skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my (admittedly limited) experience there's quite an overlap in expertise between the better-informed illicit experimenters and the left side of the bell curve for psychiatric professionals.
Nations absolutely have strong hierarchical relationships with one another. The US, for example, tends to use a lot of strong-arm tactics in its foreign policy in order to force smaller nations to toe the line.

If that's the sort of society anarchists envision for individuals, I have to say they're not being very ambitious!
My first boss in tech made us all perform interviews. He always used to say that if it's on their resume, it's fair game passcode. We wouldn't judge you for not knowing something, but we would judge you for saying you need something that you didn't know.
> There must have been an insane nest of logic that the devs had to tiptoe through to make the service workable as a private only service.

It seems that this statement can lead to different conclusions based on one's biases for or against Musk / freedom of speech:

1) The code base is a mess because the smaller, current team don't know what they're doing and/or management (i.e. Musk) is pushing them too hard and making poor decisions

2) The code base is a mess because the far greater number of engineers there before didn't know what they were doing and/or management weren't pushing them hard enough and were making poor decisions.

Both could be true but I'm going with something the more complex view that it's a little bit of everything, and that Twitter does seem to be moving in a positive direction overall.
Anyone else feel as if the title and first few paragraphs give more credit to SpaceX rather than the Euclid team?

SpaceX launches things all the time; I feel Euclid is the impressive bit here.
Incase it's not obvious yet, I would also be interested.
Yeah he dumped a fair bit about GOOL, the precursor to GOAL for Crash Bandicoot, but not a peep about GOAL. Funny to see this on HN because I was just looking into all of this yesterday. I wish these old games could get a source release so we could just see the magic. PS1/PS2 era Naughty Dog and Insomniac were on another level. The decompiled GOAL code that's available is neat but it clearly is the code after macro expansion and potentially other passes have been done so it's no substitute for the original source.
Yeah, this reads like some ham-fisted "my first SEO!" attempt.
Because Gruber used a different convention?

> While Markdown’s syntax has been influenced by several existing text-to-HTML filters — including Setext, atx, Textile, reStructuredText, Grutatext, and EtText — the single biggest source of inspiration for Markdown’s syntax is the format of plain text email.
I'd imagine technically it's 100% if you're in a district where possession is criminalized.
Implying clinical pathology, from "cope!" to "you need therapy", is the hallmark of modern online rhetoric
Tbh Cryptography Engineering by Niels Ferguson is a very good and practical intro to this topic.
The fact that the Australian Tax Office uses this method should not preclude me, a resident of a one party consent state, from recording a phone call.

In fact, the fact that the Australian Tax Office used a security method that is highly flawed should not preclude me from recording a phone call.
Could you have done it yourself though? Pretty curious what the unique insight here is. Some wiggle room is generally a given, and rest is up to unique circumstances.
It is weird on Amazon marketplace. For our own product, for which we have trademark, registered in their brand registry, etc, we often can't make our changes reflect on a live product page. But then we see clearly highjacked product pages, like a 3d printed bracket for mounting GoPro on iris quadcopter I was selling many years ago to a USB cable.... Many in sellers community believe it is inside job, where current employees of Amazon with access to making changes to the product catalog making a side income from such shenanigans.

There were cases were Amazon's own product pages were hijacked like that in the past...
How is it for teaching kids programming?
[0] "Temporary emergency measure. We were getting data pillaged so much that it was degrading service for normal users!" (in reference to Twitter requiring users to be logged in)

[1] "Now to 10k, 1k & 0.5k" (in reference to rate limits which were originally 6K 0.6K and 0.3K)

And another tweet that confirms disabling anonymous access was an emergency measure: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1674942336583757825

> This will be unlocked shortly. Per my earlier post, drastic & immediate action was necessary due to EXTREME levels of data scraping.

> Almost every company doing AI, from startups to some of the biggest corporations on Earth, was scraping vast amounts of data.

