skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is it really suppressing liberal discourse, or is the new Twitter balancing the sides by letting the conservative discourse run freely? It’s a common fallacy for folks to think that just because they are seeing tweets from the opposite side more that they think their side is being suppressed

Many have doubted Elon Musk during the early days of Tesla and SpaceX thinking he was incompetent in running those companies and the goals were lofty. People still doubt him with as much ferocity as his fans that adore him. It’s super fascinating IMO.

That being said, I do think Instagram will have some success with threads the same way Reels has been successful in fending off TikTok (as in not made completely irrelevant). People who share on TikTok also cross post on IG reels for more views and for eyeballs that are not on TikTok. I think the same thing will happen, where there will be some crossposting. Twitter still has a large audience - that will still make it relevant for some time.
> mention of the relatively low productivity rates there

Citation needed for that claim. It's also trivial to disprove just by looking at history.
Estrogen.

Also, Brazilian treasuries. Our interest rates are ridiculously high here.
haha, wow. That is impressive.
I'm sorry I mis-remembered the exact details of another team that I didn't work on and tech stack from 8 years ago. I'll go give myself 100 hail Marys.

The point wasn't to bash Apple - the point was that the team lost a lot of money and time and shipped and inferior product because Apple chose to purchase and close down part of the stack.
> What M&A are you familiar with that they can typically happen in a 6 day timeframe?

Virtually every single bank failure that happens results in an M&A that is negotiated over a weekend.

Most recently Credit Suisse collapsed in March. UBS bought it on Monday, March 19, after negotiations began on Friday, March 16. UBS offered a price that was 60% lower than the Friday closing price. The deal was accepted.
Hah! Working backwards would yield some hits for sure.

“Feather” (a play off a quill) was my prototype (I built a lot of prototypes there in my “spare” time :)) for a richer, write/tweet only app. You could author long-form content, quickly jump into the camera for recording video or taking a picture (goal: frictionless citizen journalism), and other stuff. I wanted to build a delightful tweeting experience and at the time, it felt like the mobile implementation was just yanked wholesale from Web.
If Tom's Hardware reviewed cars, I wouldn't be surprised to learn they'd written the following: "Despite being called a "Ford", the Taurus scored exceptionally poorly in our river crossing tests, doing only roughly as well as other mechanical bulls."
The "in order to do right by content owners" quote implies that certain companies did not like that Browse with Bing could be used to bypass paywalls.
Yea it was over 8 years ago, I didn't work on the team so I don't remember all the details - I just remember this decision impacted them hugely. Hopefully it worked out well for you, but the decision - weeks from their launch - impacted their mental health, as well as the project.

FoundationDB was a swear word.
Ime the execinfo.h backtraces are unfortunately not that useful in practice, due to being unable to resolve symbol names of static functions. But FWIW, you can use it for async signals with the _fd variant.
Devices that implement the Google Cast protocol all need a trusted keypair and certificate. Reimplementations of the client protocol can just ignore that, but the official ones validate the certificate and won't talk to devices that don't have one.
>> Sometimes a monopoly is a monopoly because they are better than everyone else.

There is also the case of "natural monopolies" in economics, these are railways, postal services, etc. where it wouldn't make sense for multiple players to waste resources and the one player can benefit from economies of scale. It'd be hilarious if 2-3 rail companies tried setting up their own tracks, stations, signals, etc. in a small town for example. So much redundancy all going waste.

Another example is multiple telecom companies trying to erect their own towers in vicinity of a little town where only one is enough to provide coverage. It's a collosal waste for the whole society, not just those companies.
3:2 pull-down works for converting 24fps to 60fps. It doesn’t matter if the target f is fields or frames.
Have you actually done this approach? If so, I'd love to hear more.

