skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That engineer could work remotely collecting $400k from a nice and cheap place these days. Imagine working from Costa Rica or somewhere in the Andes. If they were really excellent they would have landed such opportunity at some point.
https://www.reuters.com/technology/twitter-resumes-paying-go...

That's from a week ago.
I'm still wondering when that tipping point will happen. I've personally stopped using Amazon years ago for all those reasons and more. Somehow they still keep making more money than God.
Regarding the product, it was solid as in reliable, but stagnant.

I don’t pretend to know all of the motivations behind the policy moves.

That said, I’ve got some experience with scraping; got sued by LinkedIn in 2014. We were using AWS Spot Instances to hit it hard for very little money. It was not uncommon to accidentally take large services down.

Scrapers can and do add very significant load. We also scraped Twitter back in the day as well.
People commenting that people who are still at Twitter because of their own volition, just stop. Certainly some are still there because they want to be, but there are absolutely people trapped there economically one way or another, working for a tyrant.
This is history
In my anecdote, we already had very explicit and rigorous guidelines. We had goals, evaluation requirements, question banks, and more importantly post-interview meetings where all interviewers matched notes and we're tasked with gathering data on topics that overlapped the responsibilities of other interviewers.

Even so, the data structure engineer cracked open Trivial Pursuit on the candidates and wanted to reject him based on one answer alone.
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Why are you specifically looking for me again? Unless you are an obsessed rvz fan, despite denying it? [0]

Out of all comments here, you have just wasted your time replying to only me. Again.

I'm just sitting back laughing at you and everyone else reacting to the panic and hysteria that will just subside regardless.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36384760
Not sure that's in the FTC's wheelhouse, but at least the New York Attorney General's office said they're worth $615K in fines to the firms that actually generated the comments (and not a cent from the megacorps that almost certainly hired them...) [1].

[1] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/12/ny-ag-doles-out-wrist-sl...
I think that everyone knows that, but no one knows how to solve that problem.
Because they have spent a long time building out good consumer protection laws. The US could have this also, it’s a political choice not to and is instead more of an enterprise owned state at this point.
I have an idea but needs some works:

Create a network just for the camera(s) - I.e. different wifi router.

Find out the server IP that the camera sends it’s video to.

Connect a pc/rpi to this camera’s wifi router on WAN port.

Assign all camera’s server IP you found above to this pc/rpi.

You should get all the traffic from cameras to their server. Up to you now what you are going to do.
Wouldn't it be more efficient if Twitter just served as a broker for connecting scrapers directly to bots, so they didn't have to pay the bandwidth charges?
That's fine if you don't trust it and if you want medical advice, you should always talk to your primary care provider for that advice.

However I work with doctors, and through that have had the ability to discuss the site with various medical doctors. In general, they have also noted it as a good resource. They've also noted there is limited ability for them as medical doctors to assess the medical side effects of various drugs due to the illegality of them in their jurisdictions. Thus, the need for resources such as Erowid. If you want your medical doctor to be able to give you medical advice about psychedelic drug use then help push for continued legal reclassification of and access to psychedelics for medical researchers.
Perhaps, but I think that it wasn’t the message that the author was trying to convey.
Estimated $200M for Rogan. I mean... did that really move the needle for them? Who thought, yes, they have practically every piece of music I want to listen to, but it's the Joe Rogan thing that made me finally sign up.

The graph of subscribers shows really no change in the rate of subscribers:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/244995/number-of-paying-...

Probably just more stock-pumping ZIRP big exit nonsense.
There's still money to be made with abandonware. GOG was buying and reselling dos games via slapping dosbox on it and making it playable.
Not OP but frigate works with any camera with RTSP. You can get Amcrest PoE cameras that are great quality that are around $50. Works without wifi or an app but someone in HN posted that the newer ones need an app? But I haven’t come across one and the newest one I got was about six months ago.
not exactly same, but dbus
Well, for one - with impunity, Russian choppers over the last month have decimated the Ukrainian counteroffensive attempts to the point of shocking even Western some observers (the uneducated ones). This is partially due to greatly degraded Ukrainian air defense after an intentional multi-month bombing campaign (using missiles, not planes - meaning no dead pilots). And Russia has shown to be very effective at intercepting various modern weapons systems via EW or direct. Maybe they are evil incarnate, but they math good.
reminds me of an olde Parisienne trade: "too bad all these rats are infesting your house. a shame."

"I could make sure thr next batch i feed and raise go to another house down the block instead, for a fee, and maybr even remove the ones from yours."
“ If there are seven proven ways to success ”

This is a major red flag. Arbitrarily selecting the number seven is an attempt to mislead the superstitious numerologist types. It’s almost always the cue for well meaning opinionated bullshit
I've seen products get shitty enough in a subsequent production run to easily qualify as "substantially different".

