skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
yeah that's a crazy amount. the absolute max I've seen for "long term" varies from 1000 to 10000. I take 2000 (d3 in oil) myself as I don't get a lot of sun. That's as a result of having "pretty low" vit D after not having had a physical/labs for several years. Over that time I went from being outdoors a lot to being indoors and programming a lot :) . My numbers were up in the normal range (middling value) after doing that for a couple of months and going back for new blood work. I refused the 50k or so superdose they want to give me for a few goes if I recall correctly. Didn't seem like a good idea to me, and I wasn't feeling "bad" per se. I honestly didn't notice any difference other than my blood work came back normal. I continue to take 2k per day and my GP has no issue with that
People Are Leaving Twitter for the Matt Hancock App?
Respectfully, it sounds like you haven't paid much attention to the last 10 years of browser DNSSEC integration. For instance: you seem shocked (disbelieving, maybe?) at the idea that browsers can't simply enable end-to-end DANE validation. Here's a thing: DNSSEC records don't even universally transit the Internet; very widely deployed middleboxes will block DNS packets that contain DNSSEC signatures or DANE records.

There's no point in arguing this stuff, because we're operating from different premises. You read about DANE and think it's great. I know the feeling! I was a huge HPKP booster back in the day; that didn't work either. Meanwhile, one of my premises is: we can only do things that actually work, not just things we wish would work.

(I happen to not wish for a single Internet-wide government-controlled top-down PKI rooted in 1990s cryptography, but that's not relevant to my argument.)

I understand if you feel like I'm moving the goalposts. You don't know where the goalposts are. That's OK. But I assure you: there is no need for me to move them at all; my argument just isn't far enough from the end zone to bother.
Twitter is still online. Where's the huge fire everyone is talking about?
When you make money off eyeballs that's a good thing.
My own personal take as someone who actually commuted on 85 with my wife and saw more and more Teslas on the left lane as the years went on, is that electric cars being allowed on the carpool lane provided a huge initial boost to Tesla sales. All the rich folks buying Model S so they could avoid traffic.

But I am bitter. I was actually commuting with 2 people on the car while rich folks bought their way there (totally on purpose, so the electric cars become more popular, I know)
You can’t send out an email asking “Do you NOT quit?”

Quitting is a process you do, you give a letter, or you tell your boss, or you stop showing up to work, anything else is termination
This is the feature I'll be building this winter into my Video Hub App

https://videohubapp.com/ && https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

I have a branch that detects faces and extracts vectors, it's just a matter of aggregating them and creating a UI so users can search for videos by face (or by dropping an image with a face).
I think more importantly probably all Twitter employees could find a similar job in 20-50 other companies in the area they live in. You cannot beat them up when there are still tons of employers willing to snap them up.

He must know this??
The malware authors are in Russia, how's the FBI going to go after them?
Activist Projects Messages to Elon Musk at Twitter HQ Tonight in San Francisco
Citation needed.

Falcon 9 uses a carbon fiber skin over an aluminium honeycomb.

And Wikipedia claims that Starship originally used bog-standard 301 Stainless Steal, and later switched to also bog-standard 304L Stainless Steal.

The only alloys that I'm aware of SpaceX developing are inconel alloys for hot, oxygen rich parts of their engines.
Because the engineers wouldn't have come anywhere close to achieving their dreams without a rich kid who made money from Paypal and was open to spending it all on hard engineering problems instead of living a good retirement life.

Tom Mueller, arguably one of the key engineers behind the success of SpaceX and designer of the Merlin engines, was working at TRW in a role not related to rocket engines before he was at SpaceX. He was building the rockets out of his garage for fun, until Musk convinced him to join him in what was considered a crazy idea back then.

