skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah. They pulled a stunt that could (and did) crash a plane. Their plane, if they can ensure there's nothing on the ground to be hurt, it should be their own business. The FAA should only care if the ground safety wasn't ensured.
Anybody who stands in front of a crowd to say anything should expect some heckling. The bigger the crowd, the greater the risk of this. I would have expected a comedian to cope with it better than most, but if Stephen Fry decided he no longer wanted to tolerate heckling, then it sounds like leaving Twitter was the right choice for him.

Can't say I see the problem here.
Facebook is shrinking [1]. It may not happen instantly because of these big dramatic events, but I think bad user experiences have a cumulative effect. And I expect it's very hard to reverse once it gets started.

[1] https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/2/2/22915110/facebook-meta-u...
I think the question should be less about ergonomics and more about does the distinction matter.

I don't know enough about C# to know if it matters. From everything I know, it's a really well designed language, so I'm guessing they made the right call.

It doesn't mean it's the right call everywhere.
I thought he made his initial fortune by being the son of the owner of an emerald mine in Zambia[0]

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20140802011449/http://www.forbes...
> “The system is also much better for the environment as it uses reclaimed carbon dioxide.”

That is most likely not the reason it is cleaner as releasing captured carbon dioxide back into the atmosphere is kind of polluting isn’t it! I think it’s supposedly cleaner because the alternatives like blasting the tracks with additives and sand is worse but they don’t really say why.
Thank you for bringing a different opinion. I feel like the "Thats the spirit!" crowd liking this kind of blog posts are employees who don't know what their manager are going through dealing with them
Twitter seems to really want everyone to be talking about politics though. Every time I click on a trending news article "the algorithm" just bombards me with recommends to follow every single politician under the sun. It's a minefield and it turns me off from the service as a whole.
> This is why things like the "Eternal September" exist, a deluge of new users is basically impossible to moderate at scale.

Great reference. I used and liked Usenet a lot in the early 90s. I lurked in the comp.* and sci.* groups among several others. Sure, I knew there were nasty crazy things on alt., and as a 13 year old I looked at some porn in there.

Usenet was not "centrally" moderated, and it was fine. There was spam sure, but with a suitable client with spam filter, things where good.

In my view, moderation has to happen at the edge, and not in the center. People should be able to post whatever legal stuff they want in those type of services, in the same way anyone can go to a public park and shout/speak whatever crazy things they want. Now, if you start to pee* in public (illegal) or post something illegal, then the police should investigate and get you for committing an illegal act, but there's not reason why there should be censorship of everyone for the possibility of someone committing a rime.
Not sure how the timing works, but that might be an unfortunate choice of name. Or maybe there's no real audience overlap, so it's ok.
M1 Macbooks support OSX only. That's a deal breaker.
Ask HN: A way to utilize all my machines?
I have this idea, that maybe exists as a product, or it doesn't. If it does, please point me to it. If it doesn't, please feel free to make it a product, and maybe just give me a free copy or a thanks in the credits. Here we go.

I have two MacBooks one windows laptop, and one windows machine.

I usually use one of the MacBooks as the main machine, but everyday it's reaching it's limits with memory and whatever else.

I would love to, say, offload all the random apps to the other MacBook, so say slack and messenger and WhatsApp and my calendar run on the other MacBook, but they show up on my main machine as if I'm remote-desktop-ing just on that window/app. Kinda like what Parallels (I think) can do with this funky feature where it shows the guest windows on the host desktop.

That would keep my main machine slightly more free of that "baggage".

I could ask for more with windows, gaming and now, but let's keep it simple.

Does this exist?

Can I use some kind of ssh, remote-desktop, docker, other things I don't even know the names of, to do this? To have another machine run an app, and have it show up as if it's running on my main machine? I don't mind if the graphics rendering is happening on the main machine or on the other machine and it's just streamed in. I just want the resources to be used from that other machine.
I feel the same for every LSP feature. They're all useful, but I must specifically ask for them or they're too annoying. The only exception is diagnostics which is fine to show a small marker in it's line, though they also get annoying if the description is expanded without explicitly asking.
From TFA:

> I believe that this standard explanation of LSP popularity is wrong. In this post, I suggest an alternative picture.

If the intent was not to say "this is wrong" that's a very strange way to start your article.

The point of TFA (which is wrong, IMO) is that the M × N explanation was wrong, and the evidence for this is:

1. The LSP implementation itself is trivial compared to the work to get all the information the LSP needs.

2. Outside of dedicated IDEs, nobody implemented the "get all the information LSP needs" before LSP existed

3. GP editors didn't implement the high-level protocols necessary for being a good IDE; a big advantage of LSP for the editor side is that the LSP client can include its own implementation of these high-level protocols. One example of such high-level protocols is code completion.

