skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Must feel crushing for Twitter employees.

I am amazed Jack Dorsey is arrogant enough to "regret" the enterprise. He must be under a delusion that "he" built Twitter. He's completely ignoring the fact that "his" enterprise was paid for with money, time, and skills of other people. I feel sorry for anyone who trusted him and gave him their time and skills, for the years of their life, which they invested in him and now they can never get back, have been wasted on creating merely a regrettable impact.
I'd be careful stating this, as the reason why this isn't happening might be as simple as "there aren't enough experienced tech workers to make such a demand". Considering tech recruitment is still willing to do many other things which aren't empirically proven or even have empirical evidence suggesting against the act, there is room for skepticism here.
> 2. Figure out who registered said domains.

How? Have you ever seen a spam domain that provides accurate and actionable WHOIS?
To be fair, that second algorithm works pretty well. I frequently solve problems by staring at them.
Well, that depends on your company. Approaches will vary from what you typed above, to "I quit."
I think it makes sense. Modders get a kind of obsessive testing from their communities (including themselves) that devs in most commercial contexts couldn’t dream of. Skyrim mods are, if anything, correcting for bugs in the game.
Wait I can't find the comment now but didn't you start this thread by claiming you're a liberal? And then three comments in you're busting out the calipers and white hood? I'm not interested sorry.
Railing against outdoor space being split up into four tiny useless areas and one semi useful via setbacks.

Railing about having to provide common space which should be public space.

Railing about common space requirements being designed around forcing non detached dwellings to be expensive.
> I believe the vast majority of divisive content nowadays is created & promoted by random people who don't benefit financially from it;

You're both wrong, and you're both right. Facebook isn't focused on promoting the interests of any particular political party. But there are political forces abusing Facebook's algorithms to promote their message. Most recent example: https://apnews.com/article/china-tiktok-facebook-influencers...
Sweden's low-restrictions approach exists as an alternative case study:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
None of those are necessarily driven by file-level organization, though, except for the one about the file names themselves.

My mortgage is paid by a 50 kLoC C program with a single 11000-line function. I'm always blown away by how many so-called "code editors" can't give me a simple list of C functions in the file, the way BRIEF could in 1987.

Few things annoy me more than having to trudge through a codebase with hundreds of .c files, inevitably all with 8-character filenames. Any day when I have to break out Eclipse to navigate an unfamiliar project is an official Bad Day At Work.
I think something akin to literate programming is a huge win for heavily-maintained tools.

The trick is that most tools aren't heavily used at all, and thus the large amount of time it takes to build in a more literate style winds up being largely wasted.

At least, that's how it looks from where I sit, as an idealist who loves readable code and plain-text, version-controlled literate-style documentation.
A few observational studies are fairly meaningless-- they don't establish causation, etc. Your meta-analysis highlights as such.

Discussion, speculation, and reasoning about problems are valuable-- even if the process does often lead us astray.

Do you ever talk about things that you are not an expert on or that aren't settled? E.g. You made some comments about team culture a few days ago-- ignoring the massive body of literature about conflict in teams and engaging in speculation based upon personal opinion.

I'm a teacher at a school where neither COVID "lockdown" nor excessive social media use would be a great explanation for poor student mental health, but still there has been a significant increase in problems in the past few years. Should I just ignore the problem and hope research pins it down and solves it? I need to make reasonable guesses and act upon them.
Guilty. I wince wrote a win32 app in a single 30,000 line C++ file.

It was an interesting exercise but I’d never do it again.
Seems like it quickly turns into spaghetti code:

> https://static.righto.com/images/univac-board/plugboard.jpg
> A plugboard for the Univac 1004. This board was used for payroll consolidation from 1965 to 1972.
Thanks for researching that. I agree that, in practice, societies which allow polygamy probably have non-transitive marriages, and they could theoretically allow women to have two husbands so as not to give men more rights than women.

In an alternate reality where the US constitution happened to define marriage as between "a man and a woman", I could imagine activists pushing for states to allow polygamy so that two men or two women could "indirectly" marry, and pressuring the government to avoid the issues experienced in Tanzania by writing laws and policies which effectively treat the connection between the leaf nodes as equal to their connection to the root node when considering questions of divorce, taxation, inheritance, parenthood, etc.
I feel that using a password manager makes it easier. Although, it definitely took some time back when I started using one to dig through the services I had registered for from my emails.
Do you have a source on that?

