skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just because it is published doesn't mean authors don't retain rights on it. None of that content is public-domain.
https://archive.is/2023.07.01-010720/https://www.wsj.com/amp...
Usually you don't get a raise because you deserve it, you get it because the company believes keeping you will result in a more positive financial outcome in the next few quarters than replacing you.

Plenty of companies give their engineers a chance to pay their tech debt, whether it is bad code, bad infra decisions, etc. If you don't believe some engineer is capable of paying their tech debt, you may as well let them go. Or not give them a raise and hope they leave, which at most places is much cheaper.
> Why not just test your stuff on CentOS Stream or even just Fedora?

Because that doesn't say anything about stuff running on RHEL, and you can test on Debian just as well so why bother?
I’d say that

> why don’t they just divert the Columbia river.

Is very different from the actual comment,

> I am sure they have thought of this but why don’t they “just” divert the Columbia river.

I think it’s an interesting hypothetical question that’s worth asking in good faith, just to understand more.

HN is supposed to be curious, no?
A second and more illustrative case is that within the past day or so, Twitter has stopped letting you see anything (tweets, profiles, etc) unless you're a logged in user of the site.

I like how this article currently is right next to the other one discussing exactly that directly: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36540957

These recent examples have probably also brought to prominence a point that I've always considered to be a given: if you think some data you come across online is important, save a copy --- it might be the last time you'll be able to access that URL. As the old saying goes, "data that is not backed up is data you don't want to keep". Storage costs, relatively speaking, nothing for textual data, and very little for images. Relying on browser bookmarks, or even worse, search engine queries, to find and expect others to continue to provide the content you truly want, seems to be turning out increasingly a bad idea.
You use Uvalde as an example, where the police infamously did not do anything to save the kids and in fact prevented parents from saving their own kids.
I don't follow. I don't have integrity because I'm consistent in my replies?

I also don't see how turning this discussion into ad hominem against myself is meaningful. Attacking that I'm using a throwaway? Seriously?

Yes, my comments may be dark. It's because my view on society is dark. It just does not help to blame big tech for the laziness of people to not want to pay and watch ads instead.
Devious how answering "It's a trap" leads you to Star Trek.
Now there's a name I've not seen in a while.

And, yeah, if memory serves CORBA worked well enough for Gnome but not KDE because the C++ story was not great. Whatever bindings being used were dependent on features not well supported by G++, templates being painfully slow to compile, etc.
My guess is that Lisp was associated with AI in the AI winter in the 80s/90s and failed symbolic and logic AI took Lisp with it.
He tried to pressure them in 2020 to make him a CEO. They refused, so he pulled promised funding when they were on the brink of bankruptcy. They made a deal with Microsoft instead.

Then in 2022, they blew up and Elon's been spitting venom at them ever since as he missed his chance.
Twitter purchased Gnip years ago, and it's a reseller of social media data. Companies that want all the public tweets, nicely formatted and with proper licensing, can just buy the data from Twitter directly.
In no desirable company has the hiring manager enough time to read every resume that comes in as they get spammed with them. They all go through an automatic filter, then an HR/recruiter filter before reaching the hiring manager. So if you don't pass those filters you're not getting to the hiring manager.
I think you're mistaking k6 for another tool. k6 has only supported writing tests in JS. There are several other tools that are better suited for this single URL use case: ab, wrk, even Hurl. I doubt this will ever be supported in k6, since the focus is on scripting test logic, not firing off requests to a single URL (though this is certainly possible with a simple script).
I suggest a different observation: the point is impede people travels. Now imaging other riots, against a dictatorship, in a world of connected, remotely controllable cars, YOUR (mine) new car.

Now imaging the same in a cash-less world where few controls cash flows/exchange and what they can do to a country economy.

Now imaging the same in a country where votes are digital, on someone servers.

I can keep going but the point is that in the past no dictator can really rule alone, nothing can really keep a society under a dictatorship except willing/accepting people's mind. With actual king of "progress" who actually is no much new nor innovative nor a "natural tech evolution" we add new weapons in few hands. As long as we are all powerless or all super-heavy armed there is anyway a balance of power. As long as the balance of power shift, no matter current intentions and personal honesty and will, we are heading in a very dark age.

Do remember yourself this evolution is human, not technological, we can have connected cars who are hosts, personally handled by their formal human owner, connected just to him/her in a classic client-server manner. We can have networks of independent hosts who exchange thing (hey, we already have it since decades!) instead of a network with few giants hubs and all the rest depending on them. The only point is choosing how to evolve. Actually someone have chosen for their own interests, like IBM in the past, GAFAM thereafter, while most people have had even no clue in what's happening... Maybe it's time to start think about the possible near-term and mid-term future...
He had committed to providing funding to them and was on the board. Being on the board is indeed the only form of control in a non-profit.

