skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It "survived", but apparently with some minor disruptions [1], which isn't a good signal at all. Any social media site should be able to survive a Thursday night with no major news events, celebrity deaths, natural disasters, or scandals.

What will be the true test is the world cup. If it can survive the final game (estimated 1.5 to 2 Billion viewership), that will be impressive. Historically, that's been a major engineering challenge for any "public" social network. With 90% less staff, it might not be possible to monitor, triage, test, fix, etc. on the fly.

[1] https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33643838
Some posts are good, more technical, others not. But in my opinion is worth reading.
A lot of what is going on just looks, for instance, like "musicians talking about their tools" (selling guitar pedals) or "hikers talking about how they got the weight down to do a through hike" (selling fancy bags) or "how to bunny hop a mountain bike" (selling $6k bikes).

I can feel its pull on me: especially around the bike, as I would like to be off the ground more but don't -really- wanna drop twice what I paid for my first car on one.
The Most Exciting Thing in Science Is When We Find Out We Were Wrong
How did the compute power increase 15x ? Last I tried to join a server, they were full.
Oh fine, I'll articulate why. Musk doesn't know what he has bought.

He seems to think it's a technology company. It's not. It's an advertising business mixed up with a social platform. Those don't require lots of brains, in fact Twitter is already built and works. The what the likes of Twitter require to be successful is the willingness to carefully navigate a bunch of minefields and come up with compromises that make nobody happy, but keep trouble at a minimum.

Musk is obviously incapable of doing this. He just started, and immediately spooked the advertisers. Then he started whining, and threatening both advertisers and his own employees, apparently not realizing that he has no real power over either.

It's clear that Twitter is going down the drain sooner or later because Musk exceeded the limits of his competence. At this rate I expect him to be hit with fat fines from the EU, demands from various other countries to comply with their rules, piss off advertisers, run into trouble with illegal content of various kinds, and have stability issues and security exploits.

It's not that it offends me so much to have a conservative driven platform. It's that the man is clearly incompetent and flailing, and as amusing as that is to watch, it's clear the platform won't survive it so alternatives are needed.
I don't think it's possible to buy any kind of food that has been treated in a way you can feel morally comfortable with at the majority of traditional grocery stores. Whether it's chocolate being created from cocoa beans farmed with slave labor in other countries, apples getting picked by undocumented workers making less than minimum wage on farms, or frozen foods getting packaged at factories with questionable working conditions. Unless you straight up build your own garden and farm off the grid and do everything yourself your only option is to either feel morally queezy 24/7 or live your best life and maybe donate a couple hundred each month to organizations like The Humane Society that work to improve conditions for you.
You should go work for a big retail giant during a christmas season. It's not the pure load that does you in, spinning up more clusters on AWS and bumping up the size of the instance is super easy. What kills you every time is the edge cases and "1 in a million" chances that the load brings. Every single bit of code you've written since the last huge season is suddenly very aggressively being tested in ways you couldn't really simulate. Sure you've fixed the problems that caused fires last year but there is ALWAYS new stuff to start fires. Even if you froze the code base from the previous year, you would still see new patterns and behaviors, and all the problems they will uncover.

Twitter was definitely poorly managed, had no vision, and the engineers were probably closing lots of tickets with well written and documented and smart code. The problem is that if the tickets being created are stupid, no amount of "hardcore engineering" can fix that. You can't fix "draw a red line using this blue pen" with better coders.

If you actually care about twitter (you shouldn't), what it needed was a plan to make people hate it less, since even the people who use it constantly seem to hate it, and a strategy to make things more reliable and cheaper, essentially pay off all the tech debt they accrued by doing everything before it was done. But that would have required a massive undertaking, and public companies generally hate that kind of thing, and would rather slowly die over decades than make things better by spending a couple bucks up front.

None of that makes walking in, shitting on everyone's keyboard, pissing off everyone that could be talented, firing lots of people seemingly randomly or off the cuff, and saddling the company with a bunch of new debt they no longer have revenue streams for because your stupid feature idea was predictably stupid, a smart or correct or laudable action.
This title seems like clickbait. The linked article seems like mostly blogspam that's talking about a new meta-analysis with some specific claims, but it also sprinkles in a quote from an unrelated professor that makes some stronger claims.

Specifically, the study it leans on most concludes:

> We found weak evidence of association between unprocessed red meat consumption and colorectal cancer, breast cancer, type 2 diabetes and ischemic heart disease. Moreover, we found no evidence of an association between unprocessed red meat and ischemic stroke or hemorrhagic stroke. We also found that while risk for the six outcomes in our analysis combined was minimized at 0 g unprocessed red meat intake per day, the 95% uncertainty interval that incorporated between-study heterogeneity was very wide: from 0–200 g d−1. While there is some evidence that eating unprocessed red meat is associated with increased risk of disease incidence and mortality, it is weak and insufficient to make stronger or more conclusive recommendations. More rigorous, well-powered research is needed to better understand and quantify the relationship between consumption of unprocessed red meat and chronic disease. [0]

This conclusion is dramatically different from "not a health risk."

