skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think that's it. The article is speculating. I do believe, maybe a bit naively, that Elon is actually doing this because he believes in free speech to protect democracy.

He has said, on numerous occasions, that he wants to advance society and make humans multi-planetary. And if that's due to his ego and how he wishes to be remembered then God bless his ego. He has made an amazing amount of interesting things happen!

Remember, he was part of Trump's advisory board, even for a short while. Whatever he learned might influence his decision. And I bet they are going to reverse a lot of bans...

Since Twitter doesn't make money and he's paying a lot of money for it, I wonder how he will turn such a large machine profitable specially when I believe Twitter have a large number of employees that oppose Elon's agenda. This is the most perplexing part to me.

Making Twitter a better place is a good thing though and it is a place where I've spent considerable time. I've been temporarily banned for using the wrong word combination in Tweets and I find that disgusting. I hope Elon can take the user base and improve on it. I do think that this overly suppressive direction Twitter has taken over the past time is the wrong choice. I am cautiously optimistic.
so its structured recursion i.e. it reifies recursion into variables that than be passed around and modified instead of being implicit/embedded in the control flow?

if so how is that different from Observable streams or event emitters.
This is the part that struck me. I honestly think this could happen to more people than are willing to admit. One weird feedback loop in a bubble away, like you say.
Yes, I wasn't suggest it's seriously meant to be a real world championship! (I guess more than a few people new to the scene will think it is the real thing though.)

p.s. Although I mostly have to avoid chess.com youtube channel because I can't stand Danny Rensch for a moment, recently I've been loving chess.com's Rapid Chess Championship, a huge event over 6 months or so, featuring what seems all the world's best players, in a regular Swiss + Knockout on successive days. I've found the Swiss just has too many games, but the Knockout is perfect chess viewing when some combination of Naroditsky/Hess/Yasser/Aman are commentating. Great chess + a lot of laughs.

https://www.youtube.com/c/chesscomlive/videos
Gibson discusses this.

https://williamgibson.fandom.com/wiki/The_Sprawl#:~:text=The....
Alternately, get rid of verification completely. Different people have the same names all the time and not one of them is entitled to being THE canonical "Michael Bolton" over any other of them.
I don't know what this is supposed to mean.
Well you can't whip out your dick at morning muster anymore, for one.
It just changes the dynamic. All men is brotherly. Swapping out crew to make 10-30% woman now adds a different dimension. Who is trying to fuck who. This person causing drama with this person. ETC. What happens if somebody gets preg-o on a 6 month nuke patrol. So many examples to list. All men is just more simple.
I wonder if anyone is working on an archive?
The problem isn't that web sites or domains expire. It's that adding another redirection like URL shorteners makes another point of failure. And URL shorteners create points of failure across many points. It also makes it more difficult for archival services to keep accurate links to those expired sites as it then needs to keep track of every shortener on every website.
I'll make the mandatory hn comment since I have not seen it yet. A website introducing a new language should show said language on the first page. It's like introducing a car by saying

- safe
- can ride on 4 wheels
- 2 car seats included
- highway compatible

And then keep pictures for page 6.
You have a "best sellers" category, so I assume they're targetting that(?)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestsellers/music
Paywall: https://archive.ph/PBcZo
For literally anyone who wants to setup a mastodon instance but hasn't yet, read this please:

https://ethanzuckerman.com/2017/08/18/mastodon-is-big-in-jap...
There could be several immemorable hashes pointed at the same IP, the server needs to know which immemorable hash it should serve.

