skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If comparing on costs, hosting it on home HW is by far the best way to go. I run Rsync and keep the backup in my shed so it is off-site.

Nextcloud provides way more than data backups. It is best in class for personal internet services. My family and friends use my server for syncing their contacts, calendars, tasks, kanban, music, RSS, bookmarks, passwords, notes, and finances to all their devices. Ours is also setup with Talk for voice and video conferencing, polls, forms, phone tracking, CMS, mail, maps, activity pub social media, and there are a ton of other possible apps. It is perfect solution to avoid Goopple.
A reflection of personal conditions I wager.
Seems like self-sabotage rather than employee sabotage.
No, the farmer is obviously not going to do this "just because". But if there's a market for organic produce sold to consumers at a markup, why wouldn't there be a market for something like this?

Ag is regulated, for sure (and for good reason!), but it's still a huge polluter. And yes, let's regulate domestic chemical use while we're at it!
Both of your statements are just absurdly wrong that they're not even worth engaging with.

12 years ago we didn't have stuff like GDPR or CCPA or any number of data compliance laws that require a full team around to prevent getting fined into oblivion.
So this article is about looking for a perfect solution, not finding it, and finally compromising on some of them, like end-to-end encryption, ease of migration...?
I never really understood the "dangers" of big corporations knowing you. What are they going to do, serve you better ads? I've thought the same for 20 years, and so far I've been vindicated - there's no widespread personal harm in having an "open" internet persona vs using incognito all the time.
This reminds me of this saying:

We, the unwilling

Led by the unknowing

Are doing the impossible

For the ungrateful

We have done so much

For so long

With so little

We are now qualified

To do anything

With nothing
> What is making CSP better? Did mirrors suddenly improve?

Yes. Thanks for noticing: https://www.reutersevents.com/renewables/csp-today/self-alig... I think the first projects using them are just about done. Heliostats now require much less foundation and are much cheaper to install. The remaining portion is almost identical to the cheap part of many of the SMR concepts, but on a stick instead of in a gigantic steel and concrete room.

But the main driver is actually that it is dispatchable. If you make the hot bit bigger and combine it 5:1 with PV with a little battery on the side you get a millisecond response, grid forming, 24/7 dispatchable power station that is presently about the same price as a NPP but is actually going down rather than up. They're only good in low clous regions, but there is enough good resource for it to make a contribution on the same order as nuclear.

> Did you just pick these figures out of thin air? Reduction of uranium in sulfuric acid is nowhere near 100 : 1 ratio. Unless you're talking about 600,000 tons after enrichment, in which case your figure for uranium consumption is off by an order of magnitude. A 1 GW reactor requires 27 tons of uranium per year [1]. The world uses an average of 2,500 GW of electricity meaning we'd need 68,000 tons of uranium fuel per year. The world produces 231 million tons of sulfuric acid annually [2], so even if we run with your un-sourced numbers this only requires an increase of 2-3%.

It's for getting it out of the ore at 1-3ppt. Do you not even understand that not all uranium resource is like cigar lake where you just find some yellow and green rocks, pour a bit of heavy water on them and call it good? Go look at the sulfuric acid consumption of rossing or inkai, realise those are high concentration compared to the other 7 million tonnes and lower concentration needs more, then come back and apologise.

Most of the ore you are proposing mining is no more energy dense than oil.

> Except unlike solar power, the nuclear fleet doesn't require vast amounts of energy storage.

One kg of natural uranium cannot produce enough energy to wear out an LFP battery made with 1kg of lithium -- and the lithium can be recycled. I think we're good.
Was this planned sabotage by Elon?
Has anyone tried to see how similar is their manually written code to other codes out there? I bet small snippets 1-2 lines long are easy to find. It would be funny to realise that we're more "regurgitative" than Copilot by mere happenstance.
> It's just a simple web app. How many people can it really take to run the thing?