I ask because I often see the advice that people should look in the Shopify/Hubspot app stores for paid apps with lots of users/ratings and a low score, and while this sounds good, I've found very, very few apps that actually match these criteria. Typically a low score indicates a complaint that is outside of the technical scope that the app owners could address, and ends up being a weak signal imo.
I found this excerpt mildly annoying:

The cost of care is nearly $8,000 per month, but the Dutch government subsidizes the residents—all of whom receive private rooms—to varying degrees; the amount each family pays is based on income, but never exceeds $3,600.

To put it into perspective, a private room at a U.S. nursing home cost an average of $248 per day in 2012, or more than $90,500 annually—a figure that’s even more staggering when applied to the rapid increase in dementia patients globally.

Making me do the math in my head only to find out that the private room in the US is actually cheaper than the Dutch one (at $96,000/year) feels pretty misleading. Sure, I bet the quality of care is much much better than what you'd find in the average US nursing home, but that's exactly why you don't need to be sneaky with the numbers!
A really good read: “The mom test” to teach you how to conduct customer interview. There is a lot of things to learn from it that I did not suspected but that are really important.
You are correct.

Unfortunately, nginx (and other web servers) generally need to run as root in normal web applications because they are listening on port 80 or 443. Ports below 1024 can be opened only by root.

A more detailed explanation can be found here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/134301/why-does-ngi...
Who is hiring? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573871

Who wants to be hired? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36573869
Think of the children while the tech and legal systems for verified identities are beta tested.

I think the internet is moving towards assuming everyone is a bad actor by default and you’ll need to verify your identity with government issued ID to prove you’re a good actor. I wouldn’t be surprised at all if we end up needing accounts verified via government ID to participate online in a meaningful way.
> Your version doesn't work.

It does.

It was also somewhat tongue-in-cheek, and a five-second copy-paste of your code.

> all but the first results are not arrays, so the `.map` function doesn't apply

Unless you return arrays from all functions.

Not that different from wrapping every result into seventeen layers of functional abstractions. What do you think flow or flatMapEither does?

> doesn't include the GPT-generated message and messages from the first steps in the error

Of course it does. That's what the catch is for.

Or you could use an additional map if you want.

> Also, the fp-ts doesn't add any runtime performance overhead here. It's a couple of extra function calls

Of course it adds runtime performance overhead. Any additional function call adds a performance overhead. And in your case it's dozens of functions wrapping trivial functionality.

> Obviously, if I was writing code that runs thousands of times per second, I would not use FP.

Then why use it here? If the alternative is more readable, more traceable, has better stack traces for errors, doesn't require an unstable ever changing dependency...
It’s on appeal. The injunction requiring Apple to change the terms was stayed pending appeal right after the injunction was issued. That is not unusual, btw. Apple lost its appeal before a panel of the 9th Circuit. The only thing it can do now is ask the Supreme Court to hear the case. And in this filing, they are telling the Supreme Court they are going to submit a petition for writ of certiorari (a fancy way of saying please take our case, Supreme Court), so they’re asking the Supremes to “stay the mandate”—-a fancy way of saying please don’t force us to follow the injunction while we prepare our petition to you.

Between when the case was decided and now, Apple has been appealing, as is their right. They have one level left to appeal to. Litigation takes time. this is actually pretty quick in relative terms. Certainly no Jarndyce and Jarndyce.
Unpopular? Isn’t that the opposite?
That’s not true about new products: since idk, 2018 or so, they’ve been constantly shipping new ML crap to ruin the main feed. This is why I closed my account in 2020. “Person you follow liked…” is the literal worst feature.
> Did Musk think Twitter actually had a moat

Yes, first mover advantage. I don't think normal non-technically inclined people are going to move their twitter activities to "Threads".
if you scroll through your list of conversations on iOS you'll see one
Groovy has had that syntax for much longer than Swift has existed... Groovy normally copies features from Ruby/Python/SmallTalk so I would think one of those are the source for this syntax.
The constant quest for "safety" might actually be making our future much less safe. I've seen many instances of users needing to yell at, abuse, or manipulate ChatGPT to get the desired answers. This trains users to be hateful to / frustrated with AI, and if the data is used, it teaches AI that rewards come from such patterns.

