skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It desperately needs a plug-n-play option that even granny can use. It should Just Work. A lot of twitter users are stumbling. The service that removes that tripping hazard will dominate. Might as well be mastodon.
chia is a terrible idea. investment wise, and also tech. Great theory, but a miss in execution.

- ex chia farmer
> Microsoft was actively developing IE and had good intentions after it won the browser war

Ahahahaha yeahhh you lost me at that ridiculous and baseless claim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

And speaking as someone who had to develop for it, making a site both IE-compatible (around versions 5 thru 8) AND compatible with any other browser LITERALLY DOUBLED THE WORKLOAD. They made absolutely no effort to conform to standards by design because it forced companies (and there were many) to develop "IE-primarily" sites. That experience alone gave me a lifetime of hate for Microsoft.
Ok, what if Twitter was a protocol instead of a centralized operation run by a company? (Is this what Jack was getting at?)

The implications would be many -- and I'm skeptical scalability and the user experience would be comparable. Any good writings on this?
They’ll be among the few tech employees whose equity didn’t get decimated this year.
Show HN: Structpad: notepad-database hybrid that helps you use abstract thinking
Hello. Briefly about Structpad:
All interaction with app comes down to simple typing, like in a notepad. No buttons, commands or special characters needed. However, you can still build complex structured data.

Something about why I'm building Structpad:
I love taking notes and I think it's necessary for deep thinking because our brain is very powerful, but it has one weakness - memory.
I noticed that not only the text itself matters, but also some invisible structure in our minds. There are various tools that try to reveal this structure, such as filenames, folders, tags, links, tables of contents, but they are often complex and unreusable.
So I wanted more structure, less clutter, and no extra clicks.

Programming languages use OOP for a higher level of abstraction, to create more complex programs, so why not use something similar for our thoughts instead of plain text? In this way, Structpad reduces the load on memory for the sake of the quality of using the mind.
In my local elections, we vote all at one time for numerous federal, state, county, and city elections, and some of those may have a dozen candidates, and some may permit multiple votes. And sometimes we have referendums on top of that.

Were we to do that, we’d need a damn library full of paper in each booth, and someone to count how many slips of paper you’re dropping into each box. Doesn’t sound like it would work well for us.
Have used Rstudio IDE extensively for past 3 years but recently switched to VScode.

VScode feels more refreshing as compared to RStudio. I love the extensions within VScode that allows it more flexibility as compared to RStudio. Also ability to view hex code as colors in the editor itself. Plus the ability to sync settings using GitHub is so convenient when using multiple computers. On the flip side, Rstudio is more convenient for beginners and being very R focused helps to focus on the "Statistics and data munging".

As for the Rstudio as a company, they have supported Python in the past but with the Quarto they went to extend beyond that. I feel Quarto is still work in progress and has more ambitious outlook as compared to RMarkdown. RStudio cloud is a good option when one have to use specific version of R and alleviates the "Reproducibility" issue to some extent. Especially, when someone does not want to deal with Docker or similar platform. I think RStudio cloud is one of my favorite offering from the company.
I trust you, but do you have a source? Hopefully not in the form of a jpeg lol
I think this turned a corner. He lost some credibility as a serious person with crypto pump and dump, and also with pedo guy, and with other shenanigans, but he had a trust fund of credibility from the other businesses.

This is one where his business acumen is under scrutiny too, that's a whole new game. But let's see, it's only the bottom of the first inning.
Those seem to break down in my hand.
Why is it mutually exclusive?
I try to never post about downvotes, but I am breaking my rule: everyone who downvoted you is suffering from Stockholm syndrome.
I suppose if everyone is fleeing the service, less infrastructure is required.
The interesting thing to keep in mind is that there is a subjective aspect to taste. Personally, I do not care for Linus's taste in programming or system design, but I absolutely respect his immense skill within his domain.
Hire a virtual assistant, not a virtual therapist. This virtual therapist costs $99 for 60 minutes of assistance. 15 minutes a week is too little time to bounce ideas off of someone. But you can buy 5-10 hours of virtual assistance with that money, or more.

