skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Btw the Kay essay referenced here is missing around 6 pages. Still not sure if there’s a good online source for it now; it originally was published in The Art of Human-Computer Interface Design.
I did a similar one. For folks who signed into our app with Facebook login, we would go get all their Likes, all their Friends, and all their Friends' Likes. There was some vague idea that we could use this for marketing.

The data volume was huge though and it quickly filled up our database, so we shut it off and threw it all away since it didn't seem to be worth the trouble.

This was in 2012... I didn't think much of it until Cambridge Analytica.
Wonderful tips, thank you!

I have a few questions.

> I did my own books up to 250k in sales. After that I got a book keeper and an accountant. At 5 mil in sales I got an accounting firm. It should have happened around 2-3 mil

I was going to have an accountant check my work, no matter how many sales I get, but are you talking about having an accountant actually record all of the transactions for you from 250k in sales? As in, you don't work the accounting yourself at all except to check the numbers afterward?

If so, why? I feel...uneasy...about not knowing where every dollar is going as it's going.

Also, what would matter more? Volume of sales in dollars, or volume of sales in how many sales are made?

> Know the difference between your balance sheet and a P & L statement.

Let's see if I do.

A P & L (profit and loss, correct?) statement is a statement of whether the company is in the red or black, over time. A balance sheet is a snapshot of the assets, equity, and liabilities of the business at a point in time.

Am I correct?

> understand what a trial balance is

This is a new one for me, so I looked it up.

From what I understand, it's a sort-of balance sheet to check that the debits and credits match up. I don't really get its purpose in the context of accounting software, though.

> Don’t have 300 pages of expense accounts, you should be able to produce a financial snapshot at any of time of 1-2 pages

This is a great tip, and also exactly the kind of mistake I would make without someone telling me beforehand.

> Quickbooks generally will do everything you need, the invoicing system is nice and can be integrated easily for credit card payments and recurring billing

I'm sure this is true, and I would encourage other small business owners to default to this as suggested.

But I'm a FOSS freak, and only work on Linux, so I'll stick with GnuCash.

Also, I may have found out ways to use Bash and SQLite's command-line interface, with GnuCash's SQLite file format, to script GnuCash, making my use of it immensely powerful.

> Banks generally won’t count items older than 60-90 days on your A/R as an asset

A/R is Accounts Receivable, right? That's money owed to your business by someone else, correct?

If so, thank you for letting me know this tidbit. However, why do banks do this?
Say no it is not in your contract.

Or ignore the page/call and tell them you are too sound of a sleeper.

Don't let your co-workers decisions change your own because they may be looking for leadership from you.
McMaster University teaches w/ Elm (only the runtime mutates), which is probably more aligned with your interests.

http://outreach.mcmaster.ca/
I don't think so

There is a growing amount of users that are coming up with interesting comments

"conspiracy" is usually something a reader do not understand, lack details, knowledge or simply just the context, or is confused about something, it's ok, it happens

Use that as an opportunity to challenge your method of thinking, acquire new knowledge, and develop argumentation skills to challenge something you feel is wrong

Argumentation remains the best weapon to fight misinformation

It's not interesting if everyone thinks the same

As long as we remain civil, we should encourage each other to challenge our views and ideas
it's not for us mortals to judge the Gods
Great website design. Though the default width is a bit too narrow for macOS laptops.
Because biology is far more complicated than the binary presence of an X or Y chromosome.

The easiest way to explain this is that being intersex also exists in biology:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersex_(biology)
"Woman" is a cultural category. "Female" is the biological category (and not strictly binary, like we're taught in grade school).
His taking private price is fixed and not going to change anymore.
Some hypotheticals that could bring down Twitter
I'm not too sure right now about the design of the plugin system, but I'm thinking it'll just be setting a bunch of JSON data, declaring how elements/menus/pages will behave. Still need to work on this part.
Thank you Ray!

https://openlibrary.org/volunteer

We have community calls ever Tuesday @ 9am PT and design calls 9am PT Friday!

We're currently talking about 2023 planning and everyone's feedback is welcome.

- mek
I’ve seen the progress they’ve made, but I don’t watch closely.

Could this just a “the other 90%” thing?

They made a ton of progress in a very short period of time. But as time goes on the wins are smaller and may be harder and harder to figure out. So even putting in the same (or more) time, progress towards completion will naturally slow down over time. Right?

From what I’ve read from some of the developers things function exceptionally well already. Seems like they’re doing a great job to me.
It’s good this came up here. I just spent the last week or so going through the MaraDNS code base and fixing all of the little Y2038 issues.

I know, time_t is 64-bit with pretty much any new Linux distro out there, so why are people seeing Y2038 issues? It’s because the Windows 32-bit POSIX compatibility layer handles Y2038 very poorly. Once Y2038 is reached, the POSIX time() call in a 32-bit app fails with a -1. It doesn’t use a rolling timestamp somewhere in 1901 the way 32-bit Linux applications with 32-bit time_t do. It fails hard, returning -1 for every call to time().

