skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> But if technical debt means running 40 servers instead of 10, then it should be something that is addressed, not ignored for 10+ years.

Technical debt is rarely that simple. Usually it is a pile of Chesterton's Fences that only the people who built it really understand why its all there, but if you start just ripping it all down then you wind up breaking something important (think "service which scours databases to ensure that they're compliant with GDPR regulations and avoids a billion dollar fine from the EU" or something of that nature). The code may have grown organically and arguably need to be tossed and rewritten, but most of the time the code in its current state is also the requirements doc for the rewrite (and either the rewrite will take 10 times as long as anyone thinks or else the new system will throw away 90% of the old system without understanding it and now you have to deal with pissed off EU regulators and there goes everything you would have saved).

I'm usually on the side where I think its time to take the hard decisions and spend the effort either cleaning up the existing codebase or rewriting it, but that's rarely the way the business sees things, and they'd prefer to just bolt on some more crap yet again to keep it going for another year because they're trying to boost their metrics, not solve long term problems.
I moved to Mastodon. 1 day later I have a pretty nice feed and good amount of followers.
Many of them old familiar now Twitter-refugees.
Why? What complex technical problem is there to solve at twitter at this point?
> If 'money was not involved' then Shakespeare, Michelangelo et. al. would not have made most of their works.

Yes, but wasn’t their model one of patronage rather than “intellectual property”? William Shakespeare predated the Statute of Anne, Britain’s first copyright law, by one hundred years.
Until the AWS credit card gives up.
You can never automate how readable the code is or how good the design is.
They asked for a small surface area, Pascal and most of its descendants have a small surface area especially compared to their two "large languages" of C++ and Rust. If you look at built in operators and keywords Go certainly gets pretty big too:

break default func interface select
case defer go map struct
chan else goto package switch
const fallthrough if range type
continue for import return var

+ & += &= && == != ( )
- | -= |= || < <= [ ]
* ^ *= ^= <- > >= { }
/ << /= <<= ++ = := , ;
% >> %= >>= -- ! ... . :
&^ &^= ~

25 keywords, 48 operators.

Clearly more than 30 something. Since OP considers Go a small surface area language, I don't see how that list from Turbo Pascal would disqualify it.

> JavaScript is what comes to my mind.

If they suffer from analysis paralysis with Rust and C++, I don't see how JS would be much better with its millions of frameworks.

> Besides hardly getting more performant I'd keep my fingers off dead technology (like Forth!) unless you're really into the history thing, exotica or the sheer mind-boggling, which is also cool but sadly rarely productive.

They also never said they cared whether the technology was live or dead. What's it mean to be dead if it can still be run anyways?
>in prison fast

Maybe not too fast (or at all) for SBF though. His father is a Stanford Law professor and that doesn't come without some connection to the rest of the legal world-- and so, assuming SBF is likely to have some method of funding, a flavor of defense along these lines could keep him out of jail:

"SBF was simply an idealistic young man who tried to strike out in a new direction in the financial world. But he'd only had a year or two of experience and found himself in a crypto industry filled with scammers and VC forms eager with FOMO failed to provide the guidance or ensure proper governance as would usually be the case. And so business SBF built was very ad hoc on the inside and when things started crashing down SBF made some extremely poor but well intentioned decisions. But now? He's learned his lesson"

And then he gets his probation and a ban from working in the industry for X years. And maybe even a handslap jail sentence.

Based on what's come out so far that has some small chance of still being how he gets off the hook, but it's early days and getting worse by the tweet.
I was really thinking about this sabbotage thing yesterday.

In these large companies, to make changes to a lot of systems, you have to have someone else also sign on to the changes (eg. code review).

If your aim is sabotage, you would have to find a like minded saboteur to work with you. In normal times, at most places, this is risky, because most others would not want to assist you, and would likely report you.

The equation has changed. Musk has turned nearly every employee against him. It is now much less risky to explore your social graph now to find people who are of like mind. The defenses that software companies have are completely inadequate to deal with this sort of situation.
There's a election results prediction market, but I think there are other topics allowed;

https://iemweb.biz.uiowa.edu/
I'm very curious, how did staying at a job throw you off your feet more than doing a random minwage gig?

Sometimes I have a feeling I could do with a random minwage gig for some time due to fatigue from programming in a corporate environment, but have been putting it off due to it being a questionable financial decision, especially now with a looming recession. Wha
Go to RN’s GitHub and go to insights. This will answer your questions.
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I think he's made a major mis-step with twitter though.

