skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to share the same example against obsession with DRY. But it's a bit more nuanced.

Both options can be valid. DRY is a tangential topic, the main goal should be to keep your code as close to your mental model as possible (also keeping mental models in sync between team members, which is quite hard).

ABC being a sequence could be a pattern, or it could be a coincidence. You can't know which one it is just by looking at the code. The knowledge whether it's a sequence or not is in the business domain and in your mental model of that domain.

You might think you're disagreeing on DRY with another team member, but in reality you two have different mental models, and one of you is using DRY to justify a his.
> past evidence of his failures have yet to be found

It’s right there on his Wikipedia page, he was fired from the CEO job at x.com and again after it became PayPal.

Not to mention the boring company, hyperloop, that time he called a hero cave diver a pedo for no reason, his relationship with his many children, etc.
Seeing this makes me also think... why not offer a service that will lock down all finance, identity and other related services upon the event of a perceived attack? Sure, it would be worthless if it was too sensitive. I key feature would be that it could be unlocked in 5mins or less by an account holder.
Props to you! I stopped hosting my own mail back in the late 2000s. :-)
Ah yes, rules. For China. Which now decides pretty much most of the content that the western world's children see. TikTok is part of it, them acquiring gaming companies is another, and there's likely even more ways in which China is gaining control of what we're consuming.

I bet China's going to be like "guys we can't do this anymore, they just updated their terms of service with this brand new rule so we can't proceed with the head-in-toilet challenge operation".

China is pretty smart, you trying to do the same thing in their country would be impossible. Guess why?
> diversify

The conventional wisdom says you should have variety in your diet, but it's unclear to me why that's "good" and I've never seen research on it.
Excluding learning disorders and mental health disorders and the quality/clarity/precision of communication is a reflection of both education and practice.

Most of the software engineers I have worked with never put anything in writing because they lack confidence in their ability to express their thoughts in a written form. When that becomes common in a work culture you tend to have lots of meetings where people over communicate verbally as a compensation while everyone else is silently playing games or watching paint dry.
I don't think "most startups" happen to lose billions of their customers money. You can be a super-stealth-ninja-startup, when you're handling dollar sums with nine zeroes you better do things in a more orderly way than "via chats".

I worked at two small companies in the financial sector and both had compliance and legal assistance, nobody would even wire a hundred bucks anywhere without knowing where it went.
You can also configure PiHole as a DHCP server that sets itself as the DNS server. This way you only have to configure it once and devices should accept it as the default DNS. Had to do that to sidestep my locked down ISP router config…
It's got advantages.

I know, it's an expensive place to put anything. But the lift cost is dropping geometrically these days. And the benefits are pretty generous - higher light flux, no night to deal with, aim the power where it's needed (microwave laser).

The unsolved problem is attrition. The new telescope was holed by micrometeorite the first week.

I expect folks will work out something smart, and soon.
It would be interesting to know what portion of Twitter employees are on work visas and can’t easily take the offer to quit.

I’d guess an international company like Twitter had several hundred people on H-1B, L1 and similar visas. After these voluntary layoffs it seems like there might be 2,000 employees left, so at least 10% of them would be on work visas by this napkin math.
Ask HN: Why is rent not paid and tracked online?
Well, what IS needed is a straightforward registration process you can point EVERYONE to, and they just go do it in two minutes and get on with their lives without spending 30 minutes learning about instances and fediverses and activitypubs.
> Takes about 15-30 seconds to figure out if the person you are talking to understands or is being evasive.

Ah, now I see why certain communications go awry. One party is jumping to conclusions in under a minute.
Value here is not just the amount of storage:

1. Multiple people and devices use this one account.

2. Said multiple people are not technical - they don’t always know/remember to plug in a drive to their device for backup.

