skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Obviously the most exciting story to write will be the one you want to read. The reason I mention this case explicitly is that so many people get it wrong. Instead of making what they want, they try to make what some imaginary, more sophisticated audience wants.

somehow, i have almost always made software as for my self if i were the user. And out of 35+ years and 20?30?50?70? projects, only 5 times this aligned. While in most ~~failed cases it was that i wanted much more sophisticated stuff than the eventual audience (if any). Or i was not connected to right audience. All the same.

so.. YMMV

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another one...

> It's a great thing to be rich in unanswered questions. And this is one of those situations where the rich get richer, because the best way to acquire new questions is to try answering existing ones. Questions don't just lead to answers, but also to more questions.

reminds me of something i told once to my mentees:

"searching answers.. does not make life interesting. Search for questions... then you beCOME interesting. And inconvenient. To the asnwer-producers (whole industries and institutions are only doing this).

which.. is already interesting :)

...Most People are either Answers - and boring ones - or not even Answers, only lay faceless. banal. incredibly predictable and.. like a transparent bag, you see through but can get through..

search for People-that-are-Questions.
search.
"

have fun
Have you looked at https://github.com/hashicorp/go-plugin?
I heard about this anti-oxidant hype, so the original psilocybin study now seems a bit incomplete.

There are a ~dozen of studies on dasatinib (anti-cancer drug) + quercetin (senolytic) for curing osteoarthritis in humans, improving heart tissue etc, with dasatinib used as a senolytic. Navitoclax (anti-cancer drug) also used as senolytic in some studies.

In this context it seems that adverse effects from senolytics may be more pronounced in cancer-prone, in younger age or if taking them continuously (not like 5 days per month or so letting some senescent cells to emerge). Yet Sinclair's new venture TallyHealth, for example, are selling a 5 in one capsule, containing apart from other stuff 500 mg quercetin and 100 mg fisetin (senolytics) with an expectation of daily intake. And his 80y old dad is taking senolytics daily with still no cancer.
> But I understood the person I was replying to to mean that they were throttling to control infra cost

Or hard pushing for Twitter Blue subscriptions, which have 10x the rate limit.
Now there is an API I haven't seen in a while.
I have a bunch of various ESP32‘s lying around and I’ve been getting by with copy pasted arduino code.

Works fine for most things but I’ve also told myself many times now that I would like to dive deeper when I find the time.

My background is in web and Java. Never done C or C++.

Is rust on esp already good enough for a beginner?
We're going to need a bigger boat.
Most of the money was loaned, and the debt is now Twitters and not his.
Yeah, Polycentric lets server operators choose to censor individual posts or entire users. Your client can query anything that's censored from one server by querying it from another where the content was published. It's fairly easy to tell when a post is censored since each post has a logical clock per user that is incremented per post, so you can pick out any missing logical clock entries.
It wasn't "nuanced" at all. Just muddled and obsequious.
Doesn't the current situation imply that a lot of those users were bots/scrapers?
https://archive.ph/h2Tn9
Thanks, I've updated the article.
Even going as far as hijacking other's listings!

Crazy story: https://www.kleinbottle.com/Amazon_Brand_Hijacking.html
I don’t have a problem for myself, but many non tech folks I know were not going to move over and I like to have a mix of folks I follow.
I think that it shouldn't lead to burnout if you keep the "play" or "interest" aspect. It's not "I have to find something at the frontier, so I have to pursue this until I get there." It's "I'm interested in this, and so I'm pursuing it because I want to."

> Is it not more likely that most historically successful people just stumbled on the promising gaps almost by accident?

Yes and no. Yes, they stumbled on a promising gap by accident. No, it's not pure chance. Their odds go way up by being out there stumbling around, looking at things they find interesting.
Hacking the D-Link DCS-6100LH
> The epoxy is there to prevent the fibers from bending or buckling.

But isn't that what's external pressure comes down too? The material that keeps the hull from buckling?
This is incorrect, Twitter was profitable 16 quarters of the last 20 quarters under the past leadership. Elon tried to rewrite some of Twitter's history, suggesting Twitter's financial problems were always this bad... but the financial situation only really became drastically worse the moment he bought Twitter, saddled it with 13 billion high interest rate debt, and advertisers fled, cutting Twitter's revenue in half. Neither firing 80% of employees nor shutting down multiple datacenters & skipping rent can compensate for this.
You're not wrong that economics motivate the choice of where to hire for a customer support function. Customer service is a cost center, so naturally companies will choose to hire where labor is cheap but the job can still be done. If it's not being done well, that's a problem to point out. But that's not what happened in this conversation.

To reiterate, here is how this thread went, in context:

>> I think you are underestimating the value of providing support to commercial users.

