skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dear Twitter, thank you for suspending my account, otherwise I'd gladly pay $99
Twitter is truly a magical place in sense that it can wake up the worst monster inside even the nicest person. Example is my elder mother, the sweetest person you met, but trolls and clowns on Twitter that she constantly engage with turn her into someone I never knew I would experience. Its very sad.

Now personally I am the calmest person you witness, but it takes less than 5 minutes of twitter scrolling to get me engaged with some idiot being wrong. Sometimes its a conversation that I follow and that conversation triggers me and I need to join wasting time and being angry. But not anymore! Just few months ago, in response to someone calling me bold (actually random avatar, far from bold/ing), I called them fat - apparently something that is on Twitter ban list, and my account got switched into "read only" mode. I could refresh and read newest content, but not follow or reply/tweet. Obviously I immediately went into wanting to appeal that decision... but then I realized - "let me try to use Twitter like this." And oh boy let me tell you how wonderful my experience is! Sometimes I still get to read idiots and nasty people's comments... but my own awareness that I cannot simply join them and waste my time and get myself angry, that blessing is simply worth $99 that I would otherwise gladly pay Twitter each and every month to have this blessing of a "read only" Twitter account.

End of the story.
I finally read DDIA this year and loved it. If anyone has any more suggestions for similarly enlightening books, I'd love to hear them!
A “Safety Emergency” Happened at Wuhan Institute of Virology in November of 2019
I'm not actually "throwing shade." I just said, and I quote:

> "I hear functional programming is great. Not so sure I'd write a driver with it, though."

That's not an insult.

Your comment wasn't, either -technically, but it wasn't quite as nuanced. It said that OOP was, by inference, a bad thing.

> "Given how frequently I hear something along the lines of "OOP is great; you're just doing it wrong!", I'm inclined to believe it actually isn't so great."

Like I said, this has descended to a religious debate, and I won't play, anymore.

But this is a big world, and there's many different things going on. I know that I'm an old "OK boomer," but I have also been writing ship software for over thirty-five years, so there's a vanishingly small chance, that I may actually have some valid points to make.
can lichess or chess.com add go please ?
Fascinating. I'm finishing up "Art of Possibility" by R and B Zander. They make a case for not keeping score, and for creating - and believing in - a construct beyond traditional bounds. And then walk through examples.

I'm not doing it justice. And yes, it's a bit abstract. But it might be worth your time.
A lot of accounts on Twitter screenshot text in order to circumvent notifications to the accounts they cite... This allows people to hijack content, and to arrange brigades without having a clear path back to the source of where they started.

One of the most important things for Elon to understand is that no matter how many programmatical measures are put into place to prevent abuse, there will always eventually be a workaround for people on a very public and open site. Protecting users and their content rights should be a goal of the platform as well, too many of these social sites see copycat behavior as fair game, and they reward people who steal and hijack content, that needs to be discouraged among several other bad social media behaviors.
What Do Longtermists Want?
Google does a lot of A/B testing, called Experiments. YouTube has some cool tools for QA testing those experiments...

This redesign is being A/B tested (with high percentages of users it's rolled out to). It comes in different parts, so if you clear your cookies and reload you can be reassigned a bucket and therefore see slightly different interfaces.

Bonus: I think the redesign is called called Amsterdam, don't quote me on that though...
What ability would the US government have to stop it? The EU and EU countries have every right to make their own laws. Implement an "export ban" and deprive the EU of these services? I doubt the companies involved would consider that to be preferable.
> You were complaining about 1% performance deltas else-thread (...)

You should revisit that corner of the thread to revive your memory. The discussion was about adding an extra 1% performance penalty for reasons, not the importance of a 1% delta either way.
Taiwan has huge swaths of barely populated mountainous regions and yet its average is 673 people per sqkm. To put it another way, it's 1/10th the size of Japan and has about the population of Australia.

The Netherlands has a lot more land suitable for residential housing and a lot less density. If this is hitting "the limit", then they're not doing it right.
They shouldn't export so much. Doesn't 90% of fresh flowers come from that country?
Time is the greatest resource, but energy management is your greatest goal. You will always run out of energy before you run out of time.

If you have a life where you pursue autonomy, the development of your capacities, and a sense of meaningfulness in what you do, you'll be able to withstand and enjoy much more than you think. If you don't pursue these things, everything will be harder.

Simply spending your time with more intentionality and being conscious of each moment changes so much.

It's easier to find satisfaction in goals outside of your own self, because they introduce a finite boundary whereas the self is infinite in its desires

Try to picture what a confident and well-adjusted person would do in the same situation, to determine if you are currently acting out because of trauma or fear.

