skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. Its a side effect of multiple dispatch being the core paradigm of the language. See Stefan Karpinski's talk about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc9HwsxE1OY
It is not like hardware costs are the only costs. My electricity costs are going to be nearly doubling shortly. They could be seeing the same thing. I wouldn't be surprised if employee retention/turnover is another issue they are facing.
These things are not the same.
So to get this straight - SparkToro have decided to burn their reputation down chasing a spurious irrelevant claim from someone else's merger. It'll never cease to amaze me how many people will take obvious trolling and treat is as reasonable. This is like conducting a serious analysis into whether the US election was stolen.

I hope they like law suits:

> Our analysis found that 19.42%, nearly four times Twitter’s Q4 2021 estimate, fit a conservative definition of fake or spam accounts

Ok great, I hope you have fun proving that in court. Especially the part where you have to prove that Twitter's definitions which you don't know match yours.

>SparkToro is a tiny team of just three

Then I applaud your bold decision to interfere with a $45Bn merger.

>Our definition (which may differ from Twitter’s own

Any lawyers in the house? How obviously do you have to renege on your libelous claims before you're in the clear?
Do we not routinely rob people of human rights when we go to war over things far smaller than 4 million lives?
I think it's pretty easy to argue that their definition is intentionally misleading, which may not be technically inaccurate, but is arguably just as bad.

The big story in the news last week was "Elon Musk says deal on hold while verifying twitter's 5% Monthly Active Users stat", or something to that effect.

That's the context this article was published in. It is transparently obvious they are re-using the word "active twitter accounts" to cause confusion with the definition of "active" that has been being bandied around. The post is using such a title as a clickbait, to hop aboard a trend.

I think the title, and lack of significant clarification in the article, make it clearly misleading, and I don't think pedantic "well technically active can have multiple definitions" changes the reality of the situation meaningfully.
Yes, because to sell it you need someone to believe it works. That's independent of whether it actually works (although this does answer my initial question).
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Everything I read about this war feels like propaganda. I know propaganda during war isn't a new thing, but any good news I hear goes in one ear and out the other. My gut tells me almost all of the information is fake or dramatically exaggerated.
Most software is essentially rented. It already written and has zero marginal cost. The vendor is using the rent to develop the next version. An exception would be specific contracted work, or bug fixes under a maintenance contract. How that next version gets developed is really up to the company.

Or we can just continue getting great stuff like windows 10 and 11.
Of course they did. The water regulator only has massive power because there's a shortage of water. It is very important to the power of the regulator to see that the problem only continues to worsen, so that they can collect more power.

If they allowed solutions, they'd lose their power.
With the greatest respect, nothing about his comment is inflammatory in the least, and I say this as someone who is avowedly skeptical about the ability of the Julia creators to accept criticism.
You're not wrong. Privacy mechanisms still need to be designed and implemented. There is much research, particularly in the landscape of zero-knowledge proofs.
The value proposition is the ability to share content without restriction or censorship, and own your data rather than being locked in a walled garden.
I've been a massive fan of Moxie's work for maybe 15 years or so now, and have had the pleasure of chatting with him in person a few times, and most of what he says is solid gold. I even agree with most of the points he's making in his Web3 post, but ..

.. that line "People don’t want to run their own servers, and never will" kills me. That's exactly the problem with P2P that Web3 is trying to solve. By strapping a financial layer onto a P2P network, you can build cryptographic incentives for people to run nodes and participate constructively in running and maintaining the network. It's certainly not the intention for everyone to run their own node, but anyone CAN, and even if you don't, you can be confident that the people who are running the network are acting in your best interests.

This, of course, does assume that the incentives are well thought out and properly aligned, which is very commonly not the case, but these networks are an amazing sandbox for people to try to build incentive systems that work, and there are many systems that are working quite well, many of which can run without any central authority over the protocol at all.
A lot of words to say “give up their independence”.

And Putin says the Minsk agreements no longer exist.

(Updated to fix autocorrect typo)
"mottos sunt ad infirma animo"
The Tesla Effect: Snowmobiles, Boats and Mowers Go Electric
How do you get 1000 acounts at random? Does twitter have an API for it?
That's the theory. In practice, TypeScript projects look a lot like C#/Java ones, with lots of annotations and generics usage everywhere.
The way you've described it, sounds like a cross domain cookie. That isn't technically a thing unless you consider one domain/company selling the tracking of their cookie for you to another domain/company or a data broker/aggregator.

So it sounds like it could make tracking of activity much easier and that doesn't sound right.
> The article achieved this goal. Otherwise is completely irrelevant. Even for the person who wrote it.

