skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Widespread Twitter 2FA issue “We cannot send a text message to this phone” error
Lots of reports users locked out of accounts due to 2FA codes not being sent, error appears wrong ( We cannot send a text message to this phone number because its operator is not supported) as Twitter is not even firing the code. UK and India users mainly surfacing for problem.

https://twitter.com/search?q=%20We%20cannot%20send%20a%20text%20message%20to%20this%20phone%20number%20because%20its%20operator%20is%20not%20supported&src=recent_search_click&f=live

Do NOT reset passwords without removing phone first or you will be logged out totally without a way in.
Tesla also got funded through zero-emissions vehicle credits so I'd say the problem is always political. Same for the Staged combustion cycle engines, wouldn't it been for the US gov access to the N1 descendants I seriously doubt they'd been able to make such a progress.

Not sure why it should be different for a company like Twitter dependant on global access.
> CI/CD has no business changing your code; it builds stuff using it, exactly as if commit such-and-such.

That going too far unless you define code to be a subset of the files checked into the repository and simply define any file that's touched in an automated manner to be not code

There are a lot of useful automations that can be part of the CI/CD pipeline, such as increasing a version number, generating a changelog, creating new deployment configuration etc

They don't have to be part of it and it's possible to work around it/don't commit... But that comes with it's own challenges and issues
For those people who use a high workstation, what is the typical price? I feel like people spending more than 10k on a machine must not be bothered, they want the performance
They did in fact build PC clones from the 1980s onwards, starting with the XT compatible PC-10 and the AT compatible PC-20. These were made in Germany, IIRC. Apparently they weren't bad, but back then I didn't understand the point when they had the much more powerful Amiga platform.
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Lex is great. Eurodollar University has been a great way to get some alternative insight into the shadow banking system and how the central banks of the world are mostly working on an entirely outdated idea of how the world works that hasn't been accurate since the 50s or so (and explains why so much of what they're doing on a regular basis fails so badly).

Around the Empire has mostly been quite good for following some geopolitical goings on -- the host is somewhat left leaning and anti-war, so be warned if your political sensibilities will be ruffled.

I also enjoy Gold, Goats, and Guns, but if you're big on masks and/or mRNA vaccines this one likely will offend. Same with Geopolitics and Empire, who admittedly brings on plenty of guests he doesn't himself agree with, so some episodes are better than others.

Other than that, I just catch a bunch of Bloomberg, Motley Fool, and a blend of mainstream news just to keep things rounded out.

On another note though, if your workouts are on a treadmill or elliptical or otherwise prone to being in front of a TV, I've recently started auditing a class on Coursera, and have found it to be a great way to work out my body and mind all at the same time. I'm auditing The Economics of Money and Banking from Columbia University, taught by Perry Mehrling at the moment, and it's done wonders to fill in a lot of gaps in my understanding having learned most of what I know about the monetary system piecemeal rather than methodically in the past.
At the time a single seat of PowerAnimator, the predecessor to Maya, cost $50k-$60k. $30k was for the SGI machine to run it and the other half was the software license.

Microsoft bought Softimage, one of the top competitors to Maya at the time. They charged iirc $4k or $8k and a PC to run it would run $4k-$5k

Softimage is long gone but it's what Valve used for the Source Engine and Half Life 2
It's notable that there haven't been technical difficulties as a result of the world cup traffic. The worst I've seen reported is that 2FA codes on certain mobile carriers no longer work.

But Twitter can't claim its policies on content have been a success because the World Cup was popular, the two are unrelated.
I see two potential outcomes:

1.) Twitter becomes an echo chamber for the alt-right.

2.) Twitter dies.
> I love python but this is exactly why I prioritize languages that don't churn out new drastic features quickly.

What do you mean by "drastic" features "quickly"? Python releases new version once a year these days, and upgrading our Django-based source code with 150 dependencies from 3.4 to 3.11 literally meant switching out the python version in our CI configuration and README.rst every once in a while, no code changes were necessary for any of those jumps...

Our developer README also contains a guide how to set-up and use pyenv and it's virtualenv plugin which makes installing new python versions and managing virtualenvs easy, just pyenv install, pyenv virtualenv, pyenv local, and your shell automatically uses the correct virtualenv whenever you're anywhere inside your project folder...

jumping to python3 was big, but you had plenty of time to prepare for that and plenty of good utilities to make the jump easier (2to3, six, ...). python2.7 itself was released 18 months after python3.0, and by the time python2.7's support ended, python3.8 was already out...
They have a run rate > 4 billion a year even after all those layoffs? What will it look like after they are done paying out severance packages?
> Am I weird or overprotective with this? How do you feel about the whole camera-on issue?