> You mean, the valuable support they are increasingly shifting to Colombia, Philippines and India?

The bottom reply added no value to the conversation; it made no substantive claim. Since it lacked any substance, the reply merely insinuated that people from these countries cannot provide support at a level that people from other countries (such as the USA) can, and without any explanation as to why. This is the modus operandi of racists who want to choose not to be overt - leaving it to the reader to implicitly understand the unstated. Some call it a "dog whistle."

Had the speaker said "well, they're moving these functions to Colombia, Philippines and India, which are providing worse service because of <some non racist reason>," the conversation would have gone rather differently.

> You are either a racist, unintelligent, or else ignorant. You do not write as though you're unintelligent. I do not personally assume that people are racist because I disagree with them (though your writing makes me challenge that). I can therefore only conclude you're ignorant of what real people do at real jobs.

I'm not going to dignify this with a response. Take this garbage to Twitter where it belongs.
Yeah, I think it's this. IIRC one of the first places it was posted is on the C_Programming reddit, where the bar for "lesser known" is quite high.
Feedgnuplot: Visualize the output of ANY commandline tool
It is a bit weirdly generalized

I kept trying to read between the lines for the domain PG is known for and writes most frequently about — startups

But a lot of the writing seems to apply to achievements in math, science, art, and literature

I think the latter four domains have a lot more in common with each other than they have in common with startups

And PG seems to write and claim expertise largely in startups, although certainly he has experience in many areas and is well read

So it would be nice to address that, otherwise it does seem less useful

I’d agree the first part of the essay generalizes, but have my doubts about many points deeper in the essay
> if you actually believe that putting in the work, and putting it in in a good way, will lead you to success.

What's the point of motivation of you don't believe what you do matters? The antitode to these kind of arguments is always to bring it to a closer level. Can you control how clean your house is with work? Would hard work help you tend to a farm better? Where does it stop helping you?
I think it's important to note there are two types of "great work"

1) Where you have work expertise that is objectively higher than your peers or in the top percentile of your industry due to natural skills or experience or both.

2) Where you have do not have top-percentile expertise, but are hitting the limits of your capabilities. Maxing out your performance is the only way to know your limits and get better. Sometimes you just can't improve, but if you're doing your best, that's great work too.

I have my own business and while I think there are people out there who could do it better, everyday I'm putting in my best and learning a lot. What more could I realistically ask for?
A friend recently reminded me that whales attacking boats is precisely how The Swarm[0] starts. I don't want to spoil the book here but it's among the best I've ever read, and might be of interest to anyone here who's into SciFi.

[0]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Swarm_(Sch%C3%A4tzing_no...
Interesting. Does anyone here have insight why Kolektiva was
targeted?
Kind of strange I'm getting a certificate error for this site... wondering if its just me. Strange.
I agree with you, but the members of supreme court don't seem to care. They use even shallower arguments to justify a ~1996 eVault model as "reliable" and "safe", and the public opinion has to buy it.

Bolsonaro decided to step up against all that, and the rest is history now.
How consultants shape policy in underfunded international agencies
As pretty much all of Europe has learned, stockpiles go quick.
I don't suppose you have any concrete benchmark numbers, e.g. coremark? (:

Also, how do you sandbox the guest program? Just bounds checks on memory accesses? Do you use the same trick as wasmtime does where they map a ton of inaccessible address space and depend on a SIGSEGV to catch violations? What about potential stack overflows - how do you protect against those?
As a person who has mentored people and is currently a mentor, I can name a number of reasons-

* to contribute to my company/community
* to make myself a multiplier (I can do work or I can help 5 junior engineers be a little better at their work)
* to learn myself (a great way to learn is by teaching)
* to grow my breadth of knowledge (I hear about what other people are doing)
* to grow my network
* to improve my leadership/managerial skills
* because people have invested time and mentorship in me
"Kolektiva is an anti-colonial anarchist collective that offers federated social media to anarchist collectives and individuals in the fediverse. For the social movements and liberation!"

In case anyone else was wondering.

Accoridng to <https://breadtube.fandom.com/wiki/Kolektiva>, kolektiva.social was launched by "the anarchist video colletives subMedia and Antimidia".
It's not though. They have a very permissive license but they don't have any actual IP ownership.
I knew salary distributions were bimodal but I never realized it was so separated even at entry level. Outside of these top companies, from what I have seen, entry-level IC offers have been stagnant for years in the 60-80k range.
“It appears that Twitter is DDoSing itself”
Which assumes only Haskell defines what FP is all about.
didnt he bought twitter for free speech
Interesting, thanks.

