skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The defining attribute of original Beowulf clusters that made them interesting was the use of channel bonding to get more bandwidth than a single NIC could provide cheaply in those days.

At the same time, it demonstrated you could build a useful and inexpensive cluster using white-box linux desktop machines sitting on wire shelving. I did exactly the same thing at the time, except for the channel bonding, which would have helped my cluster scaling significantly, but I didn't have any budget left over for more NICs and since I was using a hub, there would have been lots of collisions anyway.
Maybe a hub-and-spoke model?

Themed co-working spaces, interconnected by a virtual space.
The formula A x B x C = X, where A is the number of vehicles in the field, B is the probable rate of failure, and C is the cost of out-of-court settlement for that failure

s/vehicles/GPUs/
What valuation? Per the article, it's being delisted and taken private. Which, may attract talent who wants to build something for the long term rather than being pinned to quarterly reports.

My money would be on software developers with certain personality quirks being drawn to Musk's leadership while those who have been building Twitter's compliance and moderation infrastructure would be repulsed. But, I don't think we'll really ever know because - as a private company - I expect Twitter to not disclose that information in the future.
He might be the majority shareholder, but there is a known syndicate of coinvestors so he does not own it all himself - much of this is public information.
"as long as I were paid more than what I earn now" is such a funny term to include. There's a lot of places I'd consider working if they offered me a raise!
I propose a new term for the "Free speech" to say whatever hateful, bad-faith, trolling and ignorant thing anyone wants to say on someone else's website: "Platform entitlement".

>With a strong vision for platform entitlement and actual value enforcement, it would attract the right people. We can argue the recent dilution of Twitter's values to meddle with U.S. politics was the actual brain drain.

After all, the ideological concept of "free speech" as is commonly used in the United States and regarding political freedom is the freedom from government persecution to say whatever you want. It is being transformed by propagandists and those who would see our democracy crumble to mean "being allowed to freeload off of dominant viral message boards to spread whatever misinformation is deemed beneficial to my worldview".

I respect the idea that the Internet is a prerequisite to effective political speech in the Western world for audiences larger than a small town. I believe that certain layers of the World Wide Web, namely DNS/TLS/Network/Hosting do have a "common carrier" obligation to some extent which should possibly be codified.

I do, however, take issue with the idea that individual websites currently have any obligation to be "neutral", though I do believe in being transparent in any potential bias. I also believe it's misleading to call taking down trolls and bad faith bots as "biased".

To be straight to the point, I honestly doubt the motive of anyone who actively criticizes about free speech issues on twitter, given the kinds of democracy-destroying people who have been largely affected by their moderation policies.
There are tons of conservative voices on Twitter.
Delay decisions, set up a committee... wow, that was fast, he's already becoming Jack.

[EDIT:] The problem is that a "council with widely diverse viewpoints" is not going to come to consensus on moderation. They're inevitably going to disagree, just like in politics. So then what? How is lack of consensus not the inevitable outcome of a widely diverse committee?
Hard at scale doesn't necessarily mean useful. Putting lots of people on hard projects that don't increase revenue is a pointless endeavor.
Learn to adjust your abstraction and resolution to the intended target audience. That's about it.
If this is a normal Silicon Valley deal, until Twitter relists or sells the valuation at vest of the already granted RSUs will be $54.20. So from an employee perspective the valuation will stay high.
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The idea that only people who have done a job can criticize a person doing that job is silly. We all can criticize the President for example without having led a country. Isn't that principle supposedly the underlying reason Musk bought Twitter?
No they cannot be only harmlessly sarcastic. Context is very important.
What? They ban most actual right-wing sources. What's left is crap like Fox news.

They can't be biased towards stuff they ban. They are biased towards controlled opposition, which makes people feel warm and fuzzy. Big difference.
Prediction: Twitter becomes the defacto free speech public messaging platform for all world leaders regardless of ideology.
There's a lot of people on twitter who just want to say the n-word, want to say Kanye is right about Jewish people, want to say LGBT people are groomers, etc. I personally don't see the justice in letting people who want to cause material harm to others - people who'd put me in a camp if they had their way - like that have a platform, no-questions-asked
Whoever decided to kill Vine certainly created a lot of value for TikTok, Instagram via Reels, and YouTube via Shorts.
> The other argument about not having enough charging is weird too

This actually is a bit of a concern for me. I live in a single-family home, so charging at home isn't an issue, but I am in a rural area so charging infrastructure in the places I'm likely to go is something to think about.

I'm more likely to buy a lightly-used ICE car now and an EV in a few years after the market matures a bit more.
http://home.thep.lu.se/~bjorn/postscript/ for those who aren't familiar with using printers to render fractals
But does the inclusion of a shoddy adapter not just encourage the usage of the older PSU?
Predictions:
Few stunts and free advertising for Teslas

Starlink gives free twitter access for everyone in the world, without internet access required, basically what FB tried to do.