4. If the standard (quadratic complexity) argument were true, we would have had a world where some GP editors were very good for developing some languages

My rebuttal:

1. Quadratic growth trumps any small constant-factor

2. To the extent that this is true, it's driven by the quadratic growth of M × N. Efforts to implement this get divided between many different groups. Even something as simple as ctags got both a VIM and Emacs implementation

3. As others in HN comments have pointed out, this isn't universally true, and where it is true, the editor communities tended to settle on one plugin that implements these protocols well before LSP existed.

4. I can think of at least two places where this was true: Emacs for Lisp; Vim for C (particularly with cscope, which gives you completion, cross-references, &c.). Nothing was good for C++, but as TFA notes, C++ essentially requires using the full compiler, and prior to libclang supporting C++ there was no Free tool for doing this (Many people tried with GCC, but got burned by the internal frontend API changing so damn often). That there weren't good Free tools for working with C# is kind of ... expected?
Thanks, I hadn’t been aware that they relaxed the requirements. In my case it doesn’t help me though, as the VPS I’m using is still on ext3.
Etcd v3.5 data inconsistency postmortem
The difference with software is that you are not allowed to look at the skyscraper, because it is the intellectual property of another company.
What most troubles me about this whole ordeal: The lack of upper limits on wealth accumulation by an individual means that a single person can eventually directly control enough funds to simply decide one day to buy one of the world's largest communication channels.

No one here seems to have a problem with this. For as much as the tech community generally despises generational-wealth families like the Waltons, or foreign oligarchs, or Saudi royalty who get free unlimited money and power from the ground, we're all perfectly comfortable with an executive amassing ever-increasing power like a giant Katamari ball.

A democracy can vote out a leader who grows corrupt or ineffective. But the power of Elon (and Zuck, and the other modern mega-billionaires) is effectively unstoppable. Bill Gates, e.g., still sits at the top of the money-power pile, even though his own success peaked 25 years ago.
At Least $13M in NFTs Stolen After Bored Ape Yacht Club Hacked
It's not about influence.

To take an example from a sibling thread: If you live in Turkey and write negative about Erdogan you get charged with terrorism. It's something people can only afford to do if they are reasonably sure they will not be identified and I think we can agree a real name policy makes this rather hard.
So, if you ask for a real name policy you ask for a policy which not everyone can afford to adhere here to. You probably[1] can, so it's a privilege you have, others don't have. Therefore, written from a place of privilege.

[1] If someone asks for a real name policy while not being able to adhere to it (without dire consequences for themselves) they don't write from a position of privilege, but imho that's a rather academic case.
Which cache are we talking about? Are you saying the GC blows out the icache, or ?
Just a note, the English subtitling in the video embedded in this post is pretty inaccurate in places. Not in a malicious way, I think the translator just isn't very skilled at English. If you haven't seen the video before I would suggest this version which should be easier to understand: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38_thLXNHY8
Well, the intention of X forwarding was exactly to enable GUI apps via plain old SSH, and that works fine! There’s just no really cool, ubiquitous, useful, cross-platform, GUI apps in that realm: if there were any, we would use them, because technically, this is all easily possible since forever.
Understood that, but I think there's a distinction between being able to afford to get married, and being able to afford an extravagant wedding. This is a choice thing, not an affordability thing.
For me it boils down to that people are looking for alternatives because of a risk that Twitter allows more different opinions.

Weird times.
That whole site is terrible!

English as a second language? Can’t pick up what’s off about it…
This was so inspiring to read. It's a very balanced take about the pros and cons of using SQLite vs. Postgres at scale.

I say "inspiring" because using SQLite reminds me of the simplicity and productivity from coding for the "early web" that lost 10-15 years ago. The days when you could spin up a website without worrying about a bunch of ancillary services and focus on the app itself.

For me, SQLite's lack of online schema changes seems like perhaps the biggest blocker to actual production. I've never had a production project where the schema didn't change a lot.
I feel like most of the pro-Elon-takeover takes rely on the idea that the current Twitter management does not understand what would make Twitter better and has not taken a lot of low hanging fruit. It's possible! Maybe Elon will just be able to "remove the bots" - but like...it seems unlikely?

I don't agree with everything that the twitter leadership does but I'd be shocked if there were simple actions they're deciding not to take that would dramatically increase the quality of the site.
Those are rounding errors compared to WordPress[0]. BTW, I'm neutral on WP. I've used it before and it was fine, but I don't work for Automattic or anything. I think it's the elephant in the PHP room, though. No one can claim that PHP is only used for WordPress, but I bet that the majority of PHP installations are there because that's what WP happens to be written in.

