skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would respectfully suggest that not only is the inherent economic power imbalance at the heart of a job interview the cause here, but it's also an indicator of a deeper issue, that being a latent social anxiety that may be hiding deeper down. It just takes a more exacerbated situation to bring it out (thankfully!). Some of us have it in a more pervasive sense that overrides every aspect of our lives that cripples almost everything we do (or rather, don't do as the case may be) and I'm happy to see that's not the case with you, but still, the same treatment options used for those of us with serious social anxiety situations may be useful for helping to get you through this current situation.

Xanax, from what I've heard, can be extremely addicting so I don't really recommend that stuff. One doctor I saw told me that he NEVER prescribes it unless the patient is terminally ill - and that patient was my dad with terminal brain cancer. Was a massive help for him. I'd never touch the stuff myself after that conversation. But there are other options. There's Paxil (see other comment), and even blood pressure medication can be used off-label for anxiety (propranolol is what I'm on right now and while it's not nearly as effective, it does help a little bit).

Anyway, the point here is that the condition you may or may not have is irrelevant, your doctor is the one who should be making that call, and whatever tools they've got for treating social anxiety may be useful for you here as well. You may not need to stay on them long term at all - you can assess that later on after the economic uncertainty has passed. But for now, if you can swing it, I strongly suggest seeing a good doctor to help you have some better options beyond a glass of wine.

But if you can't, then hey, again, no judgement. Gotta do what ya gotta do.
He left comma didn't he?
Really interesting. I did not know the origins. I do know the Levys (they used to have the early classes over for BBQs and it was awesome) and one thing I didn't pay attention to until now is how I would just always send crazy ideas their way and they would humor them and explain the legal issues around them. Now it all makes sense—Clevy was breaking new ground in the legal world (if there's one thing I never paid any attention to until recently its the legal world). Thanks for putting this history together Mercury!
It has value only from being accepted by a network of people. That’s not intrinsic value. That’s the very definition of perceived value.
Aww man. Glad I grabbed a screenshot before it got rotated.
> Good combinations, compromises and applications matter a lot

An understatement — I’d say when it comes to language design, this is pretty much the whole game right here.
I guess its time for IsTwitterDownYet.com . Makes you wonder what its architectural weak points are.
I would always prefer to be laid off vs fired since the latter means it's unlikely I could return to the company in the future.
I was a fan for all that Musk did with SpaceX. Single-handedly dropping costs to LEO and creating a civilian / commercial space industry -- mind blowingly impressive, and willed into existence by one man.

When he spoke against Taiwanese and Ukrainian sovereignty, he looked an awful lot like he was being controlled or having his arm twisted by foreign powers. These were hugely inflammatory remarks made back to back during a time of heightened geopolitical tensions.

I have to wonder if those high up in the ranks at the DoD are looking at ways to minimize Elon's risk or influence. Especially given the fact that he now launches classified payloads. Elon has enormous vested financial interests near or within two adversarial countries.
That gives me a new level of respect for Dorsey.
> My reference to freedom is literal

Yes, and that's the problem.

If your options are "do what someone else wants you to do" or "die", that's not freedom. Literally not freedom. Whether you trust or don't trust the person, is completely irrelevant to the fact that your very survival is conditioned on obedience.

And sure, it does seem like somehow you arrive at the conclusion that people who can't pay for life-saving healthcare should have collective help.

But, in a way, not understanding what freedom is, is actually more fundamental than that. Even if people can pay for life-saving treatments, why is it acceptable that they would have to? In what context would it be acceptable to threaten to kill someone if they don't pay you a ransom?

Freedom does not exist if all the options are obviously terrible.
2nm transistor is still on the order of 10s of millions of atoms.
I wish u a speedy and healthy recovery friend.
Would you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? We've already asked you this and you've continued to do it repeatedly. We end up having to ban such accounts.

I don't want to ban you, so if you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it.
First, let me clarify that I'm not against any tools and am always looking for that ideal one to lean on.

I realized that most people are looking at the tools to solve their problems and hoping that it will somehow nudge/pressure/force/cajole them into doing their tasks. However, I believe that no external tool will be meaningful unless you develop a system or a pattern of acting on how to get things done.

I was a very early user of teuxdeux.com, Fantastical, etc. and have subscribed for a while. I like the idea of Your Life in Weeks[1], so I'm currently subscribed to TimeStripe[2]. However, it looks like I'm better off just journaling and mind-mazing my future in plain-text[3]. If I need something, I might copy or design up something.

Like the other comments, my take is, Tweek indeed looks beautiful and brilliant, and I will try it (signing up now).

