skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll ignore for the moment questions about what "activists" is supposed to mean and whether it refers to a real group capable of making unified decisions. Regardless, it's just not great for leadership to blame a revenue drop on unrelated third parties even if those third parties are working against the company and taking credit for the revenue drop. This isn't like complaining that trolls came in and review bombed your movie on IMDb. Revenue is an actual metric. If the claim is that the revenue numbers are only very briefly down because advertisers are only pulling spend in response to some temporary PR issue, then sure, make that argument.
How is that possible? I can’t just buy a house with a mortgage and walk away. He personally owns the company with loans.
I believe Alex Van Someran recently took over as head of the UK NCSC. He's someone that I trust to make the right decisions, so I'm quite glad of this fact.

(NOTE: I have no idea if this specific link is related to Alex or anything he's done)
Doesn't seem unreasonable to me at all.

The point of the law is to provide worker stability. 60 days payed severance does that just as well if not better than 60 days notice and no severance.
"don't set up MDRAID array for ESP, just have the ESP mirrored on all disks. "

Isn't that the entire point of utilising MD RAID-1 in the first place?

I've done as you suggest in years gone by with either metadata v0.9 or v1.0 (not v1.1 or v1.2) where the metadata is not at the start of the block device and therefore does not confuse a non-MDRAID-aware firmware or other OS.
Agreed, but if the US Government were doing this there would be outcry of "spying" and "Government overreach". And before anyone says that the US Gov has lost its trust, let me remind you that UK has GCHQ.
I responded on the assumption that the original poster was saying Musk intended counteracting an existential risk to be an audacious goal, a visionary moon shot, rather than just a "net contribution". By that measure, he's not succeeded. In any case, he's not been as successful at solving climate change as he has been at increasing his personal fortune.
i don't think they hired a firm to plan this out.... and if they did, no sane firm would float you a 7 day timeline
It’s grounded in the reality 99.98% experience - that individuals are biologically differentiated into the male (inseminating) or female (gestating and nursing) reproductive role.

Stress reproductive role there - as unique individuals they have limitless other personal and social roles they can fulfil, and to be honest I don’t see these as naturally gendered, nor feel it would be desirable for it to be so.
You're not exactly wrong – I don't serve out a json feed myself, even – but RSS/Atom are terribly underused for cases other than "personal organization of feed reading" when they could handle a lot of weirder poll-for-updates automation, and the json format seems like an attempt to encourage that direction. You don't need a bespoke API if what you have makes sense in a feed like this, but people would really rather work with a json than XML.
That may be an America thing. In Asia, you'll almost always get reusable chopsticks at a restaurant.
What are the parts of Twitter that can be sold off, while retaining a profitable core? They've already shut down (Periscope, Vine) or sold off everything else apart from the core bird app
I think we can agree that there is a tradeoff. Also i dont expect or demand that everyone works from home.

Having said that, most arguments against remote work on hn are usually wrong solutions to legitimate problems.

These answers are usually centred around people’s need to socialise, housing issues, communication issues and supervision. All of these have alternative solutions that the onsite crowd doesn't want to explore.

But even so, everyone is entitled to an opinion. We should also be entitled to a preference. But the onsite crowd usually wants everyone else to be onsite (otherwise whom are they going to socialise with or who are they going to sit with in front of a whiteboard?). Basically they want to remote crowd to fill in their voids and gaps.

I have no issue with people wanting to be on site. I want their wish be granted. But they should have no right in dictating where and how i should do my work.

Also a company is successful due to various factors none of which seem to be working onsite or remote for that matter. Just because we do things a certain way it doesnt mean thats the right way or the only way. Nor does it mean something is not the norm due to not being equally good or better. Plenty of things we do as a society can be improved, and one of them is that due to modern technologies we can give people the option to chose where to work from. Now it can become the norm due to a convergence of multiple factors.
Somebody has to make sure shit gets done though, the world doesn't run completely on empathy. It's nice that people like this are privileged enough to live in a time where they can literally do nothing and expect others to consider their feelings at all times. What will they do when that world of comfort they've only known, goes away? How will they even function?
It wouldn’t solve every problem, but it would solve this problem, and this problem happens to be a regularly reoccurring problem with serious consequences
Afaik, it had one profitable year after many years of loss.
And the censors don't like being censored.
Everyone is a hypocrite
It's not fair, and it's messed up in my opinion. But then I'm an engineer and I highly value meritocracy over everything else. Other people have different values, like racial diversity, whatever they think that means. I think they're idiots, but they think I'm racist. Unfortunately for you and me, the "idiots" are currently running the show.
Are you suggesting with 'Anti-conveyor belt' and 'Reverse QA bottleneck' that the only one testing the code is the person who wrote it? That seems off in my opinion.

