skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank the lord the Google Founders have withdrawn but still have ultimate control and appointed competent managers in their stead - pity the folks who ponied up some of the $$$ for this deal.

A twitter super app - LOL.
I don't think anyone's a self-proclaimed global policeman, and America has become of late increasingly reluctant to extend their influence. I'm not American. My personal position is that the world would be worse off if America were to cede their influence because the vacuum would be filled by China, Russia or both. These forces all keep each other in balance and maintain the current detente.

This is one of the most peaceful times in world history, after all.

With that in mind, no, I don't support the Iranian regime. Positions should be evaluated piecemeal, it doesn't matter what you think about America's other positions, it doesn't need your personal 'moral high-ground' sign-off to be in the right on this one.
The funny thing is that Google brags about the science behind their UX and then they have complete garbage UX like Youtube and libs like material design. I also wonder if the Youtube mobile app testers are minors or have transparent fingers.
My kid went to a bilingual school that taught English via immersion (the English teachers didn't even speak German). In grade 1 they learnt the alphabet both in German class and English, one letter a week.

I was amused that in English they learnt A, then B, and so on in alphabetic order. In German they learnt by frequency (according to this chart, "enirst"; I remember enrst so probably missed the "i"). I already knew "eatoni shrdlu" so this amused me more than it should have.
If true, that would make a lot more sense. Can someone please provide a reference link to corroborate?
This is the only Twitter related link I am seeing on the HN front page. Both when logged in and logged out. What's going on?

This should be one of the biggest pieces of news all year on this site.
I thought it might be a lovingly handcrafted artisinal static site at least, but it's very very 90s web design.
Copy and pasting the parent post? Or are you just admitting to the world that you’re a bot account
I am using exactly the same monitor right now (it has a tendency to burn-in with pink edges, so I put it on my living room for occasional "different desktop" usage with my laptops). It is pretty amazing.
Great idea, adding stuff now!
Confused by the negative reactions, I see many big teams in big tech where none of the employees are providing real value.
I know that a combination of second-option-bias and someone-is-wrong-on-the-internet might make it seem like dark matter is an all consuming concern in physics but in the real world even most astrophysics people don't give much of a shit or bump up against it in their work.
Haha. Once a year I fire up Rimworld and sink half a year into it. The human part is probably what does it for me, too.
Indeed, there's a family of them with the N4000, N5000, N6000 families and even the i3/i5/i7 with 4-6 2.5G ports.

There's a fair number at: https://www.servethehome.com/category/networking/
I really liked Grokking Machine Learning by Luis Serrano. [1] It builds from a highschool math level, which made it really easy to get up to speed!

[1] https://www.manning.com/books/grokking-machine-learning
Yeah. His motivations seem a bit suspicious. Is he so ignorant to claim all land in India is agricultural land.
From the original study:

> We found that ball rolling (1) did not contribute to immediate survival strategies, (2) was intrinsically rewarding, (3) differed from functional behaviour in form, (4) was repeated but not stereotyped, and (5) was initiated under stress-free conditions.

...

> We suggest that the behaviour observed here has actual hedonic value for bumble bees, which adds to the growing body of evidence of a form of sentience in these insects
Which is why he tried to cut and run I imagine.
We're still working thru pricing, but we'll always have a free tier and it's free to use right now. Here's a quick demo: https://www.loom.com/share/1221b8218e5d49d19b4707cf5b3269f5
It was a serious question. I thought you were talking about the organizing computer science or social principle of the network but it seems you just meant the age the company was founded or became popular, which is unremarkable. Sorry to bother you.
Agreed; even further, the presence of even a small number of interrupts can disrupt the extended focus and context-building that are required to solve gnarly problems. See also pg's famous "Maker's schedule" post:

http://www.paulgraham.com/makersschedule.html
This is being reported as false
https://ew.com/music/jerry-lee-lewis-alive-after-erronerous-...
Do you know long it takes to staff and train an entire data engineering department? It'll be minimum a year until its staffed to appropriate levels given the sheer amount of data Twitter generates every day, and another year for that team to reach any level of competence. He's driving Twitter into the ground.
We'll see less economic growth, but for the ordinary person, what counts is the growth per capita. Growth in total is important only for the investor class, as it translates into return levels on their capital.
> I feel like a private conversation between the concerned parties should have happened first

