skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's a false dichotomy. In a western democracy, do you vote for the things you believe in, or do you vote for one of the few representatives that pretends to approximate your beliefs closely?

No it's not, actually. Democracy devolves power to individual citizens in ways that allow them to impact decisions about collective action. In western democracies, citizens have many ways of impacting collective action, which include speaking out and rallying others to their cause. It is common in places like Russia and China for citizens to be jailed or killed for speaking out about government policy. Therefore, those countries are undemocratic not just in how they approach voting, but about the civil rights they recognize and protect ... or trample.

> Is that true? What if the people likes authoritarians? What if it doesn't care about scandals? What if it democratically decides it doesn't want "free and fair elections" anymore? If the majority wants "the wrong things", the outcome will be poor. Democracy is not the distinguishing factor, it's not inherently good or bad, functional or dysfunctional.

Given that authoritarian figures control the media, information and feedback loops that are available to citizens in their countries, how would you even know what "the people" like? You can't know; you can only speculate. Authoritarian states systematically falsify voting results and other expressions of popular will. They obliterate the feedback loops because they are afraid of what people would say. That's one crucial property of an authoritarian state. To put it bluntly, you have no idea of knowing what people want under authoritarianism, and that should trouble you.

> The proceedings may be illegitimate, but there's no doubt in my mind that the Russians would have elected Putin over Navalny again. Of course there is an opposition in Russia, but it's not a majority and in any event Navalny isn't all that popular.

You have no way of testing this hypothesis. It's an opinion without evidence or the possibility of evidence, and I will treat it as such.

You should ask yourself why Putin is so afraid of running that experiment himself.
Also if you write an abstraction then your teammates use it, the measurement on either you or your teammates or both is going to be skewed whether you’re going for high or low LoC.

If
It was a pretty good response anyway, haha. "May be in need for some introspection" is always a classic.
Filtering on policy is somewhat useful.

How long ago it launched, whether the software is up-to-date, uptime, latency, and what datacenter the server is running in would be signals of whether the sysadmin is serious about maintaining the server. (Weak signals, but better than nothing.)

Also, who is the admin? Are they anonymous?

On my third server now. After the first two stopped working, I decided to stick with mastodon.social.
How do I cash my points in?
As I recall the TDD mailing list has some background on the use of the word "unit", it goes WAY back, I believe it goes back to the mainframe/ punch card era. Regardless, I think it roughly translates to C's notion of the unit of compilation.

Which is obviously not what people really mean these days, but the phrase stuck. The early Xp'ers even found it an issue back then.

For a while people tried to push the term "micro tests", but that didn't really take off.

I agree with Gerard Mezaros and Martin Fowler and typically follow their (very mainstream) definitions on this stuff. Integration and functional testing have their own ambiguities too, it's definitely a frustrating situation to not have solidly defined foundational terms.
This strategy did not start with Twitter and won’t end with this acquisition. Tech startups will keep betting on capturing the market first and getting to profit later. Not sure this specific fact makes Jack an idealist.
now hire back the twitter moderation team, and you’ve effectively recapitulated the freenode/libera hard fork of 2021!
This is a bad troll post.
From all anecdotal reports of 'not working' I noticed all think of outsourcing as something they contract a middleman foreign company for, rather than hire individual remote developers. That company then hires locally. Then they wonder why it doesn't work. That's because no good local dev wants to work for an outsourcing company like that.
The 400 scrapbooks can be preserved by simply photographing each page with a phone camera.

I've preserved scrapbooks this way - it's simple, fast, cheap, and it works. Yes, you can read all the text in the photos.

Then this photo archive can be put online for researchers and anyone interested.
I don't want to sound classist or too entitled.

But I am deeply familiar with developers in FANG unable to handle the complexity of a relatively not difficult project.

Moreover the time necessary to train a perfectly capable new grand is absurd.

I keep thinking that it is a very difficult job, with absurd upside if well done.
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Is it really too much to ask for people to host their own content on a cheap VPS?

Wouldn't that neatly solve the content moderation problem? You register your server on an index or two, and you choose what your server will publish and accept. Each user would be responsible for finding a hosting provider who doesn't have a problem with what you post, and problematic content reports would go right to the hosting providers. The indexers could basically be DNS for usernames.

The AWS free tier would cover 99% of people, and between VNC and web UIs, you wouldn't necessarily need them to ever touch a shell. Plus, requiring a reasonably consistent public IP address would help to cut down on bulk spam.
Sadly crypto currencies aren't dead yet like 3D television and is causing massive CO2 emissions.
You can tell from the riffing with Stephen King that there isn't really a plan beyond "grow revenue". The $8 figure was pulled out of thin-air in response to criticism.
I was trying to be careful with my language specifically to avoid this mistake, but I still messed up...
It is more like you previously could -only- obtain movies from Blockbuster and you loved that they recommended sponsored movies whenever you visited. You did not have to think.