If you have a habit, ask yourself what it will look like if it continues uninterrupted for decades. Conversely, try to picture what a habit you don't currently have could do for you over the same timespan.
But it should be noted, this is how progress usually happens, right? Little incremental gains in efficiency, added together over time.

Although that does make it hard to judge the significance of any one breakthrough.
This could be a country-specific problem here in Sweden. I am on the other side of it today:

I travelled abroad last week and bought a last-minute gift for the family on the way home: a box of sugary sweets. But nobody in the family wants to eat them.

They all have a fixed quota of sweets each week (Swedish lordagsgodis [1]) and so choosing candy to eat is a zero-sum game. This random confectionery didn't make the cut.

So into the bin they go. Seems a shame but I'm used to it by now.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20211004-lrdagsgodis-sw...
Very true. The fabric of society is much more permeable than one would think. Many rules are not as hard as you think. Things that you’d think can never happen can actually happen, and will, if you just ask. Not asking is like the elephant that allows himself to be tied down by a flimsy string, simply because he never dares to pull and test its strength (which seems to be the prime metaphor of learned helplessness).
Obsessive iteration is where the magic is
That's a very bad title.

It's more inline with bringing back an open internet and transparency in how our data is used by the different platforms.

While also forcing them to collaborate, to let us be able to switch easily from one product of company A to the next product of company B.

This is great for consumers and will help reducing the power of the techbopoly we have today. If it works.
Would be ironic if Musk would ban them from Twitter until they restart paying again.

After all, Twitter doesn't need to cater to GM.

Free to pull the plug, free to have the plug pulled on you.
Shut the fuck up.

An easy way to increase the value and enjoyment of a conversation is to say a lot less and listen a lot more. This applies obviously in cases where the subject is something you're not an expert on, but can also be extremely valuable in those exact circumstances. Obviously there are limits to this advice, but they are probably much further away than you'd dare believe.

Also, people tend to assume that you share more of their opinions so you can make friends quicker too. You can't put your foot in a closed mouth.
All sorts of "useless" things are selected for when they help animals attract a mate.
>Markdown will never get beyond developers.

considering that the only option to format text in programs like discord is a "light" version of markdown I would say many younger folks have at least a basic understanding of how markdown works.
It definitly is, because despite being mostly C#, outside the graphics engine itself, they have decided it is the right tool for some of their projects.

D had a chance in the games industry with Remedy and lost it, instead a language that supposedly lesser one, is being adopted by major platform owners.
Not to nitpick, but the words have no value. The value comes from what you or me assign to them. Certainly there are things in your past (or mine) that we heard and effectively ignored. But if heard again we'd laugh or cry.

The point is, the meaning we attach to the words are literally in our heads. We determine the worlds they create. It's not the other way around.
Incidents caused by unappreciated OSS maintainers or underfunded OSS projects
If I was to share a piece of advice here it would be "even the smartest people in the world are wrong a lot of the time".

There's never a case where you should accept conferred wisdom uncritically, no matter how much you respect a person or what else they created.
Quite so, Bob is foremost a troubadour who hated being called the 'voice of a generation' and the certain brand of hippies who titled him as such. Talk about missing the point.
> Instead all of them make debugging easier by reducing the search space, usually eliminating fairly trivial bugs

The last 50 years of CVEs suggests they're not so trivial.
For some people this is enough: but HackerNews is only great for discussion within the context of socially acceptable topics.

Want to have some open and honest discussions about programming languages, databases, APIs, careers, or math? There are few places where you can read more interesting and intelligent discussions on things like this.

Want to have some civil, but honest discussion about anything truly contentious: say race, religion, crime, homelessness, foreign affairs, IQ, sexuality, immigration, etc? Fully open and honest discussions on these sorts of topics are just not possible unless you have a very commonplace and milquetoast viewpoint.
Corporations have been given the right of free speech. Now, in the EU, they may be scrutinized in how they 'speak', ie: curate the discussion. Open the curtain and start holding bad actors responsible for their deeds. Sadly, this won't happen in the US, BAD ADS & SAFE TECH Acts never had a chance, now, prepare for the SCOTUS to settle Section 230 for us... for better, or worse.
> I prefer simple straightforward code with few files to navigate to understand how it works.

My files tend to be fairly large. I'll often have classes, structs, enums, or even protocols, that do a lot.

I use // MARK: comments to provide a "poor man's ToC," to the code editor.
Reminds me of the sports cliché (but so true)

-you miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
About 15 years ago, Christopher Celeste gave me a life-changing piece of advice. I wanted his advice because I had been coordinating all these different projects and I was struggling to figure out which to focus on. He told me “you seem to be good at doing lots of different things. Why choose? Why not just do all that you want?”

Wow. I’m not saying it was good advice for everyone but it changed my life. But, I run 2 different successful businesses, have an academic career and 3 kids. And I still have tons of side projects (which I love).
They could always build down, or up, or just reclaim more land from the sea.

