skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The information was readily available to anyone doing even the most basic due diligence"

This is just provably not true. if you can find 3 credible people saying that FTX was lending out customer funds to the tune of $5+bn before 10/31/2022 I'll eat my shoe. the smartest critics in the room were taken as much by surprise at the extent of the crash and contagion as the most idiot-degen-ape. and it doesn't do anyone any favors to pretend it was obvious.
I mean, it's possible, but the organisation would need to be extremely disfunctional for that to be the case - that's the level of bloat I'd expect out of a government agency not a private corporation. If you have teams where 8 out of 10 people do literally nothing or pretend, it should be obvious.
1. Gitea
2. Netdata
3. SourceGraph
The emission curve is set in stone. But you talked about emission rate, which in Bitcoin's case halves every 4 years.
Building Micro-Frontends with Cloudflare Workers
And then they seize american assets in Saudi Arabia. Not a fun path.
George Hotz offers to join Twitter, interview today
Offer (and reply from Elon): https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1592955427179765760

Technical interview prep (lol): https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/1593391466981691392
I'm not sure what is "Free Speech (tm)", but I'd say neither version belongs on Wikipedia.

Wikipedia is supposed to be a collection of facts, not of self-expression. Eg, we see here on the front page that Fred Brooks passed away on Nov 18, 2022. That's either a fact or it isn't. If it is a fact, then that's what his article should contain.
The crux of the GP's comment is a specific example of a high-profile political propagandist on Wikipedia, whom the poster specifically ran into. I think your characterization of the "guy", that he "fact-checks pro-authoritarian propaganda", is just a positive rephrasing of "political propagandist."

It doesn't seem relevant what George Galloway and Mint Press News' problem with "Philip Cross" is, just whether the evidence they present that he is an extremely prolific editor is true (seems to be the case). It seems to be up to your personal judgment whether you think this strongly implies he's not an individual or not. Certainly it's relevant information supporting the claim that he's not.
> 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism

What's wrong with 2000s-era blogspot citizen journalism.
Even if this were correct, the specific 20% matters.
New SI prefixes just dropped
I have better hope that a good programmer can write readable code, than that they will write readable documentation. As you point out, people suck at writing.
Engineers interested in cars or rockets have way fewer exciting options than web devs working at Twitter.
Table elements not being in consecutive display order in any direction. Like elements 0-5 from column a, followed by elements 10-12 from column b, elements 6,8.19 from column a, then elements 19-4 in reverse order from column d, all of column c....

This is a real thing I dealt with.
The bigger issue is that it stopped being a reliable way to bypass paywalls. News outlets now seem to use a url with random characters in it (not a query parameter), so it’s unlikely the url will work.

12ft.io (or whatever it is) stopped working too. Probably to not get sued.

This whole thing feels like a sign that a new tech solution could solve this once and for all. Distributed hash tables have been a thing since the 90’s. Making it work well for bypassing paywalls would be hard to stop.
> and most chat apps these days should have pretty great auditability capabilities.

Most chat apps default configuration isn't going to do this well at all out of the box.

With some significant back end work, you can for sure do this. On the other hand you are probably right about it being a pretty good for end user.

If you don't do the back end stuff properly, you're going to be in a mess and will not pass any sort of real audit.
I Sell Onions on the Internet https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132
I believe the safety filter is trivial to disable since it was added in one of the last commits prior to Stable Diffusion’s public release and not baked into the model, therefore most forks just remove the safety checker code [1]

As far as textual inversion, JoePenna’s Dreambooth [2] implementation uses Textual Inversion.

[1] https://github.com/CompVis/stable-diffusion/commit/a6e2f3b12...
[2] https://github.com/JoePenna/Dreambooth-Stable-Diffusion
The warped self: social media makes us feel terrible about who we are
Maybe the secret is fish-based diets.
> The decision was made by representatives from governments worldwide at the General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM) outside Paris on 18 November
> ...I wrote my own "podcatcher" since 2005-era tt-rss didn't have any such functionality and just use the tt-rss database as its back-end...

Nice!
There are contractors that can come in and do this kind of work on short notice
This prediction doesn’t track with what is already happening. Dreambooth is allowing all kinds of people to fine tune their own models at home with nvidia graphics cards, and people are sharing all kinds of updated models that do really well at specific art styles or with NSFW subjects. Go check the nsfw subreddit unstable_diffusion for examples. It seems lots of people are training nsfw models with their own preferred data sets and last I saw someone merged all those checkpoints together in to one model.

