skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Our business migrated from OneDrive for business to a self-hosted Seafile [1] setup (we run it in a docker).

Seafile has a syncing client, and a drive client (Seadrive) for viewing files as if it was a shared drive.

Since moving to Seadrive I have not had a single support issue, nor heard of a single issue syncing, whereas I'd have them weekly with OneDrive to the point we'd have to delete their local files and re-setup OneDrive from scratch.

OneDrive truly is an abomination built on top of archaic Sharepoint.

[1] https://www.seafile.com/en/home/
That conspiracy theory doesn't work - it fails to explain his current mismanagement and fumbling around which only endangers Twitter. Had the conspiracy any legs, his transition to ownership would be utterly boring.
This is a fantastic article that makes a sterling attempt to get to the bottom of why TikTok feels different to other platforms.

If you're someone who doesn't get it yet, consider it a sign that it's worth your investment in time and energy to really try and get it, if you want to stay on top of how younger people think, work, act and play.

From the article and some comments here a few suggestions:

- TikTok is 'showing' while other platforms are 'telling'.
- You don't 'hunt' videos you 'gather' them.
- Flaws are truth, so they are typically welcomed rather than scrubbed.
Musk’s ‘Hardcore’ Ultimatum Sparks Exodus, Leaving Twitter at Risk
He put it next to high-fructose corn syrup, so I guess not?
Goodwill on balance sheets is a technical thing and is quite different from common parlance "goodwill". It's the fudge factor introduced when doing an acquisition to make the numbers balance up correctly.
Switch to another metric, make a different conclusion. This is modern science where you can prove whatever you want.
From what I understand, Twitter's moderation is noticeably more left-wing than that of Facebook. And yet Facebook makes a lot of ad dollars. So I do think there's a discretionary element there.

I agree that Musk hasn't been behaving in a way that's advertiser-friendly.

Jack Dorsey is super familiar with Twitter and said Elon was the best solution for it if it was gonna stay a company: https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/25/jack-dorsey-says-elon-musk....

I'm sure we can find someone, somewhere who correctly predicted in advance how things could go down, but I'm skeptical that it was a widespread prediction. Certainly feel free to prove me wrong.
It is not about the town:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_acceleration#Wakefield_...
I'm looking for something more lightweight, ideally using only Bash script. So far I've found this: https://mullikine.github.io/posts/nlsh-natural-language-shel...
Rounding modes: std:from_chars versus strtod/strtof
How is a coworker dragging you down? You just do your own work? Leave it to the manager to deal with it. Now if you're the manager, then I'd say you should question yourself if you really should be one if you can't deal with such a common situation.
> today's music has been dumbed down in comparison.

People have been saying that as long as popular music have existed. Jazz was considered dumb and unsophisticated, crooners were considered dumb and unsophisticated, rock music was considered dumb and unsophisticated.

Each of these genres just discard previous measures of sophistication and introduce their own. The article have an interesting observation about "vertical" vs "horizontal" songwriting. Newer music is just different.

Kendrick Lamar is not dumbed down compared to Bon Jovi just because he doesn't change the key before that last chorus.
Thanks, interesting.

Earthquakes are so far outside of my life experience that I'd completely forgotten about them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShakeAlert
I don't know, it just feels that every time someone uses "liberuls" and "far left" they are repeating the mantra of the alt-right. It was kinda uncalled for given that these terms have wildly different meanings depending on who's saying them, usually the alt-right co-opted them to be "anything that disagree with us".

It's just exhausting, you could have brought up the same issue without having to resort to divisive discourse :)

And every place I've worked at there were people who hated the CEO, it's just natural, it's a position of power and people don't have to like the CEO to work for a company, even less if it's a large one.
Instagram can be used without seeing any influencers, it allows you to stick to the content your interested in.
In my case, I'm able to just see Evangelion memes from accounts I follow and the occasional ad.
> eight bit byte rather than the cheaper 7 bits being considered for the IBM 360

That's 8-bit vs. 6-bit bytes. See "Interview: An interview with Fred Brooks", Communications of the ACM, Volume 58, Number 11 (2015), Pages 36-40 https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/2822519 .

