skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IME, none of that actually matters at a practical level.

I think the biggest mistake Eugen had made is simply listing the number of users on an instance. Users will almost always pick the instance with the highest user count, which is counter productive in all sorts of ways.

Instead, we should push users to find an instance that matches their interests, and then show them the federated timeline. That's really all you need to take a user from Twitter and get them comfortable on mastodon.

But then again, Eugen dropped the federated timeline from the official apps because mastodon.social got too big to handle it, and now new users are more confused and mastodon.social is a worse experience than ever.

My general recommendation to everyone is to find a smaller instance that sounds interesting, wade through the local timeline to be sure you like the vibes, follow some people, then dive into the federated feed
If that happens, I mute and move on. As a result I only see the work of proper journos on my TL, not people writing 500 word hot takes on some Netflix show for Buzzfeed.
1984 approaches, step by step.

We are now at chapter 7 (or maybe 11). The ISP must monitor all internet traffic, and are responsible for everything that goes over their wire.

It ends with posts like this being banned.
Not saying that the grandparent comment is confirmed, but they always keep recruiters busy no matter what until they themselves are laid off. AFAIK Google has pretty much paused hiring across all divisions.
Not quite. Facebook is the pinnacle of memorization. Google is similar and is absolutely not innovating, they just have a monopoly on search, and a bunch of side projects copying other companies (AWS, Microsoft Word) etc. Microsoft does not interview like that, and TikTok is a copy of FB funded by the CCP. Tesla does not ask leetcode hard interview questions. Neither does Amazon. I am intimately familiar with the interview process.
The $8 is important because it's a tax on bad behavior. Want to spam-post about your crypto giveaway? At least now you'll be out that $8 with each of your accts that gets deleted/flagged.

Previously the cost was $10-$200 per thousand twitter accts. (via a captcha farm). So this change makes it significantly more costly to spam.

https://www.icir.org/vern/papers/twitter-acct-purch.usesec13...
The Apple II Yellowstone Floppy Interface
>both QM and GR claim that they apply at any scale

the thing is I don't believe that either does make such a claim. I believe certain people have said that and the untrained masses may assume that's the case. But I don't think the scholarly proponents or intellectual founders of either system made such a claim (in fact Newton was religious and Einstein believed we were way off by his death.)

>that means that both QM and GR are wrong

How though? They are both right for their use case so are likely subsets of a greater theory.
The twitter bankruptcy will be a very public process.
I do run my own mail server on my own domain - so thank you for affirming that email is not a failure.
Aka Cannon fodder
"Full Self Driving"
Not sure what's so special. I would assume everybody knows that most of the energy during cooking is wasted:

1. By the water evaporating

2. By the hot gasses escaping without actually heating up anything

3. With the water poured away after cooking

Which is why I:

1. Put a lid on the pot whenever I can. Once it boils it usually is enough to reduce the burner to absolute minimum to keep the simmer unless I am adding large amounts of ingredients.

2. I use induction whenever I can.

3. I try to avoid wasting water. I use minimum amount of water necessary to boil pasta (you really don't need as much as you think you do). I also steam rather than boil vegetables like potatoes or carrots -- you get away with half of a cup to a cup of water at the bottom. Steaming does take a bit more time but I think it is still more efficient than poring huge amount of water into the pot.

I am still waiting for a real Dewar pot that would have double sided sides and also double sided lid. Probably would require precision heating (possibly with integrated heating element in the base as well as integrated temperature sensor).
Housing in SF/SV is in trouble. Last week alone we had Twitter (3700), Stripe (1000), Lyft (700), Opendoor (550), and now FB (probably 5000). Obviously not every employee resides in that region but it's a good ~40% of the workforce [edit: of these companies].
Sounds familiar. Where I worked years ago, the company asked for volunteers to be laid off, many people, took the package (1 years salary). IT was not allowed to volunteer.

