skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I know lots of sysadmins and they all automate tons of stuff. They aren’t “programmers” per se, but they wrote a lot of code. Mostly shell or maybe Perl or python or something similar. And they probably assume all sysadmins program and wouldn’t even think to call that out in the job posting.

I mean shell I can understand, and Perl to a minor degree because of sed/awk pcre regex, but Python is really getting into programmer territory in my books.

I wouldn't call myself a programmer by a long shot, I've written a 6502 state machine in C before, but I'm shocked it works at all, and it's not cycle accurate.

For what it's worth, this was some redhat shop who use slurm and foreman/katello... it really did seem like they wanted me to write code to run on their cluster (probably C++).

It sucks that I'm stuck where I am now, but it could be worse... so I'm not totally mad they've strung me along, but it would be nice if HR folks would say what they actually mean/want, and be prompt about it. Applicants are people too, and we deserve to know if the job actually exists if we're going to spend the time interviewing and training to get acclimated to whatever setup the CTO/CIO wants us to use to do our job.
Elon Musk is the gift that keeps on giving to Mark Zuckerberg – CNN Business
It should be no surprise that the lispm had a similar experience. Instead of a shell it had a REPL of course but the debugger was always entered when something went wrong, and of course it was trivial to fix something and continue.

Bill Gates once laughed to my face when I described this as a feature.
Knowing Microsoft, this is likely a backwards compatibility thing. There is no way this is easier to implement than just using the same keywords in any locale.
> And billions of years old.

With not quite good backup strategies.
I'm not sure you understand what rhetoric means...
Actually it would be the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space usually referred to as COPUOS. (I usually pronounce it cope-you-us because it’s slightly easier than cope-you-os for me)

Quoting a key part from its Wikipedia page …

“Resolution 1721 also further cemented the committee's role in preserving space for peaceful purposes. It stated that international law and the UN Charter applied in outer space and directed the committee to study and report on legal problems arising from space exploration. It directed all states to inform the committee of all launches into space for the UN's public registry. It directed the committee to keep close contact with governmental and non-governmental organizations concerned with space matters, as well as to act as an exchange of information relating to space activities.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Committee_on_th...
Respectfully, you really, seriously need to work on your communication skills. You seem to be doing good work and I respect that (I use Mull, for one), but... you systematically sound fairly aggressive and complaining about everybody. Just for that I wouldn't want to contribute to any of your projects, and I wouldn't want to depend too much on them either (who knows who you will piss off next and where your projects will go).

For instance, let's look at what you describe here as "my PR was fixing a ton of stuff but it was ignored and closed".

First, the title of your PR is "Make the kernel less awful"... really? How would you feel if I opened a PR saying "Make DivestOS suck a little less, but let's be honest, it will still be a piece of shit after that"?

Not even mentioning that you say "Untested, but shouldn't require more than a handful drop/reverts". So you just come and drop a huge PR that you haven't tested, and then you complain that others don't pick it up?

Before closing your PR, the maintainer said:

> Don't get me wrong, it's impressive, but there's no way I'm going to merge this. You can't send someone 424 patches to a repo and expect them to stop everything they're doing for a month and checking them one by one in case just one of them fucks up the entire system (or contains some kind of malicious code), even less so on a 3.18.140 kernel that originally comes from Qualcomm.

That is very fair, and I would not call that "being ignored" at all.

Keep up the good work, and learn to communicate in a constructive way!
How do you mean? With age, one can hear less and less very high frequencies (above 10kHz), but those are not that critical for music. There are lots of old conductors who can hear 100x more details that I ever had. Many studio engineers for super popular pop records are above 50. Most of the listening is actually in the brain.
How about we start with easing the cultural pressure and focusing on creating a stable economy? Maybe then, marriage won't seem like a high-stakes gamble but a natural step in life's journey.

