skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, his ultimate hedge is that both his parents are Stanford law professors. Slam dunk unlikely.
I wonder what the carbon cost of generating the certificates and sending/emailing them is?
No idea why you're being downvoted. It is a fact that he donated ~40M to politicians this election cycle.[1] If I had to guess the donations were part of a hedge to avoid accountability for this scam he ran.

[1]https://www.opensecrets.org/elections-overview/biggest-donor...
If you want a flag to rally around, the 'no meta' one is better and a lot less effort.
Twitter's business model is a clusterfuck. Whatsapp's isn't.
As a non-local, when I hear "tube" I think toothpaste, swimming and repairing tire punctures. Mass transit may not even be in my top 5 - and that's fine.

Human language ambiguity and locals have their shibboleths - we don't have to optimize for tourists.
Good thing that I keep forgetting my passcode then.
This looks like a cautionary tale about automated marketing. Crafting a "celebrate $HOLIDAY with a bucket of chicken" seems to save an unnecessarily small amount of time while leading to this kind of embarrassment. It certainly doesn't look like it was malicious though, just stupid.

Nostalgically, I feel like there was a time when "holidays" were in a separate category from days of remembering an atrocity, so in the past this might have been safer. Though I can't really picture any holiday where KFC would be appropriate
https://web.archive.org/web/20221109025610/https://www.sequo...
Born with an emerald spoon in his mouth, it's no surprise that Musk has no empathy with the common worker.

On top of his ridiculous level of wealth, he has an absurdly large ego to go with it, and an army of turd-polishers ready to laud everything he does. This guy is too big-headed to fail.
Friday afternoon: 100% of Twitter's staff are competing with each other to find a new job.
>I know it's wrong to be biased towards mainstream thinking,

Why would this be wrong?
With Linode, Akamai expands into edge cloud computing development
Also, if in 2 years, Twitter's revenue isn't a fraction of what it was just before the Musk takeover, I'd be surprised.
There's a lot of software involved in both Tesla and SpaceX. Much more advanced software then a web app.
You can't expect getting paid and set the rules. If you don't like it, stop receiving pay, that allowes you to ignore the rules. It's fair.
So… they’re going to do something about the app store duopoly?
"Flipping" usually refers to buying older properties, doing upgrades and renovations, and then re-selling at a higher price. If you built the property new, it wouldn't become a good candidate for flipping until it passes into less-desirable status after some time has passed.

If you're talking about building new homes, what you're describing is pretty much "real estate development," which is a profitable but risky business in the U.S. A real estate developer has to work with local authorities to site the project, which is itself highly politicized and can take years. Then they have to secure capital, hire architects, engineers, builders, and comply with environmental laws. Only once the project is mostly done can they market the homes to potential buyers.
'20% of the day doing work and 80% enjoying company amenities' is ridiculous hyperbole. even if a hypothetical employee is doing that, putting them in the office clearly isn't enough to fix it since they supposedly put a tiktok video up saying 'i don't do my job' and they weren't fired
In a typical plane in turbulence, you can see the wings bending up and down. Perhaps a blended wing would be stiffer, though.
True, but absolute bank angle would also matter (say endpoint of roll when roll acceleration is zero) because now there's a component of gravity pulling you sideways.
The point is that it enables musicians who would never have found a vocalist before this. Vocaloid has been around a decade and hasn't eliminated any jobs, unless maybe someone hurt their throat trying to sing Disappearance of Hatsune Miku.

There's hardly any evidence automation ever destroys jobs; it seems to actually create them. It's very silly people just keep claiming this.
So there are only half a dozen more significant objections.

No, this is virtue signally at it's finest.
The Productivity Handbook for Busy People
There are always newspaper titles saying "we need more engineers", "where are all the engineers" or something similar.

To answer that. It's simple. The pay is bad.

We study for 4-5 years to get an Mech engineering degree and are promised 80K AUD+ starting salary (by many Australian universities).

