skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The DC-9 and MD-[89]X were great airplanes. One of the great tragedies of unchecked American corporate consolidation/acquisition is that Boeing was allowed to borg McDonnell-Douglas. (Although some climed the opposite was closer to the truth...)

Anyway, the resulting company is too large to fail, and thus, too large to exist. We're at a point where we could really use the competition we had in aerospace companies back in the 80s, when there were enough competitors in both military and commercial aviation for competitive pressures to keep the players working to provide innovation and value. (Rather than milking the market with intentionally poor designs a la Boeing's 737MAX.) Modern airlines have only two vendors to choose from now that Boeing and Airbus have gobbled up even their second-tier competitors.

Personally, I'd love to see what the old Convair, LTV, pre-Martin Lockheed, or pre-McDonnell Douglas might come up with in this competition...
Of course there are standards, execution is another story
Interesting, I did not know that!
Apparently he was playing league of legends whilst the market was falling apart
> Wait, each ship works completely different from the other ships, there are no established generic procedures, the crew just figures out how they want to do encryption?

There's some commonality, but it's like a fork of other ships. When a new ship is stood up and built, the pre-comissioning crew will write the SOPs for the new ship. Most of the time, you crib it from an old ship and make changes you think are useful, like a fork. There are some standards from up high, especially encryption stuff, but things can be run with some discretion.

Crypto was probably a bad example, since no decent Navy crypto tech would deviate from the proper procedures, even in the face of the CO asking for it. Kinda like how once the CO asked me to use more ordnance for training than I was alloted, and I said "no" and he said "yes" and I said "if you do this, I will put in writing that I told you not to and you did it anyways and I also won't operate the system to check out the ordnance, so we'll have an imbalance" and he said "ok".

> When you transfer onto another ship, do you need a long onboarding as well,

Not long, but a bit, yes. Much like starting a new job. For some jobs, you shadow the current position holder for a good while.

> does each ship have its own culture?

Yes, undoubtedly.

> How do they coordinate?

Generally via SIPRchat, radio, flag signals, etc.

But seriously, we have some standards for operations that make the different ships able to inter-operate easily. You also have groups of ships under commanders who do a bit more to coalesce those ships into a unit.
Indeed, by definition, that world consists of four objects with four distinct properties, ie., being on or off.
I think it may also be American exceptionalism at play. It shows in the time the downvotes appear on any comment that dares to point out some deep problems that US of A have been struggling with for quite a while.

But then, what can you expect from people indoctrinated from early childhood by, among many other things, being coerced to pledge to the flag every day like it's North Korea.
> why do you need the label

I don't want to get halfway through listening to a song to hit autotuned vox. I just don't, I'd like the option to filter on that. I would like a recommendation/discovery engine that eliminates that anxiety.

> a lack of understanding of how music production works, and how that’s connected to the artist’s creative vision

Quite the opposite. I understand music production extensively. I studied it, I have used it, half my social circle are studio engineers or conservatoire grads. I just want the option of filtering on artists whose creative vision _is_ the original vocal recording.

> I suspect that Bublé is simply unaware that autotune is being used

The only reason that man has a career is because his geriatric target audience is too old to know what autotune is (hence his denial is plausible). I'm pretty sure his record sales depend almost entirely on the abuse of autotune for the hard of hearing. He isn't an example I'd have used in this argument.

> But autotune is also used, manually, by producers, to make small adjustments as needed to improve a take. It can mean that the singer does fewer takes to nail the song, because with your comping and autotune choices, you get what you need faster

I totally know and appreciate all of this. Recording without it is considerably more effort and money, it's often not economically viable. Nevertheless, I want to be able to sometimes filter on it.