With a dispersed community that used to work in public, against the company owners who secretly prepared this since at least March this year (likely longer) and not even informed their own maintainers properly in the private channel they have for that.
And then that tailscale client is authorized to log in over ssh for however long the check lasts, and anyone else who can initiate a TCP session over the link can also get in.
NYC subway used like that too. Didn't look at schedules, just hopped on and off at whatever station. Didn't feel like crossing under the east river in a tunnel so hopped off a red train and switched to a yellow train to use a bridge instead. All on a whim.
tweet already deleted? might have jumped the gun
It matters in the sense I'm going to delete my Twitter account and will no longer be using it. I didn't use it much though, so it's not like it's a great loss.
They have 2 dots in there, "1..9W" so I believe it's 1-9W not 1.9W.

Hard to say though.
I must say that the entire phenomenon of mainstream media covering UFOs seems to me a cynical bait tactic borrowed from media targeting the conspiracy theory/head case crowd.

I never once saw even an inkling of journalistic value around this subject.
It is psychotic but it’s pretty on brand for Musk. See his behavior in the Thailand cave rescue incident.

Personally I’m interested to see if he starts claiming he’s a founder of Twitter like he does with Tesla
The owner paid above market price, seems like they were delivering plenty of value.
Probably more like all the local ISPs DNS servers resolve that, or that there's potentially some DNS rewriting going on. Its not too hard to rewrite basic DNS traffic. DNS is not encrypted, its payloads are very structured, and quite small.
As I said, they didn't remove it. Open Dev Tools and check the DOM node after the view count. Or just make your window larger to see it.
You can definitely create a new Brand account, which is managed by the same Google Account. The brand account will then also have premium benefits, while having its own watch history.

This is how I use it.

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/4642409?hl=en
I think it depends how much utility he sees in continuing his victim narrative.
Yeah, you got me. I'm a bot account. Nailed it.

You must have been one of the Twitter data engineers.
> The most sad part on that is that the countries which are more cooperative and sensible to the cause are those suffering more

Do you believe that? Do you believe that the suffering of losing a monet is in any way equal to the environmental devastation india, china, and the US have experienced at the hands of climate change? Let’s not forget the monet is perfectly fine. Do you believe because europe outsources its emissions and then consumes the products of those emissions it’s being more “cooperative and sensible”? Because i don’t.
Seriously.. we should censor medical doctors posting peer reviewed studies on Twitter. Now THAT is my kind of freedom.
The leaky abstraction definitely hurts.

Having not worked there it's hard to tell if the team shifted to maintenance mode because the dreamers that started the whole thing left, or because the code is so work-hardened that only maintenance can be done on it. But it definitely feels like it's a product in maintenance mode.

I recall too, just before TeamCity launched, that there was a notable uptick in bugs and regressions. As if someone had been working on a new internal product that poached all of the R&D-compatible people and left things in the hand of more junior members.
Responsible AI has a burnout problem
Maybe not, but the amount of centralization and the amount of power wielded by a small number of people is scary. Despite Internet lowering the cost of entry consumer choice has decreased. The number of social media sites, search engines, online book stores, hotel booking sites, weather sites, etc, has all decreased in the last ten years. Even the number of porn sites (number of independent companies at least) is shrinking. A single American mega corp like Google is arguably more powerful than all African countries combined.
That was two days ago, this is today.
New species of bacteria in microbiome may cause rheumatoid arthritis
<<I somewhat take issue with this, as people on the spectrum are more likely to over-communicate, all other things being equal.

