skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure what is not clear from this: “We will comply with lawful requests as long as they are delivered according to all the laws and regulations," NordVPN says. "We are a company that protects the security and privacy of our customers, but we operate according to laws and regulations.”

This is obviously true for every VPN company that intends to keep operating. And in itself is not evidence of anything.

If all the links were taken down, how come no one saved a copy on wayback machine because the burden of proof is on you to provide these backups every time you make such allegations. Otherwise I'll just assume you are just being disingenuous.
> Also consumption of any kind of distrubing porn doesn't mean you actually want to do things you see in it in the real life.

No, but it does mean you support the abuse necessary to produce it.
Or we could just keep calling it Twitter forever just to enrage Elon that it'll never stick despite how much he wants it to, just so he gets a taste of what it feels like for other people that get stuck with their deadname?
Yet religions have a vision of the workings of planets (and the solar system in general) that is much further removed from reality than astrology.

Yes, you could say it's a metaphor, a symbolic vision or something else rather than something to be taken literally in religion, but the same could be said of astrology.
Code Kept Secret for Years Reveals Its Flaw – A Backdoor
I always swap the subject with "a dozen people on twitter".
To put it succinctly: Culture abhors a vacuum.
https://archive.li/uudvX
Knowing Apple, it is likely to only work on certain devices, especially if they are aiming to be on device, as is their preference for privacy and likely latency reasons, so it will likely be Siri Pro or Siri+
Yes. After quitting caffeine I realized I had to be more careful about eating dark chocolate, for example.
Yeah I do really hope they study that side of it in business schools, to teach young business people and financiers about reputational risk and survivorship bias.

The involvement of the banks was always the confusing part of that deal. Really made me lose respect for their judgement.
The issue isn't criminals communicating over E2E encryption. The issue is that social media uniquely facilitates fandoms for crimes (mainly CSAM) where criminal influencers can easily build audiences for fame and fortune. This is only possible with the specific combo of E2E _plus_ VLOP.

If VLOPs can't use E2E encryption for their social graph interactions, (or, a warrant could open a backdoor) then these criminal influencers would no longer be able to grow an audience as easily. They can't simply make their own VLOP, just like the free speech absolutists failed again and again to create their own Twitter.

So, if the result of this legislation was that criminal networks all switched to Signal or a proprietary E2E comms app, the world would actually be a better place. They could still communicate, but they couldn't recruit as easily.
https://www.brachiograph.art/ explores the low end of cheap experimentation with pen plotting. It's a really charming project.
When you're responsible for something you have to understand it better (or at least get good at making justifications). All people do this, they just typically aren't responsible for keeping an object or program working.

I don't see why you would have a superior mental model about subjects you are not intimately familiar with the details of.
But X windows is dead or dying. Oh, so is Twitter?
Postel's Law?

(I actually agree with you, I think it's a bad rule of thumb. I prefer Fail Fast (and loudly)).
NextDNS parental control / denylist
For someone who looks at web trends occasionally, the association is pretty strong. Three of the top 50 domains start with x and these are all porn. xvideos, xhamster, xnxx.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_visited_website...
Thanks! I am always a little curious about how these symbols are used. That makes perfect sense to me.
Christopher Nolan Hooks Up 4-In Analog TV (Casio EV-4500) to IMAX Camera
Still today: https://twitter.com/willw/status/1664409642137681921?s=20
She was definitely flirting and astrology rescued this woman from having to date someone alarmingly rigid and humorless in their thinking . Score one for astrology
It makes typesetting easer, pretty genius really! /s

We're going to see a trend of companies using Unicode characters for their logo now aren't we?...
Like or dislike Elon, it seems like a stretch to say he didn't keep up with the times when he's the guy who started companies aiming to make satellite internet that doesn't suck, rockets used to replace NASA's old garbage, and popularize electric cars when every manufacturer had given up on them.
So it's popular here just as is. Good to know! Thanks :)
No, the bar for comfortable is being able to afford a decent place to raise a family in a decent neighborhood.

