skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The comment I replied to stated that Elon is courageously adhering to his principles of free speech, but the examples I have provided directly contradict that sentiment.

It's clear that Elon is ok with repeatedly disregarding his stated principles if it suits his personal or political agenda. As the owner of Twitter, that's entirely his prerogative, but I don't see how one can reconcile his stated values with his actual behavior.
I wish more people were aware of how damaging bad science is, even when it is well intentioned. Environmental studies are often littered with double counting and creative data framing. One faked study does more to convince people global warming is over blown than 100 rigorous studies showing that it isn't.
Nationalising the corporation would delist it from an exchange, preventing stock sales.
I'm a web developer, or I was anyway. I've also started a couple businesses, but not tech. I disagree with the other commenters.

> I can code really shoddily, at least getting to a basic MVP with the help of ChatGPT.

Then launch your MVP solo, IMO. Coding is still a superpower right now, and it's a great secondary skill for any entrepreneur--I recommend you continue learning. But even aside from leveling up, launch your MVP solo. It lets you retain full control over direction, and validates the idea.

> If I do need to look for one, what point would be most suited for their entry?

After you validate the business (with paying customers). And when you cannot move the business forward alone.

> is that too late?

No.

> How do I find engineers who are leaders and willing to work with me?

The answer to this is also to validate the idea. Or build it and show it to them. Let people attach to your idea. You're also important, but the business should be the star, not you. Have your business making money, so you can pay these people good salaries.
DJI makes drones that crash, or they did and I became an expert at repairing phantoms. I have still yet to crash my Skydio2

Was it expensive as crap? Absolutely! Can I hand my kids my phone and let them fly the drone and it not end up in a lake? Yep, that too.

Peace of mind has its costs
Each C/C++ guideline define language subset so de facto new language but with weak enforcement where in practice most organisations following it anyway create some specific exceptions from that guidelines. C/C++ world (C less) is a mess, it can't be fixed and this agony will be very long lasting.
I think appreciating what you already have achieved is important, perhaps do a retrospective and talk with friends family what are great things that you have done, achieved or just you are good at or people appreciate.

Why? because no matter where you are going, you go from where you are at the moment.

We tend to forget, downplay, overlook our past achievements and what we are good at we give it for granted, like if it was normal for everyone and compare with others that way better, (there is always someone way better! at least for 99% of us).

When I'm overwhelmed I just practice acceptance, and think "let's do it just a little bit better" that is helping me with perfectionism.

Acceptance, would you still love your best friend if they are not "having a great year, being ambitious, achieving a lot in that year etc, really moving my life forward rather than languishing" I bet you would, why often we treat ourself worse than to our best friends?

Remove all that pressure, and create your own compass that feels good just for you! making things better, that somehow feel rewarding, if you are not having those feelings maybe shake things up, and do some changes.

Hope it helps!
Maybe get Bayer to buy you… I’m looking at you, Monsanto.
To be frank, their articles can be easily misinterpreted as the reality.
I love the carribean/cuban/dominican spanish where they leave off the ending of words to they can speak faster.

https://www.tiktok.com/@msnewslady/video/7124117603425029422
This is the way -- the interruptions are in many ways ideal, if you can pair this practice with some dedicated study time.
I guess my hope was that the program would just terminate immediately the instant it tries to throw an exception while -fno-exceptions is set, thus ideally preventing any further action from the program.
Seems like if they believed he was innocent they should’ve contacted the executive themselves to request a pardon.
The flipside of these cat bans is that people suddenly discover they have a rodent problem that they didn't realize before. Mice start appearing everywhere, invading homes, chewing on wires, boring holes into buildings, etc...
Couple that with impossibility to be ignorant of what happens inside of a company, because if not, top level management has a big incentive to have a buffer to keep them purposedly unknowing of this kind of doings.
Yep, although I don't think bans on outside cats are a good idea for several reasons.

The key issue is controlling feral populations in a cultural context where large-scale hunting programs would never be tolerated by the public for obvious reasons.

To do this we need to a) control the supply of fertile human-bred cats into the feral population and b) remove and neuter extant feral cats from the environment.

We can accomplish both of these goals by mandating neutering and ID chips as you suggested, and temporarily banning or placing heavy restrictions on cat breeding.

This will shift all the demand for pet cats onto rescued feral cats, which will finally provide the funding needed to put a dent in feral populations. In addition it should stop the flow of lost fertile cats into the environment.

Now, it's not necessarily doable to train a formerly feral cat to spend the rest of its life inside. My cat lived most his life in the woods, and he completely loses his mind if he's stuck inside. No amount of toys and catnip can compensate for the ability to roam freely. And it's obvious that a feral cat kills orders of magnitude more wildlife than an outside cat with a cat flap and consistent access to food.

