skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is simply because they present a commonly encountered scenario where you mistakenly paste them into your code. Not something I encounter much lately but definitely tripped me up in my early years.
You are not a bad person because of that. It was his decision, and joining an early-stage startup comes with exactly the kind of risks you are describing. If he was not aware of that, that's completely his fault for making bad uninformed decisions.

The fact that he tries to make you feel guilty is a huge red flag. Do you really want to work with that kind of person in the long term?
Sorry, that the article is truthful
My favorite sticky floor local dive bar shuttered at first blush of the pandemic. We've all been waiting with promises of an opening around the corner. I finally got the skinny: owner took the moment to do much needed deep repairs, gutting the whole place. But he needed more money to get it back up and running. So he took out a loan, and then another. Now it's not finished and he can't get any more financing. Wtf is he going to do?? I say open the bar in the bar's parking lot is what.

Similar to you, you ran out of runway and have seemingly nothing of substance to end users or investors alike. Take what you can from your code and pack it up. Keep your network of smart people around you in good favor. This one is done. Try again. Maybe a very similar product or wildly different. No zombie'ing! Your time and life are valuable. Use it as such.
About 6 months. That doesn’t mean they don’t instantly have a general idea of the quality of the codebase. The amount of WTF’s decreases significantly after the first 2 months (when they give up and accept that that is just how it is).
Twitter is a private company now. There are no more stocks to vest, so the idea that this is to dodge vesting schedules doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
> their book of allergens to the table

Wow, they have book of allergens?

Is that with list of dushes from specific restoraunt? Or ith general reference book?

Never saw that in my country. I guess we don't use these. If you have allergy you are just screwed.
Sure, but so does your toothbrush. Chill out.
my favorite takeaway as well. this thing is everywhere already!
You can ask for a paper menu. Nine times out of ten, they will have one. For that one time out of ten, ask the waiter for a menu recommendation, or ask if your preferred staple is on the menu. This has worked in NYC restaurants large and small for the past three years. Some of the better restaurants have since reverted to paper menus.

We have the choice to say no to blind redirects-in-the-middle for service transactions with a human server present.
> they are typographically correct.

According to an ancient convention.

Conventions can be changed. It is not intrinsically, objectively superior to have two separate glyphs for a starting and ending quotation mark. I'd argue the opposite. It is needless complexity. Let us jettison it and embrace the simpler single glyph.
He can get another job. I feel his and your pain, but give me a break.
Coincidentally I encountered this system for the first time last night. Unfortunately it never finished loading and I embarrassingly had to switch to a physical card after stalling for 30 seconds.
Adguard plugin..?

As for simple-adblock vs adblock, I prefer the former because malformed lists won't break DNS, which it does for adblock.
9M of that is probably localization files, 500k licenses

:P
Private companies have stocks. They are just on traded on exchange
If you think C++ is underpaid, check out electrical engineering.

If you think electrical engineering is underpaid, check out chemistry.

If you think chemistry is underpaid, check out biology.
Imagine getting a very high paid high profile job where if you do bad, you get a whole bunch of money.
Contactless cards did appear in the US before Apple pay. I had one issued in 2006. It was just rarely supported by vendors and disappeared as the banks lost interest.
> if they have a mobile POS

That’s a big if in the US.
I really desperately want to agree with this at an emotional or aesthetic level - I ran NetBSD on my laptop for the largest portion of my teenage years, using FreeBSD on an old poweredge server for all my "needs a ton of RAM" programs. I had been on this quest to "truly understand" computers/OSes since prepubescence, and BSD appealed to me for exactly the reasons you describe - the pieces just seemed to fit together better.

I've gone deep down this rabbit hole, but now in my mid 20s, it seems like it's all sentimental - the amount of time I interact with any base system is pretty low, Linux's device model seems better suited to modern systems than BSD's more static kernel configs inherited from PDP-11/VAX/VMEbus-esque systems, and probably more than anything else, it's almost always easier to get your software to run on Linux. And after thinking about it, isn't that really the purpose of an OS? To facilitate running and developing software?

