skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A carefully-applied monetisation model could be quite helpful for the community as well as Twitter's bottom line. Private accounts - perhaps with an extended network, friends-of-friends - could still remain free and generate ad revenue.

The one issue is that chipping off existing features would cause major backlash. While removing low-quality replies and other spam is nice, it relies on even higher-quality moderation, to provide adequate incentive not to lose out on a purchase, but also to avoid regulatory issues, as this now becomes a product.

When it comes to adding features to sweeten the deal, however, there are very few that can really be added that provide a tangible benefit. The only feature I can think of is being able to edit tweets - or more accurately, embed a second tweet, similar to a quote-tweet, to provide an update. This would allow people to provide context, retract claims, or other uses, especially when a tweet gets attention or controversy, and could go a small way in reducing toxicity.
I really doubt that anyone's interviewing skills are so good that they can cure the interviewer's racism.

The problem itself is real of course, I just don't think that having or not having a profile picture will make any difference. And there's other factors too - do I need to hide my name so I don't give away that I'm from a foreign country or that I'm a woman?

I don't want to pretend that I have a solution for racism/sexism/etc. in hiring but I really don't think that tiptoeing around people's prejudices is the way to do it.
A move like that could make very transparent how many of those accounts are bots. It seems risky if the active users are inflated (idk if it is the case but it could very well be)
Not just Discord, every little social circle would spin up local mastodon instances. It would be really good for decentralization actually, I kinda want them to do this lmao
I'm staring at this conclusion with the most bemused expression on my face. I'm thinking of the lines painted on the highway, wondering what tragedies would result if yellow line, white line, dotted line, and solid line were similarly ambiguous.
1k crypto businesses inc. SAND, AAVE, MAKER use Request for digital payments
In my first-hand experience interviewing at other startups (Q3 and Q4 2021) it’s definitely not competitive. Startups are unbelievably well-funded right now and capital is cheap and easy to come by. Even small startups don’t hesitate to compensate their employees well because they know it’s their only shot at attractive the type of talent that gets them to exit.

Basically, it doesn’t make sense for a startup to be frugal with compensation right now.

Unless you interpret it as their way of hiring only promising junior candidates or remote workers from locations where $175K is a lot of money?

Regardless, it’s weird to pay everyone the same amount of money because you’re basically pretending experience doesn’t matter. This leads to more experienced people leaving for other companies where they can (easily) get paid more while the less experienced people won’t leave because it’s a boost over what they’d get at other places.

I’ve worked at places with HR-mandated salary caps before. The best people always leave because there’s no hope of moving up and there’s no real incentive to work any harder than anyone else earning the same amount (as long as you avoid getting fired).
Oh, it means facebook.
Your take is correct. Twitter would be decimated by requiring $4/month to use it, and that might be generous. Could they even get 5-10 million paying subscribers? Probably initially, however the network would erode rapidly and those paying subscribers would drop off.

Someone else would simply step in and fill their shoes with an ad model. The ad model works exceptionally well. Twitter's primary problem is and always has been cost bloat. They should have 30-40% operating income margins; instead it's more like 7%. They have always been very poorly operated and very poorly structured as a business. They did $357m in operating income on $4.8b in sales the last four quarters. When Facebook was that size they had 25-30% operating income margins (while growing very fast), there's no reason Twitter shouldn't be able to at least match that at this stage of their business life (there isn't some great 80% growth surge coming next year that they need to be prepared for, staffing up ahead of time).
Maybe its only my gig and my area of the world, but going through the rounds with companies can be quite a grueling process and many recruiters can't explain the exact technical details or give any concrete salary information.

It's hard to just do it to test the waters when you have a technical project and multiple interviewing rounds (which also include live coding, which for me is very stressful).
Agreed, I just don't see it.

Subscriber counts for a handful of subscription companies:

Netflix: 209M
Amazon Prime: 200M
Spotify: 165M
Disney+: 118M
Youtube Premium/Music: 50M
Hulu: 44M
Charter: 30M
NY Times: 8M
WaPo: 3M
But you're your own bank. So you're just laughing at yourself.
remember: traditional media hates facebook

there would be wall to wall coverage about facebook deciding the law doesn't apply to them
Yeah, and it doesn't apply to cryptocurrency traders, as by simple mathematics, they lose money on average. Cryptocurrency trading is a negative sum game. Any wins you make are either imaginary, or come straight out of somebody else's pocket who loses more.
Yeah, I hear you on the adoption thing for sure, though to be honest, right now we are laser focused on shipping Oxide's product, and so if nobody else but us uses Hubris, that is 100% okay. As our CONTRIBUTING.md mentions, we aren't yet at the stage where we're trying to grow this as an independent thing.

