skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My current Fortune 500 tech company's contract explicitly said that if I moonlight, I cannot work for their competitors. And if I get a second job or contract work, I should discuss it with my manager or HR. It does't say anywhere that I cannot have second job at all.

I know 2 SWE in the company who actually discussed this with their managers and got okay in writing for their consulting businesses.

EDIT: Really curious if SWE actually read their contracts or they just assume that they are not allowed. I don't remember my contracts from earlier jobs. It would be interesting if we can have a site like levels.fyi for contracts.
> you can look at all the users who have left the platform or became entirely inactive after Donald Trump was banned, then look at the surge of users the alternative Twitter platforms gained

Do you have those statistics on hand? I don't, so I was asking.

I know the stock price is substantially lower than its peak 1+ yrs ago -- it's easy to find a graph of that -- but it's not obvious to me that this is the result of Twitter's politics rather than other factors.
> Microsoft denied the backdoor speculations on _NSAKEY

Still though, I suspect Microsoft Windows products are in bed with the NSA. After Snowden, I have no doubt about that. They unleashed a huge data grab with Windows10/11 and a Windows machine is not your computer.
People said the exact same thing before Hyperloop and his announcement that he was taking Tesla private
>> Some of the jobs he can get don’t pay enough to give him the self-respect he feels he needs, and others require him to get along with unpleasant customers and coworkers, and to maintain a submissive attitude toward the boss.”

> It used to be high-status to hold a job and take care of your family. Not so much anymore.

As though it’s ever been considered high-status to have crap pay and deal with abusive bosses and coworkers. Ask the really high-status people whether it was.

You need recordings to be able to review interactions for who is more in the right, telling the employee they need to turn off FB and get on with work seems like it management would say it’s reasonable and worker might say it’s overbearing.
Awwww, that Windows Me must have been overclocked out-of-the-box considering the amount of BSOD :D
ANd how much revenue has that activity earned them?
I got that from the book "Shredded: Inside RBS: The Bank that Broke Britain" by Ian Fraser.

Another interesting fact: for a short while before it imploded, RBS was actually the largest bank in the world by assets!
I'd think the brush would muck up
Some do. Other companies expect you to derive the algorithm from scratch if you haven't seen that one. If you don't know the algorithm, then question is over. It's unreasonable to expect someone to derive in 10 minutes something that took years to invent.
It's hard enough to create the thing and make your explanation fit on the page limit. You also want people to make it comprehensible at the same time?

If you want to, you can study it, make it easier to understand and write another paper. If it's good, you will do both yourself and the original author a huge favor.
I don't think this is true. I think "both sides" are equally upset that with Twitter moderation being arbitrary and somewhat capricious.

You are always going to fail at moderating millions of users. It just depends how bad you fail.
I very much enjoyed watching the vervet monkey shenanigans when I was in South Africa.

I watched a vervet monkey at a camp come down and poke around a pile of apples, seemingly sorting out which were the best ones to take. But the instant somebody came out of the kitchen, the monkey dropped all the apples, grabbed a cupcake, and ran.

Another one came down off the roof to try and take some leftovers at the table I was sitting at. When it saw me, it looked right at me, puffed up its body, bared its fangs, and gave off an evil sounding hiss. I just looked right back at it and said, "Really, buddy? I'm ten times your size and weight. Go ahead, come at me." It obviously couldn't understand English, but it clearly knew I was calling its bluff. It looked crestfallen and left sulkily.

Funny little things.
> lets people say what they want instead a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over and over

I think what people want is to act like a bot army of shills repeating verbatim over and over. I doubt that bots are to blame when it comes to harassment campaigns in rather niche fandoms. A frightening number of people I respond to are somehow convinced that toxic echo chambers are a good thing.
It is also perfectly feasible for a company to perform well despite their CEO not because of them.
He is warning us about HIM when he talks of AI. He is proving precisely how vulnerable we are. He is a self-promoting [evil] genius. Like Putin or Trump but less manly.
Trains run over a stupendous amount of debris. A more involved mechanical solution would just break more.

If a simple mechanical solution worked they'd have implemented it a century ago.
> If they all had 1-2 person offices w/door, where knowledge workers could have the quiet and uninterrupted time to work, then you'd probably get some return.

We've know this "secret" for long awhile, because literally everyone talks about it. We do some schedule office WFH days as well to balance things out.
I don't think so. There are so many roles at a company, and each one could have potentially hundreds of questions, and each team might be looking for different answers. Select between 4 answers, add a 6-degree weight, plus additional comments for each answer. For 100 questions, that's hundreds of millions of possible combinations. And many of the questions should be subjective or based on personal experience, so that you can find the person who matches what the team cares about. If you see two people with the same answers, it would be almost impossible for them not to have been copied.