The truth is you end up in debt whilst being removed from the work force for 4-5 years while studying. And you end up earning 40K AUD a year maybe a random few might earn 80K a year.

You end up in a position where you are highly trained and educated just to do CAD file translations. Surrounded by people who are not trained or educated who earn just as much or more then you.

Most Mechanical engineers (if smart) leave engineering and go to finance/software. I'd agree that the world needs more engineers to build things and make things more efficient and automated but the world wants and rewards administration and bureaucracy.
He was also the 6th largest political donor for the 2022 election cycle.
Investment properties not generally insured against loss in market value, no matter how drastic.
> Play stupid games, win stupid prices

Prizes. Win stupid prizes.
Because to gain some stability about the raw LLVM bitcode they had to maintain their own fork, and most likely decided it wasn't worth the effort any longer.

Somehow people keep missing that Apple's clang and LLVM aren't the same one gets from clang.org.
We have never done it for a highly contagious respiratory virus with multiple animal reservoirs. SARS-CoV-2 will be with us forever. It's time to accept the risks and move on.
Thank you, this is what I was looking for!
Nobody said anything about not being on time. Just not fast.
why would anyone want to work for this asshole? It's not like the employees are well paid compared to other companies. If I wanted to get fisted, I'd just go to amazon and get a bigger check for it
> ...has regulations and insurance behind it.

And billion dollar bailouts. With a few billions every decade or so, FTX probably survives such crises multiple times over.
Prior to Musk’s arrival, Twitter had established a permanent work-from-anywhere arrangement for its workers

...for some definition of the word "permanent".
Will it reboot if it's not on network?
Great question!

I’m not an expert so someone correct any of this that is wrong, but there are broadly speaking two types of funds:

Accumulation and Distribution

Accumulation funds will do the reinvesting internally, so they really are set-it-and-forget-it vehicles.

(Distribution units hold the dividend returns as cash, i dont use these, I’m not really sure why anyone would but I assume there’s a tax reason somewhere).
Even worse, they're offering reduced ads as a part of their new subscriptions, so every subscription actively decreases ad revenue.
Remote work is about the only thing where I very much disagree with Musk. I get it for engineering physical things. But not for web software. In that area, remote works much better than in-office, at least for me.
Great write up! Looking forward to Part 2.
While there is a lot of unfortunate size bloat in iOS apps (like the one in the article), including unnecessary architectures is not one of them.

See the app thinning section here: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/doing-advanc... (which is automatically done on all apps distributed through the App Store)
When we started putting the trial together, we were still self funded. In medical device, to get to series A you need human data, so by doing the trial protocol ourselves, we avoid the chicken and egg problem of needing money in order to raise money. Once you get human data, your valuation skyrockets.
China Displays Mammoth ‘Anti-Starlink’ Radar SLC-18P at Zhuhai Airshow
I survived two rounds of layoffs before I jumped ship.
The work environment was just wasn’t pleasant after the first round.

Actually I can’t imagine a scenario where I’d be happy people got let go. (Even I felt kinda bad when “annoying talk politics everyday real loud for at least 30 minutes while everyone is working hard guy” got let go)..
Don’t listen to the naysaying, it’s a cool idea, thanks I’ll be looking forward to using it.
From [1] "At the end of 2022, we will publish the code of OpenTalk under (presumably) the EUPL or possibly also AGPLv3"

[1] https://opentalk.eu/en/community
You got it, chief.
The one publicly known production use of bitcode was that it allowed them to recompile all existing armv7 watchOS apps as arm64_32, which made it so that the first 64-bit apple watch could run existing apps. This required specifically designing arm64_32 (which is arm64 but with 32-bit pointers) to enable this, and isn't really a viable approach for anything other than this specific scenario where they knew that they'd be migrating to a specific new architecture in the future.

Before the first 64-bit watch was announced they were very vague and hand-wavy about what bitcode was for because they had to keep the upcoming products a secret, and sort of implied that it'd be used for things which didn't actually make very much sense.
Sounds like your're agreeing with GP?

