skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was also thinking that now would be a fun time to work at Twitter.

It would seemingly be a huge gamble as to whether it is disorganized with constantly shifting priorities or increased operations overhead but if there is a vision and the plan is to go balls to the wall to get it done, that’s awesome.
We need a version of "don't anthropomorphize the lawnmower" here.
Musk is a lunatic. There is no need to ascribe rational reasoning to him.
I’m not sure use of chest-feeding vs breast-feeding matters much for hermaphrodites.
Wow. Thanks for sharing this! I had no idea that it was still being used somewhere. I'll share with folks on the team that I'm still in touch with!
It's not worth debating the slippery slope that is conjured up here, unless you can prove that someone actually needed to build their own rockets because every IP has turned them away from hosting a legal website.
SpeedCrunch 0.12 (2016)
Exactly. He's just a lunatic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_vacuum_decay#Bubble_prop...

The vacuum can only expand at the speed of light.

Only a portion of the universe would be destroyed. The universe would still be unaffected because galaxies located further than 4,200 megaparsecs (13 billion light-years) away from each other are moving away from each other faster than the speed of light while the vacuum decay cannot expand faster than the speed of light.
> respect developers' existing code investments

As a former Microsoftie myself, it saddens me that the company seems to have forgotten this.
https://archive.ph/ovcCj
Can you talk about the AB software? At least in generic terms?
Love the direction you're taking this :) as without reproducibility we have nothing..
I honestly think it has less to do with money and more the fact they want to save face. They spent the last few years building him up. Whether the pretty generous donations contributed to that... would almost be irrelevant.

All I'm saying is if SBF were not really "in favor" with many in the establishment/journalists, I feel his shady dealings would have been highlighted vs mitigated.

I mean Forbes just put out an article about Coraline where it made her out to be a "misguided, whizz kid."

Its great that Vox was blunt... but almost every other publication seems to have dropped the ball.
In Australia you can get a 2012 Leaf for about 20k; typically about 100km range at that age. A 2017 Leaf is closer to 30k and is a nicer drive with more like 150km range.
Dang it! How could I forget Starbucks?

One of my friends legit quit her well paying tech job to work for Starbucks for like a year and a half because it saved her money
If you're selling out shows at double the price, wouldn't the next step be to reduce the sound quality so you can play cheaper shows with a higher profit?
Can you elaborate on why the increasing accuracy of these measurements indicates that the universe is metastable?
Some people have families and a life outside of work. We sure as heck ain't staying until 1am for anybody.
I want to use language that makes trans parents feel included. That's it.

I'd encourage others to use that language and explain my reasoning (which is what I did above.) If they don't, I'm bummed out but I move on. I may think more negatively of that person in the future.

That's all. In real life and in internet life.
Where do you get your false information?
SSL certificates are only valid for a slim date range, setting your clock too far ahead or too far behind will result in invalid certificates throwing errors.
As the comment says, it would be interesting to interact with the richest person on earth. Short of that, I have no idea why anyone would think it's fun or anything to be in that atmosphere. He could change direction on a whim and make you redundant in a second.
yes. the US grid operators also seem do go through a lot of effort to make sure there are exactly 5,184,000 cycles per 24-hour period, specifically because it helps those clocks keep time.

I don't have any clocks that do this, so I bought one of these, which keeps accurate time without intervention from me or the power company: https://mitxela.com/projects/precision_clock_mk_iii
Asahi has been pretty much on-track with their own projected estimates. They had claimed that basic GPU accelerated desktop will happen by the end of the year, and that seems to be the case. If you want to fund them, they have listed their various sponsorship/patreon channels. The rest, as is often the case in open source projects, boils down to, "Don't ask for ETAs".
Quest for My Perfect Watch
Honestly, I like the picture of the new owner coming in and having engineers whiteboard the systems out to him and start getting up to speed with the company. It does have a nice feeling of espirit de corps to it. If he had started with that instead of fire and fury and a lame sink joke, he wouldn't have tarnished his image and the company so much.
This is a very cynical take and I would recommend some self reflection. I know for a fact you can make lifelong friends from shared interests. I’ve done it, I have friends who have done it. Maybe it’s harder for some but it is absolutely common.
Genuinely can't tell if you're joking or not but it doesn't matter. Either way this is basically a paraphrase of one of the most astute dril tweets of all time:

