skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've only seen this madness in the US. The first time they took my card away from my sight I went with them to see what the heck they were doing. Crazy system, unsafe for no reason, they can bring terminal to you in the same amount of time, no signatures needed either. All of Europe works as you described, few countries in Africa I've been in the same, I wonder how it came to be like this in the US.
Fixing bugs is part of the job. If you care about the product you work on, you have to fix the bugs and not whine about who originally wrote the code.
Which only adds to the confusion. Why are they charging a license on a product which feeds into people buying hard copies of colour charts, clip books and samples? That's where the money is.

Babying the IP in software is cutting off broad usage. This will hurt sales.
I mean…he does sound like a non engineer manager type.
His real enterprise is a massive DoD program, which requires Republicans to fund. Twitter helps him with that and curry favors.

Mike is the ringleader but he's only useful when Republicans are in power.

So not as foolish as he seems, but it's unclear his ploys will pay off.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
> I don't think they can get a clear picture by looking at last 30 days of code

I can very quickly spot developers who are mediocre or worse by looking at their last 30 days off code. (As long as it's a language I have decent experience in.)

I suspect he's trying to access the team's technical competence.
That's incorrect.

This is a double quote: ", 0x22, ascii

This is a smart open quote: “, 0x201c, unicode

This is a smart close quote: ”, 0x201d, unicode

By default your keyboard double-quote key produces the ascii double quote mark, and that is what's used for quoting in virtually every programming language.

Word and many email clients will use smart-quotes by default, but they're pretty rare in programming, hence why the "some among us" phrasing calling them out as strange.

That's what the linked repo is referring to by soft quotes, and the command given specifically uses 0x201d above.
smart/soft quotes are usually:

‘|’|“|”

but there are also other quoting glyphs in ASCII but especially UTF-8
Doesn't lying to the board, the SEC and the shareholders count as misconduct? If half of what the whistleblower said was true, how is Parag not under criminal charges at this point?

Edit: s/try/true
In Sydney Australia it is common for the payment to happen through the QR code flow. It’s backed by well-known apps though, not unknown 3rd parties.
Well if you have a baby you'd know that function is kind of important in baby clothing. They're not exactly cooperative when getting dressed... Not to mention, they can't pick their own clothing. Parents do. Regardless, our kid has some cute/fun clothing (a fleece bear onesie for example), some chosen by us, some chosen by others, and most of it is functional. A bald 0-3 month baby isn't going to wear a dress nor a suit.
Isn't discord itself a crappier version of IRC? You can always out execute.
Why is OP describing that as “disturbing” (I type with “smart” quotes)? It’s not intentional; it’s just because I’m on an iPhone.[a] On the default keyboard, if I want "dumb" quotes, I have to tap and hold the key to get the popup. Simply tapping the quote key is less effort.

[a]: On my computers, I’ll use "dumb" quotes. Easy way to see where I typed a comment from, I guess.
> The mass-graves with civilians, hands tied behind their back, gunshot to the back of the head

Just like the WMDs in Iraq. And the 'rape kits' of Gaddafi soldiers. The same rape kits which Russian soldiers seem to have now. And they are just like how Germans raped babies during Ww I in Belgium. It worked that one time and every single time after that, so they are still using atrocity propaganda. Because Angloamerican public are suckers for it.

> when we get the full picture of what happened in Mariupol one day.

Yeah, when whichever 'nationalist' Ukrainan battalion murdered those people who wore the white armbands of Russian volunteers are caught, we will definitely learn what happened.

But of course, that will change absolutely nothing: Because by then you people will have moved to the new atrocity propaganda around the new war.

> NATO-propaganda, go ahead.

Having lived through NATO propaganda and lies first hand, yeah, I will go ahead.
It is a common misunderstanding that in evolution everything is about reproduction, and not the survival of genes, which requires more than just reproduction. Parents would be so happy if reproduction is all it would take.

> Nobody comes from a long line of eunuchs.

Nobody comes from a long line of dumb breeders either, the survival of the species takes more work than just tapping ass. For example a homosexual uncle that's willing to pitch in can play an important part in survival by not creating more hungry mouths, by doing useful work and by creating useful bonds inside or outside of the community. The selection pressure in this case would be on women to have a certain amount of homosexual children. Groups that have such women would enjoy an advantage. Those helpful homosexual uncles just created an evolutionary change, even if they themselves are not reproducing.

> Neither a clitoris nor a female orgasm is required for female reproduction.

It can be however required for any number of advantageous functions playing secondary roles in the survival of genes. There is research to suggest that female orgasm evolved from something that played a primary role in reproduction in ancient mammals, but then it's evolution went in the direction of secondary roles.
Also a Hetzner convert. Their pricing is so cheap for VPS compared to AWS that I worry they’ll have to put up the prices at some point.
There was a paper published about making SQL server transactions distributed. But one of the authors was lost at sea. That was the last I heard of it.
Same, for nearly 10 years, I got prostituted to nearly every company a major shareholder had a piece of, my fee was just billed to whoever I was doing work for at the time. No big deal. I really do not understand the surprise at this, this is pretty normal. I think it’s just media tossing shade trying to find something, anything.
I never understood the idea of using your DB for more than just storing data. There was similar idea with PG in the past, bad idea imo.
> but there are lots of other parties who would also pay twitter for the privilege of tweeting.

In the short term, yes. But when you make paying the only way to get significant reach, you reduxe the quantity of presented-as-organic content that feels organic rather than like ads, which both directly removes the perception advantage of pay-for-“organic”-reach vs. pay-for-adds and also makes the whole platform less attractive to consumers, costing eyeballs, and making it harder to sell either traditional ads or ads in the form of paid “organic” reach.

Organic content that reachers passive/relatively inactive consumers is where your audience comes from. Make people pay to supply that, and you lose the audience you are selling to them and to traditional advertisers.
So claim the very sick fcks who lied for EIGHT straight years and murdered 1 million Iraqis. They have absolutely no authority to issue any decrees about anyone's trustworthiness. Trusting liars on who is a liar is just batsht insane.
In a very abstract sense, QR codes in restaurants are same conceptually to me as digitization of things that need not be: IoT gadgets in the home - doors, cars, fridges, TV's and a whole bunch of technology non-sense that society is hooked up on.

If I were an artist, I would make art that uses QR codes to exemplify a deteriorating society into technological authoritarianism. Always connected, always watching. See China: https://twitter.com/bfm_jose/status/1556544301743702016
This assumes the cost of server maintenance is $0. I just shutdown my last droplet. I want a PaaS so I never have to deal with server maintenance again.
>I’m waiting for the stock market to crash so I can hopefully buy a fewer things for cheap.

This is wishful thinking. It's next to impossible to buy at the bottom because you never know when the bottom is hit. Your best bet is to to average your costs over time. Pick a period, monthly, weekly, or whatever and buy a consistent amount of an index or your favorite blue chip stock(s). Over time you'll do better than trying to time the bottom or the top.
> Writing in a plaintext editor before copying into HN

Yes, I think it is a thing where people type into Microsoft Word (or similar). Given how moving around the web can cause text in fields to be lost, I don't blame them. But it was a surprising discovery for sure.
>Spanish Catalan architect Antoni Gaudí

Nitpick: Gaudí was simply Catalan. "Spanish Catalan" is a contradiction.
Never because you own it and have rights just like the Supreme Court has established that most private businesses has the right to kick people out. If people don't like that then they should petition the government to take over Twitter and make it a utility or government service.
>I’m waiting for the stock market to crash so I can hopefully buy a fewer things for cheap.

This is wishful thinking. It's next to impossible to buy at the bottom because you never know when the bottom is hit. Your best bet is to average your costs over time. Pick a period, monthly, weekly, or whatever and buy a consistent amount of an index or your favorite blue chip stock(s). Over time you'll do better than trying to time the bottom or the top.
So then an even distribution of money is "distributed capitalism" by your definitions, correct?
If people developing a system that controls two-ton death machines get their panties in a twist about having to demonstrate basic competency in a memory-unsafe language… it’s probably good that they quit.

Airline pilots don’t quit in a huff because they have to demonstrate basic competency annually.
Lmao, this is one of those “Russia has been downgraded to Asian” maps
Rights and obligations go hand in hand. Want to tell your boss what you really think about em? Sure, you can do it any day, just better have some savings and an alternate source of income :).

Disclaimer: Self-employed so I don't have to deal with that.
Pardon my ignorance, as I haven’t been to a restaurant since the pandemic started. How does that work when you have 2 or more people you’re ordering for? Do you pass the phone around? Do they have to look at it and tell you what they want and you enter it? Do you ask them, “Do you want X? No? Y? What about Z?” Sounds like a huge pain to me.
Maybe, but they're my germs rather than someone else's.
If i could do this i would be so happy.
The opposite.

Technology is famous for inverting the classic boss vs lackey relationship. Without an engineer, the boss cannot build what they want. Engineers are your eyes and ears, they're the ones who can tell you if an idea can or can't work... and ultimately are the ones who will build the products.

Twitter engineers are the ones best positioned into knowing what is or isn't possible with Twitter's codebase, for whatever the heck Elon Musk wants to do with the code.

If Elon thinks he can just walk in with a bunch of Tesla engineers and have his trusted Tesla programmers figure things out, he's gonna be in for a surprise. Programming doesn't work like that, it often takes 6+ months for a set of engineers to reach competence with a codebase.

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There's a myriad of stories about how "bad bosses tell engineers what to do, instead of listening to them" around here. Why? Because we're largely a set of programmers / hackers on this discussion site. We all know how bad management can be.

What Musk is doing right now? Obviously and clearly bad management. Musk has no trust over the Twitter engineers at all.
In some countries this is often a menu + a ordering and payment app.

It's very popular to the point that servers actually ask you to use it vs asking them.

In America this wont happen because of the tipping culture, so we get the worst bit (reading a menu on your phone) without the useful bit (reliably entering your order and paying without the check/card/away/back/tip dance).
They turn a blind eye when it suits them such as the "misleading thumbnail" policy on YouTube that's never enforced.
Thanks, that's a really clear explanation. I'm going to try that out and see if it sticks for me.
Famously, Bill Gates would review both code and low-level technical architecture decisions of flagship products.

This shouldn’t be the exception, it should be the norm.

I can always tell which company sells products the CEO doesn’t use and has likely never even seen.
> and you also can't ask for a raise.

Freedom is so confusing and foreign for some.
Lol musk is overemployed and actively stealing from Tesla.
I don't think anyone will blink an eye as its a cult at this point.
Both employees and shareholders are part of it and given the track record noone will complain.
I really would like to know how to scan QR codes without playing 3rd-party app roulette. Which button do you have to press?

I have the OnePlus 10 Pro. I've looked through all of the menus and settings, there's nothing that seems to be QR code related? Maybe they've removed the feature?
You can set your “company” up as a nonprofit, then they’re donations?
Browsers shouldn't need a setting for this. Whoever decided to allow websites to disable zooming should be shot, along with whoever decided to allow them to disable copy/paste or hijack ctrl-f.
You can try that, but then you get sites where stuff goes flying off the screen when you zoom. Honestly, it’s hard to believe that websites can be so poorly designed, but they are!
He means most countries that are not the USA. Haven't been to Applebees in ~5 years or so but they didn't do it then either. USA doesn't bring you a terminal on average. I travel around the world for work and my experience is that most countries outside the USA do.

Ah, you edited your response. Mine still is valid I guess.
I will only comment post coffee from now on.
The penis is the entire male sexual organ.
The clitoris is a part of the female sexual organ.

It would be more appropriate to compare 'penis' and 'vagina', or 'clitoris' and maybe 'glans'(I don't remember my terms from college anatomy very well lol)
I'd have a look at the various demoscene sites.

https://www.pouet.net/

https://demozoo.org/

Lots of code on GitHub

https://github.com/search?q=demoscene&type=

The awesome demoscene list has some more pointers

https://github.com/psykon/awesome-demoscene
Musk has extraordinary capability of extracting every bit of potential a person can deliver. Either you work crazy at your 200% or you are worthless and the company is not for you. Twitter will see lots of layoffs, massive restructuring - some unknown people being promoted for top roles, but end result will be better financial.
I am not sure Twitter will remain the same as it is.
Lots of people think Elon is not good at dealing with public perspective or government, but if you see most of his businesses, his expertise is dealing with governments, contracts and policies makers. On PR, he really doesn't care. And it works for him
Aren't you also pissed that Elon works on spaceX ?
I feel like there is a pretty strong preexisting overlap between “visits hacker news” and “knows what the Levenshtein distance is.” I would sort of hope somebody would politely comment “and?” if I were to post the Wikipedia page for “Knapsack Problem” with zero context.
Someone can be incompetent at some things and not others. We know with 100% certainty that Elon Musk is incompetent at purchasing Twitter dot com in a way that is most financially optimized for himself. We know with 100% certainty that Elon Musk is exceptionally competent at procreation.
What paperwork?
it’s an old gatekeeping / geek dick measuring thing, don’t worry about it
A people using iOS with its default “Smart Punctuation” behavior?
Shareholders can and do sue for that type of thing. Doubt anyone serious will though.

If anything it seems more concerning for Twitter, morale there must be just the best right now.
I gave an otherwise good restaurant a 1 star review after receiving an unsolicited text ad after using a QR code menu.
SAFe is to early agile what modern Christianity is to early Christendom.

(I am a frustrated Christian)
Nailed the government connection.

Mike is his handler for SpaceX,
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_D._Griffin#Career
This has a material impact just no enough for folks to understand or complain about. Can't do that with fanboys around.
Maybe conveyer belt sushi places, or places where robots bring out dishes to the tables.
You're both correct in this instance.
> I wonder how it came to be like this in the US.

Before credit cards were handled electronically the server used to have to use one of these to make a carbon paper imprint of your card: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credit_card_imprinter

While they a weren’t _huge_ they weren’t very easy to bring to the table and use, so I imagine we just got used to the experience of the server running off with our card. In wasn’t until the pandemic that I noticed most restaurants using handheld terminals.
Thanks. Your advice is what I needed to hear, though I have have to admit it is not exactly what I wanted to hear. Given my background, I wished there was a shortcut, a way to skip the repetitive and boring work of solving lots and lots of undergraduate physics problems and working through the same material from multiple angles. But after doing some research and reading other advice similar to yours I came to the conclusion that no such thing exists.

If I truly want to understand modern Physics, I am looking at at least 4-5 years of serious study that includes solving lots of textbook problems and repetition.
I don't see what the big deal here is. I feel like it's the obvious move. He wants a no nonsense review of the current state of things at Twitter, and isn't wasting time. I'm assuming these engineers he trusts and wants an objective review instead of some bs from folks too removed.
> It's not so much about the code as it is about establishing an authority

I think there's a simpler explanation: he intends to fire people under the pretext of poor performance and play games with layoffs/severance and/or create a hostile environment to encourage employees to resign (no severance either).

> You have to understand that Musk isn't after the big dollar here but rather he is experimenting which has a lot of chances to fail

Musk wanted out of this purchase, but discovered the Delaware Court of Chancery far less malleable compared to other regulators he's dealt with before (looking at you, SEC). Tesla is going to be a learning experience for Elon.
For a long time I thought QR Code menus were a great idea. But seeing user reactions like this made me re-evaluate a lot of my project ideas.

I get it, the convenience of having a simple menu in hand (0 steps) vs. a QR code menu (5-6 steps) trumps whatever interactivity the latter menu provides.

I guess the expectation of users sitting in a restaurant is to move away from their phones and technology and move towards socializing and a QR menu brings those back onto the table.
The “idea of Elon being flanked by his Tesla engineers reviewing Twitter code is laughable,”

Laughable indeed. I suspect they're more valuable judging the skills of the developers because if they were actually evaluating the code that would be the most absurd part of this while affair.
How quickly could a Tesla engineer get up to speed on Twitter’s code in order to make any kind of useful conclusions?
I don’t quite understand why everyone here is so defensive about what seems like a pretty common practice in a takeover.

Do all developers have equal skill and productivity?

Should developers pulling down FAANG-like salaries be given infinite slack? “Oh I see you’ve only attended meetings and haven’t written a line of code for a month. I’m so glad the company I invested $44B into is paying you $50K a month!”

It’s not uncommon in the wider industry to have to re-apply for your own job.

People fail and aren’t rehired because all too often they weren’t actually that productive.

That could be their own fault, or the organisation’s fault for over hiring.

Either way, they’re dead weight and the only way to profitability is to make them redundant.

It’s tough, but this is what capitalism is all about! Work is not a charity…
Drone wars are here. I really hope countries figure out how to curve their use in war. They are very accurate and deadly. I can see a future where a drone can be targeted at a single individual. Or a swarm that can't be stopped.
Sportsage: A Tale of the Super Bowl Hoark
I don’t own a print shop.

By “my print shop” I meant one I am in a business relationship with.
Advancing SDN from OpenFlow to P4
Bad guy idea: Stick your man-in-the-middle QR code over the restaurant's QR code sticker on the table. Use the same design. Pay thru the app. Mine credit cards! It'll probably only work once, though, because someone will say like "Hey where's my salted milksteak?" and the server will say it wasn't ordered. A fight will ensue and all moneys will be lost.
> Why is OP describing that as “disturbing” (I type with “smart” quotes)? It’s not intentional; it’s just because I’m on an iPhone.[a] On the default keyboard, if I want "dumb" quotes, I have to tap and hold the key to get the popup. Simply tapping the quote key is less effort.

I never knew you could do that! I've got very frustrated sometimes typing on an iPad when I really want a dumb quote, and, unlike on macOS where the dumb quote is the default and there's the convenient if baffling OPT-[ shortcut to get “ and OPT-SHIFT-[ for ”, I couldn't figure out what to do to my default smart quote to get a dumb quote. Thanks!
I guess the core issue here is if open source is volunteer work, a hobby or art.

If you see it as volunteer work, then yes you should not be paid, but you should also not provide services to wealthy organizations as they don't need it and can pay for their own needs.

If this is a hobby, then why are you putting your code on GitHub? you should just share it with small communities you enjoy hanging out with. And don't provide any services unless you personally know the requester and like them.

If this is more like art (think music), then you want to make it big, you want to share the code far and wide and for it to become popular, you help out developers from big companies (like record labels) hoping they notice you and pay you some day.

I personally think open source can take any of those forms as it's more about how the person works and their aspirations.
Does the “Intel” filter also catch titles with: Intelligen[t|ce]?
Seems like an extreme step if he feels after a few days he isn’t being taken seriously enough. That’s not a lot of time.
So much this! I want to enjoy a meal with my friends and/or family. I don’t want to play tech games. I’ve been to a few restaurants that have an iPad at the table where you can order additional items, refills, dessert, and pay. Those were fine (so long as you turn them around when eating because they have distracting animations on them). But having to download someone else’s code to my phone. Fuck that.
>Musk has extraordinary capability of extracting every bit of potential a person can deliver. Either you work crazy at your 200% or you are worthless and the company is not for you.

You are simply paraphrasing exploitation.

>but if you see most of his businesses, his expertise is dealing with governments, contracts and policies makers

Looks more like brute force and public shaming to me.
I own some shares in a company and took a look at what their valuation would be.

play sad trombone sound.

It did appear that companies with reoccurring revenue based on a monopoly are valued much higher than ones that produce single shot revenue. I think the solution would be to change corporate tax laws to even things out a bit. Like treat rents off things like Pantone as pure taxable profit.