A service that provides virtual assistance for ADHD ppl - without the veneer of medical treatment to raise prices - could be a lot more affordable and helpful in helping ppl complete tasks they're struggling with, bounce ideas and plans back and forth, and help with other executive tasks.

This is an assistance vs treatment approach. ADHD doesn't have to be seen as a disease you treat medically - it can be seen as a perfectly natural way of being that requires some assistance, but also provides special abilities.
True, but we have GZip for that, and you don't need a lib to parse it. Actually, it would be nice to compare the overall size needed for both Blurhash lib + a bunch of hashes vs a bunch of SVG placeholders glued together.
Twitter has ads serving infra, recommendation systems (timeline, notifications, events, users), user generated events, prediction systems (ads), user graphs. The complexity is from processing and persisting exabytes of data in company owned datacenters. eg. Twitter stores images, videos, user events, user data, tweets/replies. WhatsApp has little persistence outside of metadata maybe? But your messages are not stored in a FB datacenter and if they are I'd be concerned. You can read about their infra in their blog. Comparing p2p messaging versus a distributed social media site with mountains of data and years of iteration in ML systems does not make sense.

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...
I've seen people that were killing it in one company move to another company and be just another developer. You can even see this when people move around in the same company.

People introduced into a new group tend to converge on a different role in that group. It's part of group dynamics and human nature. This is why it's really important that managers set up their team to be successful and why you can't really judge performance of someone without context. If you don't give someone the right conditions to be successful (as a manager) that's on you and not on them.

That said there is always a mix of factors in play.

Maybe company C is closer to your comfort zone in company A and company B was different enough that it actually was hard to perform at a high level? I'm not getting very good vibes though from your description of company B (though there's always two sides to a story).
I’m not. I suspect it would have proved some kind of real fraud on his part, or more likely perjury. And he knew if that came out he’s be facing slam-dunk prison time (among other things).

I think it was the first real consequence he has had to face in a very long time and it was a BIG one. And he was so scared this was the better option.

That’s the theory that makes the most sense to me. The breakup fee of $1B was a lot of money but seems like he’ll lose way more than that in the end on this path.
Paper is really such a great fit to replace single use plastic. Biodegradable, can be incinerated, plasma gasified, or landfilled. Will decompose if not collected for disposal, and wax can be used for the more tricky packaging applications. Fast growth timber can meet the need without impacting more at risk forestry.

Bottles and cutlery traditionally made from plastic can be made from agricultural plastic substitutes.

You might use more energy (which can be sourced from clean sources), but the trade off is less persistent pollution and micro plastic waste.

> Anything sold to the general public _must_ be biodegradable.

I love this guiding principle.
good job anna!
Oh, the fun we used to have hacking old windows machines at school. Started with the ping of death, net send, making a desktop screenshot the background and hiding the start menu, getting local admin. Once we found Sub7 and BackOrifice, it was open season... Stupid admins never had a clue what was going on. They should have hired us kids to run the network.
My mother writes short stories and poetry. She isn't all that Internet savvy, but she had a knack for finding local groups of writers to chum with. She managed to get published a couple of times that way, so it seems to work.

The human-oriented group has also the side effect of making the writer a better orator, since they read passages to each other during their meets, and then talk about the works and presentation. I never went to her meets, but I know for sure it helped her diction and use of metaphor big time.
That bacteria won't stop at the stuff in the soil... it'll thrive on everything... that is going to be entertaining to watch.
This is about being a fit or not.

Clearly you weren't a fit, which often times is barely related to your actually skill set.

Early in my career my bosses are people I would never hire today. This will be your future and you will look back at these people as silly at best.
Robotic asteroid mining to supply robotic construction of O’Neill cylinders (giant rotating habitats) is feasible with current or near-future technologies. Eventually, over 100-150 years, it should be possible for millions of people to live in space.