"drunk driving may kill a lot of people, but it also helps a lot of people get to work on time, so, it;s impossible to say if its bad or not,"
Hi Nat! Long before I joined the company, I remember fondly the COR Design Review meetings from ... 1998(?) after you ruined the world with ActiveX :)
The block chain imposes limits that ticket sales don't have.

The cost of meat space sock puppets is much higher than coming up with a billion secret keys
The ultimate garbage collection.
I had almost this exact same experience when teaching an algorithms course. I had to stop giving automated feedback when I had a student turn my own code back into me and then lie to my face when confronted about it. It only took 3 weeks. The worst part was how bad I felt for taking something useful away from the students who weren't abusing it.
I greatly enjoyed this comment.
Ask HN: What are some startups that failed because of tone-deaf founders?
Some examples that come to mind are Peeple (Yelp for people) and Recipeasly (recipe aggregator that scraped food blogger sites)
To anyone reading: don't just be a consumer. There are enough projects made for people who just consume. Emacs is still a project run for people who make stuff with it. Please go somewhere else if you have no interest in building anything.
Sitting on an immovable object doesn't turn it into a chair, like sitting on the ground.
Did he do the poll so that if Trump does not return, he can say that technically he didn't invite him back, it was the "peoples" choice? I was kind of certain that he wouldn't take the chance of inviting him back. If Trump would say no or never tweet again, that would be a signal to his base that Twitter was dead to him.
Every port of Final Fantasy VII (PS4, Switch, Android, Xbox One, etc) is just the original 1998 PC port EXE running in an emulation layer similar to Wine. The general consensus in the community is that Square has either lost the game's source code or feels that doing things this way is safer than rebuilding the code. In a fairly forward-thinking move, FF7 PC has the ability to use an external DLL as its graphics driver, so the ports use this functionality for new graphics drivers that allow for higher resolutions and more modern APIs than the DirectX 5 support the game shipped with.
Exactly. This isn’t new, this is just further abstracted. When we consider what these things are analogous to, then, yes, they should require a warrant. Should the government be allowed to intercept your mail, make an exact replica, and send the original to the intended recipient? Obviously not. The same, therefore, applies to packets.

Should LE be allowed to look at all the recipients of your snail mail without a warrant? Absolutely not. They, therefore, should not be allowed to read your call logs. It’s basically the same.
Taylor Swift – The Eras Tour onsale explained
Maybe he's in the photo?
I did my own books up to 250k in sales. After that I got a book keeper and an accountant. At 5 mil in sales I got an accounting firm. It should have happened around 2-3 mil

A few tips,

Know the difference between your balance sheet and a P & L statement.

understand what a trial balance is

Don’t have 300 pages of expense accounts, you should be able to produce a financial snapshot at any of time of 1-2 pages

Quickbooks generally will do everything you need, the invoicing system is nice and can be integrated easily for credit card payments and recurring billing

Banks generally won’t count items older than 60-90 days on your A/R as an asset
This is really interesting and I think a fundamental difference between engineering and law (my profession).

In the legal sphere the incentive is basically to act like everything is perfect at all times. Technically according to the law you can be sued if you had a wheelchair ramp work 364 days a year but be closed on one.

You can be sued for clearing 99pct of the ice from your driveway if someone slips on the 1pct. If you'd cleaned 99 pct of the driveway as a lawyer you would announce: we cleaned the driveway!

The engineer might opine about how she failed to get the last 1pct and why. The lawyer would tell her to be quiet because she risks being sued.

