skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I say everyone can join for free and gets one post a day. $8/month plan includes 10 posts a day, and unlimited for $20. While I have no interest in Twitter, I'm told it's quite addictive, so make the first taste free and then reel them in once they're hooked.
I know most of my comment is going to be redundant, but I need to say it in order to point to it an year or two from now as an "I told you so!"

Twitter is going to be here for a long long time. It's not going to suddenly shut down, it's not going to slowly decline, there is not going to be mass abandonment.

Elon might be cocky, but at the end of the day he is a successful businessman. He didn't just sent out that loyalty pledge email out of cockyness. He really wanted to kick out everyone who doesn't believe in him and his beliefs. And he sent that email well after understanding how Twitter runs and putting his loyal people from Tesla ans SpaceX in charge of operations.

The woke crowd needs to get out of denial and start coping with the fact that Twitter is not the bastion of unopposed woke ideology anymore.
> Twitter added 1.6M daily active users this past week, another all-time high

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1594865247323660290
Okay. Glad your data backed analysis with the data you've shared (outside of your observations of mentally unstable individuals of course) has yielded that "Twitter _is_ on shaky ground".

Oh you haven't shared any data? Oh yeah. Okay.
TinyGL 0.4.1
Both bad things deserving of condemnation.
Personally I think of incorrect news without someone trying to lie or distort the news as just a mistake.

As far as I know that was the case here, and bound to happen a great deal.

I think of fake news as something else.
Okay, but consider the fact that they didn't as evidence that NATO doesn't actually want to escalate this war. It's going pretty well for NATO, at relatively low cost (to NATO at least).
A few parts clearly did go down. 2FA login was just serving error codes all day a few days ago. On Saturday people were posting entire feature films, 2 minutes per tweet, because apparently their copyright content matching wasn’t working.
Seems wild how it seems lately there's no room for gray, only black and white.

I got torn apart for saying the "ghost of Kyiv" wasn't real, followed by the "most level headed take" of a reply that went something like "hey, even if its fake, people need something to believe in right now so saying this stuff only helps Russia."

I am of course 100% against what Russia is doing. I just feel like we should all be very aware of what is real and what is fake. Otherwise we can't make good judgments.

I saw people calling for WWIII because of the missile incident. Just blows my mind. I truly think that some people feel so insulated from the effects they view it as some "event" that just takes place in a distant land where if you cheer loud enough and show enough support the "good guys will win" after a few months. The world doesn't need more destabilization. Of course, Russia can't keep killing people either... but at the end of the day, this isn't and shouldn't be solved by online commentators.

I really wish Putin would throw in the towel at this point... its barbaric, depressing and embarrassing.
why? a single app running on a single server is several orders of magnitude more resilient than a spaghetti clusterfuck of services upon services. twitter could be brought down by a single expired certificate
Alexa feels like a "First CityWide Change Bank" sketch, writ large.
> more systems with "job security" built in.

How common is this?
Shitty reporting that supports your intelligence agency's agenda is pretty straight-forward fake news.
Moot in this case. Musk has gutted the work-force and instigated a wide range of changes. All bets are off when new code is being introduced.
Judging by some of the old patents he's filed [1], I'd guess he has at least a decent understanding of the tech involved. Probably less so, when it comes to the details of more modern distributed systems, but I also wouldn't be surprised if he's spent some effort towards all that as well - he's been working in/around pretty cutting edge tech for quite a while. Could he sit down and code it himself? probably not, but that's hardly required in his situation.

1. https://patents.justia.com/inventor/elon-musk
This article is totally wrong about everything.

An id is not a password.

Hash rate is totally not comparable with just trying every combination.

You can generate combinations instantly, you dont need a gpu for that.

The delay is how long the server takes to respond and how many connections it can have at the same time.

You're also blocked by the server after trying a couple of thousand.
Coinbase is not even top5 exchange [1], how come the press only talk about this exchange? specially considering the recent insider trading story[2,3]

[1] - https://coinmarketcap.com/rankings/exchanges/

[2] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31012462

[3] - https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/three-charged-first-eve...
>>Today, it's clear where the bad guys are. Tomorrow it may be different.

Actually bad guys have been the same. It is hard for people to understand or even stand the fact that their country and their countrymen could be evil. That is pretty much all there is to this. Everybody likes to believe the war they are fighting is for a just cause and will make the world a better place, and they think every other country doing the very same is evil.

We should all agree on the fact when we say "War for X reasons is evil" the real issue there is "War", not X which could be {religion, democracy, economic order, ...}

But honestly mostly people do if for things like resources, and influence and but like to sell as X. This is why everything you do is ok, but others doing it isn't. There are only finite resources, and this is a race condition.
When Ukraine hits Poland (even by mistake), people take step back and blame Russia, because Ukraine wouldn't have had to use an anti-missile system if there was no Russian missile in the first place. Fair enough.

