless and stupid.
While it is (probably) true that the world is less religious than ever, there are only 3-4 countries in the world where atheists are majority. And they are small countries.
Nice hypothesis. I’ll remember you when I need to sell my Oceanside property in Arizona.
Pascal Boillat - as CIO (Information Officer - not Investment officer ;) )
Install Wordpress with a nice theme and use bbPress to start with. Or you can start with phpbb, that is also tried and tested.

Once you have built some traffic and have actual users. Only then move to a paid solution such as Invision or vBulletin.
> you say this as if this is different to any other idea or meme or brand

I mean it is different, in that it flies entirely in the face of reason. What concerns me is that I've seen otherwise reasonable people fall for this.
BuyVM supposedly ignores DMCA for their Luxembourg VPSs.

Though, that IP you are using is not shared with anyone else and BuyVM doesn't promess not to log.

That IP is directly correlated to you in BuyVM's books.

That is the very worst option.
Sounds accurate. He has no real talent for managing a social media platform. He probably has some (more or less accidental) talent for managing certain kinds of tech businesses. But now he's sticking to an addiction that doesn't serve anyone.
Plotters can make big art [0] cheaper than large-format printers, can be higher precision [1], and produce much purer colours (except pure C, M, Y, or K on a printer, but most colours are not those). The results also look qualitatively different up close, and are to me somehow more appealing.

Printers are more versatile within their limitations, so for many types of art they are better, but for what plotters are good at, to me they are clearly better.

[0] Or woodworking templates, blueprints, or whatever.

[1] E.g. a straight line is produced by continuous movement between the two points, with no pixelation or quantisation.
Wait until you find out about "apple" and "windows".
Does this mean Islam is "doomed"?
The conversation about it is a case study in bikeshedding.
Would be beautiful if journalists could report on the rest of the tech world with this level of scrutiny. Shame more CEOs don't cause personal vendettas against them over little blue icons.
Actually rails hides much of that now. Passing html over the wire is super easy, and I never give JS a second thought.
It’s true, Nancy is the only woman in the group.
Yeah, I'm interested in knowing how people manage it. With Redis, I usually put the Lua code within the same repo and embed the Lua code within the deployment artifact, so it gets tested and deployed together with the rest of the code. Then I call SCRIPT LOAD at the application initialization and I get a SHA-1 hash to call the script.

At the very least, this approach makes things feel much safer. I would like to know if there better ways to do it, and if there are similar approaches for Postgres procedures.
Peer-to-peer
Bluetooth messaging

https://usehyperlocal.com
>it does mean you support the abuse necessary to produce it.

No. If I download old files through I2PSnark - this does not mean that CP will be produced in greater quantities.
Prove, no - but the best argument for a "God" is the simulation argument. Space and time is quantized at the planck scale, which strongly suggests that our known universe is a simulation. Simulation implies a simulator, which would by necessity be an omniscient "God".

Obviously this God would bear no resemblance to any of the popular Abrahamic Gods.

Nonetheless, anyone who subscribes to the simulation hypothesis cannot realistically call themselves an Atheist, by definition.
X-Twitter :)
But it's what he's relying on to try to arrest the free-fall. He doesn't expect everyone to pay £100/year, but he expects a certain number to do so.

IMO, the cost of living crisis was one impediment, but the other, more significant one was the politicisation of it all. If he'd stayed neutral, and offered reliable, useful functionality behind that subscription, I would gladly have paid £5-10/month for the service. As it happens, I will almost certainly never subscribe to Twitter/𝕏 now.
He does come across as Twitter-addicted. And now I'm wondering if Trump's lunacy may also have been caused by Twitter, and that he may have been a more reasonable person in the past.
Stylized aleph ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleph
It's worth pointing out the medical industries complicity with stigmatizing drugs. The idea that anyone who ever touched a drug should die in the street without medical care is extremely popular to the medical community.

