skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1240754657263144960

> Based on current trends, probably close to zero new cases in US too by end of April

>> 5:38 PM · Mar 19, 2020·Twitter for iPhone

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Musk was constantly marginalizing COVID19 statistics and downplaying the effects. There's more than one COVID19 conspiracy.

Musk was part of the "not that bad", COVID19 is like the flu, etc. etc. conspiracy theorists.
What do you want out of learning backend engineering?

A job? Then Node is sufficient. Go wouldn't be hard to pick up on top of it to make yourself more attractive. PHP is somehow still a stalwart in this realm, too, and there's lots of demand for C#.NET out there.

Do you have a project in mind? You'll want to consider the particularities of the idea and its requirements to decide if a specific language/runtime/framework could serve you significantly better than one you already kinda know.

Just to learn more? This is the hardest. Learning just to learn is very enervating. But if you've got the spirit, I would suggest trying something more exotic to what you've listed, like Haskell or Clojure, to explore different ways of approaching the problem at a high level, or rolling some socket code in C for a deep dive into the low-level specifics of web backends.
Looks like we already have. Your 5 dogecoin is worth 25% more on the news.
The Twitter Board has reached an agreement with Elon Musk
I'm not saying subscription would equal ad revenue I'm saying cut out the fat in the form of supurflous PMs and the C and B player fraction of the 7,500 employees at twitter (each probably 100k or more a year) and I don't think it's infeasible the same amount of profit would remain on the table (or at least enough to keep it going - without the negative dependencies musk thinks an ad income is associated to).
No, I can say from personal experience receiving RSUs from private companies that there was no arbitrary limit on how many people could receive them. I don't fully understand why that is the case, my suspicion is that employees receive share units, i.e. are not "shareholders" technically. The share units can be converted to cash at liquidity events or will convert to actual shares at an IPO event.
I'm curious, how long until the mean tweets are back? Anyone want to place bets?
Had done that (obviously), didn't work on Chromecast with GTV. Had called customer support and filed a technical ticket. Nothing happened. Too late now.
As does caffeine, but I don’t consider it enjoyable.

I know why I started smoking and it wasn’t because I enjoyed the weak stimulant benefits, it was because of social rituals and later addiction.

My points wasn’t “nicotine has no positive effects”, but more of the negative effects (in most delivery methods) vastly outweigh the benefits.
and by "Americans", you mean "large corporations with wares to sell."
That's easily solved with http://www.shellcheck.net/
You're not?
Bypassing Hotspot Limits on iOS
I think it's quite naive to assume that someone with billions to throw around doesn't have PR and social media management companies working for him.

These people are not like us. They're more like sovereign corporations with a pseudo-monarch as head, and a literal army of both overt and covert support workers handling security, PR and impression management, financial operations, and so on.

Social media bot accounts are possibly the lowest cost and highest return form of PR and sentiment management ever invented.
C takes on many dialects based on specialization. Compare code from the following, and you will see a range from trivial to understand to WTF. These are all real-world applications:

- Linux kernel (events) - https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/events/...

- Arm CMSIS - (16-bit math) - https://github.com/ARM-software/CMSIS_5/blob/develop/CMSIS/D...

- Numerical Methods in C - (Jacobian FP) - https://github.com/saulwiggin/Numerical-Recipies-in-C/blob/m...

- GNU 'ls' Command - https://github.com/coreutils/coreutils/blob/master/src/ls.c

- Gstreamer - (De-facto media streaming) - https://github.com/GStreamer/gstreamer/blob/master/gst/gstel...

GStreamer is my favorite because it basically creates VTables like C++ but calls them Klasses (based on Gnome), and it is just a brilliant framework in general, but an utter perversion of C IMHO.
> thinking in words and sentences sounds like thoughts being weighed and slowed down

This has been my experience as I've learned to stop thinking in words. I realized at one point that words are learned; which means that there was a point where you were thinking without them, before you learned language.

