skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I found those in the inspector, sure. But I can't find them in the base64 encoded header.

Edit: Nevermind. I tried like 10 different online base64 decoders before, till I found one wich didn't show just garbage (maybe they all hiccup on the emojis?), but even that one didn't decode properly as it seems. Either the eleventh one now told me the whole truth, or I should've used curl -i from the start instead of copy/pasting from Firefox's developer tools.
We don’t know the code complexity.
I think Elon should invest in some internal tooling that Twitter can take advantage of, such as infrastructure management or ad dashboards.
Does freetaxusa support expats? I've been using a CPA since I couldn't find a website that was better. All of the websites offering to file, charge around $500.
Similarly, the first 100 pages of “The girl with the dragon tattoo” was just really dull and heavy to get through. Then the rest becomes good.

Interestingly they condensed those 100 pages into less than 5 minutes at the start of the film version of it.
> we take the security of our users’ data seriously

Clearly they don’t if staff are able to just access customer accounts.

SaaS companies really need to stop giving themselves access to customer accounts.
Elusive 'Buchdahl stars' are black holes without event horizons
Can you please give some insight into how this works? At the 'backend' do you have an army of tailors, or totally computer cut&stich operation or somewhere in between?
If they only intend to maintain it's basically dead - where is the turnaround going to come from ?
> This reminds me of the time I removed tyres from my car’s wheels. I want the predictability of my horse drawn cart back. A wheel breaks, I just take a hammer and some nails to it. Galvanised rubber and metallurgy is something I don’t understand so it must be bad.

I understand CSS and I've done a fair bit of webdesign myself. CSS has evolved to the point where it can be used abusively. Hell, some consider it turing complete (https://github.com/brandondong/css-turing-machine).

CSS can be used for ads, fingerprinting, and exploits. There are perfectly valid reasons for wanting a little less functionality while still allowing for some basic styling.

I mean, it's cool that there are computer games written in pure CSS and other neat tricks, but sometimes you just want a browser to behave itself even in hostile spaces. If that makes my heavily locked down browser a "horse drawn cart" I'm happy to trot forward.
I see it as some kind of mental training, puzzle or fun game. Find and engage in an opposing view, no matter the topic. Of course, do that without being negative, sarcastic but positive and solution oriented. Try to expand the space of options and opinions. And for extremist left/right politics, push it that far until nothing makes sense anymore, while confusing the author. And sometimes I learn something new from it. I think this does not work if you think you can't be wrong. I'm wrong all the time and I accept it without hurting my ego.
> That fight is in vain: like any fight between the aristocracy and bourgeoisie, the latter has the actual skill and knowledge to win...

Only because the former keeps believing the justifications and rules dished out against them by the latter. Its not different than the religion in middle ages and how the aristocrats and priesthood dished out justifications and rules to maintain the order.

Otherwise the former has the power to change everything in the democratic apparatus.
Smaller size than commercial power station reactors, easier to keep cool.
qntm (Sam Hughes) is a great, and if you like this style also check out Greg Egan.
Not available on my account
>> Is this article submitted because of this or is it (also) co-incidence?

The submission on HN is coincidence. I don't know about the publication of the article.
You could probably write it in a weekend /s
I was almost going to do that for one of my projects, I got my design right on time for chip crisis to start....

But yeah, even for something like 10 boards the prices for assembly has become pretty reasonable, especially if you design for the parts they have in stock.
If you don't have referential transparency mathematical equations don't hold. You can't be sure that `a = b` stays true if deducted once.

So "the problem" doesn't get only harder, it becomes impossible to solve in a formal way.
I'll continue to take whatever Musk says with a grain of sand.

Thank you.

For real though: He has proven time again that he lies on trivial matters.

