skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahh yes doomed to fail. When your speach isn't as protected because others are allowed to talk. Jack Dorsey literally bet the farm on the Elon could fix twitter. Twitter jobs seemed like the comfy lets push 1 feature a quarter. The amount of ex gov employees is also an astonishing statistic. Makes you wonder what this article is even talking about. The only thing I think elon really gets wrong is the "Work from Home" deal.
XML is a far more complex format to parse.
I think this list shows that how overwhelming the amount of resources to learn but we have so limited time. I think Duolingo style learning paths are way to go because we need to minimize the time to learn something. These kind of dumps are of no use except for bookmarking and feeling good.
The company board’s sole job is to hire and fire the CEO when appropriate: https://reactionwheel.net/2021/11/your-boards-of-directors-i...

However, having been on a team that prepares board materials and also having presented to a company board, I can tell you that the information they receive is extremely carefully managed in a way that allows responsibility to seem to flow downwards rather than upwards. What you see as an IC or as a manager or ever director is extremely different from the cause and effects a board sees in a monthly or quarterly update. Hence they often come to different conclusions than the people in the trenches would. That said, I’m sure this is true for any large organizational unit (government, military, corporations, nonprofits, etc).
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This is the problem with "fake news" and increasingly AI generated content. From an information theoretic perspective this is a perfect title. It sounds 100% improbable, it is therefore 100% surprising, yet it (apparently) delivers what it says it does.

From a receivers point of view, this message is a super-carrier of information, unless (or until) they can discern that it's fake.
Advertising is a human problem.

I think Elon is already feeling the blowback from immediately misunderstanding it based on this tweet[1]. It's going to be interesting to see how he intends on making up that $5b/year.

[1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880
"Meritocracy " isn't a thing, since the "merit deciders" (ala kingmakers) decide whatever they want. (Or the next question in that line: who decides what merit is and who has it?)

And, the gist also has very strong vibes of Ronald Wright's misattributed John Steinbeck's quote:

“John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/328134-john-steinbeck-once-...
> Doesn't mean they're bots.

I mean, that's what an account with the word "bot" in it created 4 days ago would say.
“Reportedly, Elon stack-ranked Twitter engineers by LoC and fired the bottom X%”
... which likely means he's gotten rid everyone who worked on particularly challenging things, like security, privacy, performance, & reliability.

- @mcmillen
The "stagnated wages" of SV engineers? What?
Agreed. Perhaps it's due to the people who frequent HN, but it's amusing to see so many think they can "algorithm" their way into the relationship(s) they want. Some even proposing blockchain solutions!
Thanks, I see the admin chat. I saw it after I posted this. It is a Pixel 3. It also took a while for the video just show up on the page, so I think it really is something with server overload, possibly from being on front page of HN? I'll message again if it is still happening in 24 hours.
Hah - one of my first ever network programming tasks was to do this at a UK hosting company. That and SMTP relays. Good that (some) governments are wise enough to try to keep this sort of thing in check.

I hope they aren't using a perl script triggered by a cronjob on a hand-rolled VM though..
Worship of Elon? In what bubble? The German Reddit sphere (somewhat diverse) and HN both seem to think of him as a joke at best.
Tesla was worth, at most, a few million dollars when Elon became their largest investor. They had no products. They had no sales. He turned a $2 million company into a $700 billion company, but he's not the founder because he wasn't in the paperwork for the first year of its existence in which very little happened? Ok.

Additionally, a settlement was reached to literally call himself a founder. At this point it's boring semantics of what "founder" means.

But go ahead and keep trying and failing to poke holes to push your unfounded narrative.
There are no good tools. Just a bunch of shady vendors.
You need a few people to maintain the servers, not a few thousand people.
That's a rather sensationalist headline. Written by an Australian looking at graphs, rather than having a feel for what's going on.

I'm sure he's a capable economist, but based on what I see, New Zealand is not "plunging". There's definitely a slow down - but I think most businesses are expecting a relatively soft landing.

I guess time will tell.
The general sentiment is that if tech companies can censor arbitrarily their special section 230 liability protection should be removed. They are no longer acting as an internet service, but as a publisher that curates publications.
This would be amazing (the bad kind) and also, I’m quite skeptical.
It's a potential antitrust violation to serve themselves better than other users of the platform.
This is what Google and Apple get in trouble for all the time.
I don't and I should've deleted it while it was still editable....

So my fault for peppering a big plate of hate, but I can't get over his Sim City 2nd grade playing callousness.

