skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is pretty crazy but on the optimistic side maybe he'll come up with a successful non ad driven monetization strategy. it sucks in so many ways to be beholden to scummy advertisers, and with the sheer amount of money and rep on the line here mayhe there is a chance they'll innovate away the advertisers. here'a to hoping
I dislike Elon Musk as much as the next guy but why are people upset about Twitter burning to the ground? It’s just another paint brush used to paint the downfall of our society. Good riddance. I hope Elon goes under with them.

This is a platform built on driving clicks and driving clicks on fear and anger. More fear = more clicks = more ad revenue = negative feedback loop. Just like the New York Times. Just like NPR. Just like Fox News. Just like Reddit. Just another piece of shit we should all enjoy watching burn into the ground.

Spend some time with your family. We will all be incredibly lucky if this ad-tech insanity falls apart.
So, if you need to watch more than 4 hours of TV a day, get cable, or pay more than $110/month.
It'd take 133.33 minutes to transfer 1.2 Terabytes at 1.2 Gigabits/second. Double checked with Wolfram Alpha https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=how+long+does+it+take+t...
Linux has mremap() for this. macOS has vm_remap(). Not sure about other operating systems.
That gmail extension sounds useful outside of Twitter too, I hope Manu publishes the source code on GitHub some day.
It’s by far most entertaining thing happening this week.
oooh, thanks for this. I suffer from sleep apnea/have to use a CPAP and am always on the lookout for improvements to my sleep
Thanks. This seems so obvious now! Always draw it out I guess.
Weren’t they spending almost half a billion a year on r&d?
The fail whale was amazing.
This is a video everyone should watch.
For a startup, I'm still trying to figure out why you would use k8s instead of Google App Engine or other managed PaaS. You never worry about the problems listed in this article. You focus on writing code, deploying it with minimal config and let Google handle all these problems. Can anyone explain?
I always liked Friendica's approach to use a LAMP stack for easier deploy https://friendi.ca/resources/requirements/
This is helpful for me: https://www.tarabrach.com/taratalks-meditation-rain-working-...

Everyone responds differently to different “teachers”, so you may watch that video and feel it’s a bunch of bullshit. For you it may be.

Generally just sitting and being present with what you feel physically in the body and just allowing it is very powerful.Sometimes it feels like you want to die, or the worst anxiety, other times great pleasure or calmness.

Most of my life I’ve lived in my mind, trying to think through “emotions”, while in the last year I started feeling them.. I know emotions are meant to be felt..what?

As they are felt, without judgement, as part of the “movie” that is our conscious experience, our body learns that no, it’s not about to die, the world isn’t going to end, and I do have the resources to be present and just feel what’s happening.

The feelings are then “digested”, and we can continue our life, thankful for the new data that comes to consciousness awareness through feelings.

Some people may say feeling feelings is weak, and really tough people just power through. I’m starting to know that having the courage to actually feel all the body is capable of feeling takes real courage.

Viapssana mediation is powerful.

I could probably talk your ear off. I hope this is helpful.
Yes, the shitheads will go where they are tolerated. So do people who aren't necessarily bad people but still want to share opinions which may be outside what is currently the orthodox way of thinking. If that alone makes someone a shithead to you…

But if you really don't want to see arguments about Jews or whatever, just don't follow anyone who posts that. And if someone you follow does start with that stuff, just unfollow them, perhaps block them. In that manner it works the same way as on Twitter; once you have a solid base of sane people you're following, it's hard to just stumble across content that upsets you unless you're actively looking for it.
Oh wow running a social media company is just soooo hard how can he possibly figure it out? It must require some super human level of insight /s
Literally doing nothing would be smarter than the moves he's doing now. He's hemorraging devs, violating employment law and watching the stock price of his other stuff tank. And that's just things that I can 100% confirm as true. If we get into the rumor mill of him banning people and such. Sigh.
Is there any connection beyond Musk hyped it a year or two ago?
Could you please confirm it using caniuse.com? I don't see red squares often in the “Chrome” column there (only some really ancient versions).
She lived in a small Ontario town where lots of writers abound. Now she lives 3 time zones away in Victoria BC, yet still maintains those friendships. Of course Victoria is a writer's haven, so I don't think she's ever coming back.
Good god, that has to be some kind of crime.
I struggle to find one correct remark in your comment. This take clearly suggests you have never worked on any similar infrastructure / distributed systems before at scale.

So you're telling me there's no backend or compute workers? And you're telling me that there are no opportunities for performance optimization? That they are already 100% native C++ services at full parallel utilization? That they've already tuned the size and cost of their ML models? That their model evaluation infra is fully saturated?

