skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My goal is not to invent new computer science, but to create a language where programming is not "puzzle solving" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33694124), like needing to work with ghost cells (didn't try firsthand yet) since pointer algorithms are laden with syntactic salt and pitfalls (note that pointers is not C/C++ patterns but fundamental systems programming), working with Rust's num traits that describe the properties of numbers rather than directly saying your FFT code is generic over f32 and f64, hacking in sealed traits using underspecified and disputed visibility rules (attempting to match the type of a sum type at compile time), chaining iterator combinators rather than writing code where program order matches execution order, not being able to index into strings when parsing unless I convert to &[u8] then spend extra O(n) runtime validating the remaining text is valid UTF-8.
> “Amazon is always inventing to ensure that our advertising products help customers discover selection they love and help sellers cost-effectively succeed in our store,”

> One multimillion-dollar Amazon seller in the apparel category said his firm has had to double their advertising spend on Amazon over the past three years, and subsequently raised their product prices by 20 percent earlier this year.

> Some said that the pay-to-play evolution of the site is one of the top two reasons they have had to substantially raise the prices of their merchandise on Amazon over the past year.

Sounds like the ad plan is working out great to help Amazon keep their prices low.
I’ve heard all good things but I’m hesitant as it might feel too old. I’d jump on a remake right away though.
I don't mean that they had one sitting around, but anyone who's stayed with the company has to find this their most urgent priority, I would think, between the focus on cutting operational costs and the simple fact that they have far fewer people around.
I rate my voice assistants by the quality of their "animal of the day"-- by this metric, Google Home is the clear winner. It's hard to even get Alexa to play you an animal sound, while Google has a really thoughtful Animal of the Day feature with sounds and animals facts.

My toddler listens to the animal of the day at least once a day on it, comprising >50% of my overall voice assistant usage, and I love to hope that I'm a weird outlier on some confused analyst's usage dashboard.
> the first, heavy coating of plaster (called the “scratch”)

though most web results for the etymological origin for 'made from scratch' point to 'scratch' being the starting line of a footrace
Galactica, Meta AI's most recent model: The AI Scientist...
I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing. The early Fire Phone team was also the early Echo team and the Echo is several orders of magnitude more successful.

Lots of services built for Alexa have been spun out into AWS as well.
I'm sure we're going to see some sabotage accusations once this happens.
All this does is point out that smart people worked at Twitter who may now no longer work there, whether on their own accord, or due to Elon’s bulldogging tactics.

Elon thinks he knows what he’s doing, but what he is going to be left with are people who are willing to work hard by his standards, but not necessarily smart.

The simple truth is Elon knows nothing about the actual work involved in tech. He knows words or elicits help from others on what to say that sounds like tech speak (RPCs!), but when it comes to being truly knowledgeable in this space, he is losing his most valuable assets because of his amazingly poor managerial and ownership style.

I know there are a lot of Elon fans on this site, and will disagree with all of this; but his abilities have not at all been proven. Yes, he knows how to spend money to claim credit for technical advances, but until he actually has his hands dirty in the muck of the hard work of tech, he will always be a glorified self-promoter with no substance.

And Twitter will suffer for it.
I don’t have time to give a super in depth answer as I’m mobile - remind me tomorrow and I can - but the novel Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkenan I believe addresses this. They, in a sense, did actually as they relied more on natural clocks that started and stopped the day. I don’t remember the fine details, so I will try to edit with an elaboration tomorrow.
I read the article, I wanted to use the space to point out that Elon's fortunate that it has been done, and also that the technology infrastructure things he needs to focus on aren't impossibly challenging to do, if people are expecting it to be.

So operating Twitter with 80% fewer engineers isn't the voyeuristic suicide that many of us are hoping to be amused by.
You don't need a UUID for that. A 128 bit random integer will work just fine. Better even, as no bits are wasted on meta data.
Getting fired for almost starting WW3 due to a fake story you wrote seems like a pretty light punishment. Maybe the AP will do a better job fact checking in the future before causing a war.
Turning it off and then back on again probably fixes the issue. There’s very unlikely a grand ticking time bomb just waiting to bring it all down. Recycling servers will probably keep it running.

