skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Is there any good reason why the sources need to stay closed if they aren't going to make any further gains, financial or otherwise, from this product and its ecosystem?

Many reasons are there , it takes a lot of effort for a company to open source anything, to name a few

- Not get sued for IP infringement if your developer from 20 years back copied something or used GPL code etc

- Potentially expose active trade secrets , the program might not be sold , parts the code /algorithms whole modules might still be used in newer applications.

- Presence of PII or other sensitive/inflammatory content in comments and code, could be anything from funny(but inappropriate )method names to comments and documentation .

- poor boundaries, you could have dependencies which are used by the app which are not possible to also be open sourced.

- poor documentation, you simply no longer have all the code or is it time consuming to piece it all together

- expose vulnerabilities in your current offerings , code sometimes has way of being reused , you would be surprised how much “dead” code has a way of living on for decades later .

- third party agreements, not all your code is “your” code, you may have only licensed it from another vendor.
I would scroll through my timeline, but it is now impossible to show you the good content.

Often times the best posters are not the same people publishing the best stuff in their field, but sometimes they are. Aggregators are a different category.

What types of science are you interested in? Some random accounts that I can see right now:

@ShanuMathew93 - renewable energy tech and biz and news

@IdoTheThinking - California housing

@TheStalwart - finance, macroceconomics, microeconomics, etc.

@doctorveera - general genomics
I think that with p2p you don't have to think of servers and still be decentralized like downloading a torrent file, peertube etc
Design checks all the boxes for me. I am naturally gifted in this field, deeply interested in how everything works, how I can increase quality of life for all beings.

> There's a kind of excited curiosity that's both the engine and the rudder of great work. It will not only drive you, but if you let it have its way, will also show you what to work on.

We are going to meet one day PG and I will thank you for encouraging me since I was 17. I am 33 now and determined as ever.
That’s not what they said, psychedelics can trigger preexisting vulnerabilities to mental disorders. A psychotic break can do enormous damage.
You can already follow hn and reddit and youtube channels and tweets on rss
I agree with your main point, but the bit about anecdotes is tricky. We live in a society where research and information on these substances has been suppressed. As a result, anecdotes, to a large degree, are all we have.

This is gradually changing as we see new studies emerging with the relaxation of regulation. However, the picture the data paint is still quite limited compared to the wealth of personal experiences that have been recorded over the decades.
> "What's happening?"

That's a very good question.
It is functionally forced. You cannot live in America without a car except in a handful of cities. This was by design. It was a group effort of multiple companies, from the oil companies to the tire manufacturers. They've all lobbied to spend public funding on car-based infrastructure instead of public transportation.
Copper is also more expensive, more showy, and probably easier to manipulate. But what it provides more benefit for the plumber is not necessarily the best for the client.
"In other words, we could have slouched towards utopia much further than we have if it were not for NIMBYs."

I think the NIMBYs have done pretty well in creating their own Utopia in terms of Canadian real estate
That didn't really count, because they all agreed that black people and natives weren't Americans and had no rights they were bound to respect. The real oppression is when relatively wealthy upper-middle class people get criticized.
>- refactor "broadly" (say, "rename all variables to match the following style" or "turn this class into a dataclass like XXX" or "transform the SQL queries into builder queries using XYZ"). Often requires some manual work but it gets a lot of tedious stuff out of the way

Can you go on more about this, please? This sounds, frankly, heavenly, but the second sentence gives me pause. I guess it's not necessarily a question of how reliably it can "broadly" refactor but rather how broadly "broadly" is meant to be taken...

>- generate SQL queries at the speed of mouth

...and this? I'm not really a database guy, but I do keep hearing from them about how (eg, a database guy's) stateful knowledge of a database can result much, much more efficient queries than eg a sales guy with a query builder. Are the robut's queries more like the former or the latter?
No matter how unlikely if it's getting millions of views it's probably happening at least once. And what's the benefit of leaving the video up? Dopamine? Fame? It's not worth it, I agree with the regretful parent.
Daniel here, author of this article.

Thanks for re-sharing. I was quite disappointed to see the negative community reaction to the original Amazon article. I felt that those knocking it didn't analyze the circumstances that lead to the Serverless Architecture's gaps and just saw some problems with it and assumed "serverless bad".

In reality, the series of decisions made a lot of sense. Take something that exists, try using it, learn from it, and make better decisions as a result of it. It just so happened that in this case, serverless architecture was the wrong tool for the job and dedicated machines were a better fit.

Anyways, happy to see my take being shared. If you enjoy this kind of content, I have a newsletter and Youtube channel where I discuss / make videos about more AWS & cloud concepts:

Newsletter: https://mailinglist.beabetterdev.com
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BeABetterDev

Cheers,

Daniel
Yeah it happened when I worked at Amazon as well. I also more recently worked pretty closely with people at Facebook and knew something about the issues they would occasionally have (which didn't match what the headline speculations were at all). But twitter is repeatedly having these kinds of issues.
Found it, in response to me saying Twitter was dead but it just didn't realise it yet a poster said

"i'm favoriting this so i can come back to it, like that dropbox comment."

