skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I believe white is generally higher sugar but there are drier white wines still. There was a model fit to sugar content and it worked across red white and rose.
A lot of those upper layers and the bureaucracy which is seen as "bloat by the bottom layers comes about from compliance. The compliance burden grows as the business grows (e.g PCI, insurance and government requirements kick in at certain thresholds).

Sure engineering adding a new widget to the site might increase profits by 12%, but all that bureaucracy can prevent the company losing its payment provider or breaching a government regulation which might cause the company to close overnight. So if the stakes are +12% vs -100%, who is actually doing the most important work?

I don't disagree with your desire to work somewhere lean and task-focused, but I think it's almost impossible for that to happen anywhere but small(er) workplaces.
I don’t have personal experience in this, so obviously I can’t speak with any authority. But I have heard from colleagues that tons of little factors can dramatically affect user engagement. For example, even a couple dozen milliseconds of longer load times can push a noticeable number of users away from your app.
Yeah, I find that easy to envision myself, but it's not the kind of spectacular, instant failure that's been predicted at all.
Even if you know the specific prompts, it mishears you $percentage of the time.
... where "made from scratch" refers to the rough grains and cracked corn intended for chickens. If you further processed the chicken feed (scratch) you could make corn bread and what not for less money than people food
So you never heard of a population being conquered?
you can parkor through there in VR in Mirror's edge.
It's not just you. I was an avid Alexa user with 1 Google Home just for comparison. Sometime in 2019 or 2020, Alexa got really bad, catching maybe 50% of requests, so they all got replaced with Google devices
I would say the lifetime of a piece of software is different from the lifetime of the process running it.
I suspect they do this on purpose to frustrate you into spending more.
I don't disagree with your conclusion, but I do think your information is a bit outdated. In recent updates, effort has been made to keep both editions as much in sync as possible with explicit goals of feature parity and synchronous releases. I don't work at Mojang so I can't speak with complete certainty, but I know there are a number of developers who develop features for both editions simultaneously [0]. That said, all the core developers I've heard from are extremely passionate about the Java edition of the game and have absolutely no plans to stop supporting it. If that ever happens, it will have been a Microsoft decision that they had no say in.

Unfortunately sifting through the last few years of Minecraft.net articles and Minecraft Live footage to find sources isn't a great use of my time right now, but I'm sure it's out there. Bedrock was shifted to the same version numbering system as Java in the last year iirc and they've been releasing snapshots and betas with the same content on the same day for all of the 1.19.3/1.20 snapshots so far and I think the 1.19.0 ones as well.

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/kingbdogz/status/1509482290304659...
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Looking forward to the film…
> On Saturday people were posting entire feature films, 2 minutes per tweet, because apparently their copyright content matching wasn’t working.

That’s funny but at the same time it’s easy to find stuff like that on youtube and has been forever.
Agreed about regular drywall saws! Just doing it by hand seems to give the best results. Fancy tools help with ancillary things.
IIRC Mesos was an internal tool (at Twiiter) that got released under the Apache umbrella later on.

Then Mesosphere (a company) wanted to bring it to the enterprise market but at the time was competing with Kubernetes... and we all know who won.
Alexa should be included in Prime, 8$
All the people saying twitter is now dying remind me of "the walls closing in" on Trump, who is running for president in 2024: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLEchPZm318
After years without data privacy rules, India floats two sets in a week
If 10 engineers can build 5 features in a week, then why can't 50 build 25? We easily understand why as engineers on HN, and even managers and investors understand why. But that wont stop them from trying to solve that problem. And some of them do! All of these big FANG companies are as big as they are because at some point they figured out how to solve this problem. But just like time and growth break architectures and software, they also break processes, and they eventually encounter a level where they can't solve it anymore. Then they stagnate, then they either die or solve the new problems. They have to grow to keep investors, and to grow they have to keep investors. That's why it doesn't stop at 12 dudes building an app. But sometimes it does just fine. It's really just a matter of who's investing and what returns they're looking for.
Actually now that I remember we were using MySQL and I was pushing for migrating to postgres partially for this reason, sorry it was a long time ago in startup time
> Is it really appropriate to hold professional athletes personally liable for endorsing a company which slipped through the due diligence cracks of the above-mentioned firms?

Your question as written says "personally liable for endorsing", so is the answer "yes" because they personally did endorse?

It would certainly be an interesting precedent if that were to happen.
Except that he at the same time demanded that people invent an entirely new dish by the end of the week, and now they are scrambling to try to figure it out. Already the DMCA auto-takedown bot is apparently broken and people are posting entire movies on Twitter. I would expect other peripheral systems to start breaking down as nobody is maintaining them even as other parts of the system are being changed.
> Eventually, I want my Chess games to come to me naturally with muscle memory and gut instincts, just as I wish I could solve the Rubik's without the formulae already muscled into my hands.

