skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US Government should absolutely do nothing to insulate crypto buyers from risk and scams. Crypto investment should be completely unregulated. Regulating it would both legitimize and incentivize crypto as an investment vehicle. Crypto provides no benefit to the world; the effect of investing in it is to create wealth from nothing without providing capital for businesses looking to expand their products or services. The less insulated crypto investors are from risk, the sooner that retail investors learn to ignore it in the same way they ignore lottery tickets and slot machines at the gas station.
https://boingboing.net/2016/12/05/uk-cops-beat-phone-encrypt...

https://www.wired.com/story/smartphone-encryption-law-enforc...

https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/encrypted-messages-dont-al...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7b4gg/anom-phone-arcaneos-f...

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-06-08/fbi-afp-underworld-cr...

https://www.wired.com/2015/01/silk-road-trial-undercover-dhs...

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/11/mossad_hacked...

https://lawjournal.mcgill.ca/article/law-enforcement-access-...
the ddl that creates the views/tables/triggers that replace the "idempotent code" should also be idempotent so you should be able to roll it back without rolling back any data

actually i wrote a couple tables/stored procedures that (should probably mostly) do this for postgres after looking at some other patch management libraries by depesz and steve purcell a couple weeks ago

https://github.com/NotBrianZach/postgres-sql-migrate
Oh but registration would be closed for the public.

In the Europe case it serves as a central official communication hub. Since many public officials around the world are using twitter kinda like this I think it would make sense.

It could be using anything else as a platform but Mastodon is kind of an all in one package that would be easier to work with and interoperate.
The source of this seem to be a book about Elon, according to Wikipedia atleast, there might be an other side to this story
Public transit is driving EV sector growth in Kenya
Will they also replace their stock ticker symbol with U+1D54F ?
> Changing behaviour is very hard. You'd have to get people to install new apps, get use to new workflows etc and humans are creatures of habit so this is very hard.

I think this is pretty optimistic thinking. "Oh no, I can't pick my way through a bunch of bigoted garbage to which the owner responds 'Concerning' or read Marc Andreesen being deeply weird or see 30,000 reply guys to Paul Graham hawking shitcoins, whatever will I do?" is, I think, probably okay at this point.

Having the thinkfluencey types before the spam and impersonation taps were turned on to full was probably valuable; now Twitter is getting the stink on it and that's hard to wash off.

Personally speaking, Bluesky picked up pretty much everybody I care to talk to and remaining on Twitter in a material capacity is a flag that I probably don't want to hear from you.
All part of a New ongoing Turing Test, placed Such Near where People would Most likely engage with Content on the Basis of Logic and Not Judgement.

Noticing that no Comments went beyond the Format which is Designed to be Difficult to Read on Purpose. And no Comment associated with the Contents of the Post.

That and it's a Format Designed for a Parser.
Disappointing Really
I used to see news stories with tweets in it. I can’t recall many recently except for musks tweets. While the choices seem questionable Twitter is constantly in the news and getting talked about. If any publicity is good publicity Musk has certainly been able to continually be part of the news cycle.
Thank you for the read. The idea of an OS supplanted by an AI is fascinating.

> "everything must be controlled by me, not by you"

Right, the end goal I had in mind for "the everything app" is the control of the software (including communication), the data and the payment system by the same company.

Few companies have achieved that outside of China. I'm thinking, Apple, Google, Samsung in Korea maybe?
And no one I know personally is fully tied to one ecosystem. My friends only use the individual services they need. Becoming WeChat will not happen.

Even the idea of Twitter growing into a Google size company seems completely unrealistic. Meta struggles with achieving this and right now they're more popular than Twitter.
So is cooking or curing meat before eating it, but sushi restaurants haven't been blanket banned. There's a difference between driving one farmer that poisons people out of business and prohibiting it entirely.

Even stuff like fugu which can genuinely kill you remains legal. The difference is being told the caveats upfront loud and clear, instead of trying to hide it and lying to people. That's the crux of the issue isn't it, after all? Being informed enough to be able to make your own decisions, and making those disclaimers required by law. That's what needs addressing, not banning shit because it's easy.
I remember, in 1999, a colleague telling me the story of how he sold the domain to Musk, and how upset Musk was about the price.
The most fundamental element of science is not today's body of understanding, but the process with which we arrived at that knowledge. A process that generally recognizes human fallibility and how easy it is for us to trick ourselves. So yes, a lot of the stuff we think we know today might be wrong, but the point of science is continuous refinement and trying to eliminate the biases you mentioned.

Applying the process of science to astrology causes the whole edifice to quickly crumble[1], that's why it can be dismissed out of hand. Not just because of what we think we know about the universe.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYm_0AGMHIg
I think you plugin is useful, as I see it offers 15 locations, so I have asked to filter them by lower to highest and ask suggestions how to improve my website response time.
>With such a large population, we expect some people to just be stupidly lucky many times in a row, right?