3. The mental load reduction is amazing. The iCloud keychain feature + faceID + multidevices is so convenient, I don’t understand why I ever spent effort in crazy tool and file plumbing schemes. I use the $2.99/month plan, and my time is worth a lot more than that (at least 3000 times more using paycheck…). I’d rather spend time with friends and family doing other things than debugging our collective backup schemes. That’s value.
The leap second’s time is up: world votes to stop pausing clocks
Website and app working fine for me. Don't really see this "spectacular collapse" everyone seems to wish would happen
"Played them" how? They'll find another job easily (especially with three months severance) and he's left with a company that's falling apart.
They don't have stock?

Also maybe don't say your employer is a "petulant man child" in Slack or otherwise undermine them and you'll be fine. The idea that an employer should keep people that actively dislike like him or her is insane.
In general, people (especially young adults) do not want to look stupid. So if they do not know the answer they start talking / writing about the shit they know.

But senior engineers and wiser people will answer with: I do now know. Or simple “yes” or “no”. Or answer with clear question or two if the initial question is not clear.
VC fund general partners are usually not employees that can be "fired" in the traditional sense. However, they can be forced out in certain circumstances and the limited partners are probably asking some hard questions about fraud and cancelling future capital commitments.
Won't that prevent Twitter from paying severance to their former employees?
> no serious investor

If they wanted to mitigate legal risks, it probably would have been better to take advantage of 'serious' investors, as opposed to less knowledgeable investors. I believe the latter group generally enjoys more legal protections.
SA is an absolute monarchy, he is the son of the king and hair apparent. Lets not be coy.
Early in my career I had an issue with some Indian colleagues who were using a little head wiggle that means "yes" or "go on" in that context, but to me at the time seemed more like a shrug or a "maybe". An observing colleague later explained to me - he said he enjoyed seeing me nod more and more vigorously and explaining my point in more and more detail as I unconsciously tried to elicit the expected "missing" nod of agreement/understanding from them...

We live and learn.
> The features will land in future editions of rust.

Features land in all editions unless they specifically would be backwards incompatible otherwise.
Wild prediction: Twitter will continue to work as it did even after that ~80% workforce haircut. Make of that what you will.
Just wait until The Saudis figure out that they're a desert, and maybe instead of stupid line cities they should be building solar farms and long-range international transmission lines.
> Saddam Hussein & Gadaffi were removed by US war machine

Right. Which is a red herring in a discussion about legal sovereign immunity.
Does he think it's not happening because there isn't a leaked play by play on Twitter?
Me too and I feel quite vindicated as I have been saying it for a long time that Musk is an incompetent fraud with incredible amounts of luck.

Edit: actually less vindicated but more happy that I don't have to hear from people how great Elon is any more.
I can't find an exact breakdown, but the sources I can find say that ads are still a majority of Reddit's revenue.

Reddit also has some structural advantages. Building around communities allows Reddit to ban advertiser unfriendly communities, and to threaten to ban others to force them to toe the line. It also gives them rough controls over what other users see (e.g. hiding NSFW content, quarantining subreddits so they don't show up on the not-logged-in front page).

They've also managed to convince their users to moderate each other for free, which gives them a really lean head count.

I think Twitter would need to substantially redefine their product to compete in that arena.

Reddit also only made ~$350M in revenue last year. I don't think competing with Reddit is likely to justify the purchase price of Twitter over the timespan either is likely to survive.
This is a great argument for expelling all Chinese people, people of Chinese descent, people who have said anything nice about China, and people who have never said anything nice about China but I think are hindering our competitiveness against them.
Not all countries have standards for handling meat. Have you ever been to a developing nation? I spent 4 years living and traveling all over Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos by motorbike.

"Street food" sounds awesome until you realize that you have no idea where the meat you're eating came from, how it was raised, handled, prepared. It is cheap for a reason. It could have easily been the stuff you saw by the side of the road sitting out in the sun with flies all over it. Ever been to a wet market?

I was once in a super remote town in northern Vietnam staying at a small hotel. They were having a festival of some sort and someone had left a 300+ lbs pig in the parking lot sitting there in the sun. Alive, barely. It was so abused, it could barely lift its head. That was going to be the delight of the festival.

