skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your argument reduces to "culture is better the more you spend on people" and "Twitter overspent on engineering people in order to create culture."

This is false. Twitter was profitable in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020 and its R&D budget was half that of 2022, or less, for those years and by all accounts it had a fantastic culture.

In 2021, the last year available and its very worst year since 2015, Twitter made $5 billion in revenue and lost $492 million. So your "millions of dollars a day" is not wrong-- $1.4 million per day.

Twitter spend $1.2 billion on R&D-- less than 25% of its revenue. In 2020, it spend $873 million on R&D and made a profit. In 2019, it spent a mere $682 million on R&D and made a $366 million dollar profit. Similarly in 2018.
You might be interested in this video which talks about using the Earth's gravity to create a telescope with a lens roughly the size of the Earth (a terrascope): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgOTZe07eHA

They also have a follow up video about using Jupiter to create a jovoscope and there's also more about creating a telescope using the sun (although since the sensor would need to be so far away from the Sun, we would essentially need to launch a different spaceship for each target that we tried to image).
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I like to take notes with Pen and Paper during meetings, this gives me high recall. I keep scribbling even during zoom video meetings, it helps me to stay focused and not lose my train of thought if I have to refer back to it later. I have tried Apple Pencil with Ipad, but personally prefer pen and paper.
This is a good point. We do our best to measure the quality of predictions.
But usually, we don't know who our users are. It is anonymous. We compare users' ratings (when they rate) with our prediction and ask people we know personally to check if it's accurate.
And it's not a treatment; it's more about hygiene. Teenagers don't know much about acne and how to manage it (frankly speaking, the same is valid for adults). And skincare is about marketing. Teens use popular products, which could be the wrong choice or something not needed at all.
In case of severe acne, it's definitely necessary to see a doctor.
https://github.com/HactarCE/Hyperspeedcube enables you to solve 4D cubes, the exploded visualization is standard but I think it is pretty cool

here is it in action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCvn9-JvXgY&list=PLKwXjCUFqO...
They're in no way comparable. One is a mind in development and the other is, hopefully, a well equipped mind. The sad thing is the clarity of thought, writing and reading comprehension of the average person has deteriorated a lot. The screens give a fake sense of literacy but it's barely parroting.

From the social class perspective, I find it soothing that otherwise bored people will be sucked into lives of passive consumption rather than whatever mischief they can conjure.
Trying to figure this out myself. Bought a steam deck and love the idea of it, but haven't had consistent time to play it in between all the family and work obligations. One problem is I like to play games that require quite a bit of focus. RPGs or strategy games that require I have maps/guides up in another monitor, and have a lot of context to page in every time I play. Maybe it's time for me to take up more casual games? Racing, puzzles, platformers, etc. Games that you play for 5 minutes at a time.
Wind farms are a thing because a wind turbine can only be so big: for more power, you put up more of them. They are so cheap because all the costs are transparent, there is noplace to bury wholly-legal graft. A big farm amortizes fixed project management cost.

Capacity factor of nukes is not so much more than of wind turbines, though if you have a bunch of nukes, it would be rare to have many of the nukes down at once other than for urgent retrofits. Steam turbines are down a lot, so nukes are always built with two or more.

But the main thing is that nukes cost far, far more than the wind farm that produces as much; or, a wind farm at the same price produces many times the power, with near zero lead time and possibly negative decommissioning cost. After their contribution to the grid gets large enough, you build out storage, which incrementally reduces the fraction of time you spend burning NG or, later, ammonia.

A farm of small nukes would cost quite a bit more to build than a big nuke of the same capacity, because all the systems are duplicated throughout. On the up side, the farm might be built incrementally with much less of the graft always attached to monster public works; you might save 75% vs a big nuke just on that basis. If you could get the first one going early, its revenue might help pay for subsequent units.

