skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would you assume it's about politics instead of the whole "shitty asshole boss who has open contempt for you and your coworkers, who is promising to massively overwork you, who might fire you any moment and has already fired half your peers"? I think you'd have to be completely insane to want to work there right now.
And they were offered like 50 cents, if memory serves well. Brings some serious Margin Call vibes, doesn't it? "Sell everything, today", getting 50 cents is better the 30 or, worst case, nothing. Looking forward for the banks to find loopholes in the agreements with Musk and sue him for negligence or something.
Great metaphor
the reviewer should make 'nit' changes directly rather than pass a mini-ticket for evaluation back to the author. why are reviewers so scared to modify prs at orgs?
> Why [does Perl use a lot of weird punctuation]

Because that’s how it started, and it maintains absolutely fantastic backwards compatibility. All languages have foibles…

> Why do I need to [declare variables prior to use]

Because this isn’t Python
Depends on how you define "existence".

In general, we define existence in context of consistence of stimulus with everyday experience, including other people's reports of experience. Dreams are very rarely consistent with each other, so we know they're dreams. But imagine if every time you went to sleep, you woke up in a "dreamworld" with all the experience sequentially consistent with your previous dreams. How would you know that the "dream" is the dream, and that the real world is the real world?

I'm not saying that hallucinations are real - I strongly believe the opposite. But I can see such how powerful and consistent hallucinations could make the person believe in their existence, especially if combined with low life satisfaction/self-esteem and strong desire to feel special in some sort of way, to know something that the "unenlightened" don't, or to be a part of something. It's a similar mechanism to one that makes people join religions - psychedelic experiences have a lot in common with religious experiences. One could also hypothesize that religion was invented when humans found psychedelics, and couldn't explain their effects.
It's only worth investing once you've really secured it against the other side retaking it.

I don't think the Donbass was ever secure against being retaken. Hence no investment.

It's still strategically valuable, because you're still taking resources from the enemy.
It is just fast food for emotions. You're a passive receiver of mild pleasure that requires nothing from you.
India’s first private rocket blasts off successfully
One of my favourites too. I use this with my students all the time to capture the magic of programming.
Yeah, this would be horrible, but on flip side relatively easy to do with Word to hand.
That is not how the Saudis work. Losing mere money is a cost of doing business. It's losing face that matters. That's why they murdered Kashoggi. They're probably already being handed the DMs of critical people who they are going to be able to quietly murder without any outrage.
So, those two played each other? And the Twitter board was the laughing third party?
I really don't get why people dislike his Ukraine stance.

"Beat up Russia a bunch, make peace and throw Russia a bone by letting them keep Crimea." seems like the death minimising stance to me and in the best interests of the inhabitants of the each region.
As a sysadmin managing Nextcloud on an on premise VPS, we have none of the problems you mentioned. We have 20+ accounts, tons of shared files, and whatnot.

Just upgraded to Nextcloud 25 (literally 20 minutes ago), and no problems whatsoever.

I deployed it on a virtualized server which is not extremely powerful, and everybody seems to enjoy the productivity boost it brought into the team.
well Curry could have developed Currying in Composition, so you could still be right.
Nothing beats this[1] though,

The Verge reached out to Musk for comment. Twitter no longer has a communications department.

[1] https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/10/23451198/twitter-ftc-elo...
When I read writing from the past I think, "People today can't write properly"

Past writing is so easy to read, so flowing, so effortless to understand. Our writing today is stilted, low information content, and hard to parse.
I must have seen 50 people claiming they were leaving and sharing their Mastodon.

Every single time they've continued tweeting with exactly the same frequency.

I also suspect they were a pretty bloated organisation and they needed to change things radically.

It will ruffle a lot of Elon hating feathers, but Twitter is going nowhere.
Don't forget there's also "state $var" and "local $var", which declare other types of variables. They're there because they.. are useful.

Same as why there's "var", "let" or "const" in JS. Different scoping / types of variable slots for the interpreter.