He tried to pressure them to make him a CEO, they refused, so he said "no money then, go bankrupt" and quit the board. They made a deal with Microsoft and survived.

Now he's pissed.
> I requested ad free subscription for elevated price or promising cancellation, it became a cancellation.

I listen to the audio edition nowadays, that has no ads. Also, I haven't found any good alternatives to it. The weekly issues and the regional columns are a very convenient format for me to consume the news.
I'm going to miss reddit. I was one of the people who came over from digg. I deleted the app and stopped using the site when the protest happened. There's a missing itch for me for short to medium form content that isn't straight news, or straight memes. A thousand person discord server works differently than a 10k person reddit.

Part of me wonders if this is inevitable. We used to do this ever few years. Hoping from aim/man/yahoo to Skype to discord. I guess we figured things had gotten stable enough. Maybe this is a good thing. Maybe we all got too comfortable and thought our content consumption habits could stay the same for ever. The internet has changed from when I first got on Reddit. I wont say for better or worse. I don't like it as much.
It's easier to criticize the baiter than the baitee, but that may be barking up the wrong tree. Tech companies are acting within the economic and regulatory framework. Criticizing them for doing so is not helpful. Ironically, I'd guess that the majority of the HN crowd is actually making their living directly or indirectly off that.
Not so long ago I read an excellent book, Plutopia [0], which went into detail about the development and management of Hanford. Alongside that story, it tells a parallel narrative about Ozersk -- a similarly polluted nuclear town in Russia. The book does an impressive job at building an intuition to the dangers of radioactive waste for non-technical readers. At the same time, it is not terribly uplifting to realize that environmental destruction was/is treated as an afterthought.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plutopia
You couldn't even imagine how many repurposed telco or other purpose-built buildings are now data centers. Some of them in very city centers as well, well within residential areas.
One particular in my area is multi tenant building - a grocery shop, education facilities and Equinix on top of them.
Unless you are able to see HVAC systems on rooftop there's no way to tell it's data center you're looking at.

It's basically like that building from Man in Black 1
I don't keep them fully synced. I do back up the "important stuff" on my primary phone to off device storage on a fairly regular basis. So my backup phone can be brought up to sync if need be.

A secret weapon in this regard is an Android open source file manager called Material Files which can create compressed files and speaks SMB. I usually create backups onto a SD memory card and then periodically copy these to local off device storage using wifi.
Literally no one else had them at that time though.

How much differently do you think things would have gone if Japan was also a nuclear state at the time?

I'd seriously reconsider the logic pf your position.
Things are more complex when requirements and documents were drafted time ago.

A requirement may specifically include all security updates asap for that software on that version and it is nobody's interest to change kernels (especially by who charges the clients for this routine constant work).
> Looks like Reddit pulled the plug a little early. Apollo started crashing, but I just manually revoked my token

Wow, Reddit is a petty company through and through. Did they really feel the need to show off their dishonesty by yet again breaking their own word?
I wish companies would just opensource really old engines for educational purposes.

Maybe take game assets resize everything to 1/10th so that it looks like sht but can still be used as placeholder.

Would boost the pipeline of talent for the entire industry
The author might call Nichomachean Ethics "ancient"; I'd call it "unrefined".

>Virtue is a state “consisting in a mean,” Aristotle maintains, and this mean “is defined by reference to reason, that is to say, to the reason by reference to which the prudent person would define it.” (For Aristotle, the “mean” represented a point between opposite excesses—for instance, between cowardice and recklessness lay courage.)

The idea of virtue being a mean is an unchecked assumption, from oversimplified matters.

Reusing the example with the cowardice-courage-recklessness triplet: suppose for a moment a fool that acts only when it is not necessary to act; he runs away from an ant, but throws himself into a fight against a pack of lions. The fool in question is, at the same time, coward and reckless, but he is not courageous.

You might say "he's being coward or reckless on different circumstances"; and you'd be right. This shows that there's a second dimension to take into account here, besides "ability to act": it's "ability to detect when to act". And once you do this split, you notice that courage is not a mean between cowardice and recklessness; it's simply the opposite of cowardice, with recklessness having another opposite (let's call it "carefulness").

I'm not too eager to assume that _all_ virtues work like this, but the presence of at least one virtue not behaving this way already shows that Aristotle's "virtue as a mean" concept is flawed and assumptive.

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Another issue; from the book. Aristotle makes an unholy mess of what's good for the individual and what's good for society, around book III; almost like he was preaching "hey if you want happiness/eudaimonia you should have arete/virtue~". Things simply don't work like this on an individual level - you can be the biggest arsehole in the village and still potentially live a happy, meaningful life. Or live in virtue and miserable.
His tweets are as trustworthy as Trump's.
Those omni-present ChatGPT or similar did a lot of noise. But what has changed really? There were always a lot of data mining since the beginning of the Web2, but pre-ChatGPT internets used to be mined just for the sake of scammers, governments and adtech, and post-ChatGPT internets are using to be mined for the sake of ChatGPT providers for the sake of exactly same scammers, governments and adtech.