> It is rather galling to have to bring large numbers of servers online on an emergency basis just to facilitate some AI startup’s outrageous valuation.
I’ve been frustrated with Amazon and not being able to write reviews that mention the seller, as the seller can reject it as not being about the product. Of course if I say it’s a great seller, they will let it stay. But say it’s a bad seller?

A couple of years ago I bought a speaker bar for my computer monitor. It hummed like crazy even when turned off. So I returned it and posted a 1 star review.

Then the seller began to email with various “I’m just a little seller and this will hurt me” emails - despite there being thousands of reviews. Each email offered a progressively larger money offers to take my review down. Which I never took.

It bugged me that I could not amend my review to note this. I could have I suppose, but it would have led to my actual product review being taken down.
I found this extremely helpful even though it's not in C++: https://jaykmody.com/blog/gpt-from-scratch/.
Cybersyn at Snowflake Summit 2023
Aside from totally disagreeing, I also don't see what's dry or uninspired about mathematics.
More accurately there were that many H1-B holders before the layoffs.

After getting rid of 80% of employees, that number has surely dropped.
Explain why not, if you please. If unresponsiveness causes increased traffic, which causes further unresponsiveness, is that not referred to as a thundering herd problem? Is the stated mitigation of a backoff not fully relevant here?
A major update is coming this week :)

(I’m the founder)
I imagine after he did that once or twice his net worth would fall considerably more than the value of Twitter.
It’s coming soon!

(I’m the founder)
I've seen it, both with wildly off reviews, and also in my historical orders.

Try browsing through your oldest Amazon orders--you may very well see something you didn't buy at those links now.
YouTube provides free video hosting for the world and Google provides many products for free. There are plenty of companies that are eviler.
So … is it a test of AI comics?
It seems to be an anti-Tesla lie. I can find no reference to such a video.
You are right.

But it's also weird that rocket launches themselves into orbit become so common they are almost not news.

I also start to wonder if anyone calculated or cared what the environment impact might to go from a few launches per year to a hundred or hundreds per year.

I mean it's Florida and they are planning to pave radioactive road material so not exactly concerned about the future so feds have to be the grownups.
> I think Turkey tried a couple of years ago to specify that the spelling of the country’s name in English should be the same as in Turkish

They asked for it to be changed, and got what they asked for. Both the UN (https://turkiye.un.org/en/184798-turkeys-name-changed-türkiy..., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_Turkey#Presidential_ci...) and the USA (https://www.dw.com/en/us-officially-changes-spelling-of-turk...) decided to change that spelling.
for example:

https://syndication.twitter.com/srv/timeline-profile/screen-...

change the word at the end with the username you want to see
> Basically, anyone that says that is telling on themselves.

Similar to anyone who says, “When you'd have a hard time googling something, you ask the LLM.”

Just my opinion.
Ask HN: Name one person in your social circle who inspires you the most?
25i-NBOMe isn't "truly dangerous". It's only dangerous if mistaken for LSD and dosed carelessly, so rather than scheduling it more strictly, there should be strict requirements for accurate labeling and consistent dosing, like every other drug.
If 99% of the time macros could be functions, you're reading a Lisp codebase whose authors don't follow good practices like in Google's Common Lisp Style Guide (by Robert Brown, François-René Rideau).

https://google.github.io/styleguide/lispguide.xml?showone=Ma...

"You must never use a macro where a function will do. That is, if the semantics of what you are writing conforms to the semantics of a function, then you must write it as a function rather than a macro."
So sounds like you are one of the lucky folks who is excited and really enjoying their day job that you dont need a challenge after work. I once heard that those who are very stimulated at work actually spend a lot of energy and need cool down "after work". I (like many I know) can't wait to get home after a soul crushing day (at a pretty well paying job) to work on exciting things! Depends on factors that energize and motivate you I guess!
I mean, I'll give you that, I did chuckle. Frankly, this whole thing is a huge debacle and I can only imagine the context switch penalty being paid going from cars, to ISP, to rockets to Twitter. That said, I personally am astounded by Elon's tenacity. I would definitely not bet against it succeeding, but im not sure I'd bet on its success. If I had to choose though, I would bet on success at like 49/51 odds
> Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in

Well, for one, this sounds just like yet another Elon-hater's comment. In _most_ cases, Elon's businesses are fairly successful, so a sarcastic "Elon's latest genius innovation" doesn't belong here.

