skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> 'firs they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you and then you win'

Sure, and there is 90% attrition at each stage. Most ideas are stupid. Some stupid ideas get enough attention that people laugh at them. When incumbents resist a new idea, they usually with.

Unless you have a very compelling strategy on how to survive this filtering. In all likelihood, people are laughing at your idea because it is really bad.
> everybody jumping from the bridge should be a strong indicator of what to do.

Not jump from the bridge?
I’m suddenly obsessed with the idea of building a HyperCard in Decker and then exporting it as a webpage. Can you?
Technically "Darius" is an Asian name, not a Western name, because Persia is in Asia. Persia has been in "Asia" much longer than Japan has!
GM would be very happy to see Musk lose control of Tesla. Which is much more likely if Twitter fails.
Some highlights/historically significant examples of this:

Super Mario World (TAS, 2014): https://tasvideos.org/3957S

Super Mario Bros. 3 (TAS, 2014): https://tasvideos.org/4288S

- The same run performed RTA (i.e. by a human using a real controller) at AGDQ 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUeozQtSmrg

Super Mario World (RTA, 2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14wqBA5Q1yc

Super Mario World "total control" (RTA, 2015): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hB6eY73sLV0

Pokemon Yellow total control (TAS, 2017): https://tasvideos.org/5384S

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (RTA, 2019-ish?): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoEmGCNsbno

Ocarina of Time total control/"Triforce%" (TAS, 2022): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNbkv_DJ0f0 (explanation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBK1sq1BQ2Q)
Why is this so? What is an FTC consent order?
I feel like Google Chrome shipped an experiment at one point that was going to include some of the most popular libraries with the browser, so they would be equally cached for all Chrome users, for all sites. I'm having trouble finding any announcements about this, so maybe I dreamed this up.
I wish my impulsive decisions led me to become the richest person in the world over the courese of decades.
Media Matters and Vox publicly campaigned for a year to demonetize YouTube, by methodically threatening brands with publication of screenshots of ads next to niche controversial content. This happened via private emails to executives, followed by viral social media posts when the brands did not satisfy their demands in a timely manner. This culminated in the "adpocalypse", which consisted of those targeted Fortune 500 brands pulling out and disavowing YouTube. YouTube implemented sweeping policies that demonetized political channels on both sides and even LGBTQ+ channels. In the end, everyone lost.
https://www.marketwatch.com/investing/stock/meta/financials/...

People act like Meta is going under because their free cash flow went from $8B to $4B in a year when they've faced headwinds from Apple's new privacy policy and the economy overall.

As far as I can tell the company is in perfectly fine financial health.

The market is essentially betting that Meta is headed in the wrong direction to increase profits over the near term. I think Zuck might actually agree with them.
These are pretty confident, extremely sweeping claims. I don’t think societal level forces can be so easily reduced.
Okay, but this isn't the HN crowd, it's the market. HN's opinion (at least in this thread) simply aligns with it.
0.01% of the world population
I meant exactly what I wrote. Feel free to let me know if there is something about it you don't understand.
Content farms use a lot of accounts , they have to - impersonate realistic users easy to shadow ban block otherwise that $5/user/month quickly adds up.

The reason this idea does not go far is because the people who pay usually do not necessarily post good quality content , that degrades the quality of UGC and view time therefore ad revenue loss
> successfully led a generation of politicians and journalists think that there's no need for public transportation

What makes you believe this? And that Musk was responsible for it?
I don't think you are doing anything wrong, YouTube is showing you videos that others who have watched what you've watched also watched.

if there is anything you started to watch, but didn't like, clean that stuff from your watch history.

click the "Like" button on any videos you like a lot, and favorite the very best.

sometimes YouTube's skull is very thick, but it will get a bead on you fairly soon if you do what you can to tell it what you like and don't like. that's been my experience, anyway.
Yeah good point, edited for market. We'll see in next few years I guess.

My point is everyone is quick to judge a new technology idea before they even try it or give it a chance.
Not really. There was no 650B in cash. If they all tried to exit at the top they wouldn’t all have been able to do it.
I can't see advertising being part of the long term plan here. He's a payments guy, and there is much more money in turning Twitter into an economy in of itself. This would be tricky if he needed to rely on banks etc, but more recently, he is also a crypto guy. It will be interesting to see how creative he gets in that area, but I would think that his dream would be to create a fluid online economy. I would expect him to first attempt reinventing the concepts of cash, and loose change, but in a digital platform, rather than one's pocket.
I clicked through to the technical intro, and it says you’re using AntidoteDB for the top-level replication