I have also heard carbonated beverages during eating may affect stomach acid. Need to find some research clarifying it one way or the other.
What I don't understand why so many ads ony face? I work as advertiser and competing with that many other ads is bad, if they were showing the user one meaningful ad , busineses would have better conversion rates and user less annoyed
In this case the admins of this instance voluntarily disclosed the breach. What are the odds that in some future breach, on some other instance, the users will not benefit from the same treatment? And how should Mastodon users behave online as a result?
Quantum Breakthrough: The First Ever Realization of a Laughlin State
What are your counterexamples from ancient history?
The bullshit reason given for this was to “prevent bots and scrapers”, so I strongly suspect they’d be using API responses, rather than impressions.

Especially so considering how quickly some people are reporting the rate limiting impacts them
Based on the post it wasn't.
It is simply false that everything has gone cloud. The whole argument falls down on the first premise. Also nearly everyone who owns their own servers still runs VMs on them.
What would even give you that idea?
I also have a Twitter screen time limit, just not for 20 minutes.
They weren’t targeted. A description of the event is in the linked article.
Funny enough I work in a small aerospace company and I have been tasked with engineering things before. Technically my initial position was as an engineer and not an SWE even though my degree was in CS
In the era of "if it's free, you're the product", I have to admit that this is a strange move.

While I personally would never pay 8$/month for the blue check (who cares?), I can understand that someone might want to pay to be up-to-date. 600 posts per day in some cases might not be enough, considering how easy it is to navigate through tweets in an hour or so. However, I think this is the wrong move.

I would have added the possibility to monetize with tweets, only accessible to blue checks - like premium content. This way, you pay the content creator and who wants to access special content will have to pay for it (with the subscription first, eventually with micropayments). But never block access to free content, never ever!
Stay the course and build the next curve. I didn't adopt Anki for all the reasons you listed.
Thanks for the tip. I just found and read it, along with her obituary for Portis. Both are very nicely done. Portis must have been a brilliant man, so aware of things most people aren’t.
Elon is fixing Twitter by reducing the amount of ads people see. Brilliant strategy.
That's definitely noticeable.
C++ Metaprogramming is also just a bunch sugarcoated preprocessor macros and it was never someting else.
I'd do it for those reasons too. How much fun to watch the implosion from inside!
Most other functional languages don't enforce immutability to the degree Haskell does. So if you are trying to show off how pure and side effect free your code is...
It's in the post. One of their admins was charged with something in relation to a protest. The data was seized along with the admin's devices.
A cool so I get about 3 more minutes of looking at tweets

My guess is he got rate limited himself after a few hours as a verified user so he’s already upping it
> if it is an octal escape it’s four;

I just figured out that

1. `\0` and octal numbers share the same prefix

2. Octal numbers can have 1-3 digits (not fixed)

So maybe it’s more tricky than I thought.
If you asked me a year ago I wouldnt have guessed that raising interest rates would be the cure to doomscrolling. But here we are.
Yet it's not bug for bug compatible because it's now upstream of RHEL. For things like drivers you want compatibility
> We can for the sake of the argument just take as a given that the Russian government is bloodthirsty and expansionist and wants Ukraine.

No, actually. I do not think it should have been taken for granted that Russia would be stupid enough to do this invasion.

The fact that they were willing to make such insane strategic bludders is a bit of a surprise.
How many times must Elon lie before people stop taking is word as truth?
Good news is, you can use both.
> almost nobody in a position of power (including across Europe) on the planet was predicting Russia's invasion

I’m surprised by this. There were articles and discussions on it for years. The water supply to Crimea was sore point. In the immediate lead up to war the troop build ups were in the news.
Elon rolled Twitter into X Corp, which would mean the debt is entangled with his other assets and may make things messy in the inevitable lender lawsuits.
Can this be connected to a 3D printer and create 3D fractal objects that are a physical representation of the database that can then be laser scanned to read the data?
Or that they haven’t paid Google server bills for 4 months and Google threatened to cut them off on July 1st
It's actually a blessing in disguise. I don't get much productivity, and instead waste hours sometimes on there. Thanks!
Not related to the post. I am genuinely curious. Does PG make his own titles? And why is it a gif instead of a regular text? I know the site has remained stuck in the 90s kind of web design and I quite like it. However, I fail to understand why the title has to be a gif instead of text. Is it autogenerating it in the backend or did someone actually write it out in some graphical software, exported the title to a gif and then hardcoded it into the HTML? So many questions LMFAO
That was from the book
They didn't suddenly stop being functional programming languages.
>f one thinks that some corporation--any corporation--owes "faith" or loyalty to their customers

If you don't think it is well past time to start forcing ethical behaviour on corporations... I don't know what to say to you.

I notice a certain country is fast tracking them to have human rights, like civic voting, but nothing at all about joining in responsible stewardship for our world.
So, like, two more feed refreshes per day? Watching the requests in dev tools, it's definitely based on fetches and not impressions.
> I literally just wanted to code.