One of my favourite social media is [1]. A colossal Web1 forum dedicated to a super-narrow topic, with no bullshit like: apps, phone number verification, scum advertisement, artificial limiting of devices who have an access to a content. How so-called Artificial Intelligence can harm [1]? How it can harm HN?

[1] https://www.bentrideronline.com/messageboard/
The third party apps supported two important functions that the official Reddit app sucks at:

1) Reading assistance for people with sight impairment. Reddit has granted a pass for some apps on this basis though.

2) Moderation and Modmail. For people on the move, or, for example, where you're in front of a business PC or laptop all day, with Web restrictions or personal use policies. The mobile apps were extremely useful for moderation.

I did use the Boost app, but have moved to the official Reddit one for mod work; it's buggy and prone to erroring when trying to complete an action so you have to keep repeating things to make them 'stick'.

This is why the mods are up in arms because it's hard work at the best of times.
Look out, it's lighthouse season. The government is offering 10 fixer-uppers
With all due respect to the developer of Dystopia, the experience compared to Apollo is subpar.

I tried twice already to use Dystopia, but I can’t really force myself. Probably just for the best to give up on Reddit.
How does that work with copyright? Like a film etc
https://pvk.ca/Blog/2014/08/16/how-to-define-new-intrinsics-...

Some quick googling led me to this. Can't vouch for it though, since I need to learn this stuff too!

Can't find much documentation for DEFTRANSFORM though, unfortunately.
I think you just illustrated the problem. You have complete awareness of what you do, and you somehow manage to see it as a battle against "leftists" rather than selfish greed. I'm cool with that, but it precludes you from having valid opinions on anything related to improving the world for the majority of people. Please accept this and refrain from any social commentary. Your comment above demonstrates that you don't actually operate in society.
VB was denounced as infantile nonsense fit only for the GUI by us C++ jocks, until we'd done COM in both C++ and then in VB - then we realised what a huge favour VB was doing in insulating you from so much of the complexity. Sure there were Don Box-level things you could probably only do in C++, but for us working stiffs doing business apps it was like day following night.
> I think it's a bit of a myth that (ignoring FPGAs) that writing a low-latency software trading system is a time/cost expensive process.

This depends a lot on the complexity of the trading system and the trading venue specifics. A system to trade single stocks or futures can be built, certified and running in 3 months. A system for options market making will take a lot longer.
There are two basic strategies for publishing on the web. Either you lock up as much valuable data, forums, posts, and pictures you can, and provide a web based frontend to your service. This is the Minitel model, as exemplified by Facebook.

Or you try to ride the coattails of network effects and remove any obstacles to your information, index public data, and generally tries to weave in the service in the public web as tight as possible. This is the www model, as exemplified by Google.

Then there are the ones in between, such as newspapers, who generally wants to hide their information behind their service to increase the perceived value, but also wants to be reachable from the public web because without findability they have no value. This is of course paradoxical reasoning with no end of problems and no successful businesses.

Twitter from the start was part of the web 2.0 movement with a clear www strategy. Now they are doing a strategic shift. But how valuable is twitter when they're no longer indexed by services such as Google?

I can not see how they can grow their business in the long term from this. They lose the sentiment of a mirror of public discourse and instead will become like any web forum. So there will be zero journalistic value, and why would celebrities want to hang around then?

It's not even a slippery slope. It's just a slope.
What's different about a "better" insulin varies considerably. It's definitely not true that somehow the "better" products are just magically safer, although I'm sure their vendors are happy that you think so. You talk about them being "Often longer-acting" they of course provide a range of different periods and this is one of claimed advantages. For some people I'm sure that's valuable.

My grandmother, for example, would not have been able to successfully use a product which expects you to have a smartphone (she was barely confident with a telephone, and the introduction of touch tone dialling confused her). So whilst I'm sure it's convenient if you're diagnosed age 17 and you can just add it to the phone you always carry anyway, it's not simply "Better", yet several of the modern products need to be used that way.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8406912/ is from way back when you might still find humans using animal insulin in the US. The manufacturers presented the (synthetic) human insulin as simply "better" but if it's "better" it's not so dramatic that actual experiments had successfully identified a clear improvement that this meta-analysis saw.

