skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
An interesting book on this topic: https://equilibriabook.com/ - Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky.

Societies (and smaller groups like companies too) could get stuck in a shitty "equilibria" - where even a non-expert can spot the inefficiencies, suggest obvious improvements, and yet not have the change occur. A great analysis of the unfortunate gridlock we find ourselves in sometimes.
I don’t think his trip to the Bahamas was a coincidence so I think he will use his resources to make it difficult.

Also another thing to consider is wether he will stay in the Bahamas if it becomes a problem.
> Do you think more CEO from startup going to try to emulate Elon?

If his strategy is successful, and 6 months from now he emerges with a Twitter 2.0 that everyone agrees is much better, then yes.
I enjoy using the CSS named colors for web design because it provides a limited set of options to choose from. It's easier to decide on the best choice from a limited set of options than it is to find the global maximum in the entire RGB space.

I'll also forever have a fondness for "cornflower blue" because it was the default fill color when you created a new C# Xbox 360 game using Microsoft XNA.
Ah, very cool! Yeah, that makes sense. Appreciate you taking the time to write up a quick explanation and send a reference. I'll check it out.
Interesting comment regarding the window manager, I had to use a Mac at work recently and apparently one has to use 3rd party tools to be able to snap windows. Coming from KDE Plasma I found this astonishing.
He is a free speech guy. Now he should embrace the consequences.
He should have outlined the reasons to stay. Compensation, including a new stock plan. A vision of where the company is going.

Giving everyone who is unhappy a graceful exit was the right idea, but he didn't give many reasons to stay even if you were happy.
I love the idea of fully customizing the hardware of my laptop. I think there are many user out there want to do it as well.
Damn, looks good, I'm installing it on my ecomm site now to test it out, will let you know how it goes
It seems that they engage in some degree of Epicureanism, as well.
It's not quite "reverse engineering" if you just need to read the kernel code (which Apple publishes).

It's undocumented, yes - but it's not like it wasn't there.
Palo Alto Networks Acquires Cider Security for $195M
Yo thanks! Will check all these out.
Estonia already has experience with faked election results with paper voting, due to Russian occupation. So that argument doesn't work as well in Estonia.

Yes the electronic system can have flaws, but the old system didn't prevent the issues either. So might as well go with convenience.
A reminder why to choose Firefox: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
I've definitely written Perl that someone has cursed at. Probably me!
> In what context were they using it? I know that's what Wikipedia says, but their reference is behind a paywall. From what I can see of it, this is not how this phrase was initially used.

Here's another source attesting it to the Reagan administration in 1985[1]. To be clear, it doesn't even make sense for it to have come from the larger-government sphere: why would they refer to the US Government as "the beast"?

I have no idea what Proposition 13 is (although I'm guessing it's a California thing). In the context of US federal politics, "starving the beast" refers to a general "pincer" policy of both reducing funding and minimizing the effectiveness of that funding (e.g. by increasing outflows to contractors and other private services while decreasing oversight over those outflows).

[1]: https://www.independent.org/pdf/tir/tir_12_01_01_bartlett.pd...
is acceptance growing? I feel like I used to have the option of paying with Bitcoin more often a few years ago.
How would you measure impact?
I find Google's take on code reviews to be particularly good:

https://cloud.google.com/architecture/devops/devops-tech-tru...
Being available is still useful to your employer on some level. Even if you are watching videos, you can close it the minute you get a ping that needs your attention.

The only completely unproductive state is if you're doing nothing for your job and also refuse to respond to communications.
Well people are working on it. As a random example I recently stumbled upon the "lazy RCU" patch in Linux. RCU is of course the synchronization mechanism to have mutable shared data across threads where reads don't need mutexes. Did you know that Linux's answer to "how do know this shared pointer can safely be freed" is conceptually to schedule the current thread on every single CPU? That doesn't sound power efficient and it isn't.

https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220901221720.1105021-1-joel@jo...
Meta:

> At Meta we call an individual set of changes made to the codebase a “diff.”

