skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those systems are usually boring things that never get modified. Ledgers, etc. The tasks required to process checks are the same as they were in 1975. The inputs and outputs just changed.

Sometimes the COBOL isn’t the problem, it’s the scaffolding built around it. As an example, I worked in a consulting role on stabilizing systems during COVID that were getting crushed. The COBOL stuff on the mainframe wasn’t a problem - tweak the job control stuff, give IBM more money to lease more cpu time, and you’re good to go.

The problem is the 1995-2005 legacy middleware dreck that isn’t engineered well like a mainframe app and doesn’t scale. That stuff is always hot garbage and makes it difficult to replace the backend mainframe. The middleware expects whatever comes out of the mainframe, you end him with a chicken and egg scenario.

Financial services tend to have good data management practices and regulators who know how to audit for them. As a result are successful in getting off mainframes. Governments, manufacturers, etc, often struggle with that.
It is kind of all over the Internet that he's a cave diver to the point where I started to doubt my memory myself. If I look his name up on DDG it comes up with "Vernon Unsworth is a British rescue worker and cave diver" on the sidebar which appears to be from wikipedia, but that information isn't there.
I got it a week ago and was hooked within a day.

The things I like:

- easy to send articles to it (with or without highlights) from any platform I use (Android, iOS, Chrome), or by forwarding emails, or by subscribing to mailing lists using the reader email address

- nice way to read Twitter threads

- nice workflow for creating flashcards from highlights

- keyboard shortcuts on web

- reading feels immersive, and choose a next article is easy

I am usually reluctant to add yet another monthly subscription, but this is so nice that I paid for an annual subscription a couple of hours after I started using it.
Is there a specific term for this subconscious phenomenon?

I believe I have experienced this multiple times, but I remember one event in particular when I couldn't solve a book exercise for several hours, I slept in frustration. When I woke up I knew the answer immediately as if it was obvious.
we don't know anything about the "stalker" other than what Musk said. Musk has been caught lying about his children in the past [1] to justify his Twitter policy swings. I'd like to think he wouldn't stoop so low as to use his kid like that, but the truth is we don't know.

Now journalists are being banned for copying word-for-word the police response stating that "no police report was filed" over the stalker incident.

[1] https://twitter.com/justinemusk/status/1595506087570333696
It needs a button that lets you easily share your score. That's what enabled wordle to spread so quickly.
> I feel like if I worked at a big company and stared at good code all day long I would have learned a lot by now.

I promise you good code is extremely developer dependent and there are many senior engineers in big valley that write horrible code.

This guy's blog is all about writing extremely boring code (my take):

http://misko.hevery.com/code-reviewers-guide/

I've read pretty much everything that wasn't framework specific and it is definitely the most enlightening source of information on how to code I've ever read.

Everything roughly boils down to one guiding principle: don't use global state.
It was very intentional: https://twitter.com/brenonade/status/1603612768221155328
"this wood has been ground up into sawdust then mixed with reinforcing and binding agents"

Ah. Okay.
Such as? Conspicuously left unsaid. Hmmmmm. Well maybe it's an editorial choice for brevity, let's take a look at their website: https://composites.umaine.edu/biohome3d/

Hmmmmmm "bio-resins". Well, if it's not compostable, which it isn't, because otherwise they would just say so because that's a good thing, then it's just plastic with extra steps.

So no thanks. If you want an eco house you can make a perfectly fine house out of mud and straw that you can bulldoze later with no guilt whatsoever, not whatever this horrible shit is; where you're left with some awful composite material that nobody knows what to do with. I swear, if I had a dollar for everyone one of these awful ideas where the answer is secretly some undegradable plastic or polymer, I'd be a millionaire.

I think these environmental design journals have an obligation to follow a higher standard than this to be honest.
What’s preventing this from being done in VSCode? Other than it hasn’t yet?

I don’t think it ticks every box for you, but have you tried Jupyter Notebooks in VSCode[0]?

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/datascience/jupyter-noteb...
Amusingly to me, at least, the Twitterfiles and Musk’s behavior have both taught us the same thing —- centralized moderation by humans does not work well.
No one is saying that you guys owe $BillionaireCeo better, but you (all of you) owe this community better if you're participating in it.

Please read the rules and stick to them: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. They've been largely the same for many years.
The build quality on Teslas have declined significantly. He can't even build a good car anymore.