[0] https://www.healthdata.org/research-article/health-effects-a...
'Play to your strengths'. I only build on strength whereas previously I was fixing my weaknesses. Find what you have a natural talent for, and build on that.
Science operates by biasing the null hypothesis. We may like red meat and be partial to it, but the onus is still on people to prove that it's harmful. Now even the correlation for that is falling apart.
More likely how to improve JetBrains InteliJ licenses in 2023 via Kotlin.

https://blog.jetbrains.com/kotlin/2011/08/why-jetbrains-need...

"The next thing is also fairly straightforward: we expect Kotlin to drive the sales of IntelliJ IDEA. We’re working on a new language, but we do not plan to replace the entire ecosystem of libraries that have been built for the JVM. So you’re likely to keep using Spring and Hibernate, or other similar frameworks, in your projects built with Kotlin. And while the development tools for Kotlin itself are going to be free and open-source, the support for the enterprise development frameworks and tools will remain part of IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate, the commercial version of the IDE. And of course the framework support will be fully integrated with Kotlin."
This should have (2012) in the title.

Also, there's no breaking involved as there's no signature anywhere, it's a reasonably simple mod. For example, re-enabling CPU undervolting seems to be impossible in modern ThinkPads because the UEFI firmware is signed.
That wouldn't pass a code review where I work... Use a defer to do the unlock
Ignoring that memory leaks are not the issue, no, indeed new bugs are introduced to kernel code constantly.
Rage. Raging Id.
> Small decentralized communities which users can freely and easily create and manage is the way to go!

That would be the fediverse (Mastodon).

Find a server with people who share your interests, or make your own. Making some VC shithead richer all the while you're gamified with rage and adverts is not what I want to continue doing.

Thankfully, with the Muskpolaypse, that's looking more and more sustainable. We're even now seeing news agencies casually adding their mastodon user.

> To top it off, there’s very little upside to you as a user. Your own data is used against you.

And in Mastodon, data portability is a thing on every server. I can pack up all my data from one to the next.

And, any server that tries to be an advert spreading server will soon get defederated. Spam is not acceptable, at all.
Browse youtube of other countries by changing location using vpn and language using translate and then search for interesting videos.
Yawn, yet another right winger claiming that their terrible views are unpopular because of censorship when really its because most people simply disagree.

See also, them advocating to read hidden/downvoted comments because "There is a wealth of information found in views that are not widely held or considered controversial.". https://battlepenguin.com/tech/read-from-the-bottom/ Anyone who reads hidden/downvoted comments on social media knows that the vast majority are just unhinged idiotic rants or a stream of slurs.
Comparing is not the same as equating. Of course, almost everyone agrees that human slavery is a much greater evil than animal captivity, which is why one practice is universally outlawed while the other is found in just about every human society. That doesn't mean that comparisons between the two should be categorically dismissed; on the contrary, their value is in forcing us to think more deeply about our role in the moral universe.
>Evaluate people on past projects. If you have a project, show the code and walk through the code in a screen sharing session. Only show code that is non-confidential.

Lots of bullshitters out there will find some code they don't own, study it and become well-versed in how it works, and fake their way through.

>If you do not have code, then first create a small project. That can be done in a week or two. This requires less time than grinding leetcode.

Do you mean one of those "interview projects"? Lots of people, especially on HN, would balk at this as "blah blah don't do free work". Those same people will then go back to your first point and say "just evaluate people on their experience.
>I posted dude defending himself on Tim Pool's platform

There is half your problem. Tim Pool generally is not a valid journalistic source. He regularly fails to fact check, citing inflammatory rhetoric in the process for a double whammy of bad journalism.

In fact, in terms of avoiding misinformation, Pool is as inadequate for the task as citing Ben Shapiro or Alex Jones.

While I agree that Wikimedia should not be funding non-Wikipedia activities with funds raised through Wikipedia, that does not mean hit pieces like this get to start being sloppy without recourse.
I don't' know, but I suspect its an attempt to put distance between the CEO running the bankuptcy and previous leadership. Essentially signalling to the court and debtors "serious people are in charge now. Things were messed up, but I'm not like that".
Love the idea ( played with similar concept, but could not push it past the design stage ) and the approach ( manual verification as opposed to say.. automatic email check ). I think you did the right way. Good luck!
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Such "zombie" companies are effectively a write-off for venture investors given the power law dynamic of their funds. Usually the SAFEs will be negotiated away (modest payout or written down to zero) as the 10-12 year lifetime of the fund draws to a close.

