skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it decently unlikely that anything serious happens to Bankman-Fried. There is a zero percent chance the people he helped funnel money into will see a whiff of an investigation.

The level of corruption is too high in US finance and politics for that to happen.
It uses third party (community-provided) relay servers: https://docs.syncthing.net/users/strelaysrv.html

This can have quite an effect on sync speed. I set it up for my dad and initially his PC and laptop were syncing incredibly slowly. It turned out they both thought his home network was a public one, so everything was going out to a relay server and back.
Yes, Elon is playing 4D chess.
Sneerers

In the past few weeks, I’ve learned two ways to think about online sneerers that have been helping me tremendously, and that I wanted to share in case they’re helpful to others:

First, they’re like a train in a movie that’s barreling directly towards the camera. If you haven’t yet internalized how the medium works, absolutely terrifying! Run from the theater! If you have internalized it, though, you can sit and watch without even flinching.

Second, the sneerers are like alligators—and about as likely to be moved by your appeals to reason and empathy. But if, like me, you’re lucky enough to have a loving family, friends, colleagues, and a nigh-uncancellable career, then it’s as though you’re standing on a bridge high above, looking down at the gators as they snap their jaws at you uselessly. There’s really no moral or intellectual obligation to go down to the swamp to wrestle them. If they mean to attack you, let them at least come up to the bridge.
Just use AWS?

At the moment, spot price on a m5.24xlarge is $1/hr for 96 cores and ~300GB of RAM.

That’ll get it done for around $100 — assuming you can checkpoint and tolerate the risk of a shutdown. (The on-demand price is $4.60/h; $475 total.)
Doesn't this actively disincentivize people from using your software though? I'd expect the power-users of software to be the biggest source of grassroots marketing, and making them pay out the nose to use it seems like a pretty quick way to get them to quit.
Key changes that just abruptly shift a repeating pop chorus near the end of a song by a step or half step are pretty dumb though; it's not clear that losing them specifically is a dumbing down.
I am actually able to download a pdf
tl;dr: man didn't need expensive degrees to become the worlds richest man.
Seeing all those comments it looks like I finally have to get myself checked out. Thought too long about might having it and never got around actually talking to a psychiatrist.

I can focus very well in interviews or exams. They are even fun for me. But when I get the job and I don't have any concrete deadline, it's hard to focus for me and "get things done". Which ends up me thinking I am not good enough and falling into depression again. I can perform when I absolutely have to, but I never figured out how I can make it work outside those environments.
In Science We Trust
And he has a history of being a chronic liar.

He has no STEM degree at all!

https://twitter.com/kyliebytes/status/1593391167718113280
The legacy of colonialism marches on ...
How a Series of Crypto Meltdowns Is Reshaping the Industry
Can't you combine with :not(:focus) ? That should trigger the CSS only after the field is left.

Or use a transition to show the error a few seconds later than the input happened.
What about supporting UDP protocols?
When I use tabs I get "./fizzbuzz.zig:4:1: error: invalid character: '\t'"
Bankman-Fried Switches Legal Counsel as Investigations into FTX Collapse Mount
Show HN: Get answers for shell commands from GPT3 from your terminal
I was constantly googling CLI commands so I built this small CLI tool with GPT3.
You can ask for shell commands right from the CLI.

You'd need to use your own API KEY for this but it's pretty simple, instructions are in the README
Not perfect but not bad either.
Can this be used as an interactive shell?
> The author, by making this claim, lays bare the fact that they do not know about Eurovision.

Historically I would say that to be an accurate statement. It used to be a Eurovision-staple.

The latest few years though, I’ve been surprised that literally none of the songs making it to the finals have key-changes like this any more.

When it’s usage is decimated, even in Eurovision-songs, I think that clearly shows the author has a solid point.
I assume this is the test run and they will move the rest over later or something?
Lol, I let myself out, but appreciate the thought ;)
He did pay up for the expensive degrees. Just failed to graduate. And lied about it including an imaginary Stanford admit.

And was an undocumented worker for 2 years!
Lucas Chess: An easy way to play and train chess on your PC
Yes. It has nothing to do with global warming, it's all the synthetic chemicals in the water and the food supply. Global warming is a problem but it has nothing to do with male virility.
It definitely feels like internal sabotage at the moment...
So there's a direct correlation between how many Twitter employees there are, and how high the usage is?

Were the employees just spending all day banning people and manipulating the town square?
His attempt at pay-for checks, and the layoffs, show he's very interested in making/losing less money. I was highlighting a potential path to attract users, and not (potentially) scare advertisers, which would align with that goal.