[1]: https://insideevs.com/news/595828/tesla-model-y-build-qualit...
He immediately broke his own doxxing rule after making it. He is banning anyone he wants to without any consistency.
The 1% Linux users may have benefited, but it came at the expense of the other 99% on Windows & Mac who had to give up native performance and UI on all their applications.
True freedom of speech there too!
IEEE Video Friday: Humanoid Soccer, DIY Robot Cat
Well, for the most part they don't, they use either their ISP e-mail, their work e-mail, or Gmail. iCloud might be a distant runner up. I rarely see anybody using even Yahoo or hotmail anymore.
This applies to other instances, not just mastodon.social. Twitter has been labeling tweets with Mastodon links as "sensitive content" for a while as well.
If you're in doubt, try mastodon.social or masto.ai. Those are pretty "generic".

Your choice does have some consequences. Each Mastodon instance has its own tailored block list, which determines which other instances are blocked in your feed. Instances also have their own codes of conduct. You can view an instance's block list and CoC by clicking the "About" link on the bottom left of the instance home page. (See https://mastodon.social/about for example.)
Didn't we actually have a thing for this but Zoom bought the team out? Yeah Keybase. What happened to it?

Also you posted your private key. Peak HN. :^)
See also: scientists, doctors, college graduates.
Plus, why let him "testify" and potentially spread misinformation, doing even more harm
This is a solved problem. Use the SASS syntax. I don't know why it's even a question.
Contaminated wheat gets diverted to animal feed. At a certain threshold, even chickens shouldn't be fed moldy grains.

Mycotoxins in Poultry Feed and Feed Ingredients from Sub-Saharan Africa and Their Impact on the Production of Broiler and Layer Chickens: A Review -- https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/13/9/633

Perhaps the next step is to feed the moldy grains to bugs (black soldier flies? mealworms?), then feed the bugs to the chickens. Animals perform an invaluable service to humanity: they upcycle inedible calories into calories humans can use.
I’d suggest looking at the server list on https://joinmastodon.org, select a few servers of interest, and then peruse what shows up as local to that server to find a good fit.

Also, look for indicators of active moderation and participation in the Mastodon Server Covenant if you want to avoid toxicity.

Some popular instances have been highlighted here.

Finally, dont be afraid to use a throwaway email and hide behind vpn to create a temporary account on a server or two, just to check it out.

Be kind to the server owners by deleting your temporary accounts, though.
whoa, a whole 4 years ago!! ;-) i want to make a "kids today" joke/comment, but it's more of just the pace of trends/fads not the people per se. you show up at a new job and the people make comments, of course you change. i've never used Atom, so maybe it was a better thing to change, but i've been introduced to some very ingrained workflows that just no longer made sense on so many levels. you can come in guns blazing and try to change everything now, or slowly acclimate to the workflow and then start suggesting changes/updates from inside. if you're hired as a 10x dev, then maybe guns blazing works, but if you're not, i'd suggest the latter.
He's now running a poll about when said accounts should be unsuspended. Then cancelled the poll.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1603609278664712192
The difference in user experience reflects the difference in incentives. The lack of an obsequious welcome is as much a feature as the uncurated timeline. Mastodon is infrastructure, a tool, not a skinner box duct taped to a monstrous data combine harvester, like every other site with a profit motive has become.
> Just write HTML5. It's fine. Add javascript for the 2-3 bits of interactivity you actually need.

Why write any JS at all if you don't have to? Htmx extends HTML to replace the need for a lot of the JS that's out there. It gives you client/server interaction and dynamic page behaviours without a single line of code.

Sure you can do without it. You could always do it all in vanilla JS or jQuery, at the cost of debugging it yourself.
Atom predated the LSP and leaned heavily into customizations with all the plugins running inside the UI thread (more like a traditional web page and 3p scripts). At the time they viewed the extreme customization support as a feature, and there was a thriving ecosystem of folks making plugins.

That architecture has a major flaw though. A default install was fast, but a real configuration with all the plugins ended up quite slow.

VSCode's architecture worked much better in real world configurations, and it turns out better performance wins in the editor space, even if it meant losing certain customizations (up to a limit). The architecture also allowed seamless remote editing, something Atom never could have done.

The interesting thing has always been that both were built on Electron. Atom's developers had built all the tools and primitives needed, they just didn't have the understanding of the long term ecosystem effects of their design.
Christ, reread this to yourself, out loud. You're saying he had it coming because he dared to cross Elon.
Then the joke evolved to that it couldn't open files 8MB or larger without hanging, at one point.
Based on the fact that this is affecting name and bio updates, I strongly suspect they're doing this to try and prevent people from finding their Twitter contacts on Mastodon. For those who don't know, there are tools like Fedifinder[0] that will scan your follows/followers' profiles and look for Mastodon URLs so you can follow them there. They're probably trying to make it harder for people to jump ship.

