skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spindles? That sounds like a ridiculous amount burn rate - it should be no more than 5-10% a YEAR. Backblaze reports only 1.6% quarterly failure rate https://www.backblaze.com/b2/hard-drive-test-data.html
I agree not much has happened with the boring company or the hyperloop stuff, and i dont see them going anywhere yet either. But saying Tesla are a scam is unhinged. In a lot of cities a good portion of cars on the road are Teslas. Here in Vancouver it's about as common as a civic. Hundreds of thousands of regular people love their teslas. This is no small feat either. For decades it was commonly believed that electric cars were silly and wouldn't work as an alternative to combustion cars. Telsa is solely responsible for proving those assumptions wrong, and the existing car companies are now having to compete.

In regards to the offer of free service to Ukrane. Thousands of base stations were given for free to the Ukrainian forces, but the demand was way higher than anticipated to the point of being punitive. So when the Pentagon most likey has a budget for this sort of thing, why would you not ask for them to cover cost? Just in this critisim alone there's an interesting point, starlink works and is high demand.

Love him or hate him, despite the fact that he talks off the cuff and doesn't always deliver, has as delivered several times in very big ways. Even if you think somehow other people's brilliance are behind the success of these achievement, you still have to contend with the fact that he has been in leadership at several companies that have completely changed their industry's for the better. Why is Musk at the helm for each of these game changing achievements? Low orbit high speed satellite internet with thousands of satellites, rockets with resusable landing boosters, a very functional and reliable ISS resupply mission, a car company that survived through a financial collapse and has proven the viability of mass production general purpose long range vehicles. Not everything he touches turns to gold, but enough of it is that it needs to be taken seriously.

You can dislike him, he is wacky, but these are facts. Not recognizing these things makes it plain that these criticisms are in bad faith or are based on ignorance.
Yes, reddit routinely bans deepfake subreddits. In practice, this means any net that can produce output that looks like any living person is banned.
I’m actually not defending Elon. A blanket “show me ten git snippets” is dumb. This is a horrible way to start off as new boss. I’m only saying, there’s way too much apologism in this thread for not having tangible work results.

To your point, if I started as new manager for a team and the TL said they mostly wrote RFCs and design docs, my next question would be whether those docs led to an actual implementation (by orher people is ok). IF it turned out they write go-nowhere docs and sit in meetings giving obvious advice all day, then I’ll flag it as a potential problem that needs deeper investigation.
Tell HN: I just received the most insane interview request I have ever received
>"Bullish is a trading platform that leverages innovations of decentralized finance (DeFi) within a regulated framework, giving institutional and retail traders access to safe, deep liquidity, and low-cost transactions. Our high-performance matching engine gives you access to highly liquid, low-cost trades, so you can work at both speed and scale. Bullish exchange is operated by Bullish (GI) Limited and is fully regulated in Gibraltar."

A company called "Bullish," running a crypto exchange while FTX and friends collapse, in a recession, regulated in freaking Gibraltar, trying to hire for a Site Reliability Engineer. This is the most insane interview request I have received in my career so far.
"Getting a hearing" and "not getting a hearing" are specific outcomes.
Seriously. If I had an asshat boss and he asked me to either "be hardcore" or get 3 months severance..the week before Thanksgiving.

I'd say "Happy Holidays" and fuck off right quick lmaoo.
It's perfectly consistent with a few hours, given that different team members tend to review diffs at different time during the day.
> Google Classroom has a lot of users in the ed tech space.

As a parent of a kid with ADHD and a Chromebook, I'm appalled at how wide open access to everything on the Internet is on Chromebooks. Trying to keep him on track when there's the constant temptation and ability to alt-tab over to YouTube means my wife and I have to be ever vigilant that he's actually working.

No, his ADHD isn't Google's fault, but they're designing and deploying tools for lots of kids who have impulse control issues.
Nope, just explosive rapid deconstruction.
> Can a SMB (~50 engineers) benefit from adopting Bazel?