I'd be more worried about completely land-locked countries, or ones who (unlike the Netherlands) don't have experience reclaiming land from the sea.
For me it's totally irrelevant how many money I spent in how much I value something. I have numerous overpriced textbook in my shelf that I've never read, on the other end my libgen textbook are used constantly and got me through university.
Intel compute-runtime framework gains new OpenCL/OpenGL on-GPU interoperability
A recent sprint from kallaballa has pushed the Intel compute-runtime framework into new territory: The Intel(R) Graphics Compute Runtime for oneAPI Level Zero and OpenCL(TM) Driver is an open source project providing compute API support (Level Zero, OpenCL) for Intel graphics hardware architectures (HD Graphics, Xe). This repo is a new fork with support for OpenCL/OpenGL interoperability ...
Why competing? what about cooperation? nothing you do today is done in a vacuum, everything you use to build in your corner, was built by others.
See, you accuse your opponents of the tactics you yourself employ.

Second, it takes significantly more effort to disprove misinformation and lies than to produce those.

Yes, I latched on to just one of the examples because if one is not a valid example, why am I to believe that the other examples are somehow good?

To continue with the first example, no, our methods of recycling are not enough. The vast majority of electronics end up in landfills, so it makes sense to both a) reduce the amount of hazardous materials in them (this "ridiculous law") and b) improve recycling (possibly other regulations).

The same, undoubtedly, goes for other "ridiculous" examples: misinformation, uncritical quotes from biased parties, and possibly outright lies.

However, it costs you nothing to spew this. It costs a lot of time to disprove you.
Revolving doors and escalators are simply downright evil too.

Many buildings that have them offer the general public no alternative method to enter or to access the other floors. Special access through normal back-entrances is often only granted to people with physical disabilities.

To my own personal self this technology doesn't seem useful, and therefore I refuse to use it. I also vastly overestimate the relative amount of people who share this behaviour.

Because of this stubborn short-sightedness I can no longer get my groceries at the supermarket around the corner and am making it impossible for myself to buy new underwear in my favourite shop on the second floor of the local mall.

/s

Actual response: This self-sabotage is not healthy for anyone in the long run. I'm not saying you should update to the latest Chrome, but alternatives exist that should provide you with an acceptable middle ground.
My executables end with .com and my website ends with .lol so I disagree with him, even though he's right. My work doesn't target consumers though. What matters is that he's not just speaking only for himself and I would have liked his views to have carried more weight in ICANN's vision. Perhaps they would have addressed the domainer problem rather than simply making new digital land where the same problems would once again take root.
And what was the financial impact of the blackouts that happened in the last few years?

During that event the solar was effectively zero, and wind was close to that. Plus too many gas plants were in maintenance or froze/broke, which caused outages. If Texas would have still been fully on gas/coal/nuclear, would there have been a blackout? If they would have invested more in nuclear, what would be the financial impact? Would it have operated better in the freeze?

There are trade off with every decision made. I'm trying to sus out of the state would be better off spending money in a different way.
No, that is not a program emitting to output stream "hello, world!"

It emits "{Hello, world!}" which is like emitting "func main() { print("hello, world!" } }"

A hello, world for this language would take "hello, world" as an operand to some operator that spits out strings. That example is not there.
I think that's a very narrow interpretation of what a search engine does. Or a narrow interpretation of what the GP was doing. Probably both.

You can look at it as GP having a vague idea of how much he wants to pay for this product and where to pay for it, but Google failed to help him find clarity. Maybe the GP could have done better by searching "cheapest" or "sellers" or something like that, but one thing I've learned about modern search engines is that providing more query details nets you less applicable results.

It's like every search engine takes all keywords with an "OR" mentality when it really should be an "AND".

And a lot of this does come down to the advertising model. I wouldn't be surprised if this benefits google because having to try 3 or 4 search queries to find what you want puts more advertisements in front of you, and increases the odds you'll click on one.
What is the argument that Finland isn’t a democracy? First time I’ve heard of this.
"be prepared to update affected systems at $point_in_time" seems actionable to me. You for some reason thinking that such a warning doesn't warrant taking the recommended action doesn't mean it isn't actionable, it means you choose to ignore it.
> "Never explain yourself unless explicitly asked to."

Becomes truer the more you want to explain yourself in a situation.
The discussion was a way of replicating or distributing a filesystem structures, there's absolutely no requirement anywhere that individual files in that FS are directly addressable via IPNS. And yes, it's simple because there are countless implementations of chunking deduping CID systems. Basically none of which have that artificially created requirement. MANY of which ARE ALREADY BUILT ON IPFS AND IPNS and work exactly the way I describe.

