skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i think a big problem is monetization. You have to identify the conversations with the most participants in order to get ads there for sales. You have to design feed algorithms and promote certain users to drive views and adclicks in order to sell more ads.

If Twitter goes private then maybe the income expectations change and therefore the platform algorithms can change. I don't use twitter but it seems like putting more moderation power in user's hands ( chronological feeds, easier management of what you see and what you don't, etc ) becomes possible when Wall St. expectations are no longer a part of the design process.

If you don't have a stock price to answer to then you can do things that create a healthier community but may not be the most profitable.

EDIT: You know, Musk be on to something about leaving a company private. Tesla is public and the shorters almost killed it, he really had to fight them and still does. SpaceX was left as private and is thriving. maybe he's taking lessons learned from both Tesla and SpaceX and trying to apply them to Twitter? just a guess
Another way to handle this is to count every landing outside a pad a crash landing.
Are you sure about that? I think you may be conflating people with artificial power and those with genuine power.

You realize people have tried that before as well, e.g. Parler, Gab, Truth Social, etc?

You're likely right to some degree though, in so much as that there will be a group or a few who will for reasons (whether truthful or not) don't want to associate with a site owned by Musk and will try to start and create a successful site; it's not easy though - and why Musk is willing to buy a head start for ~$42 billion.
> 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.

Thank you for your smug, hand-wavy, holier-than-thou dismissal of online free speech on behalf of the entire human race.
speaking remotely related to the topic, do you know of any good Aadhar verification service (not providers, I do not need Aadhar verifications) - All I need is a way for my users to verify themselves (KYC), preferably via Aadhar.

Searched a lot but either I Am doing them wrong or unable to locate the exact thing I am looking for.
Former Google Xer here.

Yes, "they just... have too much money and are over engineering something because they can". But also they are trying to fly precisely through extremely busy and regulated airspace to make a pin-point delivery of a low margin product. So you really do need a hover-capable vehicle and a method of landing within ~1m of your target. This may or may not actually be a good business model, but as you point out, in fancy countries we already have roads and plentiful hospitals.

Zipline's drop zones are larger and their operating area is so rural (not even roads! let alone air traffic!) that they had the freedom to choose simple, reliable design strategies.
I just keep up to date with messages/requests and I like to see who's viewing my profile.
sounds like a lot of punishment just so you can use an iphone. maybe try a different device
> And no, multiple posts in threads don't really work for that purpose because of the way those individual posts are distributed elsewhere, without context.

I'm reminded of Elon's tweet where he said a second stimulus would not be in the best interest of the people:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286673686821515266

People got PISSED...because they conveniently ignored the very next tweet where he said he supports UBI:

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1286675223434141697
I think the real harm @ElonsJet does to Elon Musk is not that his privacy is breached, if we learn where he's taking a plane a couple of times a week that's not exactly particularly intrusive[0]. It is that he is trying to position himself as the man who is directly tackling environmental issues by single-handedly bootstrapping an electric car company ... while frequently flying a private jet and having a carbon footprint thousands of times more than the average person.

If you're a public figure want to project a certain image of yourself, it hurts to be exposed as being the opposite of that.

[0] - not least because the source of the data is his own plane broadcasting its position
Abcdesktop – a cloud native desktopless system
Anecdota: I am in my 20s and got turbinate reduction surgery under general anaesthia about two years ago. While difficult to isolate from the effects of the pandemic, I observed a significant reduction in my ability to recall memories and the level of detail.

Still, it's worth being able to breathe through my nose at night — and the benefits that brings (including to my dental health, as I was getting cavities multiple times a year despite me trying keeping my dental health impeccable; which now have stopped after a year post surgery).
I also deduced that my inner monologue isn't making any sound even though I 'hear' the words. For each word it's like the average of every time you have heard that word. But it's easy to mistake that into hearing the sounds, which is probably what is happening when most people claim to hear their inner monologue.
I think for new code Exceptions are the preferred solution in case your code errors out , much more clear to return just one type of data. So this seems to be just a solution for improving type declaration for older code that that use the pattern to return false in case of error instead of an exception with a much more clear information on what went wrong.
PROTIP: If you open a song in Audacity and tweak it slightly (I usually slow it down by 5%), you can trick your brain into processing it as a "new" song again. The returns are still diminishing, but I find I can eke a few more days out of a good song this way.
Is there an easy way of doing HTML templating with Go/Rust, as you would in PHP?
I'm curious, is this built with Charm or just inspired by it?
If Nicotine is the worst you've done, then I'm going to assume you haven't done many.
Musk has indicated that he will do a pay-for blue checkmark.

