skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of the tweets that are quoted in the article have been removed. For example, Twitter employee Cristina Angeli is mentioned in the story for having tweeted an image of "staff members... flooding an internal Slack channel with blue heart emojis as they wait to learn their fate tomorrow", but that tweet is deleted on twitter itself because "This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules."

This is ironic if you consider all the complaining that Musk does in the public sphere about "freedom of speech" (I know that the first amendment only applies to government censorship, but Musk likes to pretend not to), but it's also significant because -

Smart journalists are going to stop relying on Twitter's API now. News and blog sites love to render Twitter URLs as a preview of the tweet; but if Twitter under Musk is going to start removing tweets that go against its corporate interests of the hour (is it against Twitter policy to post screenshots of any corporate Slack channel, or only Twitter's own?), then people had better take screenshots of the tweets they want to quote, just in case.
How did far right do worse in 2022 than in 2017?

They got above 30% of the vote in the first round (which is the round that matters because of the "cordon sanitaire"), and depending on where you place Lasalle/Dupont-Aignan it is as high as 35%.

2017 that figure was 26%(Dupont-Aignan + Le Pen).
Ask HN: Why do HN feel so negatively about Musk?
First, this is a serious post. I think a site like that could use some self-reflecting from time to time.

Every thread about something relating to him is filled with posts describing him negatively.

The top-rated comments are basically all bashing him.

An outsider might think he would be a hero to people around here. Like, he's a guy who is building rockets, says he wants to make human multi-planetary species, bootstrapped the electric car industry, and is involved in all sorts of nerdy stuff.

So, what is behind the attitude?
In CA it’s 2 years, but few could afford it while employed let alone out of work
There's a lot of porn on Twitter. The "paid videos" feature that you get with a blue check seems to be focused on this crowd.

Can you imagine someone as volatile and vain as Elon Musk having your porn viewing history? There's a good reason why most sex entrepreneurs stay off the radar.

I personally can't wait for him to kinkshame a Twitter influencer who makes him mildly upset.
Even further, all too many conflate much of the above with mere "commerce," a word I've been trying to inject into this.

LITERALLY NO ONE DOES, or SHOULD, HAVE A PROBLEM WITH COMMERCE. People are always going to buy and sell things. All the other stuff is details on exactly what the rules about doing this should be.
Not a physicist, but I would guess that the thermal mass of cold air is of little consequence. The thermal mass of all the items in the fridge would seem to dwarf that of the air.

Sure, you lose cold air when you open the fridge, but the warm air is almost instantly recooled after closing.
> When I see things like this, the first question I have is why?

My default assumption is three letter agencies surreptitiously adding back doors.
Voting machines should only ever be used to automate counting of votes. They should never mark the voting sheet. Having the physical paper lets us easily recount or reverify. If it was marked erroneously, all is lost.
That's my struggle with this as well - what are you going to do, show me a checksum on the monitor to somehow "prove" that the software is the same?
Bumble exists too, so its a duopoly.
> He didn't create Tesla, he invested in it. Musk didn't create SpaceX, he invested in it.

Even if true (Wikipedia disagrees), it's a distinction without a difference. Arguably, neither SpaceX nor Tesla would be where they are now without him.

> And IMHO, if he was really concerned about the existential risk for AI, perhaps he shouldn't have let the Ethical AI research team go from Twitter.

Arguably the kind of AI Twitter needs doesn't pose an existential risk. He's trying to make Twitter profitable so that's obviously a waste of money.
I buy a lot in polish online book stores. I've never seen any DRM-protected books yet, they always give me mobi and epub files which I can give to whoever I want. Maybe it's time to change where you buy them? :)
I wonder if anyone ever has two sets of coils (inside and outside) that they switch between seasonally? I'm thinking of places like northern Canada, where -40 is a common outside temperature for weeks at a time during winter, but 30 is common during summer (or even 40 in extreme cases). I imagine running costs dwarf the actual upfront cost of these units, but I don't know for sure.
> One example, HBO was using subscriptions to finance shows just like Netflix does today.

