skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Pre-Elon the bot count was something like 5% of active users, meaning a broad approach like this will affect significantly more real users than bots. There are probably more fine tuned ways to reduce bots that don’t degrade the experience for your biggest users.
The downvotes make me laugh, I did something pretty similar not long after the _Generic keyword came out and remember getting a pretty icy reception even though I was pretty up front about how painful and crufty it is.

https://abissell.com/2014/01/16/c11s-_generic-keyword-macro-...
25 years of products being honed for shareholder value, instead of customer or user value. We may be at peak consumer tolerance for anti-pattern, in-app purchase, subscription-model, ad-packed, data-siphoning, dopamine driven, gated experiences.
What do you think that intelligent means? Able to know things it hasn’t learned? I don’t think it has been trained on localization, geography or way-finding.
Are they still paying exorbitantly for podcaster exclusivity?
Hugging Face – Looking into incident, a malicious user took over Meta's account
I disagree, only because I’m on Mastodon and a ton of people are missing.

A large chunk of the Apple nerd ecosystem I followed on Twitter moved, and I like that I can still follow them.

But everyone else I followed either never moved or quickly gave up and seems to have taken up residence on Bluesky.

So without an invite code, and the possibility Twitter will disappear real quick, I’m left with no way to follow them and I’m just forced to miss out.

There’s no way to get a code if you don’t know someone. There is no indication when signups will open. I have no idea what my place in line is. I’m just screwed.
Unfortunately he did a lot of BS along the way which made it easy to dismiss everything he said.
The same is true for me, but I could have learned those things without going to college and without wasting time studying subjects that have never been useful in my work.
This is true. It was an explicit tactic. Also, the plan was to help develop China as an ally against Russia. So we setup trade conditions that were favorable to China. And it worked beyond all expectations. But now they're not much of an ally. And we're having a hard time returning to balanced trade conditions.
Americans used to literally own other Americans, while committing genocide against other Americans.
Do You Read the Masters?
This is in reference to “Read the masters, not their pupils”, a quote from mathematics prodigy Niels Henrik Abel. When asked how he developed his mathematical abilities so rapidly, he replied, “by studying the masters, not their pupils”.
Consider that fatherhood (and motherhood) in an agrarian focused society is a much more well-defined and constructive role than that in an industrial capitalist wage labour society.

In a farming society fathers and mothers have a lot of meaningful expertise to pass down to their children. And they work closely with their children for decades. Family time is intense and probably not exactly utopian, but intimate and constructive.

As a father to a kid in the urbanized 20th and 21st century, way less well defined and the role super confusing. My kid is unlikely to do what I'm doing. I'm out of the house at work almost all day, and they're at school. My spouse and I would live relatively separate lives, convening only after work hours. What am I supposed to be teaching my son? Most values will come from society at large not from home. How do I relate to my spouse?

It's not surprising there's a general disintegration of the family. Conservatives want to blame it on liberal values and lack of religion, but this is complete nonsense. The economic model changed, and the point of both marriage and the family changed as well. Forcing religion on your kids or getting all freaked out about family values and abortion won't fix it. The economic foundation of the whole thing is gone.
imo this is the most human thing about it.
To most people outside of this bubble, nothing about Reddit has recently changed. At all.

Reports of Reddit’s death have been greatly exaggerated.
Replacing a privacy compatible feature with a revenue generating privacy incompatible sacrificed privacy for revenue. And what you called the implication was your inference.
For good!
Yeah but they use GCS for auth, moderation, and caching. They apparently haven’t been paying Google since April and the contract expired June 30th
There is a fair bit of third party code in the classic Mac OS, particularly in the extensions and cdevs. The nanokernel and some basic portions of the OS are likely releasable but they'd have to audit all of that.
He's clearly trying to cut costs.
Thanks for the compliment :-)

What I _really_ like to receive, though, is feedback from using the wrappers, ideas for changes/improvements, and of course messages volunteering to QA new versions before their release :-P
At least once have I done a CC blast as a form of insurance when being asked to do something absolutely boneheaded.
Unless you live in any of the houses right outside the Apple campus. The single most shocking thing to me when I visited for the first time was that the entire area including right outside the visitor center is still dominated by these upsetting 60s bungalows. Ironically up in Redmond they're putting them to shame in terms of development.
self ddos with backoff, :chef kiss:
D's inline assembler:

asm {
mov RAX,__NR_close;
mov RDI, fd;
call syscall;
}

The compiler automatically keeps track of which registers were modified.
Perhaps I have worded my argument somewhat too poetically. You say that you are driven to do great work _by nature_. That is what I would call "by accident", as you had very little say in that nature.

Pushing the argument a bit further: When you are so lucky to have what it takes to do great things, would you be able to _not_ do great things?
Instagram requires a login to view most posts, but it doesn’t rate limit it’s most active users.
It's MastOdon, not MastAdon.
Your standard full-stack dev is going to have "less experience" with approximately 80% of her codebase, by dint of having a finite life-span. ChatGPT is a faster and more convenient SO in that (very common) case. I, for example, have used it with great effect writing bash scripts that I would not dare to write otherwise. It's also not bad at bashing out the first use of a new library. I mean, I have ended up throwing that code out 100% of the time, but it's still useful.
I watched a video for free and "paid" for it with that personal data that we were constantly told was the new oil, the stuff that runs modern life, the stuff that countries go to war over. Who's really entitled here? :)
There may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

(thanks RFC 2119)
It is almost ridiculously common anti-pattern these days to see teams stringing lambda functions together for no good reason other then “cuz serverless”, or “microservices”, for what really should be just function calls in a single process.

Developers are losing touch on what process boundaries mean, and the result is brittle and poor performing systems.
> vanilla opinions

Like what?
Could someone report the error at press@twitter.com and see what they think about it?
Are you living in the same world as me? When I go into town there's a ton of small shops. Small restaurants are absolutely everywhere, either to eat in or to get delivery from using one of several delivery apps. I cannot relate to your comment at all.
When I lived in Australia these were quite a nuisance. Companies would sell your data as there was basically no real data protection. I don't know if it had changed since.
The calls would typically come in waves. I would deal with it by letting the callers know how I felt about them and their job. Some would argue with me saying they bought my number fair and square.
This is plainly not true
mm i understand the argument, but looking at the other utilities around me, i think it has to be a last resort. we have way more options navigating this in the space of bits than we do of matter. monopolies sort of suck no matter how they’re owned or operated: rather to force the non-critical monopolies to break up than to immortalize them as utilities.
In case your Twitter is rate limited, or you don't have an account:

> We are looking into an incident where a malicious user took control over the Hub organizations of Meta/Facebook & Intel via reused employee passwords that were compromised in a data breach on another site. We will keep you updated
It's not a self ddos if twitter isn't going down. You can see in the video twitter is properly handling the load and is returning HTTP 429 when the client is sending too many requests. Hitting the rate limiter or requesting a post is light weight. It's not like it's spamming login requests which require a lot of resources due to key stretching.
Congrats to the entire team. Being a wayward hardware guy somewhere in telcomland that has followed your progress throughout the years (and having listened to pretty much every oxide podcast), I am genuinely happy for you all.
My first thought was: I delete my twitter account and get more productive.
I'm a fifty-something trans lady and I am just fucking tired of trying to change viewpoints. I just want to live my life and talk with my friends without some butthead coming in and telling me I shouldn't exist, I get enough of that by checking the news lately.

If you have the energy to politely engage people who think of you as a child molester who should be shot on sight, great! Go for it! But I have done that, and I am tired, and I do not want to do it any more. I run a Mastodon and I just want it to be a space to talk to my friends and maybe make some new ones, and thus, I block the fuck out of places I do not expect to get anything but hate from.
Let’s say that I want to move my @ploum@mamot.fr account (my real Mastodon account) to another server, let say "writing.exchange".

1. I create an account @ploum@writing.exchange on writing.exchange.

2. I go to mamot.fr and, in the settings, I enable migration to @ploum@writing.exchange.

3. I go to writing.exchange and, in the settings, I start the migration from @ploum@mamot.fr.

All my followers and following are automatically transfered. For them, it is transparent. They still follow me on my new account without them being even notified.

Of course, you need cooperation from mamot.fr. If mamot.fr decide to close your account, you can’t migrate it.

But it works well, I’ve used it myself. It is really great and allows people to do "server hoping" to join a community that fit better their need.
The problem there is that there's nothing stopping the crazy instance owner from retaliating by "defederating" your own instance and cutting you off from your network.
> Yet the lives of ordinary people have hardly improved and are arguably worse since the 1980s

Read up on improved crop yields for subsidence farmers who got access to weather reports through smart phones.

A lot of people are not starving now because of that one change alone.
> We may be at peak consumer tolerance for anti-pattern, in-app purchase, subscription-model, ad-packed, data-siphoning, dopamine driven, gated experiences.

As much as I want this to be true, I think this sentiment is really only popular on tech-savvy forums like HN. Most people don't use ad blockers, and I've had people get mad at me when I suggest that they do (directly in response to something where they are complaining about ads).
As a trans woman living in a conservative area, I get where you're coming from but I seriously disagree. The hardest pill for me to swallow through all of this has been realizing that some people will never change no matter how much you engage them. The only way I maintain my sanity is to do whatever I can to reduce my exposure to that kind of thing so I don't end up engaging with it.. because it just never goes well.

I realize it's a complicated issue, and I'm never a fan of banning speech. But not all speech deserves a response.
That's a surprisingly nice use for this crazy TLD.
I remember looking this up before, and game rule sets are not protected in USA. You can't make some game rules and say that other people can't make that game. The things that are protected are the things that go along with the game, like if you use any trademark name in the game or if you use any protected media like if it's a card game then you can't use the same card art. My understanding is that you can make a game with the same rules as scrabble and not call it scrabble or use their art and you are allowed to do it.

Edit: this is getting upvoted so maybe at this point I should say I'm not a lawyer and this isn't legal advice lol
How I changed my D-Link camera to a locally managed IP camera
I wonder if exponential backoff should be the default behaviour for request libraries/APIs.

Their default of “just go ham on that API” feels like the same footgun of “by default this Humongous Database is wide open.”
"Yeah, let's roll this out on a Friday night before the biggest national holiday weekend of the summer."
But did it do you any favours? The increadably well written official python csv doc manages to suggest using iterators rather then loading what may eventually be too much data into a list, Points out that the are dialects of CSV and some common ones you might use. https://docs.python.org/3/library/csv.html
Perfect example of why you don’t just fire all your senior engineers.

You can’t debug and root cause if you do. So you end up adding hacky point fixes
> a) you can request the same resource from multiple servers

Can I? With PeerTube for example it's a massive hit-and-miss. Many mirros don't have the torrents or vice versa. There's no reproducible way to mirror/federate YouTube content and so on.
I would maybe phrase it differently but I guess I don’t disagree: social networks should be publicly-owned and exist for the public good.

The reason the model runs the way it does and collapses is because we inherently understand that most communication should not be economically restricted. We don’t have a good social network because capitalism isn’t a good way to create them.
Yes, interest in I2O was lukewarm for the reasons you mention. I gave I2O a brief mention in the article but didn't want to go into too much of a tangent :-)

I suspect that some people at Intel really wanted to have IBM System/360 mainframe style I/O channels. There was the 8089 I/O coprocessor for the 8086. The iAPX 432 had a I/O coprocessor (43203) that worked with another microprocessor to act as an I/O channel. And then there was I2O, using an i960 as an I/O processor.
> and I've had people get mad at me when I suggest that they do.
lol that's a new one, why?
Use that extra 10% efficiency to take 5 more weeks off.

10% is disruptive:)
Ask him whether he wrote the code himself that is DDOS-ing Twitter. I wouldn't be surprised if he had that much hubris.
Free speech is not freedom to force everyone else to listen. You get defederated from those instances who choose not to want to listen to you.

Users on those instances who want to listen to you are free to go to instances that don't defederate you.
I get the feeling Eddie is ChatGPT
Are you testing chatgpts output in any way? I’ve considered using it for tasks but after hearing all the talk of how it can write good looking code that ends up not working as you might expect, I started wondering if the time savings from generating that block are wasted from interpreting and testing.
http://www.paralogos.com/DeadSuper/Projects.html
Lifers and Politicians
For a second I thought this would be about an issue with damage from iron oxide on Espressif chips.

Yes, it's a weekend and also a holiday today ;-)
> Bad parents are not the victim, they are part of the problem

It’s not an either/or situation. I would argue they are both.
Oh yeah, podcasts. I honestly don't know why they're so desperate on attracting people for podcasts. Podcasts are much more unprofitable compared to normal music
You can get vertical scaling by installing the tree tabs extension.
Is it still invite only? I don’t think I know anyone that’s got on there yet.
I can say for sure that a certain flow ("back" from Profile view or similar) would trigger an infinite redirecting loop on Firefox on my Android device, with probably dozens of requests over a couple of seconds until rate limiting kicked in. Maybe there were many of these little bugs which together looked like some kind of DDOS or scraping.
how are strangers getting to a birthday party of your childs friend?

or are the parents (which they most likely were) of your childs friends strangers to you? they should not be.
Agreed, serverless and monolith are not on the same spectrum
Threads is about to launch and I have a feeling once that happens twitter will quickly become the next Truth Social.
Just experimentation. He bought the company at the top of the market and has a large debt bill, likely that is all there is to the frequent changes.

It's obvious that existing users will find this unsettling.
Paraffin is a means, not an end. The end goal is to generate heat, and we have all kinds of ways to generate heat now that are superior to paraffin. The future of AI may not depend on diffusion models or even a silicon substrate, but the incentives to improve it are clear, and it will get better.
Yeah, I Don't get it personally. People are seeing the results of Reddit and their thoughts still remain: "yea I want all my eggs in one basket". I appreciated that when one forum shut down it didn't take out my entire means a of communication. That if a big forum shut down it wasn't the only big forum for a given community. I Don't know what changed for people to not value that variety, that redundancy.

Also, don't know why no one remembers RSS feeds if they want an aggregator anyway. Even Reddit and YouTube have RSS protocols (for now). I never used them but it's nifty for the best of both worlds.
This was my experience too. I just posted a comment here actually about there being no “real” content and was downvoted. What the hell? I don’t really get the vibe of the Bluesky community right now. How do you get seen or get popular? What is appropriate to talk about? It’s not fun IMO until I can get my real life friends and acquaintances on there. But why would they go? Right now it’s just a social network of 100% strangers since no one I know is there. That’s not fun. That’s crap!!
Javascript and "engineering solutions" somehow do not rhyme.
2 Nines is sufficient at scale?
It is funny how, in their own bubble, people assume that their opinion is held by 70% of the population while it is often the opposite (fun fact: more people voter for Hillary Clinton that Trump yet Trump voters believe that they are the majority. Same for abortion where polls showed that a clear majority of the US was pro-choice yet a very loud minority has a lot of political power)
> With ChatGPT it has definitely been a 10x boost because I can trust it not to put in backdoors, at least for its own benefit.

Do you want a dystopia? Because that's how you get a dystopia :(.
Don't write Elon off. If your goal is to create a toxic misinformation bot, Twitter is indispensable.
> I’ve always wondered what it’s like to work for a CEO where you simultaneously 1. can’t say no to him, and 2. can’t implement their hairbrained ideas without killing your product and then being blamed for it.

When I try to imagine this, what I do is think about US or British politics after 2015 or so. And then I feel enraged. And I conclude that this is what it would be like, only closer, more immediate, and more sickness-inducing.

Musk, Trump, Boris Johnson: ever-present, narcissistic sociopaths who inject themselves into everything and ruin lives, up close and further afield.

I have no idea whether the Bezos story is true, but the sound engineers working for the Beach Boys apparently really did eventually set up a mixing desk for Murry Wilson (the Wilsons' overbearing, abusive father and interfering manager) so he could make his idiotic changes whenever he wanted, but that only affected what he heard:

https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/featu...
About 1 in 5 Congressional bills passed are naming buildings.

https://rollcall.com/2018/09/07/what-has-congress-done-latel...
This good enough evidence for you?

https://eips.ethereum.org/EIPS/eip-779
On Mastodon, people can choose to pick an instance that will rarely defederate anyone and follow or mute on an individual basis, or they can choose an instance where moderators will take a firmer line.
As long as it encourages on-premise self-hosting, this can only be a good thing.
Side projects are also where I found it invaluable. I'm spending most of my time thinking about actual problems in linguistics and language rather than how to setup an NLTK pipeline or docker image for your own wikimedia database or what not

I never heard of type hints before but ironically I use them on everything now, since it's easier to lint.
but how strongly is reproduction correlated with marriage?
Sorry, I wasn't clear in that post -- I'm on Linux, and I wish Linux had an equivalent tech.
> - generate SQL queries at the speed of mouth

Because of the points this is the nearest to the work that some colleagues do, I anakyze this point (but you could ask similar questions about many of the other points):

In my experience, writing correct SQL queries (which often tend to be quite non-trivial because of the internal complexity of the projects) typically involves a lot of knowledge about the whole system that my colleagues and I work on. Even if I could copy-paste this information, written down once, into the AI chat window:

- I seriously doubt that any of these AI chat bots would be able to generate a remotely decent SQL query based on this information, if only because these SQL queries look really different from what you would see in typical CRUD web applications (for a very instructive example think into the direction of ETL for unifying historically separated lines of business where you often have lots of discussions with the respective colleagues to clear up very subtle details what the code is actually supposed to do in some strange boundary cases that exist because of some historical reasons (which one wants to get rid of))

- even explaining what the SQL query is supposed to do would in my opinion take more time than simply writing it down. Even ignoring the previous point: it is very typical that explaining in sufficient detail what the code is supposed to do would take far more time than simply writing it. A lot of programming work is not writing some scaffolding of some CRUD app or implementing a textbook algorithm.
His offer was $54.20 in April 2022. That was a 38% premium to the market price immediately prior to his investment, which is attractive but not necessarily "always well above fair value"

Twitter had traded above that price as recently as five months earlier, and had traded in the $60s and even $70s for most of 2021. Twitter's stock had cratered in early 2022 along with many other tech stocks (Facebook went from $330 to $220 in that period).

At the time, the Board could have argued that the current stock price was artificially low due to market forces, and that it wasn't an accurate reflection of the company's prospects. That's especially true because Boards have access to non-public information and longer term forecasts.

When the board agreed to the merger, it signaled to investors that sophisticated insiders on the Board and their financial advisors did not believe the stock would be reasonably likely to reach the offer price in the near/medium term, on a risk adjusted basis, and thus the acquisition is superior. That's important intel for investors, and one of the reasons why failed mergers are so risky.
No, I'm positing a 1:1 relationship between "holy shit I am a new person" in a good way and "holy shit I am a new person" in a bad way.

That's not the same as good/bad experiences.