There's a lot in chess that is very oblique and loads of Columbus Egg moments/plays. When you learn those they become quite obvious in hindsight but it'd take you a long time to actually instinctively get to those strategies.

Also, a lot of intermediate-higher level playing comes from predicting moves in advance, those come from pattern matching and studying strategies is a very good place to hone your skills into finding these patterns. It can take thousands of games instead of some hours of playing around with different puzzles and understanding the fundamentals of why some positions are weak or strong even if they aren't clearly obvious for the next 5-10 moves.

I think you can brute force a lot of this learning by playing a lot but there are some key aspects that you could unlock by studying strategy that would take you much longer to learn by simply playing.
Your response is essentially the same as my given example (“it output a bug??”).

Thanks for the rigorous examination of my comment though. /s
A "little language" is just an abstraction over a small part of the domain. Equivalent abstractions can be and are written as libraries. In a Turing-complete host language, the primary difference is that these libraries don't get the privilege of inventing new syntax, but that's almost always a good thing.

We already have major headaches switching between JS, SQL, and {insert backend language here}. Introducing tens of little languages into a codebase may marginally increase readability of each chunk of code in isolation, but the amount of context-switching and required background knowledge it introduces would more than make up the difference.

In a abstraction strategy that's based around libraries, every library agrees on the same basic syntax and semantics. You interact with an embedded DSL via a well-defined interface that all libraries respect. The syntax may not be perfectly ideal to any one part of the project, but it's consistent throughout every part of the project. That has real value.

I think it's also a red herring to argue about lines of code: stringing together a bunch of little languages is not likely to lead to fewer lines of code than pulling in an equivalent number of third-party libraries, and it will almost certainly increase the total amount of code in your distribution, because each little language must not only implement the functionality desired, it also needs its own parser and interpreter. Take McIlroy's shell script: if you add up the C code to implement each of those little languages, you're at about 10k lines of code to make that bit of code golf possible.

I'm a huge fan of DSLs, and I like the analogy of modern programming as pyramid building. I just don't think independent, chained-together DSLs are the answer. I'd rather have a language like Kotlin that is designed around embedded DSLs that all respect the same rules and use the same runtime.
He can get away with posting just about any silly thought because he has no board of directors to answer to and no one can fire him. Big difference when you are thinking of him as a CEO.
Musk was fired from PayPal because he wanted to replace all the Unix servers with Windows.
I'm not doing interviews or surveys, but this also matches with my anecdotal experience with non-"tech" companies, who are all still starving for talent. I guess it makes sense, given that tech companies disproportionately pay in stock and tech companies were disproportionately highly-valued during the 2020-22 Covid weirdness.
It defines that term at the top of the article
On every muni bus I’ve ridden less than 50% of borders scan a ticket. Cracking down on the rampant fare evasion would raise a big chunk of money. Not going to fill the entire hole but it would be a start
Competition at the low level is going to be rough. However, it's pretty hyperbolic to say experienced people are going to be dropped under 100k.

Are the days of 750k TC due to stock appreciation over? Prolly. Do engineering staff tend to bring considerably more value than they cost at mid-level companies? Yes.
> Twitter isn’t shipping many new features right now

Is that true? I thought one of Elon’s big pushes was launching the whole Blue Tick subscription thing. That doesn’t feel like a small feature.
I'd put Github stars in the very weak category :)

Combining commits + contributors is my favorite (obviously!), especially when considered over a long time range.

Yes, some (usually smaller) teams make small incremental commits, others have more ceremony and commits tend to be less frequent and bigger. And you could easily game the system theoretically, but not easily in a project of important and substance.

We've added a voting system, where we give every dev 20 votes, and we'd give more notable OSS contributors a higher weighting, but it's very early days for that — but we'd mix that data into the score if we had it.

How would you do it? We're open to suggestions :)
> Because you gotta work with other people's code at some point or another. And much of it is unreliable, buggy and/or badly documented.

Blaming others is fine but really sometimes that "other people" is yourself and often you barely remember that you wrote it.
Just curious: do you think that any government where the leader is not above the law is legitimate?
But real world conditions can force code changes. For example, a region abandons daylight savings time or a court order on copyright infringement. Someone unqualified working a system they are unfamiliar with could blow it up. Losing that knowledge of how the system works is a risk.
I understand how he can get a way with it, just not his thought process.
Things don't become less true simply because you heard them from a douchebag.
> Pure HTML / CSS / vanilla JS sites. It's a shame that it's turned into a niche scene, but I'm always a fan of inspecting sites that don't bloat themselves with unnecessary frameworks.

