skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Apple Rankings by The Appleist Brian Frange

Well Brian, if you're reading this, then know that at this present juncture I fear your taste is quite awful. You are contributing to the infantilisation of flavour preferences by ranking such sweet varieties so highly. I bid you humble yourself by exploring some real vintage apples for a year, and report back advocating for those. Then book a trip to Wales and work in the cider and perry orchards. Then climb a high mountain. Then you must go to Kazakhstan and try all the OG varieties there, eating them from the ground like the bears that did so since time immemorial. Then when you are forty seven years old, you must sell all your possessions and buy a big field to be in for a while before planting there an orchard and rearing young bears. Then you must retail those apples from a roadside packing shed for forty years. Only after you have done at least one of these things may you write about apples on the internet.
They are also working on something similar, https://twitter.com/oegerikus/status/1592977789418098688
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I'm not saying it's a fair metric, but when I compare Twitter's open output to similarly VC-funded-but-now-public companies, the engineering output doesn't seem particularly exciting.

For comparison:

Meta / Facebook:

* React

* PyTorch

* Fasttext

* Their unsung-but-indispensible-for-humanitarian-orgs Data for Good program

Google:

* Flutter

* Go

* Kubernetes

* Tensorflow

* BERT / Large language models generally

* Mapreduce / Hadoop

The much-maligned Uber:

* H3 Geospatial indexing

* Kepler.gl

* Manifold

Even AirBNB!

* Airflow

* Superset

I use most of these products (or their descendants) every day in my work.
When I think of Twitter, all I think of is how they arbitrarily shut off humanitarian access to their APIs (and earlier, the Twitter firehose). There's not a single Twitter-supported open product that I use.

Am I the only one? Is there a great Twitter-supported project that I missed?
Advanced ransomware use a hybrid scheme that generates a new symmetric key for each file and then encrypts that with an asymmetric key.
I've seen Puppeteer being used successfully in a few projects, it's ugly as hell (you need a VM, a browser and extra software to generate a file) and might require maintenance but it works quite well for simple, mostly textual documents.
The most extreme example is the event horizon telescope which produced the first picture of a black hole.

It was using the entire earth as the size of the interferometer, they had telescopes all over the earth and recombined the results later.
Continuous discovery? Your customer is partially your roadmap, some are helping you distribute the product. Its a super smart way how to get real world information, then shuffle and decide what to do.
I sort of agree wrt quoting. Most people's solution is just "well don't use spaces or dollars or whatever in your filenames!" which is obviously shit.

But on the other hand I think the ultimate blame lies with Bash for being so shitily designed that you can make basic quoting mistakes and it works most of the time. Real programming languages don't have that issue.
The biggest problems I had with Bay/Cherry is because they are 64bit processors but have 32bit UEFI. So the distro has to be able to install a 64bit version but from a 32bit UEFI. Most of the "mini PC" that came with those Atoms came with a 32bit Windows preinstalled, I assume for the same reason. Some distributions like AntiX, MX Linux, and Void Linux, can boot 64bit OS from 32bit UEFI.

Also WiFi/Bluetooth can be problematic when they are on SDIO, in my personal experience. Which anecdotally for me was about 50% of the time.
Yeah, and that allows them to just write "all Go source files must conform to the format outputted by the gofmt tool" under "Formatting" and move on to the stuff for which a style guide is still needed...
Sonic creator Yuji Naka arrested in insider trading scandal
> They are climate controlled environments where light is provided via grow lights

Solar's efficiency is below 50% [https://www.nrel.gov/pv/cell-efficiency.html]. Considering that, I'd guess for each m² of solar panel deployed, you'll get <50% of the yield that would be produced in that same land with horizontal farming (assuming fertile land).

