skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a tradeoff. I've been in multiple situations where two branches independently work fine at runtime, and merge without conflict, but the merge is broken at either compile-time or runtime. I'd rather rebase with cognizance over what I'm rebasing over, and make sure my changes are actually semantically consistent afterwards.

Of course, if you have an organization-wide monorepo, this isn't going to work. (At the same time, at that point, you should probably be a bit more selective about what CI you run based on what components have changed... and make decisions about what checks to run nightly rather than on PRs.)
As parent I’d agree that there was some innate behaviors and individuality of personality that persists from the start. No idea how to quantify it but have witnessed it.
I don't think Musk is looking for an itemized bug list. He's probably more interested in overall code quality, estimates on the level of technical debt, and a qualitative feel about the state of things. While a distributed systems person would have an easier go of that, I think most decently-well-rounded software developers would provide value there.

Also remember that Telsa runs their own distributed systems to support the connected features of their cars. Certainly that's not the same as Twitter, but it's definitely in the same ballpark.
The problem of course is not annoying the underperformers, but you want to avoid annoying the valuable engineers who get things done and keep the company running. There's plenty of demand for engineers -- if they want, they could find another job in a week where they don't have to deal with hostile management. Treat people well. Assume the best and let them prove you right, rather than assuming the worst and making them prove you wrong.
> Besides, give restaurant workers a break: it's one less thing they have to do to serve you, so they can focus more on providing good service.

In that case, they could just hand out menus at the entrance. Or if they don't greet you and instead just let you sit wherever, they can just put the menus in an obvious place. Restaurants have done this forever in similar situations. Online menus aren't necessary to solve this problem.

> Having said that, I hope we can all agree that paying directly by phone is one of the unambiguously great COVID-era innovations.

I don't really agree. At least I don't think it's an unambiguously great innovation. Personally I find the requirement to have a phone much more irritating than to the requirement to have cash or credit cards. That said, I've never seen a place accept payments by phone not accept either cash or credit cards so I guess it's mostly just irrelevant to me.
Knowing enough to call bullshit is way lower than knowing enough to contribute meaningfully to a codebase.

Even just having access to code while someone talks I can prove with much higher value questions on what they are saying… because even if I’m asking something dumb it prompts a deeper explanation.
https://retrocomputing.stackexchange.com/a/15753 Apparently you can make MAME do it if you really want it to by the command line.
Even as an adult, it’s a challenge. I’ve had to find a new psychiatrist several times due to them retiring or leaving. Getting anything faster than 2 months is impossible. My latest one had to be booked four months in advance.
right, they'll fire the gurus who know how everything works and barely write a line of code anymore, and things will be pretty hilarious when they have their next outage.
> From Safari hiding the full path in the browser in the name of "minimalism"

That was never the intent of hiding the path, it was and is to help users identify what a site’s domain actually is. To distinguish malicious sites with recognizable domain-like strings in/overlapping their paths as well as malicious sites with recognizable domains as subdomains. It’s not a panacea, but it’s effective. Chrome (and IIRC Firefox) also experimented with similar approaches before ultimately splitting the difference with higher contrast text for the domain.
> and they indicate total cluelessness from a product and engineering point of view

Gotta say, this sounds exactly what they said about Tesla, and SpaceX, and Starlink.
They are both Openwrt plugins, as per gp's link...
Elon bought Twitter, he didn't take Tesla private. TSLA is listed on the NASDAQ, check it if you don't believe. Please stop asserting things as true that are demonstrably wrong.
The wind boom in Texas is bankrolled by guys like T. Boone Pickens, a man who made his billions in oil (and perpetrating some of the shadiest schemes on the planet), and then wants to use the same schemes to make even more billions in wind.

