skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I think Musk has long since been proven correct that the core platform could function on a fraction of the workforce it had at the time of takeover.

It REALLY sounds like you don't understand how any of this works.

Tech products don't stop working when you fire most of the staff.

But bugs stop being fixed and problems begin to add up, until a critical point is reached,m where the whole house of cards collapses.

Thinking that "Elon was proven right" simply because Twitter didn't implode the second he announced the layoffs, makes me think you don't understand how tech and software works.
There is not licensing or authorization for religion.

There is no application for approval required to be a “church”, ie: religion.

Thinking there could be some “authority” for a religious institution’s practices is beyond measure.
I like to use it as a jumping off point for a big project. We’re migrating from server round trip navigation to client side navigation and there’s a lot of steps to think through. It helps me get past the “blank paper” phase much faster.
I have heard "Promotion-Driven Development" (when it's from the team/eng side)
Fyi, on mobile the image doesn't load and the download link is broken.
I suspect the answer is that they aren't at anywhere near the scale of the popular apps yet.

Why Reddit hasn't just thrown them in the same fire is odd though.

I suspect it's either because a) they will wait until they are at rif/Apollo scale and then kill them or b) this is a meagre attempt at some positive PR.
Is sham justice a sanctionable offense?

Sanction (disambiguation) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanction

Economic sanctions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_sanctions

What does the UDHR say about this?

UDHR: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human...

"Universal Declaration of Human Rights" (1948)
https://www.ohchr.org/en/human-rights/universal-declaration/... :

> Article 10: Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

> Article 11: Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

> Article 18: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

> Article 19: Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

List of websites blocked in mainland china: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_blocked_in_ma...

> Article 20: Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.
No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

> Article 21: Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.
Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.
The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.
What do you mean by it does not scale? Do you keep their pictures collection around or something?
I have access to ChatGPT Code Interpreter mode, where it can both write Python and then execute it.

I use that to write code all the time, because ChatGPT can write the code, run it, get an error, then re-write the code to address the error.

Here are two recent transcripts whereI used it in this way:

- https://chat.openai.com/share/b062955d-3601-4051-b6d9-80cef9...

- https://chat.openai.com/share/b9873d04-5978-489f-8c6b-4b948d...
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> It wasn’t a thriving business, it was a very old, very large startup still struggling to find market fit and loosing a lot of money.

Twitter was profitable in 2018 and 2019.

https://www.netcials.com/financial-net-profit-year-quarter-u...
omni.se and sometimes wikipedia
i tried it with an old, less popular language, Progress 4GL, and it just invented pure bullshit answers.

when i asked are you sure about that it owned up and and said sorry. wtf?
You gotta get executives in writing sometimes or they'll throw you under the bus later.
They didn’t pay the AWS bill I hear.
Caffeine is a psychoactive drug.
That's essentially the law in America too. For the last 20 years or so, we've had the "Do Not Call List" and if you add your number to it, you don't get these calls.

Unfortunately that law only works for land lines. Cell phone spam was virtually unknown 20 years ago because cellular minutes were not free, and anybody who wasted your time on a cell call could be sued for costing you money. Also back in those days there were no comprehensive databases mapping people to mobile numbers. Finally there didn't exist easy ways of spoofing your caller ID number so if you spammed someone you would likely be caught.

That's all different now, which is why the old law needs to be updated for mobile phones.
> If you disclose your Card numbers... to any person or entity...

Isn't that precisely what happens every time a credit card is used?
If you want a thing that just works and is useful, Home Assistant is not that thing. If you want a fun tool game with marginal utility, then it's easy to fall in love with Home Assistant, and smart home stuff in general.
Mastodon isn't truly decentralized. Every instance is its own feifdom and you have to communicate directly with them to exchange messages. This is unlike how Usenet, FidoNet, and SMTP work. They are truly decentralized as you can exchange data without directly accessing a peer's host server.
The "next generation" after N64 was Xbox/PS2. In my previous comment, I pointed out that FPSes on consoles became viable during that time. There were FPSes on consoles even prior to Golden Eye/Perfect Dark. For instance, there were SNES ports of Doom and Wolfenstein 3D. They were just all pretty bad. Even the "good" ones like Golden Eye don't really hold up against the PC shooters of the time.

Shooters didn't become a premiere genre for consoles until the 360/PS3 era. Like I said, as far as popularity went, there was Halo and MoH (to a way lesser degree) during the Xbox/PS2 days but not much else. And then all of a sudden, shooters became the hottest genre on consoles in the mid-late 00s. That's when CoD and Battlefield made the transition over to consoles in earnest. It's when Sony invested heavily (and ultimately failed) in creating a "Halo killer". It's when CoD went from a pretty successful PC franchise to consistently being the highest selling game year after year.