I'm not sure why we think this is only something for people who rub elbows with Bezos or for people who bought a house 10 years ago.
No, it changed ownership many times since 1999.

> On July 5 2017, Musk repurchased the domain name X.com from PayPal

They even took a little jab at him when it happened

> "We are delighted to sell the domain x.com back to its previous owner"
> How is believing in religion rational?

By having personal experience(s) of things that cannot be explained in any other way?

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_of_the_Sun

By employing one's sense of logic?

* https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35592365-five-proofs-of-...
I don't think it's the same person and leadership model working well for one company and not for another, I think the person changed. I think he was poisoned by internet obsession. He's just the most visible case, but it has happened and is happening to millions of people, sadly concentrated among adolescents.
The Bible isn't nuanced because it's not even coherent. It's pretty much all over the place.

This is a feature for its followers, because they can and do pick and choose the parts they like and ignore the rest.
Also the game: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-COM
Went to USD $91,000,000 now.
I'd say having half your savings exposed to the S&P 500 index is just as much as being exposed to the stock market in any set of individual stocks, so we're roughly in the same boat. That's a lot more exposure than most people I know IRL.
Study of Elite College Admissions Shows Being Rich Is Its Own Qualification
> It's just one childish rich dude

I mean, that alone could make for vast magnitudes of study. It's the kind of thing that should lead us to question to nature of public/private companies, for a start.
The nuclear bombs were not as deadly as the firebombing of Tokyo. Or the siege of Leningrad.

At that time, nukes were simply a difference of degree, not of kind, from the ongoing use of strategic bombing with incendiaries and explosives against population centres by all sides in the conflict. Perhaps the real crossing of the line into mass murder was at Guernica, in 1937, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bombing_of_Guernica

The problem with trying to pick apart the morality of individual actions in WW2 is that wherever you look for context you find more atrocities.
> Have you considered looking away?
A stereotype is a generalized belief about a category of people, I don't think there has to be any seed of accuracy to the categorisation in order for it to considered a stereotype.

Someone who believes in horoscopes has a stereotype for people born in the first part of April. I have a stereotype for first children. Whether or not they capture anything real, they still count as stereotypes.
No, I'm saying that I would rather depend on an automated tool than human decision. That's why you use automated testing instead of manual, right? Static typing is just the next step in the same direction.
These are acts that are not aligned with the topic of reformation of prisoners. Critique of claimed progressive acts (acts done by self proclaimed progressives vs those acts aligned with formalized progressive ideology) is irrelevant. If you just want to dump rhetoric, you can make a new submission for that.
Does the PDF import work for anyone? I've struggled with it since version 1.1

Thread 1 "inkscape" received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x00007ffff5194a34 in GooFile::size() const () from /usr/bin/../lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/inkscape/../libpoppler.so.118

I suspect it requires a specific version of libpoppler? I have no idea which version I'm supposed to be using, can't see any mention in the release notes.

Edit: having looked a bit more into this:

~ libtree /usr/bin/inkscape | grep poppler

│ ├── libpoppler-glib.so.8 [runpath]
│ │ ├── libpoppler.so.124 [ld.so.conf]
│ ├── libpoppler.so.118 [runpath]

Perhaps this is https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1023159?
Of course they will. But branding the action is what every single company in the world is trying to do because it's like tattooing their presence into your brain.

Look at what the parent comment up there said: "it's hard to google it". Did you catch that? He didn't say "to web search it", he said a brand. He, and all of us, are like a free walking talking Google ads every time we say "to google it".

The same has been happening when anyone, or a media says "in a tweet" or "he tweeted" or "retweeting" and so on.

Everything can have "a post", and everyone can "post a message". But you can only "tweet" on "Twitter". And now there's no even sane way to use this new "brand" as a verb, or as a noun of a post. There's no sane way to use it at all. It's a horrific brand.

