skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it all depends on their mindset on developing the platform and the mindset of new hires - are they being incentivized to "shake X industry" or brainstorm features every other day, or do they look at what they have and figure out how to make it even better. Is Twitter made to make it easy for users to do some thing, or is it being made to do what some other company did, but "for X"

I find most SV companies, like game design, falls apart when it is used as a vehicle to test out a philosophy instead of implementing an idea users actually want.
It’s the End of California as We Know It
I’m in adtech and know enough publishers. I can’t share exact numbers but readership is way down. Constant political stories and culture outrage doesn’t make good sports reading. Contrast this with barstool sports which is doing well.
All I see is this:

"The Washington Post reported that 'at least one camera in the hallway outside the cell where authorities say registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself earlier this month had footage that is unusable' and that it is 'unclear whether the flaw in the taping affected a limited duration of the footage or whether it was a chronic problem in the beleaguered Manhattan facility.' "
Journalists aren't exactly known for being paid well. They need resources to start up an outlet and the primary place to get those resources in venture capital which would just start this entire process over again.
I think it’s interesting to look at the patterns of historical usage mentioned in the wiki. The phrase always originates with an accusation by party A that party B calls party C useful idiots, but there’s never any evidence backing up the accusation against party B. To me it just seems like a condescending way of dismissing party C - essentially an argument meant to invalidate popular support for party B. It’s not necessarily wrong, but I think without evidence it’s essentially a tactic for party A to deal with the cognitive dissonance arising from their distaste for party B combined with party C’s support for party B.

Now I’m getting in the weeds and questioning the motivations of party A. I suspect this might make party A feel the way party C does when people call them “useful idiots”. And perhaps it demonstrates how this line of questioning is an endless rabbit hole.
I've given many open source projects donations if I'm using the software. One thing about me though, if I read that the money is going to some social engineering project, like outreach programs, you will never get another penny from me.
This is completely wrong. Gawker Media was a profitable, growing company until Peter Thiel wrecked it and its subsidiary sites were sold to a series of increasingly incompetent owners. Deadspin's "non-sports" articles were regularly among its most widely read.

In fact, here's a person whose job it was to sell ads for Deadspin explaining that you are incorrect: https://twitter.com/jillian_schulz/status/118967386127042969...
The arguments in those links are nonsense as far as I am concerned. I don't think you were expressing your opinion, I think you were just saying that this is how it is now. You got downvoted anyway. Some people just can't see what's going on around them.
Also, I realized slowly over the last six years how important it is to develop hobbies beyond just writing software. Sucks to have all your eggs in that basket and then burn out or decide it's a waste of time (which I consider every time I take acid or as my social life expands): now what?

Learning a new language was my gateway drug into trying different things for a change.
Android / Linux Hooking Framework
Big is a relative term, and here it should relative to the middle of those estimations.

In which case, it's small (around 2.5% up or down way).
Exactly. You can basically pick any subset of web technologies and just use those.

And honestly, when teaching the average person how to make a website, they should just be taught the minimum required to make a valid HTML document.

I think it's something like:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<title>My first webpage</title>
Hello, World!
> This is similar to my own thoughts on automation - it doesn't have to directly destroy a single job to lead to huge adverse impacts on our modern economics systems. Automation just has to be available and capitalism will take care of the rest over time.

I'd argue automation doesn't lead to adverse impacts, capitalism does. Automation leads to greater output from the same labor input, which is good. Capitalism that is not mitigated in these effects leads to the more than 100% of the net benefit of those gains going to capital owners or those on combination with workers skilled in automation-related fields, while a net detriment is received by workers whose prior function, or a substitute for that function, was automated. But that's true of every change under capitalism that shifts demand from one kind of labor to another (but is felt most broadly detrimentally when the labor benefitting is of a type where skill is more concentrated.)

The problem isn't automation, it is distributional infelicities in capitalism which must be mitigated by reducing (but not erasing) the concentrated benefits so as to allow broadly-shared benefits instead of broad harms.
> I'm not convinced that nobody else would host it. If they really made a blockchain anybody could post to it would seem difficult to stop other companies from making frontends for it.

How are those companies going to make money from hosting tweets? Are you letting blockchain hosts inject things? If so that's a security & privacy nightmare just waiting to happen. If not, it's financially insane to host it unless twitter pays people to do so. And if they do that then hey they're simply contractors for twitter, and twitter is again bearing the full burden of responsibility.
Even further, it is well known that Twitter throttles follow counts and shadow bans people They Don't Like™, so Twitter is already artificially promoting some people, and demoting others. And that's before we get into the outright suspensions.

