skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not necessarily "mismatch" or "being setup to fail", it depends entirely on how much mentoring, hand-holding, code-review, test, documentation, wikis etc. there is. Onboarding and managing new hires is a key component of a healthy company culture. Lots of companies pay lip-service to this, few walk the walk.

> Shaming someone for failing never works.

It's perfectly ok to fail (otherwise you'll never learn), and shouldn't result in them getting punished or summarily losing their job, but the person simply needs to show they learned from their mistakes (and there needs to be a culture which actively rewards sharing knowledge and enables people to learn, not just blamestorming or hazing). For example, a company not having a wiki/ Slack channel/ internal/ departmental mailing-list where such stuff can be safely and frankly discussed, and gets meaningful constructive non-backstabbing responses, is a bad sign. But it's common.
Right: Some people here at Hacker News like to attack others that don't fit in with some of the norms. Mere technical discussions are not always welcome.

My background is quite different, is with people who can engage in technical communications with objectivity.

Yup, you are right: Some people at Hacker News have trouble being objective. To interact with them, be like a politician who is careful never to say much of anything except they like motherhood and apple pie.

In part my goal was to let Microsoft and much of the tech community know that they very much need to improve their technical writing. Microsoft has made a lot of improvements, but for their Dev Kit they fell back into poor writing again. One rule that would help a lot would be to avoid undefined or poorly defined jargon, terminology, or acronyms.

Your arguments about URLs fails to make a valid point: There are a lot of URLs about the Dev Kit, and the ones you mentioned and their sources are not necessarily where I got the URLs I followed. So, your claim that I ignored good URLs that were right in front of me was wrong: The sources you mentioned were not the ones I happened to use.

I'm 100% correct: Some of the Microsoft publicity, promotion, and documentation of their Dev Kit has some really obscure technical writing that can waste a lot of time for people without a quite narrow background. For making this point, you have attacked ME. Hmm ....
My dislike for Disney has grown by the year. This is a company that takes public domain stories, changes the actual story but keeps the title and then copyrights that 'version of the story'.

As examples read the originals of 'Peter Pan' and 'Alice in Wonderland' and 'Cinderella' and then watch the Disney bastardisations.
Banks either use Fair Value accounting or Accrual accounting for a given position. If it’s fair value, then the bond is already marked down on the balance sheet. Selling it or not does not result in a profit or a loss, at least not a significant one. If it’s in accrual, it’s held at par so there is no loss on the balance sheet, but they also can’t sell. They need to hold to maturity, that’s the rule.
Resizing the array in the array dequeue brings the entire thing into cache. That's a disaster.
Now I’m imaging satellites with Netflix caches shoved in them.

(I wonder if Netflix is even a majority of streaming anymore)
What's interesting in that case is I would argue the interface code is MORE important than the implementing code. You can hire any SWE to re-implement the entire API and it being pretty straightforward. The interface code was what actually mattered with developers and took creative expression, design, sequence, organization to put together and feedback and iteration over the years. Google knew this too, taking the interface code was WAY more important for them than if they had done the reverse.
> Traffic from 11pm to 7am isn't going to be part of the 1TB.

I'm still a proponent of Starlink, despite Musk's recent BS with Ukrainian coverage that has been paid for by various sources, but how is this going to be mitigated? If it's current user-base is taxing it's bandwidth will simply adding more satellites a tenable solution?
After reading about the Birdwatch technical details, I'm strangely optimistic. I wasn't expected that. It's pretty clever.
scanning for and reporting vulnerable web servers does nothing to limit someone's personal choice to operate one. I just hope they make the data public so that I can make the personal choice to block traffic to/from people who make the personal choice to operate insecure devices on the global internet.
Not in architectures I've seen or maybe I'm missing the instructions to do it? Even if there were and you can bypass the CPU, hauling data out of RAM is still going to take a long time.
Bigotry declined? I don’t think so at all - not sure where you are living. From the post about the Indians and their cast system the other day on HN, to the lack of opportunity for those who illegally crossed borders and left their families to come ti the US who experience hatred and racism each day - telling me about it all the time. To us for some reason reporting in the news how important it is to not hate on gays and transgender (which is obviously wrong) but seeing nothing as loud in the news about the racism about blacks…racism is very alive and strong especially in the US. Religion and the white Christians that have ruled for so long and are now so fearful of the tides changing are pulling out ever last stop to maintain power. Not sure how so many are blind to this, but dig into history and the light shines bright.
It also sounds like an intractable optimisation problem.
This is America. Garbage piled on garbage. With lawyers collecting fees all the way.
I actually lived that once.