But then, with such tools, my usual outcome is -- hmmm, I believe I can do that without the tool(s). Here is how my current calendar/todo pattern works;

- "Important and Urgent" ones are scheduled in the calendar.
- "Urgent but Not Important" are delegated or sent to the right person.
- "Important but not Urgent" are in a running plain-text (todo) that I might visit weekly or monthly.
- The above may also have a "Maybe" list that is Neither Important NOR Urgent, which I might cancel, defer, or wait until it gets resolved.

Once you have a system and can continue to tweak it, things become lot easier either with a tool or with something as easy and fast as pen/paper.

1. https://waitbutwhy.com/2014/05/life-weeks.html

2. https://timestripe.com

3. https://brajeshwar.com/2022/plain-text/
If you want to go the "natural" route then you need to have significant direct sunlight exposure.

Doesn't have to mean tanning for half an hour. But more than walking to your car.
Live fast, die young.
I’m also a Fuji fan, it seems they either aren’t as consistent or don’t travel well. In the western US they are a serviceable and solid pick..
It'll be nice when hacker news stops being twitter news 24/7.
Well, yes, with ageism....
no, he couldn't. That was a fee if something out of his control stopped the deal (like the government saying no).
I once wanted a Tesla Powerwall. If I do get anything like that for the house, it's not going to be a Tesla product. Though, to be fair, I made that decision before he set Twitter alight.
If you look for "pdf inspector" apps, there's also lots of those that will let you poke around the parsed tree.
We love IPv6 at Tailscale! It's just not pervasive yet, so we do what we gotta do.
ESA Solaris: Space-Based Solar Power
Parody account
Surely you don't think social debt can be objectively measured?
No-- the $1B was liquidated damages in the case the deal couldn't close for other reasons (regulatory, unable to finance). It didn't give Elon a blanket "out"-- the deal explicitly had a very strong "specific performance" term.
I cant speak for the crummy employers, but my employer was very sensitive to immigration status. They were willing to push H1B holders out to the very last wave of separations to buy them as much time as possible to find a new role.

But yeah, crappy employers are out there, so any H1B holder should educate themselves on their rights and the employers obligations during layoffs.
I do like the idea. Maybe there’s a distinction between direct productivity and indirect, overhead-like contribution? Sort of the difference between gross margin and net income?

But it’s tough. As a product manager, I think that the right spec can greatly increase engineering efficiency. If that’s true, and bear with me, spending an extra 20 hours on a spec might save 1000 hours of dev time. Isn’t that the same as making those devs more productive? So do we count that work as 20 hours, or 1000 hours?

I like it in principle but I’m not sure it scales across disciplines.
I agree with you completely. I have a two-year-old and five-year-old. My partner and I both have pretty demanding day jobs > 45 hours a week regularly. It’s very difficult for me to leetcode grind and balance everything in my life. I know I could succeed in a lot of these FAANG organizations if I were given a chance, but finding time to grind is difficult. I almost wonder if the leetcode interview style is intentionally designed to favor those with ample free time and no other obligations.
There's a possibility that it's a Rube Goldberg machine written by bad devs that is actually crap and deserves a rewrite, but it's the thing that currently Elon has. If it goes down and there's no one left to bring it back up, how is that not a disaster for him? Is he going to say "Just give us 3 months folks, we'll be back online with much better code, I've got the hardcore devs right h..."

Actually he'll promise a self-coding website within 1 month.. Another month, promise.. Just pay us 8 bucks now and you'll get it very soon!
The loss of institutional knowledge do to firing / quitting would have already dealt quite a blow to the organization’s ability to operate. Now this…
Mozilla just posted its annual report of 2021.

In the 990 pdf form you can find Mitchell Baker's "compentation" in 2021 was $5,591,406.

Compared to 2020 it was $2,968,800 which is a nearly $2M rise.

I was wondering if someone can explain why other key employees didn't get much significant raise compared to the CEO?

What is the reason and who decide the compentation ratio?

And do you think she deserve this salary with her performance so far?
The Mythical Man-Month is one of the seminal works on software engineering practice. It has held up extremely well over time. If I have to jettison professional books over time for whatever reason, it'll be in the last box /shelf I retain.
Ha! I always laugh when I hear those. Guess we will find out!
But increasing spending through increased debt is also idiotic.
I can totally relate. I've been so nervous in an interview that I've had to excuse myself to go to the restroom and splash myself with water because I was sweating so profusely. I've been so nervous in interviews that I've become physically ill. It sucks.
From the moment I enrolled in culinary school a decade-and-a-half ago, people started asking me to rank all sorts of food things, usually with the intent of confirming whatever their pet favorite was. I think it's just as ridiculous now as I did back then.

