skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> With Litestream, I pay literally $0 to back up customer data and have confidence nothing will be lost.

This is not a guarantee Litestream makes (nor it can, since replication is async).

You'll lose things to catastrophic failures, but chances are you'd be able to restore to a last known good checkpoint.
The odds of succeeding with Tesla or SpaceX were extremely low. That’s not the kind of company you build if you want to become rich. There are much safer options.
>You can't have it both ways.

What are the two "ways" that supposedly are in conflict?
The combinatorial explosion mentioned in the above post - it would be bad enough if the requirement for moderators expanded linearly with users, but it actually expands exponentially, more like with interactions.

Plus, Musk tweeted that he's eliminate bots or die trying. If he really means this, it would be a truly great contribution to twitter -- free speech is one thing, but amplified disinformation is another. But, this apparently requires levels of effort beyond all the social media today, especially when it is not just automated bots, but also paid troll farms grinding out disinformation and deliberately undermining communications.
I do think that would work but I think twitter probably could detect bot actions if they wanted to in a more nuanced way. Swarms of new accounts making similar comments has to be detectable on their end.
He said previously he had no confidence in Twitter management. Implication: Heads would roll like crazy after his purchase. Maybe he did something to reassure them.
> Good addiction treatment is not so easy to get in much of the US.

From the sort of results you get from rehab centers after googling certain drugs I don’t trust addiction treatment period. I’ve had those sites try to make it seem that kava is more dangerous than benzodiazepine addiction.
Elon has the ability (and motivation) to look beyond next quarter. Bots increase “monthly active users” metric, so short-term thinking management likes them.

Elon can afford to think long-term.
+1 here. My wife loves their romantic reality shows and the Asian dramas.
I on the other hand haven’t watched anything on Netflix by myself in years
If you sell half a million CPUs that’s a lot of megawatts.
It's an interesting conundrum. As someone who believes in rights, the problem here seems to be neither with elon's expectation of privacy nor with elonsjet's expectation of free speech, but in the requirement of having to report his plane's ADS-B realtime output to a public system.

It doesn't seem impractical that the government needs that data to operate effectively, but to require that a person (or plane) broadcast their information to a registry that is public seems to be the crux of the issue here.
It's also great for accessing stuff Vietnamese ISP's try so poorly to block.
I can't find any reporting to support that position, can you provide hints so I can review it?
It's a tool just like the forge is. I think of these things more as building blocks to put your desired workflow together. I doubt forges will ever handle reformatting, merging, or back porting how we want, so we'll always use something else additionally I think. We could also drop those patterns, but I foresee that meaning we don't have older supported releases instead.

Even this tool is a "side job", but it did have focused development to get it off the ground. We were migrating from a combo of patched Gerrit and gitosis with custom server side commands to implement these things before. In 2015, no forge was even close to having these things, we had to implement it ourselves. Neither Gitlab not GitHub had a good enough API then either, but we could patch and contribute to Gitlab at least. There are other workflow decisions made by Gitlab as well that I prefer too anyways.
Many things which affect family stability and happiness have changed since then, aside from no-fault divorce. Completely uncontrolled experiment.
A (very) small step was done by Scania's automated truck platooning, a driver in a truck leads a small convoy of driverless trucks, they communicate with each other using a variant of 802.11 WiFI

https://www.scania.com/group/en/home/newsroom/news/2018/auto...
My org requires screenshots and/or gifs in the PR. Tooling is great, but not everything needs automation all the time when a little bit of manual work needs to be done anyway.
The ONLY way to solve the toxic nature of Twitter is to enforce a)a real name policy, and b)fully verified[1] identities for all users/bots (opt-in, where others by default filter out non-verified accounts in their feeds)

Bots can continue to exist, but must be identifiable as such and connected to a verified real user.

Not only will this clean up twitter dramatically, it will also push off those who wish to hide behind anonymous hate speech - they'll flock to somewhere else, and good riddance to them.