(don't think this makes much sense, just answering your question...)
I'm not saying Twitter engineers aren't good, but you can replace them with anyone and the product will be equally good.
Tell HN: Oggify repo to download from Spotify gone after being on HN frontpage
Six days ago this repo was posted to HN, which had code to allow users to download songs from Spotify:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31080518

After showing up on HN frontpage, the repo got taken down within days. It used to live here:

https://github.com/pisto/oggify
What Elon wants and what Elon delivers are two different things. We should know this by now.
Overgrowth: Open-Source Announcement
dat ecosystem though
That's a more refined argument then I've heard. Yeah, I think it is possible that he might fire Twitter employees who are vocal critics of the company position. I think a lot of people still see this Petty personal retaliation as a step up from silencing people based on arbitrary politics. I am much more skeptical that he will be banning politicians from the platform or disagreeable positions
If you scroll down to the bottom there's a link to buy the whole book.
He never said he was against banning, and none of that has anything to do with whether Twitter is a "de-facto public square". Most "gotcha" comments I have seen are relying on a straw man definition of "free speech" (i.e., you must tolerate any behavior whatsoever or else you're a hypocrite), but this is an absurd criterion to use.
Or Irrlicht, if you were me as a younger lad and scared off by Ogre at the time. There's always been a vibrant landscape of these sorts of tools, so it's neat to see another one
What Is Enlightened Hedonism?
It's already gone.
You're right, it should be banned. It should not be legal to covertly(through trackers running on every website, effectively spyware) catalogue people's browsing habits like that.

Although I'll give you this. A massive leak might stir up the public outrage necessary to convince the US Congress to actually do something about it.
I think there is some wishful thinking being applied here and misunderstanding of my argument, I am not "Pro Proprietary" but I am stating the fact that all major tech companies are "Pro Proprietary". I personally would rather these all be open eco-systems but tech companies seem to prefer "walled-gardens".

Azure is not open source, a few components are but the vast majority of it is a closed eco-system, especially compared to something like Open Stack. I was part of the Open Stack consortium that tried to get Amazon and Microsoft to adopt Open Stack or at least use open cloud standards and they refused for competition reasons. Closed cloud systems and vendor lock-in massively benefit them. Microsoft biggest money makers like their enterprise software and operating systems are all notoriously closed source and tightly guarded.

Google has been using their position to make previously open systems like Android much harder for anyone to run without their "Google Play Services" and trying to force standards onto chrome and chromium that will make ad-blocking much harder. Don't even get me started on what a disaster AMP is for an open web and how google continued to push it even when these concerns were raised.

Yes Google and Microsoft make significant contributions to open source, this is like me saying that Tesla did a good thing by opening up there patents. Big players occasionally do good things but it doesn't whitewash away the closed systems they make most of their money from.
Most software engineers don’t work fully productive 8 hours a day. In my experience I’d say maybe 2-4
CDs are subject to rot though; the rate differs a bit based on the type and probably also brand and such, but in general I wouldn't expect them to live more than a few decades.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disc_rot
To be fair, this one is called Beacon, Impervious is just the name of the developer. Not that much of a collision imo...
They could add a giant warning page where you have to copy and paste the link manually. There should still be some way to follow old links.
Ya, it scales very well to bigger project in fact.

The thing is, people do struggle to understand how to implement it and what it's all really about.

I recommend Vaughn Vernon - Implementing Domain-Driven Design for a good walkthrough of it in C#.

And I also recommend you look at my small demo example, which is in Clojure, but also walks you through what DDD is at a high level which should help you quickly grasp it (even if you don't know Clojure) in a literate programming form: https://github.com/didibus/clj-ddd-example
It looks really useful to me. I am someone that deploys projects to $10 VPS using digital ocean guides for some minimum security setups. Never had a problem.

I'd probably buy this if and when it is offered as paper. I don't really like to read on a screen.
> He has Vulkan support in here with a clearly marked file named Pipeline.cpp. The guy knows what a pipeline is...

There is a Vulkan API wrapper. However, there is no "Vk Renderer" -- no code seems to use the Vulkan parts of the code system, and the two projects seem unrelated.

> * Is this not a UBO interface?

