skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s not how it works. The evidentiary standard for a jury is “beyond a reasonable doubt” but for the sentencing judge is “preponderance of the evidence”, with the caveat that the judge can’t use that to hand down a sentence harsher than legally permitted by what the jury convicted on (in this case narcotics distribution - resulting in deaths of overdose victims).
MMM deserves all the attention it gets, but there's more!

1. I've got to track down the source of the quote (it may be the linked video), but Brooks has said that the most important architectural decision he made was to have an eight bit byte rather than the cheaper 7 bits (Edit: 6 bits) being considered for the IBM 360. To call that influential is an understatement.

2. And he has said the most important management decision was sending Ted Codd to graduate school, where Codd laid the foundation for what became relational databases.

3. A paper [0] he co-authored with Amdahl and Blaauw introduced the term 'architecture' to computer hardware, later borrowed for software. From the first page: "The term architecture is used here to describe the attributes of a system as seen by the programmer, i.e., the conceptual structure and functional behavior, as distinct from the organization of the data flow and controls, the logical design, and the physical implementation."

He gave an interesting talk at the 50th anniversary of the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) a few years ago, [1]

[0] 'Architecture of the IBM System/360', Amdahl, Blaauw, Brooks.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StN49re9Nq8
Cemu (Wii U emulator) macOS compatibility
IPR licences are complicated and maybe Sony did not have contracted rights to the music on MD format but had committed $$$ to the campaign? Maybe Jackson had good lawyers when he sold them the catalogue!!

Are MD pressed or recorded? It might be interesting to see if two Michael Jackson promo discs are identical.
Basic firefighting often revolves around the same set of problems. It's not that naive. Tell me I'm wrong? I work with systems like this. Realistically most problems that show up by themselves (ie not caused by bad code) often have very common mitigations/remedies. There's surely some super complex interaction going on but bugs showing up of this complex nature are usually due to code changes, or scaling events that reach a tipping point. Odds are those aren't the bread and butter of problems faced by Twitter _right now_.
We need a way for bored narcissistic rich people to feel good about themselves while letting the rest of use go on about our lives.

I wish they just partied and spent their money competing on luxury buys with each other.

Instead, we made that "bad" or something, and now they compete on who can signal the most and biggest virtues, and here we are.
I don’t understand how anyone here can be supportive of the idea of the richest man in the world coming in, immediately firing half the staff, trying to get another significant portion of the staff to resign by demanding they switch from the promised permanent WFH to working from the office in 2 weeks, and then encouraging them to resign by giving them a highly fishy spammy/pushing email with an external link to a form to decide whether they want to work with this company or not within 48 hrs.

This is horrible and destructive. We should be against this on principle. For us to not be against this is making us the ultimate Beta Cucks who are willing to take it WM the throat as long as the pretend Alpha is showing it to us.
Hoping it's not too much of an imposition, I'd like to pose a series of rhetorical questions about criminological policy, which may not be new territory, but I hope will, nonetheless, elevate the discussion

What does 'deserve' mean?

How do you distinguish it from vengeance?

If the idea is that it has deterrent value, how do we measure that?

Also why are we trying to deter? What's the social cost of the behavior his platform helped facilitate?

How much did his being a party to that behavior contribute to its prevalence? Is there any evidence suggesting the behavior wouldn't have been enacted through alternative intermediaries?

Most importantly: Is there any unintended secondary cost to society, as a result of bringing punitive repercussions on intermediaries that are incidentally party to an undesired behavior?

In Policy Analysis one often sees a pattern where punitive policies exacerbate either the undesired behavior or associated antisocial behaviors

It's counter-intuitive but the correlation between criminalization and increased antisocial activity — and indeed net social cost — is quite strong.

In my view the only sensible approach to criminology is "consequentialism" with all punishments being informed by therapeutic approaches to reduce future harm — or "Harm Reduction"

When we allow ourselves to be guided by "scale balancing" rationales, it's just too easy for that to turn into sadism and worse "mob" sadism — where any view of proportionality (vague and aspirational to begin with) is abandoned until some "Lord of the Flies" moment of cruelty provokes social reflection.

