skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just love all the attention MiniDisc is getting again in the 2020s.

MiniDisc is truly how the future of audio would have looked like in a parallel universe.
>For past 6 months, I have spent an average of 4 to 5 hours on Youtube Shorts.

Per day?
Saying "we are materially changing the terms of your employment, you can accept them or quit" is constructive discharge.

Besides, unemployment is one thing that is usually very liberally decided in the employee's favor, given that you are effectively paying for it.
It doesn't seem far fetched to me that your own mind could've manufactured such a reaction - especially if the shamans all tried to convince you that the spirits are real, and you felt "guilty" that you didn't believe them. Your mind could simulate the reaction you'd have feared you'd get if you shared your thoughts with the shamans, perhaps?

I am personally very skeptical of the "realness" of anything that happens during a hallucination.
On a modest Hadoop cluster of 300 machines with 20 disks a piece, we replaced 3 hard disks a week.
I think it's disingenuous to say the Silk Road was used for anything but selling black market goods, predominantly drugs.

It's fine to say that someone shouldn't go to prison for life for running a business centered on selling drugs without violence (hitman non withstanding), and I think you could even argue that the drugs got more dangerous for kids once it went down (there was a decent time period when kids didn't have to worry if what they bought as cocaine, MDMA, or aderall was just meth). But trying to claim the Silk Road wasn't Amazon for drugs is just dishonest.
I would argue that when the primary products of a company are technologies, they are tech companies. That would include TSMC, AMD, AWS and much of Microsoft.

If your products are just BUILT using technology, well then you may consider yourself in another business. Whether that is a clothing, cars, pharmaceutical, weaponry or social media platforms (sorted by increasing potential for harm ;)

Still, even if you're in the last category, it may be fair to consider it "tech" if the main challenges/differentiating factors in creating the product is scienc/engineering/technological rather than for instance design, marketing or organizational efficiency.
> I think people who facilitate the sale of community destroying hard drugs deserve punishment

Alcohol is undeniably a hard drug. It:

1) is extremely physically addictive

2) causes many overdoses and deaths. More than opiates or cocaine.

At the same time, there is tons of compelling evidence that:

A) making alcohol illegal in the 20s/30s didn't decrease consumption at all and simply increased the danger of consuming tainted alcohol.

B) that prohibition fueled the rise of organized crime in the US

C) that countries with decriminalized drugs and harm reduction policies actually have reduced drug consumption, like Portugal.

Thus, your statement seems entirely incorrect. It actually seems that punishing those who sell hard drugs actually makes it worse for everyone.
My first ever computer was a laptop with a first gen Atom and 1GB of RAM. Single-core, no hyperthreading.
I was super excited and loved it, but it was so slow that it felt unusable even to me as a young teenager that didn't know any better.

Guess I should be thankful though, in trying to get it to be faster I discovered that some Linux distros can be very lightweight, and it started me down a rabbit hole I'm still going down.
A bit meta, but still:

If you're going to translate something, translate it well. This page is (I assume) auto-translated to Swedish using Google Translate or something similar, and the result is poor. This makes the whole thing come off as a scam.

Further, there's no way that I can see to switch to the original English version of the text. So I'm stuck in a poor experience.

In short:

- translate well, or don't do it at all

- allow the user to select the language/region to their liking
>It's a completely bewildering move; I'm not sure what Elon was thinking when he even decided to buy Twitter.

The entire and obvious and openly stated point of Musk buying Twitter was to reinstate Trump, and re-inflict his regular unhinged sociopathic tweets and lies and misinformation and calls to violence and bullying and hate speech and racism upon everyone in the world again, just when we were all getting used to enjoying not hearing from him every single fucking day and the middle of the night.

There's no other rational explanation, and although that obvious explanation may sound completely irrational, so is Musk, and it is still the real reason, and the inextricable consequence, just as predicted by Occam's Razor, and foretold by Musk's own words.

