skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both Reddit and HN show there's an enormous value in letting anyone arrive with nearly no friction and participate. Limiting reach in the way that you suggest reduces your social network essentially to an imessage competitor.

IMO you should make a bog standard centralized social network like Twitter or whatever people are currently using. Then split your resources between the following two activities:

1. maintain a simpler, leaner, and faster interface than everyone else. Make it easier to join than everything else. And keep it that way, as much as you can. Like a craigslist UI for the 2020s.

2. put all the rest of your dollars and time into a) building an army of anti-sockpuppet/anti-abuse/anti-astroturfing techniques and b) documenting (responsibly) the existence, behavior, and elimination of said sockpuppets/astroturf campaigns. Essentially you'll be stockpiling and utilizing myriad anti-spam/anti-abuse techniques, some of which you can periodically burn to explain how you discover and remove problematic accounts at scale.

The anti-spam/anti-abuse documentation gives insight into the problems of running a social network at scale. However, it serves a more important purpose: to begin to put a floor on the types of social media manipulation that your users will tolerate. There was a day when employees would sift through email inboxes zapping spam, yet no one is willing to do that anymore. Your users will similarly become used to a much more pleasant and fulfilling social media experience. And if you do it right it puts a spin on your lower number of users and user-engagement-- i.e., you're accurately measuring your users, whereas all your competitors have an incentive to cook the books. ;)

However, this model is essentially incompatible with the current social media adtech, so you'd probably have to do a subscription model.

Also-- why not let a single paying user be able to sign up, say, ten or so friends using their subscription? Perhaps let them know that if any one gets suspended, they all get suspended. Would be interesting to see the social dynamics of that... :)
I don't think I said I considered it to be correct or incorrect, but yes either way I will never take it now. If I had not been bullied by pissant little tyrants I'd have considered getting the vaccine depending on the situation. I don't get yearly flu vaccines either, but I took them in situations that required it (visiting medically sensitive people/places). Not to compare the diseases, just to compare the situation -- I'm also told a yearly flu vaccine is the "correct decision".

But that's really aside, as I said it's not about the clinical benefit of the treatment. I have principles and I have pride, and it would hurt me mentally to do what they tell me. I believe on balance this choice is better for my health. I know several people who didn't want to get the vaccine but were forced to for their jobs, and are deeply upset by that.

I perfectly realize that there are people who get fearful and panicked and are comforted by subservience to authoritarian leaders, who will never understand my line of reasoning. Just like I will never understand theirs. But I can empathize with them -- it must have been terrifying for them, and I don't blame them for being riled up and angry at people who disagreed with them and with their authorities.

What made me sad was how little empathy there has been from people towards what they don't understand. I guess it goes with the fear mindset, fear of the unknown, the other.

This is how they prey on us, I guess.
Donie O'Sullivan (CNN) was banned for this tweet, which said nothing about anyone's location: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FkEaofdXEAYRac0?format=jpg&name=...

I wonder how long it'll be before Musk starts remotely shutting down the Teslas of people who say things about him that he doesn't like.
Oh man when I saw that and thought it was in my home town (South Pasadena), I didn't realize it was right at my gas station! It's a block or so down from my favorite Trader Joes too.

His allegation makes little sense based on my knowledge of the area. Not only is that location not near an airport but getting to one would take a hell of a long time. Painfully slow arterial roads in every which way except the 110 which goes straight through Downtown LA, usually with very heavy traffic. If you follow Orange Grove north, it enters one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in East LA with some incredible chateau sized houses, so if he wanted to find a rando to frame it makes sense he'd do it from there (assuming he owns property there).

Edit: according to [1] the child in question might have been one he had with his ex Grimes and according to [2] she bought a house in the area. Kinda checks out? Except the whole bit about someone stalking them all the way there from LAX [3]! If you were driving from LAX to Pasadena though, this is exactly the place you’d exit the freeway to gas up before heading up Orange Grove to the fancy neighborhoods

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34010663

[2] https://observer.com/2018/06/grimes-buys-house-pasadena-los-...

