skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Social media has always been a ghetto and it'll be interesting to see how many guys try and fail to build the next twitter in a few years before they realize why it was doomed from the start
> Sudo must be the program with the largest number of buffer overflows I’ve heard about. That news is repeating itself ever since I remember.

That you've heard about. There's two big reasons: (1) people often don't try to spend a lot of time finding exploits for userspace programs that don't open network ports or perform privilege escalation. And (2) when they do find exploits in those programs, they don't make it to HN.
1Mbps is brutally slow. I wonder why they picked that. There's got to be something between 1Mbps and 100Mbps that wouldn't have to cost $1k a TB.
Professionals bring there A game all the time. Or, to use a military cliche, amateurs study tactics. Professionals study logistics.
To be fair, there are going to be plenty of critical leaks coming out of Twitter with a 50% cutting of staff. That's so many whistleblowers, my backyard is completely leaf free now. Frankly, if Musk cuts $1B from the run rate and there isn't a bad outage, a lot of people will look pretty stupid.

To be fair, I don't know if Twitter is overspending on infrastructure, but I would guess there are always places to streamline. You could frankly save a ton of money by re-negotiating commits with Google.

Also, $1B to me shows how insane running a large business in the cloud can be. This is sort of where Facebook/Meta got it right, IMHO - run infrastructure on-prem, at scale, in a super-efficient "everything fails" sort of way.
If it’s just PLA, who cares? Lactic acid will get broken down and is everywhere already in most living things, the concerns with microplastics eyc in the environment don’t exist with PLA unless there’s some issue I’m not aware of.

There may be concerns with materials added to PLA to make it have better qualities, I’m not familiar with those.
The conspiracy theory is an extreme exaggeration on what has been admitted, which I believe is - at one point - reserves of 77 percent of liabilities, and even that admission I'm not certain about given how much any news about Tether is misconstrued by the regulatory crowd.
I have a 1.2gbps connection with them. That costs $70/mo (with their new subscriber promotion). They give you a 1.2 TB data cap per month.

Every month I can use my connection at full speed for 8.79 seconds.

On the bright side I can pay $30/mo more for unlimited data.

edit: I have been informed that I am bad at math and the correct answer is actually 2.4 hours which does make me feel better, but it's still a funny comparison
it's a cleverly created parody. This did not actually happen.
This seems to be an explanation of what it was.

https://twitter.com/GoAngelo/status/1588696157794242560?ref_...
That would have been the Ubuntu Edge (2013).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edge
Odd how Comcast needs a data cap for "outliers," yet every apartment complex can offer free unlimited, unmetered water usage.
Yeah, my states system is basically the same as the UKs but you can also pay for registration via some weird kiosk.
But that means that bandwidth is still utilized, while a bandwidth cap at, say, 10Mbps would mean that 10 users are make up what one user at 100Mbps make up. In theory, a neighborhood or block might have the cable infrastructure to support 10Gbps simultaneously. There is no real benefit for the ISP to ensure that bandwidth is 100% utilized, so they have no incentive give a user more bandwidth than they paid for. Thus, capped bandwidth.

I’d suspect data caps are useful for over sold areas, but are great for lining the pockets of greedy ISPs.
But you have both for free with an idea that has an outliner that can sort alphabetically, if I was to look for function to "wrap cool thing", I would start looking at functions starting with "wrap".
Everyone on the internet knows how to run Twitter better than the richest man on earth who revolutionized both the electric car and private space industries. I wish I could invest in Twitter now but I’ll wait for the cryptocurrency launch.
I much doubt it. This seems like the type of thing that would take a while to set up, and that article was posted less than a week ago.
Military funding is fairly bipartisan, despite what Republican politicians may have you believe.
Or gigantic offices in expensive down town areas, all the coworkering space rent, food served at said office buildings, and personnel.
The web was more decentralized prior to the rise of Google and Amazon. But web3 specifically refers to a future version of the internet, not the past.
>Buy a company, drastically reduce unnecessary expenses.

