skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It would surely be the flame war algorithm. Throwing some numbers out there, would this be too exaggerated? There have been 30 stories this past fortnight here with over 700 comments, mostly repeating the same love/hate musk battleground playing out across every other website. I think it’s a very interesting topic that’s unfolding but if dang wants to limit the frenzy from consuming here as well I certainly understand.
I'd rate orchestrating a coup in Bolivia and tweeting "We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it." an act of violence.
Oh man I just smiled like the Grinch.
Show HN: A preprocessor, similar to a C preprocessor, for arbitrary text inputs
In the scope of the sqlite project's new JavaScript builds, we need a way to conditionally include, or not, sections of JavaScript code depending on whether the build is for an ES6 module (ESM) or not. Though JS's own introspection is normally suitable for determining such things at runtime, the ESM designers chose to include keywords which are not legal to reference from non-ESM code, which rules out a single-source-file solution for ESM and vanilla JS code. Attempts at using a C preprocessor (CPP) to achieve that unveiled several quirks which make CPP ill-suited for processing JavaScript code.

Necessity being the mother of invention, c-pp, the C-Minus Preprocessor, was born as a weekend side-project. It is conceptually and syntactically like a C preprocessor but:

- Has only a subset of CPP's features.

- Is suitable for use with essentially arbitrary text inputs.

- Has a configurable keyword prefix rather than being hard-coded to "#" like CPP is.

Specifically, it supports a feature subset useful to us in the sqlite project plus a few other low-hanging fruits which just seemed relevant at the time.

c-pp is itself implemented in a single file of portable, dependency-free C. It "should" build with any C89-capable compiler.
Less trash talking but more varieties https://www.orangepippin.com/

Also, America is missing out on Cox’s Orange Pippins. I miss them so much.
That's my regret as well — there was clearly a very popular niche for breaking news and self-organization, although with some very challenging problems around authenticity which are hard to reconcile with such deep cuts.
Modern web will be Python + Django/Flask + Js/Typescript (and maybe Swift or Java for mobile apps). You can replace almost all of that with Rust, so you'll get one language to rule them all, but focusing on Python part only:
obviously performance, sane tooling and dependency management, statically typed language results in less runtime errors. Overall Python gets you a lot faster from 0 to "it works on my laptop", Rust gets you faster to 'it's good enough to put it in production".
> Has dang or anyone talked about why that might be?

I’ve personally been visiting new and flagging all Twitter/mastodon posts I see (i started doing this after getting sick of all the Twitter/mastodon posts hitting the front page).

I don’t want the front page to be all Twitter all the time, and most of the posts boil down to speculation and gossip and the ones that don’t, usually don’t offer anything meaningfully new and interesting.

I suspect there are plenty of others like me.
The GOP don’t have any actual policies, so throwing meat like this to their base is one of their few options.
Sorry, it was the best I could come up with
Maybe... But not all tech debt is bad. As long as it's not holding you back and you are making deliberate choices.
Twitter may have been badly managed, but it was consistent in experience. And in a large way that is a valuable product/feature itself. Elon will change things enough that it won't be like what it was, a giant distributed broadcast platform.

I think the greatest threat to musk is musk himself. He seems to be very badly advised at the moment. It's going to lead to a elon against the world situation where he wrecks something everyone likes and he's tarnished forever.

He should have paid the 1Bn exit fee and just keep shitposting from the sidelines.
Sadly XPS is not supported by most software, I'd love to use something better than PDF, but even LibreOffice can't export as OXPS.
I read it as 75% decided to ignore that email. I guess one way to interpret that is that they decided to quit, but I don’t see it that way. It’s more like an ultimatum that they refused to respond to.

Checking that box was agreeing to work “hardcore” and add a bunch of hours to your day. I imagine a lot of people receiving that email guessed that their colleagues would also ignore the box and figured “he won’t fire all of us, right?”.
This is an anecdotal cancer recover story that gives methodology. Just for reference. The guy became famous. One thing seems quite certain is: Fasting is very beneficial to body during chemo. (Not quite well explained in this interview but there are a few other interviews with the same guy). Hope it's useful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzPrxku1x5Y
They're already behind Akamai, and have a valid certificate and the site is reachable on HTTPS... but redirects back to HTTP.