It's almost like Inception isn't it? A PR stunt within a PR stunt within a PR stunt.
Buy a pizza for the devs, rip off the lid, sharpie draw the sprint on the lid while eating the pizza.
would you rather be the average Joe in capitalism or socialism?
If I'm the competitor, I will announce another news, 'No price change' :D
Being with them for more than 5 years on basic droplet.
That is more compelling, but I'm still not convinced. Out of all the videos I've watched it's the only one that comes close. Smells like broken clock theory to me.

"No" is another higher-level abstract concept that I wouldn't expect anyone to master before more basic concepts. If the cat could say "ears, no" or "tummy, no" with similar confidence, then I would be convinced it understands combining the concept of "no" with another word. And those seem easy to test too. Cats don't like you messing with those areas.
You could also do Web Authentication, which is based on Public Key cryptography and ships with every major browser and is integrated into many operating systems.
I hadn't realized how easy static pages were to add to Wordpress - looks like it's just a plugin. Yeah that's probably easier than Cloudflare (which is still very easy).
The tell tail cat.
probably because one of their datacenters burnt down last year, youd like to think they are being extra cautious now.
hey,
understand that

I need to send you my review back somehow so I need email. All other fields are not required now
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indmix.html

http://www.alaska.net/~akpassag/
Even something like that flounders on the question "these instructions say to pull down the shroud, what is a shroud?" or "I can't find those hex screws, where are they located?" Repairs are inherently visual, although text with illustrations might work.
I can relate to this, and it gets worse.

Sign-off would take 24 hrs to process, and the mysterious entity that signed off would have no context of our product or the changes, and no way to assess the risk.

Then, due to our lack of trusted regression testing, every damn change would take ~6 developers an entire work day to manually confirm that everything was working.

Why? We were measured on “number of tests.” The tech debt was too high to write quality tests before the next review, so we opted for quantity if we wanted promotion.

This was the hot path in a major (Fortune 10) financial company.
He has to pay 1 billion to Twitter if he backs down from the deal. This could be a way to get out of paying that.
Here I was thinking that liberating Crimea would be reasonable and realistic.
In the light of Musk's statements, which presumably precipitated this timely article, I would say the question of whether Twitter technically lied is the most important question for Musk doing the things he does.

If you're more interested in Twitter's ecosystem as a whole, it is less interesting.
I am also an avid twitter reader, but seldom post, I would assume valid counts of users would recognize users who at least access and refresh their feeds
I read in a 'how to improve executive functioning' book that it can be helpful to have one unified TODO list. So that's what I do. I don't think I should make myself a JIRA ticket for 'buy peanut butter and milk'. I also don't think I should make a Confluence page about 'random idea for blog post I had last night while I was falling asleep'. So for things that I need to share that are relevant to work, sure. Otherwise, my notes are generally a very very very long TODO list (bullet journal method has worked for me), punctuated by things that won't quite fit into working memory that I know I'll need to remember in like 20 mins. Also random doodles that I use to help myself pay attention during meetings.
Yes, although that seems like the easy half of this, making sure `struct NewNum <: AbstractFloat` defines everything. There aren't yet tools for this but they are easy to imagine. And missing methods do give errors.

The hard half seems to be correctness of functions which accept quite generic objects. For example writing `f(x::Number)` in order to allow units, means you also allow quaternions, but many functions doing that will incorrectly assume numbers commute. (And not caring is, for 99% of these, the intention. But it's not encoded anywhere.) Less obviously, we can differentiate many things by passing dual numbers through `f(x::Real)`, but this tends to find edge cases nobody thought of. Right now if your algorithm branches on `if det(X) == 0` (or say a check that X is upper triangular) then it will sometimes give wrong answers. This one should be fixed soon, but I am sure there are other subtleties.
Do you have actual examples of that causing problems?
My neighbors' father would also think nothing of drowning unwanted kittens among other "old world" type of things that seem ghastly now.
That and liberal democracy, minor fkin details. Let's just forget the lessons of the last three hundred years?
I'm not quite clear on what the issue is. By design the site shows the next satellite to pass over, and it loops every 20 seconds like a looping video as suggested by the seek bar and play/pause button at the bottom. Are you saying that it is looping faster than once every 20 seconds?
> EDIT: rephrased "accounts that are active" to "accounts that actively send tweets" to clarify what the article addresses.

The fact that you had to do this proves the point. Nobody defines "active" the way they have here. The claim is nonsense.
Tether is atleast supported with real world assets (USD/bonds etc). The amount and quality of the assets might be debatable but it can't go into a death spiral to zero like Luna and UST.
Calling it short is underselling it (lame pun not intended). This was allowing friends & family to cash out, leaving the rest of the public high and dry.
> The real value of the old internet was showing us what is possible.

Of equal value is that it showed us what not to do.