Mang. did not keep count, some Departments were emptied out. So after a couple of weeks, many people were re-hired and was able to keep their '1 year salary bonus'.

Many people in IT left once the re-hirings happened. The company went chapter 11 about 5 years later.
Just to extend this, there are a large number of plausibly legitimate reasons people might hate Musk. Maybe you're stuck in Tesla service hell, or maybe you retired to Boca Chica and now have to deal with rocket noise and road closures. Maybe you're an environmentalist who doesn't like to see a launch facilities next to a wildlife preserve. Maybe you're a Tesla employee who was injured due to company negligence. Maybe you're a Neuralink researcher who is embarrassed over Musk's absurdly fantastical claims about what your technology can do. Maybe you founded a visionary electric car company only to see it sabatoged and taken over by Musk and have him launch your vehicle into space. Maybe you're a stressed out worker at any of Musk's companies who resents his demands for a work/life imbalance. Maybe you're a market trader who lost money due to Musk's fraudulent "funding secured" tweet. Maybe you're uncomfortable with the constant stream of vaporware, dumb ideas, and bogus dates issued by a false messiah preying on the technological optimism of your fellow nerds. Or maybe you're just an American who is tired of seeing bullshit artists wag the dog, behave illegal and unethically, and never be held to account for their actions.

There are many good things one might say about Musk, but don't pretend there aren't any bad things.
> What’s the question you want the research to answer?

Is it actually effective at all? Who is it effective/ineffective for? Why is it effective or ineffective for them? How effective is it? How can its effectiveness be optimized? In what other ways can its effectiveness be achieved? What other types of problems can this be used to help with?

Maybe I try it and find that it works, but maybe that's simply a placebo, the way someone might find that crystals or charms help them. It's easy to say it shouldn't matter so long as it works for someone, but I think we'd agree that its better to have things properly researched and understood.

Maybe I try it and it doesn't work but could have with some modifications to accommodate my needs or situation. Maybe a sort of digital avatar or AI works or can work just as well for a body double as a real person! Maybe it even works better than a real person in some cases! How great would it be not to always have to coordinate schedules with another person or impose on their time to get those same benefits! Maybe employers could benefit from pairing people for work in certain tasks!

It's all idle speculation, theory, and guesswork until people put in the time and effort to research it all properly. The anecdotal evidence is encouraging, but only the start.
Supply and demand is not driving the price of Harvard. As you point out, there are many more people willing to pay the current price than are admitted. This indicates that the market price is much higher than the current price. In other words, supply and demand factors would allow Harvard to raise prices substantially if they chose to, and something other than supply and demand is determining where within the range of zero and the equilibrium price the price is set. I don't have a strong opinion as to whether administrative costs are the driving factor, but it's certainly much more plausible than supply and demand.
You are young which is definitely on your side. Stay strong and wishing the best for you.
Just dont have your client set to load images.
I wish any of my projects had been so unsuccessful as to sell for $44 billion.

And if you think my opinion isn’t worth anything, consider the richest man in the world just spent $200 on it.
Being asked to go back just means it's cheaper to get you to return than it is to recruit someone to do your old job.
Those layoffs do get attention, but I think Twitter’s gets more because:

a) Twitter was acquired only a few days before the layoffs

b) the previous CEO indicated no intention of laying off staff

c) the large percentage of the work force laid off (~50%?)

d) the new owner who ordered the layoffs is the richest person alive (at least in terms of publicly known wealth)

e) the layoffs were foretold in a novel way (via Tweet), prior to the acquisition

f) political tension underlying the layoffs, with some blaming Twitter’s moderation policies on the company’s employees, and some seeing the layoffs as a pivot point in Twitter’s cultural identity rather than the typical motivation for a layoff which is a financial decision

So it does feel different to me.

Similarly, the reaction to the layoffs seems different with many here on HN and elsewhere making various comments about the employees, their ideological bent, their work ethic, etc.