To my mind the engineering model is better. I don't like the legal model. But it is what exists, and I guess this is why we tell engineers to delete their Slack logs every couple of years.
You know until 2016/2017 we let people post just about anything they wanted on all of the major platforms. Maybe not racial slurs and direct threats, but everything else was good. It was like that for a very long time and mostly everyone was fine with it. All that changed is that liberals didn’t like the political results—far right ideas becoming more popular and organized.
Does your last name perchance rhyme with Tusk?
I still point to wide adoption of boost:: as reason why C++ should never be used. If 4 pages of a single error message isn't enough to convince someone, nothing will.
Closure Oriented programming is described in Let Over Lambda[0], objects in Lisp.

[0][https://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/guest/chap2.html]
Replay attacks come to mind (a credential valid for five minutes oh hey it's valid again now) but if an attacker can change the system time you probably have more important things to worry about, such as them having root or worse.
I’ve stayed up for hackathons and stayed out late for meetups, this seems way more fun. Who cares if you’re redundant? Not everything is about status.
Subtitles are absolutely TINY!
They're getting flagged.
Don't know why it is downvoted but isn't it a legitimate concern that if dev and prod environments are produced differently with different tool chains, it might result in discrepancies?

Concrete example, dev environment with nix but production is Dockerfile with apt getting packages?

Thoughts?
But doing it at 1am is asinine
TLDR yes. My current config is vanilla emacs, it’s very minimal. It uses boon for modal editing. I’ve delved into the boon elisp code enough to patch it so that it has a somewhat functional way to switch between Dvorak modal editing and Qwerty.

I’ve read some of Mickeys blog posts, not the book. I can generally recommend learning how to emacs and I’m sure mickey will help you a lot to do that.

I used vim for 5ish years. I switched to emacs with its C-p C-n etc for a while. Then I found found boon, then I made my patch to it. vim to me is now subsumed by a <1000 line hackable elisp file.

The whole process of installing the boon code, searching and navigating it, making changes and dynamically reloading it, and then using it, etc. You can take it one step at a time and everything is ready for you to take the next step.

In vim, it works the way it works and you can learn it and use it. In emacs, same, and if you want you can also easily browse it’s code and dynamically change it. It’s strictly better. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance

I also find that browsing the source is so easy that documentation is more annoying to use. Sometimes I find documented customization options that are the little hack i would have made in the code anyways.

It’s not everybody’s cup of tea, but it is truly a cup of tea.
> You can't self-identify yourself as being of a certain profession

That's true, but there are identities where self-identity does make sense. Religious identity would be a good example. I think it's best to think of feelings-based gender identities as akin to religious identities. They don't replace the category of sex, but they are valid in their own right.
I think it was in part because in 2010, Microsoft was already switching gears to Windows 8. A part of that was DevDiv getting sidelined by Windows. Windows was not a fan of .NET in general since Longhorn/Vista, but more importantly, the grand plan for Win8 involved the brand new application framework, WinRT. So when it came to VS 2012 and .NET 4.5, the emphasis was on WinRT interop - which is not a scenario where DLR is useful.

It's a good thing that DLR is still there, though. While undeniably niche, sometimes it makes things so much easier. For example, I've used it to support dynamic reloading of C# code in a game, for rapid prototyping of mods.
Oikema House of Pleasure by Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (2020)
Trump is for sale. Musk has money. What’s not to like?
That's true but it is exceedingly temporary organizing principle. It's almost a humorous joke that there is negentropy. Kind of like our lives. They are exceedingly temporarily organized before we're dirt.
They are really bad at first impressions. Do they not think about their own code? Literally the first thing I see when I visit the page is a misused <blockquote>

> The blockquote element represents a section that is quoted from another source.

— the W3 blocquote specification

Their copy isn’t quoted from another source, it’s a janky admonition writers of Markdown use when their tools, Markdown, don’t support the semantics they mean. <blockquote> does not mean “put this in a box”.

