skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Started working in tech in 1996. All desktops, no laptops, no mobile phones. Worked your time, maybe more if needed, then you left the office and didn't take work home.

References were books. "UNIX In A Nutshell" and "PERL In A Nutshell" were pretty much on everyone's desks, in addition to the K&R C book and various C++ books.

Systems were simpler in that you didn't have multiple frameworks to deal with.

My teams built supporting tools for a system on OpenStep so we coded some in ObjectiveC and PERL to support file systems operations. Then our lead found Python and migrated our PERL stack to Python which was great but it was Python 0.5 so no published documentation at that time. I wish I kept a copy of my emails and responses with Guido Van Rossum because he was the only support available!

Very fond memories ...
> The utility of Bitcoin is its global payment network.

So zero then?
Pitiful is better than nothing.
Log less. Run on a 20 node cluster.
The cynic in me would say that the valuations were driven more from the cash-supply side, which allowed a lot of people to play "VC investor" or "VP with a sexy R&D portfolio."

No one really leads with a low-level analyst's DCF model in real life, it's backfitted to justify an investment that feels right at the multiple that has comps.

I think this is going to be less about the academic economics, and more of a baseball card bubble bursting around software products that promised free growth at 100% unit margins. The cash is still there, and still wants to be invested, but everyone's a little timid and doesn't want to look irresponsible.
Bud literally nobody was talking about any of that. And why is it wrong for people to jump on a bandwagon when the bandwagon is stuff like "trans rights are good" and "invading Ukraine is bad".
He's owned it for a week and people are like "why haven't you turned it around yet?!?!?"
Interference of the Melon Man, Part Vixivxi
It was done poorly, you had to have Godaddy as your registrar and nameserver. If they'd just include this in a cheap O365 package with the same O365 setup it would be better.
>The second source described the proposed cuts as "delusional," adding that when user traffic kicks up, the service can fail "in spectacular ways."

>Teams across Twitter are racing to present a plan to achieve the cost savings by a Nov. 7 deadline, according to one of the sources and the Slack message. Some employees have been ordered to work in the office every day of the week to meet the deadline, the source said.

Bringing his renowned brand of work-life balance to Twitter I see.
A few thoughts:

1) Everyone agrees that spam should be "censored" because (nearly) everyone agrees on what spam is. I'm sure (nearly) everyone would also like to censor "fake news", but not everyone agrees on the definition of fake news, which is why the topic is more contentious than spam.

2) Having a "1A mode", where you view an unmoderated feed, would be interesting, if only to shut up people who claim that social media companies are supposed to be an idealistic bastion of "free speech." I'm sure most would realize the utility is diminished without some form of moderation.
Yeah but... I hate interacting with people IRL
This is ridiculous, I have met several people living full time in them and not any of them do this and spend time in hotels. If anything at all they have a home base and will do domestic things at home between trips, but they all use laundromats and public showers, etc in between.
Poor example maybe - you can't buy an iPhone 4 anymore. Maybe camera quality mattered when it was current because there were lots of bad cameras around, but now the range is more from "good enough" to "great" and so it doesn't matter so much.
You are being downvoted, but the news just broke that this is true. No id verification will take place for the $8. Just a cc.
Helium isn’t truly world wide. Swarm is more like a direct competitor to Iridium Short Burst Data (SBD) service. Works anywhere on the globe. Helium relies on people nearby running a node so it only works where people live and have an internet connection.
He came in swinging for 75%; it now sounds like somebody talked him down to 50%.
Mermaid only supports a few types of diagrams, but it's great for those. For a more general language, pikchr can be useful. It's a variation on the troff era language pic that generates SVG from text. From the SQLite folks.

[0] https://pikchr.org
PRs to improve zstd's embarrassingly slow decoder require you to assign your firstborn to Zuck and new Microsoft is selling me a subscription to use my laundered open source code to generate autocomplete suggestions in their closed-source IDE that pegs 2 cores and needs 4 gigs of memory (on the remote machine only) to edit 50k text files over ssh
Maybe give a free blue checkmark to everyone who serves 100k tweets per month.
yea, and profit in 2018. 5 billion revenue in 2021 with a 200 million loss.
Order of magnitude less expensive.
What attributes does a system need for you to accept its comparison to a brain/neuron?

