skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I appreciate this considerably more nuanced and thoughtful view of the modern history of Twitter.

So much coverage of Twitter since the Musk acquisition is entangled with partisan politics, ultimately in part thanks to Musk provoking such a reaction. That makes this post feel ever more illuminating and thoughtful—it avoids the partisan pitfalls and irrational extremism seen in virtually every other article on the topic.

I too don't agree with many of Musk's decisions with Twitter/X. I don't like the new name and thus far refuse to use it. I don't like the ads I see as a Twitter user. I have not (yet) paid for Twitter.

But on the other hand, I am thoroughly disinterested in the unhinged vitriol I see so often from Musk's haters. The incessant lazy discourse about how Twitter is dying, for either technical or other reasons. The ridiculous blindness to the awfulness of other social networks when critiquing Twitter (have you ever seen Reddit or Facebook?).

It's a shame journalists have been largely unable to cover Twitter as well as this former insider and I am thankful to Crawford for publishing this.
there's strong incentive towards rent-seeking in all property schemes. The oldest form of rent seeking literally does concern physical property, land and real estate. Rent seeking is bad and common but eliminating property rights is worse, some have tried. And you generally can't own abstract ideas, you can't own the number '5', or 'wizard stories', only a particular logo design or Harry Potter. IP is only concerned with specific artifacts. They're intangible but not abstract, they're instantiations of ideas.

If you produce intellectual work there are really only three ways to do that. Give it away for free and beg and provide services, accept some sort of feudal patronage (now reinvented on the internet) or have rights to what you make. The last one is the only thing that gives creators independence and compensates them directly, even if yes you have to settle subjective differences sometimes.

Anyone who wants to abolish IP needs to tell me how a novelist earns a living without being reduced to some sort of begging.
The language is an implementation detail; what makes you think Rust would be better suited for such a specialist piece of software?
You're again failing to even hint at what you think this "really good argument" is, and you're also not formulating an argument yourself. Your argument relies on ignoring all evidence and simply assuming your provably false assumption that the world of academia is this amazing place free of bias where merit and objectivity are truly all that matter.

As for retractions. Things move, at best, slowly even when overt. The Lancet's also the journal that published the MMR-Autism paper, back in 1998. It wasn't fully retracted until 2010 (there was a partial retraction in 2004). And even then it wasn't due to this beautiful system you've built up in your mind, but rather a an investigation from one of Murdoch's newspapers showing the paper's author was a conman.
And to think some countries still use checks... ;-)
It depends on the model year/battery size. That was a US only implementation and as you know there is a work around. The other European feature that should be available in the USA is the ability to set when the REX starts to kick in.

The USA requires the REX to kick in at 6% charge. The problem at that level is that the battery can't compensate during short high power drawls. There is a cheat code that enables the REX to kick in a 25% charge remaining. This seems to provide more on demand amperage but I'm not sure what is happening. Hills and wind have a larger effect on speed when off the REX. The REX is just a tiny motor that maintains the battery level but doesn't connect directly to the electric drive train.
Maybe "surprisingly simple"?
He didn't get to 600K MRR by himself:

"
The highest headcount we had a at a particular time was 16 people - all remote
"

First hire came at "around 100 customers". So that was probably EUR10k/MRR given the average monthly revenue per store.

Still very impressive!
Nah, the main use case for react is making html that's so shitty and convulated that you can't write an ad blocker that works for it. If that's your goal it's probably a good choice.

I'm only half joking here, as that does seem to be one of the main reasons Facebook uses it. Another factor is that they write their backend in php.

Less tongue in cheek, why do you think that HTMX mixes presentation and business logic? Are you imagining we put business logic in the templates?
> Parents would know that diaper prices have increased a lot and that because P&G is the only game in town.

Kimberly Clark is a huge diaper manufacturer in the US, they make Huggies and Kirkland diapers.

The market is probably mostly split between P&G and Kimberly Clark though.
Qualified immunity as a concept is necessary in some cases. You don't need to throw the baby out with the bathwater. All you need is comprehensive and codified rules to prohibit certain police behaviors.

Miranda rights are a good example. Police don't get qualified immunity for violating Miranda Rights because they are codified.

Separating it Internal Affairs and police investigations under a different organization seems like a no-brainer. This would remove conflicts of interest.
The median prediction for whether this gets independently confirmed is sitting at 25%: https://www.metaculus.com/questions/18090/room-temp-supercon...
Platforms have had legal obligations to treat children online differently since 2000, and yet that didn't happen.
I mean Russia claims they have battle dolphins. Might as well.
> This isn't entirely unreasonable… factoring the present cold morning might produce overly pessimistic guesses

It’s always unreasonable in something like this to present knowingly inaccurate data when accurate data is available. As others have pointed out, Teslas do seem perfectly capable of doing this based on their performance when estimating a particular route. It’s also something other brands do better, so even if there was an argument to be made that Tesla didn’t have the data, it would still be the case that they should have it.