Regrettably my trust in him telling the truth is at rock bottom now. It used to be at the same level as other marketing departments/generic politicians but dropped over time.
It is not about the underlying database structure, it is about complex, "branchy" relations and querying them, including properties of the relations themselves. Relational databases are not good with recursive join queries made against the same table. Reusing a recent example:

MATCH (a:Account)-[t:Transfer*]->(b:Account)
WHERE a.country = 'Canada' and b.name = 'John Doe II' and t.transfer_type = 'international'
RETURN a.ID

Which is… "show all accounts that have made international money transfers into John Doe II's account who lives in Canada. Source and target "table" is the same in this example.

It is much simpler and more efficient to use a graph database especially to make a complex query where a leaf node circles back either to a "source" or to any intermediate node using the same or a new relationship. SQL will look nightmarish and will likely require manual hints to the query planner / optimiser.

Graph databases also allow to add (as well as delete) new relationships in an incremental and non-invasive fashion, as they become discovered – a useful feature for the analysis of a large or unknown dataset.

Graph databases require valid use cases, though, and they are not a generic substitute for a RDBMS (or for a random NoSQL database).
Tweak New Twitter – Chromium extension to remove For you, adds other options
I'd really like to see someone smart trying to estimate what 550 engineers are working at Twitter on. It still seems like plenty.
It sounded to me as if they are about to create more jobs (prompt engineering), not less..
Every year I ask, and every year I'm disappointed, but does any good solution exist for expats? I know I shouldn't be paying taxes, since I earn under the exception limit. But I don't know all the forms I should fill out, and all of the websites dedicated to expats are expensive, almost $500.
Works fine on Android with Kiwi Browser.
Not very, that's why I always run multiple brokers.
TCI encourages Google to do further headcount reductions [pdf]
Ah, I see, misunderstanding on my side, also didn't see the old version. Sorry! :)
Punishment isn’t only about the crime in the past. Punishment is used as deterrence against possible future crimes by others - to show what will happen if they do something similar
Gas cooled reactors, CANDU reactors, molten salt (fuel and/or cooling), fast (breeder) reactors, molten metal cooling, etc. Probably some others too.
Generally speaking, it shouldn't be used to implement features that the browser ought to handle, like font support. The criticizm does not seem to apply here.
There's a lot of products placement that nowadays are obsolete, but the story is still good.
base64 encoded url thingy
I wrote about it at https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/12/you-dont-need-html/

I tested with a bunch of browsers on mobile and desktop - some browsers forced a download of plain text and / or wouldn't render the characters properly.

Some browsers assume the server is lying and think they know best.
This bothered me too! Although all pixel calculation in the code uses integers only, unfortunately HTML5 Canvas can by itself perform subpixel rendering and anti-aliasing. I could not find a way to disable it. If there is a known solution to this that does not add too much complexity to the code, I would love a pull request for it at https://github.com/susam/invaders.
12 Assumptions for Extraterrestrial Life
that did 0.1% of what users use it for, and for a joke. Did you not read the article ? Maybe if you did you'd understand my reaction.
The down-votes are likely because the example isn't anyhow good.

But the idea to have static prototype types is imho quite interesting on its own. I was thinking a lot about that in the past.

I would love to have JS like objects—but in a static context.

Row polymorphism and extensible records are close but still not there actually.
The media definitely knew they are exaggerating nonsense, but they wanted to convince people and advertisers to leave Twitter, and all this scaremongering helped.
OVH fits nicely in a niche where AAG are either too costly or requiring extra skills to add to on-prem Infra folks.
I was referring to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_submarine_B-59
A look into OpenAI's soon to launch GPT-4
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34465542
I've worked with a -5x programmer who was so terrible the damage they did required another 5x programmer just to neutralize their backwards progress.
This story convinced me to buy two of the author's novels, "There Is No Antimemetics Division" and "Ra", both of which I also thoroughly enjoyed, the former a little more.
This trite argument made some sense when there were 8000 engineers, but when the 4th most popular social media platform has only 550 engineers working on it, you don’t need to dig deep to figure out how so many engineers are needed.

