skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Do you think FTX working with the SEC team on drafting new crypto regulations was all a lie then? No one else was allowed that access

I'm not familiar with their claims. That said, the SEC is generally quite receptive to input when it comes to rule making.

> Coinbase has been complaining about being stonewalled by Gensler for even basic questions

Enforcement versus rule making. Also, tweeting angry things at your regulator while publicly trying to yank their jurisdiction is a poor way to solicit discretionary feedback.
I don't understand why the payroll and accounting teams would have got the hardcore memo. Surely their jobs will be basically the same or easier (fewer people). I don't know the subject area, but how could this amount of work really change based on engineering direction?
Death is manually verified, you can read about the process here:

https://posterity.life/how/death-verification/
Thanks. So is it expected than he will jet off to somewhere before being arrested? Justice Dept or whatever relevant agency should act quick shouldn’t they? But I guess the answer there alludes back to a sibling comment’s point of testing the Justice system against someone with such a wide swale of influence/connections..
In that scenario a memory leak isn’t any more unsafe than any other program data that’s in memory.
NASA Investigation into Webb’s Relationship to the Lavender Scare [pdf]
Good point. She's proven an ability to take a stand when she deeply believes in something before, when she removed her albums from Spotify. Hopefully we see more in that vein in the ticket sales space.

As other commenters here mentioned, this does seem to be an actual supply and demand issue, not just scalping, as I falsely claimed in my original post. Unfortunately a genuine supply and demand issue is a harder problem to solve, since it seems unlikely that Taylor will decide to host the 900 concerts Ticketmaster suggests would be required to satisfy demand.
it has to be the classical crc32 and is easy cause you know it is just 32-bit :d
I'd like to think that the "killer app" for the fediverse isn't going to be Mastodon or the other current alternatives but the ActivityPub protocol or something akin to it.

Whereas decentralized online communities have existed, they were mostly isolated which meant that users had to make multiple accounts if they wanted to participate in various niche interests.

Now that you can create one account in one server and still be able to participate in other federated communities in a "global square" if you wanted to is an important departure from communities of the past.
I'd argue that's not really something Google have wrong - parental/education control blockers aren't few and far between.
I bought a Nissan Rogue two months ago with Carvana - it had a 7 day no questions refund, free repairs for a year, and we got to test drive for 30 mins before they signed it over to us. Overall I felt very comfortable with this purchase, much more than a small local dealership or even worse a stranger on some FB group.
Like Obama droning innocents, hospitals[1] and weddings[2]?

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-34471182

2. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/yemenis-drone-st...
"Twitter" isn't just the technical website infrastructure, though that itself is now at grave risk:

<https://how.complexsystems.fail/>

It's also:

- Twitter, the advertising-driven business model, which advertisers are fleeing.

- Twitter, the institutional knowledge, technical and otherwise, which is now fleeing.

- Twitter, a government-regulated (FTC and possibly other consent decrees / orders) enterprise. See for example: <https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/05/...>

- Twitter, the contributors community, now rather noisily debarking for other pastures.

On all these counts, Twitter is in the process of collapsing, and/or approaching a state where such collapse is inevitable.

Pedantic limited-scope literal reading would be a flawed assessment.
Only at home these days. First fifteen years of my career, as engineer and TL, I wrote a ton of code — every day was for coding, and even late nights and weekends for the extra-fun projects.

Now as a manager and sometimes architect, no code from me but I still review code and spend time stopping bad ideas, getting teams to work together, and all that fun stuff. But I still regard code merged into master, as the ultimate tangible of our work.
> Large public apologies are performance art.

But this is the use, and so it isn't useless. Not everyone who compels a public apology actually cares whether the accused feels genuine remorse. They want to enforce a cultural standard because they think that cultural standard is a good thing.
Quite the opposite. I used Google Meet a few years back and it was terrible. Not even close to being a Zoom replacement.

But recently we've been holding standups with Google Meet, to give it another try and since it was already bundled with Google Business, and I've been very impressed with the lower latency.

Conversations feel closer to "natural" - I feel like there's less talking over each other.

The UI has become polished.

I was pleasantly surprised.
We have an implicit assumption for definitions of noon and midnight right now. I can't tell if that assumption will be there 1000 years later, but assuming that, UTC and UT1 can't really differ by much more than several hours.
I'm wondering if this erratic behaviour is Musk having some sort of breakdown over how things are unravelling?

* Currently that revenue is cratering and things are not going well. Bankrupcy is a real risk with the high debt servicing cost for the take-over.
* If the value is going quickly in the direction of $0, banks will call the loans.
* If banks call the loans, he has to sell Tesla stock to pay the $44bn.
* If Musk starts to sell Tesla stock at that scale, the value of Tesla could quickly crater in the current climate. It's the last bubble-stock of this cycle, still 80% way to go down, if valued like its auto industry peers.