He didn't actually found Paypal or SpaceX either.
The likelihood of it actually landing is quite low, because I suspect quite a few people would agree with you, and as long as rustfix can deal with it I also don't care as strongly about it ^_^
You stay home then. I’d go (if I worked at Tw).
Is this true? Sounds exciting if so.
Many long covid symptoms explained in 4 min via autonomic dysfunction (35:00)
Cellebrite sits on a pile of unlock exploits for Apple devices and sells unlocking services to law enforcement, or presumably anyone with money.

https://cellebrite.com/en/cas-sales-inquiry/

Zerodium brokers sales of iOS FCP Zero Click for $2m. I expect they sell to people like Cellebrite who can make a profit selling expensive unlocks and keeping the vuln secret.

https://www.zerodium.com/program.html

All phones are security shit shows. It is just a game of how well known this months exploits are and how much someone has to gain by targeting you.
"Quod licet iovi non licet bovi."
My daughter was born at 29 weeks. After getting out of NICU, our neonatologist strongly recommended Palivizumab to give her by immunity as RSV for premies is bad news. The catch is that insurance didnt cover it and it cost about 1300 SGD per dose.
Boeing has proven that you don't need a radical plane design to have it fail. So probably the same people that were held accountable with the 737 Max killing 346 people.
I have to admit I found this tl;dr. That's my bad, because it's an important article.

All the bureaucratese in the RFPs and heavy-duty lawyering just add, unnecessarily and hugely, to the cost. At bottom, though, you have:

1) A lot of human beings who have to be recruited and paid to be subjects

2) Medical institutions that have to administer the drugs or run the devices

3) A sufficient amount of elapsed time for effects and side effects to manifest

4) A reporting system that's trustworthy

So at best you could cut (puts finger to the wind) half the cost? Surely not 90%.
IMO the main issue with writing HTML is it takes a two-armed key-chord to do a < or > char.
> There is some crazy public belief that it is more fuel efficient

There are a number of engineers at NASA and Boeing working on the X-48 who would disagree with you on this one.

The main advantage of the blended wing body is to reduce the skin friction drag [0] of the aircraft relative to the typical fuselage and wings. You have less surface area in contact with the air relative to the amount of internal volume. There may be some increase in the profile drag (i.e. the cross section of the aircraft) but is made up for by the reduction in the skin friction drag.

> The fuel burn of a B2 is far higher pound for pound than a 737.

This isn't really a fair comparison. They are two aircraft optimized for entirely different things.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_friction_drag
Dito, but before doubting myself.. radical new, wow.
Some fascinating things.

The first one I happened to look at has the only hypercard entry. Someone made, in 1991, a user pattern recognition engine to automatically recognize and automate repetitive tasks in the GUI[0,1].

0: http://acypher.com/Publications/CHI91/EagerCHI.html

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6ZL4BXOfbk
Sounds like something i would love to do. Musk, the peepole farmer, would be in for a treat. But those who wish to fill in their social voids with onsite work wouldn't be game.
Twitter is going down. The question is whether it will take Musk down with it.
Regardless of the merits of remote/office or what this announcement would mean at a normal company, it sounds like it must be pure chaos at Twitter right now.
May be we should rethink the cost-plus structure of space/defense projects. There is an incentive for suppliers to run the billable-hours treadmill forever. See the F-35 program. I worked in defense and it was pretty much an internal joke/culture to "Just bill it to Sam".

There is probably a balance between incentivizing suppliers and keeping them afloat for defense reasons in the name of space exploration. We could probably do both at the same time and get tax payers more for their buck.

