skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Twitter is just web dev stuff

"Just web dev" stuff is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. It's not like Twitter is just some react code on the cloud. It's been around since 2006 and is essentially a massive realtime platform. I don't think Twitter has any unique secret sauce, but the kind of people who can run a large online platform and dedicated metal really don't exist anymore; and under fire they will either need to run to the cloud (increasing costs) or start dealing with outages.

>I do think he'll probably pull this off

It seems far more likely to me that he ends up selling it to Google or something for pennies. So far, publicly, he hasn't communicated any sort of thesis or plan and most of the head engineering staff has been let go. How long do you think it will take to get a new engineering lead up to speed on 16 years of Twitter infra while also meaningfully transforming the company? His only option at this point is maintaining the app on a shoe-string budget to get "profit", but that seems like a very boring outcome that should have been left to a P/E firm.
It's on the front page for me (as of 9:19PM EST, #19)
Its pretty terrible, that line would have had a major capacity impact on all the other Eastern lines. It goes a long way destroying the major benefits of HS2.
The PDF spec is quite readable. Use the “Adobe equivalent” of PDF 1.7 here: https://www.pdfa.org/resource/pdf-specification-index/
Thanks for taking the time to reply
> Even offerings like these and those from System76 are actually made largely based on designs made to run Windows and adapted later.

System76 does get complete hardware specs from the chipset manufacturer, though, and their cooperation in porting an open-source firmware to the motherboard. They run Coreboot instead of the proprietary OEM UEFIs, and this has let them achieve some nice things in power management (including MacBook-like instant on from sleep and hibernation, for example) on some models.

I'm still excited for the first systems where they get to do the physical design as well, but their firmware work on their rebadged laptops is substantial and relevant to the power efficiency issue.
I hope that was _sarcasm_... This man is singlehandedly causing more polution, social unrest, and fraud than anyone I've seen in my lifetime. Each of his enterprises is bankrupt without government money and very creative accounting. His behavior is reprehensible and criminal. I can't believe he is not in prison.
Your "laptop" in disrepair is a desktop. You can't hot-swap that Linux laptop's batteries.

24 Wh built-in with unlimited hot-swap 72 Wh batteries, pretty much 96 Wh + 72Wh * N.

Got anything constructive to add?
Regarding DKIM, Cloudflare recommends[1] a record of "v=DKIM1; p=", whereas this recommends deleting all "_domainkey" records. Is there a difference?

[1] https://www.cloudflare.com/learning/dns/dns-records/protect-...
> 1954 – ПП-2 (Kamynin/Liubimskii)

> 1955 – ПП (Ershov)

What was going on here?
ASML recently announced a massive stock buyback in the order of $12B (55% of their revenue) which left me scratching my head.

They reportedly can’t meet demand and the current backlog for new machines is at 2+ years. Surely a company in a sector with such massive capital expenditures has better use of this money? For example scaling production or R&D?
This is handled by the DOM automatically in arrow since it uses things like “el.setAttribute” and “el.innerText”
the 90s web was extremely semantic in that the entire site was laid out as a table. tabular data is easily consumable!
> I know a number of engineers who would privately admit a Twitter with fewer HR types would be a better place to work, not worse.

I would not be surprised if this is the case in 90% of companies. And it's because in most cases employees don't understand the role of HR. It has nothing to do with making employees lives better, and everything to do with making interactions with employees most profitable for the company and protecting the company from employees and their actions.
I also wrote a similar (shorter) article a few months ago after a customer complained that they received a phishing email from me:

https://www.uxwizz.com/blog/stop-others-use-your-domain-emai...
Hi everyone, passing by to share the code to my photo editor. I think it's a very personal project in the sense that not many people would find it useful, but you never know, it might help people.
That’s only because you have terrible taste in apples. :)

Seriously though, who rates Braeburn at 73 and Cortland at 24? They’re really not that different if you get them fresh.

It sounds like they found their test Cortlands in a wet bag behind a dumpster.
From how I understood the article, they don't do TLS termination but they do SNI snooping to figure out how to route it? So if they don't have all of the infrastructure in place to map the SNI for your CNAME to your Tailscale network, that wouldn't work?
https://youtu.be/N6Zz-Nkkaxc
Dalton needs to fire up App again!
If your 10 year old likes music and sequencing, the Teenage Engineering set of Pocket Operators are very cool. A set of unique samples combined with a surprisingly powerful sequencer. One of them even has the ability to sample from aux in and then use that sample with the built in sequencer.
I'm pretty sure Intel `powertop` can tell you, but if it can't tell you directly you can measure the difference in power consumption depending on whether the dGPU is enabled in the BIOS.
It's actually not so bad: it's mostly ASCII, even though some parts of it really need to be treated as binary. If you open up a simple/old PDF in your favorite text editor, you can begin to grok the basic structures quite easy.

One trick for getting started: PDFs are read from the bottom. The first thing that is read is actually an offset pointing back to the xref table, at the end of the file. Then, the xref table itself points to the latest version of all of the objects.

The part you're most likely interested in is the content streams, which contain postscript-like drawing commands. To get a feel for it, following the official spec when reading a simple-looking document can help.

edit: I didn't link any actually useful resources, in part because I actually just have a corpus of files in various file formats that I keep handy as a reference for some weird reason. However, Googling for simple PDF files yielded this, which I feel is very readable in a text editor. https://www.africau.edu/images/default/sample.pdf
Yeah but when the CEO is a self proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, it’s rich to hear that he’s created an environment where free speech is chilled due to looming punishments for exercising said speech.
If everything else is equal, a trustless system that makes fraud and shenanigans (almost) impossible is better than a system that requires trust. Your view is also extremely US centric. MAYBE in the US the stock exchanges are perfect, and can be fully trusted. But the US is not the entire world. I can assure you that in other countries, a lot of bs happens with stock exchanges.

Even in the US, there's a lot of bs that goes on related to high frequency trading. With a trustless, decentralized system, the playing field could be evened (instead of favoring those with LAN connections to the datacenter). And who knows in general how much order book bs is happening behind our backs.

And the blockchain being slow isn't really that much of an issue. Stock trading is already settled at a later time, so stocks being settled to blockchains at a later time, batched, wouldn't be a problem (and real time trading would happen with L2 or L3s).
It's technically the way that hand tools are all you need to build a house.

But I'd rather not hand write content in HTML and have limited ability to change themes without editing every page, and have to update links in indexes every time I add a page to make it visible, and need my laptop or SSH client on a phone to write.... a flat file CMS does a lot.
I need everyone to think very carefully about the attack surface, and how long it has been left unprotected, and how long it will be unprotected.

Now, I need you to consider the following proposition: that eyeballs are to codebases, dashboards and telemetry as floss is to tooth and gum.

Then, I need you to go to your phone and uninstall Twitter.

Also, when you do visit it, visit it in Firefox.

Use a Firefox Container.
I suspect the author has a sample size of one for some of these varietals. Some of these descriptions are… off.
some people on this site have brains as smooth as bowling balls
A few successes here and there lol...the arrogance of your statement is hilarious.
Yeah. Multiple entire teams that run critical systems have reportedly left.

It’s over. Dead site running. Such a horrible loss.

Glad the stockholders are happy. This was clearly better than the lawsuit. /s
> Also, and this is a big one, you can directly ask questions and it replies.

Now that I didn't know!
The TLS cert expires on December 12.
John Campbell did a video today on a D2/D3 study. I think this is the same study.
It's easier to attract customers with lower fees when you don't intend to return the principal?
even more useful if you disable suggestions for everything except (bookmarks and) opened tabs.
I am in China and aware of the Apple risk. But I don't think Apple is indiscriminately recording the keys people enter for each app and providing them to the gov, so I don't think that threatens end-to-end encrypted data. Am I right? With all ears.
The comment you're responding to is a prescription: what people ought to do.

Yours is a description: what people in fact do.

Yet, you phrased it in the same way, with the same emphasis. It might be a world view shifting shock to you. But I have always thought Elon was an asshole, from the very beginning of his self image marketing campaign.
50k IUs per day. That seems like a lot. I have been taking 5k twice a day with zinc and quercetin since my last bout of illness. Maybe I should consider more.
I think the approach was poor. Laying off half the company then trying this is a recipe for disaster. If at first, instead of laying off half the company he had said "Look, the company is in rough shape, we are going to turn it around, here is the vision... It's going to get hard but you can leave now" then I could get behind it. But this is just insane, you'll just end up with people who can't leave.
> there's still a recognition that spam and flooding are not acceptable - and the question is, why?

Flooding and spamming are hated by everyone and are otherwise unimportant, there's no controversy about them. Generally free speech maximalism is about allowing all controversial speech for various reasons which tend to include the importance of dissenting voices.
All of their top picks are red, and the two I've tried are too sweet and bland at the same time.

I'll pick a Granny Smith any day over any red apple, the authors of this "ranking" appear quite arrogant in their pretentiousness.

Then again, I eat lemons whole so what do I know.
Within the scope of an argument about the job mobility for Twitter engineers, Twitter is "just web dev stuff" or maybe "just planet-scale web dev stuff." The key point is that the skills these engineers have is valuable in many places and EM's behaviour is rapidly driving away everyone who has a reasonable chance of finding work within the next 6-12 months.

WHat I find interesting is the Twitter the business is no more "web stuff" than HN is "web stuff." The real business is on what we might call the product management side, and the central problem to solve when deciding what kind of social media product you have is deciding whether to moderate it, and if so, what you moderate and what you allow.

Even if he miraculously gets enough people motivated work there keeping the lights on and the machine humming, I am with the many people suggesting he has absolutely no idea how to actually run the product side of the business, where decisions like "anybody can rent a blue check for $8 a month" can have drastically negative consequences for the part of your business that sells advertising.

At this moment in time, that side of the business is extremely messy, and it isn't an engineering problem, it's a people problem.

Elon does not strike me as a people person, nor does he appear to be interested in delegating the most important role in the company—the person who decides what Twitter's product is—to anyone with competence in this area.
To restate my point - I'm not advocating for banning speech. I'm _certainly_ not advocating for banning the discussion of sensitive topics. I'm asking people to recognize that, by using certain forms of speech _that they have been asked not to use_, they are presenting themselves as someone to whom speaking in that particular way is more important than the feelings of the people who they're speaking to or about.

You, clearly, are signalling yourself as one of those people. And that's your right! That was your choice to make.

But maybe stop and think about why you think it's so important to you to tell people to shut up about something that bothers them, and if you want to be seen as someone who's deliberately and wilfully causing harm when there exist other ways to phrase the same concept.
I wonder if the default policy shouldn't be rejecting all email unless DMAR/SPF/DKIM is set up. I mean, email clients already mark non-authenticated emails as dangerous, that helps.
This is an under-explored part of how we got here. Elon did not want to buy Twitter. He bought it only because he thought he could flip it and lose less than what settling would cost (plus what damage depositions would do).

Right up to a few days before the deal closed, Elon was hoping he would not have to actually run Twitter. And that's the second part that is under-explored: Elon could not find a CEO. And he never will until he admits all of his and the coinvestors' equity stakes are now worth zero, and he takes a down round that reshapes the cap table and enables a sane incentive package for a CEO.
> prior generations emphasized savings and prudence

Even though I'm a native English speaker, I discovered right now that I didn't know what prudence meant. I knew the word prude so I naturally assumed that prudence meant being concerned with morality and sexual behavior.

It turns out that the words are unrelated. Prudence means the ability to govern and discipline oneself by the use of reason. So unlike prude, prudence is actually a positive trait.

Though I'll add that "in modern English, the word prudence has become increasingly synonymous with cautiousness; in this sense, prudence names a reluctance to take risks." (Wikipedia)
I think he's just flailing about, nothing much beyond that. Triumphing with a popular platform and revenue would absolutely be his hope, but he's making rushed, questionable decisions that bring compounding issues. From the start, muddying the existing blue check with the idea of a paid tier seems bizarre and unnecessary.
"2nm" is a marketing term. There are no actual parts that actually measure 2nm.
Went apple picking a few weeks ago. It was end of season but they had one I never tasted called Eden. Wow. My new favorite.
No need to overthink the analogy. Pro gamblers choose their games while VM developers don’t. The analogy works for those games the gambler did happen to play.

Let me give you more concrete data. On JSC we did tune for microbenchmarks in addition to macrobenchmarks. But the microbenchmarks would show pathologies not seen in the macrobenchmarks, those pathologies were unpredictable (you breathe on the VM and the behavior changes), and anyway real programs were more like macrobenchmarks than microbenchmarks. So - based on experience we switched to using the microbenchmarks only if they reliably reproduced behavior that we first observed in a macrobenchmarks. Got a macrobenchmark regression? See if any microbenchmarks also regressed in hopes of finding something easier to study. Otherwise the microbenchmarks were just whack-a-mole - if you focus on one of them you end up making changes that hurt real stuff.

Sort of like if a gambler focused too much on one game, they’d end up losing in the average.
James Webb Telescope finds two of the oldest and most distant galaxies ever seen
I’ve pretty much never seen or heard of support workers or social workers encouraging mentally ill people to talk to journalists.

What I will say though is that housing costs are a huge issue for people with mental health issues because those people usually are best off staying near support networks which are rarely in low cost of living areas.
"Undermining" has an intentional feel to it, which I doubt is the case. More likely, Elon, a deeply insecure, emotionally underdeveloped, narcissistic man-child, was "forced" to buy twitter (in his mind), and then immediately ridiculed and teased for his haphazard stewardship, all of which is entirely too much for a person like him (there are many) to endure, so he's flailing, and will continue to do so until twitter is nothing more than a dead bird at the bottom of a cage. Then he'll claim it was his plan all along because he can't cope with the concept that he isn't the supreme intellect in the galaxy.

For anyone out there confused by Elon's behavior, imagine how a toddler reacts when you tell them "no" and it'll all start to make sense.

I feel sad for all of the people affected by the actions of this emotionally fragile agent of chaos.
Huh. I'm on 50k once a week and was under the impression that that was a lot.
Sorry, it doesn't work like this. The reason politicians are not prioritizing those things is because currently the effects from the climate change are not affecting profits. It's cheaper to do lip service and lip service they do. At some point as things get worse, some actual solutions like biodiesel will start paying off and governments will start adopting it.

All you can do by your personal martyrship is delay this point by historically negligible time. But this is not fair to yourself.

It's like you have a drunkard neighbor. You know once he runs out of money, he'll sober up, take it seriously, find a job and start rebuilding his life But instead of letting him do it, you sell your own house and keep buy him more booze! Sure, he will be thankful, but it won't solve the problem. You are just fooling yourself by doing the simplest thing that appears to give your life a meaning, but on the grand scale you are just wasting your own life away.

SUVs are nice, you can fit multiple kids and hiking gear into them, tow your own speedboat and go to multi-day roadtrips along the coast. So what, I am supposed to give that lifestyle up, reduce my life to eating bad-tasting food in front of a TV so the politicians, who are agreeably bad at their job could take more flights with their private jets? I don't think it's fair. I mean, the politicians would love you do do that, but that's just not fair to yourself.
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Suppose I want to reverse engineer all of my laptop's power saving features and write drivers for them or whatever it is that Linux needs to work properly. How do I begin? I managed to get as far as dumping ACPI DSDT but I couldn't figure out where to go from there.

I got all the extra USB features working. It should be possible to support everything else too. If I learn this I'll add support for all the laptops I buy in the future too.
Sure. You say that now. But without Twitter, how will NYT and Fox News learn about the daily moral panic? Have you ever seen an addict go cold turkey? It ain't pretty. Do you really want an entire nation's mediascape to end up in the ER?
Same here. I'll never buy a Tesla now, whereas before I might have.
Wow, thanks for sharing. May I ask what tipped you off to the stage 2 colon cancer? Symptoms? A sagacious doctor recommending a test based on some distantly related finding?
Only hundreds? Surprising, elsewhere I've seen it's claimed 75-90% are accepting the severance offer.

Edit: Looks like the main thread is here~

100s of Twitter Employees Leaving After Musk's 'Extremely Hardcore' Work Demands

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33648235

(50+ comments)
Expecting hockey stick growth indefinitely is patently ridiculous.

Surely there will be an inevitable insurmountable plateau reducing cost and performance gains to smaller improvements.

At some point, different technologies will have to be seriously considered such as photonics.
If I'm giving Elon the benefit of the doubt, A. he's intelligent B. He has 20+ years of corporate experience running companies, I would assume that there was some method to this madness. If I had to guess, he came in with the assumption that forces in the company would be hostile to him based on their beliefs. In order to weed those forces out, he engineered some of this madness to shake those people out. Unfortunately it seems like it may be backfiring.
What about all the poor people on visas who are now desperately looking for jobs to avoid having themselves and their families deported?
> I guess, if you buy the premise that cash flow is problem number one

Well, luckily you don't need to buy the premise that cash flow was problem number one—after he bought it, he saddled it with so much debt that it definitely became problem number one!
> My comment stated what I thought of your comment. It was blunt and short but not without meaning. The brevity might suggest to you that I didn't think your comment warranted additional time. I engage more substantively with good thinking. I'm making an exception here because I see you lashing out instead of looking inward.

> Take my comment point by point and you have some opportunity to improve your writing and thinking. Or dismiss it and continue on with your current path. Or counterattack again. Some paths will help you grow and some won't. Choose wisely. I'm not your enemy -- ego and defensiveness are.

Your comment is by definition (bad) meta thus useless, you are not making any point aside from resorting to a personal attack, which is frowned upon here. It serves absolutely no purpose as you're not developing a counter argument, nothing.

You couldn't even make a complete sentence with a noun, pronoun and a verb...

Now stop wasting people time and get on with your life doing something meaningful for a change, you should reflect on that instead of having the audacity to tell people to "improve their writing".
Well yeah. Who in their right mind would want free speech for those they disagree with? /s
One one side, you have NarcisSUS and on the other, Imposter Syndrome.

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Not a whole lot.

Elon's primary failure with Twitter was joining a behemoth and arrogantly assuming he knew better than the existing leadership, sacked them all and pushed sweeping changes in a nonsensical time-span.

At his other ventures he already has strong leadership in place that he's worked with so he just assumes everything's already great rather than second guessing everything. In practice he doesn't run them on a day-to-day basis. He's more like a chairman with an interest in engineering than a CEO.
It's a way to avoid taxes. The company writes it off as a business expense, while it is considered a qualified fringe benefit (non taxable) for the employee.

Furthermore, many of the tech campuses in the south bay don't have enough restaurants nearby to support all of their employees going out to eat lunch.

There's also something to be said for just grabbing lunch at the cafeteria with your colleagues as opposed to figuring out where to go eat, driving there, waiting for the order, eating, then driving back.