No, that's not how business work. This is not coin-tossing, the "being lucky" includes attracting VCs and investments, building a good image, picking a good niche, delivering, getting buyers, and several other things besides.

You can get lucky with one of those, but not all of those, and several independent times.

Else skill doesn't mean anything, and you could make the same argument for any human venture.
I hate to say this, but is there a good way to remove Musk’s ownership of the platform?
gstatic.com - the backbone of the internet.
I don't think he really had special talent for business, he had strong beliefs that happened to line up with what was profitable at the time. I don't think when he invested in Tesla or started SpaceX he was thinking about whether it made business sense - he just wanted to build futuristic technology, and he was one of the few people willing to spend a lot of money on a new company to actually make it happen.

That doesn't really mean he is a genius at business, just that he is really good at pitching his vision and getting people excited about it.
You're just glad that you never get downvoted or flagged because your name protects you.
> I certainly hope young people understand not to think of portrayals of real people in works of art+semi-fiction aren't a good representation to bench anything on.

Tarantino's style is so distinctive, and basically never grounded in reality.

Regardless of whether the film is to one's tastes or not, it would be a pretty grave error to encounter a character in a Tarantino film and mistake the performance as an accurate representation of any real world person.
So the limit in the US for Twitter Blue users is 4000 characters, but even paying user outside the US are limited to 280?

What a strange limitation, if the character limit is a problem, won't that just drive away users who see the service as racist now?
Ah, the end of an era...

http://x.com used to return a single uncached "x" as a reply. I used it countless times as a quick connectivity test. Alas, simplicity always fades...
> Several times?

Yes ? Not only there is no reason for it not to be the case ( it's not like rolling 6 two times in a row is impossible... ) but anyway once you've achieved your first success it's easier to buy the next ones.
Yep, looks like it. Some people are over the shiny object, and some have just made it a part of their life without (continually) making the noise.
Was the full quote “when you are weak, appear strong, so cut off your arms if you want to intimidate people,” or something like that?
Bruce Lee is my childhood.
Much better thank you Aziz.
It looks like it was taken down in June 2021 after years of nothing happening and nobody really noticed.
The URL is actually X.com moving forward, and tweets are to be called x's.
How exactly does changing a logo (in one, messy looking place not to mention - not anywhere else yet) lead even in the slightest to "making twitter better than he found it"?
Even if this does point to some higher being or reality, it isn't necessarily any conception of God. Also, true randomness in fluctuations in quantum fields could refute 2, no? Also, trying to extend the notion of time to some point at infinity in the past, as if this is a proof by induction, is absurd. Mathematics are free for us to make statements about because we can start with whichever axioms we like. However, our realities (plural) are necessarily constrained by what we think and observe. There is no way to be certain of the nature of one's reality without somehow transcending it.
try a polarizer next time.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizer

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polarizing_filter_(photograp...
>Several times?

People that are wealthy very very very very often, fail upwards.
How can you be so sure that it was just luck? Why should anyone trust you above Carmack and Karpathy who are talented without any doubt and who have worked closely with him, who has nothing but high praise for him.
Having grown up in the US and recently spent a couple years living in a country where free speech isn't guaranteed, I feel even more strongly about the importance of the 1st amendment.

The idea that one could be convicted and jailed for saying something deemed offensive in public is completely insane. If I think the PM is being an asshat I would like to be able to say that openly without fear of jail time.

I don't have as much experience with the UK, but with regards to Canada I would indeed consider things there to be shabby. A peaceful protest should never be justification for the government to shut down bank accounts of private citizens. Hell even a violent protest shouldn't lead to that kind of intervention, we were shutting down bank accounts during BLM protests which were sometimes anything but peaceful.
The scene was funny but I've never heard anyone who knew him describe him as that sort of pompous douchebag. It's a little defamatory.
'Tweet' is a word pronounced pretty good in many european languages. 'X' does not.

I don't find this a smart move for such a big brand.
I see what you're saying but I disagree on two counts.

Firstly, the author advocates not just personal experience but also following the examples of "great singular men of history". This is the classic traditionalist right-wing narrative whereby we need super-hero saviours past and present to show us plebs the way.

Secondly, the author doesn't just say to find your own values, but explicitly lauds a specific set of values:

> multiplication of biological kin, sovereign control of living space, eternal fame, rewards to friends and punishments to enemies, a universal benevolent impact, and harmony with the plans and laws of God and nature

These are traditionalist right-wing norms. Arguably they are pretty damaging in the modern world.
During 90 every other company had name that ended with X in my part of the world.
Probably not coincidence that they are called generation-x.
The greatest hurdle for a project to be replaced is that if its works. I assure you that the users of IBM mainframes would be looking at at least a multi million dollar project to perform a decommission and if even approved it would be first on the chopping block to pause / eliminate the project.
The message in question is being delivered to an end-user device, and is not expected to serve any purpose other than being displayed on a screen. In this context, it seems totally reasonable to truncate overly-long messages.
>It’s not exactly rocket science to employ smart people.

