skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The same level of insurance cost at least an order of magnitude less 15 years ago.

again, because,

>There was never going to be a way to redistribute wealth without taking to from those who have it or to give it to those who do not.

Health insurance premiums are an explicit wealth transfer, from young to old, and sick to healthy. For all intents and purposes, you can consider them a tax (hence the individual mandate that was later removed).

https://www.healthcare.gov/how-plans-set-your-premiums

> Five factors can affect a plan’s monthly premium: location, age, tobacco use, plan category, and whether the plan covers dependents.

>Notice: FYI Your health, medical history, or gender can’t affect your premium.

You have more poor and more sick people getting healthcare, without commensurate increase in the supply of healthcare, so obviously costs are going to go up.
Isn't Twitter a counterexample to the conjecture "Most people are kind"? I also don't have a Twitter account. And I'm happy too keep it that way.
But bad people don't cease to exist if you stop reading their tweets.
In the past 100 years, we had Auschwitz, the killing fields, the gulags in USSR, genocides in central Africa, human trafficking, child abuse, and many other crimes against humanity.
I don't see how people can decide within a couple of decades that, nevertheless, "most people are kind". There is a monster hiding in all of us. And it doesn't go away by ignoring it. Instead we should acknowledge it, and tame it. Because otherwise it will burst forth unexpectedly, and a new Hitler or Stalin is born.
> I need the inside gossip so badly.

They should have him on All In this week, since both Jason C. and David S. are assisting with that process and they keep he narrative that the ship is being turned around and cleaning house is what really needed to be done in order to pivot from growth to profit.

If you can't even take into account what staff members you had cause to layoff, after having the former CEO escorted off the premises after having brought in a sink 'for the lulz' than something needs to be done. Then again, it's a private company and he doesn't respond to anyone anymore.
Sorry why did Twitter need 7000. Employees? How many many were engineers?
100+ comments, ~3 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33243529
"Par for the corps" here is great
People probably keep flagging it, or it has too low of a points/comments ratio.
Today I visualized the buddy allocator as memory Tetris.
“You can’t fight the railroad”

Texas would be great for high speed rail and we all know it.

Texans hate the idea of the government using its power over them, especially when it comes to a train line in their yard.

A lot of the hostility in the US is probably historically based. I worked in rail engineering a few years ago and the rail companies are…powerful.

As in “Mrs or Mr Mayor/Governor go fuck yourself” level powerful. The legacy of rail is full of powerful assholes. It’s an awful industry for anybody with a decent education and understanding of the planet. Honestly if you are a big ox of a person and a flat earth advocate, a track gang is a good spot for you.

Rail is not liked in the US because the railroads have acted like assholes for more than 100 years here. Just ask the Chinese.
I don't know what netflix you have but on mine Star trek looks horrible and the sound is so bad that i have to turn the volume to 70% to be able to distinguish what people speak.
Online shopping is nice until you realize that the piece of clothing you bought is total crap and it does not resemble the picture on the website. And not everybody has time to spend at the Post office shipping back parcels.
What, where? Most of blood donations are made through the Red Cross, they don't give people anything.
If you care about accurate rips on Linux, the best tool to use is whipper: https://github.com/whipper-team/whipper. It makes use of the AccurateRip database, which is used to calculate the statistics. I don't know about any other native Linux application that makes use of it. Other tools like cdparanoia, and all the other wrappers around it, just attempt to read it multiple times and still get the wrong result, as the post shows.
Traditionally, Facebook hired in line with revenue, to keep revenue per head constant.
The point is that it is easy to suspend these accounts when only a dozen or so celebrities are doing this. Is Twitter going to be as quick to find and ban these accounts when anyone can do it and after they have already made cuts to their moderation team? Plus if it was that easy to find these low quality accounts, Twitter wouldn't have the spam and bot problem that Musk talks about them having.
Yes, but it's not like you can't just drop it.

Quite few people play it anyway.
For me it was “2. Pure grit and consistency in completing stuff you started”.

A solo public hobby project meant that I landed up having a kind of “portfolio” for my first actual software development job.

I was also lucky that the interviewers were cognisant of my background and the questions focused on asking me to explain my technical decisions and how I solved problems. They were essentially gauging my general software development aptitude and potential.

For the job I landed I had to learn C# (had only done PHP, ASP classic and JavaScript before), but I picked it up pretty quickly.

The other thing I realised after having the job for a while was that the fact I had seen the hobby project through to actually releasing something pretty polished was far more significant an achievement than I originally gave myself credit for as many supposedly “professional” developers haven’t achieved this.

Overall, a good bit of luck, but I was able to capitalise well on it due my being a bit of a “natural” when it comes to software development.
Very well said!!
In the same vein as the "doom or bad apple in task manager" on a machine with an absurd core count.
A Morning with Long Covid
You also have to pick a phone or email provider. Would you prefer if those had only a single option available?

