skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not the op but I have that experience frequently. These are perceived as geeky needy techie things that are not for normal people (sprinkle quotations as needed). It's the same as people getting upset at suggestion to add lock of some sort to their phone (face, fingerprint, whatever) or backup their phone.

After some pondering I think it's peoples' insecurity misfiring. They use these complicated layered and potentially risky and dangerous pieces of technology, aware they don't fully understand them, that they work as magic that could stop any moment. Trying to understand and secure them is a massive rabbit hole. So I think there's kind of a rejection to go down that hole or acknowledge the problem or, most of all, face the vulnerability and exposure.

My 100 Croatian lipa fwiw :-)
Well, the man did say twitter would win the fight against the bots or die trying.

Both results are positive IMO
because they are your parents, and you should try to have a healthy relationship with them. (unless of course they mistreated you badly when you grew up, but then you probably would keep more distance than just disallowing them to take photos)
No difference to me.
Are you using GPT-3.5 or GPT-4?

GPT-4 is not immune to these issues, but it does much, much better.

Whenever I exceed GPT-4 quota (OpenAI has a hardware shortage) and switch to GPT-3 I remember how useless it is and I'm better off waiting a few hours for more GPT-4 quota.
Fascinating. And yet.
Hype driven development.
Central Services finally caught Archibald Tuttle, now everything is falling apart.
Looks like they were talking mostly about call / contact centers.

I'm assuming you are talking more about coding, in which case I agree.
Twitter is unable at this point. I deactivated my account just now. Sad but it was becoming an increasingly frustrating experience.
I dunno. We are several months out after the major layoffs. Maybe some very recent bad decisions were made internally that pared back too far, but I think Musk has long since been proven correct that the core platform could function on a fraction of the workforce it had at the time of takeover.
I've read a few scifi stories that involve talking with dolphins, the ringworld series includes them as does revelation space. although they're typically fairly small roles.
The counterclaim is sent to the provider, so in this case GitHub.

Also the original claim was not anonymous. The source just wasn't made public. See https://github.com/github/dmca/blob/master/2023/06/2023-06-2...
The Proud Boys were heavily infiltrated up to and including Enrique Tarrio. Atomwaffen was entirely astroturfed. The libertarians entrapped in the Gretchen Whitmer case. The "right" has a long history of FBI infiltration--klan meetings being comprised entirely of feds trying to bust each other has been a running joke for decades.

The "left" is similar, but it's not usually the the FBI these days AFAICT.
Imperative programming with state is as simple as functional programming without state. Functional programming that introduces or models state requires more abstraction, and then complexity.

>Imperative makes it easy to update state, but then it forces you to keep in your mind every remote part of the program where your symbols may be modified (which is way harder than most developers recognize)

Scoping inherently reduces the extent to which state is considered. Any imperative programmer worth their salt knows to minimize reliance on global variables - functional programming salesmen claiming a significant advantage by eliminating bugs involving them can't help but come off as more than a little condescending by belaboring this point.

>As they say, use the best tool for each job.

This is a big step down from "All programmers should know and implement purity by default because mutability is the next goto."
~Bandcamp~ Basecamp is doing just the opposite and leaving the cloud, in fact: https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-re-leaving-the-cloud-654b47...
Will Apple switch the iPhone to eSIM-only everywhere by ’24?
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I dunno computers should be world changing. And they are. Yet the lives of ordinary people have hardly improved and are arguably worse since the 1980s

If you replace "lives of ordinary people" by "productivity improvement", you actually have a good (and rarely discussed) point:

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Productivity_paradox
How did it hold you back that it was plain http?
Ultimately it boils down to "it should just work" but to be more specific one person said "I shouldn't have to do anything different!" and directed their anger towards me instead of the ads they were previously complaining about.

