skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the desire to "showcase the future," which was Epcot's goal, is also what killed Epcot! Nobody can keep up with what the future will look like. Tomorrowland in Disneyland was built with the 50's idea of the future. Epcot was built with the 70's.

The implicit promotion of big companies and big governments as salavator mundi turned out to be a lot of BS. People figured out that Exxon and GM weren't solving the world's problems, they were helping to create them. It's hard to have fun singing about a "great big beautiful tomorrow" when you're standing in the middle of the failures designed by the same people. Epcot has no credibility today as a predictor of the future, obviously, and nobody even likes corporate sponsors anymore (which is why most have left). Not a single country joined Epcot after it opened, despite the promises of increased tourism it would create.

The colonial aspect of world's fairs and Epcot is also still evident in its design. Originally, all of Africa was to be shoved into a single pavilion, as opposed to European countries which each had their own. In the end, Africa (The Dark Continent) -- yes, that was their actual name -- was never built which is itself a commentary. Norway originally sponsored a ride with the theme of offshore oil drilling, and Exxon built one to promote fossil fuels. These projects cost millions of dollars to build and maintain. Can you imagine anyone promoting that with a straight face today? Even progressive companies don't want to sponsor rides that might make them look bad next week. The whole idea is pretty much over. I did enjoy it while it lasted.
Depends if we continue to build a commons, or not, I suppose.
Very common mistake to assume he is exactly like Steve Jobs. Jobs was not technical, he had great design awareness and marketing skills. Musk is an engineer at heart AND a great marketer.
I can't really judge, I've barely tried Zig but... Maybe X-macros? Maybe compiler-specific attributes? Maybe reducing some syntactic clutter?
The irony is that it was much less a cesspool back when it had virtually no limits on speech.

Reducing speech limits won't reverse the clock, but it does make me think that speech limits and cesspool-ness are largely independent of each other.
The Twitter board caved before that kid did
How does charging for a checkmark prevent bots? Forgive me if I'm wrong, I'm not a twitter user, but typically, aren't bots not verified?
About "Why is this so much slower?" this article is a must-read:

https://planetscale.com/blog/generics-can-make-your-go-code-...
It was based on NetBeans, SunForte.

https://www.developer.com/java/suns-forte-developer-7-simpli...

Still available under Oracle, now rebranded as Oracle Solaris Studio.

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E24457_01/html/E21989/gkofj.html#...
More like 3 years, or maybe 6 if they skip it for the next one.
On the topic of complexity of life created structures, I found this Lex Fridman's interview with Lee Cronin fascinating and thought-provoking: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZecQ64l-gKM
So you were using an HDD, not an SSD?

Would an SSD in production have solved the timeouts by increasing your write throughput?
That is kinda different thing.
Musk owns shares personally and can sell them as he likes. Tesla as company is not funding anything. But I guess you meant that.
This is an absolutist argument. In the real world lines have to drawn somewhere all the time.
>“Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed” sounds great until you see what that actually means on the internet.

>obnoxious / disturbing / spam-filled / miserable race to the bottom of the lizard brain stuff

None of the preceding scoundrels' favorites should be illegal tho.

The arbiter of the global soapbox should to be in favor of almost absolute free speech imo.
Prediction: Musk will buy it, Twitter will tank, Musk will sell it at a loss.
To add to this, the core of the S3 argument (specifically with AWS and Azure) is based on the premise that AWS/Azure (AA from now) are too big to fail and to go anywhere, but I don't think that it has any bearing on whether the specific services will continue "as-is". The idea and concept should be that they're fine for storage, but keep in mind like any service, you need to keep an eye on it, no matter what they tell you now. It's impossible to predict what changes they may introduce even next year (or month for that matter) that makes AA S3 storage not feasible/usable.

Furthermore, keep in mind with this, once your data is in AA, it's no longer your data, it's AA's. Sure, you can pay to retrieve it, but that's the catch -- you gotta pay the toll. Unexpected bills or hidden fees or changes to fees may make the retrieval process simply not fiscally possible after a time if your account is delinquent. (I've seen this with _many_ clients; they tried to squeeze out every coin of the budget and didn't have flexibility with AA, and they ended up with a delinquent account and lost access: https://aws.amazon.com/premiumsupport/knowledge-center/react...)

Now, of course this is considered "your responsibility", and it can be true of anything, but if the data size is that low, then I think just manually managing it probably is a safer and perhaps cheaper bet. S3 as a service is mostly fine, but a lot of people very much so underestimate the expense of it and never bother to test recovery scenarios, and it ends up with a real surprise. (at least a few customers let their AWS bill go delinquent until the next fiscal year allowed them to pay the bills, only to find the data deleted by the above mentioned policy).

