skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Everything about this rebranding has been baffling to me. First, the original brand was great and pretty much untarnished, and there was no split/merger of business happening that would encourage it. There doesn't seem to be a business purpose to rename it.

Stated goal is to gradually transform it into an “everything app” — https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-aims-to-turn-twitter-i...
Eh, no they won't really get over it. I interact with plenty of people in their thirties and fourties who still have a chip on their shoulder because they were "losers" in highschool.
That's one of those situations that feels like: "Executive just hasn't noticed / lost attention span, and engineer is leaving a workaround for a bad call in place."
Not familiar with Microsoft’s offering, but $WORK uses a similar product and it is the worst. All sorts of technical and usability problems. Way more friction than doing things the easy way.

I grit my teeth every time I have to interact with it. Not surprised some people use any other solution at hand.
(works best on a narrow smartphone screen)
I would assume that anybody on HN would be familiar with Moore's Law. The more general idea is Wright's Law:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experience_curve_effects

And if they slow down, it's going to be gradual, not a sudden "oh we just finished the last of the innovation yesterday, we are done now" stop.

Many people assumed that nuclear would have a positive learning curve, but instead it has turned out to have a negative learning curve, where it got more expensive the more it was built.

In general, every body underestimates the advancements and installations of solar and battery to a degree that is nearly comical. It's incredibly consistent in the underestimation. If I could figure out the right trade to capitalize on that, I'd be much richer...
She gets cosmetic surgery without leaving the house?
No, you got that right. Only the displayed text is affected.
Disagree here. JDBC, ODBC, standards are great. There are old tools that can connect to generic databases because of said standards, you just need the right JDBC URL, or perhaps in Windows, ODBC. It's what makes interoperability work amazing things without having to recompile your code.

"hidden monkeypatching" is essentially how all of Java works.
Go google Tyranny of the Majority. Then respond after educating yourself. Unless you genuinely believe that the majority always makes the correct decision. In which case I can't help you.
Anyone who would tell Elon "this isn't a good idea" left or was fired.
> Does the text only get replaced, and the underlying link stays intact? Surely not?

That is exactly what happens.
>I don't understand the social structure

There is none. Stop trying to understand - it's a fool's errand.

>a person with responsibility would have stepped in

There are none left. They were either laid off, or they left before that could happen.

>"No, you can't do this"

... is the last thing anyone says to Elon Musk before getting fired.
It appears the substitution only affected the text of the link, not the destination.
Hi. Do you seen the irony inherent in being a climate-change-focused company, yet require folks to commute to an office daily?
It’s a checksum; by decomposing every transaction into a double of (credit A, debit B) that must sum to zero, you catch random arithmetic errors.

You can think of it as “conservation of value”, so you can’t just create money out of thin air in your payment service (credit), without tying it to some account with a corresponding debit.

This originally was intended to protect against typos; eg write a 10 instead of 100, at the end of the day your ledger needs to balance. In software typos are less likely bit it still provides auditability to prevent a large class of bugs from wiping you out.
I find it super frustrating to see well funded tech companies boldly abuse open data resources and assume they can just get away with it. I guess that's the theme of 2024.
But to make it clear: you are in violation of the license the data is provided under, and as one of the copyright holders I object to that.
I've pretty much made Debian my default, server or desktop.
I'd love to understand business case behind this, from my perspective it's persuing market oversaturated with existing solutions, but could be wrong
There are similar "everything" brands that are very successful in other countries, notably WeChat which is chat, text, photo sharing, gaming and mobile payments.

If X became the first in America it would be quite powerful, but IMHO is very unlikely.
And users. We wouldn't have nearly as many issues if it weren't for those darned users...
All he needs is a ufo defense org and he is good.
recent text to music generation apps are amazing!

what are the papers behind these breakthroughs ?
Learning from You about AI
Tab Session manager addon
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...

- Its a firefox 'Recommended' addon - so its reviewed and vetted by Mozilla
- Great UX and features.
- Along with OneTab, its a lifesaving cure for tab hoarders.
- Autosaves your sessions.
- Store and recover last 10 autosaved sessions in each category (can be configured).
- Also manually save current session or just a window. can add, edit and delete tabs in sessions.
- Tag and organisze sessions.
- A major upgrade over the default 'Restore last session' option which on more than one occassion has lost my sessions.
Write down your thoughts and shred them to relieve anger, researchers say
Yes, only the text gets replaced but not the underlying link.

Once you navigate to the link it will be the actual link in the URL bar however.

But this is an easy miss for people after they have already navigated to the link from twitter thinking it's a legitimate link.
"Researchers believe the shredder results may be related to the phenomenon of 'backward magical contagion,' which is the belief that actions taken on an object associated with a person can affect the individuals themselves. In this case, getting rid of the negative physical entity, the piece of paper, causes the original emotion to also disappear."
Man, this project looks great. https://www.azerothcore.org/catalogue.html#/details/64692616... This especially sounds amazing and I know what I'll be doing this weekend.

How difficult is it to start contributing to AC?
bit disingenuous to discount all the human labor making the devices that make the labor less directly necessary for the grain. In 1901 there weren't no one servicing combined harvester machinery, today it's a vital industry with many man hours.

Joys of statistics: you can pare and parse numbers to say whatever you want; and they're not even actually wrong. The view they offer may be worthwhile, distorted as it is. like a microscope the perspective problems may be irrelevant to data that can be gained. And yet the numbers, the allegory view, isn't actually right either...
Use tab session manager.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-m...
> the point is to double the amount of work in the hopes of catching certain kinds of errors

That's also how I like to think about it, as a kind of checksum mechanism. Double-entry bookkeeping originated in medieval European markets, which were often open-air, noisy, dirty, full of thieves and other dangers. Keeping your records straight in that environment must be a challenge, and having a logic that allows you to catch some mistakes can be a powerful tool in that context.

But there's more to it, eg it allows you to make a distinction between expenses and investments, so it is actually a truly different way to think about your financial situation than eg looking at cash flows only. Spending X on a buying livestock has a different economic meaning than spending X to pay a security guard. There are economic historians who argue that this kind of perspective was an enabler of early capitalism, because it enables people to see that money spent on an investment isn't lost value.
>Does Twitter have any software developers left

Not many people in the field actually understand protocols at the RFC level. That's the real crux.
It’s just not very useful as you can’t interface with the external world much (yet). System calls are still very limited and even things like opening a UDP socket are highly experimental. So I’m excited for it but there’s a ton of stuff missing to actually make it useful for most real world use cases.
That’s almost literally unbelievable.

I’m not even sure his nephew is reading W3Schools.

In case you’re reading this, you may have missed this article:

https://www.w3schools.com/html/html_links.asp
IXsystems: No one is being 'marooned' by Debian focus
It's not that it's not indexed, just not the top result. Maybe it dropped as a regular result because of confusion about whether "web.archive.org" is the same/similar to www.archive.org

who knows

There's definitely variations on it too, appearing as a subpage of Internet Archive listings..... appearing as it's own thing with direct search field underneath etc. It's all variations. (Not arguing that it shouldn't be a result for "wayback machine" search, but that's a quality issue)
Yeah, looks like _only_ the link label gets replaced, otherwise as you suggest it wouldn't be as bad.
It is indeed, I know I was guilty of it.

The amplification of the idea through modern social media is a scary new vector. There is so much content about “they ruined the world, you’ll never own a house, why even try” that does not help. Like all half-truths, it’s… well, half true, but giving up can’t be the answer. Can’t change the bad things in the world, so the only viable option is to work around them.

I do feel for gen Z and A. It’s a hard world to exist in out there, and the online behemoth you’re pressured to be a part of is both a blessing and a curse. I’m just young-old man yelling at cloud to you, I know because that’s how I looked at other late 30 year olds at your age too.

Just don’t give up. Remember that online is all fake and the points don’t matter. The real people around you care about you, they truly do, even if you’re struggling to see it yourself.
Minus the massive public shoot-out with automatic weapons.
Theoretically, there's a universe where Twitter wasn't bought out and the share price grew substantially, which will never come into place due to Elon's actions?

(I'm grasping at straws, mostly because Elon's ability to spite the shareholders is fairly limited.)
several offshoot Canadian subreddits, like r/onguardforthee, were created several years ago when a number of users felt that the existing r/Canada subreddit discussion was being manipulated.

I don’t recall the deeper substance of the disagreement anymore unfortunately.
Oops. Dunno how to edit it.
Interactive visualization and analytics on ADS-B data with ClickHouse
Musk fancies himself a coder, so he probably wrote it himself and pushed it to master without review; or he did have it reviewed and fired anyone who pointed out the mistake.
The Making of VES: The Cosmos Microservice for Netflix Video Encoding
> Just curious, how much are you contributing upstream?

Additionally, in terms of code and financial support?
Perhaps similarly, neural activation patterns in biological neural networks are cyclic: there are cycles in the graph (which has oscillating voltage due to the heart being an electrical generator in addition to a pump).
He started X.com which merged with PayPal, but lost control of the domain over 20 years ago and didn't buy it back until 2017 [0].

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2017/7/10/15949862/elon-musk-x-com-...
Exactly it.

Please use your Microsoft gaming account to login to my phishing site, xbotwitter.com
It's from an Old English toponym, and those are sometimes quite variable across the country; for example locally in Sheffield any steep hillsides are named 'cliffe' e.g. Attercliffe, Brincliffe.
The bill validator in the slot machine will not flag a serial number. It won't be caught until the bills hit the bank. But once they deduced that casinos were being used, Barney Fife would be hot on the trail.
Any ideas how much he paid for the domain back then?
My biggest issue with LinkedIn is their horrible mobile web interface. I didn't trust their app. I know it's been years, but they burned anything resembling trust.
I'm divesting as must as possible from cloud offerings these days. We have our data "lakes" in colocation now, @ 1/40th the cost of the cheapest cloud offerings, but with greatly expanded CPU, mem, and disk, so it's not even an apples-to-apples comparison.

What I am jealous of though is these x86 competition announcements by AWS/Gcloud, as there simply is nothing available outside Ampere Alta, and it has not seen a refresh in awhile. The Nvidia Grave CPU is eternally delayed and I'm guessing will not be at a competitive price point if it ever makes it to market. I've come to appreciate how important memory bandwidth is after using a M1 cpu for awhile.
Dr ChatGPT: How different prompts impact health answer correctness
I think you have to work very hard before it's worse for your body than extended sitting. I make my living in front of a screen so try to mitigate it by going out in the yard and simulating someone who physically works for a living.
With the amount of data that the social networks syphon, they surely know the age. Banning the underage users does not need any more compromise of anonymity than what already exists.
SerpAPI is a good service and very easy to use. You can get 100 searches a month for free and $75/month will get you all the searches you (likely) need.

https://serpapi.com

I personally don't find any of these tools to be that trustworthy (because of the level of personalization of SERPs) so consistency and trends is the best you can hope for.
This. "Don't feed the trolls." :)
You should add queries to share link
Thanks. I did update the story to reflect the apparent fix. I'm still trying to verify if this behavior remains in some form.
Most of the code pages had them, in fact, as they normally didn't vary in the C0 control character range.
Back when NT 3.1 and 4.0 were mainstream, and where this storage driver on floppy process originates from, absolutely.

By the time XP rolled around, CDROMs were common place.
You might be able to argue the point for SpaceX and Starlink, but honestly I'm not sold on the rest. He bought his way into Tesla, for example.

Moreover, I don't even know that I buy the idea that the CEO is really the reason for any company's success; are we going to claim that Bill Gates is responsible for the success of desktop computing? I mean, you can if you want but I would not personally say that. I think it's a combination of good marketing, right-place-right-time, and happening to hire the right people for the job.

Even before SpaceX got off the ground, since I was a kid, people have been complaining at how little NASA was accomplishing, so I think someone breaking into the commercial space flight was inevitable. Elon probably does deserve a bit of credit for funding it when he did but I'm not convinced that he was uniquely qualified to to it, and I absolutely reject the notion that "because he was successful with some businesses, he's going to save the world".

He also lies. A lot. Like, more often than he tells the truth. He just makes shit up. He has claimed we will have self-driving cars "next year" for the last 6 years. He has repeatedly claimed that it's something we can do "today". He claimed that the Boring Company can "pay for itself with brick production".

All of this to me kind of implies his success is more stochastic than any kind of eccentric genius.
Small Changes and Jailbreaks Affect Large Language Model Performance
This is valueless trash. Everyone here knows it; the author knows it.

Products that try to tax ignorance have no place.

"Enterprise plan"? Fuck right off.
Meta MTIA v2 – Meta Training and Inference Accelerator
This also reminds me of a story of when a Commodore engineer did successfully insert a message into AmigaDOS that said "We Made Amiga" followed by "They Fucked It Up" very briefly if you invoked a specific key combo. Naturally, Commodore Intl. was not amused about this easter egg.
> “WASI preview two is a checkpoint of stable interfaces,” Spencer said. “The instability of preview one, [which] may have scared or prevented you from using Wasm in production, is now past us.”

I wasn't aware a new version of WASI was out. I've been following it for years and its potential is still exciting.

Some quotes:

> WASI 0.2 also introduces two distinct “worlds,” which describe different kinds of hosts that WebAssembly can run on. The first of these worlds is the “command” world, resembling a traditional POSIX command-line application with access to the file system, socket and terminal.

> The second of these worlds is the “HTTP proxy,” which characterizes platforms, like Fastly, that can send and receive streaming HTTP requests and responses, serving as forward or reverse proxies. These worlds represent the beginning of a broader ecosystem, offering developers multiple avenues to explore and innovate, and more worlds will be added to WASI in the future.
On the contrary, if everyone can see your opinion, then all the people who disagree have the opportunity to say so. There's always someone in the world who disagrees. Add to that the folks who say things they don't believe for fun, and the ones who are paid by businesses and governments to spread propaganda, and you have a real mess.
I think you still have missed it..

Namecheap has two wordings under a price:

1) Renewal price

2) Retail Price (when the price is discounted).

In the case of #2, there is no clarity or guarantee that the price listed is the renewal price.
Yep, or the fact that such a commenter has 70k karma on HN is something, too.
What is the market size of people who care about "eliminating the monopoly position of trillion dollar (evil) companies"? And how will you monetize them?

Not that either Apple or Meta are even close to having a monopoly position in messaging.
iirc we could plausibly move to Titan and live off nuclear energy
Looks like their devs learned RegEx on regetwitter.com
What is the 'calibre' (ebook manager) for qr codes? There must be a local app that can generate all the different qr codes, with custom redundancy levels, etc, etc, and is known as the comprehensive solution?

This looks like just another crappy web QR generator - it might make money if the SEO is good, or it's all dark patterns, but otherwise probably not.
Social media created a perpetual church gossip culture where every action and statement is endlessly evaluated by the peanut gallery, while also creating a land rush for finding new moral angles to exploit for social status.

Why specifically social media? It's a function of communication efficiency. It's why church is associated with this sort of cattiness, everyone knows everyone and is brought together regularly to provide a venue to trade gossip. It also supplies the moral standard by which everyone is evaluated and one's social status is tied to how well one appears to meet this standard. The cattiness is just status games playing out given these constraints.
This is a great write up, thank you! One thing I’m curious about is what properties/metrics of the graph mean for accounting. Spectral properties (eigenvalues, etc…) might have some insightful meaning for the financial system.

Also I’m sure this is extremely well studied but I’m not super familiar — ML on accounting graphs could identify shapes that indicate illegal transactions, etc… Will dig for reading :)
And that's why "Worcester Sauce" is the second most mispronounced culinary term in Germany (after "Stracciatella") *

[*] - according to my made-up-on-the spot stats
Well it starts with the bad idea probably coming from the top, Musk saying I'm tired of seeing twitter.com links change them all to look like x.com links, that plus his gutting of the company when he took over means there's less people around to be the person to say no you can't do this this way go back and start over (or not at all).
Right. I didn't mention that a chart of accounts can look different in different companies/sectors. Some accounts may be considered nested (software may even show them as nested.) Then you can roll the totals for all accounts of a type into a general category account like "Assets" or "Expenses." That makes it easier to answer questions like, "how much have we spent in total?"
Thanks for reminding me about the !qr bang trigger~

It successfully encoded a long URL[1] that causes an error on OP's site. (And works better than the built-in chrome QR code generator)

[1]: https://mm.leftium.com?p=C4S2BsFMAIF5oEQCkD2ALAdgcgM7QDICGAr...
Isn't the important part of the tech open source?
Kobo announces color e-readers
It's been a bizarre ride watching Twitter slowly unravel under the new leadership.

It'll have a long way to fall... the total userbase is still around the same order of magnitude as the population of the United States. But when I read stories of decisions like this, I can't help but think that it indicates the adults are no longer in the room, and a 300-million-plus userbase becomes a massive target surface if it's being run by a team that doesn't really grok the Internet...
Yeah I hate Oath.

I really wish APIs were as just having a free tier that you can just use, and if you want more, just POST $10 worth of Solana to some endpoint and the API gives your IP 10000 more requests. No accounts, no keys, just simple.

I'm not a cryptocurrency fanatic but making APIs easier to access is one really good use case for it. It makes paying for an API as easy as paying for a lemonade at a street stand with cash. No accounts, no billing addresses, no subscriptions, just POST over a nickel along with your API request and get a response, and API owner gets paid.
The lack of authority is something I hear about from teachers in my locale. Many kids do not grow up with authority figures in their lives whether it be their parents, teachers, coaches, or other family. One of the teachers I know got in hot water for firmly telling a kid to ‘sit down’. The child was so upset — most likely because they have never encountered authority in their life — that the parents complained to the school board.
Well, do you think a teacher can love a class of 20 or 30 kids, like a parent can? I think they might do a professional job, but it would be impossible to give individual attention. And, around here (UK), teachers have a lot of non class time obligations with the result being that they are away and a lot of care is passed to teaching assistants.
The Venn diagram of people who are obsessive enough to become the type of expert to go to Antarctica and sexual predators has a larger overlap than the Venn diagram of most professional populations and sexual predators.
Why the tale of woe from the planet Arrakis? Well, you can be sure I started the next book early. I was well ahead of schedule for each report and assignment for the rest of the year. My merciful teacher also let me do some extra credit to get my overall grade up. This whole experience taught me two very valuable lessons.

First, “Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings obliteration.”

Second, deadlines spur action; consequences spur urgency.
Right, it's the main assumption I'm making here. I'm basing it on all the predictions around meat substitutes getting cheaper as they mature and scale up, which have not panned out so far. And, more broadly, the tendency for startups to make such claims with the best intentions but a rather poor track record. The narrative tends to change from "we believe we can get the cost down" to "this is a premium product, people will pay more for this". We'll see I guess. A chicken egg at a grocery store right now costs about $.25, so that's the number to beat.
i still sometimes work with mips, thank you so much for calling this out (and all the clueless x86 "experts" :-)