To expand on this, I like thinking about how standard browser APIs can act as the framework without using third-party libraries. An early example was document.querySelectorAll obviating the need for jQuery’s wonderful $. More recently, I’ve waited eagerly for Web Components to come into their prime, which has been just a year or two away for a decade now.
>As someone who grew up and went to uni in SA, then later emigrated to NZ (and later Europe)

My understanding is that NZ is the usual gateway for South African emigrants, who use it to get to their final destination (usually Australia).

(Canada serves a similar function for those seeking to move to the US.)
This is because you are the product, not the customer. The customer is the record company paying to get their artists music into your ears.

I've waited my whole life for AI assistants. I remember being really excited about the promise in the 90s. But it's this is it? Voluntary advertisement consumption?

Very disappointing.
I was about to say that you're talking about two different problems. But, no, what's happening to Musk is the same thing that happened to Trump. Their inner circles knew how rotten they both were, but outside of that they were largely unknown.

New Yorkers despise trump and have for ages. From tenants, to contractors, to business partners they all know what a shitheel he is. Outside of NY though trump was largely seen as an affable caricature of a rich dude. Case in point: NYC as a whole isn't averse to republicans and yet they still rejected trump in 2016.

Elon's the same way. Sure he called that diver a pedophile. But he also had a Tesla employee hounded until he fled the country. Musk had the guy swatted for fucks sake (or tried to at least). Or what about the journalist who pissed him off and ended up having some Tesla features disabled on his car. Or his ex-wife who talked about being treated like an employee. These things were mostly inclined to stay in the background until Musk elbowed his way into the spotlight. Now the whole world can see that he went full on Howard Hughes.
>Why did all of them not stop this headcount increase if it's as easily reduced as "too much headcount bad, smaller headcount good"?

For the same reason that colleges and universities have seen their administrative bloat skyrocket at 10x the rate of student enrollment. Administrative bloat inevitably creeps into all large organizations. Many of the people in the trenches making hiring decisions weren't considering the overall financial performance of Twitter as a company. They were making hiring decisions based on what was happening in their own department, or how that decision would help advance their own agenda, or increase their budget, or increase manpower on a favored project. When you further consider that many at Twitter openly conceded (and in many cases, bragged about) that they viewed their role at Twitter as moral arbiters of society, crucial to policing the discourse of the public, it is not hard to see how enlisting as many true believers as possible to the cause would be seen as desirable, regardless of the larger financial implications.
Even if your mysql instance and hardware had run indefinitely, if a table is being written to it will eventually run out of disk space or key space and crash. How long it will take depends on the application but it will happen eventually and if no one is around to fix it...
The article is good, and informative but a little odd in one respect. It uses air-quotes to introduce concepts like "rack" and "shelf" in a DC, but does O(logn) notation mid-flow.

If you don't know what a rack is, how are you meant to know what the Order of scaling function means? Thats a highly computer sciences specific notation, and if you grok O(n) you know what a rack, a host, a DC is.
I find that Docusaurus docs usually are the easiest to follow when consuming them but I have no experience with creating them: https://docusaurus.io/
Twitter will soon experience the negative effect of the mass layoffs and die slowly. If it survives, please don't ascribe it to Elon's management skills. Don't forget the employees who are stretching themselves there to rescue Twitter.
We do ban pedestrians from the streets; that’s what sidewalks are for.
"What evidence do you have of" ... issues where someone publishing that evidence would be sent to prison for decades for said publication.

Surely you can see the flaw in this?
Some upscalers are pretty good.

DVD is fine for me. honestly when I’m watching something without a high def reference to compare to probably helps. DVD is clearly not as good. At this point I’m more interested in the quality of the content.
There have already been failures. If I recall the system for sending two factor auth codes via SMS was down for the best part of a day.

Not the end of the site by any means but cracks are showing.
Dramatically, the Dartmouth experiment in teaching BASIC to all undergraduates could be profitable. Although they didn't use PDPs (they used a GE-265), it was the same time period. You have two visionaries, Kemeny and Kurtz, trying to bring a computer to every student and every faculty member. Kemeny's background allows appearances from Feynman, von Neumann, Alonzo Church, and Einstein. With the work happening in college, and being educational rather than pure research, students can be integral members of the plot and a couple working together to understand this new language and the concepts of time-sharing can lead naturally to romance.
Here's something I don't understand: How are "little languages" different from a bunch of functionality wrapped into a library/module? Is it just that (with some convenient syntax sprinkled on top), or is there more to it?

I would imagine that most of the value comes from being able to "refactor" thought patterns to match the best way to cleave the domain into composable concepts -- and it seems like we do this all the time (and in all programming languages?).
This is exactly what happens. It's also why CEOs buy other firms even though research shows the majority of takeovers fail. Just pick up any management book in the last 20 years.