Things do still need to be fixed of course.
I can't help but feel it might not be legal to post all those details.
Compare and contrast Russian invasion with the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq:
https://www.hrw.org/reports/2003/usa1203/4.5.htm
Yes, that would be the Russian neo-imperial ambitions becoming mainstream. I watched it happening gradually back when I lived in the country - fiction books about war "against Nazis" in Ukraine started showing up in mid-00s, and one first became a hit in 2008.
This line about cat urine is amazing.

> (Do wines ever have 6-carbon carboxylic acids, or 10-carbon alkanes — i.e., goats, armpits or jet fuel? I am not a wine chemist and cannot answer this question. But one of the experts interviewed on Somm mentioned that a common tasting note is cat urine, but that in polite company you’re supposed to refer to it by the code phrase “blackcurrant bud.” Maybe one of those things wine experts say is code for “smells like a goat,” I don’t know.)
even funnier when you realize that doesn't even need to be curried so it also works in c#:

someEnumerable.Select(doSomething)

to be fair, i guess doSomething was supposed to be an actual function body instead of a helper function from somewhere else
This is amazing, everything up to the 'Seed Eco-Home', given the amount of time we spend building out bespoke designs and then relearning all the intricacies of each design, for everything from a spoon to a house, I've often wondered why we don't just standardise on 1 thing then move on, at least have an MVP standard which can be built with the least amount of cost and fuss.
I hope this project succeeds, if I lived in the USA I'd be there for sure.
How do random 128 bit IDs not fix this problem?
The wire rope barriers have been installed all over Texas interstate highways which, in the past had no barriers to prevent traffic from crossing medians into oncoming traffic. A lot of bad accidents happened when vehicles crossed a grass median and slammed head-on into oncoming traffic. Years ago in an ice storm I almost became a statistic when a vehicle hit some black ice and the driver lost control, launching their vehicle across the median towards our vehicle.

They had installed miles of these wire rope barriers in the last 10 years and I have seen them being installed up in Oklahoma too.

Of course, once there is an accident the wire rope may have been strained past its rated capacity so it needs to be replaced. You can buy spools of the wire rope [0] from recycled materials handlers. Along the interstates near my place you will see skid marks into the cable barriers every time the highways get wet. If the weather was really bad you could find a dozen new collision spots in a 20 mile stretch. It keeps the repair crews busy. People drive too fast out here nowadays.

The pdf document posted is a great read. I see several barrier designs there that I have never seen in use anywhere and all the familiar ones too.

The most common barrier for many years in Texas has been the W-beam SGR04B type or similarly, the thrie-beam rail SGR09B but they tend to use treated timber posts for mounts. The newer installations have impact-absorbing lead-ins to help prevent fatalities.

A couple years ago I was driving home along a two-lane US highway (not an interstate) where the W-beams were used at every creek or river crossing. As I rounded a long curve in the highway headed downhill towards a creek crossing about 1000' away (305 m) I saw skid marks leading to the edge of the highway where the guard rails should've been. The skid marks were obviously made by an 18-wheeler (semi) truck-trailer. The guard rail was completely wiped out and as I passed the creek I saw where it came to rest. The entire length of rail was curled and twisted with one end up more than 30' (9.1 m) in a tree beside the creek more than 30' (9.1 m) off of the highway and the other end curled down near to the ground. It had been launched up into the tree by the force of the collision.