As far as the PC gaming market goes. There was a dark age starting in the mid-00s. But PC gaming is very popular right now (we'll have to see what impact high GPU prices has on its future) .

For instance, Activision makes more money from the PC platform than all consoles combined.

https://www.pcgamer.com/activision-is-making-more-money-on-p...

PC has been Ubisoft's second largest platform (ahead of Xbox but behind PlayStation) since 2018

https://www.statista.com/statistics/269679/breakdown-of-ubis...

No one in the industry ignores the PC market anymore. Everyone (except Nintendo) is releasing their games on PC now even companies that weren't traditionally in the PC gaming market like Japanese publishers. Genres that had a spotty history of PC support (Sports, JRPGs, Fighting games, etc) are seeing consistent PC releases. And even Sony conceded and started releasing their exclusives on PC (years later but it's still a dramatic shift from even a few years ago).

As someone who was primarily a PC gamer in the 90s, I can tell you anecdotally that I know several people who were console gamers only 20+ years ago who are now PC gamers.
I understand the sentiment. He also has managers who might get fired next
The worldview changing result of Hubble was HUDF and the revelation that it doesn’t matter how deep you look it’s all the same damn spirals and shit.

I wouldn’t know what JWST’s result would be, if I knew it a priori it wouldn’t be much of a result would it? But I don’t expect much. Happy to be pleasantly surprised.
Your comparison of mutable programming to the use of goto and unhygenic macros would suggest that mutation is a similar type of dinosaur to be culled.

>You've never tried to compose multiple asynchronous event streams of complex data types from different subsystems into one single user-facing unified presentation, have you? Your assertion is simply not true. Such feat is way simpler in functional reactive style, and a true nightmare in an imperative multithreaded program. That's why web frameworks are evolving to handle more and more reactive functional patterns for compositional asynchronous tasks.

Imperative programming with state is simple. Programming asychronous event streams of complex data types from different subsystems into a single unified presentation is complex. Functional programming claims to have abstractions that make the latter more simple than imperative programming, which may or may not be true.

The use of functional reactive style in React (I do not believe Angular relies on this) is probably driven by JavaScript having atrocious scoping rules and the general Web / DOM stack being full of hacks and badly written APIs. The hacks that are still present in React make it seem like this will just be yet another layer of cruft that is the front end, alas.
Why does the EU get all the nice things?

Apple's piss poor Document apps and their horrible Photos app made me give up on the whole ecosystem. The download and upload of photos to iCloud is painful even on fast wifi.
one would be ideal... until they leave...
Because the term found through decades of literature isn't attached to legal categories, as I explained. It's the same way the term "drug" doesn't have much legal distinction, as I can't think of any legal commonalities spanning coffee, alcohol, Lipitor, cannabis, and heroin.

> Regardless, the laws... refer to specific chemicals by their name.

Not directly, very often. I doubt there's any specific law around Lipitor. Rather, drugs are grouped into categories and then the laws that permit or restrict them are mostly around those categories. Otherwise it would all be incredibly redundant (with exceptions for certain incredibly common drugs like alcohol). And the question here is how to categorize pyschadelics for legal purposes. And saying that we just call them psychadelics answers as many legal questions as saying we call them quooquaquams -- i.e. zero.
You and others in this thread aren't grokking what this means in practice: it means that users are transparently redirected to your new home wherever you are. If a corporate juggernaut tries to harm the network, folks just pick up and move their identity. The protocol bakes in treating the provider like a dumb pipe. The protocol puts the power in the hands of the users and at any time they can just up and walk away, defeating the stickiness of the provider.
IIRC the H-1B application period is some time in the first half of April every year (so all the ones that would be filed this year have already been filed), but IDK if renewals need to catch that train.

Edit: clarifications.
What is "Bluesky?" That link just goes to a landing page with no explanation.

Pathetic. This insulting post reeks of spam.
People handle creating an email address just fine. There's some terminology and UX to work out but it's hardly insurmountable.
I subscribed but stop using it when it started waving the gender politics banner. It was kinda bait-and-switch.
How do systemic issues come to exist if not for the actions of individuals?
What if you post something innocuous at first and then edit it later after the mod queue has bumped it down and no one is likely to review it?
The Relationship Between AI and Human Expertise in Engineering
it’s a story about how all of society takes place inside of a video game and at no point in the story does it ever contemplate whether or not that is a good thing. The story is just “save the princess from the dragon” but the princess is the oasis.
Nah, they don’t cause undesirable mental conditions that persist for the rest of your life. Your “trip” is about 6-8 hours on a typical 3.5g dose.
I currently can't read any tweets from https://twitter.com/elonmusk because it's just said "something went wrong. try reloading" for the last 8 hours or so.