Except it isn't? Content filtering and ranking based on properties such as individual preferences and localized content is way harder than dumping a SELECT * FROM tweets, not to mention compliance requirements.
Not necessarily. They're contractually required to make X number of episodes, but there's no way to guarantee quality or ratings. If they make cuts in the staffing of budget for this show, the show quality will drop. Suppose they cut the VFX budget by 75%, for instance: the show will have horrible FX, but they can still meet their contractual requirements. Or they could cut actor salaries in future seasons (which maybe haven't been negotiated with the actors yet), causing key actors to quit, necessitating either re-casting (which is usually bad) or rewriting the story.
I honestly can not tell if this is a serious question or a joke throwing around physics techno babble... Maybe this is how business people feel when we try to explain why some data somewhere is out of sync because of system problems.
> What's most surprising it seems he has no thesis for the company or how it can be made better or what was so terrible about it.

Have you ever used Twitter?

To someone who has used Twitter in the past weeks this reads like deliberate trolling.

Twitter was absolutely terrible to use and the pace of noticible change within days/weeks under Elon is mind blowing to me. He's clearly going fast with things like getting rid of (shadow-)banning for no apparent reason, getting rid of banning anything of a certain political flavor, making Twitter faster (both in browser as well as on Android), getting rid of fake scammer accounts who deliberately impersonated famous people and companies to scam people, getting rid of bots and spam which where a HUGE problem (still are until the transition to verified is done) and so on.

I mean getting rid of politically flavored sensorship alone will have a massive impact globally for something like Twitter. That alone was obviously very terrible to many people before Musk.

PS: since you said you don't understand what his vision is. My best guess: it's to create a platform that competes with click-bait sponsored propaganda journalism. In the form of citizen journalism on Twitter. I think it could work and I also think there's a huge need for it as traditional journalism is dead in my opinion.
SBF was just spotted earlier today in what appears to be a grocery store in the bahamas with no security or law enforcement around...

https://twitter.com/psyopcop/status/1592977107281666049
Talk about missing the point. TT is tailoring content _for you_. Of course if you're not into that sort of thing, you're not going to see that sort of thing.

It's uncanny how specialized it is - every time I try showing my feed to friends, they're at most lukewarm. Sure, there are videos we share and all like, but the overall content is very very personalized.

Just for fun: for a long while a good 10% of the videos TT was showing to me were... backhoes.
I empathize with those remaining with a H1B, they would be worried sick. They would have less choices and would otherwise have less of 60 days to find a new job or to leave the country.
Hundreds said to have opted to leave Twitter over Elon Musk ultimatum
Elon Musk's Twitter engineers jump ship after Google Form ultimatum falls apart
That link works fine, site still up, and you yourself linked to it. He wins a chuckle out of me. :)
> to just walk/bike out of the town or city they live in to play and have adventures in the fields and parks and maybe a little bit of thornier wilderness around them, all on their own, for hours at a time. A.K.A. "just be home for dinner."

It sounds like you've never been to Japan. It's exactly like that here.

>I think the countries I've visited have all been Commonwealth or ex-Commonwealth nations. Maybe that's the common factor?

I feel like the Anglophone nations have all been following America's lead in many ways.
It's a common flaw of democracies I find. I come from France and live in a soft dictatorship now, Hong Kong (soft because they dont beat us regularly, yet).

In France, you cannot escape expensive white elephants: the population might even vote for one, like that Airport in the middle of nowhere they wanted to revitalize the dead region. These issues become political eventually with both sides veering to the irrational to defend, or attack, the expensive project. Since we can all vote, we end up balancing left and right, project and no project, cancelling stuff half built, starting others.

In dictatorship, the absurdity is different: sometimes, no matter how silly the white elephant (the HK Macau Zuhai bridge is a good exemple: no car can ever get 3 license plates, three driving permits and three driving insurance, so no car can ever drive on it), the politicians will stubbornely see it to completion, gloat in intense glory whatever the cost overrun when it's done, and move on with the project standing there unused.