You just described the career trajectory of every competent Principal Engineer.
>Is it not more likely that most historically successful people just stumbled on the promising gaps almost by accident?

to some degree, but it's not like you can luck your way into writing an app by slapping the keyboard. The degree of success might differ, but generally there's some kind of barrier of entry in terms of the work to learn the base skill needed. Right place at the right time is a thing, but plenty of people miss out because they don't even try at all
"Now, to be clear, the GPL agreements did not obligate Red Hat to make its CCS publicly available to everyone. This is a common misconception about GPL's requirements"
Euclid mission: ESA's hunt for dark matter and dark energy
As far as I know the US Supreme Court has not even looked at the civil enforcement aspect of the Texas law (yet), so there is no precedent.
Street Crawler or Kerb crawler is the person looking to solicit prostitution.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerb_crawler
It wasn't though. Dole was totally uninspiring as a candidate and Ross Perot was a spoiler on the Republican side. There was little doubt about how the election would go.
It's from Don Lancaster's columns in Computer Shopper (yes, Computer Shopper had articles, it wasn't all ads) that I learned Postscript was a real programming language. He used to describe writing Postscript code to make figures, as that was often easier than to use the primitive drawing programs at the time.
Strictly speaking for American contractors, I'm 99% sure that is not true. If you have any contract with the government for space stuff, all of your workers have to be citizens. I'm not even sure they'd let a permanent resident work there because of ITAR.
Absolutely. I'm constantly amazed at the clever, resourceful folks beavering away on things that don't have a lot of visibility.
The fed has always had this power, it's why there are a group of people involved and not just Jerome Powell.

I agree the Fed tries to know this, but I disagree that the Fed actually knows this, because they don't. If they did, they could have fixed our inflation mess earlier, but they didn't.
When every part/assembly/testing needs to be mil grade and haven’t made one in 20 years, you have this issue
But that would incur a proportionally large cost on the infra I assume? Being able to cutoff DDOS at a gateway level by some sort of filter criteria would still be quite useful imo.
I think you're being far too generous.

Pollution is something that occurs because it's too costly to prevent, or the people producing the pollution simply don't care.

The effect advertising has one you isn't some externality that the advertisers couldn't be bothered fixing, the effect is the whole point.
Probably. She's 60, I'm sure she could keep working if she wanted to, but maybe getting involved in the wildest ride in tech is a good story from which to launch your retirement career of being a media personality yourself. I'm sure she'd be perfect on Bill Maher or something. I could see it being a good compensation package too. Several millions more in the bank to salute the captain on a sinking ship, then sneak off to a lifeboat.

And name recognition too. This is the first I had ever heard of her. So, good move there.
Seems eminently doable though. I for one look forward to seeing it loaded in!
Ownership and control vs rent and managed setup
https://youtu.be/9ihHJoSHfzU

the original youtube upload from the same person
In early days people left because of leadership reasons, but the tech was still fine. But now, although the tech is there it is caged. I guess early people knew the future better than others and took initiative to leave. At this point no one have to decide between the two.
In this simple case, if the int cast is a problem, fwrite would be an adequate alternative, don’t you think?
Honestly outside of the Youtube/Imgur I don't think these companies are unsustainable. The problem is the VCs are aiming for huge returns. Instead of focusing on their niche and running a lean but profitable business they are forced to chase trends and exponential growth.

Who on Reddit wanted chat or live streams. Why is Facebook spending so much money on videos. does Uber really make any money off hellocopters rides. These aren't what people came to these platforms for and are just costing them a huge amount of money.
For "anarchists" they sure have a lot of rules

https://kolektiva.social/about
Wow, could this be used to run an HTTP server on a Cloudflare Worker?
Lot of Musk bashing in the comments but I'd love to have more technical insight behind this decision. For instance, what rate limiting policy is reasonable for such a service. What was the policy before this decision?
Why scientists haven’t cracked consciousness
In general, yes. Those who have to pay for attention are very rarely worth paying attention to, and the bluetick option doesn’t get you much other than artificial attention.

This isn’t theoretical; look at any high-traffic tweet (well, you can’t now; it’s broken. But if it comes back.) The top replies these days are virtually guaranteed to be nonsense.

Again I must ask, have you actually used the bloody website? It’s hard to imagine a regular user not being aware of this; it’s hard to miss.
How can that genius make such decision?
Basic interface design. If you require data to be in a specific format, then only give the user those options as input. The country code example is easily solved with a select field whose values are proper ISO country designations.

This article just reads like the usual “think of something controversial to say and blog about it.”
I also vaguely remember BiiN failed due to being too slow for their price (despite their claimed MIPS) and that their Ada OS was a disaster of a software development project, not even sure if it seriously shipped.