A "my" variable declares a variable valid in the current scope; an "our" variable will be available at the package level; a "state" variable is initialised only once, but has the same scope as a "my" variable; a "local" variable "locally overrides" for the current block (and any code called by the current block) the value of said variable.

They all have their uses, and that's why they exist.
For using Syncthing on iOS, there's Moebius sync, which encapsulates the syncthing client as a one-time paid application.

Works pretty flawless.
I'm kind of a beginner, but as someone who really likes getting visual feedback, I think 2D gamedev is a good place to start. Try Godot [1] which uses GDScript, a language similar to Python or Unity [2] which uses a more complex scripting language (C#) but has a lot more tutorials for it.

[1] - https://godotengine.org/
[2] - https://unity.com/
As far as I'm noticing, he's planning on being a competitor for news subscriptions through crowdsourcing it at 8$ /month.

This will also include fake news, since those people/easy believers could also pay the 8$.
There's a lot of code out there that would improve massively with better data structures though.

I mean I've waded through tons of code where the original author abused strings to indicate relationships in a table - a column with semicolon-separated values referencing other tables / rows. And a ton of code to check references.

Mind you, that's more database design than data structures, but they're close enough for this example.
I have over 500 contracts in my phone book.

I recently installed Signal and 8 people were on there.

I'm not sure how to count but I suspect 450+ are on WhatsApp.

The minorities can be very loud on this stuff. Most people don't care.
> The X13s can run Linux fairly well right now, so it's promising.

May be, was not paying attention to it, I'm overall skeptical of Linux-on-desktop camp.
This reminds me how people in lesswrong community were arguing whether it's inevitable that when general AI is created - it will escape its sandbox. There were elaborate schemas how it will persuade or blackmail the scientists to let it out.

In practice it won't need to, somebody will make a plugin that uses it to download funny images or highlight code in console :)
This sounds excellent! I will have a look at it.
Go Style
Exactly this. CA curation. These sort of trade-offs are probably beyond a single entity to assess (arguments about fundamental PKI limitations aside), but I'm certain if there was an API, even just some simplified file format, "the web" could come up with a way to crowd-source better intel on what CAs should and shouldn't be in the list, all the way down to explicitly using only ones you want. A bit like bittorrent blocklists, ye olde spam list, etc.
The point is that all of tech has now collectively decided that Elon Musk is a "phony" and "not that smart".

Apparently there was a memo sent to everyone in tech that they have to completely discount his work at Tesla and SpaceX and only evaluate him based on his tweets.

I feel like I'm living in bizarro world where overnight, Elon Musk became a dumbass - at least in the eyes of the tech industry.
For me the biggest breakthrough was understanding that this is not primarily a visual or audio medium, but an idea medium. This is why objectively poor video or scrappy / copied audio makes no difference to success, instead something deeper is being created and propagated.
TLDR: this guys raised hairs on the judge's back
have a look at https://github.com/ChimeHQ/MeterReporter which uses the wwdc20 frameworks
I searched for the Tesla ultimatum you refer to. It seems to have been different, specifically saying execs couldn't work remotely: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-06-01/musk-s-te...

Contrast w/ Twitter ultimatum: https://twitter.com/donie/status/1592859900941852674

I think the Twitter ultimatum is the kind of thing you send if you suspect most employees don't support your leadership / are not pulling their weight. Similar to the Zappos philosophy of offering a generous severance to everyone who quits, in order to have an office full of enthusiastic employees.
don't you mean 4D Polytopia? Musk said that chess is way to easy.
Damn that’s impressive
Pretty much exactly the same position. I use NC for file-syncing, WebDAV, and the webinterface for those files only, but it’s not exactly great. But for similar reasons as you, it’s still the solution I’m stuck with for now.
Tik Tok is youtube for people with ADD. I listened to some Mr Beast videos and checked out some of his videos on youtube. OMG its like freakin cuts every 10 seconds, feels like my mind going to explode. I finally figured they cut it like a Tik Tok video for the ADD.
Much more "convicing" that memento mori if you ask me
Being battery efficient is irrelevant if it comes at the cost of drastic reductions in performance that make the device unusable. The sales numbers reflected this consumer choice in that era.
> Consider Phlebas, who was once handsome and tall as you.
Last year I also learned that ransomware attackers are not computer gods, necessarily.