Storage is cheap. I believe they are on AWS, so hardware costs are already taken out of the equation. If so, even just moving to on-prem would save them the $1B easily.
I am assuming twitcoin is coming and I will buy in
The Computer in the Aegean
I have no idea what you are talking about when you say this thread already had a link to the source. I even prefaced my reply with "I trust you" so it wouldn't come off as rude or me questioning its validity.

edit: also, thank you for the link
1TB cap is a lot of internet, especially for sat connectivity.
Short and insightful post by Evan Meagher. Knowing how to build momentum is a skill worth mastering. Easier to start with smaller projects and fewer people (but not easy, e.g. writing a blog post) and much harder to do when you need to lead multiple people. "A good way to generate early momentum in a project is to prioritize quick wins and explorations that tighten the feedback loop" -- the latter is a great framing when picking the work to start with. What can be done to understand the problem better and reduce the project's risk?
I don't disagree. I'm just making a point that if you're not American, movies not made in America are not "foreign". Netflix caters to a global audience, so it makes no sense to speak of "foreign" movies as if facts about them were universal, on a site like HN. What's foreign to you is not foreign to me (it may, in fact, be from my country!).

I agree that being exposed to movies and shows from all over the world is a good thing.
I'd be fine with plastics, separated from the trash stream and sent to a big petrochemical plant to be thermally decomposed into a petrochemical feedstock. It would make a lot more sense than pretending plastic bottles can be directly turned into more bottles.

When oil stops being a thing and carbon becomes scarce for making stuff I think this will make sense to do. Until then, let's just make piles of the old plastic so they can conveniently mine it then.
It's not a normie coach. I use this service and my coach has ADHD herself (plus some other traits). I've been using it for 3 weeks and have found it very useful. I think you dismiss the role of metacognition. There are strategies that work for my brain, they're just different to what works for most people. I have found it very useful and have recommended it to other people.
Is there a difference between intrusive and extrusive list when the member type is a struct (value type)?
If there is a lot of food, people will lean towards sharing their food, and helping others - even anonymously in a truly "altruistic" sense.
If everyone is starving, people will lean towards violence and stealing.

This.
Taste as in the intuition to appreciate correctness seems to derive from a diferent place than the skill to produce comparable results

It's the understanding that generates the taste, and while it can come from experience, it can also come from observation.

The example of movie I believe is apt, and also aplies ti art in general and creative work as a whole
I had a friend that worked for a massive company in the Valley which I'll leave unnamed, that told me about them just leaving servers running hot with no throughput for months at a time. So, I guess it's possible. I doubt his estimate was pulled out of a hat (but I could be wrong, or the article could just be pulling that out of a hat/using an unreliable source.)

I've taken over AWS and Azure accounts before that were paying tens of thousands for unattached disks, load balancers, big servers that were doing very little that could have just been on a burstable VM. Massive messes that in some cases took months to clean up. So, I can believe there could be a massive bit of cost savings available if it were poorly managed. I've never seen the scale of a company like Twitter, but I really doubt there isn't some dead weight. I know storage is a massive cost, and he has stated he was going to purge accounts that were unused over a certain time frame.
I have had trouble working remotely. I can be quite productive in an office (or rather a dev shop where people know when to be quiet), but 100% WFH has resulted in at least 2 job separations for me. So now I'm looking for partial WFH. You have to feel it out.
It's like surgery: making cuts is part of the job, but the more drastic and indiscriminate the more likely the patient dies.

Given that Musk has just arrived, how can these cuts be carefully considered? He burst through the door and started slashing from what anyone can tell.

Even if Twitter is heavily bloated, the cuts may be fatal anyway on that basis.
If you want to stick to mmap, you can do it by creating a file which doesn’t have any actual disk backing (one way to do this is with POSIX shm_open), and handling all memory allocations by mmapping parts of that file rather than mapping true anonymous memory. Then, ‘remapping’ an address to a new one is a matter of calling mmap again with the same file offset. Unlike mremap, this allows mapping the same memory at different addresses simultaneously, which can be useful for some purposes.
As I said in another comment, deepfakes benefit those who want to manipulate the public into believing someone did/said something that they didn't.

Do you really not see society-ending possibilities if every dictator or troll on earth had that power?

Sufficiently realistic deepfakes will erase trust in any and all recordings of people doing things, whether those things happened or not.
> How do you explain the fact that the US has been years behind China and Russia in terms of hypersonic missile capabilities?

I tell myself someone just had the clarity of mind to refuse to build a doomsday device (hypersonic warheads breaks MAD, or just becomes a new MAD once everyone has them). Happened before with Project Pluto [0] (among other reasons)

> The program was terminated in July 1964 by the Department of Defense and the State Department as “being too provocative”. It was believed by many that if the U.S. deployed a missile of such awesome power against which there was no known defense, then the Soviets would be compelled to do so [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

[1] http://www.vought.org/special/html/sslam4.html
It’s fashionable.
I think the ??? was about your use of the word “now”
> a cell phone that is under the control of the user (and no, a "global single-sign on" sounds absolutely worse than "web3" <- whatever that is).

