skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
@cdelsolar, definitely consider Patreon. I mentioned in this comment [1] recently about how so many coders are doing exactly what you wanna be doing, working on awesome projects full time, funded by people who want to see you succeed and to get the opportunity to get a behind the scenes glimpse of how you work, get updates about new things you're working on before anyone else, and getting access to beta testing and new features first.

I've worked with Scrabble players in the past on a personal project [2] and can say this is absolutely the kind of thing they'd go for. I had never heard of woogles.io either and will be passing the link on to them as well.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/context?id=36525089

[2] https://github.com/v64/fiend
Users coming for seconds, because they've been rate limited and deprived of their dopamine hits.
I don’t think that’s true at all. Elon allowed any employee who wanted to quit with three months’ severance. Anyone who wasn’t a true believer and had options could have quit.
Asciidoctor has a spec, reads pretty similarly to markdown, and is infinitely better IMO. And it (well, AsciiDoc) predated markdown!

I think markdown won because it was specifically made with HTML output in mind, instead of arbitrary output (docbook, in the case of AsciiDoc, which is pretty much infinitely malleable).
There is never sufficient testing. If there is, then you have a formal proof for your algorithm.
The universe is expanding faster than it should be (2021)
We disallow the selling of organs due to the potential of selling someone else’s organs.
It's 60-40 VMs-Containers in my experience.

A lot of this is highly dependent on the kind of app you are migrating as well as the scale needs.
Let that sink in!

Right?
I'll go with:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour

I'm not being weird about it. Just calling out the idea that Musk is forcing people to work for him is hyperbolic. If you want to call Musk mean, arrogant, uncaring, bad, etc., that's all fine.
Caesar didnt take a bribe of a base to stop his march on rome. This wasnt a ”crossing the Rubicon” moment. Prigozhin made a demonstration for military respect, not for a coup
That's pretty much what I do. I'll add unit tests and do maintenance, and if possible I generally aim to rip it out completely and replace with a third party library, but I won't rewrite just because I don't understand it, unless it's causing trouble.

If I need to add features to it I'll consider it though.
Yes, but so is Change Failure Rate (and a good team will use feature flagging anyway for gradual rollouts, so you don't roll out a DDoSing broken feature to 100% of users, just a tiny subset).
There are libraries, usually under the general heading of "circuit breaker", that handle 429 and other reasons to retry in a sane manner. I'm not a JS expert but I believe either yammer/circuit-breaker-js or nodeshift/opossum would work in the browser. Even a hand-coded exponential backoff with jitter is simple enough to do for most cases.
“I’m the most humble guy I know.”
I prefer to buy electronics from newegg.com, but I have to wait for the deliveries.
Vector is an old term going back to at least the 19th century with its use by Josiah Willard Gibbs and Oliver Heaviside.

Do you have a preferred term for points in an N-space?
I know this is getting too political so I'll deserve the downvotes, but totally ignoring anything else, this is why I fundamentally could not and cannot stand Donald Trump. This is his playbook too, just constant willful dishonesty and distortion.
How would Amazon generally know if a product has been switched out with an inferior product on the same listing?
> Note to everyone here: don’t do that.

Note to everyone here: Not everyone is as uptight as this guy and you shouldn't be either.
> a piece of your soul gets taken away into that photograph

This is a belief in the Amish religious community (if you ignore their wishes and take their picture they’ll generally look away from the camera to hide their faces).
1. Markdown is great.

2. The only thing I miss is support for nested numbered lists.

2. 1. (The best kind of lists.)
You have an inflated idea what business jobs are without regulations
If they truly cannot get another job despite trying hard for 15 months then really they should be thanking Musk for giving them a steady paycheck when no one else in the industry will.
It's blunt, but true: check your privilege.
For sure. I'd add that even super-geniuses get overwhelmed when asked to do too many things at once. Kudos to whoever's still left at Twitter; the current erratic decay is better than I would have expected after this long. But when maintenance and improvement are deferred long enough, eventually you reach the point where on average solving 1 problem creates >1.0 problems.
I think it's important to note that 1) The AT protocol is nowhere near complete, and as far as I can tell account portability is not actually implemented yet and 2) There are no third party sites that use AT! Even if account portability existed, there's nowhere to go.