The outcome of that could be that even selling his entire holding of Tesla, Musk could end up broke, and potentially still owe money from the Twitter take-over.

It would make the wealth destruction of FTX look like a Sunday stroll in the park.
It feels like this approach would constrain you from planting in an organic/spontaneous manner; you'd have to plant stuff to make sure it lines up with the cables above right?

Following the other comment re: power being king, what if we used a hub-and-spoke model where small drones with cameras (for sensing) and simple arms w/ clampers (for manipulating) perform 'bursts' of energy intensive activity and aggregate their sensory inputs into one composite report on the health of the plants? They do their thing (maybe for 10 - 15 mins or however long their battery lasts) and then fly back to the hub to charge. The hub itself could rely on a hybrid combo of guaranteed external power and solar panels.

Ofc, it'd be cool to see a cost analysis of how expensive this solution is (from both technical and financial standpoints) versus simpler, more energy-efficient human inputs (aka walk around your garden and prune trees that need it and pick berries that are ripe).
There is an SMS text that was leaked as part of discovery for the merger that did quote something like "sharpen your knives boys" which seemed to be in reference to the mass purge. This tone seemed to lack empathy for the disruption this was going to cause in people's lives.

EDIT:

Oh, that wasn't Musk it was Jason Calacanis (angel investor)

“Day zero,” Calacanis wrote. “Sharpen your blades boys. 2 day a week Office requirement = 20% voluntary departures.”

https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/29/elon-musk-texts-discovery-...
Sorry, I wasn't clear - I wasn't implying there should be a central team to manage it. One of the beauties of Nix is providing declarative dev environments in repositories, which means to fully embrace it each individual team should own it for themselves.

At best a central team would be useful for managing an artifactory/cache + maybe company-wide nixpkgs, but in general singular teams need to decide for themselves if Nix is helpful + then manage it themselves.
They're not actually. That story broke one of the most damning pieces of information in the whole ordeal, and just casually snuck it in without further commentary. The whole thing was a hit piece disguised as a puff piece.

https://twitter.com/WClementeIII/status/1592289824542949376
The feature set has not changed much since launch but it's definitely not abandoned.
He was the administrator of NASA during much of the Apollo program, so it's not like he's entirely irrelevant.
Probably? Unless ads, cloud computing, and android all die at once there will be money to pay for some new R&D, and success is relative. Is 10M customers success? 100M? 1B?

Maybe an even better question is will Alphabet ever launch a massively profitable new product.

I figure AGI is on the table with both Deepmind and Brain pumping out new SOTA models every few months.
The problem is mostly (or so I’ve heard) that the drift is relevant for astronomical applications, and they rely on time dissemination which is done in UTC. If UTC decides to start deviating from TAI by dropping leap seconds, those applications will be in trouble. I’m sure that the problem is overblown, but this is the reasoning that was put forward in the past.
Any website to follow who's doing extensive Linux programming with Swift and writing about it?
"Anyone who has worked at a large enough company knows there is a solid 10-15% of folks doing nothing"

In my experience those do-nothings tend to be near the top of the pyramid.

At the engineer level it's harder to get away with doing nothing because you're constantly being told what to do and then you get evaluated to see if you actually did what you were tasked with doing.

As you go higher up the food chain, some can get away with claiming they're doing everything while taking credit for other people's ideas and work, while the only thing they actually do is order people around.
If you want to keep UTC matching the solar rotation, why do you specifically require leap seconds? Why not leap minutes? Or leap milliseconds? The choice of ±1 s as the acceptable error seems arbitrary.
If this were true, they'd be earning more.
A crucial point not mentioned yet: cross cultural issues.

In an American culture, it is "self-evident" that clear communication is about being direct and to the point. But this is far from universal. More generally, western cultures tend to conflate earnest and truth. "Telling it like it is" is valued. We don't realize our own "phoniness".

I have witnessed countless times people hitting a wall in meetings and other situations because they tried to address the point "butt head". Some typical examples I've witnessed

1. French/Japanese starting a simple resource discussion. As we French typically do, French manager starting a negotiating by saying no. Gradually softening while getting given more information. Result: French manager happy at the end, happy to start project, Japanese manager extremely stressed and thought nothing was decided.

2. American engineer excited about a starting project, mentioning how "awesome" things are. French engineer unimpressed, 50 % stuff not working, think the American is bulsshiting him, decides they can't be trusted. American just wanted to share his enthusiasm and wanted to build a working relationship. I was that French engineer long time ago, I really was super confused by American optimism. I thought it was all fake, I since learnt to tune and update my mental model :)

In all those cases, everybody thought they were very clear. I now work in Japan, and what Japanese would call very clear is very different from what we would consider clear in Europe or the US.
It would still be a waste of electricity.
Not only would I not work there, at some point soon I’d refuse to hire anyone who could have left but hasn’t.

