skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great points. I worked with some archivists on a project several years ago (When ODF was a big thing) and was surprised at the amount of controversy.

There’s a couple of schools of thought. In general archivists want to preserve the original document, but at that time they were already losing access to 1980s word processing formats.

Some folks advocate PDF/A output as a “standard” preservation technique. The people I was working with were making a point in time TIFF image of whatever was being preserved and storing it side by side at the time. (I think they transitioned to PDF/A when the spec was revised) PDF/A is the standard for US Courts, so renderers will be available for a hundred years or more.

It’s an interesting problem space because time is not kind to electronic documents. Even stuff like PowerPoint from circa 2000 doesn’t always render cleanly today. When “H.269” is released in 2050, will anyone ship H.264 codecs?
>Nobody builds Tesla or SpaceX to get famous or rich

How can you look at his compensation package at Tesla that he negotiated and claim it was not to "get rich"? It's not like he did it for free.
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It's neither a completely crazy nor completely new idea. E.g. Metafilter charges (charged? I haven't checked in a while) a $5 one-time sign-up fee that's less for revenue generation and more intended to make it sting a bit if you're banned (which Metafilter is notoriously hesitant to do).

Problem being that Metafilter is unpopular compared to many of the free alternatives. Correlation is not causation, but there is a plausible causation mechanism here.
What are you saying? I studied years of Latin, and have no idea what your sentences means.

Literally, “With this, therefore that.”

I know it’s a fallacy, but fallacies need to be shown, not cited.
It may be a sunk-cost fallacy

It may not

Fact remains: if it has been paid-for, there's a strong justification for using it if you have it
You mean, before Tesla? Like PayPal?

Musk got rich off of PayPal. But lets be clear, he "lead" it for less than four months before being fired as the CEO for gross incompetence.
Where I am, only five days roll over, and PTO is accrued over a year. I think that if I were to quit in January, I would get a very small payout for my un-used PTO days.

I would much rather work somewhere with unlimited PTO, and not have to nickel-and-dime my vacation time. (Although, yes, this assumes that I'm lucky enough to work at a place that doesn't abuse the unlimited PTO promise.)
That's a good point. However, they are the go-to point for anyone wanting to ask a company a question. What does it say if a publicly traded company (or Musk) doesn't even want to do that minimum amount of work to at least pretend to be transparent?
> Laser prints have the bad tendency to "unstick" themselves from the paper, you end up losing everything.

Have NEVER heard of this
How did it go from hostility to acceptance so quickly? I understand playing hard-ball to negotiate a higher price, BUT why play hard-ball and just accept the initial offer?

Or is there something else at play (maybe expectation is that shareholders reject it?) and this is just a PR ploy.
> Is there a reason you can't turn all of the bans (of legal stuff) into filters?

Among other reasons, because Twitter is a brand with an image to maintain. They don't want to be known as a safe hangout for Nazis and other unsavory content.
BTW I'm thinking that, with the cost of transporting a ton of cargo in space, interplanetary invasions might be impractical because it will be extremely expensive to transport any kind of military force. That does not preclude a conflict between the local colonies though.
I bet if I followed exclusively capybara accounts my blood pressure would drop 5-10 points.
They are not. His position is entirely contradictory.
Perhaps we could do this with an NI increase that costs higher earners more, raising the NI threshold to benefit those on lower incomes, reducing fuel duty, and providing council tax rebates for those living in lower value properties?
Simple asymmetry. Scammers can generate junk faster than I as an individual can block it. My choices are to either use a moderated platform or abandon social media altogether.
You mean when reddit stopped being reddit, pushed out their original techy userbase, and invited in the flood of Facebook refugees becoming Facebook 2.0? Yeah, entirely changing your platform's userbase will do that.
What happened to their family wasn't the divorce, but the event causing the divorce, which would have been there--marriage or not.

For example: A father loses his job and refuses to find work. The family becomes poor, moves to bad neighborhoods, the father starts drinking and becoming abusive.
After a couple of years the mother divorces the father.

Divorce is not what the kids are cut up and bitter about. Had the above mother not divorced the father, the kids would have still been cut up and bitter.
That's simply not true. Think of a slightly different model.

> We don't want our advertisements to be shown next to posts that do X, Y or Z

That's effectively, the same as

> We want to see our advertisements by A, B and C

Just give advertisers different options.

Further, Twitter advertisements aren't much different than billboards. Do you worry about the politics / optics of the drivers or even protesters beneath the the billboards in a city? No, of course not, you just want people to buy your products. Do people care, no.

It's all fake outrage, trust me people will still buy Coke or Pepsi even if someone sees something distasteful while doom scrolling.

