skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you use Twitter? Even at the best of times, you learn to flip though fairly quickly skimming over the nonsense, and since the ascension of naughty ol’ mr car bluetick replies get promoted to the front of the queue, so you have to scroll past a sea of bullshit to get to the real replies.

Twitter with 600 tweets a day is clearly unusable. That’s one large thread, and you’ll scroll past most of it anyway.
Piecework sites. I’ve made thousands of dollars in fake reviews. I made $100 in an hour one time while watching shows on Netflix with my wife. I’ve tried boosting posts on Reddit, but the cost seems high for what you get.

I’m no longer selling anything myself though. I’ve been out of this world for years.
how do you push those bits and bytes around without the factories and production of the equipment?
The only hope is rusticl and it happens inspite of AMD.
It’s notable that it’s Elon, not Yaccarino, making this announcement (and likely decision).
> You wait for the little icon in the system tray to stop spinning, and you can look in the window at the sync log if you don't trust it. It would take about 10 seconds.

And this compares to knowing that when I do a git add/git commit/git push, I know my code is on the server.

When I do a git pull, I know my code is on the second computer.

> Yes it is eventually consistent, and yes dont touch the code on any other devices until it's done

Again, this is literally a problem that git was purpose built to solve and used by millions of developers every day across the industry from the smallest shop up to largest companies.
Twitter managed to withstand high load and scrapers before. Did this suddenly get significantly worse? Is it bad enough that caching or engineering solutions couldn't address the problem?

One reason it _could_ get worse is because Twitter effectively disabled and paywalled their API, which many of these groups could use instead of scraping
I wouldn't say that a larger purchase unit is a USP; it is an underlying reason why other USPs are able to be delivered. This is an engineering focused place, so I tended to focus on the engineering aspects.

My sibling commentor just left a great answer to your second question, so I'll leave that one there :)
I'm one of the Dapr (Distributed Application Runtime) maintainers which has a wazero based wasm integration. The wazero team contributed this integration.

I just wanted to say that the wazero team has done a great job keeping the integration up to date and have been very responsive. For example, our project also supports Linux Arm32 and wazero was initially not testing against that architecture which led to a compile issue for us. Once we pointed this out they fixed this and added this architecture to their CI tests as well.

EDIT: Also because our project can be compiled for any common O/S and architecture combination the pure Go implementation is critical. We do not accept use of CGO.
Money is what keeps it going, if you just want to look at the # of transistors. The problem is that the advantages of modern process "scaling" have stopped being advantageous except for a few uses, and profitable for very few (one) producers. That will shrink investment in new Fabs. We may be at the last hurrah, unless something (AI?) really pops to keep demand up for more expensive transistors, or there's more government subsidy.

As a fundamental scaling law Dennard (supporting Moore) has already collapsed. Speed stopped scaling with node in the early 2000s, Power stopped in the mid 2000s, and cost per transistor before 2020. Cost per transistor is really critical, because you have to justify more complex designs when they aren't actually cheaper to make (as they have been every year for over 50 years).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling
You used to get -50% cost&area reduction, -50% power reduction, +40% performance
For each node (0.7x dimension scaling).

From the article, "Samsung’s 2nm (SF2) process has shown a 12% increase in performance, a 25% increase in power efficiency, and a 5% decrease in area, when compared to its 3nm process (SF3)." Estimates on cost/transistor are ~50% increase for SF2 due to layer count, yield, and production costs. The biggest improvement in transistor cost is now Fab amortization, but that only counts if the Foundry is overall profitable in the first few years. Otherwise, it's just a sunk cost born by stockholders, banks, and governments.

There's lots of other stuff like die/wafer stacking and more complex multi-chip modules (including optical/RF), but those all add significantly to complexity with marginal cost improvement. You need the payoff to be obvious or the bean counters stop giving you beans. So far momentum is carrying the investment, but a failure (eg Intel) could really cut that off.
Thames Water campaigners react to firm's turmoil
My (cynical) guess would be that once you pass 600 posts, all you see is ads...
Not every FP language is Haskell.
How does it work? Last time I tried DirectML it wasn't well supposed and there was little software which supported it. Also the performance seemed to be not too great. I am currently using a Linux install because with ROCm I can use popular tools like Automatic111 webui and oobabooga.
Do we need an article about the trucking company that brought the telescope to the launch pad as well? Surely all freight carriers are due recognition?

This headline makes it sounds like SpaceX is more that a freight carrier here, undoubtedly for clicks.