I still love running NetBSD on my 90s SPARC laptop, with device drivers descendant from the original 4.4BSD from UCB. I've gone so far as to patch my local install to get the crappy mu-law audio output working so I could playback youtube videos on it for kicks and giggles (recent releases overhauled the audio driver backend and the AMD7930's driver doesn't release some mutexes, failing asserts and hard faults the kernel)

Sometimes the Cathedral isn't so nice though. I never really figured out where I could send the ~5 line patch for this, only where I could submit a bug report, and possibly start a dialogue on the mailing list where I could maybe suggest the fix, and then a NetBSD developer could go fix it themselves? Didn't think it was worth the effort, so I never patched it.

Meanwhile, on Linux, I got a one line patch into the kernel, fixing a presumption that all 32-bit processes are big endian on PowerPC, thereby allowing the development of a 32-bit LE userland. Almost certainly useless to anyone, but it was a bug fix, and the patch process was fairly painless.

I think the end result is that Linux is fast and messy and a little ugly, but most of my hardware and software is also ugly and messy. I could run BSD on my laptop nowadays, but the only day-to-day change to my display server running firefox and $TERM windows would be a hotter keyboard and a few cents added to my energy bill, since those kernels don't really vibe with Intel p-states or whatever it's called now. My userland environment and day to day life is basically identical, just a few added problems when some piece of software assumes I'm on Linux and breaks.

Well, that and OOM handling. I don't ever remember the BSDs locking up quite like Linux does when it runs out of memory (or thrashes swap).

This turned out more rambly than I intended, but oh well. While I'm ranting, why is OpenBSD's fdisk the only implementation of fdisk with a command mode where quitting automatically saves changes*, as opposed to util-linux's fdisk, and NetBSD/FreeBSD's fdisk which always prompt? :-)
Since it’s a huge enterprise with hundreds of engineers, I don’t have to guess. It’s just a matter of magnitude.
Intersex conditions being rare or not doesn’t really matter for my argument. There could be literally be just one person with AIS in the history of humanity, and the statement “if you consider this person to be female then your definition of female is based on more than just their sex chromosomes” would still be true.
> rather than one per waiter

Just want to correct this idea which has been repeated several times on this topic:
You only need 3 or 4 for a larger restaurant. The entire restaurant does not pay simultaneously.

When you (the server) are done with them you just put them back in a charging dock or some other communal space.
The incoming CEO of the last company I worked for had a similar opinion. Everyone left and he was left floundering.
This argument feels theoretical. Twitter is not just an ad network. It offers unique values to its users. It is already conveying lots of promotional crap from big users to their followers, which doesn't have to change. Both sides of that transaction choose to take part in it. No normal ad network can deliver that value.

If twitter starts charging the followers, sure, that will be a big mistake. I'm not suggesting that. Twitter should start charging the followed, only a little at first, on a sliding scale. They should try different pricing policies, for different users, and should keep adjusting until they have extracted a great deal of money from those twitter users with the most followers. It could be that some highly-followed users don't themselves see much value from their own tweets, so they won't want to pay. Twitter doesn't need those users; they're wasting resources. You may be worried about chasing away small users who will grow into big users, but small users won't be charged. By the time they're big, they will value the relationships they've built with their followers.

A generic social media firm couldn't do this, but twitter is in a unique position.
Convention doesn't mean bad. But sure, feel free to use ( for opening and closing parentheses.
So they claim this is the cleanest way to deliver energy, but that’s very unintuitive to me. It seems like there would be a huge transmission loss in piping hot steam through the whole of Manhattan, and I didn’t think steam engines were particularly efficient. So my intuition is failing here.