[0] https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management
I had the same thought. Twitter is a lot of jokes and is overall pretty chill.
Additionally if you resign and are not looking for work you don’t count as unemployed. Unemployment rates are calculated only for people actively looking for employment.
Twitter is a place for D list celebrities attempting to become C list celebrities, and a place for politicians to post their accomplishments, only to turn a deaf ear to the responses.
Trump should start identifying as a woman so that it becomes hate speech to mock him.
I think "facilitate wellbeing" is more than just a feel-good aphorism, because it really does help when there's a difficult decision on your desk, at least for me.

My instinct is to push hard, let "the most correct" idea win, and not really give a shit about how it impacts others. All, as you know, awful, very bad, no good ways of managing. Being reminded that one of my primary jobs is to "facilitate wellbeing" helps keep me grounded.

Let someone take the day off even if there's a deadline looming, be cool with a later start date than would be perfect, take that vacation week and really don't plug in, a) for yourself and b) to show that as acceptable behavior for your team to do as well.

None of this is how I, naturally, would behave, and I need to be reminded and continually work at doing things like that, for the sake of the health of my team. None of this is theoretical in my view, I see it as specific and practical advice.
I always found Stark to be a brash, unlikable character. We have enough of those in the world already.
Espionage or Journalism? After the Snowden NSA Leaks (2020)
>>...that to succeed in business, truth and honesty does not add any value...

I wish we had an open forum on HN to call out all the times engineers have been fucked over in so many situations of acqui-hire-BS that has occurred.

I know I am not alone in having companies build entire revenue streams around my efforts and contributions and fucked me over in the end after I set them on the right trajectory with my efforts.

Its funny this came up, as while I was on my morning ride, I was lamenting about this very issue ;

I was calling back a memory from a few years ago while I was building the Salesforce offices throughout the US...

I had regular meetings with my CEO discussing my bonus. Which was to be about $30,000 for the completion of 50 Fremont in SF.

They used a tool to track contribution to the efforts, and I had a pretty little graph showing my bonus payout based on what I was doing...

(we were the technology designers for all their offices, I was the TPM who did the actual design, implementation, consultant and construction management of the LV/AV/IT/Sec/Facilities etc.. vendors et al - installed and configured every piece of networking equipment, maintained the IT project plan and etc....

I made this company millions.

After completing the Chicago office - I was told that the project was closing and that I would be laid off ( I did the work of a team )

and that my bonus was $2,000.

that "Salesforce hasn't paid us yet"

---

This company, was denigrated all over the bay area, and I was literally hired to clean up their mess at multiple locations. Hospitals, tech companies, etc...

They have a slimy sales and CEO, and while they seem all professional and moral etc.. they are not.

David and Ken, bless your heart, for helping keep psychopath archetypes alive and well.
I guess I don't think a person owes me a politics-free experience, if they say things I don't like then I don't like what they say and don't want to follow them. No amount of moderation is going to stop people from expressing themselves in ways I don't like and I don't really blame the platform for people turning toxic, it's on the people themselves.
Yes — a society should preference it’s own children over outsiders.

That’s essential to its continued existence. You’re simply arguing that you have a right to loot UK families, destroying their society in the process, to give their money to people you feel are “more deserving”.

I think that’s borderline genocidal.
There is a process in place to deport illegal immigrants and thousands are forcibly returned every year.
Bucha, Ukraine doctor says most people killed during curfew time zone confusion
The level of tragedy here is impossible to fathom:

Anton Dovhopol, the head doctor at the Bucha hospital, suggested to Russian soldiers that they dig mass graves to prevent the dead bodies from spreading disease.

He also asked them to give civilians more time to get home before curfew. Since the Russians didn’t change their clocks to Ukrainian time when they invaded, civilians and troops were running on two different clocks.

“It was the difference between curfew times, that was when most people died,” he said.
As I understand it, there's also a small percentage of people who naturally blow some level of alcohol even when there's none in their bloodstream (due to a genetic condition or something to do with their microbiome—it's been several years since I read about this).

Mandating something like this would cause severe issues for people like them, where not only can they not help it, but it's not actually giving an accurate measurement of what it's supposed to be indicating.
Easy response ... if that's how you feel, don't do it.

I know/knew several ex-submariners. For them it was an absolutely fascinating job. Of course it won't suit everyone, and most people absolutely should not do it, but for them it was a great way to spend a decade or two.
I really hope this shit goes through the roof and people loose interest in reality.

Then I might be able to afford my dream house and enjoy my life in reality...

But you know it's not cheap and easy to use VR/ar stuff which hinders me to talk to people.

It's the amount of people I can handle realistically. It's the other tools the other people use.

It's time we need to find.
Right, but at some point it's like trying to keep back the tide with a pushbroom. If you're Elon, maybe you can get a big enough broom, or build a sea wall, but a million individuals with brooms are just going to be wasting their energy.