> Gene's machine was based on the existing 6-bit byte and multiples of that: 24-bit instructions and a 48-bit instruction or floating point ... Of all my technical accomplishments, making the 8-bit byte decision is far and away the most important. The reason was that it opened up the lowercase alphabet. I saw language processing as being another new market area that we were not in, and could not get into very well as long we were doing 6-bit character sets.

From your [0], "Architecture of the IBM System/360" (1964) at https://cpb-us-w2.wpmucdn.com/sites.gatech.edu/dist/8/175/fi... see the section "Character size, 6 vs 4/8", which discusses 4/6, 6, and 8-bit codes and the reasoning for 8-bit, and which comments:

> The selection of the 8-bit character size in 1961 proved wise by 1963, when the American Standards Association adopted a 7-bit standard character code for information interchange (ASCII).

FWIW, [0] is from April 1964. He also used "computer architecture" in the earlier "Architectural Philosophy", which is chapter 2 of the 1962 book "Planning A Computer System" concerning Project Stretch, at https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_ibm7030Plam_46781927/p...
How does that work in practice?

I presume you don't send a cheque off for €1.36 at the end of the day, (or receive a cheque back after 8 months)
No. A diff is a commit.
"65? Jesus. Let me call you back in 5 minutes."
"In 5 minutes it will be 55"
Yes, saying that a laptop runs "Linux" does not provide any useful information when talking about battery life.

I use Gentoo on a Dell Precision laptop and I do not see any battery lifetime difference between it and Windows.

However, I do not doubt that with other Linux distributions or with a Gentoo that has a very different configuration, the results would not be the same.

I think that it is very wrong to say that a laptop with Linux has a worse battery life than one with Windows, but it is right to say that in many cases a laptop with Linux needs an experienced user to configure it properly, in order to have the same battery life that it would have with Windows out of the box.

On the other hand, when installing Windows 10 Enterprise on embedded computers, I have encountered many cases when Linux had great performance in a default installation, while with Windows 10 I had to waste many days with tuning, e.g. with discovering that certain services must be disabled, until obtaining an acceptable performance.
Wow, you must be one of those few in western society that never touched alcohol, never smoked a cigarette and never consumed sugars! Not that its something to marvel at, but for sure you are a curiosity, just like your kids will be in society.

On a more serious note, some drugs do much more good than harm. Some psychedelics have extremely good results when treating hard psychiatric patients with conditions our modern medicine has absolutely 0 cure for. I mean way beyond anything current pharma industry can produce, much less side effects. Its abhorrent and primitive medieval mindset to ban such treatments to those whose lives are completely destroyed by their conditions, just because you were brought up in some primitive society that scaremongered you/your parents into clear falsehoods and lies (ie nixon ban on drugs when demonizing hippies and Mexican immigrants in 60s, which through mandatory UN charts was pushed to the rest of the world even to places like India, where cannabis is a sacred plant of god Shiva).
That’s also how much teens spend on TikTok a day
A mathematical model for the of area under glucose tolerance curves (1994)
And the people looking at your resume later. Staying at Twitter now will need a darn good explanation, otherwise I guess the assumption is you buy into this BS, or you need your visa. If you need your visa I get it, otherwise that is a stain on your resume
"I don't know much about something, here's my opinion."

The fact that you don't distinguish between categories of drugs is, no offence, a major indicator of ignorance in the subject matter. Hallucinogens are not stimulants are not depressants are not dissociatives are not alcohol.

If you mean "illegal drugs", do you really think that the objective, scientific threshold between harmful and harmless is legality?

You are free to do whatever you want, it's your body. But perhaps learn more about something you don't know anything about before passing judgement.
26 full-timers, a custodian (contractor), and a comfort dog that most people think belonged to Travis in Marketing, but we’re not totally sure. Travis went to a no-talk, no-cell phone detox in Sedona and may not even be aware of current events.
Which is what I expect. This doesn’t really agree with “a few hours” which is why I was confused.
A true yet humble giant.

