skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the 250k tech guy thought he could level up to the 20B elon musk, but once musk crossed over the 200B mark they got jealous?

Personally, I thought he was a cool guy building a revolutionary car.

But once I saw his hour long talk on how he was going to build a Mars colony, the fact that he was actually a Tesla investor - not a founder(the super fast LI ion lotus had already been demonstrated to him when he invested) and his absurd claims about AGI - I realized he was completely out of his mind. I have been skeptical of his personality since 2014, even as I held TSLA shares.

Yes he is able to manage and productionize probably the best car on the road right now and maximize Tesla shareholder value, but he is a shell of a person beyond that.
I had no idea of the progress AI has made in audio. I mean image generators we know all about. But this is seriously impressive. Just like I can't hold a brush to save my life, but could easily create, say, a Rembrandt painting of an apartment complex, I can't sing a note to safe my life. Yet here we are.

I'm not aware of an online version, where we can try it on our own. Can I make a Beatles rendition of the Magnificat? I mean clearly that is what the world has been waiting for.
Had to look up "jati" cause I wasn't sure if it was a person, place, or thing:

> (Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India; a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter)
In my person experience it is comparable but worse than VRChat, the current de-facto vr social whatever program (that recently pissed off its userbase by pushing EasyAntiCheat on pc). On Horizon there seems to be significantly less user-generated content. In my option it lacks relatively any whimsy or "native" community, it just feels a bit empty and sterile. The people that did use it did so either because it's more tame and pg relative to VRChat or because they didn't know Horizon Worlds had competitors. Honestly there just isn't much there.

The tech itself works fine but I wasn't having as much fun, the atmosphere felt like an airport lobby.
> I suggest those developers to stick to sites like https://github.com/trending instead of injecting their popularity contest questions in a thread about homoiconicity and lambda-calculus.

You are not the sole person who gets to define what this thread is about. The participants together get to decide that, and if you don't like the result, move on, instead of trying to gate-keep.

> We all know it

I'm sorry, what? This is a public forum. You're saying a 20 year-old tech interested uni student who is checking out the site for the first time has precisely the same context and knowledge as someone who's been writing in lisp for the last 30 years?

Your attitude does not bring something positive to the table here.
I applied for around 30, interviewed with 5, got 2 offers accepted 1. I canceled 2 interviews and got only 1 rejection (they said I was too senior for the role even though it was a senior developer role).

The process is kind of random. I aced all the coding tests but ultimately I ended up accepting the offer from the only company which did not make me do a coding test.

IMO, the smartest engineers can identify talent without relying on the outcome of a coding test. Coding tests are shallow and misleading; they don't evaluate the skills that really count.
If you don’t want to be ostracized financially, don’t embrace being this flavor of human. Actions have consequences.

It is genuinely amazing and saddening how many people continue to make excuses for Musk’s actions and behavior. If that is what success is, yes, please, fail. No one told Elon to light a substantial amount of his wealth on fire with this effort; his character and emotional health led him here. Wealth amplifies who you already are.

He could’ve just been the cool dude who made sexy electric cars and rockets that land themselves. He might still go back to that after the Twitter experiment, but the reputation will take Herculean efforts to recover.

By no means a Musk hater by the way. Own multiple Teslas (acquired pre shenanigans), took my kid to see the first falcon heavy launch, and used to to drive to the cape all of the time to see earlier F9 launches at all hours. I respect the ambition, just not at the cost of being a decent human being, and I think that’s a fair position to hold: disappointment.
I believe that was sarcasm. Obviously the challenges running a platform like Twitter are not coming from the length of tweets.
Then don't read the article
> The tax rate for my income bracket in the UK is 45%, and while federal income tax is 39.6% I still have to pay state and city taxes on top of that which works out to be about the same.

This statement is meaningless without specifying the brackets or providing an effective tax rate for a certain amount of income.
> Does he take some supplements to do this?

I think its just hyperfocus.
Alameda is closely tied to FTX, which is big enough to have an arena in Miami named after it.

> This purported leak of Alameda’s financials demonstrates that the firm’s largest asset is its holdings of “FTX Token (FTT),” issued by none other than SBF’s FTX Exchange.
I think "the powers that be" also works in this context.

Control over global public discourse is the most effective mind control tool in the world. Even moreso when your control is hidden and you maintain plausible deniability. The current ownership won't give this up without a fight.
I'm not even anti-woke, I just want someone to care about the fucking technology. I want someone to care about privacy, individual agency, centralization of power. Growing up in hacker culture I really never thought it would end up like this. Wouldn't have predicted this future
I'm curious, does a definitive list of crypto scams exist?
Users will always find edge case bugs and use cases the feature does not fully handle. Feedback will come for free if there is engagement.

