skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The rest of this is pure irrational FUD. Democracies are not dictatorships.

Please get your facts straight. This happened in Canada, one of the supposedly best democracies out there

"The Attorney General of Ontario sought and was granted an Ontario Superior Court of Justice court order under Section 490.8 of the Criminal Code of Canada against GiveSendGo,[69] to freeze the funds collected from two campaigns, "Freedom Convoy 2022"—US$8.4 million and "Adopt-a-Trucker"—over $686,000,[73][74] and prohibit their distribution.[72][69] The court order binds "any and all parties with possession or control over these donations".[73] The Mareva injunction was issued on February 17 by Justice Calum MacLeod.[75] GiveSendGo funds go directly to campaign recipients such as The Freedom Convoy campaign, so Canadian banks cannot interfere. The largest donation, which was anonymous, as were six of the other top ten, was US$215,000.[74] The Canadian House of Commons Standing Committee on Finance (FINA) members, who are investigating Freedom Convoy's fundraising, voted on February 10 to include a study of the "rise of ideologically motivated extremism".[74] The FINA Committee invited GiveSendGo to testify.[74]

By February 19, at least 76 bank accounts linked to the protests totalling CA$3.2 million were frozen under the Emergencies Act.[76] Most accounts had been unfrozen by February 23.[77]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canada_convoy_protest
Meta fired a lot of serious staff/senior-staff people.
>ITAR is the main limiting factor to releasing images/videos at this point.

Pictures of the moon fall under ITAR?
> Not sortable

That's not correct; its trivial to come up with an ordering, and I don't know of a database in practice that doesn't permit sorting on a UUID.

> Table relationships are annoying

… in SQL,

user_id REFERENCES users

It's exactly the same, regardless of the type of the column…?

> Takes a lot of space

Yes … but also no. It's 16 B vs. a serial's 4 B, I grant, but compared to a varchar, it's immaterial. (And particular in comparison to the number of times I see people use a varchar for an enum…) Certainly there could be a case where a row is wide b/c of UUIDs, but in practice, rows are wide either because of the data, or because of poor design.
Good for you!

Now, if your Rust code was a distributed system that handles spiky loads from ~330m users, and processes petabytes of data, then I'd consider your comparison relevant to Twitter.

But I'm going to assume it's not relevant.

P.S., I've written Java services that never went down, because they had a well defined domain and all potential errors were handled. But, I'm not about to compare that to all of frigging Twitter.
I think C++'s (std::chrono::time_point, std::chrono::time_delta) together make a torsor. The group G is std::chrono::time_delta and the set is std::chrono::time_point. Both the group action (time_point + time_delta) and the group operation (time_delta + time_delta) are declared here https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/chrono/time_point/operator....
Elon thinks he's brilliant at everything he tries his hand at, so he thought he'd jump into the private-equity arena and show everyone how brilliant he is.
And if he doesn’t, it might effect tesla very negatively (he used his tesla shares as collateral)
Settlement Reached in Stockfish vs. ChessBase
Companies are mismanaged into death all the time by groups of highly intelligent, previously successful people.
It's not just that, it's that it has to get the details right. Even for "order post-its," it's not clear what color you want, maybe you want extra sticky, or jumbo.
If you have any interest in front-end development, https://www.joshwcomeau.com/ is excellent
It’s got extensions. That work.

It’s easy to install and start using. Immediate.

It’s customizable. My workspace is perfect.

I have just one keybind customization and that’s to cmd + J or ctrl + J to switch between integrated terminal and editor. Without making the terminal disappear.

I was using spacemacs prior to VSC and now I spend more time coding and not fiddling some settings all the time.
I prefer z-base-32 rather than url-safe base64.
I think the problem is that they have no consent to collect or use any of that data, and if they were caught collecting/using it, they’d end up in massive legal trouble.