A requirement for camera always-on just show that the corporation don't trust you. I would never even consider working there.

I have a decent cam mounted above my monitor, good lightning, and an interesting background behind me, designed for online meetings. When I turn the cam on, people who see me for the first time will not be distracted by dirty laundry or a messed up living room, or some greenish or bluish reflection from the walls (or some Elon Muskish red head floating in a dark void). I will look OK (or at least not worse than I do in real life), and the scenery will be better than average. This makes it OK for me to turn on the camera in the first place.

For 1x1 meetings and meetings with just a few people, I find camera on to be effective. Body-language is important to understand the participants perspective of the conversation.

For meetings with many people, I usually keep my cam off, or on only when I speak. For example; in online town-halls and other long meetings with 20+ people, I don't feel a need to communicate trough my body-language how inaccurate some statements sound, or how boring some presenters feel. It also give me an opportunity to keep the sound on, while doing something useful.
Trust funds: Pierce the Checker (Peersa) said, "The dead cannot own money. The courts decided that long ago."

"Corsicles" had to pay The State back for storage and resurrection, as you mentioned, which was the reasoning behind the Bussard Ramjet training Corbell received.

Niven sidestepped the whole "how to correctly resurrect a frozen person" problem by claiming that Corbell's memory/personality were somehow extracted from his corpse (destroying the body completely), and then used to reanimate a convicted felon. If Corbell failed his training, the felon's mind would be wiped and another corpsicle's personality would be tried.

That book introduced so many big ideas to the young me. It was the first Niven book I'd read; Ringworld was the second.
Also the death screen in single-player, and I remember being impressed by the effect.
The term "jaywalking" itself is of US origin. Most of the rest of the English-speaking world doesn't have any offence by that name. While they do tend to have certain traffic regulations prohibiting pedestrians from crossing a road in an unsafe manner, those regulations are generally narrower in scope than many "jaywalking" laws in the US are.
You just described the same thing twice.
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Does this apply to those with abnormalities and defects like ADHD and autism?

Are they just faking being crazy in order to get an advantage? Like in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?

Or are they secretly trying to oppress us by forcing us normal people to live by their stupid, made up and malicious rules? Like in that Harrison Bergerson story.

Why would they do something so evil, so corrupting to society? Is sociopathy a common symptom of these mental disorders? Is that why they're all potential school shooters? Or are most of them harmless freaks but the accomodations put in place for the rare genuine basket case are being exploited by a whole bunch of sociopaths that aren't even defective just lazy and they're playing the system to disavantage normal people who are just literally better at basic tasks than they are?

Where will it end. "Oh look at me, I can't concentrate in an open office because someone might make smalltalk or eye contact with me. I'm so triggered we all have to work from home and have less meetings".

What are they plotting to do once they have reduced as all down to their pathetic level?
I think you can work on this a bit. Henry Ford was an accomplished anti-Semite.
I caught such on camera about 10-12 years ago in southern Sweden. Though curious enough for me to go get my camera, at the time they didn't strike me as rare as I had seen them form before.
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Actually it does do that, since about 2010: https://www.anandtech.com/show/3972/nvidia-gtc-2010-wrapup/3

RDP doesn't perform even 0x better than the competition, like parsec.
Well, OTOH Elon cannot run for POTUS , so this is kind of a second best. But he can really have some political influcence if he (a) clones substack into twitter and (b) hires a bunch of journalists from Nytimes & Wapo to make twitter his own publication.
Perhaps, I guess it depends on how much of the data we generate (tweets, video, blogs, text messages etc) survives into the future.
There is a list of partners [0], I thought I had seen regexes at some point but I can no longer find them.

[0]: https://docs.github.com/en/enterprise-cloud@latest/code-secu...
You're judging way too early.

Advertisers will come back in a few months as long as Twitter stays alive and activity lever rises.

There are other revenue sources being planned (Twitter Blue is not the only one).

Now, obviously, it might fail, but it's too early to tell. Too many people want it to fail, that's for sure, but many people want it to succeed.

The doomsayers said Twitter will go offline because so many staff were fired. That didn't happen. In fact there are signs that the opposite is happening.
Why not grand-grand-children? Current point looks like optimum, but it's really arbitrary and imposed only by external constraint of length of human life.
Yeah, nobody's suggesting having the rapid ticking occur continuously. I have no idea where you got that from
Segregated bike lanes. I am happy cycling on most roads but sometimes it’s hairy and dark and cars are as being particularly aggressive and fast so I’ll pop on the pavement until it’s a calmer road. With cycle lanes it’s much nicer, there’s a new one between Greenwich and Tower Bridge just opened and it’s so bloody nice!
I agree that you can only judge success ex post facto. We’d all be millionaires if we correctly called shots and could bet perfectly on stocks, for example.