One of our managers was going to tout how productive the different teams were.

One team moved two years worth of their code into the repository just after the reporting period.

So I generated a buttload of comments, because they were counted too, and my team came out the most "productive".
Saw them at Lollapalooza in New Orleans in 1993. None of my group of friends had ever heard of them. We were there for Tool, Primus and Alice in Chains. The crisp guitar and overall energy of Rage was jaw-dropping. The next day all of us bought their CD and blasted it while driving around for the next year.
Show HN: Feeling Blue, Twitter verification for the rest of us
Hello HN!

I made https://feelingblue.pages.dev, a way to "verify" your twitter account without paying the richest man in the world $100/yr.

There are three components:

- a Cloudflare Page where you submit your verification request

- a Stripe Payment Link where you pay (this is in "Test Mode" for now, I'm not charging anyone before the bugs are ironed out!)

- a chromium extension that injects a script into Twitter that pulls from the Cloudflare database and inserts "verification" emojis into twitter accordingly.

It's all a bit silly, but it was fun to work with these technologies for the first time, in particular getting Cloudflare workers to talk to Stripe webhooks.

I've published the code here: https://github.com/JacksonKearl/FeelingBlue
The US also has a 5 times bigger military budget than the worlds next 5 biggest militaries combined. How do you explain the fact that the US has been years behind China and Russia in terms of hypersonic missile capabilities?

Money alone doesn't make the world go round. Trust does. People work for early stage startups for free because they trust the founders.

When I was researching my master thesis 90% of the papers authors were either Chinese or Indian of origin(probably of US universities). A significant number of Chinese-American scientists are making their way back to China for fear of unfair prosecution. Stigmatization of Chinese-Americans during Covid didn't help either.

I'd be willing to bet that Japans TSMC fab will be done faster than the US's
> Why must they let their ports be subject to arbitrary inspection by an entity they don't trust

because that's literally how the internet works. Their ports are and will always be subject to arbitrary inspection while they are reachable on the internet.
That's amortized O(1), not WCET O(1). For transformational systems they're equivalent, for reactive systems they aren't.
Even according to Ashlee Vance's fawning biography the original Zip2 was a shambling mess that segfaulted constantly and had to be urgently rewritten from scratch.
Intensified meat production in response to climate change for short-term rewards
> There is no reason to own a newspaper other than influence.

Actually, again, academic analysis suggest there are two primary reasons rich people buy media outlets. One is for influence (like Murdock) and the other is for prestige (like they would buy a Van Gogh or a wing at the ballet).

> would Bezos be happy if WaPo suddenly became a right-leaning publication tomorrow?

Probably not. Those are far lower in prestige. In much the same way that people donating to an opera company would be upset if they primarily decided to use their venue for open-mic nights.
It's a disaster but it's an amortized O(1) disaster.
Why should a local news outlet located outside of the EEA bother spending any time or money on complying with the EEA's laws?
Well it depends. If let’s say you wrote 50 lines of code the entire year and your title is software engineer then I think some questions should be raised.
> Cutting costs in a company that's almost never been profitable is failure? A huge layout isn't a suggestion of an unhealthy start, it's a suggestion of an unhealthy status quo.