I've done a lot of work on myself with therapy and meditation and learned to think without words. And what I've noticed is that when I think with words, they occur AFTER what I'd call sensational thinking; thinking without words is a full-body sensational experience for me and not something that only occurs in a slice of the mind like a vapid calculation.

>mind chatter

A few times I've experienced acting without any chatter. A pure quietness. It's wonderful.

I've been working on myself to make this a permanent thing.
>> Trolls, disinformation spreaders, and "free reach absolutists" are going to be thrilled with the megaphone Musk will provide them to drown out their enemies.

Just remember, twitter does not give those people a megaphone. It's the media that report on their stupid shit that gives them an audience. Otherwise nobody would know what they're saying - especially the people who don't like them - and yet everyone knows who some of those people are.
> There was a time when I would tell people to learn C++ but now I tell them to start with C and work their way up

I tell people to learn Python. When they get a hang of it then I introduce them to C and pointers. When they can demonstrate effective use of pointers without blowing up then advance to C++. If not then just keep using Python. I'd rather them learn computer science fundamentals on the easy language. Then they can learn the better language out of necessity ("i need more performance" or "i need more control over the data structure in memory" or similar) instead of shoehorning them into a language they're not ready for.

I love C++. But it's not for everyone.
No based on what's going on the thread. There is comparison everywhere with mainstream languages.
I like Pyramid + SQLAlchemy. Pyramid scales much better that Django or Flask and it has an active and vibrant user community.
Twitter board agrees to $44bn takeover by Elon Musk
Windows is by far the worst of the three.
I bet spams will be removed.
I disagree but want to explain why.

I don't view GitHub as a place to show off your code, or a place to find new code, or whatever. It's where my code is stored. I trust what's on GitHub more than I trust what's on any server, or any laptop, or running on my dev environment right now. As such, the idea of "cleaning it up" before putting it on GitHub seems backward. Code gets committed as soon as it's written, and if it gets cleaned up that history gets saved too. If somebody wants to pull my shitcode down that doesn't even have a readme, that's on them.
> A key design insight for LXR is that regular brief STW pauses provide a highly-efficient, low-latency approach to garbage collection.

I have been playing around with low-latency GC strategies in .NET6, and have discovered a similar pattern - If you intentionally run GC as frequently as makes sense (i.e. instead of trying to avoid it or sweep it under some other rug), you can sometimes reach a solution that is far superior to any other.

My example being a toy software rendering engine that is utilized by several concurrent clients. I asked myself "What would happen if I just ran GC right before every single frame"? Turns out, for reasonable scene sizes, the maximum amount of time the GC pause lasted was <5ms, producing a perfect result for my use case. Without intentionally calling GC, I would sometimes see pauses upwards of 3-4 seconds, which clearly has a severe impact on user experience for this type of application.

The way it works in my head - I am happy to pay a small 1~5ms cost for every frame (or batch of frames as the case may be) rather than allowing the .NET runtime to decide when would be most convenient and incur a much longer collection.

"Clean as you go" might be the best way to achieve low latency in any reality. Deferring and hiding is how things build up. Something is gonna have to eventually deal with all that trash unless you are shipping cruise missiles.
...or a pay-to-edit button.
> It's better to stick to local rules than getting a clique in silicon valley to decide what they think should be acceptable to say.

In SV you don’t get locked up or suicided if you say the wrong thing.

Following the law in some of the places listed above would have Musk help identify those breaking local laws.
Show HN: I built a simple realtime poker planning tool
My team wanted a simple free poker planning tool.