If you hear nothing for a new feature, then no one touches it.
I was thinking of the covid layoff at Airbnb, which seemed to have been handled better (iirc).
What do you think Elon actually purchased when he bought Twitter? Why did he buy it? Elon was never looking for blue chip dividends, he’s buying it because he thought he could improve on operational efficiency and delete a lot of the BS (his view) occurring at the company.
I don't think there's anyone on earth who can afford to lose $44 billion dollars.
What other professions do you have in mind with better ROI?
Good point! Talking to some of the users of the feature you're about to remove is probably a good first step. Do those users use the feature in a way that's aligned with your product strategy?
I'm not sure if this is sarcasm or not, but just in case it's sincere: Alameda are considered a lynch-pin of the crypto industry, they're holding up pretty much everything... and by extension, FTX is far more important than Kraken. If Alameda implode, it'll be far worse than 3AC's implosion. I don't think it's possible to kill the crypto industry, but Alameda's implosion would be the most likely event to cause it.
Not to be that guy, but this is probably the biggest and most well known of all crypto trading firms, and the source of SBFs fortune initially.
Exactly. It seems like the author has very limited insight in the space. It makes you curious how they could come to such a headline/conclusion, when they spend the entire article, talking about the assets instead of the liabilities!
A multi-billion year backup is probably pointless.

The earth will be uninhabitable in that time frame due to changes in the atmosphere and beyond that the sun itself will complete it's lifecycle.

I know there's a big fad to "just believe" in a SF future that spans space and time but physical realities in this area are pretty rough.

I think the best thing people could do is realise that, eventually, everything ends and believing otherwise when it comes to the human race is much like believing in an afterlife.
Heck, I'd just be happy to get an epub bundled with a physical book purchase. Most contemporary vinyl comes with digital download codes all the time, I wish books would get on that train.
I really don't understand why so many people are trying to push Nix when it has fundamental flaws which are not being addressed.

I've read the paper, but because it was in a foreign language I wasn't able to grok enough of it to see how they actually addressed my issue.

The issue comes down to computability which is a part of the Fundamental Theory of Computation. If you look at Nix, yes the language is functional but how does it operate, simply put it uses Galois fields (hashes of the dependency build graph). The important part of that is Galois fields have properties like the fact they are never unique.

Computers are basically turing machines, they operate on state. Certain properties must be true for them to do work. Aside from the mathematical properties of discrete steps, and time invariance, you need determinism.

They are state machines, they perform operations on state, and one of those properties is determinism, but how do you define determinism.

It comes down to state graphs, each edge can only have one possible next-state, if that isn't true and the same state varies between two next paths, you get non-deterministic behavior. You then either run into undefined behaviors which can include all behavior such as filesystem corruption, etc, and you can't test for it because of the halting problem, or the software (due to exception handling) halts.

So what happens when you have a Galois field being the unique identifier, and someone finds a collision. That property which computers need to work, no longer holds true. How does it know which one is correct, is it a security issue?, does it silently install the wrong things? How do you troubleshoot when troubleshooting requires those properties to be present (and they aren't).

These are all questions which I have not had a satisfactory answer from anyone involved in the project. They jump down into the details, but completely ignore the fact that the uniqueness isn't present. So why should anyone go and use that functional language (learn it, spend time packaging for it, etc), when it will fail at some point, the failure will not be troubleshootable, and the flaw has not been addressed.

I don't see why they received a PHD for that work given that anyone who has been through a Compiler Design class or a systems and signals class should know this stuff.
I mean I've been writing stuff in Python since I was 8 or 9 years old, I'm now writing a bunch of C code for an open source project. I wouldn't say I'm too good at the coding challenges though. I don't know know how those compare to real work.
At no point did I claim it was the ultimate metric and instead clarified that I was talking purely in terms of capital
Maybe skip Leviticus and come back to it later?
I do, but when I earn more, I definitely spend more :)
You mention OkCupid by name, and for the longest time they let you pick in the 'Languages' field C++. I used to use that as shorthand for programmer. Saw a handful of people use it here and there.

Also it's not like they deleted your profile if you mentioned being a programmer in any of the open text boxes. I've spotted several people that mentioned that in their profiles, and I was looking at women exclusively, so I didn't see it as often, but I did see it.

This was quite a few years ago though. Might be different now.
Great reply! To be honest, It's easy to forget about the inflation. Well, worst case, one could make more kids and invent their own "take care of your parents" ponzi-scheme, hehe.

Seriously though, in Germany, you always get this sense that everybody seems to know what they are doing until ??it hits the fan and you realize all that time nobody had cared about what's coming.
Android engineer with 12 years experience beneath their belt here.

