skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well put. What the article (and others like it) lacks is the fallback, the plan B, the exception handling.

There's a Gauss curve. Simple stuff can be done by any idiot so there's going to be a lot of competition on that. Like picking strawberries, for any position there's 100 Mexicans (in the US) or Eastern European guys (in the EU) willing to do that for cheap. So getting good (skilled, educated) does decrease competition and increase one's chances of doing "great work". But from a point on you reach into the territory where there's just too much genius, semi-autistic high IQ workaholics that crowd some niche field and end up with the same 100 hulks for one job. Doesn't matter if it's picking strawberries or playing forward in Champions League, if you're not getting either you're still a loser.

So exception handling: if you invest a lot of effort into something make sure you get to reap some rewards even if you're one of the 99th guys that doesn't get to pick the strawberries.

Otherwise like a great Romanian scholar and philosopher once said: "Decât să lucri de-a pulea mai bine stai de-a pulea (Gigi Becali)". Loosely translated: "Rather than work your ass off for nothing, better sit on your ass for nothing".
Are we supposed to be that subtle? I've just been bluntly asking "what is your work/life balance?" "how often / at what times are you paged?" and other super direct questions.

If I show up and it sucks, I'm just going to leave anyways, so... seems better to just be super clear that the salary buys you normal work hours. Want more? pay more.
Caches are only so large. Expanding them doesn't buy you much, and increases costs greatly.

The key benefit to a cache is that a small set of content accounts for a large set of traffic. This can be staggeringly effective with even a very limited amount of caching.

Your options are:

1. Maintain the same cache size. This means your origin servers get far more requests, and that you perform far more cache evictions. Both run "hotter" and are less efficient.

2. Increase the cache size. Problem here is that you're moving a lot of low-yield data to the cache. On average it's ... only requested once, so you're paying for far more storage, you're not reducing traffic by much (everything still has to be served from origin), and your costs just went up a lot.

3. Throttle traffic. The sensible place to do this IMO would be for traffic from the caching layer to the origin servers, and preferably for requesting clients which are making an abnormally large set of non-cached object requests. Serve the legitimate traffic reasonably quickly, but trickle out cold results to high-demand clients slowly. I don't know to what extent caching systems already incorporate this, though I suspect at least some of this is implemented.

4. Provide an alternate archival interface. This is its own separately maintained and networked store, might have regulated or metered access (perhaps through an API), might also serve out specific content on a schedule (e.g., X blocks or Y timespan of data are available at specific times, perhaps over multipath protocols), to help manage caching. Alternatively, partner with a specific datacentre provider to serve the data within given facilities, reducing backbone-transit costs and limitations.

5. Drop-ship data on request. The "stationwagon full of data tapes" solution.

6. Provide access to representative samples of data. LLM AI apparently likes to eat everything it can get its hands on, but for many purposes, selectively-sampled data may be sufficient for statistical analysis, trendspotting, and even much security analysis. Random sampling is, through another lens, an unbiased method for discarding data to avoid information overload.
If feels weird that this is happening on the same day that Reddit is also limiting their API. Both are citing AI as a major reason for this.

It’s suicidal for the platform, I think it’ll be reversed - in less than 24 hours probably.

In the unlikely event it isn’t, there’s more to this. Wild conspiracy: OpenAI is about to open source their code. Sam Altman is on the board at Reddit and gave them a heads up, maybe Twitter caught wind of this and is locking things down whilst they still can
>Going forward, there will be a vote for major policy changes. My apologies. Won't happen again.

Are there any Musk dickriders still willing to defend this guy who just lies to your face?
I love that you were honest. I two of those three.
Everybody has to start somewhere. I remember when EC2 only had one kind of VM.
I’ll definitely take a look!
We’re currently working on account portability (https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec-proposals/pull/401...) and experimenting with glueing bluesky style DIDs onto it (so as to provide DMs for bluesky via Matrix, should they want them)
my impression is this is connected to issues i experience with other services and websites. maybe a ddos of backbone infrastructure?
Yes, once the data are out there ... it's difficult to do much.

Though I've thought for quite some time that making the trade and transaction of such data illegal might help a lot.

Otherwise ... what I see many people falling into the trap of is thinking of their discussions amongst friends online as equivalent, say, to a discussion in a public space such as a park or cafe --- possibly overheard by bystanders, but not broadcast to the world.

In fact there is both a recording and distribution modality attached to online discussions that's utterly different to such spoken conversations, and those also give rise to the capability to aggregate and correlate information from many sources.

Socially, legally, psychologically, legislatively, and even technically, we're ill-equipped to deal with this.

Fuzzing and randomising data can help, but has been shown to be stubbornly prone to de-fuzzing and de-randomising, especially where it can be correlated to other signals, either unfuzzed or differently-fuzzed.
Well put. But what the article (and others like it) lacks is the fallback, the plan B, the exception handling, what to do if things don't work out as planned.

