skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're operating at that scale, I think "become a full-on advertising and ad tech company, platform, service, and network from top to bottom" seems like the only viable "step 3" (as with Google and Facebook).

I don't think just selling ads is sufficient; especially if it's not a service you can operate at a relatively low cost with a skeleton crew. I think it's probably either that or start charging for something. (Unless your goal isn't to ever make a profit, I suppose.)

Discord seemed to make it work (I think?) by combining an initial semi-skeleton crew approach with a freemium charging approach. They tried a few other things, but I think those efforts flopped.
might be a help to you: https://gist.github.com/IanColdwater/88b3341a7c4c0cf71c73ac5...
Your comment was indeed false, and many many studies have been done to compare natural vs vaccine immunity. Vaccination with a highly effective vaccine, e.g. Moderna or Phizer/BNT yield higher antibody response, and are more protective against variants in study after study.
Economics. If miners consistently ignore certain transactions, there is space for new miners to enter the market and earn super-normal profit. After the next difficulty adjustment cycle, the old, censoring miners may be priced out.
You are so good I initially believed these were true words used in data engineering! XD
Does this make sense:

One of the most articles of wear is a scarf or muffler for the neck

The most what?
No, every FTL construction can be used to violate causality. There’s no way at all around that. Fundamentally it’s a geometric problem — relativity has a hard barrier at light speed, but if you can get past that, there’s nothing at all special about infinite speed. Is the same sort of 4-momentum as standing still, and you can accelerate in any direction from there.

The warp drive in the article is subliminal, though, so it doesn’t have that problem.
its a young healthy couple, 2nd infection ongoing and much more severe
No. That's called bible-thumping.

In our world, it's trivially easy to get hold of any major religion's works, and only moderately difficult to get hold of smaller religion's works, primarily due to translation issues.

And in light of context, you weren't comparing the writings or showing different religions' thoughts on human longevity - you were implicitly stating that your choice of religion was the right one, by stating it matter-of-factly.
Super cool, this is a major need. At the public protocol level, doesn't feel like much has happened here in practice since posix/http/odbc, s3, & hdfs/parquet/arrow.

I'm curious how this will play out as I don't think there's an open source impl + UI for it, and most contributors are from one company? As some relevant data points:

- the pydata oss community has been centralizing on uniform data IO for the same aws/azure/etc. systems via pyarrow, fsspec, etc., including high performance parquet support. Databricks uses some of that, so that's promising!

- ... but no pydata standardization on the control plane, esp. wrt security. fsspec normalizes on "posix acls", if I remember right: it's a real need the protocol+project can fill. Adding modern ABAC/RLS/..., sync, ... .

- ... and I can see why databricks wants to take control of the datalake protocol from aws/az/gcp (s3, ...), so this is super clever if they can keep control, and second place, ensure no one else does!

From an OSS adoption perspective, donating the protocol + self-hostable UI tiers to Apache + major non-databricks contributors would make me excited to use. Without that level of belief & health, as an architect, it feels like switching one lockin for another, so still a proprietary offer in practice

So I'm pretty excited as a user, interested in lightweight integration as a partner, and wondering what's in store for community-minded OSS governance for the confidence to go as deep as we did for Arrow like contributing core code and betting our own infra on it..
Fwiw the small world of Japanese software engineering Twitterverse is quite a pleasant, funny (punny), and constructive place. I’ve actually made many RL friends through the medium.
lol. let me ask you this: if your life quality was the same as 90 as it was at 50 would you still look forward to death?

it’s not living 120 or 150 or 200 that matters. it’s the quality of your life. i think working to improve that vs some arbitrary number (that by the time you hit you see death as a release) is what we should target. the term for this is healthspan vs lifespan.
The sources are literally direct links to nasa.gov.

1) Yes, the data was altered.

2) I can't prove a causal relationship between the alteration of the data and a political narrative, but I believe in Occam's razor.

So, I've proven conclusively that NASA altered their temperature data in the 20th century from a cooling trend to a warming trend.

See for yourself.
Your comment history shows your aversion to "putting things into my body" doesn't extend to MDMA.

I'd suggest that taking the COVID-19 vaccine to help save our economy from a global pandemic, and to protect your family, has a better risk/reward ratio than taking recreational narcotics for a fun weekend.
PostgreSQL EXPLAIN Output Explained
Back to the Future: The Historical Context of Low-Code and the Return of HOPL
I would actually pay $2.99/mo for firefox.
> April 2020 I gave up on CA's leadership and bailed out of the state. Best decision ever.

I think you mean you cashed out :-)
Somehow Google and Facebook figured it out. Why couldn't Twitter?
I think it's natural for people to go through phases of wanting to feel "normal" and then becoming the rebel/freak/stick-it-to-the-man/whatever. Sometimes you're a weirdo young and then fit in more as an adult. Other times you're a pretty straight-laced kid (I was) and then want to branch out a lot more later (like I have at times).

