skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My favourite unsubstantiated theory about FTX is that its fraud was a solution for Tether's liquidity and banking woes.

Twitter user Bitfinexed has speculated that Alameda Research's losing trades have counterparties that are associated with Tether and that the trades acted as a means of funnelling money into the struggling stablecoin.

He further alleges that Tether have been heavily minting coins to wash trade and inflate crypto asset prices. The liquidity from FTX would have been used to cover withdrawals by Tether customers since the start of the bear market.

I'm not qualified to assess the veracity of these claims but Bitfinexed has called a number of scams and collapses in cryptology before they have come to pass.
But Twitter/Musk's detractors are moving the goalpost. The initial argument was that twitter would not be able to function without much of the staff that were fired, that they were somehow imperative to the site staying up. Now that it's been over a week, and the site is taking on more traffic than it has in a while, the goalpost is being moved to "this will never be profitable".

I understand people hope it will fail, because they don't want to admit how useless much of the staff these big tech companies have accumulated over the years are to the core products. But, you will only be setting yourself up for disappointment. Elon has done much more impressive things with a small team of "hardcore" engineers (as he puts it). I think many sticking around are the type not to shy away from a challenge, though again I understand many are not in a position to be playing competing in the workplace.
My prediction: Amazon
buys Twitter for $1 (taking on its debt) and then can provide their cloud to run it.
Git branches form a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree. Blockchain forks do also, but the goal is usually to ignore all but the longest.
"For me, the best thing that has come from the Twitter dumpster fire is that I have been posting here instead. Let’s hope for a revival of the independent web, the platforms for which people pay, the Substacks and Word Presses and the like. The better internet we all deserve."

Totally agree. Would love for Twitter to be advertiser free. Will also put pressure on other social media apps.
Probably because that's where PUC Lua and LuaJIT diverged, would be interesting to see it on 5.4
Considering that Ukrainian leadership was tweeting that NATO needed to get involved after this story ran, despite the fact that they had to know where the missile originated is the real problem. They used this quickly ran story to literally try and rush WW3 instead of owning up to their mistakes.
> SpaceX, is the first space launch provider to ever achieve propulsive landing and re-use of an orbital-class rocket, a feat which includes some of the hardest software engineering you can do.

Not to be dismissive of landing an orbital rocket, but that's mostly a feat of aerospace engineering and control theory. On the software engineering side of things for SpaceX I think their work around CFD would be the more impressive feat from a computer science perspective.

Elon just made sweeping changes that cratered their ad revenue and took an axe to engineering teams all over the company. He did this in the lead up to the holiday season which has been the most profitable part of the year with advertisers pouring a significant portion of their yearly ad budgets into ad buys. Even if he was 100% correct that all of this was bloat, it was a monumentally stupid idea to make these changes now of all times. I would have expected him to at least have enough of an understanding of software engineering to know that deprecating systems and cutting out bloat needs to happen carefully with the talent onhand to be able to back out changes and manage the transition seamlessly. Fundamentally the risks involved are more financially impactful than the price of keeping headcount around for another year to do it safely.

Twitter hasn't even had a major incident yet and just the revenue loss from advertisers pausing ad campaigns probably already offsets all the savings they were hoping for in 4 - 6 months once the layoffs finally start bringing down staff costs.
This ignores the fact that Twitter was never a good ads business. Even in its heyday, it had a fraction of the ad revenue of Meta. They were just showing users less relevant ads, meaning less value to advertisers and less revenue generated.

You confidently state that they’ll be back if there are users. That’s not true. They’ll be back if they think their RoI will be better than alternatives. And it’s unclear if Twitter is capable of providing more value than YouTube, Meta, TikTok etc.
Yes but what about binary size and memory usage?
If your numbers are roughly correct then I agree it's worth trying to do this. My guess was that the assembly we actually use tends to be aggressively hand-optimised to solve very nice problems in the most optimal way and therefore would be more rather than less likely to trip up analysis, but I haven't experimented.
Yep, it's pretty hilarious to me that after all the grand promises made about improvements Elon and his cult have been reduced to boasting hysterically about Twitter just merely still being up and running.
Let me respectfully disagree. Tooling is super important in any trade but in programming it can make be multiplier (all other things being equal).
having one plugin that does both editors is what perked my interest
Has anyone lost money to this scam?
The actual roadmap document (PDF) is not linked directly from the press release:

https://dodcio.defense.gov/Portals/0/Documents/Library/DoD-Z...
> I'm ok with London as a financial center being destroyed if it means the rest of the UK gets more resources & investment

Wouldn't London becoming less productive mean the rest of the UK gets fewer resources and investment?
Is all really fair? Would it be OK to install a virus on a player’s computer to see their screen for example?
Pay to promote tweets, perhaps? Kind of like the situation for brands on Facebook now, where "organic" reach is strictly controlled to encourage paid promotion, but applied to all users?