Click the navigation and the first things you see are links to GitHub and Discord, two very not open platforms—which should go against the philosophy of the project if they want open standards.
> What is so bad about catching people taking unauthorised breaks?

Your profile indicates that you've commented on HN on a weekday.

Don't worry - this behavior has already been reported to the authorities.
> Fortune magazine put SBF on its cover this year asking, “The Next Warren Buffett?” Now the author of that story, Jeff John Roberts, confesses, “I was charmed by his nerdy affect as SBF, unkempt in a T-shirt and bushy hair, as he twirled a fidget spinner and rattled off tidbits about everything from M&A strategy to the macroeconomy to the importance of trust in business deals. It was all bullshit, of course, and I didn’t see through it.”

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/how-sbf-sweet-talked...

I've seen a lot of hate on "the media" for being fooled by Bankman-Fried which is fine, but I get the feeling those who disparage "the media" as a singular entity with a singular agenda weren't really inclined to trust them to begin with.
Show HN: If this is real life unit test regression test
As always very interesting topic from Veritasium.

Just want to learn more - if this is a real life unit test and regression test, benchmark test in software implementation world.
Spending money on Trump would be far dumber than spending money on Twitter.
Can you elaborate on what about it is clunky?

I've used it as my daily driver for the past year so maybe I can help elaborate too.
I doubt that; the users widely mocked the phrase at the time.
The Curse of Unreasonably Sized Networks
As I said, that's already been built several times over. Research? Sure, that's done too.

https://fsi.stanford.edu/news/sio-new-gab-report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=238zU5UOreY is a conference talk from a Cluster B expert about the topic, highly regarded at least by his peers. For better or for worse, the speaker is actually a diagnosed Narcissist and Psychopath who previously went to prison for his crimes he committed during his employment as a high ranking official in the Israeli government, but I argue that makes him the best person to listen to, at least on this exact topic; sort of an insider view.
What studies or science is there that trans isn’t just a mental condition? I don’t get just accepting the sex you’re born as.

It certainly seems to me, that rather than be a more effeminate male, instead they want to be in the gender roles and be the “role” of a woman (or vice versa).
Sweden: Traces of Explosives Found at Baltic Sea Pipelines
You need to ask what it accomplishes to leave it in the dark.
'Buidling things with code' is not just coding. It can include design, architecture, collaboration, planning etc. There are many high quality, highly complex, open source projects that don't rely on many of the 'processes', meetings, toxic competiveness, thought-policing, and beuracracy found in AWS.

Based on your comment history (which is consists of about 0% technically interesting topics, and about 100% pro-amazon 'tales from a super-senior principal engineer guyyyss') tells me you don't like engineering, you like politics and beuracracy. Which is okay!
In this context being made redundant means losing your job.

(Just not sure if you’re aware.)
Two interesting points raised:

1) Can a metaverse "digital twin" really successfully preserve a nation's culture and civilization? Beyond just 3d maps and museum artefacts, this goal also needs to preserve languages, ethnic practices, food, music, literature, and a million other aspects of the civilization. Currently Hong Kong faces a similar dilemma of losing its distinct identity pre-1997, because of runaway CCP political-righteousness, and spawns a few efforts to digitally twin itself on the metaverse, but progress is extremely slow and unfocused.

2) Can a sovereign nation that loses its territory and hence becomes diasporic, still function as a government through the metaverse? Can it still collect taxes, issue passport, run embassies, defence, police, operate central bank, and license companies and industries? If yes, then it can solve a lot of the statelessness and displaced people problems of the world, where refugees live in a state of limbo without access to legal protection or right to make their own living.
I am amazed by how polarizing this seems to be. Some of my best memories are from previous startups with this exact 1am energy. This is how shared mental models are built, shit gets done, and shared suffering cements lifelong bonds.
I built a utility to help plant personnel get up date to job information and documents on a tablet instead of having to refer to printouts from up to a few weeks before that may or may not have up to date information.

