skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is funny. I think it's hilarious and the fact he shared it in public makes it even more so. It's one of his most liked tweets, so a lot of other people also thought it was funny. Comedy is subjective, but if a lot of people think something is funny then it is objectively funny. And it is perfectly appropriate for public figures to reveal something of themselves and have some fun in public. Puritans will always be offended by this kind of sex joke, or by the gays being allowed to marry or whatever, but we laugh at them too, they make it even funnier.

In my opinion what would be inappropriate for a billionaire CEO, and reveal deep flaws in decision making process, and the decision making process of any government official or governing body who subsequently partners with that CEO, is to fraternize with the likes of Epstein after he was convicted, e.g., https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/business/jeffrey-epstein-.... But I guess morality is also subjective so people might disagree with me there too.
Singapore government uses blockchain to verify official documents
Bounded Gaps Between Primes [pdf]
Even discounting the exchanging of coins in person, what is your definition of "centralized"? Exchanges are independent from each other, and they pop in and out of existence as the wind blows. I would call them as centralized as email servers are.
It's a euphemism for J-sus.

“In this is love, not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the expiation for our sins.” (1 Jn. 4:10)
> My suspicion is execs expected Alexa ecosystem to follow Kindle's trajectory of success which doesn't seem to have materialised.

I think that sentence encapsulates the problem well: Kindle could succeed as a product with a very simple KPI (ramp up economies of scale until you make a profit per book sold), while Alexa has to develop some nebulous "ecosystem" that nobody is quite sure what it could possibly look like.
Not sure where you are from but if you go to any Cracker Barrel in the US one of these puzzles can be found on your table.
It will feel old and clunky in many ways, but that doesn’t detract from the great music, writing, plot and atmosphere.
i actually like this.
The tech had so much potential, but instead of going the way of the seatbelt, they want the way of the bezos and thus Im not even sad to see alexa go.

Please write it off, free the patents and let people who actually care about it take the helm.

Drop the money into home assistant and let them write special integrations just for you. Be -the company- invested in open source
My first job out of Uni was a company that ran financial services, logistic fulfilment, and retail. They had at least a dozen large in-house retail brands, several large warehouses with automation that Amazon was probably behind at the time, and they also ran serviced some of the most well known brands in the country - from their website to customer support to logistics. They had delivery networks, networks of direct shipping, vast call centres with thousands of staff. We integrated with the banking system, with all sorts of external companies.

Our total headcount was under 10 000. Most of that was logistics and call centres (taking retail orders). Our IT dept was literally about 200 ish. All our office staff fit within a few floors of a medium sized building. IT was less than a single floor.

I’d say our software, whilst serving fewer users, was completing tasks orders of magnitude more complex than Twitter. We didn’t have much down time, in fact almost zero beyond physical damage to our networks and the once every few years disaster. Our critical support team was a handful of greybeards who spent much of the time playing solitaire. Code reviews were tight and access to production strictly controlled.

What we did have was a very lean culture, carefully managed over a long time. The company was over 100 years old.

I do not understand how, with far more sophisticated tech, companies like Twitter need so many staff. We could have run Twitter with a thousand folks, including sales. From an engineering standpoint a few hundred would do. And most of us weren’t great engineers. There were a few very experienced freelancers, though. We all worked 0900-1730, but we worked 7 full hours every single day, every minute of those 7 hours. No beanbags. Most of that time was sat quietly coding in a very cleverly designed open plan office (no cubicles) that was like a library.

Looking back, I think the key insight was that we were very cost driven and absolutely kept everything as simple as possible. We had all the usual project overrun problems, usually because things turned out to be more complex than previously imagined. But it baffles me when I hear engineering head count at places like Twitter. If you had given us 1000 engineers, we wouldn’t have known what to do with them.
In praise of scripting (2004) [pdf]
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Manifesto
bold strategy on space karen’s part, marketing twitter as the next thing not to put your dick in
How on earth is this tone deaf?

