skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agreed. It sucks to experience, but ultimately if you're that shallow then I'm not interested either. I just thought the whole thing was a meme, but it's pretty real.
> It's one if the reasons I avoid working for bootstrapped startups

I don't understand how that follows from the first statement. Can you explain?
You have to find specific need that emacs will fulfil. Org-mode is the key. Don't try to use it like IDE for coding for a start.

I recommend start with video tutorials:

1. Mike Zamansky https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49kBWM3RQQ8&list=PL9KxKa8NpF...

2. Rainer König org-mode https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQS06Qjnkcc&list=PLVtKhBrRV_...
The Green party was funded as, partially, an anti nuclear party. Pushing that after Fukushima was just natural. Russia did support the AfD so, as they did with other far right movements across Europe.

That said, 8 years is a very short time to switch from existing gas pipelines to LNG terminals.
1) Sure there's a lot of work for that kind of thing but creatives typically earn a pittance. I doubt an AI could meet your specific requirements without having to spend hours(?) tweaking it or sifting through countless variations for the 'one'.

2) Because we haven't built a machine that can paint (etc.) with traditional materials like a skilled artist?
Although it's the canonical solution, that would be a degradation for me. It's more ergonomic to use two hands to enter any modifier sequence. Mapping Capslock to Control doesn't provide extra benefits to my solution.

The other problem people have with the pinky is that they're twisting their wrist while typing, which is also against more ergonomic guidelines. The recommendation is to move the whole arm. Once you get used to that, there's no good reason to use the pinky to hit Ctrl (even when rebound to Caps lock). I would guess over half the times, I'm using some finger other than the pinky to hit Ctrl.
Their business is whatever they’re doing, we can’t give organisations a free pass on bad behaviour because they aspire to be well behaved once they’ve extracted enough value from their bad behaviour.

Your comment implies that the article is wrong: it isn’t.
>I'm convinced the death of the web and independent forum communities is largely the fault of Google's lousy search results no longer actually returning real web results.

You are wrong; Open Web died or almost died because of walled gardens like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. Billions of people who hang out on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter would hang out instead on Open Web e.g. websites, blogs, forums etc. if walled gardens didn't exist.
I knew we needed to build a suite of tooling, as our goal was to be a "hub" for the most important stuff at work. In retrospect, we built too much product.

If I start another company, I will spend all my time focused on solving a very big pain-point with a few simple product.

With Friday, I wanted to keep the product simple, but the people we talked to always were talking about the "yet another tool problem" - so there was a desire to consolidate. How I interpreted this was that we needed to build the "suite" vs. spending all our time on one feature.

I could go on and on about what I would do differently, but I'm thankful for the opportunity and have learned a lot that will (hopefully) make me more effective in the future :)
Except that's the trick the bridge has been closed since the hack so there is no bank to run to...
Magic is not jargon.

Magic has a special form of non-locality. To look for the cause of "magic" one must either pray to some god or roll the dice and read the tea leaves. If hunting down the source of understanding feels like this, we call it magic.

Jargon can be carefully laid out and taught. Common practice can be learned and maintained.

Magic is a word invoked to intentionally tell you not to learn and to stop asking questions. It's insulting to the very nature of the programmer, who must ask these questions in order to understand the systems they are trying to describe.

As for the quote, which everyone has heard by now: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

This is a cynic's perspective, which while valuable to a point, does not alone lead to that which we desire. We read this quote and think, ah yes, that is how I feel... I wish things were better.
iframe is a full page. i mean some HTML code, a div or some text or a table etc. the kind of things we load with Ajax. The equivalent of <img>, but for HTML content : <remotehtml src="https://twitter.com/snip/12345678" />
I'm planning on starting a company within the next few years. I would not do it if VC money weren't on the table. I have a family, bills to pay, exactly $0 in generational wealth, but I'm well paid.

I do not have the excess capital to throw at working on problems at the scale that I want to or in the segments that I'm interested in. Any money that I spent to work on these companies would be gambling with the future financial stability I can provide for my son. Providing him with the safety net necessary to pursue atypical career paths or interests is one of my top priorities.

VC funding is the only way that starting a company is possible for me. The existence of VC funding is the only reason I'm even ideating about these large problems. It's an equalizer that puts those of us without the same set of options at a level playing field.
Yeah, I don't get this "You can't blame people for doing the totally self-centered thing." I can and will. That's basically the point of blame: to shift consequences for a harmful action back to the person who made the choice.

That's not the only thing we should do, of course. Systemic problems are better fixed with systemic changes. But there's nothing wrong with holding people accountable.
> The thing is that no one wants to interact with a maintainer hostile to the very idea

His hostility seems to be based on actual reasons if it is true that other systems that performed the unification basically throw out any guarantees made by dpkg. Providing a patch that fixes that would get rid of those reasons.