Also, does your QA team cycle through the dev side to write tests?

With 6) does that mean squash merge? rebase? otherwise how do you enforce?

Also how do you ensure you deploy something that is tested, vs creating a new version of the code at the time of merge?
Still nothing to do with maps, though.
Yeah, it sounds like he's complying, which seems like the obvious thing to do. I get that emotions are understandably high, and people think he's some kind of super villain/buffoon simultaneously, but how would it make any sense for him to make that kind of obvious blunder?
It's a promising start and useful. Twitter not rendering in Firefox but OK in Chromium browsers tried. Search CEO BTW
> When you are as rich and powerful as Elon Musk, you usually get away with your own stupidity and it will ultimately turn to your benefits no matter what.

I'm yet to see how that idiotic "pedo guy" episode turns out to benefit Elon Musk.
Demo Coaching for Account Executives
Interesting new courses for sales reps to teach them to demo
This "great man" fallacy is EXACTLY what lead to the problems of the 1930s. I see a need for regulation. We are allowing young, impressionable men to fall down an illiberal pipeline and it needs to stop.
> That said, most people have re-usable ones at home.

Source?

I mean, I’ll believe that you have them.

Anyway, the thread was about restaurants, I believe.
You do need to take all the support costs for staff into account. Buildings, network capacity, hr staff, managers, software licenses, hardware, benefits, fica/etc. It's not unreasonable to assume 30% extra for every head than their salary.

Also most of those folks on levels also get compensated with stock or equity, so it's more than base. Going private means that goes away and their comp also gets slashed. Is he going to take it back public, what beyond base does twitter offer as comp.
We would need to look at the ethnicity statistics across C-level executives. Rishi Sunak is the British PM but I can say "UK politics and government is still dominated by Whites" and the British Parliament would agree with me [1]

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/sn01...
Like what? It would be written once correctly and work as is intended pretty much forever.
Instagram does this, sending media previews as ~350B base64 strings with constant (well, almost-- they change the width and height) 607B JPEG headers.
>Output is measured primarily as an index of product revenues, adjusted for price changes

https://www.bls.gov/k12/productivity-101/content/how-is-prod...

Adjusted for price changes being the key word.

The BLS isn't measuring the number of pipes plumbed. They're counting the dollars that plumbers make and using that number to determine their output. To compare that output across time you have to discount for inflation. If you calculate too high a rate of inflation then you discount too much
Seems like it was true in your case given that all you had to do was look in NYC, where you found a new job almost immediately.
> For a lot of reasons (price, planned obsolescence, privacy), i'll probably get a g-shock that'll last years on a coin cell that's easily replaceable everywhere.

Definitely take a look at the Casio G-Shock GBD100/200 watches. They're for sure bulky and sporty, though the 200 a bit less so. I'm impressed in what they can do on a coin cell! I haven't tried the BT connection yet, but they seem to do step tracking, timers, and silent alarms quite well! The UI/UX definitely isn't Pebble-esque and is very utilitarian, but seems solid.
Who said the richest man on earth was a responsible person? As long as he find enough idiots and opportunists who iron out the details all is well from his point of view.
Obligatory: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/
You take the stack of ballots and run them through a different scanner, and/or look at them with eyeballs.
I thought we had a couple options now? Well that sucks then.

Netronome doesn’t print their prices. That’s not a great sign. If you have to ask, you can’t afford them.
I get their point, it's just ironic since modern languages very much do not suffer from "I think a password needs to be dynamically allocated".

It's also particularly silly since there are plenty of reasons why a dynamically allocated password could be quite nice.

So yeah, I get that their point is "bad devs will write unsafe code no matter what the language is", this is just a terrible case to try to make that argument.
> Right now in PyTorch, GroupNorm is 2x slower than BatchNorm

How did you benchmark this? I think there are like 3 or 4 different GN implementations in PyTorch..
Banks that got free money from the Fed and can longer get massive returns in the stock market?
There are multiple reasons. First, the tabulator typically needs to determine the "style" (layout) of the ballot from one of possibly hundreds of options (due to multiple government and taxation jurisdictions). Second, a typical ballot in most US jurisdictions has a dozen or more questions on it, and cumulatively across all ballot styles there are often over a hundred questions.

Third, though, and perhaps most significantly, "traditional" optical mark reading (OMR) systems using LED or laser sources and diodes were inflexible as to ballot layout and more problematically not very reliable across varying marks (remember the grade-school requirement for #2 pencils due to OMR scoring of exams), a particularly big issue since voters are often not experienced with OMR systems and so do not mark their ballot "correctly." To address this, almost all modern ballot tabulators use a CCD mechanism to take an image of the full ballot and then interpret it via machine vision (this is not a case of machine learning, the algorithms used are actually very simple). This yields much more reliable interpretation of ballots with fewer ballots rejected to hand-counting, but requires more complex software.