> I’m not sure why you have that expectation or think that it is at all reasonable. Like everyone else, I have a lifetime of experience. Not everything that I tell you was written down in the first place

When your argument is your opinion or something drawn from your personal experience, that's fine. However your words were: "Fact is, people say this, but when artists actually release music that uses no autotuning, it tends to be less popular". Stating a 'counterintuitive fact' the way you did suggests it was proven in a study or experiment of some kind. When putting arguments like that forward, most posters on HN tend to reference their sources. Otherwise your 'fact' is just an opinion. There's nothing wrong with that, but it is not a 'fact'. If you state something is a fact, I think an expectation that you can back it up with an external reference is entirely reasonable.

> nor should I be expected to shut up just because I don’t provide a source for something I say

Not sure where I said that you were expected to shut up. If I implied it I apologise. However, I stand by my expectations of providing external references for things stated as fact.
Always first on the start, and always arriving late.
Amazon ads are everywhere. It’s only the beginning
Because that is what the National Labor Relations Board is for.
The text and images on this site are visible without JS enabled, I'd day that alone makes this site better than a lot of others I see.
It's just a funny website. It's not that deep.
Right? The reward for identifying all the traffic lights is that you get to identify all the boats, then all the stop signs. Wait, what were you trying to do again?
I didn't take the comment you are responding to in that way at all (comparing Musk's actions to that of a slave-owner). I believed the OP was reacting to the "it's Musk's money he can treat his employees as he likes" — by way of an analogy that you thought too extreme.

(To be sure, if OP had used the "N-word" I am quite sure there would be much more condemnation though that would have unfortunately then entirely missed the point.)
I think Mastodon or a subset of it can evolve into what you want. We'll start seeing specialized servers that vet their members. As Elon drives people away, you'll see more technical people, more serious medical people and the like.
That's because it is all built on greed and a lot of lies.

The only time you actually are part of the trustless system is when you are sole custodian of any private keys necessary to access the coins.

The issue with this is that a whole lot of people have no idea what it is, how it works, how to be part of the system and how to keep keys secure and safe at the same time.

And it is fine. People can't know everything.

But one thing I know, if you buy stuff you do not understand and then you loose money, it is on you.
What’s “venture scale” mean? There are a lot of billion dollar SAAS outside of SV.
This is exactly what I mean by 99% HN dev cohort completely out of touch with reality.

Twitter is absolutely a startup. They are trying to
a) find product market fit with a new vision
b) Have negative cash-flow, so everyone has to workhard to reduce burn rate.
c) Will have new fresh equity issued them with high upside rewards.
d) Will have a liquidity event in a couple of years (IPO)

For all practical purpose, Twitter is a startup.

Musk will issue new equity
Still loads faster than 90% of modern websites. Try again
So basically you're saying "if he goes after my guys I'm against it even if there is evidence of wrongdoing?"

If not, then why not look at the merits of the case?
And it’s still selling more than its wholesale cost. Do you think the retail store is selling it and not making a profit?

Oh and guess what? Even when you buy a third party game from a retail store, the console maker still got their cut. Console makers have forced third party developers to pay a license fee for every game sold for over 30 years.
Maybe you're thinking of Etherium or other smart-contract systems, Etherium is a system where things like that happen automatically. With Bitcoin, the only thing you have is a secure (but static) ledger of who (which wallet/id) has what bitcoins. Any transfers have to be "manually" and just recorded by the blockchain.

Of course, the automatic processes in Etherium produce a bunch of other weird effects.
Pipe dreams
A dragon made up of 1000 drones
I made a Twitter clone in Google Sheets
Unbelievable. Thank you for the share.
OTPP is surprisingly big and very successful overall. And they invested at a $25B valuation, which is very different from investing $25B

> Teachers first bought its FTX stake in October, 2021, as part of a US$420-million funding round. It was one of 69 investors, but FTX listed it first in its announcement of the financing. Teachers has never disclosed exactly how much it invested.

> The pension plan housed the investment ... a portion of the portfolio dedicated to high-growth, yet high-risk, investments. As of June 30, the $8.2-billion portfolio represented just 3 per cent of Teachers’ $242.5-billion in assets.

