skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe, but I kind of doubt it. Trump is a black hole of attention. He warps the discourse around himself. If he's on Twitter, people have to go there to find out what he says. Moreover, Musk is a bit more immune to public outcry on the Trump axis than previous owners, in my opinion. It doesn't seem hard to brand it as a triumphant return, and distance himself from Truth Social. His fans will happily eat that up, the people who hated him will keep hating him, and Musk will enjoy making people mad. He's coming back for sure, if only because it's going to juice Twitter's numbers.

There's no leaving Twitter, in my opinion. Its the only game in town. That said, I sincerely hope there is a fracture here. An ecosystem with many smaller platforms seems far healthier to me.
Make a readme that says "This project is me exploring how to do Y so I can learn the ins and outs". Solved.
Yes

There is one more significant (but not user-visible) change planned for the language before we continue working on that.
Didn't work well at all for me in Firefox, worked a lot faster in chrome. Wonderful game in Chrome though!
See that's the point. Having a trusted party is a better solution.
You shouldn’t attribute the difference to the GC algorithm used when there are generations between ios’s CPUs and android’s.
>> Doing that once, yeah, doing that over and over, no so much.

> What do you mean? It's always good move to kill a product that loses money for the company.

Look at the Ars Technica article I was responding to. Google has failed at chat apps repeatedly for a long time, to the point where it's an embarrassment AND they've created a self-reinforcing vicious cycle of failure. The smart decision for users is to avoid any Google chat app like the plague, because it will inevitably be killed, which means those apps will also fail for lack of users.

A business doesn't have infinite tries to get something right. Eventually they burn up all their credibility. They should kill them all, and stop developing new ones, completely exiting the space.
I was afraid of that, too. All I've seen so far are disclaimers about Bezo's ownership of the WP. Plenty of negative articles about Amazon is published by WP.
personally, i wish he would log out and focus on starship. Let me touch the third rail real fast, i felt the same way about Trump. Just logout of twitter and focus on the country.

I've said it before but Twitter is like a cancer, it begins to grow in some poor unfortunate souls irrespective of wealth, knowledge, or privilege, and slowly overtakes their whole being.
Things worked well at the outset, especially in local development against my NVMe drive for my small CRUD application.

Then, with a little traffic, things continued to go well in production. But as traffic scaled up (to 1-5 QPS, roughly 25% writes), they fell apart. Hard. Because my production environment was spinning rust, IO contention was a real issue and totally absent from development. This manifested as frequent database timeouts, both from reads and writes.

Echoing another commenter's sentiment: things would have gone much more smoothly from the beginning had I started with PostgreSQL, but after having written many thousands of lines of direct SQL taking intimate advantage of SQLite's surprisingly rich featureset, migrating was less than totally appealing.

The mitigation strategy, which ultimately worked out, was to implement backpressure for writes to SQLite: queuing and serializing all writes to each database in the application, failing loudly and conspicuously in the case of errors (thus forcing the client to retry), and gracefully handling the rare deadlock by crashing the process completely with a watchdog timer.
I think this is forcing me to choose between two evils - do I want to look like I can only write half baked weekend projects, or do I want to look like I don’t write any code in my free time at all?
I don't think there is anything wrong with that, I will be the first to give him a lot of credit for the companies he has started. Especially Space and Tesla. There is no doubt that both of those have pushed forward both industries in series ways.

I don't think it is all just ego or jealousy. He has made some questionable comments in the past. He keeps going on that this particular purchase is about free speech. He consciously has chosen to be very public with some of his more questionable opinions (especially regarding Covid) on his Twitter.

Yes I am very glad that he has started SpaceX and Tesla. I despise the criticisms of billionaires "Wasting" their money on Space. But that does not absolve him of criticisms of him personally outside of those companies.
His Twitter feed is very, very easy to ignore.

