skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Those who think this is a code review for the sake of looking for bugs or architecture issues are missing the point.

It's an intimidation factor on Musk's part. Are you willing to play along and show your work? Or are you going to huff and puff and complain about it? Maybe you're hiding something, or maybe you're not going to be a cooperative resource going forward. Now you're on the cut list.

Maybe the code will get glanced at for a moment. Most of us can tell well written code from spaghetti without running it through a compiler. But still, that's not the prime objective here.
For me, it's with a Kindle. I bring mine everywhere as it's so small (Kindle Basic) I can put in the back pocket of my pants. Whenever I have to wait for something, or I'm taking a break, I just open it and the book is where I left it. 5, 10, or 50 pages, they all add up. Most books are around 600-1000 pages on it.

I can finish a book this way in about 3-4 days. But my reading quota has lowered this year as I was reading wuxia (chinese) books where each is about 27k to 30k Kindle pages.
They probably would have their own proprietary "something" anyways, if not MLIR.
The article says only some engineers received the invite to print code, and Washington Post's sourcing (some engineers at Twitter) is the same as yours.

Casey Newton is reliable and says the same: https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-takes-over-twitter
> I just wanted to clear a few points up. This person is not just a friend they are family. I have known them since they were born while I was a child. We grew up together and have always been very close.

How many of those years have you been a mental health professional?

> We are all trying to be there for them. Me, his brother, his wife, his parents. We're all worried about him and while I may come across as being judgemental I promise you that is not the case.

No, you're on the internet invalidating his diagnosis.
Why would the code be relevant to generating more profit? It doesn’t seem like the domain of a CEO.
Author is spot on correct, except in underestimating the lure of Twitter to narcissists.
how do you "take" the best ones? just copy their seed?
That's fair as far as kicking the tires on the truth value of management's claims, but what Elon's doing here is performance management. Deciding someone's work is bad and they should be fired, does imply that you know how the work ought to have been done instead.
Of course GP realizes this which is why they were able to recognize and characterize the pattern. Objecting to something isn’t failure to recognize its existence.
Depends on who is telling the story; a eulogy could be a good story.
False equivalency as chrome doesn’t host the websites.
You should change your browser settings to force-enable zooming on all sites.
Except that’s not what they’re doing, so I’ve no idea why you think that a relevant argument. They’re working for a different public company while being paid by Telsa.
It's the same thing riding a horse.
Musk's twitter presence have turned Tesla from a $100 billion cap company to a $700 billion one.
A pdf is the only version I've seen. I don't understand these strange complaints about places that need you to sign up for wifi AND have poor reception which sounds so unlikely (and pointless, since they just hurt themselves) or how it's hard to see or whatever. It's easier for the establishments to maintain and safer and conveniently dovetails into online ordering.
Only incompetent managers (and executives) think that "authority" is interchangeable with "respect". Fortunately for Musk, incompetence rarely disqualifies billionaires from anything.
The audience is hackers as it should be. You can't cater to daily users at this stage. You want people who can potentially fix the bugs they come across or add the features they miss. A usable OS is no joke and it certainly isn't a one man project. If enough people get on this, it might actually become daily-usable.
The mind and body can manufacture so many things in general too. If you think you have ADHD(along with any other medical thing) it might just come to be in certain situations. Not saying it's a lot or anything, but could happen. When I was younger I would watch a pharmaceutical commercial and swear I had that disease. In fact I'm not sure why we don't ban those.
And I would just like to emphasize, most of the terms and titles you see on that slide are capital-letter Proper Nouns. The agile manifesto is more a _vibe_ about how to think about work, and how to approach the process. SAFe is a full on cult that absolutely depends on every single part on that slide doing exactly what is prescribed, or else it all falls apart.
> You can't jump in and "evaluate" without knowing context and being familiar with the features.

Yes you can, it's called an audit and there is nothing wrong with that. The company you work for should have regular security audits for instance, ideally done by a third party rather than internally to eliminate bias. This isn't a "code review".
Even in East Bay Area, you'll pay $10 for a sandwich and $2k for renting a 1 br apartment. It's not that much more than Western Europe for an equivalent thing.
Are you going to go further on the whole Paypal situation? The fact that he was running the company into the ground, had to be ousted and replaced all of which occurred before Paypal saw any success?

The 'luck' there is that he got removed and replaced by someone far more successful, but retained a large share of stock.
Definitely happy patronage is keeping the developer and the projects afloat, but boy am I worried about Microsoft controlling the GitHub Sponsor space and what that could mean for the future.
It may not be the best way, but I could certainly see it having some value.

Twitter has a ton of home grown tooling that a company it size wouldn't have if it was started today.

