skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Call me cynical, but this could apply in most any industry:

Suppose that one tries to push back on inefficiency in generalーsomeone naive but well-intentioned, like myself, who is tired of the Long March of interminable meetings. In fact, I expressed my concerns about the proliferation of unproductive meetings in the clinical department to the C-suite executives (with whom I remain on good terms!) and, together, we carefully planned a series of reforms to company culture designed to reduce meeting burden. We hoped to implement a soft cap on the number of meeting participants and the length of a meeting, to normalize efficient behavior such as leaving meetings midway if you no longer need to participate in the remainder, starting meetings on time without 15 minutes of small talk, and a mandated review of all recurring meetings with the intention of pruning overall meeting load by >50%.

Ironically, on the morning that we planned on roll out these reforms, we received urgent and vehement protests from a member of middle management who was notorious for obsessively overscheduling meetings with huge participant lists just for the sake of “inclusion” and “engagement.” Because this particular manager was currently playing a crucial role in managing the rollout of several clinical trials at the same time, executive management judged that the risk of alienating him was too high, and to this day I believe these reforms remain unimplemented (although I hear he has since left the company, so perhaps my slides will eventually see the light of day).
Another neat trick is to add a link in robots.txt and instruct bots to stay away. If they don’t, you add them to your blocklist
You are free to keep using MS-DOS for your computing needs...

But the majority of people choose to use a modern computer, presumably because they find it overall more useful than their old MS DOS computer and software.

Sure - there are gripes, but they must be outweighed by something pretty big for 99.99% of people to choose a new computer over a 30 year old one.
FTX.us or intl?
It's fascinating to watch all of the powers that be fighting this ownership change so hard. I wonder why they found control of Twitter so important..?
> The humans who work there tend to be clueless about the specifics of an industry and imagine all kinds of nefarious intent everywhere. They are often intelligent people, but just don't understand the industry.

Sometimes that's a good thing. "Understand[ing] the industry" often means buying into its bullshit and looking at the world from its self-interested perspective.
More like a-bit-more-recent Forrst
Variation does not equal distinction. You can have millions of gradients around white letters which will not be perceived by anyone as distinctive. On the other hand you can have black letters arranged in a million ways that will look distinctive. It's all a subjective selection.

There is an infinite number of ways to design a black logo. There is an infinite number of ways to design a blue logo. So which infinity has more distinctive logos?
ISPS are almost a natural monopoly, until you consider that many municipalities have exclusive deals with one or two of them.

Even if someone had the startup costs, they would literally not be allowed to compete because of collusion between government and entrenched business.
> Yes yes I know that it's not a Latin word.

It came into English from scientific (not classical) latin, so it kind of is.
Kind weird perception. I did a startup 6 years ago that was Kotlin all the way.
Wouldn't they know going in what high-command's view of the ship was? Couldn't they judge the ship and crew against the others in the fleet?
Even when the plane is tipped over at 15* (or whatever their max bank angle happens to be)? The floor is no longer directly underneath you.
> A key thing he leaked today was that only 30% of Twitter's ad revenue was performance based. For the other 70% of brands on Twitter, they are only there because they wanted to be there. No one is losing money by pulling Twitter ads. No one is swooping in to replace them.

Didn't see where this was mentioned. Does this mean that like 30% were under contract, the other 70% can stop any time?
a new chemical storage for energy
Symbols not stripped? That could be fun... is there a simple way of downloading unencrypted ipas from the app store without access to a jailbroken phone?
Burning out your employees with highly technical work on your other company during PTO seems almost as bad.
At least in Europe having the blinds open (and the lights dimmed at night) is an airline requirement.

https://news.schiphol.com/why-do-the-window-blinds-have-to-b...
> New boss wants subscriptions to account for half of revenue

Bahaha, be careful what you wish for!
Ehhh, that's misleading. The SEC often files enforcement actions directly with the DOJ and the SEC attorneys are often dual-hatted as SAUSAs.
Amazon debuts new warehouse robot that can do human jobs
This xkcd is always posted when anything related to a standard is mentioned, but almost never in response to a standard that was actually created to unify all standards in its space.
You are assuming that he is optimizing for employee happiness. I am not associating a value judgement to whether that is the right/wrong move in Twitter's context.

