skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I can share some first hand insights, the place where I work at the moment hired 3 engineers last quarter and is planning to hire another 3 within coming weeks/months.

In the same time some colleagues left because they were picked by other companies offering 30% increase (and they are already on very good pay).

I get contacted by recruiters couple of times each week, although as some already mentioned this might not be a good indicator since interviewing might not lead to hiring.
If you actually read the lawsuit - it was filed preemptively to ensure that Twitter give 60-days severance/notice period.

There is no evidence listed in the suit that says these employees were not given such notice.

Further, it specifically states that employees assumed that they were laid of without severance because they were locked out of their accounts and hadn't been yet presented a severance package.

The lawsuit is routine legal nonsense.
Take a look at Nestybox's DID use case [1]. They got acquired by Docker

1. https://blog.nestybox.com/2019/11/11/docker-sandbox.html
I feel like Hacker News might be the only forum online where you can reliably find ridiculous one-off anecdotes like this on a regular basis.
Consider signing up to a service like MXGuardian that your MX records can point to, and that then forward email to your server. This will give you an “emergency inbox” that you can use in cases like this (might also help with spam depending on how you are currently dealing with that).
I appreciate the focus on technological simplicity, cost-effectiveness and environmental cost. Yes, the battery itself isn't as efficient (per m^3) as a chemical one, but the basic engineering and well-established supply chains behind setting one up will reap gains in themselves and means scaling up will be much less challenging. Even the turbine add-on is well understood engineering at this stage.

I imagine these could be used to buffer the output from wind turbines or solar plants?
The guy you're replying to is so downvoted you can barely see their comment. They didn't even write anything bad. Just an opinion. lol
Well, if the domain names are seized, maybe we could connect directly to the IP address? Does anyone know the IP address of z-lib domains (b-ok.cc or z-lib.org)? This is going to make me want to keep a local log of all IP addresses which the domain names map to :(
The metaverse should be more like the Sony Walkman
Because the CEO of Twitter will receive information on what their competitors are spending on advertising and can use that to calibrate decisions as CEO of Tesla, while the CEOs of the competing car companies do not get any such info
1. That's not a secret ballot.

2. The typical US ballot has a dozen or so different votes that need to be done.
Note the kit they refer is for 220VAC.
This is a non-substantive comment more appropriate for other social media platforms.
Interesting to see if VC's/Angels will be chatting up some tweeps as they exit.
During the initial COVID outbreak, it was one of the only decent information sources I could find.

Twitter's nice because it gives you fast and easily available tools to curate your own feed. I could quickly follow a variety of professionals across different disciplines and regions to parse together some useful info.

You have to work at it, but anyone who assumes quality information will passively flow to you is mistaken and being misinformed in some way.
For older demographics in less populated areas, dating apps are often the only reliable way to meet new people. There isn't an "infinite supply" of either gender, especially not single people. Though I agree with your other points, and as a loser-ish person who doesn't like to socialize, I recognize that is a limiting factor for me as well.
This comes from someone who's previously worked as a process and reliability engineer, and one of those was in automotive manufacturing. One of my degrees is in industrial engineering, so I'm very familiar with Deming.
What you're saying is true, with one important distinction we may disagree on:

>"but that you can manage with software"

This is a take that seems accurate on it's surface but belies a lot of additional problems. Leaning on software for improving reliability can be a dangerous path. It's tempting because it's cheap and easy to iterate on. Software doesn't wear out like mechanical components. But software makes reliability pretty tough when you constantly iterate because it tends to fail at interfaces. Not only do the number of these interfaces tend to grow exponentially, they are notoriously difficult to test fully. Nancy Leveson has some good articles that demonstrate this distinction.

A automotive example from my own experience is a comparison with mechanical vs. electrical robots used in the stamping process of body panels. Plant managers like electrical retrofits because they held the promise of being much cheaper to build and modify. But they needed near-constant tweaking of the control system. The number of interfaces causes a lot more failure modes and impacts the reliability. By contrast, a mechanical system is, by it's nature, constrained by mechanical linkages. Once the mechanical system is tuned and working, it works for a long time. Gradually the parts wear, but they tend to be much easier to predict and troubleshoot.

Since this thread is about aerospace, you can see where software failure caused catastrophic failures by lulling engineers into complacency about how software can enhance reliability. From Ariane V, to Falcon, to CST-100 all have examples of how software did not fulfill its promises to increase reliability and often it does the opposite. Don't confuse the ability to move a design change faster with an inherent ability to make things more reliable.
Min is an HLOP.

