skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unlikely. Elon's MO for all of his companies is to find the "true believer" types and work them to death for pennies. It's much harder to do in software when one can simply walk across the street and get a better job, but I'm sure there are still enough of them to keep Twitter running because they worship whatever he is spouting.
Yeah, just pirate the content from the streaming services & pay people directly where you can.
Ask HN: Why are there no entrepreneur enclaves or housing communities?
> so if you wanted to do the same with your mastodon account you are hosed

I don't believe that's true:

https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...

Also https://masto.host/how/ and https://simonwillison.net/2022/Nov/8/mastodon-is-just-blogs/
important to note, that there is a natural very steep Pareto distribution going on here, meaning probably 10-50 of these services are responsible for 90-95% of the activity and features, and on the long tail you have basically one off reporting "services" (queries)

see also https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc...

https://blog.twitter.com/engineering/en_us/topics/infrastruc... "Structure of AdServer Microservices"
It's less that "Reddit uses NIM" but rather one guy at Reddit uses NIM to do work. I see tech debt on the horizon.
Couldn’t agree more. I also really like his idea of apps. Micro services introduces operational complexity and overhead. Most of the time, I see teams using it by default that really should be a monolith.
Wait, isn’t that what did in the last guy?
Do you want to have a go at re-wording it?

I'm assuming "parochialism" is what you have an issue with, but I'm struggling to think of what else sounds better and conveys the same meaning.

https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/parochial <--- those are all pretty crap
If it's in the Bloomberg Terminal, it's already table stakes. Front-running anything based on Bloomberg data is basically laughable, if you ask any big player in the financial industry.
Semi Related. How does a Bankruptcy work?

Does a person who invested 44B get away with minimal consequences if he brings the company down, files for bankruptcy? I am trying to understand the financial risks at play here.
yeah there isnt a perfect one

USDC fits my risk profile, as well as MIM

I want a better managed variant of MIM
Yea, I get that but I doubt it's a trivial task!
Isn't Apache infamously slow? If you're serving a lot of traffic I'd consider switching to a faster server (nginx or similar).
You know you're getting older when people start getting nostalgic for things you still think of as new.
s/picolisp/picolibc/
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What is the incremental revenue or profit per hour worked for a serious hard hitting investigative piece, vs other crap that is much cheaper to make (like regurgitating press releases)?

Not to mention the fact that a lot of investigative leads likely either don’t pan out, are not newsworthy, or ruffle feathers better left unruffled (news media relies on connections and access for leads on stories, and their customers are advertisers, ie large corporations).

There is not much of a market for investigative journalism. IMO tort law or class-action suits could fill that niche too if the incentives were more aligned (gotta be a lawyer to make anything off a class action) and the playing field were more even - arbitration clause says what?

So lacking an incentive for either of those the next best thing is short selling, which also sucks because it’s time-based, risky, requires capital, and isn’t relevant when something doesn’t have a direct link to a tradable security
I see. Probably I have problem with English pronunciation for same reason (even if we ignore the vowel shift).

edit: but now when I'm thinking about it bit more how is it with non-Slavic letters like ø, ü, å? As I have mentioned the vowel shift maybe even 'g', 'r', 'j'?

And on the other hand Slovak have ľ and ô - which is ignored in my region and we just pronounce it as 'l' and 'o'.
As someone who's used C, C++, Obj-C professionally, with some JS and Python.

Dart does most things right. It's heavily C# inspired. I enjoy using it.
Well, it's too late now, so I guess we're stuck with it. Just look at email for example: its fundamental design is quite flawed as well, since it was conceived before anyone dreamed of spam, but now there's no way to fix it aside from hacked-on additions like spam filtering. The protocol, devised in the 1970s, can't be changed now, and we can't get everyone to upgrade to a new protocol.

Why didn't the architects of Mastodon think of this stuff before? It should have been pretty obvious that people might want to move their accounts between servers. But now, they'll *never* be able to. The only way it can happen is if someone creates an entirely different social network like Mastodon and somehow gets everyone to switch to that instead, but it's probably too late now.
Do you work in PR? Because that is 100% grade A PR damage control spiel and seems completely plausible and reasonable unless you know better, which both I and they do and so will you shortly.

There was no fraud detection, no flags, no payments to me ever. None.

Paypal demanded, out of the blue copies of drivers licenses, passports, bank statements etc that they have no right to, claiming they needed them to comply with law. Suspicious much? Well I sure was and am. They have only ever been an online click-clack machine for my credit card and nothing else. Ever.

I have the _right_ to refuse to do business with them if they unilaterally change their rules. I have done so.

There /can/ be /zero/ fraud possible by closing the account because I don't trust them and going elsewhere to get my credit card processed.

From their point of view it would be a negative metric. Better to not have declining account numbers you have to report so just block them.

They are just crooks from top to bottom. It's their default response. They are arrogant, obnoxious and deserve to be prosecuted and should be.

What I want them to do is repect my wishes not to be associated with them in any way and not to have an identity theft vector avaialble with people and an organisation I have justifiably decided don't trust when I have told them that is what I now want.

So f%#k them and anyone sticking up for the crooks they are.
It only had to have one bed.
I had an argument with family members yesterday on these quotes from Stalin and his agents, on the impact of U.S. industrial output on Russia's effort.

'"I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war," Stalin said. "The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war."...

'"If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war," [Nikita Khrushchev] wrote in his memoirs. "One-on-one against Hitler's Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me."...

'In 1963, KGB monitoring recorded Soviet Marshal Georgy Zhukov saying: "People say that the allies didn't help us. But it cannot be denied that the Americans sent us materiel without which we could not have formed our reserves or continued the war. The Americans provided vital explosives and gunpowder. And how much steel! Could we really have set up the production of our tanks without American steel? And now they are saying that we had plenty of everything on our own."'

The counter-argument was that this was propaganda, but I don't accept that.

https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balanc...
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> Accounts with zero balance won’t be impacted by this fee and this charge won’t result in any negative balance.

So basically just zero out your account and don't worry about it? I'm just glad it's not a $2,500 fee!
Yes.

"A value in a box" is more like a metaphor for a functor.

The key part about monads is that you can "merge the boxes" (to strain the analogy). Or, as I'd prefer to think about it, to merge different effects.
Out of interest, what makes you think that all religions lead to the same destination?
I have that bell, it makes a beautiful sound. It's not quite loud enough, but it's real problem is that its spring is the only thing holding the striker on, and that gets bent out of shape way too easily.

Plus it was way too expensive for being a bell...
>I don’t see how it’s any different from the situation with, say, bitcoin. If you store a bitcoin, it just sits there, and its value follows that of the market.

Note, that by "expensive/risky" I was talking about the physical storage of the bills (eg. risk of theft or needing to install security equipment), not the opportunity cost of not putting the money to work. The latter is a whole can of worms that I don't want to get into.

>The fact that bitcoin is deflationary has nothing to do with decentralisation; a central bank could do that as well. They don’t because deflation is a terrible way of running an economy, not because it’s not possible.

>Mild inflation is much better than deflation from an economic point of view. What do you think are the advantages of deflation? I can see the “the value of my pile keeps getting bigger”, but how would that work e.g. for farmers who need to invest to produce food, or people who need a loan to buy a house, if the whole system is deflationary?

>But again, that’s a red herring because central banks can have deflationary policies. They don’t because that causes the economy to contract, unemployment to rise, and investments to fall.

I don't doubt there are great reasons to run an inflationary monetary policy, but the fact still remains that if you want to keep cash around you'll be subject to inflation.

>You could loan cash as well and get interests from that.

But now it turns into a full time job.

>Again, this has nothing to do with cryptocurrencies. The infrastructure that was built on top of cryptocurrencies enable doing it at larger scales and over longer distances, but that’s not a qualitative difference (besides the fact that this tends to concentration, running against the decentralisation ideal).

No, because with cryptocurrencies you can deposit your money into some sort of lending protocol and have that handle it for you, rather than having to do it yourself by being a loan officer/servicer and debt collector.

>It’s something that emerged because of economies of scale. Personally, I feel much safer with my money with an institution that is big and resilient enough that I am very close to 100% certain that it’ll still exist tomorrow. This can also be done with cryptocurrencies, but against this goes against the dogmatic ideal of decentralisation.

But the whole reason why you have to worry about your whether your money is in a "big and resilient" institution is that the only way of storing money in the finance system is at a fractional reserve institution, which can be subject to bank runs. It's possible to structure a bank that doesn't have this problem (eg. narrow banking), but for some reason the government isn't too big on it.

>How is it a problem in practice?

It's an issue any time you want to store/transfer a large amount of money. Although to be fair most americans don't have enough savings for this to be an issue so I'll let that slide.
I do it. Certainly some people else.
The poor in England won't be getting an additional kicking from because it will have barely any impact on them, but even if they couldn't buy crappy sausages which barely have anything you'd describe as meat in them, it would be good for them as even cheaper food like beans is far more healthy for them, and their finances.
He used to be the spokesman for Cadbury.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwBceIbh5qc

He also shocked himself doing an experiment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkocaEcx26c
> "is associated with a 15-minute random, rotating device-generated identifier"

Can someone clarify why that's done or how it could even be useful? It just seems (to me, naïvely) like if you're going to rotate the identifier every fifteen minutes, why even bother?
> Those two books together crystallized in me what it could mean to have a world view absent of supernatural forces.

Could you elaborate on this? I don't consider myself religious or atheistic, and in general, I think religion and science are fundamentally two different things. Although, science in practice and as a human social structure can behave as a sort of religion, whether scientists want to believe that or not. (see Feyerabend). There is also spirituality, which is distinct from religion. A religion is often more of a social structure than it is a belief system.

To me, getting an answer to the existence or non-existence of a god or gods is would be as meaningless as an answer to what created the universe. Both answers, if even possible, would be about as meaningful as "it's turtles all the way down", because I don't see any end to the line of questioning of "so what came before?".
OpenBSD has the only correct implementation of wifi among all Unix and Unix-like operating systems. It's really the best thing going.
Now I finally understand Elon's secret strategy to keep Twitter engagement up.
You're confusing the impact of the decision with the prevalence of belief in it. While that may objectively be the best way to combat climate change, it doesn't imply anything about how many people are making that decision for that reason.
It's a shame because Elon was certainly enjoying the prerogative to shit on that team's work.
As per your own link, the situations where that deal could be broken and the fee would be applicable were very limited (Musk not getting financing, Twitter finding a higher bidder). Musk changing his mind was not one of those situations, it was a binding deal.

Twitter did not sue for the $1b, but for specific perfomance, i.e. closing the deal.
I tried it, queen and bishop to the same square, they captured each other and disappeared off the board!
I don't need to, I tried it when I saw this initially. I don't however do it every 15 minutes to see if it's still the case.
Not with hub and spoke sockets, it aint (not easy at least).
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"The Cyrillic script has weird origins"
Not really.
The Early Cyrillic alphabet was developed during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School in the First Bulgarian Empire during the reign of tsar Simeon I the Great, probably by DISCIPLES of the two Byzantine brothers[6] Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius ( byzantine scholars from Thessaliniki), who had previously created the Glagolitic script. The Cyrillic script is named IN HONOR of Saint Cyril (by the disciples who created it and translated the first important works) in the 890s (9th century) as a more suitable script for books in Old Bulgarian (later called for political correctness "Old Church Slavonic"). This was primarily done in the Preslav Literary School (in northeastern Bulgaria).
The credit goes to the seven most prominent disciples of the two saints, but primarily to st Clement of Ohrid & st Naum of Preslav (aka Kliment Ohridski & Naum Preslavski).

(Christian emissaries later brought it from Bulgaria to Kiyv not long after as I recall. And as we all know, at that time Moscow did not exist... Sometime later Bulgaria fell under the Ottoman Empire for five centuries and did not stand a chance... Yet what had reached the Kievian Rus lived on... as you know... Yes, a Russian tsar threw out a bunch of letters at some point…)

(So much of Eastern Europe’s history has been… “edited” after WWII… I know.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrillic_script

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Cyrillic_alphabet

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preslav_Literary_School
IANAL but I follow some: fired and laid off employees may have a recourse beyond the WARN Act, state legislation regarding layoffs and even unlawful dismissal.

The contract Elon signed to acquire TWitter included promises on layoffs and the treatment of employees. This makes the employees what are called "third-party beneficiaries to the contract".

This is to say that in addition to legal restrictions on firings and layoffs these people can potentially sue under Elon's own acquisition contract.
Wow small world! Thanks to you for taking the time to explore this topic and putting such a great presentation together. I'd wager it's a must-watch for anyone who keeps asking "what the heck is the event loop anyway?" haha
That's impressive. Although I'm more into 3D/Physics simulation e so I'd like to test one of these super GPU computers one day and see how fast they are.
The heap of spaghetti these apps would pump out to create a webpage is similar to the endless layers of divs I see when I look at React generated source. Plus ça change.
Nothing is his public interaction or interviews lends this impression to anyone that has been paying attention.
Altcoins prey on gullible, ignorant, greedy people - the best people to scam. Those are also the targets of Nigerian princes and all other get rich quick schemes.

Shitcoins represent a technological breakthrough in scamming because they scale so much better than operating a call center and have no physical footprint
The studies I cited include 58 million, 15 million, and 43 million people, respectively.

The study you cite is just 200k people.
I'm not very surprised because even Google has tens of monolithic services that needs to be gone through just for a single search/ad query.
I see that "the usual consequences" isn't all that popular based on downvoting. These comments are staying up on HN, it's handling the speech and the speech is gathering consequences too. Speech has consequences. If I insult your choice of clothing in front of a crowd, I can expect you to disinvite me from your party.