In terms of general "toxicity" there's already blocking users, but allow users to "avoid topics" if they need their safe spaces. Then as a business, let users "pay to avoid topics" as it'll require some hand curation -- boom. More money for twitter, more users on the platform, everyone wins.
His Tesla stake is worth ~190bn and the rest of his estimated net worth is comprised of SpaceX etc. Not sure why you think that is his Tesla equity only.
> like the person reinventing the wheel where a well known library could have been used

This is a particularly shitty signal to my mind. Half the reason to experiment with writing software outside of work is to reinvent the wheel and see what shakes out - you'll almost never have the opportunity to do that at work, and if nobody ever does that, we never discover better ways of developing software.
I think an important thing about that CW thread is you get a strong group of regulars. Any fora with a strong group of regulars can survive almost anything thrown at it - except an influx Eternal September style of newcomers that overwhelms the group.

It’s been seen time and time and time and time again and I’m not sure there’s any real way to preserve it.

You have a similar thing with tiny tourist places - everyone wanting to go there forces it to change, it cannot remain a tiny tourist place and almost always ends up being a place that is “on show”.
As in not feasible or ridiculous as a matter of principle? Would it be ridiculous for any other country or is the UK specially situated?
I don’t really understand this defense. It seems a bit like saying, “I don’t understand why people don’t like this neighborhood. Sure the murder rate is 10x the national average and cars are stolen off my block every week. But I built a big wall with razor wire around my house and just use Uber, and I have a great life! Why don’t more people just do that?”

Social media is designed in such a way that most engagement is somewhat mindless, so most people like and follow stuff they enjoy on a whim and then can’t easily connect the dots to how toxic stuff ended up in their feed. But beside that, even if you can understand exactly how to curate Twitter into something nice… why bother? There’s zero cost to just hang out in nicer parts of the internet, or, even better, talk to people IRL.
I'd argue that.

Because what has Musk done for the "good of the species"?

I mean you have guys like Fritz Haber, whose Haber-Bosch process is responsible for the production of nearly two-thirds of the world's foodstuffs and literally feeds half the world.

Or Stanley Norman Cohen, father of genetic modification. Whose patents touch nearly every other biological field today. You literally cannot calculate the number of lives he has potentially saved.
My stance is "these people don't know what they're talking about".

I'm not actually American, but my understanding is that there have been prior attempts, especially in some US states, to make hate speech illegal, but each time it just gets knocked down because it violates that pesky first amendment.

The U.S. Supreme Court has repeatedly ruled that most of what would qualify as hate speech in other western countries is legally protected free speech under the First Amendment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hate_speech_in_the_United_Stat...

Now, if you're saying "All twitter should just follow the laws of the country", now you've got to decide which country?, because most Twitter users are not in the US, and Twitter operatates - has business entities and employees - in other countries apart from US.
It's not $10 per site, it's $10 one off. You would get the money back almost immediately if your request is not abusive. I'd be interested to know how many twitter users couldn't scrape together a once off $10.
Vacant property insurance can also be more expensive in certain locations as untenanted buildings tend to get quickly vandalized and have higher rates of arson.

Easier to just put a popup retailer in it on a peppercorn rent.
It seems to me like most "intrapersonal communication" is not fully formed, but latent. Because everything is filled in as you go there, it seems like sentences are formed at a crazy speed and with superb proficiency. Minor errors don't matter because nothing is vocalized and the underlying processes "know what is meant" regardless. A little bit as-if internal speech is just a handle to move thoughts around, and not the actual thought itself.
Many countries actually have very restrictive legal limits on speech
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Twitter literally has hookers and other sex workers on the platform. If advertisers really cared about brand safety they would have already left.
True, my 13 year old probably doesn't even recognize Bill Gates, or know who he is. And if I explained it to him, he wouldn't care.
This is a reality today in the Mastodon world where some self appointed hall monitors created Fediblock to create a list of bad instances which created a shadow network of instances on the list that subscribe to each other and discover new instances to federate with using the Fediblock list
I enjoyed The History of the Making of the Atomic Bomb
Yeah it makes a lot of sense just to be able to type existing functions. Seems weir d not to allow true though. I feel like both should be added for completeness.
> said that moderation is working well if "the most extreme 10% of the left and the right are equally frustrated."