Whereas in other layoffs it seems like more focus in put on the management decisions or macro economic factors that put the company in a position where layoffs were necessary, and the employees are viewed more as getting caught up in the mix.
Dear grocery store owners: I don’t work for you
Show HN: Neko – A Brief History
My possibly apocryphal understanding is that i18n and l10n both arose due to differences in American and British spellings of both words (z or s in the suffix). Simplifying “localization/localisation” to l10n saves more than 8 characters it saves 19.
Mute? They copy paste into printed newspaper.
There is only room for Elon in the management suite.
I meant talking face to face is way better than Zoom. If you can find a group willing to talk in person about whatever it is you want to study, it should work.
Oh c'mon, this is not an Elon galaxy brain move. They could've just slowly laid off people instead.

And no, people got fired on the spot, some with dubious cause and against state labor laws.
Yes, because compensation will more closely match contributions, and I prefer a just world
I get that you dislike this format. There are legitimate critcisms. But to extrapolate this to a company-wide strategy failure is beyond ludicrous and simply belies just how much you detest whiteboard coding. Please, for your own sake, try and separate your personal dislikes from objective judgements.

Meta is product-driven not engineering-driven. How engineers are hired doesn't really matter because it's generally not engineers at the helm.

Meta is in the position they are because post-WhatsApp there has been no company strategy. First it was the post-2016 election fallout of fighting misinformation, which was never going to work and isn't really the problem anyway, followed by a brief foray into crypto and finally the eye-watering boondoggle that is the metaverse, the answer to the question no one asked.

None of that has anything to do with hiring engineering ICs with whiteboard coding interviews and it's crazy to suggest it is.
I bet he googles himself too!
I honestly thought this was going to be something to do with flatulence before I clicked on the link!
I can’t speak for the rest of HN, but his childish narcissistic megalomania certainly rubs me the wrong way.
I agree with this article and the advice given in it. Running your blog is very rewarding and it's your digital corner. I always find sad to see people writing exciting things in twitter threads that last 40 tweets. It's painful to read and your content may disappear one day. Nowadays it's so easy to have a blog technically that you shouldn't miss it. Have a blog and enjoy yourself.
Whatever happened to the WARN lawsuits against Musk? How is he allowed to layoff 40-50% of staff with zero notice?
FB did technical innovation just fine. The problem is with the product, and this is not something that engineers solve.
Perhaps a miss-atribution error
saying "self driving cars are 2 years away" for the last 5+ years sticks out to me
I would say that "living on Mars" could be classified as delusional.
I’m don’t fall into one camp or the other: I think the guy is human, like everyone else, and riddled with faults.

But one guy has put humans into space, and the other sold steaks on infomercials.
I can’t find any good statistics either, so I did not comment on any specifics. I am simply wary of overly specific qualifications with no obvious reason for their specificity; most often, these sorts of arguments are made in order to mislead readers. I don’t know what the actual numbers are.

All I can say is that from personal experience when working at a registrar and DNS service provider, the number of people asking about and requesting DNSSEC is increasing all the time, and show no signs of decreasing. Also, all registries (i.e. TLDs) are also all pushing for registrars and DNS service providers to provide DNSSEC, so there is demand from both sides. Note: I do not have any financial incentive to push DNSSEC; in fact, strictly speaking, DNSSEC makes my job harder.

Also, as I have mentioned before, I have never seen anyone argue against DNSSEC with any persistence (in industry interest groups, at conferences, etc). Except you, here on HN. And you really seem to have it in for DNSSEC, even going so far as to keep making arguments against the crypto, not only while it was obvious that it could (and would) be fixed, but even making the same argument after it was actually fixed. You keep shifting your arguments, but keep arguing against DNSSEC with whatever you can find. This does not make you look credible. And your sole remaining argument, that DNSSEC has low usage, is not a very good one, if it is in fact the case that the usage is actually (on the whole) increasing.
That would be normally a sensible sentiment, and a rare empathic one, on hyperindividualist hypercapitalist Hacker News.