Even the famously nimble WhatsApp which has fewer features and complexity needs this order of magnitude engineers so why would you expect Twitter to be leaner?
As advice is always super specific and would require me to learn much more about you, I will just share my story first and say yes it's possible:

- German

- spend youth with coding and drumming mostly

- got a bachelor in jazz drums

- got a bachelor in architecture (and got interested in entrepreneurship)

- failed first startup attempts

- worked in architecture for short time

- switched into a commercial real estate development job at 29

- founded a proptech startup by 31, headed product development and later tech there. It worked but didn't take off enough and will therefore be "sold" for close to nothing

- took a part time job in commercial real estate again with 2-3x last salary at a large cooperation (bureaucratic)

- constantly on the lookout for new business opportunities since then (suggestions welcome). I'm also considering leaving job for something less corporate and more at the crossover between tech and real estate.

It can be a mental struggle to switch back and forth, especially since you don't get to the point of directing all your energy into the "one right thing", most people feel the need for in their thirties.
At the same time for me, having a well paid job that isn't fulfilling can glue you in as much as a unemployment, as there is more risk involved. Comparing to others is the underlying poisonous thing here, I guess.

I still idealize running my own business, as I tasted that juice and loved it, but getting more risk averse with upcoming recession too and yes I know I'm pretty lucky of from an outside perspective.

One generic piece of advice I saw on hacker news a while back is "if you struggle between multiple options for long and don't know what to choose just flip a coin, as outcomes might be similar with information at hand", just get going with something. People on HN will be able to help you with "how", but "if your should try"?

You won't be the only human on earth, that doesn't have talents or can't look back and find moments in your life, where you were in some kind of flow while working or felt a deep passion for something. You will get there, you can do it!

Sometimes a weird looking CV is our reason for not even trying. Isn't there some story you can create around your cv to pitch to employers? There must be. Sure there is hope. But that's where you start, find a forward perspective and start applying. If you don't roll the dice, they can't show a six. If you don't start folding the paper, it will never be an airplane.

Best and I hope 2023 well be a pivotal year for you! Thorsten
Beyond fans: AirJet’s radical CPU cooling chips can double laptop performance
Thank rook for that
The 'For You' tab gives you what was the default feed. This is the feed that includes Tweets from accounts which you do not follow, etc.

It's the 'Following' tab that gives you the old 'latest Tweets first' feed.
Then why hire when you are so desperate to 'trim down the fat'.

The firings aren't performanced based. So really all you're doing is reducing so you can waste billions on hiring again in 2025.
Probably exactly what both Elon and George Hotz thought, thankfully these people saying that don’t have 50 billion to spare to bet on that unsubstantiated argument.
Damn I had completely forgotten about this game.
While the concept is neat, I struggle a bit to see how it can be useful in practice. Do you have an example for the sufficiently constrained case? That sounds like the most interesting case by far.
Typical reactionary nonsense from The Register. Obviously big tech isn’t a charity, but the article talks about 600M without even electricity and then effectively claims they’d be better off without infrastructure investment.
This is nice vut not impressuve. We have had Quake Live on the browser years ago.
While tax filing in the US might be more Byzantine, I’m happy with the trade off of paying lower taxes, relative to most countries with such streamlined taxes.

Put differently, if I’m paying very high tax rates, of course I’ll be doubly pissed off if it is also arduous to file.
I've spent countless of hours using ChatGPT but it is so neutered and inaccessible that I don't even bother loading the site anymore. I don't see OpenAI as a major player in this space.

Alphagoo could still dominate the GAI space considering they have the superior data network and product eco system. If they are so bothered by how Google might be affected by the unknown unknowns (AI hallucinations, reputation damage etc), they could offer their GAIs under a new brand/company. They have the product expertise to pull this off, they just need to think outside of the Google box.
Docker isn't sufficient because it just manages a process. Something "outside" has to tell it what port to run on.