The rapid and visible progress towards the construction of a viable space age, not so much.
It doesn’t seem to have any comparison data wise to multi-generational raising of children, communal raising of children, etc. It confers mental illness and nuclear family structures as if correlation and causation are equal, even though if we expanded it it is clearly nonsense (mental illness is more commonly diagnosed in western countries where the nuclear family structure is tradition, therefore nuclear family structures are clearly a problem! /s)
Filtering can improve the signal-to-noise ratio dramatically. We have always had some moderation/editing on books, newspapers, scientific papers and many other forums of meaningful exchange for centuries, and we progressed just fine. I
I don't think you should be looking at this as a "solution" to any problems other than this: Elon Musk has built his net worth of $250 billion by saying things to people, and his primary bullhorn has been Twitter. Spending $43 billion to secure his access to the engine that got him to $250 billion is reasonable. Combine that with the fact that he can now put his thumb on the scale and get his tweets in front of more eyeballs, and that may increase TSLA enough to offset the cost of buying Twitter.

As usual for Musk, this is a business decision that is meant to benefit him that he is trying to sell as benefitting other people.

Edit - Musk's other companies, SpaceX, Boring, and Tesla, rely heavily on government subsidies and contracts. The access he gets to politicians by controlling their newsfeeds on the social network they pay attention to is also very valuable. Not valuable for Twitter, valuable for Musk.
Why is the 6800XT so in demand? And is it worth selling mine to buy a 6900XT or an nvidia? I don't do crypto
Elon Musk values growing his businesses more than anything else, which opens up a fairly conventional route to coercion
Vertical farming requires nuclear fusion. What's your schedule for that?

Seriously, why exactly are we throwing away free solar resources only to have to generate them through some other method that is much harder?
>Is it the goal ? To be the richest ? Amazing perspective for our world ahead, let people amass cash, it's going to go _great_

No, Elon understands money unlike most people. Money is not a thing to anyone except the poor. Money is not a measurement of being able or not to do anything. In understanding that you generate wealth that is beyond money.

>Except when he bets on camera only FSD, causes deaths, pushes the Hyperloop, does the Vegas Loop, calls people who reject him pedophiles, pushes Starship, pushes absolutely terrible working conditions for both factory workers and engineers, and an unending list of Elon bullshit.

Controversial guy eh. Crazy how much society is rewarding him so much.

>n the same way, is he "right" when Tesla only exists because of credits from the state (which he then complains about when the state asks him to respect the law), when SpaceX only exists because the US has kept it afloat, when he was kicked out of Paypal for being a dumbass, when he threatens our spacefaring possibilities with bullshit pride projects such as Starlink, when his stocks are propped up with his lies and just his personality ? Sure. Must be nice to live in the Musk Reality Distortion Field. Be real. He's not a hero.

I agree, a certain political persuasion really dislikes him.
Thanks, will pick up a copy!
If someone touts that free speech is important, but tries to suppress or penalize it, if it is directed against them. One natural conclusion would be, that their commitment is at least questionable.
Author here.

Fair enough! Since writing that I've done a lot of Zig code, which has labeled loops, and I can say it's definitely made a lot of code clearer than it would be otherwise.
Which political agenda is that? The one that is against hate speech, misinformation, and threats of violence?
> or twitter's function will eventually be filled by other apps, maybe even new ideas

Why would it? People have been complaining about facebook/twitter/etc for ages and competitors haven't turned out to be less harmful. Why is the idea that Musk forces his values into Twitter and that this makes the platform worse not a possibility?
I'm not sure I understand this. Corporate PR departments are not the White House Press Office. They don't stand up in the briefing room and take questions from the press, or hold a press gaggle. The entire point of these departments is to deflect uncomfortable questions. It's exactly the opposite.
Is it an M1? The dock situation you have is probably to blame.

I have one LG 27GL850 and an HP 24 nothing fancy.
I used to use an HP thunderbolt dock to power both monitors, one output via HDMI and one via DP. Surprisingly, the HDMI output worked better. Still I had weird issues like flickering at random, limited refresh rate, etc and I had to de power the dock often.