Now, it’s true that Microsoft does have proprietary calls for time and date which are Y2038 compliant, and, yes, native Windows32 apps should use those calls instead of the POSIX ones, but in the real world, it’s sometimes a lot easier to, say, just use stat() to get a file’s timestamp instead of having to use CreateFile() followed by GetFileTime().

This is why a lot of Windows apps are still seeing Y2038 issues.

In terms of Linux apps, the Y2038 stuff is mainly seen in old 32-bit binary only apps. Since that stuff is mainly games, where an inaccurate datestamp isn’t a serious issue, I think we will see emulation libraries which give old games a synthetic time and date so they aren’t outside of the Y2038 window. New apps will use a 64-bit time_t even if compiled as a 32-bit binary.
Just because a solution to the problem exists doesn't make it not a problem in the first place.
Twitter is a mature tech platform that routinely onboards people at all levels of technical experience into every part of itself. There's no way they don't have probably several entire programs for getting people up to speed on how it all works. Possibly even a few full time dedicated people working only on that, actually. At least before he fired them anyway.

This is nothing but ego and hubris still.
Right, so what? Some people own homes and I can't do what they do. Others live close to a supercharger and I can't do that.

Some work from home and there's no charger at the office and so they can't do what I do.

This is like if I said I charge my smartphone on my nightstand when I go to sleep and you say "aha, what about people without nightstands! Checkmate!"

A diversity of exacting detail doesn't make something infeasible. We still all say
eat meals or communicate with words despite vast differences in how these things look and operate among all of humanity

Again it's not my personal responsibility to itemize all theoretical dimensions here.
Definitely more numerate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellard%27s_formula
I agree. psychoanalysis has saved my life.

But on a national scale? If therapy is the solution, we are sorely lacking in therapists.
What sample sizes are we talking?
I am currently writing a software library that is a design tool for a part of quantum computing. If I think of it as a medium/tool of thought, then

> the range of expressive thoughts possible in such a medium is an emergent property of the elementary objects and actions in that medium. If those are well chosen, the medium expands the possible range of human thought. [1]

So, my question is, when designing a software that helps users design things, what are the design principles that help expand the possible range of human thought?

[1] https://numinous.productions/ttft/
>"At a short notice summon the handful of engineers who survived the purges to the office at 2pm on a Friday and to bring 10 screenshots of code they've written "for review".

I wasn't able to read many of the collapsed comments since I don't have a teamblind account. Is that actually the context of this picture then?
Realms look really amazing. I'm going to keep a close eye on this. Stage 3 sounds promising.
> A startup sized team working on a platform with twitters scale for a boss with capital and a willingness to consider new ideas?

Willingness to consider his new ideas. Not your new ideas. He's the idea man, your job is to implement it. And if you tell him why the idea may not work as intended, you're fired.
How Often Does the Calendar Repeat Itself?
Moody's Withdraws Twitter's Credit Rating
Same thing as the most impactful for me too.

It was a chemical thing. Toxic too.

You've got to figure it's a lot more likely to have impact if there's a somewhat likely negative outcome within the reach of unscrupulous operators, especially if popularization can be a factor in a more widespread negative effect.
Elon believes in "free speech" and these unmoderated free speech networks rapidly become filled with toxic garbage.
It will break earlier because unix time isn't only a display format. Tons of calculation are scheduling things into the future. But if the future ends up being in the past? Then you will have problem now. Starting from things with 10 year cycle, 5 year, yearly, monthly, daily. The more nearer to 2038, the more things explodes.
When I was at Akamai about 5 years ago, I was involved in building the system for making their CDN compliant in China. There were two main features, and they were activated on all servers running inside mainland china (not HK, macau or Taiwan)

1. Logs of the CDN were sent in real time to the ministry of technology -- there was about a 15 minute delay if I remember correctly, and they could impose fines if they were delayed. The log included the url visited, the IP address of the visitor, and a few other things. Perhaps the user agent? I forget.

2. The ministry of technology had a special API to block URLs on the CDN. Basically, they provided a list of URLs that would return a 451, and of course those logs also went to the government.

No other country had this kind of access at the time, but it was considered critical for the business to continue to operate in China. As I understand it, these are required to comply with chinese government regulations, and other CDNs like Cloudflare and Cloudfront have also built similar capabilities. Perhaps jgrahamc can comment on what cloudflare did?

