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“The version you bought forever”

Do you mean the latest version that was released while you were subscribed? If so, that sounds ideal. You’re buying software and paying for them to keep improving it… until you want to stop.
Laughed at Fuji being "horse food". That's my favorite.
I had the same question, and the past 2-3 weeks I am still not able to find the answer.

If FTX gave alameda shit tons of FTT and customer funds from FTX reserves by 'transferring' the amount, it should have been visible on the blockchain.

The FTX collapse happened only because of an internal balance sheet leaked to coindesk. Why did coindesk require a balance sheet to write the story? Coindesk probably could have just done it, by looking into the blockchain ledger instead of the balance sheet.
You can also do that while being young and save yourself the death bed regrets
Is it my imagination or is it actually breaking down right now? I'm not seeing any new tweets!

edit: no, still going, but maybe the notifications are slow. As an SRE, I somehow feel obliged to watch it break.
Some Additional Local Data Processing Soft I use :

- Data preparation : https://easymorph.com/

- Data transformation : https://www.easydatatransform.com/

Also general purpose visual/dataflow python scripting like ryven.org and PyFlow
I don't think that we can get back to the high road peacefully. The high road not only doesn't lead to victory, it leads to extermination. In a fight between two parties of even remotely similar strength, if one side tries to follow the dignified rules of conflict and the other a uses no-holds-barred, fight-to-win-no-matter-what approach, the latter wins every time.

I'm not accusing either party specifically of subscribing to one or the other of these strategies -- indeed what has happened is instead a gradual process of each party one-upping the other by just a smidge on how nakedly partisan they are prepared to be -- but in that process, if one party were to suddenly decide to restrain itself to only fighting by "honourable means", they're consigning themselves to the pyre of history.

In the end, we are too partisan as a society to have a high-functioning democratically-elected government. The two parties have similar numbers of adherents, and the median member of each group believes that the other group is an enemy which must be defeated. This produces political warfare. If the two groups were not of similar size, it would produce a short period of extreme prejudice after which there would no longer be two parties (not a good outcome, but it could lead to stable governance), but with the two camps being of similar size, it just leads to escalation after escalation.
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Hacker - in a sense of someone who uses non standard approach to look at things. This matched the idea and still does.

What saddens me is deteriorating quality of discussions. I miss times/places when people had intellectual curiosity and respect to opponent's opinion if it doesn't lie along with yours. Perhaps it inevitably goes together with extended audience, but I do miss it. It still largely stands - luckily it's not reddit yet, but tendencies are somewhat obvious.
This guy needs to be in Russia yesterday. Edit: Oops. He helped out the Ukrainian government with some type of fiat scheme. Ok, Ukraine is the place to be then.
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That seems like just a variant of living forever? Don’t particularly need your body to be alive.
they're going to have to rehabilitate him or make it clear he's not in operational paths

'chief creative officer' sort of thing with a sandbox

always wondered if he bought twitter to boost spacex IPO; for now, good thing that it's private or it would be getting hosed to mortgage twitter fail like tesla is

tesla build quality and self-driving snafus may get assigned to him as well
dang has done a phenomenal job at moderating this site, and I trust his judgement. It is heavily moderated, and that's a good thing to keep it focused. Too much twitter drama would be lame. But this feels like an important moment.
Disappointed that a daily art magazine doesn't allow zooming in on photos from mobile!
Concurrent programs where several threads read the same stream of data. For instance.

But a more common case is how I get my records from my db.
Only the ORM can create those DB record for me ( because I set it up that way )

When I return a response; I compose another immutable response object.

And only my service layer can don that. ( it won’t compile elsewhere)
I'm sure he'll be able to dump it for peanuts on a company like Oracle or Salesforce.
This context free numbers isn't illustrative or even useful. The world isn't populated by median Americans earning median salaries in a median cost of living area. Imagine 5 households in areas where the poverty line for their household size are 30k 50k and 70k 70k 70k

We have could have learned from the sample that the majority live in areas where wages are higher but so are costs of living and the median value is 70k which seems like a lot of money until we figure out that rent alone costs most of this money and all parties are on food stamps. This also ignores just how far below that median value many of the bottom half actually are. The bottom half lest we forget is 169 million Americans many just getting by as their entire segment of the population shares about 10% of the total income and virtually none of its wealth. None of these facts about the actual distribution of wealth and income is captured by looking at a median income and making up a fiction about what an imaginary American can afford.
I love the ambiguity of this. I think get Burnett's point, but this could also just be the beginning of a long list of "the frightening thing is not X" statements. :)
Feels like an optimistic projection, though.
I agree that hours by themselves are largely meaningless. I should be more clear and specify hours when necessary, and not some arbitrary deadline. For example, I've been on projects that are stuck or failing and each day they are down or behind costs 7 digit revenue per day. Being the person capable and willing to work overnight to fix it or put in long weeks until it's done bought me a lot of Goodwill, promotions, Etc. I still have directors that mention them in all staff meetings after 5+ years.

Of course working 60 hours a week on some bullshit project with no impact will not have the same results.
You are right that simplified reimplementations make good property tests, but in this case I'd go the other way around: generate an AST, render it a in test case-dependent way (adding whitespace as you said, but also parens etc), inject known faults for a fraction of test cases, and check that the parsed AST is equivalent to the original one or errored out if a fault was injected. Rendering a given AST is usually simpler than parsing it.
He's not getting as much attention because he's only crypto famous. People who aren't into crypto havent heard of him before and we are pretty used to seeing headlines about these crypto investors scamming each other.
I'm extremely confident that array language features will seep into the mainstream in the same way that functional programming features have been doing for the last 10 years or so.

New language designers will have to defend why they don't have array language features rather than why they do.
This is a fast moving situation and is directly related to the industry. I’d like to see as many of them as is distinct and relevant.
I meant actually solve it by upgrading to HTTPS in a reverse proxy but yeah :)
A professional gambler ought not ask this question. A professional gambler ought instead ask: how am I doing in the average? Hence the flaw in this research. It’s bad gambling.

I should think "not exactly." A professional gambler would take a look at each game, and determine if the expected payoff makes it worth playing. Here is where the analogy falls down. Not every analogue of "game" is the same!

I worked for awhile for a company that was effectively a JIT VM vendor, and we found scenarios where our JIT could outperform things like a naively written YACC/LEX compiler. (Or a web templating engine. If we cranked up the size of the JIT code cache that ran at speeds expected of a C implementation.)
The gumroad approach is very interesting. Do you know if there any other companies that work like that? Caveat is that I do need to be a full-time employee, for visa reasons.

I’m currently at a top-tier tech company which pays very well but wastes an incredible amount of my time on unnecessary overhead. It would be amazing to get my work done in four hours a day and spend the rest of my time on fulfilling projects and relationships.
Likely not the x86 chip lineup. The problem is also in the software.

Apple tightly controls both software and hardware, and major Apple-provided software, such as Safari, is specifically optimized. Run Firefox on an M1, and see how much more battery it eats with the same tabs open.

Hence an Apple-only laptop has a spectacular battery life, which is reported. With real-world non-Apple software it could be a bit different, even though M1 CPU is really more energy-efficient than a mobile x86 CPU.

This is not touching the GPU anyway.
To be 100% honest it's been a while since I looked into libraries for it, so I couldn't say.

Your second comment rings true, and in my opinion, we are there. Highly recommend throwing some PDFs at AWS Textract and checking out the quality, it wasn't there a few years ago, can safely state it's there now though. I threw stuff at it that previously would just spit out trash, and it handled it fairly well, specifically for table data extraction (I was looking at public stock market quarterly reports).

Cost is the kicker for me, 1000 pages for $15, adds up fairly quickly at any sort of scale!
Who is "they"? Elon has controlling interest in SpaceX and all the largest other shareholders are largely his friends. At Tesla while he doesn't have controlling interest, he does have de-facto control because of 2/3 majority required on the board for certain actions that could remove him from control.

Short of some legal action forcibly removing him from the companies from breaking a law, he's not going anywhere.
Yes, I know it was a high end laptop at the time, but you can get refurbished ones now for about 800-900 dollars, putting it squarely in a mid-range laptop market. Would be even cheaper with, say, 16G of RAM, and still be totally capable as long as I just closed some unused browser tabs a bit more frequently.
It's a pure resourcing issue. How many resources are allocated to improving linux desktop experience on laptops? A tiny fraction compared to Microsoft and Apple. Linux paid developers are usually focused on the server side. If next to nothing is invested in making it better then it doesn't get better.
so he is a liar
I don’t know how many people would have reasonably put be arrested and extradited to a foreign country for running a PDF website as a part of their threat model.
Why? I found them way easier to review than regular PR during my time at fb. Since every commit is cleaner, you get fewer, higher quality commits than in a PR.
Not exactly one-click, but define your DNS records in Terraform and copy them for each domain.
I love this. I've looked for good learn to program things for our kids but most of the ones I find are online only web sites or cloud connected apps.

"Hey kids, welcome to the dystopia of 21st century computing! You can make cool programs but they're not yours. You have to pay rent forever or they disappear. If you ever want to revisit your old creations when you're older, too bad. By then the site will be gone. Even if you could download them you could never run them. Everything you do is tracked and data mined, so behave!"

I have my old childhood Commodore 64. I can load programs I wrote when I was 9 from floppy disks. I want that for my kids.
I doubt it come on. this is all fun but he can actually have reduced in force that much
How do you define poverty? The federal poverty line is a figure that where most people live would afford you a fine living commuting between your 2 jobs and your tent living as a hobo and the public library where you give yourself a sponge bath.
It's your imagination.
Not quite, right? When the user blurs out of the field and it's marked as invalid, when the focus goes back to the input, we'd probably want to keep the field marked as invalid.
Does this thing have a glossy screen? If so, sad :(

Glue-on anti-glare films exist, but they are finicky to apply.
But occasional flooding is not the same as constantly flooded. Also, 2ft rise means occasional flooding expanding inland and flood-safe zones shrinking.
This is the epigenetic vs plain genetic part.
> It's worth keeping in mind that you can revoke an entire CA

> ... but you can't do that with the DNS hierarchy.

DANE effectively revokes ALL CAs. Forever.

Once again, you are confused about what is the role of TLDs in DANE. They are not equivalent to CAs in WebPKI.

In a DANE-based PKI system, TLDs have neither less nor more power than they already have today with the WebPKI system.

So there is exactly as much need to revoke them in DANE as there is today with the WebPKI system, which is also susceptible to the exact same attacks from TLDs as the DANE-based PKI system.

> It's worth keeping in mind that you can revoke an entire CA --- immensely popular and important CAs have been entirely removed from trust stores, quite recently

You can, but browser vendors are reluctant to do it because it would break, potentially, thousands or millions of websites if a single CA gets removed from trust stores.

And it would take months or years for that removal to be reflected in millions of deployed systems out there who seldom or never update.

In DANE, there are no such problems.
That’s a pure tax dodge. His actual compensation is vastly above 175,000$ but by structuring it differently they can vastly reduce the taxes paid.
I always found HN much more VCist than free speech. any comment criticizing plutocrats tends to get downvoted
That's also true today, without CAA records.

Anyone who can MITM a site can also get a valid certificate for it.
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As a parent of two small kids, preparing for interviews is a major hassle if you're not a leetcode wizard. I can barely manage 1 practice question a day because I'm so exhausted all the time.

I'm at meta and was fortunate enough to not be laid off but I'm starting to prepare for interviews over the next 6 months and trying to get myself in the mindset that I don't need to be at a "top" company chasing the best TC anymore and should focus more on joining somewhere I can enjoy and believe in the products.
Agree. Mostly I feel for the people working at a place that chaotic. Life is hard enough for many, no need for an eratic, eccentric billionaire with a short fuse to make things even more complicated.
While possible, I'm not sure an HR reduction in combination with 70% of your peer engineers resigning is exactly what those Twitter engineers considered.
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I love Taleb, but given that the majority of his wealth was made from derivatives markets, I'm not entirely sure if his moral pontificating is always the best or most accurate commentary available to quote.
Ask HN: How secure are plaintext files stored on local computer?
I'm switching to another note taking software recently. The new note taking software emphasizes that it does not lock data and the data is stored locally by the user in .md format. Since notes contain a lot of sensitive data, it made me curious about a security question: how secure do you think is the local plaintext storage?

If we are more specific: how secure is local plaintext on Mac and iPhone?

Let's consider:

1. If the device gets lost. I have opened FileVault on Mac and iPhone has a fingerprint lock and password. Is this secure enough?

2. Do some software scan the local files? How big is this risk?

3. Something like Spotlight on Mac does scan all the local plaintext, does this pose a security risk?

4. Are there any other risks you could think of?
Seriously. I hear a core infra team is entirely resigning.

I can't imagine a better way to legally fuck up a company as an engineer than to just stop keeping the lights on (and get paid over the holidays to do it!)
This is not true. For example all of PrimeVideo has frozen even internal hiring, despite being identified as a growth sector for Amazon.

A few teams may still be hiring but they are very rare exceptions.
They probably had some pretty good cat meme image macros.
I'm sure in Elon's mind it's "Elon Musk ft Twitter 2.0".
Architecture Review!

Looks a lot more fun than code review to boot:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfArEGCm7yM&t=57s
On the field of PDF parsing, I think the most interesting project I encountered is pdfquery[1], where the PDF is parsed as a XML tree and you can use XPath to query it. You might encounter rough edges when put it into production work but the idea is like “how come i never thought of this” because PDF has some tree like structure and should be a straightforward solution.

[1]: https://github.com/jcushman/pdfquery
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Rubbish. Did you follow the first impeachment at all?

Trump was running US foreign policy for his own, personal, benefit. Every single witness said so, convincingly.

The only partisan part of either impeachment was the Republicans refusing to convict based on their fealty to Trump.
Exactly. I've gotten a lot of value out of Twitter because all my research collaborators are on it, as are their collaborators, and so on. It's a convenient place to keep track of all that. Twitter failing scatters that network to who-knows-where, and it'll take a long time (if ever) for it to coalesce like that again.
Couldn't you give people emailed tokens to give in token to authors?
If you had "recession due to economy stepping on a LEGO" on your bingo cards for 2022, you may win.
They should scale this to other regions
> Except the polymer is re-usable.

A few times: https://www.ornl.gov/publication/investigations-reusability-...

As I said, there goes your eroi. At 10mg/kg you're producing 10,000 tonnes of polymer per year per reactor and harvesting it 3-6 times. This is supposed to be economical? That's 10 million tonnes of plastic waste per year just for one terawatt or 10% of world plastic waste to replace FF electrical generation.

> Until it's saturated, then you can leave it out all you want and it won't collect any more.

If you leave it in too long the Uranium starts going out because Vanadium has higher concentration and similar affinity. But long before that, your polymer breaks down and becomes microplastic pollution.

> Unfortunately vanadium redox batteries are not nearly built at the scale of lithium batteries - which are themselves not built at a scale large enough for grid storage - as well as poorer round trip efficiency.

So now we're back to this incoherent dissonance where doing something once on a tiny test platform makes it a definite solution to world energy, but something being produced at GWh scale in the real world is not big enough? That's a truly stellar amount of double think you've got going on there. I'm sure there'll be even more interest when your magic $20/kg unlimited supply vanadium machine running at 20x current total production is up and running.
Rick Perlstein goes into some depth on this in direct response to Liz Truss. And yet, after her brief reign, I wonder if he misunderstands why he's her favorite author. Perhaps she didn't misunderstand any of it, she merely said the quiet part loud.

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/liz-truss-hasn-t-underst...
I hope that the wheels stay on sufficiently to get an idea of where EM wants to take Twitter and find out what kind of value it can bring. Having said that, he really made it obvious to me as an eng that the severance is the option I would be taking. Going "hardcore" on things can be fun, at the right time in your life, for the right reasons, with the right people. But somebody who takes over the company and accrues so much social debt so quickly for no other discernible reason than looking like the smartest person in the room misses the bar for "the right people" by a pretty significant margin.
Put Tumblr in charge of it. Quarantines Tumblr's existing culture.
> The product is certainly "built yet", it's just shipping slower than anticipated

You're not saying that all of the phones are manufactured, and the only problem is getting them to the post office. That would be "built yet." What's being done is fairly common, but what it also means is that the crowdfunding has never stopped. People are commissioning phones to be manufactured, not buying phones. There's no advantage in talking around that except to make it look suspicious.

"Shipping slower" is using "shipping" as a euphemism for "being built."
What you tend to see is some MMT proponents use this argument to state that government deficits aren't a problem, since they can't default on their debt. But the debt can still be a problem, not because a government indebted in its own currency can't default, but because it still has second order effects...

So the entirety of that statement is toothless.
It's mostly cold war propaganda, because the USSR was pouring an incredible amount of it's economic output into defense spending since WW2.

The star wars gap would have just meant that it couldn't maintain parity with the US on yet another battlefront, but nothing external was going to stop it from continuing on it's course. It would have had to reign in it's imperial ambitions some, but that is completely survivable for an industrialized nation.

What killed the USSR was Gorbachev prioritizing butter over guns, and having a shred of humanity in him, by choosing to not respond to political problems with violence. He was the real hero of the crisis, not for the things he did, but for the things he didn't do.
But doesnt FOMO-driven action require lack of due diligence? You may be right that it was indeed FOMO, but its not the FOMO that caused the error, it's the lack of DD that comes with FOMO.
I don't think you know much about Andy Jassy if you are saying that he has not done actual work.
That brings it down to under 1000 employees

So Elon paid $44B for a company now with 900-odd employees. For a 10-year ROI, that's $4.4B per year profit, or $440 million/per employee

For contrast, Netflix has the highest revenue per employee at $2.63 million/person, and Apple is second at $2.38 million, and Alphabet & Meta next at $1.64, and eBay at $0.9 million per employee.

So, he'll need to get 200x the profitability per employee, just to get a total profit equal to his investment in 10 years.

To get a company valuation back to his purchase price, at a 20X multiple, he needs to make those employees as profitable per employee as Apple. In a business that has never been consistently profitable, has not much of a moat, and in which he'd panicked almost all of his advertisers, the primary customers.

Good luck with that
I didn't know HN was biased like this, found out about this tweet on Reddit and was wondering why it wasn't front page here.
I've seen some tweets saying that in some engineering groups 75% didn't click the 'yes' link. But those are tweets so... who knows?

https://twitter.com/GergelyOrosz/status/1593154189345316864
[@GergelyOrosz] Internally, there are polls at what % of current Twitter software engineers plan to stay, and these usually point to about 25% indicating to stay for Twitter 2.0, and the other 75% planning to take severance. Don’t forget: this is less than 50% of the original staff.
The thing is: Local plaintext storage sounds beautiful, but is it really more secure than end-to-end encrypted cloud storage?
I don't think that would work, because pitching the board forward would require the wheel to accelerate to keep you upright. Also, what if it needs to warn you while you're actively accelerating (with the board already pitched forward)?
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