I dont know what the best model is, I only know there cannot be perfection: we cannot always take good public decisions, always stick to them, always be right about the future. We can only fail in absurd waste sometimes.
https://forum.syncthing.net/t/enable-nat-traversal-what-does...
There's already many articles posted to hackernews frequently at the insane internals of the mobile app, to the "meta verse", to many other things. Most of which are posted by ex-Facebook engineers. I don't need to rehash the same conversations, nor do I need to grant Facebook of all corporations any sort of courtesy.
I see this as another example of a failed migration project that focuses on non-functional requirements of the system, at the expense of functional requirements.

Time and time again we see the same result in projects costing taxpayers or shareholders millions. There seems to be no shortage of those (at every level) ready to believe that one can just apply some “technologies” to very complex legacy systems that will result in something new and effective.
>"Now I'm not saying X, or Y, and I'm definitely not a P, and I don't agree with everything Z said but..." How can you have a conversation if so much time is spent not saying things?

Further, it intellectually constricts the speaker, both in thought and speech. It's running a race with lead weights and straitjacket.

For a smaller, but longer-lasting example, think of how many times in the past six years you heard someone preface a statement with "I hate Trump, but". Those who lived under Communism and Nazism experienced the same thing: Anything that might be perceived by another as being against approved thought in any way had to uttered in a way that would plausibly insulate the speaker from undesirable consequences. Now, think of how long-term adherence to such behavior crabs the intellect and soul.
And then I will download a trial of the resulting binary, and send a GPL compliance letter to the company. Unless they took care to use dynamic linking in the LGPL case, they are legally obliged to send me the source code under the license, so I can release it all as FOSS under that license.
http://www.cs.unc.edu/techreports/86-020.pdf
> As if you could just drive over to the Twitter HQ, grok how all the infrastructure works, and make/provide meaningful contributions/tweaks/upkeep.... tonight

The infra is just too clever for anybody to grok in a million years. These clowns probably don't even have fedoras, no way they'll ever figure it out.
I'd never grind myself into the dust again for a company I don't have a stake in somehow. You have to be able to control your outcome on a big bet.
Multi-armed bandits are used all over the industry. They were in use before TikTok existed.
The more technical writeup [0] linked at the bottom of the article doesn't specifically mention it, but it sounds like they probably booted off the Live CD to get access to the registry.

> You can’t analyze the registry live on a windows machine because it locks the NTUSER.dat files by the process id (PID) 104 known as Registry.exe. Any useful registry information will be found in that process, and we recommend getting a memory and VAD dump of the Registry.exe process as soon as possible. You can do this quite easily with the REKALL tool, which can perform live and dead memory analysis on Windows machines.

[0]: https://blog.unit221b.com/dont-read-this-blog/0xdead-zeppeli...
For garnishes, unless expressing the oil of a citrus peel is essential to the aroma of your cocktail (like in a Negroni), my "hack" has been to dehydrate citrus wheels as garnish. You can get ~2-3 wheels out of the middle of every citrus fruit and use the rest for super juice. Plus, they look really cool.
>If discord had a bit more work that would enable persistent threads like reddit, and encouraged longer, more thoughtful posts like HN and quality moderation, it would be perfect.

Facebook Groups is this product - but it's exceedingly difficult to find the small percentage of well-moderated, smaller groups which are specialized/for enthusiasts. Also, the FB sub-comment/response structure is far worse than HN or Reddit and leaves much to be desired. But I've joined a few with good moderation and thoughtful, interesting discussions.

That being said, any group with [thousands] of members or loose moderation devolves into an absolute shitshow of shit posting and scam/spam posters.
What a weird thing to say, comparing existing production captaincy to what could be... Existing SMR production is what, exactly?

Batteries have a clear scaling path, plenty of materials, and are growing 10x at a predictable rate.

Scaling batteries is utterly trivial compared to the challenges facing SMRs.

