skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> the "market", which is now controlled by AI reading newsprint

You might as well say "I don't understand how bonds work". It's fewer words.
I think he did want to buy since the beginning. He's got bigger plans for it beyond short messages. The free speech thing is just marketing.
There's a third option of joining a small, lean, bootstrapped company with good work-life balance, which tend to thrive when the market isn't as frothy.
Clearly the answer is a price that isn't disclosed online, and requires the customer to fill out a form disclosing their name ("ethnicity"), address ("socioeconomic status"), and title/company ("education level") before they can receive a quote on the item. /s
I don't think he got rid of people based on how they felt about him, but even if he did, surrounding yourself with yes men is not a good strategy
In what way is the current tech recession related to remote work, and not decades of free investment money followed by massive inflation?
Is Bitcoin history a metaphor for "society needs to learn more about technology"?
Chuck Feeney
Underneath is a relative term.
yea it doesn't happen much at all in the US, tons of normal ppl were hired to inject people and AFAIK that was never really part of instruction
Didn't know that about the comp at his companies. Kind of crazy considering the risk to human life associated with many of his companies. Would've expected them to pay top tier.
They would have liquidated him -- and that would have crashed the Tesla stock (more than now anyways).
Depending on the circumstances, they may have taken a backup of the whole device beforehand.
I used to work on Google search but it was a long time ago so hopefully I am not too biased here.

I think it would really help the UI to have better snippets. Ie, the text that appears below the blue link for a set of search results. In Google search results the key words are often bolded, as well. It helps you skim through and see which of the results are going to be a good fit.

Maybe there is some fancy AI thing you can do to generate snippets, or tell me more about the page. For example one of the search results for your sample query is:

Online resources in philosophy and ethics

sophia-project.org/

That doesn't really tell me anything without clicking on it. Is it good? I don't know... I usually don't click on that many results from a Google search, people often decide after only selecting one or two, based on the snippet.
This is a legit technique, has been for a loong time. You'd be surprised what they used to call it! [0]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echo_chamber
I'm curious if your thinking on this matter has changed based on the replies you have received ?
Ask HN: Hedging labor income risk in the financial markets
Layoffs at tech companies underscore that labor income is risky. A company is more likely to cut compensation and fire people when its stock price has fallen, and options and stock grants are worth less. If you work for a tech company, some ways to hedge labor income risk are to short the stock of the company, buy put options on the stock, or short or buy put options on a tech sector ETF such as XLK. (Higher-level employees may not be allowed to short the stock of their company. Can junior employees do so?) There are 11 Sector SPDR ETFs. Instead of buying SPY, which tracks the S&P 500 and owns all sectors, you could buy all except XLK.

Has anyone tried to hedge career risk in the financial markets? If so, what instruments did you use, and how did you determine sizing?
Our CO2 output is increasing. Under the world's current political/economic regime, we can't keep our CO2 output stable, let alone decrease it. If we lack the seriousness to do that, we definitely lack the ability to do the much harder task of removing what we've already put there.
I think technically you would look at this as exchange risk. Securities regulations exist because of precedent, and this isn’t specifically fraud but lack of customer funds segregation from the business risks.
There are vegan flocculants -- guinness switched a while back, making their beer vegan.
I work in the industry at a market-maker. Jane Street is a lot more than just these two people. Prop trading firms and some quantitative hedge funds are a lot different than traditional hedge funds. Jane Street is mainly an ETF market maker, and are very good in that. They make their money because some of their core strategies work very well.

Also, JS has low attrition and traders there mostly stay long-term since it's a very trader-first place than some other places like HRT, Jump. Both SBF and Ellison had short tenures at JS.
> Twitter isn’t going to disappear

You seem more confident than Musk is reported to have been in today's sudden all-hands meeting; what do you know that Musk doesn’t?

EDIT: see, e.g., https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-10/musk-tell...
He bought the users not the equipment, developers etc. The brand and domain is what he bought -- in his mind at least.
> I am glad you found meaning in science and facts!

I did not say that. I think I said purpose and meaning need to be grounded in facts / science and should not be derived from belief systems based on "revelation" and other collective delusions.
Except they're not.

1) If your costs are legitimately less than the competition then charging less is not illegal. If you're taking a loss to gain market share and then upping the price once the competitors go out of business that's a problem.

2) Have you seen gas stations? If setting your price to be the same was illegal there'd be so many convicted people.

