skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does he or anybody owe them infinite amounts of money with no strings attached?
This issue?

https://github.com/Kozea/WeasyPrint/issues/1719
It is kind of strange how before, HN was an altar of Musk devotees praising him and his crusade for Free Speech Absolutism. And now, it's crickets. While the changes he's making are far worse than imagined, no one that wasn't a devotee imagined he was going to do anything beneficial for the platform. So I assume they are just being quiet now since nothing that's being done can be handwaved away.
Many FOSS developers use copyleft licenses to ensure that only FOSS benefits from their code.

Copilot suggesting it for inclusion into proprietary codebases is then effectively whitewashing that GPL code.

Copilot also does not provide attribution, which is a legal requirement of tons of permissive licenses, including MIT and BSD.
Vikram-S, India’s first private rocket, lifts off from ISRO spaceport
Show HN: He3 App – Free and Modern Developer Utilities Toolbox
He3 is a free, modern developer toolbox. It provides 200 builtin utility tools with more to come. It comes with convenient features including smart search, auto detection, hotkeys, etc.

Here is a blog describing He3 in more details: https://he3.app/posts/announcement_en/
Interesting idea. Many years ago when I was learning French I seemed to speak it much better after a drink or two with a French speaking neighbor. Maybe it was less worry over grammar though I can't say I felt nervous speaking to them when sober - my communication just seemed faster and smoother with a drink.
I would love to see all of twitter leave and have that be the major reason for the implosion of twitter, even musk could be possible, with all the notoriety. I'm not sure we're going to see it (there's actually a lot stacked against that IMO), but you never know. With sex harassment (assault?) stuff people in high places could start really taking aim at him; and if he harassed one staffer, isn't it possible to see him get canceled, if there was more of a coalition. Not saying he would fade into obscurity, but maybe a bunch of people won't deal with him.

I think that twitter will be able to pull in some talent. Now you don't want mediocre engineers, but tbh there's probably room in some area, for someone that's just technical and experienced.

Lots of people, possibly even myself would roll the dice on twitter. As much as it would suck, I think it has a real chance to slingshot me into a new industry (I do software, but there's a substantial percent of the market that's really off limits ATM). You never know man, it's a moonshot.

I think for me it would definitely unlock a bunch of new avenues. So what if it goes under, and I watch it fall? If Elon fires me is that really going to look so bad? There's probably plenty of talented people that are willing to take the risk.

Obviously, the biggest part is whether this new workforce will stack up... it certainly won't, but it might be able to keep things a float. Twitter was in such bad shape I wouldn't be surprised if it failed, even if the remaining 50% (10%?) were a solid crew of grizzled veterans, obsessed with his hardcore ways... even full crew, motivated might not be able to save twitter from becoming a much more popular (but still quite small) version of voat.
Users are running away just as employees who weren't fired.
FTX had like 20 employees, how many could Twitter possibly need? /s
And if you are treated as a god for so long by your cult on Twitter, media etc then you start believing that you are one and then there is no way back until you get all the way to hell where you finally realize that you are a mere mortal and your huge ego made you a fool of yourself.
When you save a document (ie ctrl+s) Nextcloud detects it and uploads the new version. It can even do some versioning.
Totally get that. And I think if those are the conventions you're designing form interactivity with then, absolutely, you probably need a javascript library to validate and step your user through form submission.

My point is that this should be the exception, not the rule. I certainly don't think this level of abstracted complexity is necessary, or even better, in most scenarios. I'm talking at a design or implementation level.
How long before the exiting engineers realize they can just walk across the street and start their own better, more “hard core” Twitter?
Yeah.

It all looks pretty crazy. It seems like he's going to fail.

But he might succeed. You never know.
Highest DAU for xx% less overhead is literally winning. That's why people have lost their minds. They want him to fail so badly and they're getting the feeling that he won't, so cognitive dissonance is through the roof.
There are answers to all your questions and they come down to; Twitter was making a profit.