I know multiple nurses and doctors who were re-assigned to help with COVID patients, or came out of retirement to help with staffing shortages.
> The radio dongles are superfluous and I can't think of any engineering reason why all cell phones can't just communicate with others nearby already.

Google is not willing to allow ad-hoc wifi (at least last time I checked).
The only readability issue I have with that is the functions expected arguments. Add some types and I’d be very happy to work on it. I believe Facebook uses a single directory of files now as best practice? With the file names including namespaces. That was an HN comment from ages ago so could be wrong or misinterpreted.
What's an alternative to files that doesn't just have all the same attributes of files anyway? If it involves breaking code into multiple chunks of related functions, and possibly having these chunks act as namespaces, that sounds like what a file does.
An open alternative to LoRa would be nice...

https://revspace.nl/DecodingLora
Tbh I like it. Except that I've disabled most of the telemetry, the ads, the handholding and new "features" (lots of github PS scripts available to 'optimize' the initial install). I've also installed StartAllBack to disable the new taskbar which I hate. Now its behaving just the way I like it and it's lean and fast. This, together with WSL2 I don't feel I need anything else as a daily driver.
The money actually does belong to the government. They print it. Distribute it. And then they take it back.
So what if some Twitter employees feel bad?

I feel like you are ignoring the content of the argument here's which is about the drawbacks of a centralized web, and deflecting by talking about people's feelings.

There are absolutely drawbacks to a centralized web. And we can talk about those drawbacks without worrying about if peoples feelings get hurt.
Python's main interpreter loop is a single 4k line function.

https://github.com/python/cpython/blob/main/Python/ceval.c#L...
He's had a lifelong feud with the lab mouse population and is happy about every blow we can deal to them.
Why would you feel sorry for people making a ton of money working for a tech corporation? They know what they sign up for. Like, don't feel bad for Meta employees either or employees of weapons manufacturers either.
> the last time I check deriving benefit from the pain or at least discomfort of others is sociopath 101

I don’t know where you checked, but what you’re describing is sadism, which is not something inherently a part of antisocial personality disorder. Sociopaths do not enjoy the suffering of others, they simply do not care about it and therefore do not consider it in their actions.
The NHS in the UK - whose low, low costs certain US political activists point to as proof public healthcare is not just better but cheaper - literally does this. There's a fixed amount they're willing to spend per expected year of healthy life saved, adjusted for quality of life during that time, and treatments that are expected to cost more than that aren't available on the NHS. This is surprisingly uncontroversial, possibly because the NHS as an institution is basically beyond questioning. However, the same reasoning was not applied in the UK over Covid; the mainstream consensus was that anyone who prioritised the economy over stopping Covid was an evil murderer, and every single Covid death that happened was caused by our government not stopping it.
Windows ME was pretty bad too
You do know that your comment is still readable even after it's flagged, right? Anyone who wants to can literally read what you wrote.
Well of course you can ship faster — But that’s not the point of a staging environment!
I've got a theory google owns pocket and just does it to make us look stupid for using Firefox with some random trash bolted on. Also remember Firefox hello or whatever messenger was once bolted on?
Up for interpretation. You’re very right environmentally. From a crypto perspective you could see a lot of it as fluffy marketing and rug pulls, while Bitcoin is a little more stable and ‘mature’
That’s my point - whatsapp doesn’t promote content, but it is still one of the largest distributors of disinformation content. This is a clear supporting argument that people share that without algorithmic any help.
Ah I realise I meant RDSEED
It took me a little over a year to feel back to normal. That’s cognitive function and reduced anxiety. It introduced depression and anxiety to my life that I never had prior. I’ve had to learn to cope with this and sought solutions every new day. What helped me most was exercise, little to no mainstream news or social media, and getting clearer on my purpose of life. It was a very rough 14 months, but I got through it and feel back to normal.
LTSC is unfortunately no longer the privacy bastion it used to be (especially in the LTSB days).

It now has the same choice of (only a little / very much) telemetry that regular windows has, has the ability to link microsoft accounts etc. The only real advantage is that they don't really push any new things to it.
“Wow, these are cool technologies to be working with, and problems at scale!” This is why I intentionally don’t give a crap about things being “at scale” or the technology stack in the abstract anymore. It has to be coupled with something else that makes the job worthwhile.
Facebook can completely break the user experience for 4.3 million different users each day and each user would only experience one breakage per year.

