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There Are No Successful Black Nations | And the indignity and helplessness of blacks in America won’t end until we have a first-world African nation to lift up our people. <https://www.reddit.com/r/TrueReddit/comments/4x2vbu/there_ar...>
I don't like that solution very much because of the 4 cases, or generally n*2 cases if there are n tokens. My favorite Haskell solution uses monoids (specificaly the Monoid instance of Maybe String) and is quite natural in Haskell but would take some explanation for non-Haskellers.

My version looks like the below. I didn't originate the approach but I like this spelling. It won't make total sense to non-Haskellers though.

{-# LANGUAGE MonadComprehensions #-}
import Data.Maybe
import Data.Monoid

fizz :: Int -> String
fizz n = fromMaybe (show n) $ f 3 "Fizz" <> f 5 "Buzz"
where
f :: Int -> String -> Maybe String
f d msg = [msg | n`rem`d == 0]

main = mapM_ putStrLn [fizz n | n <- [1..100]]

This extends in an obvious way to FizzBuzzHissHowl, lets the Monoid instance manage concatenating the special tokens together while remembering if any of the rules have matched, and uses a monad comprehension on the Maybe monad to cleanly lift the token into the Maybe monad if the number is a multiple of whatever. The type annotation on f is added to make it a little bit clearer what is going on.

The use of monoids and the monad comprehension may be slightly flashy, but the use of Maybe to remember whether a rule has triggered is second nature in Haskell.
Funny thing about the bankruptcy hypothesis is that the owner of Twitter is the richest man in the world and could literally pay old twitters expenses for decades even if it never made a penny. If we are just talking about the debt payments, he has a 200 year runway.

Pure copium.
Perhaps I'm stating the obvious, but "...sorry to inform you..." is just one post of many on the blog.

Those seeking more context should check out the home page and some of the other posts. Two items emerge quickly: the blogger left Utah several years ago and is now probably an atheist.

But the writing is great -- haunting and mysterious. Nice find.
Are we in support of DMCA now?
I bet that’s at cost tbh. You’d be surprised how cheap things have gotten. However, r&d and every single Alexa request costs money. So from day one, it’s losing money.
His process tree has only produced private and reusable rockets, space internet, electric vehicles, and hundreds of billions in value. But he makes crude jokes like 90% of the men on the whole planet. Clearly there's something deeply wrong.
Did't you see the "Day in my life at the Twitter office video!"?

https://www.tiktok.com/@realpankhilpatel/video/7159187292631...

Normal people don't have vacations like that.
You might check archive.org, there's a huge number of 78s already ripped and remastered. Might save you some time and hassle.
No it’s proof that people will take anything and run with it. This bot likely had low priority and that’s all
That horizon passed a while ago. PS2 nostalgia is definitely a thing, and the Xbox 360 turned 17 today meaning kids that grew up with that are adults.
First thing I always wanna know with these things is what happens with my data after your servers die?

Why? How often does anyone do anything with the data they've exported from some service?

Maybe it's just me. But I feel like starting over setting up all your to-do tasks and what-not is going to take less time then writing some script to parse data from one format and upload it to some new system. Especially given that there will be a delta in featuresets.
There's writing code that you want to write, code you find interesting to do something you care about. And then there's writing code that somebody else tells you to write, that you have to do for a job. Those are different things. I'd imagine most of us started off spending lots of time on the former, and now instead spend most of our time on the latter.
Unfortunately that ruling was overturned and APIs were found to be copyrightable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_LLC_v._Oracle_America,_...
I read the article and I still can’t help mis-parsing the headline. The author meant “programming is a romantic activity”. I read “how can we overcome romanticizing programming?”

Maybe it’s just my perspective. I used to be in love with programming. But doing something I loved as a job left me open to burnout and vulnerable to being used.

Now I’m not “in love” with programming. Partially because it doesn’t intrigue and surprise me like a new lover does. We have a comfortable relationship, we’ve settled down. I’m married to programming and it’s work but it’s worth it. There’s still fun and fulfillment, but I’m not infatuated like I used to be.
Apparently they monitor delivery people in the trucks too

I sometimes see them working behind the trucks to avoid the cameras inside.

World is getting super weird, we are racing to the bottom.
> put their reputation on the line saying Twitter wouldn't survive the weekend.

Was that a real thing those people were saying?

Genuinely asking, as I don't follow any of the former Twitter engineers on, well, Twitter, and if there were any such posts/articles on here I must have missed them.
Indeed. I watched a 30 headcount company that was quite productive getting ballooned up to 170 people after an acquisition. You won’t believe it, but productivity dropped _sharply_. Processes have been introduced that emphasized safety and risk mitigation so heavily that whole product lines are scratched before they can be released. Judging by products and improvements they released within the last year, you could be tempted to think they just stopped working altogether.