From: https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/master/tinygrad/tens...

def min(self, axis=None, keepdim=False): return -((-self).max(axis=axis, keepdim=keepdim))

All folded together, no slower than MAX.
And anxiety in between
From "Just Have a Think" (another excellent channel similar to Undecided):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sol9FOaKTr0
Yes (and it represents ~2% of Bosch by revenue)
You are indeed correct. Much of the "data" I've seen here in support of the recession argument revolve around tech layoffs (and, of course, inflation), and when someone points out that real GDP grew and the unemployment rate is low, someone will respond by telling you how bad their neighbor in some tech city has it right now.
Insanely profitable trillion dollar company that the entire world depends on ? Let me guess you're in saas sales or some other unproductive garbage like that
Thanks for this. I’m going to attempt to get it working today. I’ve always wondered if this would work given the data models seem to be a very close match.
> He didn't, he started the company at a time where governments all over the word started to really (depending on the country, obviously) kick companies butts for not innovating. There where electric cars before he started his company.

Yes, and they all failed commercially. I'm not sure what point you think I'm making. It's undeniable that Musk was instrumental in creating the first commercially successful electric car. If he took advantage of government incentives to do so, that doesn't seem relevant, that's just good business sense.

If your argument is that anyone could have succeeded in that environment, then why was Tesla the only successful electric car manufacturer for literally years? Do you disagree that the roadster made electric cars cool, and changed public perception on electric vehicles?

> Musk also didn't invent space travel.

Again, I'm not sure why this is relevant. Musk created the first commercially successful private launch company. Do you agree or disagree?

I'm not disputing that Musk is also after money and fame and probably a few other things. I'm not sure why that's relevant to my point either. Even if it's enlightened self-interest driving him, it remains the case that Musk either founded or took over and pushed successful commercial ventures that are tackling existential risks to humanity.
I think you misunderstand how much of it is activism vs risk avoidance.
I also have my doubts about the wisdom of the Twitter move, but it isn't hard to see a line of reasoning that puts fixing twitter as a key part of the path to addressing climate change.

If you view the massive endemic corruption and polarization of our political system as one of the key reasons we are failing to solve climate change, and you also view Twitter as the core public square through which our political system can be fixed, then Twitter is not a distraction at all.

I don't personally think that twitter has a major role to play in fixing our political system, but maybe I'm wrong.
> I first heard talk about the upcoming housing bubble burst in 2003, five years before the bubble actually burst.

2006 is when the housing bubble was pierced. It took another couple of years to fully deflate, so bursting isn't likely the best depiction of the event, but typically when we talk about bubbles bursting we refer to the first moment of weakness, not the tail end.

It was the securities market that crashed fast and hard five years later. The housing market crash played a role in that happening, I'm sure, but isn't housing itself.
> Too many people employed means that people who would otherwise be doing something like training or hobbies or retired are dragged into working for some reason

Is this right? I'm sure I was taught the labour force figure used in calculating unemployment figures doesn't include people like this
Before actions, there needs to be a will to act.

Do I believe that having a hearing will guarantee actions? Obviously not.

Do I believe that having a hearing is a necessary step towards having a will to act? Yes.
Lots of companies are in this space doing what they can, but they’re focused on actually doing the work and getting their hands dirty as opposed to Musk’s wide noise making. Look at immunotherapy and age research, the trying to find a cure and mechanism for Chronic Fatigue (an illness which disables millions), the people who documented the genome of humanity, and NASAs astronomy stuff. There are biologists trying to prevent further extinct amphibians. There’s linux, and git, and countless open source software we use daily.
Even if you assume he did it for the money, are you disputing the idea that those are net good ventures and a benefit to humanity?
The outliers compared to the famous stories, I think you mean.
I think you're right. Thing is what I wrote is factual as can be.

Your comment made me wonder, how much of Bezos and Musk sociopathy is innate, versus imitation of some excerpt popularly known of earlier successful albeit at times abrasive characters. And how might they be different if the decent stories were so well known, because they do exist.
> actually significantly less efficient

It's less energy efficient. It's significantly more time efficient and ergonomic.
Look up the SpaceX entry.
>A modern-era Energy Star-rated fridge, by comparison, might only use 350 kWh annually. At the same $.10 per kWh price, that's around $.10 a day, $2.9 per month and $35 per year

I admire efficiency a lot but I don’t think digging around in a chest freezer is worth saving $31.50 a year. Others may feel differently.
> you can't really suspect him of wanting to take over Twitter (and all of its headaches) for money.

