skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The incentives are mostly bad ones.

Companies that understand remote work have done a really good job of netting talent that is not in the Bay or New York, and I'm very happy to be working for one.
Twitter is a private company. It doesn't have a "market cap", at least not in any way that's useful here.

Not sure how reducing the value of your asset gives you more leverage. That's not how leverage works.
> And a lot of people underestimate the second degree impact of even the smallest of abstraction design choices

This is one of the hardest lessons I've had to learn as an engineer. Building extensible abstractions upfront is extremely difficult to achieve without building a lot of abstractions upfront that aren't extensible, and learning why.

> you cannot avoid them, you need to get good at them instead

I'm working on it!
While I suspect you're right, isn't it a little early to conclude the acquisition wasn't successful? Who even knows what successful means in this case?
$500mil of robinhood stock, 25%+ of Anthony Scaramucci's $10bn hedge fund, and alegedly $250 mil of real estate in the bahamas etc.
Agreed! I, for one, am enjoying the small-town vibe of my chosen mastodon service provider, and I'm delighted that it can never become "to big to fail."

You keep saying "users" when you should probably just say "I," but maybe you understand it a bit better at this point. The onboarding UX is atrocious, mostly because people want it to be something it's not, and partly because developers often don't do UX well. But the UX isn't going to change, so focusing on helping people understand how and why it works the way it does seems more important than cursing the design.

You're welcome to stick with Twitter, Inc, if you want a single oligarch to control your chosen microblogging service and everything about it. Or you can venture out and pick a server that supports the mastodon service instead.

And who knows? Maybe someday a big company will grow a giant mastodon server so that something like 30% of all mastodon traffic happens there, just as with Gmail and email traffic[0] today.

0. https://techjury.net/blog/gmail-statistics/
Agreed that Voronoi patterns emerge, but I'm not sure that they're using an explicit Voronoi algorithm to achieve that effect. I doubt it.

It's more likely IMO that the Voronoi pattern emerges from the constraints of the simulation.
I saw an update on coindesk that they confirmed it was a hack on their official telegram channel?

What a dumpster fire. But let's be honest, I think retail investors weren't getting anything back anyways. Probably only impacts creditors
What happens to people who were hired as fully remote during pandemic?
Many or a few?

Most software engineers find themselves most effective in work from home. This breaks in favor at 3:4 or higher.

The software engineers that want to work in office are the odd-balls.

I am interested in the break down when one factors in whatever concept of '10x developers' -- which do the most productive of us prefer?
I'll take any IC or low-level employee's productivity claim with a grain of salt.

For a CEO, productivity is at a first order is operating margins. 99% of HNers have no clue how to calculate that (nor have the necessary data).
How did you measure productivity?
This is the consequence of bad economic policy: massive human suffering..

It is incumbent on the populace to study economics and vote in policies that are economically sound, like lax zoning regulations.
If this is real, most likely an inside job. I mean FTX staff probably had a lot of their own crypto on the exchange, so now that it appears Bankman stole it from them, why not steal it back.
There was a constant drumbeat of high interest promises by these crypto companies, even the supposedly “safe” ones. And so many people thought it was a no lose proposition. E.g. 8% APR at FTX.us: https://mobile.twitter.com/ftx_app/status/141749746557453927...
Sizeable protests? That’s a slight overstatement.

Russia lost 99% of leverage the moment they attacked Ukraine. And they lost remaining 1% the moment the weaponized energy.

Germany was dumb, but it’s not that dumb to enter any agreement with Russia for any foreseeable future. It’s literarily like going back to loan shark for extra money, after they broke your legs last week.
because twitter's own execs and HR had their say

https://mobile.twitter.com/RichardHanania/status/15911538663...
>>That proves the explosion was deliberate.

>No it doesn't.

No one denies that the explosions are an act of sabotage. How do you imagine non-deliberate explosions happening approximately at the same time and of such power as to cause seismic sensors to reliably detect them?
Are there not valves along the pipeline to seal off sections? I've done some small amount of work on above ground gas pipelines and I feel like the majority of the pipeline would be undamaged, assuming the valves were closed in a reasonable time.
I never said fascism is “just” whatever you think I did, so your uncharitable read of what I said is unnecessary.

Fascists use the state to empower themselves. By reducing its size, by definition, a politician reduces his own sphere of influence.

Rereading your comment, I think you’re more or less equating the State with the country, while I’m talking about the government and supporting structure and bureaucracy.

Of course Hitler didn’t care about Germany. He cared about his own power and he had an overreaching state under his control to maintain it.
Three.js is just a rendering engine -- it wouldn't allow you to create something like this anyway.

Also, I don't believe that the bubble toy is related to their physics engine; it seems like a different type of physics. The engine is focused on 3D collisions, joints, springs, etc., whereas the bubble toy is simulating thin films.

