skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People made their companies some sort of missionary situation in their minds. This is dollars and psychology. Did you like the work? Can you get paid enough to come back?

Elon is making this transactional. If you are truly needed bad enough that they will come calling right after a layoff then soak them for 3x. It’s just business.
Interestingly, this does not trigger the automatic graphics switching on my laptop, which I take to mean that this is not using webgl but rather is doing the rendering in software. Is there any information on the technology used for this?
The qualities that make a social network successful have little to do with the protocol technologies involved. If the next hit social network happens to be on Mastodon, that will only be a coincidence.
What’s Next for Xi’s China?
It does, wearing helmets means you need to carry them around and store them, and it can ruin your hairstyle. People who can balance the tradeoffs make mostly reasonable decisions ("I write large programs with the support of a type system and eschew it for small scripts", "I will probably be OK without a helmet just biking slowly between two buildings at work") but some people will never accept the upsides as being worth it.
No, I'm not (I'm not a total fucking idiot).

What I'm suggesting is that the same certificate infrastructure that is used to secure the connection between a server and a client could also be used to secure the connections between users.

There's nothing specific to HTTPS about CAs and trust chains.
This isn’t really arbitrage by my reckoning. Arbitrage normally means selling the same product.

A long term unfurnished apartment is a very different product than a short term vacation rental. Cleaning, laundry, taxes, key exchange, booking, and compliance is what you are signing up to deal with that a long term landlord doesn’t touch.
1. Welding takes a lot longer than bolting two profiles together.

2. TIG welding is pretty difficult, so most people would have to hire a contractor to do it, making it very expensive.

3. It's hard to make welded stuff to high accuracy. If something doesn't fit, it takes a lot of time to fix it. With bolts it is trivial to fix bad alignment.
I think you're working on some outdated assumptions. As mentioned in the article, the LumenPNP project is successful. Myself and many others have been successfully assembling boards with it since earlier this year. Lumen isn't my project, it's just the machine that the board I designed is intended to work with.

https://github.com/opulo-inc/lumenpnp
Youre right. I don’t think the bar is avoiding a toxic free-for-all, as people fear with decentralization, because that suggests we’re only attempting to be “as good” as Twitter is now. We need to be trying to be better. If we’re not then this is a solipsistic exercise.
Agreed. If anything, I think the separate fortunes of Meta and Netflix vs Google, Amazon, Apple and Microsoft show how much "platform control" matters and why Zuckerberg is spending so much to "make the metaverse happen".

I think the best way to define "platform control" is to think about how disruptive it would be, not just to consumers, but also to an integrated web of other businesses (and governments for that matter) if a business all of a sudden disappeared. If any of Google, Amazon, Apple or Microsoft stopped existing tomorrow, it would be a major international disaster. Think of all the businesses that sell on Amazon, all of the internet companies that depend on AWS, Azure and GCP, all the phones that run Android, all the computers that run Windows, all of the apps that depend on iOS, etc. etc.

If Meta and Netflix disappeared tomorrow, would people care that much? Heck, many folks would cheer. And yes, while I'm minimizing some of the follow on effects (e.g. to all the organizations whose sole web presence is on a Facebook page, to all the users across the globe who depend on WhatsApp, to all the shows and movies that are Netflix exclusives, etc.), switching to alternatives wouldn't really be that disruptive - in many cases it's already happening. The worsening fortunes of Meta and Netflix are because the stock market has concluded that their "moats" aren't as deep and wide as envisioned a couple years ago.
I was just wondering why apple market share is so relatively high in USA.
I think it may be cus apple stuff is aimed at people with 2 qualities..
1. Has money to burn.
2. Doesn't know anything about computers or technology.
USA has a really bad gini index and education system so I suppose there is a high proportion of people there who fit both criteria.
That is bias on your part. The review also found that lack of informal communication was a factor and recommended minimizing remote and hybrid work.

Pages 32, 33

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/psyche_...
The supply of medical professionals is constrained by cartel-like economics around medical school entry (which also prohibits foreigners from entering the market). This creates a glut of supply.
You haven’t met many so it’s not destructive.

Any community or ecosystem can withstand some external forces and pressure, but they can still get overwhelmed.

There’s also the difference between a digital immigrant and a digital nomad - the first intends to stay and begins to care about where they are; the second may care but will be gone at a whim.
When a Mastodon instance chooses to relay another it's like if your email provider could arbitrarily sign you up for mailing lists, in a way that bypasses your mailbox filters. This is something generally unheard of in email land.
BYU professors create reactor designed to safely produce nuclear energy
Cant they just post those things in places where those are the topic? Or not spam unrelated tags? Why does everyone have to push their little agenda on everyone else? I swear everyone runs their own little politics thinking they change the world but all they do is annoy people.