You can argue that solar panels can be deployed in non-agricultural surfaces, and that's true, that allows to grow things where it was not possible before. But I'm not convinced that vertical farming is more efficient than horizontal on very important metrics like cost and GHG emissions
There are more general ways of doing something like this with LLMs. We are looking into LLMs to improve our results. Cartwright is very specific, but it is easy to add new categories to detect if you have specific categories in mind. See the contribution doc here. https://github.com/jataware/cartwright/blob/main/docs/contri...
Good and bad attention is all the same for advertisers. Question is how many will want to bother
And gay rights, which both the UAE and Rwanda (where gay sex is legal now, but just another case where the gov has changed the law to appeal to Western sensibilities but sentiments of the public have no changed) are terrible at.
gpg supports using public / private keypairs to encrypt any amount of data you like. I use it for uni-directional backups from machines where trust is an issue.

Or is the reality of this that it's just encrypting a symmetric key with the asymmetric cipher, and then encrypting data using that key?
I thankfully don't suffer from it but ask anyone with RSI about that.

My broader point however is that if even a small but non trivial part of my brain capacity must be used to deal with the mechanics.

In a way it is like when I learned to use a climbing harness for work and learned to trust it, the effect on my output when I worked in the field was amazing because everything I did was no longer interrupted by constant considerations and adjustments to stay safe.
Yea, I think I’m still leaning in that direction, although I wouldn’t use those words or go all in on this.

One thing that’s interesting about this shakeup is that it’s a very clear statement about where Elon sees value, right? Lazy “rest and vest” engineers? Just go home. Communications department? Get out.

Perhaps what Elon wants to say is “look, this thing runs fine on 20% of the staff, and now that the 80% naysayers are gone we’re going to really get shit done”. When I’ve worked for companies approximately the size of Twitter I’ve sure felt the urge to say that. :)

Now, the question is, now aligned with “reality” is this reasoning from first principles? No doubt a lot of haters are gonna hate, like crazy. Is it enough to take the whole company down?
Between FTX and Twitter, I've run out of popcorn, and the local grocers are out of stock.

I think the best tweet on that thread is [0]:

"I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out."

I'm not sure if it's true or not, but... sounds about par for the course.

Edit: As someone else pointed out, it's a parody account. Amazing that I couldn't infer that immediately.

[0] https://twitter.com/JWeber988/status/1593423235252723715
Rust in the Linux 6.2 Kernel
Reference for that last sentence?
Ask HN: What made you finally grok Git?
I've been using it for over 7 years, and while I've memorized a bunch of commands and have some idea of what the commit tree is, I'm perpetually bewildered by some of its messages or the behavior of some commands - and the only way I can fix major trainwrecks is by nuking a branch (when I'm lucky, the entire repository when not) and copy-pasting stuff until it's back to working state.
If you were to form a Noah's Ark for books which ones are you taking and why?
Pellican (caching system), Bootstarp, their unique IDs system, a few more.
If it didn't change and he fires half of company, wouldn't (short term) that be actual gain ?
I have a gaming laptop, that won't work with USB C, right?
EDIT: looks like that's not going to change
Bootstrap, though it has been a long time since I’ve used it (and I don’t know if they actively support it)
Hey, as with everything it's worth considering all sides. This exact scenario happened and the result was quite a nasty cut. Now you might say this is an essential part of childhood, but it was pretty bad.

Not sure how I feel about putting kids through it, though. I feel like much worse could have happened. I think he might have needed stitches anyway. What if he needed surgery?
Well shucks, maybe they should just cancel it then.
Have you tried Tailscale? It's just a whole new experience getting all your devices connected in 10 minutes. It's quite something.
If he doesn't want to be evaluated as a dumbass, he can simply stop making dumbass tweets.
This is the funnest twist in the story so far, thank you for surfacing it!
"The main message I got out of those experiences was that everything I learned in hell could have been learned in other, safer, ways."

I learned way more in my bad trips than in my good ones. The good ones were fun, but pretty superficial. The bad ones forced me to face my shit that I might never had faced if I hadn't done psychedelics.