That's purposeful incompetence, not an accident, oversight, lack of budget, or anything else that can be excused.
Roku lays off 200 US employees, citing economic conditions
There was another company called S2 Systems doing something similar to Mighty a bit earlier, they ended up selling to Cloudflare and I think the technology became the browser isolation product:

https://www.cloudflare.com/products/zero-trust/browser-isola...

I used the demo, it was quite good.
Or to put it another way:

Interviewee: "What's my upside here?"

Elon: "RSUs in this illiquid private company."

Interviewee: "Under what circumstances do they become liquid?"

Elon: "We have to first make money above and beyond paying this crushing debt, then we have to have a growth story to sell to the public, then we go public, then you wait out the employee lockout period, and if you're still an employee, you can sell your RSUs."

Interviewee: "So, like, 2-5 years of sleeping in the office to win Survivor Twitter and not get fired, plus I have to depend upon you to steer us to profitability."

Elon: "Exactly. And when it comes to profitability, my favourite tactic is firing people like you."
Get blood tests and use those to determine how much you take, don't guesstimate or take large amounts like that without doing so, because you can overdose on it and it can do damage as a result.
> He should have paid the 1Bn exit fee and just keep shitposting from the sidelines.

He didn't have that option. That was the fee if the deal fell through for other reasons outside Musk's control. Musk didn't have any out in the contract. When that became clear in Delaware, he gave in.
I don’t think they walked it back so much as Elon did. The early leaked communications did say that it was the norm to have everyone back except for people who can’t or are exceptional.
> ends up selling it to Google or something for pennies

I guess it says good things about EM that I could totally see waking up tomorrow to the news that he sold it to Google for $75m and a new pixel phone. I can even see the Tweet: “well that was a disaster.”

For all his faults, he does not seem beholden to consistency.
Even if you ignore money sometimes a book just isn't available to purchase.
1. PDF is mostly designed as a write-only (or render-only) format. PDF’s original purpose was as a device-independent page output language for printers, because PostScript documents at the time were specific to the targeted printer model. Interpreting a PDF for any other purpose than rendering resembles the task of disassembling machine code back into intelligible source code.

2. Many PDF documents do not conform to the PDF specification in a multitude of ways, yet Adobe Acrobat Reader still accepts them, and so PDF parsers have to implement a lot of kludgy logic in an attempt to replicate Adobe’s behavior.

3. The format has grown to be quite complex, with a lot of features added over the years. Implementing a parser even for spec-compliant PDFs is a decidedly nontrivial effort.

So PDF is a reasonably good output format for fixed-layout pages for display and especially for print, but a really bad input format.
DynamoDB Serverless/on demand pricing is the best model in the universe imho. It’s sad so few companies rip that off. One of the best ideas AWS ever had, not proprietary at all: pay per millisecond & byte. Monthly subscriptions are annoying and don’t cover the long tail of diversity of customer usage patterns. Some folks use stuff exponentially more or less. A flat rate subscription just isn’t fair either way, and one-and-done upfront payments don’t cover ongoing maintenance and upkeep. The biggest benefit of Serverless, it’s the pricing. Don’t tunnel vision one-and-done vs subscription model and forget about on-demand autoscaling scale-to-nothing pricing. It’s a lot better for people just starting out on your product and incentivizes both sides in a win/win. Just wish more services (cough, databases) scaled to zero. No usage, no bill. High usage, high bill. Simple!
Yea, so anyone here want to tell me again why tech doesn't need a union? Seems like this all could have been fought back to some degree if coworkers had each other's backs (ie, their own voice).
This is why I run Windows on my laptop and use WSL when I need a Linux shell. Linux either doesn't care about or can't properly implement all the power management functions the chipset supports
Why are people eager to defend someone who cosplays as a nerd?
Thanks. That Vox piece is super cringey - I'm sure his lawyers are thrilled.

So, this case may be the first high-profile exercise in cryptocurrency-forensic-accounting. Let the paperclips fly.
"Downsizing" became "Right Sizing" and then "Bright Sizing".

"Bright Sizing" being when you make your workplace unpleasant and then offer redundancies to everyone. The bright people leave.
just eat good food. plan your meals to have daily intake filled. overdosing vit D can be really really bad.
"Long Island's Sand-Filled Condom"

(Newtown Pippin Apple Review)

https://applerankings.com/newtown-pippin-apple-review/
Yeah even at a company with as relatively stable a product as twitter, there are so many processes that go on internally that certainly need someone who knows how to operate them. Another commenter mentioned dead-man's switches, but you don't even need explicit switches, especially if an entire team leaves. There will be parts of twitters infra that no one even knows how to deploy, /even if/ it was fully automated. At this point I would be extremely surprised if the twitter infrastructure was anything other than a car with no brakes. It will be interesting to see what parts of it fail first.
I was checking the ASML technology page[0] as I haven't heard of them before, it was funny seeing that they are a bleeding-edge tech company and they have an image showing jQuery code next to a paragraph about their software: https://i.snipboard.io/pUT4ot.jpg

[0]: https://www.asml.com/en/technology
It's really funny, because his beliefs stated in public were so naive, and obviously belied the fact that he grossly underestimated what it takes to build and run a successful social media company.
That was ~30% of Apple's staff at the time.
I try to leave the “it looks crazy but it’s all part of the master plan that will eventually be revealed as brilliant” stuff to Qanon.
Time value of money means it’s better to be paid money today than in 5 years, but taxes mean it can be beneficial to get RSUs on a vesting schedule rather than cash.

For ease of calculation: 50% income tax and 20% capital gains, stock doubles in value.

Get paid 10M, pay 5M in tax. Buy 5M in stock which is worth 2x as much in 5 years when you sell it. Pay 5M * 20% = 1M in capital gains. Keep 9M at the end of the day.

Get paid 10M in RSUs. Sell when they vest at 2x the value in 5 years. 20M pay 50% in capital gains and keep 10M.
My guess is they are spending R&D money on better/simpler/cheaper EUV light sources, so expanding production capacity of existing models isn't a great idea.

Specifically my guess (and I'm no expert) is a plasma wakefield accelerator feeding a free electron laser to get tunable wavelength EUV light far cheaper and simpler than what they've got now. Tons of work to do to get there, but that's always been the case in thier business. Also, if they don't do it someone else might and then they'd be dead.

There are other R&D areas to be handled too. One might ask why not spend more on the R&D, but they are probably at some kind of practical limit there too.
Links for legal defense appreciated.
I don't blame them. It's just a darkly hilarious juxtaposition.
I'm a little bit confounded that Twitter's current culture is such that a large number of people contemplate sabotage as an appropriate response to changing employment conditions. I mean, maybe the company culture really is broken.
He was fawned over at the time, but Welch is finally being assigned his share of blame for gutting GE.
Could this be all part of the plan, though? A way to single out the true believers?
wine32on64 is used to translate x86 Windows APIs to x86_64, WINE translates these to x86_64 POSIX, and then Rosetta 2 translates these to aarch64 POSIX.
All this would make some sense, but Elon is asking for a blank check from the remaining employees. There is no promise right now, there is no pay off, there are no RSUs, there is no liquidity event, there is ... nothing.

Just one of the wealthiest people in history asking people to work 12 hour days every day of the week, forever, for some nebulous reasons that he can't state, just because.

Such a radical renegotiation of the employment agreement between the workers and the management requires a LOT of study and time. Not two days and clicking a button that says you agree to something.

You'd be crazy to agree to this, and Elon would be crazy to think that anyone that did click is doing anything but trying to find another job while at work.
Defendants appear to be Russian nationals. Could that have played a role?
Of course Lisp had recursion before Algol60.
There are some ideas for how to disrupt Ticketmaster in Prince's Musicology Tour.

Granted, it was challenging to build and operate tech to sell exactly 300 tickets for a venue like Webster Hall at a scheduled time to all of greater New York City area and the half of USA fans willing to travel for such an intimate concert.

But it's possible. Pearl Jam did the same back in the day.
There seem to be studies with similar results for standalone zinc, vitamin B1 and B3.

e.g. zinc twice a day:
https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid...
This whole ordeal is an absolute disgrace.
And even if there is a future liquidity event, what could the return possibly be? Musk already bought Twitter at a premium over the market, then the whole market backslid, then he took control and cratered the company even further. Any equity is already a small fraction of what it would have been worth before this whole ordeal. To get any startup like return, Musk doesn't have to just right the ship, he has to make Twitter drastically more successful than it was before.

Part of the deal of going "hardcore" working at a startup is that you get a small chance of becoming rich. I don't think working 80 hrs/wk is worth it when the upside is adding an extra 20% or whatever onto your salary.
Neither wanting to flip it nor not wanting to run it explain what he has done once he actually owned though, more the opposite in fact. You don't prepare a company for flipping it by whatever this mess is, nor does it make being its CEO a more attractive job, nor did he have to run in as directly as he does. (Well, unless you don't care about the flipping price. Verizon managed to sell Tumblr after all ;))
Those damn pens. They are making some healthy people lose their shit when used a bit too heavily. I'm worried about those with PTSD and other trauma being "prescribed" this stuff, honestly. THC vape pen use needs to be studied in-depth. Dangerous.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7757764/
He frankly seems incapable of detaching himself from any project he’s applied his personal brand to. Cybertruck has suffered from the same treatment
Well, that is a misfortune for the rest of us who find it relevant.
Yea, this is such a huge brain drain. Twitter has some of the brightest people working there. They came up with a really nice framework (Bootstrap) to make sense of the mess that is HTML+CSS. Easy for beginners to dive into, and flexible enough for professionals to make really nice websites.

What is Musk thinking, like these workers are literally propping the company up. To treat them like this is, just wow.
If you mean old style html templates, it's been ready for many years. If you mean React style ssr, it's new but at least some frameworks have it too.
if this were true wouldn’t we see different levels of infection in southern latitudes bvs northern latitudes during winter? that’s what i’ve never understood about vitamin d and infection. covid or the flu hit florida just as bad as minnesota
Sorry: if there is absolute maximum bit entropy that cannot be reduced to a generative function, then there can be no (lossless) compression.

This is like the claims of tape drive manufacturers who claimed double the capacity of the media.

Pure marketing wank.

If you're not already compressing and encrypting your backups, then you're not doing it right to begin with. zstd may not be the most efficient algorithm for a given dataset. There are hundreds of compressors out there. It's worth finding the best one on average for a given job and occasionally revalidating it against other candidates.

PSA: Untested backups aren't backups.
He took one of the most valuable and enduring companies in American history and destroyed it completely. It no longer exists.
The next tweet in the thread: "We're hearing this is because Elon Musk and his team are terrified employees are going to sabotage the company." Um, I can think of one person who is definitely sabotaging the company.
Hundres as in with 2 whole zeros? out of almost 10k? WOW they gonna half hundreds less now!
U.S. mandates new comparison internet service labels
All the musky users of hacker news seem to have vanished. Curious
I drink before I interview
I know some of you can relate, when I have to interview I feel a terror come over me. It's immobilizing. A simple algorithm question becomes impossible because I don't have access to my prefrontal cortex, instead it's all fight or flight, sweaty hands, and panic.

I found with covid I can now do the onsite portion with a little wine in my mug and answer the questions with access to my whole brain, since it's all over zoom.

When I told this to a friend they said they use beta blockers.

Can anyone relate? There doesn't seem to be another way to get work in the tech industry. There is not much relief for those of us with anxiety.
Ooh, I like the idea of using "Web Pi" for next gen web standards as a way of one-upping the idiots who hijacked "Web3". Very geeky, as is expected of the web.

webπ, or webPi? wπ looks too small. And wwwπ looks like someone was typing WWII and something went horribly wrong with autocorrect.

(I refuse to spend the next decade saying, "No, I mean the real Web 3, you know three-point-0. Web 3.0 is different.")
When you have a single fixed activation record per routine you also lose reentrance, not just recursion. Which means any tasking system has to be designed around that as well. A low priority task in the middle of a call cannot be suspended if a higher priority task needs to make use of the same subroutine, as an example. So all tasks have to run to completion or to some known safe points.
And do what with them? Completely rebuild Twitter in prod? Loyalty has nothing to do with the requirement of being one of the most exceptional programmers in existence.
Why didn't they just put it entirely in TOR or i2P?
Well the offices supposedly open up again on the 21st, which is coincidentally also the start of the world cup? That's gonna be fun.
This might just be the best game of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" I've ever seen.
Here's hoping twitter is seized as a public asset before it collapses!

Probably won't be, but I can dream.

(Its not like it would affect how much data the govt gets from the platform anyhow)
He sent out a letter demanding more work for the same compensation (probably less because of the new lack of equity?), then offered all employees a buyout for three month's severance... and was surprised when most of them took it? I can't understand from the email he sent why anyone would agree to stay on.
Yep. It happened one time at uni that a physics lecturer used his buddy's book series. Monetizing students. I'm sure he got a cut.
Twitter will fall down over Thanksgiving.
I don't know about AMD but nvidia cards have a management interface that provides useful data like temperatures, load and wattage. AMD should have something similar.

I wrote a script to query that data and output it in a format compatible with i3status. In case you'd like to see how it works:

https://github.com/matheusmoreira/.files/blob/master/~/.loca...

Please share the changes if you figure out an AMD solution. I'm curious.
They didn’t walk it back, Elon did with a new email he sent out. Outlets reported this new fact.
Elon musk is 50 and filthy rich. No matter how hard he gets burned by twitter, he will not be learning.
Marxists Changed How We Understand History
Rust is verbose, but here you don't need to build response, just return string and Actix will handle that.
> A few times: https://www.ornl.gov/publication/investigations-reusability-...

The adsorbent loses efficiency after a couple elution cycles, but it is regenerated by an alki wash. Read this [1] if you want a better explanation. No, you do not need to keep producing tons and tons of polymer. You have to treat it with chemicals after a couple cycles, but you don't need to throw the whole polymer away and start anew.

Regardless, this whole seawater extraction tangent is only a contingency if no new terrestrial reserves of uranium are found. Unlike intermittent sources which require massive amounts of grid storage, uranium seawater extraction isn't going to be necessary any time soon which is why I'm not super concerned about how seawater extraction isn't being commercialized.

On the other hand, renewables are already starting to saturate the market during peak production today. In order to make intermittent sources viable we need storage systems now. It's not dissonance, it's the fact that there are presently functioning alternatives to seawater extraction that will continue to work for the near to mid term future. Whereas there are no storage systems capable of delivering energy at grid scale.

1. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1423067
I am deeply concerned that only one person is holding this ship on course, and that person's time is running out.
Probably a good time to download an archive of your Twitter data: https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
I feel like at this point neocities has been around almost as long as geocities was before it
There are no objective ethics. It's an open problem.

There's a whole lot of words to be said about that, but it's hardly worth discussion because ultimately the result would be wasted breath.

Anyway, the sphere of economics is the least ethical domain of humanity there is. My dollar is not equal to your dollar, and our dollars aren't equal to Musk or Bezos. We pretend that is the case. There never were and never will be equivocality in exchange unless it's one idea for another.
You can try asking for a take home because of interview anxiety
Why not interpret it as “after all this, and if that’s the future, I’d rather leave”?