For second, how do you know the idea came directly from Elon? It could easily be the result of a brainstorming session led by a product team.

Elon is not writing Twitter's code. He is not a Software Engineer at Twitter. Even if the idea came from him, why is he being attacked for a bad deployment?

And lastly, why do people think that the change is bad? There are plenty of web sites that do not allow you to view their content without creating an account first. Is Twitter not allowed to experiment? Why not? I would appreciate hearing well-thought-out arguments that explain the potential negative impact on the business.
Software bug / mangled input.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sdut-july-4-fireworks-f...

"The company's statement included an explanation of how fireworks shows are produced through code, with a primary launch file and a secondary back-up. The two files are merged to create a new launch file, and sent to each of the five fireworks locations. Somehow, an "unintentional procedural step" happened in that process, causing an "anomaly" that doubled the primary firing sequence, the report said."
Of course not :) Preventing disaster earns no kudos
This is expected with a faster rate of pushing features.

Funny things is Twitter views are hiher than ever and it will be fixed quickly.

(No reason to make a big deal out of it)
But I think tests and refactor of the codebase will be necessary to increase their speed of innovation.
correct. the first link you can use manually. The second link is a browser addon. The 3rd link you save to your computer then "import" in that addon to always rewrite twitter.com/username to the first link.
I didn't say that it did, friend.
Cool, thanks for clarifying. Was hoping they'd managed to crack that nut, but doesn't seem like it yet. :)
I don’t see how any of that morally justifies discriminating against Asians though.
I tried to hit the 600 post limit by scrolling through my feed quickly, after about 2.5 minutes the tweets I was being shown were mostly the same ones but on a loop. I kept scrolling for another 3 minutes and yeah, it's like the last 100 odd tweets shown over and over and over.

Which honestly is an ironic metaphor for the platform as a whole.
The Stradivarius Murders
Can somebody explain to why all these social media platforms are suddenly clamping down? It’s not that complex or expensive to deliver text at scale in the cloud. If twitter wants to make more money off it’s users, it should add premium features that users will actually pay for instead of killing their golden goose.
He did make the call to do that, did he not? He publicly stated it on Twitter.
> There are a variety of reasons this is happening. Most of which are political suicide to bring up.

What reasons? I'm genuinely curious.
I think this is pretty well established by now.
I’ll note that you can’t even accuse me of doing anything even remotely concrete.

Probably because you're throwing up such an ink cloud that it's difficult to what point you're trying to make, let along for which "team".
I thought they had an employee for that. I mean they used to, was Victoria her name? She took dictation for celebrities until one of them complained when she transcribed their words too directly, when she was fired. Did no one replace her?
How is anyone surprised by this? This is who they have always been quite open about being.
You most definitely could have. The important thing here is the competing offers. Without those, no compensation negotiator in the world could’ve done anything. Anyway, the other person is happy so whatever.
Linus Torvalds Gets Coding to Improve Linux's User-Mode Stack Expansion
Agreed. I had amazing fun playing the first bits of Far Cry 1, sneaking through the jungle and playing sniper. It was great. Then I got to the end part, inside dark buildings and suddenly stealth isn't important at all, its more of a twitch shooter full of jump scares and requiring fast reactions over anything. I never finished the game
Anecdotally, you are wildly incorrect.
You may wish AI didn't exist, but it does. There's no putting the genie back in the bottle. We can still go after people who commit crimes using AI. Perhaps one day AGI will be possible and we will want to have discussions and share ideas with it just as do now with each other.