Maybe it could have been more. But a profitable business is, almost by definition, sustainable. There was no need for rash action.
J is for complex numbers. While math.sqrt(-1) raises an exception, cmath.sqrt(-1) returns 1j.

There is not distinction between values and references in python, everything is a reference. In fact, primitive like numbers are big struct objects in cpython, you cannot just manipulate the raw numbers.

The difference will rather wether you can modify an object or not. You cannot modify numbers, as they are immutable. Any increment will produce a new object. But you can modify a list. This gives the feeling numbers are passed as values and list are passed as references.
It also eats a lot of data, I recently had around 3gb eaten in a day just for maintaining the connection. On a metered mobile connection with 6gb/month a tad too much.

I‘d really like to use it, but in this state it’s really unusable for me.
I don't think anyone would consider hiding information about one of the largest and most well known tech platforms in the world to be an example of beneficial bias.
I wasn’t impressed by Man Month. The two major insights IIRC:

1. Adding more people adds overhead which slows down productivity. Might even make it worse

2. 10X developer (100X) mythology and how other programmers should be their support secretaries

(1) is too obvious and (2) I didn’t like for self-interest reasons.
I have found plenty to be impressed with at points in the past and I suspect he will still go down in the history books. But he’s been losing it for awhile now and this Twitter mess seems to be his crash and burn moment that could take his other companies down with it. What else is there to say?
I think Twitter is becoming a place for high risk reward employment. Maybe it crashes and burns, maybe you quickly ascend the ranks in the turmoil and reach a point in your career that would have taken substantially longer in a more traditional route. If Twitter does something like what Tesla did, you might even get filthy rich. Or, hey, maybe it doesn't work out and you get nothing but an interesting story, Twitter collapses or Elon fires you or whatever.

Many companies say that they are like a startup, but I can see Twitter going back to that style. Far fewer people, far faster shipping, less thinking things through, etc. The bluechecks for anyone in a week and undoing it seems very startup like to me. Is that good? Probably not - but it is interesting, and, like I said, high risk high reward.
Got it. But you're locked into IO and Exception then and can't use any other abilities right? I guess you could always convert back and forth at the `run` boundary.

Also I would suggest removing Exception.bracket from base then, or at least changing the file handle example for Exception.bracket, since it seems a tad dangerous.
Later in that thread he says he's currently in sales, but used to be a "self-taught infrastructure engineer". If you look at the site that he links from his Twitter profile you'll see a half-finished site made with a site-generator. Just the type of talent you want running the infra for the company you just paid $44B for.
> Also, how is that different from Google's scraping whole internet?

Many reasons: Google Search provides sources, it links to your website. Copilot only gives the content. Google also doesn't suggest including its search results in your product verbatim.
Church connections. I didn't know him personally, parents did.
Why would one regret not spending more time on social media?
Middle aged fitness enthusiasts tend to get very resentful when some act of Fate strikes them. But cancer can happen even to kids with their youth and lack of lifestyle history.
> From geography, it is obvious, US is on the middle between EU and South America.

No, that’s not obvious and highly debatable. The same ocean that you cross to get from Europe to the US can take you straight to South America without touching US soil.
It would be more analogous to some state announcing it will not bail out a state-sponsored corporate enterprise, and instead allow it go bankrupt in a downturn. From another perspective it is sanity, protecting taxpayers from being on the hook for speculation. The entire complaint here hinges on some kind of butterfly-effect argument, plus the precise wording of a "guarantee" that was only pointed at vaguely in the article.
JetBrains has a code review platform that lets you do diffs in your IDE. The idea is incredibly appealing but for some reason I found it not so great in practice. Something about viewing the diffs in a different UI gets me in a different frame of mind. I found it hard to get into review mode in my IDE.