Maybe? It's not just that's an early layoff. It's that it is an early layoff of a huge magnitude. Again, a 50% layoff means that the previous status quo had upwards of 100% redundancy. That is unbelievable for any company, no matter how unprofitable. (I could believe it of a very profitable company with money to "waste", but a publicly traded company getting asked every quarter why they aren't profitable yet? I can't believe it. If it were that simple to cut overhead, shareholders would have demanded it years ago.) Feel free to give Musk the benefit of the doubt and assume Twitter really was that unhealthy. I feel there's a lot more reason to be skeptical here.

> What material business failings has Elon had so far that you would include in him failing upwards? Is Tesla and SpaceX successful despite Elon's bad decisions, and if so, what were those bad decisions?

I may be a bit hyperbolic claiming that the Peter Principle must especially apply to billionaires.

But, it is entirely possible to believe that Musk succeeded entirely on luck and his decisions didn't matter (for good or bad) in the long run. EVs were a huge gamble 15 years ago, but it also didn't take that much of a crystal ball to know that they were "the future". Space is always a giant gamble and the most successful always seem to just be the luckiest. (That was one of Heinlein's hypotheses early in the space race. I think a lot of sci-fi writers still believe it to be true today. Admittedly sci-fi writers don't have the most hard data to prove/disprove such a hypothesis, but it is still a useful hypothesis.)

None of that requires "proving" that the companies were successful "despite" Musk. I think there is evidence of some questionable business model practices, too (and there's plenty on Musk's business decisions out there to find; it's not "new" criticism), and I have provided some of it in at least one other thread, but at the end of the day: when you are judging someone based on the number of poker chips they have on the table, it's fair to question if it was all just random luck, especially when that someone is also acting a bit as the Dealer and getting a chunk of House money too.
Terrible reasoning, but yes I think that's what he means
Staying entirely in the '80s, early rap-rock would be the Clash, Time Zone and Tom Tom Club. Mid period would be RUN-DMC/Aerosmith and the Beastie Boys. Later would be Age of Chance, Pop Will Eat Itself, and World Domination Enterprises. You could probably give Big Audio Dynamite an honorable mention.
This isn't a very good rebuttal.

Most of the metrics mentioned are essentially unknowable or even subjective.

The overall point was that there are a lot of problems but we are not fundamentally changing the structure of society to address them.
Are you trying to dazzle us with psychic powers, or trying to explain something to us?
Those teams didn't exist in 2012 and nothing bad happened
SpaceX is launching a crewed mission to the Sun.

It's safe; they're traveling only at night.
They should have a “retraction” feature. Go to the Tweet, it shows the original Tweet, but with a “This tweet has been retracted by its author” notice on it.

Deleting it could be interpreted as covering up one’s mistake. “Retraction” would be owning it, and in a more immediately visible way than doing so in a reply
In some rare cases the board has retained outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation when there is potential wrongdoing or conflict of interest involving the CEO or other senior executives. The board doesn't receive any extra direct rewards for this, beyond protecting their own holdings and reputations.
Is it nitpicking if we end up with fewer bugs as a result of the conversation? :)
It’s far easier and more appealing to simply join the community that doesn’t have shitheads in the first place.

I’ll take the “safe space” community any day. All the racist/sexist/whatever bullshit is pretty worn out anyway.

> but instead follow people, read their tweets and retweets and build a graph which suits your likings.

I’m not going to waste my time actively doing that. So while it happens naturally over time, I’d rather not see the shitheads before they get filtered out.
>Web3 is a nebulous term in the tech world used to describe a hypothetical future version of the internet that’s more decentralized than it is today and not dominated by a handful of powerful players such as Amazon, Microsoft and Google.

