skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Twitter went down constantly in its early years and did fine; as long as errors get fixed, I don't see why that dynamic would spell doom for Twitter now. There are a lot of people for whom the idea that Twitter can get along without most of its former headcount is a bitter pill to swallow, but that doesn't make it untrue.

One reason the site was stable pre-Musk is that no one made any changes to it. For better or worse, it's now owned by someone who actually uses the product and has ideas for how to develop it.
"Upside" problems/opportunities that take a generation to solve/understand (w.r.t a family context):

1. value of going to college

2. investing in real estate

3. creating a profitable business

Once your parents achieve one of these, in a lot of cases, kids learn via osmosis.

"Downside" problems that are also usually generational:

1. creating/maintaining a strong relationship with spouse (not getting divorced)

2. staying healthy - no type 3 diabetes etc.
There's plenty of evidence on Twitter, from Musk firing engineers who confront him with straight technical questions, to Musk demanding ridiculous work hours as if it's a sign of strength or loyalty.
"Walmart net profit margin as of January 31, 2023 is 1.91%."

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/profit...
I don't think that necessarily is a a bad thing. Just because someone can theoretically afford a mortgage payment now its pretty difficult to predict say 5+ years out whether or not that steady job will hold, especially if they're young and have a short credit history. The down payment adds a cushion for that risk. There's less inherent risk to renting, you're looking at a commitment of 6 months to a max of maybe 2 years for most least terms.

Being too risky with handing out mortgages is partly what lead to the housing bubble in 2008 afterall.

If they're really certain their job will be stable long term PMIs shouldn't really be a deterrent, most PMI can be terminated after meeting 20% in equity.
Thanks for typing out their tweet. I wouldn't have been able to have read it otherwise, seeing twitter is down.
I don't think "supposed to" includes breaking Lord Elon's tweets on the actual Twitter domain:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35043746
The problem is zoning and regulation and animal agriculture, imho.

Hear me out.

Just 1% of habitable land is urban and built-up land (1.5 mil km2). Buy a land (native Americans didn't believe that anyone can own the land, that land belongs to everybody - maybe there was something true about that) and try to build a house on it.

So many regulations - where you can build, what you can build, how it would look, what materials are acceptable, etc.

Try to build a house from hempcrete, for example. A material used for several thousand years in Europe, but now it's much harder to build and to certify such house (due to regulations and approval processes), that everybody builds with bricks and wraps their house in mountains of polystyrene instead. That doesn't make sense .. you have to build a house from a material with abysmal insulation properties, and then wrap it in several layers (10 maybe) of additional materials just to have a working shell. Then stuff it with plastic stuff inside - that for example lowered time the buildings are fire resistant from 15 minutes to mere 2-3 minutes now (IIRC).

Or try to build something with earth pressed blocks. Also pretty common historical method from the area where I'm from, very comfortable living, breathable, low-cost, ecologic. That's something almost never used now, although it has a lot of pluses compared to the "modern" ways of building.

Try to purchase a land and build a block of flats on it. No, the building office will say, no such houses in the area, just single family homes here, single floor, minimum land 800m2. No way to build small flats or houses with those minimum area requirements.

We don't have enough place to build new homes, you say? We use just 1% of all habitable land for buildings and stuff. What about those 37 mil. km2 we use for "livestock" [0]? I for one can't wait for the times when the majority will switch to plant based diets. This is just one of the many things that would solve ...

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/land-use
+1 here. I purchased the original SimCity and soon after the original SimEarth.
Loads of fun with both.
I currently binge on realtor training videos. Cold calling, raw procrastination, it's got it all. I don't think I'd ever want to do it but it's a great place to learn motivation.
> advertisements within their operating system by default, something Apple would never do in a million years

That's outright not true. MacOS (by default) gives you pop-ups asking you to try the new Safari, and when you put on your headphones it launches Apple Music with a pop-up asking you to try their subscription. The settings app begs you to sign in and pay for iCloud storage. The default dock is loaded with useless SaaS that would be better-off uninstalled. I still have the friggin U2 promo!

That's just MacOS. The water started to rise on iOS years ago, and it all contributed to me leaving Apple's ecosystem for good. This "premium" experience is meaningless if you just use it as premium ad space for your premium products. I'm going to pass on being a premium customer.
I didn't know that people were doing this but I should've guessed.

It's actually really kind of cool in a way! Obviously for people with mental health issues, or suffering from loneliness those should be addressed properly, but I don't think chatting to a machine is necessarily a bad thing.