The historical record is right there for everyone to see. Batteries are a serious industry, at a serious scale, with serious engineering and real timelines and improvements. The entire nuclear industry are charlatans and lightweights compared to what's happened in batteries and renewables. Which is a shame, because nuclear could have had a chance, perhaps.
Is that a lot? That seems like very little data.
There's probably going to me a meme about this sometimes: showing your TikTok feed to others and getting blank stares. It's just too personal to also be shareable.

But it's definitely not just fluff. More than once my feed got overly intellectual and long form, and I had to keep liking every not-very-dressed female video just to get back to "funtok".

It's also moderately good to keep up to date with news, at least in the areas you're interested about. At least for the James Web telescope I basically got the front seat, with every little detail explained from several PoVs.
Last sentence in the article:

Twitter no longer has a communications department to contact for comment.
It’s not about the framework. It should’ve been C code representative of the stuff that goes into ASML machines.

If I was a junior programmer considering to apply at ASML this picture would give me “ok these folks don’t understand software” vibes.
Renting from a library does in fact pay the author, at least in the UK
Or just held until death at which point no capital gains taxes are owed
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Mass scale political manipulation? See Brexit, for instance.
so all the satellites are being launched, and the cars are being built exclusively by incompetent idiots?
In Russian sources that I can find, it goes like this:

1954 - ПП-1 (prototype / proof of concept)

1955 - ПП-2 (for Strela-1)

1955 - ПП БЭСМ (for BESM)

Followed by more versions for various new mainframes that appeared, named by suffixing "ПП" with the name of the hardware - e.g. there were distinct versions of ПП for Strela-3, Strela-4, and Strela-7.

The abbreviation itself stands for "программирующая программа", "a program that programs". So it sounds like it was originally a name of the specific prototype, but then became a generic term for any kind of compiler for a short while (later replaced by "translator", probably under the influence of FORTRAN and ALGOL).
The polymer is the sorbent. Please actually read the sources you send. Normally it is on a higher strength belt, but this scheme puts it in a plastic shell. That's the bit their charts show with tens of thousands of tonnes needed per fuel load (which turned out to be optimistic when someone checked).

> For what it's worth I am confident that lithium ion battery production will continue to increase and double, triple, or even quadruple over the next century. But that will be barely enough just to satisfy EV demand for batteries. Even just provisioning 12 hours of grid storage worldwide would need 30,000 GWh at present electricity demand. That's close to a century of production at present rates.

You're off by over a factor of 3. There's around 1TWh/yr now, and 5TWh/yr under construction due before 2030. And only a few hours needs to be high power. The rest can be thermal, PHES, CSP dispatch, virtual batteries via load shifting, hydrogen for emergencies, and so on.

> I'm confident about battery production doubling or tripling, it's the factor of 10 to 20 that I'm more skeptical of - and that's the kind of increase we'd need to make battery grid storage feasible.

It's happened, if it were a nuclear project then it'd be at the stage where they've already declared it finished, but shut it down straight after loading and said it will reopen in a month. Other industries do things a little differently, but either way it'll mostly be running around 2028
I used a friend's xanax. Admittedly I should've trialed it beforehand, mistake on my part. I just remember feeling a really strong relaxation and nothing afterwards. I did get an offer but I still wonder today if I said anything questionable during the interview.
A lot of what he's tweeting and or replying to is completely fabricated trolling everyone stuff.

Maybe he's trying to burn it to thr ground to hide something ... pardon conspiracy theory but it's just weird that someone goes and spends $44 billion and takes negative action after negative action against your new shiny toy.

Though maybe he knows what and who is needed only to run Twitter and all the others were just sitting at home or on the beach working an hour to two a day yet getting paid $150 to 500K a year for a full time job they far from worked.
>It seems far more likely to me that he ends up selling it to Google or something for pennies.

Although Elon appears to be aggressively driving twitter into the ground, this might be one of the few outcomes which actually increases the certainty of twitter getting killed.
I can't help but think that his buy was funded and supported by some regimes with less than honorable goals.
I have even idea to make it ad free.

