skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't even doubt that they did a lot of work, but as this article suggests, that's part of the reason why we _wouldn't_ expect the site to just go down in a couple days. If all the servers needed constant manual massaging that would speak more poorly to their work than the other way around.
Breach of contract possibly. Usually companies don't want you revealing their internal infrastructure publicly unless you get permission. Who knows though.
In a similar vein, Best of Panama does a coffee auction where the highest rated coffee sold this year for $2000/lb. It's something like this each year, with a huge premium on first place.

https://auction.bestofpanama.org/en/lots/auction/auction-202...
That indicates they weren't employees of that company before...

Which is unrelated to my statement.
Yeah, got it for the replay
Over billed from AWS to make that part of the balance sheet look good?

(entirely speculation)
i think i prefer a culture where one is rewarded for automating their job.

moves like musk's are bad for the industry. they produce more systems with "job security" built in.
It must be the only piece of hardware where people buy 5+ of them too. It makes me think some of the loss is on per unit sales.

They also own a “platform” in the way that Zuck is trying to do with Metaverse at much greater cost.

All things considered, I don’t think it’s been such a bad investment and I don’t see it being killed.
> Turning it off and then back on again probably fixes the issue.

Turning a large scale system entirely off and on is never simple. Invariably you’ll run into some kind of circular dependency that must be manually investigated. And even tracking those down becomes tricky.

Classic examples are things like DNS, service locators, or authentication systems. And large tech companies are notorious for NIH-syndrome for all of those.
This is very cool and really needed, can't wait to try it out.

One benefit of terminating SSL at the load balancer is that you can read the http traffic sent to your pods. But for those that have SSL terminating at their pods, it would be cool if this tool could be given the SSL certificates of the pods so it can decipher https traffic.
This war seems pretty a straightforward as far as an unnecessary war of aggression goes.

And frankly it seems just as sad to see Russian soldiers throw into the fight to die by their own government.
Plenty of people lose their devices but I question how many simultaneously forget their screen lock code that they enter literally every day. Of course anything that is possible will eventually happen given enough users. But that doesn't come close to justifying denying the rest of us the option and marketing it as end-to-end encrypted despite that.
Well, there are worse places. Ive fled to the US from Canada, for example.

Dystopia seems to be a Commonwealth thing, really. Take Australia. For decades they've bribed a poor country to keep a concentration camp where they throw brown people in.

"Its ok" they said, "legally these people never made it ashore", "Australia is full". Canberra even distributed cute little cartoons in Bangladesh about how sadistic the Australian response is to would be refugees.

Then the COVID hit and Australia got its own internal checkpoints and concentration camps. Funny how the crimes committed abroad circle back.

The US has its problems, sure. But I grew up in four different countries in as many continents before coming here for grad school. As far as I can tell, America's the best. And flyover America the best of the best.

Therefore, I am honored that in a few weeks time Ill say an oath of loyalty to my fellow citizens and promise to protect our homeland's honor from enemies foreign, domestic and hypocrites wherever they may be.
we'll make a handy classification table. we have experts in the EU who had done that kind of thing before
Anywhere you can upload images they have this. No one is on the radar because no one cares except few companies. For a porn-oriented platform however, having this and not reporting this and selling this, that's egregious.

> host

If it's findable on Bing with previews and all, Bing has ingested the content at some point.

In some cases it's justified to get all technicalities fully clarified before taking an action, otherwise we'd be wondering and litigating whether PH did something wrong.
Get old.
Nothing beats an internet random telling us how much a successful person is silly and also can't meet their own superior standards.

It's not about being a fan or not, it's that you're not actually providing any real insight other than signalling how smart you are.
Yet Bush gets a free pass for actually starting a war on false information.
You aren't wrong, but his playbook is familiar to anyone who's gone through acquisitions (especially leveraged ones) and many companies were in a strong enough position to start with that they do manage to limp through and get sold off despite all the abuse.
Even if it had been a Russian missile it would not have caused a wider war. The Soviets shot down a whole airliner in 1983 and didn't cause one.
It's amazing how quickly fake news is able to spread through "credible" news sources, all without even the slightest bit of real verification. I don't know if its scary or comforting to consider that if the political establishment wanted WW3, they could have it had it right there. The same intelligence agencies that convinced the world Iraq had WMD could have simply agreed with the story/Zelensky/et al, declare anybody debating it to be a "conspiracy theorist promoting Russian misinformation/propaganda", invoke article 5, and away we go.
So what's your point? Should we join hands and welcome Russia to help themselves in Ukraine?

This whataboutism around Ukraine is emblematic of the problem with misaligned postmodern thinking. The fact of the matter is that Russia has violently invaded Ukraine and they are trying to bend Ukraine against its will. It's wrong and the world _should_ come to their side. Likewise if the tables were turned.
Wherever you land, one bit of advice I've heard which I very much agree with is this: avoid involving yourself in the local politics for 2-3 years minimum.