Once ML models become sufficiently advanced, what's the difference between someone grieving for an instance of an ML model they once knew, versus someone grieving for a pet that has died?
One problem with the value dropping (assuming you're still paying off the mortgage): lenders can freak out and call the entire mortgage due and foreclose on your home. They did this extensively after the subprime mortgage issue.
I've been making this argument for many, many years and it's interesting to see the tide turning from "What are you, an idiot? Some kind of communist?!" to "<specific edge case that applies to someone they know which invalidates my entire premise>" to "You may have a point".

One tipping point, sadly because as the article points out there are many more valid criticisms, seems to be foreign ownership. Enough foreign ownership in certain markets finally brought this to the forefront as locals were priced out en masse and people looked for someone to blame. At least the issue is being discussed because it has been a serious problem for a long time.
"there is little consistency either in the definition of ultra-processed foods or in examples of foods within this category"

source: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S247529912...
It's kind of funny that another thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35043330) is in top 5 Google results for "Your current API plan does not include access to this endpoint" search term, and is flooded with newly created accounts asking for support.
I'm sorry, I don't follow. Our grandparents have working, secure NAT setups that no human being needed to configure. I've never once seen a "firewall ruleset" configured by a non-geek.
Then again, the advice really just cashes out into buying whole foods like produce, beans, frozen bags of veggies, etc.

Better food items will get caught in the crossfire of someone naively avoiding the worse "processed foods", but maybe that's still a net win.

Even your fancy nuts example, if one of the main problems with ultra-processed foods is that they are hyperpalatable, then I see good reason to avoid fancy nuts (nuts with an oil + salt coating) and eating raw nuts instead. It's easy enough to overeat raw nuts!
Can we expect this to be solved? I mean, assuming they don't have enough staff to repair/maintain the site.
Master plumbers are still plumbers, they still get down and get their hands dirty. My guy is also a master plumber, and often works alone. When he does have help, he's often doing the hardest work, the other guy is just handing him pipes and tools.
You give it a fancy name and marketing makeover, that's what happened to the Patagonian toothfish...sorry, I meant Chilean sea bass.
Do you actually think it will go down for good?

That seems extremely unlikely to me.
> At this rate it’ll be Reddit-tier by EOY

I don't spend enough time on Reddit for that to really resonate, but the badges and icons flying all over the place and talk of Twitter Gold (or whatever they're calling it) do feel very Reddit-esque these days.
Even before the current downtime a string was data-mined from the TweetDeck beta which referred to itself as "a feature of Twitter Blue" so the days of being able to use TD for free are probably numbered anyway.
Yeah, the test isn't really very accurate. And if you're getting close on both axes that mean the test is actually telling you it isn't sure! (this doesn't mean your personality is actually close - it means the test doesn't know).

There are better tests (like this one https://sakinorva.net/functions) which will give you a confidence percentage for each cognitive function rather than just a best guess overall type. But none of them are that great, and currently the gold standard for determining type is to only use the test results as starting to point and to familiarise yourself with the theory to fine tune that, potentially with the guidance of an type expert.
The whole point of interest is supposed to account for that risk.

People buy cars all the time that cost a decent fraction of what a house does, and nobody bats an eye when they finance 100% (or more) of the value. And a car depreciates and moves. The bank knows where to find the collateral for a mortgage, and the value generally appreciates.
It's dead, Jim.

I tried looking up a picture of the shakras to help track the evolution of my mood from burnout to peace and where I feel that in my body. But it's so filled with sponsored links that I found myself squinting at blurred out preview images before I finally snapped out of it, perhaps 20 minutes later.

Information wants to be free. There should be glorious high-resolution images front and center that enthusiasts drew of their own accord and uploaded for free soon after the internet came online around 1995. Instead, we're funneled down the commercial carnival as marks. Sure, I'm a programmer, I know how to find what I'm looking for through various tricks. But I shouldn't have to.

Monetized search is one of the great blunders of the Information Age. Paid internet service is another. Walled gardens, the DMCA (using FUD and the threat of litigation to turn BitTorrent into the devil), scientific papers locked behind paywalls, even the capture of programming itself by centralized repositories and the trend towards microservices and the concentration of wealth away from programmers who could actually fix the tools we use.. just on and on and on, so much nonsense designed to trap our minds within the framework of profit for exploitation. The more I look around, the more it all looks like hot garbage.

