skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Alameda completely rinsed retail with their systems and FTX. I've seen their deck and their equity curve is basically a steep linear line upwards.
If Musk did have anything to do with slowing or stopping that colossal waste of taxpayer funds I would say his “vision” is superior to any of the politicians who supported it.
They can automate the installation of the current code onto the machine, which is in turn also open source.
I mean, there's the possibility that Twitter was entirely mismanaged and they had tons us useless staff. Given their profitability, I'd say this is exactly the case.
Well for having 0 interest you seem to be spending non 0 time defending him, his coins and his former hedge fund.
Have my humble upvote good sir or madam. A good day to you!
For sure, you're in a word of hurt if you don't have someone who can get it working.
Polarization predates social media.

Polarization, partisanship, and radicalization receive a great deal of academic attention. (I can't speak to the public mind, or political hobbyists.)

The book Why We Are Polarized [2020] by Ezra Klein surveys what was known at the time. Nationalization of politics, consolidation of media, death of journalism, election reform, campaign spending. TLDR: Politics used to have weird coalitions, where party was not strongly associated with positions. Then people sorted. Then people's identities (positions) fused into a kind of super identity. Now party is a strong predictor of position.

Rachel Bitecofer https://twitter.com/RachelBitecofer researched (negative) partisanship and used to talk about it. I don't know of an otherwise good intro.

People have always self-radicalized. Pamphlets and zines. Social media made it a self renewing pandemic. Root cause is probably a combo of algorithmic hate machines and social isolation. (People are increasingly anxious and isolated. These para-social relationships fill the void.)
A few posts down from this is "Oat milk is killing the planet".

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33464044

That's how you identify a climate denier.
Easy, you’re only considering engineers for the core technical product.

Now consider sales, content moderation, HR, lawyers.

Now multiply that by multiple countries that need servicing.
It would be funny if Musk's long con was to get all the liberals driving his electric cars and then change his political affiliation to get all the conservatives on electric cars all in the service of reducing co2 emissions
>"Elon single-handedly designed, constructed and assembled every part of it" and "Elon told someone the rockets re-usable". There's no way to know, but you and a legion of people

I think that's missing the point, which is the question of whether these innovations (the re usable rockets, scaling e cars) would have happened without his involvement. If the answer is no, then the question of whether 'someone else did it and he took credit' seems irrelevant. That's what leadership is, driving results, not pulling up your sleeves and doing it yourself.
There's parts of what you wrote that are somewhat accurate but for the most part this is nonsense.

> when I talk to recent software engineers almost all of them answer that compensation is their main driver today.

I don't really understand what you're saying here. If you're trying to imply that folks are getting into the industry solely to make money, there is some truth to that but it's hardly the majority. That being said it's foolish to imagine that if the money dried up that everyone writing software would keep doing it. But software isn't going anywhere, so neither will the money.

Outside of a few areas, the global situation is that software engineers make decent salaries but are far from the top, especially outside of North America.
Not just AI is threatened, but also the use of sites like StackOverflow because some of those snippets might infringe a license. So we have to write everything from our heads, de novo. No more googling for solutions.

I think we should just relax copyright, it's dying anyway. Language models allow people to borrow skills learned from other people, and solve tasks. That's huge. Like Matrix, loading up a new skill at the press of a button. Can we give up such a huge advantage in order to protect copyright?

I think the notion of copyright has been under attack already for 2 decades by the internet, search engine and social networks. They all work against it, and AI does it even more. It just encapsulates the whole culture in a box, mixing everything up, all copyrights melting away, everything one prompt away. This could be a new medium of propagation for ideas. No longer limited to human brains and books, they can now propagate through language models more efficiently.
I stopped using Twitter when they made it clear there was one set of rules for content moderation applying to popular people and another set of rules applying to everybody else. That's been years ago and I've since moved on. I see no need at this point to look back.
Nope. The people running the election sign every voter in uaing a system independent of the voting machine (often paper). At the end of the day, they know that 216 people voted at that precinct. If the counting machine doesn't say 216 votes on it, something is awry and must be investigated.
Thanks for the feedback on the form :) And yea, using an API would be much better! I wasn't aware of it, thanks!
He posted a woe-is-me tweet this morning. He seems to miss the “sometimes it’s the what, often it’s the how” POV on shitstorms.
Wouldn't that fail this requirement though?

> The hardest part might be putting it all together in a way that can be trivially decoded by human descendants, even if they don't speak our language or share our subspecies.
It’s not what your education makes of you but what you make of your education.

Programming requires permanent self-education and self directed education. Learning how to learn, for life is critical.

Discipline is a function of maturity.

It’s completely possible to be a self taught developer. Others may have the motivation or Discipline for it.

