skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for commenting, and your product looks cool btw.

Yeah a lot of people have talked about Firecracker in the past, that's why I focus on the pain and the problem being solved. The tech is cool, but it's not the only thing that matters.

People need to know that there are better alternatives to sharing a docker socket or using DIND with K8s runners.
It seems the answer is more or less "because I've redefined brilliance to exclude the type of people I want to hire, even to the extent that many people who are widely considered renowned geniuses are not brilliant".
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32470615

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32469581
I consider Sandstorm to sort of be the platonic ideal in many ways. But in practice, the fact that the apps have to be modified to run on it holds it back.
1. audiobookshelf - https://github.com/advplyr/audiobookshelf/

2. MicroVMs with Tailscale for VPN exit nodes (to bypass various georestrictions)

3. whoogle-search - https://github.com/benbusby/whoogle-search

4. gitea - https://gitea.com
This is essentially what happens to a startup that scales rapidly. It goes from fire to fire as it grows, scrambling to deal with each new issue that arises and hiring new people as needed. It's not pretty, but is generally accepted as far more effective than attempting to hire and build way ahead of your immediate needs (the YAGNI principle).

Musk's approach is drastic and will probably include a lot of turbulence as you say, but it's probably also the fastest way to find the minimum number of employees required to run Twitter.

You couldn't use this strategy with any kind of critical service, but ultimately nobody is really hurt that much if things break at Twitter, so there is more latitude to take risks.

I'm not saying I like or agree with Musk's approach, but I see the logic.
Can they? People who are familiar with what I'm guessing is O(10^6) lines of Scala?
Not one thing is different since he bought it. Nothing. Literally nothing. Some articulation that carefully explains...nothing about why anyone would be inclined to leave other then "zomg Elon doesn't like woke people noooo!"
It's almost as if people, knowing options, want options. But, surely there must be only One True Way, and those pesky outliers who would rather select their choice of risk management product from a free market are wrong and must be injected with instructions to manufacture a lot of one just specific bilogical defense.
That's just modern double entry bookkeeping - 1 write, then 2 erase. If any transaction isn't erased, it leaves an audit trail for investigation.
Well honestly if the severance was 0 (which would be illegal but whatever) then why would you quit? Instead you could just work the hours you want until it caught up and you got fired.
No, you can't - they don't exist in Rust for Linux.

In Rust the alloc library's Vec has a function Vec::push(&mut self, value: T)

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html#method.pus...

In Rust for Linux their custom alloc library does not have that function offering instead Vec::try_push(&mut self, value: T) -> Result<(), TryReserveError>

https://rust-for-linux.github.io/docs/alloc/vec/struct.Vec.h...
The frustrating thing is that paywalls aren't really the problem. I'm more than happy to push a couple pennies your way to read a good article (probably more than you'd make in ad revenue).

The real problem is account walls. Because a good micropayment system hasn't been adopted yet, every goddamn news outlet insists that I sign up for an account, give them my credit card, and commit to a monthly payment. There's too much good content on competing outlets and platforms to deal with all that paid account management. I'll read maybe half a dozen NYT articles a year, and similar from dozens of other outlets. Let me just pay for what I want to read without signing a long term contract.

This isn't just a problem with news outlets. Every kind of digital content is like this. I don't want a dozen different paid accounts on all the different streaming services. Let me pay a quarter for each show I watch and stop this "gym economics" crap of relying on the very low use customers to subsidize the high use customers.
At my company code is required to be self-documenting. My attitude is that if you can't determine the why then you likely are not familiar enough with the problem domain to be working with that code. It's fine not to be familiar with the domain and there are ways to address that, but reading source code is not one of them.
In the house;

- PiHole

- Plex

- Unifi Controller

- Sonarr / Prowlarr

- Homeassistant (+mqtt)

- Heimdall

On a server running Proxmox, with a couple of Portainer VMs;

- Mailinabox : For some extra domains and things

- Cyberchef : For quickly decoding things

- HTTP Bin : To test out APIs

- MinIO : For testing S3 compatible stuff

- Request Bin : Mostly for testing, but also 4 public facing ones to check stuff

- Sish : Because I don't want to pay for ngrok anymore (https://github.com/antoniomika/sish)

- VSCode : Havent really used it yet, still trying to see if it works for me

- Ghost : For blog, but I havent done anything yet and may move to hugo/cloudflare
It’s not a stock though. Just because you can buy or trade it doesn’t mean it has a market cap.

