skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the problem is US-centric capitalism cannot quantify that impact (and it doesn't want to, given that attrition-related problems are long-term issues with years of time to impact)

This is false. People invest on many year horizons all of the time when they believe in the company. If there was good evidence that having an average tenure of 5+ years was a great boost to the company, people would clamor to invest in companies like that.

This was basically Google’s entire pitch when they were an early public company. Happy employees == great things. I remember when 60 minutes or dateline did some special about google before 2010 and people were floored by how good the employees got it. However, hiring standards relaxed and now google is slowly rotting from the inside to realize it’s the new IBM.

Long tenure alone is absolutely not an advantage. It’s very easy to have a bunch of dead weight that just looks like they know what’s going on.

So back to your point about experience mattering. That should show up in customer satisfaction, project turnaround speed, success rates, etc. Otherwise it’s pretty meaningless. And guess who already measures those KPIs…
Yeah he is so smart, he locked himself out in firing spree during some manic phase and then had to beg people he just fired to let him in. If anything, this twitter saga showed serious cracks (that were there before if you looked closely) in his persona. Vengeful, petty childish behavior was there before (ie Musk accusing main Thai cave rescuer for being a pedophile, because he refused his submarine concept? Plenty of similar stories)

Its a matter of approach - if you focus on all his success, you can continue worshiping him as some capitalist messiah. If you focus on bad stuff, he is a fucked up mess to be polite, a bad parent and husband, an even worse human being in general, utterly horrible boss, person with deep mental issues that aren't clearly tackled in appropriate ways.

The truth, somewhere in the middle of those 2 extremes, still ain't that nice IMHO. He burned basically all good PR capital be built over the years, basically nobody sees him now as good person, just another ultra rich a-hole like Bezos that needs to be kept in check. As he will find in following years, people's opinions trickle down to cash flow. If I would be buying an electric car right now (which doesn't make much sense for another decade to me), Tesla would be off the table for example.
Off-topic: I was very surprised by how expensive wine is in California. I live in an European country where you can find good wine for less than 5 EUR a bottle. I couldn't find anything below 20 USD a bottle neither in San Francisco or Los Angeles. Why is wine so expensive in California if it's such a major wine producer?
> Isn’t the crowd what has made social media so partisan?

No, crowd sourced information has a lot of noise but is more reliable than most other forms of publication. Wikipedia had that strenght a while ago, although they too more or less replaced that by a council of questionable quality, at least for any political topic.
I remember when people used to visit wikileaks for a Sublime Text license key.
Sure, it requires internet for it to work, just as the phone itself requires cellular service so you can make a call. Calling is still part of the phone.

Of how much use is an iPhone without the App Store? You can still use the preinstalled apps, but your expectation as a consumer is that you can install new apps. This expectation is broken without the App Store.
Software was great 20 years ago, now everyone is searching for money.
Indeed.

That's why we have languages with functions now, because people didn't want to manually do a register dance in assembly.

That's why we have name spaces, because naming conventions only take you so far.

That's why we have map and filter (or equivalent) because that's what most loops are doing anyway.

Generation after generation, we discover that we all use common abstractions. We name them design patterns, then we integrate them in the language, and now they are primitives.

And the languages grow, grow, bigger and bigger. But they are better.

More productive. Less error prone. And code bases become standardized, simple problems have known solutions, jumping to a new project doesn't mean relearning the entire paradigm of the system in place.

Small languages either become big, or are replaced by things that are big, for the same reason most people prefer a car to a horse to go shopping.

Not that horse ridding will totally disapear, but it will stay in their optimal niche, they are not "the future".
not yet. it looks great. Will try it out. However, it seems like it is using Java for server. It is the one language that I don't want to work in when i need to extend new features
Here's a random cool bit of Cliff Stoll trivia I didn't know that I just stumbled across on wikipedia:

> He earned a B.S. in Astronomy in 1973 from the University at Buffalo (SUNY). While studying for his undergraduate degree at SUNY Buffalo, Stoll worked in the university's electronic music laboratory and was mentored by Robert Moog.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Stoll
Yes, kind of, but it depends on NumPy which is fairly big if your goal is for students to grasp and demystify the whole way down to the hardware. Other candidates would be torch7 [1], but it is somewhat married to the Lua API which drives it.