Just because it’s technically possible doesn’t mean it’s actually possible.
Musk has been in a similar position before when he took over Tesla. At that point it was struggling to make the Roadster, they were facing having a marginal cost of manufacturing a car higher than the sales price.

Musk took over and made cuts. I don't think anyone could argue that those cuts were at the cost of Tesla's long-term growth. They were needed because of an imminent liquidity problem. Tesla has hired great people since then.
Vanilla WireGuard doesn't provide a way to run a peer in userspace that can proxy traffic between another peer and an endpoint such as a web server because you need to be privileged to do things like work with raw packets. However, https://github.com/WireGuard/wireguard-go is a userspace implementation of WireGuard and has recently incorporated Google's userspace networking stack. This project uses these two userspace tools to "fake" a privileged WireGuard peer that proxies TCP, UDP, and (a small subset of) ICMP. It was written as a pentesting/red team utility for my team but it can also serve as a general makeshift VPN when you don't have privileges on a box you want to proxy through.

Edit: typo
> Twitter isn’t shipping many new features right now

When was the last major new feature? The site has always seemed pretty stagnant.
There are tax laws around this to you can’t cheat.

I remember when I toured a large local forklift company (Brand you’ve probably heard of - big plant) and on the main production floor they had just about every OTHER brand of forklift.

Someone asked and was told they had to pay full retail (including all taxes) on their own units, and they have to buy their competitors products for research… so, two birds one stone…
In modern languages you either have built in testing or it’s a single package install away. It is nowhere near this simple with C or C++
Maybe I'm an atypical user compared to the privacy-centric HN user, but I use Alexa a bunch, have them liberally scattered throughout my house, and bought into the ecosystem of Alexa-compatible devices (Neato, Hue, Frame TV, etc.) and services (Prime Music, Spotify)

I've def been a little annoyed at it starting to ask me for product reviews and other things these days, but most of it's been low enough friction that I don't bother shutting it down on the app or whatever.

I wish Alexa was more programmable or less clunky for a casual enthusiast though, I set up a buncha things basically the first few years and slowly had it atrophy as other priorities in life took over...
Looks expensive.

Part of the problem is that the US has a lot of roads. So often, the comparison that is made is not “which guardrail is the best”, but, “which places can we budget to install a guardrail?”

This is why even though the safety of cable barriers is disputed, the overall number of lives saved by them is usually said to be quite positive, because we can afford to install more of them. Hitting a shitty cheap guardrail (or cable) is usually better than hitting a vehicle head-on or hitting a bridge support.

Also, those end caps on that guardrail are not considered a safe design and aren’t really used in the US anymore because they spear vehicles when hit directly on the end.
Whether intentionally or not, you're giving results of polls years after the invasion. Wars look very different after the fact. In the midst of the war you're surrounded by endless lies, misrepresentations, and propaganda. And most people simply follow along. After all, who wants to be called a Saddam shill?

Wiki has a series of poll results on public opinion of Iraq during after the war. [1] In May 2003, 79% of Americans thought the war was justified, regardless of whether or not WMD existed. And by the time the war had kicked off 90% of Americans believed it "at least somewhat likely" that WMD would be found.

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_in_the_United_S...
Which is a ludicrous, fringe viewpoint that verges on trolling when you go out of your way to bring it up in a discussion about safety barriers for motorways.
I have seen this happen twice at a smaller scale. Turnover is too high quantitatively and qualitatively to survive by hiring new people, so Musk's "solution" will probably be to oursource a lot of stuff to some consultancy firm. Twitter will almost inevitably rot within 5 years. But don't expect anything noticeable overnight.

Edit: also the reason Musk wants to shut down all those microservices has nothing to do with money, it's that he doesn't have enough manpower to maintain them. If Twitter is like most non FAANG out there those "microservices" are coupled with each other, so good luck.
Latexify: A library to generate LaTeX expression from Python code
RPCS3 emulator can play it at 120Hz, I recommend.
I could see it as a replacement for UberEats if it could get to a high level of convenience. E.g.