The problem occurs when those ten percents use the ensuing outrage to recruit.
It's hard to give a shit about educating people when they openly discuss wanting to murder you or eradicate people like you.
Show HN: I rendered a 3d model in Excel
> The sale would represent an admission by Twitter that its new chief executive Parag Agrawal, who took the helm in November, is not making enough traction in making the company more profitable

Is this so? Or just that the offered price is too good to pass up? Real questions.
I'd consider myself pretty far left, especially by American standards, but Musk is in no way some sort of crypto (in the traditional sense) fascist. He's got some pretty libertarian views on free speech, a blind spot for PoC, and that's about it. I'd hardly categorize that as "alt right".
Won't those methods still throw an exception if the object is null though? (Honest question, I have not done much Java since Optional was added and was under the impression that it didn't support implementing methods that wouldn't throw exceptions on null like Go can do with nil)
Musk's town square by Hieronymus Bosch or Pieter Bruegel
You might want to learn more about Zig's comptime.
Honestly I'm not sure you need one for programming. In accounting it's kind of required.
Use a ZFS snapshot on a rotation so you can restore accidentally deleted files (a hedge against user error, ransomware, etc.)
PHP 8.2 will probably not add many new features more of cleaning up the language (still important ofc), similar to PHP 7.2 or PHP 7.3.

PHP 7.4 did however add a lot of interesting features like FFI, JIT, preloading, typed properties and arrow functions.

Thus if PHP 8 development will by any way similar how PHP 7 was developed you need to hang in there for at least one more release but probably two more releases or wait for PHP 9.
Twitter shareholders should give ElonsJet a bonus then.
What's interesting is if you frame evolution as a system for producing and propagating increasingly efficient (given a context or state) behaviors through time (such that "living things" can amass more energy or manipulate their environment more), and take into account what makes humans unique, it's really eye opening as to the nature of intelligence, learning, emotions, and really just why we are the way we are. It seems the things that make humanity unique is how extremely efficient we are at propagating knowledge through time via means that are not merely genetic, yet our brains are still fundamentally limited by the chemical processes that make them up. What would happen if we were able to find a way to create a self-regulating, autofeedback system that made decisions at the speed of, say, electricity (nearly c)
> It seems so easy from a distance

You seem to assume it's a binary answer. Either allow everything or nothing?
Loved the article. Following it thru roads less traveled and stumbled on the golden nugget.

John Stapp's Law (or Stapp's Ironic Paradox) states: "The universal aptitude for ineptitude makes any human accomplishment an incredible miracle."
You’re totally naive to how advertising works, just look at how quickly advertisers abandoned YouTube following the wall street journal reporting.

From an advertiser perspective, if Twitter allows nazis, advertisers will be funding the distribution of nazi content — UI framing means nothing.
American exceptionalism at its finest.
I don't know if and when reddit stopped being reddit, but I can guarantee that the "techy userbase", whoever that was, did not leave because a few thousand people where told to fantasize about mass-murdering minorities elsewhere.
Every politician recorded betraying their professed morals is supporting evidence that power, intelligence and resources don't automatically transmute into shrewdness. Also, he likely believes that sort of consideration is beneath commanding his attention.
Its not contradictory when you realize his rhetoric is about individual rights and not bot rights…
Shocker /s

Almost like they knew it was going to end like this but now they can say that they tried, only to be stopped by the "activist judges". (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-54687081)

This government's attacks on the judiciary is nothing short of awful.
we really want TWITTER, of all things, to be the place for important social discourse?

I certainly don't. But, I can see why an individual who owns Twitter would want it to be the place for important social discourse.
I'm opposite. Aphantasia but can hear nearly perfectly in my mind's ear
I don't see how this ends well.
Well, it remains to be understood just what will happen to Twitter, once it has been de-weaponised. (Twitter is already in the hands of the bad guys, btw. Everything people are worried that Elon will do to Twitter, has already happened.)

So .. are you seriously saying you don't think Elon is going to improve Twitter?

Because, factually he has already done so, just by making us have this conversation.
It seems very likely to me there's a whole backroom drama at work here that we're just not hearing about. I strongly suspect the full story involves Jack and his departure, for example.

Maybe someday it will all come out.
The Spanish and Turkish have nothing to do with refugees crossing the channel, though. Why these people do that is because of the previous presence of the British Empire in their corner of the world, otherwise they'd have stopped on the way; there are several countries they have to cross that are not really any worse than the UK for people in their situation.

The Spanish have their own share of problems at their border with Morocco and along their mediterranean coast.
Well, the obvious/naive connection/correlation would be that the increased limits were a response to it becoming a "cess pool". And haven't totally succeeded at reversing that, but may or may not have kept it from being even worse than it would have been without them.
I'd be interested to know what kind of corruption you were facing.
Not OP, but I recently wrote about solving this problem in my interpreter[1]. Essentially using a combination of LCell (compile time interior mutability) and taking a shared reference to the GC as you suggest.

[1] https://coredumped.dev/2022/04/11/implementing-a-safe-garbag...
You wrote a program that's a gigabyte of source code?