Sadly, the human race isn't quite ready for anonymous 'free speech' online as all it does is attract the shouty nutjobs and political shills. So lets park that concept, and try again in a few decades time.

EDIT: To clarify (and thanks to the responders for calling it out), I meant a real name policy on the verified account details only - it doesn't have to be visible to the masses.

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[1] REAL verification for all, not the blue tick which is basically a vanity symbol these days.
he definitely has overly obsessive fans and critics. I suppose it's the perfect recipe for a social media addiction.
What a negative comment, and i find it hard to believe accurate. Yes there is such phenomena but ending with a "perhaps let's just pack up and deliver the problem somewhere else" is outrageous and further confirmation that the poster is out of ideas so let's apply "AI".

Scientific methods and the institutions in charge of applying resources towards it are not perfect but our life has seen incredible improvements in the last few years. Hell, we just came out of a pandemic with a brand new type of vaccine! I just recently read about the rotavirus vaccine changing gastroentritis at nation's levels. A vaccine that appeared in 2006, so quite after I was born and I am a 90s guy. How can one say science is selfies? I refuse to be put down by such a world view.
It's a significant plurality though and Twitter is most exposed to US laws.
You talking about the study that made the rounds a few years back?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45283401

They found that out of 100,000 non-drinkers, 914 would develop an alcohol-related health problem such as cancer or suffer an injury.

But an extra four people would be affected if they drank one alcoholic drink a day.

A whole 0.004% extra risk!

Really conclusive finding that. Really emphatic...

The media really should have said 'study finds negligible damage from moderate drinking'.

But the media love hating on drinking, quite opposite to what you claim. You only have to open the guardian on any day in the month of January to see some article decrying the horrors of drinking.
Keep your audience in mind: What are _they_ trying to accomplish? Why on earth would they bother with your software? What are the most common operations they will need to understand?

Avoid going into too much detail on dependencies. Just link to the relevant resources there. Do note the major versions of any additional software components required.

Organize the documentation into clearly defined sections, like installation steps, examples, and licensing.

For contributors, don't assume the developer is familiar with your choice of build tool. At the very least, note the basic command to build your project.

Good tests can double as even more examples. Design the tests, and the interface, for the most common use cases.

Again, know your audience. The better the design fits the audience's needs, the less documentation is required.
You’re proving the point: following abandonment, YouTube took a hard line against the content and advertisers returned.
Damn, now it'll be even more of a good idea to immediately block every bluecheck.
Exactly - it’s not how well the bear dances, it’s that it dances at all.
Current Twitter is probably, like most large organizations, deeply dysfunctional.

With a fresh start with new people where needed, it can have very different capabilities.
> I can't even comprehend how one would read and comprehend without hearing everything spoken in ones head

For me it’s the inverse actually. I don’t normally hear what I’m reading in my head, I can consciously do so if I want, but more often than not that distracts me because I’m thinking about the words rather than the concepts.

The only time it’s helpful is when I need to focus on a particular word for some reason; for example, if I’m struggling to recall what it means, or if I’m programming and trying to trace where a specific variable is referenced. Keeping the sound in my mind can help in those cases.
I think b) without a) would be a bit of a red flag. Almost everyone I know has lived together in some way before getting married.
The value of Twitter is the amplification by media. It has very little actual traction in the whole, without the amplification its worthless to anyone but narcissist and PR folk.

One solution is to charge users $1 to tweet. Charge users with over 10k followers 1k a month per 10k to Tweet to their followers.

Its a PR machine, not a news source. Treat it like one and its value will both rise and fall...
It is unrealistic to expect one server to have everything for every language. What does Haskell do with "extract to method"? What does C++ do with "convert to point-free"? This isn't like HTML where browsers were deliberately fragmented for strategic reasons, languages have these differences for their own good reasons.