Like wouldn't it be awesome to ship 4x JWSTs for the same cost? We could get 4x more data and have redundancy in the project, etc. Or we could run 1 JWST project + X more projects to explore space, send probes, etc. for the same cost to tax payers. I am not proposing this and they're silly suggestions, just to give some color to opportunity costs that incurs in these overbloated gov projects.
Banking isn't a problem in practice or your coffee wouldn't stay in your cup while standing on the table.
A lot of Twitter employees live nowhere near SV, or even an office. The only way to interpret this is that Musk either wants to force more people to leave, or doesn't realize that they're going to leave as a result of this move.
Twitter has already been having reliability issues for weeks or more, that's not going to get better if you lay off a bunch of your ops and sweng personnel
Any method that requires you to trade frequently is not good to get you and keep you rich.

Also you don't get rich by paying for liquidity (which is not to say you will always get rich providing liquidity)
He said the investment was part of Teachers’ strategy to learn about the crypto business and whether it gives the right balance of risks and returns. “I don’t think we have the answer to that question yet,” Mr. Taylor said.

Holy shit.. they were openly investing in something they don't understand??
Vocaloid has been a thing for almost 20 years now. People still sing. Digital art has been a thing for longer, people still paint.

People do art because it's fun. Nothing will stop people from getting together in a band and jamming, because it's fun.
Thank you so much!

We know that carbon removal (and climate change in general) is a controversial topic so we really appreciate your kind words.
Perhaps I was being too self deprecating! We worked closely with the FDA through multiple QSub meetings to make sure it was up to snuff, and did a lot of legwork on the backend to make sure we understood what they were asking for. 3 or 4 revisions later, we had an approval!
Do you really need a sans-serif font here?

The old font looks like something you could see in an academic book, especially so that a similar one is used for printing in the UK. The new one looks like for... anything and therefore nothing.
This is a great quick read and it's interesting because it's an abstraction of many other markets (not just DeFi).

Reminds me of Damodaran's[0] focus on price vs. value when evaluating equities:

>I have long drawn a distinction between price and value, two terms that get used interchangeably in both academia and practice, but with very different drivers and implications. As we watch stock indices around the world gain and lose trillions each day, it is worth remembering that markets are pricing mechanisms, not value mechanisms, or as Ben Graham would put it, they are voting machines, not weighting machines, at least in the short term.

[0](Well-respected finance/valuation professor at NYU for anyone not familiar) https://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar/
He wasn’t, he was just loaning them to his other company.
Forgetting it is a crime, too.
Iberian here. The Aztecs were scary compared to the contemporary Hispanics. So did the ancient Celtic/Iberian or Celtiberian tribes.
Sequoia did a nauseating, hilarious puff piece on him a couple months ago and this guy sounds like Adam Neumann’s second coming.

https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/sam-bankman-fried-spotlig...
https://archive.ph/GQkCp

archive of google cache (best thing I can do!)
> Arunachal Pradesh, a region east of Bhutan that is controlled by India but claimed by China.

For context on this one: a large part Arunachal Pradesh was part of Tibet, and as such of the Chinese Empire. After the 1911 Revolution Tibet split from China and in 1914 Tibet ceded that territory to the British.

Obviously that was never accepted by China (be it the ROC or PRC).

Interestingly, in 1962 China (re-)conquered it from India but then withdrew, which does not exactly strengthen their claim.
Do you have any sources for this? My understanding is that hybrid wings reduce weight needed for structural components. Since fixed wings basically trade drag for lift, reducing weight can more than offset increases in profile/shape that increase drag.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2013/01/24/180345/hybrid-wi...
There are known expired strategies that generated large profits for long periods of time. In some cases the people involved in developing the strategies have directly published things explaining what they did.
The idea that all lines of code are equal (in difficulty) is so absurd as to (in my memory) have been never discussed on HN before. Everyone here knows it. How could Elon not?
A bit confused about your requirements.

Aren't those boards like $200? Can't you get a "normal" computer at that range?
If you have infinite capital, and the market is infinitely liquid, sure. c.f. martingale betting strategies.
Yes, WhatsApp seem more complex.

In all seriousness, I think many of us are falling into the trap that the PayPal guy fell into. Twitter isn't just the app and the website. So it's much harder to run and maintain than it seems like from the outside. If it was just the Tweets, why would they ever need more than 10 iOS developers for instance?