But if account portability existed and worked, imagine this scenario: Larry Ellison wakes up one day and decides that Elon is having so much fun that he wants a social media site too. The minute the sale is announced, all the account portability APIs are disabled, and the website switches to a hard login wall. They start aggressively throttling and banning users that look like scrapers. They send a DMCA takedown to archive.org, who obliges and removes the wayback copies. They disable viewing followers and following so you can't even get your graph out. Now what?

The problem of trusting someone else to host your social media page is that you have to trust them. If your answer is "Jack wouldn't sell the company", then I can't help but note that he sure sold Twitter to Elon. If your other answer is "Larry Ellison would never do something unethical and customer-hostile" then uh...
Happiness is a state of mind, and is a (mental, emotional) place, and that place is easier to occupy if your life is setup to make it easier. A few good friends, a romantic partner, meaningful work, kids is sort of the usual and probably pretty safe recipe. It's possible to have these things and be miserable, and it's possible to have none of them and be blissfully happy.

Aristotle wrote a pretty solid book on the topic.
As somebody who has struggled with similar issues, oftentimes the psychological help you need is to de-emphasize the ambition and success. You have to act against the expectation and dreams of greatness, and instead focus on your present state and appreciating that. It's not impossible to do great work and be happy, but it's very easy to let your dreams consume you.
They could inspect the goods that they sell like a normal retailer.
Ever had a house, mortgage, kids in school, debts? Not everyone can just up and move every job.
That seems less exploitive of labor. At least you can pick your hours, clients, sex acts, and pay. With the former job, you don’t have a choice anymore.
I really like your proposal, but in the days of USENET the // wasn't interpreted by the machine but simply by our minds, just like * for bold. Would there be any extra issues caused by italics being / rather than *?

I'm honestly with you on this and I'm in the middle of building a huge Markdown site where I have the freedom to change the syntax now if I want.
a company is made of: _____
> you don't rate support based on when you don't need them.

There's something to be said about companies where things work so you don't need support. Some companies make you go through support for IPMI, and sometimes it's self-service and you only need to go through self-service if it breaks.
The most notable one is the Paul Pelosi incident: https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/30/business/musk-tweet-pelosi-co...
> "American engineers have encountered difficulties in manufacturing the homing heads for these MANPADS"

this sounds like an important part
Sure, but if you've built your life in the United States that still means moving country
Yes, that's a good way of putting it.
You're correct that they could have also fired some sycophants. But that doesn't mean the current proportion of sycophants is any lower.

I should also add that Musk's management methods are likely to turn any remaining people in to yes men. E.g., his "demon mode" routine: https://fortune.com/2023/06/29/elon-musk-demon-mode-rip-peop...
> I think there are probably reasonable use cases for this, like automation that's going to run infrequently

Exactly our usecase. Then the network admins wanted to click button and select their template from lists rather than having to write json, so website it was, and now we run a MVC on lambda.

It isn't used that much (at most, you'll get 20 simulaneous users, and its always during a short time period, most of the time nobody use it). Don't know if it's the best choice. Honestly it seems fine.
Are you obsessed with scrabble… or could that obsession be broadened to “word games” including wordle, crosswords, other word games (boggle?). Maybe time to make your own original game? That may get you further away
from hasbro.
Well, you just spitballed a few ideas that really aren't founded in either US or NATO doctrine, and now you ask "what's it matter though?"
Thanks for the video format of the post, I found it surprisingly refreshing.
Twitter does not use google cloud as the main backend service. All of its self hosted.

Gcloud only supports batch jobs and data analysis.
Same. Up until that moment he was still somewhat laudable, if weird, at least for casual observers. Then he labeled that guy a pedophile and it’s been pretty much all downhill from there.
If I understand correctly, the U.S. doesn’t allow them to get another job without getting a new H-1B and there are dramatically more applicants than visas each year. They are unlikely to get a new one so their options are to either stay at Twitter or leave the U.S.
I tried for awhile and the lowest rated items with more than 10 reviews where 3-stars. This 3-star listing has 30 reviews: https://www.amazon.com/low-rated-item-varenc-found/dp/B099Q6...

And here's a 1 star item but it only has 1 review: https://www.amazon.com/low-rated-item-varenc-found2/dp/B09Z6...

I'm guessing after you hit some number of reviews and the average is less than 3, Amazon doesn't let you list it anymore. Which is funny considering Amazon lets you filter search results on 1-star or 2-star items only and up. Seems like that filter option exists just to make you feel like the higher star ratings are more meaningful.
You say that in a tone of contradiction, but sycophants are absolutely trying to earn their pay. They've just decided that their true job is what their context rewards.
Amazon could automatically include the name of the product in each review (but if they haven't done that already the probably don't care)

But how to automatically discount reviews that don't match the new product name, i.e. distinguishing from a major name change from a minor rephrase of the same product

Not sure how reliable ML is in that scenario
I'm pretty sure that Germany was not selling any artillery systems to Ukraine prior to the 2022 invasion. Otherwise they wouldn't have been so reticent to supply PZH2000 and MARS.
You understand wrong. If you already have an H-1B visa then you don't need to enter the lottery again. You just need another job offer in a similar role, and can start working immediately.
The board of directors, rich shareholders and the C-Suite team. Incidentally they also employ powerless servants who are interchangeable and disposable.
NATO as an organization was not involved in Iraq.
You might ask Greg Egan why he(?) has no actual verified images on the web.

It's not Islam.

I also don't upload images of either myself or my family, again, not Islam.

There are several cultures that avoid names and images for varying reasons, eg: the use of Kuminjay in Pintubi-Luritja language families.
They had lots of Free Cash Flow. It was always routed directly back into growing the business instead of taking profits. Which is always the right thing to do if you can grow the business without hitting any walls, and you avoid paying any taxes that way.

Companies that behave that way and have good returns on capital employed and have large growth in earnings, free cash flow, etc are good investments. Doesn't matter if they're not showing profits.
Same with nostr. Everyone's either talking about nostr or zaps/sats/other cryptocurrency bs. Shame because the protocol itself is mostly cool
These assholes seem to think that Minority Report was a good playbook
> Immigration policy is not aimed to serve the highly compensated field of the day, but to serve society at large.

Do you believe that description is consistent with the design and impact of the H1B visa?
The excerpts from the business plan look like an excellent format to use as a guide when defining a business.

Though we have these "ideas" for our business, I haven't yet put it into a single solid and brief format as this.

As an alternative to "pitch decks", do people find a brief business plan such as this is more useful? Or useful in different areas?

Are there better templates to use than this one?
After September 1, 2023, all Gfycat content and data will be deleted
> I've personally stopped using Amazon years ago for all those reasons and more. Somehow they still keep making more money than God.

Sorry, I'm trying to figure this out and have been having a hard day on this forum with all the subtext. Was your personal expenditure on Amazon enough to impact their revenue to the point where it would be noticeable?
It is lonely doing hard work without some attaboys. Being some famous techie that people refer to you in droves by only your first name, or publishing a highly referenced paper, or exiting a startup with millions are great attaboys. But you sort of need to risk working hard and getting no cash and no attaboys. I think passion (that dirty word!) is needed to drive you to do the moonshot thing.

I often think we are a bee colony. We need lots of people trying ambitious stuff but few will get that attaboy kick. We need failures (otherwise everyone is not ambitious enough).
Never say “* exists” as an excuse. When zapier came out Yahoo Pipes existed.
And you're under the impression that everyone is just an income-maximization agent?
This. I'd bet substantial amounts of money that the evil scraper idea is the result of a) another issue + b) paranoia + c) Musk thinking he understands better than anybody else.
How do they do that?
The last time I got one of those cards I wrote a 1-star review of the product for that reason. Amazon refused to publish the review citing their policy that product reviews aren’t meant to be reviews of the seller (even in this case when the seller is also the manufacturer and doing shady review manipulation). Sellers only play those games because Amazon is on their side.
Well, if governments in 東京, 서울, and กรุงเทพมหานคร do, shouldn't we also? /s
All the best people I know left.
Beautiful solution! Really clever, hats off
> Your view of Nostr is whatever the peers that you connect with

Clients don’t connect to peers on nostr. They connect to relays.
Ooh, good idea. People can go build something against the Twitter API! Oh wait!

I'm absolutely going to keep enjoying Musk's comeuppance. In this, consider me a traditionalist. As the Greek tragedies show, people have been enjoying the just punishment of hubris for thousands of years.
3 masterpieces*
To say he's learning on the job is speculation on your part. He's on the job, I'll give you that.
Imagine thinking you are good at capitalism while guys like this are out here making $700M for doing a few phone calls. I feel like I've been lied to. Is this what we are supposed to be doing? Which phone numbers can I call to make $700M if I think I might be good at doing phone calls and doing capitalism?
Would it not be more efficient to challenge the evidence behind current scheduling, much less the standards used in scheduling? Trying to work around a system built by corrupt people is a bit like ignoring pests eating your garden and just making a new garden hoping they won't infest that too.
I don't know what kind of systems you worked on in your career, but even simpler systems with smaller userbases than twitter are quite complex if you are new to it.

Twitter serves their service to the entire world, with multiple layers of systems working in conjunction in order to make things work smoothly. A new engineer that has not been working on it for no more than a couple months would likely be unaware of how the different systems communicate and interact. A change like this will have have a lot of unintended consequences, and not having a senior engineer with lots of context leading the change will undoubtedly cause these kinds of issues.
> Any definition of "weakly typed" which excludes Haskell and Ocaml is farcical, inaccurate, and doesn't benefit any software engineer, especially the professional ones.

Here is a definition: a language is weakly typed if and only if it has implicit type conversion. JavaScript is weakly typed:

> "3" * "4"
12

Haskell is not:

ghci> "3" * "4"

<interactive>:1:5: error:
• No instance for (Num String) arising from a use of ‘*’
• In the expression: "3" * "4"
In an equation for ‘it’: it = "3" * "4"

Neither is OCaml:

utop # "3" * "4";;
Error: This expression has type string but an expression was expected of type
int

C++ is weakly typed:

#include <iostream>

int main() {
int x = 7;
bool y = x;

std::cout << x << "\n";
std::cout << y << "\n";

return 0;
}

which prints

7
1

Haskell and OCaml are not weakly typed:

ghci> let x = 7 in let (y :: Bool) = x in print y

<interactive>:4:32: error:
• No instance for (Num Bool) arising from a use of ‘x’
• In the expression: x
In a pattern binding: (y :: Bool) = x
In the expression: let (y :: Bool) = x in print y

utop # let x = 7 in let (y : bool) = x in Printf.printf "%B\n" y;;
Error: This expression has type int but an expression was expected of type bool
> Have you actually been in a position where you needed to rely on COBRA?

Yes. I used it for 18 months, then bought an insurance policy. That lasted until Obamacare forced that insurer to leave the state, and now I am on Obamacare.

> But I can damn well believe there are Twitter employees who have made all the right moves, yet still hesitate to leave their jobs right now.

I can believe it, too.

Long ago, the company I was working on encountered hard times, and did an across the board 10% pay cut. One of my coworkers was furiously grumbling about it, so I asked him why he didn't just quit (there are plenty of tech jobs around Seattle). He said his finances were so tight he couldn't afford to miss even one paycheck. He had a McMansion, his & hers new cars, expensive furniture, and expensive clothes.

He was in a cage he forged for himself, the company didn't do it to him.

