skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The words in context have no racist history, but consider a young black student interested in network engineering. They start learning that “good services go on the whitelist” and “bad services go on the blacklist”. I can see a potential for that to rub them the wrong way, and while it is a small thing they would likely shrug off, it may also get filed into the box of a million other things that they have to be aware of that are racist in meaning. It’s one more thing that could reinforce the ideals that systemic racism drives into their life.

A case could also be made for people who aren’t aware of the context: are they confused because the terms aren’t familiar? Does their own bias influence them to understand the meaning and infer white = good, black = bad? If so, is that not more reason to change the words? Shouldn’t we move away from language that associates good and bad with colors that are often used as tools of division?
Yes, this is an insane way to try to build software. I don't think it's very common at all, but I also don't think it is completely non existent.
It’s possible to deliver at 28 weeks, use your imagination.
Also, the idea that Twitter (or any individual social network) is somehow The Public Town Square is flawed from the start. Such a thing doesn’t exist. There are online communities of varying sizes that have different sets of rules that their members (explicitly or implicitly) agree to adhere to. Calling Twitter (or Threads) a “town square” is marketing or corporate fantasy as much as anything. Most people don’t use these services or even really care about them.

(I think of these services more like bars: They’re public places where people go to cavort and socialize, but there’s an expectation of what behaviors are acceptable and an owner, bartender, and bouncer willing to make sure those rules are adhered to. Don’t like it? Find another bar. There are tons.)
Preferably the ones with the best and least restrictive free speech laws
Thanks just watched his video on Japanese Relay computer.
Facebook was never exactly "invite only" but when they started it was limited to certain universities, and they expanded gradually. If a social network is only going to have a few user it can still provide value if they all have something in common; better 1,000 users all in the same city/university than 10,000 users scattered across the globe. Threads doesn't have this problem since they can just do a full-court-press immediately and get 30M users in a few days. I dunno how bluesky works but if they are reasonably generous with the invites you can get your friends on it (who are interested) pretty quickly.
VCs are not all created equal. Some are better than others. Some like to stick to a company’s vision unless things are clearly not working while others don’t care and will make you flail around. Some understand and specialize in a given market and others just throw spaghetti at the wall. Some are decent people and some are assholes.

Terms matter a lot too. If you raise a ton or raise on a super high multiple you will have to show cocaine growth to make that make sense. If you raise sanely the expectations are going to be more sane. (Lots of companies raised overstuffed rounds in 2021 to 2022 at batshit multiples. Expect some carnage soon.)

That being said it does put you on a certain track. If you don’t have something that can show VC scale growth, you shouldn’t take VC money. As with all other things know what you are getting into.

Right now I would consider VC for B2B but not B2C. There are no VC scale B2C business models right now that do not involve exploiting people. B2B can be done in much more above board ways because businesses will just pay for things directly. You will have to build a sales org though.
I never said patch versions are useless. I pointed out that minor and patch versions in the semantic versioning are not very different from each other, in particular compared with major versions. I do use three-part versions, as people had done much before the semver, but people also have used two-part versions and decimal-based versions, not to mention multiple flavors of four-part versions as well. And tools like cargo-semver-checks are actually useful even in the absence of any versioning, because they directly tell which version is compatible with others. They make semver (or any other versioning schemes) more useful, but semver does not make them useful.

If I seem to attack a weird strawman, you are not very wrong. Semver is useless but doesn't hurt much either. Semver can somehow encode one-part and two-part versions as well by appending excess zeros. I'm much more concerned that embracing semver (or really any other alternative versioning scheme) makes us overlook the actual problem---versions may detect but can't fix breaking changes. A vast majority of breaking changes is mechanically fixable, and we all know how it is beneficial. We should embrace a method to reduce perceived breaking changes, not a method to point out possible breaking changes.
Stanley Kubrick explains the end of 2001 and The Shining in a interview (1980)
Disney’s go.com doesn’t support SSL
> If the original Twitter crew had been about 30% less overtly willing to censor news, language, people, or ideas they didn’t like, Musk probably wouldn’t have bought the company, and the blues would still be in control of Twitter

