skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I am not sure there is such a thing as "respect" at the very high level. The public opinion is easily swayed and important actions are dictated by pragmatism

This seems like a convenient way of just hand-waving away the entire concept of morality. Maybe this is how Russians view the world, but it's not how anyone else does. They say this is part of the problem with Putin: he just can't conceive of a world where every entity isn't a CIA or FSB puppet. It also illustrates why the civilized world feels like it can't in good conscience keep trading with a nation that acts like this.

It's not like this whole thing materialized out of thin air. Ukraine has been trying to free itself from Russia's grasp for decades. Everything that's happened there has Putin's fingerprints all over it: puppet leaders who promise one thing and then betray their people to Russia; the jailing of former leaders on garbage corruption charges; the red-handed vote rigging; the not-very-well-concealed assassinations. This isn't the norm anywhere else in the developed world.

Another hallmark of Putinist rhetoric is whataboutism. I mean, when everything you do is so cynical and violent, I guess it's the only real defense you have. Debating what actually happened in Libya is an enormous distraction—which may be the entire point—but the US had nothing to do with that uprising until Gaddafi sent a column of tanks after a bunch of poorly-armed rebels and the world reacted in horror. Was it a mistake to intervene? Maybe. But that's nowhere comparable to straight-up invading a peaceful country (twice!).

It's funny to hear anyone in Russia hand-wringing about the well-being of "economic migrants." Russia is one of the most ethnically segregated countries in the world and has done absolutely nothing for refugees anywhere except create more of them. It's widely believed that Putin's intervention in Syria was designed to displace as many civilians into Europe as possible, with the goal of causing a populist backlash. It may be downright evil, but he's gotten away with it for years.

In terms of which sources to trust, the Russian government has done nothing but lie to everybody for the last 20 years. US intelligence accurately predicted the invasion even when it seemed to take most Russian soldiers by surprise. There's all kinds of primary-source war footage, if you can stomach it. And Putin's objectives keep drastically changing, which sure makes any claims that he's succeeding seem suspect. As does the really harsh media crackdown and the threats to jail people for years just for saying the word "war." You don't have to aggressively "sway" public opinion like that when the truth is on your side.

> Even the thought that another great purge has begun fills my heart with warmth and childlike joy

I really hope you're kidding. Those things never stop where they're intended to, and it's certainly not your interests they're being carried out in.
There is actually some consistency, array functions have the same parameter order and string functions have theirs, it just different order between these two groups of functions.
The engine might be faster (I'm not sure) but SQLite has the advantage that it doesn't have to connect over a socket. Instead you load the SQLite library into your code and your application directly manipulates the database files. That's potentially a lot faster.
Youtube's moderators are youtube employees.

Reddit's moderators are volunteers with iron fists who only police tiny sections of reddit. Admins get involved in TOS violations, not direct moderation.

Your comparison makes no sense.
You're presenting opinions as if they are absolute facts above questioning. If you have a full-time job and you only need to do ~20 hours a week of work to complete all your deliverables, you could absolutely get another full-time job and have it go fine.
i thinks it's more about the influence that twitter has with the establishment i.e. 'people that matter'. Being able to exert influence in these quarters is what power is all about.

however I am not quite sure why Mr. Musk needs that. He once declared that his goal was to go to Mars, in other words he was about "Flyin' mother nature's silver seed to a new home in the sun"
So the above poster's "Duration risk is (bps yield increase * years)" is not accurate?
If anything the NodeJs model is trickier to scale because it requires discipline to never block the loop unnecessarily.

PHP/Go/C# one-thread-per-HTTP-request also requires less cognitive load where everything is synchronous by default. Also PHP's throw-away-everything after each request tolerates much more junior-code abuse.

Forgot to close a database connection or transaction? No problem, PHP will do that for you. Left a file open? Forgot to close a CURL handle? No worriers the janitor is coming to clean your mess at the end of the request.

With that said, PHP does have an event loop. See ReactPHP and Swoole. They existed for years and while they have their uses, they aren't going to overtake "standard" PHP execution model anytime soon partly because of the reasons above.
This is a good point, however, I would say that the % of things which are NOT hot button issues has decreased dramatically over the past 5-6 years or so. It's a lot harder to avoid now.
Well, as an engineering team lead for years, and recently founder of a small gig, increasingly I've been shocked at how many people (employees, contractors, prospective business partners or co-founders) just want to take the easy way out, instead of putting in honest, conscientious, reflective work and effort, or are just plain incompetent at what they claim to be good at.

Every once on a while you come across someone that is enthusiastic, actually competent, and wants to do things to the best of their ability (or a reasonable approximation thereof), but those are few IMHO.