There are ways of making a uniform buffer, however the examples don't cover them and the API doesn't adapt automatically. See how all of the setters assert if UBOs are enabled.

https://github.com/mosra/magnum/blob/cfc02599e54e02337dd56bb...

> * I don't see why you think there's limited support for multiple framebuffers...?

The code I do see is about binding/unbinding framebuffers in a stateful manner, e.g. AbstractFramebuffer::bind(), rather than supporting passes.

> None of your criticism seem well intentioned. It might behoove you to give people the benefit of the doubt and realize that you may be able to learn something from them, even if they're so clearly inferior to you.

To put it simply, I've taught enough graphics to know first-hand the kinds of misconceptions that OpenGL-styled APIs can cause, and I'm just a bit tired to see it continue. Admittedly I was a bit harsh, I don't mean any harm towards the author. There are just graphics APIs with interfaces I consider to be much better designed.
I agree this is completely unremarkable.

What's remarkable is that anyone thinks it's remarkable that a machine, or a person for that matter, or a person operating a machine, can be wrong.

A person can give a wrong answer or perform a wrong action, as a result of bad input. So what? That input can be crafted specifically to confuse them and trick an honest person into performing some bad act. So what?

Alk the same is exactly the same true for an ai. So what?

And lastly, aside from a person or ai being in error, an operator/user of an ai (or person) can be in error (believing the ai's output is good when it's not). So what?

None of this is the slightest bit remarkable.
> Is is possible there is a tendency/bias to simply view ourselves as more independant and any adversary we face as more "drone" like ?

In Russia it's definitely not the case. Mindless, drone like military mentality is very well-known and entrenched in the culture.
If url shortener is part of the site, that’s not an issue. Another point is: you can (in theory) change location of url shortener destination, so shortener link can actually outlive original link.
I do not tell my employer everything, that is a scenario to demonstrate that you doing a second job violates basic trust, or even the contract. That is different than you looking for a new job, which should always be at the back of any manager's mind.
[citation needed]

I don't remember having any opinions on Kotlin. I've never seen it use in production, just tales.

You sure, you don't have me confused for someone else.
> perhaps where the destination URL was squatted on

... how? Git.io only redirects to GitHub, isn't it?
What’s it like getting sick on a submarine? Can you quarantine or do you sometimes just have people bringing vomit buckets to their stations?
It’s so weird to see “CVE” used like this. “AppSec research” or just résumé padding?
I suspect that applying the dang approach with Twitter — one big silo, assume good faith — would result in the same demographic skew as Hacker News.
This is somewhat of an answer to why cyberattacks on industrial equipment aren't common: They want to keep them up their sleeve. Since-Crimea-annexation years to probe and penetrate with a view to mapping out the network in order to be able to actually strike it at the most opportune time.

"As soon as you can" is very rarely the best timing. Preparation is key.

This is where the NSA's of the world have the dual purposes of securing internal infrastructure and finding insecurities in any and all non-internal infrastructure. For the internal stuff, there is tension on disclosure if the same security holes are present externally as well.

Whether this adversarial attack is what's happened in this case, who knows. The timing is certainly interesting, but you also can't rule out false flag operations to justify other countries 'entering the conflict'.
How do you make the theorem talk about random number sequences? What should the finite set X be?
The dismissive, know-it-all, didnt-read-but-holds-opinion attitude is the norm on HN, it is best to simply ignore such comments.
DigitalOcean has a one click app that lets you setup a Mastodon instance ridiculously easily. For my own reasons I’m trying to migrate away from Twitter, and have found it relatively easy to sync Twitter profiles with a self hosted Mastodon instance so I can follow the accounts I’m interested in without directly interacting with Twitter. Configuring email sending and DNS is a little tricky, but if you use namecheap and mail gun it’s not too bad.

I routinely on Twitter criticize Musk’s bad behavior and lies about the full self driving product, but semi anonymously since Musk and his fans have a history of doxxing and harassing critics: https://www.inverse.com/article/47461-elon-musk-responds-to-... His purchase of the platform makes me worried that my identity and private messages could be misused, so any alternative is much appreciated.