There's nothing bewildering about it at all, so stop acting so surprised, and pretending he changed his mind after what he said so emphatically and unambiguously.

It's not like it's a secret, or contested. He openly announced it. When people show you who they are and what they'll do, believe them.

https://www.voanews.com/a/elon-musk-says-he-d-reinstate-trum...

>Elon Musk Says He'd Reinstate Trump's Twitter Account

>"I do think that it was not correct to ban Donald Trump," Musk said. "I think that was a mistake because it alienated a large part of the country and did not ultimately result in Donald Trump not having a voice."

>Musk added that Trump's ban was "morally wrong and flat-out stupid."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/oct/28/twitter-d...

>Twitter braces for Donald Trump’s return as Elon Musk takes over platform

>Hate speech and misinformation experts are bracing for the return of Donald Trump to the platform, as Elon Musk completes his acquisition of Twitter.
If you are fine with virtual internet point betting, Metaculus [1] is sorta same.

[1] https://www.metaculus.com/
'Hacker News'? I thought it was 'Twitter News' these days.
Python is actually slower than Ruby
hope so. he has said so
I do not trust a government to protect me against spying by another. I trust the EU less than the USA - it's deeply infiltrated by Russian influence. I trust my own government the least: it is completely corrupted and only interested to rob and destroy me.
They most certainly chart in Sweden, here's the chart from May 14th (the day after the the Eurovision finals) [1]. This is "Svensktoppen", a very long-running list of top-played Swedish songs in Swedish radio. Off the top of my head, positions 1, 3, 4 and 5 were all candidates for Eurovision (and the song in position #3 was the one that competed in Eurovision).

In Swedish, this key change is generally called a "schlagerhöjning", where "schlager" [2] is the broad genre word for the type of songs that compete in the Eurovision. The term is old, obviously there's a rather wide genre spread these days but it used to be more same-same.

Edit: added a "Swedish" above, I did not realize that the chart only lists Swedish music, saw another comment mention this. Very weird of me.

[1]: https://sverigesradio.se/topplista.aspx?programid=2023&date=...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schlager_music
This was downvoted but refers to the second part of parent's comment:

> a bunch of ex-twitter folks boot up a crowdfunded mastodon instance.

Don't know about crowdfunded, but this instance is for ex-twitter employees.
Did you lie about not having a degree when you were applying for jobs?

The implication is that EM did.
You can’t give a gigantic middle finger to the social contract and expect to be treated with kid gloves.

I think the sentence was excessive, but then again I didn’t run a website for years for the expressed purpose of facilitating and profiting from the illegal international drug trade.

The idea that he would just be released and not then immediately charged by another nation is naive.

I’m genuinely shocked that this is getting attention from anyone but libertarian ideologues.

Edit: I’m fine with your downvotes. Nobody wants to discuss the level of taboo breaking the Silk Road caused simply because it’s actually not entirely difficult to operate. People get made examples of.
Consider that from Lockheed Martin's perspective: The F-35 at that point is a program that is guaranteed to have money flowing no matter what, it is too grandiose to fail. The longer Lockheed Martin can protract the work and the more excuses they can muster to rack up the monies needed (read: monies they pocket), the better. The government cashcow will give milk.

Lockheed Martin knew precisely that obvious fact of overhead.
I could see working at twitter for the money or tough technical problems, but what mission could possibly convince you to work there?
Well, aviation, sure, we'd either have to make new hydrogen fuelled jet engines, or industrialise Sabatier process and methane fuelled jets, or industrialise Sabatier process and polymerisation of methane into longer chains for direct substitution with existing jet fuel, so that's certainly a thing to doubt.

But construction? Nah, we use concrete because it's cheap, but PV electricity is so much cheaper than other sources it's got a obvious path for widespread use of structural aluminium (and I've seen a demo of electrolytic iron reduction, so also for structural steel), and filling in the gaps between the structural frame has so many existing options it isn't worth listing them all even if I knew them and their various situational pros/cons.
At the moment, that request might still be handled by a microservice written by the old staff that does the right thing. If that microservice is still up.