Anyway thanks for considering my perspective.
>> Thiel has deliberately destroyed one media outlet already. He calls journalists “terrorists”.

The author of this article is severely biased, he makes it look as if Gawker was innocent and makes it look as if Thiel "destroyed" them because of "hating free speech".

And since mainstream media journos are proven liars and manipulators calling them "terrorists" is not much of a stretch.
Can you elaborate? Accessible is a big topic.
> Instead of having the usual little icons for whatever it is they did (dog walking, pizza delivery, you know the type of company), there'd be icons of characters and certain well-known and well-loved vehicles from the franchise zipping around.

Doing that would not have "delighted" the customers, it would have only annoyed and irritated them.
At scale things break in weird and unexpected ways.
This. While I do think his sentence was excessive that man was in no way innocent.
May your door gaps never be in alignment! Haha just kidding, at least you have a nice car now :)
Rust also has a much more rigorous type system than other languages - so yes in rust exceptions should be considered an antipattern.

The implementation proposed in the article seems very reasonable python.

Writing code for language X in the style of language Y is usually an antipattern. When Rome do as the Romans do.
There's a lot of strange and misleading information on the website. For example the sentencing disparity is comparing sentences that were handed out in locations outside of the United States [0].

[0] - https://apnews.com/article/16c1186f8839c814b84a614542c8486e
Do I have to give my phone number to OpenAI to use this? I don't see why they require it. I wanted to give it a try, but no thanks.
Does anyone really want to hand their financial risks over to a company managed by Musk these days? Twitter seems headed towards FTX style management.

Moreover, this fantasy of making Twitter into WeChat is going to run hard into some of the reasons why WeChat evolved in the first place, which is consumers in China didn't have high penetration of credit cards like they have outside China, so e-commerce payments were difficult, WeChat made it easy.

But outside China, we've had CC payments for awhile, + PayPal, + Apple/Google Pay, Venmo, etc. There's ample competition, ample friction free alternatives, and they work on mobile and on the web. So shepherding everyone into some magic "X" app, and then getting all of the current e-commerce to support it, will work about as well as "Facebook Pay", which incidentally was tried, and failed.

The idea that everyone's going to switch over to Twitter Pay, especially if it's crypto-currency backed, is a delusion, and if you read the online ramblings of Sacks, Balaji, and the other Mafia members, it's a delusion born of politics, not practicality. They're not doing it because they think it will improve efficiency, or security, or usability, but because of a Randian-like hatred for government and regulation.
Probably due to time constraints. B2B takes a long time to get moving, B2C allows fast feedback for rapid iteration early on. B2B requires integrations, lots of tangential work that doesn't build the core product.

They may actually have made the right decision - it got them to "time to pivot" without running out of cash.
Many W-2 employees still have a contract. It's quite common for an employment contract to exist for regular salaried employees, and extremely common at companies like Twitter.
And where is he supposed to pump Tesla stock?
India’s first private rocket, built by startup Skyroot, makes successful launch
… is he? This doesn’t seem to be under his control anymore.
It’s a verified account. Blue check mark FTW baby.
I think we are seeing a much longer tail in music consumption. This kinda “squeezes” the top into a much less dynamic place.

As everybody has a more individual selection of music, due to easy and cheap access to almost all published music ever, the common denominator becomes smaller.

I don’t think music is becoming dumber overall.
I think that what you’re describing is a dogmatic / authoritarian leadership style, which in tech can signal incompetence, but that’s not neccesarily what Elon is doing. He is being demanding and brash, and somewhat arrogant.
There needs to be some competition to California model.
You make me feel like a weirdo for hating ads and not wanting to see any of them. And if they're specifically aimed at me and make me more likely to spend money, even worse. I get tempted and then I feel like an idiot for spending the money I worked for on balls shaving machines and flexible pants that look like jeans on the outside.
Although Cemu 2.0 officially only supports Linux and Windows, experimental releases [1] have added macOS releases since Sep 14 [2] (x64 builds only). It looks like TLOZ: Breath of the Wild is playable on an M1 Max Mac [3].