But whatever the heat source, anything with a steam turbine is just not competitive anymore. That is another reason why fusion is a dead end: it is just very hard to compete with zero opex.
Excluding a settlement from 2014 that was paid this year, Twitter would have made 500mil on 5B revenue in 2021. They were also GAAP profitable in 2019.

Additionally, the incentive from wall street is to spend all your money to grow users. Whether that is right or wrong it’s the path they chose which led to users and revenue roughly doubling over 5 years.

https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2021/ar...

https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2019/Fi...
Wine is not an emulator the same way that [this is not a pipe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images)
Honestly I don’t even understand the narrow sense in which you could say WINE is not an emulator.

There was supposedly a naming discussion in 1993 which resulted in “WINE is not an emulator”. Maybe this was to remind people that you still needed an x86 processor (WINE is not an x86 emulator), or maybe it was born from the idea that WINE does not emulate Windows—maybe it “provides a compatibility layer” or “reimplements the Windows interfaces”.

The Windows APIs are not so well-specified that a mere reimplementation of them would run so much software as WINE does.
"Seen as wasteful" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. Spending 6+ hours a day watching TV is seen as wasteful, heroin addiction is seen as wasteful, becoming a musician is seen as wasteful, dropping out of a law degree to start a company is seen as wasteful. The first two are different from the last two, though.

I think watching 6+ hours of TV a day isn't just seen as wasteful, it's seen as actively harmful, and therefore as falling under the moral and legal duty of care adults have to protect children. In contrast, a mentally sound retiree is an adult. Adults are allowed to hurt themselves.
"Fox News" is about an hour of airtime, not counting major events when the whole gang is at battle-stations. Then, for decades, it casually rolls into several hours of increasingly sharp opinions that have become anti-democratic, beyond dog-whistle racist and nearly seditious.

That sh1t is dangerous. Nothing new for Murdoch, but this is the 21st Century and everyone in the US has easier access to firearms than baby formula. This is on top of the clearly toxic workplace as evidenced by all the settlements and suits we actually know about.

Poison to truth, in a nation of laws, is NOT something I'm thankful for.
Twitter pre-Elon wasn't losing millions of dollars a day. Twitter post-Elon is losing millions of dollars a day because of the extra $1B/year in interest payments he took on because he wildly overpaid for the company right before everyone figured out just how badly Apple's new privacy practices affected the revenue of social media companies.
I find it orthogonal.
Is this true for everything? There are open-source games (a great example is Mindustry) that are available for free elsewhere while costing to buy via Steam.
Yes, even for HN it returns false positives.
>Then Proton came and, almost overnight

I haven't been able to find any info to confirm but I have a sneaking suspicion that Proton builds heavily on Codeweaver's Crossover. The vast majority of commits in the Proton repo come from Codeweavers employees
Founder ran FTX as “personal fiefdom”; many assets stolen or missing
Some of Google's great build tools came about simply because they built absurdly large binaries (GWS and GFE). IE, they own-goaled themselves repeatedly and had to invent entire new technologies to get themselves out of it. THis was a consistent pattern; the much-vaunted GFS was actually a bear to run in production. Some things I really liked about working there include:

Monorepo for the entire front end and back end of Google services and products (excluding the Android OS code, and some other projects) made it really easy to get started doing interesting things without having to do a lot of work. LexicographicRangeSharder, which shards data streams using reservoir sampling, is a great example that I wouldn't have been able to build myself, but could trivially link into my code.

Blaze was an excellent build tool most of the time, and the team that build it/supported it was excellent.

The build/test platform (Forge and TAP) were both absolutely genius, and made large-scale testing easy. I was the owner of numpy and scipy and frequently had to do megabuilds to ensure that upgrades didn't break important things (IE, we forward-fixed all the dependencies that would break when the upgrade was committed).

A highly scalable version control system with serial commit numbers, making all sorts of projects involving bisection and problem hunting far easier than git.