Unfortunately it looks like Mastodon still hasn’t renamed their “toots” to “posts,” which sadly makes it impossible to recommend to others because there’s no way they’ll take it seriously in the US, due to the double meaning.
great, then go on social media and bad mouth your employer and see if HR bats an eye, they should be only concerned about your output right.
If we trust these people to not initiate nuclear disaster/apocalypse, is it not a lesser trust to ask them to conduct a professional modern workplace?
Glad I made the decision to use my own 5-character domain for URL shortening years ago. Anyone can write a simple URL shortening service in less than half an hour, and you gain flexibility and peace of mind with that little bit of effort.

Still, losing all git.io links hurt. I’m certain I have a few old projects with issue explanations, download links, etc. based on git.io. This is handled so poorly it’s ridiculous.
yes although there's an uncanny valley. I've given a lot of older family members linux laptops and they do just fine given that they mostly browse the web. At the other end devs do fine with linux anyway. Problem is still the people in the middle. Even on the most mainstream distro there's still frustration if they work with software they can't replace and that's still often the case.
Why would you run code formatting tools in a CI pipeline? If the code had been committed in the wrong format the problem should be addressed before the code goes into version control. Stuff like this helps with maintaining a tidy history and consistent code base. Sounds like self inflicted wounds to me.
it seems to me I replied to the right comment, which is not yours.
I wish I could be happy to use this, but I’m afraid big tech is just too big for me to jump ship. (Network effect) I’m starting to think that Government should think about breaking up social media sites or highly regulate them. The twitter Elon saga makes me think it will be impossible in the United States.
Interesting, I have always viewed those as very different things.

Comments explain non-obvious things. For example, "this is a custom search because it was found to be 2.3x faster than .find() for this use case" or "this is sent as a string for backwards compatibility with ExternalRandomApi v1.2" or just walk through a complex algorithm.

I typically only go into archeology mode for two reasons:

1) I found the source of a bug and want to see when it was introduced and why. This is most helpful to prevent reintroducing an old bug, especially in old code lacking unit tests.

2) Someone wrote code that should have been commented, but wasn't.
> They let Russia-gate accusations go unchallenged even after courts had decided it was false. I bet there are people here who still believe it was true and real.

What courts and what findings?

What was found by the Special Counsel was that Russia interfered in the 2016 election and the Trump campaign welcomed the help and then Trump personally obstructed the subsequent investigation into said interference. The Republican-lead Senate Select Committee on Intelligence then released a report that found the Trump campaign transferred internal campaign data to a Russian intelligence officer as they were in the process of running a psyops campaign targeting American citizens aimed at helping Trump, and they lied about it to everyone.

If you believe Russia-gate was a hoax, please explain this finding of the Republican-lead Senate select committee:

It is our conclusion, based on the facts detailed in the Committee's Report, that the Russian intelligence services' assault on the integrity of the 2016 U.S. electoral process[,] and Trump and his associates' participation in and enabling of this Russian activity, represents one of the single most grave counterintelligence threats to American national security in the modern era.
"Seditious conspiracy" is not protected speech, unless you want to argue that before SCOTUS?
> You use twitter in a different way than the vast majority of users.

Can you actually back this up with any evidence, because I don't buy it off hand. You're saying it's uncommon for a huge long tail of rare users and lurkers that just casually drop in to twitter to see some one off post/conversation from an aggregator or their friend sent them, or post/DM bitch to a company that fucked them? I have a twitter account, I have a handful of followers (all likely from more than 5 years ago), but I hardly use twitter enough to even care. And I don't think this is that rare.

> You ever look at the youtube home page when you're logged out? It's absolute garbage. It's also not the way most people use youtube.