Right now having a verified account is a form of privilege were you pleased some sort of twitter corporate representative who decides these sorts of thing. They have a history of giving blue check marks to accounts they agree with and taking it away from verified people they disagree with.

By handing out checkmarks to anybody willing to pay them for it (and by extension tying their legal identity to their twitter one) then it neutralizes the political aspect of verified accounts while improving a revenue stream.

The revenue stream would improve in more ways than one.

Turns out knowing a person's browsing history and what accounts they have online is not really that useful or interesting to advertisers. It's not a big money maker.

However if you can tie financial identities into online identities then that is vastly more interesting and is something advertisers are willing to pay for.

This is why Facebook insists on having "real identities" nowadays when people sign up. They partner with other data mining operations and tie people's financial history into their facebook accounts. This way adverisers know people's buying habits, income levels.

Pretty much everything you fill out for drivers licensing, hunting licenses, loan application, credit card history, debit card history, mortgage applications, etc etc.. is now tied to your Facebook account if they can figure out to connect the dots. Which isn't that hard for most people.
I'd argue it started with the PC revolution and the lionization of CEOS in the 80s
Actually you were reinforcing that this is a narrative made by the media, by quoting the exact kind of crappy media article that is pushing that very narrative.
This is what my company is currently doing. First step after a screener call is a 45 minute meeting with the hiring panel to present anything the candidate wishes - some presentations try to fill the full time, some are brief and there's more discussion.

We started doing this to get rid of the repetitive background summary the candidate has to give with each member of the hiring team in 1:1s. Overall, I think it's working well, and wish that places I was interviewing for myself would follow a similar process rather than multiple hours of 1:1 before a tech screen.
I agree that a real-name policy would help prevent hate and abuse on the platform (though not at all eradicate it). But I absolutely don't think Musk will do that. He'll either do nothing, best case, or worst case make moves that help misinformation, hate speech, and abuse spread.
Cynically speaking : Twitter is a useful tool for broadcasting the ruling class' narrative and pass it off as the mainstream one - as long as this function is not too apparent. Yielding to Musk's requests would be a clever way for the platform to regain some credit with non-elites and unbelievers.
Usually, authoritarian regimes indeed love real names policies and hate that anonymous people are able to have a voice. Should probably consult with China or Iran, they have some expertise around this.
>apparently Gates has shorted Tesla

There's a couple of these "apparently" or he "maybe" shorted Tesla giving "context"

If you really want to offer context here it is:

- Gates asked Musk to meet up to discuss clime change philanthropy

- Musk asked if Gates still had a half billion Tesla short

- Gates confirmed he does

- Musk told him to screw off because he can't take philanthropy on climate change seriously with someone trying to cash in on the failure of Tesla

So, no, he didn't "maybe" or "apparently" short Tesla - he actively is shorting Tesla to the tune of $500 million as of a few days ago.
Too many people here are crowing about the GitHub thing, and not enough about:

> Above all, I try to hire people who I'd want to pair with tomorrow. People who are better than me, and people who I can learn from.

It seems the only way to get hired period is to have all the experience in the world, at least from the author's perspective. This mentality is far more dangerous since it disallows the idea that someone can get better at a job over time.

Also I feel like this conclusion is just a longform version of "we only hire ninjas and rockstars". The author openly disdains applicants who are so "full of themselves" that they send in overly detailed resumes, but conveniently omits the fact (which everyone here knows) that resumes have to be catered to the filters of your HR software to even land on a hiring manager's desk.

His conclusion is that stuffed resumes are for losers, and only he, the hiring manager with the Midas touch, can see the true value of an individual by glancing over their code and preparing some pitfall questions. This smacks of self-centered egotism and coder bro mentality.