I'd consider that deteriorated service.

also just out of curiosity while trying to find historical outage data I found this article.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/twitter-e...

Last july (before elon took over), the site was apparently down for 45 minutes and "one of the site’s longest outages for years". Today it's been basically barely usable for most of the day.
That's irrelevant obviously but Chrome pushing a bunch of 'not secure' warnings at me isn't ideal.
Great! I’m a fan and I hope Mastodon/ActivityPub continues to grow. I just wish it wasn’t prohibitively complex/expensive to host an instance with a few thousand members.
Speaking from experience, if you were a strong manager, your team would likely follow you wherever you end up going. So I wouldn't worry about leaving them behind as much as focusing your efforts on finding a good next opportunity where the employer would have the capacity to bring on more resources.
Can you share some profiles/contents like this? I've been searching for it and failing miserably
I’ve had someone say they want to support the content, which I understand. If only they knew how their data was being abused.
> Then Twitter was bought out, and taken private, removing the obligation to "shareholder value."

Does it really though? Private shareholders are still shareholders. It replaces a diffuse duty to keep a bunch of public-shareholders happen with a possibly-more-direct "do what I say or be replaced tomorrow."

> "shareholder value" is a thought-terminating cliche

I think when people use it dismissively, it's not really about shareholders per se, but about one that are focused on short-term growth at the expense of long-term growth or a sustainable business model.
That is a good summary of much of the debate. I agree that there will be no IP laws that will be effective against AI replication in the future.

I perceive the greatest concern is authenticity and there are no solutions at present and doubt there will ever be.

Expressed in more detail here - https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-art-challenges-meaning-in-a-w...
Despite all the evidence we have of history repeating itself, people constantly want to convince themselves that they are somehow separate from the past and “this time is different”.
I would wager a significant amount of money that the vast majority of people who read "ALL ELECTRONICS" are going to believe that discrete electrical components are considered part of the category "ALL ELECTRONICS".
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Have been using gpt4 and just copying all the relevant files in with something along the lines of

```
Given these X files, help me assess how best to implement feature Y. Ask any clarifying questions that may assist with writing a best practice solution.
*File 1*
*File 2*
*File 3*
...
```

If the context length is a problem I'll use claude-100k.

Pretty much always results in good quality code.

I'll then typically open a new window context and get it to review according to best practices highlighting missing e.g. error handling or possible edge cases.
Anxious or depressed people benefit from the experience more so than someone of speculatively sound mind.
Everything Apple needs to be made easier. I should be able to put in my own dialer, one that can record phone calls. After all, I am in a one-party consent state.

I should be able to switch out the Photos app, one that integrates with Google Photos or Amazon Photos or Synology so that it natively back ups there and where it can natively pull the photos from.
> [...] it was a very old, very large startup [...]

Can we start to call companies with almost 18 years old just "companies" and not startup anymore?
TOS ≠ law
> Regarding any downtime, everyone has downtime. Google, Amazon, Meta… the best of the best still have it regardless of money or manpower.

I mean, I would expect Microsoft to do a much better job than Twitter to keep GitHub from going down every single month after acquiring it. The frequency of GitHub going down with 100M+ users using it is much worse than Twitter.

It turns out that GitHub's constant downtime for years is all fine (especially tech folks) here despite the monthly complaints anyway. The latest one here [0] But only with Twitter, the speed-bumps are exaggerated and magnified.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36523843
Thanks for the reply.

The twitter post you linked to was from October of last year; I'm not sure how to draw any conclusions from it.
So this "unforeseen" loop now eats in the users 600 tweets per whatever, so now when you land and Twitter's homepage you are pass this measly limit with 5 rotations of your scroll wheel.
Frankly not sure what you want. You want money but also want to keep things open source and free. I think you need to take a hard look at your wants and how they map to the real world.
But in such cases surely there's some kind of rate limiter in place?

I mean, if I'm reading that screenshot correctly this is 700+ requests a minute.

I've tripped the rate limiter with less on other sites.
> not a complete dumpster fire.

I never liked Twitter, don't have accounts, etc. To me this "dumpster fire" talk sounds like just sour grapes.
Recreational will happen despite the restrictions. Why not tax it an apply the funds where socially needed?
Yes, this has absolutely been my experience too. I'm defending the protocol pretty vociferously downthread but the experience itself is exactly what you say: not the meaty tech talk I can go on Twitter or Mastodon for.