He's the guy who is buying off the politicians so that they create the zones where he can get excessive powers to do whatever he wants.
Andreas's tribute video to Terry Davis:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DmV49ogMDEI

He also did a Commute talk about TempleOS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr3xN52QYtA
If he wanted to back out of the deal he wouldn’t have insisted on an absurdly airtight offer. It was ironclad, no way out. No lawyer would have allowed it unless the client insisted. If he had wanted a way to back out all he would have needed to do is set back and let his lawyers do what lawyers do when crafting the offer. Instead he insisted on an offer that will be taught in law school as the canonical ironclad offer.
I can’t believe he though he’d be backing out when he made that offer. The man is unhinged but not a moron.
Tesla is not privately owned. And if their employees are working to review twitter code, then Tesla stockholders should rightfully be mad that Tesla is paying employees to benefit Elon Musk's private ventures.
Using Tesla engineers to review code is a pretty solid idea considering he can trust them. Musk companies like to run lean so I'm sure this initial review is to find people who are "coasting" and trim them. I'll say that I'm one of those coasters though not for twitter. I live my life and happen to write software for work. I don't think it's wrong for companies to run either as a coasting company or as a lean startup as long as they don't break any laws.

I'm curious to see what comes out of twitter. I honestly don't see how Elon can make his money back. lol
It’s possible Musk is all of the above. He could genuinely believe in hyperloop and boring co as solutions and as ways to spread FUD.

Actually I’d suspect it’d be very likely if he’s high on the IQ / autism spectrum as he seems to be.
https://boards.4channel.org/g/catalog
What a fabulous time for security researchers.

Hello IT? This is Bob from Tesla here. I require full access to audit data and source code per Mr. Musk’s request. You hadn’t heard? That’s because Mr. Musk fired your boss this morning now add my personal email to the system.
Comparing Twitter to Tumblr is laughable. The same thing that happened to tumblr cannot happen to twitter.
They wouldn’t mind. The employees have expertise in renovating. So makes sense.

What a weird timeline we are living in..
The problem isn't really related to subscriptions. Adobe Soundbooth, the precursor to Audition, was a paid for product with a perpetual license, but still they pulled major features for failing to license some crucial libraries. Notably, this happened to installed programs. A few years later, the program wouldn't start at all (still the same installation).
The one that's in druntime at the moment? Or a real concurrent GC, there are currently two different parallel GC's in druntime as I write this i.e. a forking one and a parallel marking one one which is enabled by default.
The leads to an obvious question:

Are there other mental health issues being spurred on by TikTok? If so, which ones?

And then the followup:

Is it more beneficial to the individual to affirm OR challenge the TikTok-driven self diagnosis?
What’s more funny is how people commonly believe like this their code is so special or different than everyone else’s. Reverse engineering a large code base is not anywhere as hard as most software engineers somehow believe. I was tasked with analyzing a large code base from a company that my employer had been an investor in and as part of their investment had been given IP rights, the company employees were floored when our team, lead by me had ripped apart their system into multiple components and reused them in way they hadn’t. Trust me if one is experienced enough they can understand your code perfectly fine, it’s definitely not as special as you think it is.
In 8 hours I would be surprised if you got more than a 10000 feet view. Also, there is deployment, ops, policy.

To say you got everything you needed in 8 hours is disrespectful at best (even for way smaller code bases)
I’m personally very happy with switching to a Hetzner dedicated server, I’m saving a ton of money, and the server can handle my busiest months of load with plenty of room to spare.

I use docker containers for a rails app and send backups of my db to S3 with restic. Docker compose files and DR scripts are in my repo. If Hetzner goes down I’ll run them on a VPS from any of the million providers.

Deploys push a docker container to dockerhub, then ssh into Hetzner and pulls them.

If you want the ease of git push deploys similar to Heroku then use Dokku.

Everyone should remember how long it took Heroku to tell you your environment variables were stolen in a breach and how they were not transparent at all through the whole process.
Point taken, but it's not wage theft so long as he's paying them. He's stealing from Tesla stockholders. Though I imagine the engineers he borrowed have existing priorities and deadlines, so the experience for them and their teams probably isn't great.
That is not the meaning of the word "enlightening" that I meant. But, given the case at hand, it's understandable that you interpreted it in this way.

