skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
one thing I’ll say is that that speech was really well-written. if GPT-3 could do that, the profession of speech-writing would be on its way out
Do you have a source for those 'silly teams'?
Ye, seems like a good fit for the terminally-online Twitter users as their main complaint about Elon is him wanting to be fair in terms of moderation and not favouring their side. Even launched their Twitter clone called "Tribal" to have a "fascist free" alternative without wrongthink..
I’m fan of how Apple does things for their ecosystem. I think only this strategy could have let them make the transition to arm as smooth as it’s been.

That said, I also have deep respect for Microsoft for being so deeply committed to backwards compatibility. You can find developer stories about how they’ve gone out of their way to hard code support for legacy apps (even space pinball) in major Windows updates. That sounds really gross from a code perspective, but from a business/product perspective, it buys trust/loyalty from enterprise customers. We see the opposite issue with Google, who has established a reputation for unreliable long term support. Despite their reputation for strong engineering, their new product lines suffer from distrust. Potential customers ask themselves why pay the onboarding cost for a Google product when it’s unclear if it’ll be around in two to three years.
> OK, so this shouldn't be the first step unless the "server" is a key part of the experience or has other benefits.

It is; the local timeline of the server you pick is often the best way to discover new people as a new user. It becomes progressively less important as you build out your network (I hardly look at it these days) but for bootstrapping as a new user it helps.
Oh I absolutely agree. The point stands that he failed to predict market behavior.
Bah I wish journalists would stop using twitter.

They often do not verify if whatever someone wrote in a tweet was made up, and seem to forget that most people are not on twitter, and if twitter agrees on something, that's a very small part of the population.
> hes lucky corporate brands and advertisers havent figured out they could start their own Mastodon instance for almost nothing, plug it until it becomes more popular than Twitter, and maintain all their existing brand safety controls in the process.

This is a very funny way of thinking which gets reality backwards. Corporate brands go where user eyeballs are. In the past the eyeballs read newspapers, and advertisers paid newspapers for space. Then the eyeballs went to Google, and advertisers paid Google for space. Then Facebook, and Twitter took over, and advertisers started paying them. Advertisers don't tell user eyeballs what platforms to go to. They follow the users.
I have no clue what Twitter will be turned into by Musk. I also don’t have a very strong opinion about the entire situation or about the changes he’s implementing right now.

But here is what concerns me: the speed of execution. Ofc speed matters a lot in startups. But Twitter is a not a startup anymore.

Compare that to when Steve Jobs returned to Apple. He took some weeks (months?) to understand what was going on inside Apple thoroughly. Only after he understood the situation (he did product review sessions) and had developed a strategy, only then he executed it quickly. And even then, he knew that results would come eventually but not immediately.

Now, ofc you could argue that the situation is different since Musk is a long-term twitter user himself and knows the platform, at least outside in. Yet, Jobs was an Apple user, too.

I don’t know. We will see how this turns out. Musk has some other companies that are running quite well.

Still, this might be the one which won’t because he rushed it.
That's a separate, more recent problem IMO. Mistrust of experts and lazy self-affirmation
It’s a fad, they’ll be back
The problem is that newer versions have fewer links to them, so they seem less authoritative. I have a plan for some heuristics that will detect version numbers in URLs and collapse them into a single result with a version picker in case you want an older version.

The server is an HP Microserver Gen8 (purchased on eBay), with an “Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU G2020T @ 2.50GHz” and 16GB of RAM. The production index is 70GB, and I also have a 1TB spinning rust disk that I use for scratch space and raw data.
Alternatively, a businessman running some of the world's most successful companies took over a failing company and in his first week took a hatchet to a slovenly working culture and overgrown staff, and along with a practical plan to mend the company's finances and break its reliance on advertising, proposed new features (community notes, improved search, payments for creators) on an aggressive timeline that have many user excited about the platform for the first time in years.
All the evidence points towwards the opposite: it's more profitable to simply provide entertaining lies. Does nobody remember the Alex Jones fiasco?
Hm. Well, the ability to drop out convuluted metaphors and poor hints towards a bigger idea is a poor proxy for conversation.