So the next question is, do you learn docker-swarm? Docker-compose? Puppet? Chef? Vagrant? It's all too much.

If you just know docker and k8s I think you're in a pretty good platform-independent and future-proof position.
> Tbh this is totally reasonable.

From whose point of view?

> You can't have an alternative client which is ad free competing with your own service

That consideration is irrelevant for the end user. It is up to Twitter to design their business in a way which is sustainable.
Nice try.
But FBI never controls the congress. Making FBI happy won't stop congress doing anything to apple.
> So take it with a grain of salt.

Funding secured!
> So your system in perfect weather has a performance ratio of around 80% of what an average system optimized for total power would produce on average over the month

Sorry buddy, the level of ignorance you continue to exhibit about real-life solar is astounding. The fact that you say tuff like this continues to show you are what I call a “google search expert”. Go build something. Learn. Maybe then you’ll understand. You also have to learn to listen to people who know more than you think you know.

Perfect solar only exists in fantasy land. In the real world things are different. Nobody has a system on their roof that Mets your fantasy specifications. Nobody.

You mentioned Singapore. One of our customers has a 300 kW solar array there. Care to guess how much power they actually generate. Hint: Rain. Lots of rain.
Headcount includes a lot of people who aren't engineers.
They are terrible for everyone involved.

- Terrible for those who lose their jobs and lifelihood
- Terrible for those who in the process lose their visa/life they know
- Terrible for those remaining as they are anxious to be next
- Terrible for the company as the best people will now look for a job elsewhere (before the axe hits them)
- Terrible for the company as anxiety leads to less effective employees
Now you need to convince Americans to hand out their SSN.
Also the Bobiverse novels

https://www.goodreads.com/series/192752-bobiverse
Wait out an appeal at their home. Rich people have fancier homes? Boo hoo.
I've just read it. Wow you're right.
> Unicode Corporation

There is an Emoji Corporation [1], which as far as I can tell exists to try and trick people into thinking they've got to pay them to use emojis. Looks like they got some Danegeld out of Sony Pictures for the Emoji movie.

[1] https://www.emoji.com/
It might not be obvious, but the specified squares are "all the squares in the order right to left, top to bottom without those the queen can attack" as the text instructs.
The app staying up is a testament to the robust engineering that the team did in previous years. If it'd fallen over immediately that would be a sign that the engineers did a bad job.

The fact Twitter hasn't died shows that Elon fired a good engineering team.
It's just weird to me how often people who have their own websites and are perfectly capable of self-hosting demos of things that don't require javascript make the decision to instead use a website to showcase them that requires JS to work or be visible at all.

I fully understand my configuration is unusual. I don't think it's unusual to expect that a certain number of people who don't use JS would be interested in a site that offers cool CSS tricks that don't require it, so it's strange to see those same people being unnecessarily excluded. To the writer's credit they have some source available in their article at least.
Show HN: A boilerplate for your next TypeScript based API
It didn't sound like a $44 billion company when Elon made the offer.
Which they can pay all back TODAY if they want to. Not tomorrow, not in 10 years. Today. That's how much money they have in the bank.
All the people in this thread saying how few engineers are needed to run Twitter and how it seems more than enough……

Ha ha…. I bet you’re thinking it’d be better rewritten in Ruby on Rails!
WhatsApp having less complexity? Care to elaborate on that?

I'm aware they scaled to 1B+ users with ~100 engineers but I'm failing to see why they'd be working on less complex problems.
That’s a valid and common replacement for German umlauts
Just played through Lil Gator Game with my 3.5y old and she loved it.
This contradicts the comment I responded to, though. The scenario is that we've already failed to keep it cool.
>The 10x programmer doesn't exist.

>I agree there is a normal distribution

Pick a lane.
Yes it is sad. Cause No body wants a Nuclear War and 40 million refugees off the coast of Australia.
Yea it used to be a toggle and now it's two tabs.
Google is a growth, not a value stock. They don't pay dividends.