Teachers ... reported a 1.2-per-cent return for the six months ended June 30. By way of comparison, Royal Bank of Canada’s RBC I&TS All Plan Universe saw defined benefit pension plan assets ... shrink 14.7 per cent over that period.
Surely expanding the index is not the only sort of change that needs to occur over time, though. Like for the example "My two favorite blogs are SlateStarCodex and", the model not only needs to have an up-to-date list of blog URLs in the index, it also needs to have an up-to-date understanding of what SlateStarCodex is. If SlateStarCodex changes to AstralCodexTen after the model has been trained, does that prompt still work?

EDIT: It looks like the answer is "no". Substituting in AstralCodexTen gives a bunch of weird occult and esoteric blogs, not rationalist blogs. These are the top results:

https://www.arcturiantools.com/

https://secretsunarchives.blogspot.com/

https://skepticaloccultist.com/
I know pop culture and humor is frowned upon on HN, but https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XhFTG7fFwc4 is just too relevant to not share for this whole situation.
> Our goal is bring you the absolute goodly in really not-awful web sight design! We are setting out to NOT BREAK every single design rule imaginable! HOWEVER - BIG DISCLAIMER - we can't bring back ALL the awesome design stuff from the mid 90s - stuff that's FOR BREAUTIFUL GREAT DESIGN - because we have to basic, fundamental stuff right in order for this interweb to WORK CORRECTLY. Know what I mean?

I must be reading this differently to you, to me this is ready as heavy snark to the "Geocities was the best" crowd. Maybe I'm reading too much into it
This is awesome! I can't believe all of the negative comments about lowering the barrier to do something this important. We only have one earth, it is priceless because we cannot live without it, and we are really messing it up with massive amounts of CO2. It really doesn't matter much how expensive, difficult, or inefficient removing the CO2 is... it must be done, we have no other choice. Like any tech, it will get better over time when more and more money goes into it.
Because no one cares. It's all about getting it out there asap. All kinds of libraries get included for 1 simple function and this bloats the size of the app. Blindness has set in. It used to be that an exe was 5MB. Now it's 150MB because it has a browser with it.
Banks are on the hook for about $12b, plus he convinced a handful of shareholders to roll over their multi-billion dollar investments so he didn't have to buy them out, notably @jack and the Saudi group
Rest of the world has largely gone back to office to work now, even if it is part time.

I feel the U.S. is the last man standing.

For knowledge workers, WAH works well for self motivated, high performing individuals, in a high functioning work environment. You know, the HN people.

My take is, we'll lose competitive edge over time if we insist on WAH for the mass.
The value of Eth doesn't need to rise for rewards to be of appreciable value, it just needs to stay more or less stable.
I suspect the metrics show a problem because those soliciting the metric want it to. Unless you can walk to work, commuting is a problem. No matter where you’re located, some people don’t want to (or can’t) live there. If you want to have the smaller hiring pool, go for in-the-office.

Blindly pushing this, coupled with the layoffs, suggests there’s a lot of excess staff. Doesn’t bode well for salaries.
I guess expecting an employee to do actual work could ruin some ones lifestyle. I've been in a couple of companies now where only a few people "work" and the rest do "other stuff", I would have been happy in both those for someone like Musk to take over.

Musk is his own worst enemy and can be a douche a lot of the time but he doesn't deserve this toxic personal shit for trying to sort out the mess. Also as I remember once he saw past the facade of twitter he tried to back out and it was the twitter board of management that insisted he buy.
Yes, letting Boeing tell the FAA whether their planes are safe has worked so well.
And it is still not “rent seeking” to only allow one browser. “Words Mean Things”.
Agilent (was HP).
All of the people (or most of the people) that matter would not have left Twitter for Elon's new company. Tons of people have tried this.

Remember Dalton Caldwell's App.net. That didn't even get off the ground and it had a ton of YC press.

