skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> thinking that it seems everyone else is doing all sorts of drugs... you'd be getting a skewed perception.

I’ve had a few friends and acquaintances fall into problematic drug use.

The common theme among all of their situations was that they moved into social circles with a lot of drug users. When everyone around you is doing a lot of drugs it’s easy to start thinking that everyone in the world must be doing a lot of drugs. After all, that’s what you see all around you and what everyone you know is talking about.

This creates a second layer of hazard where the recovered people or even moderate users self-select out of the social circle while the social group starts accumulating up even heavier drugs users from people’s friends-of-friends who so drugs together. As this compounds, it becomes easy for people in the group to think that their own drug use is low because it’s not as bad as so-and-so, or they haven’t overdosed or developed major health problems (yet) like the guy in the friend group who is a complete wreck. They start losing touch with reality because the “normal” they surround themselves with is anything but.

I don’t think the average HN drug use commenter is at that stage, obviously, but I do pick up hints of this dynamic in a lot of comments. The way some people post “everyone’s doing it” type reasoning without a second thought is kind of weird to see, not to mention contradictory to actual statistics. It’s more telling about the commenter’s social circle and how entrenched they are in their bubble. If you really think everyone is consuming drugs frequently or that semi-frequent (yearly or more often) psychedelic use is “common” then you’re likely in a bubble.
The July 12th lawsuit has some choice quotes[0] on exactly what was said.

>38. Section 6.9 of the Merger Agreement provided that for one year following the closing of the merger, Twitter would continue to provide Plan participants with “Severance payments and benefits . . . no less favorable than” those provided under Twitter’s policies immediately prior to the merger.

> 39. The same day the Merger Agreement was announced, Twitter’s then-CEO, Parag Agrawal and its then-Chairman Bret Taylor met with all Twitter employees and informed them that Twitter would continue to provide the severance Plan benefits for at least one year following the change in company ownership.

>42. The Acquisition FAQs relied on the Merger Agreement and stated that “[t]he terms of the agreement specifically protect Tweep [Twitter employees] benefits, base salary, and bonus plans (short/long term incentive plans) so they cannot be negatively impacted for at least one year from the closing date.” The FAQ specifically stated that, “[i]n the event of a layoff, any employee whose job is impacted would be eligible for severance.”

That final sentence in 42 is pretty solid.

[0] https://variety.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/McMillian-v.-...
Amen Break is definitely one of the most important samples.

Another important sample is Dirty Feet:

https://www.whosampled.com/Daly-Wilson-Big-Band/Dirty-Feet/

I love Jazz hip pop and I am trying to add this capability to Glicol (https://glicol.org)

A music live coding language that I am developing

The article mentions: "Chopping the break into individual hits on a sampler"

I always believe the easiest way to do it is via live coding

The medium for these classic samples, is shifting from vinyl , akai to online platforms including splice
Isn't "ideological emotional-string pulling" what the original historian was after by writing a story that fit the current popular narrative within academia?

Wouldn't holding one fraudulent historian accountable be withholding the credibility of historians, rather than 'despise'ing them?

Are you not the nihilist to be so pessimistic about the intentions of people who agree that the story was fabricated for popularity?

Honest questions that I would be interested in hearing a response to.
This isn't what arrogance is though.
I haven't been following ergonomic keyboards for awhile, but went pretty deep a few years ago back when the Dactyl Manuform and Kinesis were the only names in town.

So seeing the Glove80, I was excited to see a new "mass-manufactured" entrant in the space, since dactyl manuforms have to be 3d-printed and handwired, thus meaning they're hard to come by and quite expensive.

The glove80 looks interesting, however at $400 it's not much cheaper than handmade dactyls (https://bastardkb.com/product/scylla-prebuilt-preorder-2/). So if I were purchasing another one, I'd probably still go for a dactyl, as there's more community history/support, and hand-built build quality might be higher.

If an injection molded + flexible PCB mass manufacturer for these curved keywell ergonomic keyboards could release something for around $200, then the space might really heat up!
Don’t contracts have to be two sided ? Like a promise to donate no strings attached, and then not donating is no breach of contract. If there are strings attached to donation and the other side promises signs off on the strings, then you have a contract but it’s not a one sided donation.
When do they start straight up garnishing X's bank accounts? This behavior is so shitty, indefensible and beyond absurd. I think we need stronger laws that force billionaires to pay when they think the rules just don't apply to them - it's clear they often feel that the sheer expense of the legal system is often a deterrent for poorer folks to get what they are owed.

I hope all these folks get their severance, and hopefully with interest, legal fees and penalties.
Frankly I'd prefer SV type tech money not spent on cars too. I don't want a touchscreen on wheels.
Breaking Terraform files into composable layers
If you think online discussions are to "convince" people of anything, that is really hilarious.