Could you elaborate?
If you didn't close your Github account when Microsoft bought it for $7B then you likely aren't going to close your Twitter cause Elon.
Interesting that OP had good experiences with Waveform lights, I've been looking at those but haven't bothered yet due to the price.

My holy grail is both very high CRI (well, more accurately a spectrum that matches noon daylight) and also possibility to "dim" into the deep reds and near-infrared mimicking a dimmed-down incandescent bulb or a dying fire. But given the cost of deep-red LEDs, I don't think we're getting those cheaply anytime soon.
Not the ADA specifically, but American courts have generally held that large commercial websites do need to be accessible in terms of the ADA.

That's aside from the cruelty of diminishing accessibility on a major social platform, slowly cutting off disabled users, despite its cost likely being a rounding error in the greater scheme of things.
I wasn't suggesting the idea already exists, I was suggesting that "clear guidelines as to what is considered to be worth repairing" in the general case is impossible and if that's a big differentiator for this new service, it won't be enough. Supporting evidence is that the_third_wave can't tell you whether your chair is worth repairing or not, they can only make a general comment that if it's got small damage worth repairing then someone might want to repair it and if it's too damaged they won't. Which is tautologically true but not helpful enough to build a broken-chair-trading site on.

That is, if you put your chair on a hugely popular free-for-all site Craiglist and nobody wants it, why would you the seller want to jump through hoops to list it on a less known less established site? Anyone who wants to buy stuff to repair has heard of Craigslist and eBay and so on already, right?
He has a right to buy the “public square” and do whatever he wants with it. The people who occupied that public square have the right to move to a different one. Isn’t that what TFA is all about? Obviously that’s inconvenient for a lot of people and probably disastrous for Musk and his investors but I guess we’ll see what happens.
Per pound? Per item? Per person? Per year consumed? Per dollar?

Surely we're all taller, healthier and live longer than those 100 years ago. The component of that due to fruits and vegetables, says they are better now (in some way)
> C does not guarantee a 64 bit type exists.

Isn't (signed/unsigned) 'long long int' mandatory since C99?

It says: 'There are five standard signed integer types, designated as signed char, short int, int, long int, and long long int'.

My cursory search for 'long long' in the standard didn't find anything about it being optional...
Sure one instance could support that if you pay amazon $2k/mo for a monster instance, but most do not have that kind of money to donate.

Most servers will be small, or you can host your own.
Toot is a term for doing a bump of coke.

More Mastodon spamming.
And he doesn't even take it that well. Criticize Musk and the whining ensues. You see, the richest man on the planet IS the victim.
Oh please, numerous scientists and governments tracked the Rocket debris going down over Cotes d’Ivoire. It landed somewhere there for sure. Analysts think the photo is credible. The preponderance of evidence points in a clear direction, we’re not trying to convict someone of murder here.

What do you think fell in Cotes d’Ivoire? What level of proof would be sufficient? Why are you so willing to believe the CCO line here? How have they demonstrated evidence to the contrary? If it burned up in reentry surely they have proof no? Where’s there investigation?
> new installations of those lines has been illegal since 1986 in the US

News to me. Do you have a citation for that?

In the San Jose area we get junk mail almost monthly imploring us to buy insurance against the cost of replacing our water lines, because of their age. So I would have assumed that they all get replaced every 50 years or so.
> "He bought the man, it is his property now. He can do with him as he wishes" - legal ownership can still be wrong.

Jesus do you even read the words you just typed? Someone bought a company that was hemorrhaging money, he let go of the fluff and you're equating it to slave ownership?!
None of those are accessibility issues, they're product design choices.
Alternatively Powerlevel10k[0] makes for a fast powerline implementation, especially with instant prompt enabled.