Twitter doesn't have organic speech, period. And now they're justifying why they allow some political ads, but not others.
I hope to emulate my father. He worked til 70. Then went back to university to study a Masters in Mechanical Engineering. After a few months off, he got bored, and has just started back doing a Masters in Aeronautical Engineering. He will be 77 when he finishes.
JET should die (or whatever the storage engine is called). But the GUI builder is useful. You can use postgres or whatever as your backend
My god, what a boring stuffy article that didn't even attempt to link some relevance to the modern age. Maybe I've got a short attention span and need things to be spelled out to me lately, but my skim of that story read like some dry textbook. I basically forgot every word except "Grange" as soon as I closed the tab...
I wonder what the guards on duty that day are doing with their millions right now
Sorry. I was paraphrasing your " ... but rather because they control the lifeblood of any company - the money." rather than directly quoting you there. I think my point stands.
Totally agree with this. I find it odd that Twitter doesn’t view organic reach as actually black market paid reach, or at least some component.

Part of the value of running a legit ads campaign is the finances and incentive to beat away fraud and black market/black hat techniques.
>Constant political stories and culture outrage doesn’t make good sports reading.

>Contrast this with barstool sports which is doing well.

There is a high level of irony in these two comments considering Barstool doesn't "stick to sports" either. They just approach a lot of the same issues from the opposite direction as Deadspin.
What resources?
The Smiths’ Alleged 1986 U.S. Tour Rider Is Glorious
Still waiting for it to support basic, but crucial functionality like tolerations and node affinities. And no, using admission plugins like PodNodeSelector is not viable on managed clusters like GKE.
Has anybody emailed Musk directly about this? As somebody who made his money on the back of the tech industry he should get the need to give back.
Everything now fits as ‘terrorism’ thanks to some changes in the law. Awful. And accusing Tsunami Democràtic of criminal organization is tremendous. The Spanish Government has lost its mind. (Ah! Elections coming up in less than two weeks)
>this attack requires a more sophisticated attack method which automatically limits the suspects to US, Russia, Israel, Germany, UK and France.

What about China? They undoubtedly have the capability. As for motivation, they’re a regional and economic competitor who shares a disputed border with India.
"North SOMA" would mean "North South Of MArket" :)

(For those not as familiar with San Francisco - SOMA is a neighborhood south of Market St. where a lot of tech companies in SF are found. Tenderloin is another neighborhood that has a reputation as the most dangerous in SF and is nearby but north of Market St.
delta-force.net does this I believe. Not free though!
Not necessarily, because it depends where Facebook would draw that line.

We don't even know where Twitter will draw that line, making it a difficult problem for them.

They could, for example, allow charity ads, while banning "Vote for X ads."
Sorry, I only spotted some auto-correct typos after the ability to edit my reply had passed:

"(but not the list revenue in the meanwhile if course). turns out they had a big they didn't admit false flagging my site."

Should say

"(but not the lost revenue in the meanwhile of course). turns out they had a bug they didn't admit, false flagging my site."
Ask HN: How to become motivated by outcomes rather than process?
I am a developer seeking to transition into a leadership role. Currently I
enjoy the simple pleasures of coding as one of my main motivators, however I am not intrinsically motivated by actually completing projects and getting results. Due to my aspirations, my values clearly need to change.

Does anyone have any tips as to how I can start using acheivement and outcomes as a motivational factor? I can think of fear-based motivation working (i.e. threat of what happens if the project is not done), but would prefer to operate from a more positive standpoint. I have looked into "results-focus", which seems promising, but has yet to really change my mindset.
It's hard to beat the ease-of-use of Access for simple data management. I don't see any modern replacement.
At least then Twitter would have a pretty clear incentive to combat your bot as it and its ilk could have a substantial effect on their revenue. No doubt this will happen. You could already be doing this on youtube to flag a competitor's content as copyright infringement.
The problem is that the men who are currently struggling are not necessarily the men who caused the current state of gender relations.
From link:

The average cost of an application of permethrin 1% cream is about $20; an application of spinosad costs $270 without insurance.

Ouch!
If your board of directors wanted you to sell the company to another company to trigger a liquidity event, there is a very real possibility that the product would be shut down after the merger completes.
This is a common SaaS M&A strategy we see play out often, and it is not necessarily the CEO's or founders' choice or desire.

There may be cultural differences at play here, but you may wish to tone it down on the absolutism. There's an expression I hear/use frequently.

The idea is under promise and over deliver.

This is a much easier/healthier way to set yourself up and create a positive image for you and your business.

Framing it differently, your company absolutely might fail, BUT if it did, your users data would be safe. This shows a lot of foresight and should alleviate most of the concerns prospective customers may have.