It's frustrating to have a sense of knowing exactly what to do to fix things, even the knowledge and experience to pull off much of it, but spend the entirety of one's time running the rat race to survive. All while remembering a time not too long ago when it wasn't like that. I feel that central issue of wealth concentration and the dilution of disposable income and leisure time is what we're really fighting here. The loss of Google is just a symptom of that steady decline towards subservience.
Not that I particularly like Elon but people are now making a big deal out of every twitter outage as if twitter didn't spend down half of the time before Elon bought it.
Sounds like you'd be better off finding a local bakery that doesn't sell bread which is shelf stable for a month or more.
I think they meant the political climate in USA where corporate profits is the top of every political agenda, that helps all companies and not just Alaskan fisheries. If the government listened more to workers then USA probably wouldn't be as dominant as it is.
That isn't an equilibrium. If the market formed the expectations that property values were going to stop increasing, then property values would drop - because the current price bakes in the assumption that they're going to keep increasing.
To me, the lack of unsigned integers in Java, is the perfect example of how "simplicity" doesn't come from just taking things away. The theory is that unsigned types add complication but the reality is that the complication exists regardless but now you have to do workarounds.

I think the same thing about strongly typed languages that lack generics. Generics are obviously a complex feature but, if you don't have them, you're just spreading the complexity elsewhere.
That's certainly true of Salmon, but not for Tilapia and Carp. Carp and Tilapia mostly feed on plant matter and insects - and so that's what the feed pellets are made of.
My property taxes are about a third of my total payment every month, where the other two thirds are the actual mortgage. The property taxes are over 50% of what my total rent was before I got a house, which was not low. I'm happy with my town's management, who seems to use their budget quite well, but property taxes can really get you.

I think taxes should be increased on those with investment homes, second homes, mansions, and the income and wealth of the wealthy rather than just nickel and diming the middle class.
You literally wrote "Once device is identified all its past traffic is discernible." How is that compatible with devices changing their address every day?
It is a combination of people willing to work for low pay, and buyers not willing to pay more.
You are misunderstanding me. I never said to use only local state with no global state at all. My point is that signals automatically make all state global because you can reference what should be a local value in a component, in another component entirely which is not at all connected to the initial component either in a parent or a child relationship. In other words, you are making a graph, not a tree.

For Redux, at least that's explicit, for signals, it's really not.
The standard in Canada, for example, is a 25 year mortgage which you renew every 5 years (fixed or variable, your choice).
Also weird given that Twitter is using 3rd-party service which apparently doesn’t even automatically log and post known downtime issues; service being:

https://status.io/

(Assuming this is more of a the site’s not down unless the CTO says it is services.)
Please don’t do that. You deserve better as a worker. If a company is unable to function without infringing on the free time of their workers, that company should not exist.
Even though this is a review, it still suffers from the fact that diet studies are not controlled, randomized, or blind.

My mother has early onset dementia. Her habits were very healthy for 30+ years (quit drinking, quit smoking, daily exercise, lifetime healthy BMI, moderate diet) and otherwise physically she is in extremely good shape for her age. But one of the early, subtle signs of her cognitive decline was a reluctance to cook real meals. She now has progressed to a state where she can still use a smartphone or laptop for basic tasks, but isn't able to cook any sort of complex recipe from scratch, even one she previously did from memory. Seems pretty obvious to me that it's just as likely that cognitive decline causes an inability in older adults to plan and cook healthy meals, not the other way around.
It's not expired. That site is using the wrong cert (ERR_CERT_COMMON_NAME_INVALID).

How odd.
I think atm the Fed is the main force holing the USA together, considering all the bi-partisan polarization

all ways to divert the "voltage" across elite and commoner classes which are the real source of this tension.

I'm saying that wealth inequality creates something quite comparable to 'voltage', this creates a tension which WILL get released (because physics). But due to active (social-)technological management this tension is getting re-focused into blue Vs red bi-partisan politics, as well as other expressions of winners fighting losers (including gender 'equality' tensions, trans and transphobics, etc..)
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I think OP's point is the introduction of limits to the benefit of owning multiple properties. Hard to see OP replying with "Oh gosh, darn it you got me again" as a response to your comment and much more likely to further develop policy that would stay true to the idea that being able to afford more means you should pull more weight.
Looks like it's back up, was down for 56 minutes.
There are certainly some folks whose only motivation is a boss lurking over their shoulder.