I used that as an excuse to demo the newly released realtime apis on https://javascriptdb.com

Use it live at https://planningpoker.day

I'll be adding github projects integration soon :)
Nah, you could just have them come and build something at your office while you watch them, and ask them leading questions when they get stuck.
Wow! I was very pleasantly transported back to the voxels of 1992 playing Comanche 3D.
How do you know I didn't do that on purpose? ;-)

But, I don't care about your spelling and grammar mistakes in emails and slack messages (and hacker news comments) after you are hired. Its just on your resume where it matters.
I think it is deeper than personal want. i have a feeling that the more people communicate to each other about something, the more they value their personal experience to be relatable. Every customization makes your experience less relatable.
> Saying tankage is cheap is to note that there is no upper limit on the amount of tankage you can have, and the watt-hours you can bank; your bottleneck is only the conversion rate.

I think there are a lot of use cases for those fuels that don't even require a lot of long term storage, my current favorite being hydrogen fuel cell powered semi trucks that already burn a lot of diesel crossing places that have a lot of renewable electricity potential but not enough transmission (i.e. wind in the Great Plains and sun in the desert Southwest). This would get around the issues with batteries eating into truck weight limits.

Also, the idea of freight trucks "sailing" across the country on wind power is just an appealing narrative.
That enables (the same sort of) dark mode on _all_ sites, while with Dark Reader you can customize it per site.
> I find it hard to overlook that at least one thing that might be motivating him to buy Twitter is to tweet however he wants to tweet, regardless of US law.

This doesn't really track. First of all he already tweets however he wants. Secondly what difference would it make to the SEC if he owns Twitter here?
Twitter agrees Elon Musk takeover deal
The statistics don't actually tell you YOUR risk. They tell if the risk a population has on average collectively.

Your personal risks could be much higher or lower, and quantifying them is basically impossible. It only makes sense to use the "average" risk level for reasoning if the sampled population is particularly representative of you, which is vanishingly unlikely due to the "curse of dimensionality".

It makes a lot of sense to decide public policy of how driving should be managed based on those statistics, but is hilariously inappropriate to base your decision to get in a car and drive based on them.
I wonder how long until people and organizations start trying to file copyright claims, etc. against people and organizations who generate AI images (still on the fence about calling this kind of thing "art") using data sets that include their IP.

I confess my understanding of these tools is, at best, rudimentary, but they remind me a bit of sampling in music. In both cases, the source material may be radically distorted to arrive at the final product, but that hasn't mattered in the music biz—if you use it, you need to get it cleared, or you cannot monetize it.

Take the image of the dog with the red ball on this website. What if, in the data the AI was trained on, there was a usage-restricted image of a caramel dog in a grass field with a green ball in his mouth? Would the AI just use that image and change the color of the ball? Would it ignore that easy match and instead generate its own using however many other related images, resulting in something quite visually different from the restricted source image? Does it matter? If the AI-generated image is virtually identical to the source photo, or contains some piece of it fully copied and integrated into the new image (sampled), is that new image legally owned by the person who used the AI?

Can I train an AI on a data set consisting of a single image with a description of it, request an image of that exact description from the AI, and then publish and license the output as my own? If not, how big does a data set have to be before I can claim the output is novel and proprietary? Do a few blurry pixels or lossy compression artifacts prove an image has been sufficiently altered for new commercial use?
Elon Musk Clinches Deal to Take Twitter Private for $44B
Maybe so! There were big followings for /r/CreepShots and /r/rapingwomen. And lots of free-reachers who were apoplectic when Reddit at least tried to do something about it.

If Musk can dial up the abuse on Twitter, Reddit 1.0 can live again.
Elon: Look at me. I am the captain now.
Thanks for the answers, everybody. I guess I am the weird one, as I still think it's mostly just adding useless noise to an already noisy public web, and therefore kind of rude.
"authenticating all humans.” This single item will go a long way towards making Twitter more civil.

What ever happens we are all going on a ride through Musk's shenanigans.
This is peak modern Silicon Valley: privatize the revenue for the product, socialize[0] the costs (by clogging up courts, in this case). It's not remotely scalable.

0: I don't agree with this vernacular, it's just what the kids say.
Ah, nice, its possible. Yeah earning crypto has always been a greater way to make a lot of money quickly than trying to buy and trade cryptos, because there is no financial risk with your pre-existing capital.

