skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another great feature from Tailscale!

Ever since I started using Tailscale a year or two ago, I haven't had to think much about networking for my self-hosted servers at home. It all _just works_. Tailscale is a great example of software solving a real problem in a user friendly way.
2005-2012 or so Canadian jazz is full of the one-semi-tone-higher key change
…why? Twitter much like Reddit has never been profitable. It’s a sinking ship.
EU Moving to Ban Privacy Coins: Report
Right, it’s all 4D chess instead of the more obvious answer - he’s overwhelmed and embarrassed, and like many workaholic insecure bosses, it lashing out at folks and cutting his own throat?
The key thing, is he happy? I don't think how much he saved or spends matters that much. The thing is to have the things that give you satisfaction or comfort.
He bought it because he was sued for specific performance and was legally screwed in every available way. He literally waived due diligence and signed a contract with a specific performance clause.

Companies couldn’t prove a MAC in the middle of the 08 housing crash, musk sure as hell wasn’t having screwed every legal argument he had available weeks in advance.

His options were buy now for 44 billion or buy maybe a month later for 44 billion plus whatever the court decided to tack on for hellishly bad faith dealing and arguments.

His legal team tried every truck available and even a lousy “well we said we’d buy it so they should drop the lawsuit “ play. The court saw right through and said “you get 4 weeks to buy and if not then the suit continues”

So they paid up because to claim you’re going to but then to not go through with it would have seen the most wrathfully phenomenal court proceeding in history.

Discovery was just an added bonus of embarrassment and very unlikely to be related at all. Every sound legal mind working for musk was probably screaming at him to shut up and eventually told him he was going to have to go through. The ONLY way this current situation could be worse is if he had continued to try and fight it after his last Hail Mary because that specific court exists almost solely to VERY quickly mitigate multi billion dollar deals and would absolutely make a very clear example out of anyone who thought they were too rich to touch.

Musk may be one of the most wealthy men in the world but Delaware deals with companies with MUCH higher net worth and resources constantly.
Normally yes building the userbase is the hardest part but I believe this is a "fork" in the road where a massive ideological difference exist between 2 camps such that you could convince a huge portion of users to migrate. An crypto example would be Ethereum and Ethereum classic.
Tech bro libertarians like to buy hideouts in New Zealand. I’ll keep an eye out.
The part where there are no checks and balances. No court to issue a decision saying it had to be honored.
Lol one of his tweets aged well, https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1592852796185128961?s=20&t=...
So why not keep the main instance pay to play, for any official and public accounts, and the anonymous parts of the net get their own distributed instances?
When I played drums, I played them melodically. It's not particularly out there, you're just limited on which notes you have available
It's not too weird if you think about it. Vitamin D boosts calcium serum levels in the blood. There are other factors, like adequate vitamin K, that prevent that calcium from precipitating on artery walls as plaque. So if someone's calcium metabolism is leading to calcification, vitamin D alone could accelerate that.

But incidentally, that's one of several reasons vitamin D is thought to protect from bad covid outcomes: in studies, people with higher blood calcium levels were also shown to do better. Other electrolytes were also positively correlated with better covid outcomes as well.

Aside from raising calcium serum levels vitamin D also directly modulates genes involved in the regulating angiotensin-renin system, including ACE-2.

The third thing, vitamin D is involved in circadian rhythm signaling. Good sleep is important for overall well-being! Especially if you're sick.

There are lots of papers and books about this stuff yet for some reason people still doubt that adequate vitamin D is important.

The real atrocity of it is that some people with more melanin in their skin store less vitamin D, since more melanin means their skin can make it quicker in the presence of sunlight. But in regions where there's less sunlight, these people aren't keeping around as much vitamin D. I'm convinced this is one reason for disparity in COVID outcomes and it really bothers me that the early studies and theory papers about the vitamin D / calcium / COVID connection got so ignored in the face of blatant racial disparities in COVID outcomes.