Governments, researchers, and all kinds of third parties have already been scraping every publicly available bit of data possible. There may be an increase now, but it's nothing new. It won't be the end of the society or the end of the internet anymore than AI will.

Also: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IeTybKL1pM4
Another good way is to take notes live in the meeting — and have the doc shared on screen (for remote) or projected on the wall (for in-person).

That way, it's unavoidably in front of everyone's face, and you get the perk of ironclad timestamps in the document-editing history.
The DAO fork is nothing like you describe, and was a singular incident in the first major smart contract.

BTC had a similar fork in its early days to work around a bug that actually minted illegitimate coins, yet maxis sweep that under the rug.

But you knew this, you knew what the DAO fork was. You know when it happened. You knew it was the first major smart contract. You know the context it happened in. You know the community overwhelmingly supported it. You also knew it hasn’t happened since, yet you still went out and lied.

Why?
That's because instance operators in EU became extremely uncomfortable with the majority content on the second, third, and half of top 10 largest Mastodon instances. That destroyed the Fediverse and it's more than half dead.
I mean, I get it, it was a clown show. And yes, give it 15 minutes of fame, because it's the Titanic and all.

But I feel like some people care about this far more than I can understand, and the news cycle on this is quite protracted. People die in stupid ways every day and this doesn't seem more egregious than most.
No, they're not the kind of thing I like to talk about in more than generalities because they paint me in a negative light, even though most of the work I do is more about positive-sum games.

If you ever have a beverage with me or drop me an email I'm happy to discuss without naming names, but public is unwise, sadly.

One of these years I'm going to retire and start a youtube channel. If you like similar stories, ThePrimagen[1] definitely has a similar flavor. He talks about some situations at Netflix that are eerily familiar, even though I've never worked for them.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/c/theprimeagen
The biggest problem I ran into was that ORBs from different manufacturers just didn’t play nice with one another. And then SOAP and Enterprise Service Bus repeated the whole damn thing.
The qualifiers you raise are largely irrelevant. You only have a military because you want to be ready for war. In a war, no matter the reasons or participants, you're going to fire a lot of ammo. Probably more than you really wish. And you might hope you fire less of some particular sort, because of some other battlefield victory you plan on attaining, but you're still a fool if you absolutely depend on it, because the enemy gets a vote.

And all I'm saying is, plan to be able to start the dang factories again.
I generally agree with your sentiment, but Twitter is a US company with most of their employees residing in the US (at least presumably?). So in this case it’s reasonable to assume they meant it’s a holiday in the US.
To elaborate on your comment, on UNIX systems, you don't put "." in $PATH because someone might put a malicious executable named `ls` or `cd`, in a directory. It doesn't have root privileges, but it runs as your user account and can get some kind of persistence by hooking `~/.bashrc`. And perhaps by wrapping `sudo` it can eventually get root privileges.
Mea culpa, the article mentions her. Though they do not detail exactly why she was fired, which I think they should.
Perhaps they should adopt contract terms to prevent their products from being sold or used in Multnomah county, it's only reasonable that they should seek to mitigate the risk of the plaintiffs claiming an ever increasing amount of damages.
Possiibly here: <https://nigelsmart.github.io/Crypto_Book/>

Though that doesn't appear to be a code repo.
I wonder how long imgur will be around and how many broken links on reddit and the web after that.

Then there are all the short links on the web, what happens when t.co breaks when someone refuses to pay the bill?
> You understand wrong. If you already have an H-1B visa then you don't need to enter the lottery again. You just need another job offer in a similar role, and can start working immediately.

The other employer still needs to be willing to sponsor you, and that's often not the case.
Most people that die in stupid ways aren't rich. That's the difference
> I tripled my salary in two years by starting off woefully underpaid,

Unfortunately, this is how most "I tripled my salary in X years" stories look when you dig into the details.