Going through pain and suffering has also made me a lot more empathetic to the pain and suffering of others. I know what it's like to be disoriented, afraid, and in incredible agony, so when I see someone going through something similar I can relate and have a lot of empathy for them. If I had never gone through something similar, I probably wouldn't.
In China it’s not even a matter of money. People already need VPN for accessing the free internet. Books are invaluable against censorship.
A sibling comment mentioned GitHub, I'll also add GitLab here as well, which allows you to do the same thing in their merge requests (the equivalent of pull requests).

Just checked, it doesn't seem that my self-hosted Gitea instance allows for that, so neither does Gogs (or maybe I just can't find the option in the UI).
IonQ Works with Dell Technologies to Deliver Hybrid Classical-Quantum Platform
Other charging options are allowed, it's just that there should _also_ be a USB-C option.
No.

People here on HN drastically underestimate the value of Twitter’s network and name. Musk could start 1,000 social media companies for 1,000 lifetimes and still not hit on Twitter’s timing and execution early on.

The age of social media is dead. No one is creating a Twitter competitor in 2022+. Either the site completely dies and people flee to existing platforms, or it lives on.

The idea that one can just build a Twitter clone shows little understanding of human nature.
Oh it's regulate (domestic). Long paragraph on every bottle of weedkiller etc.

You ever read that? Farmers do. But no, residential customers just pull the trigger until the weed starts to curl or whatever, and then the sprinkler runs and it all goes down to the creek.
If you aren't sure its real, why propogate it?
Isn't there tremendous real value in meta-analysis? The problem seems to lie in how credit is allocated (via citations).
What code freeze? Surely Elon will keep pushing the team to merge and deploy changes fast as long as there are any engineers left. They will break it themselves.
The real solution is to not legislate a standard, but instead to say:

"A 10% additional tax shall apply to the sale of any portable device. The tax will be reduced to zero if the device uses the most common charging port in the year the device was sold. The tax is reduced to 5% if it uses the 2nd most common port in the year it was sold."

That means any big industry effort to move to a new port will, when it gets more than 50% support, will immediately get everyone else to move over to save money. And people can still use custom/niche ports, but they'll take a hit to their bottom line for the privilege - but it'll be worth it if the utility of the better port is good enough the user is happy to pay a premium for it.

The fact the tax is determined at the end of the year means manufacturers have an incentive to work together on standardization even after devices are in the hands of consumers. For example, Apple could maybe open up lightning to other manufacturers and save a lot of taxes on devices already sold in that year, if they could make lightning the most popular in the year.
Paperswithcode has paused Galactica demo
...Ability to change title of the page from "Home - made with softr.io" to his name ?

Guy can't even use website generator
Better, a "last_updated" method on instances of "Document", that being an "Age" instance with a "days" method: document.last_updated.days

Self describing code does not need theRidiculouslyLongNamesPerferredByJavaCoders.
Bootstrap!

It’s the only one I could think of but it certainly had a big impact on lots of people, enabling a lot of devs who were bad at design and responsiveness to make halfway decent looking websites.
As polished as the UI looks. You can’t cover up the fact it’s a PHP turd under the hood.
I believe 240W charging uses 50V@±5A.

Looking at a 240W power adapter (https://www.slimq.uk/products/240w-charger-1) the whole thing doesn't seem that much bigger than a regular old laptop charger. Modern GaN chargers are quite compact for the punch they pack.
Eh, Tumblr was bought for $1bn, sold for $3m, and is still up. Twitter will most likely remain up in some form (unless the "black start" issues are really bad or the cloud bill is a lot more than expected) and get sold to someone quieter.
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This was more to reduce headcount but to increase drama, which in turn makes you visit Twitter more, which in turn leads to more ad impressions and money for Twitter. As EM tweeted, more people have visited Twitter now than ever before. I just deleted my account when I understood what was going on.
On principal, I hope it crashes and burns and ruins him. And I know this will cause a lot of people to suffer some. I am so sorry for that. But these piss ant billionaires need to start facing real consequences when they behave so abhorrently. I hope all of his ventures fail similarly. Fuck him and his petulant behavior forever.
> Their unsung-but-indispensible-for-humanitarian-orgs Data for Good program

I'm pretty sure almost all of this team was laid off (certainly the people I knew who worked on it were).