This is not some hypothetical version of the Internet. This was how it worked until the early 2000s. Google and Amazon weren't evil back then. Microsoft was actively developing IE and had good intentions after it won the browser war. Almost everything was decentralized.
Ask HN: Is anyone working on a Twitter alternative?
I kind of wish I had spent the last six months building one.
The legality is not the primary reason to avoid it.
What I like about Lisp is that, for example, a configuration file can be written directly in Lisp (as opposed to, say, XML or JSON), in which case it can simply execute itself (i.e. without the need to have a separate interpreter to parse the text and to apply the configuration settings) - and it still would look like a configuration file rather than a piece of executable code.
Finally, our results may help to partly explain several striking and perhaps puzzling facts about students’ human capital decisions. For example, more American undergraduates are currently pursuing a bachelor’s degree in journalism than there are journalists in the entire country. Psychology majors outnumber accounting majors in the United States, and yet there are eight times as many accountants as psychologists. Students take on considerable debt to fund Master’s programs with appealing but unlikely associated careers (e.g., film studies). Ex ante, of course, rational mechanisms could have fully explained these patterns: e.g., students with correct beliefs might rationally pursue certain career paths which, though very unlikely to pan out, they feel are worth the risk (e.g., journalism or film), or students may realize that certain majors (e.g., psychology) provide a general education not intended for use in any particular sector. Our findings suggest that mistaken beliefs may also contribute to these patterns: certain fields of study may appear especially appealing because students believe they lead to their stereotypical jobs with exaggerated likelihoods.
Intel still commands the market with about 3/4 as far as market share. They simply make more CPUs than everyone else if you’re not looking at phones.
Some people are built for the corporate grind. Some are built for other things.
It has had a measurable effect on inflation. However it is not the most significant impact on it. You can look at the rates of inflation before the war started and see how high they were.

If you want to adjust for reality, then find the actual rate of increase for rent and home ownership during the time frame. The US data lags considerably.
What you’re saying is implied. They’re proposing requiring a minimum ownership percentage (I assume legally) would make board members care more about decisions because, as it is now—-according to the comment parent—-board members largely don’t care as long as their wallets get fatter.
I hope to live to see a world where some random famous person tweeting isn't listed as news, at all.
I gave up PGP after forgetting to back up my contacts' public keys when I reinstalled my OS

Also xkcd 538 exists
Can have bad takes? You're talking about a Q-based conspiracy theorist that promoted pizza gate.
Anthrax released “I’m The Man” in 1987, which could be considered rap metal.
https://mastodon.social

Already exists, already has a ton of traction, decentralized.
Why not work for Elon now then?
Example: Any object shared among multiple lists or other data structures at the same time, or directly pointed to by other objects, such that any of those views must reach the same cheaply mutable state. This includes objects in the object-oriented programing (OOP) model, actors in the actor model, and file objects in a kernel which are in multiple lists.

For those you have to store object pointers in the vector, instead of copies of the objects. That works and is often done, but it defeats or reduces the cache locality perfornance improvement which motivates using a vector in the first place.

On an in-order CPU an intrusive list (pointers inside the objects) can be traversed faster than a vector or B-tree of object pointers, though a non-intrusive list (list of nodes containing object pointers) won't be faster. On an out-order CPU with heavy speculative execution it is less clear cut because the vector allows successive objects to be dereferenced speculatively in parallel to a limited extent, while this is not possible traversing an intrusive list.

If the list is going to be traversed looking for objects based on some filter criterion such as flags or a number comparison, based on non-mutable state (or where it's ok for mutation to be expensive), traversal can be sped up by storing criterion data in the vector alongside the pointers, or in a second vector, to avoid dereferencing every touched object pointer during traversal.
It is because you should separate the style of execution from the target effect: Musk sounds like a bumbling idiot but... he s halving payroll... it's gonna reduce the load tremendously for a while and if he stops innovating, swallow a loss compensated by paying customers for a while, it might end up surviving enough to provide him some returns.

The difference between me, clever socially but idiot as an entrepreneur, and Musk, the definition of asshole but with good instincts, is enough I suppose ?
> It's been that way probably forever...

