skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree. You have more options and fewer constraints the higher up you go, but I think that also applies to (most) Twitter/BigTech employees. A good chunk of those fired will be millionaires themselves, they're far from worrying about how to feed their families.

Nobody has to be there to survive, everyone is there willingly because they saw it as the most advantageous place to work, and they'd switch to a different company tomorrow if they got the right offer. Loyalty is a term from a different era.
> due to activist groups pressuring advertisers, even though nothing has changed with content moderation and we did everything we could to appease the activists

Of course it has nothing to do with the uncertainty created by his actions and his style in general. Must be those pesky activists.
Why would a market maker hold so much of an asset.

Market makers do not typically hold $B of anything.

Alameda does not need to borrow so much FTT to make markets.
Maybe he wants to run for president.
It's still an oasis relative to the hubs. Gas is $3.50, you can get a condo for $150K. There are trees and flowers. People are nice.
I think the main issue is a loss of common sense with the general public.

For a lot of people it is glaringly obvious that natural market forces have little to do with inflation (excluding monopolies, duopolies, cartels).

Knowing this to be fact, then seeing Congress pretend it isn’t, elicits a terse but well deserved response: sham
First Amendment:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.“
if there were any sanity to this, ops would still have jobs

there doesn't appear to be much sanity. my money says ops will be hit the hardest because they "write the least code"
I'd argue balance sheet insolvency is really the most colloquial definition insolvency. You can always sell assets (at a haircut of course) to evade cash flow insolvency (arguably that's closer to illiquidity really), but you can't do anything to get out of balance sheet insolvency except restructure your liabilities.

Alameda being in balance sheet insolvency would depend on their assets taking enough of a hit to wipe out the equity buffer.

To Doug's point the junk tokens are likely at book value on their balance sheet
That was some excellent writing; I hope people find the time to read the article.

And on a significant tangent from the article's main point: A friend of mine was killed by a drunk driver. I struggle with some very, very dark sentiments towards them.
Some would say a well-documented and evidence-supported meme is no meme at all.
Oh damn, that was good. The actual citation is what threw me, well done.
I think you might want the opposite of liftE, i.e. to be able to convert any function with two returning values into a function with a single returning value.

Then you can use those functions normally with standard FP tools such as `map` etc.

Yes, the node.js community did something like that with (err, res) and it still does it. Its pretty awful to be unable to use any of the standard library or community library functions (that can error) in a... functional way without wrapping them.
yes! that's part of the illustration of the (past) lame lack of examples.
> There’s a dull reality to my job, which is that my clients have almost always done the thing they’re accused of doing. And usually the evidence against them is overwhelming — not even a close call. [...] This is one reason why almost everyone chooses to plead guilty. Ninety-four percent of state cases and 97% of federal cases are resolved by a plea deal, to be exact.

A few years back a barrage of press articles presented the plea bargains as the tool of a oppressive justice system that doesn't care about real truth or justice but only about conviction rates. This public defender's opinion is certainly not much in accord.
It seems like people have a totally different thought process when it comes to Elon Musk and Twitter and I can’t pin down why.

Whenever a layoff announcement is posted on HN, many people closely scrutinize the wording of the announcement and the severance conditions. Words of consolation are given freely, and occasionally people will offer to help with finding new work. In this thread, though, I find people saying that former Twitter employees need to suck it up and not be entitled babies.

Many who have ardently supported remote work policies (and would raise pitchforks if their employer tried to drag them back into the office) are calling Twitter employees entitled and coddled for attempting to push back.
The rule of thumb is ~1/3 of the layoff size will be incremental attrition over the next 6-12 months. If they hired a firm that knows what it's doing, they build it into the model.
I work in the bay and even met with one of his former direct reports at Tesla. Elon is a brilliant guy in certain areas and has revolutionized the stagnant automobile and rocketry industries by taking immense personal and financial risks.

However at a personal level, he has a reputation for being a douchebag. People who actually work for him know that he throws tantrums (and objects) like a petulant child.

In recent years he's also tarnished his own name by flouting bad coronavirus science, accusing cave divers of being pedos, pumping and dumping crypto, disowning his own transgender child, and engaging with right wing conspiracy theories.

It's like ever since he moved to Texas, the recommender systems on social media started pumping boomer conspiracies into him
I don't know, but I checked a few of these "neobanks" (or whatever they are) available in Italy and they seem more or less to have in common 3 things:

1) they offer services for free or for a low cost (compared to "normal" banks)

2) when these services work, they do work

3) when - for whatever reasons - these services do not work their assistance/support is either not-existing or unreachable, and when (if) you manage to contact them they provide no solutions/fixes and more likely than not you end up with your account frozen or closed (with no actual idea of the reasons why it was frozen/closed)

Surely there must be something (in EU) that complicates matters (anti-money laundering Laws/limits to transfers/National and EU Authorities/whatever) but right now it seems to me like none of them is actually reliable (if it is used as secundary or tertiary card/means of payment they are fine but I wouldn't trust any of them as "primary".