There's a Gauss curve. Simple stuff can be done by any idiot so there's going to be a lot of competition on that. Like picking strawberries, for any position there's 100 Mexicans (in the US) or Eastern European guys (in the EU) willing to do that for cheap. So getting good (skilled, educated) does decrease competition and increase one's chances of doing "great work". But from a point on you reach into the territory where there's just too much genius, semi-autistic high IQ workaholics that crowd some niche field and eventually you end up competing with the same 100 hulks for one job. Doesn't matter if it's picking strawberries or playing forward in Champions League, if you're not getting either you're still a loser. It's a dog eat dog world, winners take all and there's no reward for the effort. If you don't win the big prize, you've wasted your life for nothing.

So exception handling: if you invest a lot of effort into something make sure you get to reap some rewards even if you're one of the 99 guys that doesn't get to pick the strawberries.

Otherwise like a great Romanian scholar and philosopher once said: "Decât să lucri de-a pulea mai bine stai de-a pulea (Gigi Becali)". Loosely translated: "Rather than work your ass off for nothing, better sit on your ass for nothing".
| Elon reported that Twitter hit a new all time high of "user seconds" last week

I’m not inclined to take Elon’s words at face value, he has an incentive to pump any statistic that makes it seem Twitter is growing.
On macOS you can take advantage of Objective-C runtime or XPC.

On mobile OS, entitlements or OS IPC like Binder.

In what concerns Windows it is still pretty much present tense, how COM is spread all around the OS, specially since Vista.
That's when you start on example.org. But if I copy and paste a URL to you and you end up on the post on example.com, the best that Mastodon can do is suggest that you search for the link on your home instance.
Problem with iCloud is it allows "Catch All" but it doesn't allow you to send email from those "catch all" addresses on your domain.
They are, but it's self-inflicted: https://sfba.social/@sysop408/110639474671754723

> Lest anyone doubt that Twitter was idiotic enough to release code that would cause a race condition and result in its own users executing a DDOS attack on it, here's the network console readout from Firefox showing all the network requests blasting away.
A fantastic tip we were given was to thrift all of our son's baby clothing, which we did. We have a rule to not spend more than $3.50 on any article of clothing, which served us well for the first 5 months.

Now, he's getting bigger, meaning those $3 dollar pjs now cost $9, as it's more cloth to create, but the sentiment is still there!
I hope. Many governmental institutions just used twitter because Tweets are public and official news from need to be public by law
If the government is unwilling/unable to dedicate sufficient resources to clean up this 10x mess, why should we expect them to do so for a future 1x mess?
> Bloom filter — a fast index to tell if a value is probably in a table or certainly isn't.

I will start using this way to communicate "true/false negative/positive" that always requires a further explanation.
Clear statements are part of the user experience.
Unfortunately. And specialization pays.
I don't use twitter either but I guess it's the same reason many of us come here. We find it interesting and/or entertaining. I know I've had days where I killed hours on HN. I try to avoid it, but still probably spend more time here than I get in compensating benefit. Very little of what is discussed here is really important in a significant way if you take a step back and evaluate it honestly.
I like the shadow ban system. Let users decide which other users get bannedthrough down or upvotes on comments.
A collection of WebGL and WebGPU frameworks and libraries
Reminder that Elon didn't even intend to buy Twitter

He wanted to sell ~$2.5 Billion Tesla stock at all-time highs without causing the stock price to significantly deflate, so he used the Twitter purchase suggestion as a cover. He did similar pump and dump schemes with crypto - like Dogecoin - but because Elon is fundamentally a dumb guy, he did the extraordinarily stupid thing of signing a purchase agreement with Twitter

Elon thought he'd be able to wiggle out of it because he assumed the SEC would be the regulatory body he'd be up against - and to his credit he has made a career out of making the SEC look like spineless chumps - but much to Elon's horror he actually found himself before the almighty Delaware Court of Chancery

So in an effort to slyly make a couple Billion $'s, Elon torched ~$40 Billion of his personal wealth, in what is arguably the biggest bag fumbling in modern history
A tortured analogy could be line cooks and dishwashers, the line cooks made all the tasty food, but the kitchen would crash and burn without the dishwashers and busboys and prep cooks.
The standard ping utility already has audible ping with "-a", it emits a terminal bell sound for every reply.
In that scenario Musk fills the "useful idiot" role.

I am not really convinced though, I think it's just plain old incompetence and hubris. But then, it's 2023 so who knows.
I’m not absolving anyone, but it’s misguided and counter-productive to place prime responsibility on them. No one forced any parent to tout their kids on social media (or regular media) for klout and profit opportunities.

