skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Throwaway accounts can't downvote.

That is the tool I'd use to manipulate HN.

Also can't flag, vouch and upvote in practice.

If throwaway account "comments" are a problem then all comments are a problem.

All systems (like the Stock Market) have mostly irrational actors already, the 'system' needs to smooth that out and get rational actors or rational data to the top. If it can't do it at the base level then it's already broken.

If you documented an example it'd help your case.

[edit] "all commenting in the same direction" I assume you mean negative, since that's the typical uneducated vapid bot-like comments you get on crypto. But it did occur to me later maybe you actually mean positive. Again why you need to document rather than having people do tasseography, you being a bot-like could be in the tea leaves on the second reading.
I believe at one point they were called "cabins" ;)
Seems to me that we will very, very quickly see why these teams were created.

Less snarkily, I appreciate that not everyone loved their work. But their work solved a particular problem, even if it created others. Now that problem is unsolved again. It will be interesting to see if a better solution to the problem appears by 2024, or if the decision is to allow that original problem to exist.
> That should be manifest.

Except you're demanding something that was never owed to anyone.

> I’m a private individual with options

Good, so why are we caring about who works for Musk or not? This is silly indeed.
Node.js – v19.0.1
Non-paywalled article from same day https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/daily-crunch-twitter-new-y... says the censored article was about Hunter Bidens laptop. What is the truth about about the laptop story and why would the story have influenced the election?
Excellent. Believably plays like a pro with regard to spray patterns but maybe slightly slower. This is doom for any cheat detect that relies on outliers. Doesn't look aimbotty in the slightestt.
Have you tried using a black (or any colour) tshirt? It solves your first two issues at least.
Maybe. But if I was in a meeting and Musk was tearing into someone unfairly and viciously and that person just sat there, I'd feel bad for them and a little disgusted. Conversely, I think it would be empowering to see them stand up to Musk.

The thing is, Musk has enough money to treat everyone horribly and just have them quit. He would feel nothing. He'll just hire the next guy. But standing up to him I bet is something that happens nearly never.
Read Sun Tzu, live like a great general, pick your battles wisely, and make the cost worth the gain. You will make more of a difference and live a life of more power than 'trying to not live a cheap way'.
I think this article could be more intelligently titled: "Don't post, read, or respond to things on TWTR". The linked lists aspect could be replaced with anything.
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Welcome to the realization we all have known since 2013.

Don’t waste your time and money. Don’t use the site if you don’t have to. A lot of people have stop using it. Sadly, google is redirecting traffic back to it.

Majority of the content isn’t the front page of the internet anymore. 8 years ago. Reddit was great.

Lastly. If you wanna win a lawsuit; Sue Reddit for using blockchain technology to fingerprint users devices and using their devices to pay the gas.
Sue Reddit for IP tracking across network and fingerprinting you.

All of this is done without the end-user explicit knowledge. Btw. I’m sure you are aware of digital fingerprint. Reddit has implemented it and controlling the narrative. The mods of those subreddit and just drones.
Twitter's board would have been sued to hell and back if they hadn't made him live up to his contract. They would have been left personally penniless.

Meanwhile, Musk initiated every stage of the acquisition and dictated the terms.
You know he's deep into all his Ex's twitter DMS. If I were withing a few hops of elon and I used twitter DMs I'd be nervous.
Yes, but it’s also worth keeping in mind which fights one can win. Nothing to win there by yelling back.
> web3 is just a terrible idea

I'm almost certain if you were forced to define Web3 you would be incapable of anything but a strawman. I'll make it easier on you, define it how you believe a deluded but good faith proponent would, and I am still sure you would omit many important and fundamental principles, innovations and techniques.
Except in the case of Ray Kroc, he actually was the founder of the company that became McDonald’s. He didn’t pay the McDonald’s brothers for the rights to pretend he was the founder.
> I loved to share them the Linkedin List implementation ... if you can understand Linkedin List ...

is the "In" in "LinkedIn" deliberate here or just a typo that was made twice?
Oof. Yeah, standard lib code tends to be harder to read on average than application code. But at least I can mentally parse the Rust code. Heck it even looks like a linked list impl. The c++ code looks barely better than line noise. I'm sure I could wrap my head around it, but ho boy, it's far worse than Rust by a long shot.

And this is with several years cpp experience, and maybe a few months of Rust on and off.
> but was there an official change in policy after this debacle

Yes, they changed their https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/hacked-materi... according to https://techcrunch.com/2020/10/16/twitter-changes-its-hacked...
Well, chip manufacturing is mostly automated, so labor costs are insignificant.

Also, Intel is on path to regaining process lead, they can compete with TSMC and Samsung based on quality.
There's a reality that the second you put something on the Internet it starts being scanned by bots and bad actors. The problem with the various "checking your door is locked" analogies is that you'd have to picture a locksmith putting in a door with five bad actors lined up behind up waiting to check it immediately.