This is a ridiculous statement if you've ever run a company. "Just hire smart people and your company will be successful!"

Great, glad you cracked the code.
Is it just me that closes these as fast as possibly whilst grumbling about how annoying they are?
I bit the bullet and put many hours into it and came away finding it fine. I almost entirely use key commands, just I like I did with Illustrator. Maybe that's why I find it acceptable. I no longer wish I was using Illustrator.
There is no material, accepted claim that you could not make another dimension, or an alternative dimension to describe personalities. Simply that these are 4 distinct and interesting ones.

A descriptive framework is of course going to be arbitrary.
The type system has moved from the research phase to in development: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2023/06/22/type-system-updates-...
How do we handle historical fiction, or even more perilous, how do we handle stories that are "based on historical events"?
I enjoyed this one: https://youtu.be/uk1lzkH-e4U
Responding to Reddit on the Next.js App Router [video]
If I may:

s/contratian/delusional
Funny. Coming from a non-math background, having only one symbol to deal with feels less confusing than switching around symbols based on the medium it happens to be written on. Did one of the symbols come "first"?
Users paying for it even when it does not have all the features they want.

A recent example for me was screen studio

https://www.screen.studio/
Generating Minecraft Skins with Stable Diffusion
So unless you are in the US and are a paying user, you can't even see these longer posts, or do they get truncated?

I wonder what the motivation is for making the service less useful for non-Americans.
> It persists in many places due to the deeply ingrained belief that, for one reason or another, it would be technically, practically, or economically impossible to migrate functionality off the mainframe.

It is never technical or pratical reasons, always economic reasons. To use contemporary vocabulary, you "just" need to replicate a "multi tenant HA cloud environment" to migrate from a mainframe at great cost.

> And now we are in a situation where their long held beliefs have become true because nobody is around that understands how or why the software works the way it does.

Statistically unlikely, most of the business software that goes onto said mainframe is in fact very simple and straightforward and can be easly ported out, however, the real deal is all the integration and high availability logic built-in into "the mainframe platform". You're not porting that out without replicating said "multi tenant HA cloud environment" at great cost.
He made electric cars sexy. They were decidedly unsexy before he bought Tesla.

I actually don't agree with this because I find Tesla's so unsexy, I would never buy one. What I think he did do though, is bring a fairly reliable electric car into production, which was pretty cool, and because of the climate crisis, people wanted to contribute by ditching their petrol guzzler. It's also a bit of a "flex".
I have some of these too.

- technologies had to be evaluated to be allowed on the network. This process took years. Git (as a replacement for subversion) had been in evaluation for over 14 years at the time.

- network authentication mechanisms made building an http/s Webservice internally impossible without the security teams approval which takes months.

- ironically the 'rules' around 'security' were regularly broken and not audited when it was convenient for someone with the clout to make something happen.
"My hypothesis is that in like 10 years gen z is gonna have a big cult boom the way the boomers did in the 70s " https://www.tumblr.com/withhereyeswideshut/64649078205384294...
> Say Christian nationalism rose to it's post-reconstruction prominence. Where would you put it?

I had to look up what this meant, so if I'm mis-interpreting it, please correct me.

But from what I understand it's just ISIS but swap the Quran for the Bible? Not a huge fan of that idea. Really any fundamentalist religion ramming it's morality down my throat grinds my gears. Still prefer the anti-vaxxers. At least they're not going to tell me how to live my life. They're more like drunk drivers - I have to deal with their stupidity endangering my life, but with religious freaks I have to deal with their stupidity endangering my life (because the Pope declared that vaccines weren't kosher, or that the new cancer treatment is heresy, or stem cell research displeases the Prophet, and you can't argue with that because it's religion, it is by definition arbitrary, disagree and the Pope sends you off to get burned at the stake for heresy), and them controlling every minute detail of my life (prayer mandated, dress code mandated, etc).

> If aiding religions disappeared, nothing would fill the vacuum - because the vacuum is far from filled now.

that's a strong claim and and I don't think your reasoning adequately supports it.

Still, I suppose it's possible that if all religious groups disappeared tomorrow secular sources of aid would not move to compensate. shrug

Nevethless, I don't think "there isn't enough aid now, ergo if religions disappear there will be even less" is a logically sound argument, perhaps there are some intermediate steps to your reasoning that I'm missing, if so please explain them :)
But this is exactly what I’m saying: if you’re sarcastic and the audience gets it, it’s good sarcasm. If you’re sarcastic and the audience doesn’t get it, it’s bad sarcasm. If you don’t have a clear enough context, just don’t be sarcastic.
> at least a decade ago by him surrounding himself with ego-stroking yes men

It’s more recent. The Sacks-Chamatch-Calacanis axis didn’t go into gear until Covid. Somewhere between the election of Trump and lockdown, the rot set in. That suggests it’s still excusable.
I can see why you think that, but I think you're wrong.

