skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> if I do that, the machine crawls to a halt

Most likely some unsolved priority inversion bug doing that. Linux actually bumps up the priority of "nice" tasks when something else is waiting on them, which goes a long way to address this issue.
Sheesh, of all the millions of news sources covering this, could we not have picked a paywalled one?
My take on all these “fixes” for a “broken” Twitter is that pretty much everyone has a point of view of what is broken to them and frequently the fixes for solving them are contradictory. A lot of Twitter’s bugs for some set people are features for another.

Twitter will always have “problems” and most of them are impossible to solve in a global way that won’t leave a significant portion of their user base upset.

I’m intrigued in what changes Musk drives and their eventual effects but really don’t think he (or anyone) will have the ability to significantly move the needle in increasing Twitter’s perceived value.
This just looks like a bezos acquisition of Washington Post but more modern if you ask me. Given sentiment from subordinates and Elon's affinity for doing drugs with pop stars i don't expect his ownership of twitter to be anything other than abusive at best.
Biden revokes Trump executive order that targeted Section 230
I was looking into the ventilation rate of things and not sure if it was a misprint but submarines apparently have 8000ppm of CO2 when submerged, which to me sounds insane as we know for sure 1000ppm is when it starts affecting your mood, judgements, and decision making capability..
>2. Don't compare yourself to others, only yourself.

Can "stealing"/learning from other people be considered as a "comparing" to them?

Because before you apply their approach, then you have to

a) find that they're doing it

b) realize that you aren't

Thus you kinda indirectly compared yourself to them
The fact that "religious … purposes" are sufficient in and of themselves to claim tax-exempt status is part of the bias in favor of religious organizations. Yes, secular organizations can also be tax-exempt—but they have to earn it, and not all secular organizations will qualify (even ones without a profit motive), whereas churches automatically receive tax-exempt status. Stripping them of that status is practically unheard of so long as they avoid directly campaigning for or against specific political candidates.

There are plenty of other areas where the government shows favoritism toward religious organizations besides 501(c)3 status. For example, ministers are exempt from federal income tax withholding, despite being classified as W-2 employees, and can opt out of Social Security taxes via Form 4361, which is available only to "An ordained, commissioned, or licensed minister of a church; A member of a religious order who has not taken a vow of poverty; or A Christian Science practitioner."[0] (That last one is oddly specific… and goes so far as to endorse a specific religious organization.) Membership in a "health care sharing ministry" also offers, or did offer while it was still in force, an exception to the individual insurance mandate under the Affordable Care Act (26 U.S. Code § 5000A(d)(2), "Religious Exemptions"[1]).

[0] https://www.irs.gov/forms-pubs/about-form-4361

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/5000A
Well, the go one would compile to an easily deployable binary and actually be able to, you know, count a whole lot of words quickly. But the ruby one is much more terse and quicker to write.

I say we go back to awk and get the best of both worlds:

'{num+=NF} END{print num+0}'
The Perl solution would be significantly smaller tho.
Twitter All-Hands Now
HireArt (YC W12) Is Hiring a Product Designer
Many wealthy, elite white men predominantly from the northeast United States. (Yes I know 40 years in they expanded the study to some local inner city subjects.)
NIM

I'm still surprised more startups don't use NIM. It has all of the productivity benefits of Python but performance of C.
Both of my children have or had classmates in their second grade classrooms that are openly transgender. The idea that sexual or gender orientation is or should be a taboo topic at that age is harmful to those children, and that kids that age are too young to talk about it is not, to my knowledge, backed by empirical evidence. Forcing schools to silence these kids' identities is hateful and reactionary.
> just because your code is in a monorepo, does that directly mean that you aren't versioning your libraries?

If you are living the monorepo trunk-based development dream, you version all of your product and library code with the commit of the enclosing monorepo. The product code contained in monorepo commit X depends on the versions of the libraries also contained in that same monorepo commit X. Maybe another way to say it is that library dependencies are resolved to whatever is checked out in version control, without going through an abstraction layer of versioned package releases pushed to some package repository.

> To my understanding most package management tooling in most echo systems allow for versioning

correct. but that doesn't mean adopting a decentralised package-based versioning strategy is the most productive way for a team to operate!

> With that said, wouldn't you slowly roll out the version to the downstream projects Monorepo or not?

Perhaps! I can think of some arguments why you might prefer a gradual rollout: to reduce effort and split the work into smaller pieces that can be delivered independently, to reduce risk of the change breaking one of N products it touches, forcing the entire change to be rolled back.

But on the other hand, you don't have to -- you can choose to do the refactor atomically, which is not a choice you have if the product and library code is scattered across N different source control systems that depend on each other through versioned package releases.