There are advantages of course, being able to jump around and get the context at will.
This tool contains tools that are often used by front- and back-end personnel in the development process, and I like it a lot.
Don't forget the $1.3 Billion in interest payments from the loans they took on. ($13 Billion in debt signed on the deal, assuming 10% rate of CCC bonds from April 2022).
Almost there, 6 more years to go.
If I was Facebook or any other competitor, I would swoop in and poach everyone that is actually still there, mostly people afraid to leave because of visa issues etc.
I'm not sure I know for certain what it's trying to say.
This post got me wondering whether baseball players in the early 20th century earned enough to live by playing the game. Apparently not.

> In 1906 Chicago Cubs pitcher Mordecai “Three Finger” Brown won 26 games leading the Cubs to the National League pennant. Despite his stardom, he made just $2,800. He took a coal-mining job at season’s end to help pay his bills. Fellow all-star Christy Mathewson pumped gas at a service station. Walter Johnson dug postholes for the Idaho Telephone Company while Lefty Gomez removed sludge from refinery tanks for Union Oil.

https://www.splicetoday.com/sports/when-ballplayers-had-offs...
>"We're on the one road. It may be the wrong road. But we're together so who cares!"

"I'm on the one road. It may be the wrong road. But I'm alone so who cares!"

I am going to use this fixed version for my own purposes.
Elon Musk has been lying about his college degrees
He was also an undocumented worker between 1995 and 1997
There is very, very little chance a California court would rule the way you imagine.
That “single-handedly” word is where I think the problem begins…
That sounds like a lot. My brother is running an ayahuasca retreat in Peru and the only time someone needed medical attention was because they had an allergic reaction to peanuts...
From Q3 2017 to Q1 2022, Twitter only lost money in two quarters and was obviously profitable overall: https://www.statista.com/statistics/299119/twitter-net-incom...

Your breathless narration of that data is certainly a master class in spin. Maybe the company was performing far below what would be possible. But it is hard to look at the data and conclude that there was any imminent risk of its demise.
Do you actually see 3d beings and other worlds?

Almost every time Ive done DMT Ive communicated with some kind of voice. I only see them as vague shapes though if i even see them. Actually they almost always looks like Egyptian gods. Bird like faces, but its always floating lines. Except one time, i saw an owl, it was 2d and didn't communicate with me.

But based on the way people describe their trips, idk if I need to do more or something and I never got the real and full experience. Ive taken between 25-35mg.
I wonder how much it costs to buy the worlds best double and a stowaway spot on some relatively uninteresting looking yacht headed out into international waters.
€ 2.298 billion (2020/21) revenue

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Zeiss_SMT

15 years ago, when I was there, Zeiss SMT also did the light sources (discussed elsewhere in the thread), btw, not just supplying the lenses. Don't know if that's still the case. I don't know exactly what the lens/mirror systems for EUV look like, but the "old" 193nm ones were something to behold.
Yeah, having a quick read of the article, nothing in this has anything to do with MMT, apart from the fact that MMT is a theoretical framework of how economies work (including in the models both a banking system, and the interactions between Government, domestic and international sectors, that all actually follows accounting rules) that can help understand why what happened was bad...
Show HN: Play to guess the results of World Cup games inside your Slack
Sports are usual water cooler talk in almost every office. With remote work some of that got lost. "Guess the winner" tries to promote team bonding by creating a place where those conversations can come naturally.
So like truth.social? Not sure that approach is working
> (1) is too obvious

If only.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2013/06/19/lockheed-reas...

> Lockheed Martin Corp. has reassigned 200 engineers to work on the F-35 fighter jet's software, a problem area that Defense Department officials fear could cause more delays to the program.

Somehow obvious to DOD, but not to LM. And that's just one of the more high profile incidents I know of, I've witnessed plenty of others (directly or indirectly) that never made news. Nearly 40 years after MMM was published and people in major corps still have to relearn the lessons.
That, is an excellent simile-example (?), and made it clearer for me. Clear enough to say "I don't know!".

It feels almost as if the answer is "they are a component of the whole, but not musicians by themselves". i.e. the beat can't be music by itself, but the vocals for example, can.