Elon starts loving ads xD
The link contrasts it with meritocracy as this:

> In a meritocracy, the most qualified people for a job are selected for that job. In a do-ocracy, whoever does the job gets it, no matter how well they’re qualified.
Well, they almost used to. And we sort of agreed it's a bad idea only after it lost economic sense.

And we still have it in the pockets of the world where it still makes economic sense.
But nobody knows what policies he intends to enact. In fact, he immediately decided to offload all moderation decisions to some "council".

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792

Or if I'm wrong and there is clear vision which these people support, can you please elaborate?
Prediction: Twitter becomes the de facto standard free speech public messaging for world leaders regardless of ideology
It's not; the title says CNBC reported layoffs have started; not that CNBC fell for a hoax.

There is literally zero other backing for "layoffs have started"; not anonymous sources, not official sources, not CNBC investigations. The entire basis for this was that hoax. @dang should delete this. The entire article is false and will need to be retracted.
Is the recommendation engine more than just "Currently watching X - people who watch X usually watch Y next"?

I say that because, as someone who does not sign into YouTube, I have no idea if it gets more complex.
Feature flags tied to user accounts.

Alternatively (since you said “prior to pull request”) local builds, screen sharing, and live conversations with stakeholders.

Alternatively (if you don’t want to screen share) continuous deployment, feature flags, and a PR-free review technique such as pairing or mobbing.

Alternatively (if you don’t want pairing or mobbing) continuous deployment, feature flags, robust automated tests, and post-deployment code review.
Perhaps the problem is greater than Twitter since many other companies (Snap, Pinterest, Reddit, etc) are in similar positions
Everyone focuses on meta VR as cause of the drop when They should focus on the privacy invading tech self destructing.

And the lack of platform they have. Web was an open platform. And it worked well for them. Phones are not.

Meta is an attempt to define a platform. And they are all in with a startup spirit. Except they are not a startup and they don't behave like a startup.
Will this " freedom of speech" include criticisms of the Chinese Government?
Sure, and I use Bitwarden. I just don't use the web UI, specifically to avoid issues like malicious extensions, Firefox exploits, etc.

I'm aware that web-based email and credential managers exist, but GP asked "...why would it not be able to access your email or password manager?" I answered that, with my app choice, I don't see how they could.
I didn't understand that. .
No guarantee that it'll fix it but for me it helped to disable ASPM, details in https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=39678
In that case, it is impossible for Twitter to achieve neutrality (in that they can't control how viewers respond to a particular individual's odious tweets). If anything removing these sorts of tweets was a nice gift to bigots, covering their tracks for them.
I had a haunted USB cable that would somehow cause USB to stop working in any device I plugged it into (until I rebooted the device). Once I figured out it was a problem with a USB cable, identifying the faulty USB cable required rebooting the devices after testing each cable (because any cables plugged in after the faulty one wouldn't work either).
Wait he is? Amazing. Might be able to compete at the Centurion Olympics
What kind of services if you don't mind sharing?
Before that, they attached pumps and ponds at the bottom of penstocks leading to reservoirs in the Sierra Nevada mountains that were built decades ago.
One can only dream.

For all of Musk's proponents' claims that this is a boon for "free speech", such free speech is anathema to corporate interests, particularly advertisers and corporate partners (we only need to look at the recent Ye + Adidas bustup).

Thus, it will likely devolve into "Free Speech (TM)", the my-way-or-the-highway speech policing that we see in places like /r/conservative where any criticism of Musk's preferred views is silenced. Again, we only need to take his own history towards criticism to see what Musk with a bullhorn is likely to do.

And, thus, we can only hope that it becomes such a cesspool of hatred such as Parler and other so-called liberterian free-speech platforms that it becomes toxic for investors and users, save for those who relish the echo-chamber.

One can dream.
“Rent seeking” is a term of art that means a specific thing, it doesn’t just mean “whenever you offer to let people rent something”.
I'd be wary about extrapolating from cars or other vehicles: they expose their components to far more vibration and shocks than is typical in a house or datacenter.
It really needs a "topic" based system like Google News. Their recommendations have serious flaws as well, but at least I can see the topics a story was (potentially) recommended based on and flag one as not for me. The YT homepage kind of does that now, except you can't tell it topics are bad.
Read the article, can't argue with numbers. Twitter biases towards recommending right-wing sources. Your personal experience will differ because everyone is placed in their own echo chamber.
The new iPad’s USB-C port is a Lightning port in disguise
Show HN: Checksum.sh verify every install script
The pattern of downloading and executing installation scripts without verifying them has bothered me for a while.

I started messing around with a way to verify the checksum of scripts before I execute them. I've found it a really useful tool for installing things like Rust or Deno.