[0] https://github.com/romkatv/powerlevel10k
Shame. They sound exactly like the new boss.
The other opportunity "they" are missing is that normally when a new social network struggles under the weight of new users, that's good publicity. Instead of going that route, people get offered a huge list of niche or unavailable options, or told they should run their own server. And unsurprisingly a lot of people are saying, fuck that.

It's frustrating to watch. I guess a lot of fediverse people don't actually want twitter normies on board though.
> Mastodon is built around the idea that you can easily migrate your data to a different instance without having to leave the platform if you disagree with how it is being run

I’m not super clear on how it works. If you do this, what happens to the people who follow you? Since they had to type in your address (including instance) wouldn’t you lose all followers in this case?
I think it’s cute!
Eh, I don't think integer overflow is a recall-only type question

This type of issue is pretty common to encounter and I make at least a few fixes a year specifically addressing integer overflow across many companies
"Lean hard on your type system's capabilities".
I think we are talking past each other.
Take lots of video. It’s easy to snap a pic but you’ll always go back to the videos.
Free software and inspection are key to software we can trust
But accepting that would just mean that e.g. Poland couldn't join the EU and would have to remain, even forced by the West to not make Putin sad, a Russian vassal state.

Who can accept such a world order, where a tier 2 power holds everyone hostage and demands to be treated as an empire? Imagine if the British expected to still control all of the empire they once had and demanded the US, Russia and China stop India from going its own way.
What does it tell you?
Are they going to ban paying customers? Thats like throwing money away.
Put a lock on your door.
Totally agree, that's the fundamental principle of Mastodon and I like it.

But I think some people are just looking for "the other Twitter." Mastodon is a philosophically different idea to Twitter's centralized moderation.

I think other conversations about the network affect are apt here. Yeah, you can move to a different server all you want but in reality people want to be where other people are and don't actually want to migrate if they can help it. People aggregating in one place is the antithesis of the Mastodon federation.

If Mastodon does really catch on, it'll be a single digit number of high population servers that probably all end up having similar content moderation policy to Twitter to attract the most number of users. There won't be a grand utopia of a flat distribution of uniquely moderated servers.
Ya, the one we go to has a large service area that is densely populated, so on the weekends the donation lines get pretty long.
A climate team at a company with a huge energy footprint is absolutely a great idea IMO. Twitter operates a lot of servers and I'm sure some optimization can be done there.
> much more civil as well.

Unfortunately that’s about to change.
Apple ships all drivers with OS. So, if Apple drops hardware support, it removes drivers and other support for not supported hardware. For example for Ventura they dropped support for Nvidia GPU-s, Metal is built now to require AVX2 and much more. "Best effort" support is not trivial in such cases. Yes, I know about OCLP and use it myself, but it's a hack.
These are the states enacting legislation to make daylight saving time permanent
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The deal for Musk to buy Twitter was agreed in April.

He has indeed taken control only this week but he had months to get a plan together, with, as far as I know, a level of access to Twitter's internals during that time.
That's not a sufficient argument. Something can be dangerous without being sufficiently dangerous to warrant any personal action. In this case, I believe if you calculate you will find the chance of an aircraft being damaged was so extremely slight that it wasn't worth delaying any flight.
What possible reason can a shuttle have for staying in one place for any amount of time?