People will not even use it because it's unclear what you're talking about. Look at every single instance when Elon Musk says the name of his own son, he doesn't say "X", he says "Lil X". He has to prepend this "Lil" in front because otherwise it's absolutely unclear what the hell he's talking about.

It's also full of registered trademarks that use "X" in their name, because "X" is a letter. So now The Twitter Files... become The X Files. And "Twitter Videos" become "X Videos". I can keep going forever. It's a damn mess.
Yeah, as far as domain names go, 'x' means "prefix indicating that this is a porn site". Bizarre decision.
I prefer to think that most humans actually distinguish the fictional context, and so should LLM. As such, if it is to be of any use, it'd better figure out it's fiction if someone's flying on a winged horse, levitating trolls or (obviously harder) running around a forest with a bow.

And when answering a question, unambiguously specify this fictional context, or at least indicate that it might be fiction if unsure.
> It’s silly to think that Elon isnt incredibly talented and smart in some ways.

EVERYBODY is "incredibly talented and smart in some ways".
Thank you for your comment! About the weird jump to the infinite loop, it is meant to be a quick-and-dirty demonstration of the fixed bits. It serves as an alternative to visually checking the fixed bits and confirming that they agree with the RFC.

However, after reading some of the comments here, I realise that the original title of the post was creating the impression that the post may contain something more interesting than its actual content which is simply a discussion of the fact that there are six fixed bits in version 4 UUIDs. I have now updated the title of my post to: Fixed Bits of Version 4 UUID.

P.S. Thanks to @dang for making the corresponding update to the title of this story on HN.
These two helped me the most:

1. SelfControl - with complete block of all social media, news sites, etc. (took a while to compile a very long and thorough list, but now it's pretty solid)

2. News Feed Eradicator extension for Firefox - to prevent being distracted when I intentionally go on social media for specific info.
Yes! Read more about effective, common-sense investing at bogleheads.org.

Your future self will be glad you did!
Might also help as input to the next iteration of LLMs
> while corporations do whatever they want, as long as it seems legal

They don't even care how it seems. They'll do anything illegal if they will make more money by doing it and being caught than they'd make not doing it at all. Lucky for them they routinely get tiny slaps on the wrist for things that would get any other "person" executed or put away for life. Once you have enough money, crime usually pays pretty well.
Magic-Wormhole, ToffeeShare, Wetranser, etc. are all "services" run by third parties.

It's possible for its users to run their own Magic-Wormhole rendezvous servers but the author(s) hardcodes someone else's into the code!

In contrast, WASTE asked users to register with a dynamic DNS provider.
I would not turn to Carrier if you wish to counter-argue Feser:

> In an article at his blog, pop atheist writer Richard Carrier grandly claims to have “debunked!” (exclamation point in the original) Five Proofs of the Existence of God. It’s a bizarrely incompetent performance. To say that Carrier attacks straw men would be an insult to straw men, which usually bear at least a crude resemblance to the argument under consideration. They are also usually at least intelligible. By contrast, consider this paragraph from the beginning of Carrier’s discussion of the Aristotelian proof:

[…]

> As near as I can tell after reading and rereading those mind-numbingly obscure passages, what Carrier is criticizing is an argument that tries to show that God is the cause of the universe arising from nothing. And as near as I can tell, his objection is something to the effect that if we think carefully about what a “nothing-state” would be, we will see that that theistic conclusion isn’t warranted. Other scenarios, such as a multiverse scenario, are no less likely or even more likely. Of course, this has, again, absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with what the Aristotelian proof actually says, and so Carrier’s objection would be completely irrelevant even if it were at all clear what that objection is. Carrier’s readers will learn as much about what my Aristotelian argument actually says as they would if they’d read an automotive repair manual instead. Only that would have been more lucid and interesting reading.