It's written entirely as a shell script, and it's easy to read and understand what's happening.

I hope it may be useful to someone else!
It's a bit of both I imagine. And without stock-based compensation, Twitter is likely to become much less competitive in terms of pay than its peers.
Unfortunately just because a couple people on Hacker News requested a different homepage it doesn’t change how the market works. Twitter’s homepage is nothing but a log in form and so is Facebook’s. Vers’ homepage has paragraphs explaining the site - it is more explanatory than the other social networks you get a better idea of what you’re joining than with the others. You don’t see a public feed on Facebook or Twitter’s homepage. This is my hard work and you’re writing me off on a technicality
You definitely can and things like that are precisely why bind mounts (usually) require root, because POSIX is built very much on the premise of one filesystem tree seen by both privileged and unprivileged users.

Other systems do better by not depending on that.
I was at a screening of a documentary in Rockefeller center about the liberation of Ahlem. Henry Kissinger was giving remarks afterward. Stopped speaking mid-sentence, and stared directly at me, locking eyes, in the front row for at least 10 seconds before resuming. Everyone around me was puzzled. To this day we don't know why, and my brother likes to tell people at parties that Henry Kissinger hates me.
Investing and "opening a business" are two very different things though. I'd definitely invest in India (BRIC is about to loose China, but the rest are still improving year over year at a rate that looks sustainable), but I'm not mad enough to try to actually open a physical business there. It's kind of a well-known bureaucratic black hole in economics circles. The best you can hope for is to buy an existing company (whether that's outright buying, or "buying" through some contractual subsidiary/merger/etc. arrangement)
I am all about being nice to people who live their lives however, but the idea of "gender" as a fluid philosophical concept distinct from sex is super squishy.

It's massively overstating things to call it "settled science" or even "science" at this point. It's philosophy in theory and public opinion in practice.

Science: this phenomenon exists and people exist who've had these experiences. That's a factual statement.

Politics: you must talk and think about the phenomenon in these proscribed ways. That's an ideological statement.
It really doesn't matter a fig to me and [I presume] the millions of other people who have no interest in using Twitter or any other social media. Of course, if you're part of one of the echo chambers that does, it's probably really newsworthy stuff.
Why only outside of the US?
Yeah, the first result of the "surprise me" search is an early-2000s era style 9/11 conspiracy site. Brings back memories, but not exactly "suckless".
https://theguardian.com/environment/2022/jul/16/bees-are-rea...
I think there are hardly any free speech absolutists these days. Who's standing up for free speech when it's free speech they detest? Instead it's a bunch of people loudly defending their free speech.
> Now what most modern farming does do, is bring in energy from elsehwere. For example, cattle might be fed corn brought it from elsewhere. Not to mention the energy inputs from fossil fuels (fertilizers, tractors, etc.)

Yes! Minus the corn, which is another farmland, fossil fuels, Haber Bosch fertilizers are things that only humans do.

Are you saying that with all the technologies of modern farming, it still produces less than 0.25x mammal-consumable calories per square mile (9000 for rainforest vs 2000 for farmland)?

That is unbelievable on its face, frankly, but also of couse farmland is not generally replacing lucious rainforests, but other bushland or something. So, humans and their farmland has to be enormously increasing the mammal-consumable calories per plot of farmland compared to wildland, otherwise farming wouldn’t make sense.

The point is, there is only 1 animal (human) that drastically increases calories per square meter wherever it goes, so we (and livestock we choose to feed with farming) can not be lumped into any biomass calculations.

2) I would compare the species within themselves, and the “niches” between forests. Ultimately, I think biomass confuses more than it elucidates. Talk about ant colonies of Antium Washingtonicum to Antium Europium, don’t plop them into the same metric as Cougarium Washingtonium, in my opinion this is will lead to maybe nice-looking graphs with “findings” that are nonsensical.
I wish I was a fly on the wall when the conversation at EVGA went down. The timing is a little too perfect.
They mention suspending accounts responsible for uploading CSAM.

I'm curious what their process looks like when their own bots crawl a domain, find the CSAM, and then make it available to users via their image search.

What action is taken against domains hosting CSAM? How quickly do they remove the content from search results, etc?
I still disagree. Sure, you can get your main point across and then offer extra detail. But the extra detail is often detrimental in that your reader probably isn’t comfortable stopping before they read it.

To be clear, I’m talking about business communications here (as was the article), not other kinds of writing.

In my field, at least, this is a fundamental concept that differentiates some of the best communicators.
It's not a thing now, but it used to be a great deal to thing around 2006-2008. 1000 sms packs used to be sold for 36 rupee and they sold like hotcakes.

