skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>- Trends are not working correctly.

"Trends" were subject to Twitter's "trends blacklist" before; something that leaked a few years ago. Maybe they're working correctly now that they're unencumbered. Can you describe how they're not working now?

>- Appealing flagged tweets isn't being responded to.

Mine was responded to in a handful of hours. Much faster than I was expecting.

>It's only a matter of time before these get abused with no one to fix them.

"the walls are closing in" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEchPZm318
They evolved that way, and the hyphens denote the various parts of UUIDv1, the original version of UUIDs; roughly:

123e4567-e89b-12d3-a456-426614174000
^^^^^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^
time lo time time seq node id
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+/- a few bits reserved for version & variant. The random ones are version 4, but they still share the same string representation as v1. (But outside of the bits mentioned in the article, the other bits are just random; the diagram above doesn't apply to v4.) The only thing the hypens really do there is make it easier to see where the version bits are, if you want to visually verify that it's a v4 UUID.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universally_unique_identifier
I love being part of it. My fear is losing it but I suppose even in a not well off place, there will be a computer somewhere I can use and work on. I just like tinkering, making things. Seeing it go.
automation is indeed key. IRC networks run with no obvious employees and salarys and been running fine since the dawn of the internet. i see Twitter as a centralised, walled IRC. the # was pinched from IRC if u remember.
> I guess from the article it's not just collisions, but the (significantly more likely) problem of guessing a UUID that's valid (out of all the issued tokens).

Assuming random UUIDs:

If you're counting all the UUIDs anyone makes, then valid<->attacker matches are a subset of all possible collisions and therefore less likely.

If your baseline is only the collisions between valid UUIDs, then whether an attacker is more or less likely to collide depends on whether they're generating UUIDs at least half as fast as the system they're attacking.
I got an external drive to watch DVDs on my computer with.
Sure. Who do you have on the inside who can publicly verify that you're correct?
It is not a bad thing as such. The main problem comes when a business is stripped of all its assets and/or weighed down with more debt than it can repay and fails as a consequence, leaving employees out of a job and communities without a formerly productive enterprise.
> the people banning and downvoting the "conspiracy theorists" (who were actually spreading facts/truth

A broken clock is still right twice a day. It's my observation that the conspiracies of the last few years have been almost entirely debunked. When someone claims they were "proven right", their evidence usually circles back to the same conspiratorial source that made the claim in the first place.
I made a specific response then expanded to a general point. What point does your comment make other than bickering?
Depends.

"Chapter 7 of Title 11 of the United States Code (Bankruptcy Code) governs the process of liquidation under the bankruptcy laws of the United States, in contrast to Chapters 11 and 13, which govern the process of reorganization of a debtor. Chapter 7 is the most common form of bankruptcy in the United States."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapter_7,_Title_11,_United_St...
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As an SRE I know when people aren't working things rarely break (not ever but much more rare)
Other people's code is why I love software. The division of labor is amazing. Even if it's terrible I can fix it faster than I can write it myself, then I can make a PR and the state of tech moves forward just a tiny bit.

I hate everything to do with devops and sysadmin work though. It superficially looks like programming work but it totally different, and often involves manually doing things that feel like they should be automated but can't quite be, or working on live systems making changes directly rather than writing code that only touches anything real after review and test.

I hate how often things get obsolete, but sometimes the constant march is wonderful. It's always great to rip out half you in-house code when your new framework does it all for you.

You can write large applications while only having to maintain your core functionality and some wrappers for external stuff.
Ridiculous. Get a hold of yourself.
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Heuristic selection as you describe is evolutionary. So the meme that survives may not have any bearing on human flourishing, just on its own viral ability to spread. Fitness of the heuristic is orthogonal to human benefit.

Further, when multiple heuristics are directly in conflict, it is up to the individual to make the final moral decision. The choice to reject one heuristic over another must be based in some moral calculus.

Finally, who said anything about blank slate? That's a clear straw man, as it's only logical for consequentialists to take current heuristics and their adherents into account.
More profitable than what? It was and is losing money, plus now it also has some serious debt on top. With staff that actually know their shit (and a sane CEO), it may be possible to turn it profitable, but I don’t think it will happen as things currently stand.
Tesla has 99k employees
Publishing a commit ID in a printed newspaper does not prevent the data loss nor the tampering with the data.

Destructive operations in a ledger database are simply not available at the API/interface contract level.