[0] https://www.repurposedmaterialsinc.com/median-galvanized-cab...
He's going to sell Tesla shares to pay off his debts, he's knocked off $4 billion already, he'll be able to keep doing that, make offers to buyout stakes of Twitter from people that really don't want to be involved in this shit show. Twitter will operate at lower costs, and also not be profitable for him given current information. That's financially fine.
That would interfere with my motion sensors.
Did Kalshi do anything to stop others from operating in this space as well?
Not Britain?
Selection bias or not - I am saying across any employers out there, go ahead and ask folks. Maybe you don't realize how many people in your companies are or were on H-1B and came via this route.

The H-1B program is heavily used by graduates from US institutions.

I would welcome someone actually studying this rigorously. I am confident my observations will hold. There is also no evidence to assume that Indian consulting services occupy the majority of H-1Bs.
correction, glucose is not c₆h₁₆o₆ but c₆h₁₂o₆

you appear to be blaming climate change on swidden agriculturalists doing what they've been doing for millennia
And Twitter's problem are nowhere near technological. The site needed to make more money, not reengineer the whole thing while advertisers are fleeing because Trump is back on on a whim!
I think the real question is: Twitter grew 3x on the headcount front with a flat stock price over the course of less than 5 years. What exactly where these thousands of employees actually doing and why did the previous CEO think what they were doing was worth hiring them for? That's just basic accountability from a stock holder or employee perspective. That's apparently a ton of money being wasted on nothing at all.
> "to many" - 5 matches

he did get it right one time though
Starts at 825, goes up to 7M
The near future Prague shown in MD is one of my favorite game spaces. The blend of futuristic, functional and historical just gives it a sense of place not many games manage.
This is great!

What is the visualization? How did you do the visualization? And where did you get the idea / what was your thinking leading to this really cool way to do it?

I love using web colors. It's basically all I use...I like that they're just there..and also you get "semantic css".

It will probably seem a dumb and naive question so I'm sorry, but...Looks like the blacks, whites and greys are compressed in the center, is that an accurate way to put it? Why is it like that? it's your project so it's not my place to tell you what to do, so I'm sorry to ask but would it be a bad idea to give a bit more space to the shades of grey / gray?
there is zero desperation for extreme terseness in ocaml.

some very obvious examples:

- many, if not most, functions have sensible names instead of abnormally terse ones

- it's possible to make named parameters mandatory, and many do that - e.g. the base library
> [Max Howell] should go to a few conferences, introduce himself under another name, and bring up brew. I'd guess after half a dozen encounters he'd stop incessantly bragging about being the creator of brew.

I share your opinion of the technical execution of Homebrew— probably anyone with a deep Linux background would. But I think Howell is well aware of those deficiencies by now (and many may even have been clear to him at the start).

I also think that it's worthwhile for us haters to take seriously what Homebrew gets right, and that means admitting that it's a tool that many, many people have experienced as pleasant and useful. The tidy subcommand interface, relative simplicity, choice of popular/trendy tools (Ruby, at the time of Homebrew's creation), inviting and consistent (if controversial) use of metaphor, and playful tone (small jokes on the docs, use of emoji in CLI output), are all things that have proven to make a real difference in Homebrew's success. None of those speak to package management fundamentals, but they're real strengths and they are visible to all users of Homebrew right away, whether they know much about package management or not.

I feel you about being basically forced to use Homebrew, though. That sucks. It's frustrating to feel hampered by the tools your team uses when you know there are better ones out there but you just can't reverse the team's inertia.
I hope they consider moving to Kubernetes from Mesos.
Something like "which would have been won [if the reports are to believd]" perhaps.
If you have a past tax return where you authorized them to send the money via ACH, you will get it like that. No fees.
You'd have to look hard to find people who aren't motivated by money.

Many charities seem to exist only to enrich the people who run them.
I think they did the same to Polymarket in the US.
Thanks! Yeah the other guy is right
I'm just an ordinary Catholic. My story isn't particularly exciting.

I understand the view you are articulating with the phrase 'reduction of truth'. I can't be 100% sure from such a short description but I think that view aligns closely to my own.