[1]: https://github.com/torch/torch7
> If you go there, then the blame should be placed on the parent

No. Society is responsible for caring for children, not just the parents. And society failed everybody here.
They will stagnate and have more failed launches than Space X.
Good is relative. It's toxic to skip breaks or work extra hours so that you can be the best worker.
There's an entire book (most likely more than one) dedicated to various method of making alcohol at home. My chemistry teacher in high school had one.
Among the methods were fruits, vegetables, plastic bags, and some types of wood. Obviously, the resulting alcohol wouldn't taste like 20yo whiskey, and will probably kill you a bit faster, but the methods were solid.
I think this advice could be better summed up into: to minimise off-by-one errors, choose a consistent strategy for describing intervals, and stick with it as much as is sensible.
is it? i used to not care but now it'll give me pause. might just stick with water over pepsi
I'll believe it when you show it static-firing for a minute.
Cooking really is an art. I cooked this the other day, it was one of the best things I've ever made. It was like a bean chilli but from heaven. Specially posting this for you!
Dal Makhani
https://www.vegrecipesofindia.com/dal-makhani-restaurant-sty...
(I am not affiliated with this web-site, I use u-block to browse it)
Perhaps they haven't gotten as good NASA contracts and subsidies as Space X.

Note also how "launching rockets" or even going to the moon and back, was something we routinely did 40 to 50 years ago.

Heck, we even tried reusable rockets, and even had space shuttles. They were cancelled for political reasons, just like moon missions and NASA programs were. Not for lack of progress or technology.
I don't think it's a free pass, but it's not intentional by any means and I believe there is certainly some room for leniency in such edge cases.
Could not have expressed my thoughts more clearly.
Wow, this is great. Do you have any good links to learn more about this?
> Stop worshipping billionaires.

This is a vapid over-generalization designed to dismiss any statements by attaching them to the wealth, not the person. Don’t do this.

Nobody is talking about the Waltons, Buffet, Larry Ellison, etc. This is a discussion about Musk specifically and his history of operating companies.
I read somewhere (sorry can't remember where but it was quite recent) that Apple has defined "tracking" as "allowing third parties to monitor you over multiple sites and apps".

My that definition, Apple, as a first party, is not tracking you (and likewise, I can monitor you over my apps but not allow anyone else access to that data)

UPDATE: It was from AppStore Connect itself, when you fill out the privacy data form.

Also here: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211970 "data from the app that is linked with your data collected from other companies’ apps, websites or offline properties, and used for ads or shared with a data broker."
Bitcoin miners Iris Energy default on $108M loan
Selenized[0] is an another attempt at improving on solarized.

[0]: https://github.com/jan-warchol/selenized/
Unfortunately, I think this attitude is irresponsible. So many people's lives rely directly on software in one way or another that we shouldn't treat it so whimsically.

That's not to say that the practise can't be fun, but just like building a bridge we need to make sure it works.
I bet this is actually it. I totally would ask for a price difference refund for a few bucks. But I’m not bothering with a return/repurchase for a couple dollars.
You don't need to paint it black or white. Other jurisdications try it better imo - it is always and ever again amazing to see how in the US there is only one cause (very simplified: revenge/punishment here vs guilt and more in others), and that fully supported by most of the population (yes, admitted, by that it seems to be the right thing over here).

> widespread rehabilitation is impossible

Ah come on, that assumption is easily disproved by looking a bit around and elsewhere.
I care about the story. SD typically is sufficient for not distracting me from the story.
> The article touches a really small [...] subject.

That's how it couldn't prove the claim.
It seems that it modifies a Windows install by removing a lot of stuff.
> Imagine if every bank robber, rapist, drunk driver, etc could say...

...and receive effective therapy instead of punishment?

Yes, I can imagine it and that would be a much better world.
There seems to be a load of people in this thread making statements on both sides that a) the article doesn’t prove there were too many people at twitter b) the article implies there were too many people at Twitter c) Twitter is a simple app why so complicated etc.

I would say this; Twitter at this scale is extremely complicated. We don’t have enough information to know what all these roles were doing and how many were truly superfluous. The article gives an interesting insight into something extremely complicated- it might be a slice repeated in a lot of areas. I’m of the opinion that you can do a lot more with less but there’s no need to send emails to everyone in the organisation being an arsehole and essentially accusing them of being lazy, then rehiring people who never worked there just for the meme.

Anyway Musk will blow up some rockets, put enormous pressure on people to fix them, and come up smelling of roses again even if he treats a load of people like crap along the way. His fans will say he’s a genius and his enemies will say he’s a dickhead. And so it goes.
Psychopaths are always dangerous and has a desire to do harm. They have no empathy at all. Because of this the currently only way to protect others from their behaviour is to incarcerate them

People with autism are not psychopath and it's honestly insane to bring psychopathy into a conversation about autism as some kind of comparison

Your lack of empathy and understanding for people on the autism spectrum is honestly scary
I never really understood the use case, despite people I know wildly effusing the benefits.

I have a google smart speaker thing precisely because it's the only device that I can integrate with my Nest cameras and devices (which I bought before the Google acquisition). It does 2 things: 1) announce door bell ringing, and 2) play Apple Music in my office.