It's true that vendors are likely to be an area where we have to deal with some things being closed source, though we're not simply accepting that as a given. This is one reason we're writing so much of our own software, and also, poking at the bits that must remain closed: https://oxide.computer/blog/lpc55
It's an interesting point, and ultimately kind of boils down to "Is a more profitable company good for consumers?"

To which the answer seems inarguably "Sometimes." Scale that reduces production costs (and therefore prices), yes. Or prices could be maintained and the increased profits given to shareholders, in which case no.

I think the broader question is "What systemic features exist that make giant companies more efficient than a network of smaller, independent companies?"

And to that, I'd argue that in the 21st century, not many. The market and communication B2B inefficiencies that drove conglomeration in the 20th century have most been reduced to zero.

The only reason to have a hyperscale company these days is to deploy capital at scale in loss-making enterprises in hopes of capturing market share... and I'm not sure that's something that's been healthy in aggregate?
Defi space is pretty popular nowadays; you can try and stake stablecoins for a fixed payment that is slightly bigger than banks. Please do your research about this one; it's not volatile as stables are pegged to $1.
According to wikipedia:

> A single point of failure (SPOF) is a part of a system that, if it fails, will stop the entire system from working.

Internet doesn't have a single point of failure. People that depends on X with X being the major clouds may be considered a point of failure for your specific application, but that's just your application, not the internet itself. Internet is already decentralized by nature.

> Sure, there are other hosting providers, but there's far too much centralization of Internet resources on those four platforms.

Because it's convenient. Decentralization has a constant cost. Centralization benefits from economics of scale.

> Because if you don't have enough bandwidth, you'll need to host your content/resources in "the cloud" (read: someone else's servers). And that locks all of us into centralized platforms.

Peer-to-peer solutions work fine, and you don't need multi gigabit synchronous links for that.

What Web3 seems to be trying to do is to have the convinience of centralization with the resilience of decentralization. For example, distributed authentity and payments. That's a great and noble goal! But I wish people would come forward about that and the tradeoffs involved instead of just talking about decentralization. Internet is decentralized by nature.
We won’t have proper peer reviewed studies into the causation until federal rescheduling.
What you are talking about is CQRS, which is a very valid pattern, and pairs well with event sourcing, but is not necessary part of event sourcing. You don't have to split your read and write models for events sourcing.
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Maybe they could charge people $1 to label other's posts as fake news. And $1 to remove one vote that a post is fake news.

Capitalize on the flame wars. Ya, it won't make the world a better place but does Twitter do that now?
I agree but I think there's a good balance: have a little "hover over me" widget. If you hate popups it's easy to avoid the widget, and it makes the hover experience more consistent as you move from line to line (assuming the widget is at the front so they all line up vertically)
The dream is using something like Nix to not only reproducibly build a container image but also all of the infrastructure manifests which reference it. I _think_ this is achievable in Nix if you're willing to deal with all of the pain of actually using Nix; however, this would depend on pushing an image to a container registry as part of the Nix build and I'm pretty sure that violates Nix's idioms/conventions? I've certainly never heard of anyone building their entire infrastructure manifests this way.
A better title might be: How to Kill Twitter With This One Trick (Paid Access)

Twitter is IMHO only a communication platform for celebrities and brands. This is <0.1% of the user base. For most people, your Tweets are even less noteworthy than Youtube comments.

What users use Twitter for seems to be three things:

1. As a de facto notifications platform;

2. As a news feed aggregator. This then means consuming content off platform; and

3. "Voting" on content you agree or disagree with. Ultimately this is what liking and retweeing really is: no different to liking a Youtube video. That's all it does.

Users are famously unwilling to part with even small sums of money for Internet services. Twitter seems no different here.
I remember reading about this on HN earlier in the year — according to LandReport, "[t]he cofounder of Microsoft and his wife rank as America’s largest private farmland owners."

https://landreport.com/2021/01/bill-gates-americas-top-farml...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25779681

I think the gotcha here is that they rank as the largest /private/ farmland owners, not the largest singular owner of farmland (including corporate farming conglomerates).

I think this story went "viral" through this BusinesssInsider article from May 2021.

https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-gates-land-portfolio-bi...
How is it the UK reg has the power to do this? I thought Giphy was a US company.