I respect that he claims he's doing this to end censorship for societal impact. but so far I don't see anything about a letter, speech, any sign of this guy NOT walking into Twitter HQ like Dr Evil with peoples livelihood at stake.

Given he's already at the top, I think PR is such a miniscule issue to him it's simply more efficient to weed people out, regardless of what anyone else thinks of how he chooses to.

I guess Superman can step on my face as long as he's saving the world
Hah I agree completely. I saw it as a B movie take on Bladerunner x John Wick(?). It definitely wasn't a shining star but was at the same time entertaining.

Bladerunner & Ex Machina are both in their own league.

I was just pondering yesterday "What would a sequel to Ex Machina look like?" "What would it be called?" "What sort of story line would be interesting?"
I agree. Every time I think about picking a markup language, I wind up wanting to use Asciidoc but then getting frustrated by the tooling.

Maybe there's a great static site generator written in GO with strong Asciidoc support??

Antora is new to me as well, will review.
No matter how the deaths were counted in the moment, excess death counts after the fact saw an increase of 12.8% during Covid in Ontario. So, unless there was another mysterious cause of death taking out around 75,000 people a year there, the mortality rate estimates pre-vaccine were pretty spot on.

https://covid19-sciencetable.ca/sciencebrief/excess-mortalit...
> Shouldn't giant tech companies obsess about reducing the need for human intervention?

They do. You automate recovery for all the failure modes your system has encountered. Then the system promptly fails in a new way you've never seen before.

Often because some totally different part of the system fails when scaling to new levels.
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They mostly don't say nonsense. I listened to the whole thing and I found it very convincing. I've never been able to listen all the way through AI generated content before. It's hard for me to believe this was 100% AI generated.
It's interesting how you all are bringing up the law and contracts but simultaneously moaning about how cruel he is for firing everyone.

He OWNS the company.

> Actions have consequences which is a basic thing that it seems some people have a really hard time understanding.

Yes, this is what happens when you choose to be an employee of a company someone else owns. You are at their mercy. That's the deal.

So you are Elon and have some shitty company that is burning $200m or more a year. Are you all saying he should keep paying these overpaid yuppies to do nothing but come into work 3 hours late and drink matcha lattes? Even if he was feeling generous, don't you think there are more deserving people of that charity?
I wonder what makes HN so different in this regard. Is it because social media ties everything to identity while HN puts little emphasis on identity?
There’s also such a thing as diseconomies of scale. My inexpert opinion is that you have to work at enabling economies of scale and that it’s very easy to fall into patterns that turn into diseconomies.
This is a very tabula rasa approach to personal responsibility. He was compelled by enforcement of a prior binding agreement that he entered into freely. More than freely. That he proposed and originated!
> should have something in the title indicating that they are deepfakes

What gave it away for me is that there is only a small overlap in time when Feynman and Fridman were both alive. Feynman died in 1988 and Fridman was born in 1983. :)

Fridman is around my age and Feynman was always a historical figure.
As an honest question. By what authority do you have the right to "show someone the door"?
Just yesterday I read the healthful change would be to make standard time permanent. Darker afternoons actually result in better sleep. (I think on Wapo…)

“Sleep experts and neurologists urgently cautioned that shifting away from early-morning sunlight would harm circadian rhythms, sleep-wake cycles and overall health. ”

Edit-“A congressional aide who has been working on the issue put it more bluntly: “We’d be pissing off half the country no matter what,””

I’d call that a reason for more time zones not more seasonal changes at the national level. Or just straight up don’t have time zones and every locality just figure it out according to the sun and GMT.
I'd never considered the value all those things have when it comes to finding out what to index. Clever, actually.
I do this too, but only started a few days ago. That's a lot of feeds you've collected, would you be open to sharing a list of them?
There's a difference between an intelligent and meaningful observation of behavior to guess at motives and just outright calling someone a liar and manipulator without any real basis or evidence because you don't like them as a person.
A calendar app is a database that tracks app time.

Git is a database that tracks system time.

A calendar on git is bitemporal.
Thanks, I see it here now in both places > https://forum.snapcraft.io/t/what-happened-to-signal-desktop... & https://github.com/snapcrafters/signal-desktop/issues/70#iss....
I don't think this is a great opinion piece. IT jumps to conclusions about what Musk's team has done without being able to see any evidence of its effectiveness. All we have is groans from people that pretty much spend their days complaining about everything anyways.

And then there's this idea that Twitter was some great, happy place until the last week. That's simply not true and Twitter hasn't changed in any way whatsoever yet.