What’s the market cap of gravel? It might be $1,000 a ton but you can’t multiply that by the amount of gravel in the world and get a meaningful number.

OK so how about gold? How much of that is there? Are you counting ore, how about gold a mile underground? Same problem.

The point is that market cap only applies when you’re talking about a security that represents a claim on a fraction of a whole asset that exists independently of the security itself.

The concept of a market cap is meaningful when adding up all of the stock yields 100% of a defined thing.

In that case you can surmise that the market cap represents some kind of representation of the value of that thing. The lower limit on market cap is generally considered to have a relationship to what that asset is worth.

But Bitcoin doesn’t have intrinsic value. It’s not a thing at all. If you owned all of it you literally would have absolutely nothing at all. Someone else could just start using the same code and call it bitcoin. There’s no asset there.

Hence, no market cap.
Yup, that's where i was thinking. My career is smaller startups and smaller businesses. I make enough, but a bigger name on my resume would help a lot. Especially since i'm not someone who enjoys or expects to do well in the classical interviews.
> What you end up with is a single, ultra-traumatized goat repeatedly finding a group of friends who all get murdered by a flying machine.

For some reason I found this hilarious and tragic at the same time.
not sure what your definition of humane is but mine certainly isnt this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7hAELEBjX4
List of Companies Actively Still Hiring
Yes, the NanoManipulator! I remember getting a demo of it during the grad student “research assistant job fair” when I first started there over 20 years ago. It was like magic, and what got me excited to study computer graphics.
Unfortunately after taking the intro class (taught by Brooks himself) I realized I wasn’t cut out for all the complex math involved, so I switched to medical imaging instead. Still, Dr. Brooks was a great lecturer who injected a lot of his own personal experiences into his classes, and I ended up taking his computer architecture class later on.
For people who are just reading comments, it might be worth highlighting the magnitude of their findings, they suggest that a third of covid deaths could be avoided with a cheap and plentiful vitamin:
"Mortality within 30-days of COVID-19 infection was similarly 33% lower with Vitamin D3 and 25% lower with D2 (D3 HR = 0.67, [95% CI 0.59, 0.75]; D2 HR = 0.75, [95% CI 0.55, 1.04])."

This finding was very clear to me early in the pandemic when people said racism was "the real virus." It's clear that the heavy death toll on dark-skinned minorities probably had a physiological reason.
> According to the Cato Institute, farmers of corn, soybeans, and wheat receive more than 70% of farm subsidies.

https://www.thoughtco.com/us-farm-subsidies-3325162
Parent is thinking about joining Twitter now because they've always wanted to work for Musk. They aren't getting equity.

Also don't factually and politely correct your CEO in a reply on Twitter when he lies.
Unclaimed expense beats sitting in prison.
Don't they outsource everything to ADP like every other normal F500 company?

This is starting to feel like a bunch of butthurt coming from low value add teams.
People are reporting twitter has retained less than 10% of pre-Elon employees now.

Certainly plausible that twitter could survive without significant downtime, but it seems unlikely at this point: it appears Elon has been taking big reckless actions and he'll need to rapidly pivot to smart measured actions to keep infrastructure from tipping over.
Manual action needed to begin the process

> We rely on a user’s circle of trusted contacts to let us know if something happened to them. It can be anyone they invited or nominated for a role on their account.
It kiiiind of is a zero sum game, since if you’re signed up for both, you’ll naturally use the one that gives you better results for your chosen metric. For twitter it’s usually engagement, so if you get a lot of engagement on twitter and little on the fediverse, you’ll end up focusing on twitter.
It is hard to compete with ponzi scams while they are running. Maybe they will have a better chance now?
So we make things worse for humans in order to make it easier for computers?