Team and advisor allocations have been this, and have been my best trades. Vesting grants for employees can be lucrative too. Often times these are also discounted prices to whatever any buyer can get. So things amplify very quickly, and there are less ways to lose.
the genre started in the UK with Yule log burning

When did the UK start broadcasting yule logs? In the United States it goes back to at least the mid 1960's, and possibly before. Stations in most large cities still air the show, though shorter now (1-3 hours) than before.
Adding a README.md isn't just GitHub specific, it's a good idea to add it to any project you do.

My memory sucks, that's why I write down what I'm planning to do with a project into the readme. It doesn't need to be super fancy with images and status badges and all that jazz.

This is perfectly enough:

projectname
===========

This fizzes

TODO
----

Add buzzing later
Check if bazzing library is ready for production
I'd argue that in most cases these people would not be "stans" if they hadn't made money investing in Elon's businesses. They're almost always Tesla stockholders who religiously invest in and benefit financially from every financial move their idol makes. They actively shill Elon's businesses and even Elon himself because they are financially motivated to do so.
100%.

Line length, line-height and text-size in relation to my distance to the screen are key to comfortable reading.
For what it’s worth, I’ve had the same experience on x86 with Logic being stable as a rock, it just seems to be a M1 thing. Without a doubt this can be sorted out down the road, but Apple’s insistence on only using AU in Logic means that every plugin in Logic is going to take a performance hit as nearly all devs write a VST version and wrap that in an AU.

More complexity = more room for errors especially on a new cpu architecture.
No, but allows them to be subjected his goons' violence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clashes_at_the_Turkish_Ambassa....
https://www.crackle.com/watch/8196/2483291 (via google, but have fun with it... popcorn and turn down the lights ;-)
> Working in the right conditions (e.g. Bay Area, Big Tech, right team) can greatly accelerate your growth

This is the answer. I have grown more in ~7 years* of random SFBA startups than I did in the previous 13 years of career in Europe. Just because the kind of startup that's a dime a dozen over here is a once in a lifetime opportunity back home.

To put this contrast into numbers: In 2021, during the pandemic while "SFBA is dying" was the mem, the Bay Area raised as much startup investment as all of Europe.

*I wasn't as career aggressive as I could've been, mostly for visa-related reasons.
Who is buying shares at $210?
From that same article:

> on a few occasions he did use offensive language about Jews in his private correspondence, though this language does not come close to the antisemitic vitriol he ostensibly publicly uttered in the “Prophecy.” Franklin, who also owned slaves and featured slaves for sale in his newspaper prior to becoming an abolitionist, was not at all times free of prejudice.

So if you have doubt about his antisemitism, have no doubt about his slave-holding. The next line in the article is quite good, too:

>In much of today’s popular culture, there often seems to be room only for saints or villains. Franklin was neither.

BTW I'm glad there's doubt about Franklin's anti-semitism. That one in particular always made me particularly sad, for some reason.
>> Not supporting Windows and macOS will likely hurt the adoption of the language.
> Not among our target audience it won't.

No gamedev?
We quickly went from "Twitter isn't a heavily censored platform" to "they have secret blacklists, but it's totally normal and not political and a good thing anyway". This game of moving goalposts is tiresome and clearly disingenuous.
For others' convenience:

https://www.storycubes.com/en/games/rorys-story-cubes-classi...
>I just checked, and Google Chat exists as a separate app on iOS

I used to have this app installed, then one day it started telling me I had to use the GMail app for chat instead.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that they were rolling the out the migration to accounts incrementally, or they've reversed course. But I deleted the google chat app because it wouldn't let me use google chat.
In this recent TED video Elon Musk takes the opportunity to clarify things regarding that settlement:

https://youtu.be/cdZZpaB2kDM

Also highly recommended for anyone curious about what he wants to do with Twitter.
There's only enough space to have 3 sections of watchstanders on board. So then it becomes a matter of length of watches. 6 hour watches aren't too long, and match up to meals every 6 hours. It's easy/straightforward, and no one gets screwed with always having watch on the midwatch and then also running drills during the day (meaning very little sleep).

