skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He did acquire a lot of talent. Then he fired the majority of it and slagged off/alienated the rest, losing most of the institutional knowledge gained over years. He then systematically torched any external goodwill with both advertisers and users, before torpedoing the brand identity which had cut through to non-tech culture.

At some point, you have to just admit that he might not be playing 5D Chess, but 1D Connect Four, and he's still losing.
My immediate reaction was towering stupidity.

But on the other hand, what is there really to protect here? Twitter’s reputation is in the trash bin anyways. And the cutesy branding is going to end up out of step with the toxic conservative cesspool he is trying to create. So yeah, maybe a solid move? The dumpster is already on fire, so why not.
Why would this tarnish her career? Everybody understands Musk is still the chief twit.
Brand value?

The Twitter brand is associated with being a toxic cesspool, harassment campaigns, pile-ons, doxxing, bad faith arguments, fake news and other things like that.
Steam account names are immutable. I don't recall them ever offering to let you change the login name.

Change the username? Sure. Change the email associated with the account? Yeah.

But if you've got a near 20 year old steam account, you're still logging in with whatever email address you had near 20 years ago.
In reality no one has "tried it my way", you have made the assumption I agree with the current prison system, I dont.

I also do not agree that the "reform" we need is simply letting criminals go who commit property crime, or because of the socio/econimic circumstance, or any of the other "liberal" or "left" visions of reform

Today's system is centered around punishment, not protection of society, or reforming people, etc. It is just punishment. The criminal owes a "debt to society". I disagree with this model.

There is a whole host of reforms I would support both to prisons, and to criminal justice over all. However simply refusing to prosecute shoplifting, or other "minor" property crimes is not one I can support.
100% employment is impossible to achieve since it means eg there are no full-time students and nobody on maternity leave, so it's not a problem.
The X11 logo looks a lot more stylish than the Elon X.
Ironically it sounds like the alternate pronouns he hates so much.
> Get Hyperswitch

I'm guessing you don't mean the payment platform, and the loads of other stuff I found while searching for that. Looks like quite a saturated name!

Anyway, for the curious:
https://bahoom.com/hyperswitch
Isn't it what people crave?

Google didn't start adding the ability to do flights in the search engine because nobody was using that. People love one stop shopping.
That's disappointing. I had assumed these devices were analogue and able to draw true curves. This makes me not so excited about them.
Does anyone know if there is a “wikipedia-only” or way to constrain the knowledge of a LLM (trained on a more limited set of sources or constrained by limited sources of facts)?

I think a LLM interface to Wikipedia could be useful, at least I imagine it would.
Why does anyone even care about it? Musk is just showing off the world his $44bn toy.
> Especially since so much of it will be DC fast charging and not slow speed charging.

Will it? Why?
A lot of the themed metal is knowingly over the top in all regards. It's a show, and most fans to everyone knows it's a show. And if you get into the front rows, you get to be part of the show, whatever mess that entails with some bands. Recently we had people fencing with the frontman dressed as a pirate with blowup swords.
I imagine agriculture, but wow, I knew Australia's population was mostly coastal, but I looked it up and out on the 25 biggest Australian cities, only Canberra is inland.
1) I hope you aren't basing your policy positions on situations that involve completely hypothetical substances.

2) No I don't think we would need to ban it. Allow people who want to use it to lock themselves in a cell for 12 hours and rage against some padded walls. There probably would be a thriving market for that sort of thing [0]. We let people drink and if you drink and drive someone will probably die - the solution is not to let people drive after drinking. You're basically describing a strong form of alcohol. We already tolerate this sort of risk.

If you want to argue that a substance exists that is so terrible that people who consume it need to be locked up, you should name the substance and provide some argument for why it is so bad. The present state is locking people up for no obvious reason.

[0] https://thesmashroom.com.au/
> And that drives the price of labor up as well.

This is the real reason manufacturing is leaving the West, not regulation and not evil plan by China. This is also the real reason for culture of thowing away things and not repairing -> a new dishwasher costs £300, but a mechanic needs to charge £100 an hour to pay rent.

If you rent is 50% of your income, the rent is actuslly 75% of your income -> because when you pay for anything, say get a plumber, 50% of your money goes to pay the plumber's rent. If, hypothetically, rents were zero, the plumber would cost twice less. You would have 4 times more money.
I’ve taken a business course in college that covered things like this. There’s plenty to learn by dissecting the many, many levels of failure involved.
I just dug into it further and it's rather interesting. TLDR Churchill did not personally believe in astrology, but he did in fact use astrologers as part of his political and military planning on several occasions, but not for the reasons it at first seems. He knew his opponents often believed quite a bit in astrology, so he used astrologers as a way to better understand what and when his opponents might move, often with effective results. Fascinating. Thanks for the prompt to look into this more.
Rust vs. Julia in scientific computing
It isn't an impulse decision.