A delete operation in a ledger database is non-destructive and does not delete the data but rather creates a new «deleted» revision in the history table. The deleted revision is always available, and it can be «undeleted» as there is nothing special about the deleted revision: it is merely another document revision with the N+1 revision number. The document can be deleted (revision N+1), undeleted (revision N+2), updated multiple times (revision N + M1, N + M2 …), deleted again (revision N + M1 + M2 + P), yet the entire history of all past and current revision(s) is always available, and it can be retrieved/inspected; even after the table is dropped, it can still be undropped without incurring a data loss – all of that is the append-only ledger guarantee.

The only destructive operation that is practically possible is tearing down the entire ledger at the infrastructure level, which is irreversible and will result in a full data loss. However it can be mitigated (to a very large extent) through segregating and locking down access to the infrastructure.

git does not provide the immutability guarantee as it allows destructive operations, therefore it does not qualify for a ledger proper. A commit history can be rewritten or deleted resulting in a data loss. Published commit ID's are of no use if the data has been tampered with later and valuable revisions have been deleted in perpetuity.
Prediction markets are a fantastic concept with a ton of value I think for everyone. So I wish companies in the field success and I hope they thrive despite regulators doing their best to destroy them, like PredictIt.

I think it's a shame Kalshi has managed to get their hooks into the CFTC and, rather than lobby to open the field to all prediction markets, instead lobbied for narrow permissions to operate only their stuff (in a limited, less useful way) while killing their competitors.

It's a terrible way to operate a business and it's a black stain on YC for funding a company using these kinds of underhanded methods.

I can only hope the regulatory environment improves and we get some improvements at the CFTC, but I think anyone familiar with US government institutions would bet against it. Perhaps someone could open a question about it on a prediction market.
It's a form of progressive ideology that is largely based on symbolic actions and relies on mechanisms like shame and shunning, struggle sessions, etc.

So instead of actually doing any sort of real tangible action to solve problems, you mostly spend your time denouncing your enemies, including the ones in your own ranks that are not pure enough.

It's very much associated with the left-wing parties in many Western countries, who have for the most part traded their historical defense of working classes for this new brand of performative progressive politics.
One SRE, many SWE. Also have fun asking someone to be permanently oncall with one person on the team.

The cache clusters size are also described here for anyone who wants a good technical read over speculation. https://www.usenix.org/system/files/osdi20-yang.pdf
There was a recent story about one person who would presumably approve of this design: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33412702
I was just about to make the same analogy. The chance that anything will break when there are no new commits is way lower
Welp, their TLS cert expires second week of the new year. I really hope for them that’s an automated process.
There are very few wines that could be aged , most commercial bottles are good for 1 to 3 years bo matter how well you store them. Even wines from respectable producers are often going to start being broken in 10 years or so. Wine is living thing and the biological and biochemical processes are going to ruin the liquid at some point. Wines that could survive 20, 30 or more years are exception not rule and you need to know which one to pick.
I mean, twitter is incomparably more complex than your website (I assume you don’t sit over google or Facebook), plus I’m sure elon made people poke at the system (“we only need 20% of the mucroservices”…)
Airlines get free government money though. Will twitter? If not, Twitter will need to borrow more money and at higher interest rates compared to market rates if they go through with bankruptcy.
> You can also take lessons...

In my part of Europe (Slovenia) they now make you take a “safety driving” course within 2 years of getting your license. Skid plates, hydroplaning, all the fun stuff.

My sister got to do it. I missed the fun by a few years and instead practiced with lots of late night drifting fun on fresh snow (don’t tell mom :P)
To me this looks like a deliberate leak from Amazon. Why? I don't know. Perhaps a signal to wall street that more layoffs are coming to Alexa division?
If I only want to watch a show or movie once, it wasn't a very good show or movie.
You can usually do more with less if the remaining few are up to the challenge. It will come at some cost, like having to "move fast and break things" more. There can even be a positive side if the previous situation had a lot of friction due to "too many cooks," as I've experienced on several teams. What's more worrisome is the alleged 80hr work weeks. Yes, two SWEs on a team aren't as good as one SWE working double hours, since SWE-time is known not to scale that way. But burning people out, aside from being unethical, is risky when nobody is ready to fill the spot.

Musk has a point, but it feels more like he's doing this out of financial desperation.

I'll bet it starts going down a bit more often, nothing too severe. Bigger issue might be inability to roll out new features, especially if they dig a horrible tech debt hole. Maybe someone has more details, I haven't kept up, but it seems like the $8 verification rollout got botched because they cut corners on actually verifying the subscribers.
Purchasing weapons from competing nations makes them fair game for an invasion?

That rationale seems it could be used justify nearly any aggressive war.
They outright built me-too versions of both Clubhouse and IG Stories, and a lot of stuff trying to encourage people to be nice.
Prevention.