> * Airflow

This is actually a clone of an internal FB tool (written by the same author after he left FB).
Yes although two charge ports doesn't sound impossible and/or especially bad to me. Especially if the port is a brand new standard you'll never be able to borrow a charge cable for from a friend.

Would be interested to know how much multiple charge ports affect price/complexity.
"The cruelty is the point".

There's an increasingly blunt divide these days between people who think cruelty is a good signal because it's in some way "realistic", and people who think avoidable suffering is bad and should be avoided. This is almost exactly the "woke"/"antiwoke" split.
Yes, to some degree. We use usage data to decide on a strategy, it usually ends up in testing on the big names on big platforms the latest and one or two versions back. Of course we are risking a self fulfilling prophecy since we rarely test Firefox for example.
Most tweets about the Elon/twitter situation are fake nonsense, including this one.

Last week a tweet said Elon had shut down the microservice responsible for 2FA. 100,000 upvotes on Reddit/twitter and 1000s of shouting comments. The story was nonsense of course. Depressing to see such discourse gets posted here too.
See https://twitter.com/danluu/status/1592774269733601281 for some of the examples of technical innovation at Twitter.
Let's wait how it eventually all plays out, but one thing is for certain, I (and I suspect many others) have lost all respect for Musk.
Why the whataboutism? Just cheer the progress.
If such a high charging power level is needed anyway, does requiring USB-C charging make the power brick any larger?
That's why you create a lengthy random key (that you know it cant be brute forced) and encrypt everything using it and symmetric encryption.

Than you store that random key encrypted with asymmetric algorithm.

Same goes for things like disk encryption. You never use the users key for encrypting the data. You always encrypt using random large key that is not brute-forcable and encrypt that one with user password, so the process of changing the user password is just decrypting the random key and encrypting it back with new password. Or you would have to re-encrypt the whole disk on password change
I think this is super weird. massive events happen every so often. the first one is a challenge, the second one might bring a new set of challenges, but by the third one you haven't a well oiled process, then there's some serious engineering issues that go deeper than the challenge itself.

this is something that was talked well before Elon, they have thousands upon thousands engineers, for a plafromt that had a fixed set of features since forever.

I don't claim that twitter could be run by the smart cousing from it's basement, but the effort/result numbers seem way off from here.

I think everyone is conveniently setting this topic aside in the ferwor to pile up on Elon (whom actions I don't defent in any way, shape or form) but something in that area was in need of a correction for a while, and apparently the whole stack is politicized enough than steering the ship would have been challenging irregardless by whom would have taken such task.
I thought "goodwill" was routinely assessed and considered in takeovers. It amounts to the goodwill of the customer base, doesn't it? I.e., how many customers are they, how much are they worth, and will the new owner get to keep them?
The EU is watching the USB-IF for further improvements. Currently it is limited to 100 Watt and common devices like latops and smartphones. And they're watching wireless-charging already. If Apple or some of the other usual suspects (Microsoft, Amazon, Google) tries to push a proprietary technology the can act hopefully quicker.

https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/QANDA_...

I'm still looking for the part where exceptions are listed and there are already some e.g. for small fitness trackers. They are slow but not necessarily stupid. *Nobody prevents any manufacturer to add additional charging ports.*

TLDR
Power plugs across Europe and North America where standardized for decades. And guess what. That stuff works! And YES this new regulations actually implements a new power plug aside from the Europlug, USB Type-C. This is nothing entirely new or crazy.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europlug
FWIW Cox Orange, Belle de Boskoop, and Sturmer. Honorable mention goes to Southern Snap.
In most cases that's enough to keep it running, even if you need to learn 100x of that to start making changes.