It's the reason Benjamin Franklin founded and ran various newspapers, including America's first German-language newspaper. He was trying to drum up support for the Revolution.
"The website is built on sticks, it might fall apart" - if all those billions poured into engineering built a near real time messaging platform that will fall apart when a few people change hands, I'd go on a firing spree as well.

I remember full well when I was at a startup and the principal engineer pulled me aside and said: "you have been poking around everywhere and you have identified problems. I want you to stop talking about them otherwise the whole thing will fall apart".

As a leader, that is your immediate cue to silently work on transitioning that person out of the company and build cement where he put sticks.

EDIT: This whole commentary is really weird. Normally you publish this sort of information, if you feel like there is no one at the company that is willing to address such issues. But there has just been a leadership change and the leadership has hinted at wanting to address exactly these sort of issues. But assuming that the commentary is correct, to keep it private, to protect incompetent leadership and then publish it in hopes that the government steps in, to specifically NOT address these issues, is a logic that I can't really wrap my head around.
My favorite typo/brainfart so far this week has to be "cache obviousness" :)
Throwing the baby out with the bathwater, which is what happened here, will result in misinformation about these basic things being used to suppress votes from being cast.
Ignores the fact the island itself acts a buffer to China's SE expansion/projection of power.

There is a lot of strategic value to the island, even without the chips.
Or Elon is attempting to dismantle the system of biased moderators that already existed at Twitter before he got there.
I have no doubt they will -- but the specific models will be used for Microsoft engineers. There will be a Copilot for Enterprise that trains on customers' private code.
Perhaps a less petty analysis is to ponder why Tesla is yet to issue any stock dividends.
reminds me of the snactiv's from sharktank: https://snactiv.com :)
Considering taxing corporations would be more effective, it just means people like money
I mean, does it matter? Even a lot of reviews that are clearly real are from people who have completely lost their minds, from people who give 1 star for no other reason than it was "made in China", to people who give 1 star because shipping was slow to people who give 1 star because the item is way too big/small even though they never looked at its dimensions. And there's always the top "most helpful" review that's scaremongering about how the product causes CANCER!! (Because they don't understand how California Prop 65 labels work.)

Even if we got rid of fake reviews, at least 75% of real reviews add no value. Like so many Amazon book reviews that are simply "arrived quickly, cover in good condition".

BUT... as long as you sort by "most helpful" and read the top ~30 reviews, it's generally pretty clear whether the product is reliable or breaks (and how/when), and whether it is as advertised or not. It's pretty easy to suss out the signal from the noise. Call it critical thinking, call it a having a bullshit detector, call it common sense. But I just don't see a problem here, as long as there's a "helpful" vote button and "sort by helpful".
Paid social media is a bit of a chicken and egg problem. Many people would pay to join a high quality social media network if their friends and family were already there, but very few will pay to be the first on a network devoid of their social contacts.
Cleaning up the low hanging fruit would be a huge benefit for everybody (except criminals)
There are, but I would not play any of them. They are both predatory and bad.

There's always the OG reactor planner (or just industrialcraft2 or gregtech if you have more time).

https://github.com/MauveCloud/Ic2ExpReactorPlanner
I said "on technology, incompetent" and I think that is corroborated by Ashlee Vance's authorized (and highly sympathetic) biography
It goes without saying that the political landscape in 2012 vs now is completely different, where one party is actively working to undermine elections.
New in the sense they gave up in 2018.

https://semiwiki.com/semiconductor-manufacturers/intel/7912-...
Haha, yep, Cheetos are exactly where I started, after seeing someone else in my office do it.
For flights, tickets to the games, accodations, and a stipend. Might be really nice seats at the games too.

I'm not really interested in flying to Qatar to watch soccer, but I can't imagine it's inexpensive, so having it all paid for is a lot of consideration to agree to cheer vigorously and maybe some vague promise about posting on social media.