Without defining what's essential, I'm nervous to call the comparison insufficient. If a topological subset of neurons isn't good enough, what do we need in addition/instead? If we stuff NNs full of complicated (how complicated?) activation functions, does that new system do the trick? Or add...47 new "neuron" variants? Or swap the learning scheme from gradient descent to something fancier? (For that matter, do we even know what the brain's scheme is, and why GA/back prop isn't an acceptably extremely crude approximation of it?)

The brain is so unimaginably intricate. Our models are hilariously simple in contrast, of course. But what of those mismatches are differences in kind vs. differences in magnitude?
If the assumption is that as a consequence of allowing people to filter things themselves more, everyone will just get along, understand each other, and all political problems will disappear/people will become enlightened and cease to be ignorant, then yes, it's incredibly naive. This was the case made by people setting up these platforms without filters.

That's not my assumption. I think echo chambers are impossible to prevent and ignorance is something most people gravitate towards. I think many people are likely to find reasons to vilify and misunderstand each other until the end of time.

What I think is possible to curtail and is being ramped up now is viral conflict escalation. If active conflict is curtailed, that expands the amount of peace time available for actually effective communication if and when the opportunity arises over long stretches of time with a lot of effort. If you have an irrational hatred towards people with X quality/opinion because of bad information, are you more likely to become agitated and attack people if you a) people with X quality/opinion aren't visible b) people with X quality/opinion are unavoidable?

The ideal is obviously to get people to understand each other better, but I think we're seeing you can't just do that by superficially exposing everyone to everyone else. It requires a more sophisticated approach that respects people enough to have their own autonomy and seek out understanding and better information voluntarily through more personal interaction and influence.

There are natural forms of competency and organizational filters that allowed us to progress to where we are today and nudge people towards greater understanding of each other and cooperation which punish bigotry and unintelligent assumptions through natural rather than artificial consequences. Increased social cohesion and progress was not a top down process in the past and does not need to be a top process down now, and I think an attempt to manage global conversation is just as naive as the naive open global village kumbaya assumptions that got us into this mess. People's autonomy needs to be respected if you want them to consider a more enlightened perspective.
"Meta is losing money because it changed strategies."

While the stock price has gone down, Meta is NOT losing money: the company as a whole remains profitable despite massive losses in the metaverse project. The recent results a few days ago "Net income was $4.4 billion" for the third quarter.
> ~1 message per hour

How so? 6 messages per day is one message per 4 hours.
I don't deny that Microsoft is using Windows Server for internet-scale workloads. My contention is they are trying to capture the business of small software vendors, who previously built shrink-wrap products for Windows Server and are now reaching for something like AWS to host their SaaS. This type of business favors Linux, so Azure has to be a good place to run Linux.
Complex ideas like freedom and free speech are often presented in simplified messaging like: "Protect our freedom" or "I'm a free speech absolutist". But underneath the slogans are many levels of complexity and personal/legal contradictions.

So, I think OP is saying, please don't shout simple slogans about complex issues.
Good luck with that.

Also, interestingly that’s exactly the amount Twitter will need to service the debt they’re saddled with due to the acquisition. Now he just needs to make up the pesky $500M operating deficit and his shiny new toy will break even.
No, their true desire is reflected in their revealed preferences, ie how often they return to information sources that they know have lied before.
Preface: Not questioning anyone's ability, and don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. I understand there's red tap, politics, etc.

Twitter's UI design and usability is lacking greatly.

Till this day, I'm confused. This button, it's to see who replied, and this button it's to view actual comments. Clicking an image on a tweet shows a different view with replies in comparison to clicking the body of the tweet. And once I finally get to see comments, it shows me 5 or so comments, with a "show more" that shows 3 more.