Musk's success in Zip2 and X.com was mostly realizing there was a market opportunity and working long hours personally on the code to get the sites up and running.

With SpaceX and Telsa mostly his value-add has been looking at things and saying "This isn't elegantly designed enough" sort of like Steve Jobs but for internals. And he seems to be right often enough to be successful.

But he seems to think that he has this ability for software engineering and user interfaces too, but he doesn't. Which is why he was canned at PayPal and why he's making such a mess of Twitter.

All people are composed of both strengths and weaknesses. The important part is finding a position which plays to your strenths. Sadly, I think critical introspection is a strength that Elon doesn't possess.
Try thinking about it like a scientist or a statistician rather than a business person.

Which is to say, don't think in terms of inviolable rules - that's useful for engineering the system, but can sabotage your ability to understand the system - and think instead in terms of what is possible and at what rate you expect it to happen. Then try multiplying that by 8 billion.

> Else skill doesn't mean anything

Skill matters, it just isn't the only factor.

> You could make the same argument for any human venture.

Luck profoundly effects every aspect of our lives, yeah.

Think about, say, professional gamers. Are they skilled? Doubtless. May the winner of a match be decided by the RNG? Definitely. If we're talking about a tournament of the best players, they're going to be pretty evenly matched, and it becomes pretty likely that luck will determine the winner.
Musk might very well be just a useful idiot to kill a platform that was globally connecting people for positive, political change. Twitter played crucial roles in bringing down Mubarak in Egypt, in the Euromaidan and elsewhere.

40 billion dollars is just two years of Gazprom profits.
And the 4 other best selling cars were all Toyota.
Very exciting! I'm looking for opportunities to use a riscv cpu.
WeChat is extremely popular in China and on the surface it's a messaging app but below that is a whole swath of stuff, the most interesting IMO is the decentralized marketplace. My GF's mom is Chinese and she buys tons of stuff like vegetables and housewares from random people through the app.

People pay for rent and various bills, you can call their version of Uber, order food etc.

If Twitter is going to pull this off they should invest heavily in the DMing UX as messaging is the real interface for this stuff. Almost like a terminal with some extra UIs layered on top.
I'm not visualizing what you have but having the bed static certainly makes sense. But any plotter where the tool moves and not the source will have this issue.
How is not a loan if they’ve been repaying it?
Wait, aren't we against paying to use a social media site?
Should be marked "ask HN"
Show HN: Borgo – a Rusty language that compiles to Go
Hey HN

Borgo is a programming language I've been working on for the past year. It looks like Rust (because I didn't want to write a parser) and compiles to Go.

What I want from a programming language is:

- Sum types
- Pattern matching
- Option/Result types
- Garbage collected
- Concurrency without async
- Good third-party package ecosystem

Borgo is my attempt at filling the gaps in the list above, adding features seen in ML-like languages to Go.

One ambitious goal of this project is to be compatible with existing Go packages. Generating bindings is pretty much automatic (there's an importer tool) and should help massively with adoption. The repo includes bindings to some packages in the stdlib already.

The compiler is in no way complete, but you can definitely build some interesting programs with it.

The online playground runs the compiler as a WASM binary, stitches together the transpiled Go code and sends it off for execution to the official Go playground.

The playground contains quite a few examples and goes more in depth into each feature: https://borgo-lang.github.io/

Would appreciate any feedback! :)
Wow. This is INCREDIBLE.

There's so much to explore! And these tips, hacks, and tricks are SO specific and useful. Thank you for taking the time to share this. Super valuable.
Before we even get to the costs of a migration, what is the reason for the migration?
Caricature of free speech.
Not a fan and don't use the product, but giving away substantial money to highly engaged users on the platform is a very novel and interesting product idea which I doubt would have ever seen the light of day in a public company, and has the potential to be a disruptive business model.

Imagine the discussion if the idea was presented in a public company with the CFO in the room "Rather than spend money trying to attract churned users, we decided to use it instead to reward loyal and highly engaged users even though we are pretty sure their engagement level would be high no matter what, and in fact they would happily pay us to use the platform".
If it's about dead people and true long-term, I still don't see the big technical issue, but why not give people 30 years or similar to prevent deletion? People backpacking in the Andes, in jail, in a coma or whatever would be able to respond.
Israeli parliament passes law to limit judicial power
The cost to maintain the database is actually a small part of it; a large question is reducing the "surface area" against attacks as best you can. Perhaps for steam this doesn't matter, but forums, etc have issues with old unused accounts being hacked and used for spam, etc.