There's a clear correlation between org size and CEO pay, even when not in the company's interests. Some CEOs and managers also love the power. Politics is also at work.
Go Elon! Shutting down a datacenter will save a lot of energy. I applaud this move. (Though I suppose they could just sell it to some other company.)

Now he just needs to shut down the other 2.
Perhaps a closer analogy would be that the new boss rolled in and threw away 80% of the fire extinguishers.

Whether that will spell disaster when there's a fire depends on whether the building had too many fire extinguishers to begin with and whether the boss can buy new, better fire extinguishers to replace some of them before there's a fire.
Alexa division is losing billions of dollars every year is because Bezos had this dream of creating ambient computing platform with Alexa (like in that ‘Her’ movie) where the hardware and software combination would become invisible for users like us and Alexa would able to do pretty much everything for us. Now they hired thousands of hw and software engineers to execute on that dream but so far the monetizable features are just not getting any traction from the users.

Anecdotally I can give my frequent Alexa commands for Echo here:

- how’s the weather today

- what time is it now

- turn on the TV

- set an alarm for 6am

- play 88.5 fm

- what’s Arsenal score right now.

Now it’s hard to understand how these kind of interactions can earn any money for Alexa.
You’re comparing motorists (who are the vast majority of US road users) to rats needing to be exterminated.
We had an obituary for Fred Brooks on here just the other day. I'd suggest that his thesis in The Mythical Man-Month conflicts with your comment above (that reduction in staff count for a software project has a good correlation with the ability to maintain it / evolve it / innovate on top of it).
> but it was never going to happen overnight and I'm not sure why news outlets were saying that

I don't think it's that obvious, it's one thing to just leave everything running but Elon was also talking about changes he was making (Ex. turning off a bunch of "microservices" because they don't do anything). If you turn off the wrong thing and don't have anybody left who knows how to properly turn it back on again, then you're in a pretty bad situation. It doesn't seem like that happened, but I don't also think we have enough information to say how close it was to happening.
This. Just make it a voice controller for music, lights, timers, and reminders. Everything else is fluff.
Oh! I had a real world version of this game as a kid. I eventually figured out the algorithm for winning, then perfected it to win with the last marble in the center hole. I lost interest after, but this brings up some fond memories. I'll try and reproduce my childhood performance :)
oh noes! Not the DMCA auto-takedown bot!

Said no-one in the entire world except a hand-full of Hollywood studio owners.

That bot shouldn't have existed in the first place, but I know that that falls under "just world fallacy" and is a naive thought.
Lmao, just no. Grow up
Ahem, your phone?
The above comment does not need the context of this HN page/sumission in order to be a complete wholesome story in itself. Nice.
On Hacker News, everyone's a comedian! And, yeah, as the sibling comment pointed out there've already been failures as a result of some musky action. While Twitter isn't likely to fail on its own, E-Lon is actively causing problems. You need people to deal with that, and even if he had motivated, relevant, and competent engineers… how long will they stay motivated without a paycheck?

Let's not forget that whatever code monkeys are left are now personally liable for running afoul of the FTC. Whatever motivation they may have now will run out pretty damn quick once they stop getting paid.
> Every US president since the end of the cold war has authorized eastward expansion of NATO, an alliance whose enemy no longer exists.

If those countries wish to join NATO why do they need to ask permission to Russia? This argument really doesn't make sense unless you take away sovereignty of states from the equation, some countries decided they wanted to join NATO, should they be blocked to join a defensive military alliance for what reasons?

> After the 2014 coup, a major Ukraine energy company, which was cozy with Putin, hired the Vice President’s son in order to cozy up with the new America-friendly regime.

> The previous president was impeached for asking Ukraine to investigate corruption by the former Vice President.

What? Trump was clearly asking for a quid pro quo from Ukraine and keeping aid hostage unless he got some dirt on a political opponent. I'm not American so I really can't grasp why you'd bend reality this way to fit your narrative...

> Putin warned that arming or granting membership to Ukraine’s belligerent new government was a red line Russia could not tolerate. NATO did it anyway.

Ukraine wanted to join NATO, again a defence alliance, with a democratically elected government that came after ousting their previous Russian-puppet president which was openly propped up by Russia/Putin. Putin tolerating it or not it's not his decision to make over the wants of a foreign government. If you support this kind of meddling then you should not have any qualms against other nation-states directly meddling into other countries policies and politics, right? Like you don't have anything against the USA constant meddling into others' affairs, am I correct?

Please, source where exactly was the new government of Ukraine belligerent, that's an extraordinary claim that requires extraordinary evidence.