Also as others have pointed out, good coding jobs exist in fintech, government, and 1000s of other industries that this guy sneeringly looks down his nose at.
The "showdead" option on HN does something similar and it's truly truly awful, I can't imagine why anyone would want to apply that at scale.
What about the petrol and smoke? Can you control where they go? Who breathes it?
How do you fix Twitter? Why, there's computer science for that: https://spritelyproject.org/
> Not among our target audience it won't.

Yes it will. I have no interest in using Linux as desktop but I do use it for deployments. If there is one trait of major PL is the adoption of the big 3 OSes.

This is Hare’s biggest flaw right now.
The impact of a real name policy on any individual’s behavior also really depends on how common their name is. For someone with a unique name it means others can instantly know their real identity. For someone whose name is shared by tens or hundreds of thousands of others around the world, they are effectively still totally anonymous.
Not really, as the webserver can just label the cookies that are purely functional as such.
You may be able to control the place of "landing" but you can't claim to control the airspace above it.
hey, thanks for the plug. We're big fans of your work too.
Not as easily as in PHP, but yes.

https://pkg.go.dev/html/template (for Go)
I've always wanted a feature that just bins similar reactions together, so I don't have to read them. For example, I'd love replies to be binned into categories like "cruel disparagement", "wilful misunderstanding", "mindless agreement", "fallacious", "opinion as fact", and "threats and doxing". Ideally the last category would be taken seriously by law enforcement.

People who write things who get binned into these categories should get a score which, after reaching a threshold, get blocked, and ideally even generates a report for others to see of who I've blocked, and why, to save others the trouble.

Interestingly I feel like the trolls would like this too because it would let them compete with each other for being the most horrible and the most blocked on the platform.
In the 1960/70s (when my parents were in college), it was perfectly acceptable to throw a milkshake at a fellow black student with literally no consequence. It was necessary for black male students to walk with black female students because of harassment. I know this because it was literally what my parents had to deal with.

So "complete" free speech is a resoundingly absurd idea, in no way were they protected and able to speak freely. As I mentioned above, the suppression (true, I wouldn't say censorship) resulted in a sort of de-facto very unfree speech.
If you put the link on the CV, sure, you just assume that it may be relevant to your profile.

But that's not necessarily a portfolio per se (something _really_ curated for that purpose, which is something specific). If it says so on the GitHub profile page "Portfolio", so be it.

And the recruiter is perfectly fine looking at it, but only for what it is.

What I'm rather aware of, is the pressure/mandate for everyone in the industry to showcase themselves, while that's not a relevant proxy for their fit to this or any job posting.

Sure there are people in the industry making themselves visible through github, twitter and whatnot, and some of these are also excellent. But that's only a tiny piece of the crowd that's available for hire.
One of the reasons for the immigration is while Tokyo is an expensive city, its costs can be compensated with a tiny apartment. However, it's not necessary to live in Tokyo. Many of the surrounding cities commute to Tokyo on a daily basis.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokyo#Demographics
"During the daytime, the population swells by over 2.5 million as workers and students commute from adjacent areas. This effect is even more pronounced in the three central wards of Chiyoda, Chūō, and Minato, whose collective population as of the 2005 National Census was 326,000 at night, but 2.4 million during the day.[91]"
> E2E + 2FA and you're done

Right until you lose your 2FA token, which in Google's case is your phone. And at this point YOU'RE DONE.
No. You must be able to remain anonymous.
To me the best option would be to massively expand the blue tick / verified accounts to include anyone who can prove their real world identity (and tie their actual name to their accounts), but continue to allow anonymous accounts, and allow users to only view verified accounts and anonymous accounts they follow if they wish. This would cut off trolls, disinfo bots, and spam at the knees while still allowing people who want or need anonymity to have it.
You should check out r/overemployed
ORMs integrate poorly in many languages, and perform strictly worse than hand-written SQL.