If you are working in a monorepo & all your internal library dependencies are fulfilled by the coupled library version in the monorepo commit checkout, not decoupled through versioned package releases, then you would need to use different techniques to allow flexibility of some products to depend on version V1 of a library at the same time as other products depend on version V2. The most obvious one is creating a copy of the entire V1 library, giving it a new name, making the V2 change, checking it in to the monorepo as a sibling library, then rewriting some of the products to depend on V2. See also https://trunkbaseddevelopment.com/branch-by-abstraction/
twitter/the-algorithm
I was going to link these videos too. Its evident he's closely involved with technical discussions and decisions.
This assumes that people only block others because they are harassed by them.

When Mark Anderson blocked Jack Dorsey was it because of harassment?

To me, something like that is a valuable piece of info. I wouldn't have known had Jack not pointed it out.
Sistine Chapel Art Book for $22,000 with no reprints
How does Stripe maintain a high level of polish?
I strongly suspect that the New Twitter will fairly rapidly turn into the world's biggest toxic waste-dump fire - when everyone on Gab, Parler etc. piles back in along with Trump and his associates. Perfect timing for the US mid-terms. I can't see how they'll be able to keep a lid on it as a functioning community and live up to Musk's publicly-stated ambitions.

Even so, it might be a commercial success if they can keep the advertisers on board. But if mainstream advertisers panic and pull out then they're going to have push a lot of gun/porn/crypto/whatever ads to keep the lights on. And that may work, or it may turn into the biggest act of wealth destruction in history.

I wonder how much of Musk's $23B Tesla bonus is going into the purchase.
I'm building https://sqwok.im

Just posted it here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31160302
How you read The Witcher book series? The Netflix show didn't make up the themes you mention
There's still time to change that.
Musk turned down a philanthropic opportunity from Gates after he shorted Tesla
Lol, you make it sounds like we're about to lose Einstein due to overwork. Musk is an opportunistic man-baby, not the second coming, let him burn out...
You've never met my uncle I see.
+1. After working on Elixir for a long time I missed the simple ruby way to do things and found myself running in circles to troubleshoot some basic 3rd party libraries. Going back to Ruby for my next side project.
Startups are the marines and FAANGs are the army. There are so many parallels.
This is what I am expecting will happen:

* Musk announces Twitter is now an open platform for free speech and no one will ever be banned, re-instating everyone including Trump.

* Trump wins the 2024 election by appealing to populism and the working class with Twitter his main outlet.

* Trump continues to lower taxes for billionaires like he did in 2017 [0].

* Elon Musk saves billions in taxes whilst Twitter is estimated privately at $100b due to Musks's involvement.

And we won't be able to tell if the downvotes we get for protesting such actions on twitter will be authentic or not.

[0] https://www.forbes.com/sites/camilomaldonado/2019/10/10/trum...
Ask HN: Stay on big tech for management experience, or move to startup?
Because like everything else he does, Truth Social is just a grift.

Of course he'll triumphantly return to Twitter. His ego and the chance to keep milking the suckers who still believe in him won't allow him to do otherwise.
Hello hacker news, I'm facing a conundrum in my career, I'm a Senior Software Engineer at a Big Tech company, and I'm very bored at my job, I'm using boring tech, things move slowly, and I have basically no power to change any processes, so I definitively want to move from there, but I have two good opportunities to decide on: stay on the Big Tech, but move to an Engineering Manager position on a newer and growing part of the company with less headcount OR move to a new but promising Startup, which has been doubling in size, as Principal Developer of whatever (not really important because it should be easy to move inside)

Going forward, I would really like to put my soft skills to practice, to improve processes, to change things for the better, because I feel I haven't been doing that for too long, of course I think I would be able to do way more of that on the startup, but I also think I would be able to have some of it on this big tech position

So then the main puzzling part for me then is, if I join the startup now, I will probably be able to drive much of its architecture, have more fun, and grab more equity and position early on, and I don't want to miss this opportunity. On the other hand, I don't have any hard management experience in my resume, staying my employer will give me that with a good name, so if I move a a startup after that and later want to go back to any big tech as an engineering manager I'll be able to, and I would very much like to keep this optionality

Help me?
I mean we also shouldn't let a few healthy trees blind us from a generally sickly forest, to continue this metaphor.
Yes, you are correct (deduction vs discount). But SE taxes - you pay those too if you are working with a W-2. I thought it was understood that working on a 1099 basis rather than a W-2 basis involves a different rate to make up for the "employer-paid taxes" that a W-2 person does not see.
> people that have legit-if-undesirable influence on the world

You can say Trump. Because that's what this buy-out is about. Musk can call it what he wants (free speech, transparency, etc), but his intention is clear to anyone with a brain -- unbanning Trump.

Once that happens, I'll be happily finding myself off of Twitter and any other platform that allows a "legit" (and proven) dangerous lying narcissist to find their way onto my browser again.
Dude, literally the article says: data gets sent to private relay if you have it enabled. You can stop it from being sent by not turning it on.

