skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you're looking for a one stop reddit replacement you're not going to find it. As such, I don't think selling the fediverse as "reddit without the BS" is an honest or even reasonable comparison.

You're going to have to stick with reddit and give replacements a dew years for the dust to settle before asking that question.
Elon is responsible for the quality of the people who work for Twitter. That's what a CEO does.
I should have been more clear: Desktop systems at home, independent of weather they are owned by the company or a private person.

EDIT: Or server system at home, or systems in a office which are not secured enough from physical access etc. etc. etc.

The cloud can for most companies/use-cases generally be assumed to be a physically secure location where it's extremely unlikely that a warrant for something else also accidentally include the systems.

Basically any location where the system is not either legally treated as company property and which is secur
I am not disagreeing with you but self-ddos is not entirely uncommon. When I worked at Amazon this would happen a few times a year. Not on the main amazon.com website but on supporting services often initiated by but not limited to kindle devices. Having something like this slip through the cracks of even experienced engineers isn't uncommon.
That article has been analyzed to death. Here is a good one from another ex-Amazon.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35853148
So a browser with accounts works for you. So your comment was irrelevant.
You forgot to notice that Twitter has a pure chronological timeline now without any algorithmic recommendations. Surely that will outweigh people with blue checkmarks in the replies.
Freedom doesn't mean everyone gets whatever they want.

Your freedom just doesn't override the freedom of others to avoid you. You can't force others to interact with you and there's nothing wrong with that.
> "Oh, I hate those with burning passion."

Interesting that this comment is the top upvoted one. I remember reading a twitter data analysis and the sentiment that drives engagement the most by far is anger. Maybe it's true.
> This is a big step down from "All programmers should know and implement purity by default because mutability is the next goto."

Not something I said. I explicitly mentioned the functional core, iterative shell architecture, and explained how you need to understand functional enough to know when it's a good time to not use it.

At this point your posts look like someone making fun of a complex technology they do not understand, without really approaching any valid criticism of its real shortcomings, because such criticism require a thorough understanding of the thing being criticised.

> Functional programming that introduces or models state requires more abstraction, and then complexity.

I'm pretty sure I've said exactly that. Good thing we agree on it. But you don't seem to realize that this fact is only true for handling state, and not for other aspects of programming.

> Imperative programming with state is as simple as functional programming without state.

You've never tried to compose multiple asynchronous event streams of complex data types from different subsystems into one single user-facing unified presentation, have you? Your assertion is simply not true. Such feat is way simpler in functional reactive style, and a true nightmare in an imperative multithreaded program. That's why web frameworks are evolving to handle more and more reactive functional patterns for compositional asynchronous tasks.
Maybe it’s just me, but I find that YouTube videos linked on HN significantly detract from my experience.

Particularly when the video communicates something that can be easily and succinctly communicated in writing. In such cases, I feel that a linked YouTube video is promotional (of the YouTuber) rather than informative.

And I say that as someone for whom YouTube pays the bills.
Some people say small deployments don’t need pgbouncer. The issue is sometimes you don’t get to decide when you aren’t small anymore…
As someone who doesnt use twitter, I dont understand how can you have any sort of a real discussion with a 140 character limit.

The best discussion platform is IMHO the older version of reddit / i.reddit with the nested comments + possibility to be indexed by google + possibility to reply to old posts. The super-nesting comments feature is great.
"Have you heard the good word?" Bam, down to 6 words with a 95% hangup rate. Problem is that 5%....
When an English person goes to USA, Australia or any other former colony, is it reasonable for them to assume those countries are fake?
From memory they got their TCP/IP stack via the MIT licence
This is a perfect example of how "shareholder value" is a thought-terminating cliche.

Twitter was previously a public company, which was beholden to shareholders, and aimed to try and increase its stock price (as far as "shareholder value" actually means anything, this is basically it). I wouldn't praise previous management (the company wasn't profitable), but they were not a complete dumpster fire.

Then Twitter was bought out, and taken private, removing the obligation to "shareholder value." The ensuing dumpster fire is one that will be marveled at for years.

I'm not saying public corporations are better than private, or that "shareholder value" is a good slogan. I'm just saying that your comment is every bit as irrelevant as the porn spam that's clogging Twitter these days. (Thanks for fixing the spam problem, y'all!).
> some small current flow

Don’t do this on your boat. It will eat your propeller and every other metal object you’ve got underwater.
Formally? No, I had never even heard of it.

Informally, yes, almost 100% of the time. All software teams tend to self-organize no matter wheat the formal org chart says, and this sounds a lot like where they end up landing.

Because of that, though, I'm not sure I'd ever go for it "officially". Sounds like the kind of thing that will work great if a team lands on it through their own interactions, but will be overly dogmatic if formalized.
previous HN articles linking to instances has caused them to become overloaded. this instance just seems to know how to handle it
Apart from Facebook (I mean Meta (I mean Threads)). Let's see how that one plays out, but initially it seems like they'll be blocked by almost every bigger instance anyway.
Wish I had a personal teacher while working on my c++ hobby project a while back.

I read Stroustrup, Meyers, plus the Core Guidelines, and I do my best. But it would have been great to show someone what I had done along the way, and have them critique and provide expert alternatives.

I feel like books can get you to a point of competence, but it's very difficult to reach a point of mastery or even excellence without someone there to show you what you're doing wrong in your specific case, and how to improve the way you work, or think about a problem.
Because marriage is historically about ownership and contractual agreement, and is tied to religion (which is also on the decline finally)? Sounds quite sane and rational. Why someone would pay the government to be recognized as a couple, and then pay again, at least 3 times as much, to be divorced makes absolutely no sense. Consider that money stream dried up.
The Elon Twitter movie will be the next Borat, I can’t wait.
Honestly.

what the fuck is this response?

I hear always that centralising everything is great because efficiencies of scale: but then we have something that works as good or better and the response is; “ah yeah, but the load is so high!”

Why do I care? I don't honestly give a shit about how much load you have, you could be factoring Pi on every page load; it means -nothing- to me. I kindly invite you to give more of a shit about user experience.

This also goes for when “complicated” systems fail, maybe making them so complicated and centralised is not the way.
`python -m turtledemo` may be not a hidden “tool”, but nonetheless it is absolutely mint.
Post-Anthropocene Humanism
Brilliant reference. Absolutely zapped it. Legend.
Don't interrupt your opponent when they are making a mistake.
Which pieces have deteriorated?
86% of Americans think that police funding should increase or stay the same: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/02/03/before-re...

80% of Americans think that the southern border should have increased security: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/09/08/republica...

50% of Americans oppose affirmative action (with 33% approving, 16% not sure): https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2023/06/08/more-america...
Show HN: Cerelyze: Implement research papers into code 100x faster(Desktop only)
A tool for engineers and academics to understand and implement research papers faster. Does NOT work on mobile.
Does HN need to do something about Twitter links?

Maybe automatically change them to embeds?
> Think of Ukraine as being somewhat similar to Vietnam.

You mean that the invasion by America into Vietnam is similar to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine?
No, if someone's saying it's all about private rights of action, that's a strawman which ignores:

1. The radical removal of standing requirements. Since when did laws like HIPAA or the ADA ever allow totally random people to sue a hospital "on your behalf", let alone be able to demand $10k from the target to keep it all for themselves!?

2. The farcical idea that regular checks-and-balances and judicial-review don't apply, simply because the legislature claims it delegated alllll enforcement to private individuals, despite still being responsible for, y'know, making the dang law.
Love mine. Works great, just swapped the joysticks out for Hall effect ones with zero drift (but higher power usage). It’s the Nintendo switch if it was designed by people who understood how accounts worked in 2023.
It's true. If the Madoff investment paid off, the billionaire would be happy too. Not just Bonilla. The billionaire took a risk and choose poorly. That's called "life in the big city."
Yes. This feels like an ad for the YouTube channel.
But you haven’t offered an argument.

“Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all of it.”

Do you think it should be eliminated? Then why are you arguing against its elimination? Why do you claim to think it should be eliminated? Why should I be convinced that you actually believe it should be eliminated?
I worked at Applied Microsystems (now defunct). We made in-circuit emulators and did one for the 80960CA variant. I remember that processor had an undocumented (IIRC) feature called "Incremental Trace" that would allow the emulator to keep track of what the processor was doing. We used it to develop an execution trace disassembler for the processor.

I seem to remember HP/Boise was using a lot of the CA parts for use in printers. They had one of our emulators, and I remember that we once got a report of the emulator probe tip having caught fire (!) due a short or some such.

I enjoyed working with the CA part. I also worked with the 80960MX part. Now, that was an odd processor!
What? Remember the fail whale?

Twitter shit the bed all the time in the early days.
Haha I was looking for this one!
Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziltBdyFxDo
This is changing rabidly and the new onboarding flow is pretty great, perhaps you should give it another go.
Diff, branch, and merge – for SQL databases
>Version control features from Git on your SQL database tables.
It would be nice to see Paul write more about the privileges he has enjoyed.
Interesting philosophical question: if a man buys a burning dumpster and then, giggling madly, proceeds to throw in several sticks of dynamite caked, for truly inexplicable reasons, in his own feces, can he really be said to have destroyed it, or has he merely, if perhaps prematurely, put it out of the world’s collective misery?
Yes, Ukraine is a warzone. That war is almost universally condemned.

Northern Ireland is at peace. Its constitutional position within the a United Kingdom is recognises by the Irish government, the British government and all of the other states of the world. This position was agreed through a referendum held for the people of the island almost 30 years ago.

Historical comparison doesn't come into it. The point your were raising was that there was a comparison to be made today to the situation in Ireland and the situation in Ukraine.

Even historically it doesn't fit. What "invasions" of Ireland are you talking about? Maybe John de Courcey's? In the 12th century without support from the crown?

Please note that I say all of this as someone who would vote tomorrow for a united Ireland without a second thought.
A Psychologically Rich Life
"The co-authors found that contact center agents with access to a conversational assistant saw a 14% boost in productivity, with the largest gains impacting new or low-skilled workers. In other words, the workers were upskilled, not replaced, thanks to the technology."

I don't think the paper matches the assertion made in the title of this article - it's talking about a very specific use-case for generative AI, which won't necessarily generalize to "in all cases, workers with less experience gain the most from these tools".
My take on carbon tax is it is mostly an income redistribution scheme which moves wealth from the middle to lower classes while reducing the size of the middle class.

If it does have a material global impact on carbon emissions it will only be a result of somehow shaming other countries to reduce their own emissions. While I can’t find any estimate of how much the carbon tax will reduce emissions, our empty country only has 1.89% to work with. So the forest fires are not going to stop as a result of the tax alone.

I suspect what will happen is other countries will innovate their way out of the problem while Canadians embrace pointless atonement leaving the country weaker and poorer as a result.
Some are suggesting that the rise in scraping is a direct result from Twitter killing it’s free API, and that there are a range of organisations whos work relies on this information who have now had to resort to other means of attempting to get the same info.
everyone gets 40 Billion and a *Foal.
Transparantieverklaring
right? it's a shame hacker news doesn't let you reply to old comments, there's a few threads I'd like to follow up on from people who refused to believe Elon was destroying twitter
Those who could know are working at other places now.
Following up my own post, I also remember the hardware guys having occasional phone calls with some guy known only as "Larry" at Intel. I'm guessing he was a microcode guy or some such. Would be interesting to know more about him.
I've had it fail to get a basic regex right, but simultaneously, found it able to model my custom problem using the z3 constraint solcing framework, which I'd have struggled to do myself. Regular expressions are probably harder for it to get right easily, at least not without prompting it to first think through step by step ehat each piece of a regex should be or something.
Would you rather token changes? “Formerly Bob’s Burgers”?
They're not looking to debate you or find common ground with you. They're looking to eradicate you, or at the very least send you back to the closet.
You mean you are *keeping* them? That's a weird use of "gatekeeping hard"
It's a 280 character per message limit, with replies.

This is actually hugely beneficial to discussion as it makes people focus on the most salient point first, and further points go below, and each are easy to address individually.

Longer form material goes to outside links, sometimes, but Twitter threads are also great for long form content. At least for executive summaries that link out to the detailed bits for each primary point. Once the UI for Twitter prioritized threading, it became quite easy to express extremely long chains of evidence.
This is the headline for everybody who’s wondering why Germany is so anti nuclear …
Why would parents prevent publishing of source code?

Unless you mean that someone could see that you implemented their patent and retroactively go to sue them?
If you haven't - you should check out The Richest Hill podcast on your next drive. Really good podcast on the history of Butte.

https://www.npr.org/podcasts/689406568/richest-hill
I think some of the fan phenomenon is just how much money he has, although of course that's not the only thing. Like if he plans to spend all his money over the next decade (probably he doesn't) and he doesn't make any more money or interest, then if you can get one single second of his financial attention, then that is worth like a thousand dollars, so of course anyone like that will be swarmed by so many people.
The rest of the world uses WhatsApp Status. Twitter is for those who hand in their sanity in pursuit of an audience.
In many countries long term relationship + cohabitation becomes legally equivalent to a marriage, after a number of years.
If it works, and it's a one-off script, why do I care?
Skeet is how posts are unofficially called on Bluesky, from sky + tweet ;)
It literally means a strong desire to do or achieve something.
I don't think I'd call it entitled; perhaps half a million years ago, but today, no.
Yes. This IMO is one of the 3 key issues with federation as it is now:

1. Noone understand what "federation" is so they all flock to the big servers hence making the majority of the system totally non-federated in nature

2. Findability (of users, topics, servers) is terrible which pushes people to 1)

3. What you said. Until there's such a thing as federated identity, we're all still tied to one server, thus one server owner can ban / switch off / over-moderate and we're all back to square one

Some of this can be solved with ux and education but I worry that some of it is basically baked in to federation.

Edit: yeh I mean in theory you can move servers but it's apparently not easy...!
> The "extreme scraping" thing is the usual Musk BS.

Right. I just don't grasp how people don't understand he is surely flat out lying.
It is a testament to the engineers of old Twitter that their systems stayed standing for as long as they did.
I've been arguing with Twitter emigres who seem to think that the UX on masto sucks.

I would say that Twitter is an automatic transmission, mastodon is a standard.
How about reading candidates' actual campaign platforms and watching campaign debates then?

Nobody needs a "wide swath of information" unless it's part of their job. The world needs to normalize unplugging and going offline more often.

Also, HN is far from being immune to information manipulation. 99.9% of non-tech articles on HN are either misinfo campaigns or egoistical turf wars.
PG tends to revisit the same topics from different angles in multiple essays as he's figuring something out. You can hear resonances of this essay in a previous essay he had a long time ago about cultivating taste for makers.

http://www.paulgraham.com/taste.html
What is this one doing that the others aren't? It seems to still work today, I used Boost today and it wasn't showing any new posts.
I have to disagree. If you honestly take the emotion and politics out of this and evaluate on merit alone, what do you think?

Twitter wasn’t healthy before Musk bought it. It wasn’t a thriving business, it was a very old, very large startup still struggling to find market fit and loosing a lot of money.

Also, it wasn’t a thriving product. It was stagnant.

Since Twitter was purchased, the amount of features they have shipped has been impressive. They’ve shipped a lot of features and extended the platform a lot. To your point they have also done this with far less engineers than before.

Regarding any downtime, everyone has downtime. Google, Amazon, Meta… the best of the best still have it regardless of money or manpower.

Considering what that team has done with less resources, I think the achievement still pretty good. What do you think?
Unlike what people imagine, the selfDDOS bug that occurs does not burden requests to the Twitter system, but becomes a loop for users requesting access.
I think there's a lot more nuance than even that. Many psychedelics can trigger or exacerbate undesirable mental conditions that persist for the rest of your life.
Similar experience, agents or tools as part of LLM framework can help 'defuzzing'.
Have you tried this at all?

I find that many of the generative AI models (GPT-4, 3.5, even MPT-30B running on my laptop) are really shockingly good at SQL.

Paste in a query and ask it for a detailed explanation. I've genuinely not seen it NOT provide a good result for that yet.

Generating new SQL queries is a bit harder, because of the context you need to provide - but I've had very strong results from that as well.

I've had the best results from providing both the schema and a couple of example rows from each table - which helps it identify things like "the country column contains abbreviations like US and GB".

If you've found differently I'd love to hear about it.
HN itself is run on a single server. So long as you’re not running something bloated or trying to host on a DSL connection, you’ll be fine.
Not as people imagine , the selfDDOS bug that occurs does not burden requests to the Twitter system, but becomes a loop for users requesting access.
As a frontend dev of 12 years, I’ve been getting a lot of utility out of it helping me write Jenkins pipeline code. And learning a lot of groovy, Java and Jenkins patterns along the way.
Their code for Zip folder compression/decompression is licensed from a 3rd party.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180515-00/?p=98...
Took me about as long. What guidelines will we find, in another 20 years, that we are doing wrong today?!
Have you checked how many engineers Mastodon has?

https://joinmastodon.org/de/about

Four.
SpaceX launches groundbreaking European dark energy mission
Mastodon absolutely does not load quickly. I clicked the link and saw the followup tweet/post/whatever for a couple of seconds before it reflowed and showed me the actually linked tweet in a smaller body font. The had to wait longer for the whole thing to finish loading. There is a ton of unnecessary JS bloat on the linked site.
I think I had someone do the old sarcastic "remind me of this in one year" under one of my posts predicting technical doom for Twitter.

Definitely a good one to revisit.
They removed them because they're sending them all to Ukraine.
it was never profitable
Parsing time stamps faster with SIMD instructions
He could defederate from you, but one for his instance. If you haven't pissed off the whole federation and you backed up your data (another thing you can do on mastodon) you'll be fine, and keep all your followers too.
- Spam protection is non-existent. An NFL post showed an explicit sex act as the top response for over two weeks before it was deleted. https://twitter.com/schuh_dan/status/1657777263817940996 this was the tweet, though I don't have an exact record of when it was deleted. You can also look at https://twitter.com/patio11/status/1674876982260273152 for another example, though the porn spam has only been there for 24 hours this time.

- Outages really are common: https://twitter.com/altluu/status/1577806809217503232
Nope.

We're just watching the over-reaction here once again screaming at another Twitter speed bump magnified by the techies.

Just like the other speed bumps before, this will be yet another nothing.
If anyone’s got a spare, my email is in my profile.
The FTC wants to make it harder to publish fake product reviews
The Asus Zenfone 10 is a tiny 5.9-inch phone with flagship specs
A license to use someone else's code doesn't necessarily include permission to publish the source.
There you are!