I don't think a rational person would try to make any long term conclusions from less than a month of new ownership.
The longer they remain in a code freeze, inevitably the outdated codebase will develop vulns. And they’re not gonna be able to patch vulns and 0days during a freeze..
More likely that 'modern tech' is just exposing corruption that has always been there.

This is just statist feudalism exposed.

Modern technology is also amplifying populism, which is who the word 'Truss' ends up in all of this, because however much one may agree or disagree with the contents or orientation of the mini-budget, it was woefully misrepresented in the press (almost universally) in an excessively populist manner.
Why depend on Tailscale when you can go 100% open source and use slack's nebula or plain old wireguard or one of those open source wireguard manager apps.
For many people, being selected for a layoff can feel like you have been judged as a lower performer than your colleagues. The thinking being that the company would always want to retain their best performers. This can cause a big loss of confidence for some people. They will be stuck thinking "Why was I one of those chosen for being laid off?"

Often though, the decision on who to lay off also considers who might be close to retirement, who might cost more to make redundant (redundancy pay in many places is based on years of service and there might also be long service leave owed), and the mixture of skills and knowledge the company thinks it will need going forward.

Also some people will have built up strong relationships with colleagues, teams and clients through their work. Their potential to continue these relationships typically drops dramatically without it being a regular part of work. That can make some people quite sad personally and frustrated that all of the work developing those relationships will suddenly not be very useful anymore.
He's playing 4D chess and also learning the fact that all value is created by labor.
I don't see option to order Framework laptop with PopOS!
If you install OS yourself, it is not officially supported.
> I'm using a Windows notebook at work, and I cannot go for a single week without running into some random window management bug

Could you please share some details on all these Windows GUI bugs?
iCloud is good stuff, at least for ease of use. I use it to store my photos and passwords. Photos are then automatically synced to my Mac, which is then backed up to Time Machine. Same goes for the iCloud Keychain.

You could say I’m 100% on Apple working decently, but with 3 copies I feel relatively safe.

I wish there was a third party tool to occasionally verify the whole library to ensure photos don’t rot or just disappear.
My experience with Nextcloud was underwhelming. Regular crashes, very slow sync if you have thousands of files, full reupload on any change and ignored files that do not get synced with no warnings. I had made five accounts for my family and each of them got a separate blocking bug. The worst part was the syncing of shared folders.

I ended up using Seafile, which is mostly open source and has beek rock solid for the past two years. I'm not looking back!
seems like he's using a scorched earth technique to force resignations.

it seemed to me twitter was doing more or less ok, as a business - never heard any talk of bankruptcy until this robber baron came on the scene.
I was going to mention 'magneto-reluctance' but you covered that as well!

Wish I could upvote tenfold to further increase your customer focus on operator excellence.
Mary Kenneth Keller: the first Ph.D. in computer science in the US (1965)
Youtube content is generated by its users
I've just realized I really need to see this video re-shot next to a Shiny-Looking Thing at an ASML facility, preferably one with glowy lights emanating out of it somewhere.

(I've also just realized at least 10 companies have probably re-shot this internally with their own equipment. Argh.)
Wait, are you saying that Lysenko was onto something?
Pretty much this. It always starts out fun, and then the investors step in/the company goes public.
Exactly on our roadmap :D

- Linux: coming soon. It is built using Electron. We started with Mac and just finished testing on Windows. We will make our CI to test on Linux and publish a version for Linux soon.

- Open Source: We have plans for open sourcing it. But the code is not ready yet. Will prepare for open sourcing once it gets more stable.
HP Dev One hits all checkboxes except it has very glossy screen.
Everything has exploits waiting to get discovered and used. They just get worked on under normal circumstances and patched. With all the chaos there's no one to patch or monitor

Check out hacker one and look at what gets disclosed everyday major companies have little issues popping up
Aren't venture capitalists supposed to solve real problems like global warming and whatnot? Does Marc Andreesen now think that games are the height of ambition for venture capitalists?
I mean, I generally think comments with this kind of attitude aren't looking for serious responses, so I normally don't respond.

That said, there are three things to consider:
1) I honestly don't care whether you think it's garbage or not.
2) I saw some amazing software there, and I saw some that wasn't amazing.
3) It's an immense business, and there is a certain amount of inherent dysfunction that comes with that many people working on anything together much as you would see at any large company.
Hahaha. Even better, the twitterer specializes in digital detoxes (a worthy cause, but counter to Twitter's goals). Maybe his secret plan is to turn down services in a volunteer capacity
> company is on a website that makes it a tech company

Well, we generally consider social media companies tech companies. And since they don't really have anything else other than the tech stack (and the users on it, but they don't "have" those), not sure as what you would characterise it.

> ideas for improvement don't revolve around the engineering aspects of keeping a website running

What makes you think that the desired engineering improvements are about "keeping [the] website running"?

