skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My initial contention was directed towards the claim that Twitter was accidentally DDoSing itself. However, it seems you are proposing another theory - that there is no DDoS at all and Twitter is "faking" its availability issues to introduce quotas and a login requirement. While I personally perceive this as veering into conspiracy theory territory, I concede that it isn't entirely beyond the realm of possibility.
A bit off topic, but any book/article recommendations for building things at Twitter/IG scale? I know for example IG switched to a "fan-out" approach early on to handle accounts with a lot of users. Would love to learn more about this.
A triangle is 1/2 the area of the surrounding rectangle, a cone is 1/3 the area of a cylinder... does this pattern extend into the 4th dimension?
Cgo Is Not Go
I think it's just a personal preference of the creators
My favourite part of this whole fiasco is that 'Space Karen' is now trending on twitter
I think they’re referring to accounts that they blocked, so that content from those accounts wont show up in the feed.
My company had a similar policy. The rate of people leaving went up and up. Eventually a new senior leader go HR to do their maths properly, and the “ranges” for many salaries increased by 30-70%. And everyone got increases to match. We’re still nowhere near the US mega-salaries, but the company is entirely unique, which is good enough for a lot of us.
Thanks for putting this out in words. It really hits the nail on how I've been feeling lately.
I would say "circular pyramid" is intuitive, but "an n-sided pyramid works just the same as a square pyramid" is not.

If instead of just a square pyramid, you demonstrated it for regular polygons with sides 3, 4, 5 - I wouldn't need any convincing that the relationship continued to infinity.
My usage of ChatGPT is as follows:

1. Google replacement for simple queries. Like "how do I HTTP POST with go?". Saves like 30 seconds of browsing.

2. Google replacement for vague questions. Like "Which ingress controllers are popular and what's their strengths".

3. Procrastination eliminators. Like "I need an identifier for ..., can you suggest me some proper names?".

4. Boring tasks which could be solved with enough bash scrpipts or regexes, but with ChatGPT it's often faster.

5. Most impressive to me: "I want to format the following YAML according to the following rules: <vague imprecise rules>. Example: ....". This sometimes saves me really lots of time, because it acts like a human and able to follow imprecise instructions. I could either do it myself spending lots of time or write some formatter spending, again, lots of time.

I was never able to utilize it for "smart" tasks, like if I couldn't solve something and it solved it for me. It's not smart yet. But it's an useful tool in my toolbelt, definitely worth $20 and saves me time and sanity for some boring tasks.
Seems that at least parts of the US government has realised that carrier medium weight should not be used for LSD.

> In the case of LSD on a carrier medium (e.g., a sheet of blotter paper), do not use the weight of the LSD/carrier medium. Instead, treat each dose of LSD on the carrier medium as equal to 0.4 mg of LSD for the purposes of the Drug Quantity Table.

https://www.ussc.gov/guidelines/amendment/488
This isn't that rare once large enough portion of production is wind/solar. Sometimes there just is "too much wind" and you get 0 or negative prices.

For example today we got to -5c/kWh in Finland and it will be negative most of the day. Currently hydro is scaled down by ~1500MW and nuclear ~600MW. Also a bunch of wind is probably turned off due to the negative prices (there is enough wind today to almost max the total wind production of 3200MW today but only ~600MW in use at the moment)

https://www.fingrid.fi/en/electricity-market/power-system/

Though not all electricity is bought/sold on the spot market but instead a lot of consumers are on fixed rate contracts and the companies usually buy futures to cover most of the fixed price contracts they have.

This is also why there is now a lot of investment in storage and hydrogen. Basically as more and more renewables (mostly wind here in Finland) is being built they want to buy this negative (or 0) price electricity and make money by selling it later. Though even negative electricity costs to use due to taxes (0.063c/kWh for industrial usage) and transmission fees (between 4 to 10c/kWh depending on location)
Hope hackernews supports Katex soon.
It was because the wind was blowing and solar was doing well. At 14:30, wind was 15GW and solar 7GW against demand of 28GW. Nuclear was an additional 5.3GW. See https://grid.iamkate.com/. I don't know the specifics of why this results in such negative prices, but it's relatively unusual to have both high solar and wind simultaneously, and it happened at the weekend when demand is lower.
Isn’t that what Minmus is made of?
Because it used to be 1/PI until they legislated PI down to 3? ;)
Good ideas. "Air exchanger" is another thing I'd never heard of before. And I've written down the idea to do an experiment: I think maybe what I could do is cover up my Aranet4 CO2 monitor's front screen with some tape, take it with me to different venues around where I live, write down what I think the CO2 level is at that venue, and then look at the logs afterwards.
It's cute that you think this doesn't happen already.