As a manager it would be your job to identify those folks and treat them accordingly. Arguing that "I can't manage remotely" is mainly an admission that you can't manage at all.
On the positive side website response time has seen a dramatic improvement…
Also, generally higher overhead, more memory use for very large files (the page tables are not free), and no way of handling errors.
It's up for me, maybe a geographically limited outage?
Just because someplace is so deep in the housing debt hole doesn't mean the approach isn't a good one.

Making more of something when you have a shortage is the way to fix it.

4 nice, brand new 1.4 million dollar homes is 1) more housing and 2) cheaper than a decrepit 1.6 million dollar home. It sounds like progress even if it hasn't fixed all the problems.

Sounds like they need to just keep going down that path of legalizing housing. Where I lived in Italy, it was pretty normal to have 6/8/10 home buildings, and that was in a town of maybe 200K without any serious geographic constraints.

BTW, nothing saying you can't also do some things to directly help people who can't afford a million dollar home. Subsidized housing is good too - just that it's tough to create enough of it, so we need to fix the broken market too.
These make sense but how much of it is just retcon? I think "this is the way we have always done it" that got enshrined in code is much more likely.

Condo buildings aren't that much different than hotels in terms of density and usage.
Reliability: It’s not great
> I’ve done this. I had lots of fun—everyone, from the CEO down, was crunching—and became financially independent after it.

OK, but this doesn't seem relevant to the situations Twitter's (former, in many cases) employees are in at all. There's no quick path to financial independence working at Musk's Twitter--the company is losing money faster than it was when it was public, Musk is cutting costs everywhere, and there are well-documented instances of employees being shown the door after sleeping on the floor.

In general, I'm pretty sure that in the vast majority of cases, people who sleep on the floor at the office do not end up financially independent for it.
The exact way it failed makes it so much funnier
On the other hand, we’ve made it so new condos are so hard to get built that a 2 bedroom condo in a walkable neighborhood (which you likely need when you retire) is the same or more expensive than a 4 bedroom suburban home. In order to be able to downsize, you need the smaller unit to be less expensive than your current home, and in many markets right now that’s barely, if at all, the case.
Oh, ok. Thank You. I wish I understood this technological stuff better. Baby steps.
Would it even be highly desirable without any of the restaurants, retail and other services that don't provide a high enough wage to live there? My guess is that for a lot of the people living there now the answer is no.

We require these services but don't don't provide an acceptable living to those offering them, expecting them to sacrifice their health and comfort for our benefit.

I don't have a solution to how to "allocate" who "gets to" live in a certain city, and it's not in my role or expertise to. But the problem exists currently regardless of that, and what we do have is not a solution.
The solution in the past was for people to move to a different city. Migration is way down compared to generations past and continues to fall:

https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2021/12/16/in-2020-few...

The change in city living is also a big difference. Cities used to have parts of the city with the lowest cost of living in the metro area. Things like boarding houses and single room apartments w/ shared bathrooms & kitchens. That's no longer the case in a lot of cities. Places like Seattle and SF are comprised of pretty much all expensive places to live. That squeezes poor people more since they often have to rely on public transportation and can't take advantage of cheaper suburban living.
`cargo install` updates crates automatically, unless you add the non-default --locked parameter.
Nothing's wrong with it, but it's a bit orthogonal as viewing the property itself as an investment. Instead it's acting as guarantee against other investments.
I dunno, if that paver got a royalty for ever car that used his road then he would be very rich!
I just want to own a home so that I have stable housing expenses and don't live at the whim of an absentee landlord who never fixes anything, raises the rent by double-digit percentages every year, and could choose not to renew my lease any year now.
You mean that in the US you don't pay tax on the capital gain when you sell a property that is not your home? It's a great country to be rich in!
I agree with that. Investment homes, second or maybe just third homes, etc. should be taxed rather extremely aggressively.
Would you object if the sentence read "it approximates simulating every possible entity consistent with the prompt"?
I'm not sure what the situation in many parts of the US is, but is not freshly baked bread, the kind with unsurprising ingredients and that goes stale when you'd expect it, not an option?

The stuff made to sit on the supermarket's shelf for long times has such an odd consistency and flavor, very spongy and very tangy and sweet, you can't spread anything on it without toasting it first. I wouldn't take it as the standard for bread.
A good project based book that goes pretty in depth is: https://pragprog.com/titles/liveview/programming-phoenix-liv...
It focuses more on the live view aspects than restful crud, but usage underneath liveview will be the same either way (contexts, plugs, ecto, etc)