It is also not pessimistic to give an estimate in the conditions you outline: It’s accurate. Whether you’re going to be driving that long is irrelevant because Tesla should not be defaulting to some probabilistic behavior guess prior to even starting the car or entering a route. It should default to “hey, I see you’re driving your car. If you keep driving this is your range”. It shouldn’t default to “I don’t know how long you’ll be driving so I’ll just give a range estimate that assumed you’ll drive for a short time now and then more later and maybe later the conditions will provide better range, so let’s use that number”

I’m not sure why Tesla would be defended in this point by anyone when other EV’s do this more accurately and consistently. If it was a general problem and no one could do it any better then by all means it would be unreasonable to complain about Tesla, it would simply be a limit of the technology. But it’s not.
However note that sometimes the A/C will be on at the same time as the heater in order to dry out the air.

This is one of those stupid facts that lives rent-free in my head. "If you want 'dry' hot air you need to dry it before sending it to the heater. The primary purpose of the A/C is to dry the air(this also happens to cool it), there is already an A/C unit in the ductwork, profit" But I decided to fact check myself and was not able to find much information. I did find one page that said this mainly occurs on the "defrost" setting, which makes sense as this is what is used when you don't want your windows to fog.
Snapshotting a VM is a pain in the ass. It takes forever and the tooling sucks. The concept of snapshotting is also completely wrong. Snapshots are tied to a VM with the specific VM being front and center, you know, the thing that is disposable with containers.

Also, from my misadventures with Ubuntu VMs I always ran into the problem of them breaking over time.
> In a legal system this vague, smart contracts simply do not have a niche.

This is an interesting point. The way I think about this is, if we can ignore for a second the bitcoin-related baggage of smart-contracts as a concept, then there's still a lot of overlap with related concepts like open government and automated legal reasoning. So I'm curious if you think of those things as also intractable. Also, blockchain isn't some magic wand that replaces the need for other datastructures. Why should partial or even doubtful ownership be impossible to model and do secure/verifiable/conditional compute on?
Yes, I am biased against people who open carry and I think they are weirdos. I also think the second amendment should be repealed.

I can believe that widespread ownership and carrying of guns is dangerous and weird while at the same time acknowledging that police commonly abuse power and need more oversight. The two concepts aren’t mutually exclusive.

Also, I’m just going off of the story. I’m sure if the person in the story was detained or arrested they would have mentioned it.
> Why does everyone assume that a reply is meant as a dispute?

I took your particular reply as accusing me of being critical of religiosity-- specifically "...ascribing anything the other team says to superstitious fools and their invisible sky man."

I took your statement about "branding people" as a statement on this perceived accusation that I was speaking unfavorably about religiosity.

Your clarification that your were comparing universal identification to Nazism makes me read your comment in a different light.
> You're also forgetting that plenty officers have both assaulted and used their arms against peaceful citizens, including in police custody and police stations,

So realistically, how do you think it’s going to work out if you used a gun in a police station against a police officer for self defense? How do you think it’s going to work anywhere if you used your gun against a police officer?

That’s just like all of the yokels who have guns to protect themselves against the federal government when even a small town SWAT team could take them out let alone the FBI.
We had a ~10C increase in temperature from 20000 YA - 13000 YA or so and then a yoyo jump back down ca. 6C and up again in a 1000 years, during the younger dryas.

While the 19th-21th century increase of 1-1.2C or so is a bit faster, it's not a magnitude faster.

Humans have definitely changed nature everywhere, and is probably responsible for many species dying. But blaming that on the climate change doesn't really make sense. Deforestation is much more likely to be the cause.
Is React and Htmx really comparable at this point? I believe they have different use cases.
He's providing a platform and cover for a child pornographer, live, in realtime, in public. There is something profoundly wrong in your worldview that's going to snap in one direction or another, and it's probably time for some self reflection.
I've played a little bit around llama2 and gpt3.5 is still better but llama2 is not far behind.
See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustin_Mouchot

Aside from the fact that this was in the 19th century, the other really impressive thing is he was a working math teacher!
Don't hate the player, hate the game...

It's difficult for leaders of legacy-built organizations to create space for common sense thinking, and when they see a room full of their employees creating and collaborating in new ways, then they pay to have you come back because for whatever reason they didn't have the time, skill or capacity to make their teams act more creatively and collaboratively on their own. Rarely is it transformative. Sometimes it's completely useless (especially when packaged into buzzword-y platitudes). Most of the time it's somewhere in-between just like any other process/culture/change improvement from leadership.