How do you even know the meat is the meat they say it is? I've seen my share of dog/cat restaurants. Other than those being generally more expensive... who knows... maybe they ran out of pig that day (swine flu was in full effect when I was there).

Certainly, veggies also have their share of issues... sprayed with who knows what sorts of chemicals smuggled in from China... grown next to polluted rivers... in polluted air.

Now, back in the US, we have it so good here...
besides your point - I tangentially would like to mention:

art HAS a function. It sometimes appears invisible because it is we who are affected by it.

Art is anything that functions to manipulate a {conscious being}'s internal state (traditionally emotional state).

That said - I agree mostly with your point besides that one pedantic complaint :)
This is just an argument about definitions. "Independent" means "from a different power center".

Now, it is entirely fair to argue that that the powers in question are colluding in some way. But most states that haven't been subverted into authoritarianism have multiple actors with the power and (sometimes) will to investigate other ones.

I mean, if you take that argument far enough, no human could judge any other human, because none of them are "independent".
It's also possible for a person to poorly apply their reading comprehension skills. FWIW, I did get the intended meaning from OP's post.
This is what I understood as well. Any attempts to prosecute him would be expensive and futile. Even if there were some law that allowed for it, he could remove it overnight or "pass" a new law that gives him immunity.
> but I believe Z-library (and LibGen) don't host much of it.

Don't believe that is true for libgen, plenty of content critical of Russia, Putin, and also content that will teach you to make bombs on there.
I think you might mean PyMuPDF (https://github.com/pymupdf/PyMuPDF), a Python library built on top of the MuPDF C library (https://mupdf.com/).

PyMuPDF and MuPDF are both available under dual open source AGPL and commercial licenses. They have been around for many years and are under continual development.

[Disclaimer, i work for Artifex, who wrote MuPDF and recently acquired PyMuPDF.]
This is true, and a very good sign I'd say!
HN downranks posts that get both a lot of flags AND a lot of votes so

>If it’s substantive it will have enough in the other direction that it doesn’t matter.

Is just flat out wrong.
I’ve got 3 raspberry pi 4’s that I run a kubernetes cluster on.

Alternative social media front ends
- Invidious
- Nitter
- Teddit

Communication
- thelounge irc
- ngircd irc server
- some irc bots

Automation
- nodered
- home assistant

Knowledge Base
- wiki.js
- shiori
- calibre-web

Etc…
- Postgres
- redis
- searxng
- gitea
- vikunja
- freshrss
- firefly
FWIW, BitWarden syncs your passwords locally. The only time you would run into issues is if you need to access using a new device, or a new password that you haven't synced (ex signed up today but haven't used the BitWarden app).

The only scenario self hosting BitWarden is a problem is if I am away, there has been a power outage at my house and nobody I can ask to switch on the server, and I have misplaced my phone and laptop and need to access my passwords. Pretty unlikely. I have some neighbours I can trust too, so I'm pretty sure that scenario will basically never happen.

(I will need to make sure everything starts up properly on startup though. Or maybe my 12 year old neighbour will get a lesson in linux.)
Crucial Conversations

Difficult Conversations

Nonviolent Communications

Many here on HN get PTSD with the last one, but ignore them - everyone I've engaged in on HN that criticizes the book hasn't read it (the book actually agrees with their talking points!) However, I will say that there is a cult-like following the book has (NVC chapters in various cities, etc), and would recommend you read the book and avoid the cult. The latter often adds stuff that is not in the book.

From my experience, merely reading wasn't enough. I took notes from the books, and compared the content across all three before it all really started clicking.