If anything, to me, the more interesting discussions are the ones that present me with unexpected views that challenge my established views.

Your parroting of stereotypical Anglosphere academia ideologies is pretty boring TBH. You can't convince anyone with evidence they've already known. I have a law degree from Hong Kong and you better believe me when I say I've read enough of those Cambridge and Princeton crap on ivory tower notions of how governments should be run.
Giving creative technology a seat at the table, an integrated approach to STEAM
I think you’re being unnecessarily pedantic. Sure, there are caffeine and marijuana and alcohol users everywhere, but there’s a huge difference between your neighbors quietly having a drink in their home after work compared to loud alcoholics getting in fights and stumbling around on the streets.

When someone says there is a lot of drug activity in a neighborhood, they’re not saying that people are quietly consuming an edible in their basement every once in a while. Problematic drug use seeps into many aspects of social life.

And before anyone assumes that I’m referring to poor neighborhoods, I’m not. One of the most problematic and dangerous drug environments I ever witnessed (in my relatively sheltered life) involved some very well-off young people who got caught up in drugs, then dealing drugs, and then severe addiction that interferes with their judgment to the point that they were getting violent and threatening murder. This was in a well-off community where a number of families ultimately chose to move away to escape the parts of the community with a drug problem and had no regrets for doing so.

I’ve also crossed less dramatic situations where social groups went downhill due to less overt drug use: People who start using unnecessarily high non-therapeutic doses of Adderall to become energized (doesn’t last, causes weird problems over time), people who start using benzos with casual disregard (turns into a dependency very quickly), and even people who casually use opioids for recreation as if it’s a sustainable activity. In each case, the effects of excessive drug use start taking a toll on the person that extends to the social group. Getting away can be like a breath of fresh air.
The way the press reported on it was just despicable.

P.S. in case it isn't clear, I am not a pilot myself, but friends and family are pilots. One just got his Apache Chopper certification! Wow! Me so proud and so envious.
Not on the same case, but a previous HN discussion on the general subject of large volumes of arbitration cases being a kind of double-edged sword for the companies that originally decided to contractually compel arbitration: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22798118
> Not the Mexican state in terms of firepower & resources

Much of the firepower and resources of the Mexican state (not “firepower and resources equivalent to the much of that of the Mexican state”, but “much of the exact firepower and resources notionally attributed to the Mexican state”) are in the hands of the cartels.

Symptomatic of this is the arrest by the US of the former Mexican defense secretary in 2020 on charges related to cartel involvement (against whom charges were dropped under intense political pressure from the Mexican government, including reported threats to expel the DEA entirely and end all anti-drug cooperation with the US) and the subsequent arrest by the US, and conviction earlier this year, of the former Public Security Secretary (and, before that, head of the Federal Judicial Police), also on charges of working within the government for the cartels.

> No Mexican drug lords dare show their face in public for long - they operate in the shadows. There are no strongholds, no cities, states out of reach.

To the extent this is true, the threat within Mexico largely comes from other cartels, whether working through organs nominally in the service of the state or otherwise. Sure, individual high-value targets tend to make some effort at opsec, but the cartels as a whole operate openly, in some areas with enforcers in marked vehicles, with the Mexican Army doing nothing but helping keep the peace between major cartels by enforcing cartel territorial boundaries.
And other fermented foods like miso and pickles.
Unlike tigers, salmon are definitely not at the top of the food chain.
I’m not an employment lawyer, but it seems these former employees have a decent shot. They will eventually win their severance in court. But will they ever be paid?

By the time they win, will “X” even exist in its current corporate form? Or will it have gone bankrupt, only to have its assets purchased, leaving the employees standing in line with all the other creditors.

Indeed, I wonder whether Elon Musk structured the deal with a heavy layer of debt precisely so that the firm could be taken through Chapter 11 and reorganized under a fresh cap table. It wouldn’t be the first time in corporate history that a leveraged buyout resulted in existing stakeholders getting screwed over.
Spying is OK as long as the government allegedly doesn't do anything bad with the data?

That's news to me.
Wow, that sounds really fun. A friend of mine got into medium format film photography and had a blast. Personally, while I love film, I don't know if I could go back to point and hope. I'm so used to instant feedback. How did you manage?
Diamond Prices Are in Free Fall in One Key Corner of the Market
So, another comment detailed other legal aspects, I'll tackle the "most" part. Even if no other contract exists, that means at least 50.1% of all laid off employees should receive some type of severance. Said severance can be anywhere from a penny to millions.

We don't know what went down. Musk could have actually paid 50.1% (or greater) employees severance. It doesn't matter, because in the U.S. you can sue anyone else for anything, illegal or not. I can sue you because your username sucks, for example. Oh and if you don't show up, I win a default judgement, so there is that.
Was Jimmy Buffet anywhere near this taxi?