It's important to understand that most US election administrators avoid hand-counting in large part because of its inaccuracy. In many US jurisdictions hand-count ballots are counted by two individuals to improve reliability, but the error rate remains higher than machine tabulation. When it is 1AM after a day that started at 5AM and you are on the hundredth ballot you've hand-tabulated since you got off the precinct floor it becomes extremely difficult to tabulate with the virtually zero error rate that US voters expect. This is not a hypothetical scenario but one that's pretty typical of US election working conditions due to the slim budget and expectation of rapid posting of returns.
to anybody experienced in writing functional-esque oneliners, PEP8 is an appalling waste of space
I love RSS/atom feeds. One thing I'm wondering though, RSS is is XML based. Most things are/have moved to JSON (RPC really more than REST). My question is why is XML still good for this use case? Genuinely interested.
> Is there a connotation of ADHD being associated with snake-oil or scams that I’m not familiar with?

Yes. Well, not really snake-oil, but this spaces is definitely associated with low-effort pill mills and broken marketing promises.

Therapy is hard. Doing it at scale is nearly impossible. Doing it at scale at a price point consumers expect is literally impossible. As a result, you end up with a bunch of "mental health" "tech" companies that are making big promises, but essentially just putting their patients through checkboxes.
Ever heard of vulture capitalism? He kind of did this like private equity.
What does a lender do when you can't pay a mortgage? They come and repossess your house. That is the situation he is in now. He realized that at the last minute when he tried to bail but gosh darn those pesky laws and contracts:)
Just wanted to hop in here as founder of Checkly that I think this is awesome. Coded API checks, or checks living in your codebase make total sense. I'm also kinda humbled as I launched Checkly as an indie hacker couple years back and later went VC route. Being mentioned by name by an alternative is kinda really cool! Good luck StepCI team and let's make the web (and the APIs) more reliable!
I moved off Linode 5 years ago due to outages and issues. I don't have any experience post-akamai to compare but it was definitely never a reliable service for me in the past.
Why would it be illegal .. ?
Related recent discussion: Elements Of a Great Markup Language

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33381373
Can we finally lay to rest the utter myth of "Elon Musk is a genius?"

Thanks.
Very good point. And, overriding defaults would mean that you have sufficient knowledge to know what not to choose. So, the practical impact of this is virtually nil.
> you can't successfully build dozens of new products by laying off a big chunk of the staff

Considering the leadership culture that grew twitter to nearly ten thousand, for Twitter, I don't think "dozens" was anywhere near feasible. I suppose it depends on your definition of "product".
IIRC, Twitter was operating at a loss, prior to the closing of Elon's purchase.

See Q2 2022 Results here, net loss was $270 million -https://s22.q4cdn.com/826641620/files/doc_financials/2022/q2...

It's still an open question whether Twitter will succeed with Elon, but it definitely wasn't a healthy company prior to the purchase.
Wait, you mean that there is currently non-inspectable software in a path that could allow that software to switch around votes? How could that possibly work?
The Command of Biotechnology and Merciful Conquest in Military Opposition [pdf]
The author of the attached article, Guo Ji-Wei, is a colonel in the Chinese People's Liberation Army. He published this as a junior officer 16 years ago:

"After the goal of military operation is achieved or erroneous attack happens, vaccines, drugs, or information about the damaging factor and damaging target can be provided to increase the likelihood of salvage and saving, exhibiting the greatest mercifulness. Therefore, biotechnology aggressiveness gives rise to relatively merciful conquest as compared to other weapons."
I disagree. While I do agree that hand counting paper ballots is extremely time consuming and error prone, it's not the only alternative to an electronic voting machine. The other alternative is a mechanical voting machine. No electronics and no software involved. I grew up in south Louisiana and this is the kind of voting machine that was used when my parents went to vote. The downside is that the machines were big and heavy. The voter steps inside the curtains and pulls a big lever that closes the curtains behind them and makes the machine ready for voting. The voter physically moves a lever for each choice. When they're done voting, they pull the big lever in opposite direction and it tallies their votes, returns the levers to their original positions, and opens the curtains. I don't know the exact procedure of reporting the polling station results, but I'm sure it required multiple individuals (and maybe even a supervisor) to read off the results from each voting machine. Even if you have a polling station with say 20 voting machines, that's just 20 additions per voting choice that must be summed. This is much easier and faster than hand counting paper ballots. Additionally, I think it would be nearly impossible to alter the voting machines in an attempt to steal votes. I would like to see this everywhere. Voting integrity and quick results.
You are correct, my purpose was to diminish the value of so called “free speech” for a platform like Twitter, not to diminish the negative impact on those targeted. I did not mean to exclude those targeted by death threats but you are correct that there are many other consequences of “free speech”, and I also don’t believe death threats provide value to twitter as a platform.
If you go the self-hosted route you can also put RSS-Bridge on the same host to locally generate RSS feeds for a lot of sources that don't have RSS like Twitter https://github.com/RSS-Bridge/rss-bridge
Its the terms of the contract.