Content is just one long stream of white without any grouping/sections. And both sidebars are white. Truly a pain. I've noticed these problems like 5+ years ago. And these problems are not subjective, but objectively wrong. I believe some of these layoffs are correct.
Imagine being on the team that's clearing out everybody's desks. Once that's done, you're no longer needed. But hurry up, now.
He came in saying he was going to lay off half the staff and you ask whether it's his doing?
You only need the badge to get in. Makes perfect sense.
On the flipside, HN threads get very confusing when new information surfaces hours after hitting the front page. New arrivals start "correcting" people who commented with out of date information.
There is a difference between stated preference and revealed preference in the marketplace of ideas. Anyone who has worked in WTP estimation very clearly knows the difference and danger in confusing the two.
Even worse than rejected, they colluded to steal $50,000 from me!

https://twitter.com/breckyunits/status/1588320077619023872

See you in court YC! Can't wait for Discovery.
Yeah, I suppose the "run it local and on a budget" crowd isn't that big, but maybe they do have some free time to improve the software ecosystem.
i’d really be struggling to sleep tonight if i worked at twitter
That work is probably contracted.
Downlink is internal to the sat provider, and will just send messages on to you over the ordinary internet.
IBKR's phone app is miles ahead of Robinhood's or Fidelity's.
OIC uhhh... hm. Find an Aussie IRC server, start a new channel #[yourtown or area], advertise local places...? sorry not sure if much help
Unlikely as most researchers operate from the point of view that all animals are mindless automatons acting from pure instinct until proven beyond a doubt. Even then they will warn you against the heady Dangers of Anthropomorphizing Animals and Projecting your Emotions onto Unthinking and Unfeeling Lumps of Meat.
Looking through some sample photos [1], I would say the biggest issue with the F717 is the inability to blur the background and isolate the subject. That's more a limitation of the lens than the camera - but since the lens is integrated in the F717 it's totally fair to say it's a limitation of the camera too.

I had a similar issue with a Panasonic micro four-thirds camera where I was just never happy with the photos I got out of it. I much prefered the results I got with my prior inexpensive Canon APS-C DSLR, and the Sony Full Frame mirrorless camera I upraded to afterwards. No doubt a better photographer than myself could have gotten some great photos out of the Panasonic - but yeah for me just upgrading the camera made a big difference in both my own satisfaction and also the feedback I was getting from others.

[1] https://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/dscf717
Three HN top posts about Twitter, Lyft, and Stripe laying off people, and looks like just a start.

In Twitter's case though, the writing was in the wall ever since Elon fiasco began.
How do I do that in Gmail?
If I was asked to engineer such a tracker, I would definitely buffer data inside to flush when connected to celluar network. Not always real time, but much more useful.
Half of Twitter employees number 3,700 and if on average they make $100K then that's $370 million off Twitter's expenses. Does anyone know if that would make them profitable if current revenue doesn't decline?
FYI: axiom-developer.org/ seems to be down
Just because some people get away with copyright infringement doesn't mean that copyright infringement is now legal.

I don't think 1-3 matter at all. The point is that GitHub is selling a tool that can commit copyright infringement. This lawsuit is trying to get them to pay the consequences for the infringement that they have enabled.
I daren't think of the number of stocks I've held which have gone all the way to zero over the years.
The Problem with Bitcoin
The human brain evolved to find acceptable mates in small groups. Our evening entertainment after a long day of hunting and gathering was to sit around a campfire, tell stories,and dance to demonstrate to the opposite sex we had viable genetic material.
Nowadays, almost everyone on our planet has their own portable campfire in their pocket with more entertainment than AT&T's ad team in the 90's could dream up.
One thing that hasn't changed since the beginning of recorded history is that there was always a class of people claiming'special' knowledge. Soothsayers, prophets, rabbis, priests, mullahs. They all trafficked in the most precious commodity in the world: trust.
Many were tuned into a level beyond their peers. Some were simply charlatans taking advantage of others.
Bitcoin seems to be one of the latest manifestations of this.
As the owner he's fully entitled to order, to direct, and to impose action on his company. It's almost circular to enunciate, because the coercive ability is a key distinction between ownership and not ownership.
Best info I can find is that they were only ever profitable in 2018 and 2019.
The entire memo is posted here: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/3/23439802/elon-musks-twitt...
TL;DR is: If you're interested in inexpensive email hosting for custom domains, consider OpenSRS.

