skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a good thing to be curious about. We don't have good numbers and it really is only a question of numbers. Any community can tolerate a certain amount of tourism or immigration.

My take is that most communities are small and have never had to deal with much growth. It would not surprise me if their little boats are getting swamped.
I didn't fully grasp this comment of yours at the time, but you weren't kidding.
Do not impugn motives/assign agenda where there are none. This is not a place to peddle conspiracy theories.

See the videos of Indian Minister of External Affairs, S.Jaishankar on Youtube for edification.
The unusual choice of Level to make the bolt hollow so they can put a battery in it probably makes kicking it in easier.
there is no point in being a rich country if your citizens, on average, live like crap. you are not rich, a few select ones are wealthy beyond comprehension, there is a constantly shrinking middle class and most people live through hell every freaking day.
It's not just the constant but it was easiest to identify for me in the last post. And due to it's popularity the size of the snippet doesn't matter, it stands on its own as a significant work.

The essence of the algorithm takes 4 lines: function declaration, declaration of 'y', one line for calculating the exponent in log-space, one line for returning the root finding.

The rest is fluff. Every line of the snippet has creative input with the chosen names ('threehalfs' for 1.5F), the order of declarations and instructions, the redundancy. There have been internet-wars around indentations and newlines, these are style choices.

((And it is public -- GPL more specifically, which is a restrictive license that should be respected. I think this snippets makes a perfect example of the dangers of copilot. But not one to litigate details with.))

(((Thinking back, I'm not sure anymore how the license laundering argument works if they got the code from a fair-use MIT-licensed hobby project. Can one person claim fair-use and include it under an MIT-license and have somebody else say 'oh this free code I'm going to use it commercially'?)))
-12V was also pretty commonly used for sound cards. Not a lot of amps, as noted.
I named my kid Moss after Maurice Moss.

Coincidentally the doctor who looked after him immediately after a slightly prem birth was Dr Moss. My wife went "we're naming him Moss. Not after you though"

Named my third kid Saffron after the daughter in Absolutely Fabulous so later in life we can say "Saffy, darling"
I'm not saying that. Have a look at the tours. He seems to be very up on designs for each component of the rockets. What the current status is, tradeoffs of different options.

Probably this means he spends his 30 hours/week of SpaceX time sitting in on technical meetings and the other departments get neglected.
The bolt is hollow too, that's where the battery is.
That's fair, but I don't feel that Go's position of biasing to the absolute opposite end of the spectrum is reasonable. Ultimately; in a typical app; if you've got a phrase of code like:

result, err := db.GetUser("12345")
if err != nil {
return nil, fmt.Errorf("failed to query user: %v", err)
}

There's an inherent asymmetry between how often those three conditional lines are executed relative to the undeniable fact that error handling is three times the code line volume versus the core business logic. That's not ok; and when I look at the argument phrased like that I find it hard to believe that anyone reasonable can take the stance that its desirable that error handling requires writing substantially more code than The Thing Which Generated The Error In The First Place.
Not to mention: how many % will that go up once some enterprising thieves realize that there's a trivial way to break in to places with obviously too much money (judged by paying $300+ for an insecure lock).
I am livid that this acquisition has put me in the position of defending Elon Musk, but people are being silly. Twitter has seen more movement on improving the core product this week than it has in the past five years, and for the first time that I can remember an active user is in charge of the site. Musk hasn't even adjusted his CEO chair back to his preferred angle and people are already writing post-mortems like this about his tenure. There needs to be more chill.

Evaluating whether the proposed changes to the site are for the better or not requires waiting a bit to let them actually happen. The complete freakout around Twitter in the media, most of whom have panicked the way a junkie would if forced to find a new heroin dealer, is not helping things. Neither is the online pity party taking place exclusively on the very site that is supposed to be dying.
Meanwhile, all the takes on how Elon will have engineers shipping so many features is amusing. No sense of mounting tech debt and how that limits your ability to scale. Getting something quick out the door being your only objective. I don’t expect Elon to understand that dynamic, so he will just discover it the hard way when he is confused why all the sudden he can’t ship anything.
I hate the term quiet quitting. It implies that you're somehow not doing your job. If your employer is not firing you it means by definition that you are doing the job. Quiet quitting is one of those bullshit terms made up by corporate overlords to extract more labor out of you.
I do somehow share the sentiment. There is a lack of a certain collegiality these days. Passionate? I am a fan of self-hosting applications but doing it in a simplistic, secure and reproducible way. Green is also a factor. Buying a storinator is not a great solution lol. And don't forget to backup your cloud.
So people say Elon doesn't actually 'run' his companies, that he's just lucky. But now people say Elon is running Twitter and he's running it into the ground. The narrative changes based on how people want to justify success or failure. Elon is either the cause or 'had nothing to do with it'

All I can see - laying off tons of people, implementing sweeping changes, cutting non-essential programs, cutting cloud costs, making big financial bets is pretty much the same way he has operated SpaceX and Tesla the past 20 years. All the while people saying landing rockets is a dumb idea, global satellite internet will never work especially with lasers, launching astronauts is harder than you think, and electric cars are impractical and lead to Tesla's bankruptcy.