But if infrastructure wasn't managed like shit it will probably just keep on chugging
- Umm they got to have a steering wheel, there's a minimum crew requirement.
- What's the minimum crew?
- Oh, one I suppose.

It does sort of feel like "The front fell off". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3m5qxZm_JqM
The Exclamation Point | 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18P3nwqMlLs

Gotta love Jerry saying "I've never heard of a relationship being affected by punctuation".
AWS Fault Isolation Boundaries
They could've supported bootstrap more than they did, right?
That's fine, but you're contradicting yourself.
> Not only do they "have" them,

1. Only if you are very sloppy with the meaning of the word "to have", which I wasn't.

> those users are literally the product the social media companies market and sell

2. No, they don't "have" those users. They have some of those users' attention, for as long as they can keep it. Not the same thing.

3. And once again, that is exactly the business model Twitter under Elon is trying to get away from, because it is driving the toxicity.
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Not to mention Johns Hopkins and many other prestigious research universities which are studying psychedelics.

Many of these highly respected researchers are psychedelic advocates.
Somewhat related Soviet joke:

A Westerner arrives in the USSR. Walks absentmindedly along the street, boom, open manhole, falls down, climbs up all covered in sewage, shouts, furious: “What the hell? Couldn’t they have put up a red flag or something like normal people?” A passerby replies: “You’re from the airport?” “Yeah.” “You’ve seen the huge red flag on the roof, right?”
Lombard Street?
Sure, as long as you've got 350 GB of VRAM to load it.
If it pulls more than 240W from the wall it can use USB-C PD, though common chargers only go up to (or just a bit over) 100W.
It's not called Perl 6 anymore for exactly this reason.
Pauses and mistakes objectively add negative value to videos it's a good thing that it's removed.
The Musk simps are getting more deranged by the hour.
Yes the column title is used as well. Not in the same way as the column values, but helps with categorization. We have a list of column titles we are interested in categorizing regardless of the values. We denote the difference of this type of categorization in the results.
Hmm, maybe you're right. I was mostly considering the parts needed for me (linear-replay) but I guess when you have OSC,Midi and all other kinds of integrations there's a lot more integration code weight.

Though from experience with my own tools, I suspect that in the end the UI code for the tool will outweight most other parts in the end.
Ah, right. I missed this nuance in the debate.

In which case I wholeheartedly approve.
Haha, spilling my old dirty secrets eh ;D
If that’s what you meant, then I think a clearer wording would have been “self-sabotage”. The wording “internal sabotage” implies a coordinated effort against Musk by people inside Twitter.
I suppose they are asserting that some folks who delivered a product valued at over 40 billion dollars didn't actually deliver anything.

That would actually make sense somewhere on social media.
Yes, they have the potential for harm... which is why they should be treated with the utmost respect, with serious preparation, and ideally under the guidance of a trained psychedelic therapist who you like and trust.
Meta Employees, Security Guards Fired for Hijacking User Accounts
I reread the paper and I see what you mean — due to coding being only one part of the equation for productivity, any increase in that area can only speed up that part, not the whole (basically Amdahl’s law).

But it does also mention that since the appearance of high level languages, we are on a path of diminishing returns:

“The most a high-level language can do is to furnish all the constructs the programmer imagines in the abstract program. To be sure, the level of our sophistication in thinking about data structures, data types, and operations is steadily rising, but at an ever-decreasing rate. And language development approaches closer and closer to the sophistication of users.
Moreover, at some point the elaboration of a high-level language becomes a burden that increases, not reduces, the intellectual task of the user who rarely uses the esoteric
constructs.”

Also, Brooks originally wrote this paper for a 10 years timeline, and my point was mostly that even though we are like 3 times over its original length, I still don’t think languages would be even 3 times more productive, let alone more (and I won’t buy empirical evidence of your fav language, but some form of objective one).