GitHub:

> Pull request

Amazon:

> Change Request

GitLab:

> Merge Request

Google:

> Changelist

Nitpicking, but jesus christ, why can't we stick to a single term?
Change of bases being done with orthogonal projection derived from defining scalar product of two functions via finite integral of product of two functions: f dot g = integral f(x)g(x)dx over some interval.
Starlabs is the only alternative manufacturer that actually seems to make their own chassis, which in my opinion makes it the only thing comparable to a MacBook. No Clevo shell will come close.
I think this was orchestrated to not give Amazon employees any internal (or very few) options for transfer. First they freeze corp hiring and thousands of positions dry up, then a long drawn out layoff is initiated that gets leaked in the press way before any senior leadership pipes up to talk about it. You have allegedly have 60 days to find a new position in the company. What positions? There is a hiring freeze. Plus in classic Amazon fashion the severance is on the low end of the industry. Plus the added departures just from the stress of not knowing who gets cut next. I guess this has been orchestrated for maximum attrition, which seems to be their forte over there under the orange smile.

I'm not a fan of Zuckerberg, but his communication about the layoff at Meta was much more timely, clear and empathetic than this note from Jassy.

- Zuckerberg: https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-mes...

- Jassy: https://www.aboutamazon.com/news/company-news/a-note-from-ce...
Suddenly is the wrong word. You will need to decelerate, and that can't be done suddenly. If you decide to fly by your clock will still be ticking at a slow rate (from the point of view of an observer on Earth of course).
Big tech income depends on the whole economy, most of which interest rate dependent. I wouldn't say that the business model is unsustainable (it's more complicated than you said), it just becomes less profitable (as everything else).
They were employed by intelligence agencies, such as CIA, Mossad, and probably FBI too.

It's not a coincidence that the daughter of James Comey-- former Director of FBI-- Maurene Comey was "a lead prosecutor in Ghislaine Maxwell's child sex trafficking case" [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/maurene-comey-james-comey-da...
You are overblowing the Intel/AMD/Apple Silicon thing. Intel/AMD CPUs that aren’t complete cheapo garbage have more than enough performance to run all those fancy apps.
FTX had two exchanges: FTX.us for US customers (with limited features), and FTX.com for the rest of the world.
Hmmm the comments on this HN post look rather suspicious.
I guess many thought sovereign gold reserves were also impossible to sieze and yet...
If the average change is small, it's not a particularly challenging thing to take 5 minutes to review something. (for context, my median change, both mailed and reviewed, is under 50 LoC, though this will depend on language, e.g. Java is notably more boilerplate-y than the languages I usually use, and I do a lot of configuration changes that are 1-3 lines by nature).

Picking up a 5 minute review after you've returned from some existing context switch (a meeting, coffee, conversation, lunch, etc.) is easy enough.

As a result, around 25% of my reviews are done within an hour, and 10% within 10 minutes. I'm a slightly fast reviewer, but approximately the same applies to reviews done of my code. And that includes reviews that require interaction with peers in Europe, which obviously require much longer because they can be mailed while I'm asleep or the reverse.
Regulation can burden small businesses but also help them grow
Layoff is pretty different from termination. I.e. layoffs happen because of economic circumstances, but termination might happen for many reasons, i.e. underperformance (after or instead of PIP), misconduct, etc
Somehow math notation seems not to fit to this theory.
Related:

(all but the top one copied from dang at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30848667)

Zulip 5.0: Threaded open-source team chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30846659 - March 2022 (89 comments)

Zulip Cloud security vulnerability with reusable invitation links - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30479430 - Feb 2022 (35 comments)

Why Zulip will stand the test of time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29595926 - Dec 2021 (80 comments)

Why Zulip will not get on the blockchain bandwagon - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29205346 - Nov 2021 (195 comments)