Research? Surely it'd launch the research satellite and return. It makes no sense to conflate the instruments with the delivery vehicle.
I don't like toxic people. And I wouldn't work for them for any amount of money.
Do you get FPS drops in asteroid encounters too? I played the game ten years ago on my old 2012 MBP and it ran great. Now running on my 2017 The game slows to a crawl in astroid fights. I'm not sure if it's an issue with the game version, my MacOS version, or something else entirely.
They prefer cashews but until the economy gets a little better it’s peanuts.
Climate change changes your local weather. We had a miserable time in the PNW this summer, across the whole region.
or left to Canada when Trump was elected
Is there even a remotely balanced alignment between the number of users on a platform and that platform’s advertising market share? I think the answer is no. Google and Meta dominate ads. No-one else really has traction, irrespective of their platform’s success.
Makes sense. IMO contractors are supposed to be companies. Such as https://avantsoft.com.br that you hire for specific things and that can abstract the actual employee management, etc from the company that hires.
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(I edited the title half an hour after submitting, solely to remove the octothorpe (#). The reason is because Mastodon has HN bots which are retooting this thread, and the literal # is causing the retoots to be interpreted as hashtag-using and polluting the submitted page with spam).

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Twitter will do at least as well under Musk as it did under the previous leadership, in terms of user satisfaction, reach and retention. But it will have moderation policies that are noticeably different from those of the competition. My prediction made while everyone is freaking out.
What “stuff” are you talking about? Aren’t most of Africa’s agricultural exports things like cocoa, coffee, tea, tobacco, and cotton?
Elon’s improved blue checkmark is basically a shadow ban system for the average person that doesn’t pay $8. If the average person is talking to a wall and the influencers are getting all the engagement why would they stick around?

I also feel like all these discussions are a distraction from the real issue. The average person doesn’t like using Twitter and never will.
Was Twitter really failing? It finally became (extremely) profitable in 2018 and 2019 before tanking in 2020 (covid?) but it made a decent recovery in 2021: https://www.statista.com/statistics/274563/annual-net-income...
Mastodon publishes RSS feeds, take a username and server and make a url that looks like this: https://octodon.social/users/fasterthanlime.rss
> Too much friction.

So far that's all I've seen from the twitter users I follow. "which one are you on?" "why is this so complicated?" etc.
I wonder if they could just use “tweet”.

is “tweet” copyrighted?

[as far as I know] hashtags were originally just a twitter thing and they spread outwards. obviously the word “tweet” is more interlinked with twitter’s name and identity, but, if it’s not copyrighted, I don’t see why it shouldn’t be able to spread like hashtags did
You don't get the dopamine hit talking to yourself. So it won't work. Critical mass required.
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Every text editor should support multiple cursors. In fact, every text field should support it. I often copy paste things into vs code just so I can use multiple cursors to edit something.

Also block indents. If you're going to require four spaces for a quote or a code block, don't make me copy paste between an editor just so I don't have to indent each line individually.
> The Mastodon software is not horizontally scalable.

Intentionally by design, or just a "MVP"/MLP limitation?
The first six months are known as an external pregnancy. Keep the environment quiet, don't take the baby away from home too long, minimise visitors. Do this and you'll avoid colic. Also, don't rock the baby, you'll never stop.
> Never understood why people are so concerned about him cutting jobs? He bought the company and took it private. It’s his right to restructure it and try to make it generate profit as he’d wish.

Absent a few questions about whether the layoffs have been done in a way that violates employment laws (which I've seen enough debate about that I imagine we'll have to see how lawsuits turn out), I don't think anyone is saying he doesn't have the right to do this. Rather, criticism focuses on whether it was (a) a good idea, and (b) well-executed.

There's a few major strands of criticism of the layoffs that appeal to me:

1. It was less than a week. You can't possibly have reviewed who you were firing well enough to be confident that you were firing the right people.

2. The departments that were laid off are concerning. Apparently the trust and safety teams were hardest hit, and making the already-bad moderation worse on Twitter doesn't sound great.
There's been a phenomenon of verified accounts basically doing ""suicide by cop"": changing their display name and profile pic to match Elon Musk and then doing a bunch of joke tweets as him, which are great fun until they are caught and banned.
> half the reason why searches for technical questions now just turn up endless blogspam instead of answers.