I wish there was source code for the bubble toy so we could see how it works!
Somebody train the AI art bots to make farside comics
and post the repo on github.
Then you keep the seaweed for 90 days and it's not radioactive anymore? Iodine 131 has an 8 day halflife, which means it's gone <1/1024 in 90 days. It decays to stable xenon 131 which gets vented.

Which also makes the hysteria against uniodized salt also look like a qanon conspiracy theory.
A head of large company once said, "I can cut the bottom 10%, but I don't. Because new 10% will be formed to take place"
I just ran curl in infinite loop and no delay :)
The timeline also feels relevant here. The new CEO has only had a short time to really get to know the company. Who's to say that he won't cut more as he learns more and settles into his role? Combine that with the economic pressure and it looks pretty likely that either more people will be laid off or whole teams will be "managed out".
I think the reality is some people do better remote, some better in office. There's no one size fits all solution. I hated my time working from home, but it sounds like you enjoy it. There's no perfect solution for companies here except to cater to individual preferences, or mandate one at the risk of angering some employees
The Kwinana lithium hydroxide refinery will start processing soon and keep some of the value-add in Australia, and provide local raw materials for battery production.
I dont know if all that will end up cost competitive with what is already established in China though.
I switched to mbsync plus notmuch-emacs a few months ago, after having been a loyal Thunderbird user for ~15 years. I had to change my workflow, but the new one is much better and I do not plan to go back.

I have always failed to regularly use TODO apps to remember stuff to do. So with Thunderbird I settled on the habit of keeping all the emails that required some action as «unread». This worked because I never fail to check my email during the workday and unread emails are easily recognizable in Thunderbird because they are highlighted in bold. However, in the end it was not optimal because not-urgent emails slowly crawled outside of the visible space in the email list, and it happened more than not that I forgot those emails.

Since I switched to notmuch, I archive every email that does not require more action on my side, with the result that my inbox looks far less cluttered and only contains those emails that still need some action. It's true that I could have used the «Archived» folder in Thunderbird for the same purpose, and for some time before switching to notmuch I even tried. But it never worked well, because when it happens that I have to recover an archived email I had to fight against Thunderbird search tools, which are quite lacking: they are quite slow and I've never understood how to run complex search queries.

On the contrary, notmuch search is awesome: powerful [1] and insanely fast.

Apart from this workflow, I'm loving the fact that I can write emails using Emacs. It's my daily driver and I have a heavily customized setup, so it's really fast for me to type new emails, copy-and-paste snippets of code, reformat paragraphs the way I want, etc.

One nice side effect of the switch is that I finally settled to dispose my old Outlook account (it's really hard to configure mbsync to use it!) and only use Gmail. The number of missed emails dropped significantly, as now I have only one email address to check.

[1] https://notmuchmail.org/manpages/notmuch-search-terms-7/
FTX faces potential hack, sees mysterious outflows totaling more than $600M
Apparently it is a "hack". But could also be SBF trying to steal those assets.

https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/12/ftx-crypto-wall...
When employees realize they are being ranked, they will hire the most mediocre people possible, so that their ranking relative to other employees goes up. This is how Ballmer almost killed Microsoft.
I want a farside comic where somebody is standing on a chair in a hall of cubicles shouting "I hate my #$*#ing job" while a bunch of cops are coming up the hall on the left, and everybody is still looking at their computer screen.

And I want to be able to copy and paste this description and stick my dick into the algorithm. And I want the computer to read that last part and say "how do you know I wanted it?"
Daleiden was charged with impersonating someone. Not on twitter. In real life. Twitter is real life too, last I checked. It's still subject to the law.
I also want everybody to chill the fuck out and relax. I think things are about to get better.
This completely ignores:

1) The PR disaster that would ensue if the US were caught doing this

2) The fact that the US does this sort of thing with submarines, not ships.

Whereas: we have Vladmir Putin who is looking at would be assassins who have a nice, ready-made source of cash if they take him out simply by turning the pipeline back on. And Putin will suffer neither PR nor diplomatic repercussions for blowing up the pipeline.
You're going to be frustrated trying to make this banana act like an orange. It just won't work. If by "Twitter replacement" you mean "a place for microblogging," then sure, almost any mastodon server should do. But if you mean "replicating the entire Twitter experience," that just isn't going to happen with mastodon, ever.

So instead of telling people "sign up for mastodon," if it make you feel better, tell them to "sign up for X" where X is one of the ten servers I mentioned in my mastodon explainer post[0], none of which are aimed specifically at tech-savvy people.

0. https://qoto.org/@pwinn/109315562185308969
I legitimately think you have no memory of what it used to be like to get on the Internet. "Average internet users" went through all of that. They learned the incantations, and they performed them on a daily basis, to get at something new.