And expect it to take years to change your communication style. Don't give up, though. I'm nowhere near where I want to be but I am better. Even though it's hard for me to change, it is easy to recognize when others are practicing it, and I can witness first hand how well it works. Most of these people have not read the books, which in a sense speaks to the universality of the approach.
They are governed by the rules determined by whoever decides what the hell exactly "the rules-based international order" is — or rather they're not, much as some like that to be the case.
No that’s insane. Professor’s children are all secretly elite criminals? What planet do you live on?
We won't be able to tell when they're not following the rules that are not important enough to impose on domestic companies?
Poor communicators do not try to imagine the state of anyone outside their own heads. So they fail to explain things that the other person doesn't know, and over explain things they find more interesting or relevant than the answer to the actual question asked.

Also, we seem to have lost respect for editors in writing and it may have spilled over into oral communication. When answering a technical question it would help if people kept the old inverted pyramid structure in mind. Instead people indulge in a "let me take you on a fascinating intellectual journey to parts unknown; Will I ever answer the question you asked? Who knows? But I appreciate your patience and indulgence".

I will often interrupt a few minutes into a monologue that doesn't seem to be circling my question and say "It's ok if you think I asked the wrong question, but in that case you need to say 'the answer to the question you asked is X, now here is why I think it is the wrong question...'"
Tailscale, Minecraft Bedrock Server x2, soon probably Mastodon, a 4-machine Raspberry Pi k3s cluster (for experimentation, currently unplugged )

Tailscale is the key for all of it
> That’s not how it works

No one is arguing about how it works, they're arguing how they think it should work. Otherwise there would be no discussion here at all.
That's the one thing I think Musk has been spot-on about: Twitter had far too many employees, many of them doing what amounts to nothing.
> and it feels weird to sit there in silence for 15 seconds as I do so.

This is what filler words like "so..", "um", "ah.." are for. They mean "I'm thinking and will respond in a moment". I'll also often start the answer sentence even if I'm still thinking, but very slowly to stretch out the thinking time. "Soo.. if.. the... thing does.. that.. then we have to foobar."
Adguard(DNS) OpenMediaVault(Storage) Motioneye (Cameras) Nextcloud (Cloud Drive/etc) Wireguard (VPN) and NextPVR (OTA TV)

Edit: On 2012 Mac Mini. I'd like to get a USB Coral and switch to Frigate at some point.
The Adrian Veidt theory of FTX. I like it!
Well app.net[0] had great potential and got shutdown. From Wikipedia:

> On May 6, 2014, the founders announced that subscription renewals had been so poor that there were no longer funds to retain development staff for App.net and future operations would be on a maintenance-only basis using contractors

I used to love that platform in its heyday. You didn't have to pay with your data, you paid with a thing called, you know, money (an esoteric term in social media circles).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/App.net
What does "follow the basic rules of accounting" mean? Have rigorous systems in place such that you can close your books within a day? See a real time view of your financial position at any minute? Show a set of financials which meet GAAP requirements but are hand done in excel and complete 8 weeks after qtr end? Get audited?

Are you in the finance function at your startup? I'll guess no, and if you go ask someone there if it feels rigorous they'll laugh.
And the ability to steal a substantial amount of your IP and start a copycat across the street.
Well, clients believed their money was centralized at FTX. They now realize it has been decentralized to many other places.
My guess is that it's a combination of ignorance, apathy, and credit card fees.
You wouldn't catch it, it's true.

But I'd depends if you're willing to trade accuracy for speed. I suggest the correct reaction to this is... "How much speed?"

I presume the answer to be "a lot".
Sure, I'm not saying Twitter had no value or that Musk isn't destroying what value it had - he clearly is.

I'm just pointing out a limited fact - that the 3s limit is not relevant even for emergency situations, as no one does or should rely on emergency tweets.
It is in Italian.
Change the world? By working for Twitter and whatever whim Musk have next for Twitter's direction?

Stop drinking the kool-aid.
Interesting: Quad Motor Powertrain with 2000 horsepower, range 420 miles, Baseprice $290,000
I don't think it is an absolute monarchy, my understanding is the Saudi state is a web of fiefdoms of individual members of the royal family. The right hand doesn't always know what the left hand is doing, e.g. the 9/11 attacks.
Why does international oil trade primarily happen in dollars then even when USA is neither of those countries nor is it the biggest trade partner for either of those countries?