I've spent a lot of time coaching people on interviewing and negotiating. With some people, half the battle is detaching them from their original compensation anchor point and re-centering on real market data.

On the other hand, I've also had to gently convince a lot of eager students that they can't expect $300K full-remote FAANG offers right out of college, despite whatever they heard on Reddit and Blind.
“Trying to make a pigtail out of these unbrushed hair may unscrew the ears”. Sorry, yep, twitter is big. But if preventing tens of doomed requests before a login requires a senior engineer with lots of context, then the program was screwed up long before the layoffs.
I will always have a need for a VPN. I will never pay for NordVPN. Their level of advertising has me convinced they are up to no good regardless of whether that is true or not.
As a philosophy/theology prof of mine once pointed out, ethics training doesn’t make one moral; it merely makes one an ethicist.
Why does it matter that he made the call to do that? I get plenty of "do this, do that" requests from my manager. And if I break things, is it my manager's fault? I'm trying to understand your logic. Please, explain.

Edit: here is my take on it + the most likely scenario of what's going to happen next. This was a bad deployment and such things are not unusual in software industry. In this specific case, there are zero reasons to blame the CTO. From what I'm observing right now, Twitter has already fixed the issue - the website loads just fine. Next, they will do a retro, learn from their mistakes and try to not repeat the same mistakes again in the future. There will be more bad deployments and that's normal. However, with time, they'll make things better, the SLA will go up and the overall stability of their services will stabilize, – one of the biggest social networks on the planet will have the least number of engineers running that same social network.
According to Elon, it's screen time as reported by Android & iOS.
> don't need to enter the lottery again

Yes

> can start working immediately

Abso-lutely not. Check out Reddit to look for accounts of how the transfer works and see how easy it really is...

When you transfer, you need a lot of cooperation from the new firm as they have to be ok filing paperwork, they have to do it in a timely fashion, and due to processing delays on the order of weeks (if all goes well) you cannot start work immediately. For many, many employers, this puts you at a strong disadvantage against applicants who are all good to go and ready to show up for work on Monday.
Yeah, consultant at this stage seems a bit unnecessary. But it's also a business with high success rate and customer satisfaction. Kind of like placebo. Pretty good deal from the consultant's pov.
To properly categorize these drugs we need to expand our thinking. Hmmm :-)
Yes.

In 2015 Facebook launched a feature (Scrapbooks[0]) specifically designed to encourage parents to upload and organise photos of their kids.

Their help centre still has an article under /help/scrapbooks [1] titled "Manage Photos of Your Child" with the first heading "How do I create a scrapbook for my child on Facebook?"

[0] https://about.fb.com/news/2015/03/a-new-way-to-organize-phot...

[1] https://www.facebook.com/help/scrapbooks
You’re on the English-speaking internet when the only other countries awake are Canada and Australia/NZ.

You’re in an America conversation thread, whether you like it or not.
Making a potato livecam with the Commodore 128 VDC and ComputerEyes
> thousands of people in bootcamps are making twitter clones

Heh Heh Heh

Those twitter clones will tend to be of the "looks pretty on the front end, but a fucking nightmare on the backend" type. ;)

Likely with part of the backend nightmare being security issues as well. From what I've seen of bootcamp output, they seem to rarely explain much about security to the people doing the learning. :(
> If they truly cannot get another job despite trying hard for 15 months then really they should be thanking Musk for giving them a steady paycheck when no one else in the industry will.

That's an asshole take.

Everything I've read is that Twitter is working its remaining engineers to the bone. Job searches can be extremely draining, and I can imagine many Twitter engineers don't have the energy remaining. Add to that mix visa and immigration issues, and I could totally see people getting trapped there.
My graduate Applied Cryptography class used Katz and Lindell's "Introduction to Modern Cryptography." It's widely used at top institutions. While it definitely can be intimidating at time, the authors provides a classical approach to the topic.

I found it had a nice balance of theory and application.