This famously works out very well for PE firms.

It seems very naive to assume Twitter was casually spending 1B/yr in "unnecessary expenses". Maybe the previous CEO/CTO was a baffling moron, but I tend to have more faith in people absent of evidence otherwise. I'm going to be surprised if Twitter is around in year - I'm just they have the capital to keep the lights on but it will be a very different story if advertisers start to abandon the platform because the adops infrastructure was gutted as an "unnecessary expense".
If you’re interested in Tom Morello’s version of how it all started for him, I recommend this nearly 2 hr show hosted by Tom. He tells stories of his upbringing and beliefs and plays a couple of songs for a live audience.

https://www.audible.com/pd?asin=B08DVCMY4Y&source_code=ASSOR...
He's lamenting the advertisers "on hold" and whatnot.

I think he will either do what he can to sell Twitter, or he'll fold entirely.

That sounds pretty dismal, but don't forget one of his first post-ownership posts was the kind of disinformation he said he was trying to end, while promoting free speech. What he retweeted with nasty false insinuations was an outright lie about Paul Pelosi, and he's not even apologized for it. And that's just one thing. I won't belabour HN with another rendition of his well-known dirty laundry list.

It's really hard for me to imagine him getting this one right, because he's flailing so badly in all the predictable ways he would, right off the bat.
That sounds really wholesome - thanks for taking the time to share.

I may have to take a page from your mother's book. Being digitally inclined left me blind to meatspace solutions. I happen to live in an alternative town, so writing chums are likely abound.
Was there a specific instance you can point out where the Post got its facts wrong, and didn't correct it?
At this moment I see no reason to consider The Washington Post a more credible source than a Twitter employee whose name is known.
Free and unlimited ? I had a water leak that took time to fix, I saw it on the bill, and the utility company too, fining me for "industrial-grade" usage. If you consume yourself more than everyone else in your building, someone will come do something about it eventually to make you stop.
200 billion in value at least. Not kidding. You’re going to see a Twitter that’s has not innovated at all in 10 years start making changes at crazy speed. All social platform competitors will be attacked.
Scanning IPv6 is effectively impossible.
It's an app for billionaires and journos to crank out viral memes, not a pacemaker. The world will be ok.
I've had friends work for him and they described him as a hard driving, awful tyrant and generally an asshole. He's clearly intelligent but his personality seems like a bit of a tire fire. The Forstall thing makes more sense in that context, at least to me.
“Pretty loud” is an understatement because decibel is a logarithmic scale - every 6dB increase is an apparent doubling of loudness.

Also, no-one can hear 1hz - for us it’s a rhythm, not a tone. A grandfather clock ticks at roughly that rate, as a matter of fact (well, twice that rate if you count both the “tick” and the “tock”.
Why does this article claim to know that Twitter might go down due to cost cutting? Isn't there a possibility that their infrastructure is just hugely wasteful?

Having never worked at giant web app company, if it were run efficiently then what should we expect their server and infra costs to be? Surely that is the type of Fermi calculation someone on this site can make.
Is this what saved Tumblr or what doomed it?
How to create a new Debian architecture
Idles is like Radiohead but if they all grew up in the gutter (in a good way)
My friend it is you who should consider being ashamed. Suggesting stimulants as the first line of treatment rather than cardiovascular exercise, good sleep, and a healthier relationship with food is at best dismissive of the body of modern research and at worst introduction of a dangerous 'just pop a pill' crutch. Stimulants are not at all the only way out of the ouroboros of adhd symptoms making today hard and tomorrow too.

I don't disagree that things like this can be exploitative and if it happens even once then I agree with the 'you should be ashamed' thesis statement. You're treating the solution as a very black and white thing in this comment of yours though and the vitriol with which you wrote it left me with the impression that pushback is warranted.
IIRC, The FDA (or the EU, or both) requires something like 10 years of support for medical equipment such as x-ray machines. If you want to sell the product for 5 years, then you need 15 years of parts availability.
There is plenty of opportunity to renegotiate contracts, since capacity is exploding with 400Gbit going over a single wavelength. It used to be amazing to hit 1 Tb/s with a piece of core network equipment and now it is routine... whether tjat and many other changes is enough to save 1B per year, I don't know.
If they can, that's great, if not then they're setting up Twitter for bankruptcy, or asset sales, if they have any.