* https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2018/02/carrier-on-five-pro...
This may be the wrong conclusion to draw. Larger populations present different governance challenges than small ones do, since decisions that affect fewer are easier to make. Switzerland has about the same population as NYC.
Pokémon Crystal AI – Scientifically Ranking the Pokémon Crystal Trainers
Show HN: KubeBlocks-An open source K8s database 'Crossplane' for multi-cloud
If you really wanted to rebrand Twitter, then at least go via TweetX. Rebranding is normally a multi-year process. We have a supermarket chain that's rebranding all it stores from five or six different names down to two (two that still reflects that this is one company), they started years ago and won't be done for another two years.

Perhaps Musk just goes "Screw it, I'm building the app I always wanted" even if he has to build it on the ashes of Twitter, ejected Tesla auto-pilot code, a couple of rocket boosters and a domain he had in the draw.
There are many papers describing how NULL as an explicit “value” (you still at least need something to present empty results from left or right joins) can be made unnecessary – just look back to the development of relational databases and the theory that are based upon. No need to pay for this author's paper when it probably just restates things that are found in many open access papers/books/other.

Representing unknown/non-existent without allowing an explicit NULL value is can be modelled by the property being another entity, you have a child table that lists the values of the property so where you would store a NULL otherwise there simply exists no row in that table. In SQL this means extra joins and in most (all?) SQL implementations this results in (sometimes significantly) lower performance. The big argument there is whether this points to a problem in the theory (if arguing that NULL should not be “stored”), in SQL as an implementation of relational database theory, or in the implementations of SQL…

[I'm aware my terminology is all over the place, as most people's is: when talking about relational theory rather than SQL as a speicific implementation of it I should use tuple not row, relation not table, etc., but getting that right only serves to confuse people (a great many of those with a more self-taught and/or field trained programming background background than one that involves any computer science study) who know only SQL and have thus far not needed to be aware of the theory or history].
Meanwhile, the x.com domain seems to be somewhat shambolic.

As I write this, it hits a Godaddy parking page.
According to this[0] tweet[1], it's been a Godaddy site, a dead link, a redirect, and now a godaddy site again.

Shambles.

[0] https://twitter.com/rothschildmd/status/1683289016723202050

[1] No, I'm not calling them X's. That name is saved for those who broke my heart, made me cry, and left me binge watching Notting Hill.
Just change your name to the Twitter bird
You're sidestepping grandparent's point about abolishing any legal limits on pharmaceuticals. How would such a world work? Prescriptions would be pointless since consenting adults could just sell/trade them.
> Verification was bad and now it’s a joke

Verification was serviceable, now it is harmful. There is a big difference there. Even if formerly was not perfect.
'popular' as in 'known'. I don't see it that often. If you have an interesting subject that you want to know more about, it will, generally spreaking, be well recieved.
I'm far from a Elon bro, but I guess I've been fairly sympathetic to some of his more stupid decisions in recent years.

That said, I simply don't get this. I understand he has a grand vision for Twitter which he's keen to pursue, but either way this is just a dumb decision from a brand perspective. The reason people use Twitter over over similar sites is part because of the brand and part because of user base. Destroying one of those two pillars seemingly on a whim seems like a very bad move however you look at this.

My guess (and I acknowledge I'm being extremely charitable here) is that Elon will reverse this. I think sometimes he does this stuff because he knows it will get media attention and he likes to troll. But I guess we'll see. Even if this is just some elaborate joke for media attention it seems like a risky one – especially when Threads is doing so well and offers such a reasonable alternative to this chaos.

Also I thought he hired a CEO and was taking a step-back from Twitter? If anyone was going to decide to rename Twitter, surely it would be the new CEO?
What makes you think it’s an LLM? It made fine sense to me, it’s just an odd style
You can search HN for FizzBuzz.

Also https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=36846400

https://joelgrus.com/2020/06/06/ten-essays-on-fizz-buzz/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12664879

https://blog.codinghorror.com/why-cant-programmers-program/a...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26286239
Oxford Linear Algebra: Linear Transformations Explained [video]
You wouldn't/shouldn't choose NATS if your application needs different semantics.

