skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t know how “spending more money for less benefits” is better than “callously refusing to spend any money”? If your country has good intentions or bad it makes very little difference when u’re dying from treatable cancer because u can’t afford the care. Or when u have to go back to work immediately after giving birth.
Honestly, my mother lives in Russia, which is by no means an example of a country with a good social net, she was mortified when I told her about US labor laws. It’s true u net more cash in the US, but u also have only urself to rely on if anything bad happens, and people are really bad at financial planning for any and all unfortunate circumstances
>You have to admit that he invested in some companies

Yeah sure, he just invested in Paypal, then invested in Tesla, then invested in SpaceX.

I'm not even sure if I'm answering real people or bots anymore, everyone sounds the same now: "Elon good, because environment and space and he made reusable rockets and tesla cars are so good etc.", (Elon starts saying wrongtalk about the media and other sensitive subjects), "Elon bad, because he called some diver years ago a pedophile, and he just invested in tesla and spacex no biggie easy for anyone".

But hey who cares right? I've been getting insulted by everyone here for saying Youtube censors videos and google censors results etc. yet just a couple days ago some leaked documents showed the DHS with the help of tech giants are planning to push the censorship even harder.
Sure, there are several other companies that are able to do that as well.
I have one in my garage and use it as a meat buffer. When there's a good sale, we stock up. Over the next months, we draw down the supply, topping back up if there's another exceptional sale. The highlight of the year is around Thanksgiving when stores have loss leader turkeys on sale. We drive from store to store (they're clustered, which is handy) in one trip, usually ending up with ten to twelve turkeys that fill up the chest freezer. Come January stores often will have them on sale again trying to free up space during the part of the year with low amount of turkey buying. Those replace any turkeys we cooked during the holidays. We also once bought 1/4 of a cow, which we'll probably do again in the summer.
Overall the unemployment rate is not bad at all

https://ycharts.com/indicators/us_unemployment_rate

and we are not in a recession yet. Certainly some firms are looking at economic trends, concerned that rising interest rates will cause a recession, and laying people off preemptively. One might fear this could lead to a recession but I think if you lose your job today you are much better off than if you lose your job a year from now and the economy gets much worse.

Normal companies are still having a hard time hiring, I think FAANG companies are bloated and not terribly efficient because they tend to be monopolists who don't have competition that would force them to be lean.
i asked their support and they acknowledged the removal of PDF-printing, regarding attachment: i didnt mean an attached file but the ability to e.g. save a secure note as an attachment. my fault for using bad english. your remark that you can save an attachment via download button is correct.
> horrific companies

A workplace can actively kill humans and still treat its employees very good.

You are mixing very different factors together here.

Prestige, to name another example, is very important to a lot of people. Having "worked at FAANG" on your resume opens many opportunities afterwards that don't have anything to do with money.
Are you suggesting that being born into wealth negates a person from being successful in their own right?
yes sure, I deploy my CL web apps with Systemd, just like normal software.
What if people don't know how to look within?

If you think about it, not only do we not teach such things, these sorts of ideas very often get mocked and dismissed as "woo woo".
Doesn't seem like a big add
Did you go up and initiate conversation with that person on the train? I feel like interacting with strangers has been heavily discouraged in the US but it's really the best way to expand your social circle.
In what sense are these hearings a sham? Explain.
Twitter is a cesspool. The three times I've created an account I have deleted it in less than 24 hours because I couldn't figure a way to filter good content from all the noise, toxicity and low quality content. Reddit is not much different but at least you can reduce the scope by staying in small niche subreddits. I'm following this with curiosity to see if all these changes improve the situation or drive Twitter to the ground, but both seem to me like they would be an improvement.
Hey, that sounds like the mainstream press!
I was thinking it over, and one way Stripe nailed Twitter is communication. Stripe’s severance was clearly communicated up front. Twitter’s leadership is like the proverbial headless chicken.

It’s quite the contrast. I think there’s a lesson here. A well-drafted email could’ve saved twitter a lot of heartache.

Then again, maybe the email drafter got laid off too.
More like 10x. Black is truly a terrible thing.
I use a VISA CC on bandcamp (US) and pretty sure I've bought from there well before I had a PayPal account.
Poland bought for Ukraine more than half of the starlink terminals.

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/ukraine-uses-over-11000...
Well the world is a bigger place than your own experience. I'm not feeling a recession quite yet but I wasn't really feeling the hiring craze in the past couple of years either.
People probably don't like it being called a mental illness.

It's not a good idea to generalize a whole group of people when that only applies to a very small percentage, while the rest make the decision because they've been led to believe they should feel that way by no fault of their own.
True ;) Sometimes, though, a new feature isn't getting engagement because people are busy. Product and Product marketing can use low engagement metrics to raise awareness.
Spain briefly closes airspace over risks from Chinese rocket debris
Of course my awareness isn't what decides if a firm is a major one, and I did refer to crypto firms in general.