It seems to me that what is being sought are engineering solutions to, for example, stop the spread misinformation without censorship. That would be pretty cool, I think. And I can imagine a way of pulling it off, because we actually have such mechanisms in the (non-internet) social networks that make up what Jonathan Rauch calls The Constitution of Knowledge.[1]

These mechanisms use network effects to amplify good information and attenuate (but not censor) bad information. What is good and bad? The network decides this by what information it attenuates or amplifies. Bad scientific papers don't get cited, good ones do. The stories in the National Enquirer don't get picked up by other papers, and nobody believes them to be true.

This obviously isn't perfect, but it's about as good as it's gonna get, and works pretty well in practice.

Internet social media disrupted these mechanisms by its extreme virality, which seems to apply specifically to bad information. It just spreads extremely fast, literally exponentially (not the "very large" meaning of "exponential"). Kind of like a virus.

And we learned recently that to suppress a viral pandemic, completely 100% sterilising immunity is not actually needed. You just need to slow it down enough to get the R number below 1, ideally significantly below 1. That's what I think the "Do you want to read the article first before retweeting?" prompts are for: slow things down a bit.

Of course "slowing things down a bit" is counter to your economic self-interest and fiduciary responsibility when you're an ad-driven company. So getting off ads completely or at least partly is an important part of it.

> Thinking that by having engineers go "hardcore" you're automatically going to have a better product

Who thinks that? Why do you believe that anyone thinks this? While I don't agree with Elon's approach, the causation would clearly be the other way around: there is a lot of engineering to do to get to a better product (less dependent on ads, more attenuation of bad information without censorship etc.). And all that has to be done while under a bit of pressure, this ain't a Greenfield project with unlimited runway. So yeah, might get a bit "hardcore".

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Constitution-Knowledge-Jonathan-Rauch...
Great article. This bit blew me away: "investment in improving and scaling up the production of meat and dairy alternatives resulted in ... 11 times more than zero-emission cars.
Also on certain level you have to have at least some level of plausible deniability for fraud committed. That is have enough players involved in it.

Madoff failed this. And if even fraction of what SBF has done is true. Yep, he is also going away. As this has entered outright territory of fraud.
There was a character that did this in the HBO show (Oz). A high functioning executive, brokering big deals and on the outside looked the part perfectly. Except for that one little secret.

Thanks for sharing, it's an interesting life hack. But one of those things you have to try I suppose to understand. I'm still on the fence though :)
https://archive.ph/zUVJU
>1) .edu

I still use my Ivy League alumni email address, and would never have made another (a .com) my primary address if I'd had access to the .edu address the whole time since graduation. Why would I not want to immediately communicate my affiliation to one and all without having to explicitly state it?
> Twitter [...] can work on far fewer resources to do more if he runs it like Space X or Tesla

Even disregarding the content moderation speed run, the technical problems for Tesla and Space X are fundamentally about four things: physics, mathematics, materials technology and applied computer science. Mostly predictable. Twitter is like any other large messaging or information distribution system. Chaotic. Unpredictable. Highly adversarial.

Think about it. In a cloud of atoms, you don't get a sizable fraction trying to game the rest of them. Materials technology may be cruel, but at least it's not actively adversarial. Lithium batteries are volatile and can explode, but they don't do so out of malice.

With Twitter, EM is quickly learning that people are not that different from him. Awful. And dealing with them requires skills and knowledge that the best engineering can't cover.

Incidentally, I think EM is also finding new peers. He is on course to wreak about 40B worth of economic damage in a month, which puts him in the Truss-Kwarteng category. Quite an achievement.
Excuse my ignorance, why are they messing with Japan?
I worked at the beeb around 2003 and built a very high traffic Perl application for Radio 1 called OneMusic to launch unsigned bands. It was interactive, not static, hit MySQL directly and blazingly fast. Was a huge success using existing libs. This was pre nginx on our public facing Apache/modperl and it handled very high traffic.

BBC did have non static Perl applications so this whole thing is a false premise. They wanted to build a framework.

In 2007 Perl had thousands of MVC frameworks in CPAN. The idea that the solution to static file hosting is to build yet another MVC framework is absurd. They did and were surprised Perl is fast. Yeah. It always was. And they reinvented the wheel.
It’s a developed skill. When I was freelancing, I was at times pretty pressed to get that project or take on this client.

I forced myself to never beg, always be willing to walk away, accept that I might not get the gig and generally try to not let the other party know of my desperation. It worked wonders on my confidence in negotiations and kept me from taking bad deals that would have prevented me from getting better ones.

I’m be no means saying that is easy. It really is not, but it is something that can be learned.