Is the team of people maintaining their custom stream processing engine really going to say "You could probably just replace this whole team by using Flink"? Repeat for their custom NoSql DB, their batch processing engine, their RPC framework etc.
It is still ethically a no-go. Tesla isn't a consultation firm and they haven't done this type of work ever except for personal interests of the CEO. It doesn't take a particularly skilled lawyer to establish a conflict of interest there.
Even if they're just menus, it's nice to be able to see every option at once, and scan back and forth between disparate item categories with one's eyes, without taking 5-30 seconds to navigate between them on a tiny screen.
Every company I was with when it sold had lawyers come in and inform everyone that all processes are frozen, no equipment can move or be transferred while inventory is taken, everyone involved with computers surrender their passwords to their incoming engineers... etc, etc, etc. It is standard practice and there is nothing nefarious about it.
Pretty harsh lololol. Very curious about your reasoning. Can you please explain?
They don't really need to find out anything meaningful. They are basically just putting Twitter employees on notice that they may be going deep into the details when assessing where the company is at and what changes they might want to make.
Your example generates company pr value, employee morale, etc. Meanwhile there is no value being generated to Tesla by moving these engineers to some side project for another company.
If this sort of thing concerns you, you should already be pissed because it's not the first time it's happened.

Remember SolarCity? SolarCity was one of Elon's companies. SpaceX had bought a large number of solar bonds. One interpretation of this was to keep the company afloat. A court disagreed [1]. When SolarCity became insolvent it was bought out by Tesla.

So one of Elon's companies bought out another of Elon's companies to save the third Elon company.

There is this myth that exists of Elon being some kind of tech deity but there's a much better case to be made that he's simply a highly privileged technocrat who has quite successfully failed upwards his entire career [2].

[1]: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/04/27/elon-musk-wins-shareholder-l...

[2]: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-many-failures-of-elon-...
Did the Twitter engineers get any kind of retention deal? If I were there, it'd take a lot to convince me to stay with this kind of thing going on.
Not to be used while driving. Tesla has a bunch of built in apps not to be used while driving. Ex: TikTok and Netflix.
Ah yea I’m sure Musk ran it by HR, compliance and legal.. had all the paperwork squared away on both sides and is making sure time tracking is done carefully.

or he just winged it and grabbed some engineers and said “come with me”…

Which is more in character for him?
I have a (normal) pixel 3 and it does do it, but the UI is terrible and sometimes doesn't engage. And when it does the link shows up in what I found to be an awkward place.

I'm about 90% sure this used to work better on an older version of android.
The issue serves no purpose for me, so here's a shorter version:

Add `tables` argument to schema command

Optionally restricts which tables are shown
Plenty of companies with the same owner contract with one another. It's extremely common. When they're in the same industry, we call it 'vertical integration'
Here’s just what Twitter has open-sourced: https://github.com/orgs/twitter/repositories

Laughable that you think 10 people can rewrite all of this in a month. It would take longer to scope out the design docs alone.
Who is going to stop him? No one. Nothing matters anymore.
Putin may have an interest in destroying the pipelines himself

Inside Russia, there's probably some sentiment to end the war, dispose/blame everything on Putin, and resume the gas trade. If Putin removes that option, his opponents will have little to gain from getting rid of him as they'll inherit a mess with no way to rebuild.
The point is to do all this between services, not between the user-facing apps and the users.
My contact with assembly was during the 90s. I wanted to do cracks and keygens like the ones I saw cool groups like The Phrozen Crew and similar. I learned to use SoftIce, IDA, W32dasm and later OllyDBG to step through assembler code. I started doing simple JZ/JNZ cracks but eventually progressed to reverse engineer keygens and implement them in little C programs. My top crack was with a niche program that was distributed in 3 1/2 diskettes and checked for sectors marked as Bad (B in ScanDisk), if the disk didn't have those bad sectors it failed the copy verification.

We had a 1 semester assembler class in my uni. While most of the other students didn't get why were we studying assembler, I was extatic.
Tesla didn't buy Twitter, as far as we know though. Seems grossly inappropriate.
Occam's razor would be right if we humans would be completely rational, but that is not the case. This is a pretty good publication about how the cultural perception of the clitoris affected it's science.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/275695577_Clitoral_...

The funny thing is that the clitoris was ignored for a long time, not once, but many times. Everyone just danced around the subject, even if it is an obvious part of the anatomy. There was a time when it was a risky career move to even bring it up, and when it was brought up it was only discussed in a diminutive manner, accentuating it's non-importance, treating it as a non-functional side-effect of the evolution of the penis.

This is an interesting paper about dolphin genitalia that sheds a light on the evolution of clitoris. It really highlights how it's a fully functional organ that serves a purpose. In the dolphin's case they use it extensively for lesbian sex, and of course that serves a purpose too. They aren't just evolved to behave this way by accident, it's natural selection.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357847896_Evolution...
Thought this was interesting:

> A co-generation plant uses just one fuel source and produces both electricity and steam, making it a very efficient mode of energy production. “ConEd steam service has the lowest carbon emissions intensity per unit of energy delivered compared to all other options available to the buildings of Manhattan,”

Cogen is also known as "combined heat and power": https://www.energy.gov/eere/amo/combined-heat-and-power-basi...