It was co-opted as a time tracking system. A bad one that, as far as I can tell, produces no actionable data while simultaneously being a pain in the ass for the poor bastards using it.

It is the last time I will ever go out of my way to improve a non-IT aspect of the company.
Autologging literally does log your model metrics automatically in most cases.
I once saw a very good talk on this exact subject, by someone who was in an incredibly similar situation as that commenter was. IIRC their bit of tech was a tool to triangulate a fairly specific location of a device connected to a wifi network (this was at least a decade ago).

As I remember it the point was basically: there are a lot of valid applications for this concept, but ultimately only one that a defense contractor is really going to care about. If that's who you're making it for they will use it to kill people eventually, even if that's not the plan right now. But also that probably is the plan right now, don't be naive.
Active discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33671612
Yea I’m aware
Why not use Nix in production, then? Hermetic evaluation of all dependencies allows a deterministic dev/prod set of environments.

I, at the very least, completely disagree with you on this specific point as this tool is using Nix.
It’s worse than that. For many of them it also means they will have to leave the country because Space Karen had a new idea for the 19th time that week.
Doing it after losing ~80%+ of the staff is also asinine.

At a minimum, Musk should have done this _before_ deciding which 50% of the company to lay off, and then scaring the majority of the remainder with an ultimatum.
I think I remember this after reading the article. The most famous translation I could think of is Zero Wing: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_are_belong_to_.... What other ones do people know of with interesting back story?
Twitter isn't a startup. The folks in this picture don't have the same risk/reward as their counterparts at a startup would.
I built something for a friend (on demand payment button generator, email template). It's the backbone of his business/able to rent a storefront in a mall. Pretty cool, like it's a piece of crap on my part but works for him.

Professionally medical stuff.
A family member is. And no, I'm not.
https://archive.today/VZsAI
I guess different people want different things, but I would have flown across the country to be in that room at 1am.

A startup sized team working on a platform with twitters scale for a boss with capital and a willingness to consider new ideas? Once in a lifetime opportunity.
In the youtube video, they call the materials in collection SRM (standard reference material).
I have a family and a life outside of work, and I can’t count how many all nighters I have pulled in 35+ years of my career. Sometimes you need to do them. Of course I was raised in a generation that believed it was in our best interest that our company’s were successful…
Keep reducing and they’re just people. Why the insistence on being a “woman” at all? What’s wrong with just being trans? Or you know, just an effeminate male or butch woman?

When I admitted I was gay I didn’t want to still be called a straight male.
Imo, no harm in being a consumer. I think every hacker is at some level a consumer. But you will get the most out of emacs if you have a habit of becoming less of a consumer.
> Moreover, you people are sociopaths if you don't understand the simple fact that you live in a society and you have to function without harming or harassing others.

I made no personal attacks against you. I will say you’re probably not coming across in your comments here the way you believe you are.
I’m assuming by EPOC you’re talking about Unix timestamps? There’s nothing wrong with them if they’re 64-bit.

As I understand it, it seems like it’s mostly software using 32-bit integers that will struggle.

So if you’re writing modern code on a modern runtime running on 64-bit platforms you should be fine (easy to verify by changing your dev environment’s clock).
Most authors never see a dime from royalties. Publishers pay them an advance and then use the author's royalties to pay back that advance.

Royalties often come out to pannies per book. Even an advance of a few thousand dollars ends up taking tens of thousands of unit sales to cover the author's advance and have them see any direct royalty payments.

Publishers also pull all sorts of shady accounting to stiff authors on royalties. They will charge them for editing or cover art against their royalties. Worst is when they charge the author if a retailer returns unsold copies.

That's all besides the fact Z-Library is little different than any other library. A library will lend out a book a large number of times and only pay for it once. Most of the readers were never ever going to buy the book and only read it because it was available at a library.

Very few authors ever see any money from royalties and fewer still manage to live off royalties.