Anyone in the industry knows that's exactly why so many are hired and so little output happens. Anyone who has friends at the company will tell you those stories.
No matter if it was or not and for better or worse:

If Twitter survives this without any major harm it will have profound consequences for the whole software industry.
thanks, yeah “existing without incident” and “product you would find useful for anyone that you’re aware of” are two different standards

but perhaps seeing a list of things that are going great and wondering what everyone’s up to in those many communities would be a first step
I find it very strange that most of the comments are about how this is okay. I don't think it is, because it prevents software evolution and impedes maintenance. My comment mostly goes to the "hacky" way of implementing something rather than a missing feature/missed performance target. That may indeed never come - though if you have a classic N+1 select problem that is fine now, it's probably good to tag it in the comments, you'd be surprised how quickly it will come.

However I have been burned a number of times by a so-called "quick fix" that looks like a bad idea in code review and then later prevents the evolution of the system in some way. Code that is "hacky" usually leaks abstractions, doesn't compose with anything else and only benefits the author at the time it's written as a "quick win". Plus the original author knew enough to call it a "hack" but did not explain why they could not do it properly - a person that consistently does this is not a person you can trust on your team.

It is probably up for debate what the balance is (think time value of money but for technical debt), but in the industry it is clearly the wrong side of the scale, and this is a major drag on productivity.
So, this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ztFaYvgDAg
https://archive.ph/962DE
Rust enum-match code generation
W4SP Stealer PyPI Injections – Attacker Now Masquerades as Popular Orgs
If the point is that DSLs will be around, sure. They already are. If the point is that we'll replace complex full-featured languages with a stack of DSLs - no way.
I am naive here. But is it a platform for gambling like features for markets?
Then you have two problems.
I think about that standard from maxis and others as well, there are many projects and blockchains that grow much quicker than bitcoin did, but are put to an even higher standard than bitcoin was

“Oh no, block propagation halted for a few hours in your first year since the genesis block, its dead! its unreliable! its different than bitcoin’s similarly embarrassing problems because there’s so much capital involved and all possible confidence must therefore be lost irreparably”

and its like…. not really? the nodes will update their software just like bitcoin did
I tried to keep an open mind reading this.

For those who didn't have time to read the whole thing, according to other articles online the guy would pretend to be the Parkland shooter and send messages to the victim's families.

> As examples of the messages, Fleury wrote, “I’m your abductor I’m kidnapping you fool;” “With the power of my AR-15 I take your loved ones away from you;” and “I’m the monster that killed your family,” according to the opinion.

What a horrible thing to do. His autism shouldn't give him a pass.
There is nothing mythical as having qualities that others don't have, and any context or system have a local maximum, which optimize for a certain kind of outcome.

My qualities would have me dead 200 years ago, but make me earn money and social status in 2022. It's not that I'm amazing, it's just the current context is very favorable to those qualities. So it's just a lot of luck, and being fit for certains things that happen to be advantagious in your environnement.

The myth is that the process is just and fair, according to some people moral standard. The universe doesn't care.
Drink enough wine and you will start to lean towards "critically acclaimed" wines by yourself after a while. What's "enough" varies from individual to individual.
I expect it all to work better with Musk in charge. He knows how to make scalable software and he knows about performant teams.

That he’s not going to realise these totally obvious first order consequences people are raising seems unlikely.
Amazon used to be happy to price match themselves within a month or so of a purchase, or do things like let keep a cheap item you wanted to return.

My guess is that they did some A/B testing and found that the "irrational" behavior actually saves them money. In your example, if 50% of people don't bother going through the return process they still come out ahead.
My Dad is straight up the biggest work-a-holic I've ever met. Constantly works 12-16 hour days, weekends, etc. Says he loves it. Came out of retirement to work more. I don't understand it but he's happy.