Lars Blackmore, the engineer who was key in developing the the control algorithms needed for landing Falcon vertically was working at NASA, where his work was in theory going to be applied on a future space mission of much smaller scope compared to Falcon. He was able to apply his research (http://larsblackmore.com/iee_tcst13.pdf) on a revolutionary reusable system that changed the launch industry only because a rich kid was willing to spend his money on testing what seemed like always failing rockets, instead of buying a new Yacht.
You really can’t argue when twitter works fine right now and everything is just talk till it happens.
"Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

That's particularly extremely important when the thread is fresh, because threads are so sensitive to initial conditions. Tossing flamebait in like this risks ruining the entire thing.
I was looking into how I could set up Hetzner Storage Box as a storage device for Nextcloud. Somehow I didn’t even realize that Hetzner offers their own hosted Nextcloud instances (Storage Share).
Maybe wrong phrase. It still seems plausible that he comes out ahead here. But it’s probably not good for the world.
Have you used a smartphone? Most mobile networks are IPv6 enabled.
Rest in peace to one of the greats.

You might want to consider reading The Design of Design if you liked The Mythical Man-Month.
Must be fun to truly believe you're a Bond villain.
He also donated $39M to political campaigns this year, likely winning him some favors from powerful people. Not to say it would protect him from criminal charges; but it's not unfeasible to think it could knock him down a few slots on the extradition priority list.
Another quote of his;

"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month (1975)

Stated a different way:

"Bad programmers worry about the code. Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships." -Linus Torvalds
Only if someone is willing to pay for the eyeballs.
Does this mean I can expose home assistant online without worrying too much about security?
There is also a question of spending $44B to rebuild a company from scratch. Couldn’t Musk have spent under a billion to create a startup and effectively competed with Twitter ?
that wouldn't surprise me, maybe the body uses the sunlight for not yet documented uses other than making D. I was suffering from very low levels of vitamin d evidently but taking it didn't really change anything, and I felt just fine before and after. currently take 2k a day and my blood work stays "normal" range for the past few years. I still don't get much sunlight. I do a 10k walk but do it pretty early or pretty late as I live in Texas and 3/4 of the years it's just too hot and sweaty :)
> If it’s a conceptually complex system then the devs weren’t really that good in the first place.

Spoken like someone who has never worked on a sufficiently complex system.
Weird part about it, it really depends. The last time I checked, my TikTok feed was just full of funny small videos filmed by random people doing stupid trends outside. Nothing about their lives exactly attracts me. However, the fact that a lot of people see these videos, and I reshare it with my friends and laugh at it together is what can make it remarkable.

Obviously, it heavily depends. I’ve looked at my friends’ feeds and it’s exactly what you’ve described.
Early meteorites brought enough water to Mars to create a global ocean
It's hard to understand if you're not affected by it. You've heard the term "Stage Fright"? This is the same. Something about being put in a "performance" situation triggers the fight or flight reflex. At first, you're a deer in the headlights. Then, your body floods with adrenaline. The whole thing makes higher level thinking extremely difficult. I don't agree with the parent poster that it's "damaging to people's health", though. It's just something that happens. You recover pretty fast afterwards.
They could, but why? The big cos colluded for years on wage fixing [1]. Amazon absolutely churns through SWEs; the average tenure in engineering roles is a year or two.

[1] https://www.iphoneincanada.ca/news/apple-google-tech-compani...
I’m excited for the Methane leak scanning project. There’s probably a lot of little projects like that that wouldn’t have been possible before the current launch market.
This is Elon's moment of Enlightenment, like Neo in the Matrix. If Twitter succeeds, he was the One.
I thought everyone agreed that this was what he was doing though? Deliberately destroying the entire culture of Twitter.
> the guy also landed rockets from orbit

We all know that he didn’t do that though, right?

At best his skill set includes hiring smart people, raising money, and being a good manager. Which is exactly what you want from a good CEO and nothing to sneeze at.

But people give him way too much credit for Tesla and spacex imo
Why would anyone go and destroy their career by sabotaging an employer? Such person is clearly can't be trusted cause god knows what they do if they think their boss is an asshole. I quit two times not on the best terms with the management and the only "sabotage" was a zero-day notice and a two-week notice. It just never crossed my mind.
No, not at this point and age in my career, I will let anyone force me to work long hours.