The problem is that it's just not that profitable. What is an advertiser going to do, with the knowledge that internet people like to look at cats?
Restful is a scam, but browsers are cool
Historical anarchists enforced their rules through a state apparatus that organized mob lynchings and targeted killings. The CNT-FAI and Ukrainian Free State both had secret police organizations, and the former was no stranger to political terror.
I agree with you, but you are overestimating the cost on live of an accident by many orders of magnitude.
How do you get to the tens of millions of live ruinned?
If you listen closely you can also hear Dylan saying to his backing band "play it loud" as a response to this and you feel it adds to the emotional delivery of the song.
This seems to be very interesting and address the main drawback for current federated apps implementation. I do hope you can support ActivityPub somehow because you can jump start your community by allowing interaction to mastodon and lemmy/kbin instance. You don't have to expose all your feature set, just enough to allow people from those communities to talk to your community
Presumably industrial consumers are looking at pricing and will decide to smelt more aluminum or something when it's cheap.
Is this reminding anyone else of running code directly on hardware (tapes on C64) or later CONFIG.SYS/AUTOEXEC.BAT with just a memory manager that loaded DOS4GW games?

The overhead of a whole OS (especially one which takes up 1.5GB of RAM) has always seemed wasteful and unnecessary to me since the days Intel used to fill a 720MB floppy with assembly to produce results games authors couldn't replicate on CD's full of their code.
High Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio Facilitates Cancer Growth: The TICO Regimen
No it's just Twitter requiring a login now.

None of the claims zackees is making are new or obscure. They're well known problems proven many years ago. For example so many thermometers are located next to runways because climatologists collect data from weather stations that were never intended for them. Airports need this data but then it gets mixed into datasets that are claiming to measure general change in climate.

This can lead to absurd outcomes. The UK had a very hot day last year, with the Met Office reported a "record breaking" temperature. The problem is that this temperature was recorded by a thermometer right next to a military airbase runway at the exact moment three fighter aircraft were landing. The temperature spiked up to the record level for 60 seconds and then dropped again, with the spike+drop being quite massive. Finding this out took a year of FOIA requests, done by independent bloggers of course, not journalists.

Jet exhaust shouldn't be reported as climate change, but it is, because climatologists don't seem to care much about data quality. The underlying networks they use have a lot of corruption in them from various sources and the error bars are wide, but the uncertainty is never reported or shown to the public.

A couple of decades ago this problem flared up in the US and Congress spent the money to build out a new state of the art weather station network just for climatologists, with very carefully sited stations. It's called the Climate Reference Network and climatologists refuse to actually use its data. If you review the thermometer readings it generates you can see why:

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/national-tempera...

For nearly 20 years it's shown no warming in the USA whatsoever.
> non-profit business

That's an oxymoron if I ever heard one. A business is literally an activity that is undertaken for the purpose of profit. There are activities that are entered for reasons other than profit, but they're not businesses.
All these discussions sound like people who don't know how cars work, but they do know how to use a wrench, screwdriver, etc, and they try to design new cars.

A "federated web app" is literally just a web app that uses OAuth. You can do "more federation" with OpenID or OpenID Connect. It seems "the fediverse" is intended for more of the same, but with specific data types (e.g. "social media data"), which does not seem scalable.
Psssh, that's nothing. I've got €-0.43/kWh here in the Netherlands for 3 hours today, including tax. Energy prices are negative from 11 to 17 today.

And it's not all that sunny. A Sunday of course so lower demand.
I'm going to switch of my solar panels. We have a dynamic tarif, so I actually get these prices and will pay to deliver power.

Net metering in the Netherlands makes it not relevant for most people to curtail their solar panels. Apparently we have the most installed capacity per capita in the world, die to these incentives. They did their job, time for a next step: storage.
The other day I was trying to translate some old Fortran 77 code to C.

I tried asking ChatGPT to do it. It looked good on the surface, but it had subtly mangled some of the if conditions, etc, which resulted in it producing completely different numbers from what the original Fortran code did.

Then I remembered good old f2c, and I tried using that. Unlike ChatGPT, the code f2c produced was (as far as I can tell) correct, albeit a lot uglier. But it is a lot easier to refactor ugly-but-correct code into nicer-and-correct code, than incorrect code into correct code.
Ok, but porn banning was never the topic, you people don't have an actual argument so you pick senseationalist extreme bullshit you can win instead.

I am well aware of the popuarity of your view as i noted in my first sentence of the original comment.
Less funny is that those people are still on twitter.
I bet you're still on old reddit. This is the equivalent of shutting down old reddit for mobile.
Maybe inheritance isn't the right word. I understood them as saying "he was born into money" - is there another way to say he "inherited" purely in the sense of money being passed onto him?
idk about uk but around here spot prices are released on the previous day. that is enough time to allow scheduling your day to run eg laundry or dishwasher during best hours, or at least off-peak.
How to spot and fix issues with publicly accessible AWS S3 buckets
Continue that logic, infinite dimensions and the cone would infinitely smaller? Im sure I have that wrong but cool to think about.
Arguably, most of the ex-Twitter employees had zero say if they wanted to defer a job search or not.