"Alexa, order two medium cheese pizzas from the closest Domino's for delivery."

"Okay, ordering two medium cheese pizzas from a Domino's 2.7 miles away for delivery as soon as possible, for $25. Is that correct?"

"Yes."

"Okay, ordering pizzas. It'll take around 40 minutes."

But you'd need a very high level of AI intelligence/integration to get to that level. As it stands you'd probably go back and forth a bunch of times as the AI quizzes you on exactly what you want, when you want it, from which restaurant, etc. And that would just kill the usability, to the point where it's better to just use your phone.
I want to subscribe to your future. Everyday I see more and more devices insist they require the Internet. Washing machines, TVs, thermostats. Seemingly the market for offline devices is limited. MBAs need that recurring revenue.
Automotive and aerospace are not that similar to social media. People buying into the vision of "get the planet off fossil fuels for transport" and "get this species to Mars" are probably willing to make sacrifices that people working on social media are not.

It's the Halo Effect fallacy to think competence in one field automatically translates to another. Especially when the founder in question has displayed increasingly erratic behavior in the meantime.

Is today's Elon capable of doing what Elon from 15 years ago did at Tesla? I don't think that is necessarily in evidence, much less in a very different industry.
We should tax the rich instead of deciding how many old people should be cut off of medicare.

Not taxing the rich is the same as handing them an entitlement, and it's much larger than anyone's SSI will ever be.
Not entirely true - vinyl physical restrictions do not allow for some modern trickery that makes sounds less soundy: https://www.yoursoundmatters.com/vinyl-vs-cd-in-the-loudness...
A Merger’s Collapse Breaks a Pattern of Consolidation in Publishing
Good luck arguing that in court, no matter how correct you are. Lawyers cost a lot of money.

Still, no one's going to sue you personally for this. However, there have been cases of legal action against those who make "hacking tools" available. I believe there was a case against Apex for their cheap DVD players that ignored region codes, for instance.

Anyway, the keyword here is "threatened". Corporate lawyers make all kinds of baseless legal threats all the time. It should be illegal.
I have far more contempt for the USA running proxy wars and meddling in border and ethnic disputes halfway across the world than I do for the principals involved in those border disputes.

When ethnic Russians in eastern Ukraine decided they didn’t want to be a part of Ukraine anymore, Ukraine shelled them. There aren’t any good guys over there. But there didnt need to be a war, and NATO didnt need to instigate it.
It's crazy to think a guy who builds reusable rockets thinks he can run a complex technology operation like Twitter.
Alexa Smart air quality monitor.
This vulnerable parser of attacker-controlled remote input was written from scratch in C in 2020, without a fuzz harness even though OpenSSL is critical infrastructure and is already hooked up to oss-fuzz.

It is simply difficult to reconcile these facts with the idea that it is a very good team doing very good work.
Were you happy with all the decisions twitter was making up until elon musk took over?
The Daughter of Dawn’s Vanished World
>while advertisers are fleeing because Trump is back on

[citation needed]

CNN's ratings were never better than under Trump. He's fantastic for advertising. So is Musk. All controversial figures are. That, oddly, isn't controversial in advertising.

>on a whim!

He created a public poll, and when people voted for Trump to be allowed back won, he unbanned him, tweeting "vox populi, vox dei" ("the will of the people is the will of god"). Had he unbanned him despite the poll saying "no" you could argue it was a whim, but that isn't the reality we're in. He also refused to unban Alex Jones, citing exploitation of child deaths and a personal story. Not unbanning Alex Jones was more whimsical than unbanning Trump was, factually speaking. Why do people always misrepresent his actions? And why is it always upvoted and not flagged here?
> 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.

This is a fair point, but part of this has to be how battle tested the language in question is, right?

