skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dude. If he wanted to make humanity link arms and sing Kumbaya, he’d be investing in water facilities and dropping LSD into it.

Musk got bullied into buying Twitter by a bunch of WallStreetBets folks, took a puff and tweeted out a number, and surprise surprise, the offer was accepted. And he’s been struggling to get out of the deal ever since.
He accused people of brigading, rather than expressing their honest opinion. I'd downvote such an unsubstantiated (and false, at least in my case) statement if it weren't already so downvoted. I don't want to pile on, but they did write "something bad." Something can be "just an opinion" and still be "something bad."
It seems extremely challenging to construct a theory of how an unprofitable company is profiteering or extracting excess capital.
We need a revolution organized around "Give me convenience or give me death."
Productivity has fallen, and experts are puzzled. I’m not. We’re all just tired
How many times does this utterly pointless discussion on the legality of platform censorship need to be had? No one is saying that what PayPal or any other big company is doing in terms of censorship is illegal, it’s usually just either that 1) they think it should be or 2) they feel it’s vaguely unamerican. Comment threads of this nature should be preeemptively removed by dang because they go absolutely nowhere.
So you can demonstrate that votes correspond to people voting. Not on an individual basis, but just to make sure that if you have 100 votes on a machine (or 1000 votes across 10 machines at a location, they happened when there were 100 (or 1000) people at that voting location. It prevents adding votes before or after the fact, like putting a thumb on a scale.
Yea, benchmark based compilation, that's already happening in the tinygrad compiler we use for openpilot to determine the local group size. https://github.com/geohot/tinygrad/blob/caea34c52996cde2ed46...

Working on parameterizing a search space that includes more than the local group size. The end dream is some ML guided search to optimize the kernels :)
Not just one of two numbers. Ballots contain multiple referenda, and races for multiple positions, each of which can have anywhere between 1 and tens of candidates.

You need to display all of that information, take a user's input, store it in an auditable format. Oh, and people like "small government" so making custom hardware is completely out of the question. Using a "multipurpose" computer is the economical choice.

But there's another aspect to this: if you can swap out the hardware and keep the software the same, it makes the whole thing more transparent. A jumble of 4000-series CMOS on a breadboard could hide any number of bugs/backdoors. And, perception of trust is important, nobody wants to vote on your science fair project. Also, you'd need to produce thousands of these machines to run an election. Really easy to procure thousands of commodity multipurpose machines... but you're talking about mass-manufacturing your science fair project. Hell no.
It feels like that is essentially the main selling point of working for a consultancy
I think you missed the point. He is saying that Musk will either do these things or fail spectacularly.
403 Forbidden.

The irony.
Oh it's definitely a meme. My reply is also a meme. We're just having fun.
Just happened to me this week with a quite large international company: I got interviewed for an engineering manager role (that was also the title of the meeting in the email), at the end of the interview (2 hours), the interviewer told me that he is sorry but "they want someone with 10 years of experience and my CV doesn't match" but they will be able to recruit me as a SWE role if I want and then wait one year and maybe I will get promoted. Needless to say that even if I was interested, I will never work for this company.
If there is a CPU between you and your recorded vote you live in a "hackerocracy": you are ruled by the best hackers.

The only reason to have electronic voting machines is to subvert the voting process.
The idea of a single point of moderation will not work imo. We need to empower users (both individuals & groups) to moderate and curate their own information feeds. Create a market for moderation and curation!

Verified accounts will be instrumental as well. It’s important to understand who or what you are having a conversation with.
How can it be financially beneficial if you lose money doing it?
Sure, but is that what the Ethical AI research team was actually working on? Because that's not what AI ethics typically means, which is a broader focus on AI alignment problems. Even if so, that may not be the most effective or efficient way to do it. We'll just have to see how it turns out, it's all speculation now, and impugning is character based on such moves is premature.
They're different problems, but messaging isn't some trivial thing. And a user having a single unified public view of their tweets is pretty much O(n).
I don't claim that dating apps are a bad idea - but that they are not optimized for my use case.

Why talking first? Well, for me:

P(attractive|interesting) >> P(interesting|attractive)

and by a few orders of magnitude (1000?). YMMV.
> What they say is not falsifiable

It's easily falsifiable by Alameda
Then they only have themselves to blame.
For me, it's gotten to the point where Lisp is one of those "iykyk" things. Why it's so great can't really be put into words. It's a combination of factors, and... it's a feeling of thoughts flowing into code, of bringing a program into existence through dialog with the machine, expanding and refining it through that same dialog.

