skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ironic that Manu's immediately previous blog post from 2022.04.27 is titled "Not Going Anywhere" (https://ma.nu/blog/not-going-anywhere).
Uhh - how do you “auto scale” data centers? Twitter is not on aws
To be fair, the Orient Express victim really did piss off a few people. And I don't know if many of them had any criminal records beforehand either.
No, it's $179 after the recent increase.
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how would an open federated one be less soul crushing though? this is not me trying to undermine you with a passive aggressive question. I would like to hear about this idea.
"Spooky action at a distance" propagates at faster than light speed.

That's why Einstein thought it was spooky! But in the widespread interpretation[1] of quantum entanglement it turns out not to be a problem because (while entanglement effects are real) it's impossible to transmit information or action via it.

Worth noting that this link doesn't talk about that at all. Instead it's about quantum chemistry effects.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_interpretation#Acce...
A stock buyback reduces the number of outstanding shares.
That’s my justification for downloading movies. I was never gonna buy it anyway, and my partner was always going to buy it anyway (olive theory is real) so it makes literally no difference.
yes along with Match Group they own Vimeo, Dotdash, Tinder, Match, PlentyOfFish, OkCupid and Hinge, and ANGI Homeservices, HomeAdvisor, Angie's List and Handy.
I do take magnesium salts and salt, plus apple cider vinegar. The brain works fine during longer fasts, can confirm the 'clarity' thing, but I do not feel happy when I can't eat for a few days. Of course thats not hunger, just addiction to food. As to seasonal health swings, yeah, not great.
I’d imagine if Apple made an offer the reply would be “double it” and then “double it again”
I'm not worried. I've lived out what happens when activist investor know-it-all types come in and gut a company thinking they and their sycophant yes-men are smarter than everyone that came before. That isn't to say that Elon can't improve twitter as a business, but most CEOs aren't Elon, and even Elon is more hot air than substance.
True. It's also true that the best thing a company can do for its workers is make a decent profit.
On the scale of people who own their private G650 jet or 250 foot yacht with 10+ full time crew it's probably quite affordable.
Some technical books are too costly for students, especially in third world countries.
If this class action wins then it means we can put license restrictions on AI-training. "You may use this code to train an AI model as long as you release the weights under AIGPL, and any work substantially derived from the AI output is also released under AIGPL"

If the class action loses then this will not be possible.
Like with so many physical possessions, it really varies from person to person. Some people have libraries full of books they've read, and all their books are in pristine condition. Look at their other possessions and they're all in excellent condition.

Other people, you loan them one paperback book, and when you get it back it looks like it's been dropped off a highway overpass bridge and run over in rush-hour traffic. Look at other possessions that person has, and you'll see the same thing: they're all beat up and pieces of them are broken.

Some people are just destructive for some reason, and it's entirely from carelessness, not malice.
From an end user perspective, CoPilot has made my coding life dramatically better than any other tool I think I've ever used. The next closest being a good IDE which added code completion, documentation for functions, etc.

What it's functionally doing is incredibly valuable and I want to see it succeed. Figuring out how to navigate licensing effectively is an important step, but as someone who writes open source, I am happy my code is helping potentially make other people's code better too.
> I like libraries; I think they're mostly performative in small towns and providing social services in cities rather than functioning as actual libraries. Kinda sad.

The library in the small town I grew up in is still lending lots of books and ebooks in addition to lending movies and music and providing computer access, training and other services. The library down the street from where I live now is the same. Libraries are more vibrant and active now then when I was a kid.

Where are you that libraries have become "performative"?
Hang in there. I graduated in 2010 and not set up with a CS degree but I found my way eventually. And as rough as the market looks, people are still hiring... you may not be able to get into a top tier employer right away but I think your odds of finding employment of some kind are still good.
the other options being yaml and json? protobufs? csv? there isn't a clear winner in my mind, but as long as I'm not writing it out by hand and there's a helper library to do it for me, it's all good.
In early oughts, like in 2001 or 2002 when I was much younger and dating my now wife, we met a young and cute girl at a theme Halloween party, and we kept in touch for other parties. She at some point met this guy which we will call Prez because that was what people called him (both his First and Last names were last names of two presidents).

I remember visiting them in New Orleans after they moved away and asking how they met. Apparently they went out on some sort of blind date or something, it was set up for them by someone, really hit it off, then went home, and both wrote a long-form blog post (that was really new and fresh then) about whom they just met, while at the same time also refreshing each other's blogs to see if they wrote about each other. Apparently both finished the articles within few minutes of each other, can't remember who was first, and that was the confirmation that they should go out again.

Oh and the guy programmed in TCL. shudder. I wouldn't be surprised if Prez is on this site, he was that kind of hacker.
Interesting, I didn’t know Inmarsat offers IoT connectivity, or are you using regular BGAN (SMS or data)?
No doubt, but I'm questioning the timeframe.