The author makes the same mistake Elon made when he bought Twitter, namely, thinking that Twitter management was hellbent on pushing leftist propaganda, when really they were apolitical operators trying to make as much money as possible. And their masterstroke was convincing someone to overpay for their company by an enormous amount.
thak you for this explanation (it explains my similar experience with instagram)
How’s this compare for teams collecting a mostly fixed wage vs a cooperative where the workers share in the value they produce? I for one found wage labor incredibly alienating. It wasn’t an intensity issue.
Andrew Steele: Curing aging is a question of investment, not time
Windows do not have URLs.
Wouldn't it be great if there was an underlying messaging framework that allowed anyone to host any kind of site or forum, with built-in interoperability, flexible curation, and the ability to impose moderation? Then anyone (with servers, perhaps) could make their own blog (only they send messages, except perhaps comments), Twitter, Hacker News, Element, whatever. Pipe dream?
This is the case for most Linux distributions, except for LTS and rolling release, and the latter isn't newbie friendly, which leaves the only good experience newcomers have with Linux are the LTS releases with increasingly outdated userspace apps. I hope immutable distributions take off, which will make major upgrades easier and pristine rollback easy. The Linux space really needs a newbie friendly, immutable distro. I know of Vanilla OS, OpenSUSE Aeon & Fedora Silverblue... hope we get more competition.
PoisonGPT: We hid a lobotomized LLM on Hugging Face to spread fake news
I am a cloud solution architect in Germany and since April I switched to a 4 days work week (Fridays off) for a 20% pay cut (actually less than that since now I pay a bit fewer taxes). The way I think about it is it’s 50% more free time each week for about 17% pay cut, which for me is a great deal.
Great now the janitor has to become an expert in finance.
Modern Media as a Form of Control and Quitting YouTube – Pandorium's Blog
Designer is still buggy, the new out of process model makes it incompatible with existing component libraries, requiring a rewrite.

In many things, .NET Core/.NET 5+ is the Python 3 of .NET ecosystem.
Apologies and I don’t mean this as a snarky question, but I have been asked to be a part of a lot of start ups, because you know “I can write an app”.

All of the offers have just had equity is compensation. I’ve dodged the many of bullet, but I definitely would’ve taken cold hard cash.

My advice to a lot of them was "Get funding, I'll come work on the idea". How does HN propose they do that instead?
> It sure looks like AWS admin credentials are shared with Github, and also available to anything else in the diggerhq/digger action

I am a co-founder of Terrateam[0] which is a Terraform CI/CD as well. At the end of the day, you need to execute something to do these operations and having this component open source is important for auditing purposes. For Terrateam, we lean heavily into GitHub Actions so GitHub is at least managing any secrets and runs. One challenge is users could pin the Action that we publish to a specific version, but we also update it regularly and communicating to customers to update it is a challenge.

[0] https://terrateam.io
I replaced the baity title with a slightly less baity phrase from the article itself. If someone can come up with a better one (i.e. more accurate and neutral, and preferably using text from the article), we can change it again.

(This is in the site guidelines: "Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait" - https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html)
Sure. Assuming GPs description is accurate (which is for sure an assumption) the problem is their partner is a abusive and toxic individual. Tons of people use social media without going on to emotionally abuse their partner.

The fact that they dissociate and excuse their partner’s abusive mentality is whats interesting to me. And given the post voting, it seems like a lot of HN is quick to do so too.
I guess I don’t understand how cheating on these things benefits the candidate. Like, you lie about any of that and get put in front of a panel, how’s that going to go?
I had an XZ1c and, despite the bezels, I still prefer it to the Zenfone 8 that succeeded it. Unfortunately my carrier forced me to "upgrade" otherwise I'd likely still be using it to this day. And my god it was robust. I did unspeakable things to that phone and it never chipped or cracked - and we're talking drops on to gravel, concrete, and steel.

Hopefully one day we'll see something similar again.
I’m comparing my experience with Macbooks with M1/M2 Max vs Dell XPS with Intel H-series and DGPUs.

Back in 2017-2019 3 hours of battery with visual studio, docker, etc. running was pretty standard for those as I remember it.
It's not even marketing, it's a dog whistle and a means of justifying hosting garbage posted by people with too much time on their hands and too little empathy.
Someone else will make that app without the tracking.
Great, so now we're writing our own memory allocator?
> But no less unusual than building a successful company to begin with.

Statistically, companies that raise venture capital are vastly less likely to succeed than those that are bootstrapped.

Think about it this way: from the perspective of VCs, the most successful apps of the iOS era were Uber and AirBnB. But from the perspective of entrepreneurs, the most successful app of the iOS era was the Flashlight app.

Which one do you think was easier to build?
>and in the same country.

Today's borders aren't yesterdays borders. How should we decide what's fair?

Or should relics stay with their ethnic creators, along racial lines?
Absolutely. I would definitely not like to live or even visit there. I just think that every story has 2 sides, and we don't hear the other side very often.
Well... I'm in embedded systems. In embedded systems, you almost never change compilers. You usually don't even upgrade the compiler. Whatever the compiler is for a project, that's what it will be for that project forever. And in your case, it sounds like you only compiled that code with one compiler.

But as far as UB goes, that's cheating. We're playing on "easy mode". We know what that compiler is going to do, and that's all we need.

"Hard mode" for UB is when you have to worry about what a different, unknown, perhaps not-yet-written compiler is going to do with your code. What is the absolute worst that a compiler could do, within the rules, to your code? You and I don't worry about this, and it doesn't bite us. People writing library code do have to worry about it far more than we do.

