skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. No, because influence and decision making aren't evenly distributed between online/offline personas. Even if they were, it doesn't change human nature, (most) people need a sense of belonging, a group identity. If anything, virtue signalling appears to be amplified online for likes / follows / etc.

2. Centralized religion may be in decline across much of the world, but that doesn't mean all the ingrained beliefs and associated behaviors are linearly declining along with it. What I see are people adopting new systems of beliefs that replace their religious foundations while keeping many of the associated behaviors intact.

For example, a core aspect of most of the practices of Abrahamic religions is sin followed by guilt, shame, forgiveness and, sometimes, atonement. This process doesn't just disappear, it has inertia that often survives apostasy. I pointed out this process is open to ideological 'hijacking' and replacement by new ideologies which keep the process in place but alter the individual's conscious rationalization for that process's existence.
Elon got made fun of (impersonated), and decided that was his limit on what constitutes "free speech".
completely untrue, kids under 6 months have high hospitalization according to the cdc

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7145a3.htm?s_cid=mm...

> Among 473 infants aged <6 months hospitalized during the Omicron BA.2/BA.5 variant-predominant period, 397 (84%) had COVID-19–related symptoms. Among all 473 infants, 174 (38%) were aged <1 month; 69 (39%) of these were birth hospitalizations (Table 2). Among infants who received a positive SARS-CoV-2 test result during the birth hospitalization, 60 (87%) were asymptomatic

84% of all hospitalizations for <6 months seems less than ideal.
If employees managed to organize productivity and profits at every enterprise on earth remotely, you’re probably not right they can’t organize a union unless it’s in person. I’ll point out productivity declines with RTO and everyone acted like they didn’t understand why productivity declined.

All I can say is I’m excited to hire the best employees at twitter and let them work the way they work best.
I don't know where you work/worked before, but I've only had 1 "bad boss" in my +30yr IT career. Even that boss did not rise to the level of "bad bosses" constantly criticized here on HN. Most/all of my bosses have been extremely understanding about work-life balance, family commitments, teamwork, collaboration, etc. Seems I been very lucky compared to the vast number of HN comments.
I had mentioned it in a comment a couple months ago, which is probably how you found it! But, I hadn't submitted it yet as a Show HN yet.

Here was the comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32869408
There will be plenty of devs desperate for work as large companies cuts a significant portion of the work.

Bottomline, the last time tech truly saw a recession and slow-down was in 2001. So, the entire dev cohort has never seen economic conditions that they are about to face.

Even high performers at Meta, Coinbase, Netflix will have to navigate this.

There are two choices in front of them

a) work at Twitter and other startups which requires 60+ hours of work. High workload / High Reward

or

b) Join services firm like IBM, TCS and have work-life balance but do menial tasks with steady but medium pay.

Elon Musk will have no trouble hiring them.

Most devs are completely out of touch about the economic reality. Now they have to work hard like the rest of other industries.
Your medical bill concern is valid- the others aren't really. The likelihood of being beaten by a cop or getting injured at school are probably about the same.
If it's a federal crime they'll charge you with conspiracy to commit a crime and you're a felon by default. That's what they did to crypto drug sellers.
A better analogy is Twitter is a sick and dying patient and drastic measures are needed to be taken to save it. Whether or not you agree with those measures, well you don't have $44b on the line. Of all of Elon's businesses, this one is probably the most in his wheelhouse. He's a web guy after all.
It's software that sings for you. You may have seen the stable of characters marketed around the software, like Hatsune Miku https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSnKX7kAgIc
He had to take out a giant loan to afford the purchase (debt financing), which twitter needs to pay about $1B a year to service. Twitter wasn't getting anywhere near that in profit.
What platform? I already paid Apple for my use of iOS when I bought the phone. Are you implying people should pay Apple for making apps that call up iOS APIs? APIs that all the people who bought the phone and own a copy of iOS already paid for?
I’m pretty ignorant when it comes to this space. Do they not have any kind of compliance structure? In hindsight it seems pretty obvious that this sort of thing would happen without it.
Ask HN: Wanna use Job offer to get a raise
Full Disclaimer. This post isnt actually for me is for my gf, I'm a Hardware Developer, shes a mobile developer but doesnt didnt know about HN until today.

Context:
She works at an offshore software company leading a mobile app pet/animal industry related, developed as a internal project.

She has 2 years of mobile development experience and 1 year of Flutter experience (and all shennaingans). This is her first job and she makes 55k (not the real number, but to later compare to the offer). She likes mobile development and she would like her next job to be a step up in seniority and pay raise, also tittled Mobile Developer, as she officially is full stack developer now.

She got an offer from a bank for 75k. But its doing visual programming, she has a friend who works there, theres a lot of opportunity to grow, pay is better, etc.