I feel quite guilty about being involved with that project, but the business was set on building it, so I did what I could to limit the blast radius. I would not be surprised if someone got arrested or was killed because of it.
That's a hell of a hand-wave. But for Twitter's sake, I hope you're right.
To be fair, there's no shortage of native Windows apps that use time_t instead of Win32 API.
Similar situation happened in July 2020 https://www.theverge.com/2020/7/4/21313393/duckduckgo-india-...
One argument in favor of this is that it would pretty much force governments to set reasonable speed limits, rather than optimizing them to ensure that the police have an excuse to pull over almost anyone at any time.
Why would they forgive it when they have electricity bills to pay, which certainly won't be forgiven?
The MODE variable in the Makefile is undefined by default so "o/$(MODE)/" becomes "o//"
White House veterans helped Gulf monarchy build secret surveillance unit (2019)
Which is exactly how this (Berkson's paradox) is often visualized.
Ahh really interesting. Yeah I think (hope?) one benefit of using a web worker should be if anyone writes some blocking code, it will not hold up the main web page thread. Also, as web workers can be terminated, if they run too long the main thread can just kill it.

I'll have to read up more about the portal-sdk to see if there's any other stuff on there that could be helpful building a plugin system. Thanks.
There's a thing when you get to only about a mile or two down and happen to strike vastly rich oil reserves. Then you're a billionaire already so what's the incentive to continue going all the way?
Works for me, both on cellular and on home broadband. Would be good if you confirmed with your ISP first.
Most production C++ codebases are very wary of using much boost. Two of the four places I worked at (wrote C++ at all of them), the use of boost was very minimal and only when absolutely needed. The first place where this was the rule, the only boost usage was boost.asio, at my current place boost.circular_buffer is the only thing we use.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb has an interesting take on these type of controversies that is hard to argue with in his essay titled, "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority."

Basically, if a small percentage of the population is motivated enough and the rest of the population is mainly indifferent to the cause then the minority will get their way.

Most people have other things to do than to expend any energy on this. Plus, the magnification afforded by the internet leads to what we have.

But in an interesting way, the argument has turned into minority view vs minority view. I think we'll be reading about this argument for a very very long time since no single side has an advantage over the other.

https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Which ISP are you using? I can confirm I am able to access DuckDuckGo on Airtel. No issues at all.
If they’ve invented a doomsday device, however, letting the Soviets know should be a top priority for it to function as a deterrent (per Dr. Strangelove’s logic).
I got it quite a while after I posted the reply. :)
If you say "All apples are red" and I show you a green apple, would that just be nitpicking?
Which provider..?

Tested with airtel and act. Works fine..
I have tried many presentations and never found the right one. Arranging the sections in columns, in two dimensions like a spreadsheet, seemed to me to be a pleasant solution. You can zoom out to see the plan, zoom in to focus on a section. Maybe easier on a tablet by double-tapping. And it's readable on a smartphone. Less easy on a station with a large screen where the manipulations are to be done with the mouse. Sorry if it disrupts the reading.

That said, I suppose the (aesthetic) choice of white text on a dark background is not the best... What do you think of this one http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=sierpinsky_compar... ?
You don't need technical reasons, just make a countdown timer to the first $1 BILLION re-payment default

There's just no way. Even the obvious reasons to let banned people back on for traffic won't be enough because it's going to drive the same number or more away.
>Charges from 20% to 80% in about 20 minutes at maximum speed (70kW)

Can your house supply this power? Quick lazy math suggests that that's almost double my home's entire max power throughput.
Pretty sure he has stated he wants an American WeChat.
>the color book was intended as an educational guide. The irony being there was only a single copy that was probably seen by very few eyes.

If one of someone's life's works is very particular, and is further documented in such a detailed way it could only be a personal achievement itself, you've got to figure it's not going to be very common to find someone else who could use the document any time soon.

In this case where each color page may be worth a thousand words or something like that.

They would first have to make it part of their own life's work in pursuit of that subject to begin with.

Which may not be likely to happen during the author's lifetime anyway.

So why would they need more than one copy, especially when reproduction itself could be a much more unlikely hurdle to overcome compared to manuscripting?

These are the types of books most all of which are usually lost.

Leaving us with the slim pickings we have today. If only there were better preservation & archiving over the millennia.

Naturally the fewer the copies, and the less-rapid international communication at the time, the more centuries you would expect it to take before advanced people like that or their reference document gain some kind of worldwide recognition.
It's actually possible to do it with a library called Duktape [0].

But yeah, I get it would be super slow, and create a huge wasm file for the client to download.

0. https://duktape.org/
Because sweet truth flowed so freely in your waters already.
What if what if what if. What about his actions leads you to believe he's more capable of that than the thousands of people who were already working on it? If that were easy to do it would have been done, social media companies are full of people who care very deeply about this exact issue and who are also not absolute fucking neophytes at understanding and managing the constraints of a large social media network.