Reading his works elucidated so many ideas and experiences that I could not myself articulate, and helped set the foundation for my own ideas further down the line.

RIP Fred, thank you for all your warm kindness and endless contributions to our field at large.
28 years ago, a medicine journal published an article about a new mathematical model that had been invented. Named after the author, Tai's Model is just integration.

> In Tai's Model, the total area under a curve is computed by dividing the area under the curve between two designated values on the X-axis (abscissas) into small segments (rectangles and triangles) whose areas can be accurately calculated from their respective geometrical formulas. The total sum of these individual areas thus represents the total area under the curve. Validity of the model is established by comparing total areas obtained from this model to these same areas obtained from graphic method (less than +/- 0.4%). Other formulas widely applied by researchers under- or overestimated total area under a metabolic curve by a great margin.
Lobste.rs is quite good, but a lot slower and much less discussion than HN. So IMHO it’s less engaging and less fun. Not bad, just different.
I use to joke that all the Finnish I know I learned from reading product labels. Here in Scandinavia, for a lot of convenience store products they don't bother making different boxes for each country, so there's a "Nyhet! Nyhed! Uusi!" breakfast cereal from Nestlé containing "Havre/Havre/Kaura" etc. And of course "Ei saa peittää" (do not cover!) and "Ei lapsille alle 3 vuoden" (not for children under 3 years).

But these words are familiar, and they're not from product labels! Turns out I heard them in a Rajaton song ("Nouse Lauluni"). I should have guessed it was from Kalevala!
Sure, maybe a better way to put it would be: at high-functioning companies, workers believe in the CEO. So if you want to create a high-functioning company, and lots of workers are never gonna believe in the CEO because they think he's a "psychopath" (term used elsewhere in this thread for Elon because he wants employees to work 40 hours in the office!), then it makes sense to encourage those workers to leave on some kind of timetable, same way Zappos offers a nice severance so they're left with only the most enthusiastic employees
So you mean you advocate for checked exceptions?

Like Java's "throws" keyword?

https://www.baeldung.com/java-checked-unchecked-exceptions
I like that term. When I hear it I can with 100% accuracy know the person touting it is a hack and their code is garbage.
"It didn’t want to tip its hand to Zeppelin’s creators, who were likely to modify their file encryption approach if they detected it was somehow being bypassed."

It reminds me of something I learned when watching the movie "The Imitation Game" retelling how Alan Turing and his team cracked the Enigma code. They tried hard to make sure that the Germans wouldn't notice they had cracked it, and only used it sparingly so that it would not be noticeable.

Which, I realized, meant that the British and the Germans had teams of statisticians pitted against each other, one trying to make sure that their actions were not detectable statistically, and the other constantly monitoring the numbers to detect unusual patterns.
Sure. Perhaps Audi, Benz and the gang should of thought of that before Tesla.
I have used Perl and Win32::OLE for this kind of job.

Converting to PDF is actually quite easy. Before Office 2010, you had to print to Postscript and then convert to PDF using Ghost. Nowadays Word gives you the option of saving to PDF.
No, an average of 4 to 5 hours on YouTube shorts, per hour.
/srs
/j
To be honest, I wonder if they could band together and challenge this in court. While companies get tons of leeway, you might be surprised that there's sometimes protection.

Even if legal, what Musk is doing is incredibly sleazy. The employees agreed to work on certain terms. Then he demands they agree to different terms. Seems sketchy, but I think I know what they'd argue.

It's just a really creepy thing. I don't think I've really seen or heard of it elsewhere. You work for me, so sign here for different terms, or you lose your job.

I do know that it's probably legal in most jurisdictions for CEOs to just dictate new work conditions, after hiring (though it shouldn't). However, it doesn't normally come in the form of a button you must push to agree with him, "or else". Usually you have a meeting where you explain the plans moving forward... it seems companies that are scared of being sued do this.