Would never consider Twitter as a possible employeer after what just went down.
Ask HN: increased iMessage spam lately?
Has anyone else been experiencing a huge uptick in iMessage spam/scam over the last few weeks?

I've been an iPhone user for ~10 years. At most, I would get maybe 5 iMessage spams/scam text year year. I'm now getting 5 per day.

I don't use PayPal, but most of the text are PayPal related iMessage scams/spam.
Building a production pipeline and scaling it is no small feat in itself though. Hats off to anyone who can do that and make it profitable.
https://archive.ph/fhYak
Crypto bros caught once again speed running the invention money and its associated scams/schemes
Just because you didn't heard of it, doesn't mean its not a big name.
Also Kraken is a Exchange not a trading firm.
See also the movie Flight of the Eagle (1982).
Nice to see Bernd Heinrich mentioned here. He really enjoys working in nature and it shows in his books
They are pretty good and cheaper than SV probably

Twitter is still worth it for the 280 chars. Sure video and images and 27/4 availability are desireable, but not essential
Yes. And for unemployment purposes it arguably constitutes material change. It would be a fight with employer, but it is hard to argue it is not a sudden or big change.
Sure, that belongs to the very few valid use cases.

I got an iPad 2 from a relative, I do detect its user agent on my private Invidious instance to send it transpiled/polyfilled JS instead of the original one.

Of course it would not be the correct solution if Apple did not forbid other browsers on its hardware, the correct solution would then be to install a recent Firefox version on it. It would also allow a shitload of other stuff to work, like subtitles on fullscreen videos and autoplay on the next video, playback of videos protected by HTTP basic auth, as well as Let's Encrypt SSL certificates.

The device's browser should send a "X-I-m-dumb-and-my-manufacturer-likes-to-piss-everybody-off: true" HTTP header to avoid relying on its user-agent though.
Linux was always being developed with companies, and with their self interests. It's the same with BSDs too.

Yes, we also add what we like and what we want to see, but companies employ these developers to implement what they need inside Linux.

We have kernel-bypass-networking because of Cloudflare. BSD has extremely fast networking because Netflix and other companies needed it, Linux has better power management because server needed it, etc., etc.

I also have points which I don't like with systemd, but companies are neither new, nor they're gonna leave Linux alone (and, they shouldn't).
Well, lets skip the fact he didn't build those companies. Both companies rely heavily on government subsidies. He's in part 3 of his dependence on big government, demanding they start subsidizing Starlink

Remove those subsidies tomorrow and the companies fold, all of them

Can Elon figure out a way to get the government to subsidize Twitter? Maybe, but it's going to be harder
He isn't just a "gem". He's the closest thing in my personal head canon to the god emperor. He's protecting us and our freedom to compute from all the forces of chaos. It is a seriously dark future if we ever lose him
It's not "police-like," the Postal Inspectors ARE police with their own police academy, their own crime lab, and everything. They are actually one of the oldest law enforcement agencies in the US.
You could apply the same logic to any long term purchase. Dealerships only sell lemons because they want you to come back and buy more cars. Recruiters only match you with companies that you'll definitely want to leave because they want to match you again. Realtors only show you houses you'll hate because then you'll want to move again.

I worked at an online dating company. Matching people is fucking hard. It's hard enough predicting who will message who, much less who will actually date who. There's far more money in matching them well than stringing them along; if you had even a 10% success rate, you could get away with charging a silly amount of money.
The fake account numbers.

Page 8 of whistleblower report:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683-twitter-whi...
Agreed. So, why pretend it's not purely transactional, other than to be manipulative? All the "were a family", "we care about you", yada yada language just tries to create false social constructs to hide the fact your relationship is only a business transaction.
I think there are some very rational reasons for hating or at least strongly disapproving of the new owner.

For example, if the new owner of the company I worked for demanded on a Saturday that a new feature needs to be ready for testing by Monday, I'd be pretty upset.

Or, if I was on a team working on the problem of trust and ethics, and the new owner personally and un-ironically posted a completely false and inflammatory "news article" about a current event, and then several days later laid off my entire team, I wouldn't consider it irrational to be quite upset.
Pick a project you’re passionate about and find a technology you’re curious to learn. Then figure out how to make it happen. You can chart your own course (and from what I’ve seen from most bootcamp project results during interviews, you probably should).

I’m a self-taught dropout - I learned how to do this to the detriment of other endeavors including my assigned coursework (which happened to be for another degree).