Now Blockbuster is gone and there are a pile of other ways to obtain movies out there and you are complaining that choosing one is hard. It is entertainment and they all have access to the same movies so it is not that important of a choice.
Well, first of all, spend more than three days, obviously. If, for some reason, that was necessary (it clearly is not) use historical performance reviews.
>especially if you gather small-to-medium group of intelligent people together.

Hasn't everyone on HN read the Mythical Man-Month? Or, if you're a parent a corollary statement would be "The more boys you put in a group the faster the sum IQ reaches a negative number"

Small groups tend to be self selecting and typically more compatible. Large populations are not. If you have one group that wants to piss in the river because it's close, and another group that does not want that because it is poisoning the water, there is going to be conflict. Now, this could be settled economically/infrastructurally by providing a sanitary sewer system, or by the down river group getting cholera and dying off, or the downriver group violently killing the upriver group off. But at the end of the day you'll have an loss of happiness cause by one group being dead, or both groups paying taxes so the system works.

Anarchists tend to offer no solutions even for already solved problems, much less without introducing new ones.
Any plans for integrating with Asana?
This is exactly the point I'm making - it's basically down to whoever can game the system to get their politicla point annotated on to the white house despite not having earned the following of the whitehouse themselves.
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Nanosatellites are making an outsize impact in the business of space exploration
But it does let you decide for yourself which have any importance to you without enticing you with clickbait headlines and images, or pre-filtering for what the particular company's editors or owners want you to see/think you want to see.
Hot take: Jack is just trying to help Elon not get in any legal trouble by saying this. This very much absolves Elon of wrongdoing in any legal arena

Jack has not been the CEO for about a year now, a 50% reduction is hardly due to his choices to expand over a year ago.
Twitter used to have failwhales

I remember the failwhale days, but this is different.

Twitter is a VC-backed company that had the resources to build out their infrastructure.

Mastodon is a bunch of volunteer-run servers and it looks pretty obvious they aren’t going to be able to handle the infusion of new users… unless there’s an infusion of resources.

I’m on mastodon.social and it has slowed to a crawl, compared to what I was used to 6 months ago.

Also the UI/UX isn’t great. Say what you will about Twitter, but they’ve built a pretty slick web application and native apps. People used to the simplicity of Twitter are going to struggle, if the complaints on my Twitter timeline are any indication.
Removing all 100,000 flights a day, every single day of the year sounds like quite a chore. People should drive thousands of miles instead?

Hasn’t this all been explained before?

Wouldn’t it be easier to replace 8500 coal plants and save a lot more emissions?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal-fired_power_station

No one would even know their electricity came from another source.

“Coal-fired power stations emit over 10 Gt of carbon dioxide each year,[4] about one fifth of world greenhouse gas emissions, so are the single largest cause of climate change”

So, using that ridiculous example of 156 million people, multiply it by 10.

That’s CHECKMATE!!!
It's tricky!
Unfortunately I need to support Windows hosts. I believe there's a patch in the works to add support, but it hasn't landed yet.
http://trout.me.uk/lisp/ and http://trout.me.uk/gc/ are both "selected stuff I knew I'd have trouble finding again later" and I wish you great joy of them.

Still sad that John Shutt (creator of 'kernel lisp') passed away while I was still procrastinating dropping him an email - I think the only other 'thank you' I've most regretted not sending in time was to Terry Pratchett.
Did you miss his follow-up? "Integration tests are a scam is a scam". For real. I like J.B., but I think he muddies the water too much and overall understanding suffers.
That's not true: here is the pricing for the Home and Hobby licenses:

> https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/home-hobby/

These prices are not cheap, but affordable if you are serious about your hobby.
People can discuss what I said and can share their own evidence if they agree/disagree. Im directing this discussion and bringing up a point. Are you an incel who thinks everyone must act like cucks and be granted permission to talk perhaps ?
"Elon laid off 75% of the moderation team."

Did he?

According to this BBC article[1], "Yoel Roth, Twitter's Head of Safety & Integrity, said that most of the more than 2,000 content moderators working on "front-line review" were not impacted" by the firings.

More details here[2], where Roth says "More than 80% of our incoming content moderation volume was completely unaffected by this access change. The daily volume of moderation actions we take stayed steady through this period."

[1] - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-63524219

[2] - https://nitter.net/yoyoel/status/1588657229628321792
Your entire point revolves around the idea of coworkers ratting out and being smart enough to know. Not every place is so cutthroat and pro-employer this is a given.