Yah, one second doesn't matter, but it builds up.

This: "Or we could even decouple our sense of time from the Sun entirely, to create a single world time zone in which different countries see the Sun overhead at different times of day or night."

Shows that they are completely disconnect from human reality: "Science already doesn’t use local times, we talk in UTC."

That's great for science, but people care about day vs night.
I would offer docker containers as helm charts so I can bake in preferences and defaults.

If a customer has never used kubernetes and just wants to run a few containers from you, I would consider handing them a docker compose file instead.
How is this supposed to work? The rotation of the earth is not a constant. So we either scrap UT1 ("the atomic clock") or UTC ("the calendar"). Neither sound like an actual option. The latter would imply that at some (far off) point in the future you wake up at like 10pm as UTC and UT1 are now entirely mismatched (you may as well get rid of all time zones at that point).
Once leap seconds actually stop TAI-UTC will presumably just have a constant offset. Constants are kind of irrelevant since they are very easy to deal with. Really no different than GPS time being exactly 19 seconds off TAI.
Brian Cantrill recently did a talk on this exact motive: https://redmonk.com/videos/coming-of-age-bryan-cantrill-monk...
If the audience is there, advertisers won't leave. Some of the ad pauses right now are mostly performative art. Every ad business is suffering right now with people cutting ad budgets, so pausing Twitter ads as a PR move was free advertising and also covered for the fact that advertisers needed to cut budgets anyhow.

People that claim "brand safety" honestly kind of make me laugh, look at all the World Cup sponsors...don't you think Qatar using slaves (some of which have died) to build the stadiums would be...not safe for your brand to associate with? I would, but they still are advertising, because the audience is massive. I think people dying from something you're helping to fund through advertising is probably worse to be associated with than a tweet saying "own the libs" is 3 pegs down from your ad. Call me crazy.
For a glimpse at what’s possible:

https://www.reddit.com/r/unstablediffusion

https://www.reddit.com/r/aiwaifu

I’ve been trying to generate tentacle porn since 2019 or so. It’s the whole reason I got into AI. We’re finally there, and it only took three years.

Can’t wait to see what 2026 brings. http://n.actionsack.com/pic/media%2FFh08F_hXkAAhalt.jpg
This is the essence of vulture capital LBOs —- load the company with debt, fire everyone that doesn’t contribute directly to the bottom line, cut all perks, close many offices, and then float an IPO to cash out.

For all of the high-minded free speech town square rhetoric from his camp, this looks much more like the game plan from worst PE actors from the 1980s. I guess it’s good there isn’t a pension fund to raid?
It is, but is also a very low-level tool, and there is very little support around it. We've been building this platform since the summer and there are many nuances and edge cases to cater for.

But if you just want to try out Firecracker, I've got a free lab listed in the blog post.

I hear Podman desktop is also getting some traction, if you have particular issues with Docker Desktop.
Your comment could be interpreted to be condescending in tone, which I find quite ironic; the result of your rhetoric is you seem more "annoyed" than OP.

Especially in a large remote meeting, mindless dialogue is incredibly annoying, and often very costly.

I don't log in to work for small talk or personal enrichment. I'm there to accomplish work.

Meandering, unconstrained conversation and boring personal annecdotes belong at Sunday brunch, or on hackernews.
> But ugh on the building rationale. Without knowing what the building was like before, I can't comment too much (e.g. if there was mold/water damage/etc.) but that does seem like an odd use of funds.

There was no library there before it was built.. Right next to city hall at a cost of millions of dollars.

Sure, cities need to build and grow but this was a terrible use of money and a decade later it is still an albatross..

+1 for your comment on children books, this is why we went and it was incredibly valuable to us.

Given most of us are technical, we all know libraries are not a good resource for current technology books and this is not my issue. My concern is a city with a very tiny Chinese population has a large collection of Chinese books.. something is wrong.

PS - my ex was Chinese and loved it because she could go there and the books she wanted were always available, there are so few people in this city who can read them..