People that aren't tech-savvy don't want to think about tech any more than they already do. Having to understand something new about tech is just another problem to them. I'm not saying that as an insult - just an observation.
I think this analysis might work in a vacuum (but see sibling comments about the assumptions of how many ads are served to Blue users), but the biggest problem is the tremendous debt that the Musk takeover has saddled Twitter with. Perhaps you could run a social network sustainably at reasonable cost and profits.

Twitter has over 12 billion USD in debt though, and with rising interest rate the interest payments are going to be an absolute drag on financial performance. Those payments MUST be met, otherwise Musk will not own Twitter at all. Scaling down user numbers is unlikely to help. Even 3% interest rate on 10b is 300 million per year.
> vanilla opinions that are held by 70+% of the population.

Ooh, ooh, ooh? Like what kind of "vanilla opinion?"
Common rhetoric among PoC even twenty years ago was essentially, "We're tired of being spokespeople and tutors for your problems."

Not everyone is cut out to be an educator, and I think you should have the option not to be voluntold for the job. Not just because it should be your right, but because insisting that everyone in a group can speak for that group is itself stereotyping. I think once you see that it's really hard to be patient with people who don't.
Every time someone posts something like this, it’s amusing because they clearly don’t try it in GPT4 before they post.

GPT4 nails your question about going east from New York in a boat, even though I think that’s a very poor test of ‘intelligence.’

I have no idea what you’re asking with your second question (what city are you talking about? There is no context), so I guess I, too, am not intelligent.
Ok thanks for sharing, this was all new to me. Honestly it was just such a good user experience for me with their app store and just installing all apps seamlessly. It all just worked. Not sure if other custom ROMs have similar experiences since that's the only one I tried

The only reason I sold my FP4 and went back to samsung and their android experience was that everybod kept complaininh about mic quality during calls and I couldn't seem to fix it. Seemed like others also had similar issues
For a consumer facing surface. Yes.
TIL that June 1st is "today" July 1st...

In reality that was a month ago, and on June 30th they increased the value

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/30/fidelity-deepens-valuation...
Mastodon will never take off because of its fundamentally terrible onboarding. Having to pick a server is incompatible with the general public using it.

Bluesky is the only real contender right now. It doesn’t matter that it has a low user count. The main threat is that there’s no real incentive for people to run their own BGS. We’ll see how that pans out.
It’s Twitter. A nine is more than enough for their most critical workloads.
There might be a reason for that...

https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/678x250q70/r/923/fyVf45.j...
Kevin Budden
> Mastodon is about as protected as html in that sense.

I think you're probably using the term "enshittify" differently than the parent comment. Enshittification, at least as I tend to see it used, doesn't really follow from a particular technology stack, but more about how an organization itself approaches its end users, particularly against over-exploitation/monetization of a given platform. It typically doesn't speak to the underlying technology (i.e. html vs. MB of Javascript vs. WASM), since that is (within reason) somewhat orthogonal to how the organizations running instances treat their users/how end users actually experience the platform.
The categories law has for drugs suck, psychs dont need a new category, they simply need to be unscheduled. Like daffodils.
That's the main problem with Twitter Blue (other than its very bad reputation): it's just not worth the money. Instead of adding value to the subscription or making it cheaper, Elon just makes the rest of the product worse. It's a very weird way to do business.
What do you mean by taking their cut? Valve takes a cut from players buying games or items on Steam, but in this case Valve is the developer of CS:GO, so the cut is taken from themselves.
I recommend probiotics.
It's well known that ketamine is addictive. Just google "ketamine addiction". It's an effective antidepressant for many people but you can't take it long term because tolerance develops quickly.
No, he's transforming it into a different service while getting value from the existing userbase. It's a way to make a popular tech company without relying on sheer luck that it gets a critical mass of users.
I'm guessing that comes down to the medium used to grow it, which is often fetal bovine serum, making it non-vegan.
Well "forced to execute" is somewhat subjective. If you are convinced leadership is doing the "wrong thing," then best to either leave or accept that you're just collecting your paycheck.

