skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't tell you how depressing I found it when Musk described Twitter as the "town square" and his whole rhetorical take on it needing to be a place for free and open discussion as per the "market place of ideas" concept (I don't recall him referencing the quoted term directly- that's my editorial).

Like... we really want TWITTER, of all things, to be the place for important social discourse? I never had a Twitter account, but isn't it still limited to some 200 characters and/or an image per post? And from what I've seen the "threading" of discussions also seems to make replies difficult to follow. Apparently, our society wants important social issues to be discussed in 200 character snippets. I'm going to go cry into my coffee.
It reminds me of a time many years ago - before SaaS days - that a co-worker was similarly disrupted due to unreliability of a vendor system...and his anger towards internal senior staff for (what many obviously) considered to be a poor decision to go with said vendor. So my buddy was tempted to automate email forwards to a partiocular senior leader...so they somewhat feel the pain of all the messages being sent on a partoicular topic...plus my buddy acvited his email's out of office message to both assure folks that he was aware of the issue and to contact the senior leader most responsible for the poor vendor decision...again, to share the paion. Ultimately he didn't do that direct of a blame for fear of getting fired...but he did implement the out of office in a general fashion at least to lessen/avoid him having to answer questions about the numerous outages, etc. He didn't name any names...but some savvy folks in the org who understood the management hierarchy eventually figured things out and knew to start pionging that senior leader...and my friend didn't get fired...So there could be some mildly automated ways to lessen disruptions to your life. ;-)
Ok, fair point. So let's not say that "Twitter has a free speech problem".

But let's also not say that "Twitter has limitations on free speech" because it feels like a misleading euphemism. Free speech is not a spectrum. You either have it or not.

How about we just say that "Twitter doesn't have free speech".

And yes, "it's totally debatable if that's a problem or not". That I agree.
It is only for classes not for objects (stdClass). You can mark a class with the attribute #[AllowDynamicProperties] to allow dynamic properties.

You can also still implement the __get/__set methods on the class to have dynamic properties.

What this RFC does is to remove not declared dynamic properties.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/deprecate_dynamic_properties
On the contrary, I'm not ignoring what Elon has done. He's done a lot.

As for what he has to say, for every one of your tabloid moral arguments .. there are at least 25 things Elon has said, with which I would completely agree.

This ideology of moral superlativity is taxing. It doesn't actually get things done. Maybe the reason Elon gets things done, is he is fine with saying stupid shit, but doing very, very good things.

I mean, where does this argument lead? Does taking Elon down at a character level, produce some vital substance or circumstance, for the species?

I couldn't care less what happened with the Thai submarine. And, neither should you.

There is a frickin' viable space age about to happen. Can we stop killing each other so easily - and maybe just get on with bringing a peaceful resolution to the worlds resource problems?

Because that's what the space dream is really all about.

Infinite sky. Narcissism and Delusion don't get us there. Like, seriously.
I could be wrong but I feel like Elon is a little more savvy than this
I honestly did not expect this outcome.
Sounds like enlightened centrism to me. Which is itself an ideology.
One minor correction - the article creates a dichotomy where the hypothesis must be either
1) self-assesment is somewhat correlated with skill, or
2) completely uncorrelated

And this is a true dichotomy. The "autocorrelative" effect doesn't need perfect correlation, just some correlation.
Sorry, I have a bad habit of posting when I'm halfway out the front door for something...

For instance, as I understand it, the reason Node packages are so small is to make it efficient to run them in browsers. But that also exponentially increases the brittleness and vulnerability of the code. Optimizing for the always-live continuous deployment processes of web development runs counter to what is necessary for stable and secure code on the backend.

I may be wrong, though, it's just something that occurred to me while I was wondering about this exact problem.
and the pushback policy has now been withdrawn - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/25/uk-refugee-p...
The obvious hyper-brogrammer generator. Sounds like the opposite of what everyone wants.
I doubt it, it's been pretty obvious that YouTube and Reddit have been censoring at the behest of advertisers for years now.
Postgress

About 2 years ago I wrote my own blog engine so I could get up-to-speed with NodeJS: https://andrewrondeau.herokuapp.com/

I would have loved to do SQLite with some kind of "magic" backup, as SQLite is more than enough to handle a personal blog. (It certainly would make development easier!) However, at the time Heroku only offered Postgress.
Show HN: No Code CI
Cryptography is disastrous to use incorrectly, and "make sure a prankster can't add suffixes to anything" is exactly the kind of property that's easy to screw up.

For example, have you ever run "git fetch" on a pull request? You just hashed files you didn't make, and stored them under their hash. Whoops.