So I agree that the concern is overblown. But I think that maybe we miss that it's a real concern, because it doesn't hit us.
Yyy. Put another way, the "town square" concept doesn't scale.

And arguably, even at small scale, town squares don't lead to decency or better decision making. Things that "sound good" are judged as correct without research, data collection or analysis, with the predictable results.
I'm in the camp that believes that one is causing the other.
Around 1991.

I mostly programmed on Windows 3.x with TPW and TC++, alongside OWL. Those nice Borland manuals.

For me, in what concerns C programming for Windows 3.x, the "Programmer's introduction to Windows 3.1" was a much better book.

Mainly due to its coverage of windowsx and message macros.

It's on the Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/programmersintro00myer
I do a slight modification of the approach: I pass everything in, but if you need related functions passed in, it makes sense to pass them in as a service object containing those functions.

Those service objects really have no side effects (constructor basically simply keeps context in), allowing for smaller function signatures, especially for, by nature, side-effect stuff (logging, caching...). Basically, saves on passing both "get_from_cache" and "set_cache" functions in as you pass CacheService instance in.

But the premise is the same: keep code functional, allowing for easy testing and clear implementation.

The one thing I disagree is that this does not allow testing against the real thing: you simply have a test that confirms dependency and simulated fake (function or service) have the same basic behaviour your code expects. If the real thing works using an external service, you can decide if you want to test that as a system test (I run those ocassionally) or with mocks.
As with any news, you take it with a pinch of salt. Nothing new here.

Are there particular things in this report which you don't agree with, or consider suspicious, or know that it's an outright lie?
At least the new president of SK won't return defectors to NK to appease KJU like his predecessor president Moon.

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/2023/02/28/national/nor...
everyone knows the world was always run from the shady confines of the backrooms of the gentlemans club, speakeasy, bar or bonded warehouse.

not and never the town square.

Threads is no more interesting or useful than twitter was afaict.

And anyway. all the half decent feeds went to telegram 2 years ago.
Related:

The Development of the C Language (2003) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19338525 - March 2019 (10 comments)

The Development of the C Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15134903 - Aug 2017 (22 comments)

The Development of the C Language* by Dennis Ritchie (1996) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11973627 - June 2016 (1 comment)

The Development of the C Language (1993) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10749358 - Dec 2015 (28 comments)

The Development of the C Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3439843 - Jan 2012 (1 comment)

The Development of the C Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2258287 - Feb 2011 (7 comments)

The Development of the C Language - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=726519 - July 2009 (1 comment)

The Development of the C Language (Dennis Ritchie) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=365080 - Nov 2008 (1 comment)
Sorry, it was meant to be USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics).
The means by which Twitter could make money is by catering to advertisers, and those advertisers often had strict political biases. Musk complains about this often.
If you stand below without a hardhat (as the people in the picture) you might be hit by the falling door or the airbridge itself. That might be bad.

For passengers this doesn't look particularly dangerous though. From the picture s it look like a 2 meter/6 feet fall onto concrete. Unprepared, but feet first. Sure you can die from that if you are uncoordinated and somewhat frail (e.g. suffering from osteoporosis), but most people would get away from that with a couple scratches on their hands and knees.
> if any miscellanous billionaire can start a competitive service?

Can they really?

At least on Zuckerberg's side Threads' competitiveness would have been impossible without piggy backing on the back of Instagram. He was willing to possibly cannibalise an existing product in the Meta portfolio, to hopefully take away share from a competitor's product. I'm not sure how well that strategy works, and there will surely be organic growth, but will be talking about Threads in 2 years or will it be a Google Circles?

I'm also sure they factored this in at Meta. Perhaps they determined that one Threads user will be more valuable than one IG user, so even if it were a 1:1 cannibalisation, it would be worth it. I'm really curious what the Threads roadmap looks like, because if they are truly going after Twitter, Musk has been fairly clear that Twitter is to be an everything app, a la WeChat.
3D View-Master
Demanding "Free speech" is just a lever for people on the fringe to bully for promotion via recommendation algorithms. It has nothing to do with values and everything to do with achieving objectives.
Cool! GZ to your found love in tech.

You are now a hacker:-)

Just in case you never heard about the CCC and hacker festival s: https://media.ccc.de/

A ton of great video recordings from tons of super cool hacker events are stored and there are also plugins to watch it on a smarttv
So, before we can get funding for treatment we need public will, right?

So long as they are viewed as degenerates unwilling to engage in basic care, there will never be the public will. And for some they wouldn't take the help even if it was available, because for a minority it is in fact a lifestyle choice.

Given both those facts, the first step to getting public will for treatment is to minimize the negative perceptions of the class, which is best achieved in the immediate term by reducing visibility, specifically of the street drug addicts.