8 hour watches could be a bit long, and more problematic is that crew members would always be on the same watch: 0000-0800, 0800-1600, etc. That's potentially even more disruptive.
Then Reddit slowly had its commitment to free speech chipped away, starting innocently with banning things like /r/jailbait and then abhorrent stuff like /r/coontown and then some time passed and they banned /r/chapotraphouse for being edgy and to prove they were cool because they banned left wingers.

I don't see how twitter changing ownership will change anything structurally at Twitter. Jack Dorsey started out as a free speech champion many years ago. The things people say cause real problems for real people and at some point the rubber meets the road. A large site like Twitter is at the mercy of the politics of the world.

Even stuff like "Twitter will comply with local laws" is a subtle concession to local censorship laws. Cracks in the facade are already appearing before Musk even owns twitter.
Similar for me, Next.js / Daisy + Tailwind / Firebase means I can whip out a MVP or prototype in weeks instead of months. Love the increase in productivity first tooling in web development ecosystem.
That is incorrect. ~200 bank accounts were frozen for refusing to follow police orders to clear illegal blockades. Accounts were not frozen for speech, but for unlawful actions.
And reddit has not solved the problem.

To many, reddit is just as unpleasant, and in some cases worse than twitter.
Friend or Bot? Phony Gamers Leave Players Feeling Betrayed
It is kind of crazy that JTC1 is OK with producing entirely imaginary documents. Do you think the two standards bodies know that the product of WG21 is just pieces of paper with no idea whether they can be or will be implemented? Or is this all far above what anybody senior at ISO or the IEC understands because they aren't programmers?

Even at W3C you were expected (when I had anything to do with it) to actually build the prototype before you publish the standard, and obviously the IETF's "Rough Consensus and Running Code" speaks to that way of thinking too.

I feel like if ISO 216 claimed you can fold a square 1x1 metre piece of paper in half and preserve the proportions, that wouldn't have survived into a published document. Sure you can write that claim, but you cannot actually make that fold, it's surely amazing that the C++ Committee are not subject to the same consideration and yet here we are.
On the Washington Post’s Doxx and Stalinist Social Tax
I've been following teledildonics since the early 90s, and unfortunately I can say we're a long way away from that.
It's not enough to just post something on HN. It also needs to be updated enough by other users.
I don't see the relevance.

Whatever laws protect that data or communications will continue to exist. And if you're just taking it on good faith that the current ownership won't do anything shady even if there's no laws preventing it, that's a much bigger problem to address.
There isn't any particularly good reason to trust the old management over the new management. It's always been unaccountable billionaires.
Which backend “owns” the sqlite database?

That’s what I haven’t seen mentioned anywhere, if the database is part of the application, how do you switch from one version to another without downtime.
> Consumers of social don’t have much freedom of choice. If consumers don’t like what Musk does with Twitter, they cannot simply switch to another Twitter-like platform. There aren’t any. The largest social media platforms have grown gigantic because anyone who wants to participate in them and influence debate has to join them. After they reach a certain size, they’re the only megaphone in town. Where else would consumers go to post short messages that can reach tens of millions of people other than Twitter?

Of course they can switch to Facebook, Instagram and TikTok, which all have more or less the same policies. For instance when a news article gets banned on FB, it'll likely get banned on every other social media and maybe even private messaging apps. Except now Twitter may be an outlier in not banning something. They all had essentially the same policies and now that may change and one social media will be relatively more free. Why is this bad?
The “deal was unanimously approved by the company’s board, and is expected to be completed later this year. Musk secured $25.5 billion of debt and margin loan financing and will providing about $21 billion in equity to fund the deal, according to the statement.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-25/elon-musk...
On 4chan it's mostly ads for other 4chan boards, lol