Have you ever used nix? A distributed content addressing system? Validated something is safe then signed a hash of that thing? Anything where a file and its hash are assumed to be interchangeable for identification? If you just go looking, the world abounds with chances for mischief.
Back in the days of serial terminals I made a sweet single-floppy terminal, customized to support a sco xenix application, with nothing but a bootable dos floppy and ms-kermit, and it worked better and was simpler for the users than the procomm plus they had been using.

It was all because of how scriptable and customable ms-kermit was.

Not only I was able to make all the terminal emulation and keyboard keys work perfect, I even made the disk user self maintaining where the disk could copy itself, so they never had a problem with the disks wearing out in a dirty shop environment.

And it was all dirt cheap and dead simple for the users and business owner to maintain unlike a proper network booting solution would have been at the time.

The window of time where that
articular awesomeness mattered was small, but it sure was awesome.

It wasn't even doing any kermit file transfers, just acting as a swiss army knife of a scriptable configurable serial terminal running on essentially free 8088 and 8086's with no hd's, ram, or nics.
Honestly, I'm surprised when it comes to Bezos and the WP. Bezos, for all he achieved, is class-A hole when it come to labor rights an how employees are treated. Heck, the guy bought a second yacht to land his chopper on because his primary yacht, being a sail ship and all, doesn't have place for a heli pad. He's prime capitalism excess. And there he is, having bought WP to prevent it from falling into hard times and, as of now, he did not interfere with WPs reporting.

Disclaimer: I'm an ex-Amazonian, and I think it is great company to work at (blue collar jobs excluded, but that's true for all warehouse and delivery jobs). Amazon managed to get rid of the middle population of a Gauss distribution regarding performance, Amazon is relentless (I like that drive for efficiency). By taking out the middle, so, the very top and the very bottom are left unchecked and un-moderated. Which breeds all kinds of problems.
Atomic Habits is a book that should have been a long blog post. It's amazing how many self help book could be a pamphlet with 10 printed pages for more details.
I don’t think that’s the worst case.
The social indicators started going sideways in the 1960s. Lots of cultural change since then. Much less focus on religion, tradition, and obligation, and much greater focus on individualism, self expression, self determination and “finding yourself,” and sexual fulfillment.
Mastodon is only one server of a whole network of twitter alternatives - the fediverse. Pleroma is just fine, too.

https://jointhefedi.com/
You're being down voted because your comments came off very angry and ranty. However, you are not wrong. His twitter usage is often hate filled or bullying. The one that stands out most is calling the scuba diver a pedo because he called Elon's submarine idea a PR stunt, which it totally was. Or when he trolls Bernie by saying he forgot he was still alive, because he doesn't agree with his stance on taxation. Elon is not really the best example or leader of free speech I would hope for.
The old tenant of the internet was “if you don’t like something, block it”. All of these people saying that this doesn’t work in practice on their social media websites have not provided an explanation as to why this is the case.
json_decode('...', false) will deserialize into a stdClass - which I guess implements magic methods __set() and __get. I've never checked this but I guess that would do the trick has mentioned in the article itself.
AS far as I know, this is because it was and still is common practice to return a result from a function, but return false if something didn't work. Having this type helps return type declaration like: false|ResultObject

In my opinion, using Exceptions or nullable types is a better practice in those cases, but I am not against having more options.
Show HN: Lists.sh – A Microblog for Lists
Greetings, creator here!

I've been working on a new blogging platform specifically for lists on and off for a few months now and I'm excited to officially announce its launch.

After seeing https://charm.sh a few months ago, I've been enamored by the idea of SSH apps. I decided that a blogging platform focused on developers could be the perfect use case for an SSH app.

Also, I love writing lists. I think restricting writing to a set of lists can really help improve clarity in thought. The goal of this blogging platform is to make it simple to use the tools you love to write and publish lists. There is no installation, signup is as easy as SSH'ing into our CMS, and publishing content is as easy as copying files to our server.

Check it out and let me know what you think!

source: https://github.com/neurosnap/lists.sh
Make it so people can say whatever they want, but it's easy to decide what level of discourse you're personally willing to listen to. You have the right to say what you want and other people have the right not to listen.