I don't think I am on the spectrum ( I mean, I guess technically everyone is, which is why its a spectrum ), but I do know that I was ..what is a good word.. chastised.. no.. maybe gently admonished for putting up very long detailed summaries with some discussion of potential risks involved in an assumed approach, potential tradeoffs and pitfalls.

It really depends on your boss, but I come from compliance world, where you do want to CYA pretty extensively.

Anyway, back to the story. I was effectively asked to keep writing executive summaries. I hate to say it, but things seldom are that simple. I can simplify it for you, but you will lose a lot of context with that. And this how we get to the situation, where only one guy in the entire company knows how X actually works with all the constraints that it brings.
It was, the episode even had it as a Mondrian.
> without a real plan

My guess is there's a plan. You don't spend $44B or whatever it was without a plan. Or... well, I wouldn't. But with Musk, anything's possible.
Shapez is much more guided, abstract, but probably still as complex as factorio.

Mindustry is simpler in complexity but much more aimed at "tower defense" style game play.

Satisfactory is like the child of Factorio and Subnautica, with a little of both games but not as deep as either.

Dyson Sphere Program is probably the truest successor to Factorio, but it's still very early access and just now adding combat.
Yeah and it’s also going to be the year of the Linux desktop.
Tweet gone? Was there an actual CNBC link?
It’s been coming for months cause of musk slow rolling this. I think a lot of the energy for discussing it has already been spent
Then how is hydrogen going to be stored? Electrolysis remains either inefficient or expensive.
Thanks! What about changing the location more often, i.e. nomading? Is this hugely distracting or once you settle in it's fine?
Considering Elon's business decisions in the past, i don't think this will break twitter. He'll likely re-hire a new team with more experience with leads from Tesla or Spacex.
Different companies get bought for different reasons. Sometimes you’ll see manufacturing companies bought and everyone fired because the buyer wanted the machines and material and the real estate and brand etc, but didn’t care about the organization itself.

Musk clearly didn’t buy Twitter to aquhire their data engineering department, so cleaning the slate and bringing on a new team might
Be the fastest way to get where he wants to go.
And here come the many comments from people who have not led several highly successful businesses, with complete ignorance of what Musk may know, pontificate as to why they know better.
I hardened my Linux by installing https://qubes-os.org instead. My daily driver for years.
Of all the things that this site could be accused of, "conservative" in general is perhaps the most surprising.

I think most people are cheering its demise because they prefer more informed sources of news in general over Twitter. I'm here because I like long form articles, thoughtful discussion, and hands-on, context-specific moderation, all of which is missing at Twitter.

You make good points about having empathy for the employees who work there. Looking at this through another lens is helpful, those of the employees at Twitter.
Always nice to see it get a mention, it made quite an impact on me at a formative age in the late 80s. As a bonus it then got me on to Thoreau, as he talks about reading Walden to his son in the book.

Oddly, I distinctly remember what in turn got me on to that then 15 year book in the the first place, a brief flash of the intriguing lotus-wrench cover in an episode of Inspector Morse, of all things.

Odd to think how a such a minor passing reference set me off so far down a road I probably would never have traveled otherwise.
Best staging is live. I knew when I saw this title that Charity Majors would be mentioned somewhere.

Practically, having no staging is such a hard concept for people to get their heads around.

It’s one more safety net gone, but it’s a good one.

Maturity of the business, team and product play a big part in this decision.
Hope he follows federal guidelines and laws regarding large layoffs and protected class treatment. Otherwise, Musk will spend more in legal fees.
Part of it is self-fulfilling prophecy, in a way.

A year ago I was on the market for a new car, and went to several dealerships across some of the more affluent suburbs of Chicago, looking to get a plug-in hybrid SUV, and was literally laughed at by a couple of salesmen at different dealerships, and told those cars only get sent to the coasts, none get sent to the Midwest (I think one said they got two sent to their dealership the past year. Just two). I was even told they've heard of some people make trips to the coasts just so they can buy those cars. I'm not willing to do that myself.