Shame they didn’t have the balls to stop ARM getting bought originally too.
On the receiving side it comes off as "just stop trying and buy something"
You can't know the quality of content before it is submitted. It would effectively turn the internet into TV. Did you forget web hosting is also protected by section 230? Web hosting as we know it would go away. Every site update would need to be pre-approved by the web hosting company.
I disagree - lots of compiler work is done on languages that aren't best in class for high performance work. Look at all the effort that people are putting into making Python faster. And indeed JS itself, it wasn't always this fast. High level language users live by "There's more to life than increasing its speed" and then if they take off, people come work on performance and make them faster.

Also let's not forget that this was already "fast enough" for a long time before the 50x rewrite.
… and a damn big radio telescope.

Sometimes I miss the classic clickbait.
I think MicroPython is a boon to beginners in the space. They have the option to go deeper when the projects run into limitations.
stay tuned :)
How do you recommend Mozilla generates the millions in revenue necessary to develop a browser?
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We'd like to think so, but it's really hard to convince people that writing an entire new OS in Rust is the pragmatic choice. The name is a good reminder of the balance there, in my humble opinion.
No. Don’t use paper wallet. Use a standard software wallet and save the seed phrase words somewhere real safe. Paper wallets are too easy to mess up the change address for new users.
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I've always been worried that estimates and predictions in the IPCC reports, for instance, are much too conservative. The reports are averages, in some sense, of thousands of peer-reviewed publications.

It's hard to get your publication accepted into the scientific mainstream if your predictions make you sound like an alarmist crank.
>Mixed UX metaphors. Not lethal, but not quite there yet. Very cool, though, especially for the rapidity with which you were able to implement it, but it needs a bit more test on the UX side on mobile.

It's definitely a good idea but agree that it's just a bit off. The videos are small and hard to see and there's no way to share a direct link to a video.
> I have little idea if that's the norm.

> style or resume and interviewing I gravitate towards.

If that's what you gravitate towards, to me that seems like an incredibly good benchmark for your cultural fit from your side.

> spinning negatives into positives and glowing up a job history, both conflicting

Don't confuse 'glowing up your job history' with lying about your experience though. Many people under sell their job history, because things you do every day become normal to you. So people often actually need to 'glow up' their job history in order to not under sell themselves.
Sure, but they should be honest about it instead of marketing Azure Sphere OS as an unbreakable castle, when it happens to be built in quick sand.

Additionally they could also allow for all GCC languages like Ada and C++, given it is the SDK toolchain, instead of being C only, if the security marketing from Azure Sphere is to be taken seriously.
Because founders and early stock-holding employees want to get paid out, move on to something else, and let someone else handle the long-tail maintenance of the business. This is valuable work in the economy because you want people who are good at starting businesses, proving markets, getting investors, yada yada to be doing that and people who are good at running businesses to do that once it has roots.

The intractable problem is that corporations with loads of capital are the ones equipped to run businesses long-term. I would love a world where an exit is turning the business over to the employees and a newly hired CEO in exchange for a payout from the business itself but massive corporations will pay more, have cash on hand, and won't default.
why seat-based pricing?
I don't see that happening. The benefit of the Raspberry Pi is, and has always been, the software and community support.

There's loads of pi clones and cheap SBCs out there - Orange Pi, Banana Pi, Olimex etc. But none of them have got the traction - and most crucially, the community support - of the RPi.

Maybe if a Chinese company with the same level of community involvement and support (Pine?) launched, they would have a real competitor. But right now it seems like there's endless clone SBCs, none of which have any real traction.
More likely the picture was added to stock photo library (illegally maybe) and they all use from there.
You can learn some useful wisdom from drug dealers in the show The Wire: always get paid upfront.
I am merely saying that the UK electorate has the responsibility to limit the power of its regulators (unless you are of the believe that their power should be unlimited).

The interesting discussion to be had here is about what good policy is, not to say "A country can make whatever laws it likes". Well duh.

We all have an interest in a functional global system. To that end, it is beneficial of countries at times defer to the laws of other nations (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comity). Maybe this is such a case. Possibly we would prefer not to have other countries try to interfere with mergers happening without our own jurisdiction too often.
china has a plan to be carbon neutral, they have good incentive too, their healthcare costs from coal pollution are wild

they are going nuclear, hydro, wind, solar, anything but coal
Tried to check out the website linked in your profile and it has some very strange redirect behavior that gets flagged by my anti-fishing browser plugins.
Blockchain will be more embedded in the life of your child in the future, same as you can't imagine living now without internet. Finance is only one side of that. You can also look into https://plush.family who just opened a pilot with a goal to help new parents with blockchain strategy besides investment.
I hate to break it to you, but you’ve got tradition backwards. We have always been bosses of ourselves, it’s only been recently we’ve been made wage slaves. Even 100 years ago, it was conceivable for most to live off the land, you owned. Now, who can own land?

