skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recommend learning about the Fourier Transform, and then peeking at how frequency transformations are used to represent everyday images, like the Cosine Transform used in JPEG.

3 blue 1 brown FFT:
https://youtu.be/spUNpyF58BY

JPEG components
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Discrete_cosine_transform

I worked at the Very Large Array radio telescope for a while, and even so the language didn't click for me until I thought about the signal transforms that have become ubiquitous in everyday life.

And a co worker described the telescope as a double-slit experiment, with multiple 2-D holes instead of slits; imagine the interference pattern that you get when you have multiple slits. The elements of an interferometer are the "slits", but they are receiving the light rather than emitting it. The VLA has 27 radio dishes for its elements, so poke 27 holes in a board and shoot a laser through the holes, you get this blurry pattern on the wall. That's the distortion from the shape of your telescope, you're trying to cancel that out...

Then there's the time domain, because the Earth is rotating, so your telescope is sweeping a pattern across the sky. It can seem like a hopeless mess, but it's actually the case that for most observations, that sweep gives you even more coverage of the image. It can be a good thing.

But you have to keep track of one wavefront across all of those moving elements. The correlator is a computer doing those FFTs to find where the signal matches enough between the elements to start extracting finer detail.

I think some insight into how that's possible is around the 8-minute mark of this video:

https://youtu.be/nmgFG7PUHfo?t=8m

I have to admit that I'm still thinking about it all, and it's been 20 years. But JPEG is about at my level.

That's at the 22-minute mark of the same Vertiserum video:

https://youtu.be/nmgFG7PUHfo?t=22m
> What's the utility of being able to disable virtualization ?

I consider the option to disable (or rather: enable this function manually if you need it) virtualization to be quite useful because if this feature is disabled, malicious software cannot install a virtualization rootkit, i.e. a rootkit that makes itself a hypervisor and moves the current OS instance into a virtual machine running under this hypervisor.

See for example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Pill_(software)
A terraform module would be nice.
That's a good point, true free speech fanatics are extremely rare. Most everyone in reality thinks that their group is being silenced, and wouldn't mind silencing their ideological opposition.
It's not like they need the site to tell people how good they are. They're ASML. Nobody else is capable if doing what they're doing.
> Mozilla deserves our love for implementing a better PDF reader in the new Firefox browser, 106. It takes away the pain, just a bit, by doing in-browser renderings that can be annotated, decreasing the chance you'll have to find a third-party reader that does what you need.

All browsers PDF viewers suck big time.

Mozilla shall work on implementing proper printing. Damn, even Netscape was better at printing web pages.
yeah tell yourself that and be a good boy.
Tax payers seem to enjoy their Uber / Uber Eats type services which depend on GPS.
> The why should be clear from the domain that you're working within.

I hear this commonly from coders who haven't had the ambiguous pleasure of working with old, production critical codebases from generations of coders who have come and gone, with technical decisions buffeted around by ever-shifting organizational political and budgeting winds. Knowing the why's that leadership cares about is far more important to your career than the technical why's, which are along for the ride.

Once you go into production with tens of thousands of users and up, with SLA's driven by how many commas of money going up in smoke per minute...yeah, illusions of "pure" domain knowledge driving understanding of function dictating code form evaporate like a drop of distilled water on the Death Valley desert hardpan in the middle of summer.

I used to be like that as well years ago, but some kind greybeards who took me under their wings slapped that out of me.

Now my personal hobby code with an "unlimited" budget and I'm the sole producer and consumer? Yep, far closer to this Platonic ideal where comments are terse and sparse, and the code is tightly coupled to the domain.
Even Utah changed its tune on alcohol sales when they hosted the Winter Olympics because they knew the international fans wanted what they wanted.
He made a bad hire by following dad's advice, thinking he is overpaying, but that he's getting a return on it.

The problem is that in employment, it's not the market that sets anyone's individual value (like for a shoe), but a bunch of intangibles in how well one sells themselves.
>... work like indentured servants ...