BTW - just for the record - right now N26 has been ordered to suspend making new accounts in Italy by the Bank of Italy (since March 2022) assertedly due to not full compliance with anti-money laundering checks:

https://n26.com/en-it/restrictions-on-new-n26-customers
Setting up a Battery/Inverter/Converter system for the RV...this has me thinking it would be a great thing to have in an RV.
This is a serious allegation, can you provide supporting information?
The reliability, clarity, and fixed low latency were nothing to sniff at, and ISDN didn't lose on quality by any means. In a different universe, it might have gone on to be a dominant technology.

The data rate was 64kbps. The audio frequency bandwidth of G.722, the most widely compatible codec over ISDN, is about 7kHz. Typical analog phone line bandwidth was about 3kHz, so a single ISDN BRI D-channel call was already twice the bandwidth of analog. This was sufficient for ISDN to be suitable for links between sports arenas and FM broadcast stations, for example. Other codecs with better compression (like MPEG) over bonded D-channels for 128kbps, could provide more like 20kHz audio bandwidth (in stereo!), which is close enough to "broadcast quality" 22kHz to be useful for coast-to-coast broadcasts and remote studio recording.

In our timeline, however, Carterfone and the breakup of AT&T opened the doors for all kinds of development in voice-band modem technology. 56K modems were good enough, and they worked with existing last-mile equipment on existing POTS lines, leaving ISDN to find a niche with small business and broadcast. When "always-on" DSL entered the market to compete for Internet subscribers, ISDN was finished. People cared more about data rates than latency, more about the Internet than point-to-point links, and the market ISDN was aiming for had moved on by the time it arrived. Rapid deployment of fiber and T1/E1 quickly ate up whatever was left of ISDN's apple... not because ISDN wasn't very good at what it did, just because people didn't much care about what it was good at.

Which, I suppose, brings us back to the point of the article: advances come with drawbacks.
And it addresses a very, very real use case of recompressing JPEGs without generation loss. Considering that a vast majority of all pictures being taken even today begin their life as JPEGs, that's very relevant.
I’m much more junior, but to exchange anecdotes, I think it’s difficult to accurately say that people in FAANG are less, equal, or more intelligent than people in aerospace. To define intelligent, I will use the everyday definition that mixes speed of learning with the ability to solve hard problems (acknowledging that the academic definition of intelligence is different).

For one, I anecdotally know people in FAANG who were smart by effectively “studying for the test” by focusing more on leetcode than projects/intellectual exploration. In contrast, the people I know who went into aerospace tended to have a genuine interest in physics (and some with more interest in philosophy), and had more experience with projects (e.g. worked on an aerospace team in university), with many of them having little-to-know experience with software development.

Interestingly, the aerospace people I know anecdotally happened to be better at soft skills/networking for getting into companies, whereas the FAANG people focused on leetcode for admissions. After getting into a company, also from my anecdotal experience, more FAANG people focused on metrics/compensation, whereas more aerospace people tended to focus more on the mastery of the craft. I acknowledge that my anecdotes shouldn’t be generalized, but it aligns with the motivations of many people looking to get into each company (it seems more people go into FAANG for compensation/prestige, whereas more people go into aerospace for the passion).

So, I would say that people from both categories tended to be very smart at learning quickly and solving hard problems, though anecdotally, the aerospace people seemed to be generally more intellectually curious. Then again, perhaps the aerospace people were better at soft skills/presenting themselves so they appeared smarter, whereas the FAANG people didn’t focus on presenting themselves as intelligently. For limitations, note that the people I’m thinking of are at the junior level.

In any case, I don’t think one can conclusively say that people in FAANG have more/less/the same intelligence as people in aerospace companies, though maybe one can tentatively say that people who go into aerospace tend to be more curious and interested in mastery of one’s profession (versus material compensation).
People are absolutely free to do those things right now. There are tens of millions of people with those sentiments. Why don't we see more attempted co-ops?
I don't think Twitter is responsible for a planned shift in political behavior decades in the making.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gi...

> But Gingrich had a plan. The way he saw it, Republicans would never be able to take back the House as long as they kept compromising with the Democrats out of some high-minded civic desire to keep congressional business humming along. His strategy was to blow up the bipartisan coalitions that were essential to legislating, and then seize on the resulting dysfunction to wage a populist crusade against the institution of Congress itself. “His idea,” says Norm Ornstein, a political scientist who knew Gingrich at the time, “was to build toward a national election where people were so disgusted by Washington and the way it was operating that they would throw the ins out and bring the outs in.”