A wide collection of very smart people who could answer nearly any technical question that came up

After returning to more conventional company, as well as a startup I really miss a lot of that. but blaze and TAP were partly necessary because of the design decisions made by early (pre-google3) engineers.
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That's very insightful. You said as much, but I think that goes for anything that provides any sort of satisfaction. The less effort required to achieve the satisfaction, the more likely you'll gravitate to it. I do, anyway.

I might even take the liberty to generalize it to a sort of long-term-thinking blindness. For me, anyway, there are things I get much more more satisfaction from, that I could be doing, but require effort to do. Yet here I am on HN. I know this. I know that, on a satisfaction:time ratio, I'll get more out of one day's effort and finishing a project than a week's worth of mindlessly reading HN. That's a more fulfilling life.

It seems most of the time life just passes me by as I watch other people put in actual effort (in areas I have skills in! I could be the one doing that!) and achieve cool things. It's a difficult cycle to break. I'll figure it out tomorrow.
Mental health is always assessed through the lens of cultural norms. Where I am (in Sweden) feeling jealous and acting on it is the cultural norm [1]. (Personally I agree with the GP though and see my own culture as sick.)

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_Jante
It's still an awfully confusing name. At least one non native English speaker I know has interested it exactly the other way around ("oh, like MS Wine?).

I just hope this isn't the Extend part of EEE ...
Or your local hardware store. The one walmart doesn't want you to know about it so they push brand ads that play a catchy song. Let's bring back smaller companies and smaller products. Do you really need to learn how Volkswagen is changing the world (while trying to make you forget when they faked those environmental standards a few years back)?
Ukraine has multiple traditional nuclear power plants running.
How to talk to your relatives about Mastodon
Pipe’s entire founding team stepping down
I think they got it from Elon shortly after he took over, turned everything into chaos, and advertisers started bailing. That being said, he also appears to be a pathological liar, so he could just be making it up on top of that.

But yes, this notion that Twitter was just hemorrhaging money seems flatly false and easily disprovable. I haven't read the financial statements in a while, but when I last did I indeed saw one of the few tech companies that was actually profitable.
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Anything that has less battery life at comparable capability is neither similar nor acceptable to me. Anything that looks like it’s going to cook my nethers as I use it on my lap is neither similar nor acceptable to me.

Absolutely no PC manufacturer matches the build quality, battery life, weight, thermal management, power consumption, and performance capability that the current round of Apple laptops provide. From my perspective, that means that there’s nothing acceptable or comparable.

In the year or so that I’ve had this Mac, I’ve heard the fan spin up a total of three times, and while I’m not doing heavy compiles often, there’s no other computer that I’ve owned with active cooling that is as quiet as this has been (using its passive cooling for all but those three times, all caused by runaway processes triggered by the problem in the chair).
Please excuse my ignorance. Why are 1,000+ SWEs needed (let alone custom tooling to support them)?

Twitter features I know about:

1. Timeline recommendations (with personalized/relevant ads sprinkled in)

2. Notifications (so you get pushed an iOS/Android alert when somebody you subscribe to tweets)

3. Being able to post/view media (image/video/polls)

4. Direct private messaging

5. Concept of following/followers with recommendations

6. Threads/retweets/replies

7. Advertising dashboard/analytics for advertisers to create
+ track campaigns

8. "Explore" / "What's happening" / automatically serve "trending" content / topics

9. Lists / bookmarks

10. Anti-spam / anti-fraud

11. User profiles / settings

If I missed noteworthy/sizable/heavily used by masses features, please let me know.

Why can't that be managed + developed on new features wise with 1,000 SWEs? or 500? Genuinely asking. Would love to learn what I'm missing.
Microsoft actively discourages its Xbox employees from talking to customers.

Valve actively encourages talking to customers and helping them out.

(I've worked in both places. It's night and day in that respect).
I know why Apple doesn't care to do so, but I really wish they would at least just work with Valve enough to make Proton on Mac a reality.