But sharing as much as possible and harmonizing as much as possible is a huge step forward, even if each language still has a bit around the edges to implement. At least they agree on language, fundamental communication model, common functionality, etc.
This has been going on since the beginning of aviation. Look up "Barnstorming"
It's inferred data only. Elons jet is required to publish ADS-B location beacons for air traffic control etc. Crowdsourced platforms like ads-b exchange collect and publish these public/unencrypted airplane gps beacons worldwide. You just need to know the jet's registration to look it up.
You mean our allies that help us against wicked secular regimes in Middle East?
Dying?

“PHP is the most used server-side programming language globally”

https://kinsta.com/php-market-share/
The only time I ever think in words is when I’m specifically thinking about how I would say or write something, and when holding Socratic dialogues with myself. Otherwise it’s all pictures, usually 3D, and usually moving.

Oh, unless it’s musical. Then it’s music. But I can visualize that too.
I don't think a sophomoric jab at a billionaire (ha ha he looks like an emoji) is what most people think of when they hear the word "toxic". I reserve that term for hate, discrimination, and so forth.
You're right, I shouldn't have used the word idiot and have updated my comment.
> if you believe the advertisers see Twitter as a neatly divided entity, but they don't

This is a PR problem and fixable.

Further, this is an issue with advertisers. As Elon is proposing, have people pay to get verified ($5 / year or something). Further, as I mentioned, you can "pay to avoid topics" (have users label / flag stuff they don't want in their topic, like they do now generally for breaking the rules) and advertisers can select topics to promote on AND topics to not promote next to.

The reality, is Twitter would then get a large segment of revenue outside of advertising AND advertisers would feel more confident -- boosting revenue from both sides.

> This was another reason why the credit card companies and / or payment providers pulled out (hehe) of Pornhub

This is different, the advertisers didn't pull out of Pornhub, payment processors did. Twitter could probably lose half it's advertisers short term, but if they grew the user base they'd make more money long-term. Advertisers buy eyes not virtues. Yes, a bad post next to an ad is somewhat damaging, when your choices are literally: Twitter, Google, Facebook; are you really going to cut one of your 3 choices? Not long-term.
When your entire economic system is built around maximizing profit...no shit?

Nearly every industry I walk into I feel like I'm about to be braced with a million lies.

Go to the optometrist? Oh they're selling me on this new "imaging" thing to catch issues before they happen. Ah it's also an extra paid thing. Wonderful.

Oh lasik is safe? Very little side effects yeah? Are you sure you're not being paid a shit ton of money for each eye you operate on?

You walk into a car dealership and they're selling you an image of happiness and things to get "just in case".

You walk into a fucking insurance company and they're about to sell you on insurance for your insurance.

I'm so annoyed that it's so hard to find genuinely helpful experts in their field without worrying that they're trying to sell you something.

Maybe this is why some people really like universities and staying at really large companies. At least your colleagues aren't selling you shit and there's a lot of smart people there.
US has by far the most liberal freedom of speech (and I consider it very much superior compared to other countries' implementation)

Musk's Twitter is certainly going to clash hard with Europe's recently adopted Digital Services Act.
https://archive.ph/6QF0n
The constant whining about Twitter on here makes more sense when you understand what the people here might be saying to solicit such a response.
I'd be curious if that remains the case when conditioning on cohabitation length. Perhaps newly entered cohabitation is more likely to result in a breakup than a newly entered marriage, but is a ten-year cohabitation much more likely than a ten-year marriage to eventually break up? If not, the statistic that cohabitation results in breakup more often could simply be a byproduct of how much easier it is to enter cohabitation than marriage, so it's done more frequently with less consideration.
I have some docs printed in late 80s / early 90s on HP laser. Still pretty much in perfect condition. No "unsticking".
Yeah this does not really sound legal. Or if it is, it should not be.
Ask HN: Is the Internet Faster for Google?
I know this sounds odd, but sometimes this sequence of events will happen:
1. A simple website won't be loading
2. I'll open a new tab and load google
3. Google loads instantly
4. I return to the first website. Still hasn't loaded.
5. I'll try other websites and they won't be loading.