It only takes one class action lawsuit.
It’s more than that. For one it’s not an existing boolean, there are now two different kinds of blue tick that are presumably stored separately. Blue is also supposed to give the user fewer ads (while making them more relevant) as well as additional weight in feed ranking algorithms. It’s also intended to be offered worldwide which adds a lot of complication to things like payment flows.

I’m not saying it’s going to bring the site down tomorrow but that one feature touches on a lot of services.
Unless they are in Burgundy. 10million an acre for some nicer, but not top, parcels are not uncommon.
Kernel networking interfaces already work pretty well in containers (using network namespaces). You can eg run openvpn or some fancier SDN inside a container to tunnel its traffic with the default non-privileged permission set that

If you are running an old kernel from before Wireguard was merged to the mainline kernel, or want the extra safery from a memory safe language wireguard implementation this can be useful.
I'll stream movies, but when it comes to movies I want to watch more than once, I absolutely will buy it on disc. Why? Easy - that disc will always be present and playable. You can't say that for the rotating options with streaming services. Go back to watch a Christmas movie in July, and it's gone.

As for DVD vs blu-ray, I just use a 32" TV, so I just pick whichever is cheaper.

If that's weird, I don't want to be normal.
I think it's just trendy again. We've had this on-off on-again love affair with tiny languages and they simply don't stand the test of time.
That post really did bring the church ladies out. Puritanism runs deep.
In wartime the cost for reporting false information can be catastrophic. And wartime is also when everybody has a very strong motivation to lie, and even some moral rationalizations for such. This news article put the US in a situation where the US had to say "our media is lying, our military ally is lying, our anonymous senior intelligence source is lying, and our enemy is telling the truth" or start WW3.

The one and only reason they did so is because the cost of this lie would have been too high. If the cost had simply been "Russia will be even more demonized" do you think, even for a second, that they would have "corrected the record"? And beyond this, also consider that the news sources running these stories had to realize the potentially massive implications of this. Yet they seemingly themselves did effectively 0 fact checking before running with it.

No, the system is most assuredly not working. The only system that is working is the desire to avoid Mutually Assured Destruction.
I'll add little bit of context from Kindle Reader which was developed while I was at Amazon. Though I was in no way involved with it I frequently interacted with senior folks who were.

For first few years, Kindle Reader was a massive sink hole at multiple levels. There was this humongous R&D cost, hardware and software. On a recurring basis Amazon absorbed cellular data charges. Remember this was in early 2008 so cellular data charges were big and since this was the first couple of iterations of product the data sync protocol was yet to be optimised so data intensive. For example, the device would phone home every hour or so to fetch new book purchases and metadata such as bookmarks, last read pages etc., It also included a basic web browser. And finally, the unit economics of selling digital books were terrible. Because Amazon was trying to create a new habit they had to incentivise readers with discounts, even without discount they were losing about 4$/book sold.

So all in all this all seemed like a giant resource consuming operation with no hope of generating any profit. But boy did it succeed. Within about 4 years or so kindle books were outselling physical copies something like 3-1. And now I think it's not even worth comparing.

My suspicion is execs expected Alexa ecosystem to follow Kindle's trajectory of success which doesn't seem to have materialised.
The terms of carriage are great. You acknowledge that there might be fuck all medical care. You acknowledge that if you miss the boat, tough shit. You acknowledge that all legal disputes will be settled in the Bahamas.

It's like renting a very expensive apartment, but with seasickness, and even less rights.
I've been using this exact same smoothed brown noise track for a few years now. It's worked wonders for focus and concentration! Even turned down low it works well. White noise is too high pitched and hissy. Brown noise gets quieter the higher the pitch.
Looks like 28% of Twitter employees took the offer for 3 months of severance.. not the rumored 75% or 80%.
Considering the maintenance cost of a twitter-scale site, it is inevitable that even a very small-scale problem they will experience will become much larger with the snowball effect.
> Where are they getting these world class hackers from if this is the case?

The New Yorker ran a piece on this recently-ish[1]:

The most promising students are encouraged to use computers at schools. Those who excel at mathematics are placed at specialized high schools. The best students can travel abroad, to compete in such events as the International Mathematical Olympiad. Many winners of the Fields Medal, the celebrated prize in mathematics, placed highly in the contest when they were teen-agers.

They cultivate their math talent, and after graduation they offer them jobs in cyber espionage that beat their alternatives by a wide margin.