Now, why don't people use the same analogy for Russia starting that war? Let's take a step back and ask a basic question - who escalated this all? Who benefits from this war? Who pours money there? Why is nobody asking these questions?
I did SRE consulting work for a phase of my career... as the author points out, these systems are scaled out and resilient, but what happens next is entropy. Team sizes shrink, everything starts to be viewed through a cost cutting / savings lens, overtaxed staff start ignoring problems or the long-term view because they are in firefighting mode, it becomes hard to attract new talent because the perception is
"the good times are over." Things start to become brittle and/or not get the attention needed, contractors are brought in because they are cheaper and/or bits get outsourced to the cheapest bidder... the professional care and attention like the author clearly brought just starts to shift over time. Consultants like me are brought in to diagnose what's wrong - the good staff could write our briefs, they know what's going on - and generally we slap a band-aid on the problem because management just wants to squeeze whatever value they can out of the assets rather than actually improve anything.
The US public spending per capita is the highest (by far) in the world. The problem is not lack of public health care. At least not lack of money.

(My pet theory is that Americans, for all their amazing talents and qualities, are terrible administrators. By comparison I grew up in Canada, which Im not fond of, but where you can get a drivers license in 15 minutes or a passport in a day)

https://www.statista.com/statistics/283221/per-capita-health...
How many software engineers have been released to the market at this point? Except for twitter, I was under the impression most Software Engineers and product managers weren’t actually being let go, and that all these layoffs was more centered around recruitment, D&I, and sales?
It also seems to do some shenanigans that show a history of 4 of the same page (I think) and require hitting back 4 times to get back to HN
Yeah, now that I know that Twitter uses caches and has automatic failover I'll be able to put them out of business by competing with them. :P
Don't forget that users have been trained to be incredibly fault tolerant as a result of how flaky general software can be. Now that cars are having BSOD that tolerance may reach new levels or just evaporate.
If nuclear powers decided to launch missiles based only on random newspaper articles we'd all be long dead.
If you keep getting old eventually you might have a kid and then you get to re-experience the wonder of early life through your child's eyes :)
> 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.

But... they didn't. The people with the power put on their big boy pants and said "No, I don't think this is right", refused to engage with the outrage machine, and shared what intelligence they could to refute the story. And the new media retracted the piece within 24 hours and has now fired the author after an investigation.

Isn't that evidence that the system is working? Shouldn't you be celebrating it as a victory instead of complaining about things that didn't happen?
The banks probably took convertible debt at high interest rates, but who cares about high interest rates when it's only been one month. He probably has a clause for accelerated payments, because its debt, not shares yet.

(after a certain amount of time, or upon default, the debt would convert to shares. but it can be much more complicated, and onerous than that too. lending can be fun.)
And the 2600 before that.
What I find interesting is among a few sites where you see amateurs talking about combat footage and news of that war, everyone is well aware how little they know.

It’s everyone else who seems to draw grand conclusions.
This kind of schedule and chaos looks more familiar for acquisitions of a small company I think. I guess it is strange for it to happen to a company of Twitter's size, but I think the big-news aspect of it has more to do with how much journalists use Twitter.
As a DIYer that has done far too many drywall patches, as much as I dislike it, it's hard to imagine something easier and/or better. Most of the time, the vast majority of the work comes down to the painting part. The human eye is pretty darn good at noticing slight color differences and breaks in patterns, so any flat, smooth surface will show inconsistencies in paint color from the natural fading/discoloration of old vs new paint.

One could imagine a 'panel' system (like old school wood panels) that could be removed and replaced, but that would involve seams and fasteners that would need to be visible at all times. Even with wood panels or, let's say, plywood sheets, hidden fasteners would mean you're likely to damage the finish when removing it. Not to mention that it would require a regular pattern to (somewhat) conceal the seams of pieces.

Drywall, on the other hand, is almost a perfect compromise. It's extremely inexpensive, very fire resistant, and with some practice, it can be installed and/or patched with simple tools to make seams almost imperceivable. What it trades in durability and strength vs something like L&P, it more than makes up for in ease of repairs.
Well, that was an advertorial considerably duller than what I had hoped for.

It's interesting to note that there are trans national sea nomads [1] that have increasingly had the same kinds of settler pressures experienced by other nomads and gypsies.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sama-Bajau

From the edges of West PNG [2]

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdqUrjU8Cu0
Do you have any knowledge on analog synths (like the Juno-6) or where one might go about obtaining the parts to build or assemble one?
You're forgetting that software on it's own is basically useless. In order for it to provide value, it has to be operated by a physical machine. All running software is physical, with spinning disks and mechanical relays, electrons being pushed back and forth, and photons flying around. Twitter is not a piece of software, it's a complicated physical system. software is an abstraction.
What agenda? The state department and white house straight up denied this story when it ran!
I am mostly curious about the Mesos layer itself.

