skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's fine if you want to champion the cause of the normie. Just don't do it in a paternalistic way. If people were satisfied with the high transaction costs and regulatory overhead of traditional finance, they wouldn't be in crypto.

There are a few more reasonable options here.

1) Create or advocate for a cryptocurrency with reversible transactions and all of the regulatory features you desire. Let the market decide how large that niche is.

2) Loosen or advocate for loosening the existing regulations on traditional financial products so that they are competitive with some of the features of cryptocurrency. See also, Zelle. Another product HN seemed to hate.

Yesterday someone was arguing that Peter Thiel is a super villain. Another full page of comments was decrying one of PayPal's policies necessitated by regulations. People are generally unhappy with PayPal's fee structure, but they continue to use it. The fees and draconian policies are largely required to comply with regulations. Want more personable human support? That also costs money.

The argument for regulating cryptocurrency is basically an argument for creating a captured and gatekept ecosystem. Of course, I get it. "Think of the children", "Think of the helpless normies", same story. What we will get instead will be more PayPals.

As for scams and outright Ponizis, it is worth noting that those go on under the watchful eye of the regulatory state you love so well. Bernie Madoff was similarly connected and even served on regulatory boards. SBF, the disgraced FTX head had direct connections to the SEC and chairman Gary Gensler. SBF even testified, asking for more regulation.

I'm doubtful, but still hopeful for the possibility of a good faith discussion. Regulation is not a pancea against fraud. Instead it creates an atmosphere were connected insiders can create greater frauds. The FTX debacle is illustrative of this. Yet here we are hearing the same appeals for more regulation from would be saviors of normies. Posters who themselves do not use cryptocurrency and insist that it has no legitimate use.

For myself I just wanted to run a few online games with payouts for players in cryptocurrency. Now players also want NFT character saves. I've never used a centralized exchange. I don't make big money in this niche. I do have fun. The community is happy. Nobody is crying about valuations. Actual users of cryptocurrency aren't saying, "There outta be a law!". None of my users are claiming, "If only there were a statist savior protecting us from this video game!" or, "This game would be so much better with barriers to entry for developers"

From that perspective, yes I do feel comfortable asking you and the rest of HN's passionate cryptocurrency haters to butt out. You could also go out and build a better alternative in the marketplace of ideas.
> Flooding and spamming are hated by everyone and are otherwise unimportant, there's no controversy about them.

I'm pretty sure, looking at twitch chat, that this isn't universally true.

Then the next question is, if this supposed truism isn't universally true, what other moderation decisions and flagging, aren't?
Even if that’s true (I just don’t know) the cost alone of servicing the company debt is now greater than the cost of paying all those people to sit around and do nothing, and anyway the problems with Twitter aren’t ones that are fixed by engineering.
The World Cup is in 3 days too, that's a seriously massive global event
But Elon was fired from PayPal. He failed at Boring Company and Neuralink. He faked his educational credentials and was in the country illegally. He failed at Full Self Driving, the Roadster is nowhere to be seen, the Cybertruck is MIA and the Tesla Semi is years late. 95% of predictions he has made has failed to pass. As far as I can tell, he lucked out during the .com boom, then invested in Tesla and almost drove it into the ground—-saved only by government subsidies, cheap money, and fortuitous timing. SpaceX has raised $10B and is currently looking to raise more. Elon's MO is burning a ton of cash that his competitors aren't willing to do in order to be first in some space. That doesn't take talent.
> The cuts will probably be whatever the delta is between the missed revenue from q4 and what wall street estimated

This is backward looking.
The right thing to do is look at your forecasts of the future and adjust according to those (because the past is in the past and is unchangeable).
Safe and Effective
The Rings of Power has a baked in number of seasons that were part of the deal. So they are good.
Right, and that's the part where it really helps to be well rested, stress-free and not being monitored by a warden/jailor :)
> The front page doesn’t need 5 posts from random people talking about how they’re moving to mastodon and boy isn’t toot such a weird name for tweets.