Being a freight carrier to space is indeed very cool, and exciting, but they didn’t make the telescope.
I read that they've resumed paying Google for their cloud infra... maybe Melon just paid for some low tier and he's yelling at his engineers and they're desperately trying to not hit the limits of those resources.
Flagged for linking to a tweet I can't view since you haven't written what it says
this, honestly who cares, elon has no idea what he's doing with twitter and just lives a life of a fractal pattern of stepping on rake after rake.
Instagram doing a fediverse thing is a big deal, and makes me really optimistic about the future of ActivityPub. We don't have it all figured out just yet, but I do think we're going to see a decentralized future of social media, which is pretty exciting.
https://www.yahoo.com/now/delta-states-fighting-okra-mascot-...
> Which is what he wants.

Looks to me like both reddit and twitter are using the wedge to rather increase the height of the wall of their gardens and kill 3rd party development as opposed to genuinely trying to license bulk-users appropriately.

You're gonna need to license api keys so you're already identifying consumers and there's your infra which you need anyway. At which point you can throttle anyone obviously abusing whatever free/open-source tier offering you give out as standard.
>In most countries

You claim this based on what data?
I can't shed any tears. Not only because the A's owner is more than rich enough to have a higher payroll but is intentionally cheaping out in advance of uprooting the team. But also because I look at sports like football, where a player can get injured and often get no more money.
It is obvious that orcas are now engaging in TikTok challenges. Social media has crossed into the seafaring mammals. It was only a matter of time...
Absolute terrible communication by Twitter about this. Until I read this article, I assumed Twitter had just fucked up something royally.
It is a rack of servers, but, every aspect of it is supposed to be engineered to include the full list of things that are needed to make a rack of servers a useful VM hosting setup. So it includes the networking, connection to the service processors which allow you to remotely access each server, other management things, etc.

Once installed, you plug in the network connection(s) and add power, then boot up. Then you can add your VMs and start running them.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2380451-gravitational-w...

"To find this mysterious hum, astronomers have been tracking rapidly rotating neutron stars called pulsars that blast out light with extreme regularity. By looking at different pulsars across the Milky Way, astronomers can effectively use them as a galaxy-sized gravitational-wave detector called a pulsar timing array."
I'm all for a complete reboot of a 100% non-commercial version of the web.
People are not unidimensional creatures. It's possible to be smart when it comes to certain things and a complete dumbass for ALL other things.
It was fabricated. He has no idea what's going on. He's also not gay. He's married to a woman.
You're still sharing it with the one person who can do the most damage: Mark Zuckerberg.
there's no way on earth they cannot trivially distinguish between a normal user hitting the backend a few times and scrapers so blatant they grind the site to a halt. Is this yet another lame attempt to get people to sign up for his subscription?
Embarrassed to say there was a time when I thought Elon Musk was genuinely intelligent.
I can't view it. Can you quote it here?

Edit: Comments got moved. Is this the source of the OP's quote?
They are literally throwing away revenue with every denied impression. An act of desperation obviously. My take: they broke something and need to shed load to keep the site running. The "extreme scraping" thing is the usual Musk BS.
Never attribute to malice that which can adequately be explained by Elon’s incompetence.
There's also some radical rate-limiting going on, to the point where expanding a tweet on the timeline (to see replies) usually results in an "You have been ratelimited please try again in a few moments" message on the first couple tries.
Who benefits by "preventing this"? Lots of people just want to exercise power over things that they have nothing to do with by implementing "rules and regulations" that serve to benefit nobody.
A dynamic routine that can run in a secure sandbox invoked from the host.
he could save a lot by shutting twitter down
I don't understand, are you actually reading 100 tweets/minute, or just endlessly scrolling through random data for thumb exercise?

When you make the good faith assumption that people are actually reading through the content, the numbers start to seem a bit more rational.
I'm curious why you're dissatisfied with the organically arrived at "folk taxonomic" category: psychedelics. Are you looking for a new classification in law?
We're not disabled, because we can't see like you can: we're disabled, because crunching developers, who don't have the necessary training and experience, for a week, predictably, caused regressions. If I don't test my code, people die. When you don't test your code, because you don't know how to, you make people disabled.

No, say it for what it is. You are disabled in your ability to navigate reddit because of fucked up corporate structure. Don't blame the developers who are ill prepared. Blame corporate. Blame leadership.
> btw: that would be an interesting tool in itself.

And a very inefficient one at that :)
Yaccarino doesn't seem to be making the wide-sweeping announcements that Elon does.

Given that this outage and rate limiting may legit make Twitter's business infeasible, I change my prediction that Yaccarino will leave Twitter from within 3 months to within 3 weeks.
But it has to be good enough. We shouldn't delude ourselves that Gimp is in the same playing field as Photoshop, for instance; as much as I'd like it to be.

This is the key point that is forever being overlooked by FOSS evangelists. Take a look at the most well known FOSS alternatives for everyday software that a lot of people use like a word processor, spreadsheet or graphics package. We have applications like the LibreOffice suite, the GIMP, Inkscape and Scribus. For personal or hobbyist use they're very worthy efforts and it's great that we have these things freely available. But for professional use when quality is essential and time is money they aren't even close.