My QNAP NAS was open to the internet (a forgotten but-not-in-use port forward on my router) and the famous QLocker ransomware got hold of it.

I got out, I got really lucky. I've millions of files (useless to anyone in the world but me) on my NAS and the ransomware encryption took literally days. I probably discovered it on the 3rd day of its activity.

Someone brighter than me already figured things out and posted this on the qnap forums, that there's a 7zip process running which encrypts the files and they process all files sequentially (aka: takes a long time in my case). This 7zip process gets executed for every file and gets passed the password for it on the command line, though in the process view it was masked for me. But I could just replace the invoked 7zip binary with a shell script and redirect all the arguments -> presto, I had the password.

I then wrote some more shell scripts to decrypt all the files infected so far, wrote it more efficient than the attacker, and within 24 hours everything was back to normal.

Before anyone cries "BACKUPS": yes, of course I've off-site backup and they also were not (yet) affected. But actually I only backed up the real important data for me and my family, due to the costs at that time, I didn't backup _everything_. But I since switched cloud backup storage to Backblaze which I figured was the cheapest vs. acceptable ergonomics for recovery, so I could increase the amount of data I back up.

Lesson learned, I guess. I know not everyone can help themselves like I could, I feel really lucky I got away with just some blood sweating.
China is both mostly coal and also installing PV onto their own grid faster than anyone else.
Are there any usable implementations of these languages anywhere?

It would be interesting to see what 'obvious' things weren't so obvious. What weird things seemed sensible at the time, etc
Sony did make MD data readers/writers very late in the age of MD. I have one in a drawer somewhere. (Because it looked cool like in the matrix.)
There is an interesting argument here against the idea that YouTube, Facebook, etc are monopolies despite their impressive market share. The moment they try to extract value from their users, they have to shrink their own mote - a competitor can copy the older version of the platform that extracted less money.

They don't actually have much choice in how they run their products.
Twitter's headcount doubled between 2018 and 2022. They added literally 2500+ people in the two pandemic years itself.

50% layoffs gets them back to their 2018 headcount.

As far as I can remember, Twitter was functioning fine in 2018 as well. And it certainly didn't grow enough or add enough features to warrant 50% headcount increase in two pandemic years.
Easy to forget the "Fail-Whale", too...
DR is an acronym for Disaster Recovery, seems to be what they meant (but I'm not sure).
> Some people decide to learn it anyway, and quickly (within under a day) realise it is actually simple, readable, and easy to use!

Do you think all people who decide to learn it anyway end up with the same conclusions?

> That is why "they’re hard to use and hard to read" is 'controversial', because it is just not true.

So things like symbols having different meanings depending on number of arguments, prefix notation making the arguments of functions/operators stand out less, making it reading right-to-left (which is different from what you usually read - that brings the fun question of whether APL is left-to-right in Arabic countries), or having to know extra symbols that aren't used in other contexts... All of those things are not real?

I come back to the LaTeX example because to me that's very similar. I get when you say "I don't find APL hard to read/understand/work with" because I feel the same with LaTeX (even though it's not as obscure and "alien-looking" as APL is). I write slides in LaTeX faster and better than what I could do with Powerpoint. But that doesn't deny that there are a lot of things in LaTeX that make things harder, even when those are part of the core and when removing them would mean removing good things about the language too.
I've had painfully horrific bad trips that lasted for eternity but none have seemed to have any lasting downsides. If anything they build my confidence in my own psyche because I can endure them and come out fine on the other side / can now approach them with confidence and usually de-escalate the horror during the trip.

Not for everyone but I don't mind the occasional challenging/painful trip.
There's a big difference between a soft paddle boat and superyacht. Both are beyond basic needs.