It's been only a few days, can we not give the guy some time to at least try some things. All these, 'the sky is falling at Twitter' posts are not going to age well. It will probably end up being a good case study in how the media steers the narrative and group think.
Sounds like they have the right idea: don't work too hard, enjoy yourself, make spending time at work a pleasure rather than a chore.

Would your suggestions do anything to improve your colleagues' lives? Probably not, from their perspective. Just means extra work, for an employer that likely doesn't deserve it.

If you don't like it, best to leave and find a team more suited to your employment desires.
This results in yet another opinionated framework in which that particular developer is extremely prolific. That developer then keeps making massive changes to the framework, deprecating and renaming parts every so often. At some point other engineers, who initially had been excited, get tired of the tyranny, rebases, rewrites and having to fix their functionality broken by framework changes. Then, the opinionated developer gets into disagreement with the management (that is getting more and more concerned by the constant churn and lack of new features). Being up to speed and fully convinced that he is the most prolific in the team, he decides that the management is unreasonable, easily finds another job and abandons the project. The codebase dies.
Here's a fun, small scale one.

A family friend runs a trailer park in a small town. He asks the city council to annex the property so he can hook up to the city sewer and add more units. One of the council members opposes because he thinks a trailer park in the city limits would "cheapen" the town and doesn't want to be associated with it. (Keep in mind, the actual trailer park wouldn't move or change size in this scenario).

So he threatens the trailer park with a city ordinance he dug up that says people cannot live in a trailer for more than 30 days at a time, and draws the city boundary around the trailer park.

But as a bit of schadenfreude, it turns out that two of the other city council members have family members permanently living in trailers on their property. So by digging out this ordinance, this city councilor inadvertently created a rash of zoning violations that everyone is mad at each other about.
Isn't it premature to call Twitter's death? Is there any data to show it's actually going to be immediately replaced by anything else?

I have no doubt that Musk is doing damage, but the hypothesis is: change can happen really fast, therefore Twitter will immediately fail, which isn't a self evident truth.
BC has a lot of cred with some of us "been around since web 1.0" folks, to be clear
Very insightful analysis of the current Twitter situation. This was my favorite line:

> having screwed up the most basic element of the business: he doesn’t even know who the customer is!

This knowledge is difficult to obtain. But I agree it is basic and critical. Knowing who both desires the value you can offer and can pay for it is critical to any successful business.

If you are interviewing, learning who the customer is is critical for you to have any chance of assessing the chances of success of the company. If they don't know who it is, ask how they are finding out. (If they are a later stage company and still finding it out, that is a risky situation.)

It's also important to know the answer to ascertain what kind of company is being built. For instance, if the customer is the CIO, that is going to be an entirely different kind of company (in so many ways: marketing, sales team, product emphasis, value of engineering, customer LTV, customer lifecycle, UX, and more) than a company where the customer is an engineering manager or developer.
India has never been "Anti-West" even in the worst of times.

Speech by Indian External Affairs Minister S.Jaishankar on this very topic : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUtbsPOE944
Great to see NLnet funding Mastodon development.
Shameless self-promotion: A non-grid-based path finder I made with Rust and compiled to WASM: https://scleox.github.io/non-grid-path-finder/

(I made it a long time ago and I think the CI is broken...)
my point is that he is knowledgeable - but the heavy work, the real work is done by the professionals. At best he learns what is going on, at worst he is hindering progress.
Once in a while I would take a week and block every single promoted tweet account. Major brands had the opportunity to advertise to me once and then I never saw them ever again.
Running a company requires a lot more work than destroying one.
That's typical...
Yeah, Elon managed to build one of the earliest and most important major web services, but since then he's just been farting around doing rocket science.

How is he supposed to handle a website that processes literal terabytes of data every hour? In real time mind you
In my own experience, “urban environmentalists” are in the awkward spot of frequently having strong opinions about wilderness management while being utterly ignorant of it. The people that live on or near the lands usually want to preserve it and have nuanced perspectives based on many years of first-hand experience managing the land. It is genuinely eye-opening to manage a large wild property, which I have. Nature is complex.