What we know so far:

- Twitter will rollout a paid account system where if you pay $8/month your tweets will actually be visible to people and you'll see less ad's. This will ensure bots/scammers have difficulty posting to Twitter because their non-paid posts won't be seen by many people. People are more likely to casually browse Twitter now and people who profit from writing on Twitter will have better engagements.

- Twitter is working on ideas to let users seta threshold for what they want to read/see. If you want a G-rated stream, then you'll be able to do that. For people that get triggered or don't want their ideas challenged then they can mute that much like you can avoid music and movies/media you don't want to be exposed to.

- Twitter fired a lot of staff. Unsure how this pans out. Some people think it was ridiculous to have that many people. Others think it will cause the entire thing to break. No one really knows anything here. I have to assume Elon's team has spent months analyzing what they believe is lean muscle and what is the fat they can cut.

How can people draw these impossibly detailed predictions on its future from these actions? Musk has a history of being bet against and proving the doubters wrong. Anyone there in 2013 when TSLA shipped the first Model S batch knows how much he was hated and bet against then. He has also failed to deliver on some promises. We'll see.
I'm very unconvinced by Elon's $8 plan, but even to me "smothering it within weeks" seems wildly pessimistic. Even if his strategy doesn't work out, would things really come crashing down so quickly?
Good grief I struggle to keep up with eight feeds in my RSS reader!
"...to balance their own version of “free speech”"

Nail on the head for what really bothers me. None of this (or the Trump/Freedom/Truth Social) opinions comprehend the fundamental concepts behind free speech. At best, they're ignorant, at worst, they've co-opted the concept to wield it against those whose speech they don't like.
> gets a hair

Is this an expression?
Yeah, you're right I shouldn't say "nutjob," I should say "ignorant and unreasonable."

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-supporters-react-to-np...
Well, that is always the case given that no candidate who raises 100 M+ loses to a candidate who raises less than 100 M, irrespective of per-donation size. Once we have a market, everyone can participate in this rather than just the big donors. It's a democratization of the voting market!
The claims in this article assume a lot. To pick just one, regarding stability/uptime: without knowing the distribution of layoffs by department, this may not just be incorrect, but the opposite might be true: if most SREs were retained, and engineers who know the systems well are still around, stability will likely improve as there will be fewer changes to the systems (usually the number one source of outages). If PMs were heavily cut then it’s possible they have infra that was slated for future projects that will no longer happen which gets them extra capacity.

Not saying any of what I spelled out above is what happened. But it is entirely plausible that thousands of jobs across the organization could be cut, and stability and uptime could improve.
Is the energy sector mining, drilling, oil and gas? If that's the way out of financial strife, that's depressing.
Lex Fridman was born in 1983 and Feynman died in 1988, that's more obvious than Steve Jobs and Joe Rogan since although Rogan wasn't doing much in interviewing during Jobs' life, it's plausible since they are somewhat contemporaries.
Wanting peace is now a bad thing?

Does it matter that his method wasn't ideal, at least he wasn't pushing for nuclear war like many politicians.
You are conflating "illegal" with "criminal". Civil law is still law.
> Imagine if more consumers and advertisers start enjoying consuming and being associated with malevolent, hateful, and violence-inducing speech.

> Many in the 1930s-40s enjoyed the hateful caricatures of Jews that the Nazis produced in their propaganda, and hateful people also buy refrigerators and sneakers today.

I may be sidetracking the conversation here, but I must admit I find it fascinating how “hatefulness” online is almost always assumed to be right-wing extremism.

Have everyone forgotten the BLM and Antifa riots going on for months where innocent people had their property, livelihood and in some cases even their lives taken?

That was fully encouraged and endorsed by the left, en masse, and especially so on Twitter.

Was that not “hate”? If not, what is?
The labour market is very tight, but recession is not synonymous with mass unemployment It's about economic growth. It's possible (even sometimes necessary) to have a recession with low unemployment and high wage growth.
It's not like friendster and myspace caused these issues. It's the social media platforms that are absolutely designed to cause polarization to drive up platform metrics.

It's the difference between a carefully tended forest and a forest where the "tending" made sure there was flammable underbrush spread everywhere. Sure it is the match that started the forest fire, but there is a world of difference between the two.
Yes, I really think Adidas, a company with a not so great history of being founded by former members of the Nazi party, wanted to cut ties with an anti-semite.

Yes, peoples actions should have consequences, that is the whole point of free speech. Bring speech forward, and reward speech we support and discourage speech we don't, and let the market of ideas decide. Do you not believe in free speech and free markets? The market of ideas?
I’ve noticed the same thing and been more and more feeling like commenting this same thing.