We are ~8 engineers, and yes, definitely. However there should be good buy-in across the team (as it can be quite invasive), and depending on your choice of languages/tooling the difficulty of adoption may greatly vary.

I was the one introducing Bazel to the company and across the ~80 weeks at the company I spent maybe ~4 weeks on setting up and maintaining Bazel.

I don't know about your current setup and challenges you have with your CI system. However, compared to the generic type of build system I've seen at companies of that size, I would estimate that with 50 engineers having a single build systems/developer tooling engineer focused on setting up and maintaining Bazel should easily have a positive ROI (through increased development velocity and less time wasted on hunting CI bugs alone).
The main difficulty is convincing Greenwich to not be utc+0 anymore.
You can return the car in within first 7 days for any reason.
Poll: Would you work for Elon Musk?
Knowing what you know today, would you work for Elon Musk?
Yes, for any of his companies.
Yes, but not at Twitter.
It’s not a “conspiracy theory” why do you think Jeff Bezos owns the Washington Post? Because he loves journalism?
Can someone downvoting explain how this is not an implication or were people thinking this parent wasn't criticizing grandparent?
The manager isn't required to improve their personality.
Did he delete the bots yet?
> git blame tells you nothing about the skillset it takes to be successful at any large tech company at a senior level

100%. I don't care who has "scope" or "impact" or is "senior". I want to sit next to the developer I can ask about the pro/cons of any web development framework, that can help me analyze a heap dump, or explain why some transitive dependency is getting pulled in at compile time.

These are the ones I'm successful finding with git blame. They're the ones that can help me get stuff done.
Better link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28prop...
Yeah $5 is way too high. Unfortunately we have proof that 5c is too low, though. Blendle tried to make it work at (IIRC) something like 25c/article and apparently that wasn't enough (they still exist, but apparently their searching for a profitable business model). https://halcrawford.substack.com/p/micropayments-the-news-id...
So this is a prime example of the "Elon Musk -> Weird nerds" meme.
> It sounds like your issues with Nix stem from its steep adoption curve, rather than any technical concern

Not only is it difficult to learn (although that's a huge problem), but it's also difficult to use. For instance, even once you've "learned Nix", inferring data types is an ongoing problem because there is no static type system. These obstacles are prohibitive for most organizations (because of the high-touch nature of build tooling).

> This _is_ a concern for a team that needs to manage it

The problem is that there isn't "one team that needs to manage it"; every team needs to touch the build definitions or else you're bottlenecking your development on one central team of Nix experts which is also an unacceptable tradeoff. If build tools weren't inherently high-touch, then the learning curve would be a much smaller problem.
You got paid to dig extremely deeply into a very complex and important problem spanning multiple systems and domains. You developed a plan, tested it and were ready to act.

This is a hugely valuable learning experience few people even get a chance at, let alone solve. Too bad it doesn’t show up on your resume is the only downside!
We have very different point of views what fairly substantial means, specially in absence of any Apple ecosystem key framework and XCode tooling.
There are other aerospace contractors. Musk spent $44 billion to influence the public, whose consent needs to be manufactured for the train of existing institutions to keep rolling. Enough public discourse happens on Twitter to make it territory worth capturing.
>I spent a month in the lab

Do you mean at your desk? What is a lab in a fintech context?
Those are very different scenarios, they aren't equivalent.

Leap years have to do directly with the sun, what day and time the equinoxes happen every year and the like. This time noticeably drifts every year, even every day, computers or not.

These leap seconds and what not have to do with very sensitive instruments measuring time very precisely. These time measures are entirely about machines.
Absent the Lavender Scare, Webb was instrumental in turning NASA into a cohesive organization, enabling scientists to do good work. On that grounds alone the name is no big deal. It's like naming a computer science building after Bill Gates or even Al Gore.