In the case of Twitter, the new owner has thoroughly broken the advertising business and is trying to aggressively pursue a new version of the data business Twitter once had-- E.g. Google's Caffeine, which Twitter also eventually lost https://searchengineland.com/google-search-algorithm-change-... ... The statements about "too many scrapers" are almost certainly as illegitimate as the previous pre-acquisition statements about "too many bots."

The nature of business is that there's no judiciary or referee... the purpose of a business is to make money. Tech businesses just happen to hire lots of academically-oriented engineers who developed their skills in a different environment. It's possible to build a culture of "fairness" in a business, but at the end of the day even Google dropped "don't be evil."
lol just admit you work for a niche SaaS in Polygon and you wanted exposure
Reddit over hired and is doing other stupid pricing models because they want to IPO, they filed confidential paperwork for an IPO last year. Twitter has been unprofitable since before Musk, and Musk's actions drove their revenue into the ground. Those aren't related to higher interest rates. What other examples do you have? Reddit and Twitter are bad examples.

> There is no indication this true, most likely the "new normal" is going to be on the order of rates before the 2008 housing crash, not going back to the insanity of 0-1% fed rates...

There's no indication that your statement is true either, I think in a 5-10 year span we'll have lower rates simply because virtually every economy is in population decline. In any case, the Twitter and Reddit flubs weren't due to higher interest rates. SVB was, this isn't.
France is attacking France.
Do you think if we fired every civil engineer tomorrow, the bridges and the highways they built would fall apart right afterwards, or even in a few months?

Engineering isn't like service positions where the lack of competent personnel is felt immediately; the debt keeps growing until your whole system collapses under it one day, how far the day is in the future depends on what system you're working on.
I concur. Sometimes it’s 15%. Normally closer to 5-10%. That’s still worth paying for IMO.
Ironically it's actually decent at giving you real(!) hallucinated non-hallucinated words to google to find the smart jargonspeakers out there
AAA video game industry sure seems to be pushing this idea with the past years of broken, unfinished, beta projects being released as complete products.
This matches my experience.

I use ChatGPT when form matters but content doesn't, i.e. emails, letters, etc. I tell it the topic or the information that should be present and most of the time it generates a good email or letter.

If I need to find a specific piece of information I use FastGPT by Kagi, I'm consistently surprised by how good it is at finding exactly what I ask it, and it provides real references too.
> "I work in the aerospace industry and know several current and former senior engineers at SpaceX. None of them would agree with your assessment that Musk has done no meaningful work for SpaceX, or is a poor engineer incapable of valuable work."

Could you expand that more? Like what meaningful work did your acquaintances say Musk did for SpaceX and what valuable engineering work did they think he was capable of doing?

Maybe Musk socially engineered a kind of nerd reputational ant mill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant_mill where everyone who works in the aerospace industry knows several current and former senior engineers at SpaceX, none of whom agree with the assessment that Musk has done no meaningful work for SpaceX, or is a poor engineer incapable of valuable work.

I know he had pocket emeralds when he was a teenager and he bought twitter and made a lot of stupid tweets, but those things don't take much time, maybe in his other time he did amazing things.
I want to see x rays!
Reading the comments here made me think of a dishwashing analogy.

I grew up without a dishwasher (when we asked our parents why we didn't have one my dad responded, "what do you mean? We have six!" referring to us kids). As an adult we have one in the house but it is rarely used. Washing dishes is a menial task but I enjoy it. It's hard to articulate exactly why. Needless to say I'm quite an experienced dish washer, there's an art to it. My process is to collect any dishes that aren't already stacked, fill the sink with just enough water, wash everything well (cutlery in first, out second last, washed individually), then wipe down all the benches and sink. I leave the dishes to drip dry. They get put away later.