Remember the locals like the way things are, and they got that way because of, not in spite of, the local political views. Better to live there a bit and absorb and, ideally, integrate with the political climate.

Not saying they're perfect, but they are unique and deserve a fair shake.
dude. they are anti-air missiles, pretty easy to understand they were flying west chasing a target
What is Home Assistant? Google doesn’t help….
But patching
I am one of those kids from a nice part New Jersey who left and will never back. We are legion.
Was Twitter 'good' aside Musk purchased it? Without that event, would it still need substantial changes to be profitable and useful going forward?
Bay Area Transit Fret over ’Doomsday Scenario’ Cuts Amidst Plummeting Ridership
Wouldn't that be a civil claim and not actually a law being broken then?
It wasn't only news outlets. A majority of my... politically-noisy tech friends on Facebook went through a recent phase of intensely posting about Twitter on fire and collapsing.

Now just because they're "in tech" doesn't mean they have any idea about Twitter, but they should at least know enough to know they don't know what's going to happen, but obviously they're not actually using their brains when posting comments like that. Point is a lot of people opposed to Musk have been participating in a spiraling echo chamber of fairy tales and wishful thinking, it's not just journalists (although clearly they're printing lies with ulterior motvies too, as usual).
No, but I can't help but think of what my grandmother said to me around age 95 - "Your generation may have more money, but we had less stress." That's saying something considering the dirt-floor shack type existence that she faced as a child and young woman. She said to me on more than one occasion that she saw modern life as worse than what she experienced where they were poor, but worked together as a family and enjoyed the natural rhythm of the seasons.
Yes exactly this. Maybe they did but I didn't find it stated in the writeup, which was actually pretty good. If it were my company though, I'd want the intellectual capital protected and we programmers usually have to sign non-compete agreements so I think my original comment stands, it was my opinion and initial gut reaction, not an indictment or judgement in any way.
Octoverse 2022: 10 years of tracking open source
Obligatory: https://archive.org/stream/WarIsARacket/WarIsARacket_djvu.tx...
I'll put my cards on the table and say I would have been just as happy to see him fail as anyone else, but it did begin to take on the tenor of the constant, never-came-true stories about how any minute now they were going to spring the trap on Donald Trump and he'd get thrown out of office.

e: I did not mean for this to be an invitation for everyone to argue about the merits or demerits of Donald Trump.
"This is our world now. The world of the electron and the switch; the beauty of the baud. We exist without nationality, skin color, or religious bias. You wage wars, murder, cheat, lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto." Huh? Right? Manifesto? "You may stop me, but you can't stop us all."

Yup, romantic.
They were anti-air missile(s) originating from an S-300 fired at Russian aerial threats (likely cruise missiles or Iranian drones).
Spot on. Absolutely hate this attitude that software sitting there just gathers wear and tear as if it's a mechanical device. Software is written with a particular target platform in mind: x86, ARM, Nvidia GPUs, FPGA soft-processor etc. If the hardware you are running on doesn't change, your software should still function. If the specs of that target platform don't change, your software should still function. If the specs of the target platform change but a hard-working compiler engineer has done the work to make sure your software gracefully uses the new features (for example, a compiler optimizing using AVX instructions), your software should still function.

The fact that most software doesn't continue to function even on the same platform, and on the same hardware, is a massive indictment of the software industry's standard practices.
And then the other big tech companies will take note. I personally know of highly compensated teams in VMware that do almost nothing.
> We don't call them instructions.

Oh yes we do, or at least I do. And I can't find instructing an electronic shelf-stacker romantic
Another choice would be optimistic UI updates (assume the checkbox will end up checked. If not, revert to unchecked and display feedback about an error).

I’ve tended to use this in UIs which rely on server state, and it usually makes things feel much snappier. In my experience it’s rare that an optimistic update isn’t fulfilled as expected, so the user experience is improved overall.

I’d hesitate to do it absolutely everywhere, though. In large forms it would be preferable to do batch updates rather than updating on every field interaction, for example.
The high end is certainly overpaid. Many of us know a dev at Amazon that has no business making that mone
There are entire sections of the law around trade secrets (intellectual capital).
Two-decade-stale whataboutism doesn't change anything about the morality of the war in Ukraine or what our response to it should be. There are plenty of bad guys in the world for you to hate. The question should be what are you going to do about it today? Today, it's clear where the bad guys are. Tomorrow it may be different.
$8 blue check marks :p Not sure that has long term profitability...

I think the statement probably is more like "no one has figured out an easier way to monetize a social network"...
I've been trying to do that, but as soon as i sort, there is a whole bunch of unrelated stuff for pages... How do you address that?
Well twitter (allegedly) does not have a legal team anymore so ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This. Alexa is a trust-interface. Many consumers don’t trust Amazon anymore, so they sure as hell won’t trust some bot to spend their money for them there.