Elon had X.com for ages. He had before they merged with Confinity to form PayPal, Inc. He wanted PayPal to be renamed to X.com back then, but PayPal had way better brand recognition, so (even though he was CEO) internal backlash talked him out of the idea.

The former Dutch brand Xs4all (ISP) had a marketing campaign where they asked input from their customers. It evolved around the X. It taught me X stands for a lot of things. It's a letter, for one. It's a cross. A railroad crossing. It's a knot. It also stands for trans (in the broad sense of the word, including but not limited to transsexual). There's also an association with masculinity.

That X stands for so much isn't coincidence. Musk wants you to think of his brand (X.com; not X) when you see the letter X, or even subliminal in the examples I gave above. My take is it could work out on the long term, but on the short term it further alienates Twitter's status quo. It could accelerate the domino effect.
My strategy was the add a pair of clear stick on bumpers to the back bottom corners of my frame (the kind you stick on cupboard doors so they close softly) to push the bottom out a little bit and straighten them out.
Yes, thanks for this hindsight.

This is definitely another problem with Astrology as a "cure".

Tarot is a bit different, at least in the way it is used by Jodorowsky and other who were influenced by him.
You turn up a card and start answering questions from the "Tarot Reader". It is more like "what do you see in there? who does this figure remind you of?"
Assuming you use the sea water: in a hot climate if the reservoir is exposed evaporation will make the water more salty. Building covered elevated cisterns just for the salty water energy storage may be too costly compared to other options, not to mention the risk of creating a salty desert / contaminated aquifer in the case if it leaks out.

Also desalinated water does not to be used the moment it is produced. One can run desalination facility at full blast during the day using renewable energy and at a lower or even trickling speed during the night using cheaper, often wasted otherwise energy from the grid.
Technical subreddits often have up to date wiki entries.

- https://old.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/

- https://old.reddit.com/r/privacy/

You can also look here:

- https://www.privacyguides.org/

All of this can only be seen as a starting point. The provided links will not give a thoroughly picture. Look further.
Dude, lighten up. She was playing a game with you, probably flirting. And you didn't play the game very well. Mysticism is fun, aesthetic, and filled with more questions than answers. Play the game some time, you might enjoy it.

I also can't believe you actually found a way to weasel racism into the conversation. It's all so tiresome.
Industrial-Grade SD/SDHC Cards – ATP – DigiKey
> The Twitter brand is associated with being a toxic cesspool, harassment campaigns, pile-ons, doxxing, bad faith arguments, fake news and other things like that.

This only worsened recently. So the X.com brand is going to be associated with this.
It seems like an inappropriate name to me. It does have an association with SpaceX though, which is viewed positively by most people. If he called it TweetX that would have been great.
I suspect the real thing that'll hurt its price is people are realizing websites can end in stuff besides `.com`.

i.e. MrBeast (~XX M views) had a recent video sponsored by the `.store` registry.
Are you serious? Of course, when we develop more ways of using resources, we can extend them. But we are already on the brink of climate disaster and we are nowhere near to colonizing other planets. Unless our population radically decreases, we will run out of resources. It's just mathematics: resources are finite.

Also, I am not advocating TOTAL meaninglessness. I am advocating a new way of life that does not include AI, that's it. I never said everything is doomed. I think humans have a chance but that we should proceed WITHOUT AI. That's it.
Hence the SC should throw-out constitutional interpretation which places unenumerated rights above enumerated ones --- that would be a genuinely libertarian act. Of course, the SC is only libertarian when it wishes.

It's rather mad that the SC seems to have collective attentional blindness to the 9th Amd.

It's probably the most important amendement for interpreting, at least, the bill of rights -- since it says the duty of the SC is to do moral philosophy not to be lawyers, or historians, or politicians, or legislators.

Their job is to actually outline a (denotological) moral philosophy for the US which is sufficiently minimal that it precludes few laws, but sufficiently maximal that it prevents tyranny. That's the entire point of the 9th Am., and it completely demolishes most of the legal philosophies of the current SC.

In this light, it becomes obvious why originalism is self-contradictory: the framers did not want an originalist interpretation, since it confines the future to be against only the forms of tyranny of that day.

(consider, eg., whether laws banning abortion were tyranny then, vs., now).
We know for a fact it was a stupid impulse decision, because when asked "how should we call tweets and retweets now" he replies "x's" and for retweets he said "this should be completely rethought". Yet to be rethought? You think about stuff like this BEFORE you change your brand, not after.