My experiences as a (former) rural landowner have made me sympathetic to rural landowners. Many of them are very in touch with the ecosystems they own. It is completely believable that they have relationships with some of the wild animals on their property. This is somewhat normal if you have resident animals you regularly come in contact with; many higher animals recognize and respect the boundaries of other animals, including but not limited to humans, but it is a negotiation of sorts. Wild animals are pretty clever and self-aware. I know of more than a couple examples where there is a cooperative relationship between the humans and some wild animals, an explicit quid pro quo.
> how that limits your ability to scale.

My guess is that after ~15 years or so, Twitter is probably either At Scale already or never will be.

> he will just discover it the hard way when he is confused why all the sudden he can’t ship anything.

Ship anything? The site works now. How much NRE is required just to keep relaying tweets and showing ads? My guess: not much.
I thought he was famous for being a micromanager, and that the troughs (and peaks) of his companies are commonly attributed to that. At least in my bubble (which is not particularly "pro" Elon) he's never been characterized as "hands off"; only incompetent in ways that don't guarantee failure when you're already worth billions of dollars.
> Linux on the desktop - it won’t work for most people.

Assumptions for this to be true:

- Windows and MacOS are a UX champions and most people can use them without any issues. (Not objectively true)

- People will be unable to comprehend GUIs like Gnome or KDE. (Not objectively true)

- Linux Desktop is incapable of doing things other Operating Systems are doing. (Not objectively true)

- Linux Desktop is based on a rigid idea and represents unusable software. (Couldn't be more wrong)

- Linux cannot be used for consumer use. (Again false, Google Chromebooks)

I don't even get how you're comparing Mastodon to Linux Desktop. Linux Desktop is functional, great for everyone who doesn't have an exclusive bias against open soruce software. Mastodon is FOSS, that's the only similarity.

Anybody who tells me that Linux distros like ZorinOS "won't work for most people" is either lying to themselves or being ignorant on purpose.
How to design good prompts for AI image generation – Stable Diffusion Art
I found it odd that both the New York Times and The Washington Post had top stories about how terrible things were at Twitter now that Musk took over. A few days is hardly enough time to decide that a new leader has destroyed a company.
Fair point about other kinds of guarantees, I suppose. Now that you mention it, there has been some speculation about what a GC'd Rust would offer (worth remembering that IIRC early versions of Rust had a GC, until they figured out they could do without it). However I don't think that significantly changes my main point about where Rust primarily competes today, and its primary value proposition.

Re safety: Rust has, um, a very specific idea of what "safety" means. It's basically things that could cause RCE, or at least incorrect writes I guess. Memory leaks are specifically not considered "unsafe". :) And really, the worst you can do with a memory leak is DoS, until the target reboots. Handling mutable data across threads is included, though, which Java at least is somewhat famously not great at; it's really easy to write Baby's First Race Condition Demo in Java. So it feels really weird to say Rust's safety guarantees are a strict subset of Java's.

OTOH I agree it's hard to imagine Rust beating out Haskell for raw safety guarantees by any measure, and I have no idea for OCaml (despite having written a lot more Ocaml, heh).
That same data is also used by other people to encourage those people to vote - I'm sure on a much larger scale than disenfranchisement efforts.
You can Google and find GPL'ed code. That doesn't mean Google is facilitating license violation even though the Google search index posses and reproduces GPL'ed code.

> It possesses and reproduces copyrighted code without it's attribution.

To be clear - attribution does not fix GPL license violation.
I don't know UK employment law, but I would be very surprised if the time of being layed off is not when you're told that you have been fired, but somehow the time when your backpay/severance pay ends.
Resorting to straw man arguments and horse laugh doesnt much add to this debate.
why? it's a major media takeover with a lot of big names/drama invovled same scale as the at&t/warner media deal it's one of the top stories in the WSJ too
I wouldn't expect working hard to correlate with having a lot of money. Plenty of poor people work hard.
I also see your point that it doesn't make somebody a leftist or even necessarily progressive to be somewhat cautious of Twitter during a moment of relative upheaval. They are still a very small part of the digital advertising pie. And indeed there is some free marketing in deciding not to buy ads, when stories are written about that decision.
Digital nomads strike me as people looking for low cost of living without having to move to (ugh!) flyover country USA. They can use their resources and connections to wangle living someplace a little more exotic.
What's interesting this time is the group of naysayers is not the same as previous SpaceX and Tesla naysayers, but largely comprises prior supporters.
> the shape of the code and techniques it uses were familiar to me from elsewhere.