[1]: https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/releases/tag/v2.0-16

[2]: https://github.com/cemu-project/Cemu/releases/tag/v2.0-4

[3]: https://youtu.be/0UACDiZl6-w
Missile launch signatures using GPS data
It should be noted that the killing was conspiraed by FBI Agents where some of them also stealed a bunch of bitcoin for their own interest.
It's nowhere mentioned cause it would put the Feds in a bad light
Once a case is raised in the system they're flagged for Interpol and a European equivalent. It makes retaining them at a border simpler. There's no downside to filing a case and there might be an upside in the future.
Or, if you're thinking of more of a walled garden, Facebook is damned close.
Rewriting software from scratch is almost always a very bad idea and im sure even Elon knows this.
Putting it in the crontab is an absolute no-brainer if you already have the script.
Guilt is definitely a central theme of DMT trips for many people.
> I wonder what vision did Suhail pitch to PG to deserve high praise. Because this can't be it

From what I've read, sounds like a thin client machine based on the web. Chromebooks but even thinner, relying on SSR. I think that's a plausible vision that could have driven the upfront costs of hardware down in return for a subscription.

Pithy vision - "a new type of web-centric computer"

Edit: I really liked following Mighty, and it's exactly the kind of speculative startup that you can respect and admire even when it doesn't work out. They didn't do anything wrong, they tried to make a useful valuable product but failed. A worthy endeavour.
> Twitter employees amuse themselves by making billionaire's life difficult

Where did you get that from? He immediately started firing people, so when should they have done that?
If the problems are "this link is saturated" or "we're out of compute capacity" and other run of the mill stuff, I think getting access, being able to measure, identify and effect change is indeed the tough part.

The problems themselves most often have simple short term remedies.

I really think people blow out of proportion the actual requirements to keep things running, probably because they wish to see him fail. But everywhere I've worked, systems were most stable when engineers weren't there to muck with them. There's a reason many people refuse to ship on Friday.
This isn't an accurate title since it only talks about a tiny subset of genres available and specifically concentrates on popular (hence historically simple) songs
The idea that there is a _plan_, rather than random flailing around, probably gives too much credit.
Sounds like someone made off with a great deal! At the end of the day Tesla has some incredible minds working on the product, it is quite unfortunate that the face of that work has to get muddled with whatever Musk's latest circus venture is.
Given "3 seconds" the calamity message has to be in the same category as "Duck and cover. Now."
Of course not. But nothing broke! So far.
You're not buying a get-out-of-jail card, since that's not actually valuable to most people.

You're buying influence over laws and regulations that directly impact your ability to make money, which has much greater value to most donors.
Turns out missiles make ionospheric disturbances that GPS records. The yellow ripple is the ionospheric disturbance in this video: https://mobile.twitter.com/ArmsControlWonk/status/1593452159...

Reportedly the video was generated by the linked code.
Yes, they are legally obliged, but they can just tell you to pound sand and you can't do anything because you aren't the copyright holder.
AT&T syntax is broken (2021)
India proposes permitting cross-border data transfers with certain countries
So what's that new framework? Can I use it to reliably transmit stack traces when the app crashes?
In no free country do companies have to lie to their customers in order to comply with the government. That's a choice they make voluntarily.
He attempted to kill multiple people, and was completely indifferent to the harms caused by his marketplace. Indeed he profited massively from them.

Prison is the right place for Ross Ulbricht.