I can't imagine this is a legally prudent move. We should enact laws that specifically target CEOs that act like cartoon characters. Of course, that would just let them be more secretive or quiet.
Let's not try and tell others what is OK and not OK to feel.
Show HN: A fun game based on a ranked poll of 5 songs
They were a remote-first org dude. Many had no childcare set up, long commutes, or were on H1Bs as well. This isn’t a “if they don’t like it, quit.” Type of situation. It’s being manipulated into padding the ego of a billionaire with no gain.

I hope you don’t manage a team or have any responsibility for the well-being of others. I’m quite shocked at how little sympathy you have for strangers
Sure, if you ignore things which happen now in music but didn't use to happen.

For example the article mention more different keys are used today.
How can you say TikTok is not full of divisive content when kids and teens are quoting Andrew Tate cos they see him there
Good riddance. It was a bad workaround from the start.
javascript.plainenglish.io/the-little-known-story-behind-angular-standalone-components-2392abc4fcfa#6f54
If data meaning changed tho those 6 systems would break too, no ?
You can get a treatment if you’re diagnosed with ADHD. Being halfway through life doesn’t mean you should just idly wait for death.
This might go beyond what you mean by "introduction," but . . .

An Introduction to Optical Stellar Interferometry
A. Labeyrie (Author), S. G. Lipson (Author), P. Nisenson (Author)
Because the whole point of Tailscale is that it's zero config, I don't really want ot mess about with wireguard.
I don't find it surprising that the hacker types, typically curious and rebellious people, would be naturally inclined to experiment with drugs. It seems like a way to hack around with your own mind and see what happens.
To be fair for Twitter any sort of eyeballs are eyeballs. Doesn’t matter that they’re just there to watch the carnage
When can we expect to see terms and pricing for the parts that require a login to jetpack cloud services, such as secret management?
> Which, I realized, meant that the British and the Germans had teams of statisticians pitted against each other,

That's probably not true from German side though.
While you are debating if eternal growth exists we that actually write software can tell you that the bottle-neck has been RAM since 386 that introduced caches:

DDR3 was the peak of RAM latency, 65nm SSDs where the peak of flash memory longevity both in ~2010!

You cannot scale anything unless it's embarrasingly parallelizable in which case you never had a problem in the first place.

Peak performance is more important than the puny 0.5Gflops/W "5"nm M1 (2.5Gflops/W) has over the 28nm Raspberry 4 (2 Gflops/W).

Everything that is below one order of magnitude improvement is irrelevant = ASML is irrelevant unless devices break and you buy things you cannot repair.

That combined with eternally raising electricity cost, not as a function of marginal prices on a market (like today), but as a permanent depletion of resources leads to only 1 conclusion:

Don't wait for the next generation hardware/firmware locked, rentseeking line of hardware: 14nm X86 and 28nm ARM IS good enough for a lifetime if you control it and make sure it lasts.

There are only 2 programming languages that can survive this long term: C on the client (with a little ++ for convenience) and vanilla JavaSE on the server (with as little deps. as possible).

Bonus prediction: JavaME will be revived in some form for open microcontroller mobile use.
I'm not saying there exists a Lisp with a turn-key distributed cloud runtime. Like the sibling answer, I'm saying, it's not super complicated. Instead of loading an .so file the regular way, load it via hash.

The car/cdr nature of Lisp makes it almost uniquely suited to distributed runtime IMHO.

As for your last sentence, this touches on compilation. Solve this, and you solve also dependency detection and compilation.
I feel there are so many things which could/should converge at some point in the future. IDE / version control, distributed compute, storage.

An AST (or source) program could have a hash, which is corresponding in a cache to a compiled or JIT-ed version of that compilation unit, and various eval results of that unit etc etc. So many things collapse into one once your started to treat everything as key/value.
The core of my argument is when Elon tweets about how he's in favor of freedom of speech, it makes many liberals squirm. The argument doesn't depend on these sort of details related to whether "freedom of speech" is a purely legal concept, vs one that also makes sense in the context of a social media platform.
"you can lose all concept of what a "face" is. Or even what "is" is"

Not only that, it's not uncommon to forget that you've even taken anything, and these experiences are often felt as "more real than real".