https://electric-sql.com/docs/overview/technical-intro

I happen across AntidoteDB just the other day, and my take-away was that it was still under development but not really ready for production use. Curious your opinion / experience with it?
Either way: the point is that everybody jumping from the bridge is a very strong predictor of something bad (which you'll want to avoid too). Everybody not jumping from the bridge is just business as usual.
Yea, that’s simple in a one on one. But how do you simultaneously provide the right level of jargon and context in a standup with a mixed crowd of MBAs and developers? Either the PM is frustrated that they have to listen to you go in the weeds, or they don’t understand why is this is important, or the fellow dev isn’t getting enough technical detail to understand precisely the crux if you’ve oversimplified.
Most of the options don't have much or any performance impact. The few that do e.g. the spectre/meltdown related ones provide improve security far more than they impact performance on a recent-year CPU. If these security options make or break your ability to do certain kinds of work - then you'd probably benefit most from using a more modern and faster CPU.

If anything some of these options are more likely to break the occasional application completely e.g. some applications use user-namespaces.
> legacy init scripts do not actually function very well.

They function as well as they're written. Some people just shouldn't be writing shell scripts that other people use at their current level.
A brief conversation is usually all it takes me to notice even the more elaborate bots. I would share my methods, but I'd prefer they not figure it out too quickly. Suffice it to say bots just don't behave the way a human would.
so far you are 100% figure of speech, so that's how I'm talking to you. it is your only known language, apparently.
systemd v SysVinit was a war between developers and admins. admins don't reboot, so the advantage of faster booting, which is the prime reason for systemd development, is silly and unnecessary from the perspective of professionals that do not reboot their machines. Nor do admins care about laptops, unlike developers who are obsessed with them and can't function without them for more than a minute at a time, give or take, thus their need for their reboots to be as instant as possible.

systemd, being complex and not written in Bash, was always the antithesis of UNIX philosophy. It keeps getting more and more complex as it creeps ahead adding features, taking over more and more of the system. systemd won the war because developers held all the cards, and admins, being cautious and overly concerned that systems remain stable and resilient, are slow to react. Inexplicably, admins will not do anything to fix something that was never broken in the first place, while developers, without restraint, are forever changing things to make them "better."

Mercifully, there is still some rock solid BSD around which by and large Linux replaced in a way similar to how systemd replaced init, primarily because of making faster-booting a priority, because developers don't want to wait around while they are constantly rebooting their laptops, but also a fanatical verve and the entitlement that it would be more comfortable for developers if the datacenter at their day job ran the hobby OS on their constantly rebooting laptops. It was a very one-sided battle of young developers against sleepy greying UNIX admins and neckbeard engineers that were hardly aware of what was happening and were retiring soon anyway.

But as it turns out, systemd only conquered so much territory and was some how stopped before assimilating every single Linux distribution.[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Linux_distributions_w...
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1584306032653717505.html

Quite a long thread, much more readable as a cohesive document without all the twitter noise.
That's something like 13 Twitters. This Metaverse thing must be good.
i've typed this 1000 times. this is a win/win

either elon musk is the business genius a lot of people think he is (I think he is this) and he turns Twitter around and it's awesome.

else twitter fails and doesnt exist. net positive for the world and net negative for Elon, also good for humanity .
Haha, which of the more than 2000 Starlink satellites are targets? All of them? It costs SpaceX less than half a million to put one in orbit, how much will it cost Russia to take one down? Do they even have 2000 missiles capable of shooting down a satellite? Oh, wait, they are going to buy missiles from Iran.
Exactly. Most like free of any consequence, and often above the law a la Russian interference, tax fraud, Jan 6, Mar-a-Lago documents
I mean, showing that difference is extremely hard philosophically.
"Men can't be women and vice-versa".

But you knew that was the answer.
The main issue with human conversation is the humans
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/business/twitter-elon-mus...

> Amid layoff fears, some Twitter employees were instructed to print out copies of the code they had written recently as possible proof of work, said two people with knowledge of the situation.

https://twitter.com/leahculver/status/1586145696163373056
How so?

A specific rock inherently is whatever that rock is. That same rock can represent all finite messages at the same time in relation to it’s position along arbitrarily defined number lines. Nothing inherent to the rock changed as that meaning is external to it.
"The world has watched in appalled fascination as the UK’s ruling party scrapes the bottom of its human resources barrel: it found there its first Black chancellor of the exchequer and then, to clear up his mess, its first Hindu prime minister. Yet exultant noises from India as well as Britain would make us believe that some historic milestone has been reached."

This is too much even for the guardian. Did the writer just call hiring the first Black Chancellor, scraping the bottom of the barrel.
Indeed we will!

I don't have a particularly strong opinion on VR stuff (I don't think I've ever put a VR headset on). I think I'll have a stronger opinion when they become more common, if they become more common. That's the part that's a little hard to see right now, but maybe I just don't get it.
>> Systemd has admittedly grown on me

Not suggesting you are (were) a systemd hater, but all the systemd haters might find that systemd is actually damn awesome if they stopped their hating and learned about it.

