skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Elon: I would like to understand the technical details of the Twitter codebase. This will help me calibrate the dumbness of my suggestions.

> Parag: I wrote heavy duty software for 20 years

> Parag: I used to be CTO and have been in our codebase for a long time.

> Parag: So I can answer many many of your questions.

> Elon: I interface way better with engineers who are able to do hardcore programming than with program managero/ MBA types of people.

> Elon: ["liked" "I used to be CTO..."]

> Elon:

> Parag: in our next convo-treat me like an engineer instead of CEO and lets see where we get to. I'll know after that convo who might be the best engineer to connect you to.

> Elon: Frankly, I hate doing mgmt stuff. I kinda don't think anyone should be the boss of anyone. But I love helping solve technical/product design problems.
I tried Twitter many times but always stopped using it after reading a lot of upsetting materials. Like you follow favorite musician and beside music announcements, there are political rants. I returned to Twitter when I learned to use Mute function liberally. Maybe in your case, you'd feel better on more art related sites like Tumblr or DeviantArt?
HN hype
Vertical scaling will hit a limit; eventually you scale by adding more unpopular servers instead.
For me that's half social banter, half discovering things I did not know about, but someone discovered and found fascinating enough to share. Pretty close to HN. I completely don't care what other people think about me on the internet, but I care about the things they do or appreciate.
Safari is the Chrome around webkit on the platform, so it tends to reflect platform major version number changes. Chrome is its own platform and does not have semantic version numbers AFAIK (or, they just break compatibility once a month)

Non-APNS push notifications landed on macOS in 16.1. They get webkit features in minor releases. Mouse and keyboard support for iPad also landed in a minor release. They average about 6 releases a year.
I use a third-party Twitter client TweetBot on both iOS and MacOS, and all I see are the folks I follow and any retweets they do. And that's it. No suggested tweets to rile and inflame and engage me. I only see what I want to see.

And if one particular person I follow gets too verbose, I mute them for 6 hours, a day, a week, or forever, until they calm down. I've even permanently muted acquaintances who it makes them happy to think I follow them as they go off the deep end.

If Twitter takes away the API that TweetBot uses, well, I think that'll be my exit, since I can't imagine having to put up with what I perceive everyone else is experiencing on Twitter.
How we built Qovery
The (new) left is often just as racist/bigoted as the far right, sadly.
As a German, I now several people here who donate blood and get paid money for it (e.g. here https://www.blutspendedienst-owl.de/blutspende.html), but more people do indeed donate plasma since they get more money per session and can donate more often (e.g. here: https://www.cslplasma.de/faqs but I don't see their monetary rewards on the page anywhere).
Zk-Snark means Zero-Knowledge Succinct Non-Interactive Argument of Knowledge.

It's fairly cutting edge cryptography. It is very fragmented as the industry is rapidly evolving. If I may recommend, a good article on zk Snarks from Vitalik: https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2021/01/26/snarks.html

ZK proofs allow you to prove you know the answer to something without revealing the answer itself. You may not need to know how these things work at a low level. If you're interested, feel free to dig into zk proofs and the cryptography behind them. The subject is quite deep and rapidly evolving. Ultimately, the important thing to know at a high level is that you can post a zk proof with just a few bytes of data, and that zk proofs, while computationally expensive to generate, are computationally cheap to verify. So they are being used as a blockchain scaling technology, since data storage is expensive on blockchains.

If you're just interested in crypto as a user, I would generally recommend getting a Metamask wallet and interacting with some applications like Uniswap, Aave, or OpenSea.
Honestly, probably Phrack more than anything else. Sometime in the mid 90s I stumbled across an archive of old issues of Phrack on a BBS and I completely devoured them. They spoke to me a way very few things had before or since and I desperately wanted to be part of that world. While I'd learned a bit of programming as kid and always 'played' with computers, Phrack made me go deep. I read back issues 2600 and Dr Dobb's and checked out any programming book I could find from the library. I eventually managed to download enough Slack floppies and boot up my first Linux computer and then it just kind of went from there. Looking back I can trace a pretty straight line from where I am now, to 15 year old me reading those first issues of Phrack.
You’re missing the point. A man with the wrong opinions bought a social media site. This is why there is a flood of articles like this lately - people who don’t like his opinions are screeching in pain.
Ask HN: How do you share and update the app specifications with your team?
I am a front-end engineer. I have been working as a front-end engineer for mobile apps for 10 years.

I have developed various apps for several clients. One of the problems I face every time the application specifications are not fully expected or written in various places and are not up-to-date.

These days, many clients write screen design and screen transitions in Figma and more detailed behavior specifications in Notion. However, often the Figma is out of date, or the content in the Notion does not match the Figma, and in the end I have to ask the product manager via Slack or Zoom.

Have you ever encountered these problems? How did you solve them? Any sophisticated ways to share app specs or keep them up-to-date?
The fact she was actually sobbing (assuming that wasn't a rhetorical point) does not make your response better, and was tangential to the point I was making. Too much of a chore to assume that I hadn't internalised every line but still understand the point that was being made?

Your snark is not becoming.
Not for me. Weird.
Twitter to ban unlabelled parody accounts
Making multiple DoH requests in shell script from a list of domainnames.

DOH_SERVER=eu1.lavate.ch
(echo example.net;echo example.org;echo example.com) > 1.txt
yy048 < 1.txt|yy049|yy050|sed "s,.*,https://$DOH_SERVER?dns-query?dns=&," \
|yy025|openssl s_client -connect $DOH_SERVER:443 -ign_eof

This uses HTTP/1.1 pipelining and only a single TCP connection. Good netiquette.

Instead of openssl one can use, e.g., stunnel, or an https proxy, plus netcat.

The sources for yy025, yy048, yy049 and yy050 are just short text files compiled with flex. If preferred, yy025 can be replaced a little more shell script and tr(1).

No Ruby, no Python, no Go, or other large languages. Just shell utilities.

Parsing catenated responses can be done with ldns, e.g., drill.
First they came for the "stupid" opinions, but I didn't care because I was sure mine weren't.

Then they came for me, and there was nobody left to defend me
I didn't use Twitter much, but each time I did, it was so frustrating to limit what I wanted to express in less than 280 characters, and splitting felt stupid. So I removed the less important words, replaced long words with short ones, then when it finally fit the limit, I didn't press send, just read it again, and hated it because it was oversimplified, limited my vocabulary, made generalizations without caution, etc.

I can easily see how it can turn normal people into dumb assholes, especially since there's the dopamine rewards of having tons of likes, retweets and comments, incentive to be extreme, by being extremely positive or extremely negative.
Fits in most hands, sure, but I never understood this "fits in pockets" obsession - tons of similar comments for all kinds of gadgets, when even a 2x version would fit any normal pocket (on a jeans say, or a coat) just fine.
> The right is gleeful. What the left is angry and the right is gleeful about is the idea that Musk is a “free speech absolutist” and might unban Donald Trump and other right wing / fascist media personalities.

I think this represents what's really going on. Firstly, Musk is not a "free speech absolutist". The issue is moderation policies. Every single platform moderates. Even 4chan. Any platform that doesn't, gets overrun by spam. If not spam, then by bots, or trolls, or something else that makes normal conversations impossible. Moderation is about sign-to-noise ratios. Everybody, both left and right, wants a good signal-to-noise ratio, but they disagree about what they consider signal and what they consider noise.

The problem with Musk's takeover is that he sounds like he doesn't have the first clue about how moderation works and what all the concerns are. The things he says about Twitter keep contradicting each other. It undermines a lot of people's faith in his leadership, and therefore the future direction of Twitter.

And that's the attraction of the fediverse: it offers real freedom of speech, and you get more control over moderation. Everybody wins.

> Trump would be truly unbannable. He would run his own instance

He already does that. Truth Social is Mastodon. So is Gab. It's just that Truth Social blocks every other instance, and everybody blocks Gab.
Angry censors and bot herders downvoted you for some reason.
That's more or less my argumentation on the "EU Voice" thread (and for sure being down-voted to death :))

I don't like EU signalling that Elon Musk is bad for the democracy, while the other people there were good. That was never the case.

I don't think EU should spend money and time on that (unless the EU politicians step down from Twitter and stop to see that as our virtual Agora)
> but the algorithm just works like a slot machine

I'm always surprised that people, especially on HN, complain so much about twitter's algorithms that are so easy to bypass. I use Twidere as a client, and my feed doesn't have any of twitter's algorithms - it's simply a reverse chronological feed. Even the website and twitter's official app have a button right on the feed page that allows you to switch to a reverse chronological feed

> In addition it's almost impossible to have a civilized discussion

Just don't use it for discussion then. I use it to read opinions of people all across the ideological spectrum and form my own. You don't need to engage if you don't want to! Also, it's very easy to mute/block accounts that you find are being abusive or uncivilized

It's an invaluable tool to gather peoples' opinions and what they really think.
I'm suspect you're being a little optimistic. Although there is a
small niche for socially positive influence campaigns the overwhelming
function of "necessary psyops" has been for the powerful to make sure
their "warcrimes" remain hidden from the world.

Sadly, I think many of us are still carrying a working model of social
media as a "peoples' tool" from the Arab Spring. There are plenty of
places in the world today where you can see that's been suppressed,
recruited and inverted by those in power.