Should we do it? Sure, why not? We’ll explore the solar system and beyond. The human race would be able to multiply almost indefinitely, and develop amazing new tech, human like robots, medical cures, art and music, anti-matter propulsion, quantum computers… so much potential.
Just an fyi - “green revolution” is usually reserved for talking about transitions in agriculture that happened in the 1950s/60s - which from context probably wasn’t what you were referring to.
Z-lib has much more books than libgen, sadly
I'm not saying it's ok -- I'm saying that an individual person doesn't have enough concrete, particularized, provable harm that came from the company's actions to take that company to court.

If that became the standard, everyone could sue everyone else on the thinnest of connections.

There are laws, regulators, governments, and other entities to hold such corporations to account, but it is not the individual citizen who can show a direct and concrete connection (for those kinds of harms).

I would like to sue Donald Trump for diminishing the US's standing in the world and causing my portfolio to drop as well.
The Guardian's comment section was called "Comment is Free," but was heavily moderated.
I'm not sure if this is a real issue or just an annoyance. If the plastic degrades fully within a few years, it's already much less pollution than plastics where you're looking at 100 years.
Backlash after 500 drones light up New York City sky to celebrate Candy Crush
You've captured my sentiments exactly...
Before they absorbed Altera, they were Altera's contract fab for the 10 series. That was delayed by a lot because it turns out Intel's processes are so weird. Eventually, Altera switched its mid-range Arria products to TSMC and got a chip out the door, and we waited another 2 years (at least) for the high-end Stratix 10 to come out. Intel bought Altera during that fiasco.

The last time they tried, it looked like it was a blatant move to try to prepare for an acquisition. They essentially screwed Altera into doing the work to port their chips to an Intel process while also tanking the value of Altera Inc. due to the delays. Do SoC companies want to risk chaining themselves to the Intel process? Do more of them want to be acquisition targets? Do competing CPU vendors want to give up their IP to Intel in exchange for fabrication?

Until Intel spins out its fabs, which it probably should have done a long time ago, Intel will be facing an uphill battle to acquire customers for its fabs.
Sorry can you direct the how to method to us?
Voting doesn't need to be fixed. It must be banned! Voting is an act of faith. Faith in who manages the electoral process.
We need a private laws system, where you hire the governance you want, no more majority oppression or state subordination.
Maybe you could provide links, examples, or helpful context instead of snark?
It's like a Lotto winner suing Lotto because their other ticket lost.
I wrote an app in c that could saturate a 10gbit link with netsend traffic. Those were the days.
Single use plastics have massive indirect benefits which are easily overlooked.

Substituting say aluminum foil for food packaging has it’s own tradeoffs. It’s even less degradable than plastic and takes significantly more energy to create.
Rage Against the Machine is like the Kanye of the left.
Some of it is cost. And almost everyone knows a handyman or somebody in the neighbourhood who is an electrician, concrete guy, tile guy, &c. But part of it is cultural. It's considered a form of virtue signalling to have a bunch of servants or workers on your property. Most middle class people also have maids, nannies, drivers, and such.
Add a hyphen somewhere in the middle and you're good to go:

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/#valid-custom-element-name
That most likely won't happen though. In a month most people won't be talking about this and Twitter will be running fine.
One comment on YT asked: I wonder if Michio, after getting rebuffed here, went home and considered changing fields.

Tempted to reply: He changed fields a long time ago.
How can Musk expect the people he doesn't fire to still stay on? They are gonna lose even more employees.
You should watch the General Magic documentary and see the interviews of his former/current self
> In 2014 there was a show called Silicon Valley ...

Yeah, we've heard of it.