> Gingrich recruited a cadre of young bomb throwers—a group of 12 congressmen he christened the Conservative Opportunity Society—and together they stalked the halls of Capitol Hill, searching for trouble and TV cameras. Their emergence was not, at first, greeted with enthusiasm by the more moderate Republican leadership. They were too noisy, too brash, too hostile to the old guard’s cherished sense of decorum. They even looked different—sporting blow-dried pompadours while their more camera-shy elders smeared Brylcreem on their comb-overs.

> Gingrich and his cohort showed little interest in legislating, a task that had heretofore been seen as the primary responsibility of elected legislators. Bob Livingston, a Louisiana Republican who had been elected to Congress a year before Gingrich, marveled at the way the hard-charging Georgian rose to prominence by ignoring the traditional path taken by new lawmakers. “My idea was to work within the committee structure, take care of my district, and just pay attention to the legislative process,” Livingston told me. “But Newt came in as a revolutionary.”

> For revolutionary purposes, the House of Representatives was less a governing body than an arena for conflict and drama. And Gingrich found ways to put on a show. He recognized an opportunity in the newly installed C-span cameras, and began delivering tirades against Democrats to an empty chamber, knowing that his remarks would be beamed to viewers across the country.

Newt Gingrich and Roger Ailes have done far more damage to political discourse than anything social media could hope to do.
A better camera can make you a better photographer, in that it can help you get the image you want.

There are pictures I can't get with my 50mm 1.4. There are pictures I can't get with my 200mm 2.8. I can get a reasonable facsimile with my phone camera.

But it's all about tradeoffs. As someone or another said, the picture you don't take won't be any good.
I'm pretty sure he would be ineligible.
I'm personally quite curious how much alignment there is between Jack and Elon, and yet.. Jack was the CEO not too long ago. Jack didn't fix a lot of the things Elon is worked up about. Which makes their communication and cooperation perplexing.
You'd have to hide the results of the vote if you're collating them with timestamp, otherwise you could pretty easily figure out Bob who showed up early voted for the square.

And I'm unsure how adding timestamp helps with the problem you're trying to solve, don't you just need Sum(machine vote count at location X) == voters visiting location X. (Also this hueristic is kinda leaky since how do you account for voters protesting with intentional spoilers?)
I wonder if a Pi Pico W would be sufficient to run this, even? waaay cheaper (and available).
I scrolled the feed and found this gem: https://twitter.com/strangertemple/status/158843243360696320...
> buybacks reward selling, not holding

Company value unchanged but fewer shares outstanding literally means value per share for holders goes up.
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So in your world, if someone doesn't have a useful skill, they deserve to be destitute?
Once upon a time MetaFilter used to be a place to have interesting discussions, but I haven't been there for a decade or so it feels like and can't vouch for the current state.

https://www.metafilter.com
That's not impossible for a simple electromechanical calculator either. An attachment similar to those paper drums seismographs use would suffice while still being simple enough to be trustworthy; a video recording of the counter along with maybe an array of debug LEDs would suffice too now that I think about it.
This article is about DAFs. Is there evidence that's what Musk is doing?
I taught myself coding when there was no internet. You had to take a bus to the big city to the university bookstore to get decent books. Today, it's trivial to learn coding.

Pick up a couple of books and learn the basics. After a few you'll get some of the hang of it. Then you need to start making a lot of mistakes. I didn't have github but that's an amazing tool. Just start submitting PRs to OSS projects. It will bring you to the next level.

Today, it's trivial to learn coding alone. You don't need anything.
I always like the mix of the scanning ballots in Minnesota that are paper / filled out by hand, scanned and go into a box tied to a machine for easy auditing.
You don't have data. Because the thing about biases is that they're often unconscious.

It's also a lot like the "bad toupee" effect. You think you're good at spotting toupees because you always notice when they're bad. But you don't notice when they're good, therefore they don't even factor into your dataset.

Which is why anecdotes are never data. There's no way to control the data coming in. And the filters we have on the data coming in are sometimes unknown.

I've never really seen a study on artificial sweeteners that ever propose an actual mechanism. And without fail, the study is done on rodents or rely on self-reporting to some degree or on very small sample sizes.

I don't have to present my own observations to point out flaws in your own observations. It's not a contest where "most observations" win or whatever.
In what capacity do you "run email servers"? Do you "keep an eye" on other people's email?
IMHO freedom in US is usually in fact 1) free for people who have $$ or 2) poor people who advocates for 1) for whatever the reason.

Basically freedom means less regulation from governments, which is only good for super riches and large enterprises. If you are not you should welcome more government regulation to counter the other elephant in the room. Two evils is always better than one.
I can assure you that a corrupt nation-state level actor is at least as good at statistics as any analyst you know, if that's the threat model.
Many of the private railcars in existence today are ex-Amtrak, because when Amtrak was formed on May 1, 1971, they assumed most of the passenger rolling stock of the railroads that discharged passenger service.