I think you highlight the problem in the middle of your blurb though:

> Now, for sure, some moves were really dumb mistakes, like suspending people for advertising their Mastodon profile

The “dumb mistakes” are happening at a vastly increased rate these days. The fact that you say you will do stupid things before doing them does not justify them and a drastic uptick in the rate they are made is concerning.

So while I’ll admit that there is a chance that most people are wrong and this situation will turn itself around, I’ve yet to see a sign that gives confidence in the new direction of the company.
What's the current state of the art of managing multiple virtual environments, running tests and running your application?

On Ubuntu and Windows I use Poetry [0], and it works, although it has (had?) some quirks during the installation on Windows.
I liked its portability and lockfile format though.

A few years ago I used conda [1], which was nice because it came batteries included especially for Deep Learning stuff.
I switched because it felt way to heavy for porting scripts and small applications to constrained devices like a Raspberry Pi.

And then there are also Docker Images, which I use if I want to give an application to somebody that "just works".

What's your method of choice?

[0] https://python-poetry.org/

[1] https://www.anaconda.com/
Harsh? Truth... Commodore under Irving Gould and Mehdi Ali was a sinking ship due to severe mismanagement.
The Mac Pro is already in the extreme niche. The current Intel-based Mac Pro starts at $6000.

That almost-doubling from the already insanely expensive machine could push it past a breaking point for a lot of current customers though, I don't know.
I'm always... astonished? Surprised? Amazed? At how incredibly stupid certain decision taken by governments or local authorities can be.

"what were they thinking?" is what pops in my head. Am I alone in this?
Looks interesting, i also like the README and the provided demos. The development seems to have been done by a single dev for the last three years. Impressive!

The line-of-sight demo appears to be buggy on Firefox, however: A box behind a closer box that blocks the view is marked as red.

There's no mention of networking so i guess multiplayer is not inside its current scope?
Why didn't it die when it was an echo chamber for the alt-left? Are you saying that the alt-left is more numerous, or more acceptable to advertisers?
Under his picure, you get the explanation.

Tom Forsyth
GPU designer and gfx coder

Gfx coder and chip designer. Worked at Oculus, Valve, RAD, Muckyfoot, 3Dlabs, now back at Intel. Blade2, Larrabee, TF2, VR and many other atrocities.
I wonder if the possibilities include "garbage, from some other register due to register renaming". Certainly not data leaked from some unmapped memory, but it can still be garbage.
"My emotional response is your responsibility" is incredibly similar to what abusers tell their victims. "This is your fault, you made me angry".
This is true.

You can have bad unittests which make the system worse and you would be better of without them.
You can also have useless unittests with 100% coverage, which is pretty much the same as bad tests because more code means more bugs and more work. Unittests are also code after all.

The only thing you can say about a very low coverage is that you probably don't have good tests. That's not a very useful metric, since you likely already know that.

The metric 'coverage' is almost useless. Code coverage starts to be useful once you let go of it as a goal and ignore the total percentage number. I found it is very useful though if you can generate detailed reports on each line of code or better yet, each branch in the code, indicating whether that line or branch is tested. Eyeball all the lines which don't have tests and ask yourself: would it be useful to add a test exercising this codepath? How do I make sure it works and what cases can I think of that could go wrong? This doesn't automatically lead to good tests, but it helps you spot where you should focus your testing efforts.

Code coverage is a good tool to help think of test cases, as a metric for the total codebase it is nearly useless.
How often do you lose you balance and what direction if I may ask? Not sure how I'm supposed to hit my head on a bike unless a car hits me. If you lose balance that often leave it at home.
Helmet is good especially for the latter reason but a bicycle goes 20kmh and if you fall you don't die, just get your knees hurt or something.
No one owns random strings. They can claim whatever they want to be "their" tokens
You somehow managed to be wrong, while calling me out on being wrong... Amazing
30 network requests and 13 script requests to display some text on a page??? Surely this is not the most efficient way to do this???
Built-in MIDI and the excellent 100Hz monochrome screen were very strong selling points for the ST back then, for different niches of the market. Especially given the strong audio capabilities of the Amiga, including a MIDI interface should have been a no-brainer for Commodore to position it in the music production industry. On the other end of the market, the always slightly flickering 1081/1084 color monitor made the Amiga not very suitable for an 8 hour office job.
So the solution is to have the equivalent of a mass genocide in old people? I would much, much, much rather be alive in a fucked up world than dead in a nice world.
If you're writing a standard library from scratch, they can be important in data structure or algorithms that are expected to be in hot loops.
This is a (common) fallacy that could be applied to any funding or focus decision. It reduces to "Why focus on X when Y is more important?". You could use your same examples here as an argument for why not to support space exploration, or environmental conservation, for example.
I really don’t think kindness is the root of this sort of thing. I’ve had the displeasure of working with folks in the past that push this sort of thing and I could hardly describe any of them as kind people, quite the contrary.
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They used to be a symbol of peace throughout the world (the Northern hemisphere at any rate), but then a genocidal madman abused them as a symbol of violence and hate. Unfortunately, most uses of that symbol even in present-day U.S. still come from idiots wishing to emulate the aforementioned madman in glorifying violence and hate. There are some highly notable exceptions, e.g. in Native contexts but they're not nearly enough to reappropriate the symbol to good use, and this will likely remain the case for the foreseeable future.