Generally speaking, loading up a company with debt is corrosive to good management. If you have to cover your interest payments each month, and that's hard, it focuses the business on short term survival rather than investing in growth in the longer term.
This thread links to a provided source which itself points to another source on Starlink's website in their Fair Use Policy here:

> https://www.starlink.com/legal/documents/DOC-1134-82708-70

> For Residential Service Plans, your data usage will only count toward the Priority Access data limits described in the chart below during 7AM to 11PM (“Peak Hours”). Your usage between 11PM and 7AM will not count toward Priority Access data limits.

Seems like you knew that comment's source, and rather than question the validity of it directly you want to talk around that for whatever reason.
Is there some kind of scam coin associated with the twitter deal?
$1B out of?
It's a real issue for Berlin's trash collection service, who reminds people not to use biodegradable bags for their bio waste.
I don’t think the 1B/year shows issue on cloud pricing. It’s instead bloat of twitter’s setup. That’s way in excess of what should reasonably be spent. I suspect there’s a lot of bad coding practice going on. Of which the bulk is data analytics.
I suspect you may be less over the left v. right split than you think you are. The person I was replying to was making specific claims about what folk on the left were doing, en masse. I asked to see it. The person making it "v. right" is you (and him).
Or, to put it another way: don't depend on a single channel for the majority of your information, regardless of what that channel is. If you get your information from a variety of unrelated channels, then one channel being compromised becomes much less of an issue.
1k most immutable languages. Other languages where wordforms vary are not in the model.

"koirassaniko?" == "Is it in my dog?"

Google Translate: "koirassaniko?" == "dog name?"
I'm curious to see if such lawsuits have succeeded in the past - in similar situations.
This one looks meaningfully different. I won't be logging on in a month since I've already deleted my account (had it since 2010).
In the US I’ve never seen plastics marketed as compostable at home. Everything I’ve seen has been clearly marked as compostable in commercial facilities, where they heat the piles.

Edit: never mind, these do say “home compost” according to some European regulations under the more prominent label that says commercial composting only, on the same bag!
Twitter was famously unreliable for years with the "fail whale", and no such competitor swooped in despite years of problems. So this argument doesn't seem to hold water.
This is an incredible opportunity for the engineers remain which Musk surely has converted in to saboteurs with his antics. Sabotage disguised as cost savings.
Comcast doesn’t give you dedicated bandwidth. Their spectrum is a limited commodity just like starlink. Lots of similarities actually.
I work on software as a medical device, so I have no idea about hardware safety controls. I have to deal with change control boards and approval matrices for every new build we push, though.
Perhaps it’s a case of numerative determinism!
Rate of increase in prices = inflation = first derivative of prices. Slowing the rate of increase in prices = lowering inflation = second derivative. I wouldn't interprete 'making progress in lowering the rate of increase' as 'lowering the rate of increase of the rate of increase' which is basically how you'd have to read that to get to the third derivative. As the article points out, Biden was talking about MoM inflation, I quoted the numbers there for those months. They're in the article.
This one is specifically a Republican led program. See https://carnegieendowment.org/2021/12/16/approaching-third-r...
I meant "HDD" based block storage which should be far cheaper than SSD/NVMe based ones when you don't need performance.
Everyone is “overspending” on infrastructure. There is always money to save the question comes down to where you want to expend your engineering effort and what risk levels you want to take.

“Make fewer features, focus on spending less” is a valid executive decision, it’s just a matter of priority. Twitter seemingly being feature complete and losing lots of money most years makes doing this now a decent decision.

Spending too much like that is generally a symptom of not paying attention and noticing the waste, it happens from time to time. Gets to feel normal, then you notice and correct.