When we use the washing machine I still have to do most of the steps above. Except the washing which is 40-120mins of free time for me. But then I have an extra step of checking each dish or piece of cutlery while I'm putting it away. Most things get washed well, but about 10-15% of items have food baked onto them that I then need to soak or rewash (with a more abrasive scrubber than I'd usually use). Maybe this is down to my lack of experience stacking? The whole process takes longer, but it's (arguably) lower touch and (I hear) uses less water.

Which is better? In a commercial kitchen a dishwasher for sure, efficiency at all costs.

But do we need to remove all menial tasks from our workflows? I'm not so sure.
ALWAYS back up stuff to storage that you have control over!
Doesn't follow Show HN rules.

"Off topic: blog posts, sign-up pages, newsletters, lists, and other reading material. Those can't be tried out, so can't be Show HNs. Make a regular submission instead."

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
> iPhone 14 on Safari or Firefox

Rendering engine is all Safari on iPhone, so trying another brand of browser won't help with rendering issues.
The theory here is that this JavaScript bug caused the huge increase in requests which is why Twitter introduced strict limits on how many tweets users could access.

So the result wasn't an outage, it was a radical reduction in functionality.

I think that still qualifies as a self-ddos.
Mastodon isn't shutting down anti-trans positions, specific instances are choosing not to federate with other instances that harbor those positions. Those instances and the homophobes and transphobes are still there.

And you're free to engage the people who want to put you and your spouse on a train car in conversation all you like. Maybe you'll deprogram one or two, but you'll just help spread their propaganda to exponentially more people than you could ever help.

I have no commonality with such people and don't want to find any. I don't want to share a society with them, and I know they don't want to share one with me. I certainly don't want to debate the Jewish Question or "groomers" or race science with them on my gamedev instance.

>We're all suffering though this world together. Laugh away our differences and find the ways and the things that we share.

You know these people want you dead, right? They don't believe you have a right to exist. You and your spouse. Especially your spouse. We're not talking about a difference in belief about tax laws or support for opposing soccer teams here. "Laugh away our differences?" I'm sorry but with all due respect fuck that.
Spez trying to kill reddit for short term gain is nothing new.

I really dont understand how the "investors" who will end up holding the bag after the IPO dont see that.
First thing I would try is seeing if the front end has a different retry strategy for a different status code (say 503). If so I'd change the status returned for throttling to be that (503).

Barring that, turning off server side throttling or atleast making it less aggressive to slow the retry storm seems the most reasonable.
Why must you hurt me so...
The 8089 coprocessor was used in the Apricot PC [1], I had one but don't remember any documentation for the 8089 being available at the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apricot_PC
If reddit was the only, or even best place for that I may agree. But reddit isn't Twitter, and in fact many rdddit circles detest OC despite also complaining about rampant reposts.

Ofc you exploit it anyway, but Reddit was never truly good for professionals unless they were eternally on reddit to begin with.
Yes, and so does XE/PMC WAGNER. That's why I said "generally". If your example to claim corporations are evil is 400 years old from a mercantilist era, then... Ok, I guess?
For code snippets it often takes a lot of iterations with ChatGPT prompts to get something that satisfies the demands and doesn't immediately crash due to bugs. Beyond the obvious influencer types, claims of boosted productivity is largely thanks to being spared of most of the mental grunt work required to write these codes, so people can code for longer sessions before temporarily burning out, in my opinion.
Most people are probably too poor to do too many direct payment options, so they'll get choosier about what they consume, and advertisers will still be SOL. Strangely I don't feel any pity for the human-shaped turds.
I mean the guy was going for a shorter trip to the indias and found out the americas

I'd call that mostly luck lmao

Took courage to go to the end of the world, for sure, but still god damn luck too
> Don't let "work" mean something other people tell you to do.

So, either be someone who's privileged, or very lucky, or - first get rid of the wage-labor-based economy, and probably Capitalism altogether, then get started :-)
Your examples are of a national nature (and much smaller/heterogeneous populations). When you have hot spots like Portland and SF they become drug tourist locations.