In the end he didn't want to, because it probably became clear there was no money to gain.
If you don't mind me asking, how much is your current rate?

As I've seen a lot of offers coming up but at lower salaries than usual.
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"It’s just batshit crazy, moon shot type of ideas and then the brilliant people that he’s been able to recruit are able to make it happen"

you can read this sentence and come away with the conclusion that he doesn't do anything, or that he is responsible for everything. To me, it mostly seems like he has a bunch of money / financing so he can pay people to try lots of often very dumb ideas and some might work. His core "skill" being an accumulation of immense wealth.

you might say "you need both ideas and execution, and he is an ideas guy", which is correct, but i think the level of credit (and compensation) is wildly skewed towards the "ideas guy" in this case
Next step is realizing that most code is a liability and you will begin to loathe anything "smart". I'm at this step right now. I'm curious if any graybeard out there can share what the next step is.

I don't even want smart electrical outlets.
there's something about guaranteed wealth that takes away those feelings of accountability. You can be 100% morally strong, yet 20 years of this BS and your humbleness goes down the drain. Totally human, yet totally wrong to be on top of the food chain for too long.
Are you saying all other companies are just Musk-company clones and thus treat their employees as Musk does? I get the feeling people think Musk's management style is an outlier and that's why they are complaining --but you seem to be sayin, "they're all like that and we have no options".
Re future work "It bugs me that I’m fetching this information every 30 seconds even though most of the time I won’t use it":

Take a look at Home Assistant, which runs nicely on the same hardware. You get a reasonably capable platform that knows when you're home and can be told a schedule, so you can then limit the checks to times when you'll actually need to know.

https://www.home-assistant.io/
Hype and Hybrids: Search is more than Keywords and Vectors
Twenty years ago, “hybrid” was a term used only by botanists and chemists. Today, hybrid is booming… even in search. Many search systems are rolling out hybrid search schemes with the latest AI. But is "hybrid search" really more than a buzzword?
Sadly, as best I can tell, there are no real fines for WARN violations - at worst, Musk as to pay 60 days income and benefits, as he should have done in the first place. There might be a $500/day penalty as well (not sure if that's per person or total - either way, chump change to most employers that are subject to the WARN act).
Er, this is probably a good heat storage system, but I wouldn't call it a "battery". A battery is something that you charge with electricity and then provides electricity when you discharge it. Or, otherwise said, a pumped-storage plant is closer to the definition of a "battery" than this thing...
Using spain and greece for comparison sure seems like cherrypicking your data.

Also it has been proven many times by many people that if US were to transition to single payer insurance system, it would actually decrease the spending. No one claims it is easy, but there is absolutely no reason for the US insurance system to exist under single payer, that would be just setting piles of cash on fire.
I'm really starting to grow tired of this format of video. Lots of stock footage and little information, definitely no attempt to bring balance into the discussion. Every innovation is a breakthrough with no downsides at all.

This is probably a bit harsh to Matt Ferrel it's probably copycats I've got more of a problem with.
There are FTT denominated loan(s), to MIM for instance, but I’m not sure there are that many others willing to accept FTT given the thin liquidity
> an unforgivable, catastrophic loss of vm

deets?
250 people moderating AND supporting 190m daily active users??

Let's do some napkin math here:

500 million tweets, let's say 10% are reported, and evenly distributed. That would make for reviewing 200,000 tweets per employee per day. That's 7 tweets that need to be moderated per second for a standard 8 hour day.

190m active users, .1% of which need support daily. On top of 7 tweets per second, that's just shy of three user support tickets per second that they need to manage as well.

And that's without weekends, holidays, sick days, etc.

EDIT: Let's go the other way with napkin math too.

Let's say each content moderator can review 6 tweets per minute.

50m tweets to be moderated at that velocity means you need around 136,000 man hours per day. For an 8 hour day, that's 17,000 employees. Too many.

So you make an ML algorithm that processes the reported tweets, but needs backup and spot checking on 10% of those. 1,700 content moderators (and a team dedicated to building/maintaining the ML report checking algorithm).

Now, about those support requests. Based on my experience from being a CSR for Amazon years ago, you'll probably want 2-3 minutes per support request, and that's if you're sending a form letter back. 1.9m requests at 20 per hour means some 95,000 man-hours per day, or 12k CSRs. Too many. Another ML algorithm (and team to maintain it) and we're down to 1,200 CSRs.

About 3 thousand employees plus their support structure, just to handle tweet reports and CSR requests.