More and more I find my perspective tracking with these guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RAcZaBhEuE0

As you wrestle with the deeper questions about God and Christianity, you mine as well wrestle with the most well educated proponents of that view. The Dominican Friars who put those videos together certainly check that box.

Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
I found it really interesting that one of the main Iceland instances is being run on a Raspberry Pi out of some student's living room in Sweden. Over 500 users at the moment.
https://types.pl/@tritlo/109383888427885539
As soon as you do that, the product count will usually drop drastically. They don't want you to see the real list, and won't show it to you.
Having worked both "grueling" manual labor jobs and "stressful" white collar work: I would rather be an ape living in some rain-forest.

I don't want to have complex thought. I don't want to have to perform feats of self-flagellation everyday in order to survive. I don't want to be forced to spend the entirety of my very short life in relative isolation, making some other ape filthy rich so he can escape the absurdity and emptiness of existence.

Let me hunt for other small animals with my tribe -- and then spend the rest of my time loafing about. I don't feel like contorting my body and mind as a glorified circus animal in order to get that metaphorical bread.
Butwhatabout!
haha I'll go fix that. sorry :(
Supposedly the behavior hasn't changed since at least version 1.8:

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/models/fields/#uui...

It may not have worked correctly on your project for some reason?
I use Alexa for everything.

- To ask for the weather, weather alerts, relative humidity, precipitation, wind speed

- To ask about outdoor air quality, indoor air quality (requires air quality monitors)

- As a baby monitor (crying detector routine)

- To know when to empty the dehumidifier bucket (humidity > 60% routine)

- To know when someone left the AC fan off (high CO2 routine)

- To know when to open the window (high VOC routine)

- To know when to turn on the HEPA filters on high (high PM routine)

- To turn lights or on off

- To manage the thermostat temperature

- For music during lunch/dinner

- Reminder for meetings, taking out the trash, etc.

- Timers, alerts, alarms, reminders...

- To automatically turn off devices at night via smart plugs

- Vacuuming, mopping

- To locate my phone by calling myself

- Stock prices

I couldn't live without it.
In general I feel that the remote work is still massively underrepped. I get depression every time I open any of those remote work sites and 99% of the job posts are tagged with "us only".

There seem to be opportunities in other places (such as EU) around as well, but one has to search far and wide instead of just having them available in the easy-to-access sites.
So should the platform be guided by advertisers? Especially one that’s apparently the de facto public square?
Because politics and ideologues are so prevalent and everyone's attaching 'the other' (both sides) for the own.

And of course people in 'important' roles who've been laid off are going to say the company is doomed, these are the probably the worst source to go off. They're not going to say "oh yeah I didn't do much at all really, just bossed people around and spent my budget every year."
It was if I was in two realities the other day. I did experience a few bugs but twitter never went "down" for me, despite everyone claiming that 1) it would and 2) it already did.

All 10 of the "top trends" for me were about how twitter was dead/dying and armchair experts on reddit said it was only a matter of hours at this point.

Maybe it was close (in reference to external factors not implied in your very insightful post!) but its amazing how confident people are with opinions on events they have 0 insight into. Everyone knows how to solve the war in Ukraine or world hunger but how rare is the "consensus" (in terms of up-votes or popularity) right... just something that got me thinking. Thanks again for this article. I always love seeing details of tech ops!
If Twitter survives and people shut up their mouths complaining after few months we'll see who was right.
This begs the question.. what about Larry David?
subsequent reporting showed that the missiles were Russian-made and most likely fired by Ukraine in defense against a Russian attack

They were fired by Ukraine towards Poland in defense?
Played through the first one once, it was amazing, skipped the next one then played through HR and MD three times each. It'd be great to see a Redux of the original.
it would've been during development, yeah. less so now, with many servers already deployed. it would be a clusterfuck like the email.
Commenting to revisit later! Thanks for these resources.
My first goal with a challenge at the office is "make the problem smaller".

Now I have a folder of little one-offs and REPL scraps. A triumph of tactics over strategy that defies passing on to anyone who didn't author it.