I’ve been mostly responsible for cloud spend a number of times and had several events of cutting spending by 20% or more over the years.
It's technically not macro as mentioned in the same page link:

>C preprocessing expressions follow a different syntax and have different semantic rules than the C language. The C preprocessor is technically a different language. Mixins are in the same language.

D shows that it's possible to be a very powerful and potent programming language for DSL, etc, without all the conventional macro abuse and misuse.

If anyone asked me how come Python has becoming very popular nowadays, the answer will be it's one of the most intuitive and user friendly programming languages ever designed, and that's mainly due to the fact that it does not support macro [1].

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33431843
https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/ but I don't know how good the numbers are.

The fediverse doesn't have monetization/currency/blockchains floating around so I don't mentally categorize it as web3, but people's definitions certainly vary.
As a happy Starlink customer for the past 12 months -- and who uses it primarily for video conference, remote desktop, browsing, and similar -- I'm very happy with any policy change that improves the performance of my service by reducing the impact from people currently abusing the service.

Yes, it was sold as an 'all you can eat' service, and yes, there were no such constraints previously, but pragmatically there's finite limits with satellite services, and equally, you're going to always get customers coming in and 'taking the piss' out of these services.

It's hard to not get a tad grumpy when your modest Citrix session at 300kbps is throttled because it's competing against 25Mbps streaming video (and you just know that plenty of those are the weird 'have the TV on in the background all day' people).
I'm still missing where this model achieves anything relatable to the real world beyond "less destructive than BitCoin", which honestly is a pretty compelling value proposition.
The Model K Mystery (2020)
There's plenty of professinal shops that aren't Java shops to begin with. There's also plenty of professional multi language shops that aren't JVM shops as well.
Most 2 star reviews aren’t fake
I have a suspicion that about 10% of the people in any Elon Musk-related thread are Elon Musk.
FreshRSS: A free, self-hostable aggregator
but it'll be just like any other bacteria, just wash it off
Yeah, I saw the 90-day-thing-plus-severance in a later article. Assuming that's the one that's true… Jesus, that's a life-changing firing.
A local "green" grocery store replaced its plastic hot bar containers with compostable cardboard containers.

But when I looked at the maker of those containers, and dug a bit, I discovered they used polyfluorinated alkanoates (PFAs) to keep the hot greasy liquids from soaking into the cardboard.

Compost these things and you'll get fluorinated forever chemicals in your garden.
I saw them in 1999 at Nassau Coliseum. Still to this day one of the best and most energetic shows I’ve ever been to.

This about sun up the evening:
“groups of teenage boys took their own kind of mass action, rushing the barriers between the bleacher seats and the coliseum floor to overwhelm the outnumbered security guards. Half a dozen mosh pits held colliding bodies riding surges of adrenaline and testosterone during the set.”

https://www.nytimes.com/1999/12/07/arts/rock-review-rock-reb...
you mean 2 and a half hours
Pretty sure things are better now than they were in 2000.

Like you talk about a bunch of things that are in the news that weren't in the news in 2000 because bigotry kept them from even being an issue to discuss. That they are now openly an issue of contention is progress!
rossman is a legend, thanks i hadn't seen this
What were you doing before learning to code?
Hoping the CEO gets sacked and they get a promotion?
Definitely, the debt is a burden. I don't see how it's a waste to save money though. Maybe the cuts are so dramatic it damages the business, but reducing wasted money is generally good management.
FWIW I usefully use a "fake" linked list by adding a .next field to the struct in a compiler-allocated array of structs. On initialization I set the list head to &item[0], and in a trivial loop set the .next field of each entry (except the last) to entry+1.

Why bother? Because I can then easily add a few extra structs to the beginning of the (contiguously-allocated) linked-list without having to reallocate the whole thing.

Sure, pointer chasing with separately allocated structs is "slow", but I haven't yet measured to see if it's any different when (almost all) items are contiguous.

