skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Brevity is more important today.

The more thoughts you can fit on a page, the less taxing it is for your working memory.

We try to use abstraction - libraries, DSLs, even lowly functions - to tame ever more complex problems, but anyone who's had to debug a dependency of a dependency is painfully aware of the cost of leaky abstractions.
Why is the state of the art in PDF parsing SO BAD? This is an incredibly common and important problem. Tika and fitz have very poor results. What is the reason that this is still so backwards?
He is not hoarding wealth, he is hoarding money. And money is essentially IOUs, claims on the labour of other people and on other resources.

So as I said, if he earned the money, that means he provided for others, and in exchange he got these pieces of paper, which say that later, if he wants to, he can get others to provide for him in return.

Not spending the money means that he never claims anything for himself in return for what he did for others. How is that not virtuous?
This guy is FTX's CEO. The reason he is saying this is because the former CEO and employees appear to have stolen large amounts of money from the company.
It's kinda sad to read, is there an alternative to VSCode that is OSS and nonprofit? except things like VSCodium
100s of Twitter employees leaving after Musk's 'extremely hardcore' work demands
Maybe too many people decided to not click the 'yes' link in that email yesterday and the doors are being locked to keep people in?
Don’t downplay twitters tech. They were credited with inventing microservices.
please, windows can't even get alt+tab right... it just goes to whatever the fuck clown that wrote it thought would be good idea instead of previously focused window

Let alone arcane tech like "search in list of open windows"
In other news, the soccer World Cup starts on Sunday.
Probably a precaution related to this story, if the story is accurate:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twi...
totw/110 was about safely initializing global and static objects. IIUC there was something missing in the open sourced version of Abseil so that it could not be published verbatim.
"list" is probably harsh, but I've had good luck trawling through the GitHub topics to find such things: https://github.com/search?p=1&q=topic%3Apdf&type=Repositorie...

Makes me miss freshmeat.net which would have been my answer a few years ago (freshcode.club just isn't the same, although bless them for trying)
Great tip, thanks for sharing.
I suspect that there are also laws against Russian soldiers planting land mines in Ukraine. If a literate, legal adult in Ukraine walked through a clearly marked Russian minefield - because they had a legal right to do so, and the Russians were morally in the wrong - how would you regard that behavior?
(I was implicitly including other animals, some of which can hear sounds outside the human range, even if they cannot participate in online conversations.)
What libraries do you see as being SOTA? Fitz? Tika?

My hope is that computer vision + OCR will solve this once and for all in near future.
Regardless of your feelings about Elon Musk as a person, this kind of behavior is absolutely crazy for the leader of a company. I can't imagine what investors who signed on to do this with him are thinking unless their goal was to simply destroy the company.
New wave of resignations at Twitter after Musk ultimatum
and worse, put in the barest minimum of effort too.
As to what I wrote, the output is commonly measured in financial terms, isn't it?

And in theory, the output is equal to one's income, or the value added.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gross_domestic_product
(Production approach vs Income approach)
My point remains.
I am sorry for anyone working for this twit.

There are other options.
One of my favorites is "McDonald's is best known for its world-famous burgers, fries, and broken ice cream machines. The problem is so widespread that even the McDonald's communications team has tweeted about the issue."

https://www.scribd.com/document/562063724/Kytch-v-McDonald-s...
The global paper of record for financial news (IMO) is the financial times.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times
The bold and cursive Unicode have a "proper" use in display for mathematical symbols. You can't roll back these assignments anyway, and these are probably most dominantly used in math homework etc. produced in MS Word.
There are two reasons Git is better, and the UI is NOT one of them: speed and repository format. I think Keith Packard wrote about this best: Git is technically under the covers way superior over Hg, it's not even a competition. For usability, I think with Sapling we finally get some real competition and that might be the user interface alternative we need, as well as the monorepo approach it was basically made for, but let's just say that I don't trust people who think Mercurial is technically even close to a good idea.
So, given that, is it possible to disrupt LiveNation instead?
Sure, this is genetic selection. But citrus fruits reproduce sexually, so this could be entirely genetic. I don’t think the epigenetic traits follow so obviously.
You can generate a lot of wealth through viciousness and exploitation too. Do you think rich people are necessarily virtuous? Because extremely uhhhhhhhhh
It starts when bankruptcy is filed.

Ofc, if I lend $100m to a company that you control, and you start siphoning that money into your bank account...then you aren't going to declare bankruptcy until the stealing is finished. So there are provisions to claw back money even ex-post (i.e. time doesn't matter) when someone has committed a crime...but the idea is that bankruptcies are wrapped up quickly because the longer it goes on the more value is lost by everyone (apart from lawyers)...speedy liquidation is also a central component of a well-functioning capitalist economy.
This is a good idea. I use a catch-all domain for receiving mail. I never thought to set up DMARC & SPF until I received an email from a scammer attempting to impersonate the domain, but not any of the names I've used. I wonder also if it could impact the reputation/value of parked domains.

The article didn't mention Google's PostMaster tools:

https://gmail.com/postmaster/

This can give you a hint if your non-mail domain is being used elsewhere. I think it goes back 90-ish days, even before you had it set up.
Unfortunately we have returned to a 5 hour week. And management is pushing hard for a return to the office.
You can decide to bring lunch from home at a company that provides lunch as a perk.

Either way, I'm glad I don't care about appearing adult and mature to my peers.
Another microtonal master was Ben Johnston. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhZd4Tea2cM is his string quartet arrangement of Amazing Grace. It starts with just intonation and then... goes...
My takeaway from your comment is that one should read the code first, and then see if the comments match your understanding of it afterwards, NOT that one should not write any comments.
Have you considered Lego Mindstorms? I think it was recently discontinued but you can probably still find them.
I had read the article, and cited material from it.

I'm not familiar with the author. Though I note that her principle publishing outlets both appear to lean strongly Right-Libertarian: Reason and the New York Sun (founded by Conrad Black), per Wikipedia.

My point about Reason's slant and bias remains. If the story has legs, it should be available from another publication.
Meta employees were angry about the sudden layoff announcement and access cut off. Many wanted an advance notice like what Jassy has given. I guess there is no "right" way to do this.

In this particular case, what Jassy seems to be saying to employees is that they should be customer obsessed and work hard for the holiday season but he cannot guarantee they will still have their job in Q1. That sucks. My heart goes out to everyone who is and will be impacted.
> You are responsible for the code you write with GitHub Copilot’s help. We recommend that you carefully test, review, and vet the code before pushing it to production, as you would with any code you write that incorporates material you did not independently originate.

Looks like Microsoft says burden is on CoPilot users to 'vet' the code.
Elon should follow Verizon's lead and sell Twitter to Automattic for $1M.
Any sufficiently complicated (linear algebra system) contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified bug-ridden slow implementation of half of (APL).

With apologies to Phillip Greenspun.

https://philip.greenspun.com/bboard/q-and-a-fetch-msg?msg_id...
> Depends how he spins it and how much he will be able to control narrative.

> I guess he will use something like - Twitter was broken before I got in and I could not save it anymore.

So Musk's best defense is that he decided to buy a company that couldn't be saved? Might be hard for him to get loans going forward.
The reason for the source code structure is because of what it enables for distributed computing.

It makes it simple to transparently ship the code (not just data) around to any worker node. The point of Unison Cloud is to disappear the difference between AWS EC2 and Lambda.
It's a silly partisan distraction that doesn't help anyone, just like all the Trump impeachment, and Jan 6 nonsense. This isn't the opening salvo in the race to the bottom, it's just maintaining the status quo. I don't know how we get back to the high road.
MIT? Check

Connected family? Check

QuIrKY AF? Check
The best generator is Prince XML but it can be expensive.
I mean I don't have icons on desktop but that's about only miss of feature (that I don't use on windows either). Alt + F2 for app launcher + rest of it in autostart and under few bindings for common ones. If anything it's faster than anything under Windows, although definitely a power user thing.

Also something like XFCE will still get you the graphical things to fondle without as much power usage as GNOME. The problem is really those (especially GNOME) pissing on performance and thus power usage
Null MX should really be top of the list - this was what was least known for us as well.

It is not necessarily mentioned in the article, but what became apparent while reading it (for us) is really what a long-term commitment a single domain name can be. Even though my company switched names, I think they will have to keep ownership of the previous domain name till... ermm.. possibly eternity?
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.

Don't worry -- so many tech people have tremendous opportunity for self improvement. Myself included.
Yes - the first thing you notice when you see APL is 'this looks weird'. Most people then assume 'this is complicated, hard to read, and hard to use', and move on with their lives. Some people decide to learn it anyway, and quickly (within under a day) realise it is actually simple, readable, and easy to use!

It's not like some people are magically born with the ability to read APL (or anything else), and learning it isn't a matter of 'overlooking the readability issues', but rather realising the 'readability issues' are a false assumption. There's not 'bias', there's just experience.

That is why "they’re hard to use and hard to read" is 'controversial', because it is just not true.
I'm going to be blunt and state that what most people want is not what they actually need. If you use Git for how it was designed, the commands remain generally pretty clean. If you come from an SVN mindset, you are probably not really using Git the way it was designed, and Mercurial fits better.

I have used (actually introduced) Mercurial before at a company and considered them basically equivalent enough, only to get stuck in some horrible design choices of early Mercurial (named branches and not having rebase by default). I am happy to see these elements corrected in Sapling, giving me enough confidence that I might actually use Sapling over time...
Also new from Matrix today: arewemlsyet.com :)
"I think it'd be clearer if we organized things like..." any such guidelines should be agreed upon beforehand, otherwise what's the expectation? That people rewrite their code to accommodate someone's needs? Reading, other than what's in whatever coding style the team uses, is subjective. Best to agree upon what the whole team prefers beforehand.
Right. And out here the heirlooms I'm talking about are only in stores for a couple weeks (a month at longest)… because they're not likely being kept in cold storage.
Thanks for your bug reports!

Having an inline editor is something multiple people mentioned here, we are definitely considering it.

Drag and drop is also something we have been thinking about, but I always considered it a bit tricky to implement well.

Hope you give Plocs a try some time!
The recent hiring has been fueled by record profits from the lightest monetary policy of all time
You can almost get there if you commit often, and structure your commits such that all the trivial stuff are done in their own commits; for instance, if you introduce an if, you add the if and end in one commit and do all the re-indenting of existing lines in another.
Twitter Slack channel is a stream of emojis
nheko and mtxclient isn’t too archaic, last time i checked ?
Cloudflare can do this. Even for domains you don't buy there. You can use a free account. Their Security Center scans warn you of this and other configuration issues you may not consider.

Edit: Sorry, you did say "one click way." I meant the warning of these things can be done on a free account, but the actions taken can only be done on a domain bought through CF. I don't think there can be a "one click way" for this type of change because a misconfiguration can have a huge impact on your business if you're not careful.
Depending on how far you want to stretch the definition of "HTML", this can be done with XML pages that link to XSL stylesheets to describe common layouts.
Have you tried? I can take a nap no problem on them. I would even say that they greatly help me falling asleep!
I've written about this topic in more depth previously[0] (warning, it's long) and there is really no straightforward answer.

Now, I should note: I'm a YC Founder, so take my thoughts with a grain of salt. I've been "trained" by YC to think in terms of building businesses around raising VC funding and to scale quickly. (Software businesses tend to be very good at scaling compared to, for example, pure consulting where `$X = X Hours`. That doesn't mean you _have to_ scale though!)

Now, given that caveat, if you are looking to raise funding the future, then investors care a _lot_ about Monthly Recurring Revenue (MRR) which can be extrapolated into Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). That means selling a subscription with a low churn rate ("sticky") so that you can make confident predictions about your growth.

That underpins why VC money exists: If you can demonstrate that buying $1 of Google Ads gives you $1 more in MRR, then you can run the math to show how quickly you can grow if you were to re-invest every dollar earned back into the business to reach some % of growth per month. (Imagine graphing something like `y = x` from algebra.)

By taking funding, you can "teleport" your growth to a future point of on your graph by buying more ads _now_ instead of waiting. This is the basis by which you calculate the value of your business (valuation) and how much % the investors get. Also, many business tend to benefit from "economies of scale" so your function might actually become `y = 2x` with more funding.

Now, if you're thinking about going that route, then I'd recommend trying to structure your pricing around MRR to make your life easier. (Even companies like JetBrains do this by selling "corporate license bundles" with a multi-year time frame and a minimum seat commitment.)

But if you're _not_ looking to raise VC money, then you can take a different approach like what you list up above.

That said, and this is probably the most important part of text here: Pricing is not the hardest part of building a business. Getting people to give a sh*t is the hardest part and that's best achieved by solving a real problem that they care about!

You can always undercharge and fix it later once you actually understand the business + sales side. Until then, focus on the product and, if you're looking to fundraise, go apply for YC's Winter 2023 batch[1]! (Do it ASAP for maximum odds)

Good luck and feel free to email me (see my profile). :)

0: https://www.lunasec.io/docs/blog/how-to-build-an-open-source...

1: https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/
This alone is quite incredible. FTX, as a business, never actually existed. It was all just a smoke screen for his hedge fund.

Employees were stealing from the company, there were no internal controls...the rules for VC are...different. If you were on a Board and this happened on your watch, you would never work on another Board again. If you did this in PE, fired. If you invested in such a public company, very likely fired or irreparable damage to your reputation.

Sequoia are a huge fund, they are one of the doyens of the industry...it isn't even that they failed, they didn't even put in place the mechanism to try to protect their investor's money. It is unbelivable.
Sounds like `Opa!`, which was a language plus a meteor-like framework. The language itself was really nice with some interesting type-level features, but the built-in framework was the selling point. But all that ultimately got in the way for doing anything that wasn't built into it, which ended up being pretty much anything beyond toy prototypes. The language got dragged down because of it.

That said, it came out around the same time CoffeeScript did, and nobody uses CoffeeScript anymore either. So probably the fate was inevitable regardless of whether the framework was included in the language or not.
The vision is working in a cult of personality centered around placating the whims of a narcissistic, psychopathic toddler. Apparently this is attractive to some people.
Can you point to any specific examples that make you doubt the tech literacy of the author or similar articles? Perhaps some discrepancies among their points or unsupported conclusions?
Public charging has a 20% VAT instead of 5% for home electricity. This is a bit unfair to people who can't have a charger at home.
Accelerated Reader: My Favorite Software as a Second Grader
Don't worry if they do get convicted.

> Then (Martin) Shkreli addressed Kwon directly, “Hey Do, I just wanted to let you know jail’s not that bad. It’s not the worst thing, you know. So don’t fret if that... I hope it doesn’t happen, but if it does happen it’s not that bad.”

https://gizmodo.com/pharma-bro-crypto-do-kwon-terra-luna-184...
Don't worry as there's plenty of dirty cheap consultancies from overseas that will do Elons dirty work with pride.
I mean what do you think increasing govt. spending does to inflation?
I suspect one factor is the range of an orange seed is pretty small in the wild. Some rodent grabs the fallen fruit and moves it a few dozen meters away. They're probably planting tens of miles away.
Even without Firefox support, :has() is supported by about 83% of web users, which is pretty good considering it first shipped 8 months ago.
I don't think it's much harder to follow that logic. You just replace `input:invalid` with `input:invalid:not(:focus)`.
Why would two of Musk’s financiers in this Qatar and Saudi Arabia want twitter dead? Oh wait.
> I mean, my experience reading legal filings is that lawyers love to throw in these "zingers", in no small part because it is their job to present the most brutal version of the argument on their side.

This is filed by FTX’s new CEO, who took over when SBF was convinced/forced to hand over the reins.

He puts this in not to be brutal (which isn't the job), but to frame (with more detail throughout) why it will take unusual time to do basic tasks like identifying FTX's assets, liabilities, major creditors, and employees to the bankruptcy court.
That was the cause of this measure. (most employees did not commit to the hardcore pledge)
Far right doesn't mean reagan ist anymore. MMT is quite popular among populists, probably because they hate the elite and MMT is pretty explicitly about elite economists being wrong.
What if the "meant to be public" was decided because there could be strings attached, even if only to require attribution?
I use Kayak 3-4 months before my trip, and leverage the flexible search options: first by departure month + trip length to get an idea of fares, then narrow down using +- 3 days departure/arrival to find the actual best flight for me.

With this method I typically find reasonable fares all year round (~$400-$700 round trip US/EU, ~$200-$400 round trip US) with maximum one stop and maximum 2-3 hours layover (less if domestic). The key is being flexible with the days. Being flexible with specific days easily finds you good prices even during hot season, say Xmas or summer.

I’ve been using Kayak for 10+ years of international flights, easily booked 50+. Neither Google Flights nor ITA Matrix nor the other search engines work as well in my opinion.

Occasionally I sign up for credit cards and get the 80,000 miles bonus, but those are generally a pain to effectively use, there are always so many restrictions that paying $500 cash to go to Europe ends up a better use of my time.
_everyone_ should get away from that psychopath.
>We are collecting departing Twitter employee messages from the company’s Slack and public tweets here: https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twi...

>Story* to be updated soon with more: Am hearing that several “critical” infra engineering teams at Twitter have completely resigned. “You cannot run Twitter without this team,” one current engineer tells me of one such group.

https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593399683086327808

* https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465006/elon-musk-twitt...
> based on where they work. If someone did the same based on a different attribute of a population, they'd be banned.

Why is that surprising? Are you making reference to judging people on the color of the skin versus where they CHOOSE to work? I'm don't know anything about WITCH companies, but this is a serious false-equivalence.
No, you waste time on HN instead.
I hate setting up development environment. The more senior I became, the more context switch happens at work. What do you hate most at the work?
Do you have a source for "most"? I've seen many quitting, but nowhere near 1,500+.
Where are they going to go at this point? Not many places hiring that will pay more than Amazon.

One question I do have is since H1B is technically only allowed when there is not a citizen who can complete the job, does that mean that people on visas would be laid off first or does that not go into consideration for the layoffs.
Apparently this: https://twitter.com/alexeheath/status/1593368576777396226
But can you out-cheat them?
Yeah, I even bought one from a local farmstand to see if they really were better fresh. Nope.
Which should tell you the 1000 cycle figure is not correct.

I mean, they could test the cells to 1000 cycles even faster, by doing 3 charge/discharge cycles a day. They've had time to do that.
Epictetus? He gained his freedom before he began teaching iirc. And was influential and tremendously respected even before that. The contours of roman slavery are complex and I'm not fully informed on them but my understanding is that he would have spent much of his life closer to an emperor in status than to the chattel slavery that modern people are likely to imagine.