I know from experience that working long hours solves problems in short term only and it only creates more problems at all levels in the long term.

If I was a fresh graduate with a chance to work for him, then perhaps ’Yes’ but then again I will convince my younger self to work for myself instead; start a youtube channel or company just like he did.
I feel similarly to meditation as I do to psychedelics. I think it has more risks than people want to admit.

Have you looked into Internal Family Systems? Your experience seems to match pretty closely to the idea of protectors and exiles in IFS. I think meditation sometimes bypasses protectors, which can result in extreme pain.
Why do you think Jerry Springer lasted as long as it did?
I'm not trying to dismiss your experience here, in fact I'm sure its all accurate, but I must make the curious observation that I don't seem to get the distortion of emotional state so many others seem to have on psychedelics (be it positive or negative). I get all the other distortions. Time is skewed, vision gets geometric patterns, stream of consciousness becomes more of an unnavigable white water rapids of consciousness etc. But the whole experience is mostly orthogonal to good or bad or scared or euphoric or any other emotion you can list.

Maybe its because whatever the distortion is, I inevitably start trying to figure out how it works, and the whole trip turns into scientific self experimentation. Perhaps a normal person would be scared seeing a friends face morph into a demonic figure, but I just find myself asking "why his face and not everyone's face?" and then proceed to systematically look at faces for what feels like hours. Because I'm actively trying to figure out the trick, I'm never losing sight of the fact that it is indeed a trick. And thus I never loose sight of the fact that my friend isn't literally morphing into a demon and none of this can actually hurt me. So I'm never for real scared.
At the opposite end of the global scale, I've often seen new (young) employees, arrive and immediately start suggesting sweeping changes.

We're using the wrong language, the wrong source control, the wrong methodologies, the wrong libraries, and so on.

If the flavor of the month is say BoringSSL we should be working to switch all our code from OpenSSL and so on.

Usualy it takes a bit of effort to bring them up to speed. There are positives and negatives to all choices. Usually I assign them the task of coming up with 5 downsides to their suggestions.

Articulating the downsides helps to show you understand the whole impact of an idea, and thus aren't making a "buying the koolaid" decision simply based on popular opinion.
Do they want you to host a public website? AFAICT all the inbound traffic to Funnel has to go through servers they operate, and historically Tailscale has tried to minimize the traffic they handle that way.
Except Dorsey left his billion with Musk
https://www.businessinsider.com/jack-dorsey-saves-elon-musk-...
Even if you think they "quit" that's still extremely clear-cut constructive dismissal.
They could just spin up a mastodon instance. But as others have stated, the user base is the important part.
Falls apart immediately when they get a warrant for your text messages and find you bragging to whatever human you have a sexual interest in or whatever.

And in general, all these "I'll just say <whatever>" arguments on the Internet will nearly always fall apart when you start backtracking under questioning and changing your story and they pressure you with evidence. Everyone always thinks that they're some kind of perfect sociopathic Patrick Bateman or Heath Ledger's Joker in their mind. You/they are not.

If you are relying on that argument, then they certainly have enough to arrest you and charge you, and the safe bet is that you'll crack.

[Also your argument gets much harder to make if they have you logging in with 2FA from an IP address that can be traced to your house or something like that--very hard for someone to fake that no matter how much fucked up chaos is going on inside Twitter]
I like this idea. Smells like web-spirit. All sites are equal, they differ by their domain name. Has anyone tried this? I have a few extra domain names still.
What?

Low rated Cripps Pink and high rated Pink Lady? Isn’t it the same cultivar, just Pink Lady is trademarked?
What I’ve learned reading many of the comments on threads and most of the article is really just to keep your mouth shut.

You can comfort people in loss without saying a word. Your consistent presence through the grieving is good enough.