I guess the challenge would be to get companies to create good questions. A giant pool of community-curated questions for companies to start with would be good, and they should add questions from the team looking to hire.
> The most important deciding factor for me was whether the company has some kind of technological edge years ahead of its competitors. A friend on Google’s logging team tells me he’s not interested in smaller companies because they are so technologically far behind Google’s planetary-scale infra that they haven’t even begun to fathom the problems that Google is solving now, much less finish solving the problems that Google already worked on a decade ago.

^ this is increasingly a choice in your career -- 'where can you go to solve big problems', and 'big problems are increasingly complex'

scale is real, and tools matter. you can spend your whole project burn at the wrong company building something that you could buy somewhere else, or which already exists at a competitor

slight grain of salt here is that G's logging system, from my perspective as a gcp user, is slow as balls and the UX is the incarnation of scroll jank. and also this (very good) article led to the outcome of the author building soft hands happy-ending robots
For me the best font for reading online is on paper, outside, in the winter, Doves Type. Or SF Pro Rounded from Apple.

If I can’t read “online” by printing it on paper, I read on a well-calibrated display that casts the same light to all viewing angles, and 120Hz variable-refresh-rate. With macOS’ font rendering.

I’m sure this is a perfectly unique combination of “best”.
If you have to ask the question you already know the answer...
Elon is no fit to own and run a social media company. Let’s remember the toxic tweet against Bernie https://twitter.com/sensanders/status/1459584250668331011

I will for sure delete my account.
I do wish he would engage a bit more with the "spam is legal" problem. But this article dismisses out of hand what I think is the key premise, that existing thought on content moderation has large, core components which are inimical to conservative thought. Kate Klonick's paper is great and I second the Techdirt guy's recommendation to read it, but it also reveals some pretty obvious blind spots.

She approvingly describes a story where the Youtube content moderation team traveled to Thailand, and agreed to censor (with a geofence) gratuitous insults to their king. But it's hard to imagine they would have even considered this if, say, Alabamians wanted them to take down some blasphemous material. In another case, she mentions that "the video was restored once its political significance was understood", but have they ever made such an exception when it's significant towards political causes Youtube trust and safety team doesn't agree with?
Copying Apple, Microsoft and Tesla 's strategy
Vuvuzela: Scalable Private Messaging Resistant to Traffic Analysis (2015)
As a person with Aphantasia, I never knew that picturing something in your mind was literal. I dream in interactive images/video/whatever you want to call it, but when asked to picture something (the common example is a green apple), I do not "see" it, but instead have a database of words that describe it from the shape to the color to the waxy sheen of the skin. I also have a very hard time with faces if anything changes too (like a haircut or glasses or even basic aging), I watch a LOT of movies, a LOT a LOT, and I cannot remember what I know actors or actresses from even if I literally watched a movie with them that SAME day (with some major exceptions like Robert Downy Jr. or Brad Pitt).
When you have 3 bubble tea shops within 100m in a town of 15000 where the basic wage for retail is basically $4000 (Switzerland) and a rent of $2000 + $50k without counting the cost to re-arrange the shop, with at least 2 staffs and no clients any times I walk by, I have no doubt about the purpose of these shops.
Nope. There is another way!

Remove the "feature" that recommends something to you. Or alternatively, allow users to turn it off.

Problem solved.

Someone routinely posts and shares something you don't like? Unfollow them.

Someone posts something that is illegal? File a report with the authorities.

This, "you must tie all your thoughts to your government issued identity" only solves one problem: allowing the thought police to come after you after losing their hold at Twitter.
This nailed it. Public companies have to "grow" and if growth is bot-driven then combating it is not goin to happen. By taking the company private Elon could (in theory) throw out MAU metrics, engagement metrics, etc.

He could "Make Twitter Great Again" by killing the bots, and rage-engagement, and making Twitter interesting and fun again. If that raises Twitters value by 10% he gets a $4.5B return.
I have a hot take on this topic: Your feed says more about you than Twitter in general. If you see toxic Tweets, that's because you follow people who post toxic Tweets or engage with toxic Tweets. Don't follow these people.

Here is a guideline for a good Twitter experience:

1. Everyone who is negative, irrational, too political and so on gets unfollowed.

2. Everyone who is interesting gets followed.

3. Unfollow is more important than follow, because negative Tweets are more attention grapping.

The most difficult part about Twitter is to start out and curate your feed from nothing. But once you have that, it's one of the best social media tools out there.
I've seen people who are angry about Musks actions say that they're going to be the most toxic, anger-inducing, irrational users they can be to test his limits of speech. Some people just want to watch the world burn because they can't get their way.
no way people who do things don't have 100% success rate what a surprise.
It's not my estimate, wherever you sourced your 270bn figure for his net worth will explain their reasoning.
> we don't really know how good these companies are...yet

His company made rockets that fly backwards and park autonomously.
> seeing value in advertising on twitter again

Isn't "remove ads" on his takeover agenda?
The single adult households are a separate and bad thing. I don't think there has been a substantial shift in human desires in the last couple generations - most people still want to get married and have kids and fewer of them are. That they are able to subsist in one family households is not a bragging point for our system.
Which are the two dictatorships you are thinking about?