You don't pick a server with Bittorrent because it runs locally, which you can also do with Mastodon or other distributed networks. Though if you want others to be able to reach you, you probably need to set up a domain name and leave your server on. The problem with using a Bittorrent-like setup is that you don't have a persistent identity there.

You don't need to pick a server for Twitter because there is only one. You have no choice. Mastodon and other distributed social networks offer choice. Imagine, if you didn't like how Twitter moderated their content, and you thought you could do that better, you could simply spin up your own Twitter server and still communicate with everybody on Twitter?

But you're right that being forced to make this choice on little information is still an extra step, and not a great one. Maybe there should be a single default choice? Maybe assign one randomly for those who don't know? Because it honestly doesn't matter that much which server you pick. You can still see and follow everything. The only difference is really the moderation/blocking policy. Just pick a big one and you're probably fine.
2. and 3. but mostly sheer force of will. programming didn't come easy to me, math either tbh. Others progressed quicker than me in the beginning but they plateaued quicker also. I saw a programming career as a ticket out of the economic circumstances I was born into and through that lens anything short of success wasn't an option.
Thank you for these!

We recently had some new plug sockets put in and I swear every plug in the house has started making a noise since then. My search history was getting very extravagant trying to find answers! Hopefully this will help!
We were all teenagers once, newbies, neophytes; we all wrote our first function at some point.

It's odd how some of us forget that once we become competent -- once upon a time, we weren't. We needed a helping hand, a tip, some advice on a problem, and we went to people and asked for help and got it.

I never ever fault anyone for being a newbie; I only fault them if they don't try. If anyone tries to do something, they should be commended for the attempt. A lot of people never bother to try anything at all!
Not sure, but a good hint is that Twitter make most of their money from ads and data. They could have thousands of sales people.
It's pretty inconvenient when you are in an unknown location on a hotel. But yes, some areas of Europe has very hard water.
https://archive.ph/w5YqE
Software developer, mainly focus on mobile and iOS native development (7 years of experience on this platform). Living in France, hoping to work for French and european clients.
The influence of Self
started at 10 with an Apple IIe, 1978. Now 52 and programming most days. Professionally and also I always have some involved side project I'm pushing forward.

I've been driven by enjoyment of programming, financial need, and, I've been thinking lately, the sense that programming was "my thing" - something no-one told me to do, understood, or even really wanted me to do. Computers were like an alien landing to my hippie/artist parents.

Never took a single programming or CS class, I was interested in various liberal arts type subjects throughout college. I don't know much about computer science, algorithms, etc. But I'm good at what I do and have a solid, stable career working for cutting edge companies.

My dad still doesn't get it, has no interest. Which is annoying but also kind of works for me. Still a teen rebel for being a programmer.

I love getting it done and getting it done right and staying up on the latest. A day where I write good code creates a nice calm feeling I can access as I drift off to sleep. It's been a great career so far and I guess I'll be programming on the day I die. It's fun, why not.
It's hard to pin down a reason, honestly.

I started teaching myself programming in my teens - using books from the school library, and a copy of Turbo Pascal which I pirated off school computers.

> It was personal interest and pure fascination with algorithms, that got me started.

I remember getting a real kick out of understanding new things. Like when recursion first clicked for me... that was a great moment. I felt amazing.

I later went to university, but never finished my computer science studies. They never felt amazing, never provided that "it clicked" moment of understanding - but were full of tedious chores. I had to do side jobs for financial reasons, and I learned soooo much more on these jobs than I ever learned from lectures. So eventually side jobs turned into full-time employment and I just stopped going to lectures.

> It was working on real projects that made me accumulate the knowledge and experience that defines my pay grade today.

But it surely did require some grit and doggedness at several points along the journey to stick with it... and the reason for me personally sticking it out has probably less to do with determination, than it has to do with a slight aversion to changing workplaces because of social awkwardness... ^_^'

So, yeah. Many factors playing into this.
I do something similar also with if() and others:

if (condition...
&& condition...
&& condition...
) {
4. I fell in love with PC programming almost 40 years ago, after I taught myself to program dBase III+ (later Foxpro), and subsequently became an "office hero" in our low-budget workplace because there was hardly a problem I couldn't fix.

Programming (logic) is a language where everyone is on a level playing field - or that's how I perceived it at the time; any funny language, dialect or outer appearance is of little to no importance. Lastly, it has the potential to do enormous amounts of work, automatically.
I just read the source and I don't think there's anything notworthy about it, it's not bad. It's just javascript as written in 2013.. I don't think the snark was justified in this case..