In any case, apparently these guys are a big deal and I hadn't heard of them. Maybe it's European bias, and I'm not a crypto expert or anything, just interested.
I really wish Apple wasn't so secretive, this sort of thing makes an excellent tech talk at conferences.
Your GP had "it meant they were sufficiently convinced about my identity to let me transfer money out, but not enough to let me login in. Insane", and your parent is explaining why that's a non-insane thing.
Randomly, take 10%-25% of your users, show them the feature and see if they do more of what you want them to do.

If you're blogging platform, that would be writing more blogs, or whatever metric that guides your business growth.

If yes, then roll-it out to 50%, confirm that the metrics are moving to the same direction and by how much. You should be able to answer the question: "users who have this feature do $X more/less/faster/etc.."

You can implement this all in house or use one of the tens of A/B testing SaaS out-there.
There have also been occasions where Museums or clubs owning Steam Locos bid for contracts hauling freight and provide the service using their Steamers. Example here where they supply a railway construction site [1] or here [2] were some fertiliser is pulled.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GujoYkaQf8
[2] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qoDOXvFwH0
Elon shows all the signs of thinking he can do absolutely no wrong because his fan base keeps telling him so.

Nothing about this acquisition as been impressive or promising. I see no sign of that changing. A mass disrespectful layoff like this is going to backfire, hugely.
> Because despite you thinking they are horrific companies many other people don't.

Thats exactly how a lot of people will view Twitter. You might think its horrible and they are terrible for laying of people, but plenty of good engineers ready to fill those roles for the money without the need of having free snacks, free coffee, rest booths, ping pong area, LED illuminated reading rooms, etc etc etc. Twitter will be fine.
The reason that a lot of retail investors may not have heard of Alameda Research is that they are an institutional investor and don't lend directly to customers (afaik?). However, they do pack the monetary heft to make a lot of the interest payouts by companies such as Celsius possible.

It's as if Jane street failed, a company that an normal BofA user may not be familiar with.
The Transit App [1] crowdsources position data for vehicles. It's a gamified thing that rewards you with points or whatever for leaving the app running with your GPS on while in motion. This lets them have up-to-the-second knowledge similar to how Google Maps running on phones gives Google live traffic data around the world.

[1]: https://transitapp.com/
Clojure is a nice well thought out language, I wish it wasn't on the JVM.
Absolutely possible, but the ones I know didn't rush it in a few months but had it as a childhood hobby for many years before changing trade.
Gross! NewXXXXXX and constructors should always be near the top of the file, next to the struct and interface definitions :)
> Do you think it's practically possible to learn everything without any structure, discipline?

Yes and no.

For the YES part:
I am a self-taught developer, and I got promoted to Principal this year. I taught myself Ruby on Rails first, then after a year pivoted to front-end.

For the NO part:
This part is twofold. First, you can't learn everything. The job of an engineer is to learn how to do things, and most of the time there aren't convenient tutorials you can just follow. In the front-end world, lots of us started as hobbyists first.
Second, you absolutely cannot learn development without structure and discipline, but you can have those things without a formal class. I learned front-end using FreeCodeCamp, and the course there absolutely has structure. The discipline has to come from you. Learning discipline was part of it for me.

You have to be patient. You spent a month trying to learn front-end? I spent 3 years doing development as a self-taught hobby before applying for a job. It doesn't have to take that long, but that first month is the start of your learning journey, not the end. Would you be frustrated that you couldn't "learn" guitar in a month of watching youtube videos? The basics of music are quite simple, it's the 10,000 hours of practice that differentiates the adept from the novice. Front end web development is simpler in some ways.

> Can anyone remain patient for 40 days to learn html, css

The basics of HTML and CSS only take a few hours to learn. I couldn't imagine spending 40 hours on the "learning" part, but building definitely takes a long time, especially when you are just starting out. This is where the patience and discipline part comes into play. That feeling of frustration is a part of the job, especially for junior/mid-level devs.

I will tell you this: being self-taught has not hurt my career at all, but has helped. I'm pretty good at what I do, which includes teaching others as well, and people are more impressed when you get to this level without formal training. I used to feel inferior to people with CS degrees, but now I really play up the "self-taught" thing.
I come from probably the most atheistic country in the world (CZ)

Yet, I had made this bashing comment about bible.
IMHO anyone can believe in whatever they want. Christ., Islam, anything.
I (and I would say every friend of mine) don't care about what do you believe in, but if you publicly preach some religion, prepare to be made fun of, or take a stand and try defend it your religion with arguments. But no blind faith here.