These leaders hire these companies and consultants because they were resting on their laurels instead of actively building culture while the legacy org was doing fine. Then comes a crisis or paradigm shifting moment and there is no recourse.

With visionary leadership and proactive management toward better culture and talent (which is hard to do consistently), said "cottage industry" would be much smaller.
I'm not going to defend mozilla, since I think deciding which organization we hate more is counterproductive. But I will say that as a user of a browser, I don't really care that much what anyone publishes or who they boot from their organization (sounds flippant I know but at the end of the day I just want a browser that works). Brave putting garbage in their browser like crypto mining and redirecting links affects _the product_, which is the only thing I care about. Firefox has made blunders, but nothing like this.

Not to mention that they're based on chromium.
>audit the audit that calls out the bad actors and praises the cops who do their jobs correctly

This conflates constitutional rights violations by police with merely being an annoying "bad actor" civilian, which is intellectually dishonest and completely reprehensible.
Thought you were going to mention Zed Shaw lol
Excellent takedown. In my area there was a big "Systems Thinking" movement a few years ago. Not sure what happened to it.

It runs deep and wide though. "Unendurable Horrors of Leadership Camp" is another good one.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2016/06/the-unendurable-horro...
Why is it provocative? The police also have firearms and cameras, does that make them "unnecessarily provocative" when they're walking the beat?

Would you be as critical if GP's firearm was concealed, or if the camera used was one in their phone, and not on their hat?

Sounds like you're making a lot of baseless and judgemental assumptions about voakbasda -- not everyone is a deliberately antagonistic self-professed "auditor," you know.
What's new in fast-check 3.12.0?
You’ll miss it if you blink, or aren’t up to date with the dog whistles.

If you see a right wing video and it says “we gotta get rid of these Hollywood elites”, they’re actually calling for the eradication of the Jews.

The right wing spends half of their time online creating and sharing “plausibly deniability” phrases.

Here’s a common dog whistle right here in this very thread:

“You’ll get banned for wrong think”. — just a dog whistle for “I want to drop hate speech and n-bombs with no consequence”

Or

“Different political opinions”. — a dog whistle for the exact same as above.
> Was that so hard?

Because your suggestion provides less value and near zero or actually probably negative information to the target audience.
Maybe sell it to Musk? Rumor is loves everything with X in it.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36884876

It's exactly the same text, just on Medium instead of Twitter.
> Shopify offered the ISV a path forward ...

It sounded more like the "path forward" was to wait 2 years for the new Shopify APIs to come out.

That's not even slightly a credible in-good-faith option. :(
That's not how this works.

First, the force that is proportional to the square of the speed is the drag force, which means it's the force you need to supply just to keep the speed from dropping. Power = force * speed is a different "force" - it's the force produced by the engine.

Second, power output of an engine typically has an RPM where it peaks. Past that point, more speed means less power output, which means much less force output, because the force is the power divided by the speed. But force needed still increases as the square of speed.
Interesting that the few that I randomly clicked on were css changes. Not a reskin indeed.
I feel like many niche AI startups that use ChatGPT / X as their foundation might learn this the hard way.
Same reason I can't "just delete" lines of code and expect my app to compile, even though there was a time before I put the line in and where it did compile.

Although in this context, common law is more like an interpreted language like JavaScript, so the app will keep running and then randomly just stop because of the missing lines.

For e-scooters, or whatever? Might be fine, might be nobody will insure them, which means they can't be legally on the road, which might be fine (because the police just assume it is) right until someone has an accident and it gets to a court case for driving without insurance…
Same reasons any company open sources their software
There's another issue with eSIM: In Canada, all of the carriers offering it charge $10 to provision an eSIM. You get a little plastic card with a QR code on it, and once provisioned, it's totally useless.

Want to switch your phone? $10 and you have to go to the carrier physically.

The iPhone feature where you can transfer an eSIM appears to work with carrier support, and the carriers here I've tried all don't support it so the process fails.
> It does not bypasses them, it uses the firewall to add forwarding rules to the container.

... yes, it adds a forwarding rule. Which skips over the rest of my firewall rules. One might even say that it bypasses them.

> By enabling port forwarding and exposing, you're essentially asking docker to configure the host for it.

No, I'm asking docker to listen on that port and pass it through to the container. If I tell nginx to listen on port 80, would you expect it to take that as a "do anything you can to make sure you get port 80, including rewriting the firewall tables to ignore the rule that blocks port 80"?
Related:

KernType – A Kerning Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21913654 - Dec 2019 (36 comments)

Kern Type: a kerning game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11032912 - Feb 2016 (5 comments)

Kern Type, The Kerning Game - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6791800 - Nov 2013 (23 comments)

Show HN: KernType, a typography game made with Raphaël - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3086320 - Oct 2011 (53 comments)

(now I'm off to see which of the 12 past submitters of the Bézier Game deserves a repost invite...)
A yet another MQ :-) I quickly checked the performance page and it looks much better than its competitors. Documentation is better as well.
>it never ceases to amaze me how the software engineering provision has very smart folks reimplement the same conceptual primitives over and over again.