I wish that we, as a culture, stopped harping over what Elon Musk might do to Twitter next.

It does not matter. This will take some time to play out. I hope Twitter employees land on their feet. That is pretty much the only thing that matters. I don't have a lot of reasons to think that they won't barring some exceptions.
Safes with codes have existed for quite awhile, I would expect that there is precedent there if the police can make you open them/provide the code.
And they will continue to do so as long as corporate america is as lawless as it is. The FTC can't enforce the rules on everyone at the same time, so they have to choose their targets. And why should businesses play by the rules if in another 8 years at the most the FTC will be gutted again and the spectre ofenforcement disappears?

The only way for this to change is if the corporations start skirting on the right side of the law, and they won't do that voluntarily unless the risk is sufficiently high (see e.g. Sarbanes-Oxley). Don't blame the FTC, blame the purposeful undermining by alternating administrations.
> I'd love to hear a steelmanned argument in favor of it, maybe I'm missing something obvious?

If it were a big shipment of plutonium laced heroin, it seems fair game.

I think the biggest issue with civil asset forfeiture is the conflict of interest where police departments are keeping/using the seized assets. From the outside it looks a lot like the government acting like a gang.

The other big problem is it seems like it is up to the owner to prove the assets "innocence", rather than police proving the assets were the result of illegal activity.

If assets are seized, they need to go to a third party that can store them safely, return the assets to their owners. If found "guilty", the assets should go to some victims of crime fund, or destroyed.
> Give Musk a chance… guy knows how to build and grow companies

Not sure, is there a government bailout or subsidy for tech companies as he got with Tesla?

https://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-201...
But it only does so because you can move out that extra work from the async thread into a thread pool.

In Python there's no benefit in doing this due to the GIL, unless you're using a module which implements its own multithreading (for example in C). Python is not alone with this issue.

In other languages you're basically stepping out of the async paradigm in order to use threading in parallel. You can wait for result of the thread in the async loop without blocking.

I really enjoy using asyncio in Python for things where I have to do a lot of stuff in parallel, like executing remote scripts in a dozen of servers in parallel via AsyncSSH or for low workload servers which query databases.

In any case, what keeps me hooked on Python like a junkie is the `reload(module)` which I invoke via an inotify hook every time a file/module changes:

server.py

server_handler.py

reloader.py

server.py loads reloader.py (which sets up inotify) and that one takes care of reloading server_handler.py whenever it changes. server.py defers all the request/response handling to server_handler.py which can be edited on the fly so that the next request executes the new code. Instant hot reloading.

This also works very nice with asyncio (like aiohttp) and one ends up with very readable code.

If you need performance, then use Java, Rust, Go or C/C++, but for prototyping and tooling I absolutely love this approach with Python.
Mem`s note-taking app plans to use AI to create a personal search engine
The worst people will never leave on their own.
how much skin in the game .. isn’t this a leveraged buyout, with twitter on the hook for the borrowed money ..
Seems to me in the specific case of wealthy foreigner owns smuggled good a better (more just) arrangement accuses them not the goods, but with the mechanism that if they for some reason don't want to attend court (maybe because they're super guilty?) their goods are seized but the crime still exists.

There are some nuances to work out to ensure cops can't accuse say Vladimir Putin of a crime involving the $8000 they found in your house, and then since Putin doesn't show up they keep your money, but the general idea seems more sound than civil forfeiture.
What are you insinuating would have been the better approach here? It sound like you would have wanted harder lockdowns and/or pursue a zero Covid strategy?
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FYI, in the technology world of 2022, HCI tends to mean Hyperconverged Infrastructure.
FTX Employees Try to Sell Assets with Bankman-Fried Away
I don't know if this is just scoped to my company, but drone seemingly supports starlark, which is just python
Because the 1950s is the only decade that’s a villain.
The connection would be that popular posts in the discussion are criticizing Silicon Valley investor culture.