Vitamin D3 + K2 had huge potential to save lives, and people who knew what they were talking about advocated for this early on. I'm still frustrated that it took so long to catch on.
Perhaps he thought it'd be easier than it really is after SpaceX's wild success in reusing orbital rocket boosters.
Looks like he’s setting $44bln on fire to me.
> There is absolutely no way in hell those aren’t autorenewed.

Pretty sure a number of AWS and Azure engineers believed the same thing.
It takes more than just engineering talent to start a successful Twitter competitor at this stage. Platform stickiness is a real thing.
Musk hired people who wanted to change the world. His businesses at the time were the only place to push the envelope on space exploration to Mars and launching a commercial EV.
Twitter on the other hand will never get such motivated workforce
Picture Limitless Creativity at Your Fingertips
"Conceptual integrity is the most important attribute of a great design" from The Design of Design
I haven't owned a System76 laptop personally, but I really like what they have done in theory. I've actually been waiting largely because I'm interested to see what they put out when they start fabbing their own laptops.
hes dramatically pointing out that theres a ton of exploits around waiting to be found and twitter will get hacked with no one working on it
Name one successful company that only produces beautiful, elegant, and readable code, with no nasty warts or hacks.

I'll wait.
>This is not true.

It is absolutely true. Just because you don't consider yourself rich doesn't mean that these devices aren't out of the reach of a vast majority of the population.

Almost everyone has access to a smartphone, but most of those are poorly made, overheating pieces of plastic - barely suitable for use as a phone, let alone as a computing device on which you can learn something.

In my second statement, I'm also trying to say that though you have a huge number of people in the workforce who haven't had easy access to computing devices, there are also many who do (in absolute numbers but not in percentage). But the numbers are such that given an average Indian programmer, they are more likely to be someone who got educated in a substandard setting among unmotivated peers who have an aversion or even a fear of tinkering and putting a big investment (like a PC) at risk.

People who have money to get a PC as a hobbyist do it for unworthy reasons - like the chance to play garbage tier games like pubg or whatever, or becoming an influencer. This is a generalisation but it will affect the probabilities.
75-ish% of people left/got fired... is that not enough fire?
I'd rather a better service come a long. With more of a community leadership or a worker owned version of Twitter with an elected board etc...
seems that OPs suggestion was only meant to make the command more concise
Just practicing the drums can be highly musical: https://youtu.be/SSlEQNoCAXM

Or, I just spent a while whistling a long to take the a train at the end of
https://youtu.be/crZ8ALG3tm4
God knows what is going on on the minds of remaining employees. I guess most of them want to quit but couldn't for variety of reasons (such as visa issues). And some may be too deep in awe of Musk to quit.
The heavily embargoed, historic-enemy of the US Russia?

The one who is actively threatening to nuke us because we’re sending millions of tons of weapons and ammunition to someone they’re invading while we sanction them to the gills?

What are you smoking? There is no way they’d let him export Rocket engines to them, or cars. Likely for decades.

I suspect the FBI visited him after his Putin talk and reminded him that they could make him register as a foreign agent, or go to jail for that. Not that anyone would say anything.
Easy to use, rich features. Awesome toolbox for developers!
> why does Elon get the brunt of the blame for Twitter's presumed downfall

A few reasons

- he's greatly accelerating its decline in a highly visible and embarrassing way

- he got ripped off. $44b is a hilariously bad deal. He could have saved a few billion and used it to run twitter, at a minor loss, for many years.

- and lastly: he tried to catch a falling knife and is standing around pretending he isn't bleeding. Considering the hubris he has put on display over the past 5 years or so, everyone's taking a moment to enjoy the show.
Heh, no.
All these centralized silos need marketing hype. Otherwise Diaspora* would have succeeded.
Most likely Rostov refers to Rostov-on-Don [1], at 47°14′N 39°42′E.