I'm sorry but are you reading what you're putting down here? These people are making ridiculous swathes of money doing piss easy work, let's not go overboard with the hyperbole here

I do hope Twitter dies a painful death, however, so I'm with you on that bet
Good job. Basically anything up to 100w, unless it has some other niche requirement (waterproof, etc) should be mandated USB C, IMHO.
Computer proof ‘blows up’ centuries-old fluid equations
Why would you "throw a bone" to terrorists ?

That would be like saying "let's throw a bone to nazis and let them keep Poland"...
As in other threads about psychoactive substances I wonder how much the result of the trip is influenced by the psychonaut's predisposition towards spirituality and magical thinking.
Which one!?
> * Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult

Elon got them to print out their code and pissed off the advertisers that where paying them. I don't think it was the employees that made life difficult.
These are mostly stock options which they never sell and take loans against.They take on loans to excercise them so they don't get taxed at all.
...yes?

You're already offloading critical parts of your infrastructure anyway.
I think asymmetric encryption is not usable for large amount of data, the only thing it is good for is to encrypt a passphrase or a binary signature (like a hash). If you can catch the process of encryption while it is running, it is likely that the passphrase is in memory (or used as a command line argument).
Yep, that was a typo, it's fixed now. Thanks!
A note from CEO Andy Jassy about role eliminations
Why? Better payday if you get fired.
Epictetus talks about both ideas in Enchiridion (http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/epicench.html):

7. Consider when, on a voyage, your ship is anchored; if you go on shore to get water you may along the way amuse yourself with picking up a shellfish, or an onion. However, your thoughts and continual attention ought to be bent towards the ship, waiting for the captain to call on board; you must then immediately leave all these things, otherwise you will be thrown into the ship, bound neck and feet like a sheep. So it is with life. If, instead of an onion or a shellfish, you are given a wife or child, that is fine. But if the captain calls, you must run to the ship, leaving them, and regarding none of them. But if you are old, never go far from the ship: lest, when you are called, you should be unable to come in time.

17. Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a kind as the author pleases to make it. If short, of a short one; if long, of a long one. If it is his pleasure you should act a poor man, a cripple, a governor, or a private person, see that you act it naturally. For this is your business, to act well the character assigned you; to choose it is another's.
"Even Utah" seems to imply that Utah would be expected to have a stronger stance against the sale or consumption of alcohol. A cursory glance at the laws of both places, at least based on Wikipedia summaries, strongly suggests otherwise.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_laws_of_Utah

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qatar#Law

Qatar:

> In 2010, at least 18 people (mostly foreign nationals) were sentenced to receive between 40 and 100 lashes for offences involving "illicit sexual relations" or alcohol consumption.[125] In 2011, at least 21 people (mostly foreign nationals) were sentenced to between 30 and 100 lashes for the same reasons,[126] and in 2012, six expatriates were sentenced to either 40 or 100 lashes.

> Alcohol consumption is partially legal in Qatar; some five-star luxury hotels are allowed to sell alcohol to their non-Muslim customers.[135][136] Muslims are not allowed to consume alcohol, and those caught consuming it are liable to flogging or deportation. Non-Muslim expatriates can obtain a permit to purchase alcohol for personal consumption.

Utah:

> A person must be 21 years old or older to buy or consume alcohol.[2] The Utah Department of Alcoholic Beverage Services (UDABS) has regulated the sale of alcoholic beverages since 1935, two years after the end of Prohibition.[3] Utah is one of seventeen control states, meaning the state has a monopoly over the wholesaling and/or retailing of some or all categories of alcoholic beverages.[4] Current Utah law sets a limit of 4.0 percent alcohol by weight (5% ABV) in beer sold at grocery and convenience stores and at establishments operating under a "beer only" type license, such as taverns, beer bars and some restaurants.[5] Beer over 4.0 percent by weight (5% ABV) is available in State Liquor Stores and Package Agencies and at clubs and restaurants licensed to sell liquor.
I've seen lots of documentation that I only understood after I understood the code.
For photo backup I use my Amazon Prime subscription. The client isn't amazing (what is?) but it seems to do the trick.
My guess is a few weeks if that. However, the World Cup is starting this weekend, and Twitter will see heavy traffic spikes. I assume in the chaos that has been the last month they’ve failed to properly account for this. Maybe I’m wrong, but if Twitter holds up through this weekend it’ll be a clear sign they had way too many employees.
Why would you even bother to compete with teenagers in multiplayer FPS games in your 30's?
I've used both libgen and z-library to search for books over the last year. Maybe a hundred of books, mostly old fiction works (translated) in English and French (authors like Joseph Roth or Aleksandr Kouprin). Z-lib had much more results than libgen.

I've read several times that z-library is a fork of libgen and that their contents are similar, but that's not my experience at all.
Now I'm like. OK tailscale, give me custom domains and I'm sold. Where are you @bradfitz!
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> At Meta we call an individual set of changes made to the codebase a “diff.”

I don't work at Meta and I still don't have any idea which of you is right.

A commit would satisfy the description above.

As would a pull/merge request, which the image in the article perhaps fits better: https://engineering.fb.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/Code-R...

Of course, it's possible to review each individual commit as well, but who does that?

I know that some folks love to mess around as much as they need in their local branches, commit often and then do an interactive rebase, to maybe end up with one or just a few commits that can then be the basis for a pull/merge request, then the difference matter a little bit less.
> No one with any sanity

No one with any sanity and a U.S. citizenship. Visa holders under Twitter's sponsorship are trapped.
> Where is all that storage going to come from?

A large variety of places, but not by replacing 100% of electricity and only electricity in one region at a time.

You replace 30% of electricity. That's easy.

Then you replace a bunch of dispatchable non electric loads and use the times the new generation can produce electricity to replace another 20.

Then you add a bunch of 4 hour storage and dirt cheap thermal storage. You get another 20.

Then if there's finally a breeder reactor it can join the party, otherwise you round out the rest with storage as the price plummets. Burner reactors are irrelevant.
> It's remarkable how many people who've never run any kind of company think they know how to run a tech company better than someone who's run Tesla and SpaceX.

Then the next tweet says

> In both those companies, people die if the software doesn't work right. Do you really think he's not up to managing a social network?
Ha, fun! Thanks :)
Who in their right mind would rely on Tweets for a calamity??

Phones have built-in support for emergency messages (that bypass all normal silences and notification hiders, unless you explicitly go into settings and disable emergency message support), and carriers are required by law to broadcast such messages to everyone in range.

Twitter is a niche social network (at least in most of the world) and even of those that use it, a huge number will have various forms of disabled notifications.
I like the idea, like other people have said , a shell script, or a ruby/python script would be a preference for mine.

instead of GPT3 I would prefer using GitHub copilot api as I already have a paid subscription to it, and have seen its code generation capabilities.
Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Hashicorp might still count
I wish him luck in successfully destroying that cesspool for a platform!
Why? Everything already happens in your mind.
The poet's words have a longer copyright.
We already had it listed, and he abused the recovery process (no idea how!) to get control over it. We managed to appeal to get it back. Nothing really happened other than that.
The dumping ground issue after the EU fully migrate is a real risk.

If India is moving to avoid it, I expect movement in that direction in others emerging economies.

And the more of them adopt it, the more the remaining one will be pressured to also do so.
"was". For two years[1], pre pandemic. It's net negative over last 10 years and over last 3-4 years.

Worse, revenue[2] increased but costs increased faster

By all metrics it was burning money faster than it could increase revenue

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/274563/annual-net-income...

[2] https://www.businessofapps.com/data/twitter-statistics/
FTX has entered the chat: "I concur."
There is a consistency in people’s experiences with these rituals and places they go to.
USB-C goes to 240W these days.
Well the artist is apparently Russian, so. Hopefully it's more playing into Rhod's character than as an insult I guess.
Sodium ion launches next year.