> resonated for a reason

Mike Judge has a gift for exaggeration and humor. I'd be surprised if even one out of 100 so called 'slacker' rest and vest employees even resembled 1/10 of big head's cluelessness and "beach / roof" lifestyle.
I think you're misunderstanding AWS accounts; they're not talking about AWS "logins", they're talking about actual "accounts" which are the entities that house resources like GCP projects. You can have an "organization" that has many accounts under it with sensible IAM, although it's less clean than GCP.
It is an argument for de-prioritization. If you have blown past your 1T limit bu the rest of Comcast's network isn't too busy then it doesn't matter, but if the other people on your circuit want to use the data they get priority over your traffic.
Encryption cannot be safely retrofitted onto email: https://latacora.micro.blog/2020/02/19/stop-using-encrypted....

PGP is also poorly designed: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/sec99/full_papers/whitt...
It’s only HTTP if it comes from the 1.1 region of France, otherwise it’s sparkling bytes?
Not only that, but changing CEO's has PR risk.

Fire a CEO? Suddenly everyone is going to assume something is really wrong with the company.
I can't remember where I read it, but I recall hearing one time, "You need not know how to do something, just know how it should be right, making it will be simple because you will know when it's wrong"

It was in the context of I believe, creative work, people with good taste can produce good work by virtue of volume and discarding things that feel "off", regardless of initial skill
I've had a very similar ride over the last couple of years. I can't help but feel that the environment you're in cannot do much to enhance performance, but it sure can make it worse. I also feel it has little to do with the company and more to do with which part of it you are in. I once worked for the same company twice - pretty good but with a shitty manager the first time, and really very bad the second. I'm now doing some honestly really great work for a bank of all things.
So they scan web servers, cool.

What about other kinds of servers?

Do they scan SMTP servers? What about POP/IMAP servers?

Do they scan web servers not on 80/443?

Do they scan IoT servers? Login servers on routers? SSH servers on anything?

Do they scan VPN servers, TOR exit nodes, or open proxies?
I guess they should bring back the Twitter whale.
Add the required enzymes at the point of manufacture...

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/19/intropic-plastic-decomposi...
> Why does it need to be in awe? that seems like an extreme in an unproductive direction.

There’s a major difference between banning awe and making it mandatory. The claim is that they did the former, yet you imply the latter.

> where in the thread is the support for this?

The bleeding obvious point in all of this is that tech and news organizations have been competing for the same eyeballs for years now.
Why a waste? Sounds like a smart move?

Buy a company, drastically reduce unnecessary expenses.
And now Chrome does the same thing.
The SILE approach for macro is very limited and sane. I think that's purposely to make sure that it's simple to understand, intuitive and maintain. More complex activities or programming is delegated to Lua as mentioned in the Simon's TUGboat paper:

> SILE’s \define command provides an extremely restricted macro system for implementing simple tags, but you are deliberately forced to write anything more complex in Lua. (Maxim: Programming tasks should be done in programming languages!)
IMHO things like "compostable" and "biodegradable", effectively a sort of planned obsolescence, is a great way of both continuing to manufacture and sell more material while at the same time pandering to the "green" trend of environmentalism. Reuse is always better than recycling, and no doubt it would be perfectly possible to engineer reusable plastic products that truly could last orders of magnitude longer in addition to all their other desirable attributes, but there's no profit in that. For example, I have several-decades-old(!) plastic bags which are still perfectly usable, and probably have lasted several times longer than intended.

As the results of the experiment show that the compost contains plastic that has not fully disintegrated, plastic inevitably ends up in soil of UK citizens

That said, I don't think this is really a big deal. Plastics are used because they are quite inert, even those engineered for deliberately short lifetimes. Soil contains a lot of other inert matter too. The most widely-used plastics are also the most inert, so they'll just end up existing until someone finds a way to make use of them again. The whole "plastic scare" seems to mainly be due to the health effects of plasticisers found in things like PVC and ABS, which are not quite as abundant as PE and PP, both of which don't need plasticisers.
Wow you sure got them. I'm sure some of the country's brightest minds forgot to check SMTP.
All those unnecessary expenses like content moderation and robust fault tolerant infrastructure.
It was surreal watching them tell people to obey the government.
cherry-picked

That pretty universal, no?