Most parties are good about coming to an amicable conclusion since a bitter dispute would irreparably harm both parties' reputation in future endeavors.
Buyer beware. You need to shop.

I can go to Whole Foods and pay $10 for a bag of mini-cucumbers. Or I can go to Aldi and pay $3 for the same product picked from the same field and delivered regionally on the same train.

The answer people have to that is “I’m too busy and don’t have time to do that”. Grocery stores collect a lot of market intelligence and price to the audience. That’s why a tomato with a wholesale price of $0.50 costs more than a nice steak. Or why they sell pre-chopped carrots and onions to helpless people with money but without skill for $15/lb.
> Build a local clone so that people can get their fix or whatever.

Seems like the perfect startup and perfect timing for all the recently laid off Twitter folks.
Idk if you've ever been to a third world country, but turns out no one outside of the first world gives a ruling fuck about the environment. Trash cans in public aren't a thing. Chemicals are dumped into drinking water sources. Smoke is pumped into the air at staggering rates. First world countries are objectively way more environmentally friendly. Not saying that makes anyone better or worse ( lord knows I've contributed nothing on this front) just stating facts
Sheep are stunned and are pretty much out instantly.

IDK if you've ever slaughtered a sheep the non-slaughterhouse way done where most of the people live (i.e. the third world). I've done it out in rural asia. You take a long blade and pierce the heart / surrounding blood vessels straight through the chest. It takes a second or two for it to pass out. The slaughterhouse is a slight upgrade with basically no suffering at the time of death as they're instantly knocked out by electrical impulse.

If I were the sheep I would definitely pick the slaughterhouse over being shipped alive to the average end customer which is someone in the third world with a long blade.
Wasn't what's name .... Jack Dorsey making some alternative?
Sam Bankman-Fried and the Moral Emptiness of Effective Altruism
The encyclopedia is giant and highly decentralized. It will elude any simple characterization like this. Wikipedia's vast and distributed community of editors maintains a policy that it is not a place for original research. Thus, in general, Wikipedia is not a source for anything - it is a medium for information from other places.
Personally I think the fact that it is a good model for how to distribute information since it is unequivocally open in terms of viewing the history and discussions around an article. Any claim can be contested by anyone willing to take the time and make their case. I realize that both of these steps are unrealistic for a large number of people but these are also the minimal requirements of any non-centralized source of information.
Caveats: A Scalable Solution for Policy
I’ve found a simple rule of thumb that works for me:

Nature has a way of limiting how much of a certain substance you can consume. By simply eating less processed foods, you’re eating more in line with what the human body expects historically.

Take oils for example. It requires immense pressure and processing, only available in the Industrial Age, to produce the quantitates of certain oils. We consume way more oil than ever expected. Sugar is in the same boat. Ground wheat is kinda too…

The more processing the worse it is for you, as a general rule of thumb. So yea, eat Whole Foods when you can!
Except that it was clear that I meant "processed" in the way that it is generally used in the context of "processed food" and not in the sense of "having had something done to it".
ChatOps for expenses through Apple's iMessage Finance plumbing tool can tighten up on the formal regulatory oversight and grow new profit centers for Warren Buffet, TSMC, G20 business ambitions.
Yes, and GenZ needs to be educated on the geopolitical ramifications of a foreign power wielding control of a popular communications application.
I think economic protectionism is generally bad, but might be a reasonable response to similar moves on the part of other nations. I think this should not be conflated with the national security arguments (which aren't totally invalid, but may be overhyped to achieve a policy goal.)
If you shopped for vegetables like you did for meat (i.e. in the frozen food isle) most of that price difference would evaporate.

Fresh vegetables have a lot of handling, refrigeration and shipping timeline requirements that add a lot to the cost.
>Then everything humanity will ever reach or know has Kolmogorov complexity no larger than this X.

Only if it is deterministic, which certainly seems not very plausible. (You could say everything is a probability distribution, but to me it seems to get extremely complex after that, collapse?)

>Because we already know the laws of physics are relatively simple, I would put my bets on the initial conditions having most of the entropy.

Just because the laws are simply expressible does not imply they are simple. A variational minimization problem can be very easy to state (certainly that seems a good candidate for a "true" law of nature), but it can easily be as hard as a PDE!
Lakota checking in to tell you that a basic reading of history would confirm that you’re pretty wrong.

Please don’t what-about the Uyghurs to Native American history because it’s disrespectful both ways, and minimizes their suffering. For all the conflict with Europeans, our historical experiences with them, painful as they may have been and remain, were much more nuanced and complicated than what is happening in China. I have also never met anyone native who thinks of our history as a genocide, and I’m involved in tribal politics.