He's nuts. Maybe that's part of his success throwing himself into areas no one else dares, like EVs and self-landing rockets, but he's just a chaotic agent, he doesn't have instinct for what will work, he just has instinct for being random and confusing everyone with it.
> but 1D Connect Four

I think we're down to noughts and crosses.

o| |o
-----
x| |
-----
x| |o

oops...
Doesn't that google policy mean half of youtube, blogspot, etc. will disappear at the end of the year?
You just invented your own definition of draconian.

> excessively harsh and severe

It's about severity, which you can debate. It's not about human rights or being followed.
I can help you. I live in Africa, currently work full time for a US startup, and have worked for companies throughout Africa, Europe and the US. So I started a dev agency, https://nellcorp.com, hired interns straight from college, trained them and continue to help them grow. We have a capable team of 5, including a designer, 2 frontend and 2 backend devs. If you hire us, you get a dev as well as all my experience building systems of all kinds, including infra/devops, architecture and product recommendations, etc. reach out at figassis at nellcorp dot com.
Nostr is the only bird in town now. Ah yes there is an elephant in the room.
> I told her her beliefs were akin to racism. Just because of when I was born she thought it was acceptable not to bother to treat me as an individual but as automatically likely to have certain traits.

If astrology was true, then ignoring astrology when interacting with some would tantamount to dehumanising them, because if it were true, that would determine who you are as an individual.
This is why buying DRM-free is important (e.g. GOG and Bandcamp).
If you're interested in trying python without it interfering with existing installs, Anaconda and Miniconda are great places to start.
X.com

Where all the 'cross' people hang out.
You mean EA Play? I’ve subscribed for a month or two at a time when I wanted to play some FIFA or another EA title. You certainly don’t need to purchase the standalone titles.
With a 'logo' that's just a character ripped straight from a Monotype font: https://twitter.com/Fontendou/status/1683407528405901312
I think you're confusing wealth, luck and general privilege with intelligence. Sure, intelligence depends a lot on your viewpoint and some people, especially in economics, take general success as an important factor. Not me though, anyone taking this hyperloop nonsense seriously can't be very intelligent from my point of view.
Maybe you could call Musk charismatic, but then he's rather atypically charismatic, cause his rethoric isn't exactly smooth. He stutters, mumbles and keeps repeating the same weird points like "interplanetary species". As if we need another hostile planet while we turn our own planet to desert. Don't get me wrong, i think exploration is great fun, but the way he's claiming it a necessity is just delusional.
It's a lot more than "looks great on paper." My suspicion is that you have not really used and benefited from these features in a non-trivial way or you'd understand why they are there.
It links to two articles from the Templeton Foundation, which is plainly a (Catholic) religious organisation trying to inject themselves and their dogma into "science".

Wonder if the author is even aware, as the rest of it looks quite thoroughly researched and without ulterior religious motives.

edit: not strictly Catholic, apparently, thanks Keiferski.
Conveniently none of that association will go anywhere, just no one will know what it's referring to.
What does the initial choice have to do with anything? As long as humans have existed, so has addiction. In all these centuries, prohibition has never helped. People use the fact that addiction starts with a choice - by the way, it doesn’t always - as an excuse to double down on failed policies that cost the public trillions of dollars, destroys families, and leads to massive amounts of death and human suffering.
> I can't think of a single rationale for this.

I can: MAU
In quantum physics, measurements can fundamentally yield discrete and random results. We experimentally demonstrate that the evolution of each completed jump is continuous, coherent and deterministic. We exploit these features, using real-time monitoring and feedback, to catch and reverse quantum jumps mid-flight—thus deterministically preventing their completion.
I think the strongest association is with sex — as in xvideos, etc.
>> "especially when we offend"

> This is a fundamental premise of freedom of speech and a large reason as to why it exists.

I cringe whenever somebody makes this point. Offensive speech isn't even in the top 10 reasons to support free speech. It isn't a reason at all.

Tolerating offensive speech is something we have to do to make free speech work, it's one of the "cons" not the "pros".
Fun fact: Okular (the default PDF reader in KDE, also available for Windows) let's you select and copy a table column (not just a row sequence) easily. This saved me tons of time when copy-pasting data from PDFs to spredsheets.
On most providers you don't need to make a new email address for that. For example, if you own example@gmail.com, you will receive emails sent to example+whatever@gmail.com.
I'm doubtful on the largest scale. Fucked is decreasing complexity / un-fucked is increasing complexity. The relationship between those two things and entropy is at least an open question - i.e. Entropy has been increasing in the Universe since the beginning but the complexity of life on Earth has been (arguably) increasing over time.

I'm not saying peaches and cream but - we use stuff, there's limited stuff and so we're screwed - is to my mind an over simplification.
>Speaking of stereotypes, if anyone takes astrology seriously, I automatically assume they are not intelligent, irrational, and I find it impossible to take them seriously.