We have 30 years of documentation for research on exactly what a
successful intra-planetary network needs to be immune to. A
successful future network must build-in resistance all forms of human
pyschopathology from the ground up.
It's fake - read the comments. The map shows the closest country to each point in Russian territory, and was photoshopped into the CCTV screenshot.
Digital Ocean are entitled to do whatever they want with their prices, regardless of their costs. Frustrated customers have some good alternatives to switch to.
Ask HN: Bothered by Loud Music in Restaurants?
Am I the only one who is bothered by loud music playing in restaurants (and bars)?

In the past couple of months, I noticed that nearly every restaurant I go to plays music in the background. Oftentimes so loud that it hinders conversations. The latter is the reason why I am going to a restaurant in the first place. Even worse, it seems like one can not even sit outside and enjoy the sun anymore without the venue blasting music on the patio.

I am considering creating a crowdsourced website that lists whether or not a restaurant/bar plays music (maybe even generally the loudness level). Is there interest in contributing to such a site from the HN community?
I hate that I have to say this, but be aware that one cannot "pip install ansible==2.13" (https://pypi.org/project/ansible/#history) since they took over the "ansible" name to mean the "ansible distribution", which includes the project you linked to as well as a bazillion separately versioned galaxy dependencies

For example, "ansible 5.7.1" is actually this: https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob... which includes "ansible" 2.12.5

It makes even talking about it hard
SQLite doesn't support adding generated stored columns to a table once the table has been created, so you basically have to decide upfront which generated columns must be stored, and then you can't touch it anymore (short of dropping it).
I can’t believe people actually tolerate websites like this one. I have to scroll past 1-2 pages worth of ads on my phone in between each PARAGRAPH? If reader mode didn’t exist on iPhone, I would have closed the website instantly. What a shitshow..
Genocide? Really?
So basically they have raised the prices of droplets and at the same time make it almost impossible for non-sysadmin type users being able to reduce droplet sizes.
Ah, Long Norway.
Yes, absolutely. This ("how can you transfer assets between platforms/context without interoperable protocols?", and the corollary "if the content is simple enough to have interoperable protocols, it's probably something uninteresting like an image rather than something valuable like a game asset") is one of the key counter-arguments that deflate a lot of web3 hype (along with "you don't need a blockchain for what you described" and "you are hyping decentralization, but the situation you've described still relies on (or is actively better with) a central authority"). A lot more detail on it here: https://docseuss.medium.com/look-what-you-made-me-do-a-lot-o...
at least for me in uk the cost of power has almost doubled the beginning of this year, and is expected to rise another 50% in october (the gov limits how much they can jump every 6 months).

so i kind of agree with the other poster, power has got so expensive i would expect prices to be going up. (add onto this manufacturing and supply chain issues and replacing hardware isnt cheap either).
The ‘flawed five’ engineering productivity metrics
Yandex does a similar thing, after a certain period "a password leak" (bs) is detected and you have to provide a phone number.
Just to confirm, you don't feel it'll ever go to 60k?
here's a hint: you sent me this link a while ago. also, i sent you something and am trying to make sure you get it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28936057
How much did that cost? And were you able to get any value from the fake followers?
Not everyone wants their email public
European or Soviet?
> An agent that sells dud employees to employers will have zero clients much, much faster. An agent with a high placement and retention rate, well, people will be lined up around the block to become their clients.

A new agent starts with zero clients. The beginning is "faster" than anything. You can't place any clients if you don't have any, so this is putting the cart before the horse.

> As for houses, they can be visually be examined by the seller's agent. They are not going to take the seller's word for it that it has four bedrooms when they can see it only has two.

Of course. But the linked article is "The 'working' job interviews that go too far". It discusses huge time-consuming pre-hire projects. This is not at all comparable to a walkthrough of a house. I've bought and sold, personally experienced the real estate market on both sides.

Addendum:

The seller's agent doesn't walk through the house to check whether the seller is lying about the number of rooms. Any buyer who goes to a showing will see the number of rooms immediately, nobody can get away with lying about that. The seller's agent walks through the house to estimate the list price of the house, to give the seller advice on how to best present the house, and to gather information for buyer questions. Also they need to take photos for the listing.

I think you're misunderstanding the role of a real estate agent. The seller's agent is not the seller. The transaction is still directly between the seller and the buyer. Nobody buys a house because of the "reputation" of the seller's agent, that would be insanity. The purpose of an agent is to help their client through the process and give them advice. The seller's agent may hold open houses, but it's actually the buyer's agent who usually takes the buyer on a personal showing, so the seller's agent is not even there to "sell" the house to the buyer.

A home inspection is not conducted by a real estate agent, it's conducted by a professional home inspector, it costs hundreds of dollars, it's paid for by the buyer, and it's not done until after the offer is accepted.

I'm going on at length here because these facts should be obvious to anyone who has been on the real estate market. The way you describe agents in your imagination is not how real agents behave.
The Nano Pi looks 5-6x as expensive, and quite noticeably larger and heavier.