Supposedly the biggest cost associated with refurbishing a car is passing the Amtrak inspection of the bogies, axles, and wheels -- I believe they have to be completely replaced at 40 years of age. When a railroad retires a car, this equipment may be close to end-of-life.

Many freight railroads still have "office-car specials" -- passenger equipment for the executives to use. Those would probably be the easiest to get up to Amtrak specs.

Trivia: Amtrak will only run trains with private railcars at a maximum speed of 110 mph. On the Northeast Corridor, private railcars are only allowed to be added to the overnight Northeast Regional train which normally travels at 125 mph -- but there's enough padding in the schedule that they can slow it down to 110 without affecting the timetable.
Huh? They just learned about on-the-fly packaging? This has been the standard for a decade and widely supported in media ecosystems. Personally I love the https://github.com/kaltura/nginx-vod-module and have used it for many years.
So Musk was one of the huge number of people who could see the California HSR was a disastrous project before it even started.

Is that really the meat of this "allegation"?
Yes, everything is a conspiracy orchestrated by ${group you don't like} for ${nefarious purpose}. There's no way that people legitimately change their own views.
Funnily enough, my ability to change things is limited to the scope within which I work :) Sadly, none of the above fall within my purview...
I wonder how people will measure success for Elon/Twitter.

Will it be based on revenue, earnings, MAUs, or some other metric.
I'm confused... this is basically the same as molten salt, just with sand instead of salt. Molten salt has been around for a very long time and is how solar thermal power plants store energy and continue to generate power after dark. Is there an innovation here that I'm missing?
This seems rather strange to me, having immersed myself in the rocket mass heater community a bit.

Sand is generally the last option to choose for thermal mass, because it is so inefficient at storing heat; the very air between the grains acts as insulation.

Instead, clay (or clay mixed with straw to form cob) is the preferred medium for storing heat, as it is a significantly better conductor and stores much more heat energy than the air between the grains of sand.

It seems like they are using the air as a medium here- the article states that they blow air through the sand, and the resistive bands heat up the air, which then sheds some of the heat onto the sand (or picks some heat up off the sand, depending on if it is storing or discharging).

I guess the cheapness and simplicity of construction makes this a better option at the scale they're operating at, but it's pretty wild to imagine how much more efficient the system could be if it had been designed differently.
Oh this is so true.
> Who do you think has more leverage to optimize for their personal outcome?

At Twitter? That's hard to say, lots of places are hiring, and getting good people is hard for all of them. Many of those that were fired will probably come out ahead financially. Twitter will probably continue to exist.

> Why do you find it OK for the ones to have power to leverage it in order to get even more?

What do you think salary negotiations are? You go in, say you want even(!) more money, and if your value is high enough, you have the power to make them do it. Again, both Twitter and the employees are playing the same game, they're just on different sides of board, but neither of them is a charity.
Safe? Shall we use BART as an existing example of that?

Quick? No. Fast maybe. It’s hard to replicate the quickness of jumping into your car and hopping onto the freeway to get somewhere. Little or no planning required. Yeah the train if it is deployed as envisioned would be faster.

Inexpensive? The latest estimate is 107 Billion. Hardly inexpensive.
You can probably make an argument that a lot of diagnostics have already been replaced by machines. Due to the incentives and systems in place, many doctors function as little more than a rubber-stamp for pills and aren't really able to spend a lot of time working with a patient to uncover their root health issues.

When faced with a health issue, people (and doctors) are searching the web for their symptoms and figuring out which pill is most likely to help. This is subject to whichever search algorithms are used.

And I'm not sure, but I'd speculate that health providers and insurance companies use (or are experimenting) with something like an AI to try and promote the least costly forms of treatment.
One thing I’m surprised to see such little commentary on is the fact that Musk violated California’s WARN Act by not providing appropriate notice of layoffs.
Because if you were consuming 4000 calories of food and drink before and reduced it down to 3000 by drinking diet soda. It's still a lot, but less. Which is better.
Agreed. For anything at all common, most of the gains will be from fusion, the rest is just free. PyTorch also uses tons of GPU memory after only initializing, I wonder if it's copying all the kernels in?
> The creator of Svelte (not go all-in)

[SvelteKit] (official Svelte framework) uses TypeScript quite a bit.

First, the internal code was ported to TypeScript, then DX for TypeScript was added. The official template supports JSDoc TS (default), TypeScript, or no typing.

I think another community member added TS support, and Rich said he couldn't have done it by himself. (Or maybe that was regarding the VS Code TS support tooling.)

[SvelteKit]: https://kit.svelte.dev/
We just write on the lid of the freezers we have. They're white, so why not?