I mean, I know not all people can be interested in all things, but if you say you're up for something, be it a job, project, or partnership, you've got to give it your reasonable best.

I think the need to be kind and nice all too often is abused by their targets. The key is to find a way to be kind and flexible, but not allowing that to paper over rank incompetence or a bad attitude.
lots of people work far more than 50 hrs/week on a regular basis, this is not a huge deal if that's your jam. If you're working multiple salaried positions, or double-billing your time, that's a different story.
This is typical, MBA armchair psychology.

Here's the real Principals of Engineering Management, according to pretty much every middle manager, director, and vp I've ever worked with:

1. Be caviling and pedantic, so you can reinforce your position of petty power.

2. Contribute exactly zero code, infrastructure, etc. Basically, anything that actually provides value to the engineers or the customers, you don't touch.

3. Put at least a couple meetings on the calendar every day of every engineer that they don't need to be at to remind them you rule over their time.

4. Push nebulous "goals", then have very set goals when it comes time to promote/give a pay raise an engineer and then insist they aren't quite there.

5. Put engineers on-call instead of hiring support staff, again to remind the engineer that you own their time, even when they're not at work.

6. Constantly seek updates from engineers, so many in fact that they can't complete the work on time, then promptly blame the engineers for not delivering.

"Managers" are people with business degrees who failed out of anything technical. Real managers are architects and PMs who actually understand the product and the technical lift it takes to actually make things happen. They don't concern themselves with your comings-and-goings, but whether you can get things done or not.
I tried it and it works pretty well. One thing that I noticed is I subconsciously have been tuning GBE open because it’s a pain to reach around to the tuning pegs. How does this impact things?
The problem is not a software issue others can't solve but Elon's team. It's a cultural issue that the current Twitter team accepted in their comfort zone because it fits their bias (that does not defend freedom of speech).
Lectures on Faster-Than-Light Travel and Time Travel
Elon Musk Texts Saudi Public Investment Fund (2018)
Anesthesia requires massive doses of drugs we normally consider unconscionably dangerous in public discourse: Fentanyl, propofol, Xanax, ketamine. The anesthesiologist's job is to use a slurry of these drugs to bring you to the brink of death, and then hold you over the abyss by your ankles. All of this is done to perform gross physiological trauma on your body, which your CNS responds to readily as we know from the phenomenon of people waking up during surgery. We seem to think surgery under general anesthesia is not a life changing event because we don't remember it.
> You could run a super high valued company on just a handful of people, and society is just not ready for that.

My version of this is that those handful of people become critical to the organization, which must be avoided at all costs. Every place I've been that's weighed down by huge IT staffs, undervalues tech, absolutely hates to give coders raises, and sees tech as a cost center, even while preaching how important technology is.

Sadly, this seems to be the case so often that the only companies that really succeed with good tech have builders in the founder's chair who _still code_, at least until the model is firmly established (but even after is good too). Pretty much everybody else resents software devs and thinks they're overpaid.

Weirdly a smaller, better paid team can often be resented _more_ (because of course, you can't see all the money that's being _saved_ by having a small highly-powered team).
This looks quite nice, actually. The negativity in the comments seems a bit heavy. I really like the idea of a language that is as (or almost as) simple as C but with many of the footguns removed.
The only software devs that in a reasonable position to solve the problem work at large social media companies, and those companies are financially incentivized to not solve the problem. I don't think this is a software capability issue.
You listed groups that have historically:

- have been purveyors, not victims, of discrimination within USA

- introduced extreme polarization to mass media & political discourse

- controlled enough political power to push their beliefs on the majority through law since the inception of this country

I wonder if “center of X” voices have ever wondered _why_ their opinions aren’t well received outside of their bubbles.

Possibly but Twitter’s ownership won’t help with any of that.
What's "a lot" of volume in the context of this claim? Do you have a source for the proportion of would-be active tweeters they block, or proportion of tweets they take down, or anything like that?
I mean Singapore executed someone for smuggling in half a kilo of marijuana.

Can someone argue that less harm was done in that situation? A human life ended versus people smoking marijuana?
"one of the most expensive acts of individual hubris in history" is what people have been saying about everything Elon does for a while now.
Looking at the multiple threads about Musk/Twitter a clear pattern emerges:

1) People who look at the future with wide eyes and and a huge amount of optimism would gladly put their lives, finances and generally the whole society in the hands of this man.

2) People (including myself) who look at the future as a concept that scammers and snake oil salesmen often use to convince people to give them money...well they think this guy is nothing but a scammer and a snakeoil salesman convinving people to give him money right now for stuff that he'll never deliver.

