skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, false. I was a lawyer once. Lawyers under ... 60 use Word. Courts up North get all kinds of horribly formatted dreck, but it could be worse. In the South, they get keyboard fonts but justified. In California, they get filings on paper with line numbers on the left that are strangely unaligned with the lines of text.

The only court I know that is truly finicky about formatting is the US Supreme Court, but they have sensible rules, like requiring Century, and book-width lines for actual readability.
Heaven forbid the people who show up with blank printed pages be made to feel defensive. Relationship might suffer so much they might just have to break up permanently.
Weird policy is weird no matter who you are.
> Every major corporate network …

That specific complaint seems to me more about trusted roots - corporate can just install their own CA cert on each machine. What backdoor are you talking about? Sounds like administrative access to the computers owned by the company.

The seasoning and digesting doesn’t solve that problem. Every company also has the wherewithal to copy/store/transmit anything typed into an input field on computers they own.

If there’s some other intentional “browser backdoor” (not social engineering attempts against end users) for installing random signing certs, I’d like to read about it.

If I own the hardware and control the software installed on it (notwithstanding infiltration), none if my TLS traffic is peeled open on the way to its destination.
Mame's main goal is preservation and documentation. They are emulating what was, not what someone might come up with in a ROM hack made today.
I don't at all object to code reviews/evaluation, but the thing I wonder about is this: I rarely open an empty file and write some big block of code. 98% of the time I'm fixing bugs in legacy code or shimming in some new feature. It would be trivial to produce the diffs I generated in the past 30 or 60 days, but the volume of code isn't really a great metric for my productivity.

There may be some three line change that was the result of eight hours of debugging and analyzing how to best fix the bug without disturbing the stuff that is working. Is that more or less productive than someone who cut & pasted a 100 line routine they found via google?
Issues such as what?
Russia says UK navy blew up Nord Stream, London denies involvement
> The joke ...

Don't jokes have to be funny?
He was given the money, team, idea, and government connections by this guy for SpaceX at least:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
I don't mind cutting off the feed from the solar panel to the grid, if there are crews working on the lines, or other reasonable events.

I don't want them cutting off my solar panels from being able to feed my house or my batteries, unless all my batteries are all full and there's no power draw from my house.

If they don't want my solar power, then it's fine for them to refuse to accept it, but the decision of what to do with that remaining power should be left entirely on my end.
I have definitely seen them replace whole systems without ever looking at or evaluationg the code.

Doing that seems like an improvement.
@layer8 one thing to keep in mind is your future and past self are people you can delegate to. If today I prepare a tuna sandwich in a brown paper sac for tomorrow's lunch. Then I have delegated that decision to "someone else"... past me. Keeping my current self focused in the now.

Yesterday me's focus was on making the sandwich.

But here's another piece of advice. Don't think in absolutes! Sometimes you'll have to use your gut on a Type 1, sometimes you'll be making the Type 2 decision. It's just advice not the law of Moses.
Nice glib content-free answer.

So, you just give up?

With any good faith effort, intolerance is pretty easy to define.

But, if you are talking in bad faith, there's 1000 arguments.

All authority is not authoritarian. That is why democracy was invented. In order to provide a self-correcting system. But yes, Churchill was right when he said that "Democracy is the worst of all forms of government, except for all others that have been tried."

Total free-for-all has repeatedly been shown to rapidly devolve in every case. Can you show a single un-moderated forum that survives over time, or a single unregulated "free" society without authority that does not fail?

So, can you show one of these no-authority forums or societies, or do you have a better suggestion than to just give up?
What would you recommend to practice Watts’ ideas?
Yeah Directus is great, a bit shallow on docs though.

Also it connects to sqllite so how would it stack against OP's project?
Well that also assumes you live in a part of the world that's civilized and has an allergy book. Seen it plenty in Europe and almost never in the US. Most of the time, in the US, if you say you have an allergy to something the waiter says "I don't know" or "I'll tell the chef".
I think the idea is the palette contains the same colors.

So if I have a file that was using some spot colors such as PANTONE 576 C, I can sub those colors for TEMPLETONE+ 576 C, which look the same on screen.

When I send that to your print shop you could presumably do the reverse process, then print with the same inks you did last week. Everyone is happy, except for PANTONE.
Is there any reason to suspect that there is shit code at Twitter? Or that that is in any way related to the problems that Twitter has or the "problems" that Elon said he wanted to fix?
Let’s ignore TikTok for a second. (This is a US perspective)

The last few years have been very rough. Then Covid came and made it way worse, destroying kids worlds.

Tons of people needed help. But that made everything worse if you tried to find help. At least in my area there weren’t enough psychiatrists and counselors before Covid. After it could be months to get an initial appointment if you could even find someone willing.

And cost is a huge issue. They’re teens. Care and meds are expensive. And many insurance plans don’t help as much as they would for normal issues.

So what are they going to do? Turn to what they know. Online stuff, especially TikTok.

I’m not saying any of this is good. But it seems symptomatic of much more systemic failures.

Isn’t this a bit like complaining homeless people keep sleeping on benches or GoFundMe has too many medical donation requests?
I think that's all besides the point. Does anyone think any of Twitter's problems are related to code quality? Literally go read the unit test suite and you'll what it does and if it works. If he just wants to cut heads, cut them from verticals you want to exit (whatever they might be). What the hell could he possibly achieve with this stunt? It feels more like the old cliche about your first day at prison where you should pick the toughest guy and beat him up to establish dominance.
Pay and work life benefits are generally independent of technical competence. But I agree with the rest of your comment.
Or as they say in devout circles "the lord works in mysterious ways, who are we to question his divine judgement?"
It's possible to be a sycophant who manages the politics of appeasing a narcissist while also solving problems on your own and letting said narcissist take the credit.
Do you understand why people who aren't making lots of money from it might be angry and upset about this process?
Question from a filesystem n00b: what is the advantage of Bcachefs relative to standard filesystems like Ext4?
Key algorithms to do…what, exactly? Why not just read the documentation on that instead of having people bring you a random sample of their code on paper?
I guarantee you he isn’t.
I hate QR codes for menus with a passion. Feels so awkward, need another app on Android, not easily read on dimly lit places. Usually I tell one of my friends to tell me the url.

On the other hand I love NFC for this. It blows my mind that it's not that common. Works perfectly and feels natural, just place your phone at the NFC tag.
> What would he print out?

Diffs.
Connectors are not something that should ever get hot.

Throwing thermistors all over a GPU to prevent it from catching on fire, is like putting bandaids in a box of cheerios so when the razor blades cut you, you can stop the bleeding. Cheerios should instead never have razors in them.
Is the globally-distributed many-to-many messaging platform web scale?

> One of our most productive engineers left the company with negative several hundred thousand lines of code impact over his career. What would he print out?

Certainly deleting twitter code is even better than writing twitter code. Zen like nothingness is really neither here nor there, now is it?
Indeed, Elon knows how to hire good people, the kind who can assess others in their area of expertise.
You can trust Twitter and activists to make those decisions all you like. But don't expect people to stand by and accept that as an acceptable solution to societies problems.

Because you're making these zero-transparency and zero-due process systems fill this role. Which is naive and idealistic in the worst ways.

I would probably believe in these exact things when I was an ill-formed and very socially concerned 16 year old, but I can't honestly take that position today. The only people I see taking this position are people willing to gamble for today for short term gains of their pet ideologies while ignoring long term harm.
I don’t know if that quote makes sense. ;)
to be quite honest, this kind of evangelism is what drives me away from rust.
Is reusing tool names in the same sub-field of Computer Science becoming a thing? VAST was a Fortran preprocessor.
That sounds logical to me. I was just pointing out that the headline is linked to a Nature article that is specifically about fish (genetically identical fish) which makes it considerably different than what most people would assume from the fish-less headline
Whole humans have personalities too. Doesn't mean they can't change.
Peut être: "Maybe"/"Perhaps"

Literally: "Could be"
You think they deserve 30% of all content creators income because once upon a time a user downloaded the 125mb file? Seems a bit much.
>Issues such as what?

Such as those which do not meet the standards defined for the particular audit.
“destroying faith in capitalism ”

I’d say that’s quite a bit different than “destroying capitalism “
Resorting to sleuthing around the commit history means the codebase has a problem with adequate commenting or unclear code.
Agreed that the story is plausible without the the whipping bit.

As another sports example, consider the cox'n in an eights rowing boat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coxswain_(rowing)
Being able to see the input and the output on a screen is nice though. Then I can check if the answer is wrong because of a typo in the input. I'll take a graphing calculator for the money any day, and not for the graphs.
I also work this way and advocate against squash merging or putting all the context into the PR.

A big reason for me is that I've built up a lot of context in my head when writing code. When I make the commit, that context is fresh in my mind and flows easily into the commit message.

But say instead I make a half-dozen commits with just single sentence descriptions. At the end of my work day I push the commits to a new branch and open a PR, and start writing the PR description. What was I thinking 5 hours ago when I wrote that first commit? I've forgotten. I've lost context.

So I always try to commit and document as I go. At that point I don't spend a lot of time getting the commit messages perfect, but I make sure they at least have all my thoughts. Before I push up the commits, I'll use "git rebase -i" and "reword" to edit the messages (typos, reformatting the text, maybe adding additional thoughts as I look at the diff). Then I open the PR and at that point, maybe I'll add additional context but usually my PRs are just an abstract and I ask reviewers to look at the commits themselves. It drives me crazy how hostile GitHub is to reviewing individual commits.

Many teams end up with squash-merges though because frankly: (a) developers don't know how to use git beyond committing and pushing so; (b) PR feedback is addressed by adding more commits and pushing them up, as opposed to amending the original commits; combined with; (c) GitHub only grudgingly accommodating an amend+force push workflow.

Frankly Gerrit is a better-designed review tool, but it's not widely used.
> legal. I don't see anything wrong with printing out code either

So dumb.

Do I print out the few lines I changed, or the entire file?? Do I mark what I changed??

So dumb.
The old and the new.
He did it with SpaceX too and had to reach a settlement:

> The arrangement alarmed some longtime investors in SpaceX, including its largest outside backer, Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, some of the people said. The investors learned in recent months that despite the diversion of SpaceX resources and staffing to the fledgling Boring startup, it was Musk who was in line to receive almost all of any future profits, these people said.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/new-questions-over-elon-mu...

> In early 2018, The Boring Company was spun out from SpaceX and into a separate corporate entity.[27] Somewhat less than 10% of equity was given to early employees, and over 90% to Elon Musk. Subsequent concerns by SpaceX shareholders resulted in a December 2018 reallocation of 6% of The Boring Company's equity to SpaceX.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boring_Company#History

Basically he tried embezzlement.
I'm surprised when I see QR menus at upper-mid and high end restaurants. (Though that's mostly going away now.) For lower-mid and fast food, it's a clear cost reduction and turnover-boosting channel.
If my notes from yesterday are correct, I saw conductivity <= 1200 S/cm in the linked article. Am I correct that this implies rho >= 0.001 ohm-cm?

For a 1mm x 1mm cross-section, 10cm long, and 0.001 ohm-cm, I calculate a resistance of only 1 ohm. Not bad.
Those orange and white steam pipes are something I've wondered about since I was a kid. I NEVER realized what a fascinating system they were hinting at.
Seems from Wikipedia?

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmasterrace/comments/ws3kk1/com...

I only knew about her passing because I happened to open the Wikipedia page this morning, and I have not seen a single news article about her passing. Even then, the Wikipedia page only says "Died August 14, 2022 (aged 100)", and the most recent information the article contains is "In May 2019, Booth was reported to be living in retirement, at the age of 97."
agree, the reason he wants it "printed on paper" is strictly so he can gauge output by lines of code measured in pages. Basically the dumbest metric in the world for judging the effectiveness of a programmer.
Rust is the most interesting programming language that I probably will never use.

I found it amusing that the author kind of hinted at the same thing at the end himself. There’s probably a lot of people in that boat. It’s definitely my systems language of choice, but I can’t say I am experienced enough and true systems, languages to have my opinion carry any real weight.

I would suspect that the massive ecosystem built around C++ means that you can get it more done with it faster with less frustration.

Even so, having no experience with either one of those, I would have to go with Rust due to memory safety. It’s good to watch the rest ecosystem grow and adoption increase. It looks like Microsoft is essentially endorsing it as their primary system language if they have the option.
Git isn't either/or: GitHub is because it has extremely poor support for nonlinear history. It's not alone in that but git itself has the fundamental tools to support it.
It may well be underpaid compared to it's difficulty level, but the jobs exist.

Meanwhile I've yet to see a Rails job that pays enough to be worth my while, despite Ruby being by far my favourite language.

I get to use Ruby a lot (rarely Rails; don't like the thing), but because I am typically in senior enough positions to have autonomy in what I choose for my projects - the moment a job is advertised as a Rails job, the pay is accordingly low.
He kept the interest rate low for too long[1]. That left capitalists to their own devices, which has a tendency to cause problems. "Destroying capitalism" is a bit of a stretch even for that, though.

[1] But it's not that simple. Powell left rates low until there was evidence that rates should rise. But that always comes too late, after the correct time to raise rates. On the other hand, if you raise rates before the evidence that you need to, you can kill a recovery - a recovery from 2008 that we were waiting for over a decade for it to really catch fire.
Yes, chess.com is fine too
Pretty much everything he wrote on drinking aged poorly when seen in the light of his eventual demise by drinking himself to death.
And they're heading towards companies which run a wage-fixing conspiracy during a fire sale... without a union... Unlucky
> It seems perfectly reasonable for Elon to bring in some people he knows he can trust to help evaluate how Twitter actually works.

But the first step wouldn’t be looking at code. With a system this complex, you’d never make meaningful progress with a bottom-up approach.

> I don't see anything wrong with printing out code either

Firstly, this isn’t a competitive programming contest. It is trivial and much more effective to use a code browsing tool. There is no universe where printing code would be the right decision.

Secondly, how does asking engineers to print their “recent code” help with understanding how Twitter works?
He’s referencing the article which cites its own sources.
Musk clearly dislikes fragile corporate cultures. He's going to destroy and rebuild Twitter's culture, that is very clearly his intent. I don't know how much more obvious it could be. He'll rebuild it in a way that he prefers companies to operate, staffed with the kind of people he prefers (whether anyone else likes that or not).
Tesla Inc is public.
T. Boone Pickens is a notorious Texas oil man who has knowingly and willingly and with maliciousness aforefought perpetrated some of the biggest industrial crimes in the state. And he's bought off the politicians to make sure that he can continue to do so.

T. Boone Pickens is also the leading guy in Texas who is deploying wind farms, and is using the same tactics.

It may be a useful exercise to follow the money and the specific individuals who are known to be involved.
You really managed to fool yourself into thinking that his sad attempts to be Funny Online are him playing 5D chess somehow
This article feels like a classic PR placement. It’s a little too heavy on promoting what institutional investors find useful: Having more control and power. It is very clearly advancing a point of view useful for drum roll people with the ability to place articles in the WSJ.

Suspect what is driving this is that VCs don’t add any value and just bring money. And everyone now has money.
20pt font sizes goes brrr!
I run this on my OPNsense router and I'm extremely happy with it.
> Adds optional table support

Ahem, "Add optional table support"

Because: imperative mood. :-)

I was an early git contributor and I've modeled my commits from the git project ever since.
They definitely send data for evaluating safety score and training FSD.
Tesla, not Twitter. I misread it the same way.
New people regularly join our company and evaluate our code. Why do you think you couldn’t do that without joining?
Anyone holding stock just got a massive bump above the market value(3-4x?) after Elon overpaid for it. If an employee already sold all their RSUs, well, they probably got nothing.
A lot of the doom and gloom around tech startups is based around the idea that being profitable is now an important metric.

Previously growth was the most important metric, and figuring out how to monetize users could happen later.
My mother took me to a extremely expensive child psychologist as a child. I don't recall what she said exactly, but I think she inadvertently suggested that she "thought something was wrong". The diagnosis came, my mother ignored it, and I don't have whatever he said I had twenty years or so later (not a total waste of money, he did an IQ test, and a color blindness test, hard to fuck that up).

It is an industry. At the time this happened, wealthier parents were often taking their kids to these people so they would give a diagnosis for extra time on school exams (this is presumably why he diagnosed me with something, iirc my mum told him he was wrong, he said "what do you want me to do?"). Obviously, the medication is an incentive for some kids now too. And the industry does affect how people cope, everything is medicalised and diagnosed, that isn't very helpful. The fact that kids have so much knowledge is also impacting diagnoses because they know what to say (and their parents are concerned too, and maybe say "I think you have this" and they want to validate that).

Unfortunately, I don't think anyone is really getting helped. More resources are going towards the trendy stuff, normal emotion is getting "diagnosed", and it is the same old stuff if you actually have something wrong with you (unemployment rates for people with autism are 80%, "mental health awareness").
You don't just look at the code, you do a "git blame" and see who wrote it and then discuss the code with them. The Twitter engineers are likely being interviewed to see if they should keep their job. Evaluating engineering staff first hand is an important step to evaluating a company's portfolio of products upon taking it over.
At least the Pixel camera app does native QR code scanning.
Ultracrepidarian.
In Texas, it's the Railroad Commission that is the key to approving solar and wind farm permits.

It's weird, yes. But that's the way things are done in Texas.
Yes, both were me. I'll respond since you seem to be implying my responses are incongruent.

Here I was responding to a comment "What hubris to think that your system is so complex that other engineers couldn't understand it." Which is still a bullshit assessment of the argument (which the original comment was about) that you need expertise in specific domains to be able to evaluate code, which I agree with.

My comment you quoted above is that I think that there would be a subset of Tesla engineers (just not the ones that, for example, solely focus on driver systems) that would overlap with Twitter's domain.
I'd like your opinion on the MGLRU code they just merged in the kernel. It's a self contained piece of code, you can look at it and print it on paper.

Or the folio patchset. People had a variety of reactions to it, whole lot of energy was spent evaluating that code (which in the end also made it in)

The person whose job it was to make the patch and who has interest in it being correct is not necessarily less reliable than a random HN commenter

You would probably think otherwise if it was your code and some other random commenter with no domain knowledge evaluating it, wouldn't you?
Wow, thanks! Had no idea of their role in Apollo.
Many shareholders would offer their firstborn if Elon asked. He's a strange and unique character among the billionaires.
Comments are just full of people who want to bring down Musk for the most trivial things without acknowledging the amount of good he has put forth.

FYI, I don't own a Tesla or own their stock or own any stock in Musk owned companies. I don't even follow his twitter account.
From the Chinese Room Argument to the Church-Turing Thesis [pdf]
How Does Altitude Affect F1 Cars in Mexico? [video]
Powell tried to raise rates a few years ago but the markets tanked and everyone criticized him, including the President. People didn’t want the market bubble to end.

TINA

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/t/tina-there-no-alternati...
Can’t tell if you’re serious or not. Allegedly, Tesla engineers were sent to evaluate Twitter code. Why would Tesla investors want employees to work on their CEOs side investment.