Assuming a spherical earth, Michurinsk is ~630 km further north. The figure given in the article is probably rounded.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rostov-on-Don
By that definition no tech company is a tech company. People search things on google because they want to find information , not because of the algorithms that bring that information. People use stable diffusion because they want to create images , whatever the cool ai technology behind it.
At the end of the day, most software eats the same stuff and the levers are often rudimentary and grokable, especially if you focus on a specific area. I don't think someone could meaningfully implement a new feature in a night, but could they tackle a problem in a given service and identity a rough remediation to save the next 72h? Yes, this stuff happens all the time. I've jumped on outages like this and figured it out as I went. You're not going to build a new feature but it's probably possible to get oriented enough to avoid catastrophy.

People want it all to fail out of spite, and attempt to bring their dreams to life by merely doomsdaying repeatedly and with fervor. We had 4y of Trump and no amount of wishful doomsdaying actually changed anything. The media was full of drama and we told ourselves stories of incredible disfunctions, but at the end of the day the government kept on doing its thing, the country mostly didn't change too much on the fundamentals. Reality is most often more boring than that (save FTX-like events).
Study: AirPods Pro are this close to being full-fledged hearing aids
This seems common but not a necessary property of course. If predictable performance was a design constraint, you could do it. And there's a spectrum between "maximally predictable" and "very unpredictable".

Unpredictability could eg result in a need to more generous overprovisioning infrastructure and have less deterministic scaling, or some users having a game run slowly despite meeting hw requirements, so sometimes it might be good to have deterministic but bit slower on average execution.
My hypothesis is that you can choose any aspect of composition that musicians find exciting and note the same decline over time. You don't have to be a music theorist to observe that by and large, today's music has been dumbed down in comparison. On a scale from "most producer friendly" to "art" it's definitely leaning heavily to the left.

You can especially note that when it comes to harmonies, and harmonic shifts (aka key changes) are not the only aspect that has been greatly simplified. Elaborate harmonies are just not a thing anymore.

And that's not just the typical effect that old generations cannot relate as much to the music of new generations. No, it's that today's taste - which, of course, has been mostly shaped by the exposure to today's music - appreciates songs that are, from a musician's perspective, much simpler in almost every aspect. The only exception that I can think of is that the performance capabilities of the singer have been put much more in the focus, so you can find songs today that are really difficult to sing well. This is mostly true for female performers, though, and the beginnings of that trend can probably be traced back to Whitney Houston and especially Mariah Carey, who made a certain Coloratura-style of singing fashionable.

I think hardly anyone will dispute the observation that today's music business is much more professionalized than it had already been since the beginning of recording technology. And that goes to tell. It really _is_ a business, and the process of producing a hit song has been streamlined tremendously.

Of course, we need to keep in mind that the focus of the article (as well as my comment) is on chart pop music. And of course, this is a big-picture kind of observation, not claiming that you couldn't cite some (however, rare) exceptions here and there. A thriving alternative scene with much more elaborate song writing has never ceased to exist, but that's not what gets played on your average top-40 radio station (for the youngens: "streams").
Twitter posted a net loss of $221 million in 2021, and a $1.1 billion loss in 2020.

Quarters are only good for forecasting and deciding what to do. Financial year is what matters overall. That’s an indicator of the overall success for the year.
Some problems are inherently difficult to understand, let alone solve. I'm inclined to believe that engineers at Meta solve a lot of these types of problems.
I think that by the sheer nature of Wireguard, it doesn't matter much. We don't send any readable data to Tailscale, they, for the greater part, handle plumbing between nodes. What goes in the pipes remains unnoticed and unknown to them.

Their MagicDNS feature may raise different concerns though, but I'll let others comment on it.
Twitter dying before the end of 2022 was not on my bingo card.
<<Get paid 10M in RSUs. Sell when they vest at 2x the value in 5 years. 20M pay 50% in capital gains and keep 10M.>>
You probably meant to write 20M pay 50% in income tax.