If all else fails, there's always state-sponsored dating events. Nothing says romance like government intervention, am I right?
Genuine question: how has Musk leadership impacted Twitter objectively.
> Oh boy, do I have good news for you!

Is this some kind of pwn? Stephen King makes millions, JK Rowling likely a billionaire, Grisham, Patterson, Joan Collins, the list is endless. Didn't the 50 Shades of Grey author initially start with free fan fiction? Do you think these people are going to take a pay cut? And if your "random" author gets noticed by a publisher and is offered a book deal, do you think it will continue to be free?
Derren Brown doesn’t claim to have superpowers, he’s an illusionist and mentalist. It’s possible he is dishonest about his methods, but he is honest about being an illusionist.

In contrast, Geller has tried to bamboozle the world that he is genuinely psychic, and has other ‘abilities’ and is simply a huckster.

I’m not sure why it would be strange in this instance that one gets pushback from rationalists and one does not.
I don’t think that’s what they’re saying. They’re saying both a bathtub’s whirlpool and an organism’s energy consumption are examples of methods to increase entropy and both of them may emerge specifically because of the universe’s general tendency toward higher entropy.
Just use plain HTML + a little bit of basic CSS. No need to overcomplicate things
Do you have a link/reference to the documentary?

Yes, I've seen the sources that say it never was stable, but I assume that at least what's in the recorded demo was at some point possible to run; of course it might be coming from a long-lost source/or binary.
It's nice that they're open about cause and response, but chaps, deploying on a Friday?
It is interesting that Java is mentioned there as a language without first-class functions. Maybe, but from programmer‘s perspective it kinda does and they are encapsulated in «namespaces»: they are static methods of classes and with ˋimport staticˋ they do look like first-class functions.
OneNote was the first one to go from a full office program to be some Modern-UI program, and I have to say that the lost of features is concerning. Like now, you can't easily integrated excels in onenote.

Yet, even with those limitations, it is still the mot powerful note application out there. So... I still use it.

I imagine that it will be a similar situation with the rest of the office suite.
> profitable unit economics.

That may be, but are they equal or more profitable than the Uber, et al model? I'm willing to bet if it were that they would be doing that instead. These companies are in the U.S. where maxing profits/shareholder value vs. taking care of employee needs (or any other need) is generally the name of the game for a major majority of companies.
Prediction: people will quit Twitter and realize that it was a net negative in their life and not bother replacing it and be better off.
Maybe one of these link lists can help: https://www.leadinginproduct.com/p/link-books-useful-collect...

They are cheap and useful if you have sufficient time to read, especially the ones about team structures and recruiting. They contain more content about roles and structures.
Don't the kids of mothers heavily exposed wind up deformed?
I’m certain they wouldn’t. They have no influence over it anyway. The only thing they can do is migrate.

Many people don’t have that option now since their data is dead and gone.
>Suing the government is not a sign of strength

How about when SpaceX sued the US government because they were awarding launch contracts to Boeing without competing? SpaceX largely won that and they had a good point.
Yeah, the idea is great ("what can you do with the equipment you have") but that also kinda promote a bit of fuckarounditis (https://leangains.com/fuckarounditis/) by asking the user "what muscle do you really wanna target", instead of emphasizing a better approach of lifting overall which is strong "functional" compound movements such as the big 6 (bench press / squat / deadlift / pull ups / rows / overhead press)
If you don't have feature parity, you really are in trouble, because then you are competing with Google Sheets, on which actually competent engineers are working.
So did money change hands to prompt this prediction?

Any prediction this far in advance is barely worth the electrons needed to transmit it.
I dunno… people go where the people are and Threads picked up 100 million users in 4 days. (Side note - geez, what an amazing technical achievement… props to the Meta team for their operational chops)
i have to agree. and i agree with other posters' sentiment of "who is this for?" hitting the randomizer on a bunch of exercises is just awful programming, full stop. the app is snappy and kind of novel, but i'm not exaggerating when i say this is one of the most pointless workout apps i've seen, and i've used a lot.
Patronage was art for rich people in pre-internet days. Now we can make it easy for anyone to contribute a dollar to an artist they like.