Doesn't that speak more about you than about them?Highly intelligence (IQ wise) people have also been into astrology (and alchemy, magic, etc.). Not just in the time of Newton (an avid follower of the above), but in our times too.

>I can tolerate conspiracy theories, or aliens, or whacky religions, but astrology is just so dumb.

That's a quite crude model of what's rational. Something doesn't have to follow physics to have utility (I mean, utility beyond "making astrologers money").

A less crude epistemology would focus on what makes astrology resilient and widespread throughout several millenia, and what kind of purposes it might serve, as opposed to focusing on whether its compatible with hard sciences, or the knee-jerk reaction that "it's because people are stupid".

I'm not much for astrology (I barely know my sign), but I've read a couple of posts about it, and there's something to be said for not jumping to conclusions about a phenomenon with a complex history.

Here's, for example, a classic failure in criticizing astrology that I've read about somewhere: many "rationalists" make fun of astrology's claim that we're supposed to be influenced by the stars, since (the argument goes) their gravity pull is too low to matter, besides the moon would influence many orders of magnitudes more.

But astrology doesn't claim that the stars influence us through gravity. It speaks about influence on the astral plane (which is some kind of different dimension), not through some mechanistic principle. And, of course, astrology is so much older than the discovery of gravity, that "rationalists" making this argument must not know history, or maybe just had a temporary brain fart in making that argument.

I'd say astrology is not that far removed from religion (which you say accept or tolerate). I also found this interesting note on astrology on a "metaphysical" blog:

"Before we go on, it’s probably necessary to note a few points that may come as a surprise to some of my rationalist readers. Yes, I know about the precession of the equinoxes; astrologers discovered the precession of the equinoxes. (Where did you think all that talk about the Age of Aquarius comes from?) Yes, I know that the constellation Aries is no longer in the 30° wedge of the ecliptic that astrologers call the zodiacal sign Aries. (Signs are not constellations and constellations are not signs; every beginner’s textbook of astrology explains that.) Yes, I know that the Earth revolves around the Sun and not vice versa; astrologers use the geocentric positions of the planets because we live on the Earth, not the Sun. (It’s the planetary positions relative to where you are that matter in astrology.) Finally, yes, I know that nobody knows how astrology works; so? It’s a thumping logical fallacy to insist that an effect can’t happen just because the cause isn’t known".
In a delicious moment of turnabout is fair play, Jack Davis frequently referred to European Australians as fringedwellers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Davis_(playwright)

https://ia.anu.edu.au/biography/davis-jack-17788
Autoconf Macro Index (essentially autoconf's “API”)
I've always liked this one, "My sun sign is Xoltran". "There's no such sun sign!". "Hey, the others are all made up, too, so why not my own? ;-)"
It's not you. It's not even musk's first company called x
That is an interesting viewpoint, and I like it. Perhaps humanity needs a new "religion", which doesn't have the cult-like effects of old ones. Perhaps something grounded in Buddhism/meditation and a profound respect for the natural world like some indigenous tribes.
They could be using GDPR as an excuse to do this. Or, to be more charitable, their legal people have been reading FUD about the GDPR rather than the actual regulations. GDPR has plenty of provision for legitimate interests, particularly in favour of the data subject: https://www.gdpreu.org/the-regulation/key-concepts/legitimat...
At least 20 insurance companies leave Louisiana in past 2 years
But I guess most people are not really interested in religous studies. The useful thing to understand is that thought rooted in religon can be discarded out of hand.
Many people use emails of the form myemail+servicename@gmail.com in order to track spam. You don’t need to make a new email, anything after the + is simply ignored by gmail.

It’s very common, especially if your users are halfway technical which users of a games service surely are.
Related:

M4 Macro Index:

https://www.gnu.org/savannah-checkouts/gnu/autoconf/manual/a...
Just wanted to chime in and say that your “soulless job in ML” comment is relatable, and your experience isn’t unique. I had one too. I saved up a lot of money from it, but by the end it nearly cost me my remaining passion.

A soulless job in finance is better if you like(d) ML at all, because then you can keep your interests separate from your job.
I’ve had 3 power outages this year since installing OpenBSD (which is a lot for my area, admittedly) and it has required manual intervention each time. My root FS is on an SSD, it that matters.
I suggest you look at the world wide statistics from before the vaccine roll-out and afterwards. There is nothing to 'believe', that data is about as non-ambiguous as it comes and you should be very, very grateful that those people spent their lives learning the skills required to save our collective asses, especially in light of the way their contributions are being minimized.

And if you don't understand that then that's fine with me but that still doesn't mean that science has 'let you down'. You benefit from science every day of your life, even if you don't want to credit it.