We ended up leasing a non-plug-in hybrid and are hoping things will be easier when the lease expires.

Electric sedans are a bit more common and easier to get around here, but my partner really wanted an SUV, in part because it makes long trips possible, especially to more rural areas, like many places around Lake Superior, where we vacationed a couple of months ago. I don't think I saw a single public EV plugin while we were up there.
Yeah EV tech moving down the cost ladder seems to be happening on the quicker side of things.

I’m not certain that that particular comment was being the price up as a critique against EVs, but I’ve seen many people make it and it just makes no logical sense to me. It feels like a willfully deceitful argument the way it’s often presented.

The other argument about not having enough charging is weird too.

It would be similar to advocating against the original iPhone when it was introduced by arguing there were not already external iphone protective covers in present existence to cover the future demand for the next five years. It totally reversed how things work.
> (I also happen to be a fan of North Carolina style sauce.)

Eastern or Western?
I usually dislike processes like what you describe as they normally just add friction, even if there are good parts. But as a senior eng, I find your list very good. Thanks for sharing!
"We need a new forum" is never the answer to this, since that will have the exact same problem.
Linked tweet is deleted. Here's CNBC's article: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-...
Yup, I agree. I'm just wondering what do people concerned actually think and wanted to see the hive mind's views. If there really feels like it's a thing, going remote for top tech companies would be a complete game changer for so many.
Recent and related:

Factorio is coming to Nintendo Switch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32825543 - Sept 2022 (359 comments)
This sort of thinking also prevents some kinds of scams. For instance there are web sites that masquerade as British government sites for paying road tax/vehicle tax and charge fees that the official site does not. Similar sites scam people out of money for making ESTA visa applications to visit the US

In Norway this road fund fee is collected automatically by the insurance company. This is obviously easier for the user (zero paperwork), less work for the state, and prevents scam artists from duping people.

And back on the subject of registering a company: in Norway this is done online and takes minutes.
Were you on the data engineering team?
If only ARM had as customers two or three companies that were worth 1T+ dollars that they could count on…
Computer science is not a science. Computer science typically bounces between mathematics and engineering, with some unique aspects of its own. But it definitely isn't a science, which typically needs a loop of hypothesis, observations, and theory.
Tweet is gone. Apparently the "fired" worker was a performance actor going by the name of Mr. Ligma.
yes, plenty of people are drinking that much
My biggest peeve is how on the app, scrolling past a thumbnail removes it and starts playing a preview. So the title or whatever disappears, and instead I get to watch some person talk on mute. Then when I actually click the video, it starts from where I was in the preview, instead from the beginning, so I have to rewind since I obviously didn't catch anything from the small muted preview.
That problem has been overcome.[1]

This is a neat result. This research started with the differential equation model of a neuron and tried to train various neural nets to get the same result to within 99%. They succeeded. Worst case took an 8-layer net with 256 elements per layer. See Fig. 4. So, 10 billion elements for a squirrel. Not that big by current standards.

It's not clear that a model which tracks the biological neuron that accurately is needed. They discuss simpler models that are almost as good.

Low-end mammal brains should be buildable right now. It's not a hardware limitation.

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662732...
I expect they will hire data engineers that don't need a year of training. It's not that hard.
I bet you he is bringing in a team of Tesla engineers from their ml and data science departments.
>> the CEO of Babylon Bee would go on Tucker Carlson's show and they would laugh about you being a whiny, lazy leftist

Then the Babylon Bee would publish "After Dismissing Warnings From His Mother, Tucker Carlson's Face Is Now Stuck That Way", which is hilarious since I knew before clicking the link which face it would be.

They make fun of everybody.