As does a lot of lithium extraction started when people realized covid had caused a massive shortage that would hit 2 years later (ie. Now)
That is sad, but he had a great career.

He, along with folks like Watts Humphries, and Donald Knuth, were some of the earliest published "Computer Programming As An Engineering Discipline" types.
You know what else is affecting my sleep? Having a couple of beers in the evening. Having sex. Doing absolutely anything exciting at all, including exercise in the second part of the day.

Yeah. Not tempted to give all of it up.
That's what I am puzzled with as well, when people are trying to reason that mechanically complex things are more expensive than mechanically simple things. But it depends? Nugget of gold is mechanically simpler than a car, but it is not cheaper than a car.
Interesting: 0 roles worldwide for any team.

https://careers.twitter.com/en/roles.html#team=careers-twitt...
The house just standing costs him money tho
In the shamanic marketplace, how do you determine who's a real doctor and who's a quack?

In western medicine at least there are requirements of strictly documented education and training at accredited schools, ethical standards and review boards, and professional, monetary and criminal penalties for misconduct. Even then scammers, incompetent, and malevolent doctors slip through the cracks.

There's virtually no accreditation, professional standards or penalties for misconduct in the underground shaman scene, where anyone can hang up a shingle claiming they are a shaman with a long lineage, and where consumers tend to be pretty gullible and naive, and have little to no way of verifying if some self-styled shaman's claims are credible.

This is not an area of purely academic concern either, as some self-styled shamen have raped and tortured people, for starters.. and it's not uncommon for a shaman to fly in and do a one day ceremony then disappear, leaving very vulnerable people who've just been through a profound, possibly life-changing experience with absolutely no support.
Then you better let people know that you love lawnmowing as a way of processing stuff. They will send you food or good wishes if you are not allergic to those.
A great way to go to posterity is to state a law that so much depends on some basic human flaw, that it can not be bent until Darwin changes our brain.

Brook law of late software project will be quoted for the rest of times, because software projects will be late for the rest of time.

May Mr. Brooks rest in peace until then.
You know if we look at this from a product building perspective....

1. Twitter was attempting through out its history to tell this narrative and do this:
Twitter's core was citizen journalists and
verified journalists and being responsible enough
to guide the conversation in what was allowed
and not allowed as far as hate speech and
misinformation.

Elon bought it and had a new vision that the Twitter product should be a free speech conversation and that advertisers should be ditched as product consumers of Twitter.

The problem for Elon is that he did not do enough of story telling about the new product vision and INVITING people on the journey

Its not a type of journey you can crack a whip to get people to sign up for that journey. And certainly his product adviser, Jason Calacanis does in fact know this from his miss-steps with Mahalo.
There is a thing such “rules of engagement.” Perhaps these beings operate on a harm none protocol which requires not introducing new information. Only rehashing prior.
Also need replaceable batteries or atleast some standardized Li-Ion flat packs
Related product from Cloudflare: https://developers.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-one/connections...
Well, if your systems are managed well they shouldn't just fall apart in a week without ops, but Murphy's a bitch
mine too.
I think the biggest problem with templating/reusing instead of boilerplate is just how hard it is for a dev to answer the question(s): has somebody already done this, is their solution flexible enough to fit mine, etc.

Hell, just helpers/utilities functions within an organisation aren't always used, devs end up reimplementing stuff all the time simply because there's no easy way to know about it (documentation is only one part of this).
But imagine the size of that power brick.
The sad part is that governments want standards but won't fund SIGs or FOSS projects which their digital infra runs on....
DNA was not discovered on LSD: https://psychedelicpress.co.uk/blogs/psychedelic-press-blog/...
Chatting with Will McGugan: From Side Project to Startup
Well, we'll have to see how this plays out.