> Part of Boccassi's concern with their patch is that it might not be merged at all due to what they perceive as "moving goalposts" and "excuses".

Bocassi is also the guy who claimed the first incomplete patch was rejected without further comment, which going by the article wasn't the case. So his opinion of the maintainer is at best misinformed, at worst intentionally deceptive.

Also going by the article a merge can be forced by the committee. So this seems to be a non issue.
I know some people that also view much of the technology around us as "magic", but for them, that's less a statement of appreciation and wonder, and more of a statement of opaque complexity and a complete unknowability.

I can appreciate how Lightroom works, or an electric car, or the electrical grid, etc. I don't have to know every last detail, but I should have some awareness of the fundamental principles on which these things are built.

Deferring this to "magic" in the sense that I say "I don't know how that works, no one can know, it's MAGIC" can be a lazy way to think. I think it's a slippery slope that gets us closer to psuedoscience, new-age gimmicks, and other forms of poor thinking and manipulation. We should all seek to understand how things really work (even at a coarse level) in this Demon Haunted World of ours.

(Even if this isn't how you interpret this word, I'm suggesting there is a risk that others do).
Hmm.

Western countries will not take these kinds of immigrants at all.

Qatar will take these immigrants, offer them significantly better pay and quality of life than what they had at home.

Qatar is bad?

Perhaps the heavy restrictions Western countries place on immigration are even worse?
You cannot simply do that. This was planned for years and there is no training for staff, contracts like insurance, a location to put the additional waste etc. to prolong the usage of nuclear power plants.
>> Tackling it involves lowering our standard of living.

Never happening. Young people are already facing a lower standard of living the previous generation. If you think they’re going to accept an even greater decline you’re not going to win. We need to get the current technological solutions (e.g. clean energy solutions) down to roughly the same cost as fossil fuels, and we need new technological solutions in areas where we can’t solve emissions without a reduction in standard of living.
Ruby’s metaprogramming is magic, it’s harmful, not powerful, and shouldn’t be compared with actually powerful statically analyzable codegen metaprogramming in other languages. Everything happens at runtime in Ruby, so the fundamental structure of your program can change unexpectedly simply by the order you load files, or the order your code executes in. If you’re building a server, this means your backend code can fundamentally change based on the order you load pages. This is magic. Avoid it.
Top API Specification Trends: 2019-2022
I just remembered, it was called Joost.
I want to say how much I love this commend, and add on to one part.

Yes, deep concentration can look like anger to a kid, but it can also look like anger to everyone who doesn’t engage in deep work. My dad would come home in the early afternoon because he would finish his day reading and annotating very long documents and depositions.

Looking back, I’m so grateful for the image, because I grew up thinking that this is how adults work and get things done. I was glad to learn that dad’s not angry at me, he’s concentrating. Even an 8 year old can understand that people don’t like to be interrupted, even if it’s easy to forget for a moment.

So good on you! What you’re describing here is the most cherished aspect of my childhood.
I wonder how both FOX and CNN viewers' views would change after 30 days of reading, say, amren.com
My experience in the US is that video alone is not sufficient to get a bad driver arrested. I'm a cyclist, and I was able to get a driver arrested for some misbehavior through a combination of helmet cam video and the fact that they were driving for Uber at the time so Uber's GPS placed them at the scene of the crime at the time of the crime. The driver plead guilty to a misdemeanor. This surprised one local bike activist who seemed to think the local police wouldn't do anything regardless of the amount of evidence.
Heck no. If we were profitable, I would have kept it up and running and reduced things to a skeleton crew.
You think that they do not know that these are the consequences? When vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild, they know that harm is being done, and then they made a deliberate choice to withhold information that could help prevent that harm. How is that decision not malicious?
> This scenario wouldn't trigger Article 5.

Really? Does it have to be unprovoked attack? And what exactly means unprovoked? Does having a peace mission in some neighbouring country and defending yourself there counts as provocation? Who decides that? And do you think that the definition that would be most geopolitically convenient at that moment wouldn't be chosen?
If you're interested, the HNES extension formats it

https://github.com/etcet/HNES
It's definitely possible it could have been an insider, but I think it probably wasn't this time. In this case, Occam's Razor suggests an outside job. Reasoning:

First, as carlosdp points out, insiders are the first suspect, everyone knows that now, and the FBI has advanced methods of finding them and recovering the funds. There's more deterence factor now.

Second, hacking cloud infrastructure for industrial secrets and the like is so common these days, there are tons of black hat hackers and groups around the world that specialize in that.

Third, the hack was simple once it was realized that the 5th of 9 signing keys was compromised by the whitelist. Combine that bit of information with #2 and it's essentially a guarantee that someone will make an attempt at it.