It sounds like you’re not doing this because you’re driven to. That’s fine, but you’ll probably struggle doing it on your own. I’m guessing those self-taught folks were just more inclined to the field.
It’s geofenced - if I access it directly from my residential connection in Germany, I get the same, but if I use my Tailscale exit node in the US, it works fine.
I have started poking at ZX-BASIC when I was 8 years old, then started poking at QBasic, then read a (bad) book about C and some MSDN articles about Direct3D (using a paper dictionary, as I didn't know any English). I've got first programming job when I was 19 years old.
No. The companies feel they can afford to pay top drawer wages so they do so in order to hire what they hope is among the top talent, subject to among other things the randomness of their hiring processes.
The dark lord Cthulhu is rather "problematic" as well and yet here we are giving you the benefit of the doubt..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Race
I can tell you from experience there is never a funding problem, agencies always in excess of cash, especially during democratic presidencies. So much flowing right now you can literally work on anything you want
Take this: You take over a company that was full of bad behaving managers and employees. The previous CEO supported this situation. The new CEO who bought the company need to quickly turn the ship around. Severance, bonus payouts? Yes, if the staff you take over was really good and they deserve it. Is it the same case with Twitter? Can we compare Stripe and Twitter on this level?
Although the name is about web3, https://web3isgoinggreat.com/ is pretty comprehensive in covering all areas of crypto.
O365 was the first thing I was looking for. The university I work for is heavily invested in O365 calendaring and Tasks, but for myself personally I use a combination of other services. If this could bring them all together for my wife and I to have a single pane of glass I'd be in.
> It’s genuinely amazing and saddening how many people want to see Musk fail.

Spite is surly not the reason this billion-dollar brands are pulling advertising from the company whose owner is using it to spread conspiracy theories about political violence. These companies have no compass beyond shareholder value. They just see the writing on the wall now that Musk has ownership of Twitter.
LIDAR data might be more sparse but it is also more reliable, being an active sensor so it isn't affected by night.

The real way is to use the LIDAR to add to the depth probability distribution in the stereo depth estimation. This way you aren't throwing any data away. LIDAR often gives probabilities as well, for example, and this can be used to eliminate reflections.
It definitely works, JAX only sees the unrolled loop:

x = 0
x += y
x += y
x += y
x += y
x += y
return x

The reason you might need `jax.lax.fori_loop` or some such is if you have a long loop with a complex body. Replicating a complex body many times means you end up with a huge computation graph and slow compilation.
Page 8 of whistleblower report covers the issue of spam accounts:
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/22186683-twitter-whi...
"What do you gain from that. Could have just pulled me aside while I was there at the end of the day, stand someone next to me while I packed up my shit, and let me go home with my stuff at least."

They're afraid of people freaking out and making a scene... or worse.

For safety reasons it's better to prevent fired employees from coming in to work at all.
I think people need to take a step back and ask themselves, "are the projects I'm working on directly increasing revenue?" If not, bye bye.
Ah yes, "realist" is loaded but "denier" is neutral.

So can we neutrally consider TRAs to be "biological denialists"?
I would go to work for Twitter, if only to work for Elon. It would be better than any comparable education. Maybe I last a month, maybe I last my career, but I will probably learn a lot.
scam is hard to define and people have different definitions subject to some bias but here is maybe what you're after

https://web3isgoinggreat.com/
Really?

I can see that firing half the personnel, would stop cold any new projects. But continuing a stable website, that has been online for many years, should be doable with 3250 people (half of the 7500 people employed by Twitter).

I have no doubt, that Mr. Musk will start new development--and hire staff to do it--when things are stable again.
>> Twitter would have to pay me something like 3 times more than Stripe for me to consider it, if I were back in the market and had those two.

Twitter was a public company with quarterly vests where you could get liquidity on your compensation (and from what i understand you were cashed out at buyout.) Stripe remains private and much of your money remains locked. Not sure if they issue RSUs, options, or what, but quite possibly you lose a lot or your historical compensation 3mo later. They were two different beasts. (Of course, now both are private, so going forward they might be similar.)
Ask&Tell HN: Dotcom crash survivors, what is your actionable advice for people?
Non-mobile link for those of us using desktop browsers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z-Library

(can someone explain to me why every site in the world will redirect mobile browsers to a limited page but won't redirect desktop browsers back to the full featured version?)
He sexually harassed employees and then paid them off to stay quiet: https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-sexual-misconduct-...

His factories have a history of complaints about racial abuse: https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...

Elon Musk hates the color yellow so hazards in the factory aren't properly identified: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/04/tesla-workers-gettin...

Elon Musk made up the hyperloop just to kill high speed rail and sell more cars: https://www.fresnobee.com/opinion/editorials/article26445107...
Interesting, this is news to me. More curious that A64fx has it since that's an HPC chip. They must have a very valid reason for it (I've definitely run into HPC code that is absolutely garbage and would need it to be stable).