I find that incredibly hard to believe
Every really rich guy needs a media company of some description to provide their narrative control to maintain their wealth. 30 years ago a billionaire would have bought a newspaper to exert their influence, today you would buy social media sites to achieve the same.
The Russian laptop is just as terrible as you imagined
That obviously isn’t true. Musk already uses the platform as a tool for financial fraud.
Somethingawful did the same. I think it probably led to it's success and also kept it going a few extra years.
>I do, because a picture of the criminal might be worth more than $10,000, or you might have to call an ambulance and your life is worth something

He had the chance to have a good solution and decided it's not worth it, that's the difference.

>and your life is worth something

Restart your phone.
I have seen SQLite disconnect random sessions of multiple writers, rather than blocking them. Setting WAL mode made no difference.

This database can safely be used by a single writer at all times.

To implement the serialization that SQLite does not, do this in the POSIX shell:

until mkdir ~/.dpapplock 2> /dev/null
do sleep 3
done

trap "rmdir ~/.dbapplock" EXIT
sqlite3_app ...

The mkdir() system call is defined as atomic by POSIX, so the shell can safely serialize for you, assuming there are never more than a handful.
If that was the point, it'd be a wrong point. The connections would not be small. They would be small on the 30,000-foot view, but up close at the implementation level each and every one of them would come with a crapton of assumptions about how they operation that would at times require architectural changes to the editor to work. This one "helpfully" works based on the files on the disk. That one connects via Protocol Buffers. Each of course have their own set of error messages and a protocol to implement. Whoops, this one is more synchronous than I thought. Whoops, the way this one works conflicts with my incremental compile feature. Crap, this one turns out to implicitly require a certain threading model. Oh dear, this one wants a stream of every keystroke made, but that one wants the entire file sent over when we want to run an analysis. Aw heck, our IDE model requires the whole file to be sent over for incremental analysis but doing that six times a second kills my whole dev machine, and doing it not six times a second makes the latency intolerably slow compared to our current custom implementation for our dominant language.

The original NxM problem is that each language needed support per editor and each editor required support per langauge. While "each language writes one custom server" and "each editor has to support each language's custom protocol" would still be an improvement, it wouldn't be enough of one.

Now, the idea that an editor can just implement this protocol and magically all the unicorns start singing in unison is a pipe dream as well. But what it does is make something that is completely infeasible for even a well-funded commercial team into something that some new little open source editor can afford to start doing. Support for Haskell may be a bit rough until someone wants to use Haskell in that editor and can fix the editor support for Haskell specifically, because of this quirk and that quirk and the other quirk (the quirks will always be with us), but at least it's in the realm of possibility now instead of a ludicrous pie-in-the-sky idea.
> Which does not work because to quite a lot of people drowning in the Channel is preferable to what they fled back home

But France is presumably a lot nicer tho?
I agree with you in principle, but 4chan doesn't have the reach Twitter has, as soon as those platforms start having a wide enough reach, they are dangerous. I mean, Facebook was used to incite genocide and Twitter nearly toppled but damaged a democracy. Maybe the solution is to prevent social networks to gain too big of a reach.
I'd always opt to use their hosted database in those constraints. IMO SQLite only works well if you own the storage, so bare metal (or VMs) only.
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Lowering taxes is counterproductive, though. The problem is sharing the burden with the wealthier. At some point, you can't really get something for nothing and we have to accept that if we want first-world services and infrastructure, we have to pay for them. And paying for them through taxes is way more efficient than just letting private companies extract their benefits from tolls and such.
How long does data on an USB stick tend to last?
Well, I'm going to be somewhat controversial here and say: What the fuck were people expecting?

Moderation is hard, genuinely hard, every order of magnitude increase in community size is not linear to the moderation requirement: it is factorial.

Why? Because every single communication has the potential for abuse, and the number of interactions on a platform do not scale linearly with the increase of users.

This is why things like the "Eternal September" exist, a deluge of new users is basically impossible to moderate at scale.

I think Twitter, Facebook and co. have done a fairly decent job of the mess they made, but crucially they decided that a walled garden where everyone exists together was their business model.

I think this is fundamentally flawed. "Back in my day" (I know it may be glazed with nostalgia, but) smaller close knit forums were much better at moderating communities, because it was still humanly possible.

There did exist some communities which became tyrannical; but the benefit of small communities is that people just go wherever it's "nice enough", and if you don't like the moderation staff or how they moderate you can move on with your friends.

I think people don't want this to be true, people are so financially invested in the centralised model; but ultimately you force a single set of potentially tyrannical moderators and a single culture. -- and people aren't willing (or able) to pay for the correct level of moderation.

It's Sisyphean and totally self-inflicted.
I also find twitter to be a nice place. I pretty much follow other developers and the option to order by datetime pretty much removes any attempt from twitter to control what I see.

>> I'm seeing loads of comments about how toxic Twitter is, but isn't that on you?

That is what I too think every time some says that.