But his participation in a hate campaign makes him ineligible for the honor in my view.
Twitter is now officially the Hunger Games for software engineers, complete with all doors being locked so people can’t escape. Maybe when Musk said he wants Twitter to become more of a video/content site, he meant bringing a film crew to Twitter, turn HQ into a real life hunger games for the few engineers left, and make a show out of it!
>The money I didn't spend on Twitter in 2023 was spent on something else, and for Twitter was lost forever.

Uh huh.

You're just playing semantic games now. I think we've reached a steady state here.
If you have owned something for 85-90% of its existence and rewritten it several times while guiding its marketing and philosophy over the years, does it really matter if it was bought or started in-house? There are brick and mortar stores with similar histories, and I attribute their success to their current, long-term owners - because at a certain point maintenance and growth are far harder problems to solve than the initial MVP.
John Carmack is still probably the greatest living hacker.
Layoffs are happening across the industry anyway. This means more work per person, and the increased competition for jobs means negotiating power for wages will go down. So this is all happening regardless, just in a less dramatic fashion.

But yeah likely if Twitter does well then we'll also see a bunch of copycat douchebaggery at the C level because "it worked for Elon". For whatever reason, history seems to show us that any time some douchebag succeeds, all the wannabes come out of the woodwork to emulate it.
Designing an API that "stutters" is a very common mistake that many programmers make. reader.Read() is pretty jarring.

There is also nothing wrong with naming variables after what they're for instead of what they are. Consider io.Copy(dst, src). That's nicer than io.Copy(reader1, reader2).
The browser in most case has a client for windows
You can watch Jeffrey Dahmer documentaries and hear him say how it tastes.
Sounds similar to webapp.io (layerci) that has been discussed quite a few times here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31062301

> Friction starts when the 7GB of RAM and 2 cores allocated causes issues for us

Well, I just create a 20GB swap. There's ample disk space but swap is slow for sure.

> MicroVM

Coincidentally, QEMU now sports a firecracker-inspired microvm: https://github.com/qemu/qemu/blob/a082fab9d25/docs/system/i3... / https://mergeboard.com/blog/2-qemu-microvm-docker/
That's definitely a concern, but I feel this can be mitigated by running your own network on top of theirs. Anyone in my home is part of my network, doesn't mean they're in the wg network too.

Aside from that, it's definitely a problem that they could include themselves in any customer network, but the accountability still stands. If someone got in without your screw-up, at least you know who to point the finger at once the dust settles.

I'd argue it should be treated as a base to overlay your network on top of. Although admittedly I say that as someone that doesn't use their services for similar reasons.
Just use variable speed seconds.
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You can solve difficult problems with simple, well factored code.

Just like your can solve simple problems with spaghetti code.

Of course, writing simple, will factored code is often hard!
For some amount of money. That amount would be higher for him than for someone else
Any benefit of the doubt he was entitled to went out the window a long time ago.
Many (newly) former Twitter employees have raised concerns about essential services now left unattended.

Reports indicate the internal beta build Twitter instance has slowed down significantly this week -- a sign that services, code, or other essential infrastructure is being neglected.

Musk fired half the company and drove two-thirds of the remainder to quit. He's asking the remaining employees to print out their code contributions to prove their worth.

These things might not be explicit signs of trouble in the company, but I sure wouldn't read them as positive. A shakeup could be a good thing in the long term if the company has stagnated... but there's no guarantee.

I raised multiple explicit examples in my previous post; here's some more. I think Elon is a complete dunderhead, because it's hard not to think so based on his behavior. I still think Twitter is at a very high risk right now of collapsing. With him making such dramatic moves as CEO, isn't it impossible to separate his bad behavior from Twitter's future?
> The floor value of EVERY company is $0, but what is your point in saying that?