It's not an easy system to develop and maintain, but Twitter pays well enough to afford people who can do it. The goal just needs to be set.
People who get teleported in may simply be met with sullen foot-dragging from the existing mediocrities incentivized to make the new guy fail.
Which topic are you trying to learn? The books and other resources people suggest will probably depend heavily on the specific topic.
Twitter's already a huge shit hole, it's just that the fascists are going to rejoin the Marxists so everybody can excrete into the common hole together. Three is no reason to believe anything will happen other than more "journalists" getting abused, and let's face it - they deserve it. Learn to code being bannable was, for me, the last straw and I stopped using Twitter after being banned for saying it to a journalist.
The World’s Most Advanced Private Air Force (2020)
One random side thought: Elon has, from time to time, shown that he can be a little petty. He will now have access to every DM sent on Twitter. I’m genuinely interested to know if he’ll be able to resist doing something wild.
To my thinking, users of open-source operating systems
What is the point of using SQLite under a web service?

I thought people complained how MySQL sucks and PostgreSQL rocks for being right and SQLite was nowhere near being right or performant. (Things seem to be getting better with strict column types these days.)

I've recently migrated a smallish service from MySQL to PostgreSQL and figured it's quite a work if you're not careful writing by the SQL standard which means if the service had gotten bigger, your chance of moving away from SQLite kind of walks away.

So, why not use a safer choice to begin with? Nothing is complicated running MySQL/PostgreSQL unless you've sold yourself to AWS to care for the cost and don't know how to run a DB instance yourself.
I think that after certain threshold of wealth you're not quite human anymore and fair game. You definitely don't have much in common with 99.999% of others, and have effectively infinite resources to bend reality to your will. So yeah, eat the rich and all that.
You don't have to follow anyone who tweets obnoxious content.
Until usenet got flooded with spam, and had no tools to deal with it and died
That's not what extortion is. (Or stalking, for that matter).
This won’t affect that case, as it uses stdClass (which is allowed to use dynamic properties).

This is only for cases where you have a specific class like User, and you don’t want people setting random dynamic properties on it.

If you do you can also mark the class with an annotation to allow dynamic properties.
Define misinformation.

Tech misinformation is interesting because a Chinese government account gets a flag and an American government account doesn't. A company pr account doesn't get a bias flag, but it is wholly designed around spreading misinformation. Misinformation seems to be used as an argument against not only free speech, but only leaning towards very specific directions politically.
He is worried about climate change and promotes bitcoin.

He says Netflix is woke without any citations but just had two kids with Grimes.

Elon is about making money and good at building support.

I don’t mind him buying Twitter per se but I do believe it will distract from his noble pursuits. The former Reddit CEO’s thread nailed it.
He simply stated that we already have [national] laws. I'd have to agree with that. We should get rid of the dystopian privatized legal system and give people their day in court. Imagine how even the worse tyrants in history would share the reason for punishment. People are increasingly building their lives on platforms. With [the potential for] big gains comes [the potential for] big losses.
As I vaguely recall, the drilling rig was the Ocean Scout which was a retired semisubmersible from the company I was working for at the time in New Orleans. Don't remember the details and it's long pre-WWW so I don't see anything online. It was probably just the drill floor and derrick or something like that.

The fair was right before I went elsewhere. As I recall it was a financial flop and not much specific remains but it did lead to a general revitalization of an area along the Mississippi that had been pretty much dilapidated warehouses.
CFPB Charges TransUnion Senior Executive for Use of Digital Dark Patterns
Man, another million comment thread wit the same arguments.

Of course it can turn into a cesspool. Of course there are ways around that problem. Like allowing more customizability for users.

Like a ‘old Twitter’ filter that would allow only content compatible with the old moderation norms.
Yes for sniprss.com. Backend is written in Go and using litestream for replication.

No issues at all.
It was less of a cesspool because it was significantly smaller. This is a well-understood feature of online communities: scale changes them, and not for the better.
It was also much smaller and news agencies used it a lot less as a source of news.
My sister lived in the Knoxville area and my whole family went to that Fair, the only World's Fair I've attended. We had a good time, but for Knoxville, it was a financial boondoggle. I've still never been up in the Sun Sphere, which has struggled over the years. And yes, I remember the jingle as well!
That is my literal nightmare for the future of the web.
C doesn't exactly have macros. That's a text substitution done by the preprocessor in its own limited, special-purpose language. True hygienic macros of something like Common Lisp are a different beast.

If all you want are textual substitutions, you can use the C preprocessor in front of any language.
It's not completely independent - after Reddit started banning subreddits like "Fat People Hate" and anti-trans hategroups, the amount of hate posts decreased on the whole platform, even in completely unrelated groups. This might point to a perception of decreased tolerance of such posts, or be simply a function of the banned subreddits being used to coordinate attacks.

Either way, reddit is unlike twitter and more like a network of networks, so the same result might not occur there.
OK, before you go any further with that idea you should check this out:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1517707521343082496
Anything that tries to get you immediately out of a platform is very likely spam.
People "without much spare time" are actually fine. Their github profile is actually empty or non-existent. So, this whole thing is not threat to them at all. OP will continue to read their CV without finding something bad on github.