I should have used the word "elucidating" instead.
Many people being gullible and herd-oriented doesn't equate to them being forced to consume products.

I'm not forced to eat shit. Neither are you. If you disagree please reference the shit I'm being forced to eat, or products I'm being forced to buy. I'll then point out whether or not your statements have any standing.
A bassoon. I'm not a pro, I'm not even that good although I did all the exam grades ... some time ago. I haven't always stuck at it but I keep going back to it. I didn't need to keep it but I'm glad I did.
Yes, I know what your point is. I'm just wondering if the distribution of "VCs" has a fatter tail than you think. The very name of this website, "ycombinator" is rather "on the spectrum" but it is obviously less so now than it was, say, back in the early 80s when Haskell Curry signed my sigplan proceedings. Likewise, back in 2006 when Marcus sponsored the Hutter Prize, it was rather "autistic" to think there would be anyone who understood what he was talking about. Then his "autistic" PhD students founded DeepMind and everyone went nuts about AI. I could cite dozens of examples of the way distributions shift in directions that seemed at one time to be only for "autistic savants".
"Computer engineer" and "mechanical engineer" have very different meanings when it comes to liability, certifications, etc.
>Tesla was a place with low engineering quality

SpaceX has had a somewhat similar reputation (at least early, it may have changed for the better).

For example, they had a spectacular failure related to bad material quality in a strut.[1] It's common practice in aerospace quality to have "coupons" kept, tested, and traceable for these types of critical components. Apparently, SpaceX wasn't follow this procedure and they changed their policies after the mishap to do so. There have been some other deviations from standard practices that may lead one to raise an eyebrow.

I've sometimes wondered if these are examples of an attitude of "move fast and break things" creeping into other (generally more conservative) safety critical domains.

[1]
your strawman is that having a generally pro-elon disposition = thinking elon is some kind of infallible savior

The reality is that the current moderation of major forums like Twitter, HN, etc is so one-sided that it produces whatever passive-aggressive posturing that we are engaged in with this very conversation.

I am not going to make a defense of elon or his actions, but I will say that I believe there are two good outcomes:

* Elon behaves rationally and makes twitter usable for civil discussion.

* Elon behaves irrationally and destroys twitter, creating space for competitors like mastodon, etc.

If you agree with this premise, then it should be clear that most any change elon makes to twitter is beneficial in the long run, good or bad. This is why I am not so quick to criticize.
The CIA knew about Bin-Laden but the reason why he wasn't 'caught' before 9/11 isn't because of some money'd conspiracy? There's plenty of evidence there were two highly motivated groups trailing the participants of 9/11 but the FBI failed because of information held back by them by compartmentalization between agencies.

Which was (allegedly) solved via the DHS.

I haven't seen anyone suggest that has any correlation to why Osama was allowed to survive for so long?

Intel agencies make dangerous and extremely cynical decisions to dabble in black markets, which need more daylight. 100x. But lets be reasonable here
I mean, you can do a very general audit of things like “is there CI” or “do they use horribly unsafe serialization everywhere” but I don’t see anything beyond this without a huge amount of effort.
A Serious Message from Dan Gilbolsak - Casey Muratori [YouTube]
That’s because you can start a buncha stuff that ends up great and still be a raging narcissistic man-child.

And a whole lot of people want to just overlook everything because “he makes a lot of money” or “I like this tech thing”
Yes, although siting the electrolyzer at the PV farm uses DC from the modules directly, avoiding DC-AC inversion losses, transmission losses and AC-DC rectification losses. Having the smelter there too avoids hydrogen transport and storage costs.

All that, of course, has to be balanced against ore transport and slag disposal costs.
> SpaceX is successfully solving engineering problems. If Elon is surrounded by yes men, that means he's always right.