As for art that isn't "deemed worthy immediately," that doesn't immediately make money in today's system either. If the art can be freely distributed, it's more likely to find its audience.
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I am of opinion this is either a crypto ad or sensationalism, and I don't approve of either.
I think it's 20/80 for me. 20% of the time, it produces working code. 80% of the time, it produces errors.

Sometimes it's just more annoying to have it enabled.

I'm not going to crown Copilot yet until it can read the whole code base.
How many times have the death of twitter been predicted?
What legal loopholes? They are haggling over the government creating new laws specifically targeted at them.
Funny that you mention those things but not that Catholics (1.4 billion people) supposedly believe that transubstantiation literally turns bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. Do we just accept that they don't really believe what they say they believe? Do the Reiki people really believe it?

My heuristics for telling what people really believe are observing what they laugh at and observing what they get offended by. Nobody laugh or get offended by something they consider to be nonsense. Nobody would get offended if you disputed their belief in gravity. Nobody would laugh if you joked about something imaginary with no basis in reality. But I do believe if you made the right joke about transubstantiation then people would laugh, because they don't really believe it. Same for spoon bending or crystals etc.
Does it also stop them from polluting with the PFAS alternatives like GenX?
I was recently involved in a decison where a company was thinking of reusing code of agpl into proprietary software.

The end result was "if you are using the agpl code as an api enfpoint or you are just reusing the code without any modifications, you don't have to share your entire code to customers because if vitality. Vitality would come up if you modify the code. You can just show you are using agpl code in a license file "

It felt bizzare but that's what it is.

Sspl aims to fix that by making agpl extremely viral. Touch sspl code and you must release ALL OTHER CODE YOU ARE USING.
A whole article about a higher bitrate option but doesn't actually tell what that difference is. Is it +10%? +50%?
"eternal september" refers to when the internet became accessible to "normies," thus supplanting the old internet vibe (mainly hackers, engineers, etc) in favor of being useable by the general public.
>And I think it should also apply especially to the article authors, who are all too often disrespected and dismissed.

We agree, thanks for the kind conversation.

>Well, I'm self-employed, so. ;-)

Well whatever you do, don't give yourself a promotion! :P
Threads reached 100M users in 4.5 days. That is ~30% of Twitter's user base. ChatGPT reached 100M users in 2 months.
> I remember begging infosec people to stop using twitter and slack over a decade ago.

Slack was launched August 2013, though
This is reminiscent of the Fitbod app on App Store/Google Play. If you're looking for inspiration, check it out.
I read mail first on my phone with K9 (the old UI) a few times per day and accept invitations there to put them on my phone, which is always with me. Then I download mail with Thunderbird a few times per week. I use my domain providers POP3 servers. Yes, they bundle a mailbox with each domain. It's also IMAP and webmail but POP3 is better for my use case.
There was an OS especially made for the new 286 and its protected mode: Concurrent DOS by Digital Research (aka Gary Killdall).

This OS would function strictly in protected-mode, allowing users to take full advantage of the protected mode to perform multi-user, multitasking operations while running 8086 emulation.

But, by an irony of fate, this only worked on the B-1 prototype step of the chip. When Intel went out for production with a new C-1 step, it broke everything and Concurrent DOS was delayed[0] until it was too late, and then the OS was recycled as a Point of Sale for cash register software[1].

[0]: https://books.google.com/books?id=2y4EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA17&redir... (Super DOS awaits new 80286)

[1]: https://books.google.com/books?id=oi8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA12&redir... (IBM to use a DRI Operating System)
You can change the country name in the title to just about any developed/semi-developed country.