Aren't they still doing this ?
Can someone from the ML crowd ELI5 to me what tinygrad does, how it plugs into an ML pipeline and what it's use cases are?
Lego Discontinues Mindstorms at end of 2022
Biggest factor for many people is that the fridge is wedged in an alcove with insufficient gaps for air flow, so it drowns in it's own waste heat and efficiency plummets.
> Maybe it's not perfect, but (at least to me) seems like a step in a good direction.

It just add bigger SPOF. Compromise a single voting machine and you control hundred thousands of votes. Compromise one vote counter and you control thousands at most

There are literally no problems to solve in modern functioning democracies when it comes to votes, it's just some technocrat mentality that requires everything to be automated so it's faster/more efficient, etc.

So yeah you can make these things faster at the expense of basically everything else, including trust
> It’s genuinely amazing and saddening how many people want to see Musk fail. We are watching Atlas Shrugged play out.

When you watch a clown, you expect him to slip on a banana peel. Musk puts himself out there as an utterly unserious buffoon. This is what he wants.
No, the code overwrote the 9th byte of the buffer to add a null terminator: https://github.com/sudo-project/sudo/commit/bd209b9f16fcd127...

So it's not just reading past the end of the buffer, but it's overwriting a single byte potentially belonging to another object. It may still cause a crash but it's relatively unlikely that it could cause something more severe.
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And the class action for WARN Act violations has already been filed. Sounds like the Chief Twit didn't give 60 days warning OR severance, as required by law.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/4/23440304/twitter-mass-fir...
You think a site getting their domain seized doesn't matter?
You're a bit off on your points, but that's okay. He really talks a lot, doesn't he?

> Musk created Tesla to counteract the existential risk of climate change,

He created Tesla for the money that's in the growing electric car market

> Neuralink to counteract the existential risk of AI,

Neuralink exists for the possible future where neural computer interfaces are successful and popular so he can make lots of money

> and SpaceX to counteract the existential risk of asteroids and other planet-killing catastrophes.

Actually, SpaceX exists because there's tons of money to be made with government and commercial contracts.

> Maybe that's why the people at his companies stay despite being pushed so hard?

It's probably more because they like getting paid so they can afford nice things while they're not working. It might also be because Musk enterprises are in "interesting" areas of the job spectrum and thus workers might be more tolerant to bullshit because they get to tell themselves they launched a rocket into space.
I didn’t understand how they justify seemingly ignoring CA laws on mass layoffs. Oh, right the laws don’t apply to tech billionaires.
I'm reading on the zlibrary subreddit that supposedly there were some popular (>300k views) TikToks going around showing that you could use z-lib to get free books. https://torrentfreak.com/tiktok-blocks-z-library-hashtag-pen...

I wonder if this is related.
deleted, wrong thread. Was aiming for this one:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33465770
Are there options for small business payment processing that don't invite comparisons to dystopias? I think crowdsourced patronage is a great model for society to fund creative works now that copyright regulations have largely been captured, but with Patreon ignoring security, and paypal being this disfuncional... Is there a safe way to accept something like vinmo for micropayments?
Sure, but there is an actual moral distinction between seeking the most by endangering the livelihoods of ~7K-10k(the number of employees, dependents + indirectly supported workers) and seeking the most by ensuring the worlds wealthiest human can only remain in the top 10 wealthiest humans. If the workers really push him, he might only have a hundred billion instead of hundreds. Tech workers are well paid, but their bosses have the wealth of kings.
MS led consortium (and underwrote largest), 21-27% each spread out across MS, BofA, Barclays, MUFG + smaller to others. (ref: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-07/morgan-st...)