Network affects are real.
That's quite interesting to see. I didn't have a colour monitor at the time when I was using Win3, only got one when I upgraded to Win98.
It's not that bad, it doesn't even have an accept cookies popup blocking half the screen.
iirc, I was asked to write a copying GC. Another was to write a simpler version of Concurrent ML in ocaml. Then something about arbitrary precision math library. For some reason my brain froze on that one. Then some more Q I can’t recall. The questions were fairly difficult.
>What fundamentally does twitter do? Sell ads by moving data around using enormous first mover advantage of account numbers. And that needs a huge employee count why exactly? I am not asking that it did, or it did in the early days of the technology, or what the competitors do.

The issue with this question is that you make big assumptions to how the work should be. Sure to you and I maybe it takes 1 person to unscrew a lightbulb, but that's given our assumptions about the nature of the lightbulb and the whole job and where it takes place.

Maybe twitter built themselves such a lightbulb that its 50 feet up high, and now you need to hire two people to change the lightbulb, one up on the ladder 50 feet up and one on the bottom. Maybe sometimes the latter falls, and historically the ladder holder doesn't want to admit liability. Now you need a third witness to make sure the ladder holder isn't murdering the light bulb changer (seems contrived but e.g. jobs working with children are like this where you need two adults in the room)l. If the light bulb is made from hazardous materials maybe you need a safety officer signing off on your process so insurance companies actually cover you for the high risk of murder in this line of work. Now we are at four people to change the lightbulb and you'd be a fool to remove any of them based on all the context I've given. Oh and you need to fill these positions for three shifts, so twelve people on payroll to ensure you are covered for lightbulbs around the clock.

Its easy to add fat to a process, sometimes its very justified fat, and hard to cut it out after the fact without damaging a lot of other things you might not be accounting for at first glance. Thats why people are giving Musk a huge side eye here, because he couldn't have possibly accounted for everything already. Most people who make sweeping changes to orgs successfully start off by taking a lot of time to study how the org works, and not changing much of anything that would taint your observational study before its concluded.
> markdown is designed to transform to HTML

Is it though?
Same with leadership and officers, we definitely got good training teaching #1, but the actual culture of the fleet is #2.

Sorry to rag on MBAs.
Can you give me an example of this unicorn company which isn't facing cash-crunch and burn rate?
They have hundreds of billions, of which they set aside around 3% for risky bets. One of those risky bets failing isn't a big deal.
Transcranial photobiomodulation (laser) therapy for cognitive impairment
Also used to filter wine - see https://www.winespectator.com/articles/are-egg-whites-really...
Really only criticizing a particular corner of SV investor culture.

The old school, Sand Hill-style tradition of greed, pettiness, backbiting and double-crosses continues unchanged.
Local: Transaction failed. Notified offshore team.

Offshore(next day): I see.

Local(next day): Process ABC threw an error.

Offshore(next day): We will look at A.

Serialize as much as possible. Take advantage of time zone opposition and asynchronous communication.
Making a bunch of unpopular changes and waiting a month still seems more prudent. The people most likely carrying that culture are gonna be the ones most inclined to leave over changes, and if they are leaving on their own that would decrease costs associated with benefits or the increase to the unemployment tax that comes with layoffs
I suspect this is the real problem.

Stupid people with money can look like they are clever because the layer of people immediately underneath them actually wields the clue stick.

Stupid people with no money look stupid because they can't afford the layer of clever people underneath them.

Clever people are either abstracting the liability via stupid person in the layer above them or don't need that kind of shit in their lives and are just getting on with designing and building products with the other clever people around them.

Edit: I'd just like to note that I am recognising the work that Tesla and SpaceX engineers and staff do which the PR baboon up the top somehow gets credit for every time.
The law is not executed by computers. It is executed by people operating via tradition and common sense. These have their own problems, and sometimes the law is bad, but this is a case where it works the way we’d hope given the law.

Nobody is going to believe that you “forgot” the password to your phone that you use multiple times a day or at least a week. Your lawyer is not even going to mention that as an argument and he’s going to strongly advise you don’t because it sounds prima facie absurd.