NATS does not have stateful storage. So when a consumer disconnects and reconnects, there is nowhere for NATS to store the messages temporarily. You can solve this by storing messages in a stateful storage first, then use NATS as a way to distribute them. You would need your own mechanism to replay messages on reconnect. This is coincidentally what Jetstream does. It uses NATS internally as a network protocol, but it's a separate thing.
We could only be so lucky if “a dozen people” was the bar that “journalists” held themselves to. I’ve seen articles written on a single post/comment from Reddit, it’s absurd.

That said, I’m absolutely going to start rewriting titles in my head like that, good idea.
Bye Bye Birdie
> And come on, we know holy texts are full of things which are clearly wrong, in exactly the same way astrology is. The temptation to gloss over them as ornamental bits is huge, but to believers they are doctrinal.

I can't think of any precise statements that are clear enough to be proved true or false. Usually holy texts have vague enough language that it's very much a case of interpretation. e.g. The Genesis creation story states that God created the universe in 6 days, but any attempt to demonstrate that it is false will have believers declaring that a "day" is not a precise measurement of time.
Why on earth would I look away from such an absurd spectacle?
Actually one can take out renewable energy produced at the desalination facility or anywhere close to it out of equation.

The drinkable water can be viewed by itself as "salty water + stored energy". If you produce it at any time where electricity demand is low/or production exceeds demand you store energy already produced, be it by nuclear or renewable power plants.

And then you can build the pumped-hydroelectric power station where it makes sense, not being limited to the coast line/big city being close.

Even if one lives on a desert coast there may be times where it makes more sense to purify and store water from say flash floods than desalinate it from the sea.

IMHO your idea may work if we think about some isolated location not attached to the grid and without some power plant running 24/7. No idea at which scale pumped hydroelectric starts to be viable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Window_System yup
Thank you for creating this. I have used it a lot in a few different projects. So much better than postgres's procedural built in
I live in a country whose national broadcaster endorsed the platform — that's a broadcaster that is respected around the world, btw. Twitter's brand value used to be enormous.
i presume x.com or site:x.com will get the trick done
Its the kind of thing I would rather see a base64 coded bit of json for. Easy to understand for support and easy for clients debugging.
I expect that 𝕏11 will survive twitter.

edit: using proper typography.
This is such an awful take.

I use pluses everywhere. It's a basic ASCII character. I've been doing this for 20 years. Google and other email registrars have expressly recommended it in the past as a method of automatic labeling.

If the registrars supports the email address, any online service which handles email also needs to follow this well-established standard.

OP wasn't asking for trouble. The truth is you have a misconception about what a "normal email" is. This is such a bizarre high horse to mount.
> people taking about “Elon” like he’s their wayward cousin

What is the proper form of address for naughty ol' Mr Car?
Active account is a legitimate reason. Inactive account and no explicit consent to keep the data -> no evidence that customer still wants to keep the data -> no legitimate reason -> better be deleted.

As a child you may leave your toy in playground, return back in 1 hour and it may still be there. If you come back in 10 years it would be an unjustified expectation to find it there. As an adult you buy a property, abandon it and in 30-40 years it is no longer yours. Why in the digital world it should not be the same?
The CEO latest tweets is hilarious - never read so much word salad in my life.
It makes that hippy WeWork CEO look like a genius.

X is the future state of unlimited interactivity – centered in audio, video, messaging, payments/banking – creating a global marketplace for ideas, goods, services, and opportunities. Powered by AI, X will connect us all in ways we’re just beginning to imagine.

SoftBank - time to double down !!!!.
> it was always the binary blobs required to run IP blocks put on the die with the cores that stopped people from using them

That's not going to change with RISC-V. If you've got silicon that has to conform with FCC regulations it's going to have non-modifiable firmware. No matter how open the rest of the system is, your WiFi and Bluetooth (and any other radios) will have closed firmware.