Of course, old times. Not used anymore.
No man more sinful has ever sung gospel more heavenly.
Samhain – A Short Introduction
And what if China requests a tweet removed or user banned and puts a Tesla factory or those sweet tax cuts on the line?
I agree (I think). I think the point is that by talking about the details the receiver doesn't get it more - it's more that some details stick instead (and thus the big picture is lost).

Thus, the only way forward is to summerize, and then point out that there are details/nuances (but not getting into it). Only if the there's interest in those nuances, then it's relevant going into them.

Same as with physics. First you learn Newton. Then you eventually realize Einstein adds nuance to the formula. Start with Einstein and it becomes much more complex, hard to grasp and less likely you'll understand anything. And, equally important. If the receiver doesn't want to know Einstein, then no point in talking about him.

One big problem I see nowadays is that more people do not care about the details, meaning it's less useful as a communicator to communicate then - but also that people do not fully grasp as much the nuances and believe (and search for) simple answers - and come to dangerous conclusions about them. From my POV this is the danger with the attention economy, leading to Trumpism and similar phenomena.
The brain drain was well under way already. A bunch of people I know who used to work at Twitter started looking the moment the deal was announced, and have already landed elsewhere.
Thank you Sir!
Wow cancel culture almost got you huh? How did the doctors save you?
I know one insider at Meta that I could ask about this. I suspect they can't really retain talent like they used to.

The only other anecdote I have is an acquaintance who was early (i.e. the first web-dev) at YouTube. He _hated_ working for Google and left as soon as his shares vested. That was my first experience with someone simply rejecting a fat paycheck because _Google_ was to buttoned down for them.

People are strange (and software engineers are a whole different level of people).
The entire platform essentially died in 2015 and then was resurrected by Donald Trump being obsessed with it, which got a ton of political and finance people to join. None of their recent initiatives have moved the needle. Musk is going to lose a lot of money on this deal, but they'd probably be better off under him if not for the crushing debt load
You're all arguing about a red herring anyways.

As with many of the things Elon has tweeted or said, appearing to value free speech for Twitter was just him appealing to conservatives, upset with their perception of cancel culture.

Wait to see if Elon actually makes any TOS and policy changes in the next month, and debate then.
They also conveniently forward to law enforcement parents who send non-sexual explicit images taken expressly for the purpose of examination by licensed medical personnel.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/aug/22/google-cs...
I beg to differ. Especially if you care about outcomes.
Said Twitter about itself when it was under fire for being left leaning lol
Since it looks like it was a prank and he didn't actually do this, it seems like good advice.
Presumably if there's a problem within the US, Starlink would be compromised.
>Egotistical people are never intimidated.

Egotistic behavior is actually a response (most of the time unconscious) to being intimidated. Truly capable people are rarely egotistic. I am talking about people at the top of their game, like Field medalists, Nobel laureates..etc. I doubt his colleague is egotistic to a beggar, for example.
Remember Google Buzz? Google tried to copy Twitter and automatically added it to the front page of every Gmail account, fucked up the launch by having everything be public by default, and finally declared it a failed product and abandoned it a year later.

In retrospect, the whole thing was a mini-Google+.
Oh, even worse, you're a right-wing libertarian. Never mind.
Then why is Musk doing work with Chinese censorship agencies? Why is his definition of free speech determined by authoritarian governments [1]?

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1519036983137509376
don't see how "lovingly handcrafted artisinal" and "90s web design" are incompatible. ;)

the thing about artisans, is that they create according to their specific taste, which may or may not intersect with subjective modern tastes. :)
Probably pretty soon. The controller work is done and Xbox won’t need the amount of optimization that Switch does. That being said, Wube doesn’t do something unless they do it right and right now their main focus is probably the DLC
What about...

"We need a forum with accountability from people we work with and see regularly"

I know employers are already doing this.

Alternatively,

"We need a forum where locally connected people share the same avatar"

An additional layer of accountability being the theme in both.
I totally disagree. Context switching a million times a day is _hard_. I'm sure Elon isn't running every little thing day to day in his companies, but it's absolutely impressive what he's able to get done.

I don't like the guy, I don't like tsla, etc. But you have to appreciate what he's been able to do. He's clearly not a dumb guy.
"suckless" often means for websites; loads quickly and does not overuse JavaScript.
I don't envy whoever had to aggregate the training data.
There’s no foundation for this premise, but sure, “they” found their own app. People can make infinity apps. Or maybe show that there’s more value in the previous censorship and buy it back.
A hispanic family lives next door. 1200 sq ft. house. 4 BR (it would be 3 BR but the garage was converted to a BR), 1 bathroom. At times they've had up to 12 people living there. I can't imagine it, but somehow they manage to make it work.
Storage method has exactly nothing to do with production method.

Electrolysis efficiency and expense are entirely sufficient to requirements for the hydrogen storage projects are, in fact, proceeding.
None of these authoritarian excuses matter. They can say what they want about who they want now.