Obviously whomever is responsible for buying books invested heavily in foreign language books for some reason?
I would never expect them to do that without vendoring the package. Which mitigates that risk.
Twitter was fined $765 million in 2021. Not sure by what organization.
Hot take: Leap seconds caused by astronomers refusing to modify their own software, instead getting the rest of the world to modify theirs. Too facile?
This is a common misunderstanding. The $1B clause was for if the deal was blocked by regulators, it had nothing to do with Elon just deciding to back out of the deal, so just paying that to walk away was never an option. The commenters above saying that the court was about to order specific performance have it right.
> I think we'd do better to encourage eating responsibly overall than insisting on avoiding processed foods altogether. And it's possible to be very healthy while eating a significant amount of processed foods

Interesting. I am curious what your definition of "responsible eating" is?
If you (still) work at Twitter and you can code, head to the HQ now
I think it's actually two months (for legal reasons) of being an employee but not being allowed to work at twitter, followed by one month of severance, under conditions to be determined
You're not the richest person alive with multiple 100B+ companies
Nobody is confused by this, except those who are trying to be.
It's not so much hope as it is just me being an expert in security and rust and being able to state that very confidently based on my deep understanding of the relevant fields. I could be wrong in the sense that all things are unknowable and truth doesn't exist, but I think I'm right.
The correct answer is obvious — to stabilize the Earth's rotation — but there are a few implementation details to work out.
I'm not sure it is. Is anyone seeing any comments in these threads that they couldn't have predicted before clicking in?

It's mostly schadenfreude and naysaying. Which may even be justified, but it kinda makes for dull reading after a short while.
Only true if the investors weren't sharing in the embezzlement.
Was he appointed by the Bankruptcy Court or the Company itself?
If you put butter into a pan that is too hot and it starts burning, it can be useful to cool things down by adding some oil. But the milk solids will always burn at a given temperature. A mixture of olive oil and butter won't let you cook at a higher temperature than just butter.
You think Twitter controls the narrative?
90 is definitely on the high / addictionary side. 30-45m is very much in range of the time we spend in the day doing worthless things to relax.

Are you saying watching, let's say, cat videos for 30m a day is toxic?
On acid-free paper.
No, that is different. Psychoactives we need to create this illusion of therapeutic use so that we can enjoy ourselves because otherwise the puritans will ban them. For instance, I'm under no illusion that alcohol, weed, LSD, shrooms, or MDMA are good for you in general but I have to promote articles like that because if I don't, puritans in this society will prevent me from enjoying them just like I enjoy jumping off bridges, skydiving, or motorcycling.

This is my life and the only way to live it is to lie to some people in a certain way. So we're going to have this mutually beneficial world where we have to modify the narrative so all parties can get what they want.
There's a lot of ways to say the same thing: because it's hard.

- If you read original texts by great thinkers from Plato to Adam Smith, they really aren't easy to parse. If they couldn't do it, what chance do you have :)

- It's recursive: to explain idea A, you need to understand idea !A in the other person's head.

- There's infinite complexity out there: Even if you can explain idea A, you're leaving out a lot in terms of related ideas B, C, D

(Disclaimer, I make a product to fix this: https://demogorilla.com/docs/compelling-demos )
That serverfault link seems to be completely random and takes me to a StackOverflow page(?)
> The CGPM — which also oversees the international system of units (SI) — has proposed that no leap second should be added for at least a century, allowing UT1 and UTC to slide out of sync by about 1 minute.
Isn't this just market participants in action?

I mean, the economic dogma is that in an efficient market, prices fall to the marginal cost of production, but not all markets are efficient in the economic sense. Why shouldn't a firm take advantage of that inefficiency?
> The number of fan boys he has at Twitter must be super low.

I think this is largely why he fired everyone. He wants all his employees to be musk sycophants so he pushed everyone else out.
https://archive.ph/99DvI
No, it's "X", the all-in-one-app he wanted to do back in the 2000s, and which WeChat is now.

