skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that if Putin demands Yulia's account is shut down globally then Musk has to comply, or Putin will pull the plug on x.com for all Russians (including Yulia).

Whether or not Putin /should/ have global jurisdiction is irrelevant. He has the power to cut off x.com in Russia if x.com does something he really doesn't like.

Rock and hard place.
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I mean, see also AWS; for a very long time their console looked like something from the dark ages. I think they have largely spruced it up now, though I'm not sure it helped _usability_ too much, and may have actually made it worse.
I like the look of it but I don't know what JMAP is and what the advantage is over say IMAP / SMTP.
Please don’t feed the trolls.
> There is a reasonableness standard that exists in both contexts and applies to both in the same way.

It applies to both in the same way in that there exists a definition of reasonable and exceeding it would be bad. But those definitions of reasonable are going to be completely different because the environments are completely different.

I guess my point is that invoking the UNIX philosophy as such brings to mind mostly tools whose scope would frankly be far too small to justify deploying a whole cloud service. It would be better to treat deployable units on the cloud as something new, rather than trying to treat them as if they were a logical extension of single-node UNIX executables.
Apparently yes, even from the Google mobile app where I did this.

https://g.co/bard/share/325bfd6d79cd
I don’t check the Facebook feed at all. I have to use it to post and read updates in a community group, and nothing else. Never had Instagram or Threads. I use WhatsApp as little as possible.

I mostly rely on email and SMS.
> endless series of atrocities I just tend to not believe a single word

The good news is that if you're susceptible to denial and percepticide
it means you're a "nice person". TBH I had the same reactions reading
Christopher Browning, Solzhenitsyn, Chomsky, Primo Levi. The bad news
is that you grow out of it, and with the courage to face the world,
realise that historians don't just make up stuff to scare people -
otherwise they'd have more fun and money being fiction writers like
Stephen King. Now I'm not a "nice" person I can tell you, the weird
news is that the bad news is the good news.
Yes, and a very obvious one. This is wallet-inspector level of effort.

The domain is a #1 give-away.

A job being offered in the comments of a PR is #2.

The time limited offer is #3.
Pretty much this.

Apart from friend discovery, group chat pretty much fills that niche. It has the advantage that you are more likely to get normal social feedback (don't be a dick, or shit thats nice)

Old facebook is a function of its time. Like london coffee houses were the ferment of social, commercial and political change, they were only that because of time, place and social conditions.

New facebook will need to be mobile first, more about personal connections than one sided showing off.
that's 16m blocks, not 4k
If your adversary knows your capabilities, even vague details, they can usually extrapolate the specifics close enough to defeat them, physics is like that. Also if you know your adversary has a capability you’re very likely to try to replicate it.

Like this announcement is probably a response to the public discourse by the US of Russian antisatellite space nukes which they are developing and denying.

It could be a negotiation tactic (we’ll not develop this if you don’t develop that), a threat (we’ll develop this faster if you don’t stop), or internal politics (we’re doing stuff that will be potent against Russia too) or many other things.

The adversary not knowing at all what you have and having to imagine your capabilities can be a bigger deterrent. But it’s a big game with many players and you have to weigh the many advantages and disadvantages of each action.
RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation.

It's the trick where a user asks you a question: "Who worked on the billing UI refresh last year?" - and you turn that question into a search against a bunch of private documents, find the top matches, copy them into a big prompt to an LLM and ask it to use that data to answer the user's question.

There's a HUGE amount of depth to building this well - it's one of the most actively explored parts of LLM/generative-AI at the moment, because being able to ask human-language questions of large private datasets is incredibly useful.
The only asset the loan originator has as a result of this transaction is the loan itself and it has an equal and opposite offsetting liability for the deposit that was created along with the loan.

Banks don't liquidate assets to get "lendable money" so I guess maybe I don't understand the original statement at all then.
Rents are finally falling but not in Orange County. People are feeling the pain
How do you define activism? I think activism is very much about the truth - it's a means of putting a challenging truth on the agenda when otherwise it would be ignored.

MLK said that people don't change their minds (maybe not exactly his term) in the absence of tension. There's plenty of history that they will ignore things for generations if they can. Look at what's happening with climate change, for example - and instead of acting to stop the problem, many in power are acting to deny it and to suppress anyone who points out out.

> if you don’t notice that activism and books praising activism (as opposed to seeking knowledge and revealing truth, or even just having deep knowledge of craft, like medicine), are a large part of modern academia

What in academia do you have experience with? Any at all?
Sometimes I ask myself "why don't we have Windows File Manager or Norton Commander anymore" but then when I find an old version and try it out it's always "ah, right, time has moved on and nostalgia is tricking my brain".

I think it's a mixture of three things:

1) nostalgia, it wasn't actually that great

2) someone eventually had to pay for the initially free infrastructure

3) many other options
When I bought a $60 game in 1996, I knew it was a complete product. It might have a bug that made it impossible to finish, but returns are a solved problem. I knew I had a product that was made, possibly incompetently, for fun, or to tell a story.

I wasn't buying something that was trying to nudge me into spending another $400 on different pixel colors, or worse, different characters, abilities, or effects.

Modern video games have adopted techniques used by the gambling industry to trigger essentially addiction, because game companies prefer 3 whales to a thousand happy individuals buying the game a single time and playing it forever happily.

Because they were not satisfied with making a million dollars off a video game. That wasn't enough money.
Makes sense. Ideally the OS should provide the capability to do SA (or similar), but I don't know how the overhead would be for programs that opt out of using it.
It's called Instagram
Do you happen to be the writer of this technical article on AWS? [1]

If not, someone on Seth Markle's team over at Amazon wrote a pretty fascinating article on the S3 architecture. Never actually heard the "airplane at 75 MPH over a grass lawn comparison" before.

This [2] aggregate workload graph/video is pretty sweet too. Very matrixy while still actually being fairly clear about what's going on.

Imagery implies S3 (at writing) had a 3.7 PB bucket size with 2.3M req/sec. Worked out to 143 hard drives (storage constrained result) and 19,000 hard drives for the I/O constrained result. Kind of an interesting counterpoint to the article. Here's what really large workload / access rate systems with spikey, intermittent workloads are structured like.

[1] https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/2023/07/building-and-op...

[2] https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/videos/fast-agg-graph-c...
The network crumbling effect
>I agree with the factual observations in your post, but there's an additional bit here, and that there's qualitative value being assigned to what The Youths don't mind and The Olds protest.

A few things here. I want the main center of gravity in the point that I'm making to be a way of approaching intergenerational reports of a given phenomenon, namely that they shouldn't just be dismissed as a function of old age or a function of changing perspective. After that point, pretty much any point you want to make is fair game as far as I'm concerned. In the case of baseball, there are positives and negatives. It clearly seems to be a positive trade-off for hitters who are choosing which style to take. I suppose there's another consideration at a higher level as to whether it benefits the game itself. So that can go either way in my opinion depending on what's important.

I tried at the end to throw in some other examples, shortening of attention spans, and environmental degradation. I think in those cases it's clear that there's something negative going on. But in general we don't have to agree with the value judgment if it's negative, but I think the positive or negative value judgments is an independent thing from the phenomenon of multiple generations attesting to some thing happening.
Moore's Scofflaws
The first part was interesting, but, the video title is misleading because they spend the last part of the video talking about using guns
The typical way to trade bandwidth away for latency would, I guess, be speculative requests. In the CPU world at least. I wonder if any cloud providers have some sort of framework built around speculative disk reads (or maybe it is a totally crazy trade to make in this context)?
They gave a Peace Prize to Kissinger so I don't think the prize holds that much weight really.
Hypothetically speaking, would you choose to allow Musk to be above the law in order to allow him to defend freedom of speech?

I would. But I don't think it would be a universally popular idea.
The interesting thing is that it is possible to share the account on multiple devices, as long as only one of those is a phone. You can sign in to and chat from that account just fine on the desktop app, even if your phone is off.

(I guess theoretically you could run something like PostmarketOS on a phone to run the desktop app, but you know what I mean.)
Is this actually made by Fastmail? It doesn't look like it.
Hackers can always create apps.
> Your goal isn’t to be intellectually stimulated at your job. If you want that, read a book.

And then people are surprised burnout rates are as high as they are. Lack of mental stimulation leading to burnout is the white-collar equivalent of repetitive stress injury at jobs that put strain on the body.

> Your job is to deliver reliable, lasting value.

Nobody is actually paying you for that. In fact, it's probably counterproductive to the business goals.

> Overcomplicating the architecture for the sake of job security is a con you run on your employer.

On the other hand, "work ethics" and professionalism in modern workforce is a con your employer runs on you. The further above and beyond you go, the more work they get out of you for the same pay.

Yes, I'm being a bit obtuse here. But my point is, there needs to be a balance. Or at least a mutual understanding of conflicting incentives. We can't demand facets of professionalism in the way that benefits employers short-term, but deny and scorn those that empower the professional. Independent learning and broadening one's experience is a part of what being a professional means.
It’s called LinkedIn
Your EC2 instance with instance-store storage when stopped can be launched on any other random host in the AZ when you power it back on. Since your rootdisk is an EBS volume attached across the network, so when you start your instance back up you're going to be launched likely somewhere else with an empty slot, and empty local-storage. This is why there is always a disclaimer that this local storage is ephemeral and don't count on it being around long-term.
Is there a usuable desktop app existing by now, or still mobile use only?
Defaults targetpw

The point of sudo is not which password is used, whatsoever.
I'm not a CIA operative, so, I'm willing to take that risk.
You can get the alt-text from hovering over the image. Even when js is on and text-only is off.
> That would explain why messaging, which is mostly based on phone contacts and therefore more in the user’s control, would be the place people now trust for their social graph.

This is the reason the I wouldn't be interested in an new old Facebook. I'd add that Messaging Apps have significantly improved since the time old Facebook was relevant. They allow Group Chats that function like a "feed" and include images, videos, memes. You can even search your chat history.

Group chats are basically old Facebook feeds with a select part of the social graph. I never thought about it this way, but they totally are. This is actually where Messaging Apps improve upon the old model. A Facebook feed was your entire social graph and your "posts" went out to that entire graph. I don't want this. I never did, really. I like the scoped social graph my "posts" reach in a Group Chat.
So basically copying telegram way. That being said, why does Signal still require a phone number in the first place? Exactly, because when needed, it will be used to be linked back to your real identity, it has nothing to do with spam or anything, Signal isn’t a social media with public posts and what not, it is a messaging app.
I can't recommend enough the whole series, zero to hero: https://karpathy.ai/zero-to-hero.html

No metaphors trying explain "complex" ideas, making them scary and seem overly complex. Instead, hands on implementations with analogy explainers where you can actually understand the ideas and see how simple it is.

Steeper learning curve at first but it is much more satisfying and you actually earn the ability to reason about this stuff instead of writing over the top influencer BS.
I used to do the same. And I got it to a point where my feed was great, I could check it every few days and get updates from people I know and community organizations.

But the issue is, it seems Facebook is now injecting algorithmic content into the feed, so suddenly my feed was full of random internet drama (that the algorithm obviously pushed because it was maximally controversial, leading to more engagement).

I deactivated my account not long after, and don't miss it.
Because the network effect that Facebook has isn't present and even if it were, it'd be like visiting your university after graduating: you remember it but you can never go back.

Facebook's now a dead mall for the original userbase, people born between 1980 and 1995. It was a great place to hang out when you were young but now it's just kiosks of shitposting groups and old people walking around saying insane things. Most of the Millennials I know are on a combo of other social media, usually a mix of IG, Meetup and Discord.

I guess there's no market interest for an old FB.
https://archive.is/4Vn52
Strongman (which stone lifting is related to) is an extremely accessible and welcoming sport. We have men, women, and children of all ages and sizes, and stones (and other implements) appropriate for everyone. Not everyone completes, but in competitions there are classes, so you can compete against other people your own age, size, gender, level of experience, and even level of disability if applicable. There are also historic lifting stones of all sizes, not just massive ones that require a giant to lift!
Great! Now can we have backups so we don´t lose our messages if our phone gets stolen or breaks?
in the uk there is a organisation called "which" (which.co.uk) who run a battery of tests on all sorts of things from phones, cars, insurance, ovens and chairs. They then give ratings.

You haave to pay a subscription, but that in theory keeps them on the straight an narrow, and at least avoids them being a advertising system for amazon or some other large conglomerate
The way they say "privacy settings will be honored by everyone using an official Signal app." kinda suggests they're gonna let third parties keep getting this info...
> Instead of “Built boring tech” try “Delivered $5,000,000 return 2 months early”.

How do I do that without lying through my teeth? 17 years on the job, I never had the data to even begin estimate that kind of things. It was never my job to know it (I'm a programmer, not an accountant), and it was often actively hidden from me.

And how did you do it? How did you get your numbers, and what did you tell recruiters when you didn't?
Because it's literally not needed. If I want to see endless photos of your baby, I'll ask to follow your private Instagram. If I want to message you, I'll either text you or IG message you. Hell, if I want to group message I'll text or IG group message. If I want to share photos I have iCloud shared albums.

Besides that I live my life out in the real world. I don't need some weird monolithic Jurassic era social network to maintain relationships with people.

So yeah, tastes change. The basic functionality of an old Facebook has been atomized and woven into the fabric of my regular phone usage.
It's the students (and faculty) that cricitize Israel that are kicked off campus and suppressed. The idea that we need to protect the rights of the powerful majority to live without challenge is a brazen misuse of civil rights, which are there to protect the minority from the majority.
> They often talk about how research is just "food for thought" and has little use in any endeavor the requires decision making or informing policy and that truth as a concept is "frowned upon".

Sounds like a reasonable perspective towards sociology research?
How generous of you to assume that one could opt-out of all of it, regardless of the pattern.
As much as the US wants to stop Russia's advances we (the world) also don't want a failed Russian country/military (not the people) selling off assets in a giant nuclear yard sale to nation states/terrorist organizations that might consider nukes as something to use.

We may not like dictators like the one in charge there and what they are doing but there is a level of diplomacy achieved that may disappear with a massive leadership change.

Much of the success of post WW2 led from things like the Bretton Woods conf: https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/time/wwii/98681.htm Of note, I believe the US shocked everyone at that (or another) conference when we didn't want any land. All of the other "winners" of wars for all of human history took some spoils. The US held that "belief that free trade not only promoted international prosperity, but also international peace". That is a large reason why US military bases exist across the globe - to promote free trade by protecting trade routes.
The startups you're describing are bad deals -- excluding the rare unicorn liquidity event. The DEIA candidates can afford to be pickier, as their applications are boosted in cushier companies (explicit quotas, etc).

Bay Area web app developers shouldn't be working 70 hours a week. By and large they don't.

SpaceX, counter to what you wrote, probably does push employees to work 60-ish hours a week. I recall reading job descriptions that said something to the effect of "expect to work weekends". Autists are likely the ones to be ensared by this trap.
Yes Prime Minister, questionnaire design matters
Yes, it depends on the specifics though. "Simply don't use any AI tools" is a viable alternative, IMHO.

But "simply don't use Windows" is already a lot more tricky, because so much of the world runs on it. You and I can get away with just running Linux, but we're not normal people in this regard.
This one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VK_(service)
Valve knows how to count to 2, it just takes a long time. Now I would never expect a v3 of anything...
Would this be a consequence of the cloud providers not being on the latest technology CPU-wise?

At least I have the impression they are lagging, eg., still offering things like:
z1d: Skylake (2017) https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/z1d/
x2i: Cascade Lake (2019) and Ice lake (2021) https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/x2i/

I have not been able to find instances powered by the 4th (Q1 2023) or 5th generation (Q4 2023) Xeons?

We solve large capacity expansion power market models that need as fast single-threaded performance as possible coupled with lots of RAM (32:1 ratio or higher ideal). One model may take 256-512 GB RAM, but not being able to use more than 4 threads effectively (interior point algorithms have very diminishing returns past this point)

Our dispatch models do not have the same RAM requirement, but you still wish to have the fastest single-threaded processors available (and then parallelize)
There's like 10 social network websites like this. They are probably greatly enjoyed by their users, but they are not as many as the author thinks they are
> SSDs in the cloud are attached over a network, and fundamentally have to be.

No they don't. I work for a cloud provider and I can guarantee that your SSD is local to your VM.
Maybe if he'd treated the prior Twitter ownership's difficult decisions with that kind of magnanimity instead of demagoguery he wouldn't have played himself into wasting his money on it.
I think the question is not "...give their private data to yet another platform" as "...give their private data to a different, possibly less hostile platform"
Hi! I saw an opening for a Senior Data Analyst role on Chainlink's website that I'm interested in (https://jobs.lever.co/chainlink/23af8d29-04e3-400a-9b5c-a1a2...).

Is there someone I could get in touch with directly about the opportunity? I'm a data analyst with 6+ years of work experience and very interested in working in the blockchain field as the next step of my career.
Matrix doesn't have the same threat model as Signal, and isn't a 1:1 replacement for it. Matrix is great (maybe optimal) for things that would otherwise be Slack channels.
> Sybil identities is currently an unsolved problem, the mitigation is the requirement of unique scarce resources (like phone number in this case)

Then let your phone number receive the spam instead?
I draw the meaning and context from both the state of current discussion in Israel, and its evolution (especially in regard to what to do with the Palestinian population) since even before 1948.

Look more into what public figures there have been saying, not just in the past 4 months, but for several years now -- not just on the margins, but in the mainstream -- and you'll see why I'm saying what I'm saying.
Found out the hard way that the old versions do stop working. You don't even get message notifications if your app is out of date.
How to Represent a Protein Sequence
>But the dissatisfaction from that thing happening is what's the criticism is all about.

The argument seems to imply that the dissatisfaction would be there regardless of the circumstances. But the point I'm making is that the dissatisfaction can be understood as meaningful and not as just a generalized disposition that's a natural consequence of getting old.

And whether or not I'm right on that, the devil is in the details there, and it's going to depend on a case-by-case basis. But it won't do just to say well the older generation is going to complain no matter what, because that doesn't credit them with the possibility of complaining for a legitimate reason.
The Russian legal system only has jurisdiction in Russia.
Wouldn't airplane mode prevent you from communicating with the drone?