There was a brief moment where Steam for Mac was announced on stage at an Apple event and Macs got the Half-Life series, Portal, Team Fortress 2, and many others.

Now these games won't even launch on a modern Mac because they are still 32-bit binaries that were never updated.

If Apple doesn't care to be a marketplace for "PC Gamer" type games then fine but at least partner with someone who does care.
> it's hard to detect any rational point.

Really? I think I detected at least:

1. This moral panic is either overblown or wildly inconsistent.

2. If it's impossible to imagine the same kind of government restriction being proposed for aging adults, why accept it for other groups?

> Digital is far more addictive, radicalizing, privacy-invading and exploitative compared to TV.

Or perhaps the unidirectional nature of TV consumption makes for powerful radicalizing propaganda--especially to an at-home group with fewer external connections to ground them--and the passivity of the consumption rots your brain and dries up critical thinking.
My grandfather’s dying wisdom of loudly refusing the care of Black nursing staff cured me of the ignorance of trusting his balanced wisdom.
"Philosophy of science is about as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds.”

- Richard Feynman
Completely agree with this, I'm very efficient at clearing the board in my short term memory and give 110% of what I have to the problem at hand.

It makes anything I done previously almost as good as if someone else did it and I need to rediscover it. Which is a good thing, because boy that guy couldn't code himself out of a well.
It's a liquid-sodium-cooled, graphite-core system with no need for pumps, aka 'passively cooled' via heat [edit] pipes. Output is:

> "The microreactor can generate 5 MW of electricity or 13 MW of heat from a 15 MW thermal core. Exhaust heat from the power conversion system can be used for district heating applications or low-temperature steam."

Control systems are kind of interesting:

> "The only moving or mechanical parts in the reactor system are reactivity control drums, which manage the power level and allow absorber material to passively turn inward toward the core if power demand is reduced or lost, and turn a reflector material toward the core if demand increases automatically. Hence the term “nuclear battery.”"

I'm generally not a nuclear advocate but if they've really managed to eliminate the need for active cooling, and have a robust system that can safely shut down with concerns about meltdown even without external power, that's a pretty big advance. Looks remarkably promising... keep your fingers crossed. (New nuclear tech hasn't had the greatest track record over the past several decades, i.e. pebble beds didn't work out etc.)
who whispers what…and why

A healthy habit that senior executives learn is to ask the question “why are you telling me this (particular fact, among all the facts there are to tell)?”

BTW, retired folks don’t have a greater capacity to vote, as compared to all voting age qualified voters. Mobility issues in fact make it harder. Also, depending on the definition of “long-term”, it is definitely true that the elderly will experience the consequences of their actions or, conversely, no one currently living will. Why did you tell me this? :-)
I'm pretty sure that's where Elixir got its start, too. Jose Valim is a member of the RoR core team and he wanted better concurrency for Ruby.
It's both and a bit of free brand advertising. I fear I won't be able to tell my kids how Volkswagen is changing the world without these brand ads
Maybe he belongs to a small tight knit group with institutional power?
This framing (Docker is losing popularity, even k8s is deprecating it) is misleading. The article you linked to clears that up immediately out of the gate (emphasis added):

> You do not need to panic. It’s not as dramatic as it sounds.

> TL;DR Docker as an underlying runtime is being deprecated in favor of runtimes that use the Container Runtime Interface (CRI) created for Kubernetes. Docker-produced images will continue to work in your cluster with all runtimes, as they always have.