To all appearances, my internet will simply become slow, except Google search still loads quickly. I might say, Google's servers/site are better, but I'll check network requests and even the first HTML request of simple static sites won't be loading.

"Slow" websites includes hn.
> gets comedians and entertaining accounts back on board

IMO this is a lost cause— they're on Tiktok now, and it's in many ways a better platform for that type of content in terms of its ability to drive engagement and also deal with abuse.
I am aware what his twitter is like - but he can just shoot those off from the hip with no oversight - would he just be able to ban some person without someone pushing back, or explaining to him why it might be a bad idea? I would imagine he would be at least a couple of steps removed from being able to do that.
I would expect a tiered approach when it comes to deleting data. E.g. before deleting you actually check byte by byte, but because that is too expensive to run on every file, you use the hash to narrow down what files you are testing against each other (and maybe even a cheaper hash on top of that one that determines whether you will spend CPU cycles on doing an expensive hash).

Perhaps that's how it's actually done, I'm not sure.
https://archive.ph/4MUil
+1 for Brother laser printers. I have the MFC-L3710CW model and cannot recommend it enough.
I have been using textual extensively inside Visual Studio Code which uses xterm.js behind the hood [1], so far everything except hyperlinks works flawlessly, and hyperlinks don't obstruct anything either, it just shows as plain text. All 256 tests pass on my machine and the coverage based on lines of code is 42%, but you have to keep in mind that this project is still in beta [2] so that number is going to change

Also since the project is based on rich from the same author, some of the terminal features are from rich and the test coverage on that is 99% [3].

[1]: https://xtermjs.org/#real-world-uses

[2]: https://github.com/Textualize/textual#textual:~:text=Current....

[3]: https://app.codecov.io/gh/Textualize/rich
Meta answer: the ultimate point of money is that it gives you the opportunity to make decisions without convincing everyone that you deserve to make decisions.
I'll be impressed when the USA pavilion shows how we solved affordable housing & healthcare!
You don't have to use twitter, Facebook, or any other platform. If you are dissatisfied with the rules then make your own.

Just because something has become a major player in communication, doesn't meant these companies should be obligated to turn a blind eye to content that they find disagreeable.

Also, I have yet to see a case where anyone has been "arbitrarily" restricted. They conform to the rules as clearly stated on their website. If anything I have seen that they are not doing as well as I wish they were at enforcing their rules. But it largely makes sense that the bigger you are the more scrutiny you will have on your tweets.

It isn't like just because you have an account on twitter you can't have an account on some alternative.
This, holy shit. I only click on a Twitter post like once a month, but every time I have in recent months, I usually X right out of it because of the login prompts. I despise this walled garden bullshit.
You're claiming there's a 180 but I don't see it. I haven't seen anyone arguing that Musk shouldn't be legally allowed to operate the site as he sees fit were he the owner.
I have it set as a "super" modifier, i.e. cmd + ctrl + option + shift, perfect as then you can use it as a modifier for shortcuts as no programs use that a default keyboard shortcut
Oops. I'm used to thinking of polynomial reductions as "cheap reductions" which given hindsight is obviously misleading when P=NP.
It seems basically equivalent to gcc/glibc, which I think is a good default.
That's essentially a hard AI problem of making something not human that can categorize any post in a rapidly changing cultural environment. For probably the most mutagenic category look at some of the Q nonsense that will rapidly swing from topic to topic and coopt existing conversations like "Save the Children" for their own insane ends.
HN's algorithm is open source, right?

That's not to say it's never been gamed, but it doesn't seem notably more "gamed" than Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, etc.
> README. Does it exist? GitHub pushes you really hard to add one, if you're lacking even the default one, you clearly don't understand how GH works.