Delicious.
Wrong, they had net profits 15 out of 18 quarters from 2018-2022

https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...
Fair enough, I'm sorry for being rude with my answer. For what it's worth, I don't think any of us outside of twitter will truly know if things have actually deteriorated or it's just a one-off bug. At this point though, I don't think there's much difference since the effect is the same.
I noticed the frontend hammering the backend for the past few weeks, so I suspect that these new rate limits are a response to that, even if Musk wouldn't publicly admit it.

I don't doubt that Twitter saw a massive increase in traffic recently, but I feel at least somewhat confident that it's mostly self-inflicted on Twitter's part.
Nocebo language in anaesthetic patient written information
The language you use is important.
I do think this probably isn't the reason for rate-limiting tweets so harshly; I don't know for sure, but I suspect this isn't a technical issue and it is legitimately Elon snapping and just implementing a wildly bad business decision.

But that being said, a loop of users requesting access from Twitter's system is a thing that would burden Twitter's system.

Requesting access and denying access isn't free. You can definitely DDOS your own website by having all of your users repeatedly request access to it in a loop.
Yep. Russia lost some of its best paratroopers during the initial Kiev/Kyiv thing. Not a great investment and pretty incompetent planning.
No, I definitely get that. Where your data is, or is not, has no relevance to a network member choosing to behave badly or harmfully against that network. Nor does it actually impact what they can do to the network itself. It simply provides you with durability concerning your identity.

It is unrelated.
Most gaming groups moved to discord, like it or not. But it does help discover some niches once you want deeper knowledge than what a wiki would give.
Loads fine for me on Firefox Android (but I don't get which sentence is supposed to sum up Twitter).
>256 GB of hard drive space on their phone

This is really pedantic, but nobody has hard drive space on their phone. :P
That's just monstering your enemy to justify any behavior towards them.
This immediately made it into my toolbox. Very handy; thanks for the work and the post.
Is it a healthy relationship if they don't respect our boundaries? I think people may be projecting some very strange personal feelings about their parents on people they don't know.
It's working mostly fine for me as a non-subscriber.

It's glitched a few times and popped up a "you've hit the rate limit" message on the app, but that goes away with an app restart or refresh of the page.
This thread talking about twitter effectively DDoSing itself, for start...
Which adblocker are you using? I don't see any on UBlock Origin.
> he just tweeted recently a reply to a Tweet saying Islam would take over France

Really should provide a source when stating things like this, as many will want to check out for themselves exactly what was said.

I went and found the tweet that I assume is being referenced. It's here :

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1675205751902486529

Elon says "He is right". So he is referencing the Imam in the video of the tweet he is replying to (not the tweeter, who appears to be female). The video of the Imam's speech has subtitles, so you can see what Elon is saying 'is right'.
I can see it at which point I just install it for them, tell them how it works and how to disable if it gets and the way and move on.

But you gotta have a very good relationship with someone to just do that I guess
I missed the launch because when I woke up, I read the launch time quickly before being caffeinated, and did not do the math correctly. So when I sat down to watch, I realized it was an hour earlier. Nothing about the TFA, just sharing my misfortune
> Some horrific monstrosity of step functions, lambdas, and glue

I could see that. Lambda has a 15 minute timeout, and if you’re processing something large you want an orchestrator that can manage retries. I don’t like the SFN developer experience, but it’s only like 15% worse than boto3.
A union vote is the only way to save that platform. Either unionize or let the company die.
https://www.npr.org/2022/11/25/1139180002/twitter-loses-50-t...

Yeah, it is going great.

I see HackerNews is counterintuitively up its own ass again.
Sounds like some folks were finding ways around the new API rules/pricing and Elon decided to put an end to that with a machete instead of a scalpel.
I've noticed the frontend hammering the backend quite often in the past few weeks. It would not surprise me at all to learn that the "influx of scraping" was mostly Twitter's fault.
What you described is exactly what Russia is doing to NATO backed Ukraine.
> Learning about TCP isn't beneath you.

Its literally beneath you as an application developer in the TCP/IP stack :budumptss:
Twitters contract with Google Cloud ended
In theory. In practice, depends what judge you pull, and you'd better have deep pockets for legal fights.

My friends made a Tetris-like game (under a different name, with unrelated art, just broadly similar rules) and were sued out of existence by The Tetris Company. Even though they were legally in the clear according to theoretical analysis, the judge took a brief look and decided "this seems like it should be a violation" and summarily decided in the Tetris Company's favor, without even engaging with any of the issues involved. Their pro-bono lawyers decided they didn't have the resources to mount an appeal, so that was the end of that.
> a second of unavailability

Being unable to look at anyone's tweets doesn't count as unavailability to you?
Maybe "Twitter would stop paying it's bills within days" was too brash a prediction and it was stepped back.
Q: How do you create a sculpture like "The Statue of David"?