Also, again, its like I mentioned it for a reason, see Git, where in fact, there isn't a nameable identity per-file, per-commit, and yet, there's a revisioned filesystem abstraction built on top! That works perfectly fine with pointers to CID content that points to other CID content.

It's almost exactly what is being discussed at hand.

Shame away buddy. Btw I've contributed code to more than one Content Addressable chunking deduping filesystem projects, because they're the future of file sync, and frankly now that Iroh is here, we're likely to start realizing these things in a "final" ish from.

Oh and the other commenter saying the exact same thing as me ;).
That's interesting, and unexpected. Then it really must be a very different kind of olive oil you were using.

Why did you continue to cook with it if it was smoking so easily?
You left out the key phrase "to me".

Clearly some people prefer to know in advance, to make sure they're prepared to patch critical servers on that day, and perhaps even take some offline until then.
I knew his ideas would be stupid, but they are somehow worse than I expected. Musk and Zuckerberg may be the worst product people in all of tech leadership.

> "He also backed a user’s suggestion that the service splits into different video game-style modes, including a 'player versus player' version where verified accounts can hold Twitter spats."
Looks like an intriguing idea but it lacks examples except the "Hello world" at the bottom of the page. But it's not enough! More examples please.
Personally I say "I don't know" when I don't know.

I also try not to express my opinion in absolutes – I tend to tell that "I think that...", "I believe that", "as far as I know", etc. It is, in a way, a philosophical position – I am aware that I do not know about many things, that someone may be more expert in a given field than me. So, I am trying to keep an open mind, be open to discussion, and not impose my own opinion on others just because I feel that I am right.

I have been living by these principles for years and I feel good.

However, I would not advise anyone to take similar stance. It depends on the company culture, probably it differs from country to country too... Still, from my experience, it may hurt you career. In most places where I worked, that kind of behavior was perceived as a weakness.

Hell, I remember being told that I will not become a manager, because there is no place for "don't know". But it was quite toxic workplace anyway.
Curious how it still happens all the time, on every degree of free market from lasseiz-faire to state capitalism.
Last year I read Strong Towns by Chuck Marohn and that’s put me in solid YIMBY territory, as well as completely changed my perspective on our car-centric urban planning in the US.
Texas energy problems are not from technology but from poor governance.
> It definitly is, because despite being mostly C#, outside the graphics engine itself, they have decided it is the right tool for some of their projects.

No, it was not a reasonable remark. Pointing someone else's choice changes nothing. The point that you keep missing is that performance is a key decision factor, one among many, and baseline performance penalties imposed by a particular choice of programing is a factor that adds up to all other choices. If you degrade the performance of your offering without any relevant tradeoff, you're making it harder to justify it's adoption.

Feel free to insist in your personal assertion. Those who care about performance feel strongly about gratuitously pile performance penalties without any meaningful tradeoff to show.
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You can try cobbling together income from security bounties, but that's more on the finding bugs rather than going deep to investigate and fix them side of things.

Another approach would be to become a consultant either in security/pen testing or in some specialty quality area where you have a network of people who know your ability and would contract with you to get started.

Bluntly (because I think it's helpful): I don't expect either of those would accelerate your path to financial independence versus just working for a company who values software quality and has a distinct track for employees to work in that area. ("Punching a clock" is also a lot less stress than selling your services.)
As a male, sitting down to pee at home keeps the toilet and floor significantly cleaner. Even with perfect aim, you don’t see the micro droplets until they build up.

Cuts cleaning time and frequency
Something similar is done in video games through two technologies (in addition to colourspace trickery): DLSS and “dynamic resolution”
You're not convinced? About a security vulnerability...

From an open-source project...

That has a history of major security vulnerabilities...

Because there's no detailed information yet...

When industry best practice is to not give detailed information without a patch or workaround...

And they're giving you a heads-up for required mitigation in three days...

Rather than right now...
Is that a regional thing? Never heard of this term.
The Fermi "paradox" is such an annoying meme. We have no evidence that extraterrestrial life isn't absolutely everywhere. To think we do is to greatly misunderstand the scale of the galaxy.
There’s an entire industry built around milking non-profits, and fighting them off is a major part of the job.
Turn your Google Sheets into a webhook without code
I read in fits and spurts. I read a bit after work, sometimes at lunch, and definitely before bed each night. Weekend, if I'm not otherwise busy, I'll read for a couple hours as well.

Even in fits and spurts it adds up quickly!
What could go wrong with kids seeming mental health advice on tiktok...

Nothing stupid ever comes out of there.

Besides, kids today are just naturally smarter, just ask one and theyll tell you.
When you play to win don't complain about shuffling the deck.

Same as don't complain about breaking eggs when you're making an omelette.
full employment surely can't help, if consumer prices going up is caused by too much demand and too little supply.