> you are guaranteed to lose access to them in 10 years or tomorrow
The problem arises when you develop your main.py by always running it over usb where you can (usually) ^C out of problems. Then as you near completion you actually upload main.py to the pi pico to see how it will work in the field running off a battery. Turns out you neglected some detail or other and it doesn't work as desired so you bring it back to the computer and as soon as you give it usb power it locks up, long before you can even try to attach a USB console.
it was so ernest!
> Contestants in the International Obfuscated C Code Contest will (and probably already have) find delightful ways to use and abuse this syntactical curiosity.

The OCCC is where I learned about this in the first place!

Surely it counts as useful if it could be used to confuse The Enemy. ;)
Yeah, and it makes me happy this commenter knows so much about it all
The entire conversation just assumes that Twitter had too many people and needs to be slimmed down. Is that not the propaganda the new owner has pushed? Why take it as fact? Seems like he’s just doing the usual private equity things that we all despise.
I fucking hate MS branding, every fucking name confused into multiple services (remember Skype vs Skype for business ? That was different tech stack?) I thought he was talking about outlook.office365.com.

Also, outlook.com redirects to outlook.live.com/owa ....
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I have led a life of almost no pain. The most painful experience in my life was me getting local anesthetic injection near my lips for a minor skin procedure. That’s it.

Yet in college I was friends with a person who progressed in ankolysing spondilitis from our best soccer player to someone who couldn’t walk or turn anymore. He was and decades later continues to be the most cheerful person I’ve ever known. He is also in constant pain all the time.

One time when we were hanging out in class, I, in all my blissful ignorant glory, patted him in his back saying hello. He curled up into a ball in pain. We all knew he was always in constant unimaginable pain and he would smile and talk like everyone else through that, but for HIM to curl up, I couldn’t imagine the pain he went through. Perhaps that’s what level 11 in the pain machine in Princess Bride went to?

As he was curled up in pain I retreated to a corner with a wide stare and without motion with just uncontrollable tears for what I’ve done. He then came to console ME! Imagine that.

I haven’t spoken to him in a while, but last I hear he has a beautiful family and is happy with them. From what I surmise at the same levels of pain as before if not worse.

I cannot imagine the life of such people, and I sincerely wish we find a way to help them. I also wake up many days reminded of how lucky I am to not have anything like this. In some ways a painless life in a middle class family today is far more blessed than what these billionaires have. I just wish I can do something to help them out in this process. I and others have much to learn from folks like you and him for sure!
If the US prints a tonne of USD and dumps it into the economy what do you think that does to the GDP figure?

China has built ghost cities everywhere over the last 10 years, it's all a mirage.

I mean this is all just the same old central banking nonsense, we've been here before, debt fuelled liquidity leading to massive speculation.
>Libc and linux kernel are good solutions to well defined problems: a standard C library, and a kernel

That's subjective. I've talked to a lot of Windows users who all say Linux is a terrible solution for them. I don't think most Debian developers feel they should suddenly drop everything and start making Linux exactly like a copy of Windows just to please those people. They voted on this several times, they wanted systemd.

>it is an OS functionality accretion for the benefit of distributors

There's no problem with this. Most users don't touch the init system that much. They interact with it primarily through the package manager installing service files.

>solutions to too many problems that have nothing to do with init

Those are all optional add-ons for users who are having thoes problems.

>It boots nondeterministically (socket activation is not such a universally great idea)

This is also only an option. You don't have to use socket activation. It's there if you want it and you don't need to strictly order services.

>sometimes hangs randomly, it disrespects the user when ignoring keyboard input while waiting 90s or indefinitely for some condition

Not sure what this means or what keyboard input you were pressing. In systemd the keyboard shortcut to force reboot is pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del 7 times: https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-sys...

>or launching zillions of bogus hog processes for every user login event

Not sure what this means either. You can disable those.
It would be extraordinarily negligent if the corporation didn’t have something like this implemented.

The information held by Twitter could place the physical safety of thousands of people at risk. It could place millions of people into other concerning situations, such as ostracism, bullying, and legal quagmires. Whether a fired employee loses access to internal systems at 2PM or 5PM is utterly irrelevant by comparison.
>We’re the free speech platform! Anything goes

Really, you can just end it there. You can't post videos or images in 280 characters. You can post links - but I don't see this as Twitter's problem. If someone posts an illegal link or says (in 280 characters) something illegal, then that person is the criminal - not Twitter. And KYC should apply and be enforced - as robust as any bank. And no API - an actual human needs to type that tweet - using whatever tech that can make that happen. Probably a head-mounted mind-reading keyboard of some sort. So I should say "think that tweet".
> No. Microsoft tried to bridge the Linux APIs to NT APIs in WSL1 just like WINE does for Windows APIs to Linux APIs.