What is apple meant to do? Just not provide the service at all?

Because private relay is vastly superior to a VPN for web content, which is what matters to most users?
Same. The dynamic that not everybody understands is that harm in social media is not about people saying toxic or extreme things. They'll continue to do so.

The issue is the speed and spread of those messages. Right now they are amplified like a snowball and end up dominating the tone and culture of the entire platform. Influencers are richly rewarded for it, whilst sane and reasonable people get crickets.

That's the part that should be reversed, which is of course easier said then done, as it's the DNA of current Twitter.

The thing that ordinary people like us should consider is political tolerance. Most people in this world are reasonable and are in the bandwidth center-left / center / center-right. That's the room for sane conversation.

With this I mean to say that you should not double-down on "your side". When you're moderately progressive, you should equally reject far-left and far-right extremism. Whilst opening up to the reasonable people on the opposite side.

Reject all crazy people.
at risk of stating the obvious, I was not making a straw man argument, Musk called himself a 'free speech absolutist', said “It’s just really important that people have the reality and the perception that they’re able to speak freely within the bounds of the law”, was in touch with Babylon Bee folks about their getting blocked, pretty clearly wants a hands-off approach to moderation, on the other hand he says they need to get rid of spam which is not illegal so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It definitely does. I think a lot of people think it doesn't because a) most people who know both have far more experience with C++ and are yet to experience its really complicated bits yet, and b) C++ has an actual specification so you can read about all its complexity.

Rust may not have SFINAE but C++ doesn't have for<'a>, Phantom data or Pin.
The major costs after this deal closes will be about $1 billion per year in interest payments on the debt Twitter is incurring to go private. In addition to that Elon himself will have about another $1 billion per year in interest payments in his own debt for this deal.
I can't, I have a 4 letter username. Valuable real estate...
Inefficiency or not, if you start down the path of SQLite, you need to invest good amount of time refactoring into another DB if you feel like migrating away.

When I realized SQLite would store any type of data in any kind of column type, it was obvious SQLite is different from others. They only added strict types about a year ago but scared me enough not to use it.

And how is SQLite any less secure? You can flat out copy its entirety using pg_dumpall. I'm not talking about security.
Failsafe is based on the same novel that Dr. Strangelove was based on - but while the (imho vastly superior) Kubrick movie was a comedy, Failsafe is more a warning.
>In the future, every successful tech company will use their data moats to build some variant of an Artificial General Intelligence.

Its rare that an article loses my faith in the first sentence.
Do you have an email interested individuals can contact you on?
For context: I’m an American living in Canada.

There were ~200 accounts frozen affecting less than that number of people (some people had multiple accounts frozen). The claim is that these accounts were the ones directly supporting the protest. This was after the courts had declared many aspects of the protest unlawful. The accounts were mostly unfrozen after the protest broke up. The mechanism that was used to freeze their accounts allows them to sue for compensation

As much as the process for the emergencies act has been painted as absolute power. It very much isn’t. It is subject to quite a bit of oversight from the legislative and judicial.

I understand what your point is, but Canada has a history of going after left leaning protesters in FAR more concerning ways than this. As far as I can tell this was way more preferable to the usual tactics that the RCMP used to enforce injunctions.

For example, the military was used to clear native peoples off their land to build a golf course. A child was bayoneted. In 1990.

The RCMP broke into a cabin with a chainsaw and axe where indigenous elders were praying to stop oil and gas construction. That was last year.

Temporarily freezing funds of enablers seems like a pretty reasonable solution to an unlawful protest, all things considered.

Besides all that, at the time it was VERY clear that this political action was funded from unknown sources outside the country. I don’t think that money is speech. And I really don’t think that political destabilization should be funded by anonymous overseas donors.
Tesla is already using cobalt-free LFP batteries in 50% of its new cars produced
Would it matter if I did? It’s essentially meaningless. There’s not really any logic involved.
A language isn't used alone, it depends on an ecosystem, and people that care to keep old compilers going.
Once people get used to electrical synthesis of ammonia, those wide-open spaces will be making their own fertilizer and tractor fuel.

They might sell the excess to nearby truck stops. Ammonia is not quite as dense as diesel, but trucks typically have enough room for it. Advantage is trucks (like farm tractors) can be cheaply retrofitted to burn ammonia.

I see reports about a problem of UK farmers who make more from dedicated solar, per hectare, than they were making growing. The problem may be self-limiting: they may end up unable to compete with farmers doing double- or triple-use, with solar, wind, and cultivation in the same field. Then, farmers not doing it will end up needing to, as prices decline.
> you shouldn't write anything much as a shell script and should instead use a proper programming language

why?
No plans on joining any social media platform and don't forsee that changing.
If he manages to make twitter fun then I might join, but probably not.
If by surrounding cities you mean Yokohama, Chiba and Saitama it is practically the same city, it is all one big metro area and commuting by regular train from those cities takes about half an hour on average. Also, you don't really need tiny apartment, decent size places are not that expensive either if you are willing to live half an hour by train from the central areas of Tokyo.
That's a very good question. Probably because modern California was settled by European colonizers, who brought their traditional construction and property practices with them?