You don't grow with fewer people who can put out fewer products.
Didn't WhatsApp had like 50 employees in total when they were sold to Facebook?
"Twitter’s collapse into an unusable wreck is some time off, the engineer says"

Your own citation even fails to agree with you deranged premise.
This is brilliant!! 10/10 would hang... and that's dog person talking
> I bet you’re thinking it’d be better rewritten in Ruby on Rails!

I'm not sure if this is a joke, an old Twttr reference, or just ignorance. But early Twitter was Ruby on Rails.
I don't think those groups are the same except perhaps in your mind. If you have some evidence otherwise it might be worth providing it.

Secondly, those positions are not mutually exclusive or even intellectually inconsistent. You can think there are too many people in jail general (eg for certain crimes and certain groups in society) and still think that for certain specific cases, jail is appropriate.

Thirdly, as a sibling has pointed out, protection of society is not the only or even the primary reason a jail sentence might be appropriate in a given case. I believe prosecutors believe flight risk is the primary reason jail is appropriate in this case, at least partly because her partner bought a ticket to Mexico in January for her which was only cancelled after the government intervened.[1] Her counsel said it was in expectation of being found not guilty so she was able to attend a friend's wedding but the bummer for that theory is that it was a one-way ticket.

[1] https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/elizabeth-hol...
Wow, this vizualization is amazing!
WhatsApp had a surprisingly small number of engineers upon acquisition - around 50 or so?
Well, and it wasn't. Which even Elon realized soon enough after believing it long enough to sign a binding acquisition agreement.
WhatsApp had 55 employees and was acquired for $22 billion (IIRC).

Seems like 550 engineers could be plenty productive if in the right scenario (emphasis on if).
Standard library works everywhere the implementation exists, modules is hit and miss regarding supported platforms.

A moribund API provides me more value than one that doesn't exist at all.

That usual meme against rich standard libraries keeps forgetting that tiny and very important property of standard libraries.
Curious that this article could just as well have the headline "how to cooperate better with that one particularly dense colleague".
Yes. Probably the most scary thing is that this part is becoming more and more true as well.
> “Never debate stupid. Bystanders will not distinguish between your salient words and your own. They’ll just see two seemingly educated people arguing and assume their points are equally valid.“

This is foolish because if you just let things stand, then they see only one seemingly educated person making an equally valid point, rather than two, which is worse. Like in this example right now, I could have let your point stand and not corrected it, then a lot of people would have taken it to heart rather than reconsidering like some are as they read this.
"Lies" implies deliberate rather than in error. This is much harder to demonstrate even when it is correct.

In either case, still a good reason to take with a grain of salt, though one should do that for everyone anyway unless they're talking about their specialist subject.
I was able to get this microcontroller into deep sleep of the range of a few microamps, and would always reliably wake up from the RTC interrupt. I wonder what caused your issues ?
and the CTO was fired for keeping it in RoR.
Being able to work on both the client and the server side at once is worth at least 5x, since you're not at the mercy of somebody else to get things done from end-to-end.
Begun?! The cloud always swallowed the world.

Between custom hardware, proprietary SaaS and other lock-in tricks computing reverted to the level of closedness of mainframes.
Exactly this.

Good talent is hard to hire. These company have more cash than brains or ideas. So even if there's a recession, a few months/quarters means nothing considering their war chest. And it's not worth firing people in January if you need them again in October.
You don't need 550 engineers to build Twitter, the 140 character-message app.

Unfortunately, there's a lot more than building a messaging app to running Twitter, the business that sells ads next to those messages.
Still; numbers. I do not use Twitter, but the web app is relatively simple; I am not hearing much good about the mobile apps. So we got what; maybe 30 people working on the frontends?

I do not think Twitter had ever 8000 engineers - my understanding is that there were that many employees. It's easy to imagine a lot of non-tech roles, b2b sales, management, support etc.