There are people who do not know how to read any written language, at all, who use Smartphones on a daily basis. They learn how to navigate the icons, without any ability to read.

I think you have no memory of what it used to be like to put an app on your iPhone. Over-The-Air installs and updates didn't happen at first. People had to use iTunes on a Desktop, with a cord plugged in, to do stuff.

My 90 year old grandmother knew how to get into the App Store, install apps, and set up accounts.

I think you're vastly underestimating the number of steps users will go through to get at something good.

So, please, think about that for a moment.

But more importantly, if I send you an invite to the same Mastodon server I'm on, you literally skip the one and only one new step ("pick a server") that you've spent all of this time and energy complaining about.

Yup.

The thing you've been bemoaning this entire time isn't even an issue, if you get an invite link.

And frankly, that's probably how the majority of eventual Mastodon users will actually get there - by following a link a friend sends them.

Have a great weekend.
It's a personal view obviously. But teams are shipping way more than some startups I worked at, including things customers really want. We have quarterly meetups and a myriad of events to keep the human connection too. No full-time-open-office-all-in-the-same-room-serendipity I've seen in other companies was actually valuable. It's just that it was the only way people knew to work, until companies were ready to go remote. 10 years ago we didn't have the tools.
That has no bearing whatsoever? That link itself says "Mr. Musk's team brushed aside the suggestion", meaning that didn't effect who was let go, but -even if it did-, it still would have no bearing, since regardless of who made the decision, or for why, the fact they're being sought after to be rehired so soon means your initial statement "nobody is firing productive workers" is false. Someone fired workers who were sufficiently necessary as to realize they -need them back- within a week.
I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but I think history and StarCraft teach us that an enemy seeming to collapse often turns out to have been a ploy to draw forces forward so they’re over-extended and exposed.

So far in the conflict Putin has never gone this long without a clever ploy. So what’s his current initiative? The fact that it’s hidden is not a good sign.
or i want a protest ban
If twitter is a national security risk, it needs to regulated and not be a private company. If twitter is not a national security risk, then whoever owns it makes the rules.
I never heard about such valves in underwater pipelines. How would they be powered? It's possible that they could have reverse sumps, so water would flood only one section and the rest will be protected by residual pressure, but I do not know if NS/NS2 have anything like this.
i hate this forum and i want to die in the metaverse. execute me please.
This is a better overview than any I saw in my undergrad studies in Civil Eng.
Yes, 1-2 billion in Sam’s personal wallets:

“Reuters is reporting that at least $1 billion in customer funds at the exchange disappeared last weekend, citing two former senior employees briefed on the company's finances.”

https://www.reuters.com/markets/currencies/exclusive-least-1...
> I remember thinking at the time when the Senate called Zuckerberg up to yell at him that if I were Zuck, I would have just said, "thanks for the tax cut, dudes".

They can jail you for that.
Ignoring all the warts of how schizophrenic the different AWS layers are, I personally like the policy document format.

I wouldn’t mind a similar style at the OS/kernel level for control groups and other permissions of that type. Having a list of principals and allowed operations would be easier to reason about (imho) than systemd unit files, or selinux, or filesystem permissions, or firewall rules, or the rest of the mess which is Linux security.

I think Fuchsia is doing something exactly like that?
They are only rehiring a handful. Stop spreading propoganda
You will all be left behind if you don't start doing amazing shit. Elon just broke the internet by buying twitter and you will either be the dumb children who go dive for the candy first while the blinded man is still swinging the yellow wiffle ball bat, or you will be the asshole who says its not a wiffle ball bat. It is now.
Fraud. This is why banking regulation is important, almost all banking laws on the books exists because someone got screwed.
I didn't conclude it wasn't a 'successful' acquisition. Just a case study of what not to do. Even if it somehow ends up in a place it gets spun as being a success, only Elon fanboys are saying "4d chess! Brilliant!"; anyone with an ounce of sense recognizes how dumb everything about this has been.
> The PR disaster that would ensue if the US were caught doing this

Why would the US care about a PR disaster? It's not like Europe has any choice in the matter at this point.

> Whereas: we have Vladmir Putin who is looking at would be assassins who have a nice, ready-made source of cash if they take him out simply by turning the pipeline back on. And Putin will suffer neither PR nor diplomatic repercussions for blowing up the pipeline.

What?
yall censor yourself to a state of anti creativity. and you will pay for that one way or another. kingdoms are expensive. houses in san francisco can burn down
Nit: Many can still be a minority.
To your first point: when the cargo ship Arctic Sea disappeared in the late 2000s, people were asking similar questions about why it couldn’t just be found by looking at satellite images. I heard someone smart on the radio say that using a satellite to find a missing ship in open water is like using a pair of binoculars to find a set of car keys in a field.
> For example, a CBDC could be programmed so that it can only be spent at government-approved merchants or programmed to expire within a certain amount of time.