A healthy organization needs people who can question bad leadership. Elon is driving those people away. Those who are left will be those who will support narcissistic leaders in whatever organization they later join.

Obviously there will be exceptions - people on visas etc.
Does this documentation workgroup focus also extend to the documentation of Apple APIs? The pessimist in me thinks no, but I'm hoping to be wrong.
Archive.org is less resistant to censorship though, as they have started removing "objectionable" material from the site, as long as enough people object to it. We saw that play out during the coordinated effort to erase KiwiFarms from the Internet. An effort that not only failed, but made the site far more resilient.

From what I read, this attempt to erase history was cited by one of the financial backers who was supposedly not a fan of KF, but was less of a fan of censorship from utilities such as archive.org.

As John Gilmore famously said "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
Pixel 7 is 499 of I buy it on the store right now, and gets 5 years of security updates.
I have to assume he’ll delegate to people he trusts.
>insane taboo and uptightness about sex and nudity we have in society //

In the UK we're on aggregate definitely too uptight about nudity, but sex ... inhibition towards things like infidelity, promiscuity, fecundity, seems like a relatively good thing. Sex being the preserve of committed relationships is not a problem to fix to my view.

It sounds like you think we should basically be bonobos? Preoccupied with carnal interactions to the exclusion of all else?
I (and Google's comment, and the quoted link) am referring to deskop Linux, as is perfectly obvious.
Leap seconds can be negative.
I never really understood why we need leap seconds. Or better: why we need to bother with them in a computer system at lower level.

If we decide that we absolutely need to keep our time in sync with the rotation of the earth, really what should be done is define a timezone with all the leap seconds applied, and use that timezone to only display it to the end user. Not change the way we sync computer clocks for no reason! NTP shouldn't contemplate leap seconds, for example...
Not calling it a hellsite, i actually used it (to read, not to tweet), but there is A LOT of dark pattern on twitter and i think you can build better communities on discord or reddit.
Subreply - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32445450 - Aug 2022 (77 comments)
[PRQL core-dev here]

Thanks for the PRQL shout-out!

> Take PRQL for example: https://prql-lang.org. It looks nice, but the examples are very basic. What about window functions, grouping sets, lateral, DML, recursive SQL, pattern matching, pivot/unpivot etc.

Window functions are very much supported! Check out the examples on the home page & in the docs.

The others aren't yet, but not because of a policy — we've started with the most frequently used features and adding features as they're needed.
They have one it's called spaces. we have it set up as a back up to slack. It's not that spaces (shutdown 2016ish), it's a subfeature of google chat.
From another comment:

> first made its appearance on Hacker News about 9 years ago
Am I getting this right?

1. MANY studies over many years show red meat consumption is bad
2. This study shows that it's bad, but not a lot
3. This is ONE study we're talking about
4. This study invents a new statistical methodology
Why the U.S. Fell Behind in Phone Manufacturing
SwiftUI is not open source and doesn't support other platforms.
> ...dealing with larger strategy issues as a senior developer and working with other developers and being involved in the sales process?

I don't have any way to talk about your specific situation.

If you're asking, "how can you generalize broadly about" what sounds like big company problems. Maybe as this economic reshuffling / contraction continues, I expect those big company problems to go away via "reduction in force." Because if your folks - superior, subordinates, whatever - couldn't figure out a system to get you focused on programming, which is your valuable elite skill, for the last X years, they aren't going to to have the wisdom suddenly to do it now, in reaction to an equities crisis.

And isn't that exactly what's happening?
Projects in this space tend to be fairly niche, geeky proofs-of-concept with a Woz-like fun factor but little mass-market appeal.

This, however, has plenty of both. With a little polish to the industrial design and a high-quality contract manufacturer, I could absolutely see this becoming a popular item in homes and on desks.
start a charity. donate 5% to it. charities only have to give 20% to do good. (at least in UK)
you end up with 1.2m
easy 200k.
then buy everything through the charity, reclaim the 20% on purchases.

please post improvements if there's easier ways... ;)
One thing I love at my current job is people embracing the X/Y question terms. People will frequently ask on Slack, "How do I do X?" and immediately follow up with "I'm asking because in implementing process Y, it seems like I need an X."

Helps so much getting to the root of the issue.
I'm pretty happy with Youtube TV, which I think is relatively new.

I think with the size they don't have a lot of interest in running "small" businesses even if they have some traction. Something like Stadia was maybe just wholly unprofitable but maybe had some benefits if they developed remote gameplay tech that might be re-used in another product someday or offered as apart of their cloud offerings.

I guess they'll eventually jump in on the upcoming AR war, but it might be hard to beat the offerings from Meta and Apple. Maybe they'll have the Android of AR?
> There isn’t going to be a fire sale.