Japan, SK, many parts of the US, European countries, etc.
Way too many for my interest, and yet it lives.
Then check before you post!
What technical documentation are you using that is referencing Tweet threads?
People judge the business model on the American market. It's shortsighted.
2013 in the title please, also the tone of this post is a bit condescending
it is becoming irrelevant because the new regime is not prioritizing what was good about it. dismantling trust and safety is just one example of that.

"engagment records" ... yeah, i am pretty sure we have nobody's word for that except musk's, and he lies constantly. and even if that's true, so what? it is probably gawkers, just amazed, hardly believing what they're seeing. (in the few times i've paid attention to twitter lately, that was always my reason.)

likewise, people are pointing to the millions of sign-ups on threads.net as if that is proof that it will succeed. i don't think it proves any such thing. zuckerberg's long history of sucking the joy out of everything will ensure they will all get bored and leave.
>Object-oriented programming is about objects: bundles of state and behavior.

That means hiding state, and having it spread throughout the app, in places that are hard to find, which is error prone and leads to complexity. And monstrosities like FactoryFactoryFactory [0] and Kingdom of nouns.

[0] https://factoryfactoryfactory.net/

[1] http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/execution-in-kingdom...
I've never (within otherwise normal times) been more stressed out and miserable than during periods when I've tried to interact systematically with and through Twitter.
There's a store chain called Lenscrafters that has a gimmick where, depending on your prescription, you can get glassess in one hour at some stores. So if you have an appointment for an eye exam at the store it can be done. I've never shopped there so can't say what it's like in practice.
In case anyone else is wondering:

> The Scream Test is simple – remove it and wait for the screams. If someone screams, put it back. The Scream Test can be applied to any product, service or capability – particularly when there is poor ownership or understanding of it’s importance.

https://www.v-wiki.net/scream-test-meaning/
It doesn't look too far fetched from their point of view, they saw a payment failure and they may have assumed that you decided to stop paying and didn't bother to send a cancellation request.

It looks like you had your own backup, which is always a good idea, hopefully you were able to restore your data elsewhere.
I agree with your comments about how Influx handled this shutdown.

The several things you might mean by self-hosting have their own pros and cons. The right choice is very context-specific, and assuming that it’s always the right choice is wrong. It certainly can be, though.

As for ClickHouse, that mention seems like a throwaway comment, unless you are advocating a boycott of even the open source InfluxDB due to its corporate author’s behavior and view ClickHouse as the closest alternative.

This incident has nothing to do with the comparison of the open source InfluxDB vs the open source ClickHouse, nor would it impugn the viability of InfluxDB hosted by a more responsible data custodian than Influx the company.

And GCP hasn’t done any similar inadequately notified shutdown of service with immediate and irreversible data loss, as far as I know.

(Disclosure: I have worked for Google in the past, including GCP, but not in over 8 years. I’m speaking only for myself here. I’ve never worked for Influx ClickHouse.)
Elon Musk Calls Mark Zuckerberg a ‘Cuck’ as Threads Nears 100M Users
I guess I'll be that dismissive current user. I don't like random UI changes in a tool I use as frequently as a mail client. The new icons don't look too bad, even if I dislike their flat nature.

I don't think TB looks dated. It looks functional. Which is exactly what I want from a mail client. If I want something that looks modern but is dysfunctional, I'll just switch to Outlook.
Fired a bunch of people, probably lost a lot of institutional knowledge about the systems inside twitter. Lost engineerring moral, so new features, or bug fixes are less likely to come out (or whatever that comes out will be shit quality).

On the other hand, Musk saved twitter a bunch of money. However that doesn't really benefit users.

Fortunately, or unfortuantely, depending on your POV, twitter's network effect is so large that even such a move by Musk is not going to break twitter - at least, not in the short term. There's just too much momentum, too many users that currently rely on twitter as their source of information.
Cultural problems within the poorer communities in the US cannot be solved completely internally. Because sadly many of the problems come from systemic racism forcing people into a box of sorts. Escaping that requires overcoming a mountain of challenges. My SO taught in some of these schools, and the circumstances in these communities is tragic.

