skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But strictly for my own mental model, I think it is far more accurate to model this as "super rich guy makes shit up on the spot and has no master plan" rather than "this is part of a massively complex plot that relies on second- and third-order psychological effects planned years in advance."

B.b.but a bunch of his PR guys convinced a lot of Redditors that he's the real-life Tony Stark who's saving humanity as we speak. What have you done? How could the PR not by true, if so many people repeat it?
I was pretty disappointed with Netflix after they canceled the star system. Before they cancelled it they could fit my likes to other people with similar likes, after they cancelled it they could insist their own content was good enough for everyone.
For a decade now, or perhaps longer, I've been wanting a first-class general purpose computer in the form factor of a cell phone. Microsoft has danced ever-so-close to providing us this, through several iterations of rumored "Surface Phones," and in showcasing the promise (if not necessarily the execution) of a viable dockable phone in the Windows 10 Mobile era. A few Linux flavors of the same concept have circulated through history as well, but none particularly viable.

Failing that, I'd like a computing model that I call PAO, Personal Application Omnipresence, where all of my devices are terminals to my own application server [1].

[1] https://tiamat.tsotech.com/pao
$0.25 per GB... uh no thanks. I've generally been happy with Starlink but this throws somewhat of a wrench into things. I wonder if it will be US only or worldwide.
A lot of HNers say Twitter and Google and FB and the like have gotten so powerful they are pseudo-governmental institutions.

Don't those same people want the journalistic lens used for government to be investigative?
Can't tell if he's trying to say that it only went up a little in September ("was 8.2 before"), but if he is then he's wrong - the YoY rate has come down every month since July.[1] So we still haven't passed the second derivative (which he did brag about in January apparently).

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273418/unadjusted-monthl...
Well, unfortunately I do think that voters are stupid. For every smart people you know there is someone on the other side of the IQ distribution and you are just quite likely to be surrounded with a smarter bunch, biasing you towards thinking that the “average” is better than it actually is.

Not the US, but I have read several reports of “vote counters” in Hungary and the amount of people that had to ask which of the options is (surprise) the right-wind, populist Orban is astonishing. And while illiteracy for example may well be worth in Hungary, the general idea is true of every country.
I thought digital codes were against the terms? Years ago I would sell unused humble bundle codes on ebay and it gave me an idea to make a bot to do it full time. I spent half a year making this platform that would compare prices on code wharehouses and then automatically list ones with high margins on ebay. The rules technically said you couldn't do it, but there were thousands of codes selling every day, so I figured maybe it wasn't enforced?

I started making decent sales the first week. But then I would get random chargebacks and even calls from somebody's poor grandma or grandpa asking who I was and if I could refund their ebay account. It became clear that there were thousands and thousands of hacked ebay accounts that were exracting money via codes to then sell on other platforms.

Eventually 90% of the purchases were fraud and I had to shut it down. Not before ebay banned me from the platform.

TL;DR - don't sell codes on ebay, ebay has no control over their rampant hacking problem and that's why they're super stringent on digital sales
Do they? Or does Elon have to explain in front of a judge that employees about to go on protected leave/ older workers/ less fanboy were not unfairly targeted?

My money is on settlement to prevent any judge from seeing how the firing decisions were made.
Question, is/was the Tweet covered under the Presidential Records Act?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Records_Act
People must stop give attention to old garbage solutions that should not be used. Never use a link list if you don’t specifically need a link list. You probably don’t know why you would need one so don’t go there.
They're doing awesome things for VR hardware but all people can seem to see there is that it isn't making money.
Smaller orgs should be mostly flat. When I see 20 person companies with too many "directors" and "managers", it's a bad sign. Too many bosses, not enough workers.