You'll see lip service about being compassionate towards drug addicts, then send them to around the least compassionate people on earth towards drug addicts, except maybe cops.
Great, now I'm going to have to use GPT to re-write all my work memo's in Death Metal today.
So it’s about Musk’s son name
Criticizing elon musk is very popular on HN…
It’s all just so dumb, isn’t it? It isn’t even interesting any more. I can’t exactly say I had high hopes when Musk took over Twitter but I was interested to see where he’d go with it. Now we’re just at the lipstick on a pig stage.
I originally thought he seemed alright, when Tesla and SpaceX started to look like viable companies doing good and interesting stuff.

Then he started fucking around with trying to fool the financial system by pumping and dumping stocks/cryptocurrencies, and started calling people pedophiles randomly and I'm guessing it was somewhere there I started to see him differently.
The Southern Poverty Law Center will declare this a hate symbol shortly. Mark my words.
He hired her a couple months ago. He has been public about building the X “everything app” for a while. Presumably she already knew about that when she took the role.
This scene is perfect.
> I have only met a few "true atheists" -- people who do not deeply believe in some narrative that provides meaning and exists outside of the material world.

Really?! That's definitely by viewpoint. I don't talk religion but in my encounters with other atheists, I haven't gotten the feeling that any believe there to be some narrative.
“Mastodon’t”. I’ve never thought about or seen it before, but that’s a great name that all the detractors could use.
> Of course he did. He put his own money and reputation on the line for both businesses.

This describes an investor, not a genius founder/engineer. Also, IIRC his reputation was pretty low key before he got involved in Tesla. Not sure how meaningful "putting his reputation on the line" was at the time.

The backlash against Musk was also already growing long before Twitter. Between constantly over-promising and under-delivering regarding Tesla, wacky ideas like the hyper loop, and his social media antics (pedo guy, taking Tesla private for $420) his image was already taking quite a hit.
I don't buy the argument that the Ivies need to be demographically representative of America so that America's leaders will be, because

(1) leaders should not be drawn predominantly from a small group of schools
(2) you do not need to be black/brown/white in order to represent well your black/brown/white constituents.
I think there's good evidence here: Teslas consistently have high review scores, and are selling in huge numbers. E.g. The Model Y was the top selling car in the world for Q1 this year.

Edit. The 'top selling car' figure is contested (see below) and depends on how you define single model. However multiple news sites (including reuters/The Verge etc) have reported this story without retraction. We also have more recent stories saying the Model Y is the highest selling car in Europe for H1. Whatever way you look at it, these cars are selling very well.
Which is about twice as much as I ever paid for a car.

I absolutely know you can recoup a part of that in the long run, especially given the price of gas, etc... But at the moment I'm already indebted to do insulation work in my house - there's a limit to how much an individual can invest at any given point, even if the investment is sure to pay off.

And again, remember that you have to be _rich_ to afford such a car. Real people are already having a hard time buying second hand cars at around 5000€/10000€.
The US is not anywhere near as bad as Deutsche that's for sure. I think whether or not the app is crappy depends on your perspective in the US. I've never seen one try to give me a pin instead of a password, and like you said, some of them are pretty good like Chase.
Here's why this particular choice was foolish:

1) He's going to lose a TON of brand recognition overnight.

2) He seems to have gone from "I'm thinking about doing this" to "We're going live" over the course of a weekend. This is both rushed and more based on reaction than actual thought and research. I don't see any of his customers wanting this.

3) Morale for employees there already seems to be terrible. Having them implement a rebrand over a weekend on a whim makes him seem like a dictator.

4) From a practical perspective the name X is foolish. The word "tweeted" is a verb used every day on the news. Companies would kill to have that level of their product within the culture. Now they will say what? "exed"? No one will say that because the audience won't know what it means and it has the negative connotation of something you've moved away from (ex-husband, ex-girlfriend, etc.).
Nah you would say "The four fields of mathematics are ..."