There’s an entire thread where people anecdotally share what others did to help them, and then two comments later someone says that it would offend them or come across wrong.

The aim shouldn’t be about perfection, helping people to make yourself seem like a good person or even to do what you would want others to do for you. It should be to selflessly offer consistent comfort. If they wanna be alone they will let you know, it the need something they can ask.

When my friends father died I said nothing, I just sat next to him and cried. I just wanted him to know I saw his pain and he was not alone.

Learning to come along side others in their pain is messy, hard and very inconvenient. But it’s the most meaningful part of humanity we have.
In light of new evidence, some people actually alter their beliefs.
He has been nothing but transparent about wanting to gut the company. It's just his plainly communicated plan. There is no conspiracy here.
Unstable Diffusion, the group trying to monetize AI porn generators
No, they're called browsers.
My professor, Hi Dan!, once recommended I drink (get drunk?) before exams, but I never took his advice.

I didn't have much anxiety in his classes, but I did for every other Physics class.
If you take $30,000 in May 2008 and adjust for inflation [1] to February 2019, the equivalent price would be $35,005.

In February 2019, Tesla announced [2] a Model 3 for $35,000.

So if you're looking at the numbers by relative buying power, they weren't doing too bad up until car prices went insane the last two years.

[1] https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

[2] https://www.tesla.com/blog/35000-tesla-model-3-available-now
Yeah, I don't see the appeal either, but I didn't like social media when live journal and myspace were big in my college days.
> Respectfully, it sounds like you haven't paid much attention to the last 10 years of browser DNSSEC integration.

You are correct. That could mean I'm wrong, but it doesn't necessarily mean so. I would be happy to know whether I'm wrong and why.

> For instance: you seem shocked (disbelieving, maybe?) at the idea that browsers can't simply enable end-to-end DANE validation. Here's a thing: DNSSEC records don't even universally transit the Internet; very widely deployed middleboxes will block DNS packets that contain DNSSEC signatures or DANE records.

Indeed. That is solved by DNS-over-HTTPS for which Firefox and Android already have an implementation.

> There's no point in arguing this stuff, because we're operating from different premises. You read about DANE and think it's great. I know the feeling! I was a huge HPKP booster back in the day; that didn't work either. Meanwhile, one of my premises is: we can only do things that actually work, not just things we wish would work.

Sure, if it wouldn't work I would accept it (although I'd like to know why). But you haven't given me a convincing argument about why it can't work.

As far as I can see, in other posts you're just arguing about things DANE should solve that WebPKI doesn't.

And in this post, you're just taking into account how things stand at the present and not taking into consideration what organizations like Mozilla, Google, Apple and Microsoft could do to improve the situation, which let's be clear, is absolutely unacceptable in terms of security considering we are living in the year 2022.

> I understand if you feel like I'm moving the goalposts. You don't know where the goalposts are. That's OK. But I assure you: there is no need for me to move them at all; my argument just isn't far enough from the end zone to bother.

Yes, I do. The goal post is having a more secure system than insecure DNS and WebPKI while also being much simpler.

DNSSEC and DANE achieve that.

But you say that it's preferable to have a worse, much more complex, much more insecure system just because governments can subvert DNSSEC and DANE (even though they can subvert WebPKI even more today!).
But that's the thing: many JavaScript form validation libraries already do implement the state machine and present a consistent and simple API for the developer to use. It would be nice if this built-in stuff could fully replace JavaScript form validation libraries, but it's just not there yet.
This may work for somebody who has an anxiety disorder, but that's not what the OP is talking about. He's basically talking about stage fright. It's a physiological reaction to "performing".
> I was considered traveling from San Francisco to Oregon or Colorado (?) where I think psychedelic mushrooms were legalized and you don't need to "know people" to get them.

They're not legalized anywhere in the US. Oregon legalized them for supervised mental health treatment, which is still a far cry from the kind of legalization you're envisioning.