(Edit: typo)
Yeah, social media sites come and go. When one implodes another rises to fill its place. Not a one is special. But right here right now in 2022 I get to watch a thoroughly unpleasant person potentially lose 40 billion dollars in public. I’m sitting back and grabbing my popcorn in much the same way I imagine my ancestors would come out to watch a hanging.
Well Github is struggling to not abuse its Free Software users, VS Code has failed to remain Open Source, I'm not sure about LinkedIn because that never pretended to heart Linux so that gets a pass, and MS Linux isn't really a thing.

Although if you are to believe the terrible kernel commits they were attempting to make to allow them to do an Nvidia closed source shim then it wouldn't shock me.
That's one mystery less.

Ventilation at the ends of the tunnels is another mystery. It was heavy labor knocking out those cavernous spaces.

All I can think of is they just abandoned work for a while when the air got too bad. (Piped-in air seems too unlikely.) Lots of the Valley of Kings tombs were unfinished when used, so it might just have been slow going.

Heavy stonecutting out in the open involved building a fire against a stone face and then quenching it to fracture and weaken the rock. But that wouldn't work in those tunnels. The ancients worldwide cut through fantastic amounts of stone, often in close quarters. Ancient Celts invented hard-rock mining, cutting deep into mountains. They all solved it, somehow, likely differently in different places.

But details matter.
New study: depressed teenagers spend more time online
They gladly and unapologetically have posted fake material for engagement https://twitter.com/otteroooo/status/1548010114136715264
Truly an end of an era, and super disappointing to see they'll only maintain the app for another two years.
For me:
1. Drag on productivity (slower to refresh/recompile & much slower to write)

2. Harder to grok code (spaghetti)

3. I don’t want to give Microsoft any more leverage over the development ecosystem

4. TS will likely go the way of CoffeeScript eventually

5. TS is massively complex because of the difficulty of typing JS, I’d much rather use a language designed from the start as a strongly typed language.

6. The types are removed after compilation, so they’re only helpful during development.

However, I do like to add JSDoc types and run the Typescript compiler to check things and generate types for TS users.
Highly paid Twitter SWEs have a lot of other options, although the tightening job market is making it harder. Twitter’s competitors are also recruiting directly from it
Most of my Linodes are still accessible, but this has worked for the two that went down so far.
This isn't twitter specific, but from what I have seen, things can fail for the following reasons.

Something that autoupgrades would become out of spec, refuse to start due to a change in config files.

A counter would roll over somewhere.

A disk fills up.

A cert expires. A domain name entry expires.

Could be days/weeks/months.
Sometimes the simplest answer is the right answer.

Which makes more sense:

1. Large multi-national corporations make up the largest portion of Twitter's ad revenue.

2. Small, locally owned businesses make up the largest portion of Twitter's ad revenue.

To me, #1 makes more sense. If you disagree, I would love to hear why.
In land of Oz:

According to the government site responsible for energy ratings - energyrating.gov.au, ‘Refrigerators and freezers have been required to display an energy label since 1986 and to meet minimum energy efficiency levels since 1999. As a result, refrigerators and freezers are now 70 per cent more efficient than they were 30 years ago’.

New technology also mean that internal sensors inside the fridge can regulate the temperature so that the fridge is always running efficiently. Other innovations include temperature warnings and electronic temperature controls, humidity controlled compartments, and different temperature zones within the fridge according to the food to be stored. There are also ‘vacation’ settings which lowers energy consumption for the duration of your trip - you just need to remember to switch the setting off when you get home.