For those in the know, what makes a steam system like this effective as a clean energy distribution system, and how does it compare on a cost basis?
Sounds fun on both ends, and I don't mean that sarcastically, assuming as a Twitter dev I get the chance to defend my code. But in the end I think this will just point to the same thing devs always holler about which is technical debt.

I'd be more interested to see the difference between the code and the engineers signaling technical debt in areas via email or chat. No idea how to quantify that though.
Nice unsubstantiated claims there...
Good point, and thanks for sharing Starline. I hadn't heard of that.

I'd love to see a "Minority Report"-like interface in the form of Starline + Kinect. Oh, and with electronic ink to save my eyes. Thank you, future.
According to blind, vesting schedules are converted to cash grants on the same schedule.

So essentially there is still vesting, and no acceleration for regular employees.

Curious to hear if anyone knows otherwise.

https://www.teamblind.com/post/Twitter-Accelerated-Vesting-L...
I'm running the same setup you are, but the primary DNS servers are still pointing to nextdns rather than being fully local. I'm extremely happy with it, and any latency/speed difference is negligible anyways.
I've never expected change when I pay with cash at a restaurant. Admittedly, this is mostly because of our crazy tip culture; but I just round the charge+tip to a convenient amount.

The money on the line with handing your card to the server is not comically small. They can max out your credit card with whatever charges they want. They don't even need to go through their POS system, as they can charge your card with any online retailer.
Mind the thread context.

"This is nonsense. We have lakes already."
By the time I finished reading this, I had forgotten what you were replying to. Well done!
There is a lot of cross pollination between his companies, that’s is fine:

- new materials from SpaceX make it into Tesla cars

- productions techniques from Tesla goes into SpaceX rockets

- Semiconductor teams from Starlink probably connected to Tesla

It mean the best engineers get even more opportunities.
win-win

Less red tape, more work get done. I think we should all embrace that.

Our goal should be to make things better first and then to make money second to help us out make things even better at larger scale.
I would love to learn about "Eastern" economists who have suffered for their capitalist advocacy! Links, please.
What's nvidia and crypto mining hardware got to do with Advertising scams? Mining isn't a scam in itself.
To return my ID.
What’s especially interesting is that so many people in Silicon Valley who know culture matters for companies purport to believe that culture doesn’t matter for social groups.
If you make a tree of crate dependencies, the root is the standard library. So yes, you could build it all yourself with the standard library, it would just be really unpleasant.

I agree, it would be nice the if the rust foundation would give their blessing to some important crates like serde and regex, but putting them in the standard library only makes them harder to evolve. In particular, breaking changes go from being unpleasant to disallowed altogether.
Ublock make it that the links are not even displayed.
You may be interested in https://github.com/Barre/privaxy
It's not really a big deal though?
Disingenuous argument is disingenuous. To make that argument properly, you must also argue for putting both quotation marks on the keyboard as first class keys. And you must retro-actively revise ASCII to include them as first class characters.
What code is he reviewing? And why is he reviewing it? There must be millions of lines of code. Also, why bring in Tesla employees? Twitter employees are also his own, they could do they review for him. Just shows how musk feels about Twitter and the people there. Such disrespect.
Kepco release figures they claim are the costs (but probably not including cost of the loan or a bunch of other things).

They're also far lower capacity factor than the US (whether that's a symptom of lower reliability or of lower costs permitting curtailment is a different matter) and we know of at least two instances of cost cutting and forgery on safety critical parts.
As someone who has always thought Twitter is stupid, I'm glad Musk bought it and is shaking things up. Both possible outcomes are interesting - either Twitter finally becomes not stupid, or even the worlds richest man and greatest tech entrepreneur couldn't make Twitter not stupid.
Yes I feel that because there are people close to me who think I manipulated the psychiatrist to get the diagnosis to excuse my behavior. They feel I am smart enough to do that. They can't experience what it is like to be me so they can't know and I excuse them for that. I use Jesus' phrase "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing" to get through it.
Someone in the comments pointed out that not only is this terrible, you can only open the glove box while stationary.