Also, what industrial base?

Also, How does Srilanka holding dollars benefit from a strong US consumer market?
Working for one of Elon Musk's companies sounds brutal, but I can understand the appeal of burning hot and bright on something truly innovative. I would feel proud and motivated to work like crazy on something like Starship, but this is Twitter. I suspect Musk's strategy of appealing to people who want to change the world and be on the bleeding edge of technology won't hold up the same way as it did for his other companies.
Curious what your book recommendations would be?
I just was introduced to Tdarr the other day, and it is a great addition to the *rr stack. It does a great job in optimizing media files based on what you value (size, bitrate, container, etc)

I'm aiming for moderate bitrate, 1080p, hvec containers. In running through 900 of the 5000 media files I've already saved 3.4TB of storage space.

https://github.com/HaveAGitGat/Tdarr
The issue is that if you wait until people start leaving it's too late. The bet here (and IMO it's a fair one) is that Twitter will continue to degrade as a service and eventually people will start leaving. If your alternative is up and running by then you've got a chance of capturing users.
The Chinese government is hilariously bad at foreign propaganda. Seriously, just look at any of their official media channels. The US has a million times more experience in this business - it has Hollywood, it funds thousands of "non-governmental organizations" all over the world, it knows how to advertise.

The people who are worried that 15-second videos on TikTok are somehow part of a long-term plan by the Chinese government to subtly change Americans' opinions are giving the Chinese government far too much credit.
If I remember correctly, Brooks experience was with assembler, which might require some more documentation than modern Java or Python.
I would suggest taking a look at this video.

https://youtu.be/9Qk2LEN6opQ?t=1826

tldr, yes seed oils go through a lot of processing but human outcome data dosent seem to indicate that they cause any negative health effects
George Orwell's Animal Farm portrays it well. Most people are sheeplike and follow the herd. After you are fattened up, you are led into the meat grinder.
Accessibility Week
It's obvious why the despots of Arabia and Russia—both pals with Musk—would prefer if Twitter disappeared. Unlike Mastodon, Twitter is capable of hosting a revolution. Putin and MBS and the rest of them know they can pwn or DoS any distributed, federated piece of crap, and they can't successfully do that to Twitter.
As someone with ADHD I always joke that if I ever had to give up adderall I would just hire a homeless man to break in my house and hold a gun to my head so that I could focus.
The problem for me for cases like your example is, that I need an answer that I can work with. If the answer to that question doesn't start or end with "yes" or "no", I'm then left with having to read between the lines of whatever rambling answer I received to determine, whether they're more likely to be finished by Friday or not.

"Well I started with this module and Bob is still doing stuff, but it seems like some work still. Ah, also have this meeting tomorrow - btw do you know if Alice is joining? Did we say you prepare the slides or does she do it?" leaves me hanging not knowing whether they'll manage or not and we're off to a side discussion.

"Yes, unless Bob can't get this merged until tomorrow." or "No, this became way bigger than expected. Do you need to communicate this to someone, or is it blocking you and we might be able to split it up to unblock you?" are way better answers. It shows that the person understands the scope of their task, they can estimate roughly the amount of work, but also stay open to prioritize or compromise.

Even "I don't know yet, as I first have to read through this document to get a grasp of the scope. I'll come back to you in the afternoon" is a way better answer that's neither yes or no, but you take the responsibility to find out.

IMHO you can pretty much always provide clear answers, but it requires for you to understand the scope, the shared context and some social intelligence to realize, that the other person probably has a reason for asking and that the questions or anecdote that just came to mind should probably be of lower priority.
The human brain is way less capable than it likes to delude itself it is.
FreshRSS looks great, I've been looking for a new reader to try. Installation seems very easy too, thanks!