Today every new fridge carries a red-star energy-rating sticker, giving it an efficiency rating and telling you how many kilowatts (kW) of electricity it uses in a year, given average usage. While energy-efficient fridges might cost more they can save tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions and hundreds of dollars over their lifetime through lower energy use. For instance, a 400 litre family fridge with a maximum six-star energy rating can use as little as 250 kW per year and cost you about $40 a year to run. A less efficient 500 litre model, on the other hand, could use 650kW a year and cost you more than $100 a year to run. That's a saving of $60 a year or $600 over ten years. And with electricity prices set to rise substantially in coming years, savings are likely to be even greater.

https://hipages.com.au/article/energy_efficient_fridges_and_...
That's because it is likely the system became bloated. If you can still remain online after such a purge, you needed one.
Reddit has terrible moderation. So bad that it's a literal joke/meme at this point, down to a personal level in some cases even. Why would anyone ask for moderation advice in that general direction? To get a script on what not to do?
When things start getting really bad you make retention bonuses widespread. Was at a collapsing company and we all got a years salary paid quarterly for staying, but if you left before a year had to pay it back. Everyone was pleased.
> there’s a paper record to prove it.

Well at least NH seems to be doing it right. But if I use that machine, do I get to see the paper record. What I mean, is it printed for me to look at and placed into a sealed ballot box ? If not, then I am glad I do not live in NH.
https://feetr.io/ is entirely lisp.

It's an algorithm which understands momentum in the stock market, and finds where that momentum is flowing to find stocks with a good chance of really high gains. It averaged 9.17% daily increase across 127 stocks last month[0].

Lisp was a conscious decision because it allows a small team to be incredibly productive, plus the fact that it's a live image allows you to connect to it over the internet and poke and prod the current state, which has really allowed a much clearer understanding of the data.

0: https://twitter.com/feetr_io/status/1587182923911991303
And in WhatsApp groups there is no moderation to prevent the obnoxious behavior described in the thread. The far right fabricates militants to reproduce these bad behaviors and pollute every discussion group.
The problems didn't exist as much because people didn't usually come across communities they hated/disagreed with unless they were searching them out, and every community could set the standards it wanted to set. And I think that's where large social media sites can't work; they put a bunch of groups, many of which deeply disagree and dislike each other, on the same site/platform and have to try and keep the peace without said groups getting into flame wars and personal attacks 24/7.

Small, indepedently run communities could set their own standards, and those that who disagreed with any one set of rules could go and find somewhere more to their liking. Reddit and Discord have this to an extent, but even then, it's too centralised and too heavily controlled by one organisation.

Hopefully if Mastodon takes off, federated services will bring this style of community back, except with the ability to take part in other communities if people agree with that.
Dude you sound like the saddest most desperate FTT bag holder of all time. Did you lose your house and did your wife leave you or what...
Twitter was politically neutral before a few days ago? This seems more like a reaction to the Current Thing, which is "Elon man bad."
If they all left en masse I would expect Twitter to stop working within 48 hours due to the scale at which Twitter operates.
Once the investors got in the whole point became making it more centralised just with the dominant players being ones they control.
Dating and reproduction have different requirements and happen at different periods. It’s like travel and emigration.
> You don't happen to read many Lisp HN threads in detail do you?

Again, you could dial down the arrogance.

I do read most threads on lisp in a fair bit of detail, and I don't often find "trolls". I usually find an assortment of people interested in discussing various aspects of lisp, including its real-world utility. And I mostly find the various perspectives to be nothing but positive additions to the debate.

I daresay that you fit the description of a troll much more than someone who dares ask if lisp is actually useful.
Not necessarily, as you can put a limit on how many characters you read from the shell. But you're right that you can screw up in both cases, I would just say that if you have a fixed length for the buffer it is a bit easier to handle it correctly.
Is it tho?

Only if one wanted a more thorough and in depth picture of what this typically looks like day-to-day, week-to-week. Hiccups happen but when a company has been around for a long time and processes are very entrenched, a take-over can disrupt business processes and work flows enough for customers/consumers to feel it. The business will learn with time what undocumented relationships it has/had with vendors and what contractual obligations must be met that may not have been accounted for. Someone will discover for example some message-queue server that nobody documented or knew about when it finally fails and turns out all of Twitter depends on it. This is not hypothetical, I found two very old workstation-class "servers" under a CTO's desk in a financial company

[Edit] I should also add that since this is a take-over and not a chapter 11 reorg, there are no legal protections for contractual obligations so all of those will have to be discovered and addressed. Not doing so in a timely manor can be extra bumpy or costly. One can only hope they had good record keeping.