I got some of my friends jobs at work through him and it got brought up to me that he fell asleep at work quite a lot. Was hard to hide because he snored really loud. Was pretty embarrassing to me. Either way, long story short, he had exactly what the other poster was talking about sleep apnea. Got diagnosed, got a c-pap(?) device and guess what, no more falling asleep at work. Probably saved his life as well, as he's already had a heart surgery.

Either way, I pretty sure he's the most non-lazy person I've ever been around. :)
The R&D budget for TTS would help overlap for AWS Polly though. Same for other AWS/Amazon products.
Black Friday: UK shoppers warned most offers are not cheaper
Except in these firing sprees it's not competent employees that remain - those people are usually the first to jump ship because they have options and see where it's headed. It's not like they get raises for staying to get a part of the savings from the cuts - usually they get pay freezes.

Restructuring is done on whatever idea the new owner(s) have in plan - which could be equally disconnected from "real product".

I'm not that optimistic about Twitter long term - never was TBH but this Musk thing is turning to a shitshow and also exposes what it's like working for him in his other companies.
> erring on the side of including irrelevant items

This is the reason for this problem. When searching for 'cat' and sorting by lowest price, the first promoted item doesn't contain the word cat and neither does the first actual result (but they are cat items).

If they didn't hoist 'legitimately hard' problems onto themselves, maybe they wouldn't need to solve them.
TIL: There are replaceable SMS which you can update after they have been sent.
I wonder why not every 2FA service is using those?
India is a very cheap place to live in.
Well I would have answered TAS/Speedrun, where the reprogram games just with player inputs, but you have already posted that. So I encourage everyone to watch those videos. I'm just in love with the ludicrous lengths people go to with speedrunning and hacking these older games.

Side note - I'm sure you heard about this, but I love someones speedrun (SM64 Tick Tock Clock Red Coins) was affected by a bitflip from outer space. So much I love about this scene.
That does not mean 100% and that could also mean military support. We want a source that clearly shows that snd you do not seem to have that.

Why use a throw away account? It looks very suspect here on HN.
By being so tired that I can be barely romantic about anything at all, it appears.

By software products being so invariably lousy that I can’t help but feel that this was a papercut #999.

By „platforms”, „ecosystems”, „communities” pulling the user experience each their own way, destroying it into shreds in the process.

I want to be romantic about programming, I’m just too jaded, tired, and numb.
> We're talking about a Twitter CEO with $30m/yr+ in total compensation.

Jack, who was once the CEO of Twitter, has said that they hired too many people too fast.

Elon, who is "paid" way more than $30 million/year to run several companies, also apparently thinks it was very bloated.

I'm not necessarily saying the billionaires are right and the millions are wrong. I'm just pointing out the clear counterexamples to your appeal to authority. I honestly don't understand why you would be so surprised to find out that millionaires also make plenty of mistakes. The Twitter stock price to a degree is one indicator that the Twitter executives were making mistakes.
Brilliant! --just what we need. An even easier way for people to thoughtlessly submit articles without spending a couple of seconds looking first, to see if they've already been submitted a dozen times.
Content producers don't care. Do you know the size of the pageview-boner these people get when a mass murderer posts a screed/video online so they can justify talking about it as tech news? It's almost like a game at this point, seeing how long it takes sites I read news about video cards on to figure out a way to generate ad revenue from hate and death.
Show HN: Llama – Terminal File Manager
Yes.

If you search for "samsung smartphone" and sort from low to high, all you get are covers and screen protectors in the first many pages.
If the Zepplife application is running (even in the background), the band constantly feeds it data about your steps, pulse and whatnot it gets from you, to keep its send queue empty. This wakes the processor a lot, and consumes a lot of battery.

If you're exercising, band establishes and keeps a constant connection about your movement data and pulse. It also gets some information from app (is GPS healthy, etc.).

Both modes keep the phone out of its deep sleep, and halves your daily battery stamina if you have a moderately active day.