[3] https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a835af&lat=37.359&lon=-...
I opened the link, and my laptop fan started running full blast.

Chrome 108.0.5359.98, MacOS 11.7.1

I opened the Chrome Task Manager and the "GPU Process" was pegging the CPU.

I closed the Readwise tab and CPU usage dropped to normal.

I opened https://readwise.io/read again. After a minute the "GPU Process" CPU usage went back up to 73%.
Tree-sitter[0] came out of Atom performance optimization, I think, and that's a legacy that will live on a long time. Atom was in my view the closest thing to emacs out there, and it's sad to see that sort of user-empowerment not live on.

[0]https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/
> Are you using gRPC or REST
Is most likely "Are you using gRPC or JSON over HTTP".
And I have privilege to make fun of richest people in the world if they are hypocrite liars flailing more than me in the legacy codebase.

And also when they are not hypocrite flailing liars.
>proliferation

Of the three articles you posted, 2 are about the same single incident, and the other is about India punishing Twitter by making CP accusations after Twitter posted a map of India that had disputed territories "wrong". Doesn't seem to be much to it.
You missed the bit where they hired Mark Karpelès (the MtGox guy!) as their CTO
> I can turn a browser game into a steam game with basically no effort

There's actually quite a lot of effort required if you want Steam overlay to work and/or not crash with Electron, or to interact with Steamworks APIs.
The internet is written in ink. --someone on the internet in the past
TIOBE's methodology is opaque, and even their own description of their methodology is completely nuts. Their historic trend lines suffer such massive random swings that it's obvious that they go in and manually fudge the numbers whenever it doesn't look "correct" (or are we to believe that C truly became half as popular between 2015-2016, and then gained it all back from 2016-2017? Remember that time that half of all C programmers were laid off, and then rehired eighteen months later? No? Remember that time that half of all C software stopped being used, and then started being used again eighteen months later? No? Then what in blazes is it supposed to have been measuring?). The prose summaries that they attempt to produce each month are technological gobbledygook, too poor to even publish in the sort of magazine that gives free subscriptions to middle managers. The "language of the year" ranking fails to even measure growth! Instead, it just measures the increase in ranking from the previous December, which means that a language whose popularity crashes through the floor for exactly one month out of the year due to their batshit methodology can be awarded "language of the year" for absolutely no reason, and this has happened!

Rather than asking for a better alternative for gauging "popularity", stop looking to aggregators and instead look at actual numbers. For example, if you want to know which languages have the most job openings available, don't trust a measure of popularity, go to a job board and search by language.
https://github.com/Methexis-Inc/terminal-copilot

Tired of forgetting terminal commands every 10 seconds?
pip install terminal-copilot
Works for most type of terminal commands. Eg.

`copilot copilot setup and activate a python virtual environment`
> python3 -m venv venv && source venv/bin/activate
I strictly run Teams, Slack, Discord, and Spotify in pinned browser tabs
It's like journalists don't believe that anything will happen to them. The faster they divest from twitter the better.
If only he added he had gf problems ... That might have put the judge over the edge.

More riffing ... If you've seen woody Allen's deconstructing Harry and know the scene where old lady 2 asks old lady 1 (the wife) if she's looked at the problem from her husband's perspective ... You'll see the humor of guilt trips and guilt as a weapon.

I bet the judge knows it's funny on the silver screen not real life
Musk is going to attract some stellar employees from now on.
Sounds like you need to repaste it or set your TDP lower.
If ChatGPT can write JIRA tickets then I will accept the robot overlords. That is a burden worth more than my humanity.
An important distinction, I think, is that Sweeney (@elonjet) appears to use a different tracker than the publicly available one. PIA is the freely available and public flight tracker, but can be put into private mode which Musk does. Sweeney then (likely) reverts to using non-public ICAO addresses which he identifies by manually coordinating Musk's known plane location/history.