That's not a terrible idea if he can pull it off and make it profitable even despite the massive debt he loaded Twitter with to purchase it.
Document UI design issue. Don't blame the promillages !
Oh yea, i use it - i get it lol. But as someone who uses NixOS, for all it's flaws the community also is quite passionate and pushes out quite a bit of features, ideas, etc. There's little experiments in all aspects of the ecosystem.

I'm just kinda surprised some Docker-esque thing hasn't stuck. Something that works with Docker, but transforms it to all the advantages of NixOS.

CI pipelines are just so rough and repetitive in plain Docker, which is what we use.
http://www.thedarksideof.io/

https://gigaom.com/2014/06/30/the-dark-side-of-io-how-the-u-...
> Or we could even decouple our sense of time from the Sun entirely, to create a single world time zone in which different countries see the Sun overhead at different times of day or night.

A very interesting idea, but probably much too progressive.
A leaner organization could reduce reliance on advertising as payrolls go down, and if traffic increases (as Elon is claiming, who knows if true) than advertisers would pay more for greater exposure. Also FB using AI or target marketing to the extreme for their ads just ended up turning people away from the platform by sterilizing it of any actual content you’d like to see.
I didn't say it was attractive stock.

However if you believe in Musk's vision (is there one!?) and he's desperate he might throw stocks around and then a pivot unexpectedly might work out and a IPO might be lucrative ... but I wouldn't bet on it. All I said: stock exists and can be distributed.
If it gets too bad we can just leap-hour back onto schedule, way easier. (alter the tables that hold the existing offsets - this is done all the time)
As someone who hasn't read the book but watched the movie, here's my best take (spoilers if you haven't watched it):

The main character is from an alien hive race that runs a lot like ants, with workers (main char) and drones (motorcycle man). They are on Earth trying to harvest humans for their skin, but also their meat for research purposes or something, i dunno. Something about being in close proximity to and interacting with humans causes the workers to eventually catch feelings, and need to be replaced. The replacement workers don't care - they're just ants - right up until they catch feelings themselves and the drones have to fetch them for replacement. Hence you watch one worker with her lifecycle on Earth, where she experiences all the good and bad parts of being human.
In German it is called Maschinenpistole, hence MP.
Exactly. I don’t think people realize that a below average software engineer or product manager at Twitter has way better career prospects than a top rocket scientist at SpaceX.
Is he going to reimburse employees for these last-minute flights to SF?

Also, I thought the offices were closed until Monday?
My phrasing was clumsy but also spoilerish. Trust me it's not natural that she'd be depressed because she led people to their deaths (consider farmers), and in fact, that's not the root of her depression!

Let me rephrase for clarity: even though her job is to lead people to the slaughterhouse, making her a "villain" in a more traditional story, we nonetheless empathize with her and feel her pain, since she is an outcast, unhappy with her life and downtrodden by her own people. "Even though" she leads people to their deaths, she lacks any real agency in it; she's pressed into that life.
For the YouTube you can try this: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

I've set it up on my NAS and I've downloaded a couple of videos, but I haven't used it extensively yet.
> Leap seconds aren’t predictable, because they depend on to Earth’s natural rotation.

This is surprising to me. Is the Earth's rotation so arbitrary?
In the US?

This has to vary per country. Here in the UK I think usually you set up a standing order, that is an automatic scheduled bank transfer for a set amount every month. You can do that online and these days the transfer is instant, and it does not require any third party services or fees.
Without ponzi schemes they'd have no customers.
Thanks for commenting.

It seems like buildjet is competing directly with GitHub on price (GitHub has bigger runners available now, pay per minute), and GitHub will always win because they own Azure, so I'm not sure what their USP is and worry they will get commoditised and then lose their market share.

Actuated is hybrid, not self-hosted. We run actuated as a managed service and scheduler, you provide your own compute and run our agent, then it's a very hands-off experience. This comes with support from our team, and extensive documentation.

Agents can even be cheap-ish VMs using nested virtualisation, you can learn a bit more here: https://docs.actuated.dev/add-agent/
6 ronnagrams, not 6 ronnakilograms.