(Personally, if I like some religion it's Shinto.)
https://b-ok.lat/ and https://z-lib.org/ down too.
> That's subjective. I've talked to a lot of Windows users who all say Linux is a terrible solution for them.

That's a different statement. I said those linux parts are good solutions to a libc library and unix kernel. Not good solutions to needs of Windows users.

> Most users don't touch the init system that much.

Most BFU users don't touch the init system. If you're a developer/administrator/power user, you do. Yes there is more BFUs (website users, android users) than power users, but that does not mean that the latter group should be pushed to not care about their init system.

> Those are all optional

Not in practice; some of those options are integrated and others are chosen by the distributions. It's hard to reconfigure the system to opt out of journald or user session control.

> You don't have to use socket activation. It's there if you want it and you don't need to strictly order services.

Yes, but that won't solve the problem entirely, systemd is non-deterministic init system where you can't fix the boot order reliably.

> Not sure what this means or what keyboard input you were pressing. In systemd the keyboard shortcut to force reboot is pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del 7 times

Ctrl+C, Ctrl+Z. I mean I don't always want to reboot because something went wrong in the boot process and systemd is stalling. I want info from my init what went wrong, and the option to fix the problem in the shell if possible. This is often not allowed by systemd when it could.

> Not sure what this means either. You can disable those.

It means systemd launches bogus processes slowing down the system. It's well known, it's in the trackers, yes I can and i do disable them.

The point is this sucks and neither the systemd developers neither the distribution(rhel and derivatives) care to fix this.
They could have changed the number to decimal problem solved.
I think the difference is OODA informs your actions. You aren't 'testing' the enemy - you're acting yourself.

(I've taught and applied OODA professionally.)
> It’s genuinely amazing and saddening how many people want to see Musk fail. We are watching Atlas Shrugged play out.

That’s certainly how Musk wants everyone to think about it but isn’t the more parsimonious explanation that humans love watching a good train wreck, and he’s showing every sign of delivering one? The plot in Atlas Shrugged was a fantasy around productive people being held back by society but none of Musk’s problems are anything like that. Instead of being held back by the government, he’s made billions from it at both Tesla and SpaceX. His problems are all self-created: advertisers voluntarily choosing where they see the most benefit to their business seems like something libertarians should wholeheartedly support.
No bootcamp, No degree or indeed any college courses on software engineering, and I made it. Yes we exist and yes it's possible to succeed as self-taught. It is however way more difficult to get into industry than this way.
Lol, what job can you teach yourself and make 200k a year?
yes, but the onion download links fail
Can you please explain more? I thought since it is server rendered it would cost more than SSG pages served from CDNs. Can we cache pages until they are changed in a CDN?
IEEE: Simple trick turns four-legged robots into two-legged robots with arms
I am a self taught developer (never visited a course nor going to university in my life), though that is over 25 years ago. But I basically went through the full career ladder: from junior dev to CTO.

So it is definitely possible, I know others like me. But it is for sure not for everyone. It needs a ton of self discipline.

Unfortunately as it is so long ago (I had no internet at the time I was learning privately) I don't have tips for specific courses, just wanted to drop: Yes you can do it, but it's a shit ton of work. And if you get a job in the country you live in is another question. For me being a european it was fairly easy.
If you're a spectacularly famous, influential and anti-more-dead-people the message you should be blasting out to your hundred-million followers is: Russia out. That's it.
It seems like the article doesn't provide an explanation of how the drag ropes contributed to the crash. Did the ropes require them to fly too low?
Twitter is hundreds of millions of authenticated messages a day, delivered with an expectation of instantaneousness and simultaneity, to hundreds of millions of clients.

There are images and video embeds and URL previews on tweets. There are fraudulent and abusive users who are trying to spam the user base. There are users whose threat model includes ‘will be attacked by the concerted cyber-offensive capabilities of sophisticated nation states’, as well as ‘will be cyber-bullied by the collective force of 8chan’, or ‘will be cyber-stalked by legions of k-pop stans’. Not clear which of those is more dangerous.

The SEC considers statements made on Twitter by corporate officers and company accounts to be material disclosures. Tweets are embedded in New York Times and bbc news articles. Courts take Twitter messages as evidence. Law enforcement organizations throughout the world have frequent interest in finding out what activity users have had on the platform.

And on top of that, it’s trying to run an ad business that takes that firehose of craziness and turns it into a marketable stream of attention that can be sold to advertisers.

Don’t downplay what Twitter does as ‘just moving 280 character messages’. It’s way, way more than that.
It's more one of the villages surrounding a small town. They all share the same zip code but are 10km apart.

We have even cities that share a zip code but are in different federal states.
Archived copy without GDPR nag screen:

https://web.archive.org/web/20221104125809/https://techcrunc...
Based on talking to my co-workers I would say somewhere around 80% of them are self-taught (i.e. no CS degree). Most have some kind of technical degree (Physics, Maths, Engineering etc). A few have non-technical degrees and some have no degree at all.

