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> #2 and #3 seems like obvious places to direct public funds via government, being investments in public goods. In the USA, this can be done either through executive agencies, or by Congress. Is Congress unaware of the issue, or is there some political jockeying that prevents it? It seems like maybe it's worth redirecting funds from other basic research (medical or otherwise) into this area for at least a few years.

This problem disproportionately affects gay men and sex workers (of any gender/orientation), and the government's track record with public health issues that affect gay men is... pretty bad. The HIV epidemic began in 1981, and the first FDA-approved condom for anal sex didn't appear until 2022.

Heck, there wasn't even an FDA-approved gonorrhea test for gay men until 2019.

Or if you want something more recent, look at how badly the US government botched the Mpox epidemic. The US literally had Jynneos vaccines ready to go, and at multiple points either failed to arrange for the logistics of using them or (in more egregious displays) simply refused to administer them altogether.

The US government's mishandling of Mpox response has been so egregious that unless you were following it closely, you'd think sounds like satire or a conspiracy theory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/29/opinion/monkeypox-covid-a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/25/nyregion/nyc-monkeypox-va...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/01/nyregion/monkeypox-vaccin...
Twitter had a decade to implement something simple like this and didn't. I assume that there are technical reasons that it's hard to do with their codebase and it's simply not worth the time and money to do so.
Related, How Semiconductors Ruined East Germany: https://youtu.be/cxrkC-pMH_s
Honestly some days I forget I'm not using twitter. Same with the normal Mastodon web interface. Once you get into it properly it all kinda blurs away. Way more interactions on there than I had before too.
> CTO role diminishes significantly relative to the CEO.

Really? How? If the business keeps growing, the tech will too.
Thanks an Affinity.

I don't remember hearing about them, but I see HN has discussed it before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33530356

Perhaps you could do a Tell HN post? I'm also wondering what's happening with Adobe acquiring Figma. There's https://penpot.app/ I took a look and saw that this is still there :) https://www.figma.com/figma-vs-adobe-xd/
HN gets this question like once a week. There is nothing stopping you. You're asking this because you're either looking for a reason not to start or something to attribute failure to because you're afraid of failing.
I can't say I totally saw this coming, but when Elon started talking about the WeChat/Everything App/X, the writing was on the all for 3rd party clients.

Still, a very shortsighted move.
Why am I not surprised that the bots rise again?

They will destroy everything that could be good, by empowering a tiny, tiny minority of malicious actors under the cover of serving a few real needs.
I'm pretty sure things would reach a stable equilibrium in one generation without human activity. But I guess we'll never know either way.
Watts is a measure of energy over time.
I like decorators as a concept... but there have been a couple different implementations now... the TypeScript version is probably the most broadly used, but there were others before it via Babel (formerly 6to5).

I was an early adopter of the original decorators proposal as well as the F#-style pipeline operators. The more time has moved on and other bits made it into JS proper, I'm far more inclined to stick to what's "in the box"... Have even considered just writing straight JS + ESM (modules). Of course, I also like JSX, though not sure of any proposals of how to get that "in the box" as e4x died on the vine and a lot of other efforts didn't gain much traction either.
For this case, the biggest tell of quality is the existence of a block diagram, schematic, or equations.

But, even without images, the "explore further" recommendations are fantastic, with direct links to research papers. Google seems to not recommend research papers (zero on my results).
Reminds me of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Man
Sorry, but I haven't seen his code base, and I don't know any significant technical achievement of his other than spamming everybody with Chrome download links everywhere to make it the number 1 browser (it was a great strategy, but not enough to run a company).

Google is paying Jeff Dean, the guy who even after was famous for a lot of things, after imagenet challenge result came out, stopped everything else, read research papers for a week, and implemented a system that separates dogs from cats with unprecedented precision.

People like Jeff Dean or Demis Hassabis are the kind of people who can make me stop everything I'm doing and listen to them when they say that the company should go into a direction.
It's pretty sad that you have to advocate for macros on a site called Hacker News nowadays. They aren't even terribly different from frameworks (which everyone loves): incorrect usage generates a stack trace you need to decipher.
It was always odd to me that entire businesses relied on what was essentially the goodwill of a corporation. I think the same about things like microG in the Android world. They just… use Google’s API without paying and yet we think it’ll all work out?
it's starting to get really hard to believe that, as people repeat 'wow, search used to be better and now it's trash', remembering only the good parts, rewriting their memories of it, and just having it literally be 'well somebody said it, so it must be true'. 'i remember how it used to be a decade ago', well, sure you do. and yeah, somebody could dig out their search history takeouts and do some kind of opinionated pondering about it, but this ain't it.

and if one wants to experience real search results difference, just switch back to, say, duckduckgo for a bit, and see how many times you just end up giving up and googling stuff instead.
Actually I just found one of the primary sources on this [1]. Its pretty interesting and not what I said above.