Now imagine tying that to the EU's social media regulations, which are designed to "protect European users from hate speech, disinformation and other harmful online content"[0]. Suddenly there would be a lot of pressure for people to conform, and not support any fringe views, like the view that such powers could be abused.

[0] https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-police-social...
I personally believe that it was sabotage. But this doesn't prove it.
> It’s hard to understand why the existing employees would feel any loyalty now.

I doubt it's loyalty. I think it's that a lot of them are living paycheck to paycheck (not because they're paid poorly, but because they live at the edge of their means).

We'll likely see a lot more departures as these people interview for other jobs while still clinging to their Twitter salary for now.
Here is a view of the assets on-chain for anyone that's interested:

https://debank.com/profile/0x59abf3837fa962d6853b4cc0a19513a...

Currently at ~$390M. It looks like they're trying to swap most of the tokens they received into ETH on-chain.
Good old beans do, eaten with any Asian pickle they are tastier than meat
Why haven’t they deleted this tweet by now?
There's no way this is a coincidence. This is undoubtedly people who work(ed) at the company and were trusted with private keys trying to get away with some money while they can.
yes this is the correct way, this IS repl-driven development.. The REPL is a entrypoint into the world of the running program, and ideally the editor is connected to the program via the REPL, but you still write code in the editor.

Most Lisp beginner tutorials - the ones that don't start with teaching emacs - will ask the reader to just paste code into the REPL. This sets up bad habits... Perhaps we'll have better AND easier tutorials one day.
It’s unfortunate that what started out with altruistic motives, a method for decentralized anonymous asset exchange, is being derailed by opportunists. There was a time where a 51% attack was the biggest concern.

All that said, I’m not surprised at where we are today.
It’s only a mystery to those willingly blind, for fear “their side” did a bad thing and not the enemy.
The patent's assigned to AT&T, though. If that was in effect before it expired, A&T could have asserted it.
Absolutely. If they're not going to take the cost of the labor off my bill then I'm just doing them a favor by letting them hire one less cashier while shifting an unwanted burden onto myself.

The worker scanning and bagging my groceries is a service that makes my shopping experience more pleasant and less taxing on me. I'm not giving that up in exchange for nothing.
SBF takes "full responsibility".
iait may be centralized but there's no comparison to PayPal. PayPal does not commingle funds
...I'm not? "trying to rehire workers they let go" is missing the word "all". Perhaps -you- read that particular qualifier into it, but it's just as valid to understand it, as it was intended, to imply "some", especially since the existence of -any- rehired employee refutes the statement it was in response to.

I assume you got terrified when you heard, say, "Jeffrey Dahmer ate people", and started to question your own existence since obviously if he ate ALL the people you couldn't be here?
I don’t think SBF would be dumb enough to steal $400m right now when the whole world is watching his every move.
Please point to where that unification took place. Be precise.
neomutt's main selling point was that it has first class integration with notmuch and that because that it has a unified inbox like the desktop clients.

One thing I could never figure out with the folderless approach like neomutt is how to make per account compose and responses. In mutt I would set the account based on the folder I'm in and depending on what I'm responding to, but I don't know how to do that in neomutt or rather how to do it when using notmuch in neomutt.

I do use mu4e, which seems to be a bit easier to configure for multiple accounts.
There's no evidence they're harmful in the long run, and more importantly, we know a lot about radiation and how it affects the body. The radiation surrounding mobile devices is far below any threshold we've seen to affect a human body.
Huh? This is publicly available information published by BART. Civic Center is used a lot, but isn't in the top 3. 16th St is more on par with stops in Berkeley or Oakland and isn't used much. 24th St is used even less. Civic Center is used much more often as an exit station (e.g. to commute to) than an entry station (e.g. where people live.) The most used stops are Embarcadero, Montgomery, and Powell.

https://www.bart.gov/about/reports/ridership
The difference here isn't the instrument, it's musical composition vs performance. You can compose and edit piano works in a DAW, or you can perform those piano works on a piano.
That stung me hard. Damn, Orisinal. I spent so much time playing those wonderful games on rainy afternoons with a tea pot. I had a dinky little Sony VAIO laptop, they were called "Netbooks" at the time around 2005. It was bliss.
If they're on mobile. But then we are talking about people with $1000 phones, who almost certainly have tens-of-gigs-if-not-unlimited data plans anyway, so companies still don't care.
This is by now also a build-in feature of Scala docs, in case someone prefers a mainstream language with such superpower.

https://docs.scala-lang.org/scala3/guides/scaladoc/search-en...