Now I have a TB4 hub, 1 TB to the laptop, 3 TB out. Not only it’s cheaper but it’s smaller, more modular and more stable. I use two TB to whatever video port you need and one TB to Ethernet. It works great.

Also the M1 macs had issues outputting RGB color but I think it’s been solved in in Monterey, but if you tried any fixes before you might have to clear your settings file.

I just plug in the laptop, touch the keyboard and I’m up and running.

A trick to get cleartype-smooth fonts is to use betterdummy and mirror your monitors to it. It renders at 4K and the mirroring looks much better. The only problems are how complicated the setup gets with multiple monitors and that it’s limited to 60hz
I never mentioned censorship, which is a loaded and mostly useless (because agonizing and polarizing) term.

I talked about flow of information. Science isn’t done on twitter, and twitter is not for scientists or those able and willing to read papers. Twitter is for the 90% who rely on groups, and the more tooling we implement that incentivizes those groups to devalue intellectual depth, the more we restrict the flow of actual information at scale. Policing who is able to distribute which data is, simply put, harmful to the organism.
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This couldn't be further from the truth.

People invest with Elon because he has, objectively, an extraordinary track record of success.

- SpaceX's market capitalization has surpassed $100 billion [1].
- Tesla's market cap has topped $1 trillion, eclipsing the combined value of all other automakers [2].
- Elon's latest venture, The Boring Company, is currently valued at $5.7 billion [3].

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/08/elon-musks-spacex-valuation-...

[2] https://finance.yahoo.com/quote/tsla/key-statistics/

[3] https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/21/elon-musks-boring-company-hi...
The poison pill only takes effect during a hostile takeover.

Elon asked the board if he could buy Twitter. If the board were to say "no", the poison pill protects Twitter against Elon buying up all the shares in the open market anyway.

The board saying "yes" bypasses all that.
Dude your timeline is so incredibly off which seriously invalidates your comment - not to mention your fundamental understanding of the human condition. Not even Elon has put anything out there and his timelines are more aggressive than reality (see almost all his product roll-outs).
So we should debate it? But how do we decide who wins the debate? Should we have a majority vote? If the majority believes a belief deserves our tolerance, then it should be tolerated, otherwise not?
yes, started reading the books 2 nights ago and tried that out yesterday to do some mundane tasks that I never find the motivation to do. It was amazingly effective and I love the simplicity of it. Not sure how long it'll keep its effect though hehe
Yes, it is indeed outdated, however some of the criticism/praise is still relevant. I'll see if I can take a second look at the language in the coming days.
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Do you know who Stephen Fry is?
> Many many people on twitter would happily pay for it

maybe that's the key. $15/month subscription to post, free to read.
let all the toxic people back on

How about pivoting away from a system where shouting “toxic” is a means to silence uncomfortable speech, and to a system that gives users better tools to focus on what they’re looking for?
Maybe archival DVDs? They sound good on paper and some of them show promising marketing test data but does anyone have any information on whether these products are likely to be any good for long term retention with infrequent reads?
I haven't met Elon, so I dunno if I buy your view. But I do thank you for articulating it so clearly.

we've got this cultural veil of cynical nihilism that keeps us from thinking people could think like that. You're suggesting that someone is a good person? OMG no way. and he's some rich arsehole? can't be

Terry Pratchett called it "crab bucket" thinking.

It may be worth the risk of buying into some Musk hagiography just to have a break from the common popular despair.
While I'm of the opinion that "curing" ADHD at a young age might be a bad idea [1], ADHD is a genetic difference in the brain that is present from birth. It's not a personality thing. It's not something that happens to you later in life.