And the leads installed by the acquiring company seem to be highly intelligent - the company continues helicoptering in their brightest minds to fix this mess. It just so happens they are forced out every 12-24 months because it’s almost impossible to deliver anything there.

For example, last year they introduced SAFe. That caused an exodus which basically equaled a brain drain (still ongoing). Most people I valued for their straightforwardness and ability to cut through BS there have left or are leaving. The person pushing for SAFe introduction has resigned already.

The founders of that company have all left ofc, and are basically trying to restart the same company (or variations) with their own money. And their products are already picking up speed, becoming threats to the original one.
Content providers cannot be held liable for user generated content under section 230. Try again.
> Furthermore, Disney did collaborate with Skylanders.

I don't think that's true. They had their own toys-to-life game called Disney Infinity.
They ought to put those on the outside of Nascar tracks
Ask HN: Vertical Farming Resources
Hi,
I want to learn about the technology behind vertical/indoor farming.
Could you suggest books/blogs or people to follow on youtube or other social media that can help me to learn about vertical farming?
I want to understand every aspect of it. So even tangential knowledge would be helpful and in that regard, resources for agriculture and plant care/management would be great too.

Thanks
Twitter-2010 can't handle Twitter-2011 workload
Look at Ninety Plus producer, these $2000 /lb looks like a bargain.

More seriously coffee can be as expensive as wine, and frankly speaking, for good reason. The difference between farms, fermentation process, roasting skills for a se varietal /region produces large differences, like for wine.
I think the tone-deaf part might be that its a billionaire saying that people being paid well under a million a year are making too much money.
For now I'm talking about the FTC consent decree, so administrative penalties not criminal charges. Musky fired the folks who were responsible for ensuring compliance.

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/11/musks-lawyer-tells-twitter...
Yes, it would average nlogn and worst case would be n², unless I'm thinking about it incorrectly.

But this is one of those cases where asymptotic complexity seems a bit too reductive. One of the "n" in the complexity is really a fraction of the n.

That said, if I understand your use case correctly, you might not benefit much from having a binary subdivision of space for this. It sounds like what you need is more of a plain ordered list. One of the ways to implement that is as a binary tree, but an array that is kept ordered may be fast enough due to locality etc.
He must be loving it. Like a cat playing with a mouse.
John Carmack, "Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so."

Kevin Watson, who developed the avionics for Falcon 9 and Dragon and previously managed the Advanced Computer Systems and Technologies Group within the Autonomous Systems Division at NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory: "Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction.

He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy.

He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years."
wow that's cool thanks
> The system works on medical referrals.

How long is it supposed to take for the GP to write a referral?

As described, just getting the referral took months.

The first GP said "come back in a month" and she would write the referral. Which is not part of the standard of care. The GP then said she would write a referral, and six months later hadn't yet done it.

And according to one recent survey, 14% of trans respondents said that their GPs refused to help them.

How does a referral system work if the GPs refuse to make referrals?

> There are 3-5 year waiting lists for kidney stone operations

That's 3-5 years after they were diagnosed, yes?

It did not take nearly 20 years see the doctor and get the diagnosis that they needed a kidney stone operation.

And that's the waiting list she was talking about - the waiting list to see the doctor.

Just like it said in the title; the one you thought wasn't true.

> frankly self indulgent procedures

Your frankly bigoted opinion is not backed by medical evidence.
Even if it's Amazon paying Amazon, there is an opportunity cost to using all those cloud resources. Every resource used internally is a resource not available for sale externally.
7000 people x $300k = $2.1B
And that's salary alone. The operation cost to serve all those people is a lot more.

Twitter revenue last year was around $5B.
Tangentially related: the 1999 movie Purgatory [0] is actually pretty good.

[0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0158131/
Not only were the unions beaten, they were villified to the point most Americans hate even the concept of organized labor with the same breath they hate not having paid sick leave. It's probably not a fixable situation.
Why not both? The missus and I have both been collecting DVD's for over 20 years. The resulting pile of movies fills a large part of the spare room in the house, and neither of us seem to show indications of stopping to grab cool old movies on DVD when at flea markets etc.

The physical DVD's are rather irrelevant, though. Most are ripped and streamed to the TV rather than watched in a player.
The OP claims he did the implementation (so he was the software engineer too?):

> I designed and implemented most of the tools that are keeping it running so I think I’m qualified to talk about it.
I've never heard of (or thought of) your interpretation of the corollary to Brooke's Law, but removing people from projects until they succeed and are on time seems like a bold strategy.
What's with all the excessive Google permission request ????