I know many self taught developers in their 20s 30s and 40s. Many learned just from books without courses or YouTube videos.

Self taught programmers are not a new concept, but it might be new to some.

An advantage self-taught developer cann have is they are often more creative in problem solving approaches with experience. Folks with degrees bring a lot to the table too with their understanding of what they learn.

It is completely possible to be a self taught programmer.

Remaining a self directed learner beyond formal education or self education is more important than the initial education be it a degree or self taught.

Many cases degrees don’t transfer well into junior developer positions.
Are people really expecting Twitter to survive The Musk? His rash actions almost feel like sabotage. I honestly expect Twitter to be dead or irrelevant in 2 years at most.
Software jobs create software jobs. I find it very hard to believe that the US bringing in a lot of people from around the world to work in software has actually hurt you. A major reason why tech compensation is so huge in the US is because it is a tech center, and a large part of that is because we draw people from the entire world.
No, hospitals are still catching up on the years of “elective” procedures they and to postpone to make room for Covid cases. (Like cancer treatment and the like..)
Twitter employees are compensated better than 99% of the US population and have more employment options available to them than virtually anyone on the planet. Give me a fucking break.
"I ran out of gas! I got a flat tire! I didn’t have change for cab fare! I lost my tux at the cleaners! I locked my keys in the car! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! There was an earthquake! A terrible flood! Locusts! IT WASN’T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!"
I joined Instagram in June to promote a small business I am preparing to launch. Two weeks ago I hit 140 followers. Obviously, this is peanuts to Meta who seems to prioritize only the biggest, most influential companies and personalities on their platform. I tried to log in, and saw my account was suspended with no ability to appeal or take action. Then 24 hours later, the message turned into "permanently removed" or something to that affect. This time, the help page I was directed to was clear in claiming that the account could not be recovered nor could any appeal be made. Ironically, I got an email from Instagram yesterday celebrating the new followers that I had gained in October. Clearly, the account isn't fully removed. Still, I have yet to find any way to reach out to support (other than the help pages that say the account is suspended/disabled/removed). I am not aware of anything I can do, and I am sure there are thousands of people in the same position.

It's an infuriating experience to say the least. I've lost the account name that matches my business name, followers who were genuinely interested in my product, and all the time and effort that went into putting posts together.

The whole experience has really made me rethink marketing though the platform and how to advertise a small business in today's digital world.
I think you're underestimating the threat. 1pass saw it and is acquiring a company in that space to figure out how to continue to add value in a password less environment that justifies their annual fees. Not a surprising move. I view 1pass is a secret manager and so it makes sense they add password less to their portfolio.

We'll see how things play out.
I'm just taking the numbers from the article itself and the assumption that FTT specifically is worthless (extreme enough on it's own).

If you assume a fire-sale on everything, then everyone is insolvent all the time...
>Every thread about something relating to him is filled with posts describing him negatively.

As someone posting positively, this is due to brigading and downvoting of anything positive. They tend to go to your profile and downvote everything you ever said as well. Luckily they can only do a few pages.

Overall, Musk is brilliant and when he fixes twitter. It will be the place to be.

>So, what is behind the attitude?

Politics; there's a dying political movement which will soon no longer be represented in legislature. It's about to become a religion on the otherhand.
It's not crazy at all. If you are a worker, you are the one actually making the company productive. If the majority of workers want their company to do a thing, that company should listen.
Does Twitter have any way to prevent/punish using screenshots instead of the Twitter embed thing when you put Tweets on your website?

Twitter can probably not use copyright to fight this, a Tweet probably does not fall under copyright because it is too short, right?
Well, work on flatpak started around 2013, 2 years before Rust was 1.0 (much less mature). So it's pretty new but not quite that new.

Just to throw out some guesses:

1) "because dynamic linking", if you're an OS vendor being able to ship one package to fix a security vulnerability instead of 50 is a big deal

2) you probably want to have a C-compatible API anyway so that it's possible to use the code from other languages, so combined with 1) the benefit of a language like Rust or D would be dulled slightly. Not eliminated, just reduced.

3) Less common architectures POWER and s390x are still relevant platforms in enterprise and while languages like Rust do have some support for them, C compilers for those platforms definitely get more attention.
Because he's clearly an idiot demonstrated multiple times and also I find his weird obsession with having many children really strange.
they are supposed to do better with regard to risk management, forecasting, bet sizing.

According to who? Themselves?
Twitter must have to deal with a lot of hacking attempts. If they go into that mode, I could see them falling victim to semi-regular disruptions to service and higher profile account takeovers, that would push at least some users away from the service. I could see them failing in ways many companies in the same situation would not.
I don't think so. They'll just see them for what they are - house ads designed to fill up unused inventory.
Amazon cash sign on bonus is absolutely insane in this market. Making pure cash while all stocks are down probably makes the Amazon pay $100k more than a competitor.
Ahhh I see what you're asking now. Sorry, I misunderstood.