For everything else Siri, whilst demonstrably behind the curve of Amazon and Google, is perfectly functional - dictating short messages whilst walking, adding to a shared shopping list, setting timers.

I already have the phone for other reasons, there's no use case for buying an Alexa device that I can see.

I would never make a purchase from Amazon on an Alexa using my voice - there's simply too many variables that I can't control for. It might misunderstand (possibly catastrophically costing me a huge amount of money and inconvenience), the quality of goods on Amazon is too low and generally too variable to allow a an Amazon AI to be the arbiter of which product to buy for me, and even the manual purchase process changes too often and too subtly to have confidence that it won't add something that I don't want (i.e., a regular subscription to a product, pay on a credit arrangement, etc).
I don't think it will fail on a technical level. As this article says lots of engineering has gone in to make the thing pretty resilient. I would also say that there are still enough engineers who work there who can figure out what's gone wrong and "turn it on and off again" or w/e makes it splutter back to life.

In terms of changes to the Platform ditto. It's not difficult to make these changes that a team of 100's of devs who are not 100% aware of what's there already can't figure it out. I've taken over systems that I knew very little of and were pretty big (not as big as twitter) and I managed for years to make changes without drastically breaking stuff. In any event if they do break stuff they will be able to fix what they have broken.

No, the real failure here is the massive debt burden and the fact that there is no way that twitter can ever service that amount of debt. Note that before EM took over it was ticking along with a relatively small loss. If they had cut headcount by maybe 10% they would have been break even easily. There is no way that's possible with $4million of interest per day. They have to radically change the way they monetise the platform to get to that level. I don't think they will ever get there and Musk will sell off at a bargain basement price at some point in the future to pay back the debt.
This "Directory Services Identifier" is not sent outside of Apple's services though right? And only sent to Apple services that need to know the identity of the user?

If so I'm wondering what the issue is here.
I love it that the RaspberryPi has become an expansion-adapter for projects like this. That 486 is getting so much more out of life for the fact of having an ARM co-processor.

It is such an excellent example of accessorized computing. Note that its not just for things like retro-emulation of sounds cards - folks have built new synthesizer and audio-processing platforms around the concept, too.

What's really great is that this allows entirely generations of hackers to get to know and understand the PC architecture in an environment that is conducive to further creative hacking. I've been teaching my kids' and their friends a bit about assembly language, using an old 8088-based PC with DEBUG.COM onboard for simplicity, and this TinyLLama may well be the next best thing ..
Google Assistant is incomparably worse at affecting the device it's running on than Siri.
I remember the Ridge Racer installation at Codona's in Aberdeen, from when I was part of a team that ran a prototype networked computer games cafe on the other side of the burger bar. I might if I dig around still have some video of people playing it from a promo reel I shot!
It does work that way, just not as straightforwardly.

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Certificate_%28complexity%29 if you're interested in learning more.
I did a pull-stylee XML parser once.

In VB.

VB ..... 3

It didn't care (much) about well-formed documents.

You could mix it with snippets of RTF. We did.
I used it to parse report templates out of hybrid RTF/XML files.

Not really morally evil though.
This is a PR article that tries to push the idea that Twitter is OK (to work at, and maybe also to buy ad space from). Damage control.
If you have to block the account of the CEO of the service you are using, perhaps you should just stop using that service?
I tend to agree. An involuntary crime tends to carry a smaller sentence because it's hinges upon the fact that the guilty person will have learned something from being tried and sentenced. They did something that doesn't fit into their set of morals. Humans learn from mistakes if there were consequences.

If the guilty person is unable to learn or understand, an involuntary crime is the same as a voluntary one: the perpetrator might do it again. So a sane sociopathic murderer and an autistic person (that is unable to understand) that thinks killing will make them popular carry the exact same risk to society.

Should an AI intelligent enough to hurt a person because it thought it might be a good idea but not "human" enough to understand the implications of it earn a free pass?
What's wrong with his RPCs tweet? If Twitter is using microservices that make RPCs to fetch data and render content then it makes sense.
I feel like these click-baity titles have finally reached a state in which they work inversely for me. I have recently noticed that I would never click on something that promises "X things you must know" because I have finally internalized that the article behind will be superficial and useless at best. The impulse of "let's at least skim it in case it includes something useful", that used to be triggered by the clickbait has disappeared almost entirely.

For this particular example, I wonder how it was upvoted. But I am not going to click on it for reasons stated above.
I bought an Echo dot, opened it up, physically removed all microphones after initial set up and slapped a good loudspeaker on it that I already had. Now it's a wifi enabled spotify connect device with bluetooth capabilities. At the time, there weren't that many cheap options for my use case.
> Investing in small businesses isn't legal because you need to be an accredited investor which only the top 1% of the wealth pyramid qualify for.