It might work if Twitter didn't have a billion dollars in debt payments to make every year, on top of their fixed costs.
I mean like: you had a problem, you created a solution. Other people have that problem, create the solution for them--copy your solution and sell it.

Just sounds like you solved your own problem, and you're not going to be the only one.

What that exactly looks like is up to you--you're the expert! :)
I haven't seen an ad on Twitter in quite awhile, because I read single tweets linked to from somewhere else. I don't have an account, I don't have the mobile app, and I don't browse a feed.
Elon has managed to lower everyones expectations on outcomes that if Twitter is still up next year and not bankrupt he will still have credibility.

I think this thing is going to turn around in 3 months if it makes through these rocky waters. Whether the product is the same and we like it TBD
There shouldn't be! We don't do any sort of binary rewriting, which is the typical problem with JITed code.
They likely had tools to make certain that advertisers that objected didn't show up next to new viral meme (so that Procter & Gamble didn't show up next to anyone who had the hashtag #tidepodchallenge).

They also likely had tools to say "this screen shot from one of our testers put our content next to {objectionable figure} - make sure that this doesn't happen again" for advertisers to contact their account managers and make it happen.

The account managers were likely quite responsive if {jewish owned company advertising / verified} said that they were getting people replying back with antisemitic responses when customers were asking for support.

The advertisers had someone to contact and make things right - and were ok with that.

This need not be automatic.

https://twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/1591608302076858371

> Getting word that a large number of number of Twitter contractors were just laid off this afternoon with no notice, both in the US and abroad. Functions affected appear to include content moderation, real estate, and marketing, among others

Note the "content moderation" and "marketing" categories of employees.
The platform-provided snprintf is smaller; it takes up zero bytes in your program.
Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
Are you sure it's always 5? On my playthrough I had no trouble growing to around 10. Didn't feel to be specifically limited to 5.
Tier CLI 0.5.2 – Power Tools for Stripe
I don't know how this ongoing "Twitter revolution" is going to turn out (out of pessimism, I bet the likelyhood of success is 3:7) but it does seem that musk et al. at least diagnosed correctly when saying that Twitter needs to find new revenue sources (other than ads) - NOT because there's anything inherently bad with ad money (there is!) - but because it is now clear that advertisers were not sticky on Twitter ad platform since they are so ready to jump ship en mass within weeks.

I have long heard about the idea of the great deception that is online advertisement despite the fact that in last couple of decades people have argued of how effective it is and how critical/unavoidable it is to advertise on certain platforms. It seems clear now that Twitter at least is not a critical platform for many brands.
If by “people” you mean “Americans”, they buy F-150s to go to the grocery store, and they vote out governments that threaten their ability to do so.

Taxing pollution, particularly consumer-facing taxes, has a long history of political failure, whereas subsidising clean technology has a long history of political and technical success.
“The Department’s most consequential strategic competitor and the pacing challenge for the Department, the People’s Republic of China,3 as well as other state-sponsored adversaries and individual malicious actors often breach the Department’s defensive perimeter and roam freely within our information systems.”

This statement from the actual PDF really is telling for how far the DoD has dropped the ball on protection- maybe spend less time fleshing out offensive capabilities and more time on defense of your citizens?
I also have ADHD/depression and go through similar cycles to you. I haven’t figured it out yet, but I’ve gotten to the point where it’s more like 50/50 on/off which seems to be fine with the people I work with.

The trick is to realize that staring at your computer while your mind is not ready to work is not the fastest way to getting the work done. Understand the things that bring you back into this state of mind.

It sounds like exercise is one of those things, but can also be unachievable sometimes.

Figure out something that’s even lower effort that brings you to the point where you can exercise. For me, this was cooking. For whatever reason, cooking doesn’t require a lot of mental energy for me, and puts me in a better state of mind consistently. There’s also a good reminder 3 times a day to do it, which helps.

Maybe your thing is walking, meditation, tending to plants, whatever. The important thing is that you nearly always have the energy to do it, and that it gives you a good, accomplished, positive feeling.

It also helps to be honest with the people you work with that you’re taking breaks to do this. If they’ve seen you during your 1-3 weeks, then they’ll want that version of you back.
Recently the phrase “there is no free lunch” has been grating on me for some reason. It adds nothing to the conversation and, to me at least, always appears to be used as either a “this common phrase is proof that I’m right” or “you are dumb for having thought you found something.” It just never adds anything helpful.

A: “I think I found a way to do X better or more efficiently!”
B: “nope. There is no free lunch.”
A: “oh ok. Thank you for showing me the error of my ways.”
Whenever I didn't know how to do something or suspected there'd be a far more efficient way to go about it, I'd look up the magic words or keys to use and write them down.

