skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Honest question. Would a CEO be that desperate to keep his job? I imagine Parag can walk away with plenty after the buyout and do something else that he likes.
Because a lot of people in IT are in it for the money, so naturally money interests them in wider context.
It’s most fascinating (or very obvious) - look at Conway’s Game of Life, then scale it up - a lot. Unlimited complexity can arise from very simple rules and initial conditions.

Now consciousness on the other hand is unfathomable and (in its finitude) extremely depressing for me.
Yeah that is a pretty naive algorithm though, especially if you can explain it in one sentence. After all that, that’s the best algorithm they got? If you buy one thing you might buy two. Pretty sure most of us could implement that in a line or two of code and save billions in research. And even if this whole research exercise was necessary to discover this fact, it’s still not a “smart” algorithm if there are a ton of false positives.

And it’s still a relatively trivial use case—-if it comes to potentially miring someone in legal issues, I hope the “algorithm” can do better than that.
I don't have a strong opinion on learning the syntax and choice of environment, but writing something like a sodoku or crossword solver(helper) would be pretty neat.

I'm also day dreaming about programs that define knitting and yarning patterns as a follow up. The ageism.
You can optimize pictures straight through it, and the pictures represent the combinatorial nature of the prompt pretty well. This contradicts the "flat array of classifiers" model.
I built a really shitty version of linkedin for people in my school to stay in touch after graduation (in 1998 i think). People were really using it and pressing me to improve on it.

I just didn't care and at some time just deleted it (angering many friends). No regrets, though. I was definitely not ready to take the idea any further, back then.
How technical founders can run a better GTM motion
If the NYTimes is calling this period "the Good Times" for anyone, I would hate to see what "Bad Times" will be called.
Not totally sure what you mean by we are only used by companies who plan on using our service for less than 29 months. Can you elaborate?

We sell the RIs to our other users (now in the hundreds) so we don't take a loss. We only take a loss when we aren't able to sell your RIs (which is what we use some of our Venture Capital money for).
I'm not sure a bar is the best analogy here though. Yes a bar also derives value from it's users in a way, but a customers value there only really exists for as long as they are in the building. The customer doesn't invest their time and effort in long term value that exists after they leave. There's a moderate community aspect (referrals, recommendations, etc) but not as strongly as social media (or any contribution based site). Feeling a bar owes you something here seems like a stretch unless they solicit donations/volunteers to do a renovation or something.

With social media sites a user is adding content that continues to provide value over time. The user is investing their time, expertise and energy (and often IP as well since some sites claim ownership of contributions), into the site. When they leave, that content often sticks around. It's reasonable for the user to feel that that site owes them something in return.

Legally and realistically I'm not sure how that can be implemented, but the desire there is reasonable and different than a bar.
I had a problem with this part:

> I've been getting told for months that I'm missing the train and making a bad decision by a guy who bought BTC at 60k and told me "everyone" was saying it was going to go past 100k. And apparently I was a fool for investing in property and a diversified stock and bond portfolio. So yeah - I feel somewhat vindicated right now.

I.e. Feeling vindicated right now does not necessarily match what you're going to feel when this is all over.

> I'm saying I don't buy Bitcoin because at no point in the last few years have I seen it be used for anything other than speculation. There are no dividends. There are no voting rights in anything. There is no actual asset aside from a number that a blockchain says you own. It's like owning a share of a company that doesn't actually exist. The only upside is I can buy it and then get lucky and sell it for more than I paid for it, to someone who will almost certainly eventually get unlucky when things crash because it is and always has been useless. I see it as being no different than roulette, a game I also don't play.

People do use it as a payment instrument. More than you think. Speculation is happening, yes, but at the end of the day, if bitcoin makes it or not is going to be tied to its use as a monetary instrument.
I'm not sure if the target market will be even the elite, but upper middle class. Which happens to have gotten rich working in semi-associated markets.
No, this is not about 'a few options'.

They are about to transform the company - and they need the talent to do that.

It's difficult to tell, but it could be that these guys are scapegoats, or they are going to be stumbling blocks to the 'new approach', or they company wants fresh blood there, or might have fresh blood lined up.

Whatever this is - it's in the domain of 'strategic', not likely to due to someone's equity package.
I don't think he wants the deal to go through.

Unclear what the end-game is. But paying 3x the annual NASA budget for a social media app is clearly too much. Users have value, but it's too inflated.

If he broke the contract (and lost one billion), added another billion to create a new social media platform(that's quite the funding!) that measured up to his standards, spent an additional 6 billion dollars in advertising in the US (putting him in the number one ad spend – ahead of Comcast), it would still be a bargain. Heck, he could pay for people to switch from Twitter to his platform and still be ahead.

Why bother? Torpedoing Twitter (by blaming the deal going south on them not wanting 'free speech') could energize his supporters – and people in the sidelines – enough to switch away from the sinking ship. And he also gets to sell TSLA shares high (ostensibly to finance the deal) and rebuy low. So, win-win?

If the deal actually goes through, he gets the users, but he also gets a huge mess that he has to clean up.
Did you mean to quote:

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading. "

And I typically agree with that, except in this instance I decided to make a brief comment, because I disagreed with you somewhat strongly.

There's nothing in the actual guidelines about downvoting for disagreement; though the balance of the HN guidelines seem to be in favor of commenting in reply to a thoughtful comment. "Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. " ... and ... "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. "

What can be less thoughtful, substantive, or deep than a naked downvote?
Incredibly interesting chart, or whatever the presentation is called.
No, that would not satisfy me.

It's not that I don't understand the concept you are trying to convey, or even that I disagree with it. What I object to is the co-opting of the word "type" to mean something other than it means in common usage. I understand that "type system" is a term of art within a certain research community, but this is not that community. HN is much broader than that, and within the context of that audience, "type system" already has an established meaning that encompasses things that happen both at compile time and at run time, and which applies to both terms and data [1].

> 'data' is a runtime concept (some programs might be data, but some others are computations)

And how do you distinguish between runtime and non-runtime? It's true that most languages have a distinction between compile-time and run-time but this is purely artificial, a design choice, not a reflection of any deep underlying mathematical truth. Common Lisp notably does not have a sharp distinction between the two. Compilation can trigger macro-expansion, which can in turn trigger arbitrary computations. This process can even loop back on itself: the computations triggered by a macro expansion can themselves invoke the compiler, and can even define new macros.

So when you say "Common Lisp does not have a type system" what you really mean is "the structure of Common Lisp is different from what is currently being studied by a group of researchers who have chosen to call the object of their study 'type theory'." The problem with phrasing it the way that you do is that it implies that Common Lisp is lacking something (a type system, according to your narrow definition of what a type system is). It isn't. Common Lisp isn't lacking anything, it is just structured differently. But this is a feature, not a bug, because if you want to avail yourself of the technology of what in academic circles is called "type systems" in Common Lisp you very easily can. But you don't have to.

In fact it is so-called "strongly typed" language that are lacking something, namely, the freedom to write code that does not conform to the constraints of the "type system".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_system
Perhaps you can try this to make music in the browser:

https://learningmusic.ableton.com

Or my work:

https://glicol.org
> Module boundaries are refactorable.

Why are microservices not refactorable? This is the same exact issue in both cases. You designed something for a use case, the use case changed, now your old design isn't working. So maybe you merge those two services, or merge those two modules, or whatever else you want to do.

> reimplementing transaction logic that belong in your DB in your homegrown network protocols

Don't do that? I mean, again, this issue of "I wrote something the wrong way and now I have to fix that" is not any better or worse in microservices.

> My retort is that the kind of things one sometimes come up with as workarounds to make things still work for microservices

That doesn't sound like microservices. In fact, even the idea of having a database shared across services doesn't sound like microservices - it's an explicit antipattern. So it sounds like a bad SOA design. The point of microservices is to take SOA and add patterns and guidance to avoid the issues you're talking about.
I wonder if Musk just turn Twitter into 'message hosting provider' and not even read the twits. Just provide law enforcement of various countries with interface to find out everything there is to know about the person who twitted something and to take the twit down.
I wish Graal target wasm platform
Nazis wanted to enslave Slavs, not kill them. USSR wanted to kill anyone that had above elementary school education - basically killing the head. Which was much better end strategy, because there wouldn't be anyone to revolt.
What's also strange is that drone flew over a couple of other NATO countries before entering Croatian air space and somehow it wasn't shot down, intercepted, etc. The circumstances around that drone are rather vague and seem to be kept so on purpose.
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> and the things they will do to fix that are pretty much guaranteed to lower the quality of the platform

The stated plan is to focus on making the platform more transparent and trusted. Why would that lower the quality?
Anecdote: my partner can't read analog watches at a glance, they prefer digital displays.

It's a funny little hole in their wide skillset!
Do you have any interesting problems lined up that you would consider solving if you found yourself with a bunch of reserved instances that you're unable to sell?
I'm not sure what you're talking about. What automatic handling of network exceptions? What safe failures? BEAM has lots of great features, no question, but they have very little to do with the implementation of actors - BEAM primarily provides names and linking as useful primitives.
It is false. You're confusing people prioritizing their teams winning over wanting other things.

In an ideal world, they would want both and would get both. However they have to pick. Hence it is not that they don't want it, it is that they want it and cannot get it because they don't want to pay the cost of getting it.
Sure, it's an average. They lose big on some hands, and win big on others, hopefully winning a bit more than losing. My understanding is that it's a volume-business.
When it comes to housing both parties for different reasons promote something that looks a lot like protectionism. Republicans often try to keep housing values high, and Democrats like to punish real estate developers or alternatively have bizarre ideas about what makes housing affordable. They both accomplish their different goals by making it hard to build. Obviously there are regional differences in local parties. Republicans will often favor building out and not up, preferring suburban development. Democrats have lost the plot on housing, IMHO.
While that’s the phrasing the Truth Minister used, she seems to be suggesting that verified users should be able to comment or annotate other peoples tweets. Which to me is reinventing something that already exists, a reply chain.

They’re also proposing limiting this to verified users, which is also something that also exists, facebooks “real name” policy has been around for 2 decades, and Musk is already independently proposing to ramp up verification.

I don’t know why anybody would think sitting around forming a committee is going to produce any meaningful change. Social media is the result of decades of Darwinian iterative evolution, it’s not something one is likely to improve on sitting around a table for a few weeks. The only meaningful thing this committee could do to affect online discourse for better or for worse is recommend going after section 230 and unleashing the nuclear bomb of making platforms accountable for their users posts effectively making the vast majority of social media unlawful. Cute ideas to tweak the status quo aren’t going to do anything.
This might be extremely controversial but I think Facebook should be able to take down pornography on their platform. Since pornography is considered speech in the US that means I’m not a free speech absolutist. I’m not sure where the right line to draw is but it’s clear platforms need some censorship rights over their platforms.
> I also think the proposal to have Twitter allow all content that is "legal under US law" is a dangerous idea for the platform being a healthy community that most people actually want to participate in.

I'd counter that platforms like Reddit, Youtube, or Facebook grew into institutions with extremely light content moderation, and it's only after they were successful and were targeted by politicians and media panics that they moderated heavily, and with that moderation their growth slowed.
Nah, much much older.

Some tools started to go that way in the '90s. About 15 years ago the "war on email format" ended with the victory of html, and already this behaviour was widespread - Word and Outlook were already working like that by then.

What has changed in the last decade or so is that the "paste as plain text" options are increasingly harder to find, and occasionally have been dropped altogether.
I could spent >0s looking into this, but I've been curious how kline implements Etcd's Watch API[1]. For the matter, I don't have much idea in general how kline handles data. Kline would be a great candidate for a blog post or introductory technical article on.

I do quickly see one issue- evidently watches presently use polling. The issue requests use of postgres triggers[2].

[1] https://etcd.io/docs/v3.2/learning/api/#watch-api

[2] https://github.com/k3s-io/kine/issues/20
It happens to me as well. All the time. My explanation is that the brain feels rewarded when discovering a new interesting article. And in the age of information the addiction is so high, that when you get back to old articles, the brain does not get the high, so instead it seeks its dose back to the front page of HN. And this goes on and on. We are the mice on the information treadmill.
Would the majority of the current "desktop" software actually being outdated Chromium/Electron/CEF stuff factor into this too?
I thought they paid him something in the 10's of millions range to bring him on through periscope?

I thought the comp packages were more in the single digit millions range for these folks, and stock oriented. My guess is they've taken bigger losses on just the general stock market decline than most, though for those who hold twitter I personally think Elon is wildly overpaying (as usual, see solar city) and they will make out like bandits as a result there.
Computer language that runs on money seems to be quite unique invention.
There are many free resources online for learning SQL. Here are some of them:

Khan Academy has a SQL course:

https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/s...