The future is much more uncertain.
General Motors says it will stop burning cash on electric vehicles by 2025
Buying an atom netbook was what helped me learn about the difference between in-order and out-of-order CPUs.

I actually upgrade from the 1.66gz atom to a 1.3ghz ULV core 2 duo, and it was way faster.
the irony is the firings pulling eyeballs and interactions to Twitter, which increases load, which nobody works to handle anymore
And then comes a group of folks and throws most of Algol achievements in safety, by creating an OS with a systems language where everything goes.
You conveniently redefined what most anyone would consider not a hard drug as a hard drug to make your point.
This is actually incorrect. The US and many other countries have entered into trade agreements with each other. For example, if a company does business in Europe (sells goods or services to EU customers), they are subject to EU regulations in a whole host of areas. The GDPR is only one example of such law.

You, personally, are not subject to EU laws since you are, presumably, not running a business with EU customers or data subjects.
Treating your existing staff with disrespect makes hiring much harder. The pick of the litter will get multiple offers, even the most mecurial may choose a safer bet.
Yes I know they are free to do that but that doesn't mean that it's fair.
Yes, it’s disappointing, but I chose to publish this anyway to counter publication bias, and to maybe motivate someone else to come up with a different method to analyze what’s on these dummy MiniDiscs!

Fantastic.
Countries are polarizing both on the world stage and on the domestic one. And in polarized societies (of any level) it's not uncommon to see people do things that are self defeating, so long as it's perceived as negatively affecting "the other side" even more.

The current clear demonstrations in the world, on both the global and domestic stage, are endless.
It is implemented. It is working.
Wag: Easy WireGuard 2FA
Is that not Reddit?
How is "dictionary[key] = None" equivalent to dictionary[key] not existing?
I'm pretty sure that was with LFS. Maybe the issue was Bitbucket? I'm not sure.
Worry not as the Optimus production will start by the end of this year and the robots can keep Twitter up at least 10 times better than human employees! It’d be financially insane to employ anything other than an Optimus robot!
The legal term of art is "Constructive Dismissal". They were fired, but Musk is trying to pretend they weren't.
>It makes sense that EM would blunder by attempting to reproduce that type of success at Twitter. And it will be a blunder, unless...

But he actually did change the narrative today. Yesterday, he had to make Twitter better.

Now, if Twitter doesn't crash and the World Cup goes by without a hitch, it's going to be the biggest win ever for him, is it not?

EDIT: fixed tone.
I can pretty easily keep a mysql instance running. I cannot easily do that while adding features to it. Scale that up a lot and you can see how Twitter can keep running with much less people while not delivering anything.

The fact that a site that big hasn't broken yet shows how good they actually were and in the end he did fire good engineers while not even tackling Twitter main problems which none were technical. Bots are still rampant, moderation is gone, monetization is non existant and advertisers were scared away.

Unless things change what you're seeing is not a success, it's a zombie.
My bad, there's no UI to try it from. You'd need to install it. I added the subdomain for easy to the github repo (as the URL is easy to remember).
I'll remove it from the README as it's misleading. So sorry again.
I have seen literally zero porn since joining the platform months ago, long before the latest waves of post-Elon Twitter refugees. I honestly haven't the slightest idea where any of this is coming from. I'm sure there are some nasty instances out there, but, like, it really doesn't need to affect legit users of legit instances in any way.
It was 25 years ago, so I don't remember. However, even if today I could get all my rights back -- indeed, if I could get compensated for a reasonable author's royalty going back to the start -- the amount of money would not be worth noticing.
Use PHP Symfony to send email
ICLR2023 review debate: Unethical use of language or nothing wrong?
That doesn't seem to make any sense. It's nice poetically I guess, but that's not the reason.
MMM is one of the very few things we all agree is right.
I vomited so hard that I gave myself 2 black eyes and burst a blood vessel in my eye so it went completely red.
I literally thought I was going to spew up a kidney.

