skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The big problem with Twitter was management. Dorsey was barely a CEO for many years. Parag didn't seem to want to try anything.

The problem was even worse: there was no vision at all from no one, not leadership, not the investors, not the users, what Twitter should be, other than "it is a way for instant communication with feeds". Everything else was completely lacking: what features do people want, what moderation policy should be applied, how does Twitter plan to make money.

The only ones that had at least some sort of vision where activists - the left wing, the advertisers and large parts of the users didn't want Nazis any more, and the right wing wanted "free speech" aka allowing Nazis.
https://twitter.com/atax1a/status/1594880931042824192 provides a bit more context and nuance (albeit with a sardonic tone, but it's hard to blame someone for being sardonic who saw their entire professional community fired).

There's no doubt that OP built a great and stable automation layer on top of Mesos for caching workloads. But there are numerous other types of workloads on top of Mesos (including, I presume mission-critical database deployments that need well-disciplined draining protocols to shift between nodes), as well as administrative needs for the Mesos-to-infrastructure level, and things running on bare metal below the Mesos level. These things all needed dedicated SREs, and the absence of these SREs could result in a scenario like the one mentioned in the Twitter thread I linked - two obscure mutually-dependent components expire and cannot be re-provisioned using documented tools.

I also think an important meta-point is that when Twitter was bringing in substantial revenue from advertising, every minute of downtime would have significant costs - costs that could make it easily worthwhile to "over-provision" SRE talent. With advertisers pausing engagement, perhaps Twitter loses less money from a day-long outage than it would save having the right talent to turn a day-long outage into a minutes-long outage.

Twitter is only judged by its profitability (namely, Musk's ability to service debt without selling more Tesla stock than he already has), while most other tech companies (both public and private) are judged by both profitability and revenue growth. If you want both, larger SRE teams, to say nothing of feature development and regulatory compliance teams, start to make a lot more sense.
There was a Twitter thread (ironically) on the front page recently where a Reddit founder explained why anyone will always suck at it. I recommend looking it up.
Beyond merely surviving, Twitter has to compete with other companies and enhance their product over time.

What happens if someone like Bytedance decides to launch a Twitter clone that does everything better?

Meta takes a lot of criticism for being Meta but you have to hand it to them, they've copied every other innovative social media feature that has shown up in competitors' products.

Does Twitter have enough staff to launch a major new feature?

The problem is that Twitter is now saddled with debt. It probably can't make investments in new products, and we can speculate whether it has the necessary headcount in the sales staff needed to maintain advertiser relationships that pay 90% of its revenue. [1, 2] Enterprise clients usually expect a dedicated CSM relationship.

That's exactly what happened to Toys R Us, which slid into liquidation due to the debt saddled on it by its private equity firm rather than a fundamental issue with its business.

In 2021, Twitter had a net loss of $221.4 million, and in 2020 they lost over $1 billion. Revenue was around $5 billion in 2021, about 90% from advertisers. [1]

The company (not Elon) is now loaded with $13 billion in debt. [2]

> Last year, Twitter’s interest expense was about $50 million. With the new debt taken on in the deal, that will now balloon to about $1 billion a year. Yet the company’s operations last year generated about $630 million in cash flow to meet its financial obligations.
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> That means that Twitter is generating less money per year than what it owes its lenders. The company also does not appear to have a lot of extra cash on hand. While it had about $6 billion in cash before Mr. Musk’s buyout, a large portion of that probably went into the cost of closing the acquisition.
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> That gives Mr. Musk little wiggle room, Mr. Pascarella said. “They are essentially going to take all the financial resources of the company and just pour it into servicing the debt,” he said.

I personally don't see how Twitter gets out of this without bankruptcy. I think Twitter can go the next 5 years without an infrastructure outage and still likely ends up bankrupt.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-elon-musks-twitter-faces-mo...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/technology/elon-musk-twit...
The reasons given are reasons to stick with C89 forever. Change has risk, and there are advantages and disadvantages. If there were no advantages gained from C99, it wouldn't exist (people don't release language updates for no reason).

A much more interesting question is if you were writing curl today, what would you do. If the answer is still 'C89' then we as a profession have to wonder why - did we get it exactly right, and there are no lessons from the last 30 years, or is the fact there are no better alternatives deeply depressing.
I have the same problem with my ISP (Orange, France). In the router configuration (NAT / PAT something) it's possible to open a port on one machine that will be internet accessible. It also allows to link it to a No-Ip account so your ip will be synced with it.
Cobalt – a stripped down Chromium for apps, Linux and embedded systems
Binance CEO Zhao Seeks Middle East Cash for Crypto Recovery Fund
> Or that Musk is a genius who will make some sort of amazing Twitter 2.0

Based on texts exposed via the lawsuit about the purchase, I don't think this is the case. I don't think he, or his advisors, understand that the product at twitter (and other social media) is content moderation. You can have a vision of whatever type of content or pricing scheme you want but without solid content moderation you will lose advertisers, gain lawsuits (people were posting movies the other day) and lose users because the "feed" becomes a muddied mess. Users are only really the product when you can moderate their content to have profit via advertisers.
What you just described is what I consider the fun part
With all due respect, I find that thesis absurd.