I sometimes envy the first category and would like to make a leap on the other side...just to see what it's like...but man are the awakenings rough. When they happen the former optimists reach level of cynism that are sky high even for those of us who are regularly cynic.
Yeah, I don't know--who does. The poem just struck me as nihilistic. If we are just star stuff in a forever bubbling and fomenting cauldron, it may be a view of reality that is hostile to life. What can console us against the slings and arrows of our outrageous existence if there is no substantial difference between us being dead or alive? If we are just a drop of goop in the cosmic cauldron, why should we not just kill ourselves when we face any discomforting challenge? Late for the bus? Kill yourself. Skipped over for promotion? Kill yourself.

As a function of survival, we need some model of reality that helps us to continue living. And that means a model to help us justify suffering--essentially. I do not find such a model reflected by the poem in question; hence, I see it as an enemy to life--nihilistic.
What a shock you are getting downvoted - not sure why, other than you are challenging people’s cherished dogma.
Which is exactly why if Elon can forced moderation to at least be transparent and consistent, and not purely through the lens of political ideology we will all be better for it.
And if it makes people uncomfortable - good! If you are fat, dumb and happy then you really aren’t doing anything. Life without friction is pretty meaningless - probably why so many people are pretty miserable even if they don’t actively realize it. Reading some of the comments in here - the lack of self awareness by many is pretty amazing.
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If you do this with direct charge government work, you're within hailing range of felony territory. Granted, you probably won't get caught, but if you do, it's going to be a bridge burner for you in this industry basically forever.

Is that entirely a bad thing, though, considering this industry? Discussion ongoing.
The poison pill is irrelevant if Elon and the Board come to an agreement. Any deal would involve a workaround or nullifying of the poison pill.

Elon is a smart guy but the real impact of this takeover will come from his ability to act unilaterally. Jack Dorsey hasn't owned a significant amount of Twitter for a decade and likewise hasn't had much ability to take bold decisions for at least as long. Elon will come in with the willingness and ability to take tough decisions, such as sacrificing engagement numbers for the sake of kicking out bots.
Android in a VM.
Same experience with the most recent versions of both on Kubuntu.
https://blog.urth.org/2022/04/19/software-job-search-2022-re...

I have a two word answer: Intellectual Property. Not everyone is an accomplished Open Source publisher, nor should that be a requirement for employment. So what existing project do those candidates point the interviewer at? Someone else's IP? And then the hiring company is obligated in self-defense to make sure that it's not someone else's IP, lest it end up in someone's hard disk accidentally and get discovered in some otherwise unrelated audit? No. Thank. You. Keep your own code to yourself.

Now, you might point out your own code with some URLs and they may take a look at it. But that's not the same as making it part of the interview process.
> I wonder why you consider it a net-negative?

No perceived benefit, and now there's chatter in my head. It's not exactly counterproductive, but I don't see how it's helpful.

> In my own experience, having become more adept at using it, may I suggest you just need more practice?

I'm coming up on 40 and again, it's not really that big a deal, so, heh, a little late. I don't even know what I'd "use it" for—I was great at language use, written composition, totally fine at speaking, creative play, all the things one might think it'd help with, before it, so it just seems like a tag-along that's not doing much good, or a little annoying at times, but nothing helpful. I can "use it" for things but I was fine at those before.

> Personally, learning to "turn it off" (or giving a rest) and even moreso learning about the limitations of such language-centric mindsets; being able to "put the language down" and pick it back up when needed (so to say) has allowed me to cancel out the negative aspects.

Yeah, the negatives aren't that bad, I just don't see any benefit, either.
Having the patient awake is a liability. It's understandable that doctors don't want to take the risk.
Thoughts on Hare
docker-compose is the way to go for keeping the dev versions synced with the production version. And for the backup script scheduled mysqldump and copy to storage should see you through quite far, so not really any more effort than copying an SQLite database.
You're taking my statement out of context. This was a large % increase and I didn't know about it until going back and seeing my bank statements. Raising prices a sensible amount is one thing, but how do you know they won't raise prices substantially without you knowing about it again?

And, mxroute has a lifetime plan.
The wfh battle won't be impacted. USA Immigration process is absolutely horrendous and hiring remotely essentially concedes their wfh position (role is able to work remotely) . Globalization implies labor will be cheaper opting for remote foreign labor, but there will be constraints to doing so and I suspect the best companies will adapt by capitalizing on wfh as a "benefit" rather than come to conflict with opinions of talent.
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Please do explain what risk you're thinking of, as anyone smart enough to write their own SaaS would not put resources in the web server's file system tree? You stick your db file in an normal secure location outside the server's root, chmodded appropriately so that it suffers the exact same risks as any other file on the OS. It's no more or less risky than /etc/shadow, while being considerably easier to work with (and less failure-prone for light db work) than an independently running database service.
it also depends on the companies. where i am now, big corporations work their engineers to exhaustion and teach them a very competitive attitude. that's not something i want in my small company. i need cooperation and mutual support, where developers back each other up and not try to gain favors with their manager at the expense of their teammates.
I think there's a lot of people who view homeownership as an investment strategy but that has never been the case it is a lifestyle. Investing in real estate is an investment strategy but that's separate from homeownership. Even moderate market investments have risen at a pace that meets or exceeds the growth that we've seen in home prices.