I think the misery rolls in whenever you're living life completely at the behest of others and you're suppressing your actual personality at any given time. Be happy being chill! Be happy being outrageous! Be happy being sad! (It's possible!) Be yourself.
Wow! I dropped a raindrop in Seneca Nebraska and it travels 3300 km to the Gulf of Mexico. I believe my raindrop will never reach the ocean
What an incredible journey!
I wonder if any human has actually traveled this path?

https://river-runner.samlearner.com/?lng=-100.85192070321573...
my curated twitter feed was sincerely (and i'm a jaded guy when it comes to internet) awesome.. creative coders, intelligent and fun people, some feud here and there but nothing spectacular

it's a pity most of twitter seems to be a perpetual shitstorm of low effort brainless buzz

ps: out of the whole internet debasement.. I kinda see something, is that talk has a purpose, if I talk to someone I'd rather have a nice moment, and the ability to debate endlessly with people I don't even (or bots even) is fruitless. a strange kind of lesson on using ones times correctly
I have a computer science degree, and have gone through periods where I've maintained custom Linux distros built from scratch for myself. I'm not able to keep up with all of the newly discovered (and subsequently disabled) methods for disabling all of the online services in windows 10.

I didn't mention OSX because I didn't want to be overly verbose but yeah any non-free OS at this point has pretty much no respect at all for privacy or user freedom.
No limits on T-Mobile Home Broadband. In areas without 5G, the device uses LTE and still delivers reasonable speeds.
How do you know this implementation detail?
Programming Without State Chaos
> Samourai Wallet automates most of these and offers obfuscating tools.

And does not have a desktop client. Next to useless.
Me: I'll pay for Twitter without ads and a true reverse-chron view of the accounts that I follow. An edit feature would be nice, too.

Twitter: Hey, check out Twitter Blue! Just $2.99 for reader view, colorful themes, and some other stuff you didn't ask for!
Absolutely, and I think this raises the question of "in what sense are these 'replacements' for existing software?".

If we see them as "immediate drop-in replacements" then the value of them must be that they're identical in every way and the value in them would be in the reduced maintenance overhead for the developers, with maybe a small performance boost if we're lucky. This would be fine, but it's not something that we'd notice if our distro went from using C `grep` to using a Rust rewrite of `grep`. We certainly wouldn't need a list telling us what replacements are available.

However, if we see these as spiritual successors, ones that perform the same function but aren't intended to be aliased to be precisely the same thing, then it makes a lot more sense. We're not looking for backwards compatibility, portability or identical feature sets. We're instead being offered a smorgasbord of options on what ideas we want to embrace and which ones we would want to leave behind.

If ripgrep is better in all use cases than grep, then eventually ripgrep will be the one being used in the scripts organically. We shouldn't be dismissing ripgrep out of hand just because a colleague won't have it on their system. Or, at the very least, we should be noting the good points while also noting that we won't be using the tools ourselves for portability reasons.
> I find it more interesting to ask the question "why do people spend so much hobby time writing interesting programs in Rust?".

My theory is that people that like Rust want to work with Rust, and for that the best way is to prove that it's a good <language> replacement in <space> multiple times. By making modern and good versions of classic CLI tools, they prove that it can replace C in that space. By making good new CLI tools, they prove that it can replace Go (that replaced Python/Ruby) in that space. Some people are trying to replace JS on the frontend (Yew), some people are trying to use it in the backend (Rocket, Actix). Some people working on chromium were (I don't know if they still work on it) trying to prove that it can replace C++/a GC'd language while having the benefits of both. There are lots of examples like that.

Rust often ended up as the most loved language on the stackoverflow survey. I don't know if it's intentional or not, but people in the community seems to understand than marketing is important, and proving your claims is too. And the best way to prove your claims is to deliver working software that's at least as good or better than what was previously made in <language> in <space>, to prove that you could use Rust here.

Of course as you said, cargo really helps here. I'd say other big players are the culture and the type system. The type systems acts as a first layer of documentation and helps ship better code. The culture is also heavily focused on documentation and welcoming newcomers. Compiler errors are a joy to read, rustfmt is a nice addition, clippy is also very good, and people tend to be very nice and welcoming in the community.

What I like with this explanation is that is also in part explains the rewrite it in Rust (RIIR) obsessed people: they see how the community act, fail to understand that delivering working code is the most important part because it's less visible than the "pure marketing" talk, and so blindly repeat the "pure marketing" talk.
not true, the 2nd shot is for long-term immunity

tho the vaccination was less than ten days in the past, so it might not have been active yet
> What I would enjoy would be a button to hide all the accounts that post more often than once per day. Because chances are the people who talk too much have no time to think about what they're saying.

This is why Twitter should be an open protocol, and people should be able to write their own UserAgents. Users should be in control of the filtering, not the app or the company.
As someone who has brought this up in previous discussions, I just want people to criticize both events (not necessarily equally) and pressure their own governments to be better instead of forgetting Snowden, who is still not able to go back home or to most of the western world.
StackOverflow should be cheap to operate and the value comes almost exclusively from the community. So I don't see any good reason why StackOverflow would need to earn much revenue. Probably an annual fundraiser like what Wikipedia does would be more than sufficient to cover the operating expenses.
Elon's rationale for pure vision:
https://urlshortner.org/uwLlv

It shows his ignorance. What happens when their model misclassifies with high confidence and fails to detect an obstacle? A collision.

There is a reason why every major company out there uses radar/LIDAR in addition to vision. It's because machine vision is a heuristic and it can and will fail with high confidence in its predictions. In those situations if you only have vision you are screwed.

Whereas lidar/radar are based on physics. They are physical systems and thus fundamentally more reliable and consistent than MV.

Thats why we use lidar/radar in places like the ISS to dock vehicles, because safety is critical.
Commercializing research or open source tech that the founder wasn't highly involved in is very common.

GitHub just commercialized git in the beginning.

DataStax <> Cassandra.

Armory.io <> Spinnaker.

AWS <> *
How much did it take to move your stuff? From what I've seen this takes 10+k for even a modest amount of belongings
Alright, here is an example. My data is a stream of events, each row has the values (event_id, person_id, date). This is the table with 40M rows, with inserts between 2/s and 10/s.

person_id is a foreign ID for a "person table" that fits well in the relational model. A "person" has various attributes (name, DOB, email) as well as a one-to-many relation to "groups". Groups are a collection of users with additional attributes (e.g. group name).

Now, what if I want to answer questions like:

- how many total events for all persons in group X
- who are the top 10 users in number of events in group X
- which are the top 10 groups in number of events

In this case, the person/group tables are part of the core business logic, they aren't specific to the events table. It doesn't make sense to store it in Clickhouse. Also, this person/group data gets updated sparsely, but "freshness" should be kept at a minimum (< 30secs).

The simple approach to the first question would be

- Get all the user IDs in group X
- Filter events by those user IDs

But what if there are tens of thousands of users in group X? And hundreds of groups? Are megabyte-long queries supported in Clickhouse?
Something I would really pay for is the ability to manage one twitter handle from multiple accounts. That functionality is kinda there in TweetDeck, but it is hidden and I'm not sure it is supported anymore. In the API it works I think but no client supports it.

Ah and the ability to create an account anonymously without a phone, and maybe to pay with crypto. I understand why they don't want that, but if you post controversial stuff (IMO harmless progressive stuff, nothing agressive or hate-y, but enough to tick some people off who want to play culture wars) then you invite crazy people who try to dox or threaten you, and all kinds of legal threats. This is in West Europe, I can't imagine how it might be in acutally repressive states.

Unless you just post for fun about cats or food, social media turns out to be ungrateful work...
On a tech site like this can we please bring 'slashdotted' as the verb to describe a non-malicious DDoS?

/. atleast earned the right to coin the term.
Even enterprise architects cannot get enough of this stuff, and you would expect them to know better.
Many drugs are addictive, but I can choose which drugs I get addicted to.
I do agree -- it was just the only semi-reasonable argument I could think of. It probably made some amount of sense before password managers were really a common thing, and you wanted to be sure that users didn't typo a new password and lock themselves out of accounts.
They're probably making more than $3 per user on the ads. IIRC Facebook makes somewhere in the neighborhood of $80/user per year.
I don’t think XP could have worked at all without Refactoring, because everyone is sitting together and asking questions.

With conventional coding, if your house of mental cards falls, you may potentially lose all of your work. By working from working code to working code, even if you lose your train of thought you get to keep most of your work so far.

A number of other techniques also allow you to work more from working memory than memorization. This helps when writing code a little bit, but most of the payoff is for readers or subsequent additions.

The thing with DRY is that code reuse means that a breakpoint most likely can fire from multiple paths, which makes it hard to trace why you’re getting null/undefined instead of an empty array as your second argument. Conditional breakpoints can help for some of these scenarios, but it’s better if the code in the middle of the call stack tries to be as contained and organized as leaf node methods eventually become.

You can’t modify code if you can’t read it, and if it’s difficult to read then interruptions become more problematic, because both the cost of interruption and the likelihood of interruption go up when thinking time increases.

The cleverest code is the code which is easiest to understand.
sigh. Still hate that Twitter switched to round avatars. Too limiting.
Wow, this is actually amazing. In my country electric showers are really popular. They're literally just big resistances immersed in water. I wonder how long it'll take for them to put cryptocurrency miners in there.
> This investigation was happening among scientists regardless of whatever Trump or Biden or Cotton or Paul or whoever else had to say. But the mainstream left treated them as though they must be dumb backwards thinking Q anon Trumpers who got this idea from him or Alex Jones or some conspiracy nut.

Maybe I just wasn't following the discourse closely enough? My main memory of this story early-on was in a Vox.com podcast in late Spring of 2020. They went through all of the circulating conspiracy theories about the Coronavirus—that it was caused by 5G, that it was a ploy to embed microchips, etc—and ended on the possibility of a lab leak.

I remember them saying something like "yeah, this is the one theory that could actually be true, and we should investigate further."
That is the new "home" they rolled out like two years ago. There is still a setting which lets you only have a predictable and managed feed, and assuming you block ads you have a decent experience with only tweets or retweets from people you follow.
Many high risk ppl cant get vaccinated, because they are, well, high risk.
Twig, inspired by Jinja2.

https://twig.symfony.com/
Even on streets with competition, such as mine, they charge more than the competition so I’m not sure why you’d use them if you have a choice. I have the following three lines run to my house, so are active options:

Spectrum 1Gig: $110/month

WOW! 1Gig: $65/month

AT&T 1Gb Fiber: $60/month

Guess which one I have?
I found that preparing for LeetCode type of interviews improved my skills of solving LertCode type of problems and did not change how I performed in my day to day job. IMO the type of work is so dramatically different that I don't think they will bring any value, maybe except in the cases where you're dusting off some language you haven't been using in a while.
Relevant article discussing the sad state of Twitter and other online battlegrounds: https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/

Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22101244
If only there was just one way to write react code!
That's fairly speculative for an explicit declaration that Trump is a white nationalist, and very much guilt-by-association.

Also, I don't really consider a "white nationalist" to be a "nationalist" by the usual sense of the word (applying to nation), but rather a rarer, more abstract sense of the word (applying abstractly to "groups" such as race). White nationalism isn't necessarily compatible with race-defined nationalism e.g. if you would prioritise foreign whites over domestic non-whites.
The difference is in the liability incurred.

So you're the blockchain analysis firm for the Department of Justice, and you're like "omg omg look the coins are moving! omg omg look its going to a centralized exchange account lets go subpoena the records and find out who has the KYC and identifying information behind that account."

DOJ busts down the door "aha! got you!"

If it was the person that actually hacked or did drug trafficking, then they found that person and charge them with that, wire fraud, money laundering etc.

If it was just the recipient then the investigation is still ongoing and much lesser charges are possible. The DOJ would at best case try to find out who the "kingpin" is by overcharging the second person, but the primary observation is that the DOJ has not stopped any particular activity. Either way, its still not quite what happens:

The reality is that it is many hops between unrelated people before it hits a centralized exchange that is subpoena-able at all. People.don't.need.or.want.fiat. Especially not a lot of it at any given time. Even hedge funds take in-kind investments of crypto to create a new limited partner. People don't need to cash out first and then invest that cash.
I'm happy to pay for YT Red for no ads, background play etc on my mobile devices. I use the platform quite a bit and it's fine for that.

If you're really cheap you can signup through their indian link for a couple of dollars a month.
Sometimes the job of these people is actually to barge in, interrupt and strike up a conversation, eg: sales. For them, having smalltalk (building a relation with a customer) is being productive.
Some people here will probably remember twitlonger, which wasn't that great. That or posting screenshots of text. I think threads, the idea, are fine; but the implementation is not good. I don't understand why, when you load a tweet in a thread that's not too long (< 50 tweets), Twitter refuses to just show the whole threads and makes you click "show more" every 5 tweets. That's a really bad UX.
My own personal experience of aging is that the opposite is true. Young me thought in very black-and-white terms and knew everything. I now live in the grey and although I find it more difficult to deal with new ideas (partly because of age, partly because of the grey), I’m a lot more open to those ideas and willing to give them serious and fair consideration. YMMV, but a blanket statement that old people generally are stuck in their ways doesn’t match with my personal experience and when I think of the old people I know, to the extent that it’s true it’s true for a minority.

The referent as it relates to science probably has to do more with corruption, incentives, and careers being built on certain ideas and having pre-existing knowledge rather than anything specifically age-related.

In any case, whatever longevity treatment is applied may actually reverse or reduce whatever part of your claims have some physiological truth. It could mean more wisdom and less curmudgeonry.
yeah. don’t be. you’re thinking about the best case scenario probably. in reality if we keep doing the things we do we’re headed towards a world where it would be really hard to survive.

space and space colonization? really hard with the current tech and even if the tech was there only a few people will get to do that. the costs will be absurdly high and we also have physical constraints that we cannot bypass.

biotech? in the first few waves it’s gonna be a rich person game. money is literally going to buy you more years.