-- https://babylonbee.com/news/after-dismissing-warnings-from-h...
He didn’t pay due to what Twitter currently is, he bought because of what he thinks he can make it. That obviously means a detour from their current direction, otherwise he would have just leaned back with his investment let things continue as they are and wait for them to become more valuable.
I came here for the Musk apologist fun and I wasn't disappointed.
Eighteen-percenter here. Made the decision the next car was going to be all-electric. Ended up going with a Chevrolet Bolt EUV. Prices are already competing with gas (compare 2023 All-Electric Bolt EV with, say, a 2023 Honda Civic Sedan) even before the rebates. And Chevy pays for the installation of the level 2 charging outlet; the installer had it down to a science: "I'm doing ten of these a week."

It's such a better driving experience. Untethered from buying gas, I'm now astonished how much infrastructure is dedicated to internal combustion vehicles.
Kanye West back on Twitter after suspension as Musk takes control of platform
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/10/28/departing-twitter-employees-...
U.S. imposes sanctions on Iran-based foundation over Salman Rushdie bounty
This is actually fantastic. I think we need alternatives like this for every other "algorithmic feed" website.

Twitter has become unusable and toxic for me in recent years. It seems like most of the tweets are recommendations - those liked by my follows or their friends. It's maddening to not have control. It seems like no matter how much I try I can't help but see vitriolic politics tweets, million-like jokes, etc.
He'll say something like "Founder of Twitter 2.0"
Which is good, he is invested in making it work, much better for the customer compared to whatever the product currently is.
I'm fascinated to see what the result will be. It's always interesting to watch public figures struggle between two different but almost equally important incentives.
This would be my preferred approach as an employee… get in, move quickly, then announce layoffs are done. From the beginning his investment thesis was that the headcount is extremely bloated (and from my perspective it’s hard to disagree), so this isn’t a surprise or news to anyone.

The alternative approach is to do what CNN is doing by announcing significant structural changes are coming and let employees spend the next 6 months wondering if they will have a job. The psychological toll of this approach seems horrible to me.

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/10/26/media/cnn-employees-relia...
Not everyone likes an egotistical demagogue, and he only came out as a right-winger as a distraction trying to dodge accountability.

The left haven't moved anywhere, the world did, and the right was left behind, only to reinvent themselves with xenophobic populism just in time to take advantage of the many challenges we are facing.
Reducing the level of censorship on a social media platform is "have their way with us"?
I like the thing where people assume everybody working at Twitter is a computer science PhD slinging 5000 lines of code daily with stacks of job offers for Silicon Valley headhunters, and not a small army of 27-year old cat lady hall monitors
I saw him in 86 in Fairfax with Fats Domino. Amazing show. That man could seriously play drunk.
So, if Elon turns Twitter into 4Chan, does anyone have any idea how he expects to make money? Big brands will run, and Twitter will be left with ad revenue from boner pill manufacturers. Or, is making money even the plan? Maybe controlling info is the plan and the purchase price for Twitter is just an expense toward that end?
I guess you haven't used the medical system recently - despite monumental efforts by doctors, the standard of care is actually horrific when you take the whole system into account. It has turned into a system of keeping patients alive rather than delivering optimal outcomes, and much like the legal system, if you have someone knowledgeable who can put in considerable time on your case your outcomes will be a lot better.
I read Zen in my twenties and thought it was OK, but couldn't really relate. Then I tried to read it again in my forties and stopped at the Boomer era mental and physical cruelty and neglect of his son in the novel. It negates anything else he may have said in the book.

I truly fear for the children of millions of men who use the novel as some sort of guide to life and being a parent. Putting an 11yo on the back of a motorcycle for 8 hours or more a day, ignoring him as he cries himself to sleep, acting as if he's an abnormal child when he doesn't want to sit around quietly while the adults smoke cigarettes and drink coffee, or get drunk or high. He actually suggests that Chris is mentally ill because he was, of course, acting like a child of an alcoholic, abusive schizophrenic father being forced to endure hours of physical discomfort and neglect.

Truly nauseating.