Gerry Sussman once said of Scheme something like "I want a good language to talk about programs with my friends, and that goes for both my human friends and my electronic friends." Lisp is probably for you if that's how you see programming, as a fruitful collaborative discussion with your electronic ally. If you see programming as "translating business requirements into code" or somesuch, you know where to find Java and you will probably be very happy with it. I don't care.
Im really waiting for the 4d chess move but if there is one it will take a while to see it. Maybe he really is trying to go all out with a conservative free speech social network? But even Fox News has to offer some level of brand safety and has had to fire people because of loss of advertisers, on top of which I don’t think the news division has as much revenue as twitter.
I'd definitely recommend you use homeassistant as a front-end for this. You can then update a 'sensor' using an mqtt message.
Reducing Instagram’s basic video compute time by 94 percent
Personally I think the software is largely irrelevant.

As long as the machine prints a paper receipt that I can verify is correct before it is stored, the code that creates the receipt doesn't really matter.
Do you work at Twitter? My wife did until today, though not in the department of “rounded corners on retweet buttons”.

It sounds to me like you’re repeating talking points and memes, but speaking from a position of ignorance.
Bitcoin is still the same as ever, it has survived and recovered from lots of exchange collapses after a few years.

But there are tens of millions of new people (or even more) since the MtGox collapse in 2014 who haven't learned the lesson and ,,chasing yields'' or lending against their crypto tokens / leveraging their positions (the new forms of financializing BTC, aka not holding your own keys).

I personally know somebody who lost all his BTC / ETH by lending against it and buying more when BTC price was over $50k.
Being this hostile though will end up chasing out the high performers too, since if they’re good they can relocate easily.
How many citizens has the California High Speed Rail project transported?
> Shift jobs to cheaper locales. ... I live in Raleigh-Durham.

Me too. Moved here 17 years ago. It's becoming far less a 'cheaper locale', much like many of the other formerly cheaper locales. Housing here is one of the areas still going up while other areas are cooling off, though I've just started seeing some cooling and price reductions in the past month or so. I'm not even sure what counts as 'cheaper' any more.
> tread off the beaten path things get slow

Yea, makes sense. I think there's something to be said for dynamic compilation solving this problem more elegantly than providing tons of hand-tuned kernels (PyTorch is 890MB lmao https://pypi.org/project/torch/#files), but I don't think it's a strict reason for a performance win.

> change the loop order too

Memory layout as well! I'm 100% for dynamic compilation, but I'm claiming that it really finds its stride when you fuse things.
> Once I knew I was alone and safely insulated by several layers of steel and concrete, I finally let out the primal scream I had been holding in this whole time.

The entire post really reads like an episode of Better Call Saul. And I mean this in the best possible sense.
He also doesn't seem to understand that marketing isn't usually planned or dropped in a day, this would be marketers reactions to what happened one to three weeks ago.

And this is also the stupidest thing you say publicly because marketers tend to follow other marketers, with confirmation from Musk that some are leaving, others will likely follow.
NSA on Supply Chain Security
To me, at least SpaceX and Tesla do do great things for the world.

Not with their profits, but as their primary product. Tesla is getting the world off fossil fuels, and SpaceX is getting humanity into space.

> Musk's "buy a $1M car and crash it immediately" style

When did that happen?
When I was growing up I was was frequently subjugated to violence on a daily basis, over time I learned to zone out of reality, and remind myself that the bruising and cuts would heal and after some time (probably before I reached kindergarten) it just became instant, and I didn’t feel the pain the same way anymore, like I can feel pain, but isn’t something I remember and isn’t in my conscious awareness, like it’s happening outside my immediate focus in a way. Getting over the emotional trauma, on the other hand was a much more difficult thing and took over 15+ years to get over that, but thats a whole different topic.

But, even then, I am sometimes frustrated with how difficult it is for me to do creative work when dealing with certain types of pain like headaches, toothaches, fatigue. I could always do basic physical labor while in pain, even headache/toothache/fatigue, but trying to learn anything complicated or do intellectual work was harder. I was decent at endurance running, I think this was somehow related, I would basically zone out how my legs and lungs are burning, and how tired I felt.

However, unless I was extremely motivated such that then I could sort of hold onto the task in my mind and zone everything else out, it was next to impossible for me to do focus on it. For example stuff that is mundane, boring, tedious or something I don’t care about, it was very hard for me to get anything done while being in pain, for example I recently got 2nd degree burns all over my face and tore my rotor cuff again (not simultaneously), I was able zone out the pain, but it was hard for me to concentrate on work, or school, until the pressure of getting the work done became so high that I felt it was important to do it, and then I could push thru and get it done, but otherwise I wasn’t able to. I guess it’s like I was in some sort of survival mode, and if certain work didn’t feel needed for survival I wouldn’t be able to concentrate on it.