Zulip 4.0: Threaded open source team chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27149123 - May 2021 (170 comments)

Zulip 3.0: Threaded Open Source Team Chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23860338 - July 2020 (133 comments)

Zulip 2.0: Open source team chat - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19284321 - March 2019 (96 comments)

Zulip Server 1.9: HipChat import and much more - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18400988 - Nov 2018 (123 comments)

Zulip – Open-source, threading-based Slack alternative - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622987 - July 2018 (99 comments)

Slack channels are a waste of time - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17622707 - July 2018 (49 comments)

Zulip 1.8: Free software Slack alternative with email-style threading - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16863675 - April 2018 (148 comments)

Zulip Server 1.6 released - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14506426 - June 2017 (14 comments)

Dropbox has open-sourced Zulip - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10279961 - Sept 2015 (313 comments)

Dropbox Acquires Zulip, A Stealthy Workplace Chat Solution Still In Private Beta - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7419408 - March 2014 (14 comments)
I do this too and am 32. The only way I like to play games is auto muting everyone and pinging everything. I often used to have people get in chat just to yell or curse you out to vent frustration. Like, I couldn’t even mute these guys, almost always males, fast enough for them to not get in a quick little shitty jab if we were losing. No thanks. We may have run past each other and respectfully pinged some badguys. It would be different if people had anything interesting to say outside of they typical hey what’s up talk.
I've got strong opinions and political thoughts on the term "political labels". Sure it once meant labels applied to politics, but now, who knows what it means? Both sides have misconstrued this term and now we shouldn't use it.
I think you're confusing the role of CPS with the police. It's the police who investigate crimes and provide evidence to the courts, who will in turn mete out any punishments.

CPS's job is to protect the kids. AFAIK they aren't involved in any kind of punishment. Any measures they take are limited in scope to the best interests of the children. Now, they're indifferent to the impact on the parents, so some of the measures to protect the kids can feel like punishment to the parents, but that's not their concern.

I keep feel like people aren't able to draw the line here between what CPS did and what the cops did. Absent more details on the story (and we always have to keep in mind that we're getting the version of the story that is most charitable to the mom), it sure seems like the cops really messed up here. Once the cops arrested her, that's when CPS got involved, and the consequences from CPS's involvement were pretty much inevitable, and frankly the least of the hardships placed on that family.
Situation: code review takes too much time.

Solution: announce unprecedented layoffs of 10000 programmers.

Resolution: no work to be done. code review team on schedule.
More details here: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/11/feds-arrest-russ...
> I'd say local code quality is generally good

Have you ever used facebook.com? At least the frontend is incredibly slow (on a thousands of € machine), so that's not synonym with quality in my experience.
Lots of great points in your blog post!

- I agree the animations should be faster, and we'll experiment if they are needed at all.

- We decided to duplicate tasks sometimes so we can order the next tasks on the left chronologically.

- Our monetization plan is to have a paid plan for business customers eventually.
Another person made a good point I'll extend on: you'd stay in Russia until you end up dying in Ukraine, viewed by people watching drone footage online
Whether or not he succeeds, I can see that the approach is worth trying. It takes some balls, but coming out and saying, ok, who wants to get serious and work, otherwise leave, is a great way to get at a committed core team. There are huge risks (too many actually good people leaving) but it also solves one of the biggest problems in tech right now which is a coddled workforce that only wants to do what they want. It had to end at some point, and just ripping off the bandaid is as good a thing to try as any.

Edit: I agree with the other post that there should be a clear upside for those who stay, not just keeping their jobs. I don't know enough about what was offered to comment myself
Researchers make miniature ‘bone marrows in a dish’
Is diff the best of them all though, because of the implication?
Huh, bought a paper magazine [1] on a whim today for the first time in IDK how long [2] and thought upon seeing this post's domain "that sounds familiar".

The backside of this magazine is a full-page ad for this exact laptop.

