skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After seeing Elon mixing up all async services that happen in backend with Android client making as many requests, I wonder if I thought this guy is smart because I know nothing about building cars or launching space rockets.

Edit: "guy is smart" probably should be "guy is technically competent". I am sure Elon is smart, I think he is being Phony while acting technically competent in every area.
Some southern and all western Slavic languages use (extended) Latin characters. Even without Cyrillic, they do not need Engliš alternatives. I speak Czech and Slovak - Cyrillic is like Chinese for me.
What carbon footprint? The consultants are not much more than sequestered carbon!

(A fancy insult, now that I think of it. Nice.)
So, if certain minorities have more representation in crime statistics in an area, it is acceptable to have a bias in random searches towards them because doing so meets the expectations of the majority to have to deal with neither crime nor random searches compared to the alternative of unbiased searches which lower arrest rates and expose the majority to more searches?

Even putting aside the slightly absurd difference in stakes with my example, there's also the issue that you're just arguing for centralization, which defeats the point of a system designed for federation in the first place.
This is a practice that occurs elsewhere in U.S. fintech as well. A bank account can become dormant if there are no deposits or withdrawals over a specified period of time as determined by the governing state. For California, it's 5 years, but for other states, it can be as soon as 12 months. Once an account becomes dormant, the holding bank is required to send the funds to the state through an escheatment process. Those funds are then listed as unclaimed property.

PayPal is not a bank, but but rather operates banking services performed through Synchrony Bank. PayPal manages individual accounts within Synchrony, and it performs required communications and actions on behalf of Synchrony bank. In the U.S., the bank is ultimately responsible for servicing these accounts, but a partner like PayPal can take on that responsibility with the bank's oversight.

Some more info for the curious: investopedia.com/terms/d/dormant-account.asp

Rather than perform this (potentially expensive and arduous) process of handing dormant funds over to the governing state, companies like PayPal opt to just slowly absorb dormant accounts. It's scummy and I hate it. I assume this transfer of funds also keeps the account from being legally considered dormant (since funds did move).
I feel like engineers behaved like a jerk in this case. Maybe Elon's tweet about 1000 RPC calls were wrong, but they could politely point it out, try to help to the company by joining internal discussions about what's going on.

But no, instead they started attacking the current owner of company publicly (good or bad, doesn't matter, he is now owner of company, if you don't like it just resign professionally).
But that's enabled by the DNS MX record. There isn't anything like that for social AFAIK, so if you wanted to do the same with your mastodon account you are hosed. Some people are saying once you have million followers on mastdon.social, you are not going to restart from zero on mastodon.net. You can, but it's hard. So centralized or federated, without handle portability, it's not very different. You are stuck. It seems to me federated mail and federated social are similar for people who don't own their DNS entry (gmail addresses), but for people like you, that's a substantial difference. You'd have to run your own instance to have your own social handle, and that isn't portability, that's DIY. It only works for a small number of techies, you have to have an instance and a domain.
(wasn't he supposed to be for free speech?)
Don't think I've ever thought too hard about it. Thinking 'out loud': If you heat or cool a whole room by changing out the air in it, then the humidity or dew point should be whatever was in the heat pump, so you might get condensation on glass walls between rooms but you shouldn't get any in the room.

But in general you're pumping really cold or really hot air into a room and doing only a partial air change and the blower is supposed to stir the room up to even out the temperature. I had to look it up because I wasn't sure, but the amount of humidity air can hold is in fact a curve, not a flat line. So if you mix one unit of very cold air (below the dew point) with four units of ambient air (also below the dew point), it does seem like the dew point of the resulting air might be higher than the temperature.

Some server rooms get too dry and moisture has to be added back in to prevent static discharge damaging electronics. That might be the sort of thing he wouldn't have been aware of but was part of the equation.

There's also the possibility that he was fucking with me.
At the rate it's going possibly he might just shut down Twitter for a few months and then relaunch it. More excitement and less of all this
Elon Only Trusts Elon
If you wanna be paid to be a doormat, there is demand for that clearly.

This is like his open door policy - go through it, for you will leave your job behind it.
That article says it's now illegal for credit card specifically but legal for other things like gift cards and bank accounts, so it's probably legal for Paypal as well.
> I have come to realise that party affiliation is far less important to me than fealty to the values that made it possible for me, a Muslim immigrant from India, to prosper in America.

> Indeed, one of America’s best-known “anti-racists”, Ibram X. Kendi, writes: “The only remedy to past discrimination is present discrimination.”

> It was hard to watch the so-called liberal justices turn a blind eye to the blatant anti-Asian racism that has become a hallmark of admissions to schools.

> It is worth saying again: among all this, it is the Republicans, not the Democrats, who are standing up for us. At the party, I was surrounded by people, like me, who feel they have been mugged by the political party that once shared our values and goals — but now gives us no choice but to reach out to the other side. Ron DeSantis and Glenn Youngkin understand our concerns. Joe Biden and the progressive ideologues in his party wish we would go away — and belittle us when we refuse. And refuse we do.
In general I'm a fan of Elon, not his crazy political stuff, but just the cool businesses he does.

But this twitter thing beginning to end has mostly been a disaster. I think he's mostly unfairly hated, in that almost any CEO is as bad or worse but he's his own worst enemy with twitter.

He's alienated a lot of people and then alienates them more by saying people should boycott thier products.
"People face a much higher risk of developing myocarditis from Covid infection than the vaccines, according to the Department of Health and Human Services. The risk of myocarditis from Covid is 100 times higher than developing the condition after Covid vaccination, according to a recent paper in Nature Reviews Cardiology."[1]

[1] - https://www.cnbc.com/2022/02/04/though-rare-moderna-covid-va...
There was no "fine for pulling out of the deal".
I am quite opposed to CDNs.

https://danuker.go.ro/how-to-protect-your-personal-data.html
Dangerous gamble for just a couple months of severance.

Would make me hesitant to hire that person knowing they have such bad judgement as to publicly badmouth the CEO of their company on Twitter. Even hiring managers who personally hate Elon have to understand that this developer could easily turn the same energy on their own company at some point in the future and make them look terrible.

Definitely a career limiting move, if not potentially career ending.

Unless you're in a financial FU position, and this is your grand FU moment on your way out the door, it seems like a bad move.
What happens when the person withdraws the million dollars? The bank only has 100k.
Reversing the phone number hashes is trivial - there are maybe 8 to 10 digits in a phone number and something like hashcat will probably try them all in less than a second on a single current GPU. And it is probably not that much harder to reverse most of the email addresses - a suitable dictionary paired with some rules how people choose their email addresses and you are good to go.
I need more understanding with this line of thinking. In the context of a single software engineer, I have a hard time believing that measurable business outcomes are substantially attributed to the actions of a single engineer 99% of the time.

Happy to have my mind changed.
Do you do any real estate investment? I have this property in Brooklyn that I think you'd be really interested in
It doesn't; most (all?) social networking sites allow unsolicited messages, and if they have a feed, it tends to accumulate second-hand spam.

The issue here isn't spam, though, it's about who sets the rules. Spam is just one of the strongest drivers that make a federated network evolve into an oligopoly. It was the driver in case of e-mail, but e.g. for Mastodon, I'd say political extremism is the primary force. The result ends up being the same, because the dynamics are content-agnostic: users migrate to nodes that offer most reliable communication, and as those nodes grow in usercount, it makes it easier for them to fight undesired communication with blunt tools (e.g. instance or IP blocklists). It's a positive feedback loop.
The problem is their ubiquity for payments (manageable on its own, though some sites only take PayPal),

AND the most reliable/usable p2p micropayments UX for non-technical people and international, under one umbrella. Yes there's crypto but good luck getting your parents to use.

Unlike in Europe and elsewhere, Americans don't have good (and somewhat standardized UX for) direct payments from bank (e-check sucks), or bank-to-bank. And you'd never want to use wire ($18+) for paying friend back for pizza.

What does it leave? CashApp, Zelle, etc. ? And Wise for international. They only address a subset of the latter use case.
I am still in awe at what time and nature is capable of producing and whenever I look at beauty or get contemplative and just take in what is in my surroundings. It's just that there are really great explanations for all of it without requiring the supernatural.

I bet you anything that you read those 2 books back to back and it will shake the foundation of your worldview to the core... of course that's if you actually feel like it can be challenged.
I’m sure some of the people working there raised alarms, only to be shut up by the owners of the exchange, who skirted regulations on purpose.
I logged into Twitter with 2FA about an hour ago (hours after this tweet).

“Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet.”

— Abraham Lincoln
I find the ringing irony in your comment annoying.
Where do you see that Ubuntu is adopting Flutter as default? That link is an announcement for the latest version of Flutter, which supports building Linux apps, and that Canonical helped make happen, but I don't see a mention of it becoming the default toolkit.
he doesn't need to be smart, if you are building something yourself, then you should be smart about that stuff, but if you are managing people to build, then it is enough if you can manage the execution well (including hiring, funding and everything else)
I don't even use 2fa for Twitter, I can't even login normally.
GCC 13 “-O2” Performance Speed Up with Small Loop Unrolling
No, but plenty of SpaceX and Tesla employees became very wealthy sticking with Elon's ups and downs over the years.

There's no doubt, executed correctly, Twitter could be a $200 billion company or more. It's really an opportunity for the employees to make that a reality. Elon (like his other companies) is going to put the engineers in control.
A guy in the next strip had his mask puncture and the blade (saber) went into his mouth, and punctured through his pallet into his sinus. Could have been a lot worse.

This guy never let his mask dry, storing it in his bag, thus even the stainless will corrode. Thus mask testing every tournament.
The context here is that the engineer in question challenged Musk's (public) claims about why Twitter is so slow (there's followup tweets in the thread with more detail): https://twitter.com/EricFrohnhoefer/status/15919022854034186...

So Musk then fired him with a Tweet: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1592186302379982849
Folks, just to set expectations here, it’s gonna be like this for a couple years. He’s going to be nanomanaging the company and learning from scratch the entire business and doing wild shit until he figures it out. And it’s going to be chaos internally and leaks left and right and ten crazy stories like this a week. The signal to noise ratio is gonna be ridiculously low and everyone’s going to get whipped up in every direction. Personally, I recommend getting off Twitter (not because of Elon per se but because of the unhealthy existing design) and checking in next year around this time to see if it’s any better. Better than drive yourself crazy by mainlining Elon Twitter drama.
And I mean a ball of crap in space might be "doing fine", whatever that means, but irreversable resource depletion, pollution, and destruction of non-human life looks like hell.
Elon literally just said that bankruptcy is a possibility for twitter in the near future. What are these RSUs going to be worth exactly? And how are they going to cash them out?
The problem is that everyone should have SSO, and that includes small orgs.

If you don't want your stuff used by small orgs that can't afford to pay, that's a totally reasonable standpoint. At the same time, though, if it's good they probably will use it despite not having SSO, and so that decision makessecurity (something that, by and large, benefits everyone) into an opt-in luxury good. Speaking only for me, I'd be uncomfortable espousing that as a philosophy.
I mean, there is no standard of proof that will convince you that the vaccine is better than the virus. But also, I'm not really trying to convince you of anything. I'm just stating why your sources don't say what you think they do.

As well as explaining confounding variables that your reference doesn't take into account for what that means. None of your sources are accounting for how politically embroiled this vaccine is, and how much of a difference that would make in who/what gets reported.

Just in case, I will make this point. If you had a loved one get a covid vaccine, and then die 20 days later, would you report it to VAERS?
> try to help to the company by joining internal discussions about what's going on

Its been widely reported that internal communication is ineffective since the takeover, even before the mass firings which drove the expectations to managers have a expected span of 20 professional direct reports (exceeded wildly in some cases) and expected to also be actively coding themselves.

Musk could deal with that breakdown that he caused responsibly, or he could shoot the messenger and reinforce the thermocline of truth effect isolating him from knowledge of what is going on in the company he owns.
In the UK fixed speed cameras are actually painted bright yellow, for the sole purpose of making them more visible to drivers. The reason being is they are positioned in places where you want to force the traffic to slow down for specific safety reasons (merging of two lanes, exits etc). They are not meant to change the behaviour of drivers on the road as a whole.
I'm surprised at the number of people defending Elon here, how would you feel if your CEO literally shit on your work in public to millions of people and not only that was completely totally wrong about it.

Like I'm not surprised that they got fired because Elon behaves like a toddler but god damn if your response isn't to salute two people who got axed for speaking the truth then you have your priorities ass backwards.
The G+ "circles" idea made sense.

Frankly distributed social medai should be more akin to Google Reader and less of what Mastodon tried to be.

Like, have server have its users stream, still allow moderators to block incoming comments on that (aside from mod ego trips bad actors will always exist), but allow user to subscribe whatever they want without mod touching that path. So say mod would be allowed to block @server or user@server and that would cut that from public stream but not from people that subscribed to the guy or to feed from that server's public streams.

That way you can as mod still choose to not have politics poison your stream of dunno, amateur woodworking twoops, but it doesn't infringe on your user's freedom to see and talk with whoever they want.

> There probably also needs to be some sort of web of trust style reputation system. (Or just a way to whitelist users instead of blocking them.)

Frankly blockchain here would be the sole case where that technology might've had any benefit, even if blockchain was just used to store user's identity data and facilitate profile transfer. Maybe separate one if some servers want to make a blocklist in "if at least X out of Y servers see user misbehave, permaban" way. But eh, what stops someone from making 20 accounts on 20 different federated servers and report same post ?

Distributed reputation is hard. "just" downvote/upvote karma system is frankly silly to be anything else than brag number, as essentially you just need to make popular post to counter few unpopular ones. I think there should be a system to attach up/downvote count to a post, that makes it easy to cut on low effort/dumb content without much mod input, but making that not be gamed cross-server would be hard.... and per-server score is less and less useful the smaller server is/
Related to this discussion, Elon made a tweet saying there are over 1200 microservices. Are there any tech talks or explanation videos showing a rough outline of what all these microservices do or how they're broken up? It's difficult to wrap my head around that amount.
> Putting up a fake sign is like dropping a single piece of litter. It's not going to do much by itself, it's just a tiny bit of pollution which makes signs a tiny bit less useful to the general public.