The idea the manager would call out individuals is laughable too. Most managers barely know how to code themselves. Give it another few decades before your manager looking through commits is a standard, you're more likely to see alert tools be prevalent before that.
what is with the order of the poll options? they are ordered neither numerically nor by votes (?)
masto.host was an option yesterday, now it looks like it won't be an option for the next few days.

I was about to install self-hosted Mastodon but the machine load and amount of admin chores seemed too high. I've installed self-hosted Pleroma instead. Pleroma has 2% the DAU count of Mastodon, I'm starting to wonder if I'm missing out on the main experience, but I also don't want the main experience to be "server administration".
> never going to really be available for a hobbyist to learn

That's not true: here is the pricing for the Home and Hobby licenses:

> https://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/pricing/home-hobby/

These prices are not cheap, but affordable if you are serious about your hobby.
The US wouldn't ignite a war if they had something to loose ;)
I see you subscribe to 4chan shopping cart theory

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The shopping cart is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.

To return the shopping cart is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To return the shopping cart is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies in which a person is not able to return their cart. Simultaneously, it is not illegal to abandon your shopping cart. Therefore the shopping cart presents itself as the apex example of whether a person will do what is right without being forced to do it. No one will punish you for not returning the shopping cart, no one will fine you or kill you for not returning the shopping cart, you gain nothing by returning the shopping cart. You must return the shopping cart out of the goodness of your own heart. You must return the shopping cart because it is the right thing to do. Because it is correct.

A person who is unable to do this is no better than an animal, an absolute savage who can only be made to do what is right by threatening them with a law and the force that stands behind it.

The Shopping Cart is what determines whether a person is a good or bad member of society.
Yep! But we have continuously been iterating. Same idea, different approach, and now specifically wanting to hear from startups. Would love to hear you feedback.

Question: Are startups actually having challenges with hiring given the current economic state, hiring freezes for big companies, and numerous layoffs of talented people?
How then do you decide on the sets of things to allow it to moderate or not? That sounds like a bootstrapping problem since it is a question people will disagree on.
Mech warrior
My numerical analysis professor once told the class a story about how he used the finite element method to solve stresses on pieces of metal for the soviet space program. Computers were too expensive, so they did it by hand.

They cleared a university classroom of all the chairs and desks, and rolled out pieces of paper to cover the floor. The team took their shoes off proceeded from one corner of the room to the other. If you found that someone had made a mistake, you had a record available to find it, and you could simply rip up the paper at the point where the mistake was made and roll out fresh paper to take its place.

Apparently a triangle took a few days.

SolidWorks does the same math today.
I think that making humanity a multi-planetary species, by definition, derisks the possibility that humanity will die out, especially if the extra-terrestrial colonies are self-sufficient. I actually don't see how you can logically dispute that. I find Elon's drive to make us multi-planetary totally respectable, and a logical action based on the nuclear and climatic risks we face on Earth.

Making cars electric means that we could swap in an alternative form of fuel, like nuclear, without breaking an economy and society that depends on driving.

I think Musk has demonstrated mixed motives, and in that, he resembles most people. His political and geopolitical opinions are regrettable, and if we wants to operate a large social media platform and appease advertisers of many stripes, he should probably shut up. But I doubt he has the humility or self-awareness to do that.
The revolution had a wide backing, but - importantly! - it was a revolution against the Shah, not in favour of Islamic fundamentalism. The hard-liners were merely the most prepared to step into the power vacuum that followed.

Calling it the "Islamic Revolution", as state-sponsored history books do, is crass revisionism.
> It's changing constantly which diminishes the value of higher education and experience.

Constant change of tools actually improves the value of high quality education on fundamentals.
I setup prettier and ran it against our codebase. Guess I'm the CTO now.
As the article said it's a cartel limiting entry into medicine. The cartel places an artificial barrier in terms of a giant hurdle requiring uncompromising quality. Much like the FAANG interview process limiting who they hire, (and thereby inflicting the need to pay high salaries upon themselves).

Just south of the border doctors make a fraction as much. Perhaps the quality can't compete in certain areas like the ICU, but I'd also bet their care is fine for most things.

But overall there's no cartel that can stop salary arbitrage for programming. Variants of IT/Engineering are most of the top majors in India, and they don't need to immigrate here to be hired, though whatever cartels do exist in tech are working hard to help programmers do so.
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I just deleted a bit over 76,000 files in one of our repos. GitHub shows it as "Infinity files changed", and refuses to display even a list of the files.
Of course, when this happens the bug you are hunting is not your only problem. You really should clean up the code to make it clear what is being returned from the function.
If you want to be on your own sovereign island you can host your own Mastodon instance or pay a monthly fee to one of the many Managed Mastodon providers and even use your own domain name.