That depends on the interest to carry a car in inventory. Contracting margins plus increasing "floorplan" (what dealers call the line of credit they use to buy inventory) rates can be devastating.
In a $44 billion deal, I'm not sure that $375 million buys you much leverage. That's under 1%.
How can you be so sure? As I understand it, the hash is of features in the image and not the image itself. Are the CSAM feature detection heuristics public?
Once they looted the money, making the records disappear sounds smart.
Pretty nice table here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix

"(...) he had the idea for the update when he saw media reports using unsanctioned prefixes for data storage such as brontobytes and hellabytes. (...)" and "The only letters that were not used for other units or other symbols were R and Q"

So it seems the new prefixes are partly initiated by the exponential computer storage needs rather than scientific needs. So they might need to move again soon. However the SI has exhausted the available stock of letters. Maybe Greek letters next time like micro for 10^-6.

Anyway does it really matter for IT people? I have seen so many people mixing up bit and byte, milli- and mega- as well. There are countless usages of mb all over the Internet to express MB.
Ah sorry, I misunderstood what you said
No, they don't. They highlight the issue of killing. The animal is being killed, so it makes moral and practical sense to exploit the carcass as much as possible.

I'm not sure why this is hard to grasp, unless your entire premise is that killing animals for human use is innately immoral and unacceptable. To that, I simply disagree.
The fact that I can search for anything I want means I don't need to really organize it besides albums.

The search is amazing and scary. I was looking for some pictures I took mid renovation and searched `wood` and they came up. I can search for lakes and trees. Quite impressive.
Perhaps their slogan could be, "Bullish-it!"
The solution is not bother with space solar. Any other conceivable idea involving Earth-based solar, even if it means floating solar panels, a worldwide power grid, or vast energy storage solutions, will be far cheaper and more practical.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspa.2016.040...

Odd. I was wondering how fast it actually was long term, and this rate from historical record seems much lower. They cite 1.8ms/century if I'm reading it correctly with some odd cyclical thing going on. " the change in the length of the mean solar day (lod) increases at an average rate of +1.8 ms per century. "

I mean, we've added 22 seconds over 50 years. Although at current rate it would still just be 7 minutes after a millenia :)

edit You know, nevermind, that's all covered on wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leap_second#Slowing_rotation_o...
Are you assuming that digital images are evenly distributed over the set of all possible 256 bit vectors?

Because I don't think that's a reasonable assumption.

Even if image recognition was perfectly solved with no known edge cases (ha!), when an entire topic is a semantic stop-sign for most people, you can't expect the mysterious opaque box that is a guilty-enough-to-investigate detection mechanism to be something that gets rapid updates and corrections when new failure modes are discovered.
Also, engineering is not solely about output. In fact, for something as big and established as Twitter, output is probably secondary to availability.

Good managers ensure their teams have "slack." Because if something is on fire, or a pressing deadline appears, etc..you need to not be at 100% to absorb that.

People disrespect maintenance work & being available. Even here on HN.
They probably just don't want to work there.
This is almost certainly a fraud company that will likely cease to exist in 3 months, so no, they are not.
Hi, I'd not heard of webapp.io before so thanks for mentioning it.
Actuated is not a preview branch product, that's an interesting area but not the problem we're trying to solve.

actuated is not trying to be a CI system or a replacement for one like webapp.

It's a direct integration with GitHub Actions, and as we get interest from pilot customer for GitLab etc, we'll consider adding support for those platforms too.

Unopinionated, without lock-in. We want to create the hosted experience, with safety and speed built in.
What I find interesting is the feeling of honestly forgiving. whatever the other person feels, just simply forgiving someone of some slight or wrong they may or even may not have done to you can be very cathartic. It was only recently in my life it even occurred to me to actually forgive someone rather than just saying the words.
Generac’s Generator Sales Hurt by Lack of Installers
There is a 0% chance that in six months Twitter will be collecting $5 billion in revenue with 20% of the staff they had before. This would be about $3.5 million in revenue per employee, which is way more than anyone else [1]. They simply can't get there without a lot of headcount for eng, infra, sales, account management, legal, etc. Pipe dream, especially in six months.

If Elon really is a business genius and is playing 5D chess here that the rest of us just can't understand (like Trump was, lol), then maybe in six years, but not in six months.

1. https://www.statista.com/statistics/217489/revenue-per-emplo...
One of the things I've struggled with in my communications with nontechnicals is that they often want simple answers to complex questions, when that simple answer often hides important details that might make it incorrect, dishonest, or disingenuous.

I think people should generally fight this need for simple answers... the world is a messy place, and if you're turning to a practitioner of said mess for advice then you should expect a suitable answer. (It also avoids the other person looking like a buffoon or pointy-haired boss to me, which is one of fastest ways to lose my respect)
The Math Behind Nesting Rounded Corners