Yeah, I think you'd have to run Windows :( Even if the games were supported via Proton, I think (but I'm not sure) that Gamepass adds its own DRM layer.

If you do have a separate Windows machine though, streaming actually works very well... better than the Deck on its own... better graphics, way less heat/fan/battery life consumption (since the computer is doing all the hard work). I'd try if you haven't already.
It’s a messaging service that has a broadcast feature. And for that multicast/broadcast feature you get to have a crappy peer to peer message experience, be limited to small messages, look at ads, surf through unknown algorithm manipulation of what you read, locked in a single system, and be told you might need to pay to either a) prove you’re “real” or b) not see the ads. Sign me up!!

(A blog is also a broadcast messaging service, so I think you’re both right).
> I would think that FF lost a lot of users to brave and similar alternatives because they have the same target demographic.

Yeah. I really want to promote Firefox more because I think it would be a good thing for the Internet to have multiple capable browser engines that all have some traction in the marketplace, but IMO Mozilla has become too concerned about culture war bullshit to be a super-effective player among the smaller group of people that really care about that stuff.

And it's a shame because I dislike that so many browsers out there are essentially held captive by decisions that are ultimately made by Google. For example, Manifest Version 3 is likely going to have some real problems for ad-blocking extensions on any Chromium based browser in the long-term.

https://www.ghostery.com/blog/manifest-v3-the-ghostery-persp...

Sure, some browsers like Brave will be able to keep their core in-built blocking features, but anything extension related that potentially goes against Google's interests is always going to be a concern for any smaller browser.
When it takes hours to days for someone to get from the station to the transmitter, the alert latency isn't a big concern.
An alien civilization knowing us just by an archived version of Horizon Worlds feels like a fate worse than death.
Intel Finalizes 'Intel on Demand' Pay-as-You-Go Mechanism for CPUs
I'm very sorry this happened to you. US immigration is heartless in a huge number of ways.
> downvote everything you ever said as well.

I don't think you can downvote things older than a day or two for what it's worth.
Also employed self-taught developer here. Learned to code through launching a software-oriented business. It took about 1.5 years for me to figure out the basics of (Frontend,Backend,AI).

Hands down have a project in mind, and start building it. It really helps to have a friend that codes the same stack, so they can provide guidance as needed.

If that is hard to come by, then pay a contractor on Up work to give you advice. I never solicited for outside help, and I deeply regret the time I wasted on figuring out things the hard way. Best of luck!
He just lost his humbleness (if he even ever had it).
My PhD in a nutshell, only learned to close the loop in year 3 when I went from one paper in 2.5 years to 3 papers in 1.5 years.
Exactly. Likewise all the hemming and hawing about "free speech" is just self-serving nonsense.
The lawsuit has already been filed against Twitter.
I suspect a large percentage of "surviving" Twitter employees will enjoy working for Musk. I've worked in environments where there was a lot of unproductive, highly paid people and it was very frustrating, especially if you believed in the company. Twitter definitely seems very cushy from what I've heard from my friends that used to work there.

I would be shocked if they actually had a 50% layoff, from the news reports and everything I've seen on social media, it's not that deep otherwise there would be far larger reports of it by now. If it turns out that 50% number is wrong, I think that would really open the eyes of Twitter employees as to how much the media is spreading lies about Musk.

If it turns out the 50% number is true, I'm pretty sure the company won't survive. Having been through layoffs, the rest of the employees of such a huge cut will likely not work or not even care and immediately start looking for a new job because they know they are next. That's not a wise way to run a company, in my opinion.
:) We could hide it inside a bus and make a geolocation game!
In some areas, it would be necessary to somehow install trackers on your busses that you use. Depending on the jurisdiction, I've had to deal with busses either being possibly 10 minutes early, or missing their stop time by up to half an hour.
"Musk killed the California bullet train" is basically a pizzagate-level conspiracy theory. The NYT reporting among many others makes clear the tragicomic level of shambolic mismanagement from the CA gov't.

The state was warned repeatedly that its plans were too complex. SNCF, the French national railroad, was among bullet train operators from Europe and Japan that came to California in the early 2000s with hopes of getting a contract to help develop the system.

The company’s recommendations for a direct route out of Los Angeles and a focus on moving people between Los Angeles and San Francisco were cast aside, said Dan McNamara, a career project manager for SNCF.

The company pulled out in 2011.

“There were so many things that went wrong,” Mr. McNamara said. “SNCF was very angry. They told the state they were leaving for North Africa, which was less politically dysfunctional. They went to Morocco and helped them build a rail system.”