This is pretty common, but not because most employing it have 1.6bn users and 10k engineers; essentially enough scale to throw bodies at problems.
You always had to look. There's more to find now, and to a certain extent it's easier than ever to filter out crap if you're willing to throw out the few worthwhile FB or Reddit, etc, groups with all the rest.
I’ve disabled telemetry and such, but I really like Win11 so far. Had to jump through some hoops to get android apps up and running, but otherwise it has been smooth sailing. I’m a MacOS fan though so perhaps what I’m enjoying is the new things that make the UI more like Mac imho.
The only reason I was excited for Windows 11 was the Android integration.

When the news about Windows 11 came out I had just recently upgraded to a new PC, the first pre-built pc I've used for myself since the 90s in fact. It was nice to see though that Dell/Alienware was among the first to be able to get Windows 11 so I was ready to go on launch day.

Launch day came and went and windows kept saying it wasn't ready yet. Then one day (Jan?) the update finally came. It started the install.. but failed. After the failure it popped up a message saying it wasn't ready yet for my device.

From that point on about once a week the update popped up in windows update and automatically started downloading, but after about 12% it failed and kept repeating the not yet ready message.

I'm wondering if the low number is less about who wants it, but more about who they've released it to so far... which seems very very low.

Also, the android integration.. though it works... does not work very well.. For example I wanted to be able to control a smart device that only has an app from my pc. It works at first, but then just reloads over and over again and is unusable until I reinstall it.

Also with the keyboard I have I often fat finger and put a tiny little of pressure on the windows key when I hit ctrl-t. Ctrl-windows-t turns on and off the subsystem for android reader so I get to hear it telling me about that all day long.

Long story short, windows 11 isn't bad.. at least when you get some third party tools to fix the task bar.. but not at all surprised the numbers are so low. But again, I think its more Microsoft's upgrade system's fault then users choosing not to install it.
FUNtastic resources, thank you very much. You gave me my next side project ;-)
Story on supply shortages

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/public-global-health/5...
> becomes too uncontrolled

Given the amount of content out there, there's potential to be stuck in a local maximum where there's enough harmful content to cause negative externalities, but not enough to be seen as the majority of the content. This is reinforced by algorithmic feeds and targeted advertising where there's just no way for someone (whether the advertisers themselves or an independent watchdog) to tell what's actually going on, since their feed will be significantly different from someone stuck in an echo chamber full of harmful content.

> Most people talking about 'divisive' content are talking around the Trump/QAnon fiasco

Not even Trump per-se. The problem goes far beyond Trump and his political party when he - the supposed "leader" - gets booed by his own crowd. QAnon is just one example of terribly harmful content out there, but there's plenty more, from the Covid vaccine conspiracies, alternative "medicine", or just plain racism/nationalism and neo-Nazism.

> where even on a 'kids site' you would often see users calling for outright genocide of specific racial groups.

The forum software wasn't promoting said content though, so they were likely to remain a minority, which is both easier to control and explain away ("there are bad people on the Internet, learn to ignore it"). Facebook on the other hand will happily keep feeding you more and more of said content if it sees that you engage with it.
Makes me wonder what the CDC's recommendation will be. More medication? More pills? Isn't that their answer for everything. We are already the most medicated society on earth. I guess a little bit more won't hurt.
We don't have a staging environment (for the backend) at work either. However, depending on the size of the tables in-question, a migration might take days. Thus, we usually ask DBA's for a migration days/weeks before any code goes live. There's usually quite a bit of discussion, and sometimes suggestions for an entirely different table with a join and/or application-only (in code, multiple query) join.
My point was really that he’s only about himself. I am not a proponent of crypto but even with crypto he’s literally only about what he has and nothing else. So in effect he’s not _really_ about crypto and what it stands for.
> Whenever someone mentions "flatten the curve" in that way, the implication always seems to be the CDC et. al should have had this novel disease figured out from day one, but that's an unreasonable expectation.

Then they shouldn't act like they have all the answers if they have no idea what is going on. This is exactly what all the "conspiracy theorists" expected, and it's exactly how it played out.

The CDC has seriously destroyed public faith in the government generally by pushing "two weeks to flatten the curve" and "100% effective vaccines" when, in reality, they did not have a handle on the situation.
The worst mistake was removing the ability to ungroup taskbar items! Opening more than one instance of an application is a terrible experience right now. The icons are often unresponsive, the indicator that something is open is literally just a tiny dot.