The FCC does not allow this because of their certification requirements for the baseband processor. You can either lobby for this to change (good luck :-( ) or go the hacker way and build something that is under control of the user, but violates the laws.
A lot of heavy lifting for e-commerce and online business was done by MS in this era. Here are some examples from MSDN:

Auth design, process isolation, and why you should be using SSL and certs:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2000...

XML and XPath:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2000...

Introduction of .NET:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/msdn-magazine/2000...
Therapy bills to work at Twitter? The level of entitlement is palpable.
This is crazy, I know, but if you're not sure about objective facts like "when the polls are open" or "who is running for each position", the best course of action would be to consult your local elections board. If you're in the US, your local elections board almost certainly has a .gov website and multiple channels by which you can obtain this information, and it will be much more trustworthy than rather than random people on Twitter (or Facebook, or TikTok, or literally any social media channel, for that matter).
At one stage I used to click on ads that annoyed me (which is almost all).

Make ‘em pay…
What a joke. Everyone who thinks Elon is actually on one side or another needs to look into his history.

He's a globalist technocrat. His mission like all globalist technocrats is to continue to divide the useless eaters while the globalist neofuelist scumbags Implement their social Darwinism and destroy the infrastructure built over the last century plus. Won't be that hard considering fractional Reserve banking created a house of cards that's just about done.

You can't make as many poor business decisions as Musk and have the government keep you afloat if you aren't owned by them.

Everyone commenting in this thread will be collateral damage of the great reset if people don't wake up and start working together.
You should sit down and perform the storage calculation instead of struggling to find something correct in what I said because that will be a better use of your limited time.
It was only a matter of time before this tech is used for advertising. Soon spots in the sky will be bid on like AdWords.
Cutting costs is good, quickly slashing 50% doesn’t seem carefully considered and may cause actual problems.
I thought of an app for this after I noticed high paying users "Very Important Beauty Insider" fake reviews on Sephora. I tweeted to them and they replied,
https://twitter.com/maram5e/status/1123360104596811777?s=20

A year later, NYtimes published a story on how one of the highest selling products was telling her employees to write reviews.
https://twitter.com/maram5e/status/1218339532891983873?s=20

I wrote on here https://twitter.com/maram5e/status/1130299513011343366
service/product reviews are the new ads.

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Amazon reviews
Groupon reviews
Sephora reviews
Booking com reviews
This is the beginning..we are entering a new whole world of decentralized power and brand authority. It's interesting to watch how big brands will continue to fight it.
For a startup that can do everything from scratch on one cloud provider, there aren’t many benefits. Those may come later once lock-in and complexity become a problem.
For all the hand-wringing that journalists do about Musk, our system remains highly capitalist and entrepreneurial at heart. The people who spend all day complaining about Musk are a very visible minority, but there's a long way between these attack articles (which are really just cathartic for a certain segment) and an actual Atlas Shrugged type scenario.
Why does he think anyone would be ashamed of _not_ advertising on Twitter? Twitter ads are worthless. If you're a CMO who manages to kill your entire Twitter ad spend, that should probably go on your resume.
Other options:

- read -s PASSWORD

- service-cli login username $(cat)

At least you probably don't want to use `export` when setting the variable.
That would be great but I don't see how we get there. The parties are in control, they choose who we are allowed to vote for.
Have you tried the VA strategy yourself? I don't think it's that simple to get a VA to help. I have used a lot of VAs over the years and there is a significant time cost for me in training them up to help. It's not necessarily a quick win and I have found it very frustrating when they don't understand my needs. Delegating boring work to specialists absolutely works well and I do this a lot.

It would be cool if there were VAs that were trained in how best to help people with ADHD. I would see that as being supplementary to Shimmer. I use Shimmer myself and find it useful in coming up with strategies that work for me.
They'd be easily found out by a smart engineer and promptly fired and probably banned by every competitor once word got out.
Twitter already allows adult content. I agree that if you're focused on adult content then you will chase non-porn advertisers away.