Also, rumor has it that what Kanye posted is actually the official logo for some weird UFO religion called Raelism. (Be warned that the Wikipedia article on them prominently displays that logo. You'll probably want to not look at it and/or engage at your own pace, so as to avoid any offense.)
There is a very good signal theoretic framework to discuss this.

You can start reading from example Alvy Ray Smith's "A pixel is not a little square" http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf

But in the end, the sampling kernel you choose to sample your line, and, what sort of geometric primitive your line is in the first place, defaults back to matters of taste so there is a very good theoretical basis for discussing all of this, but, there is no ultimate absolutely correct answer that it will provide.
No, not weird. IMHO there is occasionally a place for having the camera on, but if that doesn't work for someone in that moment then so be it.
I think this is true for many, but it is not true for all. Some of us would thrive in these new circumstances. I am extremely inflexible when it comes to emotions. There is more to it, but the way I've explained it to others is that my clock for emotions ticks 10 times slower compared to them. That is, if I develop emotions at all. This is something that has affected every aspect of my life for as long as I can remember. There doesn't seem to be a way to "fix" it, but for a long time I've considered "more time" to be the best way to accommodate it and for me to live life at the pace that works for me. Obviously, I won't know until I try, but I would very much appreciate the chance to get a shot at it. And, much like the parent commenter, I am very eager to see more of this world before leaving it. Whatever may or may not come after isn't going anywhere, so might as well take some time.
I always thought it is related to "quetschen" (squeezing). A kvetsh is somebody who is being squeezed and winces or squeaks (and incidentally, to squeak=quietschen).
You're forgetting the M? Max monicker. I would love to run an M1 Max Mac Max.
Musk says Twitter "has been in the fast lane to bankruptcy since May". That's an actual quote[1].

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1604626103326253056
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And the reason why fractionally accurate endpoints matter is that they affect what exact pixels get drawn, which in turn makes animation look much smoother. Eg. a line that "crawls" from 0 to 6 as the endpoints move fractionally upward looks much less jittery than a line that's always 3.

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I can totally still read my 35+ years old Workbench disks, which have been booted from hundreds of times. It's amazing, really.
This line you keep telling yourself about it being too early to tell is because you don’t seem to have any kind of business or advertising background.

It is obvious and has been for weeks now to those who do.

I assure you these are going to be unrecoverable failures for as long as Elon is at the wheel.

At best he will be able to sell it for a tiny fraction of what he paid. At worst he might take down Tesla with him considering he just alienated his entire target market of people who were actually likely to buy an electric vehicle in the next 5 years.

(Context: https://www.cnet.com/tech/tesla-buyers-are-bailing-because-o...)
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Good analogy. However vortex for as long as it exists is not meaningless. It can do things and it's perfectly reasonable that it's in its interest to keep existing so it can keep doing things.

So there is "you" as there is a "vortex". It's not just a language construct. It's a language construct that describes impactful but sadly transient phenomenon.
Apple's product naming getting ... complicated?

On the other hand, compared to just about every other computer/tech company out there I find it by far the easiest and most sane. Is the 15" MSI GE67 better or worse than the 15" MSI Bravo 15? And where does the MSI GP67 fit into the whole picture?
I'd be incredibly interested to hear the rationale for this decision. Seems like an obviously disastrous idea.
Is there a summary of the 17 minute video?
PhD isn't any better - the Ph stands for "philosophy", which ostensibly is about "love for wisdom", but it's clear etymologically that phílos + sophía isn't exactly ungendered.
That’s a good point. But it’s clear that a Republican government working to suppress “free speech” on Twitter isn’t something they are going to write. Or how everyone was wrong about the suppression of the Hunter stuff.

Yeah, Republicans getting the kid gloves one again.
Linux Mint 21.1 “Vera” MATE released
Nothing special. I read the Microsoft RDP client is the best one for Android, so just used its defaults.
Even if we manage to keep our neurons and connections young forever, they are limited.

My guess is that we’ll inevitably begin to forget the older, less important stuff even with a completely healthy brain simply due to size constrain.