I just decided not to buy an item from Amazon despite it being cheaper, because I need it and I don’t have time to deal with it being a model from a previous year or whatever the catch may be.
I think this is kind of baked in though. Part of the thought process seems to be, at least for non-paying customers, it's not actually necessary to have five nines for Twitter, because people will just put up with it if it's less reliable.
WWII RAF Button Compass (1940s)
I won’t buy a taking wire tap again until they unlock profanity mode. I seriously want it to say “The next fucking movie time is 10 o’ god damn clock. You want the tickets or not bitch?” That would entertain me so damn much. Instead I get this sterile interaction that is ok-not-great and I can’t get the device to drop even one eff bomb. Lame.
Keep in mind that everyone at google passed one of the hardest technical screens on the planet.

In any organization you can stack rank and fire the lowest whatever percent of people. Don’t think they are somehow bad software engineers.
Giving away smart speakers that are used almost entirely to queue up music from an Amazon music subscription might've been their best approach. Would've differentiated a bit from Spotify and Apple Music. We use ours only to set cooking timers and play things on Spotify, and that's useful enough IMO.
French wine is cheaper than California wine in California.
What private individual was blocked by MasterCard? Private actors significant enough don't care about you enough to not deal with you unless dealing you puts them in legal jeopardy. At which point you might want to ask yourself why.
I love this comment. It's so salient. It's probably hard for a lot of people on this board to digest but, I feel like most know where you're coming from.
What choice do they have? The company was hovering around profitable (2021 would’ve been without a lawsuit settlement) but that was before they were saddled with a ton of new debt. It’s possible that they could find new revenue models - that pay for checkmark scheme isn’t it but maybe a smart businessman could come up with a better variant - but that takes time and has to be done carefully since they have to keep the lights on in the middle. Driving away advertisers before finding that new revenue source doesn’t leave much time to iterate.
The default, naive assumption should always have been programs keep running indefinitey on their own. If thats not the goal of software then I don’t know what is (might as well go back to switchboard operators). Real world experience tells us that, to the contrary, all software goes down and requires specialist intervention eventually. I think a lot of people just jumped to the second level based on political motivations rather than deep knowledge of system failures.
Well, that was a bit of a joke, but I have been around the block a few times and been on one side of a merger or other, and gone public to private and back (as an IC/soldier, never been management). The Twitter acquisition is the craziest thing I've ever seen; there's a reason it's big news.

These kinds of things have formal courtship type periods and legal filings that take months, and then they happen, and then executives plan on rolling out layoffs and cost cutting measures over years, not days or weeks, like the "plan" seems to be here. This really is madness, and I can't blame people for thinking the site might just wobble and collapse at some point, though as the author goes into in very nice detail, we do try and build resilient systems. I'm certainly curious how it all plays out, but you won't catch me making any guesses.
This is the real question? Your question has nothing to do with the blog post and if you take a look around, what Twitter did was literally done across the entire industry, hence all the layoffs recently. There was a hiring glut to take advantage of cheap capital during COVID recovery. The capital has dried up, glut has ended and a lot of people lost their jobs. Why is that so hard to see? None of this is unique in any way to Twitter.
Nothing here seems to approach anything like truly proprietary knowledge and the kind of information it contains is pretty similar to what goes up on engineering blogs (or what you'd describe in a job interview, if you prefer) all the time.
There are no successful subscription-only social networks. It's been tried. It has not worked.
You assume that small issues are ever prioritized in the first place. My experience with large tech organizations is that their priories are driven by internal culture, not best practices, just like any other company.

Although I haven't worked at Twitter, if it is anything like the places I have worked at, the small issues get ignored because nobody makes their career on things that don't show up on investor / shareholder / upper management radars. If it can get papered over so it ends up being someone else's problem in the future, what actually gets worked on is flashier things like redesigning the timeline AGAIN so users spend more time on the website or (in the case that caused me to work for small startups again) spend three weeks deciding on a super trivial design decision with 12 stake holders.
Those fluorine round notes though...
I guess that highlights that for some time we just won't know the actual effects and everything right now is just posturing and speculating.

If in six months (or suitable time period) we see stagnation in releases and technical issues increasing we'll have some data to infer from.
Even if the entirety of Twitter.com were mathematically proven correct, it still would run on servers that are made of physical bits that are subject to entropy.
Or both ;)
The "why hasn’t the site gone down" stuff is the wrong conversation. The engineers built a train engine, and this robber baron held up the train and forced the engineers off. Inertia will keep the train going for a good long while because they did such a good job of building the train.