In his original 1986 poly, he popped on one question but basically smooth talked his way out of it so it never was something that required followup (i.e. they were sufficiently convinced he was a good guy). In the 1991 poly it gets more interesting because the entire poly was partially a ruse because he was _already under investigation_. Due to timing, the interviewer didn't get coached to dig in on specifics around financial issues, and so they followed a bog-standard interview which Ames passed. The really interesting quote around this is how the postmortum basically says this was a bad poly because they didnt play enough mind games to get him nervous in the first place:

In its review of the Ames polygraphs, the CIA IG report quotes several current and former polygraph examiners who stated that the Ames case should not be considered to be a polygraph "chart interpretation" problem. Rather, they say, the fundamental problem is that the 1986 and 1991 polygraph charts were invalid because the examiner in each case failed to establish a proper psychological atmosphere in the examination sessions. A former polygrapher noted that without proper preparation, a subject has no fear of detection and, without fear of detection, the subject will not necessarily demonstrate the proper physiological response. Consequently, they surmise, the Ames polygraph tests were invalid because the process was flawed by examiners who had not establish the proper psychological mind set in Ames because they were overly friendly. As a result, Ames's physiological reactions were unreliable.

[1] - https://irp.fas.org/congress/1994_rpt/ssci_ames.htm
> The project was indeed Jef's, but his vision was very text-oriented.

From the descriptions I have read, I get the impression that text-oriented is both an excellent description and somewhat misleading.

I don't know if you knew him or his work of that era well enough, but it's still worth asking: is it a case of Raskin viewing computers as fundamentally text-oriented, or a case of him viewing people's interaction with computers as fundamentally text-oriented (i.e. through a keyboard).

The reason why I bring this up is because people seem to have very particular views of what text-oriented means these days. For some it will be the command driven interface of the Unix shell. For others, it will be memories of MS-DOS applications (many of which adopted WIMP-like metaphors in the later days). Neither perspective seems to reflect Raskin's vision.
As someone who actually loves JavaScript, I think this is a really bad idea.

Maybe it has a place in other languages. I really don't want to see it in JS. We don't need more ways to do things implicitly or bass-ackwards from how they're actually behaving underneath. Syntactic sugar rarely makes code more readable. This operator only makes code seem more concise and as if it's executing in a way that it actually isn't.

I can absolutely see junior developers running wild with this kind of thing.

JS should be kept simple. This operator is not simple. It now makes understanding expressions more complicated. JS has its quirks and rough edges, but its power is in its simplicity. Please do not import the mistakes of other languages into JavaScript. If someone wants this operator, they should be forced to use a Babel transform or to compile their own JS interpreter.

OR just compile your favorite language runtime with the pipe operator to WASM.
Had a similar problem, wrote some js for TamperMonkey, and now TM runs my script whenever Youtube.com/* is loaded.

Youtube doesn't decide what I see, I decide that. Youtube merely offers me data that I filter.

Seems taking the web into my own hands is the only solution for this, I'm sure Youtube and other sites couldn't care less about their users.
Which is not illegal. If I take a very high res picture of your house from the street, that’s not illegal either, although you probably wouldn’t like it
Late to the party, but: isn't it terribly obvious that they could? Don't all mammals? Or, for that matter, vertebrates?
They could change the TOS, but actually enforcing would be difficult. You'd have to have something like the app store review process. And another goal here is probably to get everyone using the same clients so they have more control over the experience.
Anti-microbial stewardship is, by far - very far, the most important imperative in medicine (including animal husbandry) right now.

It's absolutely alarming that a dubious story about viral exposure at a wet market can gain so much undeserved traction worldwide, while the unquestioned use of antibiotics at factory farms elicits barely a word.

A safe and effective vaccine, while welcome and important, only kicks this can down the road - and not very far. The threats of resistant pathogens are difficult to overstate.

Let's start talking seriously about this issue. Please. Tell your friends.
One note regarding uuid.
It doesn't need to imply it is random. That's specific v4.

V5 are predictable uuids.
That combine a ns uuid and a string, via sha1 based one way mapping resulting in a uuid.
Are there places were they'd receive less regulation, such as on federal land or a military base?
Interestingly, in Australia for young children, Bexsero is part of a recommended vaccine schedule (not compulsory). Both my kids have had it!
The mRNA vaccines have an effectiveness of approximately 90%. The inactivated virus vaccines have a "low" effectiveness like approximately 60% (that is not negligible!).

Are the inactivated virus vaccine more profitable than the mRNA vaccines?
I gave you a whole list of issues, and you address two of them - one of which is actually a huge boon to system stability and update stability. The other, you say "never tried it".
> I take full responsibility for the decisions that led us here

That's a meaningless statement. They never face any consequences. A CEO taking responsibility for layoffs should add their name to the list too.
Why is this women’s fault somehow?
Show HN: I made an open-source LinkTree alternative
That is not even remotely close to what this article is about. Tweetbot is the name of an extremely popular iOS Twitter Client. This article has nothing to do with bots, at all.
> I know how drug development works, but thank you.