[1]: " c't Make: Sonderheft Elektro-Technik " https://www.heise.de/select/make/2022/7

[2]: Seriously, 12,90€ for one edition is IMHO too much to just buy every single one without all the content being something I'm really interested in.
Sit tight for many such events. The world is living in a hangover of cheap credit and money for too long. Governments don't know how to govern without this anymore.
It’s like he bought a $44 billion yacht, set it on fire, and watched it burn.
As programmers we take pride in being DRY. Copilot is helping us not reinvent the same concept 1000 times. It also makes developers happier, reduces the need to context switch, increases speed and reduces frustration.

> Github Copilot is constantly recommending things

It's only a momentary problem, will be fixed or worked around. And is this a bad thing to get as many suggestions as you could? I think it's ok as long as you can control its verbiage.

> does not gives you any social signals

I don't see any reason it could not report on the number of stars and votes the code has received. It's a problem of similarity search between the generated code and the training set, thus finding attribution and having the ability to check votes and even the license. All doable.

> an AI that does not have any self-preserving motivations

Why touch on that, people have bodies and AIs like Copilot have only training sets. We can explore and do new things, AIs have to watch and learn but never make a move of their own.
But there is a difference between “verbose code” and “adding comments”, isn’t it? There’s always the issue with comment-code disagreement. But mainly the point is about the language itself and the prioritization of terseness over unambiguity and intuition. Good mathematical notation strives for the latter, not the former.
There are going to be some very confused archaeologists in the future.
That’s what people are compliant about. It is increasingly clear that this is the hardware equivalent of a Ponzi scheme

I’m sure it didn’t start that way,
But as time goes on an on it’s harer to say it’s false.
why is nobody mentioning the new Depeche Mode album coming up with this name ?
Insofar as EA depends on the delusion that one is and always will be incredibly lucky, or was born into fortune. (Does it? Genuinely curious- it comes across rather tone deaf as an outsider)
That’s the neat part: You don’t!

But: It’s not hard to say „no, I have never seen him doing drugs“ or whatever.

Don’t expect everyone to say the truth just because game theory suggests to optimize for individual rather than mutual reward.
IME PR reviews are generally a half-assed substitute for pair programming. I don't really enjoy doing pair programming, but can't deny the effectiveness.
I'm against this because I'm against setting precedent for government mandated "banning" of Apps, facilitated by the centralized "App Store" cartel.
At first guess, landing/launching a new feature, and then possibly feature adoption.
Honestly, this is absurd. The garments should be your product, but you treat them as content for your website. Your pitch is not credible.
I would echo what others have said regarding the JetBrains model. For software that is valuable enough for me to pay for AND is something that I'm going to use regularly (which means it's gotta somehow be one of my daily drivers, typically a productivity or work or programming tool), I want the JetBrains model.
Have you considered git LFS, i.e., git Large File Storage?

I've used it to store 20-80GB of files in a repo and it works quite well.
I like the hierarchical dependancy structure, but judging from the screenshots this tool lacks anything close to the information density I want. I need to see way more of my content per screen.

As other(s) have commented an option to nix any animations would also be a must.
Kanzi in top three. So well deserved! I new saw one of those crisps I german supermarkets yet.
They've done a boneheaded thing or two - like opposing fusion, but I find myself in support of whatever ends the factory harvesting of animals.
> now they want to ban russophone schools

There is nothing about banning Russian language schools. It's about shifting state funding from Russian language to Estonian language. Privately funded Russian schools can keep operating. It's also not out of the blue, this has been talked about for over 30 years now. The latest developments are also still just more talk, no actual action has happened.

As for the culture of coldness, that is true. That also means though that if someone is nice to you, it's genuine. I personally much prefer this truthfulness to the USA style of fake niceness.
> Unlike lithium [1] uranium prices are not experience cost overruns

The 2007 Uranium bubble called. They would like to sell you some lithium futures for delivery on 2028 at costs based on an exponential fit.