Combine with safe supply and direct interventionist supports (room checks, emergency buttons, etc) and there would be both an immediate improvement in QoL, individual outcomes and public sentiment towards further supports.

A key is to not permit use in rooms but only at safe sites within the building. Rule violation would mean switching to a monitored room (camera to ensure no drug abuse).

One issue underlying all of this though so that such systems simply can't work for those who suffered abuse by the system in the past, there's too many of our visible homeless and drug users who are where they are almost exclusively because of abuses in foster care or imprisonment (borne of false conviction). Those people will almost never participate in a gov or NGO program which includes facilities and monitoring.... And I don't really blame them.

The truth is we need to stop the problem before it starts and the only real way is to prevent traumas, treats those we can't prevent and bring justice against those who use the system to abuse others or protect abusers.

Sadly, in many ways most drug addicts are a "lost cause" before they even start using, just as so many alcoholics are.

That's the consequences of systemic willful ignorance of trauma.
In forums for simulated user interaction, it’s important to recognize the conversations as inauthentic and censored. The ideas that are censored are deemed by the censors to be likely to prevail in a free marketplace of ideas and thus threatening. So, the censored ideas are the ones more likely to be true.
And you support this? Because we're not talking about 10,000 years ago, we're talking < 200 years ago, with our government, that were made up of people who are only 1 or 3 generations before us, which in kind, impact people you can talk to yourself, today.

The same way you think could potentially also justify the history of slavery in the United States as being a historical wrinkle.

And if that's what you want to do: great, but know I'm not on your side of history.
Thank you for posting. We could never have built Cloudflare without Lee. His disease is incredibly tragic and in many ways literally unimaginable. Today he is still alive but has continued to cognitively decline. I am happy that Cloudflare’s success has ensured he has the support he needs. I miss having him as a cofounder and friend every day.
He wasn't a local, he was an eastern european. We love diverse cultures!
> What's the ratio, though??? 10/1? 20/1? 50/1?

About the same as the ratio of successes to failures in a VC portfolio.
Meanwhile many of us have cut the commute out of our day, resulting in hours of extra butt-in-chair per day/week. Additionally, we spend much less time at the (proverbial) water cooler. And for anybody who needs to actually think to work effectively, a private home office is much better than the racket of an open plan office filled with people in zoom meetings.
Sure, the barrier isn’t infrastructure (like a water company) or technical skill, its network effects. You can build what would, with a critical mass of users, be a competitive social network, the hard part is getting users, which is why Threads (bootstrapping from IG) is so advantaged over other new alt-Twitter options.
“Repetition of key facts” is something AI chatbots and pre-AI “journalists” have in common. Gotta write that ten paragraph article even though you only have one sentence of actual information.
Open Source Watch Winder
The timescale difference between the need for weights taking account of recent events and Google searches is huge.
I wouldn't call it a small vanity project. This in 10 years may be what Facebook has become.
> Put bluntly, does Conway's Law give me anything actionable to consider when I'm building an engineering org?

Because your architecture will match your communications structure, it means that if you want your system to work a certain way, you’ll want to make your org chart match it. If the system architecture is the thing you want, and the org chart is what you can control, it follows that you should mold your organization to match your desired architecture.

Conway’s law is a law, not an anti-pattern. Resisting it is a bad idea, instead learn and understand it, and plan around it.
who gets to keep it? who did the asians kill in america 15k years ago?
I went to Ireland just last month, and I have to say that the Airport was significantly better than what it was 2 years ago. This news puts a damper on my raised expectations.
Wow, the right wing fascist ideology drips off that comment.... Using so many little whistles it's astounding...
Y'all are getting good at the game...
That or you're one of the fools they've played the game against....
Interesting!

Test:
Morgan Freeman, sort by popularity:

Ted 2

The Shawshank Redemption

The Dark Knight
Yup. We already have a variety of
institutions and organizations designed for intellectual collaboration, debate, and decision-making. Twitter isn’t one of them. Never has been.
mx linux is fast!
That’s really rough. Instapaper (free version) and GoodLinks ($5) both work perfectly for me without internet access. Haven’t tried substacks in GoodLinks, but Instapaper grabs them without issue.

Nice to hear about hamsterbase, will check it out.
> Unless we find a way to counteract this

Charter schools. Competition. Of course education sucks when there's no competition.
Sometimes it doesn't have the warning and I think it should be mandatory. Any passenger can go and play with the wheel and wreck havoc.
C++ has a lot of compile time programming features that C cannot do practically. There are sometimes alternatives to those mechanisms in C, but they rely on mangling, macros, non-portable tricks, and so on.

On the topic of performance, the best counterargument to C++ from a C perspective would be that hand rolled code generation isn't all that bad in practice. It's just language theorists don't like that approach aesthetically.