Perhaps this is a question of the use of the word "free". There's a narrow interpretation of it to mean "able to be said" and also "allowed or constrained by government". Twitter deplatforming this engineer would be fit the narrow flavor, and nothing written so far suggests that happened. Elon has not said the Twitter will have a free-speech-oriented employer-employee dynamic. Few if any workplaces have. I'd be very interested in hearing from people who think their management chain would handle it well, especially if they think their management chain would publicly pop off with the information level on topics that Elon appears to be.

I'm not on the side of a petty thin-skinned manager behaving like this at all. I just believe it is pretty much the common case that managers called out in public will fire you, so you'd expect it. Especially from Elon.
I respect it. If you're a Twitter employee fed up with this stuff and typing up a boring resignation email, why not instead say screw it and get publicly fired by the big man himself after hurting his ego on Twitter..
As a software engineer myself I used to self host a lot. Nowadays I outsource email, backups, (remote)storage, etc.
That is not "of Covid", it is "with Covid". We are still counting a Covid death for each person who has Covid at the time of death, regardless of what actually caused the death. Probably some of those people died exactly of Covid, but many died of at least two things, counting "having Covid" as one of the co-morbidities.
Link to the demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e047PL2KyP4
Arguably, we're actually conversing on a "decentralized" medium right now. HN may be popular in the tech scene but it's "just" a website. There are many "just" a websites out there!

Ultimately, that's what gets me about all these sorts of conversations. People will post articles on websites saying the web is dead or whatever…same thing happened 20 years ago, same thing will happen 20 years from now.
It’s not “hidden” in that it’s not on their financial statements. It’s that churn of drivers and adding of passengers is accounted for in their marketing budget so if you want to do a fair comparison of cost per ride you need to figure out how to break out that component.

It’s no different than any other companies marketing budget and is definitely not fraud.
They're not walkable because the are designed for cycling long distances in a day. Some find the eggbeater platform doesn't work for long distances because the platform isn't as big as SPD or SPD-SL pedals. Not everyone is planning on doing big daily mileage when touring so it depends on the rider.
Tantrum is a kind way of framing Elon's social media style. Elon's tactical repertoire includes accusations of pedophilia, as he did to a rescue worker during a deadly rescue mission. Elon later double-downed on the claim by elaborating on why he thought the rescue worker was a pedophile.
Timing Examples
Webring was great. Missing it like missing old good day which everything is fresh and good. Now have to dig in junk for good thing, rarely fresh.
Well if you thought radical transparency and public debate were still on the table it would have been, but this is further proof it is not.
The NYT is the most "bothsides" political media you'll find; any political story will be reported as "why are the Democrats doing a bad job?".

This is the basis of NYT Pitchbot.
Yeah, my site which is hosted on fly.io's smallest VM with 256MB RAM and only part of a CPU core was on the HN front page the other day and I was surprised to see that it barely even registered the resource usage: consuming just 50MB RAM with a 0.2 load average.

It is a fairly simple webpage, and it's rendered in Rust so it's probably more efficient than most. And perhaps it didn't get as much traffic as other things on the front page, but I was still expecting worse given how much some sites seem to struggle.
What kind of boss shits on their employees in public over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again?
He’s now made it clear to everyone that he’s an awful person. The stain will not be washed away. Radioactive is a good metaphor.
I believe webrings could still be great discoverability and serendipity tools for smaller communities today. They could provide a curative answer to the failure of qualitative selection in search engines and a (small but significant) counterbalance to the corporate attention-sinks that dominate the modern web.

Of course this depends on trustworthy people who are willing to take on the effort to become a “ringmaster” of their community and approve new entries. There could even be webrings that connect great related webrings, forming a decentralized network of rings – a web of value and meaning rather than commerce and data aggregation.

But I guess our browsing habits have changed too much and it has become rare that we discover great websites outside of the realm of anonymous content-machines. Most people wouldn’t even see any of those rings or would ignore them and instead google for similar websites, even if they find only a bunch of crap between ads.
What's stopping you doing that in 2022?

That's how I wrote my homepage

https://lewiscampbell.tech
I think more than anything else Musk is teaching people to never apply to any company he owns under any circumstances. This isn't going to be treated as a role model for managers. It's going to be a model of exactly what not to do as a CEO, not just on HR issues, but everything else.

I seriously don't see Twitter ever being able to hire a worker of any significant skill level ever again.
i think anyone that chooses to work for that [expletive] anytime soon is by definition not "good people". They may be "competent" people... but not "good".

Supporting that behavior, and a platform that he's actively trying to modify to support racist, and anti-semetic speech is by definition, "bad".