I always wonder how people with chronic pain can even get anything intellectually done, based on reading this, it wasn’t clear to me, but I guess it seems like he is holding a strong motivation to face the pain and succeed despite the pain, which does make sense.
Hyperloop Test Prototype Dismantled
I wonder how many sub-systems, background jobs, infrastructure scripts, etc. needing extra hand-holding by engineers to keep things running smoothly. Even if its a once a year update certs in a file type of task. I think every company has stuff like this no matter the size, startups probably more so.

The reported 50% reduction will have zero transition obviously so knowledge of these system oddities existence will likely disappear.

It will be interesting to see how their site's availability looks over the coming weeks. There might be little weird things that stop working or worse.
lmao I never saw this before and it's TOO perfect
> Yes, you can't heat water to 600C, but that's not a problem if you're just wanting to heat houses with it.

You can heat a home with 600C and some circuitry that steps it down to a comfy 22C. If that's more efficient than heating water, then I can see why they do it.
Feel free to skip this comment. Sometimes I write comments for HN and then delete them. I almost deleted this one (which means I probably should have). This is what's in my head.

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Why didn't Tesla buy Twitter? Why could Tesla start spending massive amounts of money on Twitter Ads if it couldn't buy it?

SolarCity was in a related field, which was at least a fig leaf or minimal justification. There's no real justification to buy Twitter or buy ad space on Twitter.

Elon is not actually the god emperor of Tesla. He's been able to sell all of his decisions as improving the future of Tesla (and thus humanity). Of course I could be completely wrong here; I don't have a crystal ball.

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I think about how we might get to a post-scarcity society, and what post-scarcity means. People like Gene Roddenberry have done a great job portraying this future, but not how we get there.

Much of our political discourse is between people who disagree about whether or not we are living in a time of scarcity or post-scarcity. Many people in the city live in the low-scarcity mindset. Many people in the country live in a scarcity mindset. This isn't determinative, it's relative. Just being one place or the other does not dictate how you view the world, but it is indicative.

We don't talk about scarcity directly in political speech. It's a deep assumption about the world. It's so deep you may not have even realized that you had taken a side before now.

Are taxes and economic activity a zero-sum game? Obviously the other side is wrong, why would you even entertain the question?

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Why the fuck did I bring up Star Trek and post-scarcity? Because Twitter is a place where fights happen. I'm very happy that people are sending tweets instead of bombs, but we have to continue advancing our level of discourse, and I'm not at all convinced that online public speech is the way to do that; I'm especially not convinced that we can do that in short form; and I'm especially especially convinced that the process of advancing the discourse will not be funded by ads.
- internet person says he works in the crypto space

- is actually financially illiterate

Checks out, sadly.
Ask HN: HN-like forum for literature and cinema?
Is there any forum like HN where people discuss film, literature, etc?
Simulate driving a 1970s tank with Raspberry Pi
That's not what the other poster meant, stop it.
No, it is an infinite-canvas whiteboard that is shareable.
I'm attempting to preserve a record of when the views expressed in the comment seemed popular. Opinions can change over time.
There are job openings and even active recruiting for many of them. But from what I've seen companies are being much more selective, hiring processes are being stretched out, and offers may be less generous.
...and I can't parse that; I suspect the author has perpetrated a typo. Is that "to review or to reconsider"? "To review or reconsider"?

Lawyers tend to be pernickety about precision in language.
Some see it as their duty to fight back against unjust laws/rules. You and I might do it by breaking terms of service, Musk does it by purchasing the platform and adjusting the terms. Two sides of the same coin really, only difference being which end the agency is coming from.
False.. Arch Linux and Alpine maintains significantly more stable packages (meaning up-to-date) than other DEB and RPM-based distros. Zypper and dnf still use RPM BTW.

Also, Alpine certainly does have a JVM so that statement is flat out false and now sure where you're getting your misinformation from.
The usual district heating pipes around here have an inner pipe where the actual hot water is pumped, then about 10cm of some yellowish insulation material (polyurethane?), and then an outer pipe to protect the insulation.

AFAIU heat losses through the piping aren't considered a huge problem.
That's a ReduceOp right now, more annoying to reason about than a UnaryOp. But in the limit, yea. Or add an elementwise BinaryOp for max.

Submit a PR if you can improve something!
They've replaced Emmanual Orangestein with Elonnuel Goldstein.
In my 40-year petrochemical career I enjoy working most with the oustanding individuals that are employed by oil & chemical companies but who recognize they can afford to not operate as toxically as they used to do.