I thought GM had jumped the shark when they started leaving the reverse lights on when you park, just to make sure people or cars nearby don’t know whether it’s safe to pass you in the parking lot. This is a whole new level of stupidity.
> It's 2022 and I am using a Samsung A8 phone from 2018 which is pretty good

And if it can’t scan QR codes from the camera app, that’s purely because your carrier is withholding software updates from you. It’s built-in from Android 8.0 and Samsung supports the 2018 A8 up to Android 9.

I get the sentiment, but the ire is better directed at those preventing older/cheaper phones from doing what they’re capable of.
At first I thought it referred to the comma as a decimal separator, but then I remembered the English also use a period.
I'm not sure you want to use "value of his companies due to things he says" as your marker for incompetence. Many of his companies are seriously overvalued precisely because the things he says drive up the value far beyond where it should be.
There’s one more thing: Elon uses interviews of people to learn about the code base / product. He surrounds himself with people who can answer the technical details, that’s why he knows so much.

Galileo’s interview at SpaceX shows his thinking and way of working quite well.
> Musk has extraordinary capability of extracting every bit of potential a person can deliver. Either you work crazy at your 200% or you are worthless and the company is not for you

I can see people working themselves to the bone after buying into the missions of SpaceX and Tesla ("fuck yeah, space!" and "AI-powered electric cars saving the world" respectively) - but not for Twitter. Musk may find himself with less eager employees than he's used to. If he cuts too deep, I suspect Twitter will enter a downward spiral on talent.
Very true. This is an entire OS, however. FreeBSD prob comes closest in terms of elegance. That’s why it’s my main OS for a reason.
"non-specialists".
Actually this this is exactly the sort of answer I’m trying to provoke when I ask people to elaborate on something political. It was level headed and clear, and you provided references I can add to my own notes. Thank you!

You also added a few extra stories I didn’t hear before. I knew that his brother was a professional crank and the pro-Russia NATO stuff did get played pretty widely so I saw some of that in Australia, and while it looks particularly bad in hindsight now Russia started a war and ended any pretence of the legitimacy with regard to Russia-Ukraine relations since 2014 (there was at least for a while, consideration that the Crimea annexation was conducted legitimately given the cultural demographics involved, but we have all learned a lot about this since 2014), he wasn’t the only politician making that sort of statement.

The train stuff and the wreath in Tunisia were new to me though and I hadn’t heard anywhere near as much about Dianne Abbot as that wiki link provides. It’s definitely a more complete picture of someone that you could rightly have reservations about trusting. It’s hard for me to say he could have been worse than any other politician, they all say and do things to appease and entice voters and then actually do different things and provide elaborate reasonings why that was actually what people wanted all along, or completely change their minds about things once they are in power and discover that the full picture of how things are that they were not privy to while campaigning as an outsider or even while in opposition. And as someone who lives in Australia where voting is compulsory and we get this sort of dampening effect “for free”, kudos for still voting against a bad politician when many others in the UK and USA would simply not have bothered.