Whaaaaat? Sorry, but that comment makes no sense. You can buy a share in any small business you want.

You're mistaking this for some types of stock market investments[1], which are made to "save people from themselves", from back in the day before 1929 when access was free for all and hawkers peddling crappy stock brought the entire world economy to a halt by getting the general population to join the stock market casino (slight exaggeration, but not by much).

[1] And guess what, your sister's lemonade stand isn't listed on the NYSE or even on the Romanian BVB :-p
> adding to a shared shopping list

This hasn't worked for me since iOS 13, I think, and macOS, too. Getting a "Sorry, can't help with that".
I don't understand the point about vertical integration. Amazon use their own hardware and services internally and AWS makes a ton of money of course.

But if you were accounting for the profit or loss of Alexa specifically, of course you would account for all the AWS services used at the price they are sold for externally.
> Stop idolizing billionaires.

Stop saying this in discussions about one particular person.

It’s as useful as saying “stop idolizing millionaires” when someone says they like Hillary Clinton as a Presidential Candidate.
> What Twitter is doing is to scale down first

This is not a trivial task. With such a heavy reduction and how entire teams have been completely decimated, there will be a lot of lost knowledge. I'm sure there will even be cases where the people who stay don't even know what knowledge was lost.

All that puts Twitter in a very risky position, specially in a product of such complexity that does a lot of things in-house. It shouldn't be underestimated.
Yep, agree. Twitter's revenue was primarily from ads, and now I'd bet their ads revenue has dropped a huge amount. Given how Musk is behaving now (reinstating Trump etc.), and losing many pivotal sales people, and the firing of a ton of people in charge of dealing with hate speech and such, it seems unlikely advertisers will return now.
Not being familiar with recommendation engines at all, this article does a decent job showing some of the basics in a bird’s eye view, at least to my untrained eye.

That said, it’s still a promo piece for their graph database.
There is a german book, "the last of his kind" bei Andreas Eschenbach, that seems strangely relevant, its about a cyborg living out its last days in ireland. Its one of those little masterpieces of scifi in my opinion, that never make a splash. Its very humane, i especially love the part were he starts to compare himself to a old soda dispenser machine, in "need of a good whack to reboot". If you are mechanical, turning it off and on again, gets a totally new meaning.

also loved the stoic philosophy.
Sorry but that's a terrible argument. It is likely that there is no or at least very few free will. But that doesn't mean that nothing can be done. Care and education are not only preventive, they could also be used as an answer to criminality - even in a world without free will.

Prison is known to fail at changing people who commit crimes anyway, free will or not, autistic or not: half of people who go there get arrested again in the 5 years. I'll actually follow you in taking the argument to the extreme: prison are pointless in almost every case and we should replace it with something different.
Are you saying Twitter is paying ~$1.5B in interest rates every year?
A script that takes text from input field and displays it along with previous submissions in chronological order is trivial; the difficulty comes from serving millions of people.
whats old is new

dsl's are now little languages
Agree that prison is not the right solution, also agree that there have to be some consequences. Autistic or not, giving people a free pass on anti-social behavior will result in more harm down the road, and not the least to the, in this case, autistic person.
Wow, did you read my comment carefully at all? This is what I said:

> This is not to deny that there is an objective reality...

So I do agree that object reality exists, contrary to what you imply in your response.

However, there is no word in human language that has an objective definition. If you think this is so, maybe you have not thought or read enough about the subject.

On the subject of equality, you said:
> Your example of equality already demonstrates you understand equality's objective definition: you implicitly operate on the notion that "equality" means some form of equivalence, some ability to substitute B for C in a specific context that results in no observable/expressible change.

You're making my point. Consider the vagueness of what you have written: "...some form of equivalence, some ability to substitute B for C in a specific context that results in no observable/expressible change." That doesn't sound very rigorous to me, and in fact I could argue this is not what I understand by "equality" at all.

Now you could make the point the definition can be made rigorous for a very specific context, but this is still not 100% possible. To show this, you can attempt to give me a specific definition of equality of a specific context, and I will show that it still admits of multiple possible meanings.
https://web.archive.org/web/20221122085749/https://www.econo...
The encoder container / lambda would had been spawned for that particular user and it would have permissions to access only the content of that specific user.
The fact that he was able to "buy" Twitter and yet transfer a significant amount of debt to the company rather than being liable himself is just another sign of how different "rich people accounting" is. He will walk away from this with a bit less theoretical money but no material impact to his life, while thousands of people are having their lives up-ended. How long are we going to keep letting shit like this happen?
And the guy being in jail, not knowing why he's there, helps them how exactly?
Doesn't that mean cost of materials/COGS though?

Which doesn't include the overheads (engineering and staff, development and maintenance of back-end services, legal and compliance and all the rest) that you would normally plan to cover with the gross profit on the device.