The smaller the org, the more you want someone that actually understands the work being managed. Maybe your team is getting work done fast, but it's not done right: no documentation, few tests, architectural flaws, performance issues, security problems... Someone should be able to understand the trade off made, and be able to explain them. When one of your engineers gives you an estimate, you need to understand if it's reasonable. Is it too optimistic? Is he blowing smoke up your ass and spending 2 months on a 2 week job? Poor management sets arbitrary deadlines and wonders why they aren't met.
> I don't even understand what Web3 is.

> blockchain pyramid schemes

Sounds about right.
Great point. Revenue reflects the value added of the entire supply chain, not just Apple's. EBITDA/employee instead of revenue/employee would be a more appropriate measure. GP's numbers revised:

Twitter EBITDA per employee: $211mn / 8k employees = $26k per employee

Google (Alphabet) EBITDA per employee: $93.7bn / 135k employees = $694k per employee

Apple EBITDA per employee: $130.5bn / 154k employees = $847k per employee

Twitter EBITDA per employee if 3k instead of 8k: $211mn / 3k employees = $70k per employee
The statements made in the article are simplistic. Sure, it may seem fullstack, but there is also a popular mantra "Focus on your strengths, outsource everything else". So, sure you have a marketing person, but now how many SaaS tools are we buying to get the marketing going? You may not be outsourcing the entire marketing, but you are now hiring someone to run the marketing by buying up 5 different SaaS tools. This doesn't completely replace the outsource, but to call it a fullstack sounds overly simplified.
It doesn’t claim linked lists are fast. And it doesn’t have any benchmarking data.

Actually the only reference to linked lists I see is in the prefetcher section (3.7.3), where it explicitly recommends that consecutive items are stored in a single 4kb cache line or in consecutive cache lines. They give a positive code example using an array, like other commenters are suggesting.
It's a link to a document on architectures well over a decade old - the most recent mentioned is the original Core architecture (from 2008). Honestly, based on your first comment I thought you were implying something about content dependent prefetch or other techniques that I am familiar in the academic literature but unaware of ever being used in mainstream hardware.

> Organize the data so consecutive accesses can usually be found in the same 4-KByte page.
> • Access the data in constant strides forward or backward IP Prefetcher. 3-72

> Method 2:
>• Organize the data in consecutive lines.
> • Access the data in increasing addresses, in sequential cache lines.

Nothing new here that contradicts the GPs skepticism. Certainly not enough evidence for you to be a dick.
>> Twitter was a unique spot where journalists, celebrities, titans of industries, your family, friends and co-workers, would join a daily mosh pit

I served in the mosh pit. I knew the mosh pit. The mosh pit was a friend of mine. Twitter, you're no mosh pit.
If you think that's neat, check out Dancing Links used for backtracking algorithms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Links
Musk had previously tried to avoid paying severance at Tesla, so it was absolutely not guaranteed to happen here.
PHP in Visual Studio
Pandoc weds you to their particular flavor of Markdown as it's the basis for the internal data representation. All other formats it supports are limited to what its MD can do.
I'm not sure why you would be concerned that your non-objectionable content would be deleted regardless. Either way, it sounds like you put greater value in freedom of speech, whereas others put greater value in condemning speech they find harmful. I can see how reasonable people could have differing priorities there.
Most journalism is just press releases. I am surprised people are just now figuring this out.
Why? That won’t stop anyone malicious — wouldn’t your time be better spent making your services more secure?
I think I see what your saying but I disagree. Before Musk twitter was heavily pushing left wing talking points. They would ban right wing people for threats yet let left wing people make death threats all day long. There so called arbiter of facts was massively politically bias. Jack at one point even said conservatives “don’t feel safe to express their opinions” in the company. Pretty hard to argue with that kind of statement.

So my question is did you have a problem with that bias also? Because half the country has watched twitter push left wing talking points before elections for numerous years. In fact I remember them banning several true stories about the left.
There's an ambiguity between 2 uses of the word 'critical'. Journalism should by default be 'critical' in the academic sense (questioning, probing, analytical). When reporting on powerful entities who throw resources into media management (governments & corporations), journalists should be particularly careful not to parrot PR.