Here's an instant tasty systemd tip that I used yesterday ..... I had to prevent a forward proxy server from accessing local networks. How do you solve this without systemd? Well you have to start fiddling with iptables and descend into that level of hell wherein you are fundamentally fiddling with stuff you do not want to fiddle with, and beside that solution is going to be system wide.

Or, you pull out systemd and get the job done by application IP address restrictions on a per application / service level:

[Unit]
Description=glider service
After=multi-user.target

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

[Service]
IPAddressDeny=localhost
IPAddressDeny=169.254.0.0/16
IPAddressDeny=192.168.0.0/16
IPAddressDeny=198.18.0.0/15
IPAddressDeny=172.16.0.0/12
IPAddressDeny=100.64.0.0/10
IPAddressDeny=10.0.0.0/8
ExecStart=<proxy command line goes here>

systemd is chock full of super awesome stuff like this if you read the docs you'll find simple solutions to challenging problems everywhere.

systemd is a beautiful, integrated work of art, and there's constant payoffs and benefits from the fact that it encompasses so much functionality previously split across a huge range of inconsistent small solutions to the various problems systemd solves.

If the title GNU/Linux makes sense (which I don't think it does), then systemd/Linux makes much more sense.

If Linux had started off with systemd and someone came along and said "better idea, lets tear systemd apart into a wide range of tiny applications all with different approaches, syntaxes, maintainers and functionality, with no overarching architecural approach and call it sysV", everyone would say "what a crazy idea, no thanks."
However, democracies tend to only fuel popular wars, and wars of aggression lose popularity when information is freely available.
How about apache authors? The problem of runaway CGI sub-processes is one of my favorite examples of traditional init scripts falling short.
Someone should run the numbers, but I’d be surprised if there’s any correlation between the stock market and open source. Why? Because whether or not a company is valuable has little to do with the technology involved, let alone its software license!

Google or Facebook won’t improve their margins by releasing more or less OSS. Business models and software licenses are orthogonal. If anything, we might see an uptick in open-source activity as a glut of recently laid-off engineers suddenly find the time to work on passion projects.

Another way to think about it is, why does big tech open source anything? Leveraging a free, global workforce, competitive strategy, good PR, recruiting, karmic value are all good guesses, but I don’t think stock valuations play a big role.

Software aside, economic downturns typically spur innovation as founders with good business models find both talent and capital more easily. If you cross-reference the founding dates of many successful companies with economic cycles, I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised.
Thailand checks on exit for overstay requiring you to pay overstay fines on the spot in cash. Ostensibly to stop illegal workers, because the best way to stop that is apparently done by the immigration department, by making work visas hard to qualify for and a bureaucratic nightmare to actually get, and checking tourist visas on exit after the illegal work has been done and enough money to cover the fines earned. Because the Labor department has no enforcement force.
I troubleshoot these things by rebooting my Raspberry Pi, you do something different on your personal devices?
This was really interesting. I am surprised arguably the best modern example of this didn't get mentioned. Excel.

Now I'm curious how easy it is to get at the python bits of Blender during a session instead of having to pre-build addins to handle your needs since I know about its scripting layer.
>>>for the same reason you don't see laundry detergent ads on pornhub. most advertisers don't want their ads next to certain kinds of content.

Hmmm, if I had a laundry detergent company I'd totally support tailored ads for Pornhub. "Forgot to take your dress off before the bukkake scene? Don't worry! DirtBlaster Detergent can handle even the crustiest of stains!"

You've actually got me thinking about the viability of this across a spectrum of common consumer products.....
And by his measure far far less since most are bots.
The engines don't easily blow up.
Vimeo is more of a YT alternative than Twitch is.
Meta just announced 2.93 billion daily active users across its family of apps. Reels are being shared one billion times a day.

TikTok is not taking over the entire social media space any time soon.
The world is a much larger and diverse place than just America and Europe
Big room for middle ground in there of "Elon is good at some things, bad at others, Twitter muddles around as a net negative for the world."

I wouldn't be so quick to assume that Musk's ~15 recent years of experiences with mechanical/aerospace/production-engineering businesses is gonna translate perfectly to whatever Twitter is supposed to be.
Allow me to introduce you to Klinefelter syndrome and the difference between genotype and phenotype.
Funny to see you (even temporarily) modded down. When we were kids, the constant refrain was "if all you friends jumped off a cliff [bridge], would you". Now if you don't jump off too you're usually a "denier" or conspiracy theorist
oh nooooooooo..... all those rich investors will go without heat and food this winter!

anyway, I'll be over here living paycheck to paycheck doing my best to simply stay afloat during the recession.
Personally, I don't really care either way. I am more comfortable with sysv init because I used it far longer, and I can rock out with some shell, but systemd seems to work okay on any decently modern system.