Isn't this exactly what you'd expect an AI coder to do?
Someone should archive all these "let me dunk on Elon's Twitter acquisition now" posts and comments. If Elon's Twitter isn't a smoking hole in the ground in a year's time, a bunch of these comments are going to look really silly. If it actually succeeds in doing something interesting, or even just succeeds in roughly maintaining status quo, then seemingly a large majority of internet commenters really ought to examine their preconceived notions. It'll be interesting...
My priors are 30% Twitter “fails” in either bankruptcy or by losing most of its userbase, 30% Twitter more or less continues - perhaps unable to meet its new interest payments, 30% it’s much more profitable albeit in a very different form.
> wish leaving a comment was a requirement for a downvote at HN.

That's actually a very good idea!
What makes you think that Elon does not know about tech debt? He looks like he have enough experience with tech companies to learn the basics.

Thing about tech debt is that you can actually take a loan if you need it. May be Twitter right now need to take that loan and pay it later.
I didn’t even mean solidarity with other types of workers or unions. We’ve failed to have worker solidarity with each other. It might be my bubble but most of the time I see fellow tech workers looking down on anyone who hasn’t gotten a high comp, usually with the implication that if they were only competent the worker would be doing well.

As an industry we’re kinda assholes on average and have an overinflated opinion of our individual abilities and an underestimated importance placed on the situation that made us valuable
I never liked the classist undertones associated with the twitter verified badges. In some ways it’s satisfying to see the badge stripped of its meaning and prestige.

That being said the way Musk is going about these changes is damaging to Twitter in the short term. Will be interesting to see if Twitter survives when the dust settles.
Copyright doesn’t go away simply because you edit what was copied, deleting it may work assuming you don’t recreate to much of the original work.

There is a concept in copyright law of derivative work which means simply editing Harry Potter isn’t enough to publish it without paying for the rights to do so. Even highly transformative fanficfion can run into this issue when much of the original work’s characters and setting remain.

Disney gets away with this stuff by copying public domain works, copilot and it’s users don’t have that defense.
> Is there any data to show it's actually going to be immediately replaced by anything else?

From the article:

> I keep wondering about “what is going to replace Twitter”, but I am increasingly of the belief that this is the wrong question, that no single thing is going to replace Twitter. That is, Twitter as an idea — a single social platform catering to all demographics and uses — will become like the evening nightly news or the morning newspaper: a relic from a bygone era.
Check the videos from the LockPickingLawyer. That will take a long (if entertaining) time, though. It would be great if someone compiled a list of locks that LPL & friends recommend; I'm not aware of one.
I agree with you, but you’re doing the same thing that the rule you’re quoting tells you not to do.
I mean, if you lay off half of a company and make the rest work double time, "terrible" is not the most inappropriate adjective for an external observer to use.
The Guardian had a live feed of Twitter drama. It's beyond ridiculous and reflects the unhealthy relationship between journalists and Twitter. Compare it to the situation at Meta, where Mark Zuckerberg is calmly destroying his vastly larger and more influential company with almost no media attention.
It already has changed. The Twitter from two weeks ago is gone and replaced with… something. We don’t know what that currently means, but it is different.

The hypothesis wasn’t that Twitter will immediately fail. It was that it is currently on that path. And that changes happen gradually, but can be profound. (Or as the trope about bankruptcy goes: it happens gradually and then all at once).

It might not ever “fail” as a company, but it’s on that path. Whether that is less relevance or a bankrupt company, it’s too early to say. All we do know is that it is changing.
10% something I haven’t anticipated happens. :)
Texas doesn't tax high earners as much as California. And taxes lower income people more while providing fewer services.
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The problem is that if FTL travel exists then our existing theories about spacetime are wrong in some way (despite making lots of great predictions) or time paradoxes are possible in which case we have no idea what the consequences could be.

Your example assumes there is some underlying rate at which time advances for the universe (or at least Earth and Mars) and that spacetime as we know it (including relativity and time dilation) are just some kind of modifier on top.

But theory and experiment so far point to that not being the case. There is no "pop out of existence here and pop in over there" without time travel (as best as we can tell). The whole light cone / worldline explanations are more formal explanations of that.

Now you can magic this problem away by proposing any number of schemes... like saying the entire universe's worldline is exists within a metaworldline and time travel actually resets the state of the universe as it was in the past then re-runs the universe... but all of that always proceeds forward in the metaworldline. In other words all past histories existed in a causal order, changing the past just adds "new commits" to the universe but history is never really rewritten. Bam! Our magic theory solves all paradox problems without requiring billions of parallel universes and allows time travel! But it's not a theory we can test or make predictions with so it isn't a useful scientific theory. It might as well be literal magic.

Similarly you could propose that GR is wrong... but your new theory is gonna need to match GR's predictions that have proven true while making some new ones we can test, while also avoiding or explaining causality and paradoxes.