I still do not get your point. This situation is tax advantageous only if the stock appreciates. if the stock is flat there is no tax advantage. If the stock declines this situation becomes a tax dis-advantage.
Motivating executives to increase stock price over a medium time horizon (these RSUs vest over 4 years) to have this tax advantage is not a bad incentive...
Indeed, that would be funny :). But you assume that Mastodon can handle the current number of Twitter users (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33594961 <-- it probably can't).
Forget the server, what especially worries me is the client.

For some weird reason the GUI clients for Windows, macOS and iOS are closed-source.

I never understood exactly why that is, considering that the Linux and Android ones are fully open.

The fact that there isn't a reason documented anywhere certainly worries me.
How is one company replacement for another company?

Both have access to data.
Neocities doesn't support subdomains, not even www., and it's totally a minor issue, but making my URLs break is what kept me from migrating two static web sites there. Yes, they redirect www, so they wouldn't really break, it's just that it feels wrong to me.

http://no-www.org/
If 2 is proven true, investors will demand tech companies make massive cuts to employment.
And yet without any kind of rigorous scholastic requirements any Tom Dick and Harry can take a six week code camp course, and more and more companies have to do leet code style interviews because they can't trust the competency of their applicants.
was thinking qwitter could be appropriate
So wait, we've had all these exploits and no one raised those concerns until Elon took over? How come it wasn't on national news before Elon bought the company?
> solar.lowtechmagazine.com

Off topic: I love this site, but it kills me how they could delete half a dozen CSS rules and HTML elements and make it actually readable. I use the following CSS:

#bat_data { background: rgba(255, 235, 163, 0.5); }
#battery { display: none; }
#page-size { position: unset; }
.entry-content img, .entry-content p.img { max-width: fit-content; }
.entry-content .caption { max-width: 33rem; margin: 0 auto; }

90% of that is just getting rid of pointless stuff that makes the article hard to read.
Ugh, as an outsider, I originally liked the idea of Musk protecting free speech better, but this is some epic mismanagement. I can't imagine why anyone that can find a new job would want to stay there, he seems like a terrible boss.
Looks like a mixture of React and AWS Lambda

https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/internet/entries/8673fe2a-e876-4...

https://static.files.bbci.co.uk/core/storybook/index.html?pa...

> The vast majority of the BBC’s webpages are rendered on AWS, using React. React’s isomorphic nature allows us to render the pages server-side (for best performance) and then do some further updates client-side.

> Increasingly, the rendering happens on AWS Lambda. About 2,000 lambdas run every second to create the BBC website; a number that we expect to grow
Almost disappointed you didn't mention a flux capacitor but I guess it would have been too obvious
it's such a complex messy format that i'm really not surprised.
when you spend your whole life acting like a genius because you made a bunch of money, then a richer guy shows how incorrect that is, you are going to squirm.
Depends what kind of ads. Targeted advertising sure. But simple brand ads campaigns don’t need that large of staffing.
Framework laptop doesn't have option to buy with Linux, there is only an option to buy without Windows. For me that is not what officall support is.

I had Motile M141 laptop with Ryzen 3200U and it had better battery life on Linux than Windows.
Sadly so. Still Perl around the organisation though in internal systems from that era which continue to work and still in daily use for producing news if nothing else.
Scott Aaronson: Sneerers
I'm not sure about whether it's supported on Windows (and why if it's not), but I think it refers to having whichever window the cursor is over being "active" by default. For example, if you have two windows open that both have a text input focused (like maybe a text editor and a browser), the more common window-management paradigm is to consider one of them "active" independent of the cursor. If the text editor is active, you need to "switch" to the browser to type into it (by clicking on it, alt-tabbing, closing the editor, etc.). An alternative way of doing things would be to have the text you type go into whichever window the cursor is over. I haven't tried out using this, but I do find this behavior noticeable when playing a game on one monitor and having a web browser open on the other. Often if something is loading, I'll switch over to the browser to read hacker news or something while waiting, but then when the game is finished loading and I switch over, I'll try to move or something and be momentarily baffled at the lack of movement until I realize that I just typed "w" or something into the browser.
That's the piece of information I miss in a lot of those stories. What happened X years later? We all love reading about strange projects, but it's not until someone sits down and writes a blog post about some old, custom system that you get the important insights (X was good, Y didn't work because reasons and nobody ever understood Z).
Exactly. In the real world no one cares what tech stack you use, whether it's a monolith or not. Businesses serve customer needs. Tech is the tool and is only useful to that extent.
You know that twitter was a public company before all this fiasco right? If you want to see pre-Elon financials, it's all in the public domain. https://investor.twitterinc.com/financial-information/quarte...
There's an old tweet in Norwegian that constantly gets retweeted, or just referenced as "balloon animal". It goes something like:

> [me running naked through the library with a balloon animal on my head]

> The fact that you're talking about me means that I hit a nerve

https://twitter.com/kaffekjele/status/586625003661197312
Classic Amazon. Guessing due to the scary nature of them, they hope to motivate their workforce, and push back against all this work reform stuff.
> Thinking that by having engineers go "hardcore" you're automatically going to have a better product is like if a pizza delivery company decided to invest in better cars because people criticized their pizzas.

Bingo. Hard-core engineering has been the lynchpin of Tesla and SpaceX's success -- they literally won via designing and manufacturing superior physical things.

It makes sense that EM would blunder by attempting to reproduce that type of success at Twitter. And it will be a blunder, unless: (a) he plans to build one or more new products (or drastically change the nature of the existing product), and (b) those new or drastically changed products will somehow "win" in a big way that Twitter isn't winning now.

But at least to me, (a) doesn't seem likely and (b) seems even less likely.
I used to think the idea memento mori would make me more anxious so I never really thought about it beyond the surface.

But I recently started tracking my life in weeks: https://abhaynayar.github.io/life.html

And honestly it has made me less anxious and more aware of how precious life is. I keep it as a bookmark on my phone home screen and every time I look at it I feel grateful to be alive and prioritize things much better.
There are definitely external arrays that can work in locked in patients, but even when the stars align you'll usually be looking at something like 10-20 bits of data per minute.

For most people it'll be much less than that, and for some it won't work at all.

Generally speaking, these arrays are greatly outperformed by eye tracking, or even a nurse holding an A4 piece of paper and responding to blinks/grunts.

This in and of itself wouldn't be a problem, as the tech is in its infancy, but the real issue comes is that researchers are focused on bullshitting the public and selling science fiction rather than improving the existing technology.

Nobody understands how or why it works, and instead of learning about the brain we're just inventing new ML trickery.
Time's were a bit harder back in the day, kudos to the all-stars though for doing what they needed to do to get by.
Goodbye Tweets from Twitter Engineers
Tesla at the time Musk took over was literally three guys, a cool name, and some big ideas. He then took over on design, direction, and development - as well as starting to bleed money trying to make it all happen. And ultimately the others would be out of the company before their first product hit production. They deserve a footnote, but their ultimate role in the company was effectively zero.
I wish this would be open source and/or available on Linux. Looks like a very useful toolbox!
All value is created by labor .
You don't think you would have an opportunity to achieve a higher position at Twitter (and more money either there or by switching into an adjacent company) faster than at a FAANG? And the other indication you have, apart from common sense, is Tesla. If you had got and held on to a lot of Tesla stock you would have been rewarded. No guarantees obviously, but if Twitter could be as successful - same thing could happen there. It's a possibility.
I picked the first job that came up [1] and seems like at least one team is using Delphi with Oracle for the database. But the BBC isn't exactly small, so I'm not surprised there's a range.

1: https://www.totaljobs.com/job/senior-software-engineer/bbc-j...
If someone can figure out how to go the speed of light, then they certainly can figure out how to decelerate "suddenly." This is all just funsies anyways, right?