A very basic computing device is rather cheap these days. Look at mobile internet penetration in Africa or Asia. Sure, not everybody has it. But it'd certainly make a basic needs list. In worst case - as a shared use devices in libraries. Especially given how modern society relies on digitalisation.
Author here.

Note to self: don't hold yourself hostage to Betteridge's law!

I wouldn't disagree but it's quite a jump from where we are today to an execvj(path, json) and whatever form retrieving/reconstructing the structured data would take.

I'm starting from an easier position. Change things a little bit. :)
You can ask "check process running on port using ss". Also if tool is not installed, can ask how to install it or say "without using lsof"
“Did you win the Putnam?” https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35079
There's no point in keeping the same name so that a system can keep running, if the data meaning has changed.

Bad programmers chose (b). Good programmers choose (a). Better programmers refuse the change request.
They did expand their production capacity significantly.
that question sounds like a start of a joke :D
"Preponderance of evidence" here refers to a legal standard (i.e. was it more likely than not) rather than the criminal standard of "beyond a reasonable doubt" and not "most of the evidence."

The prosecutors didn't charge him with hiring hitmen because they were uncertain that they could prove it beyond a resonable doubt, but the evidence they were able to present suggests he probably did it.
Thunderf00t jumped the shark years ago. He has a most erect hate boner for Elon I've ever seen. He was also saying for a long time that spacex would never succeed nor starlink. You can hate the man, hell you can even accurately point out that he has a habit of taking a lot of shit, but he has delivered time and time again.
Well Elon has a lot of haters, especially among liberal people, so it seems pretty reasonable to deduce that many Twitter employees were Elon haters? And yeah, a company full of employees who hate the CEO isn't gonna function great. So in that sense, it's a problem to solve independent of the damn snowflake liberals angle.

Is there a specific "enriching my media diet" thing I'm missing here? Like I feel like that paragraph ^ is just common sense.
> They have been operating since 2011 and 2012 respectively.

Madoff appeared to be operating well and meeting all withdrawl demands from the 1970s until 2008.

FTX appeared to be operating successfully until a week before it collapsed.

We'll see when some event forces transparency. Usually it's a collapse, but it could be a lawsuit with discovery for another reason.
The problem with these things is almost no one can moderate themselves. They need to go cold turkey to really stop. Ask ANYONE how long they think they social media or do anything on their digital device. Most will say an hour at most. If you look at their phone tallys it will be closer to 5-7 hours that they not feel or notice.

If you swap that out with drugs you will not be saying the same thing.
Covid - if you question the efficacy of masks, vaccines, lockdowns etc then you should immediately be deplatformed.
This is a beautiful quote: "falling off the bike solves the fear of falling off the bike real fast". Thanks!
> 3.2€, that the Hetzner 1TB storage box costs, would be cheaper than the current EU electricity cost alone.

4.29€ in Germany. And I’d need a server that constsntly consumes 14.5W to make Hetzner cheaper, that’s 3-5 times what my homeserver averages.
Companies can choose to whom and what they choose to provide a platform, can they not?

For example, Elon Musk has owned Twitter for enough time to have re-instated @realdonaldtrump, yet he has not. Why is that?
What’s missing in almost all of the discussion is that billionaires rarely buy media companies to maximise their profits. It’s down to maximise their power.

As long as Twitter remains the social media portal for politicians, business leaders, media, journalists, and scientists, he controls the algorithm.

He also gets to advertise at will to the most powerful people on the planet.

His largest business risk is political. He needs the government support for spaceX and he might need them to mitigate Tesla class action liabilities.

For 1/10th the market cap of Tesla he owns the ‘Town square’.

Presumably he could pay off the debt if he wanted to, unless Tesla shares crater.

Now that he owns Twitter, his biggest risk is pushback from employees. He needs and rewards loyalty, and so forcing people to opt-out and pledge allegiance early is also critical.

The short, medium, or even long term economics of the Twitter business are not relevant and he’s using it as a smokescreen to hide the power play he’s making.