Basically, the idea of "set and forget" backups is a pipe dream; if it's important, you need to maintain it, and it basically can be like a second job.
I wish Twitter would ban more people and stop being so hesitant. I don't care that Trump is no longer president, he continuously took actions that would have banned him many times over if he had not been president. He then tried to circumvent those bans. Anyone else would be banned for life.

Twitter is a private company and do whatever they want to do. It is their platform.
You're right that it's annoying. I use Edge, and I think it syncs extensions now, so I haven't really had to set it up for a while, though.

I think the best one to install and forget is Tracking Token Stripper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tracking-token-str...), but obviously it's not going to get all of them. Like, it's not continuously updated AFAIK. If you want to input the parameters it strips, then you have to use Query Stripper (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/query-stripper/cce...).

I wish its dev would create a crowdsourced list, though.
This isn't a typical use case. FWIW, a decade ago, we used sqlite as the persistence mechanism for an in-memory KV store called membase. (See https://github.com/membase/ep-engine). This was powering 50M+ DAU traffic in production for very intense write-heavy traffic. It did its job well. Around that time we also considered leveldb (and rocksdb a bit later) as alternative to sqlite.
thank you for the article!
Twitter has a shareholder meeting on May 25th, could/would they stop this? Or will it be a done deal by that time?
Why does the author not name the apps used?
Because it didn't bother Musk when they invested in Tesla, it's only now he calls them out.
Am I the only person here that finds Twitter a nice place? I'm careful about who I follow, most of whom are tech people or educators. My feed is a really nice place to go, and I can't remember the last time I read or saw anything that triggered me in the slightest. I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you? Don't follow or engage and the algorithm will skip you over.
Sorry but isn't this what Snapchat is for? Or what instagram used to be?
> Well that's the thing, if they were self-hosting or using smaller providers, they probably wouldn't all have the new features.

They are really not difficult to implement. Like, 10% extra effort on top of deploying a mail server gets you all the modern security features. They are really not relevant in the question of whether someone self-hosts or not.

> And I'm surprised emails from your server aren't being filtered out as spam going into Gmail inboxes.

Implementing modern SMTP security features helps with that, and keeping the same server for a long time. In the first year or two my mail used to occasionally get sent to spam (but that was also before several of the modern security features existed), but once your IP has been sending mail for two decades and has never sent a single spam message, you tend not to have a problem with reputation.

> An open protocol success story is HTTPS. Nearly everyone is forced onto fully-compliant new versions, and self-hosting is more viable than ever.

Notably, the decentralisation mechanism for HTTPS and SMTP is identical, and the transport security mechanism is identical. The effort to self-host mail is higher, but that would be completely solved by a modern 'plug & play' mail server implementation. Once again, the protocol is not the issue here at all.
The Nazi's boards were remarkably civil?
My real name is not my legal name, so I would have to stop using Twitter.
"Do you want your campaign to get more reach in your district? Let's talk about that tax-cut.."

It wouldn't surprise me...
Except it is already being broadcast, on hundreds of sites.

You can search for people on google and get literally all of their information. Address, phone number, job, family, friends, and anything else that is public knowledge. Presented in a very easy to read format.

Why should the wealthy be special? Just because they have the money to stop it? I didn't opt in to having my information packaged nicely and presented to anyone who cares to search for me.
I'm quickly discovering that people see in Elon Musk whatever they want. Somehow he's going to both stop freedom of speech suppression AND shit-posting.
And the course of Web 2.0 so far makes for a perfect case study of this form of community dynamics.

Regardless of how this goes, it'll go down in history, and Musk is well aware of that.
I think any discussion of small, performant, fairly memory-safe languages could include Forth or Factor. Speaking of the Pascal family, we could also stand for someone to put time into a more modern Oberon or a standard subset of Ada.
No, they haven’t been trying to solve the problem. They want the bots on there for financial and political reasons. It is easy to solve the problem - require identification to use the site. I mentioned the advantages of social media doing this about 10 years ago and was downvoted on this very website because of “privacy and anonymity on the internet is great!”.
>gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board and lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over and over

I'm most looking forward to Patti Harrison getting back on Twitter.

context: https://youtu.be/HZIvpTrNNmo?t=127
The last few years have brought insane progress to the PHP language. I absolutely love the direction. Personally, the next feature I'd like to see the most is a great implementation of Tasks / Asynchronously, something the language always lacked, possibly because it is nearly exclusively used with web servers. I mostly get around that by extensively using queues, software like RabbitMQ, and spawning micro services. I would like to see it move towards more general purpose usability.
It seems like your emotions are all wrapped up in this, and you’re not thinking clearly.

Why would he force trans people out? Elon doesn’t seem like some religious conservative or anything.