Maybe you meant it like, "the voice assistant space isn't going to generate huge profits, and thus giant corporations will lose interest".

But even that is absurd. They will still have to do it as a loss leader. Maybe not Amazon — because they just ship us our toilet paper and protein bars and shit. They don't have an "ecosystem" (although they gave it a halfhearted try a few times).

But the chance that in 2032 people just like... don't have voice assistants? It's literally zero, barring an actual WWIII cataclysm reversion-to-barbarism event.

> doesn't work as well as people were hoping

Nothing does, until it does...

> little monetization

Yep, that might be right. But it doesn't necessarily mean the space is "dying". Just that it might not be amenable to oligopolization.
, for which you don't have to destroy a river habitat.
At this point:

1) The Verge is an awful journalistic news source

2) Elon has devolved into a terribly obnoxious person. But, if you assess his choices while setting your ire for the man aside, his recent choices at Twitter seem to be bear his textbook approach for how he built Tesla and SpaceX: Cull for the “smartest guy/gal in the room”, build cut throat culture of moving fast on top of that. The difference is that he’s doing it a decade down the road, and by all accounts he probably doesn’t actually want to (own Twitter). The thing about this approach is it has a track record of success.

So can we please, stop posting about Elon already. He’s not doing anything surprising, of course Twitter is in chaos. Management just switched and like 70-80% of staff is gone. Leave the man alone and let him succeed or fail in building Twitter. Isn’t the best way to deal with trolls (ie Elon) to just ignore them?
I was converted to rebase by my current team, and this hit every time.

I wish it works like merge, or exist a way to merge, resolve conflict, rebase?
Those are the kinds of moments I wish I had some charisma and run for an office myself, because I genuinely feel I lack any kind of real representation as a constituent.

The issue, however, is simple. There is real money on the table so anyone even thinking of running ( and making a change ) must be able to withstand likely quick and solid stomp, must be techy enough to understand the risks and PRy enough to be able to move in today's media landscape. Those skills tend of be somewhat rare on their own. Combination of those traits is likely more rare.

<< Throw in the tracking in apps and potential server side tracking that there is nothing I can do about.

And after that, almost inevitable hacks ( inevitable due to misaligned incentives for companies ).
> Many consumers don’t trust Amazon anymore

How did you come to this conclusion?
hey........ i have a wildly awesome idea about improving OSM. can anyone build this and help the community? i would help by giving my time....

here is the idea.

a ride sharing app uses OSM for routing and such. fine. The driver follows the map but some times there are new turns or changes to road that are not in the map, or there are some improvements.

my idea. the ride sharing app has the historical "ACTUAL" rides that have already taken place.

we build a tool that takes point A&B from the route given and plots its own normal route. the actual trip and "Expected" trip are overlaid and if there are deviations, the software (after some adjustments for errors) this can give us a high level idea of the general map to actual route. this can also tell mappers which routes to fix and stuff...

there is one tool that does manually but i would be like for large number of routes that would be matched 1:1.
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When people say this it's because they assume there's not stupid ass politics or moat building.

THEY could probably do it with 100 people, YOU cannot.

100 people is most likely within the ballpark for a group of people whose sole purpose is to write and maintain twitter's tech stack. Unfortunately, that is not NEARLY the sole purpose of most people in businesses and that adds all kinds of productivity hits.

What happens is that people like yourself become convinced that's the only way to operate.
Why can't we just say internet service or not, privacy applies. My banking is done through internet services and I still have privacy expectations there.
> This obviously raises the question of how much power output they could produce if you'd convert them to modern technology.

Maybe 10-15%. AC generation technology has improved incrementally (1% here, 4% there), but gains since the 60s are not revolutionary leaps.
The way they treat even their tech people is horrible. I would say either you get paid a fortune or you work there to have amazon on your resume on the way to a better gig.
Technical write-up describing solving issues with phantom process killing and storage permissions on Android 12
when I read first book of C++, author always say "in old time we did it in terrible way but now we have new features solve it!"

then I found everyone say the feature is terrible. most of famous C++ software was written in old version.
Isn't it a choice of "poison the water" or poison the air? Are we under the assumption that natural gas is clean?
Looks like men would rather dim the sun first than invest in nuclear energy. Sounds great.
Guide to Leading a Country
You’re absolutely right and here’s an open source self-hosted project for MBTiles: https://github.com/akhenakh/kvtiles