The HN crowd is probably thinking about startups with in-house apps, but the canonical case for this argument is the Microsoft Exchange or Confluence servers that are consistently abused by ransomware actors - which then go on to cost that Government a lot of money as they get dragged into suppliers and contractors being held up for ransom, or investigatory resources being spent in response. It's very easy to tell who owns such a server, and being proactive helps address that.

It's fine to "not trust", but if this service poses any more of a threat to an organisation than the dozens of services already running you've got other issues.
The thing I find most intriguing, aside from how the crow mind works and what it's limits may be, is THAT IT WORKS!

Seriously.

The crow brain is tiny, yet this animal is a high functioning consciousness.

There is something fundemental about consciousness outside our grasp, and I hope we learn more about it while I am here to appreciate it.

For an even smaller scale example, there was this big spider. It was terrorizing my wife and granddaughter! Would come out in a rush, drive them off and then take cover.

I show up with the towel hoping to scoop it up, or kill it, depending on how it could all go, and my first toss was dead on! Got him in route to cover! Yes!

Just as I begin to gather the towel, that spider is out! So I swat, spider goes flying, lands and then runs right up to me, stands on a few legs while extending the others in a totally clear challenge! Was bad ass frankly!

I got it, bad ass and all, and released it outside. Figured that one earned it. Fine spider, clearly not gonna take any shit, deserved to live another day.

And these kinds of things have happened before.

I am amazed thinking the entire mass of the spider may be on par with the crow brain!

Yet the behavior is complex.

There something basic we just do not know yet.

That is all.
Personally, I would not trust my dog's toothbrush to any gouvernement.

From https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. Omit internet tropes.

Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. It tramples curiosity.

Please don't pick the most provocative thing in an article or post to complain about in the thread. Find something interesting to respond to instead.
Yes, and all-but-two of those ideas are awful, because the server or IPFS-pinning node backing the asset file is gone off the face of the Internet six months later, so now you've got an NFT that looks like nothing.

(My company, among other things, spiders + scrapes + archives NFT assets. I know what I'm talking about here.)

ETC721 should have been limited to exactly two use-cases:

1. embedded data: URNs

2. URNs for data on distributed content networks that make permanency a guarantee for posting (e.g. Arweave); where an oracle-check that the data is in the network at the time of creation from at least one client's perspective is required as collateral to successfully mint the asset.

As it is, I'd settle for even IPFS-without-guarantee-of-pinning, as long as you can guarantee that at least one node accessible to the public web has the data at the time of mint. That'd at least mean that someone who does care could come along, scrape the asset, and then pin it themselves to ensure the URN never goes bad from then on.

Even this, though, is far more thought than people put into earlier standards, e.g. the Solidity compiler's deployment metadata, which is always nominally an IPFS URN, but is never actually populated by the generated metadata. If they had just stood up a backend at ReMix.org that pinned these metadata files, and had solc push compiled metadata to said backend, then we wouldn't be where we are now with the (centralized) Etherscan "verified contract source code" being the only way to see/decode the storage layouts for (even some) contracts.
I think the larger dependency is on the investors, not on employees. There seems to be quite a bit of support and good will from investors towards Musk. And this is understandable, no one wanted to see a failure to electrify vehicles. But taking money from Tesla and putting it into Twitter is bound to ruffle some investor's feathers. And bound to increase the attack surface (i.e. big automotive withdrawing advertisements from Twitter).

As to 'A' game, it is strange how often that everyone is so convinced that the 'A' game is being played. And yet there is very little market impact. And a lot of investors money is getting burned. While the 'long game' is paying all the bills.
That's really good news for the OPEC+ oil producers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJOjTNuuEVw&t=21s
> We know that the counting of deaths was done very questionably. Toronto Public Health itself admitted that as early as June of 2020:
> "Individuals who have died with COVID-19, but not as a result of COVID-19 are included in the case counts for COVID-19 deaths in Toronto."

They also advise that the actual number of deaths from covid-19 is higher than reported.
Regardless, deaths were curtailed due to the measures in place. without these measures, once hospitals reach critical capacity, deaths would sky rocket, not just from covid but all sources.

> Later on, we saw news reports like this one:
> "Patients died from neglect, not COVID-19, in Ontario LTC homes, military report finds: ‘All they needed was water and a wipe down’"

This report is about two care homes in Ontario, it is not representative of the millions who died.

> We also saw news reports like this:
> "Hamilton Health Sciences takes down field hospital that didn't see a single COVID-19 patient"

Tents setup on playgrounds were never the first line of defence, they were a contingency for other measures which worked. without the measures you're arguing against, those tents would have been very much used.

> Like I'd mentioned earlier, there was severe overreaction displayed by many people and organizations, and it resulted in irrational behaviour.

