skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To those saying that this is "$3/m for different app icon colors":

Based on their recent acquisitions of

- Revue (email newsletter service similar to Substack)

- Scroll (subscription that shares revenue with news sites, and removes ads on said sites)

I highly doubt Twitter Blue will solely get you different app/icon colors, they're likely to roll those services into Blue.

This is somewhat similar to the Amazon Prime approach, where you pay for a premium version of a site/service, and get access to a portfolio of services like Prime Video, Music, 2 day shipping, etc.

Their aim seems to be "Twitter Blue is to consumption of online news as Amazon Prime is to shopping/media".

The way I see it, a subscription model = moving away from a system that incentivizes a platform to maximize engagement/ad views, and instead incentivizes the platform to provide a positive experience, so users stay subscribed.
HDDs use DRAM for cache so it won't wear out.
Well everybody is just not as in the loop as you are. Not sure what is hilarious about that...
not sure if i'd call it amazing, but it certainly does its job
> A heat pump would probably be more cost effective in the long run, but I didn't tell him that.

Last I checked, heat pumps didn't produce assets of potentially increasing value as a side effect of moving heat around.
Indeed it is. There are still significant (in the case of the required mass-energy, massive) issues.

The writer has a blog [0], which is worth reading if you're interested in next steps for the theory.

[0]: https://eriklentzphd.blogspot.com/
They had a 1/5 chance of dying in every battle and an average age at death of around 25?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gladiator
Well, had $3.
They are saving Twitter+ for the name of the inevitable streaming service
A decent chunk of HN is anti-SaaS in my experience.
I'm half-obsessed with C interoperability in a variety of languages. I know Ada (or GNAT) has a C FFI, and I've done a little investigation/experimentation but not much.

Here are a few questions, which probably don't have an answer in the Ada standard but might in specific implementations:

* Is there a way to declare data layouts to have compatibility with C, similar to #[repr(C)] in rust?

* Is there a way to catch C++ exceptions?

* Is there a way to catch C longjmps()?

* Is there a way to have some kind of custom control over ABI issues, e.g. define custom FFIs to langauges with a different ABI? Or anything close to this? For that matter, does any language have something like this or does it not make sense?
Pick out the most important / sentimental items. Have a yard/estate sale one morning. Hire some movers to load up and take a U-Haul to good will or a donation center, have the donation center pick up large furniture, rent a dumpster for the rest. This can be done over the course of a few days or a week if you want more time for any of the steps.

It’s better if they start doing it now, and clarify what is essential and “the important stuff they’d grab in a house fire” in step one.
> To be fair, a warship at sea probably doesn't allow their sailors to carry their phone around for opsec reasons.

I recall reading a few weeks ago that not only the sailors have consumer grade equipment but that there are procedures in cases like this for sailors to use that equipment so there is more footage to analyze later
Long life in poor health is statistically possible but at the same time not very frequent.
That math is pretty easy to make a ballpark guess. Using stats from: https://backlinko.com/twitter-users

$3.72 billion (2020 revenue) / 12 = $310 million average monthly revenue

$310 million / 353.1 million (monthly active users) = $0.88 per user per month

Narrowing down to the monetizable daily active users, the users probably make up the vast majority of monetization:

$310 million / 152 million = $2.03 per user per month

Given that those users who are likely to pay for this service are probably even more skewed than that, yeah $3/month seems low. You're also somewhat selecting for users who have disposable income, which can't be great for ad value.
When I'm in the zone, here's something that happens: SO asks a question and somehow I hear the question but I don't process it, the question/event goes on some kind of stack. Then 5 or 15 minutes later I answer the question.

External stimuli is simply processed differently. There can even be a phone ringing for minutes, driving SO and kiddo mad. Yet I don't hear it: or at least it doesn't disturb me.

It even happens, rarely, that I get out of the zone and notice SO is gone and I'm a bit lost then I have to "focus" on the stack now: "ah yup, she said she went to pick her mom for she eats with us tonight".

I honestly don't know how to describe that as something else than being in some kind of zone.

I've seen friends studying for exams being in the same kind of state.

I like being there and I'm convinced I'm doing better work when I'm there.

EDIT: and there's something I do like in TFA: I separate my computer in "virtual desktops" assigned to different things. The main coding virtual desktop / workspace is ads-free for example (got a browser open but only for dev / for testing the (ad-free) thing I'm working on). I've got a "private email" virtual desktop, a "professional email" one (which is separate from the main coding virtual desktop), etc. It just makes sense to me.
Experienced the same in Florida. We had to relocate while our home was being cleared of hazardous material. I had Spectrum at that location being worked on at one price. The temporary digs were about 3 miles away and the price was 1/3 more for the same service (this was not with a promotion at either location). The only difference is that the new digs had no other option, while our home being worked on also had a FiOS option. I pointed this out to the sales rep on the phone and they couldn't give me a reason why.
How can it be a straw man when it’s not even refuting it? I addressed your argument directly by showing it is more independence and freedom.