I don't fully believe that though, and am leaning more towards a beat being able to be music by itself too. You can see my dilemma though :P
90% of Twitter staff have resigned
You jest, but I would not be surprised if he launched a few twitcoins.
Outline

A. Review: from college to Zip2 (9-12)

B. No visa (13-16)

C. No Physics degree (17-30)

D. No PhD acceptance (31-44)

E. Quitting Twitter’s board (45-48)

He was never accepted for admission in to any Stanford PhD program as per court depositions.
I don’t think that’s true at all? Support was setup and had been streaming into to Ukraine for a long time before any confirmation of a war, much less images. I remember when trump was president and there was the dispute where he was holding back the regular defense aid that the US sends to Ukraine. The point being that hundreds of millions were approved and sent with 0 tweets about the war (literally didn’t happen yet)
Do you use any special tools for this? I've heard of people "stacking" diffs in this way, but it seems like it would be clunky to review on GitHub.
> high risk reward employment.

I honestly have no idea what you're talking about. Has there been literally *any* indication that this "hardcore" attitude will result in more reward?
>Install TLP, uninstall thermald, and make sure turbo mode is off (it's on by default in Linux - probably applies to Intel only).

Sorry, but that's not a good argument in favor of Linux when basic power management is not part of the OS and you need to set it up yourself manually. Can you imagine Microsoft or Apple shipping their OSs without power management? I need an OS to work out of the box so I can get to work/entertainment, not a hobby to tinker with. I still enjoy tinkering with Linux but it should be only when I want-to, not a need-to.

> I want to see that with Windows.

Yeah, you can get Linux to be more economical than Windows by manually installing a bunch of tools that throttle down the CPU into its lowest power mode and running it at 600MHz fixed all the time, and now you have a laptop that's super slow, all for the sake of battery life and winning online arguments. Good job. /s You can force that in Windows as well, but why would you?

I want to see Linux automatically scale the CPU power and frequency based on the load put on it like Windows does: idles at 600MHz when doing nothing, click on the Firefox tab and it shoots up to 3,6GHz, then back down to 800MHz. That's what any sane OS should do out of the box, not have you install and fiddle with a bunch of tools and maybe still not be as good.

>On the other hand I never experience things randomly not working like it was with Windows.

I have way more things randomly not working on Ubuntu 22.04 Gnome at work than on Windows 11 at home (none actually on this one).

And I'm saying this an Linux/FOSS user and fan.
“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.”

― Fred Brooks

I printed this out and taped it to the whiteboard at my desk. Handy to point out to the manager in various situations.
>If you feel like you need stimulants to perform well in a job, you need to reconsider your career choices. It shouldn't be a rat race.

If you need Ed medicine to have sex maybe you shouldn't have sex.

If you need asthma medicine to breath maybe you should think twice about breathing.

Seriously, you don't have a clue about what you're talking about. Neuro divergents are almost an evolution good or bad (hyper focus can have it's benefits), most medicine for the brain is liable to do the opposite.

Caffeine and ginseng are like really good cold medicine to my wife she practically goes into a coma.

If you don't think people's brain work differently:

Do you have an inner monologue?

- yes?
- talk to someone who doesn't, there's many, I found this absurd because mine is always going.
- No? Talk to someone who does... Try to imagine what it'd

Repeat the above for people with synesthesia or aphantasia.

Reality, the brain, consciousness... It all exists within the circuitry of our brain and the flow of electricity and hormones paint your experiences in life

With a deficiency in dopamine which we all mostly have (ADHD), you do need help.

For you, you could end up overdosing on dopamine which itself can cause some major mental issues.

Best to lay off other people's meds.

Hell, I take Vyvanse my wife Adderall, when I ran out I took hers as she's on a dose that about matches my vyvanse but they have different internal mechanism.

Adderall gave me anxiety, depression, and jitters.

Even within ADHD circles it's probably best to stick with the meds you're prescribed.
Maybe I have a fundamental misunderstanding of how Tailscale works, but I always feel like there is a disconnect in how it is received on HN.

