skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Snowdon to be known by it's Welsh name Yr Wyddfa
Just consider how hard it is to find good people for a startup. What if indeed, most tech workers everywhere are bad? It doesn’t mean you observe lots of turnover. But it makes it possible that a company is really successful because of it, rather than despite it.
The moral of the story is that laziness is a virtue. Think of all the time that could have been saved, had you had no plans like your partners ;)
Big discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33658541
Vice versa. Companies paid for a gmail + meet bundle that came in cheaper than gmail + zoom.
We will run out data for ML training
I totally would.

I'm tired of working in woke corporations with their fake friendliness, stupid rituals and tons of people doing nothing. You anyway end up wasting time at work so it's not like you can't go to the beach instead but you end up with nothing productive being done.

The only cons is relocation and being an employee, I like my tax setup and quality of life here.
Also, not being free to work remote.
> contested successfully by India ( among others ).

Yes, also by my native country, Brazil. Shame on us for that.

In the end dirty affairs/realpolitik are what things are, not what they should be, right?

Up until WWII, "Realpolitik" is what gave us so many wars, so little commerce, so little international cooperation, so much European imperialism, ...

So I do agree we need to find ethics in international relations. One important reason my country (Brazil) gave up on slavery was British pressure. Global Warming won't be solved without ethics commitment.
As a user, I can say that Google home has become a dumpster fire after starting out rather well. I’ve sworn off buying any future Google hardware.
ASX Chairman Apologizes After Writing Off $165M Blockchain Project
I think Voice is great but it seems a bit abandoned from Google
> No one will ever see the inside of a prison

One of the enduring myths SBF crafted was that of his political connections. I have barely any D.C. connections. SBF has none. He was paid attention to. But walking into D.C. with tens of millions to spend is far from unprecedented, and it's not the sort of behavior that buys secrets. (Meetings? Sure.)
Building a Twitter clone is so trivial that it's basically become the new todo list app for people showing off any new web technology.

The value of Twitter has nothing to do with the product, and everything to do with the name and market share. For that reason, it's been almost impossible for any other alternative to call itself a real Twitter competitor.
Apologies for this un-HN-like response, but that image is making me laugh out loud in the privacy of my home office. I'm glad nobody can hear me.
It's a good question, especially since he has been so aggressive in this reorg that it would be very unsettling to many people. I'm sure he lost some because of it.

However, I would imagine that everything we are hearing is not the whole story in terms of what the identified top performers are hearing. They are likely getting 1-on-1 calls, comp adjustments, and promises on how they will be able to build the future. For some that won't be enough I'm sure. But for many it will be and this is the core - these are the people Elon builds Twitter with. The other ones are sent a loyalty notice and if they stay, then great because they know their orders now.

Elon did tweet he feels most of the best people are staying, so there's that. And he doesn't seem too nervous about things. But only he would know I guess.
Sometimes it could be you dragging them down by making them feel bad about themselves.

Are they uncomfortable in a group setting, going through health issues?

Let’s define underperforming fairly. Are they new? Just because they don’t match the team, maybe they’re learning still. It’s good to reflect.

Also, talk to them, be a friend. It’s a team not a competition.
I've very anxiously awaiting Swift on Server's development/maturity. My love for Scala/Akka (especially with the latest licensing changes) could potentially be replaced if they nail Distributed Actors.
Trust the science is not a phrase we should be saying.
Always question the science
You don’t have to worry about that, we’re we’ll positioned to know if that happens, and the account is automatically memorialized with read only access to those you shared things with.
Don't do this. I somehow ended up with all the pictures of family going back to the 1800s. I have 5 suitcases full that I now have to scan.

Find the best representative photos, and upload them to Geni.com, Ancestry.com, MyHerritage.com, 23andme, etc. They are bound to survive from one of those sources.
Twitter is not just a corporation you buy. At the very least, it is also the life and labour of all it employees.
So you can never have absolute control. There is always resistance.
This is kind of sad for me. I'm always impressed by the JWST's engineering and the incredible work put in over decades by talented engineers to see it completed. But the name is a painful reminder of the discrimination and outright cruelty of the federal government, even in supposedly more "meritocratic" agencies like NASA. As a compromise, I choose to only refer to the JWST by its acronym, which as far as I'm concerned lends none of its accomplishments to James Webb.
> I feel like Google Photos is a pretty incredible product.

It was until they removed the Google Drive integration.
Is this a one time trigger, or can you, for instance, periodically continue to annoy some folks by sending them a message or a photo? If, periodically, how does billing work then?
> I mean, please read this in its entirety. They even have a "Encouraging Headscale" section.

Honestly that makes it even weirder.

Usually companies will just not acknowledge that an open alternative that plugs into their existing product exists, and if they do it's for enforcement/diverting purposes ("Don't use this, please stick to the official stuff")

If you're at a point where you acknowledge, accept, and even help the unofficial FOSS alternative, why not make your official stuff the same way?
The parameters are “tunable” because we know of nothing that would prevent the parameters from having a different value. The particular values they have aren’t a logical consequence of other known facts, and hence appear to be arbitrary. They are tunable in the sense that if they were different, no logical contradiction would arise. There is nothing that compels them to have the particular values we observe them to have. This means we have no explanation of why they have those values.