Honestly even calling our history a genocide is a dramatic simplification that removes our agency (all too common in non-native takes). We fought back and won some things, lost others. That’s not something you can say about victims of genocide.
That rule is not without its issues when pointers get involved, due to the typed nil problem.
uh, GREAT!

what is the problem?

state borders are ridiculous, and not just for the rich....

some more years and it will be more clear that the "king is naked".

I feel so bad for all law enforcement workers worldwide: what a stupid job!
they made a documentary about those workers in France or Belgium, cannot recall, and how they fell by enforcing borders laws for years... then the EU came and they were not just completely useless, but they also fell they invest their energy for years in the name of the state for something completely useless, poor them....
try to explain your kids you did something for years that then become totally useless... if I recall well, many were pretty depressed ....

ahahaha: my 2 cents: trust yourself and not so easily what seems normal just 'cause the state or many says it is :)
All best jokes are only part jokes.
Apparently this is the key difference they're working on for Bluesky. Trying to make accounts truly portable between federated servers.
You're clearly pretty annoyed by this.

Have you considered that people at work may not want to stay rigidly on target 100% of the time, and may find your hidebound need to do so bothering as well?
There is no conspiracy. The main article (linked to in the first sentence of this one) says pretty clearly:

"While anyone can get monkeypox, to date the majority of confirmed cases outside of the endemic regions in Africa occurred in young or middle-aged men who have sex with men (MSM) who had recent sexual contact with new or multiple partners."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2022_monkeypox_outbreak
I imagine that opinions such as this have influenced this recommendation: https://research.swtch.com/deps . I think there is some spirit in Go of not taking on a ton of small dependencies, but that may be a hold-over from before Go had a built-in package manager.

I think as an organization grows to some combination of available resources and severity of an outage this view becomes more and more common.
That's not it.

Sometimes this happens because people are on their phones or otherwise zoning out, and only realize it's safe to cross when somebody else starts doing it.

But I think the big reason this happens is because, if someone else starts crossing the road, then it must be because either nobody is coming, or because the drivers on the road have already indicated their willingness to yield to the pedestrians. In the latter case, it makes sense to cross directly behind somebody else who is crossing, because a yielding driver provides a short window of opportunity for crossing safely.

In general, watching somebody do something that you thought was risky tends to be a subconscious prompt at the thing was perhaps not as risky as you thought. It's a little more subtle than "animal brain bad, look at the lights you dummy".
> How people don't get it

well, for one, because you're wrong. I mean, it's not like a hard topic to research, a walk in any supermarket should be plenty evidence, even before reaching the cereals section.

if you want something more aking technological, you can stop by the mobile phone shelf.

and if you insist with software, the choice is so ample whole sites exists just to help people navigate https://alternativeto.net/software/3ds-max/?license=commerci...
That's not at all a given. What about people whose tongues reject most vegetables before the signal can even make it to the brain?
My rule of thumb is to think about the processes and whether I could do them in my kitchen or not. Things like 'boil' or 'grate' are recognizable processes that I don't worry about. Thinks like 'hydrogenated' are indicators that some serious modification of the underlying ingredients has taken place.

The term 'hyper-processed' is used to refer to foods that bare very little resemblance to recognizable ingredients straight from the farm.
It would be meta-funny if they never sent you the mug you paid for.
It's certainly poetic.
I carefully chose my word "function" instead of "existence".

Give me two different universes where cognition exists but where the fundamental constants differ. Would you expect the ability to perform syllogism would be fundamentally biased to reflect the constants which brought about their existence?
The company that bought ours proved very clearly that you can destroy and dismantle workplace culture without burning down the entire company
It was a joke, they didn't but the problem has a formula to estimate the total number from a sample size of one tank, explained in the wiki article under "One Tank" section.
No, if you process something minimally like Kimchi it is not bad. In fact fermented foods are generally seen as good for you. Yogurt, cheese as well.

So Kimchi is considered minimally processed. Flour has various processing levels to make bread. Enriched white is strictly worse than others.

Cookies with hydrogenated palm oil would be bad. Any oils beyond cold pressed extra virgin olive oil are supposedly bad.

Now the preservatives in store bought kimchi could theoretically be a bigger issue.. I don't know how many folks have studied them. I imagine they just pass through us but probably influence the microbiome etc...

Canned foods are worse than fresh or frozen.
Coconut oil varies a lot in its smoke point; unrefined its similar to butter but refined can get up past 400 F / 204 C(similar to canola oil).

I do like cooking with it despite the low heat limitation because it's good for things you can cook at lower temps like eggs and if you get good high quality oil then it will be near tasteless. Which means you can actually taste the egg instead of whatever oil / lard you fried them with.
Open source is not enough, lean open source, namely simple, but good enough for the job, which does not require the 47384739243289 devs (usually from the vanguard/blackrock companies: msft/google/apple and amazon once JB sells his shares).