3) I don't remember profiteering being illegal. Literally a ton of companies have been recording record profit and certainly people have been complaining but who was fined/imprisoned? Martin Shkreli wasn't convicted of profiteering cause it's not a crime.
Good advice about the seasons. Sounds like "Chesterton's Fence":

The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to [the fence] and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Chesterton's_fence
WebKit lock in is a way to prevent web apps from disrupting appstore cash cow. Appstore is rentseeking on popularity/market position of the iPhone/iOS - and clearly worded above - appstore distribution monopoly is anticompetitive.
Yoel Roth - Head of Trust & Safety at @Twitter

It was remarkable to see he wasn't instantly fired within the first few minutes of elon owning twitter. His team was practically entirely fired for being political activists because they indeed were.

In my view Yoel Roth leaving twitter is a celebration.
There’s a lot more financial opportunity in centralizing solar and selling the electricity than in providing residential solar, where they only can make money after the fact by selling batteries. As a public company, I can see how they would realize this, even if it’s anti-consumer.
And Web Rings. In fact, I'm surprised considering how ideas simply get recycled (IRC -> Slack) that nobody has tried to reinvent the web ring. I suppose it's the death of self hosted sites that has killed it.
Anybody can build a twitter at a tiny fraction of the cost of Twitter. The problem is always user acquisition. It's extraodinarily difficult to get a vast segment of the userbase to switch to your platform. Even getting a tiny handful would cost vast sums of money. Think about it. If it could be done, it would be done and we'd see a largely segmented social media landscape with hundreds of twitter clones. It's not the case.
Show HN: A simple goal-setting web app (based on the book The ONE Thing)
(intended for desktop)

This goal setting template is copied from The ONE Thing book. I never succeeded at doing the goal setting consistently with just a pen/paper, google docs, or google sheets. I coded this up to make it easier for me to do it daily.

My ONE Thing for today was to publish this app and share it on Hackernews :D It's not perfect and I'm sure it has lots bugs, but try it out and see if it can make your life a little better!

Also let me know what other book's principles you'd like to see in a software format!
It might hurt to spit ball a little bit harder here, but just so you know, penalty free forbearance is going to end very soon. And just like that all of us dirty debtors will begin repaying.

If the government wanted us to repay during this period it would not have automatically turned our payments off and told us multiple times it turned auto-debit off.

What kind of absolute fool would restart payment during a 0% interest penalty free forbearance? That’s having a loan that’s much less than the inflation rate. Why on earth except based on irrational internet principles would an individual restart payments on a loan like that? Very little spit balling went into that original comment..
> There's not cash laying around anywhere to back it up.

Did you not read the part where they have $119.4 Billion dollars? And that was a year-and-a-half ago, it's probably closer to $130B now. It seems like you didn't read any of the source material, let alone my comment, before replying.
Can you imagine how many half-baked, poorly-specified, insecure-by-design RFCs would be published if they didn’t have one?
This is why you don't blindly let AI push ads without an actual human watching over it. The machines don't recognize evil which is by design since if they did they'd refuse to work in marketing.
Gemini it's the needed standard between Gopher, tied to small devices with a 80 column display, and the Web with enforced encyption for security but without requiring lots of resources.
They’re not securities and they’re regulated. Theres nothing to comply to. Perhaps crypto exchanges should be regulated?
Twitter has about 10x that monthly visitor number just in mDAU. And pof has scaled 100x! (To 100 employees — that seems pretty insane relative the traffic they have going by this weird metric of “amount of data served should roughly equal the number of employees by some ratio”). Comparison also seems a bit lacking given the difference in magnitude also the engineering problems involved (e.g. moderation, botting etc.) Guessing also that creating a dating site is not an exercise in needing a lot of skilled engineering work given it’s been a solved set of problems since the late 90s. Hey Verizon has 132,000 employees — I guess they should only need a fraction of that right since consumer cellular has 2,400?
> fwiw, I believe if you ask anyone who has interacted with any of the relevant (to competition) agencies globally, any law/rule which gives them more power is obviously bad.

And if you've ever interacted with an abusive corporation, you'll see that any rule, or lack of rule, which gives them more power over you, their customer/employee is obviously bad.

I, as a customer/employee/tenant would generally like my bank to not run off with my money after betting it all on red, my employer to not retaliate against me for reporting abuse, and my landlord to not throw me out on my ass because I complained about a rat infestation in his building.

Without any rules against unethical behavior, most organizations with power over you will happily turn to it, and will drive their more ethical competitors out of business.
Hm. All your examples depent heavily on the circumstances. For instance, if you have a team of coders working on the same code base, it might be preferable to do all these things in parellel and role them out together. I just think that "Do things incrementally" is not so an important advice as the formulation "If It Can't Be Done Incrementally, Don't Do It" suggests. I would rather say: "Prefer to do things incrementally unless you have a good reason to do it differently."
Executive Order 14067 – Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets
"You made this? I made this." https://imgflip.com/i/70bgz4
A major problem is that life in the Navy sucks too much compared to the civilian world, so that most of the competent Naval Officers leave, and you end up with a pretty small pool of competent leaders. It’s a super weird dynamic where junior officers are on average more competent than mid-career officers.