It is better because you're not providing absolute guarantees for scenarios that are outside your locus of control. At some point you will likely have a lawyer who you should run marketing material by before you release it.
It depends on your ambition (goal).

Many community newspapers start with low resources and grow over time to become the voice of their community. They’re not going to become rich in most cases.
I like that this is actually for “customer relationships” and not sales-funnel software, where once a sale is made, the system is no longer updated.
counter argument: having something explicitly labeled as "advertisement" allows for people to take it into context. now that that route has been taken away, advertisers would pursuit native marketing, even more subversive.
The future is BAT/Brave with incentivized browsing.
The unintended but extremely obvious consequences of centralization strike again.
> The majority of teachers ... have always been women.

This is absolutely not true. For thousands of years teachers were almost exclusively male. As were students.
Exactly. I didn't understand the might of FileMaker Pro until I saw university employees at my alma mater working with it.
Nowhere have I claimed that it tells the whole story or that there aren't other factors. The whole story isn't going to be told in a single article. It's unreasonable to expect that it should be.

This article has a particular point and I think it's a good point. It actually has two main points:

1. The built environment is a large factor.

2. The high numbers of cyclists in The Netherlands is really a whole lot of people making fairly short trips on a regular basis.

The first is a big problem that will take years to remedy. The second is about an erroneous impression that serves as a psychological barrier to adopting better policies.

A lot of Americans tend to be all "Why bother?! It's hopeless!"

It's not hopeless. Even your average fat American can probably bike a mile or so.

Biking regularly is no doubt a very large part of why the Dutch are healthier, not the other way around. You need biking infrastructure to help foster a healthier lifestyle. You don't need to wait until Americans all magically wake up one day with super athletic physiques before you biking more is viable in the US.
FYI, HN doesn't allow you to downvote responses so it must have been someone else.
So, once a sale is made, would you continue to update the CRM system for that customer?
What? This is like saying you and your younger brother are commutative. It makes no sense. Commits are snapshots, not diffs. i.e. they're variables, not operations. i.e. they're verbs, not nouns. They're as commutative as you and I are.
A pitiful 10mbps, eh?

Back in my day...

That's your 100K image 10 times a second, or 600 times a minute.

You could also just like, run a caching server on a 5$ VPS.
Bots on Twitter thankfully are rare, but on Youtube, for example, there is quite a bit of bot activity.
One process way I like of getting the right outcomes is making lists. It makes me feel like I'm making progress every time I check something off. Making plans and trying to figure out if they will work is also pretty interesting.

I think it's a false dichotomy if you think that processes aren't related to outcomes. If anything, I think processes ensure good outcomes.
I’m not surprised to see this given what has happened to Gizmodo. It used to be one of the few tech sites I’d check daily but it has basically just become a constant stream of global warming and left-wing propaganda that even I, as left leaning, got sick of having rammed down my throat.

Contrast that with another G/O Media site, Jalopnik, which continues to be one of my favorite sites on the Internet. The Verge also seems to have moved on mostly from trying to straddle “culture” and tech and is better for it.
An enhanced Activity Monitor for MacOS. Basically annotate all the processes so I can click on them and see where they are from, what they do, and whether or not I can kill them. WTH is "Dock" for and why is using so much CPU?
I think the issue is whether it still qualifies as free speech when it's paid advertisement. Inevitably the companies with the largest coffers and most to gain get a megaphone and you end up with tiers of free speech (pay to be heard).
How does having women involved in raising boys result in mass shootings? Because, without some kind of causal mechanism (or at least data showing a statistically valid link), this sounds like you're just making stuff up.
SaaS modules too, a lot of services have their API modules and examples provided in various languages. Perl is often not one of them. In some cases where it is, it's out of date or plain old broken. As an example (which is understandable, no hard feelings) I had to edit the SendGrid modules to fix a bug when I tried, and there were issues on GitHub that have been ignored since before it became officially unsupported in 2016.

I usually use Python these days when dealing with SaaS apps since the ecosystem is much better, and I want to learn it anyway.
Would a pro-life advert, which has obvious political ramifications depending on which side of the divide you are on, qualify as a political ad? I ask because Twitter has actively been blocking/stopping pro-life organizations from running ads with zero transparency on how the decision was arrived at or which policy it violates, but doesn't apply the same standard to pro-choice groups and in fact gives them carte blanche to continue running ads. Twitter has clearly shown its bias on multiple occasions and I don't expect this to change in the short or long term.
Treating everything as if the consequence of getting it wrong is sending an innocent person to prison doesn't make any sense. Courts don't even do that. They use different standards when imprisonment isn't an option.
Trying to use fMRI to find happiness in the brain is like trying to use an infrared camera to find the b-tree on a computer running Postgres.