Wrote an article about this -- https://hackernoon.com/ai-restrictions-reinforce-abusive-use...
DuckDb supports reading/writing to a SQLite database, while using the improved DuckDB syntax. Sounds too good to be true, but I keep meaning to explore if there are any obvious gotchas.
I've seen some talk on my feed about servers potentially defederating mastodon.social if they don't defederate with Facebook. And that's "official" server hosted by the project and probably the biggest server. Definitely would make it confusing for those users who just want it to work when they can't interact with users on other servers.
Yeah! Wanted a really fast/frictionless way for people to jump into a context based on signals in their environment. This was also around the time of Color (the photo app which raised 40m or something off just a pitch deck) — “ambient computing” was becoming part of the zeitgeist.

Thanks for the kind words! <3
Mobile development, let alone iOS, is a substantially small amount of programming. Bizarre to blame Apple specifically, let alone Objective-C. It seems like you would just as easily be unhappy with web development or Android development as you would be with iOS development.
With out of order execution, speculation, and SMT, it's hard to say if an instruction stalling means that the CPU can't process something else; CPUs are complex parallel streams of processing and trying to think of them in linear terms necessarily misses some complexity.
I agree — I’d love that.
Thanks I should probably stock up on some standard parts. I don't do electronics that often, but sometimes I just need specific resistors, capacitors, transistors or relays for a project that just came up. I guess I will have to find the space to store them.
Now I'm imagining an alternate reality where a Docker Container is like a caddy for laptops lining up the thunderbolt ports for hotswapping. And the delivery manager is the courier driver.
But Zig lets you use arbritary number of bits... you can write `i4` for example, or `u120` or whatever, which is a pretty great advantage.
There’s a Mac app called Lunar that uses DDC (a protocol for sending commands to a screen) to allow you to adjust the brightness and volume of an external monitor with the usual keys on your MacBook keyboard (in clamshell mode at least) or with a slider. Very convenient, can’t recommend enough.
Why not? Sell batteries to them at a premium and profit.

If there's something nice to do in Norway and Denmark, regardless of weather, it's fishing and eating fish.
Twitter has been and still is, its own worst enemy.
For anyone interested, the main author (if I understood properly) did a presentation at RustNL on the UI aspect that was quite impressive performance wise : https://youtu.be/rC4FCS-oMpg
Elon has said he's ok losing money on Twitter. Its about providing a free speech platform where people with opposing views are allowed to express them.
Your comment may be a true reflection of The Independent,

But on review of the Nature article https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-37492-y that that rag ripped and misquoted from I find

The encapsulated devices maintained 100% of their initial performance after 600 hours of operation at maximum power point in ambient conditions

You will find relevant facts and figures in peer reviewed articles. The article states that perovskite is a promising material dependant on resistance to oxygen and to the material substrate.
Yes, per the article: "Bitwarden also offers a self-hosted option for those who want to maintain their own server, which is the one we are going to examine."
Is it a reality show? I've heard they like to keep the participants a little buzzed to get more drama.
This does not even remotely look to be signal safe to me?
Aside, one of the best hacks for networking without a smartphone is a small notepad and a pen in your pocket. Write things down for yourself and others e.g. phone numbers, addresses, email addresses, reminders.
Almost all food is great if you get the proper high end quality.

What matters more in my opinion is what you can expect to taste most of the time. If you go to the supermarket or an average restaurant in a medium sized city for example.

As a pedantic Frenchman immigrant living in Norway, I would say that Norway isn’t the best about food but also not that bad. They have good stuff and terrible stuff like most countries and once you know what to eat you can live happy.
I feel like from experience I'd much rather (B). The things usually go wrong in a fixable way, and it's much better to be close to your destination where you have more options, like more local flights with more space vs daily long haul flights; ability to give up on a leg of a trip and drive there; etc.