There's a big difference between something like a Beanie Baby, which has a base value of whatever someone will pay for a toy (you're not getting rich, but it's not zero), a company whose shares convey fractional ownership of assets and an ongoing revenue stream, and a very weak fiat currency like Bitcoin which has value only to the degree to which your buyer believes they will be able to resell it at a profit.

With a strong fiat currency like the US dollar, that belief is anchored by the size of the related economy and the millions of people who are guaranteed to use USD to pay taxes and other government fees, sell goods and services to the government or be paid by it, and the millions of business relationships specified in dollars. Yes, that could change over time but it's not something which happens quickly except in disaster scenarios where the value of any currency is moot and you wouldn't be running Bitcoin miners in any case.
China proposed using SDRs before.
They make wonders on the hands of Infosys and Wipros of the IT world.

I am quite happy no longer to do code review of such deliveries.

Hence why I only use C++ on personal projects.
GPS has its own time thing, kinda fixed offset from TAI iirc
This seems like an argument no Chinese software on American devices, what makes the difference?
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sure- dropped you a mail!
Arguably, being able to perform calendar calculations without leap-second information (which you don’t have for the future) is more important in applications than maintaining to-the-second accuracy over calendrical timescales.

What applications and date-time libraries should really do is differentiate between timestamps, calendar plus wall-clock time, and elapsed runtime. In most circumstances, only the latter would really need to be consistent with TAI.
I get the sarcasm but Jeff and Sanjay actually code quite a bit even today with their senior fellow titles: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/12/10/the-friendship...
He is trying to destroy the company, literally.

Twitter's now second largest investor and likely cash backer of Elon's shares is Saudi Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdulaziz. Twitter was a huge enabler of the Arab Spring and leaders of oppressive regimes around the world would love to see it shuttered.
Actually that would be the Xiaomi/Redmi/Poco series.
Well, every time I heard about the SwiftUI it’s to complain about the hidden complexity and difficulty to debug it. Not so sure it’s a true plus! And it’s only valid on Mac/iOS
oh well, I thought the same, but got curious because the framework laptop would be way nicer with an open UEFI...

Vendors burn a key into the system which prevents loading an unsigned BIOS. This is a one-time-programmable fuse (OTP fuse) and part of Intel BootGuard protections.

You get a laptop with _fused burned_ to prevent loading other firmware to your device.
Booting won't work if you load a replacement SPI chip with anything but a vendor-signed firmware.
Back in the day of 16-bit (386sx) 25MHz CPUs with no FPU, the original "Sum Complement" checksum was still more popular than CRC, BCH, or hashing functions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checksum#Algorithms
Did Whatsapp serve ads?

Did it have to moderate content?

Twitter is vastly more complex than Whatsapp when it comes to functionality and platforms it had to support.
$418M went into cold wallets.

- how convenient for SEC.
what dev build? for twitter?
Meet and Drive are big successes in the enterprise space. Google successfully made Workspaces a compelling alternative to Microsoft’s business productivity suite.

I think with that in mind, the fact that Google doesn’t develop their own Slack clone to fit into Workspaces is completely bananas [edit: they actually did do that this year].

Other new product successes listed in this thread are things like Chromecast that only make Google money indirectly and/or represent an essentially meaningless slice of their revenue.
word for word. it's anti-black culture war nonsense, whether they know it or are just parroting it. and it's not even accurate, showing a basic ignorance of the genre
It merged with the already existing Google video. Both made important contributions to the resulting product.
So you wouldn't either...

I'm sure the world is full of engineers who would go work for Twitter if only things x, y, and z were different, but they aren't.
I am serious, and it is indeed that sometimes...but I wonder if that's the intent Ztynovovk had when making the comment (or: what it "is" from within the initial frame of reference, as "is-ness" is relative to the observer).