She has 1 year payraise overdue, and they will probably just offer to raise her current salary to 66k.

1) How would you guys approach this so you can get hopefully matching offer? she rather stay, but she would like to maximize the opportunity of the job offer
4D chess? he doesn't have the self control, too busy haring off tilting at windmills to launch his damned spaceship
The technical university where I live has “Industrial design engineering” which sounds a bit like designing various “things”.
Then if that’s the case, the author should have been paid a full payout, not a “thanks for making us fix this” payment.
I surely hope so but I highly doubt it. I have fears social media will become even more disruptive in the future.
URL should be: https://opentalk.eu/en/product (which the posted article references as a source) - which is a dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33551872

It doesn't appear very open.. there's no product download (some copy suggests it's hosted only), no source code (might not be that kind of open), no pricing (unless it's free as in beer?), no get started guide. There's a demo which reports it's extremely beta from last night, but other than some (very nicely written) copy there's not much to go on here.
I mean I agree, there is probably fat to cut. But the premise was that if you were an exec and saw that video you'd then consider tightening up the amenities. And if you're basing that decision on a TikTok video that seems a bit short sighted to me.

If you're tightening up the available amenities that should be based on totally different data that has nothing to do with a social media post.
Interesting open-space dynamic
That's a blast from the past. Incredible that 10 years ago people thought using a thread per request is a good idea because anything else is too hard.
> Allowing people who don't care about their privacy to sell it seems
like a fair transaction. Sabotaging capitalism & markets by not
allowing consumers and producers to engage in barter seems
inadvisable.

This seems intuitively free and fair, but the same sentiment is the
centrepiece of John Stuart Mill's (problematic but fascinating)
examination of Harm Principle and limits of personal liberty.

Namely; not being able to sell yourself into slavery.

Ordinary people (in the technological age) are not really capable of
understanding or valuing their privacy and weighting the consequences
of trading it. For the same reason we don't allow children to enter
contracts I think it could fairly be said the average adult doesn't
have capacity to "trade their privacy".
> They launched

They bought Vine. Story still holds though.
Because the fuselage is pressurized. And it is convenient to have pressure vessels as cylinders for even distribution of of the pressure forces across it. Ideally you want to have it capped off with two hemispheres (think propane tank shaped) but obviously you can't do that for other reasons. So there is likely more design and manufacturing for the front and rear of the plane than the main section.
Not every office is a daycare for Gen Z complete with wine on tap. SV workers are spoiled.
When end of year hiring freezes and recession jitter layoffs end I don’t think well paid twitter employees will have much trouble finding better employment elsewhere.
Care to wager?
What If Humanity Is Among the First Spacefaring Civilizations? [video]
Guns, Germs and Steel is heavily discredited among the history and anthropology fields.

Sapiens is pretty decent, though the first half is better than the second.
>Thought to Be Extinct for 80 Years

Let's hope Thought will return after those 80 years...
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?

When you transfer onto another ship, do you need a long onboarding as well, does each ship have its own culture? How do they coordinate?
Source?
Or is it just hearsay?
>A better analogy is Twitter is a sick and dying patient and drastic measures are needed to be taken to save it.

Was it that before Musk actually decided to buy it? Because as far as I can tell, the ad dollars started dropping after his announcement.
Nah, we have the right to not self incriminate ourselves. I think blood drawing is over the line, but face and finger scans are non-invasive.
I think this merits your tradition of moderating less if YC's interests are implicated.
In a couple years society has gone from working 40 hours a week at the office to being forced to as "nothing else to lose"
You can use vanilla org-mode with ID links. Or you can define a custom link type in org-mode, where the sky is the limit. Or you use org-roam V2.
Whether or not they literally own the place is aside from the posters point about new leaders coming in and automatically upending everything without taking the time to actually listen to people and learn what actually is and isn't working. But yeah, it's an ironic choice of words.
I'm not convinced that's true because I feel like I'm getting hit with obstruction next, also depending on the country in question of course.

But the important point is this isn't about self-incrimination. If you accept that a search of property can be ordered then that implies that authority can compel you to actually see the search through. In the physical world the police would just break your lock. Can't do that with encryption, but that's not a legal argument. If someone was screaming in a trunk and cars had unbreakable locks, that wouldn't be a justification to not compel the driver to open it.
Thanks for a fascinating read
While the rest of tech a d the stock market are way up this year!
Please do. This type of low effort crap seeping in from Reddit is starting to get annoying. Take it back there, save your words here for when you actually have something substantial to say.
But liquidity is the issue here. In the event that this happens, how long would it be before you could have access to your funds?
how this compares to buildbot or gajapipelines
One can also press the lock button five times which has the same outcome.
> Elon Musk will have no trouble hiring them.