The post script is a humorous observation of what “selling your body” is used to refer to.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
All I care about is being able to remove advertisements.

I don't care about any of these new features. Can just I pay $X.99 a month to not see ads on Twitter?
I would add that I had the same problem as a foreigner moving to the US.
The number of services (both public and private) that require you to have a US phone number was both surprising and impressive.
And competent moderation, essentially editorial guidelines. (Something that pretty much implies a community that isn’t too big.)
I would gladly pay $7/gal for 2Gbps at $60/mo
I don't play this game personally, but where I live in Canada, it seems that the main internet providers (Bell and Rogers) each offer heavy discounts if you bug them enough and threaten to switch. A year later your temporary discount expires, and you play the game again.

We still have alternate ISPs that the above two have to share their last mile infrastructure with, and mine has no-BS pricing and policies so I stick with them. But a friend who does play the game routinely gets his internet access cheaper.

Rogers is really offering heavy discounts in streets where Bell has just installed their fiber-to-the-home stuff.
It never makes sense. I know how to use dev tools to remove your no paste option, my mother doesn't. She will simply use Password1!. That's how you get weak passwords. Don't make it difficult using strong passwords.
The internet growing on IRC doesn't mean that the internet runs on IRC – those are two very different things.
Between the monolith and the microservice architecture, there is the SOA (Service Oriented Architecture).

At Link Society[0], we're building a SaaS offering for one of our product (Kubirds[1]), the architecture is as follows:

- A payment service (with Stripe)
- An IAM service (with Kratos[2])
- A Deployment service (which interacts with Kubernetes)
- A Dashboard backend service (with Hasura[3])

They are not "micro" at all, but each their own task nonetheless.

[0] - https://link-society.com (fr)
[1] - https://kubirds.com
[2] - https://www.ory.sh/kratos/
[3] - https://hasura.io/
> just by virtue of being a ground up rewrite.

by potentially beginners.
The TI 73 through 86 models of graphing calculator all use z80 CPUs, and the 83+ was probably the dominant school calculator well into the 2000s. That was my introduction to the CPU (hobbyist programming, e.g. through websites like ticalc.org).
A true easy way to run Kubernetes on AWS
> Scientists have found that people who had SARS are immune to COVID

Citation needed.
You could always buy Bitcoin with the money you saved
Indeed. Geriatric medicine has been a thing for millennia. [1] I worked at the UW Alzheimer's Disease Research Center in Seattle for several years in the 1980s. Research on aging was a major topic. The minimal progress on cures for Alzheimer's since that time should be sobering to anyone claiming that we can hack humans to extend lifespan significantly.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geriatrics
Well JsonLogic is basically Lisp expressions in Json syntax which is kind of the worst of both worlds IMHO.

It seems weird to me to pass a syntax tree over the network rather than just the syntax. But if the expression is not supposed to be viewed or edited as code at all, but only in some kind of GUI expression builder, then it might make sense.

Lisp is at least human-writable, but if it is supposed to be written by humans why not just use straightforward expression syntax like "a + b".
Sometimes it feels like cryptology stuff gets invented just to make Number Theorists feel useful
Right, because the art trade is so hard to notice.
Exxon Shareholder Climate Revolt has started
I'd pay for HN to be honest. But just talking about society on the internet isn't really worth while to me. More people should focus on themselves.

I've long accepted no one cares about how I live my life. A friend of mine spends a ton of their good energy getting upset over the latest 'take' some influencer has. It's like getting upset over an episode of WWE Raw. In any case very very little of what other people do or believe has any direct affect on you.
Came to say the same about the original iPhone SE. I thought it was because mine is a smaller model (most sites look weird on it these days). But now I guess that's not the reason.
do you know who works on such topics ?
Awesome-n: auto scan GitHub for awesome-n lists and create awesome-n+1. Although 2 of these in a fight wouldn't be great.
High talented individuals moving to the US is a win-win for them and the US. They significantly help to strengthen the country and ensure it keeps its dominant position
i recommend making “lists”. that’s what i do. just add everyone i care to see to the list (can seperate lists by category also)
I'm with you on not just trusting something because it's on the news. Totally. But everyone has their different values. I added that link because someone was commenting that they valued it more than a parent comment judged it, as it was on a news channel. So I posted another news channel because I cared about that's how they and other people felt about it and that they appreciated that kind of thing ;p :)xx
> There have been far more breakthrough cases of fully vaccinated people than there have been confirmed reinfections.

Yeah, but there are vastly more vaccinated people than people have been confirmed infected even once, so that doesn’t really tell you anything. (Currently, the number of vaccination doses being delivered per day globally is about 1/5 the total number of confirmed global COVID cases.)
The major selling point of bitcoin now is that it is a way to store value that is not controlled by a single entity.