But, people who do use github a lot as a place to mess in are threatened.
To reinforce this, if you follow the links it states

> The term "home-ownership rate" can also be misleading because it includes households that owe on a mortgage.

Depending on your credit score and your down payment, you can wind up functionally renting a home for many years even if you "own" it on paper. It isn't until the final years of a 30 year mortgage that you actually significantly pay down the principal.

As long as interest rates remain low and the credit requirements are lax, most of America can in fact "own" a home. Expect prices to skyrocket, as buyers become more and more decoupled from the cost.
Fewer injuries tho, one would hope. "Space Invaders ruined my thumbs!"
> An interpreter is totally in the clear on these subjects and should not have anyone reaching for unsafe.

This is true for a toy interpreter. You don’t “need” unsafe. But anything other then a toy interpreter has many reasons to reach for unsafe: garbage collection, flexstr, object dispatch, tagged pointers, etc. Not to mention the performance gains from using unchecked functions in hot sections of the interpreter loop.
I do not believe the location and flight paths of your private jet being kept private is a right. Its transponder is also publicly broadcast whenever active, and any receiver in range on ground or in space can receive and retransmit its broadcasted payload.

I’d subscribe to an SMS or email feed of @ElonsJet if it was deplatformed. Higher level, I try to get any info available on Twitter in my email instead; it’s just a shitty message bus for my purposes.
First off, congrats and thank you for putting this out there. Its a massive undertaking and I think the niche you are looking at is a valid one. At a superficial first glance, this looks very welcoming, and I'm definitely going to tinker with it. My expected use case will be embedded arm so I'll have to wait for support for that. And as many have expressed, my primary concern is safety and security, so tooling around proof assistants or formal verification are of interest to me. All of that takes time and community effort, I know. Good luck and thank you for giving the world years of your teams work.
I wonder what his heart rate was when he ejected, that's like 12-14G apparently, insane
Now I’m calculating with constructive reals
Yamaha QY700 MIDI sequencer and tone generator
> The distribution needs to do almost nothing to support either EFI or the legacy BIOS or any other booting method.

I think you're seriously underestimating the amount of effort the bootloader and hardware enablement teams who work on Fedora put in to making _systems boot Linux at all_.
The overall quality of the detractor comments says a lot too. There are a lot of generic hater comments. There are others that make no sense at all… like, Musk not wanting a PR department in his company being anti-speech. Wh… wha?? I’m still waiting for a serious and honest reason to shit on the guy.
https://internetdb.shodan.io is powered by a SQLite database and gets millions of requests a month. It does require a different workflow and custom synchronization scripts but otherwise it's performed well.
>How about [unpopular politician]?

Most of these people have public itineraries...
"Another part of Dudley’s drunk monkey hypothesis is that, in moderation, alcohol consumption can actually be beneficial for humans and monkeys alike"

We have emphatically had to disprove this time and time again. No amount of alcohol is good for humans despite a heavy bias in our media that claims otherwise.
Google Buys Vicarious
From the outside, this was what triggered Musks bid for Twitter in the first place
So, in other words, no need for cookies...
The idea is that you can filter out the unpaid.
I'm in an office with a door. My return to work was bittersweet, but manageable.
My bet is you're very wrong.
UN is concerned about Uyghurs https://news.un.org/en/story/2021/03/1088612

UN is toothless against permanent Security Council members
Just to elaborate on how uneducated these people are on the topic of "free speech" and running something like twitter:

Interviewer: Right. So you can't incite people to violence like a direct incitement to violence. You can't do the equivalent of crying fire in a movie theater, for example.

Elon Musk: No, that would be a crime.

Shouting fire in a crowded movie theatre is not, and never was, illegal. It was an analogy in a court case which was then overturned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shouting_fire_in_a_crowded_the...

Interviewer: But here's the challenge, is that it's such a nuanced difference between different things. So there's incitement to violence. That's a no, it's illegal. There's hate speech, which some forms of hate speech are fine. I hate spinach.

"I hate spinach" is not hate speech, and importantly, hate speech isn't even illegal.
Back in the Apple II days. Caps Lock was actually a locking switch too, at least on my IIc. The Model F shipped with the IBM PC also had CTRL there. For some reason with the AT they decided to put CTRL in the corner and Caps Lock along home row.
stdClass doesn't implement magic methods -- any properties you add are added directly to the object, not to any kind of internal data store -- but it is explicitly marked as an exception to the proposed rule.