I'd love to see a sociologist's analysis of the ring of fire, though. If anyone knows of someone who isn't just talking out their butt (like me), please drop a rec
>but I know that the prospect of a forum for discussion that isn't constantly trying to poke the outrage center of my brain sounds very appealing and I think that would be the case for many people

I would be utterly shocked if he adjusted it from this path. Hell he personally revels in stirring the pot on twitter.
You should remove this part: " or Florida where Desantis had a researcher arrested for releasing COVID data. "

She wasn't a researcher, she was an admin for the GIS dashboard.

She was arrested because she misused her access credentials, mass-emailed everyone then took 19,000 personnel files and transferred them to her home computer.

She did the classic thing when she was removed from being in charge of the dashboard (not fired, just reassigned) - she crashed the dashboard while her permissions were still active by creating a new admin account and transferring a boatload of data to it. She refused to make the new admin an admin for 'security reasons' and then told the media she was removed from being in charge of the dashboard because they wanted to lie about the data. THAT is what they fired her for.

Florida didn't have her manually falsify data - there is no evidence that they falsified data at all. She's just nuts.
This is an interesting comment on a thread which is essentially about free speech. If the data shows that conservatives are more racist than liberals, why should that be censored?
I am sure that if you use a language/library for long enough, its bad design descisions aren't a huge problem to you.

Reading the docs of course helps, but it is still inconvenience and waste of time to check inconsistent parameter order and function naming from docs. I don't understand why people are so keen on defending these things.
This argument has been on going, on and off, since the 1960s. Show me a research paper.
Given the amount of Tesla stock used for backing the financing of this deal, deleting your twitter account is now akin to shorting Tesla, which as we all know means you hate planet Earth
> However, the Russian flag is not banned, just the Z symbol as a symbol for this war.

The Z symbol exists for the same reason why the V symbol existed on US military vehicles in Iraq; It's mainly a friendly fire and unit identifier as Russia and Ukraine use a lot of the same mechanized equipment.

While the Anglo V also stands for V as in "Victory" and even has a hand sign associated with it, it's a whole campaign dating back to WWII and Winston Churchill [0].

Me and many of my schoolmates would flash it at US military convoys passing our bus at school trips in the 90s. The soldiers were always super happy about it, while we thought we were signaling "peace" to them.

Ultimately the V would morph into a Chevron with different orientations to distinguish what military group a vehicle belongs to [0], but there is a whole propagandist history behind the Anglo use of V, overlapping very much in the same ways of military necessity as the Russian Z does.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20150708011459/https://time.com/...

[1] https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-significance-of-the-invert...
That's a great way of putting it. Maybe something like Reddit's user flairs could make sense, where the check mark would accompany a label verifying some aspect of the person it's attached to (e.g. "@emmanuelmacron, President of France")
I don't understand why this is the bottom comment instead of the top one.
Found the Marine. ;-)

> …two phases…

> proceeds to list 1… 2… 3…
Yes, but just keep the feature off in the OS. Why go through these ridiculous workarounds?
Great news for everybody not-famous whose legal name happens to be Donald Trump or Vladimir Putin.

They can expect to make a ton of money using their famously named blue checkmark account for "Elon wants to donate you 1 BTC! Click here" spam.
I think the entire architecture would have to be rewritten. Talking about the protocols involved is getting lost in the weeds.

I'm looking at this from the perspective of the user experience and the physics limitations, and I'm observing that they fit very well together.

The point is that a non technical user sees Twitter, fundamentally, as a place to send one way messages out, and to consume one-way incoming broadcast messages. And, crucially, the exact time of sending or receiving isn't a significant aspect of the UX.

You just log in and see what showed up in the queue over the last n minutes. If you want to say something, just send a message; you don't really care when it's received, because Twitter is fundamentally all about checking your feed whenever you feel like it, and 23 minutes latency is nothing.

The user experience fits the physics limitations. Who cares what the current implementation looks like.
> I've said that repeatedly.

You haven't, this is the first time I've seen. Thanks for finally saying it.

> Why does it trigger you so much for me to point out that some people are, in fact, irrationally bigoted towards Russian people even when they have nothing to do with this war?

Because it's obvious you have more sympathy for hurt feelings than people who are actually being killed.

Funny enough, the Russian people I do know who are truly decent people aren't upset about anti-Russian feelings, they're truly sympathetic for the Ukrainian people, without having to try put the attention on themselves.