skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wouldn't trust Cory Doctorow's anecdotal evidence on Twitter usage. His Like/View ratio is very low, and overall engagement for someone with 486k followers is some of the worst I've seen.

Part of the issue is he spams his followers with retweets constantly, all day. People may not know they can turn off retweets for someone. They may just mute them, and continue to follow.

It's very much like Cory to write a long article about this when really what's happening is him and the people he follows are becoming more irrelevant.

23 likes / 8,722 views = 0.26
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1612122825288208387

44 likes / 9,384 views = 0.46
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1611993024879554560

193 likes / 15,400 views = 1.25
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1611976607845224451

44 likes / 29,300 views = 0.15
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1611858168774098945

162 likes / 48,500 views = 0.33
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1610282255057813504

I had to scroll a long time just to get those 5 because he's constantly retweeting.

1.0 is what you would want. Anything around 0.5 or less is really bad.

He hardly has any replies to his tweets. IMO, replies and quote tweets are what people are using twitter for. He also links off twitter too much.

SocialBlade stats:
https://socialblade.com/twitter/user/doctorow/monthly
> because it would make it hard to start charging again later if we decided it was the wrong decision.

You don't have to tell people it's free. Tell them it's free for the first year, and don't actually charge them for future years. Automatically extend their subscription at 30 days.

Or only charge some people. Or cut them off when it expires, and then extend them 7 days after expiration.

Lots of options if direct revenue isn't super required and you've got room to expirement.
Too little too late. They have burned good faith, and this move stinks of more manipulation. As others suggested, this probably aims to thwart legislative action, and they will make everything available at an inaccessibly exorbitant price point and inexcusable lead times.

Seriously, Deere has been a market leader in alienating customers for years. There is no possibility that this is being done for the benefit of their customers. Mark my works, this move will ultimately be revealed as self-serving. Meanwhile, it should be met with nothing but skepticism by customers.
US tech firms: India's recommended competition act ‘absolutist and regressive’
My two cents is that it feels like you've had an answer to an extreme question, but that answer had more extreme questions that needed to be answered like;

- If your company were to suddenly lose all B2C revenue (without the benefit of increasing your rate of adoption), what would happen? Would your company survive? If not, what would need to be done for your company to survive with only B2B revenue? (More sales training? more enterprise features? resource cuts? or more aggressive growth to fulfill client requirements? etc)

- Compared to those things you said you've needed, how important would be the increased rate of adoption from making your B2C free of charge?

High-risk high-return problems are never easy, but I guess asking these different extreme questions lets you find some low hanging fruits to high-returns or get a plan going to make those moves less risky.
It is brought up every time fast websites/good design is brought up it seems. Not complaining, it's a nice site everyone should see.
That's a San Diego Burrito. A San Franicsco (Mission) burrito, for example, does not have french fries but has Avocado/guacamole.
Which just strengthens my point.
Yep. I've ported myself over to Mastodon in case it is needed. The primary community that I interact with on Twitter has done the same. With that backup in place, everyone is still interacting on Twitter.

The network effects are still quite strong. Search and useful recommendations are still excellent on Twitter.
Step 2. Solicit funds and grants to start programs designed to get Japanese men over 40 interested in sex.

(Europe and the United States immediately follow suit with programs for their men, meanwhile China organizes a yearly parade of its sexual supermen, Russia creates single Pornhub VIP account for the entire country and publishes the password in state newspapers.)
Not necessarily. It could also effectively be a bribe to keep Apple from developing their own search engine.
> and there's what feels like a lot of algorithmic optimization of engagement going on. Finding interesting and informationally accurate accounts to follow is a bit of a struggle, but once you do it's not too bad. I doubt it was drastically different in the past.

I have never been able to use Twitter without this being dropped blatantly on my face. You can't go straight to a Twitter user's profile and read their own messages in a meaningful manner, let alone the main feed or search feed. And don't get me started on the threads and the arcane magic necessary to follow them completely.
Murder Kroger
why not both? public transportation also need to be paired with good local connectivity (I have seen this first hand in sf bay-area). but then if local nimby's dont let local housing built and economic centers dont shift then all this means is people dont have a choice but to commute long distances (I have). I'll tell you the public transportation is definitely doable but it needs a lot more frequency and much better connectivity. definitely not the half assed way SV does it. Also time people spent doing same traveling between driving vs Public transportation needs to be comparable as in maybe 50% more not 2x or 3x (though that would be covered by my higher frequency & better connectivity comment but it needs to be a design consideration).
Don’t pay too much attention to them. Your posts were a big contribution to the discussion and thoughts on here.
There’s a stack of evidence even a small amount of alcohol a week has repercussions - I doubt you’d see the same evangelism if you posted how sometimes a few glasses of red wine helps you tackle thorny problems - but it’s not wholly dissimilar if someone wanted to take the same stance.