Especially across countries, where there may also be visa/document shenanigans.

E.g. going to Venice from Seattle, in terms of getting there it's much better to be stranded in Amsterdam or Paris than in I dunno, Atlanta.
Hah -- nope, although the other person replying to you is a funny example, and it's true for at least one university near me. It was more of an indirect comment about forgetting to search for fields of expertise outside your own, despite potential proximity.
Twitter was profitable for two years, 2018 and 2019.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/274563/annual-net-income...

My understanding is the majority of those loss years was due to how they accounted for RSUs, however I can’t find that easily right now.

I don’t get the impression that it was at all close to imploding pre-musk. Do you have any links to back up that claim?
All legacy is technical debt. If Unix and C are the greatest technical debt, it's because of their widespread use and influence.
I mean I guess the basic response here is that this is because the environment you pay attention to and consider noteworthy is the news, which is different from the environment I pay attention to and consider noteworthy.

I feel like these old Slate Star Codex posts are relevant here: https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/05/18/against-bravery-debate... https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/06/09/all-debates-are-braver...
"We do indeed intend to kill search engines with our tech, just not today."
Ideally you are part of the market in which your product exists. That is really the only way to make it big imo. Or you need to have friends, family who are in that space and you have known for long.
"For example, if a user specifically asks for a URL's full text, it might inadvertently fulfill this request." is even clearer. Like, in what cases would you not want to fulfill that request?
After defining your target audience and doing a competitor analysis, build a quick landing page with a waitlist. Try to drive traffic there with social media posts (and maybe with paid ads). Loosely said, the more people signup your waitlist, the more they want to pay for your product.

Anecdotal, I once planned to build a sports related mobile app with music platform integrations. I scraped together a BuyMeCoffee page and wrote an extensive Reddit post about the app idea. The post got hundreds of upvotes and comments within hours — and three people even paid via BuyMeCoffee!

It was quite easy to tell I had hit a jackpot. The idea failed though because Spotify's et al TOS' are quite hostile when it comes to commercial apps.
"Being an American entails a deep respect and understanding of our history" .

I wonder. I assume there are many Americans who don't have a deep understanding or respect of US history. They are still Americans aren't they? There are Americans who carry Tiki-torches and chant "Jews will not replace us". There are Americans who think it is ok to try to overturn elections by violence, like we saw on January 6th. There are Americans who think Putin the dictator is a great leader.

I love America and Americans, but come on let's get real. We are not angels. Just people, the same they have in other countries.

Remember "We the People ...". It didn't say "We the American people". It just said "We the People". So, I think ALL the people of the world should celebrate July 4th as a great victory for democracy. Happy 4th!
So, if 25 cm is an optimal viewing distance, 350 ppi is maximum phone screen density required?
Nginx is started as root but it does not run as root, it changes its user after opening log files and sockets. (unless you use a lazy docker container and just run everything as root inside it).
It seems like all they'd need to do is pay off a couple of the justices. It seems super affordable.
> commit: don't summarize paywalled content

But that's just me hypothesizing.
The Fiskesuppe looks tasty, although my new favourite food is Zuppa di Cozze.

If there's something quite fun to do in Norway and Denmark in just about any type of weather, it's shore fishing and eating fish.
This is more or less how it works. If you want to install software then you can control it with keyboard shortcuts, but the shortcuts respond much slower than just pressing the button so I doubt anybody actually uses them after trying them once.
The eMonPi is the older hardware. See https://docs.openenergymonitor.org/overview.html for documentation on their newer hardware and associated software.
There's no sudden switch. All perception is a little squishy and dependant on the individual. For most people though, once you're creating an image that's 220PPI and viewed from 400mm or so it's probably better to dedicate bandwidth to better temporal resolution, colour depth, or lessening the compression/compute/power/cost needed to balance those three.
It's probably a low quality hentai trash cash grab.
This block is also trivial to bypass.