Now, if the case was about an encrypted hard drive you kept in your bank’s safety deposit box that you put there two years ago, it might work, because that sounds much more reasonable.

Ed: and apply this to the very case you linked: the guy was held for the maximum contempt length possible because the evidence was so strong; they got his laptop, which indicated he downloaded illegal files to the external drives; they got his phone, which had illegal material; they have witnesses testifying that he showed them illegal material. If the encrypted drives had been their ONLY evidence, he almost certainly wouldn’t have been in jail for contempt.
All I can think is: yea, they're called high-speed trains.
No, in fact it is quite common to do "open label" clinical studies in which patients know what drug they are getting and no one is given the current standard of care. This is especially common in cancer, where the standard of care is so poor, and in rare diseases, where the patient population isn't large enough to admit such a comprehensive study.

It is harder to have the same statistical confidence of efficacy and safety in such studies, but clinical researchers try to address those issues by varying e.g. dosage quantities, time in between doses, etc.

Source: place I work is currently doing studies of this nature, and in general such studies seem to be well-understood and accepted by the FDA.
> Musk's dedication to the freedom of speech

In his first letter to staff he said they need to focus on "banning trolls". Oof ow.
Do you check app size before downloading? I know I don't, and even if I did, I'm not sure what I would do about it as a consumer.

If the user doesn't care and Apple doesn't care, then the company probably isn't going to care either.
That's called a "coordinated turn", and it's what airline pilots should be aiming at whenever possible. In a coordinated turn, "down" remains aimed at the floor, regardless of actual bank angle. There's even an instrument (the turn-and-bank indicator) designed expressly to help pilots execute coordinated turns, which are generally considered a mark of a capable pilot in any plane...
You're still a hero. Thank you for sleeping so I don't have to feel awkward making you think I am looking at you while looking out the window.
mkctr: Cross platform container builder for go
It is unlikely that Butterick will be successful in his lawsuit or that there will be a settlement. The legal situation is pretty clear from my point of view. At most, the developers who use Codepilot could become the target of copyright suits, but the evidence would be very difficult for the plaintiffs.
> Hospitals do consult on EMS calls at times, often without billing for it.

They don't bill on a per-call basis, but you can be sure that if a hospital is providing medical control services to an EMS agency there is a contract in place and they are being compensated for it (either a flat annual fee, or by some other means)
Megan Ellison produces movies
Well, they at least had compliance staff. "Most of FTX's legal and compliance staff quit Tuesday evening, people familiar with the matter told Semafor, leaving few executives who could answer questions that now loom large over the firm." https://www.semafor.com/article/11/09/2022/ftx-legal-and-com...

Pretty much every large exchange has a compliance team, btw, at least the ones with US operations.
He actually did,

June 16, 2022:

Elon Musk plans to use remote work as a reward at Twitter—but only for ‘exceptional’ employees

https://fortune.com/2022/06/16/elon-musk-twitter-remote-work...
Yeah, Xfce was nice when they were still using GTK2, but with the change to GTK3 things are kinda inconsistent.
I'd be fine with a new definition that made them illegal, or at least put such heavy truth-in-advertising laws on them that nobody in their right mind would bite given the real numbers you can expect. They're absolutely exploitative.

I probably made the mistake of speaking a little too specifically for the US situation, though. Here, the criteria are (modulo nuance) roughly what I said for the FTC to care.
My best advice is to tell her to read HN every day. :-)
he speaks in complete paragraphs!
Steel is forged in a fire regardless. Forged steel hardens with cycles of annealing and stress. Which is exactly what layoffs are. Cycles of heating and cooling. Lol
the correlation in my experience is if anything the other way around. 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. This is the one thing Musk is 100% right about, remote work is awful for productivity and it's most popular among the "least amount of effort" crowd. It's also why almost any major tech company after covid is trying to scale remote work back again.