Instead of addressing this I feel like Microsoft is just going to continue to add tabs to all their applications as justification for it. Edge, VS Code, Windows Terminal, and now File Explorer.
Any language with goto, and skip any notion of structured programming elements except if-statements, including all methods or functions except for main or its equivalent if required. Only make function calls to library functions that you can't get to any other way. if is permitted so that you can have conditional jumps. Bonus points for Fortran and computed gotos. Like this (in pseudocode):

start:
x = read(); // hope its a number
goto x;

10: ...
20: ...
30: ...
goto start;

If you aren't using goto and labels, it's not spaghetti code.
I played around with Next.js and SvelteKit. I don't recall the specific "that's a down/upgrade" but I switched to SvelteKit because "it just works". HMR, more or less plain HTML, (Tailwind) CSS and JS. Developing with Svelte(Kit) feels, and probably is faster than NextJS/React.

The only downside are missing UI libraries like RadixUI. Tried out everything and just "wasted" 2 weeks to build a component library on top of TailwindCSS inspired by Material UI.
That's the super high achieving group.
I saw that some decades back when I kept a horse at the barn on the Stanford campus and met some of the local teens. These were kids with very high powered parents, and were pressured to keep up. These teens knew the ones who committed suicide at Gunn and Paly high schools.[1]

Notes from then:

- Saw a group of high-schoolers discussing grades. Asked "What's considered a good grade point average today?" Reply, in a bleak voice, "4.5".

- Teen shows up at the barn with her arm in a sling. Asked "What happened, did you get dumped?" (Meaning, off a horse.) "No, I fell off the cheerleader pyramid. And now I'm letting the swim team down."

- One of the less bright ones, worried that she can't keep up, saying how hard it was.
"Less bright" here means "can't get into Stanford/Harvard, will do fine at a lower tier college.

This is real, but it's not the typical teen experience.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/12/the-sil...
In the UK, this might be a good place to start: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/valuation-of-risk...

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/valuation-of-risk...

tl;dr, if memory serves correctly, it's about 60k GBP per full health year left. So 2 years at 50% health is 1 full health year, with formulas to tell you what 50% health means exactly.

I don't know of other countries that make this calculation so explicitly.
Also there’s a lot of hindsight here. What might look bad now is likely an emergent property of what at the time wasn’t bad at all (show you news sources people care about, etc). I can totally see people who hate what Facebook has become having no problems working on it a decade ago.
Google for SVM statistical value of human life. If I recall correctly.
To what point? It's still better than doing WPF apps and comparable to making QML apps. There's no magic sauce that makes frontend easy.

The complexity of web pages has increased. Development is not harder. We're making complex apps and not just styled documents now. What you made 10 years ago is much easier to do today.
You don't see any problems with that statistically?
Moral of the story: no engineer worth their salt wants to work on a "codebase" like this, so as an independent contractor, you can virtually name your price if you're willing to wade through the mess and solve acute problems.
> And let me tell you something. People make mistakes early in their life. I made mistakes early in my life. I got locked up when I was living in Maryland, selling drugs and stuff. But that doesn't mean that the game was over. That's how I equate chess with life.

Maybe true in life, but not really true in chess. If you blunder early against a decent player, your chances of winning are very low!
I imagine you’ve thought about this too, based on your HN username! :P
I’m not sure what you’re referring to. The abstract I quoted says:

> Results showed that the act of refusing to apologize resulted in greater self-esteem than not refusing to apologize.

The causality is right there.
My question is it possible to be good at Diplomacy without being a socio
opath in real life. In poker, someone being good at bluffing is scary (separately from just being better at the math part), much like someone being better than you at sports is physically intimidating off the field because they could beat you up. Diplomacy even more so than poker, because manipulation and deceipt is the only skill in the game. It doesn't even have the cooperative part of the real world's "build something of value together" -- it's a zero sum or negative sum game.
No they are right, you can't opt out. You can only act. And others are free to label your actions selfish, cruel, or evil as they judge them.
I used to have to hit my starter motor with a long pry-bar to get it going.

Now that I've finally got a reliable car and the money for the $20 solenoid we have a saying about cars in general:

Used to have the time but no money, now got the money but no time.
I guess that makes sense, but it means you would have rough versions of your feature sitting on production, hidden by flags. I could certainly be wrong about the potential for issues there, but it would definitely make me nervous.
Brenda in accounting isn't going to run Ubuntu even with the cute animal names. Until that happens,there will be stacks upon stacks of windows optiplexes being sold every day.

Also nobody misses sloaris. I'm going to chalk that remark up to a misfired punchline.
Don't forget affirmative action (sorry, reverse racism). If you are Asian (or for some schools, male), the standards are substantially higher than if you are black or Latino.