The parent poster describes a chain of six free products. They're clearly not doing this as a charity exercise.
Don Lancaster
Fair enough. Give it a couple more decades to play out completely.
If you wrote it and no longer understand it, you wrote it and/or documented it wrong.
I've got a rule of thumb, if a communication network is so large that governments who control nuclear arms use it to communicate "just ignore it" doesn't really work
Except those who if they stopped working at Twitter could easily end up deported.
You can, generally, say whatever you want via Activitypub. However, no individual Mastodon instance is obliged to facilitate this, nor is any particular Mastodon user obliged to listen to you.

Personally, I prefer not to listen to certain peoples’ Important Opinions about how people like me shouldn’t have rights (life is too bloody short), so I use a Mastodon instance which doesn’t tolerate that. People with such opinions are of course entitled to use a Mastodon instance which does (and there are plenty of them). I’m struggling to see an issue here. Person A is free to say whatever old nonsense they like, Person B is free not to listen to it.

I am, by the way, genuinely curious; I just don’t get the issue here. If a person with Important Opinions can’t hassle the rest of us with said opinions because we choose to opt out of them, well, so what?
Between visa and healthcare matters there are undeniably employees in that exact predicament.
Hey now, the Oxide rack is pretty good looking[0] -- and not to take anything away from the likes of the E10K, I personally think the Oxide rack is better looking than the Sun machines of yore. ;)

[0] https://oxide.computer/
> push changes to production at a moments notice

Isn't that one of the DORA metrics?
It seems to me that this is a fairly dangerous take- during and after the schooling required to become a doctor, surgeon, or nurse, the real-world experiences that these medical professionals have tends, over time, to outweigh the institutional knowledge they started with.

Ideally, reading new research should be part and parcel to everybody's professional career, but a ton of the advice that you'll receive from your doctor will be informed more by experience (compounding anecdote) than anything else.
Every person in power is told he's wrong every day, all day, by most everyone.

Heck, I've hired people to teach me things, told them they were wrong, and learned the hard way, many times.
10th Anniversary of Google Reader Shutdown
Completely agreed. Media excessively romanticizes compulsive workers.
Only after labor and then I-140 have been approved, which together typically take more than a year. Also, many employers won’t start your green card application until you’ve been there for a year.
Yes, just to confirm there was no off-the-shelf implementation in Rust.

We know the PISA project very well because... it is the fastest engine (though academic) in the tantivy benchmark: https://tantivy-search.github.io/bench/

But I did not know that they were using Partitioned Elias-Fano, maybe the author of the article fulmicoton knew that, I will check that.
Weird that he did not reference the djot package[0] which seems like his attempt at implementing this thesis.

[0] https://djot.net/
This is one of my favorite OSS gaming projects going on right now. Three quite good games that used a custom language being taken apart to reverse engineer the language and thus how the game ran.
I was rated around 1600 about 15 years ago and just discovered Woogles through Mack Meller’s Mack vs. Machine series on YouTube. I definitely won’t study again, but for a quick game against a bot it’s quite fun!
I managed to hit the (newly raised?) rate limit simply by tapping that link. What a circus.
> Ah... So if I let my 3-year-old great-grandson play outside too long on a cold winter day, then it's Mother Nature's fault when he gets hypothermia and frostbite?

Well... yes?

I'm struggling to come up with any definition of "fault" that wouldn't agree with your statement there.

It doesn't matter to us when nature is at fault for something, because we can't punish it. But where does the idea come from that when you get hypothermia, that might not be the fault of the weather?
His claim is that there are a few hundred scrapers causing issues, which makes sense given the recent changes to the paid API.

An assumptions of good faith was once a well-held principle on this website, and it's too bad legacy media has led so many astray.

Hatred for Musk has truly captured many otherwise very logical minds.
If they’re on an H1-B, they practically are.
Opinion: When Pro Scientists Explain Using Pop Science
Frigate was a bit limited in usefulness until they added OpenVINO and TensorRT support in April. Trying to find a Coral TPU these days can be a bit of a challenge.
Twitter has been severely hampered for 12+ hours, and that’s only the latest issue. I don’t think Musk has demonstrated anything conclusively quite yet.
Depends on the scale of the overall system. I have personally seen and attempted to mitigate degenerate cases where these retries overwhelmed the backend so much that the servers were falling behind in simply rejecting the requests.

Infact it got so bad because of all those retries at multiple levels from upstream callers that requests were essentially timing out at the TCP buffer/queue before they could be processed by the application.

