skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Frankly I'm really surprised we haven't seen a massive outage yet, given a huge amount of the infrastructure team have either been fired or had their hands completely tied for at least the last week.
Seriously?

Your home page clearly uses CSS and judging by how it jerks around when I scroll there is plenty of JS too.
I agree, I was misinformed. Too many articles state both acquisition or $1B fine were viable routes for Twitter, but other sources with more solid analysis look to contradict that.
Also on Protonmail.

I haven't been able to send mail to Pocket support for about a year based on Gmail blocking.

YMMV.
New reddit is just harmful to your laptop battery. It fulls one cpu core all the time if you don't block the update websocket. Truly the worst written react app I ever saw.
Wonder why not syntax totally common lisp so one does not need to change with switch to turn on certain or full Hy features. It is a bit confusing this partially Python partial Common Lisp then throw in a “!” for defmarco …
$67 million (D) vs $2 million (R) is significant. It also depends who it was given to.
Whoa great! I’ll give it a go
Nowhere in this thread am I assigning any blame to anyone, so that's just a strawman diversion from the conversation on your part.

As for runway – that's public information as well. Twitter had $6B in cash and securities as of the last financial statement release. That has likely gone down a fair amount due to acquisition-related costs as well as severance payments. Keeping up with the ~$2B/yr burn rate, unless Twitter can turn things around fast (or get another cash infusion), it has about 2-3 years left in the tank.
There are also many places in the US where influenza shots aren't contractual, they're law, particularly for those in schools, long-term care facilities, and healthcare settings. And vaccine mandates have hundreds of years of precedent in the US. It ain't the mandates that are new, it's the political climate.
As a co-founder of Starseed, owner of WebRing after Sage Weil, I wish I had more time to chime in on all of this. I will say the OP gets this wrong:

> Webring.org was purchased by an investment firm in 1997

We were not an investment firm - We were a scrappy startup that was housed in the same city as Sage and got to know him (as well as many other techies in the community) and had the opportunity to purchase WebRing from him at a time when he was ready pursue other interests.

Webring.com gets it more correct:

> In 1997, Weil sold WebRing to Starseed, Inc.

WebRing was awesome for its time - I personally did a lot to speed up the system that we purchased from Sage to help it keep scaling to the point where we could get acquired.

Tim Killeen, eventual owner of WebRing after Yahoo left it to die, did some great additions to the technology to help keep it relevant for several more years.

There's been a lot of discussions of small personal sites coming back into vogue recently - This gives me hope that something like WebRing could find value in the community again.

/side note:

I was onsite at GeoCities working to integrate WebRing into their system.

Literally, on my final day onsite and the when were to demo the integration, the company all-hands announcing the sale to Yahoo happened.

Exciting times !
For real. I deleted mine last week but I might have to make a new one so I can read the hilarious threads. They their up a modal if you scroll too far as an unregistered user
You're welcome! Rewatch Philip's video as many times as you need until the concepts sink in, before you move into learning promises and await/async [1]. Similarly for Jake Archibald's video.

Good luck!

[1]: from what I gather asynchronous programming using callbacks isn't used anymore but it might be instructive to start with it, understand the issues with it, and why promises replaced this style.
The value wouldn't be zero, the transaction rate would head to zero. The value would be stuck at whatever it last traded at, so it'd become very volatile.
We're not short on steel, we're short on stability thanks to covid and Putin's War. If we're too short on steel to make this thing we are in BIG trouble.
"Open up, it's the pigs."
Thought the same thing. I got the notification and deleted my account.

It's pretty funny too, since someone asked me to Paypal them some money shortly after. As I didn't have an account anymore, we used Zelle instead.

I guess some middle manager gets to make some slides about how they made x amount of money out of inactivity fees, while ignoring all of the business the company lost.
> Over 5000mi/8000km, everything is consumable, except hopefully the frame and associated components. I didn't blow up a hub over 7000 miles of touring, but I replaced chains, the cassette, the chainring that got the most wear, a couple of spokes, a rim, a saddle, and maybe a few other things. Oh, and several tires.

That seems... unusual? I'm at 11,000 miles on my current road bike and I've replaced less than that even though I'm using components designed for weight, not durability. I'm on my fourth chain, third cassette, second rear tire (although both tires need replacement soon), and other than those the only things I've replaced are brake pads. Hauling a heavier load obviously increases wear and tear, but I wouldn't expect it to be that much.
Previously worked at Monzo and the way their monorepo is designed is in retrospect incredibly solid, there is pretty much zero feature overlap between different services which is something even Google never managed to solve completely when I worked there.

Definitely had issues with abandoned / zombie services, but nothing that ever actually got in my way.
There's a conviction on record. It would be inaccurate to describe this as alleged.
I've fenced on and off for 20 years, and the worst injury I've seen is bruises, thank goodness. My only concern these days is the blade breaking and sliding under the throat guard.
> What we techies miss is that there are more people who don't understand technology and are not willing to spend time learning about it as they have other more important things to do.

I'll go stronger than that: if your theory is that people should want to be their own sysadmin, and people who don't want to be a sysadmin don't deserve [a thing] then your theory is bad and you should feel bad.
This is destined to be a classic
I find all the programming advice espoused by all these "gurus" to be very suspect. Especially since most of them seem to come from a theory vs practice POV. For example "uncle bob" delivers a lot of his advice as gospel, but has he actually successfully delivered any software that's used at scale? Same with Martin Fowler et al. I've found advice by people like Linus Torvalds, Steve Yegge, etc. much more interesting/insightful/useful.

I've especially found anyone that is an "enterprise architectural consultant" to be especially suspect.
The real extraordinary admission is this:

> Meanwhile, at a meeting with Alameda employees on Wednesday, Ms. [Caroline] Ellison [CEO of Alameda] explained what had caused the collapse, according to a person familiar with the matter. Her voice shaking, she apologized, saying she had let the group down. Over recent months, she said, Alameda had taken out loans and used the money to make venture capital investments, among other expenditures.

> Around the time the crypto market crashed this spring, Ms. Ellison explained, lenders moved to recall those loans, the person familiar with the meeting said. But the funds that Alameda had spent were no longer easily available, so the company used FTX customer funds to make the payments. Besides her and Mr. Bankman-Fried, she said, two other people knew about the arrangement: Mr. Singh and Mr. Wang.

Alameda borrowed short-term to make long-term illiquid VC investments. Sort of what a bank does, but without FDIC insurance, or a central bank lender of last resort guaranteeing their liquidity.

The short-term loans were (not unpredictably) called back, but Alameda (not unpredictably) had insufficient liquidity to pay them back, so (extraordinarily) FTX commingled their exchange customers' funds with Alameda to pay back the loans.

More discussion: https://twitter.com/WClementeIII/status/1592289824542949376

Unbelievable that 1) they did this, and 2) they admitted it. Someone needs to tell these kids to stop talking publicly and hire lawyers.
I still believe that his insistence on only using computer vision for Tesla’s self driving was profoundly wrong. I got my ivy-league graduate degree in a related field right around the time when he probably was making the decision (2015) and it was obvious to everyone around me that we are not even close to having the kind of generic, reliable CV you would need for a car. Obviously, in grant proposals and papers we painted a much rosier picture, but on the inside everyone knew it’s just exaggerated, best-case scenarios that have little bearing on reality.
In fact, you are right, the mandatory regulations proposed for equipment after this tragic incident did turn fencing into one of the safest rival sports later on.
I've managed to snap a sabre blade on a parry. It just cut in two and fell to the ground, was impressed.

Felt bad for the guy as it was his new blade bought off ebay. Although saying that I need get back in to the sport.
> Calling this out as bullshit. Show me a reference.

You mean, like this:

https://i.imgur.com/iIz30xw.png

Take note of the rating.

The fact that they are labeled "Platinum" is nice marketing. We've had family members and friends on some of these plans, they are --and I am being kind-- not great.

The context shouldn't be what's on the CA exchanges today. It should be what we and others had prior to being forced into ACA. Which was fantastic insurance for the entire family for $650 per month. Our deductibles were half what they are today and we had all the catastrophic stuff just the same. I assure you that, with my wife being a doctor, we did not have shit insurance.

What should horrify everyone is that, today, in the US, a family has to spend $30K per year for health insurance. That's just insane.

Before you say "we don't". If you get your insurance through your employer you should ask them how much they are spending for your insurance. Unless they got you on a shit program, they are likely spending $20K to $30K on you. This is money that is not available to give you a raise. In other words, you are still suffering the consequences of the ACA scam, you just don't know it.

Oh, yes, and don't get me started on the Presidential promise that families would save $2,500 per year, keep their doctors, etc. We went from $7,800 per year to $27,600 per year. More than that actually. Due to the high deductibles we have to spend thousands of dollars per year before any of it actually kicks in. I haven't done the math at this point. I would not be surprised if we've reached $40K.

Again, no problem helping others. That doesn't mean robbing families of tens of thousands of dollars per year. That's fucking criminal.

I know many don't feel this way. That's only so because they have never been on the receiving end of something like this. We love to talk about the concept of "fair share". Well, tripling health insurance costs isn't anywhere close to "fair share", it's government-enforced theft under false promises.
Guy Built Legs for a Snake
Study of 'polluted' white dwarfs finds that stars and planets grow together
A team of astronomers have found that planet formation in our young Solar System started much earlier than previously thought, with the building blocks of planets growing at the same time as their parent star.
That's about double the price of their WIFI 6E routers.

>Product availability for US market:

Archer BE900 -- BE24000 Quad-band Wi-Fi 7 router -- $699.99
Deco BE85--BE22000 Tri-band Mesh Wi-Fi 7 System-- $999.99 (2 pack)
Deco BE95 -- BE33000 Quad-band Mesh Wi-Fi 7 System -- $1199.99 (2 pack)
The three above products will be available for pre-order on 12/31/2022 and will ship in Q1, 2023. Additional products will become available throughout Q1 and Q2 2023.
I missed it because there’s an open issue for it: https://github.com/Budibase/budibase/issues/4403
I dunno, an ambitious young eng with no other responsibilities could stay just to see how much they're about to run basically by themselves. what other ways could you get that kind of experience? if the site goes down well ah well that was a difficult task. if they manage to keep the site going though, juggling keeping the shitton of microservices up with a megalomaniac at the helm trying to kill them off. that experience is probably worth a few hundred k in TC at whatever place lets them tell the story and gives them an offer
That's a good option, but it does leave the browser UI on the screen.
It's not required that this happened for nefarious reasons. My naive assumption was that it was a casualty of trying to downrank misinformation. The early misinformation nets, around COVID, were unnecessarily wide, catching objective truth. Searching now, it looks like things have improved.
Interestingly, I was a physics + math major. Maybe the book struck a different nerve for me, than for a real engineer. Also, 40 years ago we had no access to computer simulation, and so we learned to design circuits the way physics students solve physics problems: Deriving equations by hand. Today, that method may be as obsolete for electronics as it is for physics. ;-) We prototyped by hand. Already by the time I was in grad school, the engineering students were heavily into Spice, and it was incorporated into their coursework.

Today, I don't design commercial electronics, but I design small circuits to support my own R&D work in developing measurement equipment, such as making front ends for weird optical detectors and such. Plus hobbies of course.
Elon Musk ignored Twitter’s internal warnings about his paid verification scheme
That is indeed a lot to ask of the general populace.