Yes GitHub pushes you really hard to add one. But I disagree that not having one on a personal project means you don't understand how GitHub works. I don't need (or really even want) a README for a personal project. It detracts from writing code. If I neglect the personal project for months or years and come back to it then I'm not going to give a flying crap about the README anyway: I will have come back to it specifically to look at the code. Whether that's because I had a new/better idea or wanted to reminisce or maybe to copy/paste some idea from it.

All of the rest of your points are good though.
Ask HN: Who is still using Spreadsheet for project mngt?
Taking Twitter private will give him more flexibility to implement structural changes to the business which may take time to see returns.
43, diagnosed one year ago. Let me add some items of my own to your very relatable list.

- Growing up, it took me longer than the average to pick up social rules and customs "by mere contact". As a result I didn't make any friends at all during school, and only 3 at highschool. I only started "growing out of it" when I reached University. I still struggle with some social norms. I am a bit of a people pleaser, and I avoid conflict too much.

- Keeping in touch with those few friends and even my own family is something I struggle with a lot - "Out of sight, out of mind" is more literal. I have to "plan" keeping in contact with people, including my mum.

- I have "Time blindness". Time has an immaterial quality for everyone, but in my case it is quite literal. I was often late, and never can tell how much time things take. I need to use a physical object, like an agenda, to transform daily planning into "a puzzle", something I can "solve" with spatial skills. I must have my agenda open in front of me all the time.
When parents hate each other, every little interaction is an opportunity for point-scoring, criticism, one-upmanship, and toxicity. I know from personal experience (as the child), it is horrible to live in this atmosphere. Obviously the best scenario is parents not hating each other, but that's not always an option.
(1) WebStorm does a pretty good job as a Javascript IDE so far as I'm concerned (doesn't seem that you need TypeScript)

(2) Maybe it is better today but historically Eclipse was a workable Java IDE but the "plugins" for other languages pretended to work but didn't really work, at least not as well as Java.
My father definitely suffered after recent vascular surgery. They had to put him under a second time because of a bleed and do the whole procedure again. Hasn’t been the same since.
I don't mind a unit type for failure. I just don't think it should be called "false". Maybe make true and false Boolean and have a unit type for failures called "fail" or "failure".
Dry Weather Forecast Calls for Higher Food Prices–and Billions in Farm Losses
If one woman can make a baby in 9 months, why can't 9 women do it in one?
Hacker News is not a valid comparison. dang is not going around telling people what is "right" and what is "wrong" and what is "misinformation", or trying to control a narrative. Hacker News' heavy-handed moderation is specifically what allows a vast array of opinions to be discussed and debated honestly and openly, in a way that Twitter and YouTube would simply remove as "misinformation".
And there are a number of mobile apps that provide dark mode. Here's a popular one:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.github.hidroh.materialist...
Small Technology
I'm old enough to remember that internet. It was better.
are you doing multi tenancy in your application by creating different SQLite database for each customer? I'm curious to know more about your approach
Show HN: Grape – Transform your code into a tutorial with one click
You're arguing that the code that uses internal failure as functionality is invalid?

Damn, I wish I had your kind of expertise.
> The code I write and push to my self-hosted Gitlab is none of your concern.

From an intellectual-property standpoint: it actually might be.

But I do think intellectual property laws need to change.
+1, would love to know more about these!
Ellen Pao literally wrote an op-ed arguing this in Washington Post. This was before he bid for the company, just because he was invited to sit on the board!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/04/08/musk-twitt...

"Musk’s appointment to Twitter’s board shows that we need regulation of social-media platforms to prevent rich people from controlling our channels of communication."

...said a multi-millionaire in a newspaper owned by a multibillionaire.

There were also hundreds of notable comments and dozens of articles to that end across the usual websites. People should stop doubling down on their lies and just admit that their past positions weren't based on any real principles.