SpaceX/Tesla employees work as hard as they do because they believe in the mission of the company. They're willing to just buckle down and do amazing things beyond most people.

Twitter had a lot of normal employees, however, it also already had the true believers in the mission. Those people don't seem to have bought Musk's vision and they're leaving the company. He wanted to get just down to those folks, but I think by and large, they're gone. I don't know that he can recover from that mis-step. He needed to come in, explain his vision and got the true believers onboard before he cleaned house IMHO.
There's nothing wrong with using jQuery, especially if you target old browsers or use some of its features that are still more convenient than the ES6 equivalent.
I mean you’re not wrong and it’s not over yet.

“ How do you make a small fortune in social media?

Start out with a large one.”
How is your comment the only result for the quoted text you provided?
>While published studies have seemed to link MSG to negative health outcomes, none of them hold in today’s court of scientific research.

The linked study here is much more interesting: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6952072/

Personally, foods with a lot of glutamate give me a headache and make me want to take a nap. I imagine that's due to the excitatory effect which is dismissed by the meta-study authors. If perhaps Big MSG (TM) really did fund a giant meta-analysis to persuade people that MSG fears are unfounded, and well-meaning journalists want everyone to believe that anti-MSG thought is just racist conspiracy, well, that's their karma.
When I'm on a break, I'm pretty much always mulling my task on the back of my mind, and doing things that don't require concentration, so when I get back from the break I'm still largely in the same frame of mind. Doing code reviews definitely forces a sharper shift of mind and takes longer to switch back from than a break does. Sometimes it is worthwhile, but it does have a cost.
There already exist WeChat equivalents in the West that do "news, media, social media, payments, ordering in restaurants, shopping, messaging", and in fact they even predate WeChat. They're known as Android and iOS.
Temperature and humidity can have a marked effect on the stability of enveloped viruses themselves. e.g. coronaviruses & RSV, which comprise a subset of the viruses responsible for common colds. Another common cold virus, Rhinoviruses, are non-enveloped.
If Elon is supposed to be the devil, every twitter drone gets to be a martyr.
genuine question -- why would I use this?
I know someone personally who won the lottery twice.
The exceptionally and undeservingly lucky exist.
IPv6 the technology solves it, IPv6 as it exists in the real world does not. Even if we got 100% IPv6 adoption overnight, you would still not have a universally adopted API for punching holes through router firewalls for p2p applications.
How many people does it take to keep HN running?
I just think he is trying to get rid of employees with low morale or those that don't want him as a boss. Twitter will be fine and there's a good chance it will do better under Elon's management.
Why assume he's trying to save it and is completely incompetent, rather than trying to destroy it?

I see some people in denial that he's feeding Twitter into a woodchipper, and other people willfully ignoring all his past activities where he did not destroy companies.

Occam's razor says he is trying to liquidate it, because that's what he is doing. The objection to that, I think, is really just "why would he incinerate billions of dollars". Sometimes, though, you have to accept what you are seeing, no matter how crazy, and figure out what it implies.

It was thought that the Van Allen radiation belts should be lethal to humans, and the ultimate test was for astronauts to pass through them and survive. But eventually, doubters of the Moon landings reasoned that since the belts are lethal, the landings must be fake. You sort of have to prioritize your beliefs, otherwise you come to wildly different conclusions.
> Just one of the wealthiest people in history asking people to work 12 hour days every day of the week, forever, for some nebulous reasons that he can't state, just because.

"a company for carrying out an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is"
Treatment with stimulants doesn’t treat deficiencies of stimulants. This is immediately obvious with patients who actually benefit from the meds, because they’re generally not stimulated by them. Treatment with many chemicals doesn’t treat deficiencies of those chemicals. In the case of stimulants for ADHD, they help regulate dopamine and norepinephrine intake. In practical terms, results of successful treatment include improved management of executive function, reduced social and sensory stress, and healthier sleep patterns. I can’t say what anyone else’s answer is, but stimulants saved my life because the impact of the things they helped me address were life threatening. Using stimulants as prescribed by my doctor was definitely an answer for me, and I am grateful for the life I kept intact because of that.
I'm amazed at how naive some of the people are here. Why not just accept what you're seeing with your own two eyes? Why look for an alternate explanation?
I'd still love for them to support some other form of auth, Google or Microsoft auth is an incredible drag as a gatekeeper to their product.
Yeah, the 75% might have learned that the new management is really fucking clueless and the chaos isn't stopping soon. Even if they clicked "Yes", chances are tomorrow there'll be another fucking stunt and you're straight back to panicking about losing your job anyway.