[1] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/04/26/the-incredible...
DHH: The waning days of DEI's dominance
The infra usually matters way more than the code. RAM or a disk will typically fail before the Linux kernel, and it's written in the boogeyman language.
Ask HN: Any upcoming pre-seed / seed funding rounds worth listing?
Hi mates,

I am a startup scouting and marketing guy. I'm looking for some upcoming pre-seed / seed funding rounds info (directories, listings or anything).

Tons of press releases on closed rounds. However, discovering upcoming ones is somewhat difficult. Please feel free to share yours if you are thinking of raising VC money or drop a link to anything related and worth digging into (apart from Crunchbase).

Have a nice day everyone!
> Someone involved in the education system in my area recently said something unwise.

> They apologized, explained themselves in detail.

> A few weeks later they finally resigned after a lot of pressure.

TLDR: If you're ever the target of a mob, your chances are innumerably better by simply refusing to resign. A non-zero chance of keeping your job (by not resigning) is infinitely better than the 0% chance of keeping your job (by resigning).

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In all the high-profile cases of people targeted by cancel-mobs, apologising only increases the pressure the target experiences. Apologising is taken as an acceptance of liability and admission of guilt to much more than what was originally accused.

If the target apologises, and then resigns, then they lost their job due to their own actions and no individual in the mob can be pointed out as the person perpetuating cancel-culture, and the mob feels vindicated: After all, they wouldn't have resigned if they didn't say/do anything wrong, would they?

If the target resolutely ignores the mob, and refuses to resign, then someone has to fire them, and that someone has to at least pretend to have investigated, and that someone could still be on the hook if the mob was wrong anyway.
You might want to look at Fabrice Bellard's page and see what he has accomplished. He is a giant.
Except there was a crapload of social engineering testing around this feature that was just skipped altogether.

Suddenly that simple change had the potential for catastrophic consequences.
You might enjoy this book if you haven't read it already

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbarians_at_the_Gate
Am i mis-reading this article?

BESIDES not having any particular way to validate a token without asking the service, making the rate a hell of a lot slower than 2^64 tokens per second (lol wut) doesn’t it also assume that you have 2^46 valid tokens in existence? Isn’t that 70 TRILLION valid tokens, or nearly 9000 tokens per human on earth?
The only way a herd can move is by becoming confident that it is moving.
Mongodbs ObjectId has this property.
No daemons allowed!
Awesome! I had to wear a tuxedo and formal hard hat to tour the factory making the remaining 20%
It’s quite bad for the business as a going concern and its ability to serve customers and employ employees when it suddenly, and for no obvious reason, takes on tons of debt. Money isn’t free and loans demand payment.

In Twitter’s case, its $13B in new debt on the balance sheet means that, every year, they have to come up with $13B times the interest rate in additional revenue and/or reduced cost merely to be in the same place profit/loss-wise. Elon already massively overpaid what Twitter’s business-as-usual can generate even before accounting for that $13B; as a result, the post-acquisition Twitter has to try a bunch of negative-expected-value moonshots in the unlikely hope that one of them hits against the odds and the others don’t turn out fatal, because doing nothing or iterating sustainably kills the company via debt service.

In a lot of cases the best solution would be for the company to declare bankrupcy, reorganize, and discharge the debt by convincing creditors to take pennies on the dollar and a share of the resulting smarter-run healthier company, and a judge that the plan is reasonable. However, Elon both poisoned that well by firing people, angering advertisers, and bumbling around product-wise, and also staked a bunch of $TSLA that would need to be liquidated to go through with the bankruptcy.
There was a long twitter thread from some one proclaimed 10+ years SRE listing a lot of things that could bring the server down. Lot of them are pretty far-fetched and outdated.

Too bad I did not bother to save the link.
This whole thing has been quite telling for me. I don’t use Twitter and am not a Musk fan, but seeing someone try something to move away from ad driven seemed like a good possibility for me.

Then I saw how bitter and nasty a lot of the online communities I belonged to were. I mention that advertisers were of course mad, the stated goal is to reduce reliance on ad revenue. I was met with people attacking me as an idiot with clickbait articles of “proof” that ad models were irrelevant to twitters problems etc, as if I was doing anything other than quoting musks official reasons for the purchase. Suddenly Twitter was this great beacon of graceful discussion and Musk has ruined it.

People just love to be mad, no one had anything nice to say about Twitter and in a flick of a switch they’re holding completely opposite opinions. We’ve always been at war with Eurasia, it seems
Which goes to demonstrate the very sorry state of our society, a society where employees are not (anymore) part of the "stakeholders that have a say" group.

Because at the end of the day, as you mention, it's the employees and their families that will suffer the most. But as long as those employees don't have board seats while strikes and labor-related physical protest movements have become a thing of the past then I guess this is the reality we'll have to live on for the foreseeable future.