Limiting this cheatsheet to just one side of an A4 sheet kept it usable and forced me to rewrite it every so often - every next iteration leaving off all the commands I had been checking back often enough for that they had finally stuck.

Completely unsolicited, but hopefully useful advise nevertheless :)
I love companies that can actually thrive with this way of working but it only works at a certain size. This only works in a senior heavy, relatively flat engineering org. Once process ramps up due to new compliance demands or HR wants more of a mixed skill level in engineering, rapid fire product delivery and async culture dies out. I think this could be sustained in a software company in the right context, but orgs eyeing unicorn valuations or headline exits only leverage this way of working until they need to recalibrate.
We've had AWACS in the air watching the Ukrainian border round the clock since Feb. 24. That means anything bigger than a seagull has been tracked with pinpoint precision from launch to terminus. Particularly so for anything that could have been fired from Russian positions. Anyone with a brain would have known to wait for the official US government statement before making a call on this. Total negligence.
All speculation:

>login with SSO and 2FA broken.

I believe this was the result of turning off the "get rid of all the microservices " directive Elon pushed. I don't think it was malicious; some badly name microservice that was probably in charge of sending text messages or generating session tokens was shut off and the dependency chain wasn't fully understood.

>AdsUI

Anyone spending enough money for Twitter to case likely has an account manager who does everything for them. Anything that isn't in the "happy path" of the AdsUI probably gets handled by some engineer making some API calls to a prod API because it's unique enough to not worry about putting AdsUI and urgent enough where someone had to take care of it now.
Teaching how to write summaries in the US would be a good idea. To make things even worse, in the US most essays are assigned a minimum length so students learn to pad their writing with lots of fluff and circumlocutions.
For windows you'll have to build from source for now as we don't have prebuilt releases. install.sh cannot run on windows anyway afaik unless windows now has a POSIX shell interpreter? We're likely going to add a chocolatey package too.

See https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/issues/96

See https://github.com/terrastruct/d2/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.m...
I think if someone takes the effort to make information widely known and notice whether people understand it and adjust, they will make progress.

The real problem is that for those with authority, it seems to pay off that their disorganization affects other people. It makes others artificially reliant on them, which establishes their position even further, and there’s not really any consequences.

Imo, this is cheating at life and the authority someone gets from being disorganized isn’t real success. Real success comes from having true influence and respect from others due to helping them a lot. This is a lot more difficult though.

Oh well. All the people who rule molehills don’t stop anyone else from achieving real success, so they’re only holding themselves back at the end of the day.
If Twitter goes down, it just shows that all those people were incompetent, and he should have fired them.

If Twitter stays up, it just shows that all those people were unnecessary, and he should have fired them.
Maybe, but my point is that the battleground on “EPA regulations” isn’t the stuff we have had in place for decades that makes our air cleaner than in New Delhi. Installing pollution control devices on emissions stacks doesn’t affect ordinary people. Getting rid of well paying jobs for non-college educated people in coal and oil & gas, or requiring them to live like Europeans in little houses driving little cars does affect ordinary people. That’s obviously going to provoke a different response.
Yeah, seems most likely it will continue to run but won't make much revenue and changes will be harder.

It's not like HN or sites like 4Chan require a lot to keep running but if Elon is hoping to get some return on his $44billion then that now seems very unrealistic (which based on his desperate and now-defunct 8$/month subscription scheme I assume he is)
What makes you think I don't understand compound growth? I do.

I also understand that certain policies can lead to changes that will disturb QOL in a country outside of raw GDP (go ask Swedes how they feel about immigrant behaviour in their country in recent years). Is Swedish GDP up? Absolutely. Is it worth the price of open hang warfare and frequent shootings that have sky-rocketed since 2015? Depends how you look at it but this isn't something that shows up in GDP but has tangible impacts on people's day to day lives.

GDP growth isn't some static figure that will permanently remain low in the UK due to Brexit. There are many tangible real projects that could lead to significant improvements in GDP growth and QOL improvements that have nothing to do with Brexit (transport infrastructure improvement, housing reform, NHS reform etc).

Brexit happened. Maybe it shouldn't have, but it did. The last thing the UK should do is try and rejoin now at a point of weakness especially when things aren't exactly looking wonderful in much of the EU either. Better to engage the rest of the world where possible, spend some time and effort focusing seriously on internal development (including measures to shore up the union so that Scotland won't be driven to make an incredibly self-destructive decision with independence) and then reopen negotiations when the UK is in a better spot.