Because of that, I actively kill the Zepplife application most of the time if I'm wearing the band that day, unless I'm exercising.
Crimeware and Financial Cyberthreats in 2023
Frazer-Nash did a few studies:

https://www.fnc.co.uk/discover-frazer-nash/news/frazer-nash-...
Thanks for sending me down that rabbit hole. Here's a nice small intro I just found: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oIHwIItiPs

Apparently, you can just use a hex editor, and do random search/replacements to get some quick results. Awesome!
The headcount at WhatsApp in 2013 was somewhere between 50-100, at which time they were servicing approx 400m MAU, which is more than users than Twitter has been able to boast for most of their existence.

Coincidentally, in 2013 SpaceX was just starting to provide commerical launch capacity, at which point I think they too had < 100 software engineers. A few short years later and they were re-using rockets, a feat many people had thought unlikely/impossible and requires some hardcore software eng.

Not surprised Elon Musk thinks he can run twitter with a skeleton crew.
> this reminds me of old German industry where people retire in the place they started

What is wrong with that?
You're right that a court might find you to be expressing an opinion if you call someone a fraud, but you'll spend a lot of money on your legal defense to find this out. Calling a deep-pocketed person a fraud is buying an expensive lawsuit.

Also, the more memorable mnemonic (at least IMO) is "slander is spoken, libel is not".
Wasn't this the same for WhatsApp?
This isn't a win for open source. As much as I'd like it to be, settlements do nothing for open source aside from maybe give hope to others that the Defendant's felt the need to settle rather than try to argue the legality of their position in court. Winning in court has different meanings. Usually a settlement can be considered a win for the Plaintiff and Defendant together, and prevents more costly litigation for them but does nothing to help people in similar positions when it comes to case law.
The way it's framed, it seems as if it's not possible to be a "good worker" if you take the recommended breaks.

Might not be factually true but that's what the article seems to imply.
Expected transmission losses through the atmosphere are less than 2%. The efficiency of the cells above the atmosphere is significantly higher than a terrestrial solar farm - the power economics look to stack up. I've posted this before, but more detail in this feasibility study:
https://www.fnc.co.uk/media/qkleyd5d/fnc-004456-51057r-phase...
I think it was more because players complained about the 'piss filter' ;) (the HR Director's Cut had already removed the filter)

I remember that around 2010 there was a number of AAA games where the visual designers just seemed to have discovered the color yellow as their game's "main theme". It soon vanished again, just like overdone lens flare or god ray effects before.
Twitter had 7,500 employees. most of the roles you mention (security engineers, code reviews, data architecture, HR, internal audit teams, content moderators, scrum master) are not bloat. So the question is what are the other 7000 people doing?
That list appears to support what I said. The United States is way ahead in obesity rates, compared to other western nations.
This title is clickbait. A man harassed the victims of a mass murderer and happened to be autistic. Here's a hot take: if you're not mentally competent to be held responsible for the crimes you commit using a tool like a computer or a gun, you should not have access to that tool.
Nice, they're mostly available on a certain Japanese torrent site.
I've got a UUID in the URL of a new system (not a real UUID, but 128 random bits encoded in the UUID format), because that kept the existing links active. If someone were to guess one (which isn't that interesting, BTW, it's not account info or anything like it), he'd have a hard time checking a million per second, because the response is never going to be faster than 10ms or so.
>Bugs will creep in,

https://twitter.com/IlluminatiGanga/status/15946097904324444...

new members joining in 1970. hmmm.
> While it is not incorrect to refer to the people as the Spanish, the proper demonym is Spaniard. But people often use the former to refer to the people/nationality anyway.

Well, as you note, referring to the people of Spain in general as "the Spanish" is correct. This is an example of a fairly common construction in English: we equally refer to the French, the rich, the wealthy, the poor, the uneducated, the needy....