They are working from within to make it more sensible for the rest of the world, but progress is hindered by the overwhelming momentum in the opposite direction remaining from those who are not on the same page at all.
Did you had row with Musk?
I'm not a lawyer but every time I look at the criminal justice system I do wonder how it could be constitutional given the strong protections of the bill of rights.

> Recall how plea deals are structured, and how the entire purpose of a suspended jail sentence is to dangle the anvil over someone’s head to “encourage” them to do the things they’re supposed to do.

Is this really how the founders meant justice to be pursued? You get picked up for an illegal substance and, in exchange for a reasonable punishment, you have to give up your right to a jury trial? And your punishment is often that you give up another constitution right -- like by being monitored 24/7? But you're not guaranteed that's your only punishment, you also give up the right to a jury trial in the future so if you break parole they drop an anvil on you without any process or standard of evidence?

I'd be curious if I'm mistaken and this was all very common in federal trials of post-revolution America.
Link to search LinkedIn for Twitter employees posting in the last 24 hours. It's more or less 100% people looking for work (at least from the view of my network), so it's a great place to start for people looking to hire. https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/content/?authorCompa...
Normally I appreciate the extraction of what's left unsaid in a clickbait headline, but this is not that. This is story-form writing, where a intriguing title is appropriate, and the significance of the words is completely absent out of context, so revealing them buys the reader nothing.
I don't think demand for experienced software engineers is ever going to drop. But there's a lot more in the world than just our field.

Also, I think this recession isn't so much caused by a lack of demand, but a lack of supply. Supply chains were disrupted by the Covid crisis, and now the Russian invasion of Ukraine is causing lots of other shortages. This is causing shortages in all sorts of industries, but apparently not so much in ours. Although I would have expected that the CPU shortages would have had some impact on us.
You miss every shot you don't take.. or something like that
> Can the company survive that?

Yes, unless the folks in charge are incredibly incompetent.

> what would happen if they all left en mass?

For Twitter, that is an "...if a giant asteroid vaporized San Francisco" fantasy scenario. The remaining workers are not a clone army, and vary in all sorts of ways. Including what it would take to convince them to leave ~immediately. Elan has years of experience leading very large, technology-oriented companies - he is quite aware of the wide, grey optimization zones around "be very demanding of and difficult with your employees".
This looks pretty nice! I had to do a bunch of mocking and magic to mock servers and clients for testing gRPC endpoints, and I think something like this would make it a lot simpler.
Not OP but just a guess, vultr was founded 2014 and linode is 2003. Obviously not a proxy for quality, but it’s one data point as to potentially why.
That would really need to be taken into account by the person running the murder mystery game.
avoiding writes to memory and reducing the number of loops (although not FLOPs)

for j in range(10):
c[j] = a[j] + b[j]
for j in range(10):
d[j] = c[j] * 2

becomes

for j in range(10):
d[j] = (a[j] + b[j]) * 2
> As someone in the industry, ...

It's so delightful that the finance people are coming out all salty!

The number is going down. If you organize your life around this number going up, and it goes down, everyone is going to laugh.

You chose this life!

There is sometimes some meaning in finance somewhere. Like some VCs can get some meaning from, a biotech investment makes a great drug that helps people.

But what you chose, there is none. There will be many stages of grief, they do not happen in order or one at a time.

> First very simple point, to become insolvent you have to actually take a loss somewhere.

C'mon dude. Listen to yourself. It's over. This isn't peak cringe but it's getting there.
I teach a robotics class and we use the Legos and it was super fufilling indeed (too bad mindstorms is being discontinued by the way)
Musk claims ‘activist groups’ pressuring advertisers into Twitter exodus
I agree he's probably regretting it. I suspect he's going to try to make Twitter more profitable as fast as possible and then maybe sell it when it's on its way to being good. It's a distraction from things he cares about more, but it's not unimportant.
His behavior as a person is not admirable in the slightest[0]. I would be ashamed if one of my children had acted like Musk.

So you have a man who is personally a train wreck but professionally accomplished, and he has many people who completely ignore the former because of the latter. This seems backward, so you have many people who go the other way instead.

Then you start getting into questions of how much he's actually done, instead of just financed, and the teeter-totter gets even more unbalanced.

If he would just shut up and quietly amass his billions, he wouldn't be so reviled. Asshole CEOs are common, and most aren't publicly scorned. But he cherishes the limelight, seeks it out, and seems to care inordinately much about what teenage boys think of him, generally wanting to be the center of attention.

0. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/04/elon-musk-twitter-te...
Indeed - though negotiations could tie the USA and UK into some form of recognition and protection. Especialy since USA wants to keep its base.
That is what I myself ended up doing :)