Fourth, due to war in Ukraine, the world is in an elevated state of cyber warfare now. On top of the usual criminal hackers just looking to steal money, Russian and their allied hackers are seeking ways of stealing money to break sanctions, and/or disrupt financial systems in the West.

All this just increases the odds the attack came from outside the org.
At Twitter's scale and having spent many years assuming tweets never change, I'd be surprised if it only took 4 months. I'd be surprised if they don't spend the next year finding systems they missed while building the feature.
You still have to orchestrate your resources. Your cloud provider's console isn't good enough.
Thanks! Macroexpanded:

You Are Not Google (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19576092 - April 2019 (572 comments)

How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14508264 - June 2017 (158 comments)
“Relatively small number of subscriptions” may not even pay for a skeleton staff, let alone leave a nice profit afterward.
Sure, I wouldn't be surprised so if three letter agencies and their foreign counter parts were using Palantir as a clearing house for information. Plus I am far beyond the point of believing company announcements and statements.
There are programming projects[1] out there that use licenses to prevent people from using projects in ways the authors don't agree with. You could also argue that GPL does the same thing (prevents people from using/distributing the software in the way they would like).

Whether you consider it moral doesn't seem relevant, only to respect the wishes of the author of such programs.

[1] https://github.com/katharostech/bevy_retrograde/blob/master/...
Extra points if management is too cheap to buy a dedicated server, but is willing to pay for 3rd party services.
Mighty (YC S19) Is Hiring a MS Windows Engineer
Is the carbon footprint being taken into account regarding batteries, windmill blades, and solar panels? These are all very expensive consumables, with no good way to reuse or recycle. Specifically the windmill blades and solar panels.
Exploring Options for Storing Custom Data in Ecto
I'd argue distracted driving is far more causative than the speed limit.

Remember that my 60% claim was someone doing 25 in a 15 in a neighborhood. 15 mph is unreasonably slow in even the worst-case scenario.

The real speed-do-not-exceed in my neighborhood is 35MPH, but instead of setting that and enforcing even 1MPH over they set the speed limit to 15 hoping people actually go 25-30.

My argument is that this system is stupid and should be reformed.
Some software. Do you think companies catering to public sector or the enterprise are high margin in the first few years?

Consumer apps can often get away with scaling ARR and slow incremental growth, but many of these are only feasible due to the existence of VC backed SaaS.
as an AT&T customer, I can confirm that their websites are some of the jankiest I have ever seen. The number of redirects and different loading gifs you get when logging in to your account is comical. I need to capture this sometime.
In that case you might want to mask off some of the cores/hyperthreads, or even do core pinning. That's very common in applications where latency is important.
‘It depends’ - but generally the first person is now infringing.
Ideally no and traditionally it wasn't. VC was originally intended for big, high-risk, high-reward technical ideas like semiconductors (Intel, Nvidia), widespread software e.g. Google, medical devices, biotech, etc. In general, taking a novel approach to something or doing something totally new.

Only in recent times did pumping and dumping yet another B2B SaaS app become in vogue and usually by not tier-one funds. There is a reason the big, famous funds are oversubscribed and limited to big, famous institutional investors.**

** The same applies to other funds e.g. Hedge Funds. Only the very top consistently perform anywhere near their promises and the rest are ways for groups to try to get their foot in the door.
I liked Max Tegmark's remark on how "consciousness is the way information feels when it's being processed". I think that it's safe to pretty roughly define it in those terms if we're going to come to a better understanding of what it might ultimately entail given more understandings like the experiments in this research here indicate for deserving more attention.
I bootstrapped the company for years before raising. I raised because I felt that I had to go after the bigger vision, which required resources ($$).

In short, I wanted to accelerate the pace of learning, because if I didn't, I would always kick myself for not stepping on the gas pedal.

I don't regret my decision either TBH.
Only for x86 up until that point in time.
A few voters tried to take over our Italian Hoagie Bracket
The existence of true one-way functions depends on Kolmogorov complexity
Man just wait till you hear about plasmodesma..
As long as people can choose not to use the language, and I'm up front about the limitations, then yeah it seems fine. If I wrote a programming language that couldn't blow up the earth, I'm happy saying people need to find other tools if that's their goal. I'm under no obligation to build an earth blower upper for other people.
Thank you narrative voice
I wrote parts of it in markdown and then used pandoc to convert it into LaTeX. I still did the template and all the tricky bits in LaTeX though.

I had a friend that tried to do it entirely in Rmarkdown and it seemed to work well until they had to format it for submission and nearly had a nervous breakdown. It's a stressful time and I'm not sure I'd want that uncertainty.
this website makes twitter threads even harder to read lol
What might be throwing off some of the commenters here:

You're using language like "personal growth" and "inner work" to describe what just sounds to be professional development.