You keep asserting that, I don't agree.
Thanks for taking the time to write that up–I appreciate the explanation.

My only adjacent knowledge here was when I checked the V8 implementation of the `sort` method on the array prototype and saw it changes the sorting algorithm used based on array length (IIRC insertion sort for length < 10 and merge sort otherwise).

Thanks for the V8 resource as well.
Agreed. Impulsive, careless, fraudulent? Sure that's fine to have opinions and thoughts on, he's a public figure and we have a right to gossip and all. But incompetent? I feel like you need a bit more factual meat to something like that. That's a stretch. You can fail upwards in a lot of crowded fields, especially software startups, but Tesla, SpaceX, Starlink? Give the man some credit.
New York - check your health insurance site or call them and ask for in network therapists. If you're paying three figures an hour you're getting screwed.
I'm sorry, but on Twitter this is hardly a conspiracy theory, just a normal day. Activists constantly pressure brands, for various reasons.
More than 15% of time in big ops orgs goes to hiring so if they aren't hiring they don't need all that slack in the system to be able to do the same work output.
What international bank transfer costs “thousands” of dollars to complete? What ethereum transaction only costs 3% to complete? Are you saying that a retailer accepting crypto will suddenly no longer need to “eat” the transaction costs because… crypto?
You're right. I'm wrong about the timing after hastily re-reading this article.

They allowed the article to be shared a few weeks before the election. They kept the NY Post account banned until October 31st. 1 week before the election.[1]

This was meaningful censorship of a right-leaning news organization. It would not have happened were the shoe on the other foot at a liberal bastion like Twitter.

The solution to the problem is to greatly pare back the type of moderation allowed by the platform. Elon seems to be implementing this.[2]

1. https://variety.com/2020/digital/news/twitter-unblocks-new-y...

2. https://nypost.com/2022/04/26/elon-musk-says-suspending-ny-p...
I forgot to mention but it is possible to saturate tower backhaul as well, this is the main secondary point of congestion. It usually sets the max physical throughput for the wireless spectrum on midband and mmwave deployments, however it is still a factor on some rural sites.
At my day job we useongodb as our primary database. We also have redis for caching.
The vocals have somewhat similar timbre and delivery, but that's about it. What else do you hear?
Interesting and disturbing. They are making an argument that Facebook/Meta is harmful to the global economy because it cant do [impossible task] of moderating its 3.5 billion users to stifle [unwanted behavior]. And because of that, their decisions are negatively impacting the modern investors distributed portfolios.

Because Mark Z. is not diversified (wealth is in Meta) and has total control over the company, his decisions create a conflict of interest to the modern investor.

Yet the article doesnt mention how his decisions directly impacted the economy. Maybe the lawsuit does, but Im not going to read that...

>the fiduciary implication of the fact that modern investors are generally diversified, so that their interests extend beyond (and may be in opposition to) the maximization of the value of future cash flows to be received from owning a company’s shares.

So it's fighting monopolistic behavior?
What happens, when your model exhibits a discriminating bias? How do you find out, what is going wrong? Knowing, what the model pays attention to can be pretty helpful.
Be that as it may, it'll still take a benchmark to convince me.
I like sortition myself, but yes it is absurd.
I think you might have a point, but it's not applicable to this situation. Software architecture isn't like architecture. It's more like mathematics, or maybe poetry. There's a language to it, and if you don't speak it, you're not going to get it.

Imagine presenting the original version of King Lear to someone who doesn't know English. It's beautify poetry, I won't argue that, and our hypothetical listener might even be able to detect the rhythm of its iambic pentameter buried under the seemingly-gibberish words, but they won't appreciate it on the same level as someone who actually speaks the language. And while they'd be able to get the story if it was translated, it would lose the rhythm unless the translator recreated it, at which point you've got a new work of art.

Similarly, nobody's going to be able to appreciate the Git data model unless they've already got a solid sense of algorithmic thinking, and preferably the background knowledge of filesystems to know what problem it's actually trying to solve. Or the Quicksort algorithm to someone who doesn't even know what a recursion is.

(Some anal-retentive postmodernist would probably argue that there is, in fact, a language to physical architecture, and that if you don't speak it, you won't get it. The problem is that the only way I know of to test that would be to find someone with zero experience with human-made structures, which seems impossible. I see no real purpose in arguing this point, because when it comes to algorithmic beauty, there is definitely a skill floor below which you just won't get it.)
If your estimate is correct - they haven’t been hiring for a while, while experiencing normal attrition.
Web 3 is Just a Pinch of Salt
Well now we know what the outcome of the election will be blamed on, I suppose.

I’m still waiting for a fail whale. I was promised a whale!
It's a distributed ledger, that you can deploy a computer program to. Use cases extend outward from there.
I think they are intentionally being vague to encompass as much as possible in their theoretical “diversified portfolio”.