But here we're talking about people who made at least 300k a year, possibly up to a million. Those who stayed for few years likely never have to look for another job even again. The ones who didn't might still take few years sabbatical.
One can also, I don’t know, institute proper forest/infrastructure management and avoid runaway fires like that
"The dose makes the poison" is as true for social media as it is for everything else. I agree that self-curation (and restricting your time) are critical; the problem is that social media companies are incentivized to de-curate and addict you to their product.
That's not how civilized societies work. You don't just get to fire whoever you want whenever you want.
If so, he's doing an absolutely fabulous job of trashing his reputation inside of a week.

Musk can be great when he does his homework and first principles analysis. It is obvious he hasn't done it here.

Having advertisers take a huge step back because they seek minimal uncertainty and you spend the entire week maximizing uncertainty is bad (& shows incompetence).

Having advertisers drop campaigns literally in the middle of the call to sell next year's baseline because you aren't even close to prepared for the questions is deeply arrogant incompetence [0].

Threatening "thermonuclear name and shame" on your advertisers [1] — your primary customers — is unnecessarily showing the entire world that you've lost it.

Same goes for starting the week with the now-infamous claim that "a bunch of activists" are chasing away the revenue (would Musk accept that kind of excuse from any exec reporting to him?)[2], then having it explained WHY they are actually pausing by one of the people in the meeting [3], then blocking the guy you just spoke with the day before...

I cannot begin to see how any of this is remotely good for Musk's brand. He's showing the world in real-time that he's in over his head, has no idea what is the business model and the key elements, and just thrashing about blaming everyone else, when literally he is entirely to blame for the chaos.

Oh, and I've yet to read the other HN Pg1 headline [5] that Musk/Twitter is already asking some of the people it fired yesterday to return!

If you can actually explain how any of this is remotely good for Musk, Twitter, or anyone, I'd be interested to hear it... Because it looks like he's trying really hard to sink Twitter faster than Digg sunk. (There's actually a good argument that his initial intent was to sink Twitter when he first made the comment and offer, to maximize uncertainty and tank their '23 sales, but then he was forced to buy it b/c he was too foolish to even have a proper excape clause in the contract, and here we are)

[0] https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1588696157794242560

[1] https://twitter.com/aravosis/status/1588718759098851328

[2] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880

[3] https://twitter.com/LouPas/status/1588599808587345921

[4] https://twitter.com/LouPas/status/1588622182066057216

[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33496808
On Becoming Tech Lead
I'd assume Musk planned on just eating any settlement. This looks like the few people that are left and supposedly sleep in the building can't do all the things required to keep Twitter operating.

I mean, they fired their entire SRE team. That alone will cause things to fall over and be left unfixed.
Thanks for checking it out!

All those broken links in your “django signals” seem to have come from a page full of mangled URLs that got picked up on; unfortunately they’ve pushed the actual results all the way down to page 6! I definitely need to give a boost to official documentation.

“golang cobra” gets what appears to be the official repo as the first result; but it’s clearly not really getting what you’re going for here. This is a good example of the sort of challenges a search engine faces: both “go” and “cobra” have multiple meanings, and it needs to understand the context to figure out whether a given link is relevant for this particular search. I think something like a vector search would be useful here but I haven’t looked into setting something like that up yet.

GitHub is on my list, but it’s very big and is going to require careful optimization. (Even if I only load top-level READMEs it’s still a ton of data.)

ReadTheDocs would be great, but they don’t seem to have any dump/download support, or even a list of all the documentation sites they host, so in lieu of that they’re going to have to wait until I get a general web crawler.