As for why life sucks so much, leadership has let there be too much to do with too few people, and inflexible systems.
If you don't read the prominent documentation before filing issues you're wasting lots of maintainer's time.
Use the 4chan captchas those are the hardest things ive done since calculus
> Sunglasses before control over the 100s of Millions of devices

More importantly, medical eyeglasses that many people rely on to see properly.
Twitter was almost certain to see layoffs had Musk not bought it, but they’d have been slower, more considered, less harmful, and probably smaller because the company didn’t have a ludicrous leveraged buyout $1bn annual debt bill.

The way things are going now there’s an increasingly real possibility that Twitter may not exist in a few months, putting the jobs of the other 3000 or so employees at risk too. Not to mention all the people who used Twitter to make a living.

The destruction of lives and so much value for one man’s ego is astounding.
> If police only gave speeding tickets to those with Trump bumper stickers, would that not be a misapplication of the law?

Surely that depends where you live. Seattle (where I live)? Yeah, that would be obvious discrimination. A few counties further inland? Probably not statistically significant.

I’m not sure how or if that reasoning applies to FTC purview, but my intuition is that corporations of the size that might warrant interest aren’t likely to be partisan targets in any stable or persistent way.
It's not "random". Some servers have legal concerns about the art they host, but also last I checked their moderation in general wasn't great (not sure if it was a "no english-speaking moderators" problem or a "we don't care" problem though.)
> In my view Yoel Roth leaving twitter is a celebration.

What are you celebrating?
Guess it's like Zuck trying to force everyone onto the Metaverse.
Elon or Putin are not stupid, far from it, but that doesn't mean they can't make stupid decisions, and not only make them but double down on them.

For example, look at Putin and the state of Russia and their invasion of Ukraine. I think everyone would agree it has been one of the biggest military and geopolitical blunders ever. As far as Elons acquisition of Twitter, time will tell if it was 'stupid' decision or not.
"if you pretend to lose your keys, it's not illegal to avoid helping the cops find them."

I would be careful with that assertion - that likely depends on the jurisdiction, but I'm quite convinced that this would be obstruction of justice. It may be hard to prove that you're doing that, but if they manage to do that, it would actually be a crime - once you're aware that there's a criminal proceeding, actually disposing of these keys so that cops wouldn't access the evidence would be obstruction of justice, and so would be intentionally asserting to the cops that you don't have the physical keys if you actually do have them (the right to remain silent does not protect making false statements). For example, there's quite a lot of precedent for obstruction of justice by hiding a gun that was being sought by an investigation; I seem to recall reading about a case where the actual murder could not be proven in court but the likely culprit was convicted for obstruction of justice by throwing the murder weapon into the river which was captured by cameras.

However, I would say that you are quite likely to get away with this - just not because it's legal but rather because the circumstances making the difference between fair play and felony may be very hard to prove and prosecution might not bother unless they want to make a point by doing that.
ftx.us - checked again, at least my account is still unable to withdraw.
No popup to ask me to allow cookies.

No popup to ask me to sign up for an account.

Not requesting my location from the browser.

According to Chrome's developer tools network tab it loads 9.4 MB of data, which is less than or comparable to many modern landing pages (nytimes.com: 18.2 MB, amazon.com: 10.0 MB).

It's a pretty good first-time visitor experience, I'd say!
>The best and most productive employees tend to be involved and in-person is still the best way to get things done and actually exchange ideas.

I'm having a hard time believing this. The people in my company who want to end remote work were the people that needed it for a social output. Nothing as shown that productivity suffered during the pandemic due to remote work.

>This is the one thing Musk is 100% right about,

Elon Musk is a 100% remote worker.

>t's also why almost any major tech company after covid is trying to scale remote work back again.

Hard disagree, most companies want people back in the office because they are run by middle managers who have spent their careers climbing the ladder by putting in face time and building relationships. Remote work is a huge detriment to that style of career advancement. They basically want everyone back in the office so they, the middle managers, can feel productive.

There is a reason they focus on abstract concepts like water cooler conversations rather than hard data. The data says there isn't a problem
As someone who does not like heights or flying, I would gladly sit smack in the middle of the wedge-shaped plane.
YouTube Premium is completely ad-free though, and it also let's you download videos and music for offline use without any DRM.
So, this is just to get rid of more people without having to lay them off. Coaching out people is not very 2022. Will cost Twitter more than it is worth for sure.
Why wouldn’t you believe it? At the time even The Economist called him out in it.
Probably by learning how humans have to balance their extremities to remain standing upright. The camera angle with respect to the enviroment is likely a factor too, since errors got larger when outdoors.