Just because he committed all his crimes using a computer doesn't mean he should be let off for these crimes.
That's the same computer I learned to program with. I was forced to use vim because of system resources. And now I'm glad.
Only if we look at the only competition of Tesla being other electric cars, which has never been the case. It was just its most distinguishing feature, but ultimately it's an implementation detail.
And I think they were on the edge of Bankruptcy
Out of curiosity, where do you tend to learn about this stuff? What sites/news sources do you use?
If it brings him joy, and he uses it in moderation, why does it matter? It's okay to spend an entire sunday afternoon watching a dozen men throw an eggball at each other but it's an addition to watch videos that bring you joy?
The team who all have their standup down the canal with a half bottle.
You're missing a significant bullet point which is that in-between Musk arriving and Twitter employees resigning, Musk fired 50% of the workforce. That seems like a much more significant factor in whether systems can be maintained.
The mind is the source of all senses. Is an Ayahuasca trip hallucination any different in reality than say schizophrenia hallucinations?

If there truly are beings of other advanced "planes", and they are communicating, why are they only doing it in vague ways that mimic dreams? And why is that information never something novel? If they're beings more advanced than us then we should be able to ask and get answers.

Same problem with ghosts. If there is evidence for their existence, then we can collect that. But every time the evidence is never there when it's no longer he said/she said. Even if ghosts were real and sentient they have to mess up eventually.

Sounds a lot like a limited intelligence human mind undergoing a bombardment of chemicals that change how the senses input/output information.
Do I remember correctly, that the stack variables were controversial even when developing C, and the compromise was that it supported both with `static` and `auto` keywords, and the controversy moved to what is the default, which was sneakily set to `auto`.
Sad when some coins' privacy benefits just emerge naturally from an elegant design that hugely improves scalability [1].

[1] https://tromp.github.io/circle-research-mimblewimble.pdf
I qofte dheu i lehte.
> At the moment, that request might still be handled by a microservice written by the old staff that does the right thing.

That's being optimistic. The old microservice was written before GDPR took effect. When data management was "get everything, keep everything, storage is cheap, we (or some 3 letters agency) may find a use for it 10 years from now".
I have written 2 products with node-based UIs.

https://www.easydatatransform.com : A node based data transformation (ETL) tool where nodes are inputs, transformations (61 to choose from) and outputs.

https://www.hyperplan.com : A card-based task planner. The Professional edition supports drawing connections between tools (e.g. dependencies). It will auto-layout a graph based on the connections (which was a challenging bit of programming).
Backend as well?
"Industry" Roll that over in your head then weep.
I don't know how to code and I don't know where to start. When I've attempted to start in the past, with Python, I've quickly become massively overwhelmed and given up or slowly faded into inaction.

Scratch has always seemed like it would be a good entry level sort of thing, but then I see all of this stuff about 8 year olds using it and everyone talking about it being only for children.

I understand that it's meant to be visual and intuitive for kids and whatnot, but it's discouraging, because I almost feel ashamed for wanting to use it.

Maybe it's that I have so little confidence in my mathematical skills and other "logic-related" things that I'm nervous to even start, just to avoid the shame accompanying my inability to achieve anything with a platform literally designed for elementary school kids.

Just venting a little bit. Anyone have any advice for getting started? There are so many little projects and seemingly simple things I'd like to do with my PC, like running custom scripts on my Pis, making cool AHK macros, creating home cockpit stuff for MSFS, etc.

It's incredibly discouraging to see people making all of these incredible things that I daydream about constantly, knowing that I am completely unable to even scratch the surface.

Pity party over.
Those aren't usually in the office buildings though.
>Like it's OK to steal from the mom and pop stores, they're too poor and overworked to do anything about it.

An action that is worth the risk is not neccesarily morally or ethically correct.

The article only cared about money and security. Feeling good about your actions wasn't a concern.
If he needs more than 900 employees, he can just hire more. He is not fixed at "900 employees", so the premise of this argument is invalid.
I think your main issue is having "two blocks of meetings" a day as a developer. That sounds absolutely nuts to me. Even two meetings a day is likely too much for a dev, let alone two blocks of meetings! I'd start by reducing that.
Yourself and others are missing the point. US law here isn’t “what was considered a hard drug in pre-1970s USSR”. And regardless of what the medical point of view might be, alcohol isn’t classed as a hard drug in US law.