Was this person in SF anywhere near this taxi?
Map platforms show different results searching France’s nuclear submarines
How about prison time for executives who use the legal system in bad faith? Refusing to pay is not permissible.
I am sorry, where do you shop? Half of my local Tescos is essentials like potatoes, chicken and canned beans.
https://archive.is/2023.08.16-114114/https://www.haaretz.com...
Not a consensus protocol researcher.

It seems like blockchain brings a bunch of extra stuff, complexity and cost? Raft seems comparatively simple to me.

What does blockchain bring that's easier to maintain and harder to fuck up than "elect a leader and replicate a log"?
Giving up a large portion of your life to work for a company isn’t enough of a party to a contract in this regard? Someone could conceivably take this job over others, or not leave as early, if they have assurances of severance. It’s not a gift any more than paying someone for employment is a gift, so I don’t see how this has anything to do with charity.
I remember seeing that footer before. I live in Europe and am not using a VPN.

It’s been a few years since last time I saw it though. But that could also be because my searches now are different than they used to be.
Thanks for sharing!

I liked the idea of defining the handle path in the name of the template and the auto-reloading on change functionality.

I wish this was a stand-alone library that I could use in my custom Golang server. Do you know if something like this exists?
WhatsApp HD Photos and Videos still compress the original file
WhatsApp increased the resolution of photos and videos with their new HD feature, but the files are still massively compressed.
> For instance, let's say right now, the market is headed up. When is the right time to "re-balance" to more cash? This is just assuming that the market is going to go lower than it currently is, which is just as much a gamble as thinking it'll go up for the next year.

It's the other way round, if the market has gone up then you rebalance to hold more cash. You're betting on mean reversion, not just making a random directional bet; in the long term that works, and since you're not leveraging there's no "remain irrational longer than you remain solvent" problem.

> When is the right time to "re-balance" to more cash?

In theory if you wanted to invest "perfectly" you'd do it continuously. In practice trading costs, tax concerns, and the cost of your own time mean you want to set a schedule that's not too inconvenient.

> Talk to a financial advisor and choose a risk-based investment strategy that makes sense for your point in life.

I know this is the standard advice, but these days it's pretty outdated IMO. A financial advisor will rarely tell you anything more than the basic middle-of-the-road advice you find on the internet or elsewhere, and they'll charge you a substantial amount for the privilege.
The paper ( https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06321-z.pdf ) seems to be written in "whistling in the dark" mode where coastal pollution and algae blooms, which covered ~8.6% of the ocean surface in 2020 ( https://www.worldatlas.com/oceans/study-reveals-why-coastal-... )... are studiously unmentioned.

They have to tie it all instead somehow to 'warming' and more distantly to CO2 in atmosphere and be professionally 'mystified' by any other causes, to unlock the funding achievement to use the term Climate Change in their paper and make it citeable.

If they don't know what may be causing it, they might browse the lines of their own computer model that predicted it and see what they say.
Musk bragged about doing that which will probably be an exhibit in their lawsuit.

I think they'll get everything they want. All they need to do is enter discovery and he'll have to fold.
Give the plaintiffs significant shares in the company, transferred directly as a flat percentage from the other shareholders.

You will find it very hard to reach C-suite level at any publicly company where you cost your shareholders that way. And since it would constitute a violation of fiduciary duty, executives would be able to defend themselves when they take action to avoid that happening.
I have a cauldron. Semi spherical. I use it for way too many things beyond the stew. It serves as a perfect fryer for example.
This is an excellent point, actually
Somehow people are still trusting musk run companies? Especially with major public infrastructure stuff and government subsidies. What is the logic. He's backing out of all the promises and shown him self to be unreliable and vindictive but surely that won't happen to us?
I don't think I've ever heard of self-driving cars as a freedom-promoting technology. In fact, I remember self-driving car fans of a decade ago being very enthusiastic about the prospect of banning human drivers.
> I hope all these folks get their severance, and hopefully with interest, legal fees and penalties.

I wonder what percentage the legal team will take. I doubt this is happening pro bono.
Their video says the EU passed a new law restricting some content to mature audiences only, so Youtube is calling their WW2 series "mature content" and restricting it on Youtube (it you need to verify you are old enough) which means that viewership goes down (as the videos aren't recommended) and sponsorship revenue goes way down since advertisers don't want to put ads on restricted content.
A Proposal for an asynchronous Rust GUI framework
Information from the early Apple era (magazines, books, etcetera)
As usual, huge profits are made by taking on risk. These publishers are ok to lose money on a bunch of things because it will be paid back on the random unpredictable wins. If everyone requested some term of "if it's successful, I want the profits", then your risk free salary would be reduced.
Prices have gone up everywhere. Median price for a home in Austin looks to be 500k and declining. Compare that to just about anywhere in California, it's a lot less
Maybe naive question, but what if a UCP packet comes in that doesn’t meet the requirements of the parser? Undefined behavior?
Commit early, commit often. Think in terms of small steps, and achievable goals.
> Hobbies that are particularly associated with boomers are fucking wild when it comes to discrimination.
I believe it. You're hearing it because you are in the in-group, though.