I think it's fun and informative to draw attention to cognitive functionality of humans when they are opining on the cognitive functionality of other humans, particularly in "smart" communities when the topic of discussion tends to exploit cultural norms and catalyze ~unforced (note: speculation) cognitive errors.
There are copious and extensive managed access control technologies available for Chromebooks (and windows, and everything else). I mean, it's true that by default it's just a laptop-running-chrome and can get to anything. But that's not how my kids' schools deploy their Chromebooks, nor is it how we have their personal devices set up. Have you looked at Family Link, which is the default choice for this sort of thing? We've used Bark too. Both are sort of annoying to administer but do their advertised jobs pretty well.

I mean, yes, the internet is distracting, but...
Interesting example...

You propose I use an open ended question, where the discussion could easily go sideways, when I clearly stated:

"In this case is my subordinate."

"I already had asked him to do the measurement. My question started more to be sure he actually is going to do it."

I do not see how an open question would help here.

Nice example of communication going wrong here...
Open Source Swift will never become a language for graphical applications. Same problem as with Objective-C as you said. There's GNUstep but look how far they have come in decades.

On the other hand a bunch of useful libs (based on said standard lib) for server-side Swift is realistic.
> Without a free exchange of ideas, how do you form a consensus of what is or is not fact?

By having free exchange of ideas allowed outside of Wikipedia, and forbidden on Wikipedia itself.

I'm saying the free exchange of ideas doesn't belong on Wikipedia pages specifically.
I wouldn’t consider the pixel a success until they truly fix the emergency call issues[1]. I wouldn’t recommend anyone buys one, and anyone who has one should demand action.

[1] https://reddit.com/r/GooglePixel/comments/y039zn/i_compiled_...

Edit: Downvotes are a little confusing here, are people supposed to accept a phone that can’t make a call when you most need it?
As I understood it, Google Drive was mainly just the storage that was previously free with Google Docs (from 2006 or something).
I think most people would be surprised by how often 'it's who I am' really boils down to 'I am currently comfortable with this'. Changing the deep feedback loops that we call a personality is usually very difficult because so much of the human firmware runs on autopilot and resists conscious control but we are not static patterns - we can and do change constantly. Some changes are hard and some changes are easy but it's remarkable how much a small change can sometimes make a big impact in our lives.
What about GKE?
Fewer people means less specialization. If you lose a billion people, recognize that you're not losing the billion poorest people, but rather a distribution that skews rich. When populations are declining, a lot of the things we thought were as sure as gravity turn out to be the fun parts of cryptocurrency bubbles: infrastructure maintenance; ever-increasing division of labor, specialization, and the global development initiatives and technologically advanced low-carbon energy research those entail; people determined to protect trees and wildlife; and all pensions, home value trends, and fiat currencies that depend on growth to obscure.

Everyone has a vested interest in growth. Unfortunately, many wealthy people have short-term (single lifetime) interests in the reverse.
But the cost of Twitter Blue was to actively drive away your major revenue stream, the advertisers. When you're saddled with a ton of debt actively driving away your revenue doesn't seem like MBA-101 to me.
> how would you rank the possibility that Wikipedia is updated from that same source

I'd rank it as definitely possible. No idea how often it happens.

The thing that really persuaded me to put the story back up was the source of the tweet. A Columbia CS prof and law prof who had apparently studied with Brooks would not likely have posted that if he hadn't had a genuine notification.
I guess my most impactful project was a microprocessor-based weather station for siting wind energy systems and fruit frost prediction in the early 1980s. Turned out that one of my stations, being used by a frost predictor, was across the street from a rural drainage ditch in which a young child was discovered face down in the water. The frost predictor faxed temperature profiles for the previous several hours to the hospital, where doctors determined the child could be revived. She was.
Dumb question do I call this from the server side or client(browser)?
While, yeah, the demographic skews younger, TikTok is enormous. There are plenty of adults there.
This is just mocking the company. Which seems fair but it has nothing to do with interviewing or hiring. Have the asked for anything unreasonable? Are they supposed to not hire right now?
Moral of the story is that insurance is expensive