It's like when Canada's job growth is 70% due to government hiring and the gov't comes out and says "See how well the economy is doing?".

Or companies "spin" some negative stat into a positive one.
Our local government gave me a call because a neighbor asked for a wellness check because we hadn’t plowed our driveway when we were in California. So it does actually happen kind of.
Social justice goes far beyond treating women, gays, minorities and poor people as equals. Equal treatment is enshrined in the US constitution, for example.

Social justice means not "equality" but "equity": looking at perceived disparities between social groups and then equalizing them by taking property from perceived "oppressor" groups and transferring to "victim" groups. This is exactly what Stalin, Mao, etc. did.

Why does no one argue that Hitlerism/Mussolini-ism/Francoism wasn't real fascism? "Real" fascism would of course usher in an era of peaceful law and order, harmonious cooperation between govt and business... /s
Elon used to be a software engineer so it's kinda weird how he thinks a legacy codebase like Twitter can be fixed up to use $1B less every year. Twitter is limited mainly by storage, their compute costs are negligible in comparison. So unless there is so much bloat in their hardware procurement process that they're over-provisioning storage by more than $1B a year there is no way to reduce costs. The hardware costs what it does and there is no way to rewrite the software at this point to reduce hardware costs and still maintain backward compatibility with the existing Twitter functionality (no matter how minimal the feature set seems to be for external observers).

So either this article is a lie or Elon is just making nonsensical statement to focus attention on what it costs to run Twitter at such a scale. If people don't pay then the functionality will continue to degrade and it's looking like there aren't enough willing buyers for $8/month. The only way Twitter can continue to operate is if the people that actively use the service start paying for it, every other financing option is now closed off and if Elon can't turn it around then I doubt anyone else can.
ha, wow. I was there then and completely forgot that he even bothered running then
Optional feature of the "Basic Bottle" entry-level design: If you unscrew the yellow top, natural convective cooling in the summer.
Ignoring all the other things that are wrong with this whole situation... if they can make it $1B more efficient, how is it a waste even given the loans? Presumably the plan is to get rid of the debt eventually, and then you'll have a much more financially healthy company, assuming it can actually get $1B more efficient.
If you have good aesthetic sense but no skill, you can create good work. But not efficiently. You'll have a lot of false starts, trying things only to discover they don't work, retrying again and again until you find something that satisfies your sense of taste. Through this process you will develop skill.

Skill comes from experience. It means knowing what will or won't work before you do it, not having to make random stabs in the dark until you find something that works.
>>BLM protestors looted and rioted many cities. It was all over the news.

Sure, which cities did they burn down? The person I replied to made a specific claim I was asking about. You don't seem to be able to list them, either, despite them being all over the news.

>George Floyd’s killer was found guilty and sentenced... Breonna Taylor was with someone that shot at police.

And? The comment I was replying to said that the people BLM claimed to be fighting hadn't killed any innocent people. What was George Floyd's killer convicted for then? What did Breonna Taylor do that left her guilty?

I understand that situations are more complicated than what they end up reduced down to. But op made specific, false claims.
Elon made a category error in thinking Twitter is a free speech platform. It is an advertising sales platform, just like NBC or whatever.
$10 says this makes the history books
The network effect is too strong for some occasional downtime to give even a well-funded competitor a window in.
Twitter going down occasionally wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
It seems like a good time for Meta & Google just to make Twitter clones and see if they can get it to stick.
It is true. Our alerts have no respect for geography. You can be woken by an alert at 4 in the morning over a custody battle two cities away.

To me, this kills its entire purpose. The boy who called wolf, and all...

I haven't had one in a really long time now, so maybe they've fixed that.