There are also plenty of measures that can be taken like restricting outside cat ownership in areas with vulnerable animal populations, mandates for cats to wear bells etc.
Yes you can use this name for your new Techno EP or Garage Rock band
One thing I've been thinking more-and-more about recently:

People are unique; there's no doubt about that. But how much of "the product manager does product management" is genuinely just the title they're assigned, versus some innate capability they were born with?

I'm becoming more agreeable to the notion that, at least in product development: most people should be doing more things. People can and should have specialization; but maybe it should be more organic and nuanced, like "Mike is our API guy, but he's also pretty good at organizing large projects and if you've got a big architectural ick to work through definitely go talk to him" versus "Sarah is more on the product side, she'll have great insight into user experience and she knows who to talk to in the organization to get decisions made faster, but she can also take on some smaller frontend tickets."

My argument isn't really "great idea dude, let's get rid of titles"; because I think the critical part is, this mindset is deeply predicated on Agency. You need an organization that assigns High Definition and High Agency to teams. You also need a hiring process that, very specifically, treats Personal Agency as one of the most important qualities a candidate can have; you don't know Go, that's cool, we can teach you Go, what we can't teach you is the genuine desire to want to be taught Go, and Rust, and some language I haven't even heard of, and by the way you're interested in the overall business and revenue and such.

The obvious problem is, people like that are a vast minority, and maybe you can't really scale companies by relying on the people you hire being intelligent generalists. I think there's also something to be said in the force multiplication of technology. A room with five of the right people can be more effective and productive than a skyscraper of 500.
Direct Conversion of Energy (1964)
Great booklet showing many ways of converting heat directly to electricity without a steam cycle. The 10 MB PDF download link button is green.
This is the exception, not the rule. And if a cat that's escaped and spends a couple days outside is going to destroy a wildlife ecosystem, then that ecosystem was probably already on the verge of collapse anyway.

I think we have much lower hanging (and more impactful) fruit than "ban even indoor-only cats because sometimes they escape".
The same questions have been explored at length by photographers for decades.

To me, it boils down to the intent of the person holding the camera. If the intent is to get views and grow the channel, it’s awful behavior.

Documentary photos/videos are a real thing, but documentarians also focus on respecting their subjects, and this feels like anything but that.
Only in limited areas, though, and in limited numbers. Introducing feral cats to new places in numbers supported by human breeding is totally different than a natural slow extension of their range.

Wildcats that evolved in an ecosystem have their place within it, at numbers supported by the prey population there that co-evolved with them.

When humans suddenly introduce housecats to a new environment where the prey never had the chance to co-evolve, the overnight influx (in evolutionary time) will rapidly decrease the prey populations.

Some birds on long established migratory paths are especially vulnerable too, since they have limited options for resting grounds along the way.
2023 Honda Civic Type R Review: All That and a Bag of Chips
It doesn't seem to affect anyone directly at all
TBH I'm not much interested in `Punishment`, so long incarceration does not interest me personally.
The article seems to say that permission has been given and that the subjects are getting paid (as low as $5). It suggests that they might be too high/wasted to give consent which brings in the ethical angle.

It's exploitation and is like many other things in society.
"read up on this wholly separate language and language culture, and you will see that I mean about French"
Government acquisition, divestiture, and all IP entering the public domain?

Or even just forcing them to break up into more, smaller companies.
What kind of unrest? Are you able to provide any details?
I don't completely agree; when using a year as base unit, it makes somewhat sense both directions. Deka- and hectoyears are equal to common decades and centuries, and megayears would be relevant for geology and astronomy etc. In other direction deci- and centiyears could be sensible, equaling a decimal "month" and "week" respectively.

Playing devils advocate here, the problem with this proposal is that it didn't go far enough with its decimalization. A "better" (more decimal) approach would be to divide year to 100 "weeks" (10 "months" with 10 "weeks" each), and have each "week" vary in number of days. This would open up to fun ways to notate it, for example now (2023-12-17T21:03:31Z) could be "2023.95/2.87744Z", i.e. "week" 95 (or month 9 week 5) of 2023, day 2 of the "week", and 877.44 millidays ("minutes") since midnight. It's only slight abuse of decimal notation :)
Properly speaking the term eugenics applies exclusively to the selective breeding of humans to maximize and minimize behavioral characteristics (it turns out absolutely falsely) associated (by the ignorant) with the (it turns out nonsensical) notion of “race”.