So if I made a prediction it would be that the training sets for open models from big companies will get scrubbed of nsfw content and then nerds on Reddit will just release their own versions with it added in, and the big companies will make sure everyone knows they didn’t add that stuff and that’s where it will stand.
The creators of the videos are 12-15 years old kids. What are you talking about.
Here's what I have so far:

- Zabbix: for monitoring my servers
- Uptime Kuma: for monitoring whether sites are up
- Mattermost: for some communication, also automation (e.g. notifications from Uptime Kuma)
- Portainer: for managing Docker Swarm or Kubernetes more easily
- Gitea: for my source code
- Drone CI: for my CI/CD needs
- Sonatype Nexus: for storing everything from my code libraries, to container images
- SonarQube: for static code analysis in my projects
- OpenProject: for managing my projects and some documents/Wiki
- BookStack (now retired): for a knowledgebase/proper Wiki
- NextCloud: for my file management needs
- PeerTube: for my video hosting needs (currently mostly backups of stream VODs, because of bandwidth limitations otherwise)
- Grav: for my blog, over at https://blog.kronis.dev
- Yourls: for link shortening, because the blog sometimes breaks with query parameters otherwise
- Matomo: for analytics on the sites that I develop (cookieless currently)
- BackupPC: for my backups (incremental and deduplicated)
- my own mail server, for automation and as a backup private account
- some other sites that I've developed with the above tools: like my homepage, a forum or two and so on
- oh, and some game servers (like Minecraft) for friends

Historically, I hosted a few more pieces of software (like GitLab and GitLab CI), but I've both cut down on some and added some others over time.

Currently some of those run on my homelab (just regular Debian/Ubuntu boxes), whereas some are in the cloud, from a relatively local cloud provider. The total costs of the VPSes are around 425 euros a year, or around 35 euros a month. Currently the cluster has just short of 64 GB of RAM and 12 CPU cores total, over half of which are in my homelab.

There is some maintenance involved, but thanks to Docker containers and stuff like Let's Encrypt it's all tolerable and cheaper than cloud offerings (mostly since I don't care too much if anything goes down for a bit).

Edit: oh, here's something fun. I use Apache2 as my web server(s), instead of Nginx/Caddy/Traefik, because it has bunches of modules and mod_md is pretty okay for managing certificate renewal https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/mod_md.html
For sure Twitter could continue to function as before with 20% of staff. Problem is : not the 20% that they actually have.
1. Salaried employees get offer letters that they have to sign, but I don't think those actually count as contracts. (Correct me if I'm wrong, though)

2. "Right to work" laws deal with union membership. You're thinking of "at-will employment" laws.
My immediate reaction is “correctness each and every time”.
After living in England for a while, this year we finally moved to the US. Although I have never been too athletic, I've put on 5-7 KG since we moved, and I can't shed them off. We are mostly eating the same as before, and in fact I'm more active than I was over there.

There isn't much point to this comment other than the flabbergasting anecdote of how eating roughly the same diet in different countries can have markedly different effect in your health.
These sorts of massive cuts, coupled with massively decreasing workplace quality, and with removing any chance of financial reward (no more liquidity in shares of the company!!), are going to cause the most talented people to go to greener pastures.

The people who stay will be those with the least options.

Musk has made employment at Twitter hugely risky, with no possibility of reward. Really boneheaded business, completely incompetent cutting off the workforce, honestly. Hard to imagine a worse way of pruning the workforce.
I've been thinking about this topic after I got married, and realized that I wanted to back up my wedding photos for 100+ years so my great-great-grandkids have the originals.

I wonder if this is a good use of blockchain technology. The company sets things up in such a way where there are resources and mechanisms to keep things running after the company collapses. Theoretically, as long as the s3 bills are paid, things keep running - the money pool pays for that, getting annual refreshes from data owners. Then money also exists for maintenance - s3 will shut down some day, but with money in escrow, developers can create proposals for maintenance that the token owners vote on.

Just a lot of hand waving away problems on my part, but I think it's an interesting question: how do people store data for 100+ years?
Weak evidence of a risk increase from 4.3% to 4.6% of colorectal cancer? Okay, if that's where we end on red meat's cancer risk, I think I'll take it.
FYI, the cut is pork belly. Uncured bacon is still processed in roughly the same manner as cured bacon but without direct use of nitrates. It is dubious to call it uncured however.
It feels like a narrator tag at the end of a scene "they weren't"
> how can you have a CS degree and a career and have no personal projects?

Other people's lives differ from yours in ways that are difficult to imagine. Plenty of people have a career in programming without ever going to college. Just because one can't imagine it doesn't make it invalid, or even that it is one's business. If it isn't about their job performance, don't measure it.

> all the arguments you give are the same for leetcode prep.

An interesting point, but of course I wasn't defending leetcode interviews, I was responding to your assertion that people who have the requisite skills necessarily have free time, and the subtext that any time not spent working was available for more working.
> I do embrace diversity but within the confines of my core beliefs.

