skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its clear that Jack Dorsey let Elon know about the only real alternative path for Twitter, which is opening protocols and reversing profit-seeking decisions made many years ago now.

The conversation, leaked: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1575588277700026368/ph...

However, I'm beginning to think Elon didn't get the deep dive he needed to understand what this really means. I have my ears up for the language or relationships showing he is really spending time on this... but I have only seen a dog chasing its tail.

At some level, Elon is characteristically aligned with this version of Twitter, however by saddling current Twitter with so much serviceable debt it is probably more difficult to go back in time than it ever was before.
This is broadly consistent with what most other studies have found. See this link for an index of other studies.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/

The trouble with most of these studies is that they don't actually measure blood vitamin D levels. The amount of supplementation necessary to reach a target level can vary by an order of magnitude between individuals based on sun exposure, skin color, diet, genetics, and other pathologies. So ideally researchers should periodically run blood tests on the study patients, then titrate supplements to hit the study's target vitamin D blood level for each one. If course, this is more expensive.
What does it tell about our economy when a value creating company has to declare layoffs whereas the ad-companies are still untouched?
(drum drum):

Barbara H. Fried aka mom, Beyond Blame, 2013:

https://nitter.net/ShellenbergerMD/status/159311376898027520...
I mean, alcohol is literally poison and the state of being intoxicated is the desirable effect.
In Elon’s mind…
And given that he fired most of the stuff and shutdown most of internal services, big outage is more likely each day.

And I can bet $10 he’ll blame it on sabotage.
> 3. Tried to hire back some of those laid off as it became apparent many of these people were necessary;

I don't think there's anything particularly notable here, since this happens whenever there's mass layoffs. I've only seen this quantified as "some". With Twitter being such a profitable topic for all the news agencies, I fully expect quantity over quality, for all related reporting.
Yeah, he's said this so many times it's a bore. He deletes. First. After deleting 'LAST'.

So he's doing exactly as we all should expect, he's literally said it. I used to delete last Now I delete first.
Congrats, how do you keep their attention towards this path when they get so distracted with everything shiny?
You vastly underestimate how much impact ONE server can make if you don't use modern cloud garbage tech
If he can replicate WeChat this could be a good deal even if current Twitter flashes out in the process.

I’m not sure how Twitter is helping in creating WeChat for the rest of the world.
> about: Investor, husband, father. Those weird spelling and syntax errors are thanks to Siri. I try to preserve my arthritic hands for higher value targets than trolling hacker news.
> somebody who takes over the company and accrues so much social debt so quickly

What is 'social debt' and how is it (objectively) measured?
> I don't like limiting anyone to older versions. As the OP said, it's difficult to maintain.

You don’t maintain it, if you need a bug fix or new feature you have to upgrade to the newest perpetual license. IMO this is a much better model than the subscription model.
After Elon Musk's ultimatum, Twitter employees start exiting
> But not all tech debt is bad.

Of course not, if a company is profitable, its technical debt that made the company money and paid the bills. But if technical debt means running 40 servers instead of 10, then it should be something that is addressed, not ignored for 10+ years.

> but it was consistent in experience.

Consistent experience of being spammed by bot accounts. Looking at anyone popular and 95% of the replies are bots, or tweeting the wrong word and being spammed by bots. Is a terrible experience which has never been addressed.

> I think the greatest threat to musk is musk himself.

I agree. I think over the years popularity has gone to his head, stroked his ego, and he isn't the same person he was 10 years ago. He may not be the greatest example of a 'good' person but wqhat hes done with Tesla, SpaceX, etc, getting the right people in place and such to build these companies up, hes done well, but in the last 4-5 years hes sorta gone off the rails.
The closer to an election, the more likely the case
With modern browsers I barely noticed the difference between a HTML only site (MVC backend) and using XHR to partially load / dom patch. Just the spinner in the tab giving it away. HTML only can be a good ux. HTMX seems like a nice toedip into some interactivity.
Who’s gonna say yes to “extreme hardcore” without “significant pay raise”?

The momentarily desperate and the nihilistic.

I imagine a proportion will say “sure” and do absolutely nothing until they finally get fired. While another group will say yes up to the very minute they find another job.
He is pushing the limits (and maybe finding them) of how quickly you can correct head count in a larger company. We won’t know if his actual vision for the product is bad until he gets done with this transitional period and can start releasing updates. Basically I’d argue not much happened yet but HR meetings.
I get why companies were so fearful of that though, as so many things rely on 1 or 2 key people toiling to get something to function at a normal level (due to tech debt or overload or whatever).
I haven't seen any reason to suspect or expect sabotage per se, where are you getting that? And if you did want to sabotage it, what could you do that would be more effective than what musk himself is currently doing, short of straight up shutting it down?

> maybe the company culture really is broken.

Well it certainly is now!

I could maybe see an internal group trying to seize it. It is a very significant connector of people, I can imagine how you could believe in it passionately as a product/movement/force in the world. I don't, but it's not a big stretch. And if you did, I think also that from that perspective musk clearly does not care about it in that capacity, and has done great damage to its power and potential. The pieces are definitely there so that a "true believer" could justify a takeover.
It looks like they're bracing for a lot of traffic or abuse:

> Limitations

> - DNS names are restricted to that of your tailnet’s domain name.

> - The ports you can specify to expose your servers on are currently to 443, 8443 and 10000.

> - Traffic over Funnel is subject to bandwidth limits. They are not currently configurable.

I was thinking this would be cool to run some live video stuff on, but maybe that's too much bandwidth for now :)
Stay home! Save lives!

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3897598/
> I get less than half the battery life on my Alienware AMD laptop under Linux than under Windows

If you're on Gnome use "power saving" performance mode. Proprietary OSes throttle aggressively whereas Linux doesn't on "balanced" mode.
Windows block most of the UV light that causes Vit D synthesis.
The closest thing I have to it is doing mushrooms and throwing up makes you feel amazing and the high really kicks in. Granted the initial nausea doesn’t feel good.
"Changing employment conditions" is a supernaturally charitable phrasing.
would you mind explaining in more detail?
> I would recommend using :user-invalid and polyfilling

Is there a polyfill you can recommend?
you are over 50 right? who in their right mind will work overtime during peak season with a damocles sword over his head. you are getting paid to do normal work not overtime and go beyond. you do exceed expectations because you want a raise or promotion and you sacrifice your time and family life for that. now knowing that you are likely to get fired next quarter (because layoffs are NOT about performance) changes the deal quite a bit...

Jassy made a big mistake
Neither Here nor There
You’re referring to something older
Seems petty, but I don't think it would be an uncommon response. A Tesla-owning friend has said a couple of times, "Elon Musk is the worst part of owning a Tesla."
Outages of complex systems tend to be complex. It’s very likely that institutional knowledge of how to resolve them is gone.
According to the tweet, the buildings were closed due to prevent employees from sabotaging things.

None of us know whether the tweet is accurate, though.
Funny enough, the fork used by infosec.exchange had a bug that allowed password stealing. https://portswigger.net/research/stealing-passwords-from-inf...
This is an actual historical event in regards to the web. This story will live on.
Oh for sure. Some portion of non-box-checkers probably did think that. But 75% is such a high non-response rate that I’m betting another large cohort were just aggressively apathetic to the stupid email. Won’t play the game, but will collect a paycheck and do normal work as long as they’re allowed to.
> what percentage of my life is already gone by

It's even worse when you consider your perception[1] of how much of your life has gone by. At age 20, you perceive that 50% of your life has gone by. That is, you feel like time passes equally slowly (or equally fast) between 0-20 as between 20-75. At age 40, you perceive that 75% of your life has been lived.

[1] I don't recall the source, but it was a psychology or neurology article. I don't claim that the study is flawless, but it does feel to me like there is merit to the argument that a decade in your youth seems like a long time but a decade as an adult passes quickly.
Inflated salary in tech jobs = inflated real estate price = struggling lower middle class, go visit SF

But that wasn't even the point i was trying to make, merit is no longer rewarded since the expectation for a high salary is the baseline, hence it's not usual to see high burn rate in big corporations and highly valued startups, inflating everything up to the point where nobody can compete anymore unless you go hire in india/asia with the problems that comes with it (socioeconomics)

Check the various hiring posts from YC, it's telling

> then it will be difficult to attract smart people

That's a documented bullshit, with a high salary you don't attract "smart" people, you attract people attracted to the money

Look, a "smart people" contacted him to offer his help for bare minimum compensation; that defeats your point
This is true, and it also mostly says something about his ego not about how smart he is. No humans were ever smart enough to match that ego.

That being said I think he is being overly underestimated right now. Clearly he can bring something positive based on history.
In my experience, this has stopped working as of at least a few days ago. I can request, but the button never fills. I'm happy I did it a few months ago, at least
>This is an all-or-nothing fallacy.

And you refusing to quote the rest of my comment (which contains proposals that aren't "all-or-nothing") is... some sort of fallacy that I'm too lazy to look up.

>Perhaps we should view facially "altruistic" movements much more skeptically.

And how would being more skeptical have helped in this case? The New Yorker article described Bankman-Fried as being involved with EA since his MIT days. He was donating half his salary while working at Jane Street. His charitable activities when he was running FTX is a logical continuation of this. By all reasonable measures at the time, he wasn't doing it for "virtue signaling".

>Indeed in hindsight it seems like membership is much more advantageous for virtue signaling than for being more "effective" with your altruism (is it really so hard to figure out who will do the most good with your money?)

Is there a reason why effective altruists are being singled out here? Everything you said could be applied to all charitable giving.
Unfortunately it may no longer be an option as some have said the 2FA SMS needed to download the archive is not responsive.
I think that's a very good point. Though also think if I was doing a sort of PhD dissertation exploring the different aspects of malfeasance vs. incompetence that FOMO might ultimately be found as some flavor of incompetence. Though also have a dotted line in the tree diagram leading over to some branch of malfeasance as well.
Everyone hitting this today is the equivalent of a run on a bank and actually kill it.
You could see a doctor. I get anxiety, but I make a point of pushing though it (which I assume means I don't get it badly enough) and don't like the idea of taking anything for it, including alcohol. But if you have to take something, there is probably more targeted medicine you can get that does not have the side effects and dependence problem of alcohol.
Well, admittedly it was a guess, but it was an educated guess based on past experience with HN, and as you can see from blitzar's followup post, I guessed correctly.
Seems to identify very specific types of fields. Are there any other libraries to detect other types of fields in a dataset?
When Twitter fails there will be no one to blame but Elon. Even so he will still have people like you defending him.
Oh damn, I didn't click on that point. What a footgun.
It almost seems on purpose but that seems like a money and reputation to burn to what, defeat wokeism? Pave the way for truth social? Seems very high risk to assume that Twitter is that essential a source of that influence.
Per her most recent tweet:

https://twitter.com/ZoeSchiffer/status/1593427480051822592?c...

"NEW: The designers leading Elon Musk’s Blue verified project are out, along with the lead web engineer. Many Twitter employees who maintained critical infrastructure have resigned. This is going to look like a very different company tomorrow."

The snowball has gained too much momentum now. Especially with Thanksgiving coming, I don't see how Twitter is realistically going to keep the lights on, quite literally.
I was admittedly giving him benefit of the doubt at first, because an active user of the website would understand how not to break it. I just struggle to rationalize any of the decisions he's made thus far.
Just learnt of postmaster.google.
Most useful information today.
Thank you.
The shareholders got paid; this isn’t their circus anymore.
That would require integrity and empathy.
> American entry into World War I is partly because of the Zimmerman Telegram

Do you really think, existed any tiny chance, US would not enter World War?

From geography, it is obvious, US is on the middle between EU and South America. In such position, you should become active subject, or you will be used by anybody as object, for just transit or as base for one side (borderland).

As example, Ukraine hundreds years was borderland, and this costs ocean of Ukrainian blood.
I like to fill up a big glass with water. When the glass is empty I get up to get more. Exercise, a break, and a good water clean!
How was Live Nation able to get as big as they did prior to TicketMaster acquiring them?
Still putting my hope into Blue Sky/AT. I want to believe.
U.S. Indicts Two Russians for Running the ‘Z-Library’ Piracy Ring
Huh? Right after Musk ordered everyone to return to the office?

OK, so everybody takes Friday off and comes back Monday. Then what?
> something everyone likes

There's a decent chunk of the population that would be ecstatic if Twitter went away and they never had to hear about it again, so he'd probably gain some fans there.
It's not that bad, it's just that the problem is big enough in scope to get right that the state of the art is provided by private industry, and to a lesser extent some open source tools, and you're probably way better off joining them rather than trying to beat them unless you want to grind your brain into the dust for a page layout spec.
>Hundreds upon hundreds of Twitter employees have technically resigned but still have access to Twitter’s internal systems, with some speculating it is because the employees tasked with managing that access also resigned.

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593431420587761664
> I do think that was the golden era of the web. It was quirky and yet beautiful. It was limited and yet diverse. It was the sweet spot between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0. It was Web 1.61803! It was Web Golden!

I agree with this, while also wondering how much of it is nostalgia fueled rose colored glasses.

I’ve been doing professional web development since the late 90s. Most of my nostalgia is about how much easier things were in the web 1.618 days (though, honestly, I wouldn’t want to do without web 2.0’s Ajax or, later, fetch).

For me the big turning point was ES6. All of the sudden it was deemed necessary to transpile our javascript files, which led directly to the build toolchain hell we are in now.
Passkeys.directory by 1password
Speculation and gossip are annoying, but the actual things that are happening (and there are a lot of them) are worth keeping.
I think you're replying to a joke comment about inflating word count via loquacious reviews. But I'm not sure either, so kudos to the author if it is.
To scratch that TX81z urge, there's Exakt Lite[1]

[1] https://sonicbits.com/exakt-lite.html
What is wild? Musk has said for a long time Twitter needs 75% less staff. What did you expect firing that many people to look like?
> It solves IP exhaustion, NAT, and IP privacy at the cost of an extra hop and no UDP.

That is awfully expensive for something ipv6 already solves minus the privacy part. I don't see how it can be considered "huge". A slight convenience maybe?

Also, routing everything through a 3rd party is a massive downside.
It was 1950's era tech... perhaps they were concerned about the acid leaking and damaging the mines, or hydrogen sulfide gas building up inside the casing.
HTMX can do a lot and it just requires not being dogmatic about
avoiding the server doing some work every now and then and sending perhaps a little more data down the wire.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evil_maid_attack

Nothing is secure against a state.
> The far-right politician is not known for his economic erudition, as he gained notoriety by being the standard-bearer for impeached President Park Geun-hye and claiming that the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which South Korea’s dictatorship massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters, was a North Korean insurrection.

So he acts on gut instinct alone, without listening to expert advisors, and uses propaganda and fake news tactics to win supporters. Sounds a lot like several major ousted dictators.

Reap what you sow, SK. I hope you see through this BS quickly.
Maybe you should try some "small names" in AI chatbots.
All of this is predicated on Twitter remaining accessible, or existing at all, in the medium to long term which is seeming increasingly less likely.
Joel Kivelä's manaCompiler is one intriguing looking software, based on his previous Dhalang Microtonal Groovebox. This just got a major update a couple of days ago.

https://hypertonal.net/manacompiler/

https://youtu.be/dYUFkXmcSF0
Not the GP, but I seen family to have elders who's aware and keen on not having a lot of shiny stuff in general. Computers _are_ shiny for kids in such households.
Not OP, BUT yes, for the same reasons.
"v=DKIM1; p=" is a perfectly valid DKIM record. It simply tells that the key has been revoked and you should no longer trust new emails signed with previous keys. The practical effects should be similar, although maybe there's a non-compliant server that retroactively revokes older emails (this should not happen, but I can only speculate).
My car has a roof, it just wasn't chosen for me by someone at MS/Apple/Gnome/KDE. A custom hand-built car is not necessarily more primitive than a factory-standard one, or any less appealing.
Last week my fourth grader came home and said him and his friends wanted to build a web site for trading a certain type of collectible card. They had been doing some Scratch in school so he had that background. I pointed him at neocities, he signed up and worked though their html tutorial on his own. After that he asked ok now how do I do other stuff? I started talking about apis and databases and when his eyes glazed over after a couple of minutes I stopped. Seems like a lot of work doesn't it? I asked. Yeah he said. I advised him to work on small parts at a time, learn a little at a time. Like a page that shows his most valuable cards. I'm waiting to see if he goes back to it before I push it anymore.

I personally think geo/neocities are awesome, I used geocities to learn some frontend stuff back then. I really miss the days when self publishing was more common.
It's not like people eat spicy stuff that is so strong that literally hurts on its way out.
Ninja Nerds Medicine did an informative video* on the biochemistry & immunology of vitamin D in the context of SARS-CoV2 infection.

Vitamin D3 can be toxic at high doses. I live in Seattle and was at one point (years ago) tested and found deficient. My doc said many of his patients are. I was on 50k IU weekly for a few months to get back into range, and now I take 2k IU daily, with vitamin K2.

Anecdotally, I had something nasty with COVID-like symptoms in late 2019 and have had 1 minor cold since. I take other vitamin/mineral supplements, but passed on the experimental shots.

*COVID-19 and Vitamin D | Association Between Vitamin D Deficiency and COVID-19
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT1CaTv5-e4
"Panarese and Shahini ranked the 108 countries with at least 100 COVID-19 cases on 2 April 2020 by latitude, demonstrating visually that, overall, deaths per million were higher in the northern-most countries, whose citizens would be the most likely to be vitamin D deficient from the dark winter (198). Following up on Panarese and Shahini's work, Rhodes et al., compared the 120 countries with more than 150 COVID-19 cases by 15 April 2020, finding that COVID-19 mortality rates were significantly correlated with latitude (r = 0.53, p < 0.0001) (26). Rhodes et al., used a simple scatter-graph to illustrate that the COVID-19 mortality rates per million population were dramatically lower in countries with capitals south of 35°N, where sunshine in the time immediately preceding the pandemic made maintaining vitamin D levels possible (26)."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpubh.2020.0051...
Especially considering they use a lot of stuff no one else uses, like Pelikan. They already fired the main dev, who knows if there's an ops team left. How do you even hire for that? It's hard enough finding people who can run Kafka lol
This means selfhosters don't need anything other than a domain name and a local machine, right?

Technically is it very different from Cloudflare Tunnels?
The comment threads in them are a train wreck.
Hire Oracle/Ibm to run the servers, grab some recently laid off Facebook moderators to do some moderation, and give it a quarter to figure out what the fuck to do.
I've been waiting for an archive of my data for 3 days now. And my activity on Twitter is probably bottom 25%.
I wonder, for kids whose parents have done this but those kids didn't get into computer science, what other cognitive benefits they might have realized? Just because somebody doesn't get into CS in some form doesn't mean the exercise is a bust at all, but being exposed to seeing how things work, the logic, science, nuts-and-bolts of it all has got to have a net positive on the development of the child brain. And I wonder if there have been any studies proving tangible benefits from doing so, such that we could use that as justification for earlier exposure to such educational experiences in an age appropriate manner (where feasible/possible).

Just some musings from my "mental mind" (stupid pun intended). Anyway, way to go mom or dad!
Om Malik: How FTX built a house of cards
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Waste of time for everyone involved. Unless these guys were involved in some real criminal activity the US government is literally pissing away time and money on trying to send these people to jail.