It's clear to me from the context that the Piper & Yglesias are not talking about this - they're saying there was top-down pressure on journalists to be critical in the popular sense of tone or judgement: ie. negative, carping. That's entirely different. The NYT claims to uphold the traditional news media distinction between reportage and opinion. Directives of the type Yglesias & Piper claim would clearly violate that distinction.
The privilege he mentions is being so rich that he works only for entertainment/access to power, not for money. That does protect him from the potentially nasty side-effects of being fired.
I agree it’s a great model! Unfortunately the NFL has banned it (last I heard) - https://web.archive.org/web/20110813051753/http://www.sports...
All conflict is resolved by appeasement, read up on history. Germany could have kept fighting to the last man, but eventually they appeased the allies in WWII.

All war ends in appeasement.
?, Most of the websites visited have powerful servers serving them with data that is held privately.
Wasnt 4th season all about Bernard figuring out he cant just simply shoot the 'bad guy', making him weave an elaborate game of cat and mouse that ends up with hiding a pistol so ... someone just shoots the 'bad guy'?
I mean realistically this just makes it worse for them should they try to seek external employment.
So then, what the heck happened in OOP country? Terse writing is the default and individuals discuss ad nauseam what they prefer.
Do you not think this is an excellent public service they're providing?

If NCSC scan my systems for vulnerabilities, they're unlikely to exploit them, and they'll (somehow?) attempt to notify me of the risk.

I'm curious which systems they scan; cloud systems only? Will they scan the stuff I host at home too?

Would be nice if they'd give us some of the tools to run ourselves; any one know if it's on their Github?
I have a lot of respect for both Linus Torvalds and Junio Hamano. I think git has been very important, Linux even moreso. But why didn’t darcs or hg win instead? I will never know.

This ultimately sums up my thoughts: https://twitter.com/markrussinovich/status/15784512452490526...
College kids mourn Z-library
Students who relied on Z-library for access to pirated ebooks were stunned on Friday when the site abruptly shut down
Too many, you can start with:

- https://twitter.com/saxomarketcall and their podcast

- https://twitter.com/macroalf

- https://twitter.com/unusual_whales

Then you’ll see their retweets and likes in your feed and thats how you can build a good list.

I would stay away from anyone whose primary focus is crypto, biotech or tech stocks unless you are a critical reader.
I don't claim that they do.
Measure, Understand, Solve.
When explaining why the difficulty of modeling linked lists in Rust doesn't matter, I like to share the following book, "Learn Rust With Entirely Too Many Linked Lists", written by the woman who wrote the implementation you've linked above: https://rust-unofficial.github.io/too-many-lists/
Akka cluster sharding :) Shape of the graph can change as processes are being run.
Just because journalists are human and as such can't be completely objective, doesn't mean they shouldn't strive to be objective. This is what civilization is built on, constraining our base impulses and acting with logic and empathy.
yup, was link to old a document with same title. updated. thanks.
I would’ve been more comfortable if they’d mentioned the current republican candidatss for house and senate oppose this rise despite it being a GOP policy?
They were Tweeting.
This is really cool! TIL. At this point though, I feel like you might as well just use Typescript, no? You’ll get more features / tooling and cleaner syntax. I’m intrigued to learn more about advanced JSDoc now though, if anything to be more prepared if I’m ever forced to work with it in the future.
True and valid. But all those clauses, AFAIK, were written with the mindset of ïf you want to run this code (particularly, but not limited to, for profit), you have to at least attribute it”. Copilot allegedly doesn’t run that code - it claims to read it, understand how it works and then generate its own code that does an equivalent function if requested. It’s up to the lawsuit to decide if that’s what it actually does, but my point is that the licenses simply did not cover this usage pattern, as much as no open source license requires any kind of action from someone who’s just reading or studying the code.
From the opposite side I've regularly presented in board meetings at 3 small to medium sized startups and this has not been my experience as well. One CEO was even removed at one of them.
I read this and noped out of learning Rust.
I was not very impressed, entered Fight Club, Heat and Still Walking (Japanese family drama/comedy) and all movies I got recommend were Japanese, completely unrelated to first two movies, most of them I knew, the free I didn't were not interesting or straight up anime.