Alternatively, it means the organization is resilient enough to handle it.

The US government has successfully accomplished all sorts of things while having various shitty people at the helm.
Here's what I would have written. This took me reading the code and clicking through to #299 to figure out and could have been in the commit message:

Add optional tables argument to schema command

The schema of every table in the DB is shown by default. Add optional
tables argument to restrict which tables are shown.

Closes #299
Normally this sort of thing can be reported through the ethics hotline.
Musk is a seller above all else. Every day he finds a new way to draw attention to his projects. The news about Twitter give him even more distribution and by nature more sales towards Tesla and his other companies. Tesla engineers on site for interviews is a great idea for Twitter and for Tesla as both get more PR than before. A lot of people have lost interest in Twitter for more than political reasons and I’m excited to see what he does with the product, specifically introducing more alternatives to advertising and showing social products can monetize as agents of their users, not just parasites of attention.
Last week it was the United States, the next week it will be Poland.
WaPo is not HuffPo.

Generally, you can still trust the real news coming out of places like the Post and Times to at least be accurately fact checked.
Depends. I haven’t written a line of code in a month either. That’s because I’m planning what code needs to be written in the next five years. I’ve found a lot of good engineers spend more of their time in Google Docs than they might in their IDE.
Who said they're evaluating the code? Maybe they're evaluating the people by asking them questions about the code they've just written. That's a great way to find out who's full of shit.
Agreed. I had the opportunity to audit a FAANG codebase (many many repositories) a while back and while I'm a lowly engineer, I was able to start understanding quite a bit after a few weeks. Obviously there's no way I could contribute or make recommendations in that short time, but obvious smells start working their way out after exposure. The clarity only increases with the amount of time spent immersed in it.
Not all it has a stellar reputation
In a post-Google world the purpose of advertising is to influence the internal associations someone has with a product or brand
You're confusing TSLA with TWTR.
I'm glad there are enough people out there helping to support his ventures.

Can totally understand how people say "it's lonely at the top"...
If you read history, the original East/West split was Persia/Greece.
You're thinking of Twitter (TWTR). TSLA is Tesla, which is still publically traded.
Oh, that's a good question. It's been a long time. I'll do my best to find it but I very few memories about it, other than what I mentioned and that the premise was (in part) to nurture your child based on their personality. It was actually one of the best books I read when my daughter was born, so I'll really try to find it for you.

Edit: I think it's "Secrets of a Baby Nurse," by Marsha Podd. (Maybe. It's been a long time.) I hope that's it because so many of those books were uninformative or simply reassuring (e.g. "Yes, it's normal ..."). This one talks about how your baby is communicating with you from the start and how to watch for that to make both of your lives easier.
Honestly first time I’m hearing that a city is heated like this…I mean it’s logical, but over here they heat water and then pump it out, which for some reason always felt very wasteful. This _feels_ better.

But what do they do to the steam once it gets to the top of a building? Is it just released into the atmosphere or the water is somehow cycled back down?
What are your thoughts on EVs and SpaceX?
who is a yes-man according the the post we're all replying to. lol
Can you elaborate on that? How do you establish the impossibility of future events?
The ability of the process to prune dead weight and the emotions of the people affected are kind of unrelated. It's a business not a charity.
Take a random sample of Tesla vehicles, more than four but fewer than 10, and the panel gaps are obscene for the vehicle price and mystique- it’s clear proof they have low standards.
I don't see anyone discussing what seems, to me, the most likely explanation.

Printing off the code and reviewing code are complete side-shows to construct a narrative in the media. You know, his forte as a full-time twitterer (in between smoking dope, playing computer games, jerking off, and impregnating women with whom he is at the other end of a power gradient).