For years these totemic FOSS products have mostly emulated the style of established proprietary applications but usually without the resources that the developers of those proprietary applications can employ because they're running commercially and charging real money for their products. That inevitably means the FOSS applications tend to have more limited functionality and less work gets done on vital areas like usability and documentation.

Meanwhile if you look at the last few years in the rest of the software industry those kinds of applications have been getting pushed aside anyway. Browsers and online software that fundamentally changes the way we use software have taken over many areas. Products like Figma or Google Docs that have targeted specific markets well and taken advantage of the new platform have enjoyed enormous success even though they didn't necessarily compete 1:1 on features or offer fully compatible import/export with the established native software applications they might appear to compete with.

And in the world of native applications we have the likes of the Affinity suite that was offering more credible competition for Adobe within a few years of the Creative Cloud subscription model being introduced than the much longer-established FOSS products ever have. That's partly because it also costs real money that can fund a full-time professional team to build the product. It's also partly because that team seems to have taken a fresh look at UI ideas - not an area where Adobe's graphics products have enjoyed a great reputation in the past - and managed to come up with something familiar yet also without a lot of the warts.

That's what a successful FOSS competitor needs to do as well IMHO but it can only happen if the people leading the effort have a vision of something that changes the game and enough contributors are willing to help them turn that vision into reality. So far that has been the exception not the rule within the FOSS community. There will always be those who are fans and advocates of FOSS for other reasons and that's totally fine but it's also not enough to shift the professional communities that fund most software development to using and supporting the further development of FOSS instead.
Not quite, the leads are (usually) coated with something. If it's pure tin it can grow whiskers from the top or even from under the solder connection, even if you use a leaded solder to attach it to the board. That's why even DIP parts come in leaded or lead-free versions.

There are packages which come with the solder, like BGA, which can (usually?) safely be reballed to use leaded.
I always assumed Yaccarino was merely a figurehead installed in an effort to make Twitter more palatable to advertisers. Elon never stopped making policy pronouncements from his personal account despite nominally giving up the CEO title.
Static electricity passively attracts ticks onto hosts
With the SNR of Twitter that would mean 100 bad tweets and maybe one good one.
An account on an ESPN Mastodon instance that comes with and logs in with that Disney+/Hulu/ESPN bundle would probably be popular. Doesn't even have to federate.
I understand the concept of individual responsibility but you cannot absolve the individuals who profit from dangerous systems of their responsibility either.
I referenced both links (the latter links to the former, and the former, which was in the first comment of mine you replied to, contains the following examples:

register int *p1 asm ("r0") = …;
register int *p2 asm ("r1") = …;
register int *result asm ("r0");
asm ("sysint" : "=r" (result) : "0" (p1), "r" (p2));

and

int t1 = …;
register int *p1 asm ("r0") = …;
register int *p2 asm ("r1") = t1;
register int *result asm ("r0");
asm ("sysint" : "=r" (result) : "0" (p1), "r" (p2));

In my example, nr is rax and listed in the input section, rfd is rdi and also listed in the input section, and result is rax and listed in the output section (I even used your preferred syntax for specifying rax here). Using result after the syscall asm statement is perfectly valid.
Racket Frustrates Me
Their use of ActivityPub is just a way to quickly bootstrap social media functionality using time tested libraries. Just like they did with XMPP.
Twitter wasn't down. They added a temporary limit of how many tweets you can see. So for some it still worked as expected.
the fuss is when this whole arrangement goes to an outside party for contract: companies that indemnify their partners; that have compliance requirements by law; that sign contracts to provide service that have strict clauses, all need the commitment of strong contracts with their OS supplier. Those kinds of customers are exactly RHEL customers, in many cases.
The Many Ways That Digital Minds Can Know – Integration and Coverage in LLMs
Yeah, most people don't monetize their kids, but "likes" != monetization. You're thinking about a small minority of people who have the most serious version of this problem, but it is a lot more widespread than just people who monetize their kids.
So you admit there's a lot of issues with the vaccines but they save lives and anyone who says otherwise should be censored. You are one of the reasons why people cannot handle hearing nuanced discussion
Honestly? Since the Elon drama started, I've been addicted to this website. This is actually helpful in breaking that.
It's even funnier when Elon confirmed that scrolling through a tweet counts as a read.
I have many good friends and family members that I now live 1000+ miles away from. I might go years without meeting up with them face to face. Sharing photos and experiences helps to keep us closer than we might otherwise be.

I also think there’s a huge difference between scrolling through a few dozen pictures on my terms vs being trapped in a slide show in someone’s home.
This is going to hit their impression numbers really hard? And probably avg. CTR as well since most of those hardcore users will not be able to see most of tweets.