Otherwise I agree.
Rust in Cryptocurrency is mostly a marketing play (and I say this as someone who does a lot of Rust).

Are there even any cryptocurrencies that allowed less-safe languages like C in the first place?

In my opinion (as a Rust dev), Rust is weirdly over complicated for what they’re trying to do. Common types scripting languages are basically more than sufficient (and safe)for these applications.

It’s only a matter of time before a crypto project overplays the safety of Rust and them has a huge heist due to a logic bug, which will further contribute to jokes about Rust programmers. Most of the Rust devs I know are wary of Rust crypto projects.
Except for youtube premium you don't have any alternative for the sites available for free. For twitter there is sea of alternatives that does the exact same thing.
That's not really what a reproducible build is though. Reproducible builds are you get the exact same thing from your build script today or three weeks for now. Getting unexpected changes with an updated dependency is a different problem than not having a reproducible build.
Thanks for the suggestion. Never heard of the Rollermouse.

It doesn't seem to be a good fit for ergonomic keyboards, which is a deal breaker. But still, an interesting product.
I can't help but think this is the perfect way for an out of touch manager to justify staying out of touch. Maybe I'm not thinking of the right use case but personal interactions are something that are sorely missed in this day and age. Still a cool product!
Maybe the global newspaper folk, who seem to be the most serious users of the platform, should form a joint venture, buy up twitter, disseminate microblogging news (ad)free and simply use the embedded links to drive traffic to their web platforms (for subscriptions and more in-depth news coverage).

So twitter becomes a sort of neutral preview / public announcement forum, like a kiosk with folded newspapers on the street: you can see the headlines, but you need to buy to read.

Alternatively, they could do the same from scratch without twitter...

The problem is not what happens to twitter. The problem is how to have healthy, representative, inquisitive journalism
> but really, their incentive is to close as many deals as possible. Better to close two deals for 15k each then to drag out one deal for 18k.

Similar to how a Realtor doesn't really care to get you the highest offer for your house, or lowest price on the one you're buying.
> Any optimization you could do in Rust is probably easier in C++, and also easier to find maintainers for.

At least the first part is not necessarily true. E.g., in C++, you might make defensive copies, whereas in Rust the lifetime system will track things for you.
> How do you think startups make money?

Do you think most modern startups actually do make money?

A great many don't, they lose it hand over fist. Especially those that intend to grow fast and get bought (or IPO) fast. It worked for a number of current big names, and many smaller names that those big names since bought.
> Synchronising data at row level when offline becomes online is extremely hard to get right and reliable.

Why? Are the users in different time zones? If the time on their devices are synchronized, why is it hard to get right? I'm not trying to pick an argument with you, but trying to figure out if you've considered all the possible alternatives.
Yes, recently looking for "stackoverflow like" stuff has in the first results clones of SO mixed with the original source.

And they speak us about the "algorithm".
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I've had the best luck with older "office PCs" like HP EliteDesk/ProDesk series and Dell Optiplex machines. They tend to standardize around the most common denominator components like Intel or Realtek Ethernet NICs and Intel iGPUs and nothing too esoteric. Laptop support has gotten better recently, with many Thinkpad models from the past decade working more or less 100% out of the box in my experience.

My biggest issue running Haiku bare metal has persisted across hardware and form factors though: Stability. I can't seem to keep a machine running for more than a few days without a kernel panic or a frozen GUI. I haven't tried the latest snapshot on my "newest" acquisition, a Haswell era HP EliteDesk castoff from work, it's my project for this coming weekend and I'm looking forward to seeing how long I can keep it running.
>>everybody moving at roughly the same time is probably an insurmountable coordination problem.

If this were true we would not have a long long list of defunct once popular platforms where people used to be, but moved away from in mass after poor decisions by the platform operators.

To believe twitter is immune to the digg, myspace, etc effect is hubris not backed by reality
That's a moronic HN type of idea, most people build businesses to help the people around them, this crowd does it, lies, cheats and steals to con people into working with them and then turn around and stab every employee in the back so they can get rich... it's weird to see a comment dissing the very existence of HN at the top, guess the mods haven't gotten here yet.
When I'm bored I'll take a walk on a good day, or more than likely start scrolling mindlessly on places like HN or Reddit.

... I should probably get back to work.
What sets DailyBot apart from all its competition? There are lots and lots of chatbots out there doing these things.
Or undercut Twitter by selling folks access to his tweets 2000ms before they hit the API. His fanbase would eat that up.