FWIW, this applies even better to advertising.
Chernobyl going critical and destroying itself was a good thing?
Yep, the Crankbrothers Mallett so I could also use the pedal in my other shoes. The shoe that broke wasn't durable enough but a Specialized one lasted the rest of the way. It was like a hiking shoe. I bought spare cleats at a shop once along the way but never needed them.
The drama is literally the only reason I'm on Twitter right now. Better than any TV show. The moment things get back to "normal" I'm deleting the app.
I might be misunderstanding, but how would stock awards work if the company is now private?
When doing long tours you want to replace stuff before they break. For instance, I did several tours between 3000 and 5000 kms. I might have gotten away with not replacing the drive train between tours, but spending that extra cash (especially when on the more budget friendly end, like me) is money well invested.

Also, with heavy load (bike+luggage for me was usually in the 35-40 kg range) and more riding in rain than I would do when not on tour, leads to increased wear.

My worst failure was a cracked rim on a rear wheel that I should have replaced before the tour. It had started to wear down due to bad breaks. It was still rideable for another 100k to the nearest bikeshop (this was in southern Spain).
Why is Paypal G&S a better standard than normal credit card protection? Also if part of their offerings is something that is the gold standard in fraud detection and similar, why are there a bagillion of compromised accounts?
When closing your PayPal account, do not forget to click the ~"ask us to delete your personal data" in the modal. Otherwise, they keep it even if the account itself is closed/deleted.
He and several others apparently did bring facts. Those tweets aren't available now it seems.
Here, this link explicitly says it https://ubuntu.com/blog/flutter-and-ubuntu-so-far

>making Flutter the default choice for future Canonical mobile and desktop apps.

The other link was more up-to-date about the state of Flutter on Ubuntu though.
The obligatory Gell-Mann Amnesia reference: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmn...
Maybe for Polish, which sounds bit like east Slavic, but I am not sure if Czech/Slovak even use combination šč that much.
>the mere existence of a massive store of all this data presents a very real risk to users

You're assuming this massive store exists with no evidence for it. One of Apple's central tenets with regard to privacy is that all the telemetry is done on device and never leaves the device except in an anonymized form. Based on what's been shown, this is still accurate. Apple is able to still collect data about how its users behave without any data that's tied to an individual.

>The lawsuit alleges that Apple is not subject to the same restrictions it imposes on others.

That is not evidence that this is true. From the lawsuit itself, they seem to be misunderstanding both how that info is used and how users have consented to it. I don't have enough information to say for certain but, based on the way the article and others are talking about the data and the video that's been presented that shows what data is being sent, there seems to be a misunderstanding between the settings that Apple provides that are meant to prevent cross-application and cross-site data collection with data collection from a single source. Additionally, I think they're making an assumption that the IDs being sent to Apple are shared across applications because I haven't seen any evidence to suggest that that's the case. That means that, unless some evidence is presented that proves it is being shared across apps, Apple is being truthful in what it's saying. It's collecting anonymized data that is then aggregated.

>to remain immune to those exact restrictions.

Again, that's not what has been shown so far. Until it's actually shown, rather than assumed, that Apple is using this tracking information across apps or across sites, Apple is doing what they say they're doing in their privacy policies.
> How feasible are tubeless setups on long tours?

Very in my opinion, but I'm coming from a bike packers perspective.

Start the route tubeless and run it until it fails. When that happens throw a spare tube (that you should be carrying anyways) in it. If that goes flat, patch it.

Converting back to tubes is easy: take the value stem out -> put in tube. Yes, it's messier but it's not like you're showering regularly anyways.

> Being able to locally resupply with a compatible sealant is the main impediment

I would think that tubeless setup + plugs with spare tubes + a patch kit would get you far enough for this to not be a major issue. Carrying a small bottle of sealant would help. Worst case, you run tubes the rest of the trip.

Note: These are just my thoughts as a (formerly) sponsored bike packer.
I doubt it. You can't just look at the smartphone market share in the US or a few wealthier countries.
Hope the thread is archived somewhere, because these tweets aren't going to stay up for very long. The "free speech absolutist" will see to that.
The added weight of a touring kit is a big factor.
This is just completely untrue for Tesla. Carbon credits make up less than 10 percent of Tesla's profit. They had 250 million in carbon credits last quarter and 3.3 billion profit.
User retention is much better on apps -- if someone hasn't engaged with your app in a while, the app can send a notification/has more avenues for re-engaging the user compared to a website.
Can you say what are the current bottlenecks that are limiting the Ethereum VM?

How far off into the future is decentralized apps being as revolutionary as the iPhone?