Upgrade is pretty mediocre forgettable movie, bit difficult to regimens l recommended good scifi movie, those are rare. From less known Mr Nobody, Her are decent.
I wouldn't really argue about that now, personally, but I know a lot of people who are still on Facebook for whom have compelling reasons to stay and I think that was much more true in the past.

That said, Meta isn't the only tech company. Twitter, for example, a place journalists love for the direct-to-consumer style reporting.
whaaaaat? Dude you're blowing my mind. I remember diving deep on PKU to see if maybe I had that. I think I remember "clearing" myself by checking 23and me and I didn't have the bad genes? I also eat plenty of phenylalanine so I don't think I have issues with that per se, but maybe like you said, one of the other metabolites is being wonky in me. Thanks so much for the info, I'm gonna read into this more
> regular resizable vector

At gross complexity / fragmentation / to your memory allocator.

Linked Lists are definitely easier to use if you're ever in a position where you're writing your own malloc(). The infrastructure needed to cleanly resize arrays (and also: the pointers all going bad as you do so) has a lot of faults IMO.

EDIT: In particular, linked lists have a fixed size, so their malloc() hand-written implementation is extremely simple.
Free speech is “cancel culture” when I don’t like/agree with its outcome.

Get over it, man.
You know I am right that's you won't answer the question. You would really eliminate 40% of your business over a tweet. Ye merchandise would sell the same because nobody really cares about the tweet there just scared to get cancelled. Sales would be the exact same. No sane person wipes out 40% of there business unless there just scared. Cancel culture is toxic and bad for society.
Maybe a court would decide that heart emojis aren't a company secret covered by an NDA, but are expression of solidarity with workers which is legally protected speech regardless of what the employer thinks about it. Or maybe not. By the free speech ideology you can't know, and are supposed to assume innocent until proven guilty, and keep it until a court orders taking it down.

But here a private company is executing its own unilateral judgement by their own clearly biased moderators.
I don’t believe Jobs would be the kind of person to accuse a rescue worker of pedophilia just because he was insulted over social media. Elon double downed on the claim by elaborating just why he thought the rescue worker was a pedophile.

Being accused of pedophilia by a top tier celebrity is a very dangerous position to be in. Not even Larry Ellison does things like that.
When I need to avoid an allocation it's because I'm writing an allocator :) Overlaying the list nodes on top of a block of free memory avoids the need for a secondary data structure to keep track of free areas.

The other time allocations are undesirable, and therefore linked lists are widely-used, is bare metal work when other allocators just aren't available. You can do tricks like representing pools of free and in-use objects with two lists where the nodes occupy the same memory block. Allocations are a fast O(1) unlink from the free list and O(1) re-link to the used list, and frees are the opposite.
OP has a great point: most recessions have low job numbers (because of weak demand).

Speaking for the US: This 'recession' is weird because consumer demand is strong, job openings are high, the unemployment rate is near record lows, and GDP grew in the last quarter. So, to echo OP - what recession? A drop in the stock market does not a recession make.

It almost seems as if some quarters are willing a recession into being, but consumers are not having it. Granted the federal reserve is trying to curtail consumer spending to curb inflation, so I get why businesses would predict a recession. In all, it feels like the twilight zone.
ISP data caps are a complete scam.

Xfinity offers gigabit connectivity with a 1TB data cap. Which means that if someone was actually using the network at those speeds it would take them 2.2 hours to get through their allotted monthly usage.
Do and Act are the same thing, so it's Plan-Act-Study-Act.