Not just on crypto, but on other topics that people don’t want to be associated with their actual opinions (GutHub Copilot) this seems to be far to common.

I really think these accounts poison the well on the more contentious topics.
Their consumer sentiment is only at -25 for major household goods? In the U.S. it is -35!

https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/get-chart.php?y=2022&m=9&n=35...
This is a fair point - in organisational terms it'd be better if NCSC was under a non-ministerial body, independent of political influence and control. Similar format to a university, maybe.
The software, community, and the moderation/administration of it need to be thought of as one complete thing where each part places limits on the other.

A Group is its own Worst Enemy - https://www.gwern.net/docs/technology/2005-shirky-agroupisit...

Consider the lessons from LambdaMOO or Communitree in there.

The design of the software promotes and discourages certain types of interaction. Stack overflow famously doesn't have a great commenting system - and it was intentionally designed that way to make long running comment back and forth difficult and unpleasant because that was what Jeff wanted (incidentally, one of Jeff's mentors was Clay Shirky who wrote the above mentioned A Group and was on the board of directors of early Stack Overflow). And as much pain as comments on SO had, the alternative for moderation would have been much worse in the framework of Stack Overflow.

Likewise, there's code on HN (an algorithm) that down weights overheated discussions ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16020089 ).

The technological and social cannot be separated and need to be built, cultivated, and grown in tandem with intention.

And this is where I get back to reddit... you can do all these things on reddit, just that it takes a bit more creative use of the features within reddit and use of external tooling to enforce it.

If I was to try to build something, I'd honestly start from Discourse ( https://github.com/discourse/discourse ) and then work to build the additional features to encourage the type of community that I'd want there and tooling for moderation.

As it is, I'm not that interested in building on discourse and reddit works. If I had to deal with a larger sub where I can't read all the posts each day or was a target of trolling / low quality content, I'd likely start spinning up things like a program that rate limits people who haven't participated much in the sub initially... possibly borrowing some sentiment analyzers to try to get a heads up where there's flame war brewing.

If I wanted something more "real time", discord posts are rather interesting... with the associated discord moderation bots.

Think about what you want, the community that you want, and then the how you want the community to mold the technology and the technology to mold the community.
How am I supposed to counter-fact this? Elon's tweets are among the most favorited tweets of all time regularly topping out over 1M. The average person likely has quite a positive view of him - the right-wing of American politics definitely does.
> You don't get to decide for me any more than I get to decide for you.

> There's a way to bring stuff like this up on HN

Mhm. Let the dark lord decide for all of us I say. After all it is only a matter of proper verbiage how to most effectively ostracize someone you've personally deemed unlikeable eh?

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn
Can you get a job watching 1000 hours of YouTube?
Ask HN: Which startups have been acquired weeks/few months after launching?
Let's all open our personal professional networks to help these folks laid off find work. Nothing we can do about Elon owning Twitter now but what we can do is help those affected by the layoffs.
Also worth noting that a company's formal written policy isn't binding on the company unless it's part of a contract with the employee (which it almost never is).
Web development has an abstraction problem
I find it hilarious that "Indian English" is a separate category
> Twitter (the company) making requests of Twitter (the platform)

Is this an actual distinction or just being thorough for specificity? I know some companies are like Mozilla having the browser and the foundation, but just not familiar with Twitter.
No? Just downvote bad comments.
Makes sense. I should disable CORS on my blog, then! I normally use a dedicated feed reader, rather than a browser, but it makes sense to accommodate both use cases.
Management should, with some exceptions, always be the first ones to point the finger at, but software developers have such little respect in society that even they will throw their colleagues under the bus in this way. The day that a large scale disaster occurs because of a software bug will be the day that we will face greater scrutiny and regulation while the employers get more government funding and corporate welfare to cover their asses while lining their pockets.
Supposedly some library called SQIP might handle that as explained over on https://medium.com/free-code-camp/using-svg-as-placeholders-...
Yep, makes sense! I guess we'll see what arguments the court finds convincing. I, for one, hope Copilot stays, but if we can delay its destruction long enough I think we'll get open-source models that will give us this for free. And then the cat will be out of the bag.
All of that and more. I just mean, a buoy that rises with rising energy prices to lessen the blow of an energy crisis.

Indeed, it's pretty !@#$ing awful that that's the condition.
As far as I know the Biden administration never got one of those "fact check" warning before Elon Musk. But Trump did, so the feature would be old, but how it gets applied would be new.