1: as someone that got diagnosed in adult age, I am now aware of my talents and shortcomings, and all the things I have struggled with. I keep reading of kids on Ritalin that grow to hate their parents for having put them on medication, quit it, and find themselves completely lost in life. They have no idea how dysfunctional they are. They've never had a chance to experience how debilitating it can be.
I use sqlite and litestream for all of my projects, deployment very simple, performance is great, litestream backups to backblaze b2 cost pennies per month
I once had a candidate submit a 20 page(!) resume. They were so full of themselves. That one I actually did spend 5 minutes with to see what they found so fascinating about their history, but it was otherwise an instant reject.
Also a former usenetter. And former FidoNETter.
No-one is defending the owner of the account asking for more money in response to Elon asking them to take it down and offering some compensation. However, they didn't take the initiative to approach Elon first and ask for money for removal of the account, and their responses to Elon can be read as just (immature) bravado. So your accusation of 'extortion' looks to me as overhyped as your accusation of 'stalking'.
Yes, obviously. There are outside factors why Python was chosen. I tend to work with whatever language is needed, and try to make the best of it.

I've tried mypy and pytype, and found both to be unsatisfying and hard to sell to the team (which as I mentioned, don't even like writing tests). If you're thinking "well, that's a culture/professionalism rather than a technical problem", you are absolutely right! But I'm left wondering if a language that was better at static typing would be better because, a- the checking would be mandatory, and b- it would be demonstrably more effective than Python's "optional" checking/hinting. At least it'd remove one variable from the problem. Or maybe not, who knows.
If you don’t see the toxic, you probably are the toxic
People will be hurtful and abusive no matter how moderated the platform is. Even HN has its share of colorful commentary from time to time. If individuals here and there decide it's best for them to not be on any social media, nothing the platform can do - even if it brings more users overall - will keep those individuals.
Agreed.

He cannot even solve moderation of racism in his own factory, let alone online.

I'll be ditching twitter completely. The whole thing rubs me up the wrong way in terms of what I want to associate myself with.

Facebook vibes.

Just another facebook run by another egotistic billionaire.

Not my cup of tea.
Hi!

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I imagine, since SQLite does not connect over the network but is just part of the program, the permission model is "if the process is allowed to read the file, it can do things".

That would probably boil down to "code execution on the machine means access to the DB". And that sounds pretty reasonable to me.
Honest question, why can Elon, and only Elon solve the bot problem? Software devs have been trying to solve this problem since the beginning of the internet and yet bots still fill every space on the web.
> ... the possibility of recursion was implemented only recently, etc).

Noting that "recently" was August 2014 (version 3.8.6), according to https://sqlite.org/oldnews.html.

The "missing" right/full join types just hit trunk this past week and are still being debugged: https://sqlite.org/src/info/f766dff012af0ea3
> Twitter HAS a free speech problem. This is not controversial.

Twitter has limitations on free speech, it's totally debatable if that's a problem or not.
> If Musk fails to deliver on free speech, his persona will be on stake.

Hardly; nothing Elon Musk does will turn his fanboys off, and everybody else already has a "meh" opinion of him. There is no risk for him.
Jim Allchin, who ran Windows development at the time, didn't send an email to Gates and Ballmer warning about management issues.

He told them that Longhorn was a pig and he didn't see any solution to that issue.

Just before the code base was abandoned.
Not sure what is so hard about this.

The mission of Tesla is not free speech, but to accelerate the transition to sustainable energy. Tesla seems to be doing just fine without a PR department, so it seems he was right to shut it down.

The mission of SpaceX is to make life multi-planetary. So of course there is no right to free speech for the employees.

But the mission of twitter should be free speech within the bounds of the law, at least according to Elon.

Currently it seems to be to move the Overton window so much to the left that you can be banned for giving the definition of what a woman is that was commonly accepted by everybody in 2010.
Don’t underestimate the power that Twitter confers on a private owner. It has become the de facto public square for the highest level politicians and executives. It is where embassies, CEOs and presidents publicly squabble. While Instagram and Tik Tok provide entertainment and distraction, the powerful influence the masses on Twitter.