Thanks for sharing your story!
Used to be 100% true, but now there's legal weed in some states.
Expats are usually on temporary visas and don't apply for citizenship.
> On the benefit side, few places can saturate a subway line that carries 30,000 passengers per hour.

It should be noted, that this is actually pretty good; this is an investment that will last decades, because it will take that long to fill it up, whereas a highway investment will easily need to be repeated over, and over, and over again. (There's a joke that in some states there are two seasons: winter and road construction.)
1. Teams

2. Windows 10

3. Windows Explorer
ArchiveBox

https://github.com/ArchiveBox/ArchiveBox
Buttttt, it doesn't render as quickly as a React app would.. Think about the DOM! It also probably mutates state, how dare they!

This is proof that if hipster JS programmers disappeared tomorrow the web would flourish once again.
I’ve been in elevators like that and it’s annoying
You sort of have, in Planet of the Apes.
It turns out deserts are actually a huge CO2 sink. Was surprised to learn about this as well
Anyone can download the public key and impersonate that person in a scheme like this.
I tend to think that many people try to over-optimize for joy in their work when doing so is impractical. Context definitely matters. As a founder or early employee you have comparatively a lot more agency in terms of shaping your work environment. At bigger companies you have much less, and you probably don't even understand the context your work matters in. At the end of the day everyone's really working for the board and the shareholders, but in most cases employees can't even tell you who those people even are, let alone what they care about. (Hint, at a sufficiently large public company, it's a good bet that people like managers of pension funds which bought your stock have some very big voices, and barely know what your company's vision is, let alone care, and that's just the nature of the game.)

It's this reality which leads to people inevitably feeling betrayed by a company as it grows - e.g. everyone thinking that "Don't be evil" was a thing Google could and would live up to after becoming successful. But at modern Google scale it is just not a realistic expectation.

There's always another path which is to take a more holistic look at life and say "I may not get a ton of joy from my job, but I source joy from other things that my job enables, so that's OK."
The first-ever vaccine for honeybees has been approved by the USDA
And all these tools struggle with incremental code reviews for some reason.

There are currently two options:

1. Add new commits to an existing branch. Any reviewier always needs the context from the earlier commits.

2. Overwrite the whole branch (force push). Older comments, and generally the delta between different versions of the change request, get lost or are at least very hard to see (e.g., might get mixed with changes from a rebate).

Working with the patch/commit as artifact (as, e.g., Gerrit does it) seems so much more usable for code review that I can only speculate why no big tool offers it. Presumably, it requires too much internal knowledge about git to implement the backend correctly.
This is Taqueria Zorro’s erasure and I will not stand for it :D
Lukashenko is in fact one of the smarter dictators. Putin’s the real knobhead.
Seems pretty simple. Like a noisy restaurant; if everybody is talking at once then nobody can hear anything.
Yeah, but they're mostly associated with Hamburgers these days.
It seems to me that the deaths of Twitter and Facebook are being greatly exaggerated (by this article, and by the vibes generally). A decrease in users is not the same thing as a mass exodus. And I'm frankly skeptical of any claims that Twitter is facing an existential decrease in users.
I love the hats on the drawings. Really dates it.
it's not a San Diego burrito. it's never called that on any menu, and dozens of Mexican restaurants have "California burrito", which is fries. avocado is often not in them at all.
And not in a Russia
Adobe, Microsoft teams, Citrix
Open source WebKit on macOS is practically identical to Safari in behavior. Orion[0] for example ships its own build of WebKit, and it's as close to Safari as e.g. Edge is to Chrome.

[0]: https://browser.kagi.com
Already beyond editing time, but I also have to point out that even if there's no privacy component, there are "personality rights" which restricts showing their likeness without consent (which is also widespread except in few places such as the US).
Paypal does this as well; our money (a lot of money) got locked because our competitor (we found out years later because they were bragging about it) used stolen/fake cards to buy our product. They don’t side with their client; they side with the money/least risk and hassle.

Google does the same with adsense; if you have a competitor which makes a good amount with Adsense, just hire a botnet and have it click ads. Happened to us as well.

They should not care about this and just leave it; they know it could be a competitor more likely than it is you (if you make 7 figures for an extended period of time, why would you suddenly do this?); if they can detect suspicious behaviour, why do they care about it and not just filter it? But nope; you get axed and no one cares. It is really very important to make sure you don’t trust one platform when real real starts coming in.

If you are around long enough, you will have many bad platform stories. Every moment I see money coming in via 1 source, I get nervous and start planning to diversify that dependency.

At the moment Stripe stories keep popping up over here; if you make a lot of money, you should have multiple alternatives or, better, get very close to an acquirer; they will answer your calls and the fees will be lower too; sure it’s more integration work, but if you make enough money, why is that more important than securing your future?
Hookdeck
> However the polish you are used to on dropdowns plus countless other controls you interact with every day require javascript.