My real issue is that Microsoft is now pushing toward TPM being required in Linux, they fund the Linux foundation and kernel development, they employ Lennart (afaik), and this feels very very much like their old "embrace, extend, extinguish" modus operandi. It also screams of the Halloween documents where Microsoft talked about needing to kill off open protocols.

Now, it's given that sysv is still around and could be used (is used by some distros still) in the event that systemd takes a bad road, but given how much stuff has become dependent upon it, that may not be easy. Likewise the code base of systemd has grown quite large so a fork would carry a very large maintenance burden.
I was looking at the login [1] code and thinking "hah, surely it must be full of stack overflows", but no, it seems they were well aware of the pitfalls there. Not so much for the heap data, but oh well.

1: https://github.com/Arquivotheca/SunOS-4.1.3/blob/413/bin/log...
It’s clear that you’re upset at systemd, but what you said here doesn’t really scan if you actually read the document. Everything you could describe as “lock in” has a conditional statement clearly making it optional. The document barely even covers the extensive motivations for features it discusses, which I would expect if it was really propaganda.

If you implement a daemon in the new style documented here, and skip 5,7,8,9 - all optional, then the outcome is more portable than one following the sysv list (just doing the sysv list correctly for Linux and a BSD is a quite large burden due to differences). If you follow the Unix purist notion that this should all be composed of commands then all of the other sysv tasks could be handled by wrapper programs - you can also best use the new style. That’s mostly what using daemontools feels like, and it works pretty well, but boy is it a mess in the process tree and require a ton of boilerplate.
The worry is Elon is a lot more powerful and has access and reach (especially now) than Ye

For one, he has access to every single politicians DMs on Twitter
I'm excited to see where spiking NNs go. Something like that is needed to progress now that conventional NNs on GPUs are pretty much tapped out (in terms of non-incremental advances) from their power consumption and the end of Moore's law. Things really do need to be more hardware-efficient.
This one makes me really sad. Frequently I find myself wanting to look at the oldest video on a particular channel.
The solution to broken social media is obvious: democratic cooperative ownership
> fading the crowd has a pretty good track record. Go look at the comment history from any major new product category

This is called survivorship bias
Thanks so much for sharing that.

Your participation here, is one of the reasons I hang out in this joint.
Companies are valued based on future cash flows. A stable company typically has a P/E ratio of 20. Meta’s is around 10, which is an indication the market believes profits will cut in half and then stabilize.
It's not just cis women who want to do that though. And there are many cis women and trans men who don't. Not to mention, part of why it might be the case that women tend to quit their jobs and raise kids is because there's a lot of societal pressure to do that, and until relatively recently women (in the US at least) haven't really had the right to be independent at all.
Author’s company is https://codescene.com/, curious to understand what it exactly does, there is no plethora of details on the website.
No, that's still the refrain. You shouldn't do things because your dumb friends do them. The context here is completely different: if you were in a public space and everybody in front of your suddenly turned around and starting running your way, clearly afraid, you probably would too.
"These are the Version 6 sources for trek. They must be modernized before
trek will compile. Everything is under SCCS ready for some willing person
to come along. Documentation is in ./doc.
Kirk McKusick 3/25/83"

Who's going to step up?
The problem here is it isn't an entirely unknown market. People have tried to make VR work since the 90s, and everyone has failed. What is the last product Facebook made in house that wasn't bolted onto their existing offerings that has made a dent in anything? They tried to make their own phone OS and failed miserably. They had to buy Instagram and WhatsApp.
Ben from Oddity Archive tried to track down a few of these stations over the summer to see if they actually were still broadcasting in stereo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8b8Ro1OdQ8
> yet that you wouldn't think most companies would want their ads next to

That's fine, I won't see any of their ads anyways and neither should any of you.

Now, can we please get over this era of _advertising companies_ deciding what is acceptable in the digital town square?
sysadmins should reboot to update kernels, but even if you want to avoid reboots you still need to correctly and reliably update a tree of dependent services periodically in order to apply security updates.
That’s kinda the point, just run your process with no regard to daemonizing, write to stdout, stderr, crash normally with panics, don’t bother forking, don’t clean up fds, don’t think at all about privs, what’s a pid file?, what’s /dev/log?, what’s a scheduler?, and let systemd do all of this correctly for all services regardless of how well written they are.
I will agree that the terminology could probably be better. But my original point is that this is a pretty high-profile issue and has been for a while, so anyone taking a hardline stance of "I'm gonna deny trans people until someone makes a good argument why gender and sex are different" is willfully ignorant at best.
>I'd be interested to see some examples of the far left trying to influence communication platforms.

Have you heard of reddit?