Much more powerful though.
For my distraction-free writing, the solution I found was to buy a 1992 grayscale LCD 386 laptop. I can do writing in Word that I have installed on Windows 3.1 and then open them later on my modern day computer with a floppy disk drive. This setup works great and I can help answer questions if anyone is curious.

I was going to write a blog post about this but I ended up sitting on the draft for too long and forgot about it, I really should publish that post :)
Similar or worse drops happened in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020. In other words, business as usual for Tether.
And giving up their land and independence is the last thing Ukrainians want, so it sounds like Ukraine and NATO are on the same page in terms of not appeasing a senile tyrant invading a sovereign nation.
Interesting list but most of it was before the idea of a nation-state. It was mostly a royal selling a piece of his property to another royal. Spain "selling" the philippines to the US was after losing a war. And louisiana/alaska were royalty selling property that really didn't even belong to them in the first place. It's like me selling your house to my brother.

There have been a handful of land sales since 1900 and all of them are tiny tracts of land. Shows that nations don't like parting with their land.
Capitalism, no question.
The problem for the twitter board was that no one else was interested at the valuation. The problem for Musk is that if he walks away first he has to pay $1bn - which he doesn't want to do, and second that if he comes back the board can find someone else to buy it, or just say no to him on the basis that he's not acting in good faith.
Neither do sinusoidal oscillations exist, since they would have to be eternal.
I also use to fry on fat, if there is enough fat on my kitchen. But usually it finishes very fast after appearing. Thank you for wax paper advice, I use it for salting a red fish using my friend's recipe who is a sailor. Will try to find some food with this kind of package.

> literally designed to keep you eating more and feeling hungry shortly thereafter

How on Earth is possible to design a high-calorie food (this is a promice of MacDo) which makes you feel hungry shortly? For me it works like a regular food.
Russia is weak, NATO has no purpose.
> 5 small dedicated VMs for each dev

Make more sense for that to have been 1 per each dev I still read that as 5 for each dev and there are 5 devs.

In that case I would say definitely dump them as they are pretty much useless then you are down to 2 VM's which doesn't really matter how you are hosting to be honest.
That is the default now for big companies, it seems. They think they are invincible, and that one measly user cannot harm them. You have to basically threaten them to get them in legal trouble with a bigger player like the EU, so that they listen. This is because all their incentives are tied to profit, instead of ethics of freedom and consent. Unless you have something, that could harm their profit, they will try to abuse you.
I've been using them for 6 years with their 5$/month droplet.

I am going to be upgraded to 6$ month droplet and forced into 5GB extra SSD space which I don't want or need.

Honestly this doesn't make sense, the price of hardware + their economies of scale should bring prices down if anything, they nowhere explained what's going on, am I paying for the CEO's bonus?

I'll probably switch off, it's a shame I liked how developer first they were.
Yep, it’s been the default for a few years https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18651872/apple-macos-catal...
How exactly is "zero-COVID" supposed to end? It seems like China are committed to extreme measures like this in perpetuity any time there is a future outbreak, which will happen.
Can't confirm and anyone who can, will not. Sanctions evasion is something OFAC frowns upon and comes down on rather heavily. Just few weeks ago banks that were 'offering options' to customers were smacked down[1]:

"The US Department of the Treasury in a statement said it put sanctions on Russian commercial bank Transkapitalbank, whose representatives it said serve several banks in Asia, including in China, and the Middle East, and have suggested options to evade international sanctions."

So.. yeah. It is possible ( even with total embargo it can happen as NK has shown ), but it comes with risk. If it will be done, it will be done very quietly with as few people knowing as possible.

[1]https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2022/4/20/new-us-sanctions...
European socialism? There is none.
> billing is easier to negotiate than deleted accounts

Maybe, but I'd still like the option. My blog site is stateless so I couldn't care less if the service got deleted
Yup, honestly this is a good argument for web3 as a substrate on which to build an encrypted chat app that's permanently decentralized and owned/funded by the community. (Once someone figures out the encrypted privacy aspect...)
I'm also waiting for the USDT collapse. It was very close this time but I guess I'll have to wait more.
According to Matt Levine, that's "not how any of this works". The $1B is if he could not secure financing, but it appears we are now past that point. The relevant question is whether the Twitter board wants to sue in court to compel a sale.

Given what Musk does to the personal lives of his opponents, I'm not sure I would want to fight him. But given how many laws and rules he's broken at the point, I think there is a clear failure of justice if he can just do whatever he feels like without repercussions due to his common popularity.
zsh is the default shell for macOS Catalina and later.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208050
A French satellite operator helps keep Russia’s TV propaganda online
The Distributed SQL Engine in Azure Synapse [pdf]