Even if you plan to stay on Twitter, I suggest you try to rebuild your network on Mastodon too if only as a contingency, because it's likely Twitter's now actively trying to prevent people from leaving.

As another commenter mentioned, very reminiscent of the trigger for the Freenode exodus, where the new owner tried to prevent people from talking about their new channels on Libera.

[0] https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
I don't remember direct links to Twitter being so prevalent until recently. Is it... time to reconsider this? Twitter no longer seems like a reliable source for anything except Elon Musk himself, since he presumably won't suddenly suspend himself, or block links to things he wants to link to.
>Obviously...

We know too little about this incident to say that that is obvious at this point.
Empty states: 5 practical tips for designers
Two big ones I can think of:

1. Have your application look and act like a standalone application rather than a webpage—Chrome tried to support this with application shortcuts (or whatever they were called), but it never worked well enough

2. Give your application access to native APIs and capabilities that you can't get through the browser, like direct filesystem access
It can still be revived, they're still solid platforms - just too hard for people to work with.
But the upgrade....didnt go as planned? In what way was it a misrepresentation? It was certainly generic but definitely not exaggerated. Felt fine for an editorialized title
These are at least 4 known causes of aortic aneurysms.

1) Smoking (behavioral)

2) High blood pressure (dietary or genetic)

3) High cholesterol (dietary of genetic)

4) Marfan's syndrome (genetic)

Last I checked, doctors (who know these things) were seriously considering it was #4.

You're a skeptic, right? Why invent new untested possibilities when a there are a series of well known possibilities to be tested first?
Make no mistake... This project, Atom. Provided the runway that others copied, then improved upon (and on and on... with plenty of funding).

Atom provided the seed, excitement and vision for what is possible on this platform, and should be proud of that fact.
This really makes me want to try making something with Godot. I have too many projects already, dammit.
Yes, and that's exactly what people hate about it: every application written in Electron lugs around its own copy of this OS. You can imagine why this might not be a good idea, especially for applications designed to run in the background, like the Slack client. For me, it was a godsend when Slack decided that my Linux version was too old to support and the client stopped working. Then I switched to the in-browser version and never looked back, even after upgrading to a new machine. My laptop's CPU and memory usage are still thanking me...
Haha, that’s awesome. The first time I visited there with my wife, I started on about how the “Cetacean Institute” sign was missing (gasp!) and before I could even finish whatever joke I was leading up to, my wife simply gave me a look that registered somewhere between, “I’m going to pretend I don’t know you” and “you will wait in the car if this continues.” No further references or colorful metaphors were communicated that visit. Years later I took my kids there for an overnighter and they became the captive audience for all the references and terrible jokes. Luckily i think there were too young to really remember. Along those lines, I re-watched ST:IV with my kids a few months back and they loved it. Of all the lines, my youngest was rolling in laughter when the old lady in the hospital is chanting “the dr gave me a pill and i grew a new kidney!”
That’s a very fair point. Also possible his ex-wife had a false memory as well.

I’m reading too much of my disbelief Elon is a good parent into that story. I think I am retroactively applying modern Elon (weird breeder thing, arguably abusive child naming, repeated attacks on his daughter) to an earlier stage of his life. And that’s also not likely fair or accurate to who Elon was at the time his son died.
Like a JVM?
Any attorneys want to weigh in on whether - or when - this becomes an anti-competitive/anti-trust concern, either in the US (FTC) or the EU?

Related reading:

* Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) Article 102, on abusive conduct by companies that have a dominant position in a market: https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/antitrust/procedures...

* FTC's guidelines for firms with market power: https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/anticompetitive-practices, https://www.ftc.gov/advice-guidance/competition-guidance/gui...
I remember using Atom back in high school, sad to see it go. It was fun while it lasted. Now primarily using VSCode, I'm curious what the next best IDE will be.
The incident happened in a car…days after. The location is for the jet… that’s the price you pay for a private jet using public air space.
Another indicator why critical things that involve people's lives should not be left to the free market. You get a critical implant that your life depends on. Its maker goes bankrupt, gets bought, assets sold off and 'liquidated', anything else happens, and you're in hot water with nobody to go to.
I'm still confused about where my account exists. In the Server? As a public/private key combination?
And VSCode is still pretty customizable/extensible- in most of the ways that people really cared about. It found a really solid balance
At least on mastodon.social, the character limit is 500 which isn't that much more than 280. (Oddly the limit on alt text is more generous at 1000.) People still break up their posts into multiple messages.

There are likely other instances with higher limits on post length, but I don't know how to search for them.

