skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Between this and the blue-check thing it's like he doesn't get that the primary draw of the site is high-volume posters and/or famous people who(se PR teams) post. Like, ease of finding and reading (plus interacting with—responding, rewteeting, et c) posts by famous (or at least Internet-famous) power users is the main reason Twitter's a bigger draw than, say, Mastodon. If people just wanted to read their non-famous pals' posts, they could do that on any chat app.

It'd be like YouTube charging top creators for access (sure, the blue checks aren't "access", but they're a huge discovery-aid and solve problems for Twitter) then also cutting off any 3rd-party tools those creators use to make their jobs easier, which would obviously be a giant WTF. Why on earth would you make things more difficult for the very people providing the content that makes your site worth anything to begin with!
To add to the list, the c/c++ extensions, remote ssh, remote containers and intellicode are also closed source.
> What _is_ a "better" way to kill millions of animals a year?

Not millions. Billions.

https://animalclock.org
Granted I've only attempted the Amazon interview of the FAANGs, but good job to the OP for cracking the FAANG interviews with only 60ish leetcode questions. I'm at 150 and have yet to crack any.
> Batteries are a nightmare at grid scale from an environmental perspective.

Which part[0], exactly? I think most people dramatically overestimate the level of "nightmare", and battery contents are highly recyclable. We don't have a ton of battery recycling right now because there aren't enough failing batteries yet to support the necessary facilities, but several companies are starting to ramp up.

Also worth considering that even after a battery is "too old" to use in an EV, it is perfectly fine to use in stationary storage applications for quite awhile longer ("reuse") even before it is time to recycle and rebuild those components into a new battery.

> It's fundamentally far more difficult and costly to adjust supply (or to buffer with storage) than it is to reduce demand during periods of low renewable generation. As more EVs and their chargers come online, instantaneous load reductions become cheap and easy - and possible.

I completely agree with this, and most people either can't or won't see this point in discussions about renewables. The more predictable load that comes online, the easier it is to justify more production. Even if that production is using so-called "intermittent" renewables, when the need arises, asking people to voluntarily avoid charging for a day would be equivalent to adding a huge amount of production suddenly, just by removing load. (And EVs have enough range for a week of normal commuting for most people, easily. The few people who need to charge desperately would be able to charge without problems.) If you pay people for volunteering to participate in Demand Response, you will get plenty of volunteers.

"Demand response" is a critical part of the grid of the future.

[0]: https://cen.acs.org/content/dam/cen/97/28/WEB/09728-cover-sc...
> a pesky nuclear reactor would surely also endanger their precious oil and gas profits

(A), stop taking obviously unserious legislation seriously, it's a bad look.

(B), they can comfortably rely on other jurisdictions having their heads shoved way too far up their own assholes that those other jurisdictions will not ever adopt nuclear, and will therefore remain reliable oil and gas customers.
because yours is a manipulative false dichotomy as demonstrated by the second question.
Also the activist claimed they have recorded many of those for days. I am ready to bet we are not looking at the mildest take.
From Zero to main(): Bare metal C (2019)
companies in this business will not change until forced via regulation or consumer preference. It's not like they can advertise or explain more human slaughter methods on the package.
> I don't think Mastodon is a good replacement for Twitter at all, but I am going to have to try it.

What exactly leads you to believe it's not a good replacement, especially considering you haven't tried it?
At over a billion a year in interest payments to just service the debt is going to be hard. Twitter, before Elon, was already losing a couple hundred million a year. It has to be worse now.

I do agree that Morgan Stanley and the other financiers are going to be the kids without a chair when the music stops.
Why Tipping Is Impossible to Get Rid of in America
Twitter could think of this as a kind of lead-generation / user retention system.

Of course, Blue is essentially a bandaid of $8/mo/user over the gaping chest would that is the cost of the leveraged buyout ($13B) so I doubt Musk would consider tearing of pieces of that bandaid for goodwill or lead gen.
Thanks. I suspected the answer might be "we're only concerned with characterizing extremely macroscopic behavior" and you confirmed that.
"It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX."
- Paul Graham https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961
Has any company tried revenue sharing with 3rd party clients?

Imagine a free tier of tweetbot got a slice of ads clicked in it. Premium ad free modes could be shared too.
I still use SVN professionally, but new projects use git.

When you've got a ton of projects and their associated deployment pipelines all using SVN, the cost of migrating is non-zero. Someday I'll probably start (slowly) migrating, but the benefits just aren't great enough to make it a priority.
They didn't learn much of anything, though. Twitter lost money when they played nice, and they lose less money when they play mean and lean. Either way Twitter was bloated and overvalued, but anything bought with wealth leveraged against Tesla shares can't be worth much in the first place.
To a European this kind of description always boggles the mind.