Don’t know if the Twitter homepage backend is at similar scale.
Wait... $50,000 per number of page view not per number of review? That's insane. How the FTC would know the number of times each customer saw it?
Personally, not just twitter, all social media I’m happy to see it dies, and no, “stop using it” mindset isn’t an argument when it severely affects the majority of the people around you, and start not just influencing the populace opinions but shaping the next generation. Who ever controls that narrative in the media get to decide what’s the next laws to be considered, after all, that’s how democracy works.
extremely recognized.
Any enduring authors who surprise you today?
>I do occasionally bother to leave a review for a product I have bought and I always specify it.

specify what? that you bought it?
> When you're young you don't know what you're good at or what different kinds of work are like. Some kinds of work you end up doing may not even exist yet. So while some people know what they want to do at 14, most have to figure it out.

That just gave me an idea for a phone app: Something that helps teenagers explore their interests and aptitudes (but not skills of course)

Thoughts?
I wish phind had VSCode extension.
So many things are useless, but still entertaining in one way or another.

And then Twitter is used for "relevant" information as well, from emergency or transport authorities using it for quick information instead of having their own system to news of any kind or discussions and information exchange in different peer groups.

Considering that they count all tweets being loaded towards the quota (for instance replies to a tweet, if you open the detail page) and they like to shove tweets from Musk and others in the timelines the quota can be reached quite quickly even on considerate use.
Maybe it's better to have rules crafted by experts. Do you want science based on charisma as well?
I'm much more comfortable rewriting code if I have good unit test coverage around it.
If my code no longer makes sense to me, and I wanted to change it, I would just take the time to understand it. I'm really confused that you would choose any other option.
In that case, it's not QA's fault, it's the organization's fault since it hit production already.
Maybe because OP is from 2018?
I have that problem with Twitter on Android.
This narrative just about washed when Musk hadn’t had time to get his feet under the table, and all we could speak about is “Elon could!”

The data is in now!
Cloud agnostic is hard
Well, I'm sure that migration off of GCP will go smoothly with no problems. Won't cause any more stability issues with Twitter. /s
Ask HN: What's the practical use of larger context LLMs?
I see that lots of folks are working on building LLMs that can handle more context without breaking the bank on GPU.

Is there a real practical reason for that right now or is it just something that everybody agrees is obvious without economic justification?
I quite like Next Spaceflight

https://apps.apple.com/au/app/next-spaceflight/id1448055760

Although it shows launch times in GMT, notifications are in relative time.
> The subtext is that Twitter changing hands also involved trimming a lot of the dead weight, particularly hitting the ... diversity ... side.

Your statement is gross.
Very curious where the bar is for "fake".

e.g. does selective review farming qualify? I can't count the number of apps that ask something to the effect of "do you like this app Yes/No" where "No" funnels to an internal feedback form and "Yes" to the play store review page. Including to my recollection first party google apps and other big name publishers/companies.

To my opinion, 'of course' this should be illegal -- and I try and rate the apps that pull this crap a 1/5 when I stumble on to it.
Probably exactly what they bought. So when the item gets switched for something different, it stands out more.
>has made way for free-speech

Here’s just a few of the people (in these cases journalists) that Elon has banned. It’s not hard to find other examples of censorship either. That’s his right, he owns all of it, but he lied about ideals of free speech. If it’s speech he doesn’t like, he kills it:

Ryan Mac

Drew Harwell

Micah Lee

Matt Binder

Aaron Rupar

Donie O’Sullivan

Tony Webster

EDIT: these bans were related to reporting on the elonjet tracking account that was banned. He didn’t just ban the account he didn’t like, he banned the accounts of journalists who talked about that.
Presumably, they specify what the product was that they bought, in case the product listing is changed in the future.
It always comes down to what your investors want.

Remember when Uber was the harbinger of a driverless taxi future? Now they're hoping to be profitable through food delivery, like an impoverished agrarian economy praying for rain.
Would anyone get a visa to work in another country if it would not be better than being in their home country?
It made its way to HN because people here find it interesting enough to discuss. It’s not some anti-Musk conspiracy. And it’s not anyone else’s fault you didn’t recognize the technical implications from the information available.
> Whereas a perfectly-spec'd markup language would probably evolve toward an unreadable-to-humans mess in the committee-driven pursuit of precision.

Maybe, and I mean that sincerely...but are you just saying this must happen or can you actually point to where MacFarlane's proposals would make a significantly less pleasant language?
Musk did not found Tesla.
I can do the same with almost any IP camera and even USB one with low latency and maximum quality the camera can supports. If anyone is interested in such setup I can do a quick write up about or maybe a repo with the configs needed.
> And then I get defederated for having done so.

if i don't like what someone is saying i have the freedom to disassociate from them, wether its in real-life or in mastodon or whatever

> It's an illusion freedom that does not exist in practice because this is Mastodon we're talking about.

i think you are confusing freedom with privilege.
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We’re all adults here and both know that’s not true - the US is literally making the payroll of the Ukrainian government.