Experienced leaders that have been through mergers and take-overs should not really face any problems they can not solve, but lesser experienced leaders will have opportunities to make some monumental and profound mistakes. This is the gap that leaders could benefit from reading books on the topic and even then some leaders will misinterpret the intentions of the books or will not get the lessons to be learned but it is still better than trying to apply the logic from ones past experiences alone. Leadership techniques and business logic that worked at one company may not translate appropriately to Twitter. Along that line I should also add that leaders should not literally use such books as step-by-step instruction manuals but rather they should apply some critical thinking how does this translate to the current situation.
Given that they could just as easily fake the checksum, they might as well use a 1-bit checksum. The security of a 1-bit checksum is just as good as a 256-bit checksum in that scenario.
I suspect you could get enough core devops to stay onboard by just quadrupling their salary, even if it's just for a couple quarters.

It's messy but there are pretty straightforward levers to pull.
Somebody has to get in contact with each person and get an address for them, plus handle cases where somebody loses their key and needs to register a different address.

Whoever does this is essentially part of the crew now and probably deserves to get paid too, but it would be an easy scam for them to just set up each contributor with a wallet that secretly they control. I'm not sure how to prevent that.
My take is he has some good attributes and some bad attributes.

I like what he's done with Tesla and SpaceX.

His behavior around Twitter and around politics has been bizzare and erratic and (I think) endangers the good things he's done. It seems like trouble with Twitter could sidetrack Starship which would be a tragedy.
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Frustrated with the process of keeping up with my portfolio. Stock prices don't tell you what is going on and information overload awaits.
So I surveyed and was surprised over half of the investors checked stocks monthly or less.
By far most investors relied on only 1-2 sources and a vast majority felt their process could be improved.

So I quit my job and built StockHawk.io. I'm starting the public beta today. What do you think?
Tony Fadell, formerly head of iPhone development, has joined Arm's board of directors.
Are these layoffs even legal under the WARN act?
Okay, but to follow up, how do you know that some are engineering managers at Microsoft, now? Is this just something that gets around via gossip?

Also, is "caste radar" a word you made up, or is that a generally-used concept?
My guess is not very long. I've been on a project with three people where if we all quit, it would run until AWS EKS switched off the version of Kubernetes we were using; I'd expect from experience at FB that there's way more done to keep plates spinning on the Twitter fleet and within a couple of days there would be a SEV that no-one was around to respond to.

Of course they'd actually be pulled down by law enforcement much quicker than that if all their content mods left.
Look up Bosch. It's a very large family-controlled company, and their dividends are 92% allocated to a foundation. I think in time we'll see similar examples in tech.

EDIT: Bosch is a tech company too, just an earlier generation.
It depends on how Twitter is architected.

Most teams need about 10% of staff for skeleton maintenance. You can last a little bit with one staff to restart things as they go, but you'll have a quick degradation of service. If certain microservices fail, it may be the advertizing not working right or something failing with billing or moderation or some other internal tool, but a user might just notice that something is slightly wonky.

However, you won't be able to change much at that point. Changes become exceedingly difficult because of the maintenance overhead.
That is indeed what i said. And contrary to the previous point
That’s a shame. I saw it earlier on Reddit and read the wikipedia article, seemed promising.
The combination of your "CPU as undefined, Memory as 8GB, Platform as MacIntel" can still be used to fingerprint you. Independent of whether the values represent your actual hardware or not.

And they are probably not even red herrings. undefind CPU simply means you use a certain type of browser that does not provide this value. 8GB memory probably means "8GB or more". MacIntel might simply be interpreted as "Some Mac".