Drinking, or using substance, to control your emotions is a dangerous path to go down. It let me to develop a habit that I luckily were able to break before it turned into a bigger problem.
On (a) Musk has announced that he's going to go full steam on Vine. We'll see if he can take on TikTok.
What reward lol

What, is Twitter going to re-IPO?

Is that before or after paying off the billions in debt?

As an ordinary employee what is the potential reward?
Why is home HW the best option?

You'd have to:

- Purchase the hardware & replace if it breaks

- Install the software & keep it updated

- Pay for electricity

3.2€, that the Hetzner 1TB storage box costs, would be cheaper than the current EU electricity cost alone.
My favorite are these narrow cylindrical green apples that grown in my mom's backyard. They are tart but not as tart as granny Smith, very chewy, and have a bit of bitterness and a strong tannin flavor. Beats everything else by a mile. No idea what they are called though.
No offense, but 2ft still will be constantly added to this, and where that is the significant difference and unless you call getting flooded twice a day non-constant flooding..... however I see noone living right in the tidelands right now.
Edibles can kick your arse in a major way and go on for hours. I've had a few experiences that surpasses most of my trips on LSD. But I agree that a moderate-high dose of LSD that goes south is much harder to control. Sometimes it's just like a bomb detonates in the center of your mind, and you're using the next days (weeks, months or years) collecting the debris and trying to piece them together.

"Take it easy duuude, but take it!" - Terence McKenna
Or a wrēnch..
I've never done Ayahuasca and I am still leaning more to the side that these beings are NOT created by your mind. These experiences are too structured and follow simmilar spiritual themes. If these substances would simply fire random neurons in a brain you would expect more of a delirious/deluded and dream-like state. Also, I think there was some study that showed that psychedelics acutally reduce brain activity instead of amplifying it as you would expect from a materialist perspective.

That entity actually asked you a very valid question. Why do you need to explain it away? Is it because of fear that it might be real? Why would you be afraid of that?
MQTT Explorer
> I don’t think his trip to the Bahamas was a coincidence

Not at all a coincidence. It is where he lived and where his company was based.

No coincidence at all he was in the Bahamas when it all blew up!
I thought he was doing it to save humanity, not because a court was going to force him to honour his agreements?
1 million isn't 0.1 billion.
It's 0.001 billion.
He felt threatened by all the attention FTX was getting.

Elon: hold my beer.
The part where I'm responding to a commenter talking about a storage system that "turns non-disparchable [sic] power into dispatchable." Cyclical storage could effectively turn solar power into dispatchable power. If you have enough storage to store half the solar energy you generate and release it at night you've effectively turned solar energy into a dispatchable source. Seasonal storage does not do this. So it's pretty clear that this [1] comment is talking about cyclical power.

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33636358
Geography... They are surrounded by landmasses to West and North so they really don't have any other reasonable direction to launch their missiles tests that wouldn't go over Japan. As you don't want them to land on land.
So this is just a Wireguard wrapper with a shiny UI? Why is this so hyped?
My prescription is 50k 3x a week.
Let’s check in again next week when we find out that Twitter can be run by <1000 people and those who quit to send a message sent the wrong message.
.NET 7 introduces AOT (finally!), which allows easy interop with any language on any OS. To demonstrate the possibilities, I bring some Apache Ignite APIs to Rust.
I think it was McKenna who said he believes that because people hear about elves before their trips, they experience them and the experience is fairly similar. Even the name, an elf, is suggestive of the appearance of the creatures.
(Tailscalar here)

Most of the Tailscale client’s functionality is implemented as a daemon called tailscaled which is in the OSS repo.

It’s the GUI front ends for Windows, MacOS and iOS that are not.
California labour laws don't apply globally
The reason Elon Musk bought Twitter
Building their machines takes a long time -- like a couple of years. It's also very labor intensive. And space constrained. Once the machine has been built and tested in Eindhoven, it has to be completely disassembled and shipped to the customer, then effectively completely rebuilt from the ground up. And there's a lengthy burn-in process where they have to tweak it for the specific local conditions -- which can vary if the machine has to be moved even just a foot to the left. Or if a truck drives by on a road a few miles away.

So, it's really hard to scale that process for building new machines.

They've got money burning in their pockets and no better place to spend it, so what do they do? Stock buybacks.

Disclaimer: I did a six month contract working for them several years ago, when they were towards the start of developing their EUV process. It was a real eye opener to have the tour of the facility and have everything explained to me.
It’s more likely that those who remain are trapped by circumstances: on a visa, or too deep in debt to risk unemployment, or such-like.
Twitter is a service which handles bursty type demand. One of these events is the World Cup, which starts on Sunday. Which Twitter engineering has previously noted is one of their most challenging demand times.