He just held an all hands where he said he doesn't know how long a run rate Twitter has, Twitter may lose billions next year, and bankruptcy isn't out of the question, so it sounds like it's possible he may have trouble hiring anyone.
Most pathetic Tether shill I've seen.
> Maybe this is a signal twitter isn't going to innovate, develop, and maybe even operate, internally, at least going forward.

It seems clear to me that Musk believes Twitter is dysfunctional and inefficient. His top priority is to make it efficient. From this perspective, as the right people and a culture of intensity are set up, Twitter will be unburdened to move and innovate.

The open question is how quickly can he pivot the culture. Nobody is better positioned than the CEO of a private company.
It is fraudulent. Fraud, racketeering, price-fixing, false income claims and operation as an illegal pyramid scheme. Sued many times in many countries. Banned from the UK and most of the EU. Several founders were indicted in Canada on criminal charges.

But somehow it's just not enough for the FTC to really do anything other than settle and let them continue operate.
Skin in the game? A ship commander might die if something on the ship goes wrong.
https://www.scifilab.org/bodytrak has _something_ at least, but still very little :(
If, in 1 year (or less), Twitter headquarters isn't moved to Texas, I'd be surprised.
I've got to imagine that some of their revenue losses in advertising are due to the fact that various companies/brands simply don't want to be associated with Musk in the slightest. If he was serious about ad revenue, he'd also be serious about Twitter's branding.

Note that I'm not saying there are no Musk fans in the world - there are. But he is divisive, which is a trait not beneficial when trying to strengthen your brand.
Z-Lib Domain Seized
I assume this is a reference to the lawsuits accusing Tesla of racial discrimination, including calling an area staffed with Black workers "The Plantation"

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-...
I would argue forcing someone to put their finger on a phone or otherwise provide their physical self in a compulsory manner is self-incrimination. Your body is part of your 'self.'
> then you run out of uranium

Won't happen anytime soon. There's a lot. We have a century's worth, and the uranium price could easily be three times higher, without hardly an impact to utilities, and unlock more reserves and exploration.

> capacity factor of <50% of the french fleet

This not an indictment of nuclear power as a whole.
American nuclear reactors have a ~90% capacity factor.

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/nuclear/data-and-statist...

> Cheap storage like thermal (so the cheapest sand)

Won't be effective for producing electricity. Might only be ~30% efficient.

> far worse than new offshore wind

Wind is reasonable but don't forget that reactors can last a ridiculously long time ~75 years. Wind turbines might only last ~20 years in a corrosive environment.
> You can do a surprising amount with flat files.

For example, tables in relational databases like sqlite are representationally isomorphic to tabular files like the output from `ls -al`. Sqlite has a lot of useful performance optimizations (including eg, not having to encode strings as "\x20" or the like if you want arbitrary bytes), but those come at the cost of a data format that you can't easily (not even notice that you needed to and did) reverse engineer, when either writing new software to consume or emit it, or even just visually inspecting it in a editor that doesn't already speak that format.
Why would you assume that a video posted to social media is at all representative of someone's work day? The actual work is usually really dull.
Musk Warns Twitter May Lose Billions in 2023
If I cannot pay my bank get my house, which is worth significantly more than what I have borrowed.

It means the bank can be sure to recover their money and their costs.

That isn't a gamble.
I'm just confused why anyone would still want to work there.

I don't know what the local markets are like but my priority would be to jump ship at all costs.
True in most cases, but it can be a pretty serious violation of privacy.

For example, let's say you post pictures of your family with your children on Facebook, intending to share to friends, and then someone screenshots that and re-posts publicly.

I've never tried a public-by-default social network like Twitter or Instagram. I'd be quite annoyed if one of my Facebook friends took one of my posts and published it to the whole internet. I realize it's something that can happen, but it would feel like a violation of trust.

I also think that being able to maintain semi-private spaces on the internet makes it a safer place.
That would be the "throw a working piece of complex technology in the trash" option, yes
As an engineer I may not know how to run a better social media product. My skill in developing software doesn’t necessarily translate into successful business operator. But I sort of agree, if you’re top talent at twitter it’s time to leave.
Aka, “please resign en masse”
Right, but the FDIC explicitly says large amounts may take longer in the status quo. The only reason to have money in the bank is for a reasonably safe, liquid form of money.

If they aren’t providing safety or liquidity, why should you use them?
I assume the first step is to be one of the oligarchs who looted the USSR as it fell apart.
If any developer is relying on security by obscurity to protect anything sensitive, they deserve to be accessed better sooner than later.

However there are some practical purposes od obscurity like in games that madd reverse engineering harder (though possible of course), it might become easier in some situations.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man

I see you edited your comment from the original:

> this seems to be a significant problem to your CO analogy.