Someone writing a quick little thing because they didn't want to use sed is absolutely great! The entire idea about computers is that they're meant to be programmed.. That also means lots of overlap in functionality and it means some programs are more specific than others.. and more polished than others.. And that's just how it should be (imo).

> Would the bad code quality justify the snarkiness on Twitter?

I think it should, because the other extreme is that any criticism is banned, no matter how polite, and everyone gets to be a special genius snowflake who can do no wrong, and our software will degrade at an even faster rate because of it.

I think think there should be more public ridicule of slow and inefficient code, especially when it comes to things like drivers, operating systems, browsers and web frameworks which play a large role in our everyday lives..

Imagine how much electricity we'd save if we were a bit more scared of the long-beards showing our dirty underwear to the world in a torrent of spite and sarcasm.
Twitter's a cesspool if you go straight to the default feed, the same way you might say that NYC is a cesspool if you go straight to Times Square.

"How much is Twitter a cesspool" is a question that the advertisers are asking, because they care about brand safety. You wouldn't ask someone on HN what they thought about Twitter, because you'd have selection bias.
Coming soon, a platform for AI art creation and more, https://inventai.xyz. I'm hoping to add features that set it apart.
Make no mistake, Mastodon is making history right now: At this point no matter what happens next many many people will stay in the fediverse. Interesting times!
Easy. He’s an overrated, petulant child who no longer has anyone around that is willing to tell him no.
Show HN: Book Cover Does Not Exist
> I really doubt it’s a lot. I really don’t think it’s much at all, and that’s why they’ve got the asterisk on the number.

The asterisk is on the 80% claim, a more conservative estimation from a research published by the italian pasta makers association last summer was at 47%, which I think still qualifies as "a lot".

I think you are under-estimating the amount of power required to keep the water boiling, especially on gas stoves.
Most lag is typically caused by processing in modern flat-screen TVs, not by the emulator. Some TVs have a faster "Game Mode" though.

Assume that the emulator will add one frame of lag. The code in 16-bit console games was typically synchronised with the raster beam.

If the gamepad adds lag compared to the original is something that someone would have to measure to find out. It depends on the USB version and on how the gamepad's microcontroller is programmed. But in 6-button games, the result from reading an original 6-button controller was typically used first in the next frame anyway because of the weird timing in its protocol.
Haha, I remember my first game leaking a texture on every frame! :D My first optimization was to, are you ready: Make the texture smaller!
I did not notice it on my 2019 MBP.
Here in Germany people still freak out about it, you still need masks on public transport for example. You had to wear them during air travel as well, at least up until around a month ago when someone leaked a photo of government officials maskless in an airplane so this rule is no longer enforced. :-))
Note that not all deaths are equal economically. The vast majority will be bedridden people on their last legs being pushed over the edge due to covid.

These people have a negative impact on the economy.
I disagree. I’ve been using FreeBSD almost exclusively for 20 years; WiFi sucks and Bluetooth sucks even more. Still I wouldn’t trade it for Linux.
Nice to know, Mastodon right now is still a completely different platform, it feels more personal, a place where is still possible to discover the interesting hacking project someone is doing on their own and where people have less qualms about posting unpolished/experimental stuff. That's how it should be in our field.

It has not been like this on Twitter for... years.
The twitterati are addicted to drama and outrage

Which is why it's weird Musk didn't see this shitstorm coming. I neither agree nor disagree with what Musk has done and plans to do with Twitter, but it seems incredibly obvious he should have rolled his changes out slowly over a period of months.
Exactly, also imagine how much more difficult a decision to open source their product must be fo a business?

I think this toxicity as you called is really harming OS.
Management incompetence at several levels. Apparently the CEO and his advisors choose to execute layoffs at this speed, others below that either didn't push back (could be due to the type of CEO / associated culture) or their pushback was ignored. The end result is the organization doing things that clearly aren't in its own interest which is a management fail.
Yep. FreeBSD can do that too.
‘Angular 5’ Prepares Developers for the Modern Web
Good point, that makes sense
some of this is negated by higher unemployment rate for high school grads vs college grads. High school grads earn more initially but surpassed by college grads as time goes on due to wage stagnation.
> Isn't Twitter a counterexample to the conjecture "Most people are kind"?

Not really, no. Coz the type of people on Twitter, and the type of people to actually tweet (and not just lurk) aren't exactly the sanest of humanity.
> To let people get on with life.

But people in China are getting on with life. Lockdowns are the exception, not the rule.

You’re also ignoring the millions of people that would die or become disabled. That’s not “getting on with life”, that’s the opposite.

> The people of the world overwhelmingly voted to get back to life even though COVID hasn't gone away.