Your proposed rule might be unpractical, since it would disallow the U.S. government from from saying anything about free speech for at least 30 more years (see [1] and [2]).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9ta...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Guatemalan_coup_d%27%C3%A...
Write Clojure for Other Developers
Yes, we KNOW, we're upset at "yet another billionaire" gaining control of a "yet another communication channel".

Why is everybody assuming we are all hypocrites who are 100% in support of the status quo?
> Noting that "recently" was August 2014

Right. This as an issue has little to do with deployment the way the submitter intended, and has to do with software that was implemented using specific static versions of SQLite and that some sometimes use as no better alternative meanwhile emerged. The "delay" is more evident (more "daily present") to said users, and has little to do with new products.

Nonetheless, given that, I would first check which subset of SQL you may need - I am not sure on how much overlapping you have with other mainstream products.
It might be on me, but they're trying to build a public forum, not a niche community. If you want to attract the number of people that Twitter wants to attract, it can't be built on power users. Hell I'm a 'power user' and I don't want to be spending my time to figure out how to curate a community for my benefit, I'll just go to reddit or here for that.
This is like that Malcolm Gladwell story about the best spaghetti sauce. There is no one size fits all - different people like different things.

https://www.ted.com/talks/malcolm_gladwell_choice_happiness_...
Quoting the NASA incident report:

Updated May 17, 2010 at 5:00 PT.

One flip of a bit in the memory of an onboard computer appears to have caused the change in the science data pattern returning from Voyager 2, engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said Monday, May 17. A value in a single memory location was changed from a 0 to a 1.

On May 12, engineers received a full memory readout from the flight data system computer, which formats the data to send back to Earth. They isolated the one bit in the memory that had changed, and they recreated the effect on a computer at JPL. They found the effect agrees with data coming down from the spacecraft. They are planning to reset the bit to its normal state on Wednesday, May 19.
> Again, not because the advice is bad or wrong, but because it's just a lot of text around the basics of being a decent human being.

Judging by the trends observed in the Great Resignation [1] and the popularity of forums like /r/antiwork, it seems that the basics of being a decent human being are often being overlooked by management.

I took a very different interpretation of what facilitating wellbeing looks like than you - interpreting facilitating wellbeing as being flexible when team members need some time to navigate their personal lives, scheduling project timelines and scoping work to necessitate productive work while alleviating burn-out, providing space for people to discuss ideas or provide feedback in a team setting, allowing for growth or transition into roles they may find more interesting or rewarding. Facilitating wellbeing doesn't conflict with making necessary but perhaps unpopular decisions, or de-prioritizing a pet project or whatever - it's much more basic than that.

[1] https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/talent-acqu...
This is cool! It’s amazing how heavy most web pages are - all while producing very little additional value to the web site visitor for that added complexity.
I thought this project was pretty impressive. I feel like this is a thing that is going to come back around once costs come down and a killer app is found for it.
lol, let me check that out

your threads are more so focused on the threat of more bigoted stuff

I’m focused on how it would be a hilarious meme factory, amplifying the amusement park that twitter already is to 4chan levels of entertainment, while inheriting a much better more modern interface than 4chan if they tweak twitter just a little more

Yeah that comes with crazy, I’m looking forward to it. I really like that “but muh advertisers dictate what I do” goes away when reducing the options for advertisers. This could be a big and lulzworthy shakeup for the overton window.
Oh, I am one of those people that don't see raising money as anythng else than success in raising money. Which is success, but doesn't mean that the company is successful, yet.
I expect people who hold very public positions of specific rights to keep those positions and moral values in mind when making decisions every time they make such decisions, not just when it is best for them.
This is what I was also initially thinking, but after a bit of reading [1] I quickly learned that the actual problem is not some leafs neatly sitting on top of the rails but leafs being turned into a wet grime [2] that gets worked into the surface and makes the rails really slippery. Other candidate solutions for the problem are plasma and laser treatments, so I think they considered using fans and brushes before. The problem is probably closer to removing oil stains from concrete than blowing leafs off the lawn.

[1] https://www.railengineer.co.uk/cleaning-the-rail-head/

[2] Non-native speaker, not sure if that is the proper term.
Trivia question.

How many moose do you think get shot during hunting season in Sweden?