The one in the first link below is interesting in that it then sets you up for the SQL Murder Mystery in the second link:

https://mystery.knightlab.com/walkthrough.html

https://mystery.knightlab.com/

The "walkthrough" link above mentions that if you want to learn SQL more deeply to try selectstarsql.com, which looks good:

https://selectstarsql.com/

This looks interesting too:

https://sqlzoo.net/wiki/SQL_Tutorial

Most of the above have databases available for you to immediately try out what you're learning, which should be helpful (sqlzoo.net also seems to have some more advanced topics covered too).

There are also a bunch of (multi-hour) courses on YouTube:

https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ayoutube.com+sql+cours...

If you go the video route, there are sites like SqlFiddle.com and freedatabase.com, etc. that let you set up databases so you can practice what you learn from the videos without having to install anything (though you can do that too, of course):

https://www.google.com/search?online+sql+database

I hope you find at least some of the above to be useful. Good luck with it.
It can if you’re already in a flow, but yeah it can stop. Back channel deals, etc.
Apollos 1-10 landed on the moon to properly scope it out so they could be sure the faked Apollo 11 would look realistic.
Thanks, I've tried 2 web sites with Waterfox Classic and they redirection works OK now (it wasn't earlier today)
What's the Ukraine conflict?

Do you mean the war that Russia wages against Ukraine?
It's closer to a leasing arrangement than a loan. They buy the RI with a traditional loan, then finance that by leasing it out at a higher price.
Like the reason ctrl+f in Outlook is to "forward", rather than "find".

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140715-00/?p=50...
Don't forget Merkel. There are still people that say that Merkel was always against German dependence on Russian gas but could not do anything about it. For 16 years!

There is more "evidence" that Merkel is a long-term Russian intelligence asset, recruited from her youth in East Germany,[1] than that of Trump being the same. One guess on which claim is incessantly repeated by the bien-pensants of the chattering classes.

Bonus: Trump and Stoltenberg argue on camera (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpwkdmwui3k>). Who turned out to be right? Who turned out to completely, totally, 100% wrong?

[1] Something else never talked about is how her parents moved from West to East Germany when she was a baby
Maybe it would be a good idea to contact a broker. I think they would be able to more accurately value your website. I know @patio11 sold one of his websites on FE International https://feinternational.com/. Of course, you are only looking to estimate how much your website is worth, so it’s possible they only start working on the valuation once you decide to sell. I don’t know.

Hard to say with precision how much money you’d make if you put ads on your website, but this one (https://online-solitaire.com/), mentioned a couple of times here by its creator, is making $10K/mo. From the traffic you have I would guess you should be making at least 1K/mo and looking at the multiples on Empire Flippers https://empireflippers.com/marketplace/ then the selling price should be at least $50K.

So it’s definitely worth much more than $500 and less than $2M.
No. We aren't in violation of any of AWS's terms.

The transfer of RIs are done through AWS APIs.
Key sizes are generally chosen so that brute force is infeasable even with enormous speed advancements. You cannot increment a counter to 2^256. There isn't enough energy in our solar system. So you cannot brute force 256 bit symmetric key encryption using traditional computers. Not at any speed.
I think you just sort of rephrased the question :) Also, if you have a photo of a tree, then there are infinitely many objects that will produce that photo; however, that doesn't make it a bad or worthless photo.

But I suppose you could be right for a single image from one angle, and I suppose that we don't get to see this particular object from many different angles.
Lack of empathy between wage workers, pitted against other wage workers, perpetuates this.

These are people that get taxed at 55% (top california income + top federal income + additional taxes). Not the ones with multiple orders of magnitude more money that get taxed at 4%.

Their boat is so similar that its embarrassing for you to fall for the division.
Three Show HNs of the same project in 3 months is excessive.

Show HN: Usage, Cut your AWS Bill by 50%+ in 5 Minutes - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31015171 - April 2022 (17 comments)

Show HN: I built a service to help companies reduce AWS spend by 50% - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30183465 - Feb 2022 (60 comments)

The rule on HN is that if a story has had significant attention in the last year or so, we mark reposts as dupes (https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html). For Show HNs it's sometimes ok to post a bit more frequently as long as the Show HN focuses on new work since the last thread. Not this frequently, though.

Please see also this rule from https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html:

Please don't use HN primarily for promotion. It's ok to post your own stuff occasionally, but the primary use of the site should be for curiosity.
Compared to Europe America skews politicians more slightly to the right and or center. Also, elected presidents become more centrist once they are in office .
Just like when they slipped the Patriot Act under the door and we ended up with political persecution in the US?
Dear god I hope that we are using something more complicated than sampling with top_p, top_k, and a set temperature as our decoder!