"We'll send humans to Mars!" is something that I can feel good about working 80 hours a week on.

"We'll help trolls spew hate!" ... maybe, not so much.
> We need more reliable and consistent base energy in overabundance fast.

> Nuclear can do this

It's not reliable, there's no overabundance (or even a way to match pace with renewables), and it's certainly not fast. New mines get delayed even more than new reactors.
I'm sure I'm not the first person to raise this concern but when tech improves to the point where there's a better option to USB C (or USB C is holding back other advances), are we going to have to wait for legislation to catch up before we can adopt it?
It's easy. Just deliver on client first and gradually to server as best as you can...just a joke
I've heard some researcher saying that a way to manage this is to dedicate a part of your time to risky research, and the rest to less risky research.

So you still publish, but also get to explore "interesting" stuff (that also needs to be researched). You are covered by your less risky activity.

So, a single number 20%-30% of the time, and a color 70%-80% of the time. And your risky activity could become your comfortable zone if it takes.

Getting published is not the only worthy thing. The content itself and how you enjoy the thing too.
I think it would be much more interesting to see a study between novel research produced under different education models. E.g. government funded vs industry funded vs user pays.
Whatsapp had 55 employees for around 1b users pre acquisition. Twitter was a propaganda tool of the WEF and Democratic party, run like a government agency. Since they won't be doing that any more 500-800 employees sounds about right.
> On the other hand, Seafile is also a binary distributed by Chinese team, and if I was a Chinese secret service, I'd build in all the backdoors I can

This was the reason I tried and subsequently passed on Seafile. It’s one thing if it’s just my stuff, but I was setting it up as a syncing server for friends and family. I just wasn’t comfortable with this prospect and being responsible for others’ files, as well.
It's actually a measure of the angle over which light can be collected, and it's defined as the sine of the half-angle. For example, if you want to launch light into a fibre-optic cable with NA 0.5, the light needs to be angled 30 degrees or less with respect to the cable (since sin(30) = 0./5); any light with a greater angle won't undergo reflection and so simply shoot out the side of the fibre (conversely, light at smaller angles will be reflected and so go bouncing down the cable until it comes out at the far end - again with a 30 degree half-angle).
I really enjoyed his book “The Design of Design: Essays from a Computer Scientist”

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7157080-the-design-of-de...

RIP Mr. Brooks
Oh another thing that I suppose helped was to collect and build an appreciation for old school tech.

A gameboy is a parents friend these days, much less addictive than most modern devices.

Gameboy, record players, takagochi, visits to a local HackerSpace and later a home drone and some 8 bit gaming, all helped build an appreciattion for a more home grown tech aesthetic.

Also I had the plan to pay my kids $200 if they could get their touch typing speed up high enough, but that’s another story.
On a much smaller scale (with a team of 8), but I also noticed this problem and wrote a “nudge bot” for Slack and Gerrit. It takes the team-relevant changes and post it to a Slack channel in a formatted message with the patch state (not reviewed, pending, needs change, etc)

I made a talk about it, unfortunately in Hungarian, but you can see screenshots how it worked: https://youtu.be/7WiICWyP1sQ

Here is the code:

https://github.com/kissgyorgy/slack-review-bot
> Name one successful company that only produces beautiful, elegant, and readable code, with no nasty warts or hacks.

Honestly, I'd genuinely like to hear some of the answers to this, or even just mentions of good codebases to explore.

That said, I don't think that there will be that many that satisfy all of the requirements listed here, because as the scope of a project grows, there will almost inevitably be some technical debt or accidental complexity, or even subjective things.
Decades? It’s the primary use case for Twitter.
It could be done faster - stash it and set aflame joker style.
Well, there was twitter drama that preceded elon's buying twitter, and there was clearly a lot of employees pushing their politics using it. Hell, we got recent thread about how Japanese Twitter changed the moment the "moderation" got kicked out.

But yeah, asshole boss gonna be #1 cause here with literally anything else being barely related.