Select what General Task can access:

- Associate you with your personal info on Google

- See your personal info, including any personal info you've made publicly available

- See your primary Google Account email address

- View and edit events on all your calendars

This is too much to ask just to sign up.
> Or I tell my boss "code tends to take longer than estimated to deliver".

I've used variations of that phrase throughout my career. I'm very well paid, partly because I account for this and make certain that other stakeholders are aware.
>Curious if there any SA expats here that can comment on their experience of emigrating? I have looked a bit but not very seriously. I should mention I do have a Netherlands passport (via my father).

You haven't looked seriously because of the Netherlands passport. You know that you always have a way out.

Those without such put much more effort into potentially improving their situation, because they have to.
I'd also love to know this.

I had a fascination with the (to me) gigantic plotter at my Dad's workplace (they did a lot of architectural and engineering drawings on it). I had completely forgotten about this until these comments came along, and now I'm trying to work out where I can put one at home :)
Was glad to read this quote: “These kids want to live that way, want to have a good time, have at it.... I’m happy about it because that is what I fought for, so they can do whatever they hell they want.”
There are a lot of places where the systems would start to fall over if 70-80% of the team departed. Especially since a lot of folks left on bad terms and/or were suddenly terminated. It was the opposite of a smooth handover.

So it wasn't unreasonable to think that Twitter would begin experiencing problems.

I didn't think that Twitter was going to literally have an unrecoverable system crash and permanently shut its doors, but I thought we'd see some outages or partial breakage over time, which is basically what has happened albeit in an admirably mild way.

It comes off as a kind of desperation, as
though they need Elon to fail.

You don't need to pathologize it, like it's some... deep weirdo psychological yearning. Some people think he's a jerk and wouldn't mind seeing him fall on his face!

If a person was staking some significant part of their emotions on their feelings for Musk, yeah, that'd be unhealthy.

But I think you are significantly overestimating the emotional weight behind 99.99% of the half-baked Twitter quick takes. It's okay to not like a guy!
Automotive and aerospace are not similar to each other, either. I don't know any other outfit that was successful at both.

> It's the Halo Effect fallacy to think competence in one field automatically translates to another

I didn't say it was. I was responding the notion that Musk blundered into success at Tesla and SpaceX.
Where do you keep the record of which container belongs to which user and how does that record avoid the same problem?
After the failwhale days, Twitter has been quite stable for me with the only exception being the live-refresh features on tabs of the website that have been open for days (which I don't think many websites would handle well).

There has been a serious degradation in the quality since the acquisition:

- Sporadically loading tweets - I could go on some tweets and refresh the page multiple times, with tweets fading in and out of existence showing "This tweet is unavailable"

- Tweets that quote tweets of accounts you have blocked behave weird in multiple ways. Sometimes it's just showing a "This tweet is unavailable" instead of "This tweet is from an account you have blocked", and a few interacting with them crashed my timeline on mobile, having to restart the app

- On a few occurences, every third tweet on the timeline was an ad

- 1-2 notifications from crypto spam bots reaching me every day. The same thing previously was filtered out quite reliably (I assume), since then it happened ~once ever 6 months

--------

And those are only the things I've seen personally. Yeah, they are no deal-breakers, and mostly sporadic failures, but it very much feels like a service that is degrading by the day.
Maybe, but it’s a legitimately hard problem. Sort by lowest price legitimately means show the lowest price item first, even if it’s less relevant.

Based on other search systems I have worked with, they probably have an initial fast filter that limits the items from the entire inventory to a loosely matching set (erring on the side of including irrelevant items). Then a more intelligent and expensive ranking system would be used to find the best items from that set (where “best” means a bunch of things including relevance and profitability). Selecting “price: low to high” probably bypasses the intelligent system, so you end up with crap at the top of the list.

The low-priced items could be doing some kind of SEO scam to get on the list, or it could be something innocent like a fuzzy match to text in the description (could be a dumb issue like tf-idf that randomly exceeds a threshold due to noise).

You could argue that if they don’t prioritize the investment to fix these issues, it’s in some sense intentional. Nobody sorts by low price, because it gives poor results, because they don’t bother fixing it, because it’s not a priority, because nobody sorts by low price…
All data that is stored can and will be used against you.
> NATO, an alliance whose enemy no longer exists.

The North Atlantic Treaty was signed in an effort prevent war in Europe.

...and here we are today with war in Europe.