Then you don't "embrace diversity." You're like the rest of us--you find your own culture preferable, and you'll tolerate certain things from other cultures but not other things.

The hypocrisy comes from claiming to embrace "diversity" in and of itself, while insisting that the bounds of acceptable diversity is based on your beliefs.

> No reasonable person can be for things that are antithetical to their core beliefs.

You don't have to be for or against. "It's none of my business" is also an option.
I don't know if you can compare SpaceX or Tesla to running a CRUD app. Engineering rockets is probably 100x harder than building twitter, but there is something very reassuring when all of the complexity of your product is embodied in a physical object you can touch and see, compared to an information context where you don't even know how many layers of abstractions you are working with.
Also imagine job postings.

Ignoring Elon for sake of discussion, it would be a big a big boon for my career to work at Twitter.. but when 80% of the staff left? I'd be worried onboarding would be a mess. That i'd be handed several projects that no one knows how they work or what the ramifications are.

Ignoring all the red flags and focusing solely on onboarding sounds like misery.. not sure i'd want to take that job.

I imagine many will.. but .. oof.
The best way I have to describe the way I think is “spatially”, I can’t really say more than that except to say it’s different to “visually”. The problem is that the best way to explain something is basically do a topological sort of the DAG representing what needs to be explained, some people are uncannily good at this and appear able to do it in real-time. I… cannot.
I assume that you can for some landlords. I might be in the minority, but I can track and pay my mortgage online; I don't see why it's impossible for rent payments.
The articles on archive.is also started getting peppered with ads, which is annoying and I'd think borderline illegal. It makes many articles unreadable on smaller devices.
don't get it yet, but learning / realizing that it can remote into other machines and execute commands (via SSH/server, so no other server software - like an HTTP server - is necessary) was definitely eye-opening.
> Twitter employees strolled into work at 9am, drank smoothies for an hour, "relaxed" ...then had lunch at 1130, followed by meetings, and then didn't start work until around 2 or 3pm, and then went home at 4:30.

> We have all seen the "my day at twitter" vids on YouTube.

Do you know these facts because someone you personally know work(ed) at Twitter, or are you literally telling us that you saw something on Youtube and hence it must be true?
It's not like Twitter can't hire other people if they really need to. Most probably they don't need to.
if you look at it as a highly influential media platform with infinitely hard right-brain challenges around every corner ... many would be drawn to that.
That would easily explain 300 employees. But 3000? For this?

> just the music functionality of Alexa

Seems absurd to say without a link to source
Absolutely nothing! Early blogging was great!

But doing what happened 20 years ago is hardly "truly innovative"
Ahhh, from the alternate universe where I need to get a stable IP for my server without using Tailscale.

So you just run a 2nd DHCP server, all clients broadcast to every device to find an IP address. In order for the client to choose your server instead of the router, the server has to be faster to respond with an IP address, correct?

At first thought this seems fragile, but then again dhcpcd is the longest segment of my startup time...
I use(d) Twitter as more of a meta-aggregator. It had actual social interactions combined with the sort of pointers out to news sites, tech blogs, etc. Perhaps I'm an outlier in how I use(d) it but I haven't come across anything that provided the same degree of convergence. This is precisely because it's mixing in short snippets from friends, acquaintances, and other people I find interesting.

> Instead, limit content on social sites to the subject of the platform

That's my point. I'm saying the thing I liked most about Twitter was that there wasn't a single "subject of the platform". Don't get me wrong, I also spend plenty of time in more specific corners of the internet, but I've yet to find something that quite replicates Twitter for me.
Nextcloud + onlyoffice, mattermost, gitea, bookstack, nebula lighthouses, nginx websites.
I was weirdly proud of when I got a jaywalking ticket in Edmonton, ca on a business trip.

No cars visible, looked both ways, crossed.

Suddenly 3 cops surround me.

I didn’t use the crossing.

I just couldn’t take it seriously in my mind.

What a stupid law. But I’m in their country, acted respectful, paid the fine.

But man.

North America has ceded sovereignty of their streets fully, completely to the automobile.
Shrinkflation: The sneaky ways companies cut costs, but not prices
Interesting, I wonder if someone who thinks their business is being harmed by the site is filling up the queue.
> What exactly is lost

I know that historically most chargers are just a way to hide the true total cost of ownership. But the electronics industry is now shifting towards innovating in more areas than just shrinking the digital parts. Consumer electronics are a big part of how new stuff gets funded.

> A startup selling floor lamps can't sell their own proprietary power plug and outlet either.

Nobody forbids them from doing that.
Hopefully the whale chose to be in the 'hardcore' crowd.
"It takes 24 hours" is a clear sign that it's a human being looking up an internal documentation page and running the scripts it points to.