Morocco’s bullet train started service in 2018.

But sure, blame Elon for California setting tens of billions of dollars on fire with nothing to show for it. Also Florida just built a high speed rail in under a decade for about 1/30th the per-mile cost of the CA project and it'll be open early next year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/09/us/california-high-speed-...
Musk lost the thread a while ago but it’s weird watching people complain about someone doing what he wants with something he owns.

Like, it’s his. It is his property. He bought it.

Big fan of judgement swarms over what you do with your property, are ya?

No?

(Not an endorsement of his management techniques nor this idiotic purchase, but, it is his now.)
And also pliability. A certain way to not get hired at FAANG is to show any tendency towards independent thought. For instance it's clear Mark Zuckerberg does not want to hear from any independent thinker in 2022 if ever.

People mistakenly look to the badly named FAANG for best practices for software development and management but if you think critically the truth is the opposite, actually they should be lumped together with Boeing, Epic, Cerner, Adobe, Microsoft, etc.

These are highly profitable because of monopoly concentration and can afford to hire a huge number of excessively paid developers and waste their time with Byzantine practices, assign them to work on dead-end projects, etc. Quality of their products is beside the point because people are going to use them no matter how bad they are.

You can imagine for yourself what will happen to a person who works in that kind of environment, but I think getting a person like that to contribute to a normal business is like getting a pig to fly.
That's Elons alt account.
I haven't. Is the search functionality much better?
But by repeating this argument you are strengthening copyright, which is the fundamental evil GPL was made to fight. There surely will be FOSS clones of Copilot in the near future. There is no need to feed the copyright lobby.
Yeah having job postings is not free but I think too many people believe that "companies put job offer only when they have an opening".

Ideally in a company one should have job ads all the time and if someone valuable drops CV only then reply - if you catch someone who is specialist and good burning couple thousands for an ad will still be worth it.
When did mind-reading become a thing?
Should be quite easy if it is about the warn act then. You can read it yourself or one of the many very easy summaries.

https://www.shouselaw.com/ca/labor/wrongful-termination/warn...
This strikes me as defeatist. You can run GrapheneOS and pipe everything through VPNs for your phone. It's really easy, the phone does all the normal stuff except the constant listening ("assistant") thing, and it's way harder for anyone interested to spy on me. I don't run Google or Apple software.

If someone could get their hands on my data, it'd be a bunch of extra work to determine who it's coming from.

>>Some people even connect their watches, which monitor (or will soon monitor) everything from their heart rate, sleep schedule, oxygen levels, BMI, etc.

You can easily have a watch that does all these things but doesn't share any data, and you can be sure of that based on more than just promises. Open hardware, open software, local data storage and zero-knowledge for anything touching the internet. It's well within our grasp technically, we the people just need to demand it.
Breaking Points covered Jim Cramer, who was pushing Meta as a Buy, admit he made a big mistake about it, interesting to see him publicly eat crow and apologize like that (I'd share the original video of his but couldn't find it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtQumB0WQDY

I've been considering buying Meta shares on its way down this year (did buy a single share), but kept getting Google and Apple (as well as some ETFs) instead, really glad I didn't at this point. Converted my one share into another Google stock instead and ate the loss.

I still want to believe that they'll turn their future around and I'm happy to see them push VR so much as I'm a fan (and own a Quest 2), but it's hard to invest in them at this point, beyond buying apps from their store at least.

Maybe they'll turn things around and now's a great time to buy, but I'm not sure. Things really seem to be stacking up against them at this point.
I've done the same thing. Now whenever I intend to upvote I always zoom in to make sure I'm hitting the correct arrow!
There is a really fine line between well protected and economy damaging. When you look at twitters structure this was a long time coming and really needed to happen to turn twitter into a competitive company. It would be a shame if this could not be done because it would leave Twitter being an utter dog on the way to eventually failing and would tie up many thousands of talented people doing useless, wasteful stuff. It will be oainful but atleast now twitter has a chanve to grow ibto somethibg better and thousands of people will be freed up fir far more productive tasks, including pursuing their own great ideas via a startup.
Agreed. I work with a charity that uses Twitter to communicate with the public. They are keeping a close eye on whether it is still the kind of medium they want to be associated with.
I dont think Musk necessarily thinks all of that is ending.. more that he doesn't want to pay for all the employees that currently exist at twitter so he's making life miserable for them.
Russian hackers are blatantly using GitHub to help the Russian army in Ukraine
It looks like this only affects DES passwords. Glibc has supported other hashing algorithms for a very long time and most Linux distros have used them by default for years. I don't think there is a way for an unprivileged user to choose DES if it's not the default, so it's very unlikely this can actually be triggered.