And what about the positive effects that twitter was already having? I'm part of something adjacent to and with overlap into the canadian disability rights movements; they are devastated by what's happening with twitter and widely considered it to be a unique and unprecedentedly powerful space for community and organization for them. It's not all shitposts and fascism you know.
asdf was the closest to this, but the startup time is pretty bad (there is a 300ms+ delay) for apps. It is a giant hack but works well. But I hear about weird dependency issues all the time with Macs (both Intel and the newer Apple Silicon) with Erlang or Elixir.

I'm really excited for nix as true sandboxing would be great. Nix however I couldn't get working properly.. and I've been using Linux for almost 17 years.

Once the UX gets sorted, this is a game changer.
AFAIK Tesla & SpaceX aren't known for great work/life balance.
All chromosomes are passed down through sexual reproduction. Chromosomal aberration, of sex chromosome or not, does not result in people of a different sex. Chromosomal aberration of sex chromosomes often results in underdeveloped sex organs and infertility, but a wan with Turner syndrome still has a uterus. XXY and XYY boys are still have penises. These are not different genders.
Download your Twitter archive for fun and profit
Can you paste curl -svk https://duckduckgo.com/ ?

Checking with browsers are not reliable.
Working on hathway
Built an aircraft-mounted camera gimbal pointing system that I thought was supposed to be used by energy companies to look for power poles but was also sold to US Border Patrol to hunt down immigrants. Not my finest hour.
Agree - I wish I could pick how my taxes were allocated at a granular level. Therapy and other forms of mental health/wellbeing support would be at the top.

I reckon history will look back at last 20 years as a "Hopelessness epidemic" with social/environmental causes as complex as current obesity epidemic in the US.
https://archive.ph/yNxMm
When you work with near-supercritical and supercritical fluids under laboratory conditions, you can turn the pump by hand and you feel when the density hits the ceiling.

So you know something is up.

Systems would be modeled mathematically using a fluid's individual component values, but we were paid for the real-world laboratory data.
It all depends. We have more devices and software now, but a lot more critical stuff is centrally hosted by cloud providers that'll be ready long before the deadline.
his "go wild" sounds like it's blaming the nurses, which it is partly, but I think moreso he's trying to point that this situation is just pretty awful. Or at least he should be trying to focus on the bigger picture. I certainly don't blame the nurses for showing up to work and trying. But I think we can all see how the 'path of least resistance' and financial incentives also leads us to this 'medical factory' type of treatment of people. And that's not the nurses' problem, that's just all our problem.
Creator of Homebrew launches new package manager - Tea
I am just imagining how to start a meeting with the remaining 25% skeleton crew of technical folks. Seems like drawing a map of the system and allowing various folks to contribute their part would be a super positive experience all around. What would be other alternative explanations?
This is silly. Companies like Tesla and SpaceX don't succeed without a willingness to consider new ideas. They clearly aren't the result of one man's ideas alone.
Straw man.

If I say "all apples are apples" and you show me a pear, I'm not wrong.
Wouldn't this long-term result in publishers offering less advance money? Also, I doubt most people pirating books care to check wether the author is getting royalties or not.

>fact Z-Library is little different than any other library.

The difference is that copyright does not cover benefit from a work but reproduction. Libraries would be illegal too if they involved reproduction of the work.

In any case, this is all still far from the "it was sad day for the free flow of information, knowledge, and culture" argument given by the OP. Most authors really don't want their works reporduced at no cost, and this idea is basicaly a "what's yours is mine" mentality.
Correct. It’s left wing Parler/Truth or whatever the right wingers exited to. I’m hoping Twitter continues to become a place where the wingnuts on both sides feel unwelcome and go off to their little ghettos to be with their little groups of diehards. For everyone else life goes on.

Also for people that do leave, there will be vacuums created and new influencers will rise into those spaces.
Wow, what kind of controller button prompts does each version provide?
But their taxes are still reduced with the UBI payment subtracted, so where does the extra revenue come from?
At home you have time (because your car spends a lot of, if not 99% of its time parked!), so you charge at 6-7kw usually.
It's kind of sad to see so many people just take this story at face value. Is it really 1am? I could certainly believe it, but some random picture doesn't make it true. Also, even it is 1am, it's possible that work ended hours ago, and that some people are staying late to talk to Musk. Who knows, but to assume that everyone is being forced to stay, maybe, maybe not. I guess I'd like a little evidence.

The number of people saying all of these completely unsubstantiated things about Twitter, and everyone believing them without any questions is weird.

In addition, how could this person know if mostly H1-B workers are present. I certainly can't tell who is and isn't on a H1-B. Or is it because the bulk of the people are not white that this person assumed they were? That seems like an immensely racist assumption.
When does the 100ns-tick overflow?
Honestly, it sounds like you want a plug-in-hybrid, unless you're only doing long trips. I looked at getting one with about a 35 mile range, which would cover >90% of my days driving, but I found it too expensive (because 2021 and because I prefer older used cars.)
Stuff like this makes me happy that I don't live there anymore and never won't :)