But one goal of science is to provide explanations of why the world is how it is. If we can somehow reduce the apparent arbitrariness of a parameter, or remove it completely (by having it be a mere logical consequence of something else we know), then that increases what we can explain about the universe.
Could you explain to me who you think is processing reimbursements when AR/AP seems to have all quit? Ditto for company cards--most company cards I've had have fallback personal obligations if the company refuses to pay for a charge. What assurances do any of these people have that they won't be stuck with the check?

A Twitter developer can get a "6-figure job" just about anywhere pretty quickly, and many can get ones that haven't just gutted their total comp by going private. What's the point, exactly?
98% population don't care about all those acronyms you used. If I can have 5-10 times smaller WebP file at comparable quality than JPEG I don't really care about details, only thing I care about it's support in all devices I use. If I was going after superior quality I would be shooting in RAW and not JPG anyway.
It's the tall poppy syndrome. Truth is, all we know about Elon is his public persona and he uses that to talk up his own book. Much like a16z invest in Adam Neumann's latest venture, not because they think it is a good idea but because their investment will get so much publicity that it might give enough momentum to a bad idea and turn it into a good idea. Most forums have become conformist around a specific set of values, whether they are right-leaning or left-leaning. As soon as you present a different opinion you face the wrath of the community. The net-net is that people coalesce around like minded people. This leads to the creation of echo-chambers comprised of people who won't change their mind. Conversations would never get as heated or barbed in person.
> "Jupiter, that's about two quettagrams," he added—a two followed by 30 zeros.

But the sun is 2000 quettagrams... looks like we need another higher prefix
> "You are not allowed to criticize the CCP" is speech

Yes... speech I'm allowed to (and do) ignore. You're not making the point you think you're making.
It's a learned helplessness response. I've been burned by enough "yes man" management that I've given up trying to do more than necessary for management. Want feedback? Sorry, I don't have any.

Fuck, I've gotten a reprimand for pointing out how Musk is perhaps not the best role model when someone mentioned they idolized him. That learned me.
That's something that works when repossessions are still relatively low. Right now, most people are still employed and car payments are pretty high on the list of must pay bills, right behind mortgages. It's the same thing hedge funds do when taking or exiting a big position, move slowly to avoid spooking the market.

If someone like Carvana has to liquidate cars at a loss to keep the lights on, you're going to see a FLOOD of cars hit the market as you'll have a rapidly depreciating asset and nobody will want to hold.
I surely hope so, Project Fuchsia shows a lot of promise and there are also rumors of the return of Project Ara, so who knows
Note that the actual title is NASA Shares James Webb History Report, not the title as of this posting NASA Declines to Rename JWST. If the poster feels that the title is clickbaity, I think that it could be simply clarified to Results of NASA Investigation on the James Webb Period, but I think that the original title is neutral enough.

Edit 2022-11-18 20:06: I think that the full title of the report, NASA Historical Investigation into James E. Webb’s Relationship to the Lavender Scare is actually okay but too long for HN. NASA Investigation into Webb’s Relationship to the Lavender Scare is concise enough.
Twitter: Kathie Griffin, Jorden Peterson and Babylon Bee Have Been Reinstated
Link for anyone interested: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Atomic_Time

I'm not sure how this differs much in practice from UNIX time
Failure to transfer title would make me extremely mad as a customer
Google smart speakers

Google wifi router
Not sure about Vroom, but carmax actually performs proper car inspections before purchase. They are not moving fast and breaking things.
It is absolutely a systemic problem. A problem that will not be changed or solved within our lifetimes, that's for sure.
I quietly cleaned up his messes anytime his files got dumped on me for some reason, then quietly and more happily cleaned them up for another six months after he was finally fired.
Well, the fact is that it is as open source as Objective-C, and that it has hardly helped the latter without the frameworks that really matter.

There is no issue in being Apple's C#, this is the only way for bringing safety computing forward, having the platform owner making it happen no matter what.
Aside from Webb's human rights record, isn't it wildly inappropriate for a major international scientific collaboration to be named after one of the host country's (non-scientist) bureaucrats?

This is one of the greatest scientific instruments ever produced, shouldn't it be named after an astronomer/astrophysicist? Shouldn't the scientists that worked on it for decades be the ones to pick the name?
> over-promised and/or undelivered

How so? If anything, things that he promised had an over-optimistic timeline. He promised a reusable rocket that can land itself - and it did, late, but so far it's the only one that can do so.

> his Hyperloop concept

It's a concept - something he specifically said none of his companies would be implementing.

> current overpromise of AI, with self-driving cars still way far out

I was quite skeptical, however, the current state of self-driving is quite good. The vehicle requires practically no intