skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At this point Web N is is basically just snappy advertising for a bundle of concepts which was useful precisely one time in history: Web 2.0.

[This is the space where I'd love to write a long message about why it was important, why it failed, what we can learn from the failure, and so on. But all of that is old news, and probably much better explained by someone else already.]
previous discussion 1 month ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33157378
Yes, thank you for this stunningly original comment. Nobody in the history of the App Store has ever dealt with this block, and this entire chain is definitely not about macOS specifically - which doesn't require using the app store.
> 2. after the crowdfunder ended in 2017, Purism made the Librem 5 available to purchase on their website.

Available to pre-order a product that was still in development, with all the risks it brings.

> 3. At some point in the last few months, Purism put a lead time on the Librem 5 of 52 weeks

Such long lead times have been put there much earlier than "in the last few months". Today the expected lead time is actually shorter than that, but given the Purism's history of too optimistic time estimates I doubt that it's going to be changed again to anything else than "10 work days" at the day the production and shipping catch up with all existing pre-orders.

I'd be careful with random complaints on Reddit made by deleted users, there have been some organized FUD campaigns there in the past (and it's worth noting that "Purism" subreddit is not controlled by Purism in any way and has never been used for any kind of official communication).
Fake, flagged
Most of the partners lost it when SBF mentioned that his dream was to create an app that lets people buy bananas on FTX
The system you described has a capacity of 35L (that's how much it can pour through both pipes and still be ready to cycle) and a cyclable capacity of 20L. Only someone deliberately trying to misconstrue the role of seasonal storage would characterise it as 5L. You also carefully ignored the upstream turbines which aren't two way.

> But that metaphorical battery fills itself very slowly. It's not cyclic capacity and thus isn't nearly as useful.

It's seasonal storage. The fastest it can empty or fill is a week. A renewable grid doesn't ever require it to run at max power until it is empty and then fill at max power until it is full. That's a failure mode of a grid with large centralised production that has major unplanned outages like nuclear plants.

Is a load balancing or grid forming battery more useful? Yes. Can snowy 2 form a buffer for 350GWh of energy consumption in any realistic scenario? Also yes.
This is completely correct. Unison was always a distributed computing project, even when it was just an idea.
Closed-form continuous-time neural networks
Personally I would be aiming for consistency / simplicity. There's so many good ways to solve this at a design level without introducing a multi-phased state system. But that's me.
I think the goal was to destroy the company. Twitter has become such a cesspool and liability for a lot of important people and governments. Bring in someone like Elon Musk to blow it up in spectacular fashion.
probably afraid of kamakazi white knights choosing to add in some time bombs on their way out, lot of people leaving evidently, and a lot of people with access to critical twitter infrastructure, some maybe smart enough not to get caught because security is pretty lax there evidently.
this is a parody account. The poster actually works at carbon health https://www.crunchbase.com/person/alexander-cohen
Ah of course - when I saw comment I got tunnel vision and completely forgot that it wasn't text on screens.
People returning to mandatory onsite means less disposable income and less free time. Naturally, online content and e-commerce revenue would be severely impacted.
Wild? Yes, dramatic? No.

Jørgen Vig Knudstorp was tapped to take control of LEGO when its business was on the verge of failing (in such a way that the founding family themselves did not know they were so close to the edge).

Entire departments and ventures were cut.

Guy Roz does a very interesting interview on Wisdom from the Top about it.

https://www.npr.org/2021/10/04/1043122974/lego-jorgen-vig-kn...
That seemed like a race to 0.
Ironic given he just made everyone stop working from home.
You have it backwards. The source code management (as a marketable feature) came at least one year and maybe two years after the distributed computing parts. The earliest Unison demos (circa 2016) were "build a distributed google crawler in just a few lines of code". I think the hashes were always a component, but not part of the real messaging for quite awhile.
Don't forget about downright heartwarming entries like rebeccapurple: https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/06/19/rebeccapurple/
Follow them on mastodon of course. That’s where they all went!
This is not even wrong. Does the author have any formal training in mathematics or is he just another bayesian rationalist that thinks all cognition is reducible to computation?
Have you at any point seen Elon provide anything close to a compelling vision for Twitter? I haven't.

Other than trollish comments about free speech that he's since walked back, he's given no sign of having any coherent vision whatsoever.

The problem here isn't just that he's a terrible person; it's that it becomes clearer by the day that he's really just winging it. Smart, capable people don't want to work around that.
You're right the wording in my original post was terrible, I apologize and can see that it could appear offensive as written. It doesn't matter and isn't relevant to the core facts that he clearly stole and misappropriated billions of dollars from his company's depositors and engaged in fraud, wire fraud, misuse of funds, self-dealing, and other criminal activities that were explicitly for the purpose of enriching himself.

In my opinion, I do want to say that given the more provocative elements of the story, I get a sense that it seems to point to a larger-than-life lifestyle involving people working together and engaging in activities that mixed drugs, sex, and huge amounts of money - not to mention the "conspiratorial" elite connections to political figures and academics that are connected via SBF and Caroline Ellis.
Given that so many people were impacted by what are crimes, as can be seen by how ferociously the twitter sphere is picking at all parts of the story - it appears that everything is under judgement, frankly.
Fear of crime and drugs and sex compared to whom? Not the generation before. It seems the correlation goes in the opposite direction from what you posit.

Indeed, as at least the perception of prosperity goes down, it’s worth observing that millennials have fewer sexual partners than boomers and use less drugs.
Our Funnel ingress servers won't proxy any TCP connection that doesn't have a *.ts.net SNI name currently.

But BYODomain is something that'd be fun to add.
Uh-oh, this doesn't bode well for The Rings of Power...
Well, after or before the break. The point is you're going to lose context completely anyhow.

And I'd like to stress the distribution of the "complexity of a review", which you can crudely approximate with something like number of lines changed. Most of them will be small.
They could still do RSUs but you’ve got some big creditors who are first in line.
This has to be the end. The engineers keeping the wheels from flying off are gone. Twitter just needs a technical hiccup that Steve or that one guy who manages a team to fix it is already putting out applications. It’s over.
Not that this is at all significant, but these past few months of Twitter charades have erased any appetite for one day buying a Tesla, or any other Musk owned products. Luckily almost every automaker is coming out with their own EVs in the next couple years, so the market should be pretty competitive(in some ways it already is).
1946 – Flow Diagrams: As a graphical programming language, they've been implemented at least twice: GRAIL (GRAphical Input Language) in 1969, and DRAKON in 1996.

IPL, a precursor of Lisp, was implemented in 1956.
To be fair, there is a huge difference in how some of these apples taste coming straight off the tree at the right moment, and in the supermarket.
Mac: Battery life sucks, let's make our own chip to make it better

Windows: Battery life sucks, we'll try to improve the software and maybe use a different CPU

Linux: Just turn off your desktop and recreate its functionality using a dozen command line daemons and selectively run graphics only when you need it. It worked in DOS, why not now?

lol and we wonder why desktop Linux never came...

I've seen a lot of Linux apologetics over the years, but this is the single funniest comment I've ever read on the topic
I really hope it implodes. He has been so childish throughout, he deserves to lose the 44 billion. Sucks that thousands of people are out of work, but maybe this is better for them than a slow painful death of a once okayish company.
> Tailscale terminating the request, dumping ...

For that they need a certificate. They have two options of obtaining that:

a) They request one from a CA. This will be logged in Certificate Transparency logs, and thus you could detect it by comparing the certs logged with the ones your local machine generated

b) they could have their software upload the certificate from your machine. That would need effort to detect (deeply inspecting the software and/or its traffic), but if a whiff of such a "feature" were to be found by anyone it couldn't really be explained away. (and aren't their clients app open-source? then at least it'd be reduced to source inspection and compiling yourself, which makes hiding stuff harder)
I, for one, appreciate your comment. Will go and check if I can squeeze something.
Thanks, very useful reply
> These (smart) people can use their time and skills towards more productive stuff.

But if society really believes that their smartness could have been used better, why aren't they paid for doing "more productive stuff" than crypto? These people did crypto because it paid the most. Therefore, at the time, it must mean that it is most productive to do crypto.
Many people vote for parties, not individual politicians.

Unless a politician fucks up so badly that they completely ruin their party's reputation, people will keep voting for whichever candidate their favorite party endorses.

Parties have gotten clever, too. They'll quickly throw a troublemaker overboard than risk ruining the whole party's reputation. The conservatives in UK quickly got rid of Liz Truss. Few members of the People Power Party in South Korea are even trying to defend Kim Jin-tae now. Likewise, the party has more or less abandoned the head of Yongsan-gu district who is currently taking a lot of heat for October's Itaewon disaster. The party leaders are probably too busy arguing who to endorse in the readily foreseeable by-election.
> Many wanted an advance notice like what Jassy has given.

There were 48 hours of layoffs and no communication from any CEO, S-Team member or other senior leadership at Amazon. Beth Galetti (HR) took the time write up a post about the hiring freeze a couple weeks back but radio silence from leadership while the rank and file scrambled to find out who was affected. With Amazon being so fastidious about communications to curate their corporate image, it's surprising that they didn't bother to communicate unless it was (possibly) intentional.

I appreciate Andy finally sending something out, but it feels like this was a big miss at the very least.

Source: https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/16/23463223/amazon-layoff...
> 1948 – Composition (Curry)

It took me a minute to realize that it wasn't saying that the language supported currying, but was made by curry.

I know intellectually that curry was a famous person but kind of wild to see it like this.
> These frauds can continue so long as they can continue to grow or at least maintain a steady state. Since they promise higher returns than can be achieved through honest means the liabilities grow faster than assets over time, but so long as nobody tries to realize their gains it's fine.

Honestly this sort of comment makes me want to stop reading hacker news comments sections altogether. Could you explain what returns are promised for depositors of USD at FTX international and holders of USDT?
That is indeed the list of colors from which the Level 3 CSS colors were adapted.
It seems like the majority of people who invested in Bitcoin (and I'd assume crypto as a whole) lost money[1]. I'm definitely not a tax expert, but these people with losses should be able to at least write those losses off their taxes.

[1] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-16/vast-majo...
All social networks have a limited shelf life so even if he stops burning cash it will just delay the inevitable by only a few years.
It's kind of that a billionaire can show up one day and ruin thousands of people's lives.
It is connected. Biden asked wall street / fortune 500 companies to freeze / slow hiring / wage increases. This is part of a larger plan.. When the new prime minister of England presented a budget with a taxcut she was shortly shown the door.
I find the colloquial use of "Elon" to be pretty lame, like when people call Mark Zuckerberg "Mark" only. News sources don't do that, it's usually only losers who either want to imply familiarity or refer to him in a vaguely disrespectful way. There are lots of instances where people would be getting upset over way less - here I just think it makes one look like a loser (not singling out the parent, there are lots of these), unless one is really in Musk's circle of friends and talking about him to other friends.
if there's anyone from tailscale is currently lurking this post:

1. How much traffic cost would you expect to get into your DERP instances when this service will be available globally?

2. How much bandwidth would you prepare just for proxying these nodes into public network?

3. How do you think some users might abuse this service in the future?
I feel like I'm watching cult members nodding at each other and wondering "why don't they get it, it's so obvious!" while everyone outside just backs away slooowly...
> To put a fine point on it, equating "discomfort" and "harm" is flawed.

That's fair! Negative impacts certainly exist on a continuum! I felt like "harm" was a reasonable synonym for "negatively impact", but you're right that it carries a stronger connotation than "mildly inconvenience"; and it also has a more direct connotation than "perpetuate negative stereotypes in listeners" (using homophobic slurs has negative impact _even if no homosexual people are around to hear them_, because it emboldens homophobes and normalizes homophobia)

So let me loosen my original statement to "using this particular form of speech will negatively impact (whether directly or indirectly) certain people, ...etc.". And please do notice that I didn't describe the outcome as "then you are a bad person"! It's reasonable and justifiable to pick a point on that spectrum and say "you know what - negative impacts that are weaker than this just really don't matter to me. There's a certain level of tip-toeing around that just isn't worth it for the miniscule risk". Hell, I do it too. There's a tiny chance that my use of "hell" as a casual interjection might offend a religious reader - but in my determination, that offence is less important to me than that particular form of speech. There are probably a ton of other words or phrases I use for which I've made a similar (conscious or unconscious) determination.

My point is - speech has an impact. Indeed, if it didn't, it would be pointless. The point of speech is to communicate. Communication distributes ideas, concepts, thoughts from one brain to others. Those ideas will not just be the ones that are directly communicated in the speech, but also "meta-ideas" communicated by the form of speech. Meta-communication, more often than not, is about the speaker rather than just the content. If I hear someone teaching a complicated topic, I will assume (rightly or wrongly!) something about their level of intelligence and knowledge. If I hear someone speaking clearly and convincingly, I will assume that they've taken the time to prepare and research - and vice versa. If I hear someone using an obscure word, I'll assume they have an interest in vocabulary (and/or are involved in the field in which that term is common). If I hear someone using a well-known slur, I'll assume that they have made the deliberate choice to do so in the knowledge that it _is_ a slur. It's a form of social signalling.

So, y'know - if you believe that forms of speech that do cause "discomfort" are acceptable, and ones that cause "harm" are not (based on your own determination of the likelihood of those impacts, hopefully informed by the people who are actually impacted), _that's justifiable_. I'm not saying that words should be banned. I'm asking for a recognition that the use of a word - _any_ word - is a signal; that some signals are more distinct than others; and that that signal will be interpreted by listeners as reflecting something about the speaker's value system. That's not policing - it's a recognition of personal choice.
More like ‘relative selector’.
or skip them if you see twitter in the title?
Elon needs to step down and remove himself from the company. No one with any sanity would want to work in that environment right now. Proper leadership would be one great step towards fixing all of these issues.
Not sure if this is the case with his plan but companies will issue options to executives for the tax benefits. Typically they issue incentive stock options (ISO) and any amount over the strike price is long term capital gains.
Problem is that Elon’s ego is much much much bigger than how smart he is . And the gap has been growing for last few years really fast.

He really believes he’s smartest guy on earth, god’s gift to humanity and he has moral obligation to achieve whatever he wants to.
Eventbrite seems to be catching on for smaller events at venues that don't have deals with TicketMaster.

Also AEG/AXS owns or has deals with some 30 venues in the US (not to mention London's O2) and also owns some sports teams.
Re the http endpoint, that's well and good, it just requires serialization and deserialization to a different protocol at the endpoint, which the docs led me to believe you wanted to avoid.

There is probably an opportunity here to do interesting work around authenticating and validating computations from remote clients.

A word of caution -- javascript engines routinely get hacked, and once attackers can execute native code in the engine process they can call syscalls and have all of the rights of the underlying process. It may be useful to have some form of sandboxing of the language runtime for clients exposed to the internet or intranet. Additionally, Java & Ruby web servers routinely suffer from code injection when deserializing objects, which it seems like your language may be prone to as well.
His money provided the opportunity, but his personality flaws / mental health disorders provided the means.
+1 for the name :)
Does this mean that 75% of the remaining staff declined to stay on? If I'm understanding that right -- wow. Isn't Elon still trying to hire people back from the last fumbled layoff?
my favorite is Zhea Erose
Why should anyone care about a PIP quota? Someone getting laid off or even fired in times like this wouldn't remotely make me think negatively of them.
Wow isn't the conventional wisdom cut once and cut deep? The morale hit for nonstop drip of layoffs is immense. I can't help but think Amazon is going to really destroy their reputation as a place for technical people to excel.
I sense “nobody knew social media can be so complicated” vibe.
Bye, twitter.
Good read, TY.
> where EM wants to take Twitter

based on his actions to date, the only explanation I can think of is he wants to destroy it
I think a factor of 2 is quite significant, but I also think you may understate the advantages of compilation. I do agree the benefit is prone to be less than for a language like python.

Regarding scans (filter is a type of scan, howbeit easier to implement than the general case), there is in general an annoying work-span discrepancy, which bodes ill for contemporary computers with their finite parallelism. I would buffer heavily here, but fusing the scan with its input allows for the use of a work-efficient implementation, spending all latent parallelism on generating more inputs.

When I speak of loops, I am including any usage of rank (incl. implicit); in this respect, apl is chock-full of loops. Some loop optimisations may be obviated, of course, because of referential transparency, but others arise in their place. Take for instance some recent work[0] done on futhark: rather than parallelise an already in-place algorithm, they had to in-place an already parallel algorithm!

Two more points:

A problem may be bound by memory latency. I spent some time tuning j's I. recently, and it does many searches in parallel (4 for a small search space, 12 for a large one, iirc), but it is still bound by latency. If I could fetch a pivot corresponding to the first cell of y, and then generate the next cell while I wait, I would make better use of resources.

A compiler results in more transparent performance characteristics. When I target an interpreter, I must write my idioms and special combinations in exactly the way it expects, else nothing will happen; a compiler will care much less about exact phrasing. Similarly, like I mentioned, you get licm and cse for free, rather than needing to do them by hand.

0. https://futhark-lang.org/blog/2022-11-03-short-circuiting.ht...
EM->sr engs: "Why did so many good engineers leave?"

Sr engs: ...

(Because you're an a.h.)

People without equity should refuse to work like indentured servants for peanuts only to be told "they're not working hard enough". It's the only way to teach EM a lesson about hubris. $50 says Twitter will die down to a skeleton staff and be kept afloat by third-rate MSPs. No one will want to work on that creaky, steaming pile of poo for a billionaire jerk.
> You create an NFT and sell it to yourself for $200,000.
> Now you have $200,000 and a $200,000 NFT

But you now also have a liability of $200,000. Your total asset is still $200,000 , not $400,000.

> If you can convince someone to buy that arbitrary NFT at 95% discount

so you just sold the NFT for $10,000. If somebody else got tricked into thinking they got a 95% discount - that's on them. A fashion store often marks up their clothing by 100%, and have "sales" of 50%!
> I'm not sure what Elon was thinking when he even decided to buy Twitter.

The first time? It really looks like it was the result of a disagreement with the Twitter board. They wouldn't accept his advice or help on how to make twitter better after he became a 9.1% shareholder. The offer to buy the company outright might have been more spite than anything else.

I think he calmed down and realised what a bad idea his offer was (especially at that price), and then spent the next month or so trying to back out.

The second time? Well, he was kind of trapped and was actually forced to buy it.

The twitter board were suing him to hold him to the binding deal to buy at $44 billion that he signed. He only finalised the deal to avoid the lawsuit. It's possible he was afraid of what discovery would reveal.
Yeah, it's pretty ridiculous macOS doesn't have this out of the box. Then again this is the same OS that decided to make the maximize button turn into full-screen zoom instead. Cuz who ever needs more than one window at a time? lol

I love my Macbook, but really wish they'd borrow some ideas from Windows and Linux