No reason to get angry, nobody knows you from Adam. If you don't want to be treated like you're an idiot, post to a different website. The whole point of Hacker News comment sections is to see who can pretentiously promote their own alleged genius at the expense of everyone else
That's what I thought as well. They need money badly, and they have an obvious way to get it - monetize the API so that third party clients can continue using Twitter while building a business on top of it.

Yet instead of supporting the strong ecosystem they already have and nurturing a symbiotic relationship with it, they burn it all?
Right now I would not; not only does it make errors, it literally makes up references, book titles, etc. to "justify" some results. It's nearly a pathological liar at present.
Uggh. If there's one thing I would want to be super stable it would be my version control!
If you can find a used Remarkable 2 or something, that's a real nice experience. Great for textbooks and comics.

You can buy them new, but I think they've moved to some fairly insane forced subscription model.

Edit: looks like the forced subscription is no longer as bad as it once was
If they did some kind of revenue share (from Twitter Blue) with the third party clients their users are using, it might even provide useful funding for some of the otherwise non-commercial ones.
I just went through a a devastating break up and the pain was so intense I finally had the motivation to find a therapist and actually show up to an appointment. I've never done therapy before. No one's gonna help you until you help yourself. If you desperately want help you'd actually find some. Otherwise all I'm seeing is excuses.
Because Musk shoots from the hip all the time. And he’s always smartest person in the room.
At work I am always hopping between F# and JavaScript and I'm convinced that if more people had this experience they would want the pipe operator in JavaScript.

Unfortunately it's hard to convey the advantages to those who haven't used it. Maybe it's because it's such a simple bit of syntatic-sugar?
Paying extraordinarily higher than average wages in a poor country has downsides - most likely they'll be stolen (since most charity is stolen) but it also annoys the government when eg local doctors stop their practices to work for you.
I wonder what percentage of users use a non-official client.

Apparently most creators use a third party client at least, so this seems sure to do some damage to the Twitter experience.
I mean, the answer is a "yes, in theory". True, prophylactic gear has limitations. However, there's also prophylactic planning/techniques, or auxiliary gear that could cover those other things.

All this is rather pointless to point out, since the people with the issues are generally not following basic prophylactic guidelines (or even common sense in many cases). So in reality, the answer is "no", because we some people won't follow preventative programs.
It was not spam though, and you'd think it'd be fairly easy for Google to figure that out when they control the whole round trip.
Apple is in the business of selling new computers not buying back used ones. They are never going to offer a good price for buy backs. Go somewhere else if you want to sell your computer.
In "MBA" run orgs that don't value good engineers and have poor career paths for engineer individual contributors, you see this a lot. But not in a good way.

Not everyone is conscious of managing their career, but the engineers that are figure out that they either need to find a better company or become a manager to be promoted. If they are just going into management to get a promotion, sometimes they end up doing a good job, but often hate it and do a terrible job. They certainly aren't in it for the long haul. As soon as they meet the minimum commitment (1-2 years), jump back to engineering as individual contributors.

That pattern is not one that makes for better managers or better engineers. It's toxic. And the engineers who are willing to "game" the system like that are sometimes a bit political vs. focused on getting work done anyway. But then, in places like that, everything is toxic.

Point is, if you find yourself in a place like that and you just want a promotion - don't do it. Instead, go somewhere else that has a career path that can support you in what you want to do and are good at.
There are multiple types of 10x programmer of which I was each at some point in time and shall be when things align. 1st type is "expert" with accumulated memorized domain and code base knowledge as well as organically used tools enabling to scale productivity. 2nd is autocode/reduce-ambiguity which is sweet. 3rd is smart out of the box quiet lazy type to point the right angle at the right time/space to save and this type is the sweetest :-)
Thanks. FWIW I wasn't trying to "yuck your yum" for gun folks. Just not my personal bag of tea. I was raising it as an example of how useless the feedback mechanisms were for correcting the recommendation engine, not trying to draw some line between gun content and Nazi loving.
Your calculation is wrong. UK prices and German prices are quoted VAT-inclusive, so £999 already includes VAT @ 20% and the German figure includes 19% MwSt. £999 is all you'll pay. In the US you will pay an additional amount at the register based on local sales tax, for example in Cupertino you will pay an additional $91 of sales tax bringing your total up to $1,090. Converted to USD the price difference is almost entirely tax (9.125% vs 20% on a $1k purchase).
Wouldn't a WeChat type of approach mean encouraging third party clients/integrations/etc?
I wonder how much savings in infrastructure is getting musk from this move.
Yep, every time a natural disaster strikes other states and the federal govt will be asked to pick up the tab because they refuse to have enough tax revenue to meet basic needs of their citizens. Happens already with other states.
Seems like the pre-recession culling has already started.