Then he's going to purge all the disloyal people and people who are doing stuff he's not interested in, so he can lower the payroll and establish political control of the corporate structure. His other forte as Mr Sociopath McMoneybags... (although in fairness he had no chance, when his parents christened him with that name, nominative determinism and all)
They are making people work all weekend on this shit. All in order to save Musk the Nov 1st vest money.
In vision...
If we do get to Mars, the least we could do is have a giant Elon statue :)
Making up what - the very plausible idea one company hired a team of experts from another company to come in and do an audit? Is that so unreasonable?

Again, the Musk haters are out in force.
That sounds like you are denying their lived reality, perhaps even “projecting” your golden experience, saying that others can’t find different paths through complex human topics. Your opinion is fine, but denying the opinion of others is not.

Here are two things that I have commonly seen: 1: getting labelled often leads to negative outcomes, in particular when others judge by a person’s label and not the person, and 2: psychologists and counsellors can sometimes create victims, trained codependency, and a variety of very negative outcomes. In this case the OP judged the cost of 20 hours per week of professional help to be high cost/risk, and they tentatively said it seems to be a reasonably good outcome (fantastic - given the diagnosis).

Professional “help” can easily be harmful, and I think you should acknowledge that fact. Of course the opposite can happen when people ignore help, or deny problems, and then hurt themselves or others.

The key point is that there is no golden standard where you can predict if professional help will work, or harm.

PS: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
How Tesla engineers are relevant into evaluating Twitter code.
I'm not a big Musk fanboy (anymore), but the work SpaceX has done is clearly ground breaking. I also wonder where electric cars would be without Tesla. They were all but dead after GM killed theirs.
I wasn't even talking about paid links specifically. It's advertising in general that's the problem. Call me a child all you want, I don't care. The simple fact remains that they have an inherent conflict of interest. It's not an absurd argument at all. People who want to sell you something have every incentive to distort the truth and only fools believe them.
I think it's static inasmuch as it isn't an inherently adversarial problem. The world isn't bent on thwarting self-driving cars. Bot authors are bent on subverting detection.
Very likely your IBM/360 was connected to one of their 1403 Model N1 line printers with 132 columns. The lid would automatically rise up when it was hungry for a new box of fan-folded paper (probably with horizontal green and white stripes, three lines each). To tape your final pages edge-to-edge, you'd have had to have first removed the perforated strips on the left and right edge that had the tractor-feed holes. Fun times.
It's a type of vice signaling. To appeal to their peers by making fun of virtue signalling. It's being contrary on purpose to fit into their own echo chamber's culture.
https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ym555

This appears to be the only comment this account has ever made
Are you actually serious or trolling?

The guy lost the election and did everything in his power to hang onto it, this is a serious and dangerous threat to modern western democratic civilization.

There was no prospect for a third world war.

Who is being dramatic now?

We didn't experience wild inflation.

No but the Trump administration helped cause it? Inflation is not something that just happens because Joe Biden likes inflation, it happens because of policy.

Funny how the real world works :)
I don't think Elon is trying to evaluate the code. It seems to me he is trying to evaluate people.
If these numbers are right and they're laying off 50% the workforce, half of me wonders how much Parag could raise to build a new Twitter from scratch and just hire 500 - 1000 talented folks off the street for the venture, I mean if Travis K could raise almost a billion for his shitty ghost kitchen venture I'd have to think they could get enough runway to get something launched pretty quickly.

There's so many "What we should do" moments that are too expensive or deviate too far from the core business that don't get developed in most enterprises that could be pursued when starting from a blank slate.

Anyway, just a thought experiment.
No. It’s not. Musk bought Twitter and took it private. Tesla is still a publicly traded company that Musk (as I understand it) actually had to sell a non-trivially portion of his stock in in order to finance part of the deal.

Tesla is not his personal fiefdom. Stop.
Is this irony? Given the time.to write the odd comment, tidy a bit of code write a commit message, I know what I ask for. People read the code. I am sure some people jump right to the commit log but I have never met one in my 40 years as an active developer.
Commit messages matter. A short statement of intent is a good idea.
Dangerfiles are the penultimate expression of bikeshedding.