It's a bit like telling prisoners they can all leave if they'd just try harder, meanwhile the outside world has been pouring concrete around the outside for decades.
I use BorderColors D, an extension which shows a color in the writing window specific to the selected account.

https://addons.thunderbird.net/thunderbird/addon/bordercolor...
They can start with not hanging the UI when searching for keywords in body, I don't understand why this is so hard.
I can't believe how janky this still looks after a UI overhaul. Text is misaligned in lots of places, the icons are fuzzy, spacing and padding is inconsistent even within the same areas, there are 3 sets of 3-dot icons in the sidebar in two different axes. It's just careless.

Most users don't care about the alignment and spacing and so on in isolation, but they do get a sense of quality from the overall impact. This stuff really matters in aggregate.
First Attempt at Designing for VisionOS
Is there something like that in gcc?
A Brief History of Web
I was merely reporting what multiple others have said.

If you wish to falsify my summary, then please do. I will be happy to write a correction. I could well have this wrong, yes.

If you feel this is wrong, then by all means, please provide some links and some evidence that it isn't the case.

IANAL and I do not play one on line. I just report. That is what reporters do.
Nu-uh! I don't lie.
Even for the average person, a $20 fee might not seem that crazy. Imagine it's night time, you live in a not great neighborhood, and you're a young woman. How much would you pay to avoid having to get on a bus, ride twelve stops, pick up your food, then wait for another bus to get you home?

I think the higher fee will push out the boundary of where average, healthy people are willing to travel, but it doesn't push it out great distances.
Which is expected given the context. The shakiest source is enough for something claimed without source.
But we don't go back because millions of customers use these apps every day.
Just not HN apparently because people here are special.
I don't think you understand analogies either. That's not an analogy, that is what happened.
Urbit has always been open source—currently under the MIT license [1]—and same as Ethereum it's also guided by a non-profit foundation, the Urbit Foundation [2] established in 2021.

[1] https://github.com/urbit/urbit/blob/develop/LICENSE.txt
[2] https://urbit.org/overview/people-history
In the U.S. Microcenter has an in-store only deal $3.50 for a 64GB USB 3.1 drive right now
There is something comforting about machines whirring, knocking, click clacking. The physical card printed, cut, and handled by hands. There should be a name for that feeling, like being in an old book store, being able to touch everything, read the books, flip them back and forth.
I think the point here is that while children can be denied access to copyrighted works without paying the owners, but openAI and Meta can do as they please. I don't disagree that the current copyright system needs improvement, but what I really really don't like are seeing rich and powerful people breaking laws with impunity over and over and over again.
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I’ve only just noticed the coincidental connection between Ada’s surname and the lacemaking machinery that was the target of many Luddites.
I suspect if the loss of these delivery drivers had such an impact on this hypothetical special place, they would hire their own delivery drivers to compensate. Worst case, you have to a call a number or use a mobile-friendly website instead of using an app.
How to Make a Hard Decision
A meaningless prediction by some random tech influencer trying to push his own brand and gain subscribers.

At least prediction markets let people bet resources on different outcomes.

If OP is reading this: how sure are you about this prediction? How about you commit to donating $1000 to your favorite charity if you're wrong? I'd take someone way more seriously if they committed real resources to back up their claims.
It's certainly one of two main metrics, the other being that once I'm at the location everything from the conference to the hotel where I'm staying to dinner options are all walkable.
I recently made WorstPress exactly for this reason :)

[0] https://github.com/surprisetalk/worstpress

It's ~50 lines of bash that builds websites. I hook it up to Cloudflare, and bam, I've got a free and easy blog written with markdown.
Someone who went online for the first time in September, when college starts and students get a turnkey way to do that, as opposed to gaining the interest and working through the process themselves.
It's worth posting long-shot opinions like this. It doesn't cost anything and there's a small chance you could win a lifetime's reputation as a predictive genius.