This reminds me of how the media and folks fed and ate the narrative that Jordan Peterson is a kind of terrible human who hates trans people.
I'd argue the most important of the changes Musk has suggested are transparency around the recommendation and ranking algorithms and the datasets used to train them, and increasing the character count of posts up to 512-1024 characters.

There's a lot of mystery about how these algorithms are designed, trained and used in practice - and not just at Twitter - and having all that open-sourced would in itself be a huge benefit to the whole world. A whole lot of authoritarian outfits are trying to use these algorithms as a means of social control and popular opinion manipulation - and not just in places like Russia and China - and it's reached the point where understanding how such systems are used is kind of critical to preserving the future of non-authoritarian society.

As far as long-form Twitter, at the very least doubling the character count would allow for a lot more nuance in Twitter communication, which is defintely lacking at present. And no, multiple posts in threads don't really work for that purpose because of the way those individual posts are distributed elsewhere, without context.
I use sqlite for a flashcard app to help kids with multiplication. It's running on an ec2 micro instance, because I'm trying to see how long I can stay in the AWS free tier.

Everything is good so far, though most of my traffic is bots probing for wordpress flaws.
Its not so much that twitter is a sensible way of communicating its that twitter gives you such wide access to such a massive array of people and topics. For example its how I get my news, I just follow a ton of journalists from different companies and countries. As 1:1 communication you are right its not built for that but it does what I use it for really well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paperboy_(video_game) :-)
I understand the arguments on why some censoring is required but I would like to still make a counter argument:

Twitter allows users to select unwanted tweets and say ‘not relevant to me.’

Allowing people to set there own filters seems like a better option to me. Also, Twitter could have a standard set of filters that users could choose from.
> Everything that isn’t illegal is allowed

This won't actually happen though. Content moderation, censorship, and bans will continue on Twitter unabated.
Yeah, nazis are always civil and polite until you call them out on their bullshit, dude
I agree that people take for granted just how much spam there could be if the flood gates were opened.

Is there a reason you can't turn all of the bans (of legal stuff) into filters? Then users could turn on and off nazis, Q, sex, porn, etc? People could turn them all off and get the same experience as today.
Twitter seems to be the most transparent about this already?

If you get banned or suspended, they tell you why.

They communicate their efforts like this pretty transparently. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2022/our-ongoi...
Keynesian Vs Hayekian economics rap battle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTQnarzmTOc&t=1m53s
The obvious solution would be to introduce a negative interest rate on cash so that rich city dwellers cannot accumulate massive trade surpluses against small towns which then means people don't have to move out of town to get a job.

It's quite tiring to see all these "faux" free market advocates or liberals, while they do absolutely nothing to actually get closer to the impossible ideal. They see the free as in free beer, i.e. reducing "government intervention" to let special interest groups get away with shady behavior instead of addressing known conflict sources and making control over them irrelevant.
> To be fair, it is arguable that Musk has accomplished more good-for-the-species stuff than any one human, ever.

Is this a serious take? He has worked in EV cars and rockets. Cars are something we should be moving away from and not towards. How have those things benefited even a fraction of the global population? Even in the U.S., inequality has continued to rise, poverty has risen, education has decreased, and several other poor indicators. Musk has used a huge portion of public funds in his companies, funds that could be used to solve these very real problems, and he’s done nothing to return value back to the general public.
A sidenote: NRK has made many of these series available as torrents [1]; for example, you can find various resolutions or the same train route filmed at each season. It attracted some attention at the time: https://torrentfreak.com/norwegian-tv-launches-bittorrent-tr...

[1] https://nrkbeta.no/bittorrent/
It isn't colleges that advertise this exclusively, it is also corporate consulting like McKinsey. Know them? Allegedly the Robin Hood of the poor and disenfranchised.

The author of the article still sees it as a necessity. They cannot leave people talking like they want to.
You're right, phrased this way it's misguided.

The point of this book is to emphathize how many conditions result in ADHD-like symptoms and how easily ADHD is diagnosed nowadays, often wrongly, resulting in heavy non-required treatments easily prescribed to people in need for something else.
No one is arguing for zero immigration. That's a fiction you've invented. I'm arguing for controlled legal immigration: i.e, the UK gets to decide who comes to live here. I was entirely supportive of the recent scheme for Ukrainians and the earlier BNO visa scheme for Hong Kong residents.
You already mentioned Keyd but Kmonad also has that feature. Kmonad seems a bit more powerful but is a bit harder to configure than Keyd especially for something simple. Kmonad is also cross platform. The cool thing about them is that they work everywhere and not just in Wayland or X11 so it all just works in TTYs too.
Esports stars have shorter careers than NFL players
>He wants to charge for a checkmark. This both increases the cost of bots and is a form of authentication. It’s much easier to compare payment methods between accounts.

What makes you think users want any of this?