> Moreover, even if there were ...

Makes sense. You have a much better view of that than me.
Camera off almost all the time. One on ones, stand-ups, all hands. I don't need to see you and you don't need to see me. I've yet to hear a compelling argument for cameras on, especially if there's an active screen share.

Only exception is if I'm giving some sort of formal presentation.
I hear what you're saying but consider we're going on two entire generations of brilliant people being spent largely on just putting an ad on your phone and computer. The stock market isn't the only waste of intelligence.
He also attempted to claim that the problem was due to an issue with the "labelling" of funds...this story leaks, we know he has been telling people he lent the money to Alameda, and in these tweets he is now saying that he has a problem expressing what happened...

...I feel bad for him because he obviously believes his own bullshit, but he should have just said nothing rather than lie about what happened and pull the Mr. Magoo act.
Every retail store sales at price higher than retail? Do they now... I just bought GoW Ragnorok at retail $30 cheaper than its listing on the PSN Store. This is the same for most new release titles, retail is cheaper.

Besides, you can't compare the real world with digital. The real world isn't a near infinite space with millions of items are available in a single place for everyone in the country with a connected device to view and purchase.
Thanks for the link!

The camera shots that are shown in that paper are really restricted in what they can see. How can the model possibly estimate the position of an arm that is not visible?
>> It sounds good as long as the White House doesn't try to use the FTC as a political weapon to disadvantage their opponents. Like going after Amazon for their union stance or Facebook for their censorship stance.

> The FTC is an independent federal agency, and the President doesn't have the same amount of control over it that he has over federal executive departments.

Isn't that the same as the FCC? We all know what happened with it and Net Neutrality during the Trump administration.

If it's staffed/led by the right people, it could act as a semi-autonomous political weapon.
For some reason I thought Roald Dahl was a fighter pilot, but maybe that was just one of his stories, or maybe I misremember.
there are a variety of caveats, on your side it is per entity.

If you are married it is 500K, if you have a trust it is like 1.25M. 250K for each beneficiary up to 5 (or something like that).
"at least 40 hours in the office"

Why would anyone work for this douche? Even if you make a lot of money, you aren't going to get your time back later. There's no reward for killing yourself to appease a rich workaholic. The only prize you win is burning out or getting laid off.
A lot of the reasoning for business/regional jets maintaining the high tail mount engine layout is FOD avoidance. Operating out of shorter runways/smaller airports this becomes an issue.
He doesn’t get it. The entire brand is tarnished. Nothing to salvage.
Running your own mail server is a great source of data to identify botnet-compromised hosts.

When I started banning IPs that send "HELO <myhostname>" for 24 hours, I cut the number of fake login/registration attempts on a bunch of my web-based projects by ~50%.

It works the other way, too. Temporary bans on hosts that try to access /wp-admin (I don't run Wordpress anywhere) cut my email spam significantly.

(Some day, I'll get around to implementing a real reputation tracking system, with exponential ban lengths.)
Idea: How about a blended wing aircraft - that never has to land?

Fuel, Passengers, luggage and waste arrive via shuttles from the airport, while the plane circles slowly, docking in flight?
Other passenger and personal on end of shift. Leave the same way, to other shuttle craft and the plane flies ever onward.

Only reason to ever land is maintenance which can not be performed mid flight.

In theory, a specialized shuttle might even switch an engine mid-flight if its constructed for it.

For the landings that are unavoidable other special shuttle-craft attach and bring along wheels or flotation packages.

Emergency landings?
Just go with a set of parachutes, after arresting momentum. Or with flotation devices.