A lot of our modern use of energy is inefficient-by-design: the system is designed to 'use as much energy as possible'. Why don't we have more cogeneration systems, where the waste heat is used instead of released?

Earlier today I looked for information about boilers that can run on anything: wood, coal, oil, etc. I guess this was inspired by talking to my neighbor, who was waiting for his wood delivery yesterday. I don't know if he's hooked up to natural gas, but his fireplace gives him the option to not be dependent on the gas system for keeping warm. I was also looking at a hybrid boiler/heat pump systems, where the heat pump can be supplemented. The same neighbor told me his former employer's ground-source heat pump system did not work very well at all, on account of the ground loop making ice cubes out of the groundwater (or something like that).
Some US mental misplacements:

Buffalo is East of Miami

Cheyenne is South of Cleveland

DC is North of San Francisco

Atlanta is West of Detroit
> I was recently hunting down the reason for a single ! casting a string to a bool. The blame on the file lead to a large commit with details about the project, but nothing about why that specific line of code was changed.

> Was it an accident? Did it serve an actual purpose? I might never know.

You're never going to get that level of detail.

Particularly if it was an accident or done without really thinking about it--the original coder will never document that because they were literally not thinking about it.

New commit rule: always document what you weren't considering when you wrote the commit.
As a shareholder? No. Tiny losses are not of concern to me. I am concerned with large scale long term outcomes not obsessing over not losing hundredths of a percent of revenue.
I've done the same to get RX to get through a particularly crazy college semester vs buying "focus meds" on the street at crazy markup, a long time ago. It was easy to figure out what the doc needs to hear from some light internet research and I even had calibrated my responses to get the drug of choice. Cost was pennies on the dollar with insurance.

The doc would encourage moving up to powerful doses in follow ups, even though I was barely taking the initial dose... I've since learned these professional drug peddlers often thrive on pushing habit forming drugs that require routine office visit to get a fix (refill).
Sure but who is going to realistically enforce any kind of consequence?
Anyone see Rust and think, "Well, yes--it would make me super productive in projects where I'd use it. But I want to build the tools that I'd write the app in."

That inane, insane (prideful?) complex that sucks the time we won't ever get back, forcing us to vintage consoles, obsolete hardware, the oldest books--chasing some Ur-experience where finally, at the end of that journey, on the docks of Middle Earth, we can finally step onto the boat that will take us to the land of the ageless.

For some definition of solemn purity, to work after already-solved problems, in order to understand the beneath: even as things race forward, incessant, and we moor to the mad calm of executing the projects we smash our minds upon.
I hadn't heard that about the Optus leak. Do you have a link with further details?
Apparently it's completely legal, though (IANAL). It's just like being a contractor on the side.
Not only that, less code is better. The elegant and performant solution is the simple one, for example wireguard vs openvpn.
It's not a matter of never try, it's more of a matter of what's even practical. Inhabiting Mars is not as simple as just landing a rocket on there with a bunch of people and materials. Space travel requires immense physical training, enormous costs just to get into space, plus there's the issue of handling emergencies if anything goes wrong while on Mars.

It's an idea that's so far off in terms of the technology that we'd need, and there's so many more useful things that are closer to within reach that are still similar pursuits that would be more valuable investments (i.e. asteroid mining, advanced satellite technology, etc.). Making incremental progress is great, but there's still the question of "what would we even gain from going to Mars?". There's no ore that'd make sense to mine, making/terraforming a civilization there when we can't even make one in Death Valley (which already has oxygen) is preposterous, and tourism would be impossible due to the physical limitations of space travel.

It's not that we should "never try", it's that there's no practical reason (right now at least) _to_ try.
The idea that you can scale agile is false. It's fake. Agile experts didn't say how to do it because it can't be done. They put everything they knew, as clearly as they could, in the manifesto. And then they described themselves. And almost all of them were consultants. They found that delivering software frequently to their customers worked better than any alternative.

If you can do that, you can do agile. It doesn't matter if your customers are internal or external - internal might be better, because you can work with them more regularly.
FSD sure feels like it is. I say this as one of the suckers who wasted my money on it.
that announcement most certainly did spook the market and news about the Twitter acquisition has been a drag on TSLA all year. You may have noticed the stock trading for slightly more than half of its peak value.
Why would anyone take him seriously when he is making a massive embarrassment of himself on his first day on the job (after doing the same for months leading up to the takeover?)