The most important element of success with typical long term medical interventions is almost inevitably the patient actually implementing the treatment plan. That's true for pregnancy prevention (turns out neither condoms nor the pill work if you don't use them), it's true for Thyroxine (I have to take a pill every morning, for the rest of my life, people tried the evening, that'd work in theory but most of them forget) and it's true for insulin. If the $5000 drug doesn't help you actually take it when and how you're supposed to, it has no benefit. If the cheap treatment fits your lifestyle, even if it seems ludicrous to onlookers ("You use the old paper strips? That's so stone age") more expensive is not, in fact, better.
This might interest you,

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22930391

[dang]: "Push notifications seem to jack up the nervous system in a way that's good for engagement but not necessarily for users..."
Here's the Cable Bridge in Kennewick, WA (right next door to Richland) for an idea of the size of the Columbia River around here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cable_Bridge#/media/File:Cable...
No, like the aggregate
I hope you're not antisocial if you're designing software for society.

I think you mean you're a little introverted or awkward. Some other people tend like that too though, don't be too hard on yourself. We also need to socialize.
You could make the same argument for piracy and remix culture (e.g. sampling parts of songs to make new music). Yet for both of these the law situation is not particularly great. Currently the argument seems to be that "learning" is sufficiently distinct from both of these but code hosting websites tend to still explicitly carve such rights out in the user agreement because the line is a bit blurry.
It comes across a little dismissive (like "all due respect but <disrespect>") to me, as if Lisp programmers are not making good choices by going against the grain of the strong network effects of mainstream languages. I agree that trying to constantly justify why we choose one thing over another (how many times can we point out that Naughty Dog used Lisp for Crash Bandicoot and Jack and Daxter??) is not a good use of time, though, unless of course you're trying to get someone to give you money. Why do I use Lisp? The vibe is good and I'm usually happy when I'm hacking.
Ha! Strong Libertarian Police Department [1] vibes.

Ironically, the New Yorker website has an illegal-in-the-EU cookies modal, then a delay and a manufactured-urgency "flash sale!" pop-up that turns into a "you're on your last article" banner.

[1]: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/daily-shouts/l-p-d-libertari...
Hurl looks like a game changer for me. The fact that there’s a session shared within a file means as a backend dev I may be able to trivially eliminate the browser from my dev flow (without a bunch of annoying scripts). I’m on vacation and can’t wait to try this back at work.
AMD anounced support for this stack on the RX 7900 XTX is forthcoming. Great to see some challange to the nVIDIA ML monopoly in the homebrew segment.
Don’t forget that, perhaps one of the greatest accomplishments of mankind, landing on the moon, was because of a bunch of lisp code.
> This is a simplistic take. First of all, even if it’s true now it does not make it true for all time. Blockbuster hit a real sweet spot for video rental until the tech landscape changed under their feet.

True. I'd love to see a competitor someday whom I can just pay and then have a Facebook-equivalent and Youtube-equivalent that doesn't spam me with ads and does not collect my behavioural data to profile me.

I think people would just be shocked how much they would need to pay for their FB account if that would be an alternative offering. Back-of-the-envelope calculation: 2022 FB had a revenue of about $116bn. With about 3bn users. Let's say half of those are actually dead accounts that people almost never log into. (And that's very generous, this number is probably much higher.) That leaves 1.5bn users. To generate $116bn you'd need $77 from each of them. I know very few people who would pay that much money every year to see their aunts cooking results and their uncles Trump posts.

> Secondly, and more importantly. Economical optimal for what end? For extracting profits

Yes. That's what our market-based economies are optimizing for. Other economic models have not proven to be viable.
Why I Don't Like Ads
Similarly I've never seen anyone so determined to add requirements/move the goal posts.
> The undeniable truth is that the world has largely embraced C-type languages, and in doing so, has achieved remarkable feats. The "absolute best" programming language was not a requirement for this progress.

It's hard to argue with that, but I'm not sure what point you're trying to make. Should we stop striving for better programming languages, because the status quo is good enough? Or just stop for lisp languages but try to innovate in C-like languages?
It’s not a little “use selenium” switch you can click, but it absolutely is an option (and there are others) if the barrier is simply to have an authenticated account and be logged in.

If these data scraping operations are as sophisticated and determined as he claims this measure is insufficient and actually it really hurts Twitter far more than it helps. Case in point: we stopped sharing Twitter links because when you click them in most iOS apps it opens up an unauthenticated web view and presents you with a login screen. So we just collectively decided “ah ok no sharing Twitter” and moved on.

I’m sure there are companies scraping Twitter. I just don’t buy that it’s as big of an issue as he claims it is, and that preventing people from viewing tweets without logging in is a way to mitigate against that (I’d first look at banning problematic IP addresses first, personally).

To me it’s either:

1) a very poor and very temporary mitigation against scraping, that could be bypassed with a bit of effort

2) an experiment in optimising metrics - Musk sees lots of unauthenticated users consuming Twitter, tries to steer them into signing up

3) it’s all just a big mistake

Option #2 makes the most sense to me, but frankly none of them are good
And a lot of well-paid workers
Kei cars? The Citroën AX was about 700kg.
So you want to start a SaaS business in Germany