The resulting craft would be lighter, more economic, the downtime by its very nature would be lower.

Airports would not have to be rebuild, except for the spoke which harbors the albatrosses.
Agreed! My curiosity was piqued by OP, but this description is what actually convinced me to buy the book.
like lotteries and gambling.
FTX extended loans to Alameda using money that customers had deposited on the exchange for trading purposes

If that's true, Bankman-Fried should go to jail. It wasn't FTX's money to lend.
I mean this with complete sincerity but perhaps given current market, business, and global conditions, perhaps we should assume nefarious intent anytime a company breaks a rule in a way that causes them to profit? It's not like evil or shady behavior is in short supply.
Asking software engineers to make legal determinations on behalf of the company. What could possibly go wrong?
> almost every professional recording you hear uses autotune

That seems a bit too general. If we narrowed that down to a few popular music genres I would probably subscribe to it. Plenty of solo artists wouldn't be caught dead using autotune or melodyne or whatever (outside of using it for effect/intentional distortion). When being an exceptional singer is your entire brand, you don't want to show up with training wheels.
I think we're going to see lots more NLP applications in HCI but it feels more than a bit of a stretch to say CLIs are 'just a version' of NLP. The distinction between formal and natural language is a big deal and at the core of the growing importance of NLP (it kinda works now whereas before it kinda didn't).
> the best we can achieve is to stop early, as soon as the trial has a clear outcome

That must be really hard: if you wait for 95% confidence, you are selecting for 5% noise. If you repeatedly re-measure for 95% confidence, you strongly select for random noise.

Not many medical advancements provide such an anomalously strong signal (98% survival versus 30% survival).
> The biggest difference here is that distros vet their maintainers, often with a lengthy process similar to hiring someone at a company

This is very surprising to me. During the debacle over Rust in the Python cryptography package maintainers were saying it's unreasonable to expect them to read dependency changelogs.
Because CPI looks better than expected. The entire market goes up.
And because Apple's own customisations to LLVM bitcode.
compliance to what? all those regulations are just hindering the operation of the free market, and we started this whole crypto thing to avoid them on purpose?
Thats great to hear iancmceachern.

"I'm a mechanical engineer, I've designed a ton of cool things, I do it every day. I deeply love it, and get better at it every day because I want to."

is a perfect example to as why anyone should pursue mechanical engineering. It's because you love it and managed to be compensated well.
Not unless someone has found a way to make crossing the street as stimulating as watching cute kitten videos. I really think it's almost a neurological type of issue-- phones are just so stimulating there isn't much in the real world that can compete. Even when driving a car people will glance at their phones for dangerously long. They know it's dangerous, but they're not necessarily making the conscious decision to take the risk-- they just take a quick impulsive glance to see what that person is texting them
There's nothing stopping them from making new "characters" that sound more realistic.
Meta’s layoffs could be devastating to immigrants on work visas
NIH-Funded “Food Pyramid” Rates Lucky Charms Healthier Than Steak
It might look like you sold it if you do, and you might get audited (Coinbase reports accounts with transactions above a certain level), it might be difficult to move it all at once, and you better be super comfortable with managing your on wallet (might want to get used to using them with a small amount before diving all in with it), but otherwise, probably not a bad idea.

Coinbase is probably at much less risk than these other companies, as they make money entirely off fees, not lending coins out, and have weathered more bear markets than any other exchange at this point (that I'm aware of at least), so they're probably the safest place to keep it if you're going to keep it not in your own wallet, but still, not your keys, not your bitcoin, and all that.
This comment came a few times but it really doesn’t make sense to me.

How many people actively try to become billionaires like he did in a systematic way?

And contrary to many entrepreneurs, I don’t see where he got especially lucky.
That is kind of the opposite of innovating, no? The idea that the company is depending on prior innovation? Unless you are saying the updates contain innovation.
> Why is his way so celebrity like?