Jobs in the private sector are not guaranteed. It's best to save a portion of each paycheck. I bought stock with my first job, and drove beaters for a long time (and still do). My last beater I drove for 30 years, until it finally expired.
oh yikes, yeah. flat shading + isometric perspective + high-tech rectangular gadget = someone's not having a good time
Often, victims killed at one spot are dumped hundreds of miles away. So, it is important to know what soils are found on the body. Many cases are helped by such discoveries. For example, https://forensicsdigest.com/the-enrique-camarena-case-a-nigh...

Another example, I vaguely remember, was some body found in Thames river. Soil sample helped to trace where this individual lived in Africa.
So foes anyone have a solution for circum eating this using something like twint or the likes?

I legit just started scraping twitter for competitor info three days ago with it and now that's gone to shit. Could use selenium too but these rare limits...
they may be interested in this, if they weren't already: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4487243

There is a foundation looking to understand why/how this happens and what we can do to moderate/manage it: https://www.perception.foundation/
Can you provide a source on this? It sounds like you know what you're talking about, but this is the internet and I'm not in a position to tell if you're mistaken or not.
It's possible we won't know unless there's a before and after review diff.
Air-to-air combat yeah but I was talking about Chinese bombers/fighters targeting land targets in Taiwan and heading back home safely to mainland China before Taiwan/US jets intercept them in time. They have a lot of capable jets and US has good short range missile defense tech.
Well the product title and pictures change, don't they? If your semantic meaning of the product change significantly and/or your images do, then it gets automatically flagged. Seems like not too difficult of a machine learning problem. Hell, you could do a lot of it without ML.
Wrong, they see half the ads of regular users, and only on certain spots of the site

"Half ads: See approximately 50% fewer ads in the For You and Following timelines. As you scroll, you will see approximately twice as many organic or non-promoted Tweets placed in between promoted Tweets or ads. There may be times when there are more or fewer non-promoted Tweets between promoted Tweets. The half ads feature does not apply to promoted content elsewhere on Twitter, including but not limited to ads on profiles, ads in Tweet replies, promoted events in Explore, promoted trends, and promoted accounts to follow. Blue subscribers will have access to this feature after their account has been reviewed for eligibility and the blue checkmark has been applied."

https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/twitter-blue
Is there any reason why you chose to capitalize 'Visa' (sic) in your comment? I've read a number of policies and documents and this is the first instance I've seen it represented in that way. Given your own reading history, I'm sure that there is a good reason - we wouldn't want to be incorrect and inaccurate, of course. For all we know, you could be talking about the company, or the credit card!
Can someone please change the title? It's not present tense, but future tense, with a big IF. The rules are no in place yet and it's not 100% that the rules will be put in place.
You don't happen to have a blog or something where you outline, even if it's without tons of detail or being too specific, what these incidents looked like, do you? These feel like (hopefully) rare enough events that I'd love to try to learn from other people's experiences before I run into this kind of situation myself.
> If the rules are too complicated, then they are a challenge for all parties, both users and implementers

Not necessarily. Generics, and/or C++ templates are a pain to parse because they're context sensitive. But while reading/writing code it's typically obvious whether I'm writing a comparison or a generic/template.

Foo<Bar> foo;
// VS
Foo < Bar;

Likewise, in C++ you can end up with:

unordered_set<tuple<int, float>> mySet;
// >> is ambiguous here without a symbol table or context around the statement
Foo >> 5;

I think both of these are fairly obvious as a user of the language, but boy am I glad I don't have to parse that!
Just google H1B visa transfer. All of this is (or at least should be) pretty common knowledge in the tech world.
You’re just strawmanning. Not contributing to the discussion.
Some people signed up for Twitter, years ago, specifically to avoid other people using their name. I think it was a thread on HN.

Once you are signed up, it's tempting to use it. Then you realize it's a bad idea to use it, but it takes self-control.

Now, with the current leadership, who knows if they will purge inactive accounts and/or reissue IDs.

I don't know if this scenario accounts for much of the antagonism, but it is one possibility. It is possible that some people don't like it, but can't let go of it completely, and the new management creates uncertainty and doubt that never ends.