If you post about topic X and tag tens of unrelated topics it means you are no longer posting for yourself but your pushing a narrative. Stop. I dont care nor does the world care when they search for … #game.
NIMBY is why we can't have nice things - it takes SF 3 years to build a public toilet for $1.7 million dollars and is considered a political victory [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33268748
> There was a lot of precedent set in this area by Google v. Oracle.

I don't see the connection at all. The precedent had more to do with APIs, and possibly some influence around implementations which are trivial enough to disqualify them for copyright.

Sure, some copilot output is in that latter category but a whole lot of it is very obviously not.
For a point of comparison, Discord scaled to 100 million MAU with just 5 platform engineers. That's about 1/3 of Twitter's user count and Discord was also doing both voice and video chat.

At this point, Discord is probably larger than Twitter even on the MAU metric and is handling far more concurrent users and absurdly more events. They've had to scale their staff in the past two years, but it's still considerably smaller than Twitter will be even even after the layoffs.

Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14748028

More details: https://elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10/08/real-time-communicat...
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Speaking of vine I wonder if the skeleton vine maintenance crew got the boot.
I’m mostly thinking in the “will this company be solvent in 6-12 months” area of faith.

Yes you can be fired any day, but people usually aren’t. They can go many years without it.

This took a week.

How do you know it doesn’t happen again in a month when things are going worse?

And, more importantly, what’s the mental/physical toll of the stress something like this causes after happening once and then hanging over your head for the rest of your tenure?
Could be a loyalty test.
You generally pick one interface and do everything on that. The modules are still using old school AT commands (so you still send ATD to dial a phone number). Yeah the 4G uses the same AT interface over serial.

You picked up the drawback: speed. You can't pump 4G speeds over a serial port. Depending on what you're doing through, the 'slow' speeds you get over a serial port are more than enough to serve your purpose. The 4G part is about connectivity and not speed in many cases. Locally we're seeing 3G shutdown and it won't be around for much longer.

Obviously better solutions exist for low data usage over cellular - have a look at NB-IoT or LTE-M.
You don't need to release a non-verifying client. Just one that generates a key which is known to the other side. What about existing clients? "Your identity in the database became corrupted and can't be recovered. Would you like to generate a new key and continue using the service?" or just release a version which is both verifying and lying to you about which key has been verified... or a low effort "hey, new phone, key changed".
Thinking about today, you're going to keep a small fraction of your 10x employees, the ones who implement a feature a week and don't need to look back on code that just works; also you're going to keep juniors who have no idea what they're doing and write pages of inefficient code where a senior would make a library call. You're going to lose the 10x refactor wizards who delete more than they write, the firefighters who don't really change linecounts, and your 1x developers who think before they type. Might as well just give everybody a typing test.

Thinking about tomorrow: this establishes a hilarious incentive. A nonzero fraction of people who know that this was the criteria will change their behavior to suit. More lines of code, you say? Coming right up! I've met some people who work / worked in shops where the number of commits per day was the ruling metric. The smart ones wrote scripts to carve their commits into plausible but small chunks.
Those are links to their 'guides' on the best iPhone and the best Apple Watch for 2022, respectively.

I'll save you the trouble--they rank the most expensive models the best. Surprising!
It looks like you are conflating a linked list with a heap. Once you have an array/vector for your node list the unused memory can be a list itself, each index pointing to the next free index. You just need the next free index to get memory and you point to the current free index when you free a node. You don't need to manage the memory further than that.
Side question: has there been an estimate of how many people were laid off? All I saw was NYT claiming a handful of sources said "50%," but WaPo was saying layoffs were going to happen before RSUs vest, and that never happened, so I don't find these sources all that trustworthy.
I live in King County. The frequently published lists have one big advantage. Once your ballot has been accepted, you see a big dropoff in texts, calls, and canvassers within 1-2 days. Nobody wants to waste time on somebody who's already voted.
Federation implies variation on how things are operated, it's a feature against the monoculture and fragility of centeralized systems. That some instances operate with different standards is to be expected.

Dystopian would be dictating that everyone operates the software they choose to run using their own time and resources in the same exact way.
The Energy Future Belongs to Nuclear
Go's error handling is one of the worst laguage decisions ever. Exceptions are emuch cleaner and more sensible to handle. If you're worried about not handling erorrs turn on a check to force all exceptions to be handled.

Writing boilerplate error handling code for every function call is one of those things that can make you _think_ you're bring productive because you're writing a lot of code, when in reality it's mostly just tedious mechanical work of little value.

Swift does an okay job at this. Java forces you to handle _most_ but not all exceptions.
I think it is objectively obvious, most of the time, when a video is doctored or a false statement is presented as fact.

I'd rather not live in a place where absolutely nothing is real. Societies crumble under such a culture. Birds are considered real only because its not politically advantageous to believe they aren't real. What a dumb fucking value system to live under.
Your distinction between user and programmer doesn’t make sense to me. I typed the regex and I typed the config file. Why is a regex syntax error different than a YAML syntax error? Both are irrecoverable errors for my programs.
I’m a developer too. Currently job title “senior enterprise systems engineer”. It would take me much longer than that to ensure the code is ok. Additionally without modelling the code (and proving it correct) in something like COQ, you will never understand the calculus of inductive constructions behind the code and have no guarantees as to its correctness.
Spoiler: the majority of typical residence locks are no better, and in reality there are far less malicious attackers than you think.
Why are programmers so suicidal?

A giant corporation openly steals code from millions of devs and uses to try and automate us and programmers cheer it on.

A billionaire with known poor labor practices buys Twitter and twitter devs make no attempt to organize as lab instead they just write toothless statements.
They are inseparable. No reason to gaslight. Anybody who believes in treating people differently based on the color of their skin (which is a core tenet of CRT), supports racial discrimination by definition.
> Cant they just post those things in places where those are the topic? Or not spam unrelated tags?

No. They either don't want to or they want to spam.

> Why does everyone have to push their little agenda on everyone else?

You realise the irony here about you pushing your agenda about how other people should communicate, right? (if it's actually spam and you're using an instance which doesn't allow it, you can report it)
Would you count the compiler against their LOC?

The article describes the VPRI goal as a full system in 20k LOC, including graphics rendering, multiprocessing, etc. The infrastructure for this specific piece (IIRC, mostly Ohm) was used across many different parts of the system. So probably you can allocate some %, but certainly not all
My city's NIMBYs shut down a 19 story building proposal to preserve the cultural heritage of a... parking lot

https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-region/2022/08/23/co...
Register on website A -> you can post at and follow people from website A. Go to website B and follow a person from that website without registering. Now you can also see their updates on website A.
> you have to treat copyrighted works on Github as a whole (say the entire project/repository or at least substantial parts of it

But that's not how copyright works here, so this analysis seems irrelevant.

> 1. The derived work is transformative. It uses the original as inspiration but the end result is substantially different.

It's not. Changing variable names isn't a substantial difference.

> 2. Only a trivial amount of the work is copied (a few lines of code out of thousands/millions).

That doesn't matter. Relative size doesn't matter, absolute size does.

> 3. It is hard to prove that the creators of the original work were damaged by copilot (for example did they lose any customers or revenue?) This is normally the single biggest test in such cases.

??? No? You appear to have no clue how copyright works or what copyright infringement does. It's damaging solely in that you don't have the right to reproduce it without my permission. It's mine.
By now, 8020 is almost the "kleenex" (generic term) for aluminum extrusion, which is only incidental to companies using variation of those names.

For those unfamiliar with extruded aluminum, https://hackaday.com/2021/05/25/getting-started-with-aluminu...

> T-slot extrusions used to be somewhat mysterious, but today they are quite common thanks to their use in many 3D printers ... The cheapest way to buy extrusion is to get it surplus in whatever lengths you can get — usually leftovers — and cut them to the size you want yourself ... There are many places you can buy extrusions and related items. Misumi is a common option as is 8020. The big suppliers like Grainger, Fastenal, and McMaster-Carr carry a lot of this sort of thing, but they are often pretty expensive.
Well the new probably-true rumor is that they're already trying to hire back some of the people they got rid of. https://mobile.twitter.com/CaseyNewton/status/15890755434203...

Edit: Oh there's already an HN post about it. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33488224
I mean, can no one else throw together a 280-character Twitter clone in the next few days?
You can. https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/18809 or if you're using tusky https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/pull/2642
It's so hard to tell what's an ad these days that I'm not sure that this even qualifies.
yeah this looks correct and it's a different world if you have direct access to the modem IC.

To clarify I was referring to the modules that the average person can get their hands on. If you rip open the module (or look at the FCC paperwork) you'll likely see a Qualcomm chipset underneath. It's just a level of abstraction really.
Right, it gets clicks.

But if I think of the impact of Twitter for most Americans and I’m not sure they’d notice if it disappeared one day.
They probably did completely cut some teams entirely but also kept some entire teams deemed critical (or maybe that's the ones they want to return). Besides that it generally comes down to instructing every group to pick out X percent (in this case 50) to cut and get it done. I've been at places where they did the required layoffs even in critical groups that never stopped hiring people and had to even step up hiring afterwards.
I love the mention of gravity storage here. The potential of gravity storage is very real, but you need a lot of weight and a lot of height to achieve meaningful amounts of electricity. And at large scales of weight and height it becomes a surprisingly hard problem. For example, a steel cable can’t stretch much further than a mile under earth gravity before it succumbs to its own weight. But there are other solutions. It’s not rocket science, as they say.
When you have a website intended to be the next myspace, you shouldn't be surprised when it reaches its own version of peak myspace.

Like you say, myspace was actually quite good, but users

>gave up myspace and went on to facebook and twitter because they thought these would be even better.

People may be questioning this now more than ever, but it's too late for myspace now, and only hindsight will pinpoint peak Facebook and peak Twitter after those milestones are unmistakeable.

These are not just "social" networks (some say anti-social), they are pop-culture trends.

Which respond to and influence culture as much as they can while they are popular, the more popular the more so while it lasts.
> More from former tweep: They fired EVERYBODY on two of the teams that were working on things they want to launch.

https://twitter.com/karaswisher/status/1589097173136060417
Because it's disrespectful (non-inclusive and non-welcoming) to willingly bar someone who can obviously hear you, from understanding the conversation.

If you are "out of range", or in another room, then by all means, go nuts. Speak Elvish or even Klingon if that's your fancy. It won't bother anybody.

But in the presence of others, respect demands to let everyone understand. Even if the conversation is completely irrelevant to them.

And if you don't even apply basic respect, when others will start assuming the worst about your conversations, than that'll be your fault. You'd have brought it on yourself. Not "them", not HR—which sooner or later is going to be brought into the conversation...
Turn on showdead on HN if you want to see the shadowbanning hell that most social media networks I know of can send their users to. In general, users have no idea that they're even banned. There's a few people on HN who have been posting nonsense here for years while shadowbanned.

Not saying it's good or bad, just that it isn't a dichotomy between Mastodon restricting things or centralized systems that don't.
You're allowed to drop nodes that don't behave well in federated systems.
Blender already has metaballs. It's just not user friendly or multiplayer

Interestingly most folks think of 3d modeling as quad modeling/subdivision surfaces, but Toy Story 1 was done completely with NURBs (also supported by blender)
I am a legal professional. Convos with colleagues have been all over the place.
Prime farmland is not as cheap as is ordinarily imagined. In part because it’s value is based on the income it generates and in part because revenue generation means it is often not for sale since selling means finding another investment with similar properties.
The building analogy is no longer suitable if you're suggesting the ramp suddenly fails to accommodate new wheelchair designs. The wheelchair design should be your new focus of scrutiny. If the new wheelchair fails to conform to EXISTING ramps found everywhere, the wheelchair is the problem, not the ramp.

Ramps are built according to a strict building code. Your suggestion the ramp might need modifying in only the Twitter building by a dedicated team, doesn't add up when considering all ramps in all buildings.

> there isn’t a point where you’re done

My point is accessibility is inherently part of the design process anyway. Designers are not just making things pretty, clueless to accessibility. After all, Twitter is primarily text. You can always recruit outsiders from time to time, who will stress test and audit. That's a good way to keep on top of accessibility, by getting actual users who need accessibility features, to evaluate your service. But full time in-house? No.
Biden admin finally recommends Ukraine negotiate with Russia
As winter, Russian reinforcements, and the midterms approach, Blinken and Sullivan face reality. After all, the primary objective, selling more US LNG to Europe, has been achieved. Hopefully they won’t just send another lapdog British PM to kill the deal like they did in April.
https://archive.ph/Jfajs
I think you’re describing needs similar to an Enterprise, which primarily use .Net and Java.

I might encourage you to look at ASP.NET if you really want minimal maintenance and a modern-ish experience.
I’m not a manager, I’m a dev (well senior dev, that’s why I know about the metrics), but I am measured by the same standards as everyone else. When I became aware of then I viewed my own reports, and found areas I can improve on. I like it.

The metrics actually showed no surprises when I saw them, had I been asked to name the worst 5 devs, I would have named the same people that the metrics would have highlighted.
Go and Rust both strike me as languages made by people who HATE Java/C++ style exception handling but thought the best way to deal with it was to invent a language that constantly punches you in the face.

the fact that the most popular Go IDE actually has logic to automatically fold and hide the constant error handling boilerplate and that people seem to have no problem with that makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
What could convince you? He has said that over and over what his plans are (next 5 mins): https://youtu.be/P7wUNMyK3Gs?t=1881