They were just summarily fired.
Chernobyl and surrounding areas had to be fully evacuated, and it was a pretty remote site in a very sparsely populated country. That's not tens of millions but probably in the single millions. If it happened in a denser area, like France or the US East Coast, it would probably reach 10m relatively easily.
I'm not sure the word explorer should ever be diluted to be just sitting down in a vehicle as a passenger. At worst, they sat on a plane to Newfoundland for a number of hours, sat on a boat to get to the launch site and sat in a submarine for a few hours (assuming a successful itinerary).

Mitigating factors for an explorer should be (imho): novel destination, novel experience of natural forces, novel challenge of actively piloting/driving, unusual physical hardship, unusual mental hardship, novel engineering challenge, unusual training requirements, committing to significant unknowns, etc.
The inputs and outputs of the grid need to be balanced. A large proportion of the UK's grid inputs come from renewables - wind and solar - that can't easily be controlled. That's leading to increased supply volatility and so increased price volatility, which in extremis results in (previously unheard-of) negative prices.

Consumers aren't looking at prices in real time, but industrial users are. Let's say that you run a large cold storage facility. You need to maintain temperatures within a safe range, but that gives you some responsiveness to real-time prices - you could push towards the low end of that range when prices are low, or drift up to the high end of that range when prices are high. In effect, you're using the temperature of your warehouse as an energy storage system. The same would apply to many industrial processes that involve heating, cooling or pressurised fluid.

As we transition towards 100% sustainable energy, we hope to exploit much more of these non-obvious sources of energy storage through dynamic pricing and smart appliances. If you charge your electric car overnight, you don't actually care when it draws energy from the grid as long as your battery is full in the morning. A smart charger could wait until prices are low in the dead of night, or even feed back some energy to the grid during the early evening. You probably won't notice if your air conditioner or your heating drifts beyond the set temperature by half a degree, but the grid most certainly will notice millions of smart thermostats that can reduce grid demand during brief peaks.
> Imgur was profitable in 2014, but they had to raise money and expand...

Why did they "have" to raise money and expand? Maybe this was sarcasm and I missed it in which case ignore.
Your bosses comment is hilarious. They got you for a discount, it was not a mistake and I doubt the raise covered the difference of giving you full pay from the start.
will it be paid? or will it be freemium?
The millions of people on social media are not the one surrounding Musk and having his ear.

Let's say there are a 100 people who actually interact with him in a professional context. Those are the ones that are yes men.
I don't see any comments saying that. And if you want to compensate for historical racism I don't think the current policies were working very well. Like of the black students at Harvard only about 10% were from american slave origins and the rest from places like Africa or the Caribbean. So if you just go by skin colour you are not doing so well with targeting the victims. (https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2020/10/15/gaasa-scrut/)
This happens almost daily in California — it’s called the “duck curve” and prices peak dusk and dawn, stable through night, and go negative during the daytime from excess solar.

You could often profit in CA by just arcing electricity into the ground, at least until more storage capacity comes on grid
Exactly - your only solution is for them to "suck it up". You don't offer any other solution, or even acknowledge the problem. Glad we got to an agreement, even if it took repeating things 4 times!
Ask HN: Trying to find a funny comic showing how complex blogs have less content
I'm struggling to remember a funny xkcd-style comic that resembles a scatterplot, with the x-axis measuring the technical complexity of a blog and the y-axis measuring how much content it has.

i.e. a blog made with Next.js and other cutting-edge tech has far fewer articles than the older blog running on outdated Wordpress
You're kidding, right?

Sarcasm, no?

https://tidbits.com/2019/10/21/six-reasons-why-ios-13-and-ca...
In the article they say openness is really important. But when you to the website, you have to use Google Account... It's open yeah, but someone wants to track you on this...
AI doesn't have anything to do with it.
And the process of “reviewing the seller” (IE reporting them for bribing you) is made extremely difficult by Amazon. It’s nice that Amazon has gotten the government to enforce policy for them in their platform, it must be a lot cheaper to pay lobbyists than to make their platform work.
This is the sad norm. Leftist websites have been mostly seized by permanently online rules lawyers, who try to proactively block any slight against the moderation. Usually relating to mainstream identity politics, and to the point of suffocating discussion for those outside of their in-group.