Just like a b-tree is a complicated concept that doesn’t directly map to the heat dispersal of transistors, happiness is a complicated concept that doesn’t directly map to the metabolic rate of individual neurons.
New Top Level Domains .mobi and .xxx Considered Harmful (2004)
Well, did you do anything to support the firefighting / evacuation efforts? Or the effort to improve PG&E's rotting infrastructure? Did you buy a generator? Or did you just sit it out? If you had the chance to just let it blow by, congrats! Many were not so lucky.

If you want your experience to be known, consider writing Gavin Newsom to tell him what you think about PG&E's failing infrastructure, or about what it's like to have a zombie hiding behind bankruptcy power your home:
https://govapps.gov.ca.gov/gov40mail/

The point is that the vocal "tech elite," in particular those who live and/or work in SF City and County, had no outage and thus have no incentive to pressure positive change. Those affected the most have essentially no leverage against PG&E's negligence.
The North Koreans are very sophisticated wrt computer science. They seem more than capable of attacks of this kind.

That being said, attacking the Indians doesn't really jive with their political aims. CIA makes way more sense.
When people talk about politics they mean other people's politics. When they talk about their own politics it's just common sense.
I would love to build one some day. I have ventured into building a complete personal finance dashboard that was purely local, but lost steam in the investigation phase. I am guessing there is a market for desktop applications that can do these things once privacy becomes more important.
Cognizant, Facebook content moderator, exiting business after Verge exposé
No one should use Brave or any project from the company behind it.
Whataboutism already?

No one is challenging your claim either. Women are capable of making subjective value judgments and many who are willing to talk about it are demonstrating them.
A content-based website is extremely cheap business to start, as far as running businesses goes. Seriously, you don't need any capital whatsoever, no offices, machines, just pay someone to set up a website. Millions of people start all kinds of businesses in this country every year, often much poorer than journalists.

The reason they don't do this is because running a content-based business is much harder than they claim it to be, and it's easy to claim things when you don't have skin in the game: when the venture-capital owned company goes under, they'll just get another job, while if they start their own business, pool up some initial capital and work for free for a few months until they make enough revenue to pay themselves reasonable salaries, they're risking much more.
Tech "bro"? Do any of those guys even lift?
After all, they accused some puppeteers of glorifying terrorism for a play against police manipulating evidence in Spain [1].

[1] https://elpais.com/politica/2016/06/28/actualidad/1467119956...
Yes, of course.

Here's Deadspin sticking to sports in 2017
https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/a-full-transcript-of-donal...

Here's Deadspin sticking to sports in 2016
https://adequateman.deadspin.com/the-2016-hater-s-guide-to-t...

Here's Deadspin sticking to sports in 2013
http://deadsp.in/cgmoid5

2012
https://deadspin.com/what-happens-when-a-35-year-old-man-ret...

I'm done diving into the archives but that's a pretty hot take you're throwing out there.
The software version of driving a car until it falls apart instead of doing more than the bare minimum to keep it running. It's not always the wrong choice but it's wrong to be surprised when faced with the expected outcome.
The astounding growth in the rate of publications (the chart I linked to) could not have arisen without a tremendous growth in the number of people, and in the funding. I don't think growth can be achieved without a decrease in overall quality of contributors / contributions, and indeed I wouldn't be surprised to see lower funding per author.
But it's so... smooth!

(Yeah, I know, Reddit-style jokery, bring on the downvotes...)
I was wondering the same thing. It's either a horrible human-written article, or an impressive machine-written one.
According to WSJ [1] the issue was that the ads were autoplaying with sound on. Just auto playing by itself isn't considered intrusive by the industry.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/hostilities-rise-inside-g-o-med...
> I don't believe that your statement: * If you don't modify the AGPL program, you don't have to offer source. is strictly correct, rather that it's simply the case that if you don't modify it, you're already offering source, you can just point people to my github or whatever.

Clause 13 of the AGPL specifies that you must offer the Corresponding Source via "a network server at no charge". It doesn't say it has to be your network server. But if upstream shut down for some reason, you'd have to come up with some other method to offer users the source.
The camera showing the hallway outside his cell was working, and showed no one leaving or entering during the time period of his death.
Isn't organic reach a little more meritocratic than just throwing money into paid ads?
Also you can consider the spreadsheet versions as a nearly feature complete & tested specification.
Airtable is really good for what it does : makes data-driven tools available for folks who don't want to mess with writing queries or being a DBA, and also has a reasonable API for automations.

For heavy stuff, I'll take Postgres anyday given the choice, but Airtable is great for small user-maintainable tools + dashboards, etc