Unless I'm just not creative enough to reason why you can log into twitter from a country you've never been to with no 24 hour verification wait but fulfilling legal obligations takes 24 hours.
The reason is "muh russia altering backed up copies, non trustworthy". I don't know one way or the other, but that's the gist of it.
There would be no advantage to the landlord, only to the tenant. And as you mentioned, there would certainly be middleman fees of one sort or another, perhaps by more than one party. This sounds like some sort of clever "disruptive" idea for a startup, which would only benefit the startup, not the "customers."
You can see this if you watch the huge mobs of sheep being moved in Australia: if one of them trips, the one behind will also jump when it gets to the same point, and the next one will do the same, until one of them fails to notice and it stops. So you look across and see a small standing wave spontaneously develop in the flock, that then eventually spontaneously damps.
> It's got to be something like "Stay at Twitter because we're building exciting new project X, but we'll need 80 hour work weeks to pull this off..."

Not only that, but "... and they'll receive larger compensation and/or share of the company."
Well ok sure, but then I can't imagine that the cuts Musk has done would accurately get rid of the bloat and not just a random selection of 80% of their employees. If you were one of the 20% of people doing actual work, why the hell would you stay if the only future promise is working longer hours and "being more hardcore"? Frankly I'd only agree to that if I was already doing nothing, because zero multiplied by anything is still zero. If you already are doing your job and the company asks you to work even more than before, then get your severance and go.

There no way in hell that this 80% of workforce was actual bloat.
Odd, here in Australia I’m pretty sure I just had to click “Open a business account and give a few details like the ABN.

Oh well.
Nothing, but it seems unlikely to make money.
> caffeine, for example... vanilla, pepper, cinnamon, ginger, saffron

That's great news for you, because now you don't have to take any of the other drugs if you think these things are the same :P.

> if “drugs are bad” is what you’re teaching them

No, I just show them the people who smoke, and ask them if they want to be like them.
Why would this happen? From the outside, it seems like Elon is absolutely decimating employee morale. See for example this thread from an engineer who has no beef with Elon and wants to see Twitter succeed, but still took the severance: https://twitter.com/peterclowes/status/1593458225533313025
What did you use to replace bookstack?
Have you taken the time to learn and use Rust?

Some of the first software I ever wrote was C and then C++. I’ve since worked on Billion+ line Java code bases. I’ve also worked professionally in python, ruby, Type/JavaScript.

When I picked up Rust 15 years into writing software, it taught me to write better code.

Let me repeat that: even after extensive training and professional use of other languages, rustc the compiler taught me to write better code.

If you’re looking for a “we should train people better to not make mistakes” you want people to learn software development from rustc. That training is very transferable back to C and C++ and even Java. Could this automated “teacher” be better? Sure. Could it be less strict? In certain cases sure. Is it the best training program we have? This best I’ve ever seen.

I highly recommend you at least try it! :)
When I asked a Jehovah's Witness who was proposing the fine tuning argument to me, "So what would a non-designed universe look like?" He just stared for a second and then said, "Are you like, a scientist or something?"
Agree, that's why I say in theory it's a good replacement. I don't yet buy it'll take off. I find it much more likely that we start seeing a bunch of walled gardens pop up instead. But if I'm wrong, then great.
This is equivalent to saying "I've decided not to go to the mechanic anymore. And look, five days later, my car is totally fine!"
It's all a balance. Rust is simpler than C++, and the complexity it adds relative to C pays for itself pretty significantly in correctness (C++ is more complex and provides fewer/weaker correctness guarantees). Moreover, there aren't many systems languages to choose from--at least not many that are not super-niche. Even Ada is pretty niche with little mindshare/enthusiasm.
In this case it's more like Mewster's Billions.
He is a social media user, no more, no less. The problem is when we start attaching authority to that. And the less anonymous the platform, the more authority has an impact.
At home: none, quite honestly. I do enjoy playing around with Linux administration occasionally, but I have limited free time and energy, and I don’t want to accidentally get pwned. I do have a NAS for backups, but that’s it.

At work: WordPress and an in-house ERP system. We also have a NAS for file sharing, but management wants to ditch it and go the Microsoft 365 route.
Then I contact the copyright holder (or one of the many, in case of e.g. the Linux kernel). They probably care, or else they would not use the GPL. I also believe there are organizations that can help such as the Software Freedom Conservancy.
have you tried meditation to control your mind?
An other component is that if you're working on rockets or EVs you might consider that rewarding in and of itself, and accept lower comp or worse conditions.

Twitter? I'm sure twitter employees were proud of their work and doing things they believed meaningful, but not "halve your effective comp', in a company with all the joy of an abattoir, for a narcissistic egomaniac.

And if you're a rocket engineer, the field is way smaller. That means less competitors, but also less places to work at.

Software?