Bringing in a single language that's been run through its paces (bourne shell in this case) for text processing, seems like a much lower risk than bringing in a dozen different languages and hoping the places that they interface doesn't blow up (hope someone tried that particular combination before).
I keep meaning to get Joe Yonan's
Cool Beans: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with the World's Most Versatile Plant-Based Protein, based on articles he's written (sorry, I'm on my phone, can't provide examples).
It’s a 128 bit integer - the serialization format does not change the fact.
As I said, a new form.

They already had billing integration, even if you're accessing it via a new route, and they already had a boolean on your account.

Like I said, not small, but not exactly huge either.
Pretty sure that the developers that are left will not be liable for anything unless they are knowingly participating in criminal activity such as criminal negligence that is the direct cause of someone getting seriously injured or killed.

Generally speaking prosecutors want to target the highest level individuals responsible for directing such activity in the first place, not low level implementers who have little say one way or the other.
Did the OP confirm Elon theory that most of the stuff is not needed?

> For four of those years I was the sole SRE for the Cache team. There was a few before me, and the whole team I worked with, where a bunch came and went. But for four years I was the one responsible for automation, reliability and operations in the team. I designed and implemented most of the tools that are keeping it running so I think I’m qualified to talk about it. (There might be only one or two other people)

If you only need one person for the caching department (which is, as I understand, is critical as it delivers most of the data); then maybe you need a handful other dozen engineers and there you have a functional Twitter.

That or the OP is full of himself. Kinda like Musk?
I also order stuff as it runs out.
Just private key is not enough bc of PFS - you need to intercept key exchange to grab a temporary session key
Why is that possible or legal? It feels like a loan for purchase of a company necessarily should belong to the purchasers of the company and be paid by the sale of the equity they bought or profit. This way just feels… rigged.
Sidewalks don't mean you're not allowed to walk on the street. Streets are for everyone, including cyclists and pedestrians.
<< Outside of NY though trump was largely seen as an affable caricature of a rich dude.

This is a very interesting statement to me. I am trying to recall conversations with my wife's side of the family, who supported Trump ( initially, mostly ) and their impression of him was almost exactly that ( plus, "he is a businessman so he knows the game" or something to that effect ). I am in in Chicagoland, but now I am curious if any serious study was done on whether that is how he was perceived as ( ideally before it became socially awkward to state your political affiliation openly ).

<< Their inner circles knew how rotten they both were, but outside of that they were largely unknown.

And that is the other interesting thing. Prior to whatever caused this change of hearts, I only saw impressions of Musk that were similar to impressions of Gates ( you know the ones - saving Africa or something; I know it reads awful, but I really don't remember what his PR presents him as ) - visionary making cameos in odd cultural vignettes ( I think he did one in 'Big Bang Theory' ). The articles describing his work style were very slowly bubbling up.

<< These things were mostly inclined to stay in the background until Musk elbowed his way into the spotlight.

And became too much of a power center himself.

I will need to sleep on it, but I think I agree with you.
I can turn it off or stow it away somewhere, and it’s fine. Not the most convenient to do that with Alexa
To use another sports example, I watched "The Last Dance" recently. There's footage of Dennis Rodman working out and he says to the camera, "Its not just basketball we have to deal with on this team... Its the pressure of the bullshit. I'll play the game for free. You get paid for the bullshit after. Basketball is a simple game, but when you leave this confined zone. Its hard."[1]

That's why people get disenchanted with programming (and with a lot of other things)! We love to do the actual core activity. We love it so much we do it for free. You get paid for having to deal with the pressure to succeed. And you get paid for having to do all the other stuff that comes along with it.

Its the other stuff that grates on you until you hate it.

[1] https://youtu.be/-Ythtg8ZVbY?t=166
Let don't kid ourselves here, even if Twitter crashes and needs a few weeks or even a few months to recover it doesn't matter. People who leaved will comeback again, after a year everything will be like nothing ever happened.