Why isn't it Plan-Act-Study and then loop? (BTW that looks a lot like Red-Green-Refactor)
Right, also the source IP of a port scan doesn't say anything about who has initiated that scan. If I were a state actor, I'd do my port scanning from machines in a different jurisdiction for sure.
NCSC is the public "arm" of GCHQ, they provide cyber-security guidance to businesses and the general public etc. They are a great source of information for current best-practice regarding cyber security.
I enjoyed reading this. A fun style.
Agreed. And you would think at least some of the journalists would leak evidence of this if they took the integrity of their profession seriously. Again, a lack of evidence isn't proof it didn't happen either.
I just flat out disagree with

> Taste and skill are totally independent.

As my facility with code has grown, so has my sense of taste. I see beauty in code much more clearly than early in my journey. This is true of other things in my life as well.
Background: Basecamp used to have a flat monthly $99 price. New pricing is now charged per seat.

The old rationale for flat monthly pricing was explained in a 2017 blog post: Why we never sold Basecamp by the seat (2017) https://m.signalvnoise.com/why-we-never-sold-basecamp-by-the...
I found the article to be rather superficial, for example;

"The original version of Markdown by John Gruber doesn’t specify the syntax unambiguously. For example, it doesn’t have table formatting."

Table formatting is an example of a missing feature in a deliberately minimalist specification. Or possibly a feature that is handled elsewhere in the markdown "stack" (by html). So if the syntax is indeed not specified unambiguously (facts not in evidence?) then this isn't a good way of demonstrating that.
Web3 is a series of scams connected together by grift.
A more generous reading is that he was saying he didn’t plan on quitting and didn’t plan on changing his behavior to fit into any culture changes that he might disagree with. The mentioned privilege is that he could afford to be fired if that was the result, not that he was protected from being fired.
>Nobody is asking them to "eat the costs"

“Negotiations are very much underway. Everyone in our building knows we’re going to pay them,” the senior Pentagon official told CNN, adding that the department is eager to have commitments in writing “because we worry he’ll change his mind.”
New Plan - Twitter needs advertisers and owes $1 billion in interest per year. Musk is CEO of Tesla. Have Tesla buy $1 billion in advertising each year to cover the cost. They don't need that %20 of profit from carbon credits anyway. Win Win. Everyone knows how effective Twitter advertising is. Tesla need only increase sales by 100K cars to make up difference. Seems like a no brainer.
its a beautiful thing when personal credibility cuts through generic cynicism :)
https://www.reddit.com/r/slatestarcodex/comments/9rvroo/most...
Entrepreneurs have to wear many 'hats'. Trying to switch hats many times every day just makes you lose focus. Task switching has an overhead.

I came up with a method that has helped me devote a whole day to a given task without neglecting other necessary tasks for too long: https://didgets.substack.com/p/shortcuts
"Blackmail" is a strange word for "we decided to stop paying the monthly service fee and service ended as expected."

> Before the terminals went completely dark, Ukraine's Ministry of Defense made a request in early October to their British counterparts to pick up the $3.25 million monthly bill. The batch of terminals were also rotated out as concerns grew that service could be turned off, in order to minimize the impact, the source said.

> A British official said after discussions between the ministries "it was agreed there were higher priority military capabilities." Among many other channels of support, the UK has been flying thousands of Ukrainian troops to Britain for training before they head back to the frontlines.

It's possible for a perfectly reasonable person to justifiably strongly dislike Elon Musk, but what you're doing here is not that.
The post title here is misleading. What's being described here by Yglesias
isn't a directive to be "critical" (in the colloquial sense meaning "negative"), but more a directive to be skeptical and investigate:

> Instead of covering the industry with a business press lens or a consumer lens they started covering it with a very tough investigative lens — highly oppositional at all times and occasionally unfair.

A lot of tech people would like tech coverage puffy, un-skeptical, and positive, but that's totally inappropriate for an industry as influential and frankly difficult to understand (for a layman) as tech. It sounds like now they coverage like they cover the government, which to me is totally appropriate.