Nope, it doesn't.

> Substantive things will get through (this one did).

Are you only flagging the non-substantive things? Because that's not what you imply above ("flagging all Twitter/mastodon posts").
I am curious why you asked about alternatives instead of Zotero if it's your first time seeing it. Zotero is simple and extremely popular. With third-party extensions, it has enhanced capabilities. It has a PDF viewer and you can annotate the files. Finally, there is an iPad app that works very well.

Edit: A very popular thread from just 8 months ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30714121
Looking at the comments on that page, I think that spike is due to false reports.
He's still giving interviews on Twitter to Vox journalists and somehow to NYT journalists. The Bahamas are both his full time residence and as of last year his listed permanent residence.

A minor detail in the scheme of decabillions of, at best, mismanagement.
Elon is his PR team. And it's unlikely he'll ever hire a different one.
I love Neocities. Over the summer I transitioned my personal website from Wordpress to a static HTML/CSS site. I used Neocities to relearn HTML and learn CSS, as well as figure out how I was going to implement the CSS so that my site that looked okay-ish on desktop and mobile. https://chuck.is
you could self host a website.

Or more realistically, if you are in web dev and wanted to show your work on your local machine - say when the CEO wants to 'check in and see how its going', you can just send them a link on slack and they can play with what your developing on.
I'd be very surprised if disk/machine rot is what it would take for such a large organization to start experiencing major problems. Strange user patterns from all this and recent features/refactors that are suddenly not monitored would hurt something in the stack within a couple weeks if it was really abandoned. Having a few dozen senior engineers/SREs familiar with big chunks of the infra could make it months though.
I’ve been surprised recently by the friction to psychedelics within the community.
Your point? When I go to that URL, I get

{"errors":[{"code":410,"message":"You need to verify your password before you can view this content."}]}
> tech allowed all kind of people to build wealth

Not on the premise of merit, and your take is valid for every jobs, it's the definition of a job

I agree with everything else you said
Beta blockers don’t do the same thing at all. Beta blockers prevent you from exhibiting physical symptoms of anxiety like a shaky voice or pounding heart. They do nothing for mental symptoms of anxiety.
The issue here is that he has idiots whispering in his ear this time, the majority of his other ventures he was partnered with decent people

it's pretty obvious there's a load of sv vultures egging him on

hard to imagine a worse direction for this to go
Is getting laid a legitimate way to get paid?

That's all.

Victorian sexual mores likely prevented the 'match girls' of that era from becoming the match.com girls of today's vibrant online dating scene.
Curiosity Is a Curse
The stockholders didn't have any choice in any of this.
I don’t have the source, but on a podcast I listened to recently I recall the guest discussing that vitamin D is just one byproduct of sun exposure, and that the correlation between endogenous D levels and cancer/CV health is a function of the other related molecules produced due to sun exposure.
they are heavily moderating it. I only saw a couple of front page stories last week, and these events have been headline news internationally.

i hope the reason is because of the risk of flamewars, rather than YC leadership's desire to protect the reputation of someone who is hagified in SV circles and currently crashing and burning very publicly.
Unless they’ve lost more than 44 billion dollars, it appears they turned a profit in the end. I’m sure twitter’s recently enriched stock holders are pleased with the company’s collective performance.
The legal system still exists though and your changes would need to not be auditable or else you're going to get thrown in jail. And no matter how much you think you're smarter than the average bear, you're probably going to leave traces. And if Musk gets personally pissed off at some bit of particularly bad sabotage he's got enough money to hire some actual expert outside talent to manage the incident and nail your ass to make an example of you. Which he most certainly would do.

Employees interested in sabotage should not do anything stupid, they should just join the exodus.

Fantasizing can be fun though.
I wouldn't have anything like that in my house any more than I'd store 100 gallons of gasoline in my house. Maybe in a shed, 50 ft or more away.
Elon fired his existing employees for daring to criticize him in a private Slack, he's too thin-skinned to hire anybody who has dared to criticize him in public.
This approach is called progressive enhancement [1]; it’s been a thing in web development for over a decade.

[1]: https://alistapart.com/article/understandingprogressiveenhan...
Only weeks? Jesus. I feel like I've spent a good decade or two of my best years doing that.

"No better options" is a hell of a drug, haha.
Doing Smalltalk
> Absolutely should not do anything like 50k per day.

I had never heard of IU. It's a very weird unit that is different for different substances.[1] One IU of Vitamin D is 0.025µg, so 50K IU of Vitamin D is 0.00125g. Someone could probably get 50K IU of Vitamin D stuck in their eye by accident and not even realize it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_unit
“Therapy” is a total joke
Doing the big ultimatum after firing a random half of the organization and then demanding RTO really wasn't the best planning
Right? I can't help but wonder if he's planning on doing something in the fediverse in some way. It'd be interesting to see a bunch of ex-twitter folks boot up a crowdfunded mastodon instance.
I think the issue here isn't that the people winning elections have changed their views, it is that the people with bad opinions are winning elections. (In this instance the politician in question believes that the protest movement that helped bring democracy to South Korea was a North Korean operation.)

Institutionalist right wing politicians understood the value of trust, the new right all over the world is generally not institutionalist anymore, so they break things and then wonder why everyone is freaking out. When the useful idiots start to actually win elections we learn what idiots they are.
Algorithmic Piano Composition in Csound
using csound.js for web rendering
I long for the days when the internet was filled with sites like these. Every hour spent tying up our only home phone line on my 14.4 was an hour well spent.
Share Pictures with Expiring Links
1. Add a picture. (Pro-tip, mobile web lets you upload a pic directly without saving to your phone).
2. Choose an expiry.
3. Create the link and share.

When the expiry time is up, it's deleted on the backend via automatic TTL.

Great for sharing sensitive images via email or IM.
I envision something more decentralized than Cloudflare[0]. I think you could have local companies in every major city that would own a block of IP addresses and provide tunneling services with SNI routing for people in the same region. They can also provide more expensive services like DDoS protection and caching for popular sites or even on-demand when your mom blog goes viral.

> It’s better than no P2P but IPv6 solves exhaustion and NAT without the performance hit or protocol limitations and with no extra third party intermediary in the way.

I just don't see ISPs ever implementing IPv6 without governments forcing them to. It enables p2p which increases upload bandwidth requirements and cuts into their bottom line. And even if we get IPv6 you still need the ability to open firewall ports in a way the average user can understand. Not hard technically but that's another standard that everyone is going to have to agree on and implement.

[0]: Which I know you can appreciate. "Decentralize until it hurts; centralize until it works" is still one of my mottoes.
Please unflag the grand parent. Even thou I do not agree with what it says, I think it is interesting to have the discussion.
> don't understand how everyone can do this at the same time and it's not connected and planned.

Oh! It’s very much connected like this
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/04/apple-googl...
If you didn’t see fraud in the crypto world you were blind. Anyone that did even basic transactions could see there was unsophisticated fraud everywhere
I know a lot of people like MMM - I too enjoyed it. “The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.” Still totally valid, IMO.

But I really enjoyed The Design of Design as well.

R.I.P. Mr. Brooks. I thank you for introducing to me the idea of conceptual integrity.
Nice, thank you! I got it to work.
To be fair, that design and engineering staff took over a year and couldn't deliver an "edit" feature. Project Veritas caught some Twitter engineer on camera claiming to work 4 hours per week.

This is not an endorsement of Elon or anything he's doing with Twitter, but Twitter's core product is not complicated. For some comparisons:

Rumble has 35 employees

When WhatsApp was sold to FB in 2014 they had 55 employees.

WeChat has about 1400 employees.

My guess is you could successfully run Twitter with a few hundred employees.
Constructive Dismissal
Seems to only be available half a year from now where I am, will try to remember.
Saw this game theory take on the situation on Mastodon which I think was quite on target:

"Elmo’s 5PM deadline was designed to make employees signal their type: High-effort employees can make big bonuses by staying; low-effort employees would be better off taking the severance rather than be fired for not meeting his standards.

But the deadline also put employees in an assurance game with each other, and ASSURANCE GAMES HAVE TWO EQUILIBRIA. In one, a critical mass commits. But in the other, everyone realizes that there is no point in committing since no one else is.

Game Theory 101."

https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@jtlg/109362434339341121
That explains so many things. Surprised this has not been talked about more in the past.
Exactly lol. Way too many people are getting hung up on how sophisticated VC / funds could have invested in FTX/SBF. We often forget these "investors" want above all an exit plan where they get their money back and more. They couldn't give a shit if the company is run with a balance sheet drawn in mspaint with the spraypaint tool by teenage ponzi schemers as long as they know they get the exit before it topples down.
You're right, I never addressed that. I didn't know that before this whole thing started, and that seems weird to me. But also it makes some sense that otherwise both divisions would need to be in different courts in different countries and that seems even worse. I assume there is a US or Delaware law that lets them follow the law of other jurisdictions in cases like this. Almost like an economic extradition. I assume the Bahamas would send their own lawyer(s)?

But yes, I think I get your point. Thanks for making it, and again for following up.
Lately I’m seeing information indicating that actual sunlight or perhaps near infrared light is more important than just vitamin D.
looool so I’m literally working on something like funnel (built on their tsnet package) as I type except for generic TCP/UDP listeners.

This explains so much of what I’ve seen added to their codebase recently
Can Logseq become the Web Browser for knowledge artists? A Web/Unix immersion?
Let's dream together, sigh!
Agreed, this is awesome! I've been using Cloudflare Tunnel for local dev, but the fact that it seems to be coupled to their CDN product with no way to permanently turn off the CDN functionality has caused quite a few headaches lately (though it's possible to turn off temporarily using "Development Mode").

Would love to give this a try, though from the post it's not clear if we could use our own custom domains instead of the provided ts.net ones? This is a necessity for my use case where I need to be able to handle wildcard subdomains.
I remember getting into Sangria (Scala's GraphQL implementation) for the first time a couple years ago and seeing Twitter devs helping contribute to the lib. Was excited to see Twitter push that envelope. Now sad to see it all go away.
Yep. Although I don’t understand why anyone thought that would amount to anything WRT Twitter itself. I honestly laughed when I read this take a few weeks back:

https://twitter.com/davetroy/status/1586166535592509440

An open protocol isn’t going to help Twitter’s debt load, indeed giving up platform control will very very much do the opposite. Musk knows this. And anyways, there are no engineers left to massively redesign their platform to become less profitable.
It's interesting that there is such bias against alcohol, and pro taking prescription meds instead. I'm not talking about alcoholism here, I'm talking about a little wine in a limited use scenario.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this were really common. Interviews are cut throat nowadays, you can bet people will do anything they can for an edge. If prepping 200 leetcode questions is common, PEDs likely are as well.

I’ve used .25-.5mg clonazepam in interviews, which is a low dose (think 1 beer). Clonazepam is ideal since it has a long half life and will last an entire day of interview rounds. Benzos can leave you pretty sharp without dulling you down or leaving you silly or clumsy like alcohol. Also, people won’t be able to smell them on you. They remove the background noise and allow me to focus on the task at hand. I haven’t tried beta blockers.