Looking at the JVM and JSON, I wonder to what degree that languages contribute some piece of goodness or idea toward some final Tool To Rule Them All...
> I will have a heated argument all in my head that leaves me upset for hours.

The conversation is imaginary but the emotions are real.

I used to think my ability to deep dive situations was a superpower but it’s really a curse.

Thankfully, I’m learning to shed the worst of it.

Hope you can too.
Yes, I apologize for using the incorrect label. iMessage is not end-to-end encrypted for most people.

The point I was trying to make still stands. The recovery options are a form of key escrow. They require a recovery code. As I'm sure you know, if you lose your device and forget the recovery code, then it's total loss – the HSM will reset after a fixed number of tries. People are plenty capable of doing that, and with a billion devices, some non-trivial number of them do it regularly.
I'm romantic about achieving things with programming more than programming for the sake of programming these days.
The Rust `nom` parser crate works very well IMHO for creating little languages, DSLs, custom markup, and your own kinds of annotations, all with the Rust compiler guarantees and good speed.
The magic (trick) comes from making people believe that it does ?
I don't think "should" is really a function here.

"Must" might be.

No one has figured out a way to monetize a social network without advertising, at least not at the scale Twitter has to operate.
Thanks I agree, I think small issues can build up over time, itll be interesting to see what happens. Wish I could see the future post mortem docs from the outages
I don’t think split screen has anything to do with it unless you are talking about consoles.

The biggest factor was companies removing LAN play as an option from games. Forcing you to be always online and not allowing you to run a local server.

When you can play an offline LAN game you can also use pirated copies or reuse cd keys, which was always necessary to get everyone up and running.
"This is about a request used to report a click in the app store, which is technically specified in the privacy policy [1] and you can get a CSV of it from Apple in data requests. This is the subject of a class action filed earlier this month [2]."

The complaint does not allege that Apple failed to disclose how it collects and uses personal data. It alleges that Apple (a) provided a means for customers to opt-out, (b) some customers opted-out, and (c) Apple continued to collect data from customers who opted-out.

From the complaint:

"Even when consumers follow Apples own instructions and turn off Allow Apps to Request to Track and/or Share [Device] Analytics on their privacy controls, Apple nevertheless continues to record consumers app usage, app browsing communications, and personal information in its proprietary Apple apps, including the App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV, Books, and Stocks."

The complaint only applies to a subset of Apple customers who indicated that they did not consent:

"All individuals who during the Class Period (a) turned off Allow Apps to Request to Track, Share iPhone Analytics, Share iPhone & Watch Analytics, and/or Share iPad Analytics, and (b) whose mobile app activity was still tracked by Apple, (c) on an iPhone mobile device."

When Google was accused of wiretapping by scanning Gmail, it could not prove consent and it had to settle. When Google was accused to wiretapping by eavesdropping on open Wifi, again it had to settle. It does seem possible that a plaintiff could succeed against a "tech" company on a wiretapping claim.

Is collecting user information, app browing history and app usage history "communication" under a wiretap statute.

The suit may be dismissed, but the issue of Apple obtaining consent to collect data purportedly for analytics is still valid.
That actually reduces the usefulness as you're hashing the data into a smaller length.
First, Mastodon isn’t the only option - it’s not like both couldn’t fail just as both AIM and MySpace did.

Second, Mastodon runs on open protocols. That has good and bad points - for example, it won’t grow as quickly as a project with huge corporate backing - but it does mean that there’s a more direct link between the community and its longevity. Twitter isn’t just flailing because Musk is doing management by bong rip but also because he’s desperately trying to get out of a financial hole. Open source projects have different kinds of financial challenges but they’re never on the hook trying to fill a hole measured in billions of dollars, either. Given the number of communities older than Twitter I’d say it’s far from proven that Twitter will outlast anything.
I doubt anyone at the Pentagon is launching missiles after reading an AP story.