Hey Elon, how about this: fire employees with long names, because they take longer to type in their login, and that's inefficient!
It looks like he's serious about doing it for fun.

https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159297764564540211...
Not for long with the supply chain issues for Adderol and the follow on effects to methylphenidate. I am terrified. I keep reading about how those who are prescribed Adderol are going through withdrawal. I am team Ciba-Geigy.
I put this together about a year ago to run J/Jupyter in binder https://github.com/joebo/jkernel-docker
I did this in 32 moves
It's worked fine for me so far.
Cool! Using lambdatalk you can do it as well:

1) {def b.i.u {lambda {:s} {b {i {u :s}}}}}
2) {b.i.u hello world}
3) {b.i.u anything sequence of s-expressions ...}

And how do you sexpcode more complex things like:

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=sierpinsky_compar...

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=fft

- http://lambdaway.free.fr/lambdawalks/?view=scratch

- and so on
I have been a student of TOC since the early 90s. I used to attend the various conferences that groups like APICS put on in the early years. I just got back a few weeks ago from the TOCICO conference in Orlando.

Eli really dug into the subjects that interested him. He always came up with interesting insights. At the conferences, from time to time, I'd join Eli with a few others for dinner or lunch. We didn't go out for beers, though, and I wasn't really in his inner circle.

He has published many good books, and usually, they are Socratic novels. They are fun to read, and I get something new out of them every time I read them.

His last book, "The Choice," was written with his daughter, Efrat Goldratt-Ashlag. In that book, Eli really lays out his general approach. I recommend it.

Eli passed away in June of 2011.
Stock buybacks are equivalent in purpose to dividends. Many investors prefer them because they are not taxable, unlike dividend income.
Has the denial rate for all companies gone down? Or could it be that companies that were getting the most denials have submitted less petitions for H-1B workers?

Sponsoring an employee on an H-1B has become significantly harder in the past few years, especially because of the odds of the lottery decreasing year over year. Another theory could just be that with the increased cost and uncertainty of attempting to sponsor an employee on an H-1B, many companies are resorting to alternatives, clearing the field for companies that have a more genuine need for H-1B workers.
Perhaps because such people cosplay as well.
this is cool and all, love me Tailscale for sure.

For this particular feature I like my own home rolled solution where I automated the process of spinning up a tiny ec2 server with an nginx proxy to a reverse ssh tunnel that goes back to my local machine. It gets a letsencrypt cert and modifies the route53 dns. All managed with a cli command and config file.

The other benefit is that it is completely unthrottled, which is particularly useful if your debugging some stupidly large react/vue website.

Im working on a feature that will enable basic-auth in front of it also, so at least a password would be required to send traffic to your local machine, if you wanted. Good for the "share your work" sort of scenarios.

tl;dr if you want any-subdomain.your-domain.com -> localhost:port, and you use AWS, try
https://github.com/nelsonenzo/tolocal
One interesting story that's gotten a little lost in the chaos is that after Sequoia invested in FTX, Bankman-Fried also invested $200M into two Sequoia funds:

https://www.ft.com/content/993942cb-1a7e-4689-9d9d-8434d4a74...
UN at COP26: “Enough of mining we are digging our own graves”
It’s why he has succeeded all this time. You don’t get investments by being grounded.
Privacy is regarded highly in the US which means less transparency.
Take for example this:
https://mobile.twitter.com/capitolhunters/status/15933075419...
Shouldn’t confirming Elons university degree be extremely simple?
"promote to customer" seems cut and paste from our internal blind :)
https://www.cloudflare.com/terms/#28-limitation-on-serving-n...
That's right. Just being out in the sun for several hours per day will do wonders for you.

Naturally, you'll want to start engaging in activities that increase your heart rate to the level necessary to remain healthy over the many decades of your life.
Yes, it's actually really common. Not only for interviewing but for important meeting as well.

Besides alcohol, there are other alternatives:

- beta blockers as you've mentioned (though you really need to know your normal blood pressure and/or consult with a doctor).

- L-Theanine works really well (without any coffee).

- nicotine (hit-or-miss since it's an upper for some and downer for others, these are cigars no cigarettes, should not contain any additives but tobacco alone).
I mean dead as in the fact that it’s used somewhere is noteworthy.

I’d love for JPEG XL to replace such uses!
20+ years ago I was a young soldier, a Chinese-mandarin military linguist, preparing for his OPI (oral proficiency interview) for a special job.

If I got a high score, I would get the job. That meant leaving the barracks, not having to wear a uniform, and flying around the world pretending to be a serious adult doing serious things.