And as always, it's a shift to AI. /s
No, that was for firehose access when Twitter bought Gnip.

There was a big fuss over third-party clients being limited to 100k users. Twitter fairly quickly walked back that limit (with additional verification and rules specific to clients reaching that size being required).
The circular reasoning is entertaining, as the low priced labor is theoretically generating the AI to be the ultimate labor-saving technique. But you don't need to save "too cheap to meter" labor. What was the last thing that was "too cheap to meter?" Ah yes nuclear power. Look how that turned out.

The two problems with trying to save the world via AI are the cheapest self driving car is a passenger train driven by "too cheap to automate" human, and an economy based on AI will be too poverty stricken from wealth inequality to permit the AI to generate a profit thus AI is not needed thus no need to destroy everything by applying AI.

The more AI is deployed, the poorer an economy will become, and the cheaper labor will become, making it quite a race to see if the AI gets smarter faster than economic activity implodes.

The most likely outcome of AI boosterism will be something like the environmentalist movement, but anti-AI. Who will be "The Lorax" of anti-AI?
Another short-sighted and bizarre move by a bizarre. fragile, little man.

The number of users on third-party clients could not have been significant enough to justify this. At very least, the developers could have been given some notice or an ounce of respect about API access being phased out.

Not to mention third-party client users are mostly power users who are responsible for a lot of the content on Twitter that the rest consume.

On the bright side, Mastodon has been gaining traction and can't be dismissed anymore. I'm actually using it more than Twitter now. Fantastic clients are coming out like Tapbot's own Ivory and IceCubes, and it's exciting to see what developers can and will do without the confines of Twitter. I'm optimistic this will turn out to be a very good thing for everyone but Twitter and Elon.
I don't think they realise the damage this change has done.

I have been on board with or ambivalent about most of the changes. I don't care if there's less moderation, I think Twitter probably did have too many employees, and I like the idea of a paid account with fewer (preferably no) ads. I'd even have happily paid Twitter to continue using Tweetbot.

But this has destroyed the trust and the user experience of many of the power users who are most engaged with Twitter and who make it a thing other people want to engage with.

I have sent 10,000s of Tweets but I can't see it being much more than a handful more.

I don't think Mastodon is a good replacement for Twitter at all, but I am going to have to try it. The fact that Tapbots are enthusiastically supporting it with Ivory is a good sign (though @tapbots, if you're listening, I'd happily donate 10x more to Ivory as an open source project than you'd make from selling it to me as a closed source app ;-).
This isn't about an emotionally charged issue. The discussion is about the legal test for negligence. It is an objective standard: what a reasonable person would do. The specifics of the individual are irrelevant.
Speaking as someone who had mostly been using the first party twitter app in recent years and so wouldn't have been impacted by this even if I was still actively using twitter, this seems pretty poorly done by Musk.

Shutting down third party clients? It's arguably a valid decision. They presumably want to consolidate the users into directly controlled clients, where they can be advertised to and can have premium subscription features prominently featured. The former could have been rolled into the API, but the latter would have been basically impossible.

But doing it like this is just giving everyone who was a hardcore twitter user (if you use a third party client, particularly one you're paying a subscription for...) a nudge into jumping ship. The alternative approach of announcing the "no more third party clients" API terms change and giving everyone time to wind their apps down would also have generated complaints, but I bet it'd have gotten them better press and user outcomes than this. Hell, just announce "you must have a Twitter Blue subscription to use a third party client" and that might have actually gone well for them.
Having been watching, and a couple times playing with Rust... would definitely like a similar pattern matching system in JS. I still feel the C# syntax for this feels a bit alien `varname switch {...}`.
I have been managing all my existing and new projects with nix for a few years and never look back. Guaranteed to build and run on all my machines.

nix flake new --template "github:nixvital/flake-templates#cpp-starter-kit" my-project

will create a skeleton for my new C++ projects.
Expat in Germany here... that isn't my impression. Rather, many Germans are determined to avoid any kind of military might, display, leadership, and that sort of thing.

So they became Ukraine's third biggest donor while seeming totally reluctant, never displaying any kind of leadership, see?
White Americans Collect 92% of Benefits from Investor Tax Breaks
> Interestingly, in Australia for young children, Bexsero is part of a recommended vaccine schedule (not compulsory). Both my kids have had it!

That's not surprising. New Zealand had a massive outbreak of MenB about ten years ago, resulting in a massive vaccination campaign, which is one of the reasons we actually found out about its effectiveness against gonorrhea in the first place.
Yes it is a competitor to Burpsuite!
You are not a retina. You cant see photons.