I have some heuristics to collapse multiple versions into single result with a version picker, but they require some adjustments to the rest of my data processing pipeline which I haven’t gotten round to yet.
>keyboard navigation

Doesn’t apply to accessibility except in the sense that widgets must be operable 1) by sighted persons using the keyboard, and by non-sighted persons 2) using screen reader shortcuts or 3) accessibility devices such as game controllers or sip-and-puff controls mapped to those shortcuts.
There will always be those that suffer

Targeting them more precisely with aid is the way to solve that, not helicopter money into massive bubble and inflation.

In the end who got hurt the most by the very money handed to them?
I have worked at two FAANGs. It's obvious to me that there is no vision, just raw execution on strictly defined design documents. The product decisions come from a place that is commonly never even exposed to the engineer.

"Meta is product-driven not engineering-driven."

My point exactly. Divorcing product management from technical implementation is a fools errand in an extremely technical company.

When every engineer is focussed on execution, it adds up. Interesting engineering led ideas cannot lead the company in new directions.
What does "taking responsibility" look like? A meaningless public post "I take responsibility"?
Among other reasons they didn't want to get sued by HootSuite because toot rymes with hoot. (Just BSing)
Example using 16-bit size_t for convenience:

char array[60000]; // 5KB left for code and stack if not segmented
size_t i = 40000;
size_t j = 50000;
size_t mid = (i+j)/2; // should be 45000
// i+j = (size_t)90000 = 24464
// mid = 24464/2 = 12232 != 45000

Larger integers make the necessary array size bigger, but don't change the overall issue.
Twitter has lost its prestige.
Is there any company in the world that could fill this void?
If you think the bannable offenses on Twitter only gave enough room for the left, you are not just to the right of that, but more like far right extremism. Twitter did and does, in fact, tolerate right-wing and conservative views. It is full of them.

Don't mistake hate speech, disinfo, racism or whatever you think twitter was violating 'free speech' for as being the right wing. It is not.
"Junk food isn't inherently bad, if you can learn to self-discipline." This ignores the fact that it's 100% engineered to be as addictive as possible, just like social media.

You may have found a way to use social media that works for you, but the net effect on society is still negative.
He wants to make a WeChat, but WeChat can only happen because Apple allows WeChat to bend the rules so it can access the Chinese market.
Hmm, doesn't seem very flexible, so it's not of much use to our subreddit. No wonder no mod has bothered to turn it on.
One can only hope, but Bay Area housing survived the 2008 bubble and whatever is happening now is peanuts compared to that so far.
Because Musk is a politically polarizing figure. Like pretty much everyone and everything these days.
> McDonald's, Pepsi, Audi, Coke, Nike, etc - don't have one single person that realizes this one easy trick for displacing Twitter?

Why would they when there were a handful of users there?

But now there’s a whole bunch of people looking for that one easy trick and whoever gives it to them gets all the marbles.
> State tax

vs city and county taxes.
True, but balance that with people coming back to the office. I'd think AirBnBs in Tahoe are definitely in trouble!
The problem is that it should be something that engineers solve. Non technical product managers from top schools are not equipped to drive innovation if they are not on the technical ground level.
I don’t know if they actually sell a 25, or just post a rate for some other reason. But I know I locked in for 10 my first contract.
I hardly matters that the local reporting from the village isn't very good. The rocket is KNOWN to have gone down in that part of Cote d'Ivoire which you are willfully ignoring. What is more likely, that part of the rocket did land on the edge of that village in line with it's known ballistic trajectory or that it's fake and a bunch of scientists, governments, and groups watching objects in orbit are all part of a conspiracy?

You're engaged in gish gallop jumping form one unrelated small critique to the next while ignoring that we know the rocket didn't burn up and a hunk of it did land in Cote d'Ivoire. We know China lied about it burning up on reentry.

Why are you ignoring all of that? Why are you carrying water for the CCP on this?
Surely someone is writing the strictly-defined design documents.
Actually, this is in line with the philosophy at Tesla's/Elon companies of "if you're not occasionally replacing components you deleted, then you aren't removing enough."
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