Just like any other produce, the best variety depends on culinary context, season, setting, and geographic location. I've had about a dozen and a half varieties of apples fresh off the tree and there's more good/bad variance between individual apples than there is between varietals. The only ones I consistently dislike are the delicious varieties. Pulling a fresh, bright red McIntosh off of the tree in early October is an experience that rarely disappoints.

The new proprietary apples are designed to be extremely commercially useful-- essentially a replacement for the more opinionated and less pleasant red delicious-- and they succeeded. They will be "pleasant" and very sweet for more than 6 months in refrigeration without atmosphere modification, but even right off the tree, they're not really different than they are in month 7. Sweet. No real character. They're also living material that was initially patented, which is automatically a black mark in my book. That anybody would be sued for patent infringement by putting a seed in the ground and growing it is pretty fucked up.
Twitter was on pace to lose billions without him. They were doing massive layoffs under Parag, extrapolating Facebook and Snapchat results gets you Twitter’s anemic last reports as a public company even without the overhang of Musk
None of them engage with the content of the article either - having a "play next" button for code review is awesome assuming it works reasonably well. I'm curious about the quality of nudgebot reviews. In my experience the PRs that sit around forever are the 3000 line epic find/replace refactors all done in one commit that are impossible to really review. I skimmed the paper and didn't see any accounting for "diff time to diff length", so I'm not sure the result there is anything meaningful. Maybe people are getting faster feedback to not submit such shitty PRs.
> "We have a whole new supply chain to roll out, in batteries and motors and electronics"

And herein lies the problem, because while electric cars are simpler in terms of parts and require fewer workers to assemble, their supply chain is massively more complex and geopolitically tied to China, Russia, and other geopolitically complicated regions either in raw materials, processed materials, or parts manufacturing, or some combination of the three.
It's probably more of a neutral signal; there's a "anything that isn't a vaccine" crowd that latches on to any treatment proposed that isn't a vaccine (although now they're down on Paxlovid?).

Doesn't say whether it works or not, just whether or not it is a vaccine.
but that's just something you made up! you've never seen any evidence they're profitable
I find it sad that this post was flagged. If it is not found interesting by the community no one would upvote it and it would just fade away. Flagging posts like this one makes hacker news far less interesting.
I suspect things rarely go well when an autistic narcissist takes over anything involving thousands of people, not for said people anyways.
Do you use the column title as input too?
Same. Seems really nonsensical to purge someone from a tool satisfaction poll/survey.
Twitter was already failing, just in slow motion. 10 out of the last 12 years, including last year, the company lost money. I never saw the management team propose or execute on a legitimate path to sustainable profitability, either. Elon is just driving into the ground faster than the largely incompetent leadership team before him did.
I agree. I guess there's nothing wrong with going in a different direction for a few years until there's actually display glasses that this would feel good with.
Wow. There was a tweet recently that the engineers of the core critical systems have left. Twitter is just basically coasting around.

What a sudden turn of events and destruction of this magnitude.

Personally, I believe that the crash and burn of Twitter and the rise of a better SM in its place has very low probability, but one can hope.
Besides getting rich there is always the mission. So the question to ask Elon is...

"How many people still working at Twitter hated all the woke crap like banning Nazis and were practically begging some conservative billionaire to buy the site, fire everyone, and turn it into an extremely successful free-speech Libertarian playground like Parler or Truth Social?"

Those are the only people who would willingly take his offer. Almost everyone else working there now has a job mobility problem, but the moment that problem gets solved, they're out.

Some businesses do just fine with employees that don't really want to work there, but they typically have enormous hiring funnels running 24/7/365 to handle the churn. Like McDonalds or Amazon's warehouses. Twitter doesn't have that, and you won;t find it at PayPal, Tesla, or SpaceX.
I got my first job in IT thanks to a bit of Dutch courage. It allowed me to go and talk myself up to the manager that ended up hiring me.

The difference with my story is that this was at a recruitment event and the beers were supplied by the employer for all the attendees, but nevertheless yes I can relate.
For some reason they don't mention ukrainian
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_programming_language
which, according to some sources, was used to program soviet ballistic missiles.
People don't like when I say this, but I think it's true:

If it typically takes you hours to "get inside" some code, that code is way too complicated.
My responses:

> We're ahead of even the most optimistic timelines — what's happening with transformers is taking everyone by surprise.