If you stop social media companies, shitty parents would find another way to sell their kids for promotion. Parents should learn that their behavior is wrong and stop doing it.
I think it's pretty great. It doesn't care which ecosystem my stuff is from. It doesn't care if my Internet access is up. It gives me full control. It respects my privacy. It's easy to use. There's a huge community that is very helpful.

I guess it's not the shiny-est thing in the world, but I don't really care about that at all. Function > form.
By your logic, everyone with a paid subscription constitutes "a sea of bullshit" and the "real replies" are at the back of the line? That's the most hipster-esque description of Twitter I've ever heard. Underground Twitter, it's where the cool kids hang out and vape behind the gymnasium.

This sounds more like unresolved personal grudges rather than an issue with the platform itself and the masses that use it. If you have a problem with the 600 tweet limit you can pay $8.

Everyone seems to forget that Twitter was bleeding money under the previous leadership. Unlimited free shit has its practical limits.
Yup. That aligns with the intention of the visa too: getting highly skilled workers. And compensation is the most objective measure of that.
You're complaining that I didn't copy and paste the text of the tweet in my comment?

In the time it took for you to decide to reply, write this comment, and submit it, you couldn't have clicked on a hyperlink?

Elon's tweet speaks for itself--I'm not sure what kind of "gotcha" you're trying to play here.
I really want to see cage match between them; pretty sure Zuck will wreck Musk.
It is mistakenly (probably on purpose) correlating the recent tech layoffs with AI developments, saying that the layoffs are due to AI automation of those jobs. Or at least that was my impression skimming it as it wasn't worth a full read.
One of my favorite facts about sunspots is, they’re still in extremely bright, they’re only dark due to contrast. An electric arc against a sunspot would look black by comparison (given typical logarithmic brightness measurement).
I never want to disparage people's efforts, but it is a recurring theme for people to unknowingly reinvent mtr.
Does you also make your kids wear berkas in public?
The grandparent comments are saying that allegedly the limitation is tweets loaded not read. If you scroll past tweets to get to content you actually want to read, allegedly people have reached the daily limits after only a few minutes after opening twitter.

The good faith assumption here is that Twitter only counts tweets read but does that mean the client reads the tweet or the user? The server delivered them all the same, whether a human reads it or not. So does delivery of the tweet by loading it onto the device count or some nebulous amount of time spent lingering on the tweet?
Note, twitter communities was down is it still down?
They definitely have an incentive to publish results people will care about, as any other researcher that is part of an academic environment.
Nice, oh damn the limitations are still heavy.
Sigh
It looks cool, what primary problem does it solve vs AWS?
This comment really resonates with me. As someone who doesn't drink anymore, I've found how much of a hermit I am and how much I'm okay with that and how it's my true self. I really have few friends, and the ones I do I actually do activities with. My wife is the same way.
I wouldn’t say BiiN sold fault-tolerant workstations. They were departmental and perhaps the next step up servers.

I remember evaluating the CA for a smaller router and found it a perfectly reasonable part/pricing especially when compared with the other options (some weird AMD 29k variant and the local reps of the Transputer cult who never accepted the non-arrival of the T9000).
This not really well supported by basic constraints, nor by history. On the constraints side, nukes alone preclude this possibility, but even against non-nuclear enemies - war against people that can (and do) fight back is extremely difficult, grueling, and brutal. And the outcome is never certain. Both the USSR and the USA lost to Afghanistan, the US lost to Vietnam and 'drew' against North Korea (with the backing of an at the time poorly developed China), Russia lost a war to Chechnya, and much more.

Nuclear powers feared conflict between each other not because one or the other's conventional army (or arms) were superpowered, but because it dramatically increased the chances of a conflict escalating to the nuclear level - which could well be the end of both civilizations, if not the better part of the entire human species.
It's a post-factum rationalization of personal experience possibly mixed with some anecdata.

Fine as a motivational material but that's all this is.
This is true. But I do not get warm with the automation. NodeRed is better
From the article I really like the observation that 'the sci-fi writer William Gibson’s proverb, “the future is already here—it’s just not very evenly distributed,” is the obverse of Faulkner’s “the past is never dead. It’s not even past.”'

I know both quotes but never thought about it that way.
I may damned well have to read the man page and do some looking at stuff.

Oh, holy hell, this is pretty cool!

Thanks!

(I've ... only been using mtr for ~2 decades.)
Cool, thanks for the response. Good catch about the privacy aspect becoming less of an issue long-term. I’ll be thinking about that.
The same government is responsible for managing the nuclear waste at both of them, and they’ve clearly demonstrated they are unwilling and/or unable to do so.

I don’t support giving the government any more nuclear waste to manage until it can finish what is already on its plate, so to speak.
If you actually looked at the balance sheet of twitter before Elon took it over it was quite possible to make it profitable. It would have needed to cut cost and probably try and to boost its ad platform a bit more but well within the realm of possibilities.