If you would...
- what sort of cache behavior should one expect of this on a modern laptop CPU?
- I haven't seen this approach before, have you?
There is a lot of confusion with people offering their own opinions.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/twitter-board-of-direct...

It seems the board tried to block it at first.

Also -

"A Saudi prince who is among Twitter’s major shareholders scoffed at Musk’s offer in a Thursday tweet. Al Waleed bin Talal said he would reject Musk’s overtures because he didn’t believe $43 billion “comes close to the intrinsic value of Twitter, given its growth prospects."
> You are not better off in any meaningful way if you block a public vulnerability scanner but leave yourself wide open to everyone else.

That is a value judgment better made by the server owner, don't you think? It is their private (perhaps leased) property we're talking about after all. Perhaps the government should ask first before periodically scanning someone's property?
Whats the problem?

Feel free to sit down and do nothing. While others do something.

Why do you feel entitled to dictate how other people must spend their time and resources, even to fail.
I guess bigotry is subjective (for one thing you can always disagree whether a particular attitude is bigoted).

Hunger measures tend to not be particularly subjective, and progress reducing them is good whether it is structural or not.
Maybe someone who is an expert can comment on this. It seems the board tried to block it at first.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/economy/twitter-board-of-direct...

Also -

"A Saudi prince who is among Twitter’s major shareholders scoffed at Musk’s offer in a Thursday tweet. Al Waleed bin Talal said he would reject Musk’s overtures because he didn’t believe $43 billion “comes close to the intrinsic value of Twitter, given its growth prospects."
Tom Morello’s ability to make an electric guitar sound like a completely new instrument is absolutely incredible, and is more than enough to earn him the title of hacker.

The format of a lot of Rage and Audioslave music was great for showcasing the “…and now for something completely different” Morello guitar solo, where you pretty much get to hear something unique every time.

The Python reference feels pretty apt given how much Terry Gilliam was both part-of- as well as completely-different-to- the rest of the troupe.
Paper might be a good replacement for dry things that are guaranteed to stay dry, but a poor replacement for everything else.
This is so abstract as to be meaningless, I have no idea what you're arguing or what you think "applied" means in this context. Does the concept of "free speech" mean you ought to be able to scream the n word in a Wendy's without being asked to leave? If not, my point is that Twitter is no different; if yes, then you and I mean very different things by "free speech".
Also, labeling free speech as "far right" will serve to make "far right" seem more positive.
I’ll never forget this YouTube video of one of their early performances. It was in I think a record store. Just imagine being some kids in a band, playing to a small crowd in some store. And yet, they brought so much fucking energy they may as well have been playing in Madison Square Garden. Truly amazing to watch:

https://youtu.be/bQ8YAv2rcQU
Your sarcastic implication being that being good at managing car and space companies make him good at managing a social media company? Not only that, good enough to be better at it than his predecessor? Not only that, he's better at it within days of arriving?

Occam's razor says he's a big impulsive dummy.
Doge?
Intel 13th gen is cheaper to buy and faster than AMD 7000. Power consumption is higher though, and according to my math with the energy prices in my area, the cost difference would be made up by AMD in about 3 or 4 years given several hours a day of heavy CPU usage.
I give it another 20 years before people rediscover the milkman model
That makes sense, and as someone else pointed out, Taiwan has strategic value by itself.
But it isn't creating novel microplastics which tunnel toxic chemicals past our immune systems. At some "econonomics" needs to take a back seat to "we have poisoned the rain".
How to burn 44 billion dollars……
Not really. Even most simple sites these days start with `npx create-react-app`.
Right? The real cost cutting is usually “hey there’s this huge X sitting around that nobody uses 99% of the time” or “This process is 10000x faster after someone did some performance engineering” or “we’re storing this PB dataset a dozen times for no reason”

There are often lots of ways to cut the fat that have nothing to do with reducing (reliability related) redundancy.
I'm pretty much there with my z fold and termux.
AFAIK Twitter's serving infra is mostly on-prem and they use cloud mostly for analytics.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc... (2017 tho)