I don't follow your point. Most people use youtube by following links from aggregators such as reddit or here. They don't actively participate in the youtube "community" with its cesspool of comments nor even subscribe (what is it - like 3 to 5 subscribers per 1000 views) - that is hardly the "vast majority".
haha so funny

https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/19/india_microprocessor_...

literally from the headline "India selects RISC-V for semiconductor self-sufficiency contest"

"SELF SUFFICIENCY" is the important thing to note here.
How can the server tell whether you're just curling or curling and piping that output to an interpreter?
How was their harassment traced back to them? We're the execs dumb enough to send vulgar Twitter messages through their own private accounts? Through company accounts?
I'm curious to know why there aren't more conservative or libertarian mastodon sites. Seems like a good fit.
I've used this a bit , but did not stick around due to lack of people i've wanted to follow. Hopefully this will get a lot of people over from Twitter, I'd love to use it instead...

Also, if any HN community member would take it on themselves to create an HN instance (yes, some of us on HN like Twitter), would love to join that.
Now that's something I can really use in one of my current problems. Calculating a minimal perfect hash by creating acyclic random graphs. This conjecture gives now tresholds when to stop trying creating random graphs and start afresh.

This eg is needed for large perfect hashes in gperf or integer sets in compilers, such as eg. for C switch statements with Unicode. switch in C is only efficient for dense tables, but not sparse. sparse tables are linear, but could be constant. A switch in Pascal was constant, but so far GCC and llvm didn't care.

see http://ilan.schnell-web.net/prog/perfect-hash/algo.html
and http://programming.sirrida.de/hashing.html#c_case_of_string
I don't normally care about the author's gender, but I'd argue assuming that is a man is a honest mistake, as long as women in the tech industry is still a minority. Do you really need to go that far? I think that shows how fragile you're.
In reality it's probably my increasing interest in and exposure to politics as opposed to any cultural change, but it feels like "we" are increasingly sacrificing big in the future for small in the present.

It's probably always been like this in politics though.
> Is hacker news now the place SEO spammers go to get support?

I doubt the OP is a SEO spammer. Buying 4 different CDs in a week is a normal operation for a music aficionado. Back when I regularly bought CDs I would buy maybe 10 or 15 new albums in one go (and then nothing for a while). I think it's a perfectly reasonable and legitimate thing to do.

I understand Amazon's predicament with SEO spammers, but essentially it's a somewhat user-hostile "fix" for their broken rating system. I don't understand why they don't limit the amount of returns, which also makes this type of spam harder. Or maybe rethink the entire "crowd-sourced rating" thing as it keeps being problematic in various ways.

Either way, there are many things you can do better than "fuck you legitimate customer".
Makebook of levels.io was made the same way. Sell the book first, then write it later.
Humans have the same issue; belief in something being true doesn't make something true. This is even worse for self-knowledge since observing the self is inherently difficult and also subject to biases.
Guess I'll finally have to bookmark play2048.co, if git.io/2048 is gonna stop working.
First, this is a pretty nice language, which achieves much with very few, very general constructs. It's distinctly higher level than Bash, while using much fewer concepts. Here I applause.

Its shell capabilities are also minimalist, but should be ergonomic enough to avoid nearly all of the ceremony that Python's `popen()` usually requires.

OTOH I'm certain that prefixing all standard functions with `std` will get tiresome soon; I'd go with prefixing them with a `@` or `:` or another short special-case glyph. Also, the fact that `1 != 1.0` scratches me the wrong way; I'd rather have an integer be equal to a float when the float's fractional part is exactly zero. It does make mathematical sense, and is cheap to implement.

In general, Hush looks like a great language for cases when writing Bash becomes tiresome, and you'd rather reach for Python, Ruby, or Perl, but know that each incurs its own pain when used as a shell language.

Hush would also make a very nice embeddable language, much like Lua on which it is based.
As someone who has worked on two of them (paradox interactive scripting and f#): I think both work well...
For the record I said manageable not great or perfect.