This is why it's important to do to have an experienced person you like and trust there with you. They can remind you that you are under the influence, comfort you if you need it, and keep you safe.
Fixing performance New allocator and compressed depth – (Asahi Lina M1 GPU)
The PDF format is diverse enough for such a new project to still have plenty of incompatibilities. If you wanted to find many of them quickly, you might want to have a look at the documents used as test cases in other projects, such as pdf.js:

https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/tree/master/test/pdfs
Something being typical for Elon does not make it intelligent move and does not make it not destructive.
More like he is a giant laughing stock.
Do you think this could be one of those "There were making fun of me and telling me to quit, but now they call me a genius", kinda like what happened with many YouTubers and entrepreneurs?

I personally don't like how negative everyone has been since EM took over. The 44 billion wasn't 100% his money, he got funding, so he's still liable. And since Twitter is known for being hated, very few people have something positive to say about Twitter. I think EM making changes is good.

Of course losing your job isn't fun, but I don't think that this amount of negativity is productive or good for anyone.

Don't get me wrong, EM makes mistakes, even if he doesn't address them, like HyperLoop, which is not only practical but also not his idea. But like why not wait a bit too actually see what's his vision for Twitter, beyond just saying that he's trying to serve his ego.
Possible if you have IPv6.
I've only seen twitter through tweetdeck for the last decade, and I believe it hasn't seen a new feature or design (both in functionality and form) change in at least 4 years ? It has become bug riddled (but I still use it), but all timelines are still linear.

(example: polls have never been ported to tweetdeck)

I don't think tweetdeck has seen active maintenance in years.
`let` and `const` expand and replace `var`; and make variable declarations more intuitive by removing var's hoisting and adding block-level scoping (which the programmer doesn't need to care about if he doesn't wish to). What this means is that one can just use var if they are happy with it, or use let and const without the var. Not so with Perl. There is no "legacy mode", with all the awkward punctuation of decades ago, as opposed to a much saner "convenient modern mode" in Perl.

(Although I agree that a javascript programmer might get confused by declaring an object or an array as a const and then being allowed to mutate it.)
Ive been using seafile for over 5 yrs in my business and it has so far worked flawlessly!

There are only very rare hiccups with binary files such as excel sheets or PSD files, where seafile will create a “SFConflict” file. Havent figured out how to fix that het.
AWS is expensive, but how expensive?
Sure you you start with an error monad, then you add do notation and then you end up with (checked) exception syntax and semantics. Then the cycle repeats.

At some point you realize that exceptions, error codes and the error monad are all equivalent except for syntax and with enough syntactic sugar it should be possible to unify them.
What does justifying its share price mean? Does Tesla justify its share price?
Why should they bother? They can go into electrics at their own pace, when the infrastructure and demand is better, and still eat Tesla's lunch.

Heck, even Audi A.G. that you've mentioned (not close to being the biggest car company) is comparable to Tesla numbers-wise.

In many industries it's not the first movers that get the market, it's the big mature market-friendly solutions (sort of how the iPod wasn't the first commercial mp3 player).

It's not like people want them to optimize for acceleration anyway...
Just to nit pick - Musk didn't pay 44B for Twitter. The total value was 44Bn, that was structured as 13B debt secured against Twitter. So let's say Twitter goes bankrupt (not totally ceases operations) - files for chapter 11.

You'd have to find some way of restructuring the company to pay the creditors. In the most simplified approach, the most likely the only way of doing that is to sell the company. If the company sold for more than 13Bn (perfectly possible, although not hugely likely given the damage he's done) then anything above that would go to Elon and his equity investors, but we'd be talking about them walking away with close to nothing. But it's also perfectly possible that Elon just steps in and buys the 13Bn debt and continues to run the company.
Now you’re getting somewhere. At this point HN has hundreds of undocumented features and isn’t the technical cakewalk you think but sure, factor out the tech part. Just do the math on moderation costs vs. revenue generated by text-only ads with zero visual distinction.

Moderation as good as HN would require at least 3 costly staffers, fully loaded cost something like $30K-$250K each, fully loaded depending on where they live.

If doing HN were easy there would be a dozen awesome competitors.