(Also, performance varies a lot, so an average would be kind of meaningless if even knew what it was.)
From what I can tell that is like asking which email host to sign up for but if every single email host had the same feature set. Some servers seem faster than others but I just picked a popular one from the mastodon homepage
> a massive DoD program, which requires Republicans to fund.

Contrary to the partisan memes, support for military funding is actually bipartisan. Republicans often like to say that Democratic politicians don't support the military, to pander to their base, but this isn't actually true. And Democratic Party sometimes like to play at being peaceniks, again to pander to their base, but this isn't true either.

Look up the composition of the United States Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. 50/50 split between parties. You don't get DoD projects funded by sucking up to Republicans, you need to convince politicians on both sides of the aisle.

@georgeg23, comments in this thread are now disabled for new users so I'll reply here. It doesn't matter if SDI was originally Reagan's baby. Reagan is dead and nothing will get funded without approval from both parties. The Republicans can't fund the SDA on their own.
It's the opposite. In that first poll 52.5% of people voted for a 7 day ban or longer.

The new poll with just two options is going the other way (unsuspend now). Having just two options is the right call here.
> Which Mastodon instance are we meant to move for a generic experience? I typically used Twitter to @Companies.

That's the problem. If you're already asking which instance to join then Mastodon is not the "replacement" you are looking for; even when discovery and moderation is worse than Twitter.

If the main instance (mastodon.social) was accepting sign-ups, then that is the obvious go to. Clearly that is not the case and only I see tech people here screaming about Twitter's imminent collapse, etc, moving to whatever instance that is accepting sign ups with the majority of the 200M+ users still sitting on Twitter as they didn't bother to move to something worse.

Federated echo-chambers isn't the answer for better content moderation as clearly seen by the issue with journa.host [0]. Unfortunately, centralization is the realistic approach to this which businesses and companies and hundreds of millions of (non-tech) users will continue to stick with and the platform for this is Twitter.

[0] https://twitter.com/ajaromano/status/1594432548222152705
Are you tired of Googling basic terminal commands every time you forget the syntax? Look no further! terminal-copilot is here to help.

Example use:
`copilot setup and activate a python virtual environment`
-> python3 -m venv .venv && source .venv/bin/activate

`copilot clean up my docker images`
-> docker image prune
reminds me of the poem `The Genius of the Crowd` by Charles Bukowski

two snippets from the poem

AND The Best At Murder Are Those
Who Preach Against It.
And The Best At Hate Are Those
Who Preach LOVE
AND THE BEST AT WAR
--FINALLY--ARE THOSE WHO PREACH
PEACE
Those Who Preach GOD
NEED God
Those Who Preach PEACE
Do Not Have Peace.
THOSE WHO PREACH LOVE
DO NOT HAVE LOVE

and

BEWARE Those Who Are Quick To Censure:
They Are Afraid Of What They Do
Not Know

Beware Those Who Seek Constant
Crowds; They Are Nothing
Alone

Edits: Formatting
It's not doxing if it's public information. News at 11.
Is there any evidence that this is somehow a bigger/more common problem on Twitter vs on any other major platform? Reddit, Facebook, online forums, Tumblr, etc all seem equally likely to have these same problems. Seems like Snapchat was also named in a lot of these articles.

What's the deal with picking on Twitter specifically? Were they especially negligent compare to these other platforms?
That's the problem with federation. It's the same thing as choosing Gmail for your email address. You pick a server and you're bound to whatever they choose to do. You then have to spend an inordinate amount of time to find one that aligns with your ideals. Or just stay on Twitter.
That's what everyone says right before they get disrupted[0]. So your bet might not be wrong, but your reason probably is.

[0] I feel like The Innovator's Dilemma is one of those things everyone should at least skim, so they know where the hype around a term like "disruption" came from and what the word originally meant. agilemanifesto.org is another one.
>... and then wiping all of chanserv and nickserv and starting from scratch.

I'd followed the saga in realtime up until just before this point. I had no idea that homeboy went scorched earth. Jfc lol.
I'm not surprised. Elon might have enabled a couple cool technology companies to live and he's good at shitposting (in a good way), but he couldn't be farther away from libertarian ideals IMO. What's happening on Twitter right now is pretty much what I expected.
Ah, so it looks like it’s all just an insane PR stunt.
Took me some good few seconds to realize that it's not about the slightly better RSS - and I have used Atom-the-editor in the past.
10 meters is still way too much - have another look at your own source - we’re talking an extra meter at best over typical highs - again nowhere near 10m even with the worst case meter of rise in the next 100 years.
The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases.

--Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy