skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most comments fail miserably to understand the underlying meaning of such move.

Most comments critics the lack of usefullness of such request.

Most comments are funneled in a technological sideration, and fail to consider such request in a context of power take over, social hierarchy and group dynamic.

Please, stop being hypnotized. And think a little out of the box of your modern, sterilized, way of thinking.

Also, it is well known that Musk hiring process emphazises on "doer" profile. Not only the activities of his company are highly seducing to high intellectual profiles, Musk over select them based on the "doer" criteria. People highly intelligent, but emprisonned only in theorical masturbation are not selected.

"Show me your code" is nothing different than "show me the rocket you build in your yard"

Lot of smart people can talk about rocket. Only a few are doing rocket.
Lot of smart people can talk about code, only a few are coding.

So Musk is just trying to detect who are the 20% coders from the dev staff that are doing the 80% of the work. In order to fire the 80% remaining as promised.

This is the first time he bought a big company which was not designed from origin by his paradigm.

Most of big company are kindergarden (to be nice to them). Musk now is turning twitter from kindergarden to efficient, profitable structure, in regards to Tesla or SpaceX.

This is quite a big challenge, as far as Elon's paradigms were not part of the inner culture, staffing policies of the company, since birth.

Let's see how it will go.

ps: If once, you place yourself in the field of complexity, collective intelligence, group dynamic, you first understand that companies structure are the only allowed (accepted) form of experimentation by the capitalism system.

The family structure has been totally destroyed by promoting all kind of law attacking the inner mecanism of family structure viability. Therefore blocking all possibility of collective intelligence from it.

The religious structure has been totally destroyed by instillating all kind of memetic virus such as new-age bullshit to sabotage all the core mechanism of religious structure to offer any fertile environment of collective intelligence.

The only allowed space is the business and company. In such paradigm, every company is an experiment of collective intelligence, group dynamic, and complex system.

Twitter, or any kind of social media have a special place in this experiment. As far as their main business is collective intelligence itself, (introduction of recursion principle).

So for all peoples asking themselves why Musk made this purchase. It's seems pretty logical. As far as the efficiency he demonstrated to design very fertile environment for the emergence of a outclassing collective intelligence, demonstrates that he is well aware of the topic. And purchasing twitter will only (i hope) allow him to enter the metalevel of collective intelligence experiments.
So the year is 2120. We could have tech that allows anyone to generate code and art "effortlessly and unknowingly", but we don't because we don't want to upset some dead folks from a hundred years ago. Is that the society we want?
Found Mark’s HN account!
People fail to see that 'the government' running something important to the public does not have to operate as if it were the DMV. Publicly funded can mean many different things.
Gender doesn't equal sex, though. My non binary friends are very much equipped with penises or vaginas.

There's a wide variety of genders in the rest of the world as well. While this is a newer concept in American and Western cultures, there are non male, non female genders dating back to mesopotamia.
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curl -s "give.me.some/yaml" | rq --input-yaml --output-json | jq '.my.selected[1].field'
> So what is the real problem with inflation? Is it the economic inequality it brings to those who have to live on fixed income?

Yes, that's part of it. Inflation is a race. It's not a problem for whoever gets access to the newly created money first. It's a tax on people who have fixed income (or cash reserves) of some kind, because they will be the last group the new money flows to. It's not about the increase in money supply, which doesn't really matter because the market will adjust prices, it's about how the newly created money flows through the economy.
No offence, but this sounds expensive and stressful.

I used to obsess over things like "good design", minimalism, perfectionism, etc. Since I stopped obsessing, I feel better: less stress, fewer expectations from my environment, better focus on what I need to accomplish (rather than by what tools) etc. Don't get me wrong, I still clean out my desk once in a couple of days, but am no longer distracted by small stuff every minute. For e.g., I love a good mechanical keyboard and bought one a few years ago and never looked back. I am happy with this keyboard and will use it until it breaks down. I love fountain pens and bought one 7 years ago, and now I don't think about pens anymore. Not that I do not care about a good pen or a good keyboard, but because I am happy with what I've got.
Ah, the feeling I had about cryptos some 10 years ago. They're still not quite there, but the feeling is long gone.
...and be on-call 3x as much.
No, but that is the effect, when you take the concequences of the whole decree. The method is continually checked and dictated by ftc.
Those are not mutually exclusive. One can feel attacked when they are or aren't actually attacked. One can feel not attacked, even if you are.

You act on the feeling.
That's one possible reading of the situation, certainly. Another, however, is that openssl is uniquely poor quite separately from the language it happens to be implemented in. Unfortunately TLS libraries are thin enough on the ground that we can't really pick out patterns. It's like saying that microkernels are bad because HURD has serious issues; it could be true, but comparing by the well-known problem child isn't necessarily a good way to tell.
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I feel like this person is simply in a bubble that isn't a reflection of the real world, or in some cases just making asinine statements. High speed internet being homogeneous is not a bad thing. If you actually want to disconnect, ditch your devices and go out into the wilderness instead of booking your next AirBnb and going to the same trendy coffee shops. It's supremely easy to find spaces that are not designed with these sensibilities all over the world.
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The government will default from the massive increase in interest payments.
How interesting! I know virtually nothing of GCs, but posts like this suggest that there is a huge amount of research behind something that looks do deceptively simple as calling a "free/delete" here and there. Kudos to whoever works on this stuff!
Nope. News stations don't generate content, they report it. If you think YOU are the news station because you generate content you're watching too much Fox News.
I played Darius on an emulator recently and realized that the a particular bit of melody I've been singing in my head for decades came from this game.
Typical ergonomic guidelines are to place monitors so that your eyes are 2-3 inches below the top of the screen (looking down is much easier than looking up). The monitor in the photo is a 40”. Either they’re a giant, or their knees are well above desk level, or they have neck pain issues.
Another perspective, we have 83.45 %/year CPI inflation in Turkey. This is the official number an independent research group of academics claim it is nearing 200%. The official interest rate is 10.5%/year. You get maximum 20-25%/year interest on savings accounts. Real estate market and rents go up 220%/year (by the official numbers).

Before doing FIRE purchase your own home or sign a really long term lease with upfront payment and no increases, inflation caused by corruption (as in my country's case) wreaks havoc on savings. It is simply not possible to invest in anything that can keep up with the inflation, you get poorer by the day.
It wasn't strictly cash, it was an agreement to buy $150 million of stock as part of a Judge-approved settlement of a lawsuit which Apple was winning. The settlement was a win-win for both sides, because it meant Apple remained a healthy company and Microsoft got to avoid paying out BILLIONS to Apple. Instead they bought stock which they sold for a tidy profit ($550 million) a few years later.

(Fun fact: if Microsoft hadn't sold this $150 million investment in Apple stock, it would be worth $120 BILLION today and this shareholding would be Microsoft's single most profitable business unit.)
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You hate when the people most knowledgeable about something take the time to explain things?
Ask HN: How does your customised productivity system work if you use any at all?
Some people use nothing, just their memory.

Some use only a small piece of pen and paper.

Some use a collection of apps and analog systems.

What is yours?
Twitter was a bad idea - a global town square - humanity is not ready for such a concept.

A small minority will always be the one to fark up things for others - see griefing in MMO and why moderators and banning is needed.
The EU already has its own Mastodon server: https://social.network.europa.eu/about
I'm not a fan of Go but it is memory safe (with a very minor exception[1]), Zig isn't (it will likely end up safer than C, but it will be “modern c++”-safe but not memory safe.

[1]: there can be memory safety issues in the presence of data races, but this has ever been proven exploitable, doesn't cause the compiler to completely miscompile and is very rare in practice, so it's not comparable to unsafe memory languages.
Amazon Linux 2022 Preview (the upcoming successor to Amazon Linux 2) is also using OpenSSL 3. Had to shut down one host I have using that for an ongoing project until Amazon makes another RC package update.

That was, as it turns out, the only OpenSSL 3 host I'm presently dealing with.
It is transphobic when you deliberately say the wrong thing (especially with an intent to harm or be inflammatory). A trans woman is a woman.
Why patch for vulnerabilities though? Is it connected to the Internet?
Aside from the content (which is fantastic), this is one of the most graphically pleasing blogs I have come across in a long time.

* Clean design. No loud colors, animations, popups or clutter.

* Sensible CSS usage. Good colors, contrast, margins.

* Large text size. I don't know why so many sites (including HN) mess this up. I don't want to have to magnify a site 3-4x just to read the text from a reasonable distance.

* Rich content when needed (images, GIFs, video embeds), all serving to complement the writing rather than getting in the way.

* Reads very well on mobile devices.

* Loads quickly.

Sites like these are a perfect response to many different sides of the web design debate – including those who preach that plain HTML with six tags and no CSS/JS is the only acceptable answer for a functional website.
I am also a thief in all of the same ways.

When I write, I am doing nothing but laundering sentences and grammar rules from my English textbooks as well as sampling from the millions of sentences that I have read in my lifetime to compose into this comment as a response to your prompt. When I code, I heavily reference existing implementations and often only make minor stylistic changes, copying algorithms and data structures wholesale from memory. When I cook, I'm literally copying the contents of the cookbooks or cooking channels with a few minor substitutions at best.

Unfortunately, I am not brilliant enough to come up with my own algorithms, recipes, or literary flourishes. Few people are truly "creators", to be honest, and even creators build off or derive from existing work.
> It is not a public communications carrier.

It has 400 million users. By all other definition it is a public space
Interesting! Glancing at the board, there is a clear makeup of highly educated, decorated, democratic, liberal-ish people. I would be hard pressed to call this setup one that focuses on "wildly diverse viewpoints".
> And since there are all kinds of pointers in D, one no longer can use a moving GC allocator, because it cannot know exactly where 100% of the GC pointers are.

Go's GC is non-moving and it can't safely be made moving in the current state[0].

It also used to be partially conservative until 1.3[1][2][3]: the heap was precise, but the stack was conservative.

[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/46787

[1] https://go.dev/doc/go1.3#garbage_collector

[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1lyPIbmsYbXnpNj57a261hgOY...

[3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/13v_u3UrN2pgUtPnH4y-qfmlX...
This is the challenge with embargoed disclosures: they have to be as generic as possible, to prevent people from sniffing the bug out.
It’s only harmful if you buy high and sell low.
This is not obvious to me, I’ve always thought of for example a toddler playing with a ball by themselves as learning basic intuitive physics.
If their efforts yielded minimal results, somebody else must have had success. Online discord seems to have been sown somehow.
> For example, when companies can produce a good at a rate X, they can up prices at rate 1.05X. But suddenly, they run out of resources and can only produce at constant, instead of rate X, but continue to raise prices due to “projected” demand.

> You have to break the cycle somewhere, and it’s painful no matter where you start, from unemployment or raise taxes or add regulations.

I know your explanation is simplified, but as you describe it, it seems like the obvious solution is to just stop raising the prices? I feel like there must be something more complicated at play, because "we need more unemployment so that the companies don't have to stop raising their prices due to incorrect predictions" is ridiculous.
I have both the H2 and H2+, and it runs fine off 12V. I have tested the system down to 11V, and possibly lower.

The 12V or higher is required only for the 12V rail used power 3.5” SATA drives directly from the board.
Musk's MO is in creating new markets in ambitious new areas. I see no evidence of his ability in turning round failing old companies with old, below-par products.

Maybe being forced to buy it (it's probably already halved in value at least) will make him think twice before gobbing off in future though.
A joke about trans people may or may not be transphobia. There's a ton of context to consider - who is telling the joke, whi is the punchline, etc.

But this case was not that. This case was specifically targeting a specific individual and making fun of them being trans. That's absolutely transphobia.
Posting like this will get you banned here, regardless of how wrong someone else is or you feel they are.

I'm not going to ban you right now because (unlike with the other account) I didn't see a lot of this in your history—but please don't do it again.

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I expect AAA games will move away from discrete rendering techniques and towards cloud-assisted AI rendering within the next five to ten years.

Cards like this beast may be the Plymouth Barracuda of this PC era.
The costs of inflation are mostly in surprise, adjustment, monitoring or uncertainty. A stable rate puts all of those at or near zero. High, stable, predictable inflation would be better than usually low but unstable inflation. For a perfectly fine introduction to why inflation is bad see the link below.

https://quickonomics.com/the-costs-of-inflation/#:~:text=The...
Yup, it’s a very rigorous system developed over ~10 years with solid testing, benchmarking and formal proofs. However it has some known issues, such as behaviour under high load and not currently handling node failure within a DC.

It’s not production ready and neither are we (we’re in developer preview mode, which is like a public alpha [0]).

There are also other aspects on the Antidote roadmap such as efficiently materialising consistent secondary indexes that are ongoing challenges but aren’t so relevant to how we’re using it as a replication layer.

We are working, alongside others, with the Antidote developers to help fix these issues and generally improve reliability / engineer correct behaviour under load. (Professor Annette Bieniusa, who leads the development, is our Chief Architect). We have a fork at electric-sql/vaxine [1].

We are also taking advantage of some simplifications which mitigate the known issues. We have an #antidote channel in the ElectricSQL discord [2] if you’d be interested in chatting more.

[0]: https://electric-sql.com/docs/overview/faqs

[1]: https://github.com/electric-sql/vaxine

[2]: https://discord.gg/B7kHGwDcbj
Yea, I don't understand how people use monitors where the lower edge is on level with their eye line. My neck hurts just looking at the pictures.

But I did start in the time when we had dedicated holes for CRT monitors in desks so you could put them low enough.
Here's Smalltalk in a web browser: https://amber-lang.net/
Isn't it just lovely how we've moved so many things to static linking and containers? Now what should be a simple `apt upgrade` and maybe a reboot to ensure everything loads the new version is going to instead involve checking every binary (and its dependencies) for statically linked OpenSSL, check if the maintainer has committed to releasing a new version after the fix and if not, getting a toolchain ready to recompile when it drops. Containers will also need to be rebuilt from source or hot-updated.
I've explained[0][1] in the past why this is nonsense, and seem to have eventually convinced[2] the one person who actually read the literature. Beyond that--crickets.

0. https://forum.dlang.org/post/mpczwoeykpcwjakuderd@forum.dlan...

1. https://forum.dlang.org/post/eujlhvszhpbyoxemscxb@forum.dlan...

2. https://forum.dlang.org/post/ssq34d$2ur7$1@digitalmars.com
This happens to humans, too.
> You could say that the Chinese approach is not 'self driving' but 'networked driving'. But what is the big deal if your car whisks you off from A to B without having to touch the wheel?

Would this before or after they've locked everyone under indefinite COVID detention, err... quarantine?

Even if this were the way they justify the massive panopticon, there would be so few people that would benefit from this tech that one has to ask what was gained from doing so? The way QR codes made it's way to China isn't entirely just weibo or wechat alone, Xianjing relies on them as does all the AI facial recognition tech and is the very definition of an Authoritarian police-state and if that is what it 'takes' to get to mas adoption of Surveillance Tech than I think we are better off.

Public transportation mixed wit WFH solutions seem far more favourable.
I worked in 2010, so yea it might have moved on. It's probably in powerpoints now ;-) I worked in military (not space) though. I still know people there and I'd guess it is not that modern. We'd also make bluebooks in 2010 with code printed and neatly bound in them.
My mind immediately went to the scripting systems, visual or text based that allow level designers to create the game experience in a programming portal that many are unfamiliar with.

The blueprints of Unreal Engine. The shader graphs. All of the best allow for working interactively.

Smalltalk's vision is partially embodied in Unity where live editing works for many things and the feedback loop is often instant.

But nothing really achieves fully what has been envisioned.

One of the reasons why utopias don't exist for programing portals for serious work is the flipside of programming - debugging.

If and when they succeed for anything more than the simplest uses, they can come up against a lack of good systems to collectively inspect and reason over failed functionality or performance.

I still love things in this vein. Shadertoy and Graphtoy come to mind.
What to read to make and drink better cocktails
https://archive.ph/wOWSa
> it becomes a self-reinforcing perpetual motion machine.

Only until expectations catch up with the reality of the money supply. If there isn’t enough money in the business’s account to pay that 13% raise people get fired or the contract gets renegotiated, or the business goes under.
A Brief History and Ethos of the Digital Garden (2020)
> this has ever been proven exploitable

I agree (typo exploit!)

See eg
https://blog.stalkr.net/2015/04/golang-data-races-to-break-m... & https://blog.stalkr.net/2022/01/universal-go-exploit-using-d...

(And also people shouldn't take "nobody developed an exploit for this vulnerability yet" as any kind of strong evidence, attacks techniques always get better, never worse, over time etc - crypto algorithm people have it right when they start bracing for impact quite early after signs of a theoretical break)
I think many people look at GC in the wrong way, as if absolute maximum speed is always the goal. It depends on what the goal is, and GC performance can be as fast as needed or enough. GC is also a convenience, that many may find worthwhile, to not worry about memory management.

Optional GC, also means you are free to go for it manually, if there is really and truly some bit of extra performance needed. In regards to language wars, it's arguably better to make the case of how to make manual memory management more convenient to use, when the optional GC is turned off.
Discussed at the time:

Katamari Hack - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2486038 - April 2011 (5 comments)
Another thing I notice is that all these desk setups look unnaturally tidy and uninhabited.
Show me your desk setup after an 8-hour workday with two overlapping deadlines, then we’ll talk.
My god Pokemon Yellow total control is on a whole different level
Features such as sum types (enums) that you can pattern match on. Or generics (well now Go got them as well, for a reason).

Maybe it doesn't immediately sound as if this is related to security, but it is. If it is hard to model your data and hard to work with it, then people will go the "easy and fast" path.

Think Java: for each type you have to create a new file. Even with modern tooling that is still annoying. So people often shortcut and just use "String". Now you have "String password" and "String userid" and you can swap it up and print the password by accident. Artificial example, I know, but I hope it explains what I mean in general.