But there probably is a middle ground where they can monetize some percentage of the adult content on the site without going all in and becoming OnlyFans 2.0. Maybe they can create a feature that enables premium content. It doesn't have to be specific to any particular type of content but the vast majority of their revenue from this feature would naturally come from adult content. They need to be very restrict with age verification out of the gate though. Any mishap there could sink their traditional ad revenue.
I think this it. I need to invest in other areas of my life.
Yes, but there's literally no way to prove that a random number that you "generated" is actually random. The best idea would be to write people's names on balls, put them in a clear funnel thing, and blow them around or something like that on live TV, but for sortition, I'm not sure how that would scale. In the movie Contagion they did that for each day of the year someone could be born on, and that's how they distributed the vaccines. Not sure how that would scale to millions of balls and how you would audit that each person's name is on one ball and only one ball.
AWS profit margin is something like 35%. I think some of their infra is there, so that might be an upper bound?
I’ve just installed a reverse osmosis system and full-house filter after discovering fairly high levels PFAs, Bromodichloromethane, and chloroform in my water after a test. I didn’t realize moving here how bad it was, but the testing company said it probably wasn’t safe to bathe in lol.

All these chemicals leech into the water from various factories and farms. I imagine dumps have a similar issue. In terms of the environment I’m far FAR more concerned about this than climate change. It’s an imminent risk.

I personally switched to glass containers for storage of food and water. I also use cast iron for my food, non-stick has a lot of chemicals.

It’s slightly less convenient, but easy enough. I also get satisfaction from the cast iron and regularly bake steak and what not.
That usually just means regular engineering staff
I looked it up and the top 1% of income is $823,000 a year. So I take back what I said, as it's clear that even the gleaming tech companies are NOT in fact handing out 1% salaries like candy.
You don't need to re-write the whole CI/CD stack, you don't need to re-engineer the app as a 12 factor app if/when the thing takes off and you need a real solution.

If your lead engineer gets hit by a bus tomorrow the whole deployment is in a helm chart somewhere and you can hire generic kubernetes tech #158326 to take over that job at any time.

Being able to engineer the app correctly the first time around, plus guaranteed business continuity are pretty big selling points. I would not invest in any company that did not have kubernetes, or a similar orchestration platform underpinning their product. Eventually that engineer will leave and you do not want to be scrambling for their replacement in the middle of the big growth push.
> The one that people want to work for and don't have to "sell out" to do it.

Nope, this is wrong if the company can afford to pay more. Just look at companies like Jane Street, HRT, etc. The high comp they are willing to pay makes them harder to get into than Twitter, Meta, etc by a long shot. They have a far easier time hiring.
Can you actually get a condo for $150k in Raleigh, Durham, or Chapel Hill? Or is this in some distant town like Sanford or Pittsboro?

I'm genuinely curious, that sounds unreasonably low to me given what the housing market has done in the last few years. The triangle has a sprawl problem and it's only getting worse as most of the affordable housing is pushed further into the exurbs.
170 dB sounds massive, but when you convert to force/area, we're only talking about an extra 0.06 atmospheres of pressure[0]

[0]:https://www.translatorscafe.com/unit-converter/en-US/sound-p...
It's important to acknowledge, simple here doesn't mean easy, it's simple as in running a marathon, it's mechanicaly simple, but it's not easy to do
I was dismayed by what's happened to the WC site recently - regardless of why, it's gone from very useful to useless. EG its integration with Wikipedia's ISBNs is now worthless.
How to Write Something Compelling – By Justin Mikolay
Writing is still an undervalued skill worth practicing in our industry. You can influence how the company works or what the company works on by becoming a better writer. "In every creative process, there's a moment when you have to grab the subject by the scruff of the neck and lift it up, like an animal carrying its young." -- Justin Mikolay shares a few tips to consider when you're communicating with others (or future self).
USAF flight drew a phallic pattern in the air near Russian military facilities
Thinking about this problem reminded me of the video from last year [0] made by an employee of an animal feed manufacturer. He documents how a bunch of plastic-wrapped food waste is ground up in a large grinder, with the plastic still on the food, and the end result goes straight into the pig feed...almost certainly with many bits of micro plastics inside. Many don't realize how pervasive are these sorts of issues.

[0] https://youtu.be/Xp0NSIrbu3Y
The law of the internet: everything will be abused to the fullest. Ebay lists total number of items sold (by product and by the seller), that's somewhat more useful metric.
Seems like a pretty massive “if” there. An extra one billion in efficiency without detriment to the service?
Give devs cash. If you can't do that, you don't have a software startup.

You may find young, naive devs who work for 0% cash, but they won't be good and you won't get anywhere.
Incompetence and mistakes are usually hard to prove is malice
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> This one looks meaningfully different.

You might be right but plenty of people say this every time some major event at Twitter takes place. The vast majority of people don't care that much about layoffs at Twitter and certainly aren't going to migrate to another service over it.
an array is used for the last 1-32 elements of the vector (the "tail") so there would be no trie at all, just the tail
Yes you would need to test them all, I assume there are school board elections and things like that with only one or a few machines. Not everything is the presidential election.
The whole idea of bandwidth caps is archaic and hilarious. Most of Europe has no cap at all, why is the US different?
> 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?

I see the authors (Sheila Dang, Paresh Dave and Katie Paul) quote "sources".