If we cut Twitter into what it is on the surface, and perhaps lose some data retention, then sliming down the engineering organization significantly should be possible with the right people. Not to 50, that's really low for a platform the size of Twitter. That being said: 7500 employees is also way to many for what they do, or at least for how little money they make.
Don't typical contracts for people like Twitter's staff in the US come with timing requirements on quitting? As in, you can't really quit "on the day", you have to leave proper notice and so on?

I understand that in practice once someone says "I quit!" there might be little interest from the employer to keep them around, but in a scenario like you outline I would be very afraid of legal ramifications.

Just a thought, I don't really have an opinion here, Twitter is pretty "meh" in my view. I of course hope it ends well for the employees!

Edit: spelling, and fix weird final double bang.
Taking the benefit away from employees currently exercising it (with zero grace period) is a little different than someone joining a company knowing they don't do remote work from the start.

I'm not saying it makes Elon Musk a bad person (I think he's a bad person for plenty of other reasons), but I do think it's a poorly thought out move on his part that will cause some of the better employees that survived the layoffs to quit.
For every option and share bought, there is someone who sold it on the other end. Doesn't require much insider trading, given that for every trade that went poorly on one side, it went well for the person on the other side of it. Whether it went poorly on the sell or buy side, it doesn't matter.

Given this, you can see why there are just actual purely statistical reasons for tons of trades going well with zero insider trading needed for that. Half of them are bound to do well. Whether you can consistently stay on the "good side" of your trades is a separate story, though.

P.S. Not trying to deny that insider trading exists, but its prevalency tends to be extremely overblown.
In case anyone wants a link to the thread, here it is: https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709166515310593?s=20&...

It was actually in an adjacent paywalled article (https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-11-...). If anyone knows a way to bypass that paywall, I'd be curious to read the rest.
I think this may be a misattribution of what soaks up time: is it the change itself or the friction of the process of making that change?

e.g. code changes are easy but merging and build procedures take a log of time, encouraging larger batches of concurrent work.
That’s Peloton’s entire business model lmao
No. And Musk already said so. What’s the intention of the FUD?
Aside from perhaps images, I wish that browsers didn't try to render more complex content. I'd much rather be able to easily watch YouTube and embedded videos, for example, in an external player. And I've almost always ended up reopening PDFs in an external viewer, or configured the browser to do that by default where that option exists.

Maybe Markdown isn't as much of an issue as the videos and PDFs are, but it seems to me like it's better handled externally from the browser, or perhaps by an optional browser extension.
I don't think money is the problem.

It's the extra complexity to move markdown rendering from the control/responsibility of the server side, where it fits naturally, to the user-agent side, where it doesn't -- and for something that site publisher can already do (and evidently, rarely want to do).
> The mod's post makes it pretty clear the primary reason for the removal is that the tweet (and reddit post title) implies the features are coming to C++, while in reality they're an extension actually coming to OP's compiler.

The mod used the term "off-topic" - even your explanation states that the removal has nothing to do with the tweet and reddit post title being off-topic, but rather about being misleading. I assume the implications of "off-topic" (implications being that everything related to Circle is off-topic and therefore will be deleted) were what caused the author's reaction.

> GCC works with the existing C++ community and standards committees

Note that it wasn't always the case. Even with the C compiler, GNU extensions used to be non-standard, until GCC got popular enough for the committee to start caring. Many GNU extensions to C became standard C - but back in the day, they weren't C. Taxonomy of languages is an inherently unclear area with many shades of gray, both with natural and programming languages.

> I don't think it's fair to claim it 100% cannot be a different language just because GCC has extensions

True, Circle provides significantly more extensions to C++ than GCC.

I guess my point is that, in context of the /r/cpp, it's not that off-topic, the same way as discussing Groovy on a Java subreddit would probably not be off-topic - even though Groovy defines a huge number of extensions to the Java language, it's still a derivative of Java and has a lot to do with Java. I simply disagree with that level of puritanism on subreddits.