But anyways, they’re already using US gear, tactics, ISR - why not this? You don’t need red blooded Americans to employ SEAD.
Having to leave the country and return home is not the same as slavery.
Honestly your attitude here and in other comments over the years has turned me off using D forever. No one in power in the Rust community would be able to get away with the sorts of comments you're making.

(The Rust community has its own very serious issues but no one would even try to say "boo hoo if they don't like it they can just uproot their lives and go back to a place they specifically got away from, nbd")
Ha! That would do it. Well, guess he stewed on the idea long enough he had to take a swing at the problem.
just out of curiosity, where do my allegiances lie? Interested to see how I come off?
Well-specified formats that are primarily produced by humans writing them by hand? The main entries in this category are programming languages.
I don't know, but I dont remember POP/IMAP/SMTP to be lean enough for that kind of usage. Fast social media timelines are in few kpost/sec. range.

e: but sounds like a correct approach too
I can't read this shit. Which is almost certainly for the best.
Personally, I would like to see a markdown spec that eliminates parsing ambiguity by restricting the "edge-case" features that HTML is really much better at describing in a standard and structured way.

I think we could pick one way to handle emphasis, lists, and code blocks that covers a specific and predictable 80%.

Anything that becomes hard to describe without including additional notation to the grammar is probably best suited to be left as HTML, as was the intention behind markdown to begin with.
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A good starting lower bound would be the number of purchases after the fraudulent review had been left. If Amazon gets control of the content they host, they really don't have much to worry about.
I think most of us here are interested in such setup…
This is only perhaps correct in that a loosey-goosey proposals can spread farther because it is seemingly simple to implement (less MUST and whatever) and by the time you notice inconsistencies between implementations, the thing has reached a sort of critical mass already and the things aren’t that inconsistent so you just shrug and say whatever.

But in the case of MarkDown the original implementation was just not that great. Which has nothing to do with being easier; MacFarlane’s Djot is an easier to implement and easier to describe language.

And of course your point about “committee-driven pursuit of precision” is just a made up hypoethical which is not worth responding to. (The only committee has been on CommonMark, which is a definition of “MarkDown” (TM) which merely tries to deal with years of drift between different MarkDown implementations. With their famously long-winded spec-by-prose-enumeration style.)
Yeah I wish Obama care had simply been: 'employer provided healthcare is illegal in 2024'
CORRECTION: Looks like I'm wrong on this one, and findecanor is correct. Vote me down and his(?) response up.

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/alpha-gal-syn...
> What are you excessively curious about — curious to a degree that would bore most other people? That's what you're looking for.

> The three most powerful motives are curiosity, delight, and the desire to do something impressive.

There's a contradiction here. If you work on something that bores other people (small niches) it will not satisfy the desire to do something impressive.

For example: I want to tell my in-laws I work at Google, but I really want to create maps that simulate sunlight and shadow
The substantiation is Musk's own words, easily visible to all.

Part of the "nothing is true" aspect is to make people start to doubt their own eyes. Let's not fall in honesty to the point where Musk's own Twitter timeline is not proof of what he is saying.
Ground truth the facts on site before storming the place sight unseen.

Obviously.

Have you no actual real world experience with emergancy response, industrial accidents, life threatening chemicals, guns, explosives?

Have you never had any actual on the job training on response protocols?
Yeah sure. The biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country, it's all a sham, right? All that testimony and evidence, must have been nothing but lies because of some jurisdiction technicality. Had a new trial held in Brasília and the first thing they did was throw out all the evidence.

I watched god knows how many politicians get arrested. I saw one get caught with dirty money in their literal underwear. Now I get to watch the supreme court presided by these same judge-kings erase everything they did one by one, and censor anyone who reminds people of facts because they're "spreading fake news". I get to watch Lula give them government positions where they make about 30x what the average brazilian makes on salary alone. That's the "father of the poor" right there.
Might be confusing with Voodoo

https://github.com/cogciprocate/voodoo
Colleges don’t have a monopoly on education. Thanks to the internet, learning is more accessible to people than ever.
I buy stuff from Amazon all the time. Some products I won't buy from them. Sometimes I get something bad, and I just return it. Amazon is pretty good about accepting returns.

Amazon saves me a great deal of time. Before Amazon, I'd have to spend 2 hours going to the mall and back, and face a very limited selection there. Now I spend 5 minutes and it drops on my doorstep, sometimes even that evening.

Time means a lot to me. I'll put up with a lot to save time.
So move fast and break things apparently isn’t HN’s chosen methodology any longer.
https://github.com/jgm/djot
I mean, I never got why this is supposedly the one situation where child labor is seen as acceptable in the first place.

We have CGI now.