I think their goal is to prove that Meta’s negative impact was so broad that most investors had some sort of negative impact outside of their Meta holdings.
Yeah, I’m pretty sure it’s showing logical pixels, not physical pixels then. Mine as also showing the value you’d get for adjusting based on scaling.
There are a lot of shades between saving the world and evil.

My position is that Musk has focused largely on business that can or do make the world better, and also make a profit. The two are not mutually exclusive and I think the former is a major factor in what Musk selects. Obviously good is determined from Musk's perspective,but I have generally agreed with him with respect to Tesla, spacex, boring, neurolink, solar endeavors, and xprizes.

I don't believe that those
up thread were actually claiming Musk will or thinks any of his ventures single handedly will solve climate change. If that was your assumption, I think it was wrong.

I am curious if you agree that his work in these areas is laudable?

I agree that it seems like he is more successful at increasing his fortune than solving the world's problems. I don't hold that against him because the latter is a very tough challenge. I don't hold the fortune against him because it was made from companies that advance humanity, and most of it is tied up in other ventures that also advance humanity. I don't know about the whole Twitter thing, which could be a deviation from this, but I am open to the idea that it could be an improvement over the current state, if not particularly relevant to humanity. I am also open to the idea that he thinks it is more relevant than I do.
Unix systems were doing all of this 30 years ago. (I can almost feel all the old Sun Microsystems employees rolling their eyes.) It's literally why NFS and NIS (replaced by LDAP before Active Directory released) existed. But Unix != Linux, the popular parts of the Linux ecosystem don't cater to this, and trajectory continues to diverge away.
> Which actually sounds wonderful... working with an entire organization that is aligned in thought and motivations, and everyone bringing their 'A' game. Compare that to your current job...

Join a cult?

> Not to mention the guy in the article only worked with Musk for less than 1 year, over 20 years ago.

He's likely much worse now. A person's nature doesn't change so much over the years but the experiences they have influences how those traits come out. What happens when someone like this has acquired wealth and success, has been surrounded by sycophants, and repeatedly gets away with shit behavior. Who's really going to stop a 'bad Elon' day for him? As we saw on the Twitter thing, nobody can stop a 'good Elon' idea that he maybe shouldn't have done either.
Can I ask you why returning makes a difference?
I disagree.

The only thing approaching a dark pattern is asking you to sign in for advanced features. A free account gets you a bunch of those features.

The main page has a single 'donate' link in the upper right corner. A contribution as low $1usd was enough to unlock all features except higher daily download limits.

What dark patterns did you see?
>And then Rage Against the Machine's sound in the GTA San Andreas soundtrack changed everything again.

GTA had radio stations even in the first isometric one and the three (or more?) after that, before San Andreas

> literally the best thing to ever happen to gaming.

its a nice gimmick but I think it isn't LITERALLY the best thing ever in gaming. lots of games have music, literally.
I often write code destined to run on a microcontroller, and linked lists are great for avoiding dynamic memory. It's nice to be able to statically or transiently allocate storage without having to bound the size of anything.

Of course, the same unintuitive tradeoffs tend to apply even if there isn't much caching to worry about. A trivial linear iteration is often faster than a more elaborate algorithm when the input is small.
Isn’t that the best reassurance that the WP will criticize Twitter and Twitter will not be censored when criticizing the WP?
> being in the top 1% of income doesn't mean shit

I think the other 99% would disagree.
This… kinda… (ok hear me out) makes sense in terms of NK criticising American society.
No but at least it got way faster. Even if there were no price difference, I think I'd still go for no touchbar.
was it the guy that checkout out three years ago and two managers?
That’s the problem with public companies - by definition they cannot do what’s best for their users, as that will eventually conflict with their duty to their real customers: their shareholders.
Name and shame, and fire them. That's the best approach in these kind of issues.
It’s hilarious trying to find older yumcha product. You have to do vague searches and look at images heh.
The "disclose or weaponise" question gets very easy when, say, all of your adversaries are using Chinese software and all of your allies are using American software.
alas, humor is not allowed on HN
They’ve been trying to do this for years.

The problem always is “Intel fabs are so deeply integrated with Intel circuit design that it’s hard for more general customers to use their process.”

Intel foundry makes a bunch of ‘odd’ choices justified by the fact that most of their volume is so homogeneous in terms of circuit design.

I’m sure they’ve gotten better since I was last aware, but Intel is a hard ship to steer very far.

The other trouble is that Intel isn’t used to working from a place other than being the best and most advanced and expensive option.
It probably makes sense not to work for someone who can destroy your life and is inclined to do so on a whim. The calculus in dealing with those people is apparently different than just about anyone else you'll encounter in life.
Yet. I’m sure they’re working on it.