1) it will have plans free, newbie, pro
2) free plan gets 10 tweets/month
3) newbie (1$/month) - 100 tweets/month
4) pro 5$/month - 1000 tweets/ month
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32423356 - It's been posted a few times here, too. A recent discussion with dcminter and dang listing out more prior submissions.
Slow as hell doesn't even begin to describe it. Running `brew update` regularly hangs (no output, even with maximum verbosity) on something for more than 2 minutes before moving on.
I'm in the same boat. I would pay just for the option of disabling shorts. I go to YouTube to enjoy long form content and try to engage my brain a little bit. After watching a pile of Shorts, it feels like the equivalent of eating an entire bag of chips in one sitting. Sure, it was enjoyable while I was doing it but I gained no actual value and now feel kind of sick. But just like a bag of chips, it's so tempting to "eat just one."
Catharsis, ego, etc.
What's wrong with https://neocities.org/terms and how Neocities enforce them? Which hosts would you say do better?
Because Elon caught a falling knife?
... I'm guessing it was replaced by something a while ago now?
It's probably too late for that. The skeleton crew left behind at Twitter isn't going to be large or capable enough to plug the holes that are about to start bursting. The next service outage Twitter has will probably finish it off.
Nah the best people just leave
> They already have basically no advertisers except SpaceX

Source? Musk claimed a "massive drop" but who knows how much that is, if he exaggerated for effect or whether it's permanent ("paused" doesn't mean permanent, if it makes financial sense advertisers will return).

> I expected people to slowly leave

Yet number of users increased faster than ever. These kinds of predictions reminds me of the expectations that Trump would be prosecuted any day now thorough out his whole presidency.

Maybe Twitter will crash and burn, maybe Musk has absolutely no idea what he's doing, or maybe generally outraged people are bad at predicting the future because they're easily misled by their general dislike of someone's personality.
I don't know what a musky user is but if site keeps functioning with a 90% reduction in head count it would be one of those most hilarious events in SV history.

Bet it stays up and a certain crowd moves on to boycotts before eventually returning as users next year.
RIP Mr Brooks.

I've still got my copy of MMM from 20 years ago. I re-read it recently (~2 years ago). Such great wisdom in that book. Would highly recommend it.
This is an interesting read. I'm a programmer by trade. It's easier for me to code a feature than to actually design it or to document it. At the same time I amazed at how easy it is for some of my colleagues to write the documentation for features I built.
I mean, Twitter was a slowly sinking ship which he turned into a quickly sinking ship. The guy is entirely to blame for the current situation - engineers and advertisers fleeing - but it’s not like buying it was a clever move in the first place.
Not just thanksgiving, by the world cup is starting next week as well and that usually drives a lot of traffic
Digressing into your https://newsy.co digression:

What's your opinion on using ActivityPub? It would be so much easier if I could interact with the content without having to create a new account.

It also seems to be a missed opportunity that you only show some sites. Why don't you have a catalogue of all sites, with the opportunity of treating this like a social network?
What's going to happen is that we'll find out either of these are true:

1) Elon will run this thing to ground and site will disappear one day, and entirely stop working for days. Elon will call up ex-employees with 2x overtime pay to help fix it. They might not. It will be a major news event since most politicians these days are on Twitter and Elon's reputation will be forever tarnished. Other CEOs and leaders will join the mocking gang.

2) Elon will show to the world that Twitter can just run fine with 75% less work force and all you need is highly motivated, talented (and compensated) employees. It will be a direct testament to the fact that these woke corporations in SF/SV are totally dysfunctional and they've had a good ride so far from the adtech boom.

We'll have to return back to your comment and see how it ages. Stakes are high.
I mean you went from not having a problem to having a problem. Whether it "was there before" just seems like semantics to me.
Beer, wine, coffee and tea – what day of the week do they peak?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w (:
He got the Twitter shareholders $44bln dollars for a company that has lost money for Decade.

Pretty hard to fire him for cause with that track record, even if the new owners don’t like it.

And firing without cause triggers the clause.