I know you're not implying that the tech bro culture doesn't even move the needle, but I took it that way at first.
> Besides the point, innovation has been stifled because of no reinvention.

Yes, because the advice is meant to improve business survival, not societal innovation.

If optimizing for survival isn’t your primary goal, it just doesn’t apply to you. It’s still great advice.

The 100x-or-nothing game has different rules.
What was his basis for rejection? I'd like to imagine he considered the work complete at that point and was rejecting milking the life out of the characters and world.

In the unending wash of remakes and unnecessary decade+-later sequels today I sometimes wonder if original creators were facing some monetary hardship and gave in.
Did exactly this for about the same amount of time. Couldn’t be happier.
Sounds like a good argument for Twitter/X to have to pay the legal fees; the laid off employees should get their full severance, and in order for that to happen, they shouldn't have to spend it on the lawyers
Many employees stock options plans vest the options on change of control. All the ones I’ve had did.
Isn't there a link between the taxi and the ambulance person?
Similarly when I see vegan products in a supermarket I always think they are overpriced for being specialty products.
What about neighbors having backyard campfires or BBQers?
Sure, but this is a list of aesthetics, not a list of techniques or tools. Their artist-assigned labels may have nothing to do with how they were created. For example, "Corporate Memphis" has nothing to do with the Memphis Group or the design movement they drove in the 80s— it stemmed from a Facebook documentation branding initiative that was just another page in the big book of bland postmodern corporate art. However, artists and designers needed to reason about that aesthetic differently than, say, an art historian, called it "Corporate Memphis" because of several key aesthetic similarities to the Memphis design movement and it's distinct corporate blandness.
Okay, so the final report is correct then thanks to him, but the conclusions didn't change, IIRC?

I dismissed him out of hand, I'll admit.
Note that Employees were not a party to the merger agreement.
Does an acquisition FAQ bind the company? I believe the argument is that it was effectively an offer to employees to stick around, and employees who did so effectively accepted the offer, at the cost of other opportunities in the market, and hence this was a binding contract. This doesn't seem so solid to me.
I suspect the issue is less about face to face and more about meeting people to begin with. Meeting people is hard, especially for the very large percentage of us who are neuro-divergent. Getting us to do ANYTHING with you requires that you meet us, so...

...I guess a lesson here would be to be friendly with everyone, including strangers.
This reminds me of how historians trying to find out about the historical Jesus have come up with some (objective?) criteria about what to accept as true.

Examples:

* Multiple attestation. Do we have multiple independent sources telling us the same thing?

* Contextual credibility. Do people behave in a way that's plausible given their setting (the languages they spoke, what they knew at the time).

* Embarrassment. Is this detail actually inconvenient for the person relaying it (and not the sort of thing they'd make up)?

see "Criteria of authenticity" in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quest_for_the_historical_Jesus
In general, there should be prompt payment legislation.

My family used to be in food processing. The grocers (except Walmart, which is one of the reasons they can get lower prices), will straight up just not pay by the date specified in the contract and will make you hound them.
I don't think that's fair. Automated bounds checking exists in many languages (and most modern high-level languages). In Rust you might be incentivised to use unsafe blocks for array access in performance sensitive code. Julia has its `@inbounds` annotation. Some languages might not have an escape hatch at all.

Automatically removing bounds checking where safe seems like a good goal, but in all but the most trivial cases its quite complex for the compiler to decide what's safe.
Isn’t one of the legit criticisms of the max is that the behavior of the cutoff switch and the thumb control was changed without announcing it?

Update from YKW:

Yes, the trim system behavior in the 737 MAX differed from that in older 737 models like the 737NG (Next Generation). In older models, manually adjusting the trim using the thumb switch would generally interrupt and disable automatic trim adjustments, including those by the Speed Trim System, a predecessor to MCAS.

In the original 737 MAX design, using the thumb switches to adjust the trim didn’t necessarily disable the MCAS, which could re-activate and adjust the trim again. This was a significant point of contention and contributed to difficulties pilots faced in maintaining control of the aircraft during the two fatal crashes.
I spend virtually no time tinkering with my personal computer, but I did get one with Linux pre-installed.
Defcon 31 – You can track the police like an AirTag
Get WUB (windows update blocker)

It overrides backgroubd updates that Edge may try to install.

This was the best thing I ever installed on my personal pc

You are SOL if the updates are coming from sysadmin tho