Maybe professional capacity and personal identity are all tied up for you. That's certainly true for a lot of people here, including myself sometimes. But it's also maybe just an echo of working so long in an industry that tried to sell one as the other. It reads as an extraordinarily narrow perspective in world where we only work for a few decades and only with about 25% of our time during those decades.

If you're genuinely interested in personal growth and inner work, consider stepping back from the professional space as you look for programs. And if you're just interested in professional development in your craft, consider using language that's more specifically associated with it.
I’m a huge advocate of this, and have seen it play out well with the Linux Foundation and Mapzen. In this case, their employees seemed to be very thoughtful about how their projects could live on and be useful beyond the company lifecycle.

Aside from the code getting a license and legal audit, finding a trademark sponsor was important to them too so that someone doesn’t come along and re-commercialize their free and open work under the old brand.

On the flip side, this process is a lot of extra work to do in a very busy and risky time for a buisness. Efforts to open source may fail and I understand when people in charge choose to spend their time prioritizing their employee’s needs first, technology second. I can understand why the open source priority isn’t practical if the company doesn’t plan for this possibility ahead of time.
A voting system needs to be understandable by the masses to be trusted. Blockchain will never attain this most important feature
Sure but does opening that level of manipulation up to everyone really benefit anyone either? You can't really fight disinformation with more disinformation, that just seems like the seeds of societal breakdown at that point.

Besides that these models are massive. For quite a while the only people even capable of making them will be those with significant means. That will be mostly Governments and Corporations anyway.
Related:

Crypto Startup That Wants to Scan Everyone’s Eyeballs Is Having Some Trouble - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30699327 - March 2022 (30 comments)

Edward Snowden Slams Sam Altman's Worldcoin: 'Don't Catalogue Eyeballs' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28998065 - Oct 2021 (298 comments)

Sam Altman’s Worldcoin wants to scan eyeballs in exchange for crypto - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28947468 - Oct 2021 (95 comments)

Worldcoin - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945557 - Oct 2021 (101 comments)

Sam Altman Wants to Scan Your Eyeball in Exchange for Cryptocurrency - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27674598 - June 2021 (30 comments)

Others?
Or is it because they put Apple™ in front of otherwise perfectly understandable words...?
Turo Requires a Driver's License Number and Credit Card to Show Full Price
I know they're simply following Airbnb's model of showing only the daily price, then tacking on extra fees at checkout, but it's hostile to the customer.

When the minimum final cost is 50% more than the list price, I suppose deception is the best way to drive signups.

Ironically, I may have been more likely to complete my purchase had I seen true numbers from the start. The initial fee had me thinking it was remarkably affordable.
I can't help but admit to some schadenfreude here. Where are all the claims of doordash being a private business that can do whatever it wants? Why isn't anyone advocating to build your own food delivery platform?
Ruby definitely is divisive with some of its opinions and I much preferred working in large python/c++ codebases than Ruby, but in my personal life for side projects and (especially) for DSLs, I find working with Ruby a real treat. For the latter case in particular, having multiple ways of expressing constructs, including omitting parens, means that you can create very expressive DSLs that are understandable to non-engineers while still being "just code", allowing advanced users to get things done without too much work.
I like having my email in Emacs, so i can reference it from org. I also like to write mails in Emacs. Triaging mails in notmuch-emacs is also quick and painless. Reading HTML mails, though — not so much.
Cute idea and great execution. The first track I tried [1] has no discernible "Beat" so it kinda just goes wild at its own tempo, a total mismatch for the music I was playing.

1. The Album Leaf https://open.spotify.com/artist/02uPe16VFxPaiueQsPEDkE
Keep in mind A16Z Crypto is not the same fund as A16Z.
I’d kill for a question like this at least compared to things like trivia questions.
just make your own food delivery service :^)
"I would have used other solutions such as....but there were people in the room who had more 'tenure', 'experience' and 'clout' who insisted on mapreduce so that's what my leadership team bought in on".

I'd love to be able to say this in an interview one day. And I'd be telling the truth (not about Mapreduce but something else, let me tell you about the time I lost an argument with a Senior/Staff Engineer who wanted to write an entire PHP library for log files on a single-serving linux host instead of using cron and logrotate).

But like you mentioned, it's a type of question I've yet to be asked. Depending on the room (ala "read the room") I might volunteer that bit of information in a more 'interview friendly' way.
I'd argue it's an honest name and their reputation is fairly well in line with what they actually accomplish in the world. They should change but not the branding.
Bingo. "Reckless driving" is a much better term, but it's more contextual than a lot of authoritarians and administration-types like. 25MPH can be reckless in specific scenarios. 120MPH can also be safe in specific scenarios. You need context to decide.