Being self-taught is completely unremarkable.

I think you're going about learning programming the wrong way. Don't try and learn everything up front and then only apply it at the end. You need a project you're trying to make and then you just start doing it. When you get stuck go and learn more to get past that obstacle.
I'm not sure what the issue is or what kind of "tips" you're looking for. There have always been many, many self-taught developers working in industry. Bootcamps are a fairly recent phenomenon.
> 4. Recently they have cropped up a set of anonymous people who purport themselves to be insiders only to reveal complete ignorance about the topic at hand (otteroo on Twitter, for instance).

Can you clarify this? By “they” do you mean this Substack? I didn’t see anything about “otteroo” or Twitter insiders in a quick search of the Substack, but I didn’t exhaustively search the entire backlog.
> Arbitration — by design — happens behind closed doors in boring confidential proceedings. So the only information we get comes to us piecemeal, but it indicates consumers and workers win between 1% to 6% of the time.

> Notably, neither Square nor Stripe offer to cover arbitration costs, and Stripe even requires the loser of the dispute to pay the winner’s entire legal expenses

I am glad the author got it sorted, but it appears that if this was a material dispute with money at stake for PayPal, the game is stacked against you so much, you might as well be a medieval surf teying to get justice against the Lord that has wronged him.
I am not defending them at all, their total disregard for their customers, and lack of courtesy make them in my book one of the most awful companies to work with or patronize, but usually organizations of this gigantic scale are compartmentalized, and work in silos, and thus you have to figure it out yourself, or through an insider, how to navigate the bureaucratic maze, and accomplish the task at hand and not be disheartened with the initial frustrating response that you might get from the first line of contact with them.
Probably not, but it's not the key to intelligent discussion.
What do you mean? Any image classifier will use way more than 4 kernels for convolution. All those layers are interlaced. Furthermore they also contain fully connected layers, with neuron integrating way more than 10^3 signals.

The reasons that there aren't much more fully connected layers, is that this doesn't work. Actually, one of the key developments in NNs is architectural, minpools, ReLus, U-net. All are key for modern networks, all architectural.
Do you even use Twitter?

You can find a lot of very deep, long-form content. I'd recommend following Samo Burja or Doomberg for example.
Got it, makes sense. Appreciate the concrete example! As for the event tracking data, do you use a tracking plan, like Segment Protocols?
> This is why 8$ is a good idea

An ad-independent revenue source is a good idea, but not the blue checkmark program, as it currently means some kind of identity verification, and 'random' folks having it may cause problems:

> Want to call yourself Citibank Password Verification? Here's your blue tick, thanks for the $8. Want to say you're the Democratic Party of Wisconsin and announce you're abolishing the police? $8. Call yourself WXBM Local News Arkansas and invent a school shooting? Yours for $8

> Trump is banned? No problem, you can be Trump for 8 dollars, verified by Twitter. Or you can be Barron Trump and "expose the dark truth about your parents". Whatever. Go mad.

* https://twitter.com/ariehkovler/status/1588306300450263041
> Companies that scaled up quickly in earlier days of the internet tend to treat their customers like trash.

Well, it is just much cheaper to optimize for the 90% Case (Everything works just fine, nothing unusual is happening) than aiming for covering 100% of cases. Ofc this is more of a general business rule imho than just startups(=scaling fast), but when you grow fast, you also need to prioritize much more.

But in the more general sense it seems to me, that this is also the reason that government spending is quite a bit higher than if a company would do the same, because governments should be (and mostly are) aiming for 100% and not the most convenient subgroup of the population.
I was curious about the numbers that other tech companies may employ as a comparison... from some cursory googling:

* Meta: 71,970 [2021]

* Apple: 164,000 [2022]

* Amazon: 1,298,000 [2020]

* Netflix: 11,300 [2021]

* Alphabet: 156,500 [2021]

* Microsoft: 221,000 [2021]

* The New York Times: 5000 [2021]

* Fox Corporation: 9000 [2020]

* Reddit: 700 [2021]

(Anyone else I should add?)

I can't really find any trends. I think Reddit is an outlier, and my impression is having only 3750 employees would probably put Twitter on the smaller end of the scale too.
From a neutral point of view, if the behavior of current employees is the result of the management grooming them to behave like this, is the resulting behavior is employees' fault?

I don't know internals of Twitter. I'm just asking a theoretical question.
read this amazing article on "bank python":
https://calpaterson.com/bank-python.html
jesus christ... i thought this was about zlib!
Many of them have been paid a high enough multiple of the median household income in the state (which is less than 80k) for long enough - they’ll be fine.