I was there for the skeets and hellthreads and whatever other meme of the day: it's pretty awful and if you're not participating, you get no likes, because the memelords are the ones racking up high scores.

No likes in themselves is not bad but they're a proxy in this case for real discussion, which is what you'd want if you're talking about React or Go or Rust or whatever.
Seems like it might not even be a bug. Elon says they limited it to 600 viewed tweets per day which is an insane limit. Most people would go through that in 5 minutes of scrolling
I don’t think that this is really that surprising. New York City has 51 city council members - 1 for every 165k residents. Los Angeles has 15 - 1 for every 255k residents. Houston has 16 - 1 for every 144k residents.

Chicago has 77 - 1 for every 35k residents! It’s just far more direct and personal. You have to pay attention to your constituents, you have to recognize their accomplishments, you have to listen to them. Or you don’t get re-elected.
Did you forget how people were saying that Twitter would stop working within days?
I've been on their waiting list for what seems like months at this point. Huge missed opportunity for them, being unable to leverage Twitter's failings.
With all of these companies outspending their revenue by so much, cash getting 5% more expensive or so seems like a drop in the bucket.
Rossman's got a method for that too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur_svGeReDg

TLDW: Virtual credit cards
This bug is very unlikely to be the reason. The rate limiter on the server side is cheap and the frontend bug only gets triggered with the rate limit active.

I have seen similar bugs in the systems I oversee because network libraries love to retry requests without sane limitations by default. But I never saw them make our rate limiters sweat. It's slightly more annoying when they hit an API which actually does some expensive work before returning an error but that's why we have rate limits on all public endpoints.

I also guess that the webapp is the least of Twitters traffic and the native apps probably don't have this problem.
This post is spam, attempting to build hype, and has no business on HN. But don't dare say that...
I think it’s intents like yours which is why they’re not allowed. Shame, because there are some genuine value in having it too..
I don't have a "complex de vira lata". Brazilians are awesome, it's the whole public sphere and its incentives to push down on the population that stinks. :)

You are wrong about package trust. It is indeed signed by people but anyone is still able to verify it, even obscure blobs like IME. The same can't be said about the firmware of the voting system audited by a few chosen.

Mentioning CAs is a straw since there are degrees of trust. A let's encrypt certificate on acesso.gov.br (I guess in the end they gave up on trying to shove that bogus CA?) just means the host matches the certificate. The contents are malicious.

And about where we disagree you trust a set of governmental entities to audit the government while I find the idea preposterous.
> Well "forced to execute" is somewhat subjective. If you are convinced leadership is doing the "wrong thing," then best to either leave or accept that you're just collecting your paycheck.

Я, Unless your visa is sponsored by your employer.
What's funny is that Americans can very quickly distinguish an Indian accent. So any time I answer the phone and hear an unexpected caller with an unknown voice and an Indian accent calling himself "Kevin" I know it's a scammer immediately and I hang up.
When the Walkman Was Banned
If executives are throwing you under a bus, make an exit. There’s no coming back from a clown show like that.
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36553236.
Meta’s Twitter competitor, Threads, briefly showed up on Google Play
After years of losing money, and then not being profitable in 2020+.

I'm not going to spend a lot of time researching this.

This 2019 article says they cut costs/Vine and jumped to video ads which boosted revenue 24% which might explain why they were profitable in 2019.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/tech/twitter-earnings-q4/inde...

In 2018 there is mention of a "one-time release of deferred tax asset valuation allowance,” which accounted for $683 million [of income]".

https://www.vox.com/2018/10/25/18018046/twitter-q3-2018-earn...

OP's point stands in my opinion. Twitter was/is a flagging centralized service that may not survive if it doesn't pivot.
Currently, it's basically entry level for anything mildly complicated and it can't troubleshoot itself, so it needs to be coached into giving the right answer. So it's great for boilerplate and API lookups but if you were using a typed language before and had a decent IDE, this was already a solved problem. It seems impressive because it's very fast but that advantage goes away when you then have to be like, "hmm, well that's not quite right" and then you coach it into being correct (or close enough that you stop).

If your team can't autocomplete APIs, and if you can't run everything locally so you can step through your code with a debugger, and if you don't have good tests so you need an AI to tell when you broke something (see also profiling, telemetry, release quickly and confidently, etc) - you're going to get a million percent more mileage just doing these sort of basics correctly (and fast) vs investing in AI because the open secret is that most of engineering time is spent reading and debugging code rather than writing it. This should be table stakes but so many engineering teams (even at bigtech companies) can't do the above. So they're all signing up for copilot but they still iterate with logging statements and catch regressions in production.