More info from the author here: https://blog.nobugware.com/post/2019/self_hosted_world_maps/

The vector tiles are much smaller in filesize than pixel data and the rendering technology is much better. Almost all the styling is done on the client side so the server is basically just querying a spatial database.
Pathetic Writer is a brilliant name for a word processor.
Boeing et al are forced to implement all those safety systems due to regulations.
US tech layoffs: India workers face painful exit from the US
In a perfect world with infinite resources and no time constraints, sure.
Is UCIe Universal?
the mental model is hard for so many people precisely because all they know of git is github
Adult day care has been used to describe tech companies for well over a decade in my circles. I usually saw it associated with start-ups in the past, but due to the recent trend of influencer-driven marketing videos (e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgaZsbXeddY but there are much more egregious examples) for large tech companies it has seen a resurgence.
Curl uses its own implementations, curl_msnprintf and curl_mvsnprintf.
A few reasons:

1) Some of the most popular map library frontends like Leaflet support only raster tile layers out of the box.

2) Quality vector generalization (feature-dropping) is much more difficult than raster generalization.

3) A large fraction of use cases just need a "good enough" basemap without those extra features.
Voice assistants which are trying to force engagement to squeeze money out of you are dying.

Most people only use the voice assistants for a few simple tasks, which is perfect for an open source project like mycroft. It is, however, very, very bad for Amazon and Google, because those tasks don't make them money. That's why they're all going so aggressive on "you asked for the time, but by the way here's a 5 minute speech on all the easily monetizable tasks I can do instead"

People like the idea of voice assistants, but by and large they don't like all the problems associated with a voice assistant run by Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.
It would be a slightly darker earth. The net warming from CO2 addition is a few watts/m^2. Insolation is something shy of two orders of magnitude higher. Dimming sunlight by a few percent is not a large change.
The thing about solar geoengineering is that, if you stop spraying, the particles settle in a matter of years and we're back to +1.5C again. I'm tempted to say that the possibility of an overshoot is nigh-impossible; but it's more the case that it's quickly reversed because we're still fighting uphill against all the heat we trapped under a blanket of carbon.
Most large power generation facilities must be connected to a load (grid) to operate, nuclear or not.
Yeah, you can't even add projects when you sign in yet — super early!

I added it for you though @ https://ossrank.com/p/2037 (1000 isn't the real rank, will take a few hours to get ranked, we rescore projects every 3 hours)

#MVP
A truly open platform stands a chance in the voice assistant space, as it could be adapted into forms that are useful beyond their current limited designs. Such useful forms probably are not as monetizeable as the current incarnations that invasively collect information about you and your family, so I very much doubt the big tech players will ever attempt to build these useful systems directly.

Unfortunately, Mycroft is not very open itself. Sure, most of the code is open and available, but I tried to contribute and found my PRs ignored for weeks. When they were finally ready to merge them, their poor response cause me to lose interest in the project. At that time, they did not seem interested in cultivating a strong developer community around their core technology components; they were doing their thing, and they wanted the community to implement “skills”. I got the impression that community could either get on board or stand aside and watch them work. For that reason alone, I feel fairly certain that this project will fail eventually as well, and their hardware will become yet another high-tech relic of a paperweight.

As a formerly enthusiastic kickstarter backer, I cannot recommend the Mycroft project as the basis for a product; you don’t own and can’t control the platform on any meaningful way (short of forking it). It might be a better choice than a closed platform, but not enough to make me want to put any money in it.
Apart the belief that there is no deity, atheism doesn't imply anything. It's not a doctrine or an economo-social program per se.

Much like physic, it doesn't prescribe what way is supposedly better to behave. This probably helps much on having broad consensus on very precise statements.

Economics, surely, is closer to a cult. It runs some quantification over the process, but there is always some core doctrine which prescribe what are the relevant metrics. Should biodiversity enter in the equation? Should the feeling of fulfillment of operators be considered? Is animal suffering a concern? Should next human generation be given a sustainable society?
Choreographer collected data on human mannerisms from 1,023 people
“In our current society, we are trying to capture humanity in data,” Heitmann said. “But we are losing something this way.”
It's totally doable in a limited way (low half-life blockers).
I won't repeat the other comments I made, but in summary, yes bash is niche, stuck in a local optimum, no sql is not small anymore.
Unfortunately, I am not aware of any open source project that covers the one feature that I still use Google Maps for. Reviews. Does anyone know of any?