Musk didn't know the bio of the CEO of the company he was buying (who was also former CTO, engineer, Stanford PhD (thesis topic: making decisions under uncertainty), IPhO gold medalist, top tier Indian tech student) and called him a non-technical "manager type" and refused to ask him any technical questions.

I am also excited, because I think Twitter needs to end and Musk is the perfect person to destroy it.
I’m chastising an alleged shareholder who pronounces this as good.

You are chastising me for pronouncing it bad?

This is literally a wint tweet lol
6/1/14
the wise man bowed his head solemnly and spoke: "theres actually zero difference between good & bad things. you imbecile. you f*%#% moron"
Doesn’t matter. There’s no remedy.
I do it as often as I can, which is sadly not often because I rarely carry cash. We do, for a variety of reasons, tend to frequent places that are ethically run though, and often know everyone involved fairly well. But, yes, as long as we have tipping as a significant basis for restaurant workers' income, cash tips.
How do you know which child had which behavior in the womb?
Some coffee shops/cafes make it central to the overall experience and I love it. You can order directly from the QR code and the code is tied to your table so they bring the food and coffee directly to you. Split the bill directly in the app when you close out to pay.

If a restaurant isn’t going to really invest in an experience like that then they absolutely should go back to paper menus.
Lots of good ideas in your well-written readme!
Twitter is no longer public.
I don't approve of minimum wage, but I'm still not going to be surprised when people pay minimum wage.
Does it tho? If you're cutting 70% of 1000-2000 coders is that what you're doing, fully understanding twitter, or are you just looking for dead weight or unimportant systems and axing those immediately?
> it's gross when you get a menu that hasn't been wiped down properly and is sticky with god knows what

And yet it's almost guaranteed that your phone has far more germs and bacteria on it than those menus
Do you believe that Musk is not going to push his cars on Twitter? Seems to me that you have access to a fairly large audience on there.
So sad. RIP
Do you have any references to this printouts of code? I saw this mentioned on another thread too. I asked about it and was mocked for asking about it.

Is this something that literally is happening? Where can we read about it?

edit: Apparently referring to this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-10-27/tesla-eng...
Not public anymore, they were delisted this past Friday, but the rest of your point stands ofc.
I've been running AdGuardHome for years, almost since it came out. I prefer keeping it up to date manually after reading the release notes and known issues (by visiting the config page and clicking update if it notifies me that there is a new version) but if you want to automate it you can install the Snap or Docker version or use the API[1] to trigger an auto upgrade. Installing it is easy, there's even an automated installation script now[2] but I prefer to do it manually and run it as a regular user without root permissions. It can run from pretty much anywhere in your filesystem and as any user as long as it has the correct permissions, that's what made me choose it instead of PiHole at first, also the more advanced regex blocking rules.

The easiest way to keep it up to date is probably a Cron script that runs curl to trigger the upgrade API endpoint.

[1] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome/blob/master/opena...

[2] https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome#getting-started
Agreed. Most code at the top tech companies isn't interesting or even necessarily good. The hardest part of jumping into a new code base is almost always understanding the problem it's solving rather than the technology used to solve it.
On my android phone, the feature has to be turned on. Fortunately someone showed me how to do that as I fumbled at a restaurant.
At least in NYC, no they don't.

I've seen that at a couple of spots, but the vast majority are just a link to a menu. You order through the server.

And even where I've seen ordering through your phone, it's was just an option for those who prefer it. Not the only, or even recommended, way.
> sort of a loon

I prefer eccentric, which may be an advantage for him.
You're on a board founded by a VC fund to market their investments, I would expect capitalists to be the majority here.
I assume the reason they work so well in China is that they open into some nice UI everyone uses / is fairly standardized in WeChat or AliPay or something. Our internet model is very different from theirs with the Super Apps
If you think Musk didn't run it past legal first, you're delusional.
Once Tesla bought Solar City, Musk's cousin's company, it became clear that he's prone to this sort of misuse of resources. I agree that he shouldn't use Tesla resources like this, but it's not out-of-character, either.
I could probably have phrased it differently and said having the OPTION to pay by phone is great. If I can avoid having to flag down someone who is working 5 extra tables because someone didn't show, just so she can hand me a paper slip ... I mean, it's a plus from my perspective. But I'm at the age that it catches me off guard every time I can do it.
Maybe too much technical analysis of the book? When I read fiction, I use the words of the author of as a means to evoke visually the scene in my imagination. Sometimes, I think I patch the story as I go on, as I rely solely on what I visualize to recall past events. Writing doesn't matter as much, and even characterizations do not. I only enjoy the ideas and the sequences of events. Every so often, I read similar novels just to see how much the author can differ from the previous.
I remember seeing it as a kid. It wasn't until I was a student many years later that I appreciated the design of the governor.
The best engineers I see farm out the easier issues and even some of the hard work. But they supervise and mentor. Counting lines of code disincentivizes mentoring.