When Trump was banned in Jan 2022, most of his 88 million followers never heard from him again. No matter your feelings or leanings, that’s a lot of power - to instantly mute a president.

This has nothing to do with turning Twitter around as a business.

It may have something to do with fostering freedom of expression globally.

It definitely confers a huge amount of power on the new owner and ensures no one can mute them.

Given the adversarial nature that Musk has with the current US administration, I expect an almost immediate regulatory action if this deal completes.
Well that's certainly one way to view it, but I am not sure whether it's how Feynman himself would have viewed it. To me there's an implication there that he doesn't view atoms in this context as passive beings since Feynman was definitely not a passive kind of person. I think instead the line suggests that even the smallest possible part of the universe contains all the beauty and complexity of the entire universe as well as life itself.

But you do make a fascinating argument. It's an interesting philosophical point to be sure.

EDIT: Perhaps there is at least potential for resolution if we give up the classical definition of atoms (being the smallest indivisible parts) in favor of that of modern physics, in which not all atoms are created equal. But that opens up a whole other can of worms.
Yeah, I didn't mean to imply it's not relevant.
User styles are not supported in most mobile browsers, as far as I'm aware.
Why is there no Uber for live music?
He is like a modern Icarus. Just replace wax with leverage.

Fortunately technology in SpaceX and Tesla will not cease to exist if Musk goes personally bankrupt and loses these companies.

If he burns and falls, all the good stuff he made is left behind.
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The 4chan model didn't even work for 4chan, but I wish Twitter the best of luck should that be the new strategy.
Jobs' output was impressive too! The reality distortion field enables Musk to hire extremely effectively. I know some really really strong engineers who chose SpaceX because Musk is there, despite having higher paying offers elsewhere.

A big challenge is that Twitter's problems aren't engineering problems. They are sociology problems. Musk has demonstrated that he can hire engineers to solve engineering problems. How well will that translate into sociology problems?
No indeed, let us continue to double down on austerity, given its truly astonishing success so far
> Innovation could just happen at a higher level.

That, or retro-backing into the protocol novel features required by those experimental languages.

In my experience, industry-wide ossification and chilling effects appear not because the environment makes it difficult to build new designs, but because it makes it difficult to think outside the current paradigm and imagine novel features.

Once those innovative ideas are out of the box and many people understand their need, the frameworks needed to support them are created. I know because right now we're experiencing such a paradigm shift in terms of note-taking and knowledge building (abandoning WYSIWYG word processors in favor of networked-thinking bidirectional-linked graphs of notes), which IMHO sooner or later will extend to programming tools as well.
Didn't Elon say he wants to get rid of the bots though? I don't see how that would work in Trump's favor.
Not sure what a "whiteboard" coding challenge is.

The last interview I did, I was asked to find and fix a bug in a small code fragment. On my own, I'd have fixed it in a jiffy; with two interviewers looking over my shoulder I was nervous, and it took longer.

But if you're interviewing on the basis that the candidate claims in their resume to know language X, then a brief test of that is essential; and an online test doesn't cut the mustard - it could be anyone doing the work.
Easy solution: Buy CaTcOiN, get bot push cAtciOn, have Musk retweet it, sell caTCoIn -> platform monetized
If I was sharing a GUI with coworkers I would use Zoom. If it was a terminal I would enable Multiuser in GNU Screen. If you mean remotely managing a windows server as its administrator then I would use RDP. Microsoft's RDP terminal server is integrated into their security controls and group policy.
snapchat has more monthly active users than twitter does. tiktok is over 2x as big as twitter, soon to be 3x. if an intelligent person wanted to own the public square, they would buy tiktok
Except for when the church decided what’s culturally appropriate and what’s not. Eerily reminding of the content moderation teams in SV, isnt it?

Improving signal quality != fire walling signals as a whole.