Its called La Purga for a reason though, prior to vomiting, because you are starting to trip, you get into a negative thought spiral, this builds and builds and you feel vile.

Then all of a sudden - blam. Kidney coming through your nose level spew.... along with all of the negative thoughts.

Despite feeling like my eyes had popped out - I started doing cartwheels - I felt so light.

Worth experiencing once - better ways to do it than Ayahuasca though after that IMO
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Comments are hilarious, especially knowing some of those people commenting most critically had recently been working at FM&T.

At the short stint I did at the Beeb I spent a lot of time doing code for date maths using SSI and Perl before they decided to completely rewrite what we were doing in Flash.

Perl is a great language, and Catalyst and Mojolicious are rock solid, as is DBIx::Class. I work all day with TypeScript now, but I miss working with Perl.
The Linus quote is ripe for misinterpretation. Not worrying about the code can lead to an unreadable mess, that ones future self or others will hate working with. So a really good programmer will probably rather go the Sussman way and realize, that programs are firstly meant to be read and only lastly meant to be run by a computer (paraphrasing here).
I like how the closest thing to a "correct" answer gets dismissed almost immediately with fairly weak reasoning.

You're adding type hints so they're not going to be blind sided anyways, just return a union of Item and None. If None is a valid value then use a result type.

Exceptions are for exceptional cases isn't just a performance thing, it's a reasoning thing: You're jumping out of the established control flow and there should be a very good reason for that.

If you're struggling with handling None even when you know it's a valid return value, living in a codebase that overuses exceptions is going to be 10x worse.
Its very cool, some thoughts:
* They have support in there to get an API client that auths using your nodekey - not sure what endpoints it can hit but makes for some interesting cases like updating ACLs maybe
* You can use it as an exit node/subnet router too, but it requires some hacking
* Equally there UDP support lurking in their library you can wire up too
I see no reason why the tidying couldn't be done in public. Why not make a public repo that's closed off to external influence until it's "tidy" enough?
We need to CCS at greater than the rate we are extracting ancient carbon… IOW, sequestering more than 90 million barrels a day. We are dead men walking.
"Let me turn on the built in way to see all the comments to prove that they don't support free speech!"
Forcing someone to solve X is what the communists did.

Shouldn't you be a plumber? What is someone like you doing on Hacker News? How dare you be here!
And World Cup traffic will be bursty. Big game, big event in game. Could really peak message volume and this is even geographically distributed.

So fun times for those left there to fight the fires.
Or the original paper.

https://sci-hub.ru/https://doi.org/10.1049/sqj.1944.0033
Of course there will be child pornography on self-hosted social networking servers. Just as with owncloud instances, shady ftp hosts, etc.

Same with political extremists. It's unfortunate all of this exists, but it's a side effect of freedom to self-host.
Mastodon is just about to hit 7 million users and seems to be taking off. Time will tell if it can really overcome the network effects though:

https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/10936375119776...
"no contracted killing actually occurred"

Isn't it illegal to hire people to kill people even if they aren't actually killed? Like when the police go undercover they don't wait for someone to be killed, they wait for definitive evidence that the hiring person seriously plans to follow through with it I thought.
I backup (encrypted) to multiple places, including to Google Drive using a Turkish billing account on another google account. 2tb works out to about $30USD per year.

In terms of actual computer backups, thanks to btrfs+btrbk I can incremental backup every hour over LAN to my server and also to my attached USB drive. With compression/snapshots this is pretty small.
> Next reviewable diff

As the commit author, it's in my (and everyone's) interest to size changes up so that it's easier for review, and also present in them in the logical order of thinking. Personally, I prefer the bottom-up approach.

I bring the non-functional and impertinent changes (like refactoring and tangential changes) ahead in the line-up so that the actual changes are kept separate and are concentrated at the tail end.

I make commit messages of the pattern: Present situation, the problem with that, what this patch does, and what the effect it has/how it solves the problem or sets up a path forward.