Or just a proper GUI framework not based on HTML.
Teams and gsuite by a mile.
I want to agree with your ideals but there are 1,000x more people who read and rarely share. The viewed stat on a top rate hn submission is probably 50,000 views on average where comments are measured in the hundreds.
The land required for industrial non-meat food production has a lot stricter requirements then grasslands. Just replacing them is not possible. In practice a lot of agricultural land is coming from cleared forests and leaves behind eroded soil which is a giant problem. You can keep cattle (or Bisons it seems) on those. With the added benefit of them actually rebuilding the topsoil.

We might actually need something like this.

edit: Then again, bisons are fucking scary. There is a great story i read a while back about the huge starting advantage Europe had vs Africa and America when it came to easy to domesticate animals. Good luck trying to survive riding a Zebra or hunting a Buffalo.

On a sidenote, there is an Island in Africa created by a river which trapped a bunch of Lions and Buffalo. Lions had to evolve to incredible dimensions to hunt successful. Search for Okavango Delta
Actual MOU from BBC's coverage[1]: https://www.fb.org/files/AFBF_John_Deere_MOU.pdf

What's interesting is this appears to be driven by Right to Repair legislation that's been making it's way through various states. There's an explicit ask that AFBF not support any Right to Repair legislation:

"AFBF agrees to encourage state Farm Bureau organizations to recognize the commitments made in this MOU and refrain from introducing, promoting, or supporting federal or state "Right to Repair" legislation that imposes obligations beyond the commitments in this MOU. In the event any state or federal legislation or regulation relating to issues covered by this MOU and/or "Right to Repair" is enacted, each of AFBF and Manufacturer reserve the right, upon fifteen (15) days written notice, to withdraw from this MOU."

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64206913
There is bureaucracy and then there is bureaucracy.

Here is an example: Malaysia and Indonesia. Each country has its own bureaucratic nightmares but you can make useful comparisons.

Malaysia: Easy to get a phone number. Easy to get an internet hotspot to get data. Reliable internet. Internet is fully open (no censorship).

Indonesia: Hard to get a phone number. Confusing choices and prices with Whatsapp/FB mingled in the choices. Have to submit your passport photo to some dodgy dude, who has to get a certain authorization. Took half a day for the Internet to activate. Data is not very reliable. Heavy censorship (not even Reddit works!) so have to get a VPN to do any meaningful browsing.

So sure as an expat you'll face bureaucracy but some countries' issue is beyond bureaucracy, it's that the process is fundamentally broken and no one gives a shit. This makes you lose significant time for relatively simple things (at least in other countries).
- Teams

- Jira

- HP Smart
Well, that's not exactly always true. I've had zero problems with bureaucracy since moving to Australia. My case has been that everything just works - minimal human involvement, and when it's present - it's pretty optimized.

I think that due to the high cost of labour (highest minimal pay in the world) and lack of labour due to higher speed of development - whatever that can be automated has been automated.
If more highways doesn’t fix traffic, how does more housing reduce housing cost? It would seem to merely increase the population.
The algo gets on my nerves sometimes. I don't need to see tweets from Jordan Peterson just because someone I follow, follows Peterson.

I like using saved searches to find stuff that has a minimum amount of engagement:

https://twitter.com/search?q=filter%3Afollows%20-filter%3Are...

Click the three dots to modify or save the Advanced Search. The saved search stays in your search field for easy access.

You still get some of the good parts of the algo in the 'Top' section of the search results.

Lists are a really nice way to dampen the more noisey accounts. I haven't found a way to specify a list in the search results.

Also, you can follow a lot of relevant people, and then specify 'people you follow' in the search. Then if you search for a current event, you can get info from people you trust more.
Hate to be the bearer of bad news but there isn't any crab in them.
That's what they tell you, but like many things they and other post-truth sophists say, it collapses immediately with just a little scrutiny: Hasbro has been a capitalist company since they were founded, and created the prior open gaming licesce.

It's a recent trend - all these 'capitalist' companies operated otherwise for most of their existence. And they did for good reasons, and built the most productive companies and economies in history - all that we have today.
Both the hide and flag buttons have non-trivial consequences, for which thread titles do not provide sufficient context. If they could be limited to the story page, their usage would gain context from comments, and suffer less accidental clicks on mobile.

It's also distracting to have 60 link targets occupying tactile and optical real estate on the front page, when they are rarely pressed. Limiting hide/flag to the story page would reduce front page link targets by one-third.
So be it, many of these vulnerabilities can be used as entry point,

https://vulmon.com/searchpage?q=debian+debian+linux+11&sortb...
> Apple is experiencing a brain drain and again the assholes with the spreadsheets (...) are showing up

> And Tim Cook doesn’t do anything while talking about curation.

Tim Cook is THE asshole with the spreadsheets. He's shown time and again that he's an accountant with absolutely no vision other than "squeeze more money from users".
> and there's what feels like a lot of algorithmic optimization of engagement going on

It's pretty easy not to see these algorithmic optimizations. (1) There's a link on the top right of the home feed that allows you to turn on a chronological feed instead of the algorithm-organized feed (2) Add accounts to a list instead of just "following" a feed (3) Use an app like twidere that allows you to quickly switch between your home feed and list feeds (with the added advantage that twitter promotions and recommendations of accounts to follow are filtered out)

The net result is pretty good. I maintain separate lists of people on either ends (and center) of the political spectrum and it's easy to look at what they're saying and arrive at your own opinion/conclusion.
It really isn't that hard once you have to do it, as long as you have the time to get a test / feedback loop with the client going. They probably had a dozen test versions of the Furbies for whoever was doing QA to play around with.

With the moon lander code, they surely had a very good specification of what it was supposed to do.

I worked with the second case once, some IoT-ish sensors that would be buried in the ground in greenhouses, to monitor soil data. The business logic was 90% specified, and of course, the remaining 10% took 50% of the time. Before you ask why we didn't do it in C at the very least, we had a very solid codebase from the previous products. Sure, we had to port things from a Toshiba microcontroller to an STM8, different architectures, but since we were working with 8 or 16 bits inputs it was kinda trivial to test every single possible input to make sure things matched.

My only previous experience with assembly at a Computer History college course where we coded for the PDP-11, the 6502 and a stack machine. So yeah, not a lot. Winging it while admitting you don't know what you're doing can get you decently far in some circumstances.
Don't these services usually use torrents under the hood though? Thinking about stremio and popcorntime.
It's being blown out of proportion for click-bait reasons. The journalist and the people he interviewed are delusional too (ability of Portugal to tax). There is churn even with the tax rebates because of how bad portgual is. This thing would not work with taxes or expensive prices/real-estate.

Nomadism is ephemeral. The bubble will pop as soon as the new hottest place comes into the picture.
I don't know .. is it that more of these questions get answered, or that when one of these questions gets an answer, we all learn about it?
Great suggestions. We've experimented with a free "student pass" (1/4 our users are university students), but it hasn't had a huge impact. This might be because there's some friction involved.

Our current focus is on revamping our freemium structure, so that instead of 2 weeks of unlimited usage and then extremely limited functionality thereafter, it would instead offer indefinite usage on a limited number of websites (it's a browser plugin that enhances text to make it easier/faster to read). Previously we've (not surprisingly) seen a ton of uninstalls at 2 weeks, and with the new structure we're hoping to hang onto more users for the long haul. Some of them would eventually convert, and some would just continue to think about us and recommend to friends. But another side effect is we could increase the number of 'favorite sites' that people get, up to some arbitrarily large number so it's effectively free unlimited usage.

Interestingly, the development that got us to pull the trigger on this change is the manifest v3 transition, which required us to revamp a lot of stuff about our extension so we figured we'd go for it. If this turns out to be a big plus for adoption, I guess we'll be thankful for being forced into the transition?
On the same topic: https://www.axios.com/2022/03/08/political-polarization-twit...
It was earlier on Stackexchange’s list of “Hot Questions” that appear in the sidebar on their sites. Presumably Google prioritises those in the SERPs.
Ok thanks for your advice i will mend my self
Definitely Teams ! Windows or Linux, both !
Well, selling a business includes the parties signing a number of written contracts and agreements which, in theory, should persist beyond completion. So it’s really not as simple as you say, and certainly not just a simple case of looking at the cap table.
There is no "absolute right to privacy in public", of course.

But distributing or handing over such material is limited and requires usually consent.

Please pay special attention to the second sentence of the cited paragraph.
It gives me great relief to know that we’re still very VERY far from the singularity.
Something needs to be done to avoid the collapse. The layoffs are real, and the stock dips are real.
> They might not have expertise, but they know how to write.

That describes the sophists (by the modern meaning), those who can communicate persuasively but are liars. I'd much rather have the opposite.
I don't know how it works in the US but in a lot of countries unless the "private" parking, road, etc is clearly cut off from the public space (with a gate for example) the law largely considers it public space.
Or: Chrome is the new IE, with MediaSource and other APIs instead of ActiveX.
Do you mean Truffle Security or Microsoft? Bonus points for any explanation (purely out of interest).
Even if one tries to repurpose git for it, git doesn't work well with diffs in binaries
Sonoluminescence is the emission of light from imploding bubble by sound
Also see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanism_of_sonoluminescence
https://archive.is/Nv8jl
Endpoint protection is a racket.