At some point the engin’s fluids will run out and need topping off. There's a warning system though so someone'll get notified before the engine blows up, so it's entirely possible this hardcore crew of H1Bs pulls it off. (Great job replacing the SSL cert!) At some point the train’s boiler will need retrofitting. A new team could successfully replace the boiler, but doing it while the engine keeps running just isn't an easy job.

The handful of devs and SREs at Twitter will do their damnedest to keep the train, err, site running. They might even succeed. That doesn’t prove the site was over-engineered, it means they built a damn fine train engined that successfully pulled the whole train up and over the mountain pass.

Twitter wasn't run like a lean start-up type business. Because wasn’t one. Society needs better than that. The vulture capitalism mindset is what's wrong with this county. What's the barest minimum I can pay people to work for me? Not; what can I pay them to let them live prosperous lives but what's the bare, subsistence minimum.

America needs a middle class and these people were part of it. You don’t get a middle class by injudiciously paring things down to a not-even-skeleton crew that’s going to be worked till they burn out, only to get fired.

Twitter was only $14 million from profitability in Q2, and any idiot can randomly fire people to find that much in that large an organization, but cutting costs like that is to misunderstand the situation entirely. Just like starving yourself isn't healthy and won’t improve your self image, randomly cutting costs like that saves money, but doesn’t result in a healthy business.
'Bitcoin is dead' I've heard it said during ~6 different epochs since I first mined a block in 2009. We'll see how it goes.
As someone who enjoys French table wine what is the local equivalent in California? So much of it seems to be high alcohol and overwhelming flavours, kinda like the IPAs.
I made do, so can you (and all the other dads).
Oh you're right, that does jog my memory of the book. To be fair, I believe the Murray Hill Labs (now Nokia Bell Labs) has this kind of layout, though I've only worked in one of the electronics lab areas and didn't really ever go to any offices.
A few professors in my undergrad econ department have done a lot of actual academic research into this, and, in fact, started the American Association of Wine Economists (https://wine-economics.org) with other economists who are interested in wine worldwide. They have a quarterly peer-reviewed journal, and the articles are genuinely interesting. Sample topics from the latest issue: "Does quality pay off? “Superstar” wines and the uncertain price premium across quality grades" or "Tracking the wines of the Judgment of Paris over time: The case of Stag’s Leap Wine Cellars’ Cabernet Sauvignon"

A few things I've gleaned from them over the years:

1) People definitely come to a wine tasting and think they have to sound smart. There's always someone who thinks they need to say "something-something oaky" to "fit in" because it's something they saw on TV. The point is not to sound like what you think a smart person sounds like, the point is to find a wine you like. Hard to get around it, but that's what a lot of articles like this are basically pointing out. It's not wrong, but it's also kind of missing the point.

2) People have different fundamental taste profiles – just like some people just like Coke instead of Pepsi, and a €100 Pepsi will taste "bad" to someone who's expecting a €100 Coke. But if you like Pepsi – and there is a real reason that bottle of pepsi costs €100 (e.g. materials, aging, process, etc.) – you're really going to like that €100 Pepsi.

3) As a consequence of 1), there are definitely wines that are more "marketing driven," and tap into that insecurity. I know a few people who have been offered thousands of dollars to steam off the label of empty bottles of wine they kept in their cellar for sentimental reasons, so that those labels could be re-glued to a bottle of whatever, so that they could then be trotted out to pump some dude's ego. It's a shame, but that's people.

4) @Antognini is pretty on target here. For the same vintage, if you open it up right away, you can get a very tasty "house" bottle of wine for €15, but you should taste a very significant difference in the €40-€50 of wine from the same maker. The difference is more likely to show up when you cellar it. The €15 bottle might last for about 3-5 years before losing its taste. The €40 will gain complexity and flavor for 10-15 years. A more expensive bottle from a reputable maker should/might/maybe/is supposed to signal that it's been made to last even longer, like 40-50 years.

5) Plug: A few years ago, I adapted a DOS app the aforementioned professors in my undergrad used in their blind tastings for iOS. You can see results of their tastings going back to the early 90s at http://liquidasset.com, and the app is at https://apps.apple.com/us/app/winetaster-3/id1491063699
We’ll see - it’s an expensive hobby and the banks he borrowed from are probably not going to have a great sense of humor.
https://www.home-assistant.io/
Maybe that’s why the Russians got away with the same thing again in 2014.
vengeance for all the poor souls named 'Alexa' having their lives go to hell
I guess I didn't think 'use' meant 'use facts to make arguments to advance your interests'?

Like, I wouldn't say that I 'use' 'asymptotic complexity' to promote engineering priorities over product management. I read a lot of nefariousness in that phrasing, but I guess that's not what was meant.
If software ran without side effects, perhaps. But it doesn't. Databases grow, files are uploaded, logs pile on, messages and events propagates and filesystems fill up. This is why entropy matters.