Well, no one cares, but I'm not saying that to be mean to dismissive, it's just that software production as an industry (esp. at a company like Bloomberg) can basically do whatever it wants because of low capital costs to produce something. Things like writing another queue system will have zero impact on the industry unless it's adopted widely (and cargo culted) and later made worse.

Maybe I'm about to eat my shoe, but if a capable of team at Bloomberg wanted to reinvent something considered unnecessary in terms of industry need, they probably could if for no other reason that management allowing some indulgence in exchange for keeping talented people around is Worth It™.
Does this work?

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/jk85q6cukgiholejmha0p/s41563-...

or

http://archive.today/tOp5V
Tens of millions allegedly missing from Crowdstreet crowdfunding deals
> What you are saying is that these TOS don’t allow you to behave like a horrible person towards other users of the platform, which is why these provisions are there in the first place.

Exactly. This is why no one should be allowed to deny the resurrection of Christ.

To deny the resurrection of Christ is to invalidate who I am. It's hate speech.
True, but maybe its age could play some role in it being a C++ project.

> BlazingMQ is an actively developed project and has been battle-tested in production at Bloomberg for 8+ years.

https://github.com/bloomberg/blazingmq
I never worked at Twitter but I can relate to a lot of what was mentioned about the culture, especially the "you have to be a politician" bit. Seems like all large tech companies are the same after all.
How can I assume what this person is using as criteria?

I have definitely heard anti-trans activist state that if 'you can't have a baby, you aren't a woman'.

Now I have to figure out what segment of anti-trans beliefs this one has?

Point 3: If anti-trans activist do realize this, then why not include that in the laws? Why further victimize the few cases with genetic disorders by not recognizing them?
Somehow I feel like we have it backwards then. We should have the minimum driving age be 21 for the same reasons, with the added danger to others of mistakes.
> My (honestly non-snarky) answer

> 100,000 working on the next photo sharing app?

hmm..

There are plenty of programmers that don't work for FB et al companies. A lot of modern infrastructure depends of custom software.

We probably don't need Twitter (although the cultural impact of SMN might be important e.g. #meetoo, arab-spring etc).

> The important stuff will get done.

Yes, it will. You know how? Because the importance will inspire more money to be offered.
> Build an economy around actually doing things rather than calling dibs on solutions.

If I design something, how do I get compensated for the work if anyone can clone the work? Why is manufacturing counted as "compensated actually-doing-something" while design/R&D isn't?
So he started a subsidiary armored car business that only served the cannabis market.

Which promptly went bankrupt when he got repeatedly robbed by the San Bernardino Sheriff's Department.

https://abc7.com/fbi-san-bernardino-county-sheriffs-departme...
A charitable reading requires fair consideration.

First, they didn't literally write the latter:

A: every leftist I've talked to

B: every leftist I've ever talked to

Second, if true, would imply that every leftist they've ever talked to will always get asked "who will run the garbage system, and who will clean the sewer" which wouldn't make sense outside the context of having given a specific opinion on a specific topic first.

Hence the topic of conversation is implied as context.
> It doesn't use UDP. So my tongue-in-cheek reply is, it doesn't qualify to have "blazing" in the name.

Arguably, if you start with UDP but you also need to ensure retransmission and reordering, you eventually end up reimplementing TCP but poorly.
Would you prefer it written in Rust with everything wrapped in unsafe block?
see https://www.marktarver.com/bipolar.html
Both should be supported as target data-stores.

As a source, PeerDB should likely work with any Postgres based databases (like Citus). Query based replication should work! Log based (CDC) replication could have a few quirks - i.e. the source database should support "pgoutput" format for change data capture. As we evolve we do planning to enable a native data-movement experience for Postgres based (both extensions and postgres-compatible) databases!
In large parts of the world people might not agree that everyone deserves free speech. Sorry for the early Godwin, but for example Nazi apology is not protected in Germany and I suspect most Germans agree that it shouldn't.

Personally I am not sure why users and admins of Kiwifarms are not considered to be complicit in harassment and stalking (and also how in the world SWATting can basically go unpunished), which are crimes and not even protected by the first amendment. In contrast whistleblowing is protected.
Sudan:

current population 50.000.000
population in 1950: 6 191 000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Sudan

I'd say they've been thriving.