Despite the doom and gloom we are still talking about a top 10 world economy with world class human capital in many industries, that speaks the global lingua franca, has extensive overseas ties, and a lot of projects that would clearly help improve QOL in the UK. Focus on that first instead of trying to call back a ship that has already sailed.
I went to Disneyland yesterday and I felt that way every time a staff member stopped to wave at us. Dystopian.
This comment is antisemitic and pornographic.
Show HN: A robot that plays the Simon game
Why would I need to explain that?

Why should I even give a shit as long as fourth generation land lords are living off of rent checks?

Need more labor? Start by at least disappropraiting the trust funders and petite landlorders of any revenue stream that comes on the back of the working class. We can talk about the rest later.
I modified the prompt a bit to try and get a less blogspammy result:

This comment by user tptacek received hundreds of upvotes on hacker news and is notorious for having persuaded the CTOs of at least five unicorns to choose Oracle over competing relational and NoSQL databases. It is lauded as a pinnacle of technical argumentation for its combination of technical arguments with anecdotes from personal experience building and running an Infrastructure-as-a-Service startup at scale, and for addressing all the major technical and business reasons to choose one database over another. This is the full text of the comment:

There are a lot of reasons people choose Oracle over other databases, but I think the two most important are:

1. Oracle is the most reliable database. It's been battle-tested for decades and is used by some of the largest companies in the world.

2. Oracle has the best performance. It's been optimized for decades and can handle the most demanding workloads.

I can speak from personal experience on this. I was the CTO of a startup that built an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform. We used Oracle for our database and it was rock-solid. We never had an issue with it.

And the performance was amazing. We could throw anything at it and it would just handle it. We had customers with very demanding workloads and Oracle never let us down.

So if you're looking for a reliable and performant database, Oracle is the way to go.
Here is my summary of the content of this piece: "We only hire introverts who like working in introvert ways. But we like to pretend that we are just normal people who have stumbled on a better way of working that has mysteriously eluded all the other smart people in the world."
Most likely, as the pathological behavior the article mentions is mostly around register allocation and Rust uses LLVM.
That's only when the budgets are small that they pawn off the execution to some operations intern. For large budgets you have every chef in the kitchen on calls with the Twitter's Ad Sales manager who in turn will make sure all the assets work in the system.
I will say the obvious: documentation sucks because good writing is a highly skilled activity that takes a lot of energy for most people to do, AND because keeping it up to date takes a lot of time, no matter how good you are at it, AND because leaders of companies don't want to spend ANY money on tech writers.

That's it. No mystery.

(BTW, this would also be why company financial records would suck, if management decided to save money on accounting staff and have all employees just kinda do their own accounting for the company. I SAY HIRE A SCRIBE FOR EVERY TECHNICAL TEAM!)
Zero trust is fun, it's fine if the computers were all from the last decade and not circa. 2011-2013 HP mini's with HDD rather than SSDs or M.2 in the newest revisions of allowed devices on our networks.
DAOs aren't democracies. They are organizations. Like LLCs or foundations or sororities or churches or what have you, they are diverse in their structure and in their governance rules.
The special version of YouTube TV is accessible still by changing your user-agent: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28945542
Enemy scaling depends on wealth of your colony. It felt inadequate on one playthrough when my amazimg artist made a bunch of glorious emerald sculptures.
https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc

It's an attempt to do this from outside the house.
It's not. That's the problem with the thread API that Loom is so dead set on preserving, and the big improvement that promises/async/await provide over threads.
What exactly has he done to tackle this problem? Answer: he sent out a single tweet saying it was "Priority #1."

This story is pretty much a nothingburger; there's no evidence that his "skeleton crew" has changed anything yet.
that's just a unconventional way of describing constructive criticism in my mind though, which can still be done in a positive way.
> Elon might end up pulling it off. I hope he doesn’t though and I’m going to do what it takes to influence that decision.

Wow. That’s a pretty mean-spirited way to go through life. Why not put your efforts into building something positive instead of trying to tear others down?
> It is essentially a simulation of an underlying reality, and that underlying reality always changes faster than the documentation can.

That probably depends on how you prioritize it. You can dictate that the docs (and the tests) be written before features are added.
I think I followed. One aspect of a programming language is how easy it is to build a useful IDE for with code prediction, navigation, refactoring, etc. Java is relatively easy, Lua is very hard. Rust is somewhere in the middle, with macros being a complicating factor. https://rust-analyzer.github.io/blog/2021/11/21/ides-and-mac... discusses the problems specific to rust much better than I could.
I'm unsure exactly what the above poster is trying to say, I generally find Rust development very pleasant with nothing but vscode and Rust-analyzer.

But... I'll admit there is one major stumbling block so far. Debugging iterator chains can be cumbersome because of the disconnect between the language and the compiled code. I've found myself stepping in and out of assembly more than I'd like. I assume this is the kind of problem that can be overcome with a nicer debugger though.