The whole interview song and dance is ridiculous nowadays.
2.3% requiring medical attention is surprisingly high. This seems orders of magnitude higher than classic psychedelics. It is likely this is greater than simply combining DMT and an MAOI.
My understanding is that _several_ hours per day can mean a very significant chance of skin cancer down the road especially for lighter skinned people in subtropical or tropical regions.
You're probably not wrong, but it's who I am.
Elon did two things:
- he angered elites by changing the blue mark from status symbol to something else.
- he angered the techies by firing people.
These people have so much clout that doing sentiment analysis on his name before and after the twitter fiasco would probably have very interesting results.
Related: alcohol is prohibited as a performance-enhancing substance in most archery and shooting competitions.
Same. The car is good, but I now wish I hadn't bought it.
Oh god, i know you’re serious but the ultimate in “enterprise” managing the ultimate in “overgrown disorganized startup” would be a ridiculous failure. It would take ten billion dollars and a decade to get something functional.
Sounds to me like the OP has solved the problem.
My whole point and the emphasis on why I brought it up was that yes, the letter was about a "hypothetical" danger they had no way of "proving".

By any reasonable standard, at that point the possibility of nuclear fission was well established. But the argument is that there is no central committee that defines the reasonable standard and checks theories against it. It's all just opinion, and that specific opinion can be arbitrarily goalshifted.

I'm not saying the letter was about a hypothetical danger they had no way of proving, I don't think that. But that's specific to my interpretation of those terms, and I could easily see the exact same argument levered against the letter if that debate had been done in public.
I don't see why it would be petty to have concerns. Buying a Tesla makes one very dependant on the company for repairs, maintenance, software updates, etc. Given the new information I have learned recently about how Elon runs a business, that kind of dependancy is horrifying to me.
Yeah, probably. It’s still fun to look at.
How do we verify the claims here. Ultimately anybody can post screenshots. To be believable, we need multiple parties with some credentials to get behind this. If a major news organization, well known journalist or representative from university in question could come out and somehow verify or discredit these claims.
Twitter reality is so strange that almost anything is believable at this point. But this tweet is parody as it turns out: https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593407201913278464
I flag almost everything I see, but I am just one vote.

If it’s substantive it will have enough in the other direction that it doesn’t matter.

And it’s not like I have an army of bot accounts continually refreshing and flagging.

I’m just using my one vote to signify I’m not interested in hearing about Twitter drama.
Even ignoring EM's post-acquisition decisions, adding $13 billion of debt to the company certainly doesn't help the situation.
> find a version of iText RUPS application from somewhere on the internet

You mean this, right? https://github.com/itext/i7j-rups#readme
> There is absolutely no way in hell those aren’t autorenewed.

I’d take that bet.
Oddly enough I don’t see this being discussed here. There hasn’t been growth in user counts that might bring large technical problems. Sure there’s going to be work needed, optimizations, new features or whatever. I think twitters problems are how to grow users and grow revenue, neither of which require technical solutions to get traction going.
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For people on the lower end of the pay spectrum, 20% is a lot. I don't know exactly the wage distribution, but it's not like the customer support people being laid off are getting SWE salaries. So "let's just uniformly cut salaries" can be a much harder proposition.

And then you get into the difficulties where the highest paid people tend to be paid with stock, so _they already are having pay cuts from drops_. When you're looking at "cash on hand" problems it's hard to get everything balanced right. Though I do think it's worth it to try and make something work.

Personally I'm a bit of the opinion that larger companies have a responsibility to bank in employee costs more long term than in growth phases. Especially places with higher attrition, if you're able to run the clock for a year hiring freezes + shutting down teams that you want to shut down anyways feels like it would be less demotivating. But I don't know
Everything you are saying here is orthogonal to the developments described in the story. A provincial government refused to honour bonds in a tiny development in their region and it caused a contagion across the country.. none of this has anything to do with the current rate of interest or the orderly federal default of Argentina and its re-issuance of bonds at generous rates.
Same energy as the following article on the Twitter layoffs:

"Twitter hasn’t responded to requests for comment, likely because its communications staff has been included in the layoffs."

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/04/twitter-faces-a-class-acti...
Not sure where he finds time for that in-between tweeting, jerking off, smoking dope, eating cheetos, playing video games, and quid pro quo sexual harassment, lol.
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