NATO is more relevant now than it ever has been since it was first established, and I think their current list of applicants is a clear testament to that.
Amazon have been providing an offshore workforce as a service for 15+ years, AKA Mechanical Turk
Tumblr: We'll Add Activitypub for Interconnect
Nope, just misaligned incentives. It really can be this simple sometimes.
> Rising the pay has diminishing returns. You can't prevent workers leaving because of lost of interests, be sick or die by throwing more money at them.

People would absolutely be more engaged and more excited about their work if they were paid more. The only reason people work is literally for money…
>I mention that advertisers were of course mad, the stated goal is to reduce reliance on ad revenue

In the computer industry, there are some famous historical examples of companies that announced their new product before it was ready, people stopped buying the old one, and they went out of business before the new version was done.

Not quite the same business, but a bit reminiscent.
They may as well. I was making a different implication, which is that the Square Mile calls the tune, the rest of London and England have no choice but to dance along, and that everyone else will bugger off soon enough.
Coffee can vary largely in terms of taste, between pull lever ristretto and a French press, it can be considered as two different drinks. Drink a 100% robusta espresso (or a blend containing some Large amounts of Robusta) and then a anaerobic coffee from equador or Panama (gesha, Ethiopian hybrid varietal and the like), and one would taste like an Italian espresso while the other a fruity drink.

Same goes with beer or wine, quality goes up with price but in the end, it's all a matter of personal preference.

Considered what you wrote, your palate is looking for sugary stuff, and this wouldn't work for coffee, chocolate, beer or wine.

Sugar kills everything.
An IRC network server can serve what, a few hundred thousands of concurrent users’ text messages on a single PC.

Twitter has around 200 million daily user, peaking up to a billion, running on their own server farm. They are not remotely comparable, especially if we note that read-write dbs are notoriously hard to scale.
Just by way of feedback, tried it on my iPad and found it didnt work well enough in Safari for me to want to keep struggling with it. Found drag/drop worked inconsistently, struggled to change task durations on the calendar etc.
He has a unique perspective as someone who's addicted to tweeting and whose account is constantly getting impersonation and crypto bots in the replies. His friends are incompetent VCs and other tech people who are convinced journalists and women with colored hair have taken over Twitter and are hoarding all the blue checks for themselves.

He's also extremely divorced, keeps having off the record children with his executives, and is having a midlife crisis.
Try TickTick? I've run with pretty much all the to-do apps over the years but TT has nailed it for me. Calendar integration, kanban view, tags, lists, markdown, etc etc
An autistic man was surfing the internet on his dad’s sofa, then the FBI arrived
https://archive.ph/3NspP
I’m fairly sure HN had outages as well.
> This left a lot wondering what exactly was going on with all those engineers and made it seem like it was all just bloat.

I was partly expecting the rest of the article to explain to me why exactly it wasn't just bloat. But it goes on talking about this 1~3-person cache SRE team that built solid infra automation that's really resilient to both hardware and software failures. If anything, the article might actually persuade me that it was all bloat.
Oh well in that case this whole conversation is moot because it’s all probably just made up.

Or, you’re taking clearly unfactual pot shots at the current leader of technological innovation because it’s the only cope you have.
> CEOs buy other firms even though research shows the majority of takeovers fail

I think you’re confusing takeovers with mergers/acquisitions
§230(e)(2) says

> (2) No effect on intellectual property law

> Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or expand any law pertaining to intellectual property.

If section 230 from the CDA of 1996 provided immunity from copyright claims, there would be no reason to include procedural requirements for processing claims in the DMCA of 1998.
Ask HN: Should I deploy my webapp
Hello, I'm a ~10 years Android developer. These days I'm looking into building my own applications with Spring and Kotlin. Firebase doesn't fix my problems of data integrity hence I've coded the backend of my app too (which is sad considering how promising Firebase was)

I'm trying to find a way to deploy my servers. Currently I'm running my production and staging servers as two Hetzner instances running docker-compose stacks. But I've heard it's not a good solution since docker-compose can't really create a development environment as a copy of production (I don't know why this is bad.)

I've looked into Kubernetes but if you're not paying to someone to manage it for you (for example DigitalOcean or Amazon EKS) it's incredibly complex. Also if you chose to use a cloud provider to manage it for you every load balancer adds another item to the bill. I'm running a 3 node cluster on DigitalOcean now but it's too complex to even deploy a container to it.

So what are your thought on how a lone developer should deploy their APIs to production and staging?
There is absolutely no proof that these are images from other peoples iCloud accounts.

Assuming these are even from iCloud in the first place, they could have been their version of "stock photos".

Assuming these are from iCloud, could have been the user's previous deleted photos. Could also just be photos on their windows computer. So many options. Going straight for the most unlikely scenario is strange, and seems like people have an agenda.