I'm not an expert here, just sharing what I've seen. Please offer corrections.

https://twitter.com/scottwww/status/1490553502640140288/phot...

https://twitter.com/DavidSacks/status/1603533380150181888
The situation seems to be a shitshow but I’ll wait a week before making any judgements. It seems like a lot of people are intentionally breaking the doxxing rule to get banned.
Excellent work! Singing would be amazing - karaoke can finally sound good :p

Have you released a tool for volumetric capture? I'm applying this to LED lighting fixture setup for tv/film/live shows and 3D positioning is the last step to fully automated configuration.

My goal is real-time sync between 3D model and real world.
I can't believe it took me this long to find someone else asking this question in the exact same way I ask myself some time ago.

I always thought that CUE/BIN files were the way to do this, but I don't understand the history behind the format beyond their origins or how one uses existing utilities today to produce them. In fact, I don't think there are any that aren't proprietary, like the ones you've mentioned.

I suspect this question does actually have a simple answer, but I've scrubbed Unix utilities, file format documentation and history surrounding optical image copies, and found nothing meaningful outside of the information you'd read off Wikipedia.[1][2][3][4][5]

As far as I can tell, all modern bit-for-bit optical image file representations are based on proprietary formats that occasionally have Unix-like tools associated with them. And usually only to convert said proprietary formats to lossy(!) standardized ones. Lame.

Anyway, hope this helps, thot_experiment.

Edit: Oh wait, one last thought: based on my reading from some time ago, and from what I understand today, the state of the art never really progressed past CUE/BIN files. I think this is primarily because despite alternative formats in this space, CUE/BIN had been more prolific than any of the others, so that's what people continued to use.

> When used for disc images, the format is usually called CUE/BIN, indicating that it stores a disc image composed of one cue sheet file and one or more .bin files. The .bin files are raw sector-by-sector binary copies of tracks in the original discs. These binary .bin files usually contain all 2,352 bytes from each sector in an optical disc, including control headers and error correction data in the case of CD-ROMs (unlike ISO images of CD-ROMs, which store only the user data). However, the TRACK command in a cue sheet file can be used to refer to binary disc images that contain only the user data of each sector, by indicating the specific CD mode of the tracks from which the image was created (which is necessary to know the size of the user data in each sector).

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cue_sheet_(computing)

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CDRWIN

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NRG_(file_format)

[4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_Descriptor_File

[5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CloneCD_Control_File
It exists in the server, but it's possible to move to another server and keep your followers later.
> Inherently both ASM and programming produce the same output, "programming" just traded the generality of ASM for verbose and diverse functions.

I wouldn't say the output is that similar. You get wildly different bug types, bug type distributions, and edge cases/failure modes in different languages. Does "Python" (the internal implementations of the method names you type) understand the problem it's working on more than the generator on the other side of a coding prompt?
[1] https://archive.is/IiBK3
> If possible saturate the market so that games reach 0$ pricing.

Ha, that shipped sailed on mobile many years ago now, and PC and console are slipping.

Even now, the best value is to pay for one of the major subscription services.
Men are dropping out at all levels. Not only are men without degrees dropping out of work, but men are not even attempting to go to university. Women make up 60% of people getting university degrees, and I've read predictions that in about 15 years, it will be up to 70-75%. Right now, there is a quiet affirmative action for men at most universities - men have it way easier to get into universities than women (not counting tier 1 universities). Admissions will take almost any man to even out the sexes to 50/50. But men are not even applying so it doesn't matter.

In a short time, because of knowledge society we live in, women will slowly dominate - judges, lawyers, doctors, congresspeople...everything they want to be. Men will continue to drop out.

Already, I read about women who say they can't find "quality men" meaning men with university degrees in promising careers. Men who make as much as them or more. It's going to get a lot worse.