It is about 100k.
Ok but Elon knows there's no chance of passing a UBI currently. That just sounds like an excuse to me so that he can oppose the legislation that is actually possible while claiming to support its "true form."
I've been seeing a lot of Data Engineering/Platform roles that support ML without requiring past ML experience. How much future lateral movement would be available to you will vary widely, but this would be a fairly easy inroad.
There was some study that looked at this isolated community that did not have the greatest diet, yet they lived very long lives and disease was nearly non-existent. What they had was community.
> do you think it would be better to just skip the project list?

Hey, I'm not a specialist in this stuff - I've tended to stay in the same job until it became impossible for some reason or other, so I haven't applied for that many jobs. But I was hitched to a careers consultant for 15 years, whose core trade was advising students on how to write résumés. Its only purpose is to get you an interview; if you drop your pants in the résumé, then there's nothing left for the recruiter to be curious about.

A résumé is a concise overview of your education and career. If you feel you need to describe your objectives and attitudes, or expand on some major achievement, I think that belongs in your covering letter - which can be an essay of sorts (but I keep mine short). The covering letter is tailored to the firm you are applying to. The résumé can then be boilerplate, so you can use the same résumé for each firm you apply to; only the covering letter is customised.

I treat the résumé as a sort of teaser. The covering letter has all the stuff about "If I can't get a job with your firm I'll have to kill myself, because no other employer will do" (no, please don't say anything like that!). But even the covering letter should not be more than two sides of paper. I'd stick to one side. If your concise pitch doesn't get you an interview, then doubling the length isn't going to improve your chances.

Self-testimonials are a waste of space, if your recruiters are any good. For example, "I am a good team player" is worthless, unless you can provide evidence, such as "In my present position I mentor new recruits, and provide training courses for my colleagues". And I think that kind of stuff belongs in the covering letter.

Again, I stress that I'm not a master of these matters. And most of my experience is based on UK hiring; I think puffing yourself up is more expected in the US tech marketplace. I've had one job in the USA, and I think I probably undersold myself that time.
To be fair, the startup speed of the shell is generally considered pretty slow/expensive in comparison to running everything in a single shell/executable.
Twitter content is painful to read when interacting with it in a read-only mode. No solicitation needed.
> a modern day “conservative” that is all about pushing religious beliefs on people and supporting corrupt law enforcement

There's no point saying this in a real discussion.
>What kind of number is this? The debt to GDP is actually more than 200% and you will find the US also above 100%. So yes Japan has a big debt problem, but what metric are you using?

Governments like to split up taxes and tax different things. Middle east generally has no personal income tax or even a corporate tax. Yet you can't say the middle east has no taxes.

You have to analyze 'total tax burden' but you also can't allow even more tricks like progressive taxes making it apples/oranges.

Japan has one of the highest personal taxes in the world at 55%. You work for the government 6 months of the year.

When you analyze total tax burden properly. There's only a few countries in the world whose taxes are near 100%. Basically Japanese people work for the government the entire year and don't realize it. The government sure doesn't provide everything for them to live.

>Do you have any source for that? I don't know about silver crime,

Something like this: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/20/poverty-ageing-j...

Basically in population declines or situations like world war 2 countries are currently in or soon to be in. Effectively elderly retirees are forced to go back to work. They let their skills expire. They take an ego hit being forced to work a mcjob. So they steal instead. This wasn't even marginally the problem it will be. It's something that's set it stone.

>but the globalslaveryindex ranks Japan as literally the lowest country (167/167 [1]), 4 times better than the US and more than 6 times better than a few European countries I looked up like Germany, Austria, France or UK.

That's literally impossible. Answer me 2 things that will tell me if it's the lowest slavery in the world.

1. What is the criminal conviction rate in Japan?

2. Is there penal labour in Japan?

>If it's so easy, why don't you at least enlighten us instead of just stating it's easy?

Well I touched on it. total tax burden being at 100% means you cant raise taxes.

Balancing the budget is step #1. Figure out all the positive rights that need reducing or cancelling. End abenomics asap. Balanced budget amendment to the constitution.

Massively increase immigration in order to dilute tax cost or debt/capita. Not sure how that'll work but probably also a later disaster for japan. 1 problem at a time.

Probably need to build a free trade zone. Massive increase in tourism needed. Probably will need a massive amount of deregulation that will blow your mind.

Now you have to deal with the consequences of the above options. They aren't good. Probably going to be ~25% unemployment. Probably about 4% poverty. GDP contraction of -5%/year for several years. Depression level disaster to be sure.

Yet this depression is far less painful than Japan's current path.
> My conspiracy theory is that Musk is buying Twitter mainly so he can extort Trump for something in exchange for readmitting him. Like telling his base to buy Teslas.

I don't think it will be that obvious/simple. Tax breaks, anti-union laws, incentives to build new plants in red states... or something even smaller will be all it takes.