Errors are also not exactly small, ~6cm average, although it's more like 1-2 or 5-12, depending on body part. I think this would very likely be noticeable in VR applications, but it is still very impressive accuracy overall.

The question also nicely highlights the disadvantages of trained algorithms: No one knows for sure, and it certainly isn't obvious by looking at the network weights...

On the other hand, when looking at the pictures, I felt like the authors: There should be enough information in there to get at least a good estimate. And it is extremely useful that one can nowadays "just" train a model to confirm such theories.
Do any of these protections count at the airport/border?
There’s no sense believing he has power and influence. I’ve never heard of him? What power and influence? What paper named NYT?

Do you understand how to deal with figurative displays of power? They’re not going to come after us if we actively promote the idea they’re actually weak and useless.

Turn public sentiment against the idea of ephemeral power and value stores.
Just save a percentage of your paycheck in broad ETFs. In the US, you can dip into retirement funds if you lose your job.
I second this noting that folks reading here, specifically, probably wouldn't benefit the most from it. What I'm thinking is it'd be nice to see before referring it to a non-technical relative or friend who doesn't even know what git is.
Twitter leadership and board really walked away from this with the winning hand didn’t they.
It's definitely exclusionary. You could argue that it's exclusionary for legitimate reasons, but it's exclusionary.
This is a pretty naive take on how hard it is to build a application that relies on any kind of network effect, activation, and retention, not to mention a complex ad platform that needs CS/Sales to even get it off the ground.
I can give you many examples of unicorns that weren’t firing people one week after a takeover by a billionaire who doesn’t understand how account verification works.
I think it's 1.2B/annum, not 12B.
This is the ultimate example of a _terrible_ rebrand, in my opinion. I _loved_ the colourful logo, and I think that getting rid of it was the ultimate travesty. (At least the flat black Apple is better than those terrible shiny ones, though.)

I do wonder if I'd have liked it if I'd previously been familiar with the original woodcut logo, though.
This is the whole idea behind DeFi. All trading is done autonomously on-chain, and owners retain custody throughout.
i guess this is one way to deflate the tech bubble
My personal website is done similarly. I built it on top of markdown and added my own shortcodes so I could add macros and custom plugins as I added.

The site code lives separate from the post, media, and general 'content' and doesn't care what content is provided.
Then they should be nationalized. The market cannot be trusted with quintessential market failures. Public infrastructure should be just that: public.
Not the poster but I see no reason to doubt the claim. A while back when dealing with glasses that didn't come out right my eye doc wanted to check the PD in an attempt to figure out why my glasses were bothering me (I'm incredibly sensitive on my computer pair, I can't tolerate anything that isn't absolutely spot on)--and she walked over to the optical center to borrow their PD measurer. She didn't have one because it's not something she normally needs.
Mastodon does have some verification tools. One example is rel="me" link verification on profiles. That's not impossible to fake, but it's another thing that makes it harder to just impersonate "real people with real friends".

On top of that, arguably Mastodon is full of weird people who often don't look all that like real people and find themselves trying to be their weirdest selves (which is also why protecting the privacy courtesies on Mastodon is seen as important). Instances looking too much like Twitter or Facebook data are suspicious in their own ways.

> Arms races suck -- public data is public, period.

There will always be bad actors, but that's not excuse to ignore common courtesy, throw your hands up, and just claim all private data is public. Mastodon isn't Twitter. Mastodon isn't intended to be 100% public. There is data with an expectation of privacy. Just because people can violate that expectation doesn't mean it isn't private data.

A common analogy here is conversation in public restaurants: just because the restaurant itself is open to the public and serves anyone doesn't give you license to eavesdrop on any conversation you want inside of that restaurant. There's generally an expectation of privacy among the other diners. (And in the real world someone trying that might get their ass beat for trying it.)
The author doesn't really understand the details of the operations of clinical trials, though this is a good overview of the kinds of outcomes that show up. I worked on operations software for clinical trials for about a decade, and there are (mostly necessary) regulatory drivers a large fraction of the complexity he complains about. The first order effects of the regulations are pretty straightforward, but when you get into second, third, and fourth order impacts, you start seeing some of the outcomes he's describing.
> for people who hate this kind of corporate bullshit

That will entirely work in favour of big companies. If there was a split and only one split is capable of serving 100 million users that split will win.
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