Frankly, most of the suggestions I've seen coming out of the SV "thought leaders" about what to do with Twitter are terrible. The bot problem isn't easily solved, and adding a ton of friction and/or reducing anonymity isn't going to be some huge boon to the platform.
From the RFC https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_dynamic_properties

> stdClass and __get/__set are not affected by this change.

Your json example, or object cast of an array, or directly defining properties on a stdClass will not cause a deprecation.
Can you remember what messages you’ve read and which you haven’t, from which conversations, over the course of days or weeks?
Tell HN: First semester to last semester, now, we are ready to launch Mindboo
Finally, we're ready to launch our project, well, it took 5 years of development and testing mixed with failures and success, I started this project first year of university and I've put the final touches in my last semester, thankfully, now I can say, it is the time to make it public. IT IS CALLED Mindboo

so,

We've made a platform for your mind, let's say it is a lounge for your mind, where you can develop it, enjoy some challenges, enjoy some friendships time, speak your mind or free speech. it is not a game, it is not a social network, but it is a space for your mind, you can say, it's a project for health, entertainment, production, development, and socializing blended all together into one platform to give a different experience.

Dear entrepreneurs and students

This platform helps the entrepreneurs and students to keep their minds active, developing, and entertained, by giving them what it needs to be more productive and healthy. well, Feeding your mind is like putting fuel in your car

Connect digital and real worlds together

during the journey, I've cooperated with an artist to add more taste to the project. we've created different characters and we called them Mindboo characters, each character contains different personality to be connected to the real world

You can Download Mindboo from both app store and play store

Give it a shot and let me know your feedback, guess what? it is free anyways

http://www.mindboo.com

Thank you
> Musk has admitted he doesn't understand people, is a self-confessed troll & edgelord and and Tesla's culture seems less than ideal. So lacks any of the qualifications I see as being needed to run something like Twitter.

That's why he's perfect for this task. Most decision-makers feel intense scrutiny and tip toe around things that cause backlash, especially things that threaten the status quo.

When you're oblivious to how people will react to your vision, you're more able to follow through and make it to the other side.
Yeah I think there is a lot to a strategy this simple. In the future there will be a big market for getting data from old media, and by picking normie-tech you will be able to tap into that.

I might swap DVD-r for HDD (with cables to connect to either usb or sata), but either would probably be fine.

30 years is not that long. 1gb is not that much. They main concern is protecting yourself from being unlucky. "what if there is a fire" "what if I forget my password / get banned" "what if I drop my backups on the marble floor" "what if I die".
Don't like it? Join the fediverse!

https://jointhefedi.com/
Michael Saylor had an idea he discussed on a recent Lex Fridman podcast. People should be able to post $10 collatoral via the Bitcoin Lightning network for safe passage on the web. This can be done by your browser via HTTP. Bad behaviour (such as causing abuse) results in a penalty being applied to the collatoral. You get what's left back when you leave. Because it uses Lighting, it's super fast and cheap, far faster and cheaper than a typical 2.5% credit card.

His point was that there's no conservation of energy on the internet right now. Requiring a small ransom for safe passage would fix that, retaining anonymity.
Totally agree. It's incredibly easy for me to simply filter out ppl who rage-bait. I am more internet-native than most though? Maybe it's harder for the general populace than I might otherwise assume?
Classes marked with #[AllowDynamicProperties] as well as their children can continue using dynamic properties without deprecation or removal. The only bundled class marked as #[AllowDynamicProperties] is stdClass.

Aka stdClass based obj's are still fine to have dynamic properties. So mostly sure it's still going to work.
Anecdotally, Logic has consistently been the worst DAW in my testing, performance-wise, when it comes to hosting plugins. Maybe it's due to the AU format, but the de facto result is the same.

I run Ableton, FL, Pro Tools and Logic (mainly working in Ableton) and my goal is to record at 48k with a buffer length of 32 samples, with very light use of plugins. In my testing with the exact same plugins, Logic would consistently have buffer overflows every minute or so.

Ableton ran far more stable (especially in Rosetta), but PT was the only DAW to do it without hiccups. My initial guess is that the AAX plugin format is more tightly coupled to its internal processing, improving performance. But I was quite shocked to find out that Logic (Apple's own software) performed the worst.

Plugin development in general is a shitshow where most devs seemingly only do enough to get them barely working, so I'm not surprised most of them misbehave on ARM. It's a bit sad that we're two years into the Apple Silicon transition and performance still is so rocky.
I assume they are referring to the word to mean 'courteous and polite'.

I personally believe you can hold abhorrent views and still be polite, so I don't see why there is a necessary contradiction here.
Paywall free link: https://washingtonpost.com/video-games/esports/2022/04/19/es...
Yeah this seems like a bad one to me.
Was it this guy? - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impossible_Is_Nothing_(video_r...