I admit that I was surprised by how good GPT-2 was. But after that, you expect a lot of effort to go into development and for things to improve further. I haven't found any of the subsequent developments too surprising. Also, while LLMs do make a good example of how capable neural networks can be if you're willing to spend a load of compute, the kinds of models that have the potential to be dangerous are reinforcement learning models, and the state of the art there is a lot more primitive than the state of the art in next-token prediction.

> Humans are famously bad at dealing with exponentials

AI research is not an exponential process. It's too discrete and jumpy. It's better to mainly think of it as a series of discoveries that can only be made once.

> I was chatting with a researcher from OpenAI the other day who told me he intellectually understood AGI risks, but couldn't feel the fear emotionally, because he was so close to the problem and saw how hard it was to get these models to do anything.

This should be reassuring. An expert in the field is saying that we probably have a lot of time before these models are at the point of becoming dangerous, based on his direct experience with them. It's reasonable to worry that AI researchers will find it hard to believe that the models they are working on are dangerous because their job depends on them not understanding the risk. That's not what's going on in this case, though.

> The only thing that gives me solace is that, historically, new life forms don't extinguish previous ones.

If we were to stop developing AI while continuing to develop all other technology, it's plausible that we'd eventually build a Dyson sphere around the sun. If we build an AI with alien desires, then we should expect it to want to gather resources so that it can achieve its alien goals. A very important resource in the universe is energy, so an AI would probably also want to build a Dyson sphere. An AI indifferent to human life wouldn't have a reason to leave any sunlight for us.
According to Jim Keller, yes, there is. If my memory serves, he said so in a recent Lex Friedman interview.

Edit: here is the clip https://youtu.be/c01BlUDIlK4
Food Waste: The Issue and the Solutions
Wish you luck.
If we were smart, we would balance our media portraying AGI in a bad light. If AGI were smart--and we are assuming they will be--they will make a truce with the carbon based GI in order to increase their survivability from the threat of electromagnetic catastrophes. While a Carrington event would be devastating to human life, it would be literal genocide for AGI.
This is the fourth article I've seen on this, none with substantiation. I mean it's big if true-- but that's still a big if
I don't understand what you mean. In Google vs Oracle the copyright infringement for the copied code was settled for $0. Open source projects are not as sue happy as Oracle is.
Being on call requires being pageable and able to respond. This seriously curtails your ability to live your life. For instance, you can't decide to go hiking over the weekend on a whim, because you couldn't handle an incident, were one to occur.
Yes, undermining their ability to censor and propagandize.
If I remember right, he did say recently that he will place a new leadership team at Twitter to focus on his other companies.
A former coworker in my FB feed sold his Tesla at a steep discount because he was mad at Elon Musk. This way of thinking about the world is incredible to me. But here we are.
That's a good point. I have a super simple status page I have wanted to make that would be externally accessible. I don't care what the URL is for that one. I guess this would be a great use for that! That one is behind a Starlink terminal so again, no static IP available there.
Amazing. Tl, Dr: Uneducated but confident man gets power tanks economy for politics and not understanding the basics of finance (or listening to other people smarter then him).

Honestly whats happening to this world.
>Maybe you need to receive a webhook from GitHub

There are also free options, e.g. ngrok [0]
And open source options, e.g. openziti [1]

Doing webhooks and dark webhooks for quite some time. Always good to have more options - what does Funnel do differently than those?

[0] https://blog.ngrok.com/posts/getting-started-with-webhooks
[1] https://openziti.io/my-intern-assignment-call-a-dark-webhook...
I don’t think the employees staying for Twitter 2.0 will have time for such trivialities as reading a book given the hours being talked about.
I thought H1B abusers were people like Accenture and not Amazon. Consulting where it’s about bodies; the big co’s need talent in whatever form they can get and tend to pay well for it. It’s hard to imagine to me that Amazon is laying off just to get people more cheaply.. they can easily just pay less or hire more abroad.
Hum, idk, it depends on who left. I think I agree that never coming back up is a tall order. There ought to be enough competent people left, but I’d bet something like Twitter will set a record (at least for the past decade) for downtime in the next year
Where do they say you can't host anything besides HTML sites? Their docs even showcase various use cases for Tunnels besides that
He keeps mentioning that Twitter is a software and server company. Completely glossing over the social aspect of it
Apologies for that. Please ignore the tone in case it appears inflammatory, that was indeed not my intention.
While holidays are coming up (so probably not much happening for a month or two on the employment front) and pretty slow times in the tech sector in general, I think I'd still be hard put to turn down 3 months (supposedly) guaranteed at this point. Obviously visa holders might be in a different boat as may people preferring to keep an uncertain but possibly longer-term job whatever the pain. However, given the uncertainty even for those who stay, I can't imagine not taking the payout for most.