Having been in the field for 12 years, with a degree in CS, worked as a senior IC and been personally responsible for critical projects at financial institutions and startups alike, the highest wage I have ever had was 75k. And this is in western Europe.

In a way I hope that in the near future more US firms start looking outside their boarders when hiring.

Because there is plenty of hungry talent here just waiting for a chance.
Software is not dominated by caucasians. If anything, Asians and Indians are overrepresented and I see no problem with that.

Anyone is free to pursue a career in software.
Twitter sets a dangerous precedent on API policy although this hasn't been their first time doing so (https://nordicapis.com/twitter-10-year-struggle-with-develop...)

With feature iteration at Reddit accelerating since 2019, they may opt to do the same eventually should a desperate squeeze of user metrics/ad revenue becomes necessary down the road. Public APIs helped Reddit rapidly grow its userbase on a lean crew. It'd be a shame to see that goodwill being burned in the never-ending chase for quarterly performance results.
I assure you, even if the technology one day is fully unsupervised, with minimal involvement from the humans, no carbon emission, etc, people will still publish the exact same articles, form unions, protest, etc: we are abused, there is inequality and exploitation, the productivity gains of technologies must be equally shared regardless of the contributions, introduce ever higher taxation, and so on.

Amazon apparently pays around $25/hour to its starting warehouse workers. That’s 1k per week for 40 hours per week, or around 4k/month. That’s more than what French government pays its rocket scientists. People can discover their market rates based on their skills, and are free to work for another employer. There is no lock down.
Oh, I didn't mean letting the clients support them, I meant making the clients support them and feature them how Twitter wanted them to.

E.g. if they wanted to change the notifications defaults everywhere to showing the "verified" notifications first, as a way to promote sales of Twitter Blue... good luck getting the third party clients to go along with that without some serious coercive micromanagement.
I totally agree.

I'd also extrapolate on "If you have no goal, school (and more debt) probably isn't going to help." because I agree with that.

Instead of making school the goal, recognize that School leads to a goal of a "Skill set" / "Knowledge base" Therefore, the Skill Set & Knowledge Base are actually the goal. And both can be had without school.

As can credentials-- in the form of certificates, rather than school. I am a software developer at a "Fortune 1000" company and my company likes employees to have certifications. I am currently studying for a Kubernetes certification for example.

Anyway, to get back to the idea of a goal--

I'd pick a goal based on what is in demand in the economy. For this, you can check out the Bureau of Labor Statistics -- such as by googling: "BLS Fastest Growing Occupations" and/or checking this page to get a sense of projected job openings vs. salaries: "Visualize it: Wages and projected openings by occupation" https://www.bls.gov/careeroutlook/2019/article/wages-and-ope...

I recommend picking a goal of a developing skillset for an occupation which doesn't require a degree, but which focuses on the skill set instead. But that said, a degree is OK too... it's just that: 1. it's expensive (in the US at least), 2. it takes years, 3. many classes in most degrees aren't applicable to jobs.
Everyone knows that eating meat requires the slaughtering of animals. But I think people prefer not to know the details.

The kill is never a pleasant thing to watch however it is carried out and this method is overall quite humane. I suspect most of the stress is created by the transportation (which is often not very kind on the animals) and the unknown environment.
> SVN had a great feature set, and a great way to handle merges, and sane defaults.

Are you kidding? Subversion had a notoriously awful way of handling merges, which was a huge driver of people onto Git as soon as it appeared. You truly had to have been there to believe it, but in all but the simplest of merge scenarios, declaring branch bankruptcy and manually moving things back into the target branch by hand was your only real option. Early to mid 2000s, the most common team branching strategy I saw with subversion was "there's only one branch and everybody does all the development in it because god help you if you try to put it back together after branching for something".

It wasn't until well after the momentum was clearly in Git's favour and a huge chunk of the user base was gone that Subversion finally fixed it to not be complete dogshit.
I've only used Desmos occasionally, but I like typing math in it. Desmos also supports juxtaposition multiplication.
Wallowa county (can't believe I'm talking about Wallowa county on the internet...) is a really unique place... my guess is that cooler heads will prevail there because they don't gain anything by joining Idaho. Hell's canyon blocks them from easy transit connections to Idaho - there's basically one road in and out of the county, realistically speaking. They don't gain anything by making a switch - money ties are to Portland already.
I haven't looked into F# pipelines for a while, because they seemed so bloated to me that it hurts. Isn't it that this:

a = b|>c(%,7)|>d(%)

Becomes something like this in F# pipes?

a = b|>(b)=>c(b,7)|>d

If not, what does it become?

My suggestion is much shorter:

a = b,7~>c~>d
Thank you for sharing. Very happy that you got out of that toxic environment. Please consider seeking help (professional help) outside of work though, if you haven’t already. You’ve stopped the bleeding so to speak, but recovery is not something you should do all on your own. Those bad feelings can come rushing back very easily even if you never look back. Seriously, please take care.
"It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX." - Paul Graham https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961
An incomplete guide to stealth addresses
In Diamond Age the book is being performed by a skilled actor who is voicing many characters using a script entirely generated by the AI.
I don't get the outrage. Yea, when you eat meat somebody had to kill that animal. It used to be your grandpa, so it was more personal. Now it's very abstract and industrialized. But people act like this is some sort of war crime. We all knew animals had to die for our food, and most of us (including me) are ok with it.

Of course I'm against unnecessary cruelty, but often these "outrage" videos from animal rights activists show nothing particularly disturbing.
That’s a fair question. I honestly haven’t “fought” for my projects probably as much as I should.

Some of this is a result to how their criticisms are shared. Often, they will initially softly praise my efforts (“that’s a good idea, but we need to discuss it more before going live with it”).

Then, time passes, we put out other fires, other ideas for unrelated projects get discussed.

Often throughout, the problem that my (now on hold) project attempts to solve will come up multiple times. At some point, I remind them that I have a potential solution ready to go, but we still need to discuss it before going live, as they requested.

I get a “yes we will, soon” response once or twice, until finally they mention something superficially wrong and easily fixed about it (“the order of the form items need to be switched around” or “we should add a summary screen” type trivialities) and is then used as a reason why, instead of spending a day finishing the project up, we should instead focus our time on x, y, or z (none of which are even actionable projects yet).

At which point I cave. Every once in a while I get irritated to the point of blurting out something snarky when the problem presents itself (“you know, we could be done with problems like these if we had implemented my idea”) only for me to follow it up with some joke to smooth it over and not sound so bitter.

I’m sure there’s a better way for me to fight for these projects, and I hope as I become more inclined to leave, I’ll have more backbone to try them out and commit to it.
because the rarest sources of the web were relatively speaking much more popular back then when the internet had about 20 pages in total. The entire scale of the web has been growing x-fold every year.

So what was relatively relevant back then is now irrelevant to a general audience and as a result has been pushed back. You could argue Google should bias search much more towards individual history but that has its own pitfalls, both in terms of results and privacy wise.

Basically blame your fellow searchers for clicking and wanting big brand stuff, Google just gives you what the internet considers relevant.
> that's how the vet put my dog to sleep

Do vets really do this? My dog was put down with a tranquilliser.
100% concur, but don't delete your account. Don't let someone else take the username. Delete your tweets and wipe your profile, but let it sit dormant. Forever.
I had to google PWR and it stands for pressurized water reactor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressurized_water_reactor

What are the alternatives?
> They would likely be better off in the long term

It's quite a dangerous mindset to think that taking freedom away from other people is a good thing because you know better.

In some cases you will be correct. In others, millions will die.
Right. If there was a crazy brutal one, we'd be seeing that one.
Just don't
> a book that appears to be AI but is really operated by low-paid humans in 3rd world countries

Uhm actually :) the AI definietly writes the text itself, and takes care of Nell, and senses the environment around itself, but for plot reasons it can’t do voice synthesis. So it employs humans to read up the words. At least until Nell learns to read.

So it is not just appears, but it is in fact an AI, with a veneer of human voice on it.
Last time I checked I couldn't upload all my MP3 libraries and then download it back easily, and I think I had some problem finding some Asian songs as well.
What's the state of Idris2 at this point? I really enjoyed Type Driven Development with Idris a few years ago.
The difference here is that Twitter had been going downhill for a while before the recent changes. In 2022 people were already using it grudgingly, out of inertia. Not addiction or excitement.

Even before Musk, I consciously anticipated that a disruption to my chosen chronological feed client would mean the end of my time on Twitter. I prepared for it. I've started to wean and haven't missed it as much as I assumed I would. It's a relief as much of an imposition. I've tried out other ways of browsing content.

There's no one service that will end up being exactly what Twitter was, but neither had Twitter been for a while. The various degradations of the experience over the last few months only had to be bad enough to get us to realize what we already sensed, that Twitter is in its Facebook era. It will still be running in 5 years because it's too big to die quickly. But it's on the downward slope of its cultural relevance. A year from now it will be the equivalent of that-site-your-grandparents-use.
I don't know why you're being downvoted. Your point is valid. Many arguments can be made against the article's critique, but the analogy used by the comment above yours is rejecting the very idea that these companies can be criticized at all.
Nostr is waiting in the wings. It will be a real threat to Twitter, FB and all of the SV social apps in a year or two, imo. Development is increasing by the week. Nostr clients also have something that Twitter, FB and other SV platforms lack: a built in payment system.

https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
Interesting, that one does sound more similar to "Skogsrået"[1]. With the possible exception that Skogsrået was very beautiful, as long as you didn't see her from behind. Apparently there were many different creatures watching over the forest in Scandinavia and the rest of Europe.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skogsr%C3%A5
I mean, I understand the engineer part of me that says hey, it's a widely used public API, don't shut it down all at once you dick.

But there is another part of me that wonders if all these folks who say "I have 100k tweets and I'll only use the unofficial clients" aren't betraying more than they think: All the twitterati pro-users who schedule tweets daily... Are they good for the platform? I'd lean towards a soft "maybe?" but that's only intuition and nothing else. It's entirely possible that destroying as much of the automation abilities of more powerful clients is -exactly- what would benefit twitter the most.
I'm test-driving Mammoth right now, and spent a couple weeks in MetaText (which is I think not maintained anymore, but it worked fine).
We use SVN still. I'd like to switch to Git soon, given tooling like CI/CD is better/more available with Git, but apart from that it works.

That said, SVN works, and I do think the learning issue is the primary obstacle for us moving to Git.

It should be said we're a small team though, 10 devs. I can imagine Git looking a lot more attractive to a larger team.
Two benefits of UUIDs:

1. You can create a series of related rows without hitting the DB to obtain the next integer.

2. During development, if you mix up ids you will get an error/empty result. With integer keys you might get a row you didn't intend to get, hiding the error.
I don't see why somebody would feel guiltier about this than wearing Nike shoes?

It'll make a cottage industry of "data made in the USA"

It continues to answer the question: can the west run without maintaining a dedicated underclass -- no.

Should we be paying even less to make sure that we can keep that going? If those people get richer, these systems that benefit us will stop working
This page suggests that rodents exposed to gradually increasing CO2 concentrations die painlessly because:

> "[...] analgesia is induced at approximately 7.5%, and anesthesia is induced at 30%, with death due to nervous system depression occurring with prolonged concentrations of 30% and higher."

https://rsawa.research.ucla.edu/arc/euthanasia-rodent/

Seems dubious to me, since even very low concentrations of CO2 can make humans feel very uncomfortable (the "stuffy room" feeling, where getting fresh air starts to be the only thing you can focus on.) It's possible that rodents, being smaller, go through these stages of suffocation faster so their suffering is less apparent to people. Or maybe lab workers are telling "white lies" because they think the ends justify the means but they're not sure the rest of the public will see it that way.
Construction costs are the big cost in nuclear power. Uranium comprises between $0.0015/kWh and $0.000015/kWh.

You don't really need armed security, but a couple guys with guns in America are a dime a dozen.

Decomissioning is $300-400M after a 30-50Y lifecycle and operators are generally allowed to collect that money over the plant life. [1] That's compared to the $17B in construction costs for Vogtle.

[1] https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/d...
Buffer and Hootsuite have both said that they are unaffected
I am very much not a vegan and I love my meat, but as someone whos family was gassed in gas chambers during the holocaust - I had intense anxiety watching this. Not sure how I feel about it.
I've yet to be disappointed at Elon's ability to wreck things in such a rapid, bizarre fashion.
Onboarding Driven Documentation
Instead add FTP version control support with the ability to create backup files.
Git is much better at it nowadays thanks to Git LFS which just stores the blobs.
> Given the state of the market and how corporations are treating their human capital nowadays do you think an union for software developers is a viable thing?

I mean, we/they are still getting treated better than majority of other people.

I'm not convinced unions would make things better. Teachers and nurses(not an exhaustive list, just the first things that came to mind) have unions and are still criminally underpaid compared to the value they provide to society.

A SW union would probably normalize the salary range to bring the floor up and the ceiling down. And reward seniority/time served compared instead of performance reviews, like other unionized jobs.
Exactly. I was fired from a tech job a decade ago and I found plenty of food to eat in the dumpsters and it wasn't hard to get enough day labor cleaning up puke that I was able to buy a tarp to sleep under.

Joking, but this also a true story.
Even then... for many companies the past couple years have opened up competition nation-wide. I'm able to compete for higher salaries with companies used to paying that along with what was only local talent before, while living in an area with comparatively lower cost of living and would like to move with that in mind (locked in until interest rates improve).

The same works in the other direction, and it kind of sucks for companies in areas where income isn't as high having to compete for talent against others with much deeper pockets. It's been interesting to say the least.

Unfortunately, I've seen the govt operating against unions... looking at the railway and airlines and think they're really on the wrong side of this, as much as I don't want to be more inconvenienced from strikes, they should be able to do so. I feel the govt does more harm than good in the US and would prefer a little less picking winners and losers in the mix. On the same note, I don't think they're playing their hands well at all to establish domestic production and security fia application of tariffs and FDA requirements.
three(two(one(value)))

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value |> one() |> two() |> three()

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a=one(value);
a=two(a);
three(a);

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pipe(value, one, two, three)

all seem fine but nr 2, where does the return value from three() end up?