Let the people have their drugs. Try to minimize consumption and abuse (and profit motive), and treat such abuse as a health issue, not a criminal one. That is the only sensible and humane way. Easier said than done, of course.

At the risk of redundancy, I want to include that proper discussion of the subject requires an understanding of the origins and intentions of these laws. The current system fails in every way except in satisfying those original intentions (hint: not benign).
Agree. Plus it’s easy to crap on Elon but it’s also the poor Twitter architecture and quality of people they have working for them that caused this despite Elon’s desire to require login to read Twitter. He didn’t write the code.
The fact is that Twitter makes you believe that you are listened to, even if you say shitty stuff.

Mastodon confronts you that if you say shitty stuff, nobody wants to listen to you.

People complaining being banned or being on defederated instances are people other don’t want to listen. They pretend to have a personal opinion while they are only assaulting others.

LGBT is a good example: you cannot have an opinion about it. Those people exist. They have the right to exist. You have the right to not engage in any LGBT activity. But you don’t have the right to talk about a "debate". There’s none. If you do, I you maintain that using "cisgender" should be a banned word, you are simply an asshole and can’t complain that people don’t want to listen to your ramblings. And yes, this will get you banned.
I meant vs the USAF, with modern stealth multi role jets such as the F35. We can target their anti-air for long range GMLRS artillery / precision artillery like Excalibur, or with cruise missiles like tomahawks. The SEAD / DEAD missions seem quite appropriate for F35s.

Though I don’t full agree with Russia only using ground based air defense as the few newer generation jets Russia have are shooting down a lot of Ukrainian jets. They fly higher, faster, and can both lock and engage Ukrainian jets before the Ukrainian have even detected them.
Yes I agree. What some seem to be missing is that public forums are a cesspit by default. While often invisible, the work of community managers and moderators is essential to maintain spaces people actually want to spend time in. These free workers are in limited supply. Once they leave, sites fill up with unmoderated spam and junk.
I regularly review design from teams that turn reading a file from S3 and putting into into a database into, well, something that requires a design review. Some horrific monstrosity of step functions, lambdas, and glue. All because they've been told that serverless is the correct way to build "scalable" software.

If every time you add a new feature to your application you also have to add new infrastructure, I feel very, very strongly that you're doing it wrong. Sometimes? Sure. Every time? Embarrassing.

Cloud providers are surely pleased as punch that there is now an entire generation of developers that will argue vehemently that infrastructure that only grows over time is not only healthy, but the best way to build scalable software.

I have no idea what to call it other than "Marketing Material Driven Development".
Complex systems like Twitter don't break overnight when you lay off the talented engineers.

They deteriorate piece-by-piece, potentially over the course of many months, until the compounding effects of these problems and the growing technical debt overwhelms the team that they have left.
Russia annexed Crimea in February 2014. A full scale invasion in 2022 was totally unforeseeable.
Yes, I suppose it is an exposure mitigation as well. Although if someone is having users change passwords every 30 days (or 30 seconds? whatever) due to exposure I have a lot of WTF questions. If passwords suffer from that much unavoidable exposure I'd be expecting automated systems (hello HOTP / TOTP) and OOB authenticators which are resistant or agnostic to that exposure.

(ssa.gov generates printable one-time pads if you're masochistic enough to request one.)
inline ads don’t even fix YT’s problem. see: sponsorblock. if you’re inserting targeted ads (where each viewer sees a different length, or ads inserted at a different position), the sponsorblock approach can be modified to function as a catalog of known ads which your browser/app recognizes and skips.

it’s an arms race. it’s the same flaw as DRM. Google wants to control how your device interacts with the bits it’s already downloaded. as long as the device is in your hands, they can make the bits more difficult for you to use in a manner they don’t approve of, but they can never make it impossible.
Just so that you know, I did read that out loud in chicken voice.
Gödel, Escher, Bach author Doug Hofstadter on the state of AI today [video]