The initial PR might be sliced too thinly, and so will have more commits than ideal. But, as the review progresses, and once both the reviewer(s)' and the author's mental models are in sync, commits can be collapsed at their logical boundaries.

Regardless of the tooling and presentation, it's imperative that that the reviewers are intuitively aware of the ramifications of the change. Without that, the review ends up being nit picking, spell checking, and whatever that's obvious on the immediate vicinity, and the process degrades into a box-ticking exercise.

No AI needed. Be human.
Did anyone ever use them for data storage on computers? IIRC they held about 200MB so they'd have been a welcome (and robust) upgrade from Zip drives.

I know there were "different" disks for the Yamaha multitrackers, but I'm not sure what was different about them.
Several posts on this thread (as well as TFA) have suggested the hitman for hire was slander to paint Ulbricht in a bad light. This is not true.

> At the sentencing hearing, the district court resolved several disputed issues of fact. For example, because Ulbricht contested his responsibility for the five commissioned murders for hire, the district court found by a preponderance of the evidence that Ulbricht did in fact commission the murders, believing that they would be carried out. The district court characterized the evidence of the murders for hire, which included Ulbricht's journal, chats with other Silk Road users, and the evidence showing that Ulbricht actually paid a total of $650,000 in Bitcoins for the killings, as “ample and unambiguous.” App'x 1465.

From https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-2nd-circuit/1862572.html
I read that section of MMM during a down time in my early career where I was doubting my choice of programming as a career because of my limitations. It buoyed my spirits enough that I decided to stick with it and I am glad I did. I owe a great personal debt to Brooks.
Potato vs. Potato
Exceptions are an anti-pattern. If a function can encounter an error, it should expose this fact through its interface (specifically its return type).

For example, Rust has a Result type [1], so this function would return Result<Item, ItemNotFound>. This forces the caller to think about what to do in case of an error and specify what should happen.

[1] https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/result/index.html
Are you suggesting that experts advices that they should default on A1 bonds even though they could clearly manage to extend and pay them? That seems highly unlikely. I don’t think any expert in the field would have such disregard for the importance of trust in the system.
Life isn't usually that spectacle. More likely scenario is that we'll see more frequent small-medium outages from Twitter, Elon frantically tries to bring/borrow engineers from everywhere (likely many from Tesla and SpaceX) to make it barely survive from all the fiasco. Then Elon will finally learn that there probably was a good reason for all the 7500 people in the hard way then finally re-invent the wheel from the scratch.
Now do Tesla!
Please, for the love of all that is holy, run away!
Was Napster knowingly criminal? By most accounts yes.

How about Uber? In most cities they were by allowing airport pickups?

How about Amazon? Remember when they aided and abetted customers with sales tax evasion for years?
I was initially unhappy about the situation, but on reviewing the opinion [0] of the judge of the appeal it seems reasonable. It is uncomfortable that the judge effectively sentenced him for something he wasn't charged with, but if that judge saw evidence that he tried to plan the murder of multiple people there aren't really many alternatives.

It does seem like bad form that the prosecutors didn't charge him with murder, it leaves open the question of whether the evidence was actually flimsy and Ulbricht's team didn't challenge it properly because they didn't think it was especially relevant. I assume the details of the opinion would reveal the thinking on that if I read it closely.

[0] https://www.leagle.com/decision/infco20170531115
> >Ross was not convicted of selling drugs or illegal items himself, but was held responsible for what others sold on the site.

I'm pretty sure that running an illegal drug marketplace is also illegal.
"No silver bullet" in itself must be one of the most misused or misunderstood phrases used by people to argue not to try better ways of doing things. If one suggests, that there is a safer or somehow better tool to get the job done ... no silver bullet! Your tool is not perfect for everything in the universe, so we will not even use it where it works significantly better!
Production environments are genuinely isolated from the internet and accessible either only physically or through very secure channels. In order to sabotage these environments you have to be physically present. Unplug servers, intruduce malware via usb stick, etc.