The effort has to go towards corporate regulations and culture change. Ending slavery within the US took a civil war and we're still decades away (at least) from fixing the legislative echoes and civil rights issues. Influencing China to end their own slavery and civil rights abuses isn't feasible at an individual level, except through correcting the allowed business behaviors and relationships by imposing laws and changing the culture. America is incentivizing human rights abuses under its current system.

We have an obligation to correct our behavior at the nation state level. Voting with wallets is no better than brooms on a beach. We need to vote for representatives that will fix the issue through international trade regulation.
Be honest with the people who report to you about your feelings. You don't have to go out of your way to stir up trouble, but if people come to you with concerns that you share, it can be very helpful to know that you're not alone and your manager is on your side.
I guess it's better than, like, burning something specifically for the purpose of capturing CO2 to put in a tank on the railways...but has anybody ever actually proposed that?
Google is spelt with an A (Alphabet), although perhaps this is meant to be ticker symbols (GOOG)?

If that's the case, then why MANGA and not MATAG? Netflix is only the 34th largest tech company by market cap. It doesn't fit alongside the others.
And the emission control system.
Musk still is an idiot when it comes to car manufacturing. Why? Because he gives a fuck about first pass yield and those things. Plus, Tesla is still almost a factor 10 away from production volumes of VW, Toyota and the like.

From publicly available footage, a Tesla factory looks not any more impressive, even less so from commentary that knows much about automotive manufacturing than I do, than state of the art factories from legacy coomoanues.

Tesla and SpaceX are impressive feats, I don't get the urge to pass Tesla and Musk as all encompassing geniusus that know everything better than encumbents.
`Explain the Cloud Like I’m 10` and `Exercises for Programmers` are two great books for beginners. I talk more about this exact subject here: https://www.programmingbooks.dev/articles/beginner
Why do any of those things require a "federated Twitter"?

Hackernews has two moderators and several orders of magnitude fewer users. I would argue that the amount of moderation required increases exponentially with the number of eyeballs.
The article implies causation, but I'm not sure in which direction it goes. I can imagine that someone who is chronically ill will have less energy to maintain relationships. In other words, if you are healthy, you are more likely to be active in life in general, including relationships.
Yes, it is blindingly obvious that people are born with different happiness set-points, and this is primarily genetic, if you look at families.

Circumstances and life adjust this up and down... but some people are just innately happy and other people are innately unhappy, and adjust to their set-point quickly after a life change.
> I've had rides in Model S's before and it was totally... fine? What made the Model 3 experience so much better than a conventional car?

I didn't actually say "better", but it was certainly a novel experience since I'd never been in an EV of any kind! The lack of engine noise coupled with the acceleration, somewhat mind-blowing.

I'm not convinced that any current EV - never mind any Tesla - is yet a good fit for a family such as ours, but I look forward to the day when there is such a choice of vehicle.
Laravel’s “Collections” library [1] solves this, and is a breath of fresh air. Easily one of the best features of the framework (though you can also use it as a separate package, outside of a Laravel app [2]).

It’s simple to use, but extremely powerful. I pretty much always use Collections over native array functions these days.

[1] https://laravel.com/docs/9.x/collections

[2] https://github.com/illuminate/collections
>D list celebrities attempting to become C list celebrities, and a place for politicians to post their accomplishments

Now, stop being redundant.

-- The Department of Redundancy Department.
> skills (that's the list of all tech i ever worked with. just the names, no details. only the most important ones are bold.)

Only put down skills and technologies that you want to work with. I used to put Pentaho on my resume, even though it was the most frustrating thing I've ever worked with (before or since). A recruiter messaged me once about a Pentaho role, which I declined. I dropped Pentaho from my resume immediately.

> summary of the most important or interesting skills and projects

Aaand you can stop right there. Pages 2 and onward can be safely omitted.
Colonoscopies are no big deal. Do not let them put you under for them. They are odd/uncomfortable but not painful.

As an added bonus the doctor can show you anything they find on the screen and answer questions.
Maybe people should try to be less pissed at bad takes. Everybody is wrong about something, and when you're dealing with a platform that exposes you to thousands of beliefs a day, you'll be constantly exposed to people who are wrong about something from your perspective. If you let somebody being wrong on the internet whip you up into a rage, I think that's a highway to unending Pain Town.
Why, no, now that you ask, I don't actually want that.

And this isn't really the place for you to post your advertising copy.
This is a great book and a strong recommend from me. It has earned a spot on my reading list: https://www.programmingbooks.dev
There are also millions of people with low effort accounts that mostly just retweet stuff, often precisely the bot-amplified political topics that show up in their feed. Those people are going to whine just as loudly about censorship as the people kicked off because someone reported them.

It's not like bot operators can't change handles or like the flags which would really catch them "engages on $politicalwedgeissue and amplifies "$particularpoliticalcause" are uncontroversial