I am wondering now if that's something that could be federated well.
The Martin Guitar factory tour in Nazareth, PA is awesome. They really get into every detail of how they make them & you can see pretty much every step of the process. All the gear, all the manual inlays, etc. If you ever find yourself in nearby Bethlehem or Allentown, it's worth the drive.

https://www.martinguitar.com/visit-us.html
Labor advantages drive the greater productivity of faculty at elite universities
Show HN: Mygeneset.info, collect, save and share funcional gene sets
Soft launch of MyGeneset.info a website and toolset for sharing functional gene sets in all species with programmatic API access.
Not all sunlight is the same, and the majority of the heat comes from some of the lesser-utilized parts of that spectrum.
SRE for the Cache Team. I feel people are overlooking that part.
What's worrying is that these stupid suggestions keep popping up all over the place.

It's as if there's now a concerted effort to push geo-engineering on a wider level.

I wonder why? Could it be money, and the fossil fuel industry trying to muddy the issues?
Thinking aloud, I wonder how feasible a mechanical shield at the Sun/Earth L1 spot could be? Seems more adjustable and less risky than atmospheric manipulation.
I'm gonna wait until we're sure about the effect on every living organism on earth.
PSA: Anacron might be disabled if 2.3-33 was ever installed
Want to fix gender inequality in the workplace? Hire part-time
I wonder if the Twitter situation may be the event that causes the industry to push back on large technical organization sizes.

I wonder how many reading this are starting to feel nervous about their own roles.
I will never have a voice assistant unless a completely open and self-hosted solution appears on the market. And with current patent landscape, that seems incredibly unlikely to happen before 2032.
AFAIU ripping software providers have switched to distributing the per-release AACS processing keys instead of the per-device keys so there is nothing to revoke unless they somehow find out which devices or device keys are being used to decrypt those processing keys - and even that would only delay new leaks until another device/player is cracked.
The Ladybird Web Browser
Id appreciate if you shared some links or project names. I know it’s a web search away but it sounds like you have some projects in mind. :)
>I guess I'm probably in a great position to argue for or against prisons as a means of protecting the population from criminals, since I'm not from the US, which you seem to assume.

Well, let's not necessarily assume you're "in a great position". But, yeah, you sure are in a much greater position to argue about that, than someone from a country that enforcings this "means of protection" but still has horrific crime stats...

>Hey, maybe cancer causes cigarettes instead of the other way around, you never really know.

I wouldn't exactly call "culture" a single-direction causual factor like cigarette smoking.

But what do I know, perhaps a strawman can be correct once in a while!
Humor probably helps a lot with making people feel better around these devices. Are you using it for anything non-trivial?
> "discovering imperfect treatments for lung cancer just encourages smoking"

Well yes, it does? The better the treatment the less reason to avoid it.
> Are these walls insulated?

As far as I know, no. But the brick most used here is a lightweight perforated brick (a quick web search found a site with some pictures: https://portalvidalivre.com/articles/949), and I believe the air trapped within it does have some insulating properties.

> It requires more planning for passing electical and plumbing conduits.

Not as much as you'd think. The way I've seen it done is: first you put the bricks as normal, then you dig a trench in it for the conduit, put the conduit, and fill the rest of the hole with brick fragments and mortar.
Ask HN: Any architects here? What's the best (serious) 'Architecture 101' book?
My dad always said he thought I'd make a good architect because I like thinking about qualitative, quantitative, and aesthetic design all at once. But in college I turned away from it because
A. I really prefer more traditional aesthetic philosophy and all the schools seemed dedicated to modernist/postmodernist philosophies I abhorred.
B. My friends in architecture programs grew disillusioned very quickly and switched to SWE, because of (A) and because the career outlook was very bleak, even from high-ranked programs.

But I'm finding that I would like to learn about architecture and there must be books that haven't been infected with a total bias for postmodernism. So I come to you.
And that's just the "big compilers" supporting the "big platforms". If you're shipping some bespoke embedded platform where the toolchain/OS integration was custom work, you might very well never upgrade the compiler and just pick a new one when you're forced to define a new platform due to the hardware going EOL.
All these hacks blog posts are really interesting insights by Firefox engineers. Browsers in general are such a complicated system, so it's pretty remarkable what they come up with and what they learn when attempting to update Firefox.
Google assistant on your phone can accept text input. If you're on a relatively recent version of Android you should be able to long-press the home button, then tap the keyboard icon in the popup. Works the same as a voice prompt
Yes. Everyone should add it.
This isn't really all that surprising

Anyone who uses Apple/Google/Microsoft/other products as intended will have no privacy. By as intended, I mean using chrome while logged into a google account, using MacOS while logged into an apple account (and using all of apple's internal applications), using android with a google account, etc

I wouldn't be surprised if the usage data, health data, from e.g. iOS+services goes straight to data brokers. I can't prove this, but it wouldn't surprise me. Even if it didn't, there's no guarantee of how the data will be used internally (or whether it's given to law enforcement, for example)

If someone uses these products as intended and has even the slightest expectation of privacy (e.g. believing any of the vague BS in the TOS), they're probably not the sharpest knife in the drawer (or at the very least, grossly misinformed)