Uhh, I think you miss read my post. I agree with you WSL1 was a dead end. It tried to put Linux on top of NT.

I believe MS will try to put Win32, etc on top of Native Linux APIs (removing NT entirely). WINE and Proton have effectively done 90% and MSFT will have a way simpler time of getting it to 100% given they dont have to worry about their own copyright.

MSFT also has the financial motivation to stop developing the NT Kernel, so it’s valuable for them to invest into this “WINE++”.
Web version is also shit and we have other non-shit chat programs so it clearly can be better.
i was once visiting a friend who worked at the US postal service. i was traveling with a backpack with gear that looked rather rough, ready to go hiking in the woods. at one point my friend took me to his office while i was in full travel gear. in the elevator he told the others that i was one of those people delivering mail in the american backcountry.
Ask HN: Racing People at the Gym
Ever since I started watching Motivational GYM YouTube Shorts, I started seeing myself turn everything into a competition. I tried to swim laps over the person swimming next to me at the gym. By the end, I had foot cramps and realized I might have created a worse experience for them. Last week I had taken a treadmill next to someone who was using it and made sure I ran faster than them, and longer.

As I try to understand how my actions affect others, how do you feel when the person next to you is moving at a faster speed or trying to one-up you? To me, competition is sometimes the only thing that motivates me. Not trying to prove anything.
Yes, but that didn't change the focus of his campaign and his supporters from being class rather than race.
The argument for libgen is that whatever damage there is to the authors missing out on revenues is outweighed by people being able to get books that they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford (especially in developing countries).

In the case of copilot, the damage suffered by the authors is close to zero. And those who benefit the most are the authors themselves. A double digit percent productivity enhancement is worth more to me than a few million $ to a trillion dollar company, especially because MS has to pay for compute.
Fyi.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manu_Cornet.
QUIC doesn't imply BBR as congestion control. eg. Our (Cloudflare's) QUIC implementation supports multiple algorithms. https://blog.cloudflare.com/cubic-and-hystart-support-in-qui...
As a white person from Kansas I am offended by all the negative stereotyping in this thread...

/s
It seems, the world is stumbling back onto the Hindu-system of having multiple 'jatis' that hyper-specialize in everything from archery to metallurgy to mathematics, and basically turning into endogamous communities for much better success in partnership. Many 'elites' I run into are already doing this.

(The trouble Indians face today is that these medieval groupings are no longer functionally meaningful - all the rest of it is 'anti-heathen' bullshit that derives more from Christian propaganda than lived reality.)
It's more: what if I'm superficially similar to very different people in a very different company who are a net negative on their company.
This article and the comments on it are veering into creepy, Richard Stallman "pleasure card" (or Chris Chan "love sign") territory.
Ah yes, I should have thought of all the words in Euskera that overlap with racial/homophobic/transphobic slurs in English
The SSD adapter and drive are available but I can't get hold of the iPod back. The instructions I saw say that the edges of the case get damaged ... and I'm clumsy.
If I had to guess I'd say 99.99% of profiles and profile views in such a setting would be male.
Alternatively: https://archive.ph/nCvGw
For those curious about the standards for fair sue in US copyright law, and how they have been considered in previous caess, here's one legal overview:

https://ogc.harvard.edu/pages/copyright-and-fair-use

This AI re-mixing stuff is so new, I think few legal observers would say they could definitely predict what the courts will do with it. Nobody really knew how the Google Books case, for instance, was going to go until it went.
Yes, Mozilla is just good enough to not force the people who can make a web browser start because it has decades worth of inertia behind it. They remove functionality every release but there's always a work around that's ok enough to get you past it. I haven't been excited for an update from them in a decade.
That’s a big statement.
I am OK with Twitter sucking as a service than such chaos and poor employee treatment. As much as I like Elon, companies don't need to be run as inhumane productivity furnaces.

How Elon operates may be appropriate at Tesla and SpaceX, but not everywhere.
People don't understand quantum physics.
People also don't understand AGI.

Therefore it's obvious that they're related.
So it seems clear that AGI will be solved with the help of quantum physics.

My aunt Mildred is a very well renown academic and has written much on this topic.
She unfortunately is also not well understood.
So it seems quite clear - perhaps obvious - that AGI will be solved by applying some Mildred.
DALL·E is now available as an API
Mmm I would argue that using -o may make failures non-destructive at the discretion of the author of the program. I don’t know what the program does. Does it safely and securely create a temporary file, then write the contents to it, then rename the file? This would need to happen on the same file system as the target file for the rename to be atomic and there are few guarantees that my current user has the permissions to write to any file other than this one. It also would certainly fail if the file system is full.