It is not that much different from choosing an email provider.
So "heavy investment in state-owned industries just doesn't work" is actually just you drawing far-reaching conclusions over shifting economic policies and/or voting patterns. That line of reasoning doesn't even pass the most basic correlation is not causation test.
Woops, did you see the joke fly right past you?
No thanks. I'm done with Jack and I'm done with Elon. Mastodon is great and it's already starting to feel like home.

Don't need anymore drama from these reckless people.
Things LOC doesn't measure:

- patents written / rewritten / meetings with lawyers / issued
- mentoring of other engineers
- PRs reviewed
- talks given
- meetings attended
- RFCs / ADRs written
- customer calls attended
- quality of code (the original and best reason that LOC is bad.)

Et cetera, et cetera

If you are truly an engineering manager, unless all your direct reports are fairly junior, I sincerely hope you realize soon that LOC is a pretty terrible measure of engineer contribution.

I am old enough to remember when the industry finally came around to accepting LOC is a worthless measure of engineer productivity in the late 90s. I am not exactly shocked but dismayed that this conversation needs to be rehashed.

Number of tasks closed is a better measure than LOC and it is still a terrible measure.
You could use the same argument for the radios in your home and WiFi. And anonymity is about your name. If they can locate your phone but not be used to identify you then it doesn't break anonymity.
There's a bunch of different modalities that have varying possibilities of being miniaturized, but neutral atom is probably the hardest (that I'm aware of). It's important to remember that basically no one who takes QC seriously thinks we're going to have quantum in smartphone-sized devices any time soon. It's really better to think of them as specialized co-processors than as general purpose computational units, of which we're more in the "mainframe" era than the "smartphone" era.

> "look it responds sort of like a qubit!"

And behave like them too ;)
(EDIT: No it's not) This is the scuttlebutt protocol to anyone wondering. First mentioned on HN many years ago.

I'm very into this stuff. I was into scuttlebutt long before bluesky was announced even.

But the problem I see is that with ActivityPub I already have a whole ecosystem of software and libraries, while with ssbc I have no idea where to even start. When ssbc was first announced I tried using it briefly but it was very basic, I hope they've come further.

With the fediverse I can literally jump straight into a container and have an instance running within minutes.

Is there an equivalent to activitypub.rocks for sscb?

https://ssbc.github.io/scuttlebutt-protocol-guide/ maybe this guide.
>Do you think there's any merit in this concept of air cleaning super plants?

Snake plants and some aloe are quite easy to mutate at random. We're seeing more and more of them every year. I know I have 2 aloe hybrids that didn't exist 5 years ago, got them on ebay. This year, all supermarkets in UK and Poland are full of them, on social media and plantnet [1] we're arguing on what they should be called as each distributor gives them different names. 100s of photos are misidentified, which... kinda isn't uncommon and hard to blame anyone for it.

I also have at least 20 subspecies of snake plants, 12 of them live in a single pot. The yellow one managed to create 3 individual offsprings, if they give yellow offspring again, I'm calling it a win and a new subspecies I _could potentnially_ sell. This is where things go hard. Snakeplant is hard to propagate a subspecies at scale. Fastest way is to cut a leaf and stick in water with any rooting hormone, but it doesn't keep mutations. Water propagation "reverts" mutations and produces the original specie. So, if you have a moonshine [2], cut a leaf and propagate in water, there are very high chances you end up with native [3], almost certain this will happen. You need at least 3-5 generations made in soil with identical mutation to make it more reproducible [4], that's a few years of waiting. Like this guy on reddit, had the plant for +10 years and spent 18 months propagating in water.

Pothos, which the article is about, are a lot different, you can create a subspecies quite efficiently and make it a reproducible process. Even without any gardening knowledge you can learn about it from youtube or reddit comments. Pothos grows really fast and offspring created from a branch is identical to parent (some people have different experience that it reverts to the original variation - jade pothos, but it doesn't seem to be the rule?), so propagation is drastically easier. My guess it that's why the company mutated/fed pothos not snakeplants or peace lily. The most difficult answer is, how to make it mutate to be a more effective air cleaning plant and how to maintain it when the plant grows and hits our homes. Neo P1 achieved that by making the plant to work with additional 3rd party microbiome, which is a bit cheating, but not uncommon [5-6] for humans to manipulate how plants feed.

I should be clear at the beginning, I propagate and create hybrids plants for fun, but know nothing about chemistry and genetics :)

[1] https://plantnet.org/en/

[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=moonshire+snake+plant

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracaena_trifasciata

[4] https://old.reddit.com/r/proplifting/comments/uzn9xj/be_care...

[5] https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/05/plants-repeatedly-go...

[6] https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/2013/july/wo...
Actually they edited the post between my reply and your reply to my reply.
It's funny to see the west trying to catchup with China

2004: http://www.china.org.cn/english/scitech/93341.htm

And recently even smaller: https://english.news.cn/20220728/85cb916e80184873bc8c9a41f6a...