Tomi Lahren speaks for so many women and how they see men.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6QQm6VtOAA

Tomi Lahren is so over-the-top offensive in this video, but she gives voice to what most women think about men, even though most women wouldn't say it like Larhen does. Men hear this stuff all the time from women, but women don't hear anything from men, so they have no idea, totally clueless as to what men think, and because of the monologue that only comes from women.

The view of women saying that men are trash is quite common on the internet.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=men+are+trash&atb=v314-1&ia=web

Men can't say women are trash, it is not allowed. So all men hear in the media, 24/7, is how they are 100% bad. What would happen if a man went off on women like Tomi Lehren did on men?

So men are just dropping out.
Thankfully fewer and fewer.
> "On Jan 7, senior Twitter execs:

> - create justifications to ban Trump

> - seek a change of policy for Trump alone, distinct from other political leaders

> - express no concern for the free speech or democracy implications of a ban"

Funnily enough this is literally exactly what Musk has done in the last 24 hours with regard to the @ElonJet account and the people reporting on it.
mtsdn.social (or the similar domain) is coming up with a "this is a harmful url" prompt.

https://ibb.co/kx0cdFK
> There's not a single one good reading app out there, so the market is yours to take.

Agreed. I've been using Marvin 3 but it hasn't been updated in years. Every iOS upgrade is terrifying. The last one broken highlight actions.
Am I the only one thinking there is far more censorship now under Elon Musk rule?
The stochasticness probably gets you into trouble here. If you get different results each time you try to "figure out and rewrite" the legacy program... you're gonna need to be able to right some extremely thorough, perfect test cases. And how much of that are you willing to put to chance?
The latest survey results from Stack Overflow Knows
fwiw I was still able to update my bio with a mastodon.social username in a 3rd party client (tweetbot)
Or when I am trying to memorize a speech. I don't have it memorized when I go to bed, and I have it memorized when I wake up.
In most the the aftermarket LED bulbs that I’ve seen, the location of the diode(s) causes light to emit from different point(s) that it would from a halogen bulb, thus reflecting differently than intended.

https://ledlightinginfo.com/led-headlights-in-reflector-hous...

> “To put it simply, yes. LEDs can be used in reflector headlights BUT (and it’s a big but) if you’re upgrading the bulb, you also need to upgrade the reflector bowl. Failure to do so can blind or dazzle other people. You see, no two reflectors are the same. Each reflector headlight design is meticulously crafted based on the precise specifications of the halogen bulb it intends to use. This ensures there’s a good throw and spread of light.

Replacing a halogen bulb with an LED, therefore, throws the reflector off balance. Even minute changes will alter where the light hits the reflector and gets projected out to. Essentially, the light will end up in places it was not intended to. This is exacerbated by the fact that LEDs are a directional light source, whereas halogens are omnidirectional. Unlike halogens, an LED will not illuminate the reflector surface evenly. This has two consequences:

Firstly, by shining light only at the reflector’s sides, there’s likely to be blank, hollow, or hot spots in the light beam.

Secondly, by failing to illuminate the upper portion of the reflector, the headlight will have reduced distance projection. Instead, the light will scatter above the cut-off point and blind other drivers.“
The counter to that is if you spread and repeat your lie far more than the debunkers are wiling or able to spread the truth, then your lie will be the thing generally believed.

"A lie is halfway round the world before the truth has got its boots on."

--various
I believe these toxins might be behind the recent popularity of 'gluten free' diets.

Gluten free means wheat free, which means toxin free. And that makes people's guts feel better.

I wonder if there is a market for 'toxin free wheat, for those who feel unwell after eating regular wheat'?
I know of an insurance company that has tried 3-4 times at a cost probably in the hundreds of millions to switch off COBOL.

The simple fact is that they've spent tons of time slowly coding in hundreds of thousands of little, undocumented edge cases all over the place. The rewrite gets 90% there then falls flat with all the little things and you can't switch these kinds of businesses until it is 100% there.
nice username
Public or not, it is a security concern, especially for a celebrity/politicized figure/widely hated person.