So let me ask you… how does a ship’s commanding officer not have more skin in the game? A rich person loses their second home or yacht when things go south… a person on a ship can hit the brig or lose their life.
This seems to be the popular view, everyone has been irrationally cheering for Twitter for 10+ years now but it ignores twitter's long term financial results as we head into an economic contraction.

That's the whole thing.. Musk made his stupid public decision to buy Twitter before the economic winds shifted. By the time it closed things had changed. He harmed Twitter by the way the whole thing dragged out, but Twitter was damaged goods anyway and has become more damaged by the economic winds in addition to Musk.

Twitter was betting the farm that investors would continue to ignore the bottom line and money would continue to be easy and valuations would continue to be decoupled from results.
Egg whites can be unboiled, too.
So if the chain is supposed to enable "trustless" finance, what enabled Alameda to take anything? Seems Alameda and its clients should be screwed, but FTX's holders should be relatively easy to identify and restore.

But everyone seems to say that's not the case. So what broke down here? Why isn't the ledger ledgering?
> FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried told an investor this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion, the person said. FTX extended loans to Alameda using money that customers had deposited on the exchange for trading purposes, a decision that Mr. Bankman-Fried described as a poor judgment call, according to the person.

This raises the question of who else Alameda owes. It's a sign of the times that $10 billion doesn't seem like a lot today, but it's way more than the Long Term Capital Management debacle:

> LTCM was initially successful, with annualized returns (after fees) of around 21% in its first year, 43% in its second year and 41% in its third year. However, in 1998 it lost $4.6 billion in less than four months due to a combination of high leverage and exposure to the 1997 Asian financial crisis and 1998 Russian financial crisis.[4] The master hedge fund, Long-Term Capital Portfolio L.P., collapsed soon thereafter, leading to an agreement on September 23, 1998, among 14 financial institutions for a $3.65 billion recapitalization under the supervision of the Federal Reserve.[1] The fund was liquidated and dissolved in early 2000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-Term_Capital_Management

When it comes to things like this, the connectivity of the money seems at least as important as the quantity.
It looks like a bunch of screwdrivers arranged in a circle with a random black spot for no reason. Terrible logo. As bad, if not worse, than OUPs. Beaten with metal poles is correct.
Having done this for a number of years now, I’d argue that your first point is based on a false premise. Adding each thing one at a time feels slower because you don’t get the frantic rush from doing 16 things at the same time on a tight deadline, but most of the time end-to-end it takes the same amount of time or less, because when something does break it’s super easy to look at the one thing you did and fix it without having to suck in the entire context of the 16 things.

If you’re doing all 16 at the same time and they’re not one liner trivial things, how do you even know where exactly the 8 from your divide-and-conquer strategy are? And can you actually back them out without further breaking things?
The Lord is rising up from under the bloodwood tree,

He gave new life to you, the Wood-feeding cockroachy,

Sent down his angels with feathery antennae,

Who emerged to say the roaches aren't lost to history,

'Scending tree bark stairs.

Hey la, hey la, the roaches are back.

'Scending tree bark stairs.

Hey la, hey la, the roaches are back!
If you're going to correct someone, you'd likely want to do it right: he did not want to spend that kind of money after having agreed to do so in a legally binding way. Mark of a business genius who is definitely not impulsive and driven by ego.
I know a lot of professional option traders who understand options and markets without knowing the exact math. Don't ask them about brownian motion, but they know very well how to trade implied vs realized vols and skew.
>you certainly cannot refuse

this is true but you don't have to actively help/participate in the search. giving out a password is - to me - actively helping vs just standing by and watching what the cops are doing.
“Is clearly” is doing a lot of work here, and I suspect Twitter’s lawyers don’t share your investment in it.
Or -- he's stupid.
So the more inaccessible your country is then the more likely you are to have a roaring economy? That doesn’t make sense.
I don't know if it's a bubble per se or more like the Social Security system in the US. It will be interesting to see what happens to these index funds as the younger portion of Boomers and older Gen X retire and start drawing down their 401(k)s and other accounts. Older Boomers had pensions, so weren't as reliant on amassing personal savings for retirement, but that's far less common as you move into younger populations.
Police can take anything anywhere under civil forfeiture; it's truly insane.
Do not forget that twitter purchased Vine and shoot it off, just in order to enable Tiktok taking over. That's not a very smart company for sure.
Well written. Most people don't want to be reminded that at our very core we are just hairless apes who are subject to billions of years of evolutionary conditioning. Mate selection among primates follows quite straightforward patterns, we aren't that different afterall.
> He’s a web guy after all

Of course he is.
When I was first read it I thought it was a parody, Silicon Valley style.

But Sequoia this prestigious VC has been shown to be childish, incompetent, reckless and completely unprofessional.

It will be forever be a stain on them.
Reminds me of "The New Cook Book"[0] in the kitchen of a family member.
That book is older than I am.

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