Like Trump, he understands power and doesn’t concern himself with truth.
To summarize, "No silver bullet" claims no single innovation will increase software developer productivity tenfold across the board. He does not say an innovation can't increase productivity greatly in a specific area, neither does he deny that many improvement can accumulate to a tenfold increase.
Does it consider what shell (zsh, bash etc) I am using and what OS? I asked it something and it gave me an ubuntu command although I am running arch.
Neo did.
I believe back in the day the messages were stored on the users phone, but now with the web version, i think they might be storing the data now.
Bonus links: https://bestofshowhn.com/all
Author here.

Yes, regular job control is available interactively.

Note that I'm interested in making scripting work better so I've made little to no attempt to ease interactive use (there are plenty of better alternatives for interactive shells).

I tend to use "rlwrap idio" to make editing easier.
OK let's look at how you communicated in this thread. Keep in mind I've been polite to you so far.

1.
> You did not provide arguments.

Yes I did. I wrote:

> > Sadly web components APIs are bizarre and unused by most web developers: https://dev.to/richharris/why-i-don-t-use-web-components-2ci...

> > I am saying anything more complex than forms requires web component tech that isn't popular or liked by developers.

You obviously know these are supporting arguments, because they seek to back up the statement that 'more complex apps are harder to build without frameworks'. This is high school level logic, so I will presume that rather than being unaware of what a supporting argument is, you're just being deliberately antagonistic.

2.

> No, it doesn't (end of post)

You misread me (see next point) and rather than responding with content (which would have cleared this up earlier) simply disagreed without supporting arguments.

3. You misread me. I wrote:

> I am saying anything more complex than forms requires web component tech that isn't popular or liked by developers.

Judging by your comment about frameworks not using web components (which you'd know I'm aware of, given that I posted an article by the author of Svelte about why Svelte doesn't use web components), you think I’m discussing implementing a new framework. Nobody is discussing that. The OP is making a web app, not a new framework.

Implementing a web app without react or svelte would require using web components which is, as mentioned, a set of poor and unused APIs.

Given 1, 2 and 3, it's obvious that you're being clearly antagonistic to someone that has been polite to you thus far, I will change how I communicate - Dmitri, you're a cunt. Sorry Dan.
Crypto isn’t dead. It’s just getting started.
They don’t have an issue with those apps? As I use NC for Syncing, I thought I’d try the other apps. They were all horrible. RSS, Music, bookmarks, notes, recipes, contacts. They are all far below what any of the dedicated replacements offer. The unified interface is nice, but doesn’t make it worth it for me.
I suspect there is no bit of wisdom in the world, that is not misunderstood, distorted, and abused by lesser people.
Can you honestly believe that an organization can continue working with 3/4 of its stuff gone?

Hell, there are projects with a bus factor of one beneath all of our infrastructure (insert relevant xkcd here), and those are much simpler than such a monstrosity like twitter.
I always find it surprising that so many people here have such a positive attitude towards drugs.

I never touched it, am very happy about it, and hope my kids stay far away from it.

I know people who did all kinds of drugs, and nothing positive ever came out of that. Sorry that's just my opinion.
I’m not being a dick - I genuinely can’t tell if this is parody or not and so I find it quite exciting.

The idea of geohot pulling a 12-week “internship” to “optimise Twitter” to spite the hordes of “virtue signallers” is so hilariously self-referential and Pythonesque it’s fantastic.
I'm so tired of this conspiracy theory. It reaks polically motivated of partisan hatred. This is QAnon levels of stupid.
What are you talking about? You are completely fabricating a narrative here.

> “Everyone at Tesla is required to spend a minimum of 40 hours in the office per week,”

Tesla is RTO. Quit defending this billionaires psychopathic behavior. This is not a healthy way to run a company
I worked a cleaner in McDonalds. On the first Saturday, a guy came in with has family, eat, and left a complaint. I thought this was an issue but I was told this guy comes ever Saturday and always complains. Right enough, he did the next weekend and the next…

I never understood it. But every so often, I spot it again.