You can't shoot down proposed solutions on the basis that they aren't perfect unless you actually have a perfect alternative.
Others have mentioned the mom test - I would like to mention Amy Hoy, “stacking the bricks” and in particular “the sales safari” method of qualitative research that she’s devised.

Some further reading/viewing on it here - https://stackingthebricks.com/video-sales-safari-in-action/

(I’ve written a book on the topic but I’d promote those others ahead of mine, any day.)
“Soon, you’ll be able to follow and interact with people on other fediverse platforms, like Mastodon. They can also find you with your full username @username@threads.net.” [1]

Did not expect Fediverse integration from Meta.

[1] https://9to5google.com/2023/07/03/threads-instagram-app-coun...
Instagram 's ? Why not Facebook's?

And why does Instagram need a whole new app for text posts?

Are we about to see a hacker news for image posts?
How is Dating dead? They launched a new feature 3 months ago
Instagram will shut down its companion app Threads by year end (2021)
What's the + on 100,000+? Are you able to give an upper range?

I would like to apply, but given your process, I'd have to put a portfolio together. (I've never seen a dev job ask for one before, to be honest.)

Before I put in the time to do that, I want to be sure the salary range is something I'd consider.
Instead, I got one with a different CPU architecture, at a comparable price which was my goal.

The unlock took the most amount of time.

The larger point is a comparison of AXP64, and ARM64. AMD64 hardware is pretty much easy to find, and not all that interesting.

Not to mention it takes up no space.
Why are these types of robots always so slow? Are they waiting for feedback on position before moving again?
It's probably fine for me if they just want to nerf the ability to bypass paywalls. But it's very common now for me that I found something lengthy and informative, pull the URL and ask ChatGPT to summarize. If that is also nerfed then people will have to turn to self-hosted interfaces :(
That's an odd definition of irrecoverable you have there.
Nginx workers shouldn’t run as root and certainly don’t on any distro I know. Typically you have a www-data user/group or equivalent. Dropping privilege is very basic.
From an Indian perspective, from the Twitter files, shadow banning 40k accounts 99 percent of them being conservative while all the while saying they aren’t doing anything like this was shady.
Add to that there was no prep to the accounts too, it was just provided without any evidence by an online only news publisher who recently posted fake news about Facebook and got caught.
Do you know anyone in America who genuinely uses FB Dating and met people from it?
> but the street looks nicer (it's in color).

Streetlights aren't for doing your makeup, they're for seeing hazards in the roadway that are beyond the range of a vehicle's headlights. Orange is the ideal color for outdoor lighting, because of the way the light-sensitive proteins in our eyes are 'tuned' ('cones' and 'rods', 'photopic' to 'mesopic' and 'scotopic', etc). My notes from a few years ago: https://teslabox.com/2020/01/color-vision-night-vision-notes... - tl/dr: peripheral vision is tuned to blue, 2 of the 3 color-sensitive proteins are highly sensitive to orange light.

Curious: why did you link to that particular thread? 66 comments, including one by yours truly. imho, this is the best of that thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19855545
Have you tried LG or Samsung service? Not better. Generally my observation is that outside of warranty problems HP and Dell monitors have better calibration and balanced feature set in OSD compared to Asian ones, when they have all kind of unnecessary things in settings and lack what I want (unlocked sRGB for example).
Link to the monitor in the US site if your German is rusty (the monitor is $2.4k)

https://www.dell.com/en-us/shop/dell-ultrasharp-32-6k-monito...
> This trains users to be hateful to / frustrated with AI

As everyone assumes they’re dealing with an AI for support, etc., the job of being a human in those roles will be awful.
> As time went by other languages caught up with the things Perl did well

except regex handling which is still somehow way more awkward in other languages.
More than railways, imagine if roads were privatised and you had 2-3 roading networks trying to get to as many homes/business/etc. as possible
Talk to users and ask if they would give you x$ for this.