Recently Google stopped support for custom domains for free*, so I moved my domains recently for a similar reason.

I have a couple domains and they all point back to a few mailboxes. Many of the services I looked at were going to charge me per domain per mailbox not just per mailbox so the prices were artificially high.

I signed up as a domain reseller at OpenSRS and pointed my domain's MX entries over to them and... that was it. Super easy.

This gets me a mailbox for $0.50 per 5gb per month. I have two real mailboxes, dozens of aliases spanning multiple domains, and an email forwarder (sending to certain addresses emails to both my wife and myself) for $1.10/mo.

The negatives:

* I've been spoiled by gmail's search capabilities.
* I'm not a domain expert and not a mail admin, so I worried I was going to mess it up. I didn't, it wasn't terribly painful, you can do it.
* I was told they didn't support plus addresses (jane+homedepot@example.com) so I purged my plus-address logins, only to find they really do support plus logins later.

On desktop I use a normal imap client (their web email is decidedly spartan) and on my phone I still use the GMail App.

The price beat the socks off of anyone else I had looked at and finally encouraged me to get off of GMail.

* I'd been a "legacy" customer, and yes, they backtracked but by the time they *officially* agreed to keep supporting me I'd already needed to make a decision
I can't help but think you're simply describing marketing. If marketing distorts markets then I can't help but think we have bigger problems at hand.
> and likely never written by anyone over 30.

As someone in my 30s, I've always thought of it as an "old-timey/old person phrase", same as sibling comment's "bless your heart".
You can absolutely write your own apps for the Versa 3.
I imagine that if the structure of a human brain was well-understood and mathematically describable the way NNs are, generating adversarial inputs would be completely feasible.
There is no such thing as "Reputation", or rather - Reputation isn't one dimensional, and it's definitely not global. There will naturally emerge trusted bastions, but which bastions are trusted is very much an individual choice.

Platforms that operate on, and are valuable for, their view of reputation are valid and valuable. At the same time, that's clearly a form of editorial control. Their reputation system saying "Trust us" becomes an editorial statement. They can and should phrase their trust as an opinion.

On the other hand, an awful lot of platforms want to pretend they are the public square while maintaining tight editorial control. Viewing Twitter as anything other than a popular opinion section is foolish, yet there's a lot of fools out there.
Bangladeshi-American father here. “Privileged” compared to who? It would be one thing if Ivy League universities accepted Appalachians and rural Georgians stuck in generational poverty. Ironically, people like Clarence Thomas—minorities who grew up in real poverty—are not the main target of AA. The whole reason this is a problem here is that these policies aren’t actually based on privilege. It’s racial gerrymandering—seeking privileged people from overall disadvantaged groups.
> Passive investors have no influence on the price.

Even passive investors can panic sell when they see their 401k balance shrinking fast.
Let me say RH is fine, and you shouldn't be buying options unless you have a big margin of safety anyway. It depends on the exact order, but for me Fidelity has, in my typical use case, gotten better fills with price improvement than Robinhood has. It takes one penny of improvement to overcome the commission.
Maybe they'll ship a usable version of huge pages so that ~all software can go like 10% faster someday. We've waited like 26 years so far.
2018 and 2019 apparently
> >So, why should an AI be treated different here? I don't understand the argument for this.
> Because the AI is not a human and only humans have rights, including the right to learn.

Okay then: Who counts as 'human'? What's the qualifier for being a 'human'?

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(The following questions all point to the same underlying question.)

Are you human if you have only one leg or 8 fingers due to a genetic deformity? What about albinism or sickle cell disease?

If someone had robotic implants, are they human? Is it inhuman to have an artificial leg? What about both legs?