The belief was that behavioral stereotypes (like, for example, frugality, trustworthiness, and work ethic) were inextricably linked to physical phenotypes (like skin color and hair texture) that, via some hand wavy magic around nationality and cultural origin, determined your race.

Eugenics isn’t the same as (or even a straightforward extension of) selective breeding in animals / plants, since no other known organism has ever organized around the entirely cultural artifacts of borders and tribes, nations and races.
> This is why I am against feeding wild cats (usually by well-intentioned people). They are ruthless predators and enough of them are around.

Wouldn't feeding them reduce the amount they need to kill to feed themselves? I know of at least one cat colony that has a caretaker that feeds them, they have all been catch and release spayed/neutered so the colony can't grow. They try to get adoptions for some of them but the only other alternative is to kill them.
How does it violate hate crime laws? This just seem a privacy problem.
Then again, the whole point of "scientific power" is to compensate for our innate weaknesses. Guided missiles may be new and perhaps not the best of inventions, but people are just as misguided by nature as they were at the dawn of history.
Exactly! it varies by organization and you need to find what your organization cares about, what it values more or less. This is where talking to your manager, observing who gets promoted, etc; The worse organizations are those that say one thing and do another. No organization is perfect, but they're also not equal by far, some of them try to do the right thing, even if imperfectly.
I can relate. I don't claim to have completely solved this same issue in my own life, but I can speak from experience in recommending "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen Covey. If nothing else, it will provide a framework for understanding yourself, your values, and how you relate to your work and to other people. Which (he argues, convincingly) is a prerequisite foundation for the kind of growth you seek.
Okay, and the other settings? Guidance, sampler, etc?
This is a completely disingenuous take on the case. There isn't a single explanation of how its dangerous only thats its found in many different species and claims its toxic. If this shallow type of analysis is enough for otherwise technical people on this forum then we have a much bigger problem than 3M.
French is the lingua franca of much of the world....
You mean this one?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/20/health/opioids-drug-consu...

The focus seems entirely different. It’s not about shock value.

In any case, turning aside from the NYTimes specifically, of course aesthetics and context matters! That’s what photojournalism is!

The camera only ever captures fragments of reality, and then the publisher will place that content in a completely different context (you scrolling through your phone). Headlines, editing, narration, captions, preview images, and simply where and how you find it - that all puts the raw data into a story, a media experience. The same raw video file can be edited to to inflame disgust or inspire empathy.
I have a friend who researches botany, and it's the same thing for plants. If you only grow the "best" corn, you end up selecting for corn that slurps all the nutrients away from the other corn in the corn field and getting lower total yield. He says that we humans should do what natural selection cannot, which is to use group selection to pick the corn that is best at playing well with others, not just getting ahead individually.
No, updates are also synchronous.

A table in ClickHouse is represented by a set of immutable data parts. SELECT query acquires a snapshot of currently active data parts and uses it for reading. INSERT query creates a new data part (or many) and links it to the set. Background merge operations (aka compactions) create new data parts from the existing and remove the existing data parts. The old data parts can still be used in a snapshot by some queries - they are ref-counted and will be removed later by a GC process. Updates are heavy (they are named "mutations"). Mutations create new data parts with modified data and remove the existing data parts. This is similar to merges. There are some optimizations, though: instead of a full copy of the data, a mutation can link the existing data and only add a small patch on top of it, should it be the row numbers of deleted records and the added records or a lazy expression to apply.

To summarize: - every data part is immutable; - inserts, selects, merges, and mutations work concurrently with no long locks; - it resembles a lock-free data structure, and we could almost say it is lock-free, but... there are mutexes inside for short locks.
Lots of very useful advices.
We need death sentences for corporations. Chapter 86 bankruptcy has a certain ring to it. Forced liquidation of assets. No insider trading (no auction participation by people materially involved in the convicted company who have interests in related companies).

We had those a couple hundred years ago, then the monarchies lost their teeth and capitalism and democracy got all mixed up together.
You're really looking at this at a surface level. Instead of production style consider: consent (was that person in a good state to make decisions), main topic (this is addiction in general -vs- look at this addicted person), amount of context (did you learn about anything beyond "this person is addicted"). Production style has next to nothing to do with whether it's journalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/health/fentanyl-xylazine-...

There are some important differences related to consent and background info, but the high level criticism in TFA that "people are profiting by sharing imagery of fucked up drug users" is equally true of mainstream publications

It's important journalism to the extent that it disseminates information or raises awareness of important conditions or facts
First NAmerica people may have arrived by sea ice highway early as 24k years ago
That seems to be perfectly consistent - it's pure hubris and ego to believe that you are great or that a group of people would care enough about you to dedicate themselves so. That's not for you to judge, but for the rest of us. Pure emotion, no logic.
The biggest issue for birds may very well not be predators but habitat and food. The volume of insects collapsed so why should birds thrive?
> He will be replaced by someone similar, but seldom are people as effective as their predecessors.