A: Take a block of marble, and remove everything that doesn't look like David.

This sounds like a simple question, and it sounds like a simple answer. But the truth of the matter is that there is much more behind both the question and the answer than most people seem to comprehend.

The same came be said for many other cases of trying to understand virtuosity. And especially trying to replicate it.
Nostr is lively today. No server problems though at least not in the relays I'm using.
Oh I wish. People struggling with reddit replacements should try making new friend groups in 2023. Lot more energy for a lot more disappointing results.
In what world is a 38% premium not well above market value? If you pay $1.38m for a $1m house, you are definitely paying well above market value.
What is "NIH"? Google only mentions health institutions.
Trans people in sports? Wanting strong borders? Disagreeing with stuff like drag reading sessions?

Not American or white or whatever, just stating the obviously less widely supported stuff that may sound uncontroversial to the more terminally online.
And you have a young family.

And it's a tough market where 5% of IT engineers across the board have recently been let go.

Even non visa holders at Twitter have had to wait it out, sometimes months, until a suitable job was found.
Cetaceans travel. Could be perfectly the same dolphin

It was funny to see Alfredo mentioned here.
This is obviously not taboo to discuss since every mainstream media source has been discussing it nonstop with virtually no reference to like, actual data, for over a year.
Or they're assuming good faith in their opponents. To not know what has been censored on twitter, and that the recent interest in mastodon was a reaction to the lifting of some of that censorship, is either to be playing stupid or to actually not have the background to discuss the subject usefully.
Wow

A nice nieche* can excell in*

Thanks phone keyboards.
> Disagreeing with stuff like drag reading sessions?

What does this mean? Drag queens shouldn't be allowed to read? Like what concrete policy are you saying they can't propose which isn't obviously overreach?
Are people really under the delusion that Elon will be alive in time for a Mars colony?
I genuinely don't understand what you mean here. I don't directly access any peer's server when I want to talk to them.
I've been working on a platform with a bit of a different take on the online community space. It's like a Reddit/Discord/Patreon hybrid taking the best features of each platform and combining them. One key aspect is we have non-intrusive monetization methods baked into each community where the revenue primarily goes to the community owners. The monetization stuff is completely optional and disabled by default, however it feels like the people curating the communities should have the option to be rewarded for the work that they do.

Here's an example of a community:

https://sociables.com/community/Sociables/home
I would imagine the checks and balances that a mature engineering organization maintains to prevent the unintended consequences of capricious management decisions.
As always, follow the money. Yesterday was the last day of the financial quarter. Q3 reporting starts today. What better way to show that hockey stick graph to investors?
So far HN and Tildes furfilled most of my browsing. Have a KBin account I keep tabs on and I'm helping to fund Non.io (not really ready yet, but I'm happy gambling on the long game).

(Btw, I have Tildes invites for anyone who still sees this comment. Feel free to reply to ask for one).
> The worldview changing result of Hubble was HUDF and the revelation that it doesn’t matter how deep you look it’s all the same damn spirals and shit.

Interesting. What was your world view before this and how did it changed? Did you for example believed earlier that only the galaxies we have mapped so far do exist?

> if I knew it a priori it wouldn’t be much of a result would it?

Yet you are already certain it “did not materialise”. What was the latency between the photons of HUDF hitting Hubble’s mirror and your worldview being changed?
Didn't it take Amazon 15-20 years to blunder into AWS?
If Facebook's rules permit the posting of pictures of children then they are encouraging the practice. And governments are also responsible for permitting social media companies to allow such content to be posted publicly and permanently.

Yes, the parents should have the sense not to do this but the victims here are the children who can't stop their parents from invading their privacy. Many of them are now old enough to have their own social media accounts and discover what their parents did to them when they were younger. Presumably they aren't happy about what their parents did and I knew they wouldn't be back in the late 00s when this practice was first starting.
Only if you have a single account. Most Mastodon clients allow multi-accounting quite trivially.

Also probably not the best argument to make in a thread whose main topic of conversation is about how one of the biggest social networks on the internet is disintegrating in real time thanks in part to the management of its owner.
You're just salty because it's related to Elon Muskuito. That's okay, I am too.
absolutely insane. indictment on the engineers for lack of creativity.
Twitter has been completely inaccessible on my android app all day. I unknowingly used up my rate limit in my bed this morning. There has to be some other motive- possibly related to France protests. Macron announced that social media was to blame
*That may
Social media is not absolute or immutable but it is systemic. Got it.
What would be grotesquely offensive stuff to you? You realize that grotesquely offensive to very online Americans is an extremely niche thing? It makes sense to NOT want your online presence to be tied to whatever some Americans think makes perfect sense, right?

I don't think you'd agree that it would be weird to not want your social media and what you see online to be tied to what some, for example, Saudi dudes think is acceptable at the moment.
Contractual agreements are enforceable at law. That's what makes them contracts.
> because threatening your parents that they can't see the kids of they don't stop is in most cases not a healthy move.

At some point one has to ask oneself: what's the best outcome for my child?
Do you enjoy having weekends off from working on somebody else's goals?
> The only time I hear about a mainstream language being immutable by default is from Rust people telling me that Rust is a mainstream language now.

Most mainstream languages are old, they can't be immutable my default without breaking backwards compatibility. I'm talking about the design direction of languages that are already based on mutability. For example, Java added Records which are immutable, as well as overhauling the date/time api with an immutable version.

> This doesn't make such a thing desirable for other languages.

I've used this pattern in other languages, none of this is a silver bullet that makes software engineering easy; but I do find it makes some code much easier to test and reuse.
Run exact VS Code extensions code with wrapper of stubbed VS Code functions and interface of jsonrpc server
The kind of input you have when feeding tweets into an LLM is toxicity. It looks like something you can blackmail LLM for. Look, you have all this toxic trash in your model.

Like: we have the sources and you could detox you model if you pay for it.
Yep I use this for setting my mechanical watch every morning, great website apart from the clock text is relative to window width, so I can't zoom out if the window is too short, I literally have to resize the window width to see the time.
Are you by any chance working 40 hour weeks?
You can disagree with workplace organizing or the political positions of socialism, but this type of generalization is anti-intellectual, lazy thinking, and just wrong.

Although yes. I don’t think Twitter unionizing will save the site.
By this metric, stoning is anarchist in nature.
Twitter never had a health P/E (Price/earning) ratio. 270M is great on a 2B company but terrible on a +40B company.
Can you make an example of what you mean?
That's what happened. People started demanding that Nazis be censored on Myspace. I knew people at the time who were under the impression that being a racist was already illegal in some way, and thought that Myspace not immediately banning all of them made the site an accessory to the crime. The worst part was they seemed to be centering it around me because I was the only black person they knew.
Thanks for the feedback. I will add that icon in the next update.
Some call it "Promotion Driven Development" :)
Great news about V and how it's progressing.

But, as for the title of this thread, not understanding the odd wording. It seems it should be "V 0.4", "Vlang 0.4", or maybe something like "The V Programming Language reaches 0.4".
Very few and they still make 90+% of sales before then. A price worth paying
Do most college students have no support from parents and work minimum wage jobs?
Lovely, also cross-compile to X86 and arm for all major platforms in just 30seconds

Try it yourself, clone their repo and ``make dist``

That's what I love about Go
Hope you’re enjoying your weekend!
>Do y'all truly believe that most of Reddit useful content was created on mobile?

These days where 50% or reddit traffic is on Mobile? Yes.

>In Apollo?

No.
It's likely more a way for Instagram to avoid monopoly and associated regulatory discussions.

By basing it on an open protocol they can be one of many trusted clients rather than a closed, proprietary service.
If you have to ask for permission to do an hour long QoL task to fix some insane thing that stresses everyone out, you need a new job.
Are you an employer, or do you just really like the taste of licking boots?
Haven’t been to Norway, then?
Not working. God bless archive

https://archive.ph/KwVqi
Unions are for the people, not the company
Your "good faith assumption" is just not the consumption profile of a twitter user. Scrolling through 100 tweets in a minute is completely plausible.
> If Twitter can’t migrate the system to its own servers before the end of the month, Platformer suggests a shutdown would greatly impact the company’s ability to combat spam and child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
I think by the nature of their position, they have more to potentially benefit.

But it's totally possible for an anxious person to end up worse.
How so?

How is Russia establishing air superiority over Ukraine now? Or is going to change the tempo of the war into their favor?

How does this pertain to them denying NATO+allies from probably eventually attaining air superiority in a hypothetical full conflict?
That’s exactly it. Musk a week ago was telling us that there were a record number of user seconds on the site. Now he’s telling us they’re all content-scrapers. The very concept of truth is eroded.
Twitter threads seem awful for long form content. I have never seen long form content on Twitter that I could be sure I'd seen the way the author intended.
Capitalism is the best political-economic system in world history, except for all the forms of socialism capitalists won’t let us try.
You've figured it out entirely. Mastodon is run by the kind of people who are willing to put in a bunch of time, effort, and money into dictating the conversation of others. People who enjoy that kind of power.
No, look closely: the animation does not show the console, it shows the network pane. Each line is a (presumably unsuccessful) request to the Twitter backend. If a lot of people have the Twitter web frontend open and running in this state, it could in fact overload the backend.