Or the program could start out by deleting my file and starting to line buffer write to it as it executes. Then the failure would be the same as shell redirection. Or it could buffer differently making program failure even more fun.

My point is that I don’t know what the program will do, or even what this particular version will do, without looking at its code.

Shell redirection has predictable semantics. And I can output to a different file, run diff on the two, then rename myself, if this is truly critical. And muscle memory will be faster than looking up the specific option or argument for this specific program.
Well it isn't working now so not much will change.
I cycle, and when I see another cyclist up the road, I do all I can to catch them. If one overtakes me, I ask if I can try and keep their wheel.

I’m sure some think something negative about it, but for me, it keeps my exercise interesting and makes me faster and stronger. I probably wouldn’t cycle half as much if I didn’t do it.

I can’t say if the people overtaking me had that same thought when they saw me up the road, but I bet some do.

I can see in a gym environment what you are doing is a bit more in their face, but do whatever you need to motivate yourself.

In a gym it’s likely you’ll end up making friends with someone where you can push each other to new heights!
All these companies have way more employees than they need. 90% of employees mostly add complexity and the remaining 10% spend most of their time trying to refactor all the unnecessary complexity. So I'm not surprised by this.

I hope these layoffs will be good for the industry as ex-employees join competitors... Maybe in such competitive environment, people will care about writing maintainable code again. The effects of the corporate employment bloat are visible all around us.
Sadly, I can't answer that. I'd check the docs at openbsd.org and search the mailing list archives (https://www.openbsd.org/mail.html).
Jackie's going on the hall of fame.
I don't believe I claimed Twitter was not under active development. The point that I was making here is that if we were OK with Twitter as-is, it would be possible to maintain it with far fewer people than they employ now. Indeed, 'maintenance' will be defined differently for an indie hacker vs. a popular website with user-generated content. But all software has some split of "keeping the lights on" vs. innovating.

What is your estimate of Twitter's effort split between those two categories?
You are just talking nonsense.

Its a luxury car, Audi is selling less e-Trons then Tesla is selling Model X in the US. The Model X this year sold almost as many vehicles as Ford Mach-E while costing 2x as much. If you compare the Model X to other cars in that price class the Model X is doing fine.

And of course they did a major revamp completely changing the architecture and have to deliver the car from 1 factory to whole world. The Model S had priority at first and the Model X was only slowly added to production again.

If you think Model X is a failure you don't understand the car industry. A car with that kind of margin is well worth doing even if it peaks at 40-50k a year globally.

> and is utterly unusable if you live anywhere with rain or snow

This is simply inaccurate.
This is like arguing that the best basketball player in the world is going to easily become a world-class chef.
Datecoin could be the unironically be very good solution.
> Most impactful as measured by what? Twitter isn’t even in the top 10 for dau/mau

It generates a lot of the agenda in certain socioeconomic segments. It disseminates a lot of information to these segments. Those segments dont overlap with Reddit. And if Musk keeps the 'free speech' thing going, it can also attract the segment that Reddit addresses.
> The country moved to a nationwide lockdown on 17 August 2021, after the detection of one new local case outside of quarantine in Auckland.

This is the very definition of "zero-COVID".

They didn't abandon zero-COVID for another 5 months (Oct 21) when they finally admitted the data showed it didn't work.

Of course it's good they stopped using the strategy. But I remember vividly how the NZ PM promoted zero-COVID (and this was cheered by the media in Canada) as a working strategy until it no longer made sense politically or scientifically.

China has the bulk of the blame for continuing this failed strategy, but they were far from alone in the reasons why it was adopted it in the first place.
> He got lucky in the past

The mental gymnastics people on HN perform to diminish Musk's real achievements deserves 10s across the board.

I mean if you hate the guy just say so (for extra credit, explain why). Don't lie about his achievements and intelligence. They are so obviously real. Yes, luck is involved too, but it's not the only thing by far. He fucken self-learned rocket science in 6 years.

> When I met Elon it was apparent to me that although he had a scientific mind and he understood scientific principles, he did not know anything about rockets. Nothing. That was in 2001. By 2007 he knew everything about rockets - he really knew everything, in detail. You have to put some serious study in to know as much about rockets as he knows now. This doesn't come just from hanging out with people.

Robert Zubrin - aerospace engineer

> Elon is brilliant. He’s involved in just about everything. He understands everything. If he asks you a question, you learn very quickly not to go give him a gut reaction.

He wants answers that get down to the fundamental laws of physics. One thing he understands really well is the physics of the rockets. He understands that like nobody else. The stuff I have seen him do in his head is crazy.

He can get in discussions about flying a satellite and whether we can make the right orbit and deliver Dragon at the same time and solve all these equations in real time. It’s amazing to watch the amount of knowledge he has accumulated over the years.

Kevin Watson - Head of Avionics, Launcher

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