No they didn’t. Those were decisions governments made, there was no vote. They were also decisions made after Covid became endemic in those countries. The consequences for China to let it rip when hardly anybody in China has had Covid are entirely different to the consequences for other countries to let it rip when it’s already endemic. China isn’t in that position so why would they make decisions as if they were when the consequences are so different?

> China's people want to do the same

How have you determined that?
For Harvard, that's not true – financial aid covers the cost of room and board.

(There is a student contribution of ~$3,000/year, which is fairly easily met through on campus jobs).
It's opt in, like most things in rust. Any time you have an option, you can simply unwrap it to say "I'm asserting I know this is a 'some' value, and if it's perhaps not, then please panic". Forcing an unwrap in every single case would indeed kill performance.
Yeah I'm thinking the same. Even without the screwups, it's an unbelievable waste of $44billion dollars. He could have invested that in a nuclear fusion startup or something else that would advance his dual goals of clean energy and a multi-planet species (and almost certainly make better ROI than Twitter). Instead through a series of bizarre misteps he spends that on a useless vanity project that will distract him from his important companies, and then proceeds to fuck it up in just about every conceivable way. Like, dude...
For search, ie ecommerce search; the person searches in long-sleeve or ripped-jeans tensor search helps to categorise text-vector, image-vector etc. I would reccommend, and actively use the Marqo repo @ https://search-the-way-you-th.ink/3FNq2lG . Super handy if you are focused on search and want to implement it into current projects. Only just using it out now and it's awesome! Although i can't comment much further as i've only just begun using it.
I saw an article that at least 1-2k are on moderation/safety
So you go through life ripping people down. You must be a real barrel of laughs to be around.
Maybe Thiel is playing the 4D chess in the run up to 2024 and Musk is on board as a very effective distraction who thinks he's the central player.
With the same reasoning we could require pedestrian insurance :) Where do you draw the line?

Personally I'd keep this one optional, so that cycling can remain an accessible option.
Well, if you're afraid of Bandcamp folding, you'd better download the FLACs right now. That's the advantage when you compare it to MoviesAnywhere - there's no way to get a DRM-free downloadable version of the video material you bought...
2,2 trillion dollar company to be precise
As someone who has gone through the inquisition, and dreaded it, it wasn't that bad. Show HN attracts criticism, yes, but it's mostly concrete and specific. Generic PR speak doesn't work, but if you address the comments in a direct, honest way, people generally understand that your stuff can't be perfect and that there are tradeoffs. A large part of Show HN has a different target user in mind than this crowd, and that's ok.

Snark OTOH, especially at an individual who is only representing themself, is just mean. Of course it happens here too, but it's rare. Reddit and Twitter are completely plagued by it – it usually gets the most engagement, whereas here it's rare and gets a chilly response.

Finally, there's one more differentiator. Twitter is people-oriented, you have a profile, usually your real name, and public follower count. Twitter is designed to be a popularity contest. Both hacker news and reddit are content-oriented. Sure, there's a username, but most people don't give a shit about who you are.
H2G2 Is Still Relevant
idk openbsd has 'doas', windows has 'runas', 'su' is also very popular.

whats wrong with it in your opinion?
The whole thing could have been avoided if Twitter/Elon had done it step-by-step instead of terminating staff in bulk. Everyone in tech is reducing headcount, but Elon likes to do stuff on a grand scale. He needs a human Twitter firewall (social media team who can say "NO") to verify each Tweet before sending it, causing chaos every day. But what do I know? I have never been CEO, so I have no idea.
I'd say the ICRC is doing their job in making the proposal.

Though with what passes for "social norms" these days, at the seedier end of cyberspace...I don't know how useful it would be in practice.
Sheer volume of work. I think the 10,000 hours theory has some validity.
No, you are definitely giving off mean vibes.
Various LISPs were a major contender in those times, with various companies selling their own flavors. LISP was the major high-level programming language used for writing operating systems - before C, other OSs were basically written in assembler (though there was at least one written in COBOL, BLIS/COBOL, which seems to have been more or less contemporaneous with C's early life).

FORTRAN was always dedicated to scientific computing, I don't believe it was ever used for system software, so it is a bit apples-to-oranges.
Accept, with some extra consideration, and still look.
I think you're right, the apology is here https://steveklabnik.com/writing/node
It's a matter of habit, I guess, but.

- Ctrl-[ is a chord that you have to press with 4/5 fingers using both hands at once.

- Whereas jk/fd etc are next to each other on the home row and pressed with 2/3 of the same hand sequentially.

Given the number of times you would have to exit insert mode, the second option is arguably more ergonomic...
This is positive.

Just like the worst of the right moved to Gettr, now (hopefully) the worst of the left moves to Mastodon.

That will make Twitter a better place for everyone who is interested in actual information and discussion.

I am really liking the way Twitter is going now! Even started using it regularly.