Based on napkin math, 7,000 employees makes a lot of sense to me.
Why do you think it is a failure on the first count?
Do you think Tesla EVs are bad and we would be better of without them?
> Elon's premise from day 0 was that Twitter was mismanaged -- bloated, misguided, bad as a business and broken as product.

And then he bought misguided broken product for 4 time the price and took deep debt for it.
The notion of "progress" is just mythologizing the past and fetishizing a particular version of the future. It only serves to portray alternatives as "anti-progress"; it is a rhetorical cudgel devoid of substance. We have problems that need solving, climate change is one of them. Musk's notion of Mars as "Planet B" is an entirely unworkable idea, and dangerous in that it invites postponing action in favor of a silver bullet that will never arrive.

Things are not worth doing simply because they are risky - that's just more fetishism. They are worth doing because they solve problems. Space travel has the potential to solve certain problems, and is already solving lots of problems today. Mars colonization is not a serious proposal to any problem, because it can't be accomplished on any time horizon we're planning for. Mars colonization will likely never happen, and if it does, it is far beyond the foreseeable future (>100 years).

So; SpaceX's rockets (and satellites) could certainly be useful, and are certainly useful today, but as GP pointed out, Musk's stated purpose is nonsense.
But then SUB, DIV and RELU could be an HLOP as well, no?
Interesting idea on its own
Sure, but at some point real dollars enter the financial equation, backed by these coins, none of which are probably priced correctly to serve as collateral.

The ftt coin is shady as hell though. A 40% trading rebate for holding $1m is insane; that's nothing. And it's not open to anybody touching the US - a blatant attempt to prevent US regulations, which would catch this stuff.

It's very weird for exchange owners to get rich overnight. That doesn't happen in real markets, and it seems to only happen in crypto when the exchange is using customer deposits as leverage (Celsius) or trading on their own account, which means against their customers (binance, probably ftx)
Volkswagen and Audi is the same company - but yeah.
> But the language used around this topic is often implying that "the algorithm" will "punish you" if you like, post too often, post too little, post at different times...

These are all kinda true though?

- If you post too often your notifications get bundled, so now it's "x published two videos" instead of "x published that amazing video",

- if you post too little then people are less likely to recognize your username and thus just not click on it unless the creator really left an impression (this is probably the most dependent on the audience however).

- if you post at differing times you suddenly have to increase your audience significantly as your usual watchers won't be on YouTube at that moment, so you're effectively missing out on the initial upvotes by your fanbase until much later, reducing the chance of the video going into trending.

I mean they're not the only variables and they become pretty much non-issues as the channel grows, but all of these effects can be directly measured in clicks when the audience is still pretty small
There seems to be a critical data-loss bug in HedgeDoc 1.9.5 with SQLite
Mea culpa on SpaceX - I've already updated my post.
How does Neuralink counteract the risk of AI? If it ever works, it seems like it would exacerbate that risk.

How does SpaceX counteract the risk of asteroids? NASA has developed a successful asteroid-killing rocket, and SpaceX's work has nothing to do with that field.
Too-low unemployment rate is one of the signals for a possible coming recession. The idea is that people are too worried about getting a new job after leaving their current one, or are less able to handle periods with no income, so job mobility is low.

Unemployment rates for the past 70 years with recessions marked: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/UNRATE
It may have been functional before but now it says domain name has been seized by the Department of Homeland Security and displays a copyright notice. The onion link is still functional though!
His solution is missing a very small fan to even out the temperature stratifications inside.
In other words, if developers had guild mentality the ones left at twitter would have great incentive to actually sabotage the company
This is exactly what I feared Intel would do: Sabotage their own hardware by tying them to their shrinking eco system. Which is crazy - I am rooting for Intel here to get more competition, but would never buy it given this behaviour.

But this is more than stupid self-sabotage: This is a vendor forcing the use of proprietary and surveillance enabling software on a hardware level to receive updates. Similar to what Android does with blocking backing apps on custom roms, but I don't think this happened yet on the PC platform. Dark future ahead.
Fear of manual moderation bringing it down?
My guess is they will be forced to retreat from a lot of international markets as they don’t have the legal and moderation staff to keep up with regulation.
I built Packj to flag such "risky" packages: https://github.com/ossillate-inc/packj
I feel like the quality of the 1Password app has dropped over time. When I first started using it, the experience was sublime compared to apps like LastPass. I have more issues with passwords failing to prompt to save and general UX weirdness and slow response times than I used to. It's at the point where I'm seriously considering moving to something like BitWarden and I likely would have already if it was just me but I've got five family members using this as well and the migration annoyance has put me off.