If you're just using the database for object persistence, which is common, it doesn't matter all too much. But that's not really the scenario we're discussing here, since the data is by the original problem statement, immutable.
It doesn't have to be a huge crumbling pile of debt. It's just a tool that can be used to create useful applications if used in the right way. I think of it as a visual IDE to build opinionated apps, i.e., visual ruby on rails or visual django.

It will significantly improve your productivity on repeatable tasks (crud pages, domain model to tables, querying, etc), and you can usually add custom coding for those things that aren't handled by the low-code platform. Or you write a separate service for those parts and call these through REST.
Can brain scans reveal behaviour? Study says not yet
> let Stephen Fry host his own server that he has to actively curate

I've barely had my coffee, and I've already seen the most "HN living in a bubble" comment of the day.
TikTok does a pretty good job with its ridiculous security ecosystem hyperfocused on prohibiting any third-party clients.

APIs need to use actual headless browsers in order to generate the appropriate signature.[1]

Maybe s̶o̶m̶e̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶4̶3̶B̶ ̶c̶a̶n̶ ̶g̶o̶ ̶t̶o̶w̶a̶r̶d̶s̶ ̶a̶ ̶s̶i̶m̶i̶l̶a̶r̶ ̶s̶y̶s̶t̶e̶m̶ the rise in valuation, and Elon's involvement, can bring in some more money for the company itself for these kinds of endeavors.

https://github.com/davidteather/TikTok-Api
OP is right.

All the stuff you mentioned brings zero benefits to the consumer. The consumer wants a steady improvement in their quality of life in the next 3 months or less, and then you go from there hopefully adding one more bit in the next 3 months and so on.

There is a reason why Musk BS doesn't find fertile ground in NYC and his cult is largely based in California. Quartely (4 * 3 = 12) reports were adopted because people want to have a clear understanding of how a public company is improving the American consumer's quality of life, and they want it every 3 months.

Tesla accounted for 1.3% of all cars sold in the world in 2021, these are rich people toys we are talking about. 1.3% in 20 years.

> He owns these markets, because he created them

Cars are cars, EV, hybrid, gasoline, diesel...whatever. If you are in the business of making cars the relevance of your company should be judged based on what's you market share in car manufacturing compared against everybody who are also in the business of making cars.

Mr. Musk took 20 years to get to 1.3%. That's 80 Quarters. 1.3% / 80 = 0.01625% per quarter. What are we even talking about...

By this time around the govt. was already threatning Gates and Rockefeller to put them in jail because they had 95% market share of Operative Systems and oil respectively.
Seems like a valid complaint to me. Apple is giving themselves privileges to end-around potential competitors on their platforms. Although this is not new.
I use a 45" 4K Samsung QLED TV with my Macbook Air M1. It's great having a single big display on the wall above my desk, the only downsides being that I have to turn on the TV manually, but this could be fixed by using an adapter with CEC support. Also only running at 60Hz, but that's not something I care about.
Why on earth would Stephen Fry want to spend his time operating and moderating a social media site?
I agree with dannyw. Also, Twitter influencing requires scale. You can fake some but patterns will emerge that make it harder and harder.

Now, if it succeeds, that does create an incentive for corruption within Twitter. The enemies of democracy have huge incentives to keep up these divisive public influence campaigns that have worked this past decade.
Social media influencer is not a job, its a business, and the people doing well at it are making serious money, more than most software engineers. However it's more of a winner takes all market, akin to e.g. acting.
On the other hand, if someone is giving you death threats and you're afraid they're credible, a real-name policy gives you someone to report.
Yep, as long as they restore Trump and BabylonBee i might give Twitter another try
They said "reputation", not that PHP was _actually_ dying
The first thing I look for in something that claims to be a systems language is whether it provides anything that helps me out.

First and foremost, does it provide any primitive that can be used for automation? C++ brought destructors, Rust did a Drop trait. What do you have?

Second, does it provide any way to operate on types? C++ got templates, Rust offers generics. What do you have?

Third, does it provide useful compile-time logic?

If it lacks those, what does it bring to the table to make up for those gaping holes? This is not the '70s, or even the '80s. We have learned things since then. Have you?
The idea that a social media company is capable of making a dent in "making the future better" is kind of laughable if you have any sort of rational ideas for what makes a good life...
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