Before the interview, which was held with a panel of two native speakers, my supervisor told me to drink some beer. I had two Tommyknocker Nut Brown Ales. At lunch, about an hour before the interview I just pounded them, didn't even taste them (they're good), because that's all I had.

I honestly don't remember the interview (and didn't at the time-- due to stress not intoxication) but apparently words came flowing out from me like water in a fast-moving river. I told jokes. Talked constantly for 30 minutes.

I scored a 3, which was high enough to pass, got the job and got to fly around the world pretending to be a serious adult doing serious things.

A little, A LITTLE, ethanol goes a long way.
This all seems plausible to me, but if this is the case doesn't it weaken Elon quite a bit going forward? If a boss at any company says "Everybody do this simple thing or you're fired", and a bunch of employees respond by rolling their eyes and walking away, that manager has to either fire a bunch of people or become a joke. Or maybe both happen, issuing an ultimatum like that is usually pretty dumb.
That’s wild!
It's not that simple. A lot of censorship happens under the guise of "removing spam". For example, dang regularly censors HN comments promoting viewpoints he doesn't like by claiming that they are "flamebait" or similar, which is to say, if enough people dislike something then it is spam.

Doing it right requires the intellectual honesty to draw a line between these two comments: "lol hitler did nothing wrong gas the **s! 1488 woo!" and "Hitler did nothing but implement some social control policies which would be widely accepted in today's society, if presented differently."

I obviously don't agree with either sentence. But the second one should be permitted and vouched against downvotes while the first can be deleted without a second thought. Honesty required.
DHH would know a thing or two about pissing off half your employees overnight.
Not to mention the fucking insulting assumption that people were not already working hard. During my tour (left years ago) there have been many time periods when I worked my ass off. I ended up leaving because of the total burn-out and the effect it started to have on my health. Despite that even years later I played with the idea of going back someday. No chance of that now of course. So sad to see it end this way.
Many managers just want to see the serfs whose time they've paid good money to rent, fuelling their egotistical needs, and are not making rational choices about productivity at all.

Such irrationalities have always been present in the institution of wage slavery.

See twitter for an excellent current example of what this looks like.
Not looking good at the moment: https://downdetector.com/status/twitter/
Why? The business was weeks away from shutting down in 2015 under original ownership, Twitter looked to be saved from 2018 - 2019, but not really, seeing as 2018-2019 were the only 2 profitable years for Twitter ever

Twitter was leaking money for 2020 and 2021, the trend looked to be continuing for 2022, they had an OK first quarter, and maybe they were going to continue to do well, but I sincerely doubt it seeing how every single tech stock has performed this year. Q2 alone blew away $344 million loss compared to Q1's $513 million gain. I also sincerely doubt Twitter was being led well by looking at their earnings reports and the money hole that punctured the company coffers in 2020Q2. The middling performance through 2021 continued when that should've been Twitter's best years, all other tech stocks even ad agencies were printing money, why was Twitter not doing the same?

I think Twitter board's best decision they ever made was offloading the company off to Elon, cut their losses for a clearly failing company with little to no headwind coming their way for the next few quarters at minimum.

But I do need to know why does Elon get the brunt of the blame for Twitter's presumed downfall? Seems like Twitter was already a falling knife by itself
>> The far-right politician is not known for his economic erudition, as he gained notoriety by being the standard-bearer for impeached President Park Geun-hye and claiming that the 1980 Gwangju Uprising, in which South Korea’s dictatorship massacred thousands of pro-democracy protesters, was a North Korean insurrection.

> So he acts on gut instinct alone, without listening to expert advisors

This statement is not supported in your quote, or in the article. One can listen and disagree.
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That book was a window into the mind of a true software engineer and one of the best things I have read generally. RIP.
I take a beta blocker for unrelated reasons, but they do definitely help with this sort of thing and it’s easy to get a prescription, so I’d say there isn’t much harm in giving them a shot. Certainly better than alcohol!
Looks like the employee who was in charge of managing badge access was laid off and several staff have locked themselves out!

https://twitter.com/anothercohen/status/1593404311832338442
This, but unironically... Has there ever been a union for those making 200k+?
> Apologies if you consider this pedantic

Honestly, if anything I'd say the pedatry goes the other way: pedantically, the wavefunction in the position domain is what a particle's position is (and respectively for momentum); it's making a distiction between the two (or pretending that there's anything in the position domain other than wave functions) that's insufficiently pedantic.
Everything I run at work is 5-10 years old or older. It all just hums along. Occasionally I replace a hard drive or a power supply.