With the debt that Elon has saddled them with I doubt they will ever be profitable again without declaring bankruptcy.
Despite your disrespectful and prejudiced response, I will try to address some of your criticism.

> I don't trust. I want to verify.

Please re-read the very first sentence in my original comment. Hopefully uou'll see that we agree in this point.

> None of those institutions operate outside of the government sphere of influence

No one is outside of the government's sphere of influence. What that committe is, is a reunion of many different organisations with different points of view and participation of people from all levels of society.

I would hope that you don't think Bolsonaro's PL and the PCdoB (Communist Party of Brazil) both have the same interest in defrauding the elections or letting a bad system stay in place. SBC, Confea and the universities all have regular people, some of whom any one of us know, are or have worked or studied with.

That's where the "someone I know" anecdote comes in.

I'm not saying anyone should believe or trust this random person who's an aquantaince of another random person on an Internet forum. It's just an anecdote to illustrate a point. There's no need to be rude about it.

> Seriously I'm appalled if you think your arguments are reasonable.

That's your prerrogative, I have no power over what appals you.

> That's a very classic brazilian response

This is prejudiced and offensive. Please refrain from this kind of comment.

> to have trust and faith in the smart people doing the work for you.

Not my point, but please tell me how much auditing and verification you do on every single other aspect of your life. Or do you trust people "smart people" to, I don't know, write your banking software? The e-commerce websites you buy from? The banking system behind payments and transfers? The systems that hold your investments, your pension... Please, I'd love to hear about all of that auditing and verifying you do.

> It's probably a scar from the times of dictatorship.

I have no idea what you mean by this. It honestly makes the opposite of sense to me, but if you could elaborate a little, perhaps you'd help me understand.
is this a symptom of something going beyond twitter? i'm experiencing loading and lagging all over the place. also hn and google are unusually slow.
Game consoles like the SNES (65816) had a coprocessor for multiplication, division, etc. You load the values into a certain address, wait a couple cycles, and retrieve the result.

Not pretty, but those CPUs were designed to be really cheap.
it's a bit more nuanced than that, we are also trying to actually limit third-party dependencies, you can read more about it here https://github.com/tetratelabs/wazero/blob/main/RATIONALE.md...
While not open source, I recently learned that you can still download windows versions of escape velocity in: https://escape-velocity.games/

That was one hell of a trip down the memory lane.
I don’t believe assuming every tweet is read in a feed is good faith. There isn’t a single social media app that I use where I am not quickly scrolling past nonsense all the time.
I'm old enough to remember how, back in the day, the GOP had a decidedly-liberal wing; no longer.
Except Google seems completely incompetent at creating new products (though maybe YT shorts is the exception that proves the point) and very bad at handling community
Oh, sure, I’d be amazed if it’s profitable today. But I understood the person I was replying to to mean that they were throttling to control infra cost, which makes no sense, as revenue from people using twitter (ads) must surely more than pay for the infra; effectively shutting down twitter won’t make the debt costs go away and would clearly be a net financial negative.
I’m using an iPhone. I pull the SMS database from an iTunes backup, query it with command-line SQLite, and write out files into my Maildir (which is served to clients over IMAP). It’s a bit tediously manual. (Back when I had a jailbroken iPhone I could just rsync the database and do everything automatically.)

I haven’t reverse engineered the schema for MMS so I lose photos. I don’t much care but that would be something to do for completeness— adding the photos to the messages as MIME attachments.
Thanks for sharing. Great example.
You are the majority in my experience. People like other people. If you don’t care about your close friends’ lives, they aren’t your close friends.
"The so-called victim must have realized that going out dressed like that last night would collide with the interests of young, frustrated males in her vicinity. Who, as she must understand, would surely be unable to control their impulses. And so what happened after that was just the inevitable consequence of her recklessness."
Would you mind sharing a detailed review (guessing you used with your domain) of iCloud? As in catch all, sending from different addresses on your domain etc? Last time I checked the latter didn't work at all - is that what you meant by alias?
Orcas are dolphins. Humans are in pretty friendly terms with them. Here's an incident where a bunch of swimmers came in close proximity to orcas. They seem quite friendly.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ3mDXF3bcE
I think this is going to be known as "the Millennial subsidized lifestyle era." Not that it was exclusively used by Millennials, but it's largely what they grew up with.

AirBnb was maybe the worst of the bunch, because it has such a dramatic negative externality on housing markets. Entire areas of Barcelona have essentially no real residents because even those who didn't sell to AirBnb investors found it unlivable with drunk tourists screaming around the apartment buildings at 3 am. I stopped using AirBnb because it was making it enjoyable to visit other cities, but destroying my own. It's also a lot more expensive for fewer amenities.

Spotify hasn't made any money yet. I wonder if they're going to start charging $30/month. Time for the return of CDs, vinyl, MP3s?