I'm not a real believer in the "Great Man" theory of history - I think the ground needs to be set for an event for it to happen, I don't think the will of one person is truly sufficient to bend history - but there are certain people who you would have a very, very hard time replacing in a given scenario.

Rupert Murdoch is definitely one, and Donald Trump is another - without getting into specific judgements of the man, there's nobody else within easy reach who could do what he's done, and I don't really see his movement surviving him. He's a particular person for a particular moment, and it's hard to see anyone else doing what he has.
Same.

I'm surprised that the "alarm" is over the tourism and filming of it.

Not over us allowing people to self-destruct, which is what we do when we enable this behavior, which IS what we're doing right now. In San Francisco where I live we do this too. Plenty of "connected" charities making money and growing by serving the needs (addictions) of the drugged street population.

We need to be more alarmed at that, not at the exposing of it.
Books are an interesting topic. The cost of publishing through amazon is far more accessible for authors, and the cost of the books themselves has decreased. I dont have enough time in my day to keep up with how many credits I receive from my audible subscription. Digital distribution has made both writing and reading more accessible, its the middle man that got cut out. That is in the nature of innovation, it frees the average person up from more menial tasks and allows them to create higher orders of value using a greater bredth of their creative inputs. That process can also be seen in the wide variety of goods offered on the amazon store, many of which are from those small businesses, the creative and productive factors remain without needing to take up physical real estate.
> A 1970 study of fish had to be abandoned “to avoid severe stream pollution” and because all the fish died. After being exposed to a chemical, the fish couldn’t stay upright and kept crashing into the fish tank and dying.

"We tested it on animals, and none of them survived. But that's OK! 'cause when we wrote the report up, we lied!"
You would have to be collosally incompetent or disingenuous if, as a CEO, you believe that it is in the shareholders best interest to allow your employees to unionize. Any competent board would fire such a CEO
It sounds like maybe your reading list doesn't match well with the type of material you find engaging? If you're finding your nonfiction to be a bit sparse perhaps you would prefer titles targeting a more academic audience? This year I discovered that the local universities will loan material out to anyone who lives in the region and found no shortage of challenging, rich material.
At the end of 2015, I started writing down what I wanted to achieve in the upcoming year in a spreadsheet every December and began reviewing the previous year’s spreadsheets in 2016.

Over time, I’ve learned that my success rate at achieving big important items within one or two years is negligibly low, but over a 3-4 year span, it’s higher than what intuition would suggest.

The interesting consequence for me has been having to pick the big items carefully - if it’s going to happen over the next 4 years and by then it doesn’t matter as much, it’s not really worth it.

Thinking long term is really hard. I suck at predicting what I would want 5 years from now. I’ve resorted to using a heuristic of “Will this matter irrespective of when I can get there?” as a substitute.

For example, wanting to live closer to my parents and spending more time with them seems like a better pick than wanting to learn how to train an LLM from scratch.
It's disturbing to think of Tony Gilroy's film Nightcrawler as prophetic, but as I read this article, it was the first thing that came to mind.
No, more like this one, where the main focus is on how fucked up a small number of specific people are

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/health/fentanyl-xylazine-...
Repurposed iPad 3 Retina screen works like a charm with Amiga
you live in a capitalist society not some socialist nightmare. Giving it to the government would be much much much worse.
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i'll get behind the death penalty once we get that 100% accurate justice system i've been waiting on.

until then i'll just view it as a tool of the government to sate public bloodlust with regards to heinous crimes with the very thing they seek to punish : murder.

the very embodiment of "well, that's the best we can do." when confronted with the idea of correcting the loss of a life -- two losses to make the original victim feel less alone. Not a great correction.
Can do both. Destroy the company, but also go after those responsible. Anyone who knew about the situation but didn't make their supervisor(s) aware is personally liable for damages. Anyone on the board or C-Suite that was aware and either did nothing or didn't notify regulators is also personally liable. In both cases if anyone died as a result the companies actions they should be tried for manslaughter.
It's been hard to follow Suse OS products with all those names.
ALP seems to be an evolution of MicroOS.

In the end they seem more committed than RedHat to create a container first OS.

Because, sure you can deploy CoreOS but then what?
You can have fun looking for images that work with Podman on the internet or create your own.

At least Suse build and test images for common services to run with Podman.
Fsearch, a fast file search utility for Unix-like systems
I do something a bit similar, I'm usually happy to ask the dumb questions to spark discussion so other people don't have to.