Mesos is dead. So you need in-house expertise to patch it without being able to leverage community knowledge.

Does Twitter retain enough people to manage Mesos?
I don’t see anyone getting anything out of that story…

Who would push that story and then just let the news come out that it was actually Ukrainian?

I also haven’t seen anything to indicate it was anything but just bad reporting.
Interesting how this summer all we heard from Musk was how Twitter was overflowing with bots and spam, but now that he runs the place he sure spends a lot of time bragging about all-time high "user" counts.
Want to bet that’s not unconnected to sacking the people who tried to block bots?
Thanks, it means a lot to know my comment help others! I thought it was going to be buried and didn’t expect an upvote, much less getting replies that it was helpful.

It’s tough to share many of the other steps I’ve taken on a public forum. Honestly, I doubt they’d be as helpful as my previous comment because they’re so personal. Because they are so specific to me.

However, I can share that group therapy is the main resource I used to take those steps. I highly recommend it.

What’s nice about group is that I get to hear various perspectives on a situation. Everyone there has gone through somewhat similar struggles but their interpretations of those struggles are different.

As each person speaks, I find a nugget of wisdom that I can use. A bit of insight that I wouldn’t realize on my own. A phrase that finally helps a concept click in my head.

Of course 1-on-1 therapy is helpful too but group is a treasure trove of insight for personal growth.
First thing I always wanna know with these things is what happens with my data after your servers die? Can I export it? Do you have any API endpoints I can use to hack things my own way? Who really owns it?

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Mentioned apps with how they handle your data:

• [General Task](https://try.generaltask.com/) – free, proprietary § ???

• [Emery](https://emery.to/) – $7/month, proprietary § Data lives on their server, when your subscription expires your account goes into read-only mode and can still view your data

• [Atomic](https://www.atomiclife.app/) – free tier, proprietary § ???
Not sure when OP left, but Twitter has 3 datacenters now.
Eh maybe. It’s just a game to entertain the workers. Solve business problems and create value that’s how you move up.
We've banned this account for posting flamewar comments and ignoring our requests to stop.

Please don't create accounts to do that with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Minor correction: although Edison had his first lab in Menlo Park (today's Edison NJ) for ten years, he later moved to a larger campus in West Orange NJ in order to be closer to NYC, and spent four decades there. They're about 25 miles apart, in different counties. But yes, lots of tech history throughout NJ!
Funny thing is that the tables WERE turned, by NATO.
I’m sure Ukraine doesn’t feel like it’s fighting a puppet dance. Just because the US has made bad decisions before doesn’t mean that it’s doing a bad thing now, nor does it means that there’s anything wrong with incentives being aligned. All international relations are based on aligned incentives of self interest, not just those of the US.
So 25-50% of the company is not in the problem space, at least. Doesn't sound good for the stay in the problem space theory.
Thanks for this. I thought I must be missing something because this seems like such an obvious point.

I find it hard to believe that there is a problem with a (cryptographically random) 122 bit session key considering that a brute force attack on it will result in a DDoS, which is obviously self limiting.

Lots of people here are saying “never use a uuid for a session key”, but I don’t understand this. What’s the accepted entropy for a session key?
Snyk is for security scanning. How is that a contradiction w/ copilot?
I think a likely answer is "moderating". That would explain why Elon was ok letting so many go so quickly.
All US operated websites are technically illegal in EU (due to the CLOUD Act). Practically, they are still used en masse. In theory the next iteration of the Privacy Shield (or whatever name they are going to give it this time around) and which EU-US should sign sometime next year should reconcile in some way the existing privacy issues where EU residents personal data does not have adequate privacy protection once it's touched by a US company.
I guess I'm surprised they didn't know this would happen? Why on earth would I shop with Alexa? All price comparisons, reading of reviews and double checking for errors goes out the window. I'm not going to say add paper towels and just trust Alexa to add the best value to my cart. The best it has ever done is remind me when I need to reorder Gatorade powder and I would have ordered that anyway when I was out.
Device/appliance requires WiFi? Strike 1.
Why do people assume that things would break so easily? I'm pretty sure Twitter (ex)team did tons of scalability testing with loads that are 10x or even 100x. Plus random 100x to 1000x spikes to account for breaking news. And all of these are done automatically, constantly, and consistently over the years.
If the 3x headcount increase really did add no value, there are still about 1/3rd profitable employees there now. In fact giant layoffs tend to cut the best people first because they are the ones who feel comfortable walking. The people that are the last to go are the ones who are very entrenched in the organization and who don't estimate their chances outside of it highly, and that's the exact description of who Elon thinks he's laying off.
I like voice command but Alexa is just not that great. Simple example: there are rooms and each device (e.g. echo or smart lights switch) is assigned to a room. I have multiple echos and multiple smart light switches throughout the house. I come to a room and say “turn on lights”. I would expect Alexa to turn on lights in that room. Sound simple? Nope. Alexa replies “there are multiple devices named lights, which one do you want to turn on?” WTF, I need to spell it “turn on kitchen lights”. Why do I assign devices to rooms? Nobody knows. And the same with everything. I tried to buy something with Alexa multiple times. It’s just horrible: “buy dish soap” (whatever I bought last time, I don’t care). But no: “there 1234 dish soaps available on Amazon, which one do you want to buy?” Like I know ;)