I guess Elon probably decided this something like "ok, 99% of those users are reading less than 300 tweets a day! If it's more than that, then those are all bots! Why don't we block them? It will save API cost a lot!"
Five Things Tech: Data Centers, AI Killing the Old Web, FTC & Amazon, Workers & AI Skills, Ch@ngeme

In today's edition of Five Things Tech you'll read about five interesting topics:
- how the growth in cloud computing makes it necessary to built more and more data centers, which consume plenty of electricity for the servers and also for the cooling
- how AI is killing the old web but putting lots of generated content out there, but we still haven't found a way to deal with it
- how the FTC tries to go after Amazon and why this is important
- how tech workers are scrambling to reinvent themselves by learning new AI skills
- how a school tried to do a password reset for all students and failed miserably by doing so

Enjoy!
Thinking about how both The Flash and Indiana Jones 5 are doing disastrously at the box office, and likely spent a lot of ad budget on Twitter that is now getting zero return. Can't imagine Disney and WB are going to be thrilled.
I know this is meant as sarcasm, but I actually agree.
Second this, I was (and am) in a position to pay substantially for such a system and the few times I reached out was met with radio silence.

possibly because I am in Europe and they want to focus on the NA market, not sure.
India has ISRO

Japan has JAXA

The UAE have a space agency that even has a Mars mission running currently.

Same for China.

There's more I'm forgetting, but space stuff is not limited to Europe and the US.
Will blue subscribers be getting refunds?
If does have some relevance:

> Incidentally, Euclid was not supposed to launch aboard SpaceX at all. As late as February 2022, the mission was manifested upon an Arianespace Soyuz (provided by Russia) for a March 2023 launch in French Guiana. Russia's unsanctioned invasion of Ukraine forced a stop to most such space collaborations aside from the International Space Station, pushing Euclid's team to look for another ride to space.
This is probably good for humankind?
The generally right way to do this is to put actual censorship on the far side of impossible but give individuals good filtering tools. So then maybe your instance provides a default blocklist, but if something gets blocked, it isn't just silently invisible, it shows up as a collapsed comment that you can unfurl or a warning page that you can click through if you really want to. And if you don't agree with an entry your instance added by default, you can strike that one out and choose to always see it.

The key is to never let anything like a central party impose censorship that can't be overruled by the user, but still allow them to filter out 99% of the crap by default.
That's not what "side effect" means in this context.

Side effects are the opposite of pure functions. A function with side effects will mutate global state, a function without side effects will not (it will simply return a value).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_effect_(computer_scienc...
Also i think that people from Spyglass INC would not be very happy.
I think I saw this once in Florida as a child.

I had climbed a tree (at night) and looked down and there was a red glowing ball of light that drifted and bobbed along horizontally maybe 6 or 8 feet off the ground, and then disappeared. It was maybe a foot across or a little less. A friend was with me, we both watched in amazement.

I never knew what it was and halfway thought maybe I imagined it (except my friend saw it too). Until today I never knew what it might have been as this is my first time hearing of ball lighting. But it seems likely that is what it was.

After so many decades, glad to have a rational explanation at last! Thanks HN!
No, the DMCA itself is a terribly one-sided law, from the same place as every other law unilaterally written and forced on us by moneyed interests. It only seems halfway reasonable because its passing happened so long ago, like the CFAA. The DMCA makes the target spill their real world identity, submit to US jurisdiction, requires a one day deadline for takedown but a two week waiting period for something to be put back up, and carries effectively no penalty for incorrect/fraudulent takedowns. Never mind its draconian "anti-circumvention" provisions that continue to plague basic interoperability. It might as well have been called the Sonny Bono Fuck Computers Act.
Instagram is also apparently building a Twitter-like app, which as much as I hate FB/IG, would probably convince me to switch into their ecosystem again.
Yes, but if he wakes up at three in the morning to go the bathroom who will make major decisions?
Not sure I can believe Melon's reasoning, in any case he probably fired the team that can fight "DDoS'es", so, this is what we get.
I don't really know if NATO+allies would establish air superiority.
However my guess is that they may use a combination of tactics from HALO insertions[1], long range missile strikes from land and sea, and around-the-clock bombing from stealth aircraft like the B2[2], to knock out AA batteries until the enemy can no longer adequately defend it's skies.

Then jets like the F-22[3] would be used to establish command of the airspace.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_military_parachu...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_Grumman_B-2_Spirit
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-22_Raptor
There was reporting that they were scrambling to move some infrastructure off Google since they were going to be cut off after refusing to pay their bills. The deadline was June 30, though there was additional reporting saying Linda Yaccarino restarted payments - https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-twitter-google-clo...