And thanks again for the excellent reply!
don't know. OP made a general statement about WaPo, and my remark followed on that. It wasn't about any one article.
It's gotta grow at a rate of e^x so that the rate of growth is also the rate of the rate of growth and also is the rate of the rate of the rate of the rate of the rate...
I wonder why this never caught on?
It’s a shame that they got rid of dashboard. It would have been a much better place to put the new-style widgets than where they are currently, smushed into the narrow Notification Center pane.
What law do you think is being broken?
I won’t go to any restaurant that uses at codes, if I can avoid it.
I missed that and finally found this post on page 4. I thought maybe it was for Twitter?
You're one AHK script away from that.
Curious, why would you think that a person who has trouble finding a group of banks (what is a group of banks called, a flight?) to produce the cash that he owns on paper, is solely interested in chasing more cash? Is it not more believable that he has a social agenda? At this very moment, I find it believable that Musk is drawing a line in the sand to be seen by folks who would have others irreparably silenced if their views aren't fashionable.
I wonder if he ended up saving himself any time in the end.
HN is so ironic, they complain and criticize everything but fail to understand QR code. Are they actually a programmer or only acting like it. India already have UPI implementation while in the USA they need apple to save their useless banking system and still fail to move on with tech.
They might be typographically correct, but they are incorrect for code, and cause so many issues. I'd rather have typographically incorrect quotes that work everywhere.
I recently replaced my decade old Blackberry because it either did not support VoLTE or I just couldn't find the appropriate firmware upgrade for the modem, but either way the telecom refused to service it. If it had support for scanning QR codes, it was very well hidden, as I actually spent time trying to get it to do that. I now have a Nokia of some sort, pointing the camera at the QR code doesn't open a web page, and that's all the effort I'm interested in investing, since the entire notion of QR menus only serves to make cellular telephones more mandatory for participation in society, which I wholeheartedly reject. The day I can't walk out my front door without a telephone and accomplish my tasks, I'll move to the mountains and become a hermit.
As citizen of ze non-sovereign vasall state fiction without voting rights in ze great empire I hereby protest against this discrimination by denying its subjects expression in their native language! Jawohl! Ja! Verdammt noch mal!
I'm sure it'd be a Tesla.

Yeah, no thank you.

Always a good grounding question44r4 to ask oneself.
> a lot faster than granting someone access to internal systems

Why? Musk could order access for Tesla engineers in minutes. Large companies have automated on-boarding and access control.

> a firewall of access if you need that legally

There is zero chance Musk would care about this. He breaks laws publicly and exuberantly. He has never shown a respect for red tape.

> Also you can sort paper into "to look at later" and "seems fine" (like huge chunks of json), it's annoying but not terrible for diligence.

I just can't imagine paper being useful to understand even a small project with 40-50 files in it. I'm not really buying there being any reason for it except a legal one, and this situation at Twitter wasn't a legal issue.
QR code substitution does involve significant in-person risk for the perpetrator. Some patsy has to go around swapping the QR codes on restaurant tables, likely raising some awkward questions from the staff and ending up with their face on multiple security cameras. It's certainly doable, but the risk/reward ratio seems poor compared to ransomware, hacking PoS systems, etc.
Canada has the same tipping culture as the US and we've had portable PoS systems in restaurants for like 10-15 years now (and I feel like I'm being conservative there).

The machine just asks for a tip and lets you put a % or $ amount in, usually with a suggested amount. I'm not sure what difference you perceive here between writing it on a piece of paper and entering it on a terminal.
I live in rural Australia and have never seen a QR code in a restaurant.
I think SpaceX and Tesla succeeds despite Musk actions.
Yes, you have been carefully programmed to regurgitate the state's position on free speech and congratulations for doing a good job of repeating the correct party speaking points!

Do you mean the violent political act from a GREEN PARTY registered crazy person? Were you this concerned about political violence in 2017 when a liberal shot and wounded 5 people at a Republican baseball game in Virginia?

Do you mean the Pentagon had to pay for his critical service instead of assuming it was a free service while they pay Lockheed, Ratheon, etc.. billions of dollars for their boom-boom machines? Do you think the Pentagon does not negotiate with Lockheed and those F35s are free?

Are you talking about the war in Ukraine that is at least partially the fault of NATO and the US involvement in that region? Are you another blood thirsty neo-liberal who desires that NATO defeats Russia and is willing to fight to the last Ukrainian? You're especially concerned about map borders in Eastern Europe while simultaneously hating borders in North America?

Sounds like you have it all figured out.
Heard of Hal Laning, creator of the first compiler; and of the real-time load-shedding OS that landed Apollo on the moon?
Twins or triplets seem like safe assumptions to make at a first read, sure. I wonder if they'd still be able to tell them as well.