Same scenario as above, but both arms & legs are replaced. Are they human?

Same as above, but now everything below the torso has been replaced. Same question.

Same question, but now everything below the neck.

If someone were to successfully transplant their brains into a robot body, are they still human?

Someone embeds a neural implant into their brain: Still human?

Same question, now multiple neural implants.

Same question, but now the brain-to-implant ratio is 2:1. Brain mass & neural count hasn't changed since then.

Same question, but with the brain-to-implant ratio now 3:1.

4:1. 5:1. 6:1. 8:1. 10:1. 15:1. 20:1. 30:1. 50:1. 100:1. 200:1. 500:1. 1000:1.

The neural count now starts to decrease because of regular cell degradation. What's the percentage point before they're considered non-human?

90%? 80%? 70%? 60%? 50%? 40%? 30%? 20%? 10%? 5%? 2%? 1%? 0.5%? 0.2%? 0.1%? 0.01%? 0.001%?

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Where is the dividing line between 'human' and 'non-human'?
No, if dollars suffer hyperinflation, companies are still worth the present value of future cash flows. They'll suffer like everyone else in a tough environment, but they won't go to zero unless the company goes bankrupt. Bitcoin, on the other hand, has next to no utility and no profits. It can go to zero.
Wow they even got Nicky case to make a game for it. Really cool project!
That... doesn't seem like Something That Actually Happened™...? I have no insight into any of this, but "YC stole money from me" isn't really something I consider YC doing
Total cost per employee is likely double their salary figure. Also the ave. salary is going to be way more than 100M/yr/employee.

[M as in the Roman numeral M]
There’s probably a good amount of fat that can be cut. “Excess server capacity” implies to me that they don’t have an effective auto scaling strategy
Or every console until it reaches a certain maturity.
If that's true, then all markets are broken. I would have to be an expert on food, cars, housing, clothing, education, &c to not be bamboozled.
why not just train it on your own code or an opt-in data base of voluntarily contributed code? why does everyone else have to make your life easier [and generate enormous wealth for a third party with zero compensation for their work] involuntarily?
The average has got to be a lot higher than that and you should also include taxes and overhead for another 50%.

Edit: Twitter median employee compensation is $232,626. Assuming they do fire 50% and that's the average of fired employees plus 50% tax and overhead that would come to about $1.3 billion per year. https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/ceo-pay-ratio/
Clojure from a Schemer's perspective (2021)
Agreed. A regular frustration for me is clicking on a tweet that is a replay to a tween, and then I still have to scroll back to see the original tweet. I'm old and mostly use desktop, so I don't really know that's how it works on mobile.
I am a software engineer and I am a little worried seeing all these layoffs. No company will have 100% layoff, so it could be possible to weather this downturn? What could be the best strategy to get through this difficult period?
> if on average they make $100K

if you only count tech people, this is too low. If you count all employees, including people paid to review posts or moderate, or handle customer reports etc, it might be too high an estimate.

So if you fired half, which half? If it was the tech employees, i think twitter would save a lot more than your guess, and if it was just the support/moderators, it would not save much money at all imho.
That's because it was optimised to show you ads, and not for your comfort. Otherwise it wouldn't be a ridiculously bloated SPA, and instead be more like Nitter or some of the other alternate UIs that have appeared. Given the focus on $$$, I doubt Musk will change that aspect of Twitter in a direction that's better for you.
It isn't really that much different than, "Are we living in a dream?", of the movie Inception that's been asked since antiquity. Is the world some sort of illusion? How would we know?
Chime: 12% https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33455728

CloudKitchens: https://archive.ph/t46mK

Amazon hiring freeze: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33454151
Twitter lost ~200 million last year on ~5 billion revenue. With this purchase, the company is burdened with an additional 1.2 billion in interest expense on Elon's loans. Elon would have to fire something like 400% of their workforce (with no resulting loss in revenue) to dig himself out of the hole just from the added interest payments he's on the hook for.
Polar watch does this?