It's basically just decriminalized in a handful of states. Which doesn't mean you're finding shrooms on the shelves of smoke shops and dispensaries next to the whippets cartridges.
As faculty at UNC CS, I can mournfully confirm this is indeed the case. He passed peacefully at his home in Chapel Hill earlier this evening, surrounded by family.
> Is losing information on the war really a bad thing?

From the other day: https://www.technologyreview.com/2022/11/11/1063162/twitters...

But then we get to other issues such as 'Lost memories': War crimes evidence threatened by AI moderation - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-socialmedia-rights...

And further back: Youtube and Facebook are Removing Evidence of Atrocities, Jeopardizing Cases Against War Criminals https://theintercept.com/2017/11/02/war-crimes-youtube-faceb...

Recently: Are tech companies removing evidence of war crimes? https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-60911099

Or from the EFF - Amidst Invasion of Ukraine, Platforms Continue to Erase Critical War Crimes Documentation - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/amidst-invasion-ukrain...

So yes, losing information on the war is a bad thing.
Breaking BIOS: enabling VT-x virtualization support on Acer Aspire One netbook
be cool if the article explained in what way ibn khaldun referenced america.
Don't be sad - he lived a long productive life full of people he impacted, and as you can see from the comments here he was well respected. All of us will die one day, let's not feel sadness.
Wikipedia sites the twitter post as a source.
Leetcode and Hacker Rank are some of the most dehumanizing processes of the tech industry. They are directly responsible for killing people.
The article states ""videos taken from drones flown over places around Area 51"."

Which I took to mean above locations within Area 51. Like "I'm walking around Wal-Mart" or "I took some done footage over places around Disney World"

There's multiple definitions when it's used as a preposition

If you move around a place, you travel through it, going to most of its parts. If you look around a place, you look at every part of it.

OR

"To be positioned around a place or object means to surround it or be on all sides of it. To move around a place means to go along its edge, back to your starting point."
So not only are they going to find a vulnerability on twitter’s backend that allows them to remotely execute code on the Twitter servers, but then they’re also going to find some vulnerability in the app that is accessible from the previous vulnerability on the backend that allows them to execute arbitrary code on my phone, without pushing any sort of app update to the Apple store, and then they’re going to use that vulnerability in the app to deploy some 0day that gets around all the protections in iOS?

I’m terrified!
> in northern climates it is essential in the winter to disconnect hoses and turn off the supply to outdoor-facing valves from inside if possible

If your house was built in the last ~25 years it will have frost-proof outdoor faucets (example [1]), and there is no need to turn off the supply in the winter. Many newer homes don't even have a valve for turning off the water supply (except one single valve somewhere near the house water source). As long as they are installed correctly you are fine, but you definitely cannot keep a hose connected or you risk defeating the protection.

I live on a small hill and have a snow making machine so the kids can ski/snowboard in the winter, and we use the outdoor faucets for hours at a time. But when finished, we disconnect the hose and use a special nozzle to connect the hose to an air compressor and blow out all the water remaining in the hose. Once the water stops flowing it freezes very quickly and the hose is useless unless you bring it inside the garage for a day - and then it makes a big mess in the garage!

[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0051966QW?tag=wnla-org-20&linkCod...
Did he actually send such a letter to everyone? That's really a dumb move cause there's no reason for key engineers to stay - they have millions of dollars and will be immediately hired if they want to.
> From geography, it is obvious, US is on the middle between EU and South America

It's super jarring to see a reference to the EU as a reason for pretty much anything WWI related. I know this presumably means Europe, and maybe being used to "EU" referring to the European Union and not Europe in a general geographic sense, but I'm not used to seeing that abbreviation used for anything historically for around another half a century.
Weather monitoring. Got anything against that too?
There's a pretty simple solution there. USB-IF could just specify a waterproof connector. They could even make a waterproof housing that could slip over an existing USB-C.
> Only show code that is non-confidential.

Back in the day, it was normal to get your former boss to sign off on showing a piece of code in your next round of interviews.