Twitter borrowed $13 Billion, not Elon Musk. Technically, "X Holdings" took on the debt (a new company Elon started up), but "X Holdings" is effectively Twitter now.

> I can’t just buy a house with a mortgage and walk away.

If you create a business, lets say "Foobar Incorporated", and get the banks to recognize the debt as assigned to "Foobar Incorporated", you can walk away as "Foobar Incorporated" goes bankrupt.

Similarly, it is "X Holdings" who goes bankrupt in this arrangement, not Elon Musk.
Automattic will buy it in < 5 years with a Tumblr-sized discount
> It's not surprising or controversial that Twitter would try to contain a leak of its own internal comms (a screenshot of their slack).

It's not surprising or controversial, but it's in direct opposition to the idea that Twitter should allow all legal speech.
Not even close. It might be the most valuable one that uses venture funding (which would be normal given that they might also be the most highly funded venture-backed company, I'm not sure if anyone is beating them on that), but there are a ton of huge private companies that don't use venture funding.
I can't speak to most of your comment, as I'm almost totally unfamiliar with Newport's work. And I might be reading too much into the New Yorker piece, though a glance at his Wikipedia page confirms that Newport works on distributed systems...

> In this particular article, the hunter-gatherer remote work/lifestyle parallel is so forced as to be simply puzzling. First, hunter-gatherer groups were small and required very little coordination, whereas modern companies, when they are larger than a few hundred individuals (I am generous, I might say larger than a few dozen) require coordination overhead--being "on the same" page is quite important--which completely changes group dynamics.

I think that's part of the point. We've moved to a society where large-scale coordination is the norm, but, just like distributed computing, that coordination is a hard problem to solve. Who's to say that the management techniques we tend to implement are the best ones? There are certainly many workers who feel as if work is getting worse, and metrics which point to certain things getting worse or plateauing while capital-P Production rises.

I'm suspicious of easy answers about when humanity had it figured out or simple prescriptions, but if we are interested in evaluating the relatively young modern regime, there are worse places to start than anthropology.
Maybe, maybe not. I don’t think the number of engineers needs to scale with the servers. You can scale out servers without scaling out your number of engineers. As far as moderation, Twitter is already poorly moderated and moderation can be outsourced.

The types of things that require scaling out engineers is supporting video embeds from 100s of different video hosting platforms.
You can, in most states a mortgage is a non-recourse loan, meaning that the bank cannot come after your other assets if you default.

He owns the company that has loans, but the company has the loans -- not him, he hasn't personally guaranteed them. Company folds, creditors have no recourse (generally).
Rocket Lab attempting to catch rocket booster with a helicopter (live)
Wouldn’t it be pretty obvious you never actually boarded your flight to Detroit? They scan your ticket when you board.

Though totally agree you could fly on a different flight under a fake name assuming that the airlines don’t sync up their records with the IDs the TSA scans at the checkpoints.

I suspect there’s other less visible signals that would make this harder. For example your flight under a fake name might be flagged for being an unknown name/person. Also if you’re on the run it’s hard to buy a flight under a fake name anonymously without a paper trail back to yourself.
Sure, if you value authoritarianism and an intrusive nanny state. The government jiggling the door handles of everyone's house to see if it's unlocked crosses a huge line.
yes, but twitter now owns twitter. You need to pay money to buy a company usually.
I vaguely remember a quote, something like:

"Making a small fortune is easy. You just have to start with a large fortune and then go into business."
Good luck with that in an affordable apartment in a big city.
I'd say they aren't doing it wrong 100% of the time. They still massively cock up from time to time, e.g. their anti-encryption campaigns, the stupid attempt to require ID for porn, the disastrous NHS digitisation.

But the gov.uk website is pretty good and they did replace IT with computing in schools.
Was twitter "profitable"? https://fourweekmba.com/is-twitter-profitable/

Or do you mean, "They were on track to be profitable?"
I was mostly thinking on the recurring price of paying that debt, which, if I’m not mistaken, in cases like this one falls entirely on the acquired company (Twitter, in this case). This is irrespective of Twitter’s financial status, that money has to be paid on a recurrent manner.

That’s an extra cost on future Twitter of which I was not aware of, a cost entirely brought by this acquisition.