You appear to believe that referring to the people of Spain as "the Spaniards" would be even more correct, which suggests you're not a native speaker of English. That is not correct; if you say "the Spaniards", the only response you'll get will be "which Spaniards?", unless a particular set of Spaniards is suggested by context, in which case you'll be referring to them without including the rest of Spain.
AWS Lambda Telemetry API Provides Enhanced Observability Data
Knowing how to run a software company and knowing how to build software are two things. The first thing usually implies hiring the right people for the second thing. I’m sure Musk knows at least a bit of that, but everything we see with Twitter is that he’s axing those people at a rate that you can’t keep up hiring at. So there is some obvious disconnect here and I don’t think “Ah, he knows what he is doing “ is a sufficient explanation.
Love programming. Never let your boss see you smile while at it.
I think this works best if the little languages all share as much syntax and semantics as possible. A good example of this is OpenBSD's assortment of configuration file syntaxen for OpenSMTPd, pf, httpd/relayd, etc.; each of those "little languages" differ considerably in their problem domains, but they all seem to share a vaguely-Tcl-ish syntax and have largely converged in semantics and typical structure.

Another important consideration is that these languages are typically best when declarative as possible; if you can avoid Turing-completeness and stick entirely to something representing static data, then that's the ideal.
My impression of what's on offer with sizeable discounts on Amazon is mostly just Amazon's own stuff [Echo Dot, Fire Tablets, Fire Sticks, etc] and, with one or two exceptions, loads of generic Chinese tat.

Agree about the prices though. Which is why you should always use a site like camelcamelcamel.com to see just how much of a 'bargain' those Black Friday deals really are.
With a handful of tricks or a patsy in your pocket, it's easy enough to pull things like this off. These are all self-reported encounters, which lends some doubt to them; as I've never seen any public performance of his that suggests he has this exceptional intelligence or that he isn't subject to the same amount of irrational thinking that most humans are. You may be able to do some type of rocket equation in your head, but if you constantly promise things that aren't ultimately delivered.. people have good reason to question this narrative.

He clearly does know how to make incredible sums of money. Why that's not enough and people need to find excuses to exaggerate or demean his intelligence is beyond me.
One would not be able to imagine when things operate at mega scale (FAANG level), with world conquering ambitions at Exec level, and particularly in consumer domain.

I was at MS when Windows was a 'thing'. Windows was purely about software, the complexity and support requirements scales in logarithmic scale as more and more OEMs gets involved with their unique hardware, business constraints and cultures.
It made me very angry that there wasn't even an option to turn it back on.
The theory doesn't say beating the market is impossible. It says is should be relatively rare.
> a feature "missing" in windows

It's not missing. Windows has named pipes. They just don't use the same API as Unix sockets so you would have to do some work to do it properly (or use an existing library that abstracts both interfaces).

In any case Windows has had support for Unix sockets since 2017 so there's really no excuse.

> Linux is used by by docent "security companies" and still has vulnerabilities from time to time. So does Apple in the products where their care about security, etc.

Right but neither of them are companies whose sole product is a security product.

I agree their response time is good - they probably realised how bad it looks!
> or if it is used in API requests, impersonate you

You're suggesting it's an authorization token - which it obviously is not.
Yeah it's dancing around the question: Was Musk right? All signs so far are pointing to, yes. MBA's will be studying this for years.
I honestly can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic.
It is jokingly named after Windows for Workgroups 3.11 but requires a minimum of Windows 95 which means it won't run on WfW. Kind of ruins the joke. Should be Mastodon 95.
Imagine if every bank robber, rapist, drunk driver, etc could say they shouldn't be held to the same standards as others because they have a mental condition that caused them to do what they did. It works sometimes if you're rich enough, like the guy who claimed affluenza for killing someone while drunk driving.
Relocatable linking
Would that include Android's NDK and AGK, which seem to be handled like 10% projects for the whole Android's lifetime?