To me this sounds more like a discoverability/curation issue[^1]. Most of the useless technical content I find is either spam from a content farm or poorly written, superficial articles with a higher SEO ranking due to the platform they were published on (e.g. dev.to).

What I find very rarely is crappy content placed at the top of the search results and coming from an obscure low-quality blog.

> No! It's absolutely correct and considerate!

I do agree that it's considerate, that it's a question worth asking, but the reasons people might decide that it's not worth sharing their knowledge might not reflect reality (impostor syndrome, shyness, Dunning-Kruger effect). We're missing on those more considerate people not sharing their knowledge, so I'd say the more the merrier, it's still a net-positive.

Developers are notorious for underestimating the value of clear communication. It's apparent even here on HN, where people _express_ themselves in a precise manner but often don't think/care how to _communicate_, i.e. their response will be understood by other commenters (symptoms: nitpicking, hermetic language, ignoring the context of a post, tone deafness, lack of empathy). Writing, as a means of communication provides the best avenue to acquire this skill.

[^1] And, for that I blame mainly ad-tech. An ad-free search engine with blocklists would improve the situation drastically.
Ad revenue risk really breaks out by 2 major types of spending:

1. Brand Advertisers

These companies don't measure direct ROI from their ads in the short run, but believe that it's important to put their brand and message out continuously to keep consumers engaged. Coke/Pepsi are the classic example. Very few people click on a Coke ad, land on a page, and put in their credit card to purchase a bottle of Coke right away.

These companies care disproportionately about long term perception and therefore who their brand is associated with. They buy big event sponsorships for the same reason.

2. Direct response advertisers

These companies continuously measure the ROI of ad spend vs. revenue impact, sometimes even on a weekly or monthly cadence. These companies have some limits (e.g. no ads on porn or violence), but generally are much more willing to buy less attractive inventory that has higher ROI.

Classic examples here are Wish (or most ecommerce), SaaS, etc.

Sales meetings and calls with advertisers happen almost only with brand advertisers because it is their business where decisions cannot be made simply by looking at the metrics. This is a lot of spend but, importantly, it's usually inefficient spend from an ROI perspective. If these folks exit the market, the direct response folks will see lower ad auction prices and proportionately increase their spend.

These feedback loops take a few weeks/months to play out, but this means the impact of decreased brand spend is usually much less than appears on day 1.

Twitter is a bit unique in that they probably have one of the worst direct response conversion rates, attribution, optimization, and overall performance. That's really where Elon should invest a significant amount of resources because that problem can be improved a lot with better adtech, rather than salesmanship.

Google is generally the best at this ML based adtech optimization (people searching for products also tend to want to buy that product making their problem a little easier), followed by Facebook, followed by a bunch of 3rd party display platforms, followed by Twitter (in my experience as an ad buyer, but obviously not universal).

If I were Elon, I would:

1. Create a new ad unit that can only be shown to verified users or adjacent to verified tweets - this should solve most ad fraud and content rule concerns. Ad unit should be launchable within a few weeks (harder technical problem because it requires context of what's adjacent in the feed, but can be hacked with rebates for improper impressions). Spend the next week selling this to brand spenders.

2. Spend 50% of my twitter energy hiring/empowering adtech experts (this is a playbook that has been done several times over)

3. Relaunch vine with trending videos on twitter (video ads)

4. Ignore search - technically hard problem with low 1yr ROI

5. Start decreasing organic reach for non-verified users in feed + upsell boosted posts -- this is Facebook Pages playbook and is super easy to implement technically (feed value model adjustment)
End of page allocation has been a real life-saver. I have it rigged up to the core allocators of the game engine I work with, so you can switch it with a cmdline switch; if you suspect an overwrite, you switch on the EOP allocator ( using more memory temporarily ), and bang, you get a segfault where you went off the end / used-after-free.
>are you saying it’s a bad thing children can’t handle dangerous chemicals anymore?

well, yes.

I think it was much safer when kids in general were more well qualified across-the-board.