skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You will hear testimonials of most TikTok users addicted to and sniffing the digital crack / cocaine on the platform praising the super dystopian algorithm that operates on their viewing activity and collects minute data-points to keep them glued and addicted to the platform and screen time.

Then you will get something like this [0], and folks [1] on the kool-aid with nonsensical claims like 'TikTok is the best thing to have happened to the Internet' at the height of the euphoria.

In reality, it is both the same concepts of the other social networks but much worse and [0] has shown that its algorithm was more dystopian than previously thought.

Therefore, it is the nadir of social media.

[0] https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-wa...

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28135484
Billionaires making bold plays while backed by a cadre of top lawyers and accountants the kind of "conspiracy" that is totally expected.
I've spent a lot of time developing large computational codebases in Julia, and I think the most insidious of these issues is a product of no formal way of enforcing interfaces. Using one of the common packages to build a trait system and add some sort of guarantee that all the right methods are implemented for a given trait simplifies maintenance dramatically.

This doesn't catch mathematical bugs, but those crop up everywhere. Instead, knowing what the interfaces must be specified so you can trust your implementation is crucial, and being able to know when it is invalidated is invaluable.

I've had a few awful bugs involving some of the larger projects in this language, but a proper interface/trait system would simplify things exponentially. There are some coding style things that need to be changed to address this, like using `eachindex` instead of `1:length(A)` for array iteration as the example in the article points out. However, these should be one-off lessons to learn, and a good code linter should be able to catch potential errors like this.

Between a good code linter (or some static analysis, I'm pulling for JET.jl) and a formal interface spec, I really think most of Julia's development-side issues could be quelled.
If your father will knee jerk turn against something just because some random article called it communist- that’s not really a problem with the article.
Because people here are getting fat. Not as bad as America, but obesity is a problem here.
Clickup Is Down
But most of China has not been on lockdown for most of the pandemic. Most people have experienced less lockdown than in the US, albeit more intense when it is locked down.

4 million excess deaths is a ton no matter which way you look at it.
This is what I was thinking too. People would panic if he sold that much stock. But if he's just taking out a loan to buy another company it's no big deal.
Fair, but for objects like in the OP sample? Is there any advantage that justifies the extra steps?
Analysis here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SfXoCj4TLk
TL;DR is that it may or may not be enough to justify it in court if Twitter sues, but it probably is enough to make a court case necessary, and Twitter's board may be reluctant to spend years in court trying to win their case, since inevitably the court case would involve the very public airing of facts like this that would not paint Twitter in a good light.
Why the Rush for White Gold
The ponzi schemes ran by governments are ultimately run as a benefit to your retirement, and most importantly, you can overthrow a government.
The McDonald's on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées has triple cheeseburgers which aren't usually available even in the US, but it is certainly a bit "higher class" if you will, though that may be related to restaurants in general not being as frequented outside the US (only Italy comes close apparently).

No free refills, though.
I am looking for somebody who has used a Contabo VPS. They advertise their smallest at:

$6.99 / month
Starts with 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 32 TB Egress, Unlimited Ingress, and 50 GB NVMe.
That's not web3. Web3 should feel no different to the end user than web2, except for the fact they "sign in" via their wallet (Metamask) instead of legacy login mechanisms (Username+password or Google/FB sign ins).

Users shouldn't even pay for gas. Look at orbis.club for an early example of proper web3.

What we saw up until now is not "true" web3, but simply web2 masquerading as such and using web3 as a marketing buzzword.
I am guessing that it makes sense that very high profile people will have a higher percentage of fake followers than an ordinary, small account would because many of these fake accounts are bots that are set up in order to get attention for whatever they're selling or promoting by interacting with high profile accounts.
> I hate Microsoft MORE than the next guy.

> So I can't fault Microsoft for Azure. I actually like it.

You literally do not hate microsoft more than the next guy
I wouldn't say that P2P never became mainstream. BitTorrent is still huge and a great way to share media with each other. The reason it's not mainstream is because without centralisation, you can't enforce copyright and DRM. If sharing movies with friends was legal, P2P platforms would sprout like mushrooms after rain.

I personally think, perhaps foolishly, that if we decriminalise nonprofit filesharing and at the same time make supporting creators easy and not tied to buying the media, we would have a better system in place. I would love to see some of the smaller creators on Patreon experiment with giving every Patron a transferrable license to reproduce their work, as long as attribution is given.

I base my assumption on the fact that piracy has been a constant presence for the last 20 years and the entertainment industry doesn't seem to have suffered one bit. In fact every time they try to kill piracy all they end up getting is negative PR.
Are all of those mega yachts getting boarded not considered seized?
Honestly I think enticing shareholders is one of their primary motivators here, and the inflation is more of the excuse. Nobody else I work with is raising their costs in this space right now (we'll see how long that lasts though), and DO isn't exactly the bottom of the list on pricing.

The increase doesn't look too large, but if you need a similar alternative I like Vultr a lot, the Neocities CDN is hosted there and it's been rock solid performance for years, and it's quick to get access to competent tech support. I wish I had more infra hosted there actually.
> I think it'll eventually fragment into multiple segregated continental networks, if not national ones

That's exactly the world in which the Internet grew. There were multiple segregated national and sub-national networks, and the Internet was built as a means to interconnect them. After some time, the Internet protocols ended up being used even within these networks, but that was not originally the case. And even today, there are still things like the AS (Autonomous System) concept which permeates the core of the top-level Internet routing protocols, which still reflect the Internet being a "network of networks" instead of a single unified network.

That's why I'm not too worried about the Internet fragmenting; we've seen this before. What happens next is gateways between the networks, and there are already shades of these in the VPN providers which allow one to connect as if one were located in a different network, often from a different country.
It's definitely a tradeoff, but I decided to do it this way for ease of maintenance.

Most of the settings are 0/1 or a one-line string, but a few are multi-line.

This also allows me to store templates under the same tree, which is where most of the code lives.

Because I use one call for getting and setting a config setting, I can probably rearchitect it in the future to e.g. a key-value store.

But for now, it just makes it so easy to maintain from the shell, and to create overlay themes, and so many other possibilities that I'd never dreamed of before.
Nah, and also Turkey (similar to when people argued that Hungary or Croatia would object) would be kicked out of NATO before Sweden and Finland would be prevented from joining.

"But how would they do that? There's no process.. etc."

They can just take a vote and then that's that. Likely Turkey will get some appeasement concessions, but there's no serious risk here.
But what do you mean by de-escalate? Give territorial concessions to Russia?
The problem with de-escalation is this: what compromise is possible here?

Ukraine should just give up its independence and land and ability to seek justice for the horrific war crimes?

Russia has the power to de-escalate by withdrawing. Ukraine has the power to de-escalate by ceasing to exist.
I think it's because the tech has been adopted as the disguise-du-jour of scammers and charlatans. Once the public understands better and the hype goes away then maybe we will actually be able to have some applications built that utilize the actual advantages of blockchain without dealing with the mental overhead of worrying that it's more than likely a scam.
We at human think we can provide proof of humanity at the 10$/100$/1000$ level, but sybil attacks above 10k$ are too easy as you can buy a passprt. Each order of magnitude will require higher levels of proof. At 100$ we can probably do it biometrically using the apple/android bio meters. at 1000$ we’d probably want to use a kyc/aml platform. This can be done in a defi way
>Scent is the primary sensory input of a cat, not sight.

Cat Senses : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cat_senses
Everyone who reads this headline.

Thinks their $5 Droplet is now $4.

[Continues reading...]

Realizes their $5 Droplet is now $6 (!).
If they aren't then what's the problem?

On the other hand, if the PKK is able to fundraise in Sweden and Finland like the IRA used to be able to in the US, then it seems logical for Turkey to use whatever leverage they have to decrease that activity, similar to GB.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1987/03/22/i...
Just to be clear, 5% of China is 70 million people.
Their prices are high and punitive to existing customers. Their customer service is laughably bad.

One of my requirements of a retirement destination is municipal broadband. No BS, just a fair price for a service that's actually treated like a utility.
Wait, Skype ain't p2p anymore?
Trends in the Adoption of Robotic Surgery for Common Surgical Procedures
India is the most independent amongst the vassals. But it's not a fully independent nation like the US, russia, china or even north korea.

No truly independent nation would be part of the commonwealth of nations.

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

Leaders

• Head
Queen Elizabeth II

• Secretary-General
The Baroness Scotland of Asthal

• Chair-in-Office
Boris Johnson
They define active as having tweeted in the last 90 days.

I'm active on twitter, check it every other day, follow @ElonMusk but I don't tweet. Perhaps I'm a unique case, or their assumptions are a bit off.

Some metrics they consider suspicious (from the article):

1) Accounts that didn't tweet recently

2) Accounts with low number of tweets

3) Accounts with a low number of followers

4) Accounts that didn't set up their own profile image

Lurking != bot, and these data-points would all hit high for lurkers. I'm somewhat suspicious of their results, especially given the results from this pew study suggesting the majority of twitter users don't tweet very much.

25% of Twitter Users Produce 97% of All Tweets: https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2021/11/15/2-comparing-...
In practice it effectively is.

Without the Google, Facebook, and Twitters of the world pouring substantial resources into hosting and powering those platforms a decentralized approach needs to cover costs somehow.

Of course they monetize the users and their content and make a pretty penny while doing so (except for Twitter).

The centralization of these big tech companies also brings efficiency, optimization, and economies of scale to this infrastructure that decentralized blockchains inherently don’t have. There’s also the issue of much of the Web3 infrastructure being hosted on $BIGCLOUD because lots of data and usage at scale is really hard. Piñata just uses S3 and charges a hefty markup on top of it (as one example). S3 is $0.03/GB at the lowest usage. Piñata is always $0.15.

I’m not saying the decentralized promise of Web3 is impossible. It’s just a bigger question of the vast majority of users who have already demonstrated they’re fine with being monetized by the big tech companies as long as their use is free/extremely low cost paying at least 5X of the fundamental underlying costs. That’s not even getting to content creators that have utilizes these free platforms to already generate significant income for themselves.

The HN crowd has a much better understanding and resistance to big tech and what they do to offer free products that monetize the user. The vast majority of the billions of users on these platforms have demonstrated that they do not care.
My inlaws are imprisoned in Beijing suburb in theor own compound already for 2nd or 3rd month with daily testing.

Shanghai is just most visible, but there are many other places, if you just count bunch of the biggest places you quickly came to something like 150M people locked at home, possibly much more, didn't check it for some time.
I’m not saying his paper is wrong or not up to the workshop quality. But he’s saying something against an easy-to-prove impossibility theorem in a seriously sloppy/hand-wavy way. I trust Doceur and the entire early 2000s literature more than his paper. But who knows, I might be wrong.

P.S. Also commented about the paper here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30561786
If they lied on SEC filings about this, he bought something not as advertised, so I'm not so sure...
That is when it is suddenly closing and wont be available anymore. They like McDonald and it is closing, so they all want last burgers. And even people in that queue would tell you they dont need it, they would however tell you they like it a lot.
Because Digital Ocean is a company with employees and investors, not just an automated conglomeration of servers. A 20% increase in prices after 12 years of basically stable prices seems fair.
I'm not sure how true this is but I noticed that 1.1°C of warming has raised maximum temperatures by 4°C in Germany. Yes those 4°C aren't there all year but you do notice them.
True, I think more. As a human even if I hear a name in another language I still fundamentally understand that it is language.

Where I have to wonder if for a cat, I could train them to have a sound I play on their phone to be their name for all they care (kinda going back to them possibly thinking a ringtone could be my name). It's still just a sound that they are responding to not a word.

Maybe like you said though, the difference doesn't matter. Maybe even as humans while we understand that a name is language it is still something else entirely? I don't know, that is a realm of cognitive study I know nothing about. But it is fascinating.
It's strange that people lump these four together. There's a marked difference between Facebook/Instagram (friends first, sharing encouraged by all users) vs. Twitter/TikTok (mainly acting as a broadcast medium with a long tail).
AFAIK (and I am not an expert) when they use C/C++ in automotive systems (in the automotive part, not elsewhere) they might tend to use deterministic programming (f.e. fixed-length arrays, no allocations, etc.) which eliminate most of the bugs.

But, again, I am not an expert and Toyota's sudden acceleration problem was said to be caused by bad C programming (said by some, not by others).
trained people that have no involvement/conflict of interest in something can perfectly analyse it in a cold and objective manner, with the given provided information.
People's actions are necessarilly irational, that's not the same thing as an external analysis/decision making output.
North Korea is a China vassal in the same way any random dictatorship in South America is probably a US vassal.

China has huge influence on NK as their largest economic partner.
"Photodiode behind a second slit": Thanks for the link. This is looks like a practical way to go, and in price range.
Also notice how I said "analytics package" and not "tracking" in my comment, because there is no tracking. I mean, unless you're the only visitor from a specific country, there is literally 0 identifying data in Plausible.
A bit of history:

"How a Canadian Opened the First Soviet McDonald’s"

* https://medium.com/exploring-history/how-a-canadian-opened-t...

* https://www.cbc.ca/archives/first-mcdonalds-moscow-1990-1.49...

Someone should interview George Cohon:

> George Alan Cohon, CC OOnt (born April 19, 1937) is an American-born Canadian businessman who is the founder and senior chairman of McDonald's Canada and McDonald's of Russia.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cohon
I love writing code, nice to meet you. I know lots of people who love writing code. (Side note I also do see the value in meetings too.) I work with some relatively high profile programmers in my field (computer graphics) who still write lots of code, and will continue to do so until they retire.

Linus doesn’t write any code, in his own words, but that’s in part because his knowledge of software makes him better at leading people than writing code now. But Linus is not all leaders of the industry, many of them still do write code. John Carmack still writes code. That said, why should high profile programmers continue to code? What exactly does it say if they move into management?
They can also close the gates to the Mediterranean sea.
Yes, that's true. Bots tend to follow the money.
I thought the $4 tier was new. Or did they announce intent a while ago at the $2.50 price point?
My speculation: it was to make sure the data was pure when he uses it to train the Tesla Bot AI.
What are your traffic requirements?
Compared to the prices people talk about today $212m is nothing for a whole company, the individual founder could make more than that.
k3s makes running your own control plane relatively painless if you're not too opinionated about some things
Sounds like we’re back to AskJeeves and a number of failed answer engines from a couple of decades ago!
I'll one up you one. F.D.C Willard was an accomplished published physicist.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._D._C._Willard
So, being FULLY tracked by every website ever, on every device at the same time, since all your data is whatever wallet you use across devices anyway, is now a good thing?
r/homelab
I'm not sure if its actually more popular, or just showing up on HN more. I will say however, that I just clean reinstalled v2.8.0 of Nix Package Manager on 3 of my macs which were previously running a mix of 2.4-2.7 and its so much simpler to get going (shout out to @abathur who informed me they cleaned this up quite a bit, it was a real joy compared to before).

Nix with flakes is a game changer, and as flakes become more mature it lowers the bar that much more IMO. I'm now able to bootstrap a new non-nixOS system with home-manager in 2 commands (well technically 3 with the activation) and it only requires `sh` and `curl` (and I assume xcode command line tools):

sh <(curl -L https://nixos.org/nix/install) --daemon
nix build .#homeConfigurations.{computer}.activationPackage --max-jobs auto --cores $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) && ./result/activate && rm -rf ./result

home-manager also has support for LaunchAgents now which I think makes it a complete package. The experience is very nice. I'm much more inclined to recommend it widely vs before where I hesitated to tell anyone else to adopt it unless I was ready to walk them through things and caveat some parts.
'Robotic Surgery for Bladder Cancer'
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2792544
I am the same, in fact my account has never posted a thing ever, never liked at thing ever, I just follow people I want to see updates from that is all.

I treat it like RSS not Social Media
Yep - it's also an exercise to keep my cloud engineering skills up to date - I can take the approach I use on the hobby projects and apply it to production level stuff in my job.
China has been accused of genocide against Uyghur last year. But, they are not not expanding.
I signed up with a vpn and got banned for life after a single nonsense tweet about not liking the feed and following 4-5 famous people. I don’t think bot detection techniques are very robust

> This methodology likely undercounts spam and fake accounts, but almost never includes false positives (i.e. claiming an account is fake when it isn’t).

In other words, their model performs well on their training set, and they don’t acknowledge that it may be over fitted or mislabeled, and they hand wave mistakes
Looks very nice!

Have built something similar by forking the Datadog tracing library to also send each Span as a JSON to Kinesis Firehose, and then to S3. From there you can easily query it using AWS Glue (for schema inference) + Athena (as the actual SQL engine).

It's indeed really nice for digging deep or doing performance analysis, though I'd say for 99% of cases, the Datadog APM UI + query editor is much preferred. In practice, we'd occasionally see that we can't express a query in the DD UI and run it through SQL, but it happens very rarely. It's also nice for cheaply achieving 100% sampling if you ever have the need to find a single specific request that's happenned.

I wonder what the UX would be of using something like this with a tool like Metabase for the UI (with an actually fast query engine underneath, like Timescale or ClickHouse).
> any variation of technology is not going to help from distractions until and unless you excercise discipline and restraint

There's definitely a feedback cycle here though. Swap your dazzling iPhone 14 Pro Max for an iPhone 4S and then change the display to greyscale and see just how fast this technological solution reduces your levels of distraction.

Of course as you say it alone isn't a panacea: doing that is painful. But live with the pain long enough, and you've now used technology as a crutch to change your brain to expect the distraction less.

Here are some other technological solutions that I have found helpful:

* News Feed Eradicator: a browser plugin that hides those algorithmic news feeds that are the cocaine of the internet

* Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos: removes the sidebar on YouTube

* Podcasts - Even if you "already know" all the psychological tricks the world is pulling on you, your brain is programmable and if you simply listen and re-listen to Tristan Harris on a regular basis this imprints these lessons into your head. That, in turn, provides a well of motivation that can be used when the lure of addiction presents itself.
Jemalloc 5.3 Released with Many Speed and Space Optimizations
Interesting to think about:

> Our systems do not, however, attempt to identify Twitter accounts that may be irregularly operated by a human but have some automated behaviors (e.g. a company account with multiple users, like our own @SparkToro, or a community account run by a single person, like Aleyda Solis’ @CrawlingMondays). We cannot know how Twitter (or Mr. Musk) might choose to classify these accounts, but we bias to a relatively conservative interpretation of “Spam/Fake.”

So this means:

* @EmojiAquarium - spam/fake
* @threateningcake - not spam/fake
* @CanYouPetTheDog - spam/fake
* @ChuckGrassley - not spam/fake (?? - what fraction are staff generated vs Chuck?)
* @Wendys - spam/fake
* @Twitter - spam/fake
/shrug Pump and dump is Elon's raison d'être. Idk why people keep falling for his bs.
I don't see why Bitcoin can't be a settlement layer for payment networks running on top of it. Lighting doesn't have to be the only one.
With Twitters' changes to ask people to log in to see most content the number of lurkers probably shot up.