Frankly though, even this straw man argument is moot because it is illegal to sell alcohol without a license too. So regardless of what substance was on sale, this market place was facilitating illegal transactions.

As for whether 40 years is a bit harsh, that’s a lot more subjective. But it doesn’t further the conversation to shift definitions of substances when they’re already legally defined.
I get the "Free Ross" campaigners are trying to persuade us, and I think his parents are largely behind it which I sympathize with, but the manner in which they gloss over FIVE ATTEMPTED MURDERS goes beyond mere bias.

Keep Ross In
Just put some Tesla autopilot engineers on it.
> Is 'Ruby on Rail' the monorail version? :P

Haha
Beautiful visualization. I’ve thought of doing something similar but having some sort of automation so it is my desktop or phone wallpaper.
Maybe he'll give you a horse
The way he’s acting is consistent with having flipflopped his way into the deal and resenting the whole thing slightly. He seems very worried about the money aspect. This fits with having tried to back out. If this is the case then he’ll need to get a handle on that.
His biggest mistake was saying that he would allow Trump back. In the minds of many left-leaning people that makes him a sympathizer in a coup attempt, and those left-leaning people succeeded in creating an extreme amount of pressure against Twitter’s customers (the advertisers) to starve the company.

Musk clearly thinks of himself as creating a platform for free speech, but when it comes to coups there is really no such thing as a middle ground or neutrality.
The Attraction for Drugs Is Spiritual
This could be meaningless hyperbole without detail. What are those systems, why are they critical, how many staff did they have and how many staff do they have now and what type of staff are they?

They have great reason to be hyperbolic - they've just basically been fired, Elon is accusing Twitter of being an inefficient, lazy, engineering organisation. He has insulted them, they will insult him back and want him to fail.
I may be wrong on the features on Bear 2.0 but it doesn’t seem like a lot new features. A full rewrite in C++ may be why it’s taking so long but it definitely feels like they’ve quietly dropped the web version.

It’s fair enough if they want to focus on the Apple ecosystem but they let people think they were developing the web version for a while.
To those of you struggling with the meaning of life and death, here is some food for thought: the probability that you are going to die in the next 150 years is 99.999999 % or lower. It used to be 100.00... percent, with infinite zeros after that decimal point. It doesn't seem like much, but depending on where you are in life, your relation with (metaphorical) God, and the amount of humanity you have, that 0.0000001 % makes all the difference.
Yes, I have actually. Let it take hours to resolve, what of it?

Way better than keeping a person around who hoards institutional knowledge and admin access for job security. In fact that would be the first person I'd zero in on and get rid of, and have in the past. Not only are people like that not indispensable, they should never have been hired, anywhere.

A well engineered twitter has everything necessary to run it in properly documented internal wikis and can be handed off to a small new group of competent ops people at the drop of a hat. Ideally new hires should be able to fix and change things within a day of starting their jobs with little to no hand holding. I'm sure it is very far from that at the moment due to the unprofessionalism of everybody involved, but this is actually the best and fastest way to get it there purely from an ops perspective - usually takes years to convince management to yank off the bandaid because everybody is too scared to take responsibility.

Twitter used to have fail whales all the goddamn time, sky doesn't fall, it isn't amazon they aren't losing money every second it is down.

Whoever stayed on will be able to figure out eventually which things to restart in what order so long as they aren't locked out of the servers.

Unless Twitter is still using Zookeeper. :P

In the process of figuring it out they'll be putting in-writing what should have been documented all along and getting a feel for the brittle bits. Long term twitter is better off.

Good riddance to bad rubbish.

I'm sure the databases have recent known good backups at worst you'll get a bunch out of prolonged outages and some dataloss - since we are talking about tweets, nothing of value was lost.