It was not always like this, and I hope one day these narcissistic weirdos leave, and people can once again discuss freely.
The problem with the above account is that the 150 euros you claim to pay per month for health "insurance" is transparently a fantasy number, and in reality you probably pay closer to an order of magnitude more into the Dutch health system.
Interesting - so presumably you could also make a small amount of money by turning on e.g. a bunch of electric heaters. Makes me wonder whether someone could (or is) making significant money this way.

It's amazing to me there isn't some better way of using this energy in energy intensive industries e.g. electrolysis
The downvotes are ignorant. See Lockhart's Mathematician's Lament, where he laments the state of math education comparing it to learning music through sheet music and not pickings up an actual instrument.

He asks how to visualize the area of a triangle by bounding it in a rectangle, where it becomes obvious that the triangle takes up half the area.

He then poses the question about the volume of a pyramid where you can use a similar technique.

https://www.maa.org/external_archive/devlin/LockhartsLament....
Well, and like, the entire rest of the world.
How transfer of accounts happens isn't part of the ActivityPub protocol at all - it was added last year to Mastodon just using ActivityPub as a transport.

A big improvement is possible "just" by making instances revalidate the URI against webfinger regularly (you'd still need to plan ahead for that, but it'd enable "stable" usernames) and secondly by allowing for a key pair to let users sign messages to make claims about ownership and which account is current. That would make it possible to enable fully unilateral moves.

Neither would require any changes to ActivityPub.
I’m looking at it in real-time, and my provider sends me a notification if price drops below a certain threshold. So things like charging the car or bothering to run a pyrolytic clean of the oven definitely happen in these circumstances.
If only we had never increased in population count that much. We would have spared the planet from many ecological disasters. A population of 4 billion sounds like a dream right now.
In a context of rising tides, yes, that's not a smart idea. Like it wasn't smart to do it in the context of middle-age piracy in the Mediterranean, or when the Roman Empire crumbled and cities on plains became indefensible - people moved to hills and mountains, further from the coast.
I have no idea what I am supposed to see on this link. It is completely unreadable, with green text overlapping each other and green icons and no zoom. But I suppose that the UX is a good indication of the overall Lemmy experience.
From the desmog link in the comment you replied to:

> “Fear and anger have to be a part of this campaign,” Berman said. “We’re not going to get people to like the oil and gas industry over the next few months.”

> Berman also advised that executives continue to spend big. “I think $2 to $3 million would be a game changer,” he said. “We’ve had six-figure contributions to date from a few companies in this room to help us get to where we are.”

> But always cover your tracks, he suggested, adding that no is better equipped at doing so than his firm. “We run all this stuff through nonprofit organizations that are insulated from having to disclose donors. There is total anonymity,” he said. “People don’t know who supports us. We’ve been doing this for 20-something years in this regard.”

> Berman, whose tobacco ties were profiled yesterday by DeSmog contributor John Mashey, is the founder and chief executive of the Washington-based Berman & Company consulting firm. He attended the conference in Colorado, hat in hand, looking to raise money from energy companies for an advertising and public relations campaign he started called Big Green Radicals.
Judging by how they can apparently wipe all the data and remove people from the network on a whim, it doesn't seem very decentralised.
Yeah, but where you're from you can buy a solid house near a big city for 100-200k so you probably come out ahead
It is very possible that they did not predict this specific down stream effect, for one of many reasons. I do not want to discount that, though, as I am not at Twitter and am not on a first name basis with anyone there. Maybe there are some who did see this.

What I maintain though is that most anyone still working on code at Twitter, regardless of their experience or overview of the code base, would strongly argue for testing and staging, which appear to go against current leadership's mode of operation, likely because of the time pressure you mentioned.

Not pushing such changes straight to production is a concept I feel anyone working at Twitter would subscribe to, yet has to painfully go against, lest they be led go.
'More and more people' can still be just minority. But niche is there.
I respect Paul and everything that he writes, even if I don’t agree with it. It takes some serious stones to publish your thoughts on the internet - whether people agree or not.

In any case. This seems like a continuation of the never ending quest for people to sacrifice themselves for the betterment of a corporate profit they will never see.

I’m not interested in eliminating the ceiling - I want to raise the floor. Having a “side hustle” shouldn’t be a requirement to get by.

I am frustrated that the USA’s money advice largely comes from billionaires. They’re not like us. That’s OK. There’s a lot of room between millions and billions
I can't imagine worse training data than e.g. Twitter and Reddit posts. How about like, dunno, books?

Edit:
Ah, nvm, if you are trying to do a chat bot it is essentially what you want.
Very common for start ups with inexperienced devs, not for long standing tech companies with the best and most experienced employees...

Isn't Elon supposed to know this shit himself?

I guess we learned alot about the state of the company as well as elons own coding skills with this event, didn't we?
That’s not the same thing at all. The original comment was clearly talking about people who work directly for him, whom he has the power to fire on the spot.