The one benefit that homeownership does provide as far as an investing strategy is that it inadvertently locks you into this investment in a way that other investments don't. If you were to measure renting versus owning and taking the difference in cost and applying it to investments renting is a much more attractive option over the long term. There is a definite sacrifice in lifestyle because owning a home provides a big lifestyle benefit that a lot of people want. The real problem with renting versus owning as far as investment goes people in general especially the lower middle class and below who are sold on this idea of home ownership as an investment are poor at investing over the long term. So when they rent they tend to spend most of the rest of their disposable income instead of putting a portion of it away in a long-term investment. The ownership of the house automatically causes them to have a long-term investment that they can realize in 10 or 20 years.

So while I agree with the author that real estate will not continue to rise at the pace that it's risen in the past percent gain is not really the measure of an investment or a capital asset like this. What I do believe will continue to take place with real estate is that as an inflation in adjusted investment vehicle it will continue to maintain pace. So that does mean that home ownership real estate will continue to maintain pace and grow as an investment compared to inflation. And over the long term homeownership as an investment vehicle does not tend to outpace inflation except in very limited jumps.

The key to any real investment is finding one that will outpace inflation by a decent margin that is the only way to see growth. That is possible to do with investment in real estate but very difficult to do with home ownership.
What’s more common - hiring managers who see the inclusion of a GitHub as a small positive signal but don’t scrutinize heavily (or even more likely don’t bother to click into it), or those that dig deep and scrutinize open source contributions as a primary decision factor?
I feel really alone being happy without autocomplete. Doesn't anyone else find it annoying and distracting to have your IDE or editor constantly throwing "suggestions" at you? I am quite happy with that feature turned off.

I guess I do use it in Python REPL quite often though. But there at least you have to prompt it by pressing tab.
I'll second this.

It is more likely the interviewer has misjudged the ability of the candidate for any one of myriads of potential reasons in the interview proper, than that the resume was somehow deceptive.
I could show you, but my github account is not representative of my actual interests. That is precisely what resumes and motivation letters are for.

If recruiters start looking only at github accounts, dishonest job seekers will quickly learn to create fake github accounts, just as they present fake resumes now.
From my brief look at the documentation, the answers look like this: they have a defer statement much like Go's, they don't seem to have any form of generics, they don't seem to have any form of comptime logic.

They really need a section on the landing page to compare Hare to Zig. (And to C, for that matter.)
For example, people don't tend to own their own currency. I'm sure you can think of other differences.
Algo Literacy is just some crappy half-baked term I made up on the spot.

It guess it is like Media Literacy where a person is able to contextualize the info they read about in a bigger picture sense.

The second someone — especially a kid — opens TikTok / social media, they are essentially granting access and unlocking their mind for someone else to cram as much information as possible into it.

The Clockwork Orange example is just a reference of mixing that concept with emotional videos and high screen time. The whole idea is not new and it has serious impact on your behavior and sense of self.

Social media is easy to blame for problems but it would be better if people learned to guard themselves a bit.
Do people really put stuff like "half finished tutorials" and little exploratory non-projects up on the Internet? What for? That stuff normally does not need to leave your local harddisk. Maybe exceptionally, if you want to explicitly share it with someone you have been discussing it with.

Maybe I'm getting old and no longer "with it", but to me, this is just like teenagers entering way too much personal info on social media just because there are empty text boxes available.

I have a "code" dir with dozens of subdirectories where I keep all that stuff. Some of those are local git repos because I'm starting to do something actually non-trivial there, and yes, some of those eventually get the "git remote add ..." treatment, and get published on a public code forge somewhere.
It would seem reasonable for large investors, -those who have influence on a company, to require MAU excluding bots figures as part of their due diligence. On the other hand: FOMO, guess.
> The best of reddit and HN can only exist because they're niche subcommunities.

disagree. it's about - and has always been since the first usenet message - moderation. lots of free speech absolutists confuse moderation with censorship and Elon will learn the difference with sweat, blood and tears if he doesn't know it already (note: I can hardly imagine why he wouldn't know it).