Quiet, corporate ways don't result in free advertising.
It's not really marginal efficiency. It's ~60% efficiency for a natural gas system, higher for a system with point-source capture on that natural gas. I'm not sure how exactly it pans out with the inefficiency of extraction but as I understand it those are fairly minor.

That's not to say that I think DAC is a silver bullet or something - it's obviously not because the CAPEX costs are huge at the moment.
Next buys Made.com scraps for £3M just one year after £775M IPO
I think it's just because I prefer the organization of the information, giving you things like the type chart up front and center.

It's also the site I used more as a kid so there's probably some loyalty bias.
They don't, that's just my napkin math.
Ah you're right, and how could we forget <frame>(s)?!
>He has to strip down the car fast while somehow also keeping it road-worthy and operational.

But this is my point. By doing it in this order he is risking continued operation of Twitter because he no longer can ensure Twitter can either properly staff business critical teams or retain critical institutional knowledge for how to run the company. He is jeopardizing the continued viability of a $44b investment to save maybe a few hundred million max.
I managed to get this screenshot at least:

https://twitter.com/findgriffin/status/1590822569883873280
Reddit, TikTok, Youtube, and 4chan are all flourishing. Ian's a known pessimist. We're seeing economic effects on corporations here, not disinterest in social networking.

Dunbar's number of 150 meaningful relationships has built into it a definition of "meaning" which was not anticipated back in 1992. The meaning of meaning changes.

Furthermore, the constraint that meaning has on communication is not fleshed out. Sure I only have 150 meaningful relationships... but I still subscribe to 1000s of youtube channels to learn to fix my toilet, compose music, meditate, etc. These are meaningful to me, but don't require a traditional relationship. The meaning is, now, "I improve my life, and suffer the first 5 seconds of an advertisement for it.
Yes, ETOPS ratings have been extended as engines have gotten more reliable.

Another factor is that we have learned to make bigger engines as well. So nowadays with two engines you can power a pretty big plane. And due to how turbine efficiency tends to scale with size, two big engines is more fuel efficient as well as saves on maintenance costs vs. having more but smaller engines.

For an extreme example, look at the B-52 with 8 engines. That was what was available back when the plane was designed, but nowadays the thrust from those 8 engines (about 600kN in total) can easily be exceeded by two modern large turbofans.
That reminds me of that video of Hunter S. Thompson shooting at his neighbor with a lugar.
Chase is also more restricted in how the investment banking side of the business can use funds from the retail banking side, precisely because banks in the 1920s did play fast and loose with investing customer deposits, which caused a bunch of depositors to lose savings in the 1929 crash and associated bank runs.

The amount of interaction between the two sides that's allowed has increased and decreased over the years, but it hasn't been unrestricted since the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_investment_and_r...
I suspect that some sports teams have "rebranded successfully", especially given how silly some of the 80s baseball uniforms look now.
What's stupid is people thinking that someone who successfully rules over some of the most influential companies in the world is stupid. Reminds me of all those people who claim that Trump or Putin[1] are "stupid" where in reality they just mean "I don't like them".

[1] You can be a murderous dictator and not stupid, I would actually wager a guess that those people tend to actually be cleverer than average. Some applies to blood-thirsty CEOs.
Even though the pay is lower and hours longer - at his other companies they offered stock options that at least 20x’d over the past 10 years at SpaceX and Tesla.

If the employees at Twitter think under Musk’s leadership that they can grow the company to 200 billion or more - then yea it’d be worth staying to collect stock that no one else can get now.

Hopefully they’re giving the remaining employees generous stock awards for staying. With the user base they have there’s no reason they can’t grow the company a lot with the the right strategy.

Musk has already discussed attacking YouTube directly and it sounds like he wants to expand into other social network niches. The whole X.com thing.

A lot of Twitter employees could come out pretty wealthy if successful. If it were me I’d stick around a year at least to see which way this whole thing is going.
Are there any Android phones with a similar feature?