Edit: cleanup
Then your mind is incredibly easily boggled and your threat model is broken.
Azure has something similar as well: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/s...
I don't mean to sound patronising but my take on this is simply that he's a good salesman who levered up the personal relationship he's established with you
Yeah, but at least they actually typed //WONTFIX
I’ve been wondering if I’ve been going crazy. It’s gotten way worse for me too. I have to ask 3-4 times to turn the lights off sometimes.
I had MySQL running on some bare metal for many years without a restart.

I was terrified to update the kernel at that point, knowing that system disk had been running continuously for many years, and had no faith it would restart successfully.

Finally got two new servers to replace these (with these new SSD things!) and after migration, sure enough, one of the old servers failed to boot.
In addition to the Racket article that the article links, Racket's language support has become more powerful and smoother since then.

A more recent treatment is Matthew Butterick's book: https://beautifulracket.com/

It doesn't have to be a big standalone DSL with a separate compiler or preprocessor. It can also be an embedded little language, like when you sprinkle HTML templates throughout your normal general-purpose language, and as only a syntax extension: https://docs.racket-lang.org/html-template/

(Aside: I'm seeing tasteful Racket and Scheme influences in Rust, even though they're very-very different languages. I'm hoping to contribute a little more influences.)
The story was retracted the next day. Sure some madman could launch a bike whenever they want, I don’t think this ap story has anything to do with that.
Sorry for the shit you experienced. I do welcome immigrants to our country. I just despise our immigration system and have become quite jaded from my observations.

I felt quite embarrassed when I watched that documentary; these agencies have never been great but they seem to have really went off the rails post 9/11.
Why is this tone deaf? This is relatively consistent with the stories I've been hearing from friends at FAANGs and from a lower tier company, we have definitely been feeling the lack of engineers to hire for several years at this point
Said differently, software with no side effects must run in an adiabatic box.
Unfortunately it’s not this simple because most non-trivial software is written with a dependency tree, every node of which may discover vulnerabilities (or performance problems) which, when patched, trigger update cascades in this tree.
I sometimes wonder if companies have a plan or do things and it all just kinda falls into place. I used to make fun of Steam for the DRM part, but when combined with their Proton effort, OS and Deck all of a sudden all the crazy puzzle pieces fell into place, I started to wonder to what extent it pure chance vs conscious planning by Gabe.

I agree with your point on integration. All the pieces seem to be there already. I would not want it, but I clearly was not target audience to begin with ( and this stuff was flying off the shelf life crazy ).
I worked at FB for a couple of years, in a group that sat near data storage. I used to argue with those folks that without atomic clocks, FB should just shut its doors because there was no way to have reasonable limits on consistency.

While I was hyperbolic in my pronunciation, I wasn't wrong in my data. It's been more than 5 years since those conversations. Glad someone got it done. Took 'em far too long.
Nice tech blog, really love it.

From my understanding, basically this new iteration is better then their previous generation chrony based one because the uncertainty in the One Way Delay calculation is largely removed by having those Transparent Clocks capable of reporting their queuing delays. Basically the asymmetry of the delays are gone?

Personally, I don't think Chrony should be considered as a NTP implementation as clearly it can utilize those PTP hardware timestamps as well and those hardware timestamps are the "secret sauce" of PTP's high accuracy. With those PTP enabled switches, together with the fact that Chrony can already send NTP packages as PTP packages, surely Chrony can leverage such new capabilities as well with some reasonable updates.
I don't have anything concrete for you, but I'm quite happy with my quality and speed. As a kid I wrote only in cursive, but it has too much backtracking.

Now I write in more of a standard font but I don't pick up the pen very often. That's where the speed comes from.

For legibility, I've focused on each letter intently throughout my entire life, to the point where I basically have a font reference in my head.

Each letter and number has a standard. I spent a long time trying to make each one perfect, but now it's second nature.

As long as my writing platform is good, and I have a 1.0mm G2 pen, I'm good to go.