I wouldn't want my live location posted on the internet either, and there's a lot fewer people who want to hurt me than Musk (AFAIK, no one wants to hurt me).
Yeah, every runtime, if you want to squeeze performance out of it and run everything on one big server like it sounds like they're doing.
Twitter at least made an effort to combat misinformation, while Mastodon apparently doesn't want journalists yet allows antivaxers free reign. Leaving moderation as a free for all is not the sort of platform I'm interested in.
I also enjoyed it and the challenge it provided, writing and rewriting to distil a message. I actually miss that.
Can someone attempt to ELI5/provide more context for why "always choose the right" eluded scholars for so long?
They are also not mutually exclusive
It is even dumber because Twitter has less ability to fight CP now.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-29/musk-s-cu...

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-child-sexual-abuse-mater...
> It was nowhere close to an airport.

Its less than 10 miles from the nearest airport (San Gabriel Valley Airport).
They're not tuning the GC, really. They're tuning the code cache. That's what the main culprit was. Go doesn't have a JIT. No code cache to configure.
Not really, no. But it is pretty straightforward. My projects have:
- apis.py - the "external" surface of the app
- views.py - DRF layer on top of apis.py
- services.py - the layer that writes to the Django ORM
- selectors.py - provides "read-only" views or filters of data
- serializers.py - serialized outputs, using DRF
- schemas.py - pydantic classes that control incoming JSON types
- models.py - Django model declaration
- urls.py - url endpoints, pointing to views.py
- core.py - maybe another file with more business logic, used by apis.py

I have had trouble using Django API Domains interfaces.py, so I left them out. The main point is, figure out the right balance of concise code and separation of concerns for your taste, and your stack. Good luck!
>I believe “Twitter poisoning” is a real thing.

Good People Poisoned? - Or Poison People unmasked?

I didn't see any mention of “Substance poisoning” in this article.
I've been experimenting with a "no phone" protocol for a few months now. It has been amazing. Only occasionally problematic/inconvenient, mostly miss the GPS and music. Most things I used to do on phone I simply do on a laptop. But not constantly grabbing for a phone and staring at a screen... priceless.
Crypto firm Amber raises US$300M to tackle damage from FTX
There are ticketing paradigms that don't require alerting in the middle of the night. All you need to repo and fix a bad query is the query itself and/or an explain of the query itself, and you can work on it during business hours.

I'm sorry you've had bad experiences with alert-all-the-things ticketing paradigms.

addendum: in fact, you can automate all of this so it just shows up in a team's "known issues" query that they may manage in standup or sprint planning.
Thanks! Yeah, part of the motivation for Reader was that our original readwise app was integrated with a bunch of these apps like Pocket and Instapaper... and we saw them completely fall by the wayside.

Our users were constantly asking us to fix things with Pocket/Instapaper that were out of our control, so they kind of pulled this app out of us :)
Can someone explain to me how this is any different of a mentality from system engineers that SRE replaced?

I haven't read the SRE book, but my understanding was that at Google the answer to all this would be that the SRE would act as a software developer and submit pull requests to the codebase in order to implement/fix all of this?

> If you’re a Software Engineer/Developer, then consider that a service (at least, for me), is a piece of code running in a live production system, that YOU wrote, only YOU know how it works, thus YOU own.

And my own take on this statement which is getting so much traction in the comments is that this seems largely indistinguishable from the wall between Dev and Ops that we had back in the late 90s.
You put on a brave front, but I think deep down your beliefs don't really comfort you from knowing that you've been fooled and wrong many times, and continue to be. I think and hope you are strong enough to one day come to terms with it though.
An article was published in Nature a few days ago saying the actual number of COVID deaths could be around 2.75x higher than officially reported numbers. We might be underestimating deaths by many millions worldwide.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04138-w
Firefox's reader mode works great here.
I don't think this is true of 4chan
Here's a few ways to make VSCode (or VSCodium) look and feel a little like Atom:

https://medium.com/@samuells/how-i-moved-from-atom-to-vs-cod...