Usually people are pretty critical/cynical of sending sensitive data to a closed source third party server, no matter how strong their claims of 'being the good guys' are (eg see Telegram).

But somehow we're all meant to be happy giving full control of our entire network to a commercial company running a closed source command and control server?
>They wouldn't accept his advice or help on how to make twitter better after he became a 9.1% shareholder

In retrospect, seems like a wise decision.
I exchanged a few emails with Fred over the years. RIP Fred. Thank you so much for all the wisdom. Sharing one of the last responses here:

Thanks for your kind words. You will find lots of condensed wisdom in the three software books I
value most:

DeMarco & Lister Peopleware

2007. Software engineering: Barry Boehm's lifetime contributions to software development,
management and research. Ed. by Richard Selby.

Hoffman, Daniel M.; Weiss David M. (Eds.): Software Fundamentals – Collected Papers by David L.
Parnas, 2001, Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-70369-6.

You might also like my later book on technical design in general: The Design of Design. Start
with Part II.
It has nothing to do with the plausibility of seeing the email or not. Somebody could say “yeah I read that email. It was stupid and I wasn’t going to respond to it. I would still like to work here though, just not on double hours.”
Hi HN, I have been building prototypes in 1-2 weeks to improve my building speed. This is the second one. It's a small Chrome extension to allow HN users to react to any posts / comments with custom emojis. You will also get notifications if someone reacts to yours. Install the extension to see all the reactions on this page.
Twitter has only had 2 years of positive net income. 2018/2019. So I can’t agree with “Twitter was making a profit” it was bleeding.
In case you want to view Elon's Twitter without giving him ad revenue:
https://notabird.site/elonmusk
I came here to mention this quote.

I bought the book years ago when I was on my 'let' s learn everything I can about computers and software ' spree. Very few books have left such a lasting impression on me, even though at the time I had no notion whatsoever of what professional software engineering was like.
Which is why Google plus circles were excellent. Too bad nothing from Google takes traction anymore.
I'm not sure why you're fixating on the plastic shell, that's just one of several delivery mechanisms for the adsorbent polymer. The belts attached to weights is a more common proposal. Regardless, each elution cycle - that is cycles of putting the polymer out to sea, and harvesting the captured uranium - does decrease effectiveness. But after several elution cycles the polymer is refreshed. Even the more pessimistic study you linked to found that it'd cost $830/Kg on the upper bound. This is only 8x the cost of existing mining methods, and wouldn't substantially increase the cost of nuclear power because enrichment is a bigger component of fuel cost than extraction. And construction is a bigger cost than fuel, too.

We also don't make a terawatt of batteries per year. 2021's total lithium ion battery production was less than half a terawatt [1]. Most estimates place it between 300 and 500 GWh. Don't confuse predicted capacity with actual production figures. Production is often half of projected capacity or even less [2]. You're overstating battery production by at least a factor of two.

And as far as predictions about battery growth goes, we can't build an electricity grid on predictions. People said we'd be harnessing fusion by the end of the millennium. People said we'd all be using VR headsets as the primary means of interacting with computers back in the mid 2010s. People make all sorts of predictions about what could happen. Actually making it happen is a whole different story. The way to make the case that battery production can reach 5,000 TWh per year is to deliver 5,000 TWh of batteries. We haven't even accomplished a tenth of that.

By comparison several countries have transitioned most of their electricity generation to nuclear, and plenty more have built 30-40% of their generation capacity with it and don't need any more because they have hydroelectricity. The viability of nuclear power isn't a prediction, it's historical precedence. Nobody has built any significant amount of grid storage. Nobody developed countries has generated more than 50% of their electricity from wind and solar. This has, on the other hand, been done with nuclear. Demonstrated precedence vs. eager predictions. I'm much more keen on betting the future of planet on the former.

1. https://www.interactanalysis.com/lithium-ion-battery-market-....

2. https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/growt....