> If you’re an end-user of Kubernetes, not a whole lot will be changing for you. This doesn’t mean the death of Docker, and it doesn’t mean you can’t, or shouldn’t, use Docker as a development tool anymore. Docker is still a useful tool for building containers, and the images that result from running docker build can still run in your Kubernetes cluster.
4 vus, stopped reading there...
I’d like to shake you by the six hands, love that.
Few projections there, alas yeah I remember how Steam sucked ass when it appeared and how it was forced upon customers of their popular game(s) initially to spread it around. There were competitors, but without much strategy or foresight (Ubisoft, EA). These days you have gog (30%), epic store (12%), itch.io (10%), google play store (15%, after epic's push), apple app store (30 and 15% through small business developer program). Steam holds the position still, no need to move if you have the power of inertia. Even damn google and apple moved. Epic did good there, albeit unconventionally.
Has anyone been able to replicate vscode/coc.nvim’s instant lsp autocompletion on each keystroke with emacs when eglot/company are enabled? I tried configuring company to lower the idle delay to 0 and set the minimum prefix to 0, but the gui locks up on every keystroke
Interesting. I heard the Civilization games were Lua, didn’t know that was more common.
It introduces an availability risk if the connection reuse times don't exactly match keepalive times on the backend. Plus an increased risk to be vulnerable to a HTTP request smuggling issue if anyone discovery a new and unpatched one.

That said I agree that using keepalive seems like a reasonable default - especially since other HTTP clients do the same.
It seems you are taking the notion of "the cell not being a machine" a little too far. Molecular biology has not shown the need for the hypothesis of a "higher level life-force" to explain what is going on inside a cell.
I'm wondering, they say using sodium, and having tested heat pipes up to 800°C... but their schema shows sodium vapor... but sodium only boils at 900°C ??

So I guess they underpressurize these pipes ?

That would make sense, since in a traditional liquid metal reactor, the boiling of the working fluid is instead a failure mode to be avoided at all costs (since boiling dramatically increases the pressure resulting in burst pipes), especially with sodium that burns on contact with the air, explodes on contact with water, oh and also is highly radioactive at that point (for a short time).

They seem very sure of themselves, but I still wonder what kind of stresses are involved, and what does this mean for heat pipe longevity ?
(and calling heat pipes with a phase changing working fluid "passive" still seems kind of wrong ?)

EDIT : The relatively small amount of sodium probably matters a lot here ?
Former employee, or contractor?
> I'm not 65 yet, but once I am I hope that others will recognize my productive achievements and will leave me the hell alone to do whatever I want to with the rest of my limited time here on earth.

100% reasonable. If you're done contributing and want to sit the rest out you're welcome to in my book. But I suspect that most people keep at least 1 hand on the reigns in a critical way: they vote.

If you're planning on influencing the lives of the following generations, I think it's pretty reasonable to be concerned about your mental well being.
As someone who likes a lot of music that isn't exactly mainstream and not popular at all in social circle, that site was a one of the best things I ever found on the Internet.

Happy Birthday!
If you like Last.fm (as a user since 2007, I love it), this app for Apple Music is an amazing (unofficial) front-end for it: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/albums-album-focused-player/id...
I think the only thing he skipped over was that younger people are probably spending majority time in front of youtube or fortnite etc, so of course TV is down.

I think he also misses the main point. It's not that the TV is on for the periods of time, it's the ways shows manipulate and control people's attention to reinforce sitting in front of it. Perhaps we should take a closer look at advertising and dark patterns and 'click-bait' methods instead of just the time people spend, regardless of age group.
M1 Max does seem to have good memory bandwidth, which probably helps. If they were running code on the GPU then the unified memory architecture might help as well.

Interesting that that the Mac benchmark results are from Docker, i.e. running on a virtualized Linux kernel.
I don’t why people keep finding one GC language that has unsafe, then declaring my argument wrong.

My point is you can find a safe GC language with all the benefits of rust.
I do- I definitely see limits to my own rationality that have only been obvious after extraordinary reflection and addtional data. I would presume that most people who are truly self-aware recognize that we are all fundamentally irrational.
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The P-word. No on wants to say the P-word and demand ZPG worldwide.

Obviously this would be a planned and humane policy, unlike the forced and inhumane policies of the one child policy of the CCP. Education, opportunity, access to contraceptives as well as ideological propaganda.
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