> And unlike lithium, nuclear power already makes up 10% of the world's electricity generation. We only need an 8x increase (another 10% of electricity already comes from hydro) instead of a 1000x increase like we do with grid storage.

So after adding the first load for these reactors using hope, then operating them for 15 years, what do we do about the other 12TW of energy? What about the heavy casting facilities needed for thousands of reactor vessels? All the other critical minerals such as around half of the world's chromium production, vast quantities of precious metals and 100s of billions of litres a year of sulfuric acid production to process all the incredibly low grade uranium ore?

> The thing about nuclear energy is that there's so much energy contained in uranium that more exotic forms of extraction like seawater absorption [2] is feasible

I thought things that hadn't been done were completely impossible? Or do we get to acknowledge the TWh scale sodium ion supply chains and 100GW per year electrolyser supply chains that are being built right now as being vastly more realistic?

In any event, either this is a complete fantasy or the Vanadium that you necessarily get in much larger quantities even when using a sorbent that is as selective as possible for Uranium will provide half an hour to two hours of storage for capacity exceeding that of the nuclear reactor every time you refuel it. So at least filling the ocean with broken polymer ribbons will have a minor long term benefit.
Disagree. Let me introduce you to 5DWWBO6HPD (acronym is subject to change). 5 days, 6 hours.

If I dont have any meetings past my 6th hour of being in work-mode (including lunch time), I'm not going to produce anything that won't anger me future-self. The 5DWWBO6HPD also helps you to be actually productive after the 6th hour when the need arises every once in a while and you have to be on "Elon is breathing down my neck"-mode.
Not to be confused with https://zlib.net/
I grew up in the apple producing capital of the world.

There is no such thing as a fresh apple in retail. They are all picked just before they are ripe and stored in massive cold storage rooms with all the oxygen pumped out. Apples can spend up to two year in storage, and the best tasting sweetest apples are often the ones that have been stored the longest because they form more sugars.

Your entire concept of when an apple is good or not boils down to the time between when the ethylene is pumped into the room to start ripening to when you put it in your mouth.
From reading the comment thread I would say the front end would be macro, local would be like a specific function on the front end, like the friends list, that by itself could have "good code".
the history of money seems to be lost on you. It literally went through the same sorts of things. Fiat works because we learned. My Good that gun comparison was dumb.
‘Hardcore’ now means 40 hours a day.
Diff seems the best because the others describe internal details of the source code management implementation. Pull request, merge request, and changelist especially.
Gitchya. Going with the bad faith version. Could have said so more succinctly.
They are all diffs. Simple is better here.
I'd like to propose another to consider "delta"
I completely agree.

In fact, even just for specifically code-related work, think about code review. Really closely reviewing a big PR can take hours.

Here's a fun thought experiment. How many engineers in a team do you need before one of them could be employed full-time just reviewing others' code?

I don't know the answer, but it could be as few as 10 other team members, depending on the size and complexity of the PRs.

And reviewing code is extraordinarily productive - looking for correctness, code style and patterns, tool selection and usage, app structure, etc., etc. One of the best ways to mentor team members and help keep the codebase clean.
Meta had the best code review quality I've seen in my career.
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The CA/B baseline requirements include storage of the private key on a FIPS 140 Level 3 cryptographic device (i.e. an HSM) so there's a certain minimum degree of assurance there.
> You can also think of it as a 'rotation' operation - a change of basis into the frequency domain.

Is this only a rotation between two discrete states, or do intermediate angles exist?
I think this basically doesn’t matter and it’s fine for institutional culture to have its own ingroup jargon.

Trying to standardize for some aesthetic reason wouldn’t add anything
"Do not take advantage of a hired worker who is poor and needy, whether that worker is an Israelite or is a foreigner residing in one of your towns. Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and are counting on it. Otherwise they may cry to the Lord against you, and you will be guilty of sin." - Deuteronomy 24:1415 (TNIV)