If we want technology to reduce evil in the world then we need to
redouble our efforts.
> IQ is about processing speed

That’s not true-processing speed is just one component of IQ. Some people can have below average processing speed but be in the gifted range in other IQ components. (e.g. on WISC-V, high GAI but low PSI). It is actually reasonably common among people who are gifted but also have ADHD/ASD/OCD/etc
I hate to break it to you, but Elon Musk himself and all of his friends have full access to your Twitter account, with no protections whatsoever. You don't own your account, Musk does.
Nice straw man. Well done.

I'll gladly take an extra few minutes to make my pasta if it saves a lot of energy and emissions. But you do you, bud
only until retirement.
I find Twitter teaching me to stand my ground in terms of my boundaries and what I enjoy. If I talk to somebody and they start insulting me, I mute. I mute people who insult others too. Difference between physical public space is that if some people are screaming at each other, you'd have to engage somehow (like break them off) or disengage by walking away. In Twitter you can mute them. Let them fight between themselves.
This is how accommodations work, and have always worked.

From what I've heard from people in the industry, apparently a significant portion of users consuming audio described movies and TV shows, originally aimed at blind people, are truck drivers who have to look at the road, not the screen.

Audiobooks and OCR technology, also originally developed with the blind in mind, are now used by many fully-abled people in their lives.

Closed captions, originally intended for the hearing-impaired, are now a staple of many bars, where the chatter is so loud that nobody can hear the TV.

There are many more examples.
I have quitted social media many many times. But i always end back up, even tho i get that liberating feeling. There is alway this boring evening that makes you want to just check in and se what is going on and then it grabs hold of you.

I wish there was a way i could ban my IP or something else more permanent to really remove me from most social media platforms. As it is now, its too easy to create a new account or reactivate your old one.
Exactly, since 2016, it's been a cesspit. One can argue the world would be better off without Twitter, even keeping in mind The Arab Spring, and during Covid outbreak (was that net positive? I would say initially during the outbreak it was very useful, and then later more misinformation came about.)
CO2 is a great red herring, the real cancer toxins and forever chemicals are spewed more every year while people scramble to sequester a harmless substance. In the distance, Bayer-Monsanto is laughing at all the useful idiots.
Russia is the same.

Imo it has to do with perceived status of owning an iPhone.
There isn't any debate that this is NATO's policy. It is frequently discussed during the application process for many nations. However, the application process itself is even more explicit, since you still seem skeptical (despite what numerous foreign policy, military, political scientists indicate).

"Aspirants would also be expected:
...
to settle ethnic disputes or external territorial disputes including irredentist claims or internal jurisdictional disputes by peaceful means in accordance with OSCE principles and to pursue good neighbourly relations;"
This reminds me of a video I saw, in which a French father unwraps a birthday present for his young son, and it's a used copy of Mein Kampf. He turns to the boy's grandfather

"What is this??"

"It's what he wanted"

"He said Mine Craft. Mine Craft"

"I thought he said 'Mein Kampf'"

"Mine Craft. Mine Craft! Where did you get this?!"
After 40M app downloads, PhotoRoom raises $19M
Old man rant incoming: Can someone tell me what's the need for AI art in the first place?

Like, why are we wasting resources to fix something that human beings actually enjoy doing themselves?

Shouldn't AI and robotics focus first on fixing issues that human beings don't like doing? Where's my robot that can chop onions for me?

Am I the only one who finds the current crop of AI startups a little misguided in their priorities? Instead of fixing unpleasant stuff in human lives, they're trying to takeover the fun and pleasant things we actually like to do - write, paint, code.

/endrant
Well you or I wouldn't make a formal offer as a troll, but someone like Elon Musk might believe they could pull off something like formally offering to buy a company for an epic-bacon-lol share price and then pull out before having to follow through (and god knows he tried to)
>>Presumably with cyclists insurance, you get penalised (with higher premiums in the future) for someone else hitting you, rather than (hopefully) the other drivers' insurance taking the brunt of it.

It works the same as your car insurance - your insurer will pursue the other party and make their insurance pay.

Regardless, even your own car insurance will go up in premiums if you have ever been in an accident, even if it 100% wasn't your fault. It's just how it works, sadly.
There is a "block" and a "mute" function.
+1 on news.

My life was filled with unnecessary external inputs / noise (such as news) that often dictated the mood and output of my day. Example, waking, unconsciously unlocking my phone and scrolling news or socials. It was like gambling my day away but with no upside. These days I start with things I can control (make bed, tidy up) to build positive momentum to plow through the inevitable challenges of the day.

News was one of my worst... along with sugar :) Now I beat both (kinda).
Smart contracts themselves are mutable, though. They have their own memory allocation and data storage in the VM. While the transaction log itself may be immutable, there is still mutable state at the application level.
It's a sad state of affairs that it's very hard to tell if this is sarcasm.
Yes, but that goes into “no real Scotsman” territory.

Left and right are both broad and misused categories. Intelligent political debate shouldn’t use either, really.
I hate to break it to you, but Elon Musk and Twitter at large have more to lose from a reputational damage caused by blatant moderation misuse than an anonymous kid with an anime profile picture has
The three tweets quoted on the post are derisive of the project. They're not ad-hominem. True, they don't go into details, but those are 140-character tweets. They are excessively snarky and negative, but - I would also have a negative opinion of a sed alternative written in node.js and with a fraction of the features. On the other hand, the tweeters should have given the thing the benefit of the doubt, treated it as a newbie/personal experiment project, and just not published a tweet about it.

My $.02 anyway.
They didn't come for the opinions. They were published and are (I assume) still available on whatever Mastodon instance the author used.
For me this was the console where the home console experience was as good as the arcade.

Sure the Neo Geo AES was technically the same as the Neo Geo MVS but they weren’t sold in my region.
>How are you going to keep up with family, friends, and so on?

Yeah, god forbid you actually visit them, invite them over, and talk to them on the phone, or, text them...

>you'd anyway likely need an app like WhatsApp or Telegram to keep track of everybody and everything - and those technically ARE considered social media right?

No, technically they are considered chat apps...

And you wont need those either...
"We have to bite the bullet"

This. It's not a matter of money, work or anything material. NA needs to realize it's because of culture. Too much focus on cars.

One thing that really helped all cyclers is that they are protected by law. So if you hit a cycler in your car, you are mostly always in the wrong.

It's never too late. Will it cost a lot of money and effort? Yes. Is it worth it? Absolutely.
Hi there and thanks for the feedback! Your feedback about several editors is important and we will apply it! As for the meeting - you can skip it by installing Sprkl through the VSCode marketplace. WE know a meeting is really annoying, but at this stage we're trying to get as much feedback as possible so we can improve accordingly. We'd be happy to get you started right away, without a meeting, and if you have the time to provide us with feedback - you can do it however you like - slack/ email/ call/ chat - whatever works :)
Giving weapons to Ukraine is unrelated to all other previous conflicts and needs to be analyzed in isolation. On the other hand, if weapon deliveries are found to be the correct move, future underdogs in invasions could receive a similar aid.

But were you blocked for this opinion or just "shat on"? If you get censored then I'm not sure what the point of an alternative social platform is. We need to talk these issues through somewhere.
My favorite is 10^10^50: “Estimated time for a Boltzmann brain to appear in the vacuum via a spontaneous entropy decrease.” Didn’t even know about the Boltzmann brain.
The compound presented here is, however, not an organoaluminum compound. Those have Al-C bonds and are indeed very reactive.
Aluminum formate has the Al3+-ion coordinated only by oxygen, and will certainly not exhibit the reactivity you described.
Data has been harvested, social relations graphs built, patterns revealed, AI networks trained. The damage is done!
Take note of the detailed proposal: https://d18rn0p25nwr6d.cloudfront.net/CIK-0001418091/ee07b45... (from https://www.zdnet.com/article/musk-did-not-seek-due-diligenc... ) : page 49

"Mr. Musk also disclosed that his acquisition proposal was no
longer subject to the completion of financing and business due diligence"

For whatever reason, probably his rising annoyance with Twitter, he decided to skip due diligence and rush the deal.
got some long lasting friends on a private discord channel. I even know some of their phone numbers! that's the only social network I'm on :D
I fear it will go the way of Signal, every time Meta forces a uela change, some people switch, most switch back... Let's hope there will at some point be a critical mass. For Signal it's too late, in my country WA is the standard sadly.
I've made the switch and don't regret it one bit. My home server and projects all in freebsd now.

SystemD and k8s catalyzed my decision.

I dont want k8s to be my OS. And SystemD is not the linux I remember falling in love with.
You can see censorship as about being able to control what people is allowed to say. The fediverse is highly resistant to that.

You can also see censorship as about being able to control what people will be able to say to you. The fediverse is not at all resistant to that.

That is, nobody can stop you from setting up your own instance, or write your own ActivityPub implementation, or find one that tolerates whatever thing you want to say.

But we can band together and prevent you from making us party to your conversations against our will, and we can prevent you from being part of our conversations against our will.

The structure of the fediverse supports that by letting groups pick instances whose moderation fits what they want, and different groups with different moderation requirements or even contradictory moderation requirements can co-exist without all being beholden to the vagaries of policies set by a third party we have no control over.
Climate change has nothing to do with cancer