But I don’t think even a majority of the populace had an issue with it anyway - it’s always the fringe extremists that get most of the press, they tend to be a lot more quotable than the ‘meh, I guess that’s fine’ folks.
I would hire anyone that called any C level person a dumbass for making bad decisions affecting the bottom-line of the company.
See also from today:

Twitter Android app dev fired: Guess it's official now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33603418

(66 points, 113 comments)
> And if you want to run your own server, good luck getting Gmail to accept your e-mails at all.

I still can, but only because I hate myself enough to run my own email for more than 20 years, so there must be some magic field of trust somewhere in the background. I wouldn't start from scratch though.
New Zealand house prices see biggest fall since the 1990s
I don't think the maintainer has a problem with pronoun choice in the sense you're implying - rather it seems that they are trying to emphasize that they are just one person and have limited time/resources
See also from today:

Musk also fired Twitter Infrastructure Engineer Sachee today for “shitposting”

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33604292
cool; just to expand - since hashed passwords are all the same length in a db, there's no benefit for max length requirements, and providing character limitations gives attackers a blueprint for brute force attacks since they now know what characters they don't need to try. When your requirements are too strict, this can make hashes orders of magnitude faster to reverse.

my personal stance is: if they can type it, it can be in a password
Wrong! Hosting Mastodon is a different type of challenge, not to mention how much wasteful it is due to the poor choice of Ruby! Yes, Oracle Labs are trying Truffle, but it's not officially supported yet.
>barring some kind of sci-fi AI that manages everything for us

At which point we'd need a Butlerian Jihad.
yes, there is an overall question of whether sortitioning is better or worse, but did I say to you: "the current system is better than sortitioning"? no I didn't. we were never talking about that. if you'd like to discuss that separately, we can, and I suspect we'd agree, but I did not sign up for that discussion, so surely you can see why I only want to talk about the only issue I've ever even mentioned?

what I said was that it would be extremely hard to convict someone for this specific corruption, you disagreed, and we proceeded. if you don't have an argument to back up your disagreement, you misspoke, or misread, or jumped to a conclusion, that's fine, but you're just ignoring it and talking about other things as if you were right. does that seem to you like a rational mode of thought?

>these links:

this is the same thing again. we're not talking about general convictions for corruption, we're talking about convictions for this very specific kind of type of bribery, where your only evidence is a change of jobs
Take a read through the 10-K for the NYSE's parent company, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc.: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571949/000157194922...

OP is wrong though. Their entire data and hosting revenue is $838m, but more traditional listing and transaction fees make up the rest of their $3.8b revenue. So basically 20% data and hosting, 80% classic exchange profit: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1571949/000157194922...
Embedded 64-Bit.. Wow, What case scenario would use this over an OS ?
> Your home page clearly uses CSS

where did they claim they didnt use CSS? CSS can be handwritten too.

> and judging by how it jerks around when I scroll there is plenty of JS too.

Maybe be less judgemental and more looking at facts then, because there isn't.
There is a lot going on here, but I'll just say I don't see any benefit in reality:

1. "It’s open source but when you buy it you get an NFT that lets you run the software." You seem to fundamentally misunderstand what open source software is. If you need to buy some sort of NFT to run your software, it's not open source, and this goes against pretty much every definition of open source I've ever seen. You're free to sell your own software now, just don't call it open source if it can't be modified and run independently.

2. "But using the blockchain as a method of developer verification, open source becomes profitable in a way that’s verifiable, decentralised and permission less." This is another pet peeve of mine, when crypto enthusiasts rediscover cryptographic principles that have already been in use for decades and decide by calling it "blockchain" that it is something novel. We have a very nice, cryptographically secure method to verify the commit history of any open source software. It's called git and it's been in use for about 2 decades now.

Again, all I really see is a rube-goldberg machine trying to solve a problem that is fundamentally not about difficulty of existing payment systems.
https://wise.com

For legal money transfers you'll have a hard time beating that. For illegal ones you're, well, illegal.
Getting locked out of Gmail is not the same as getting banned. One is losing access to a specific account. If you get banned from Twitter or Reddit you are ostensibly not allowed to just create a new screen name.
The comment was in direct response to me, but not addressed to me, so it was they as in "project members" (which there are none).
set up a proxy, install its certificate and mitm it? Might work at least...
Amazing! Ferris is loved and Tölva's art at that site is so nice and funny. Very cool and appropriate that she's also managed to have "Rust" as part of her name.
I'll check it out. Thanks for the recc.
The book "But How Do It Know? - The Basic Principles of Computers for Everyone" by J Clark Scott. I understand how computers work because of this book.
Not sure what you think risk control does, but they don't strap traders into the brainwave reader to filter out people with evil souls.
There are standards for the amount of force the mask must withstand and punch test devices like these [1] to exert them repeatably. Officials punch a few times across the front and the sides, look for failure or severe deformation, and the mask passes for the event.

[1] https://radicalfencing.com/products/rf-pbt-mask-punch-tester
I understand that narrative that foreign CZ is the big baddy here is also the narrative being pushed by Michael Lewis' forthcoming book as well.

Skipping over the likely FTX fraud which is the real cause of the downfall:

https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/big-shor...
> "TCore is a cloud infrastructure platform that allows developers to run hardened dockerised apps, networks, blockchain nodes or really anything, but with a difference! TCore runs on each users phone "

I a bit confused - cloud infra but runs on the phone. Perhaps you can explain how that works and the associated uses cases?
The issue is that deductibles used to be 1/10 as much before the ACA. And you had the option to buy "emergency only" coverage, which had a high deductible, but a much cheaper premium.

These days, because of the ACA all plans are "emergency only", except without the lower premium.
The thing is, there aren't really any successful greenfield developments in these types of business spaces. So either these are industries that are exceptionally difficult to break into (which I think is at least partially true), or the type of computing they do actually benefits from being done on a mainframe (which is also true given that there is a lot of record processing for these industries, and not too much serving lots of web requests to users).

Of course, all of these companies also have x86 servers that run the customer facing web apps and stuff. You really wouldn't want to waste your MSUs running web servers, although I'll admit I don't know if these new Linux mainframes are charged by rolling avg MSUs or other MSU metrics. Traditionally, Linux on Z has had more favorable pricing due to the ability to use IFLs and basically just declare that a cores MSU usage doesn't count towards your licensing since it's been locked to only running Linux.
Give players of your pay-to-win game free stuff on accident then perform emergency maintenance to take it away!

https://www.pcgamesn.com/lost-ark-online/maintenance-removes... [today]

Edit: the story continues...

While we originally stated we planned to remove the Pheons from the accounts that received the mail, we understand that many players spent these in good faith. As we caught the exploit before it was widely used, we have decided not remove the Pheons.

https://forums.playlostark.com/t/server-downtime-to-remove-n...
>He'd be alive if he had gotten the vaccine.

Sorry for your loss, but there’s no way you could know that. The very same logic you would require you to espouse the belief that any person who received a vaccine and died, died because the vaccine.
https://nationalpost.com/news/world/noam-chomsky-says-the-un...
The Zettelkasten is a note-taking method where you link your notes instead of classifying them.

It allows you to learn better and come up with new creative ideas.

This guide will show you how to create such a system a free tool called Obsidian.
> Almost all horror stories you hear about PayPal involve the user treating PayPal like they were a bank

That's something I noticed many years ago when PayPal complaints were big on Slashdot, and I was confused about why anyone would be leaving significant sums in their PayPal account. They've always made bank transfers pretty easy.
In that case, by proxy erlang too.
Good thing the US has outsourced most industrial production overseas /s
Yeah definitely. Unlike Python though it's fast and light on memory, so once you have a prototype it's often already performant enough to be developed into a final product. Things like that save a lot of time and money in the long run.
Green Hydrogen powering gas turbines: realistic strategy?
>these kids

Offtopic but 28 and 30 years old are considered kids? English is not my first language so maybe I'm missing something.
Then why not publish all the phone numbers in clear.