And even if Twitter lost 50% of it users and revenues, it is still more profitable than have to pay the salary of 7000 people.
> I guess it is strange for it to happen to a company of Twitter's size, but I think the big-news aspect of it has more to do with how much journalists use Twitter.

I think you hit on the the main point: the reason this is constantly in the mainstream media is because the mainstream media so heavily relied on/still relies on twitter[1].

If this were any other large company imploding in a Musk acquisition we'd see fewer stories about it because it affects journalists less.

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[1] It's going to be especially funny if journalists complain that "#LearnToCode" type of tweeters aren't getting banned, and get told in response to go off and create their own twitter.

No matter where in the political spectrum one may lie, it's always satisfying to see a group being fed their own lines back.
It's actually scary how many people, even engineers, put their reputation on the line saying Twitter wouldn't survive the weekend. It wasn't just Twitter employees.

It's like a mass psychosis of some kind. It comes off as a kind of desperation, as though they need Elon to fail.

Why? What's driving that response?
My first job out of college had layoffs 8 months in. I was called into a conference room, connected to a speakerphone with the rest of my team, immediately told that we were all laid off and that I had some paperwork to sign in my managers office.

I was given a 33% raise, moved to a salaried position, and got a $5000 cash bonus 10 minutes later.

I had mastered the new system we were implementing and converted and supported the remainder of the customers from the legacy system. Shitty support of the product my team of now one actually drove revenue as the customers would pay higher support prices because of the shitty support I offered.

The service I offered was shitty because my job was to meet minimal contractual obligations for multi-decade contracts to persuade the customers to renegotiate the contracts for a product that hadn't been EOL'd. All the while offering onsite conversion services from the legacy product for most of my day job.

What I'm saying is that company is still alive today, they had a pivot point and literally cut 55% of their employees on a single day.

Google wants to beat facebook still, there is one of a billionity pivot points that twitter could take.
With that amount of staff change, I’m not sure that service would inevitably come back up at all, in case of a serious enough problem.
What other country were the weapons provided by the Biden and Trump arms deals meant to be aimed at?
Seeing this reminded me of playing the sewer level in Stray. If you want to explore areas like this, but don't feel like traveling, then Stray is the game for you.
> Yeah, it's private equity 101. I can't believe it happens.

Why not? It's pretty good for all the stakeholders that have a say.

The old shareholders sold for a nice price.

The new ownership didn't have to pay for the whole thing.

The lender gets to charge a pretty good interest rate because there's a good chance of default. If they're lucky, they get repaid; if not, maybe they made enough in interest to make it worthwhile; maybe when it defaults, they'll be able to make something worthwhile out of the wreckage they got at a nicer price.

Leveraged buy outs aren't great for stakeholders that don't have a say. Employees usually get new terms worse than the old ones; in this case, there's been some severance at least. Customers get a promise of a big bang bankruptcy in the near to medium term, rather than a slow fizzle. Sometimes companies with a large payment they can't make can restructure, and sometimes they shutdown with little notice. As a private company without public accounting reports, there will be a lot of guessing about revenue and debt service.
Your Alexa has started talking to you and asking you for things, unprompted?
Purely from a safety standpoint, outright prohibiting bicycle traffic on motorized roads would be a massive improvement at the expense of inconveniencing a small minority of people (while improving the convenience for everyone else). I'm kind of surprised more states haven't done it yet.

But then you have the self-perpetuating problem of stigmatising cycling and promoting car use. Given the numerous advantages of promoting cycling for journeys where it's a reasonable alternative it seems quite understandable that governments wouldn't want to universally ban on-road cycling.
The Principal Engineer’s Handbook
Apple's App Store analytics may be able to identify users
Yes, it's always other peoples code that's the problem.
> The default, naive assumption should always have been programs keep running indefinitey on their own.

...for people who understand software to some extent. I get the feeling a lot of people see it more like a hamster wheel, where once the developers are gone it immediately starts noticeably slowing down as it stops (and are confused when that doesn't happen).