Anonymity never was a design goal (even though it helped) and transactions are now too slow and expensive to make it a viable payment network. You can still buy drugs in Bitcoin, but it is not why people invest so much into it.
Some of my fondness memories are typing in programs from 101 Basic Computer games on a ZX81. That and Beagle Bros ads and their mysterious peeks and pokes.

My dad and I built our computer from a kit ... which of course failed. Turns out 1/3rd of them did so and we received a prebuilt one.
Does the premium version include unlimited API-access so you can use any client?

I use a third party client with no ads and no content except tweets from people I follow because I can’t stand the official apps, but I have since learned that this possibility was limited to new users.

If Twitter cut my ability to use Tweetbot and then charged $3 for it, I’d subscribe immediately. So I suspect this is a service more people would pay for.
Cool, well the metrics tell a different story.
> 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.

LMAO you're absolutely right! source: me
I agree - I don't think it's as big of a challenge as the above commenter thinks.

Phoenician boats would have been significantly shallower drafts, and more importantly, they would have been sailing with the wind and current, not against it, since they were coming north at that point, not going south.
My life isn't glamorous, and much of my itinerant lifestyle has been lonely and depressing. A few times, I moved to cities where I had an established base of friends. A couple times, I managed to make new lifelong friends. Many times, I moved somewhere and never made good friends. It gets harder the older I get, but I think I'd have similar problems even if I hadn't moved as much. As I get older, the biggest challenge with friendships is that people my age have spouses and children. They've grown up and in many ways I haven't. I'm slowing down lately. I used to think I was exploring and trying new things, maybe looking for my place. Now I'm more aware of the negative aspects, like that I'm afraid of commitment, unwilling to settle, unwilling to accept that "this is the rest of my life". I'm still not ready to do that, but I no longer think that it's a universally good thing.

I job-hop more than most people, but it's not completely out of the ordinary in tech work. Many people stay in one area but still change jobs every few years. People used to occasionally question some shorter (1-2 year) job stints on my resume, but I haven't been asked about it in over a decade. I don't think that particular aspect raises eyebrows anymore. There are more tech jobs than people to fill them; it's a job-searcher's market and has been for a long time.
I wish we can moderate this conclusion — it’s not fair to dismiss all these people as if they are all the same.

I personally believe that most of this toxicity is induced. I don’t think most humans are toxic by nature.

Can you blame victims of war for their tireless online activism? So what that they turn toxic, can you blame them when they are continuously facing mis/dis-information on a topic they are experiencing first hand? Yet this group can appear as toxic as any on Twitter.

We can criticize but not to the point of unilaterally dismissing these groups as if they are equal. A climate-change denier is not equal to a Gazan teen “journalist but only through tweets”. Both may annoy you with their “perpetual beef” but it’s not really fair to abandon the one good thing this platform has done - give people a voice. We need to just learn to deal with it.

I’m not sure what the impact of this will be, but I hope it won’t be the undermining of grass-roots activism. Even if that activism can border on toxic.
They will know through VPN logs - security groups look for anomalous login activity and will want to know why you’re logging in from Detroit when your work location says San Jose.

It also puts your manager at risk to do it - if you tell them, then they know it’s happening and have to do something about it.
Technically a "perfect" miner would use zero energy (beyond microamps for driving the signal wires in the network cables), the heat comes from imperfect components that "waste" energy by turning it into heat.

So the mining itself doesn't use any energy, it's just that instead of dumping power into a dumb coil of wire, you dump it into a smarter coil of wires and various components that produce some output (that happens to be valuable to the Bitcoin network and it rewards you in exchange) as a side-effect.

For any given watt of electricity, the heat output is the same, just that with a miner you also get useful calculation results out of it.
Hug of death'd!
> We don't know their weight, so we don't know how much downforce they have to generate

But we can make an educated guess.

> Also, if they were radar-spy drones, they don't have to go home -- they've likely transmitted everything they need (overhead satellite or a nearby sub?). They're going away far enough to sink to the bottom of the ocean with little chance of recovery/identification.

IIRC submarines have looked for them, following that theory. Nothing was found.

> So, I can imagine drone that carries some basic RF sensors, a basic quadcopter (or equiv) propulsion system, then a one-time-use escape system. Perhaps a short-range turbine or simple chemical rocket.

The drone theory makes a lot of sense when you ignore the fact that they are flying for over 10 hours non stop, and going faster than 160kt. Oh, and that they are also moving really fast once they are submerged.
You wouldn't pay to use Twitter in its current form with its low-brow unmoderated discourse (and neither would I), but would you consider paying for an "improved" version of Twitter? Not saying Twitter Blue is that, but perhaps the promise of getting a Better Twitter can you give you pause for thought and a reach for your wallet?

The experiment of directly paid social media is worth trying out, in my opinion. I know paying a few bucks a month won't necessarily get you out of the privacy/ad-tech spiderweb, but if it get us a more robust control over what our social feed looks like, I think that alone makes it worth it.
I doubt it. Throughout history many people lived brutish lives and died none the wiser.

Plus at some point some people can't be redeemed except for truly massive efforts no one will make.
I don't understand this whole idea of "healthspan". Making people not age at all is the endgame for medicine as a science. Anything lesser would still be putting an enormous strain on healthcare systems to make dying people die a bit slower. And if you've solved aging, there's not such a thing as a lifespan any more because people would only be dying of accidents.

It's definitely not going to work such that someone lives to 80 with a health of a 25-year-old and then something clicks and they start having age-related conditions, all of them at once for good measure.
This is largely my experience too.
I have programmed professionally since 1984. Never had to predict by the hour, but occasionally by day/week.

After I got into the agile/XP world ~15 years ago, there are no deadlines, and if I need to take a day to improve some code, I do.

I'm not saying this to brag about my great life, but to tell you there are other kinds of jobs out there.

That said, a good number of pro developers do not have the skills to write well factored code. Or the interest, frankly.
I am more of an end-user here trying to use SPARK2014 for applications, not doing any unnecessary software engineering or builds outside of using SPARK2014 and a compiler. It is this type of thing that makes it a bad choice for someone like me who doesn't have the time and sometimes the wherewithal to build my own compiler. Sure, a simple build of source without licensing restrictions, maybe, but not much above just using the PL to get a job done. This is why I will never give up C and the tools around it, well, maybe Zig or Rust, which I am playing with, but they are nowhere near SPARK2014/Ada for all that you get with them and the Gnat compiler. I was introduced to SPARK2014 with the book, "Building High Integrity Applications with Spark". I also read a fantastic book, "Analysable Real-Time Systems: Programmed in Ada" that put me on this vector. Great stuff and timely.
A majority of Facebook users live in third worlds countries though, they wont generate a lot of money no matter what you do.
> Does it makes sense to report someone for bad science?

It would be lovely to have a platform/forum where the whole concept was just that the moderation would ban people not only for spreading misinformation or making ad-hominem attacks, but also for applying unsound logic / not citing sources when asked / etc. All the same stuff that'd get a journal paper rejected during peer-review.

(With public records of moderator decisions, and the ability to appeal a decision; but where the "appeals process" just translates to your post going through a Slashdot-like "bunch of regular users given temporary moderation duties approve/deny your post" — which, given the type of user who'd want to be on a platform like this, likely wouldn't be any more friendly to your post than the mods would be.)

It'd sure be a niche platform, but that'd match well with how much work the moderation staff would have to do to keep up with discussion on it. I'd pay to be there!

(Yes, this is what scientific journals were originally supposed to be: heavily-moderated public forums for conversation between scientists. They don't serve this function well any more, as they've been parasitized by the function of serving the needs of academic clout-seekers.)
If you think about it, the further you're born into the future the more likely it you'll be able to see the things you're talking about.
That $30/year figure is likely averaged over the globe, therefore their North American stat is likely quite a bit higher. Given the quality of ads on twitter that I see, I suspect my value to them is much, much lower. Their ad network just seems terrible compared to Facebook so it's surprising they didn't offer a $10/month ad-free version.
Try staying in the US while not having a permanent address. We got booted from our car insurance.
As a German I am very happy that we "own up" to our mistakes, especially when I compare to turkey, japan, russia etc. etc. I think this rather honest review of our history is reflected in our culture as a whole and means that we as a German people are relatively trustworthy (and humble). Doesn't mean we are anywhere near perfect but still, feels good to be on the right side of history at least since after WW2. But yeah, we better be, have a lot of catchin' up to do.
I was very pleasantly surprised staying in Oceanside, CA. Small town, amazing surfing and ocean access, biking, very walkable for groceries/food/coffee/bars, felt safe at night, and close enough to San Diego/LA for the crazier stuff.
Last time I checked Bitcoin was a speculation madness.

https://henvic.dev/posts/bitcoin/
Almost. It’s how capitalism is expected to work when you have to get permission from the city before you can support customers on a new street. The existing companies could roll out fiber to everyone in just a few years if they didn’t have to go through the whole process of getting approvals, waiting through public comment periods, rebutting stupid public comments, etc, etc for every single street. Or worse, getting approval from your direct competitors because you’re required to use their telephone poles.
It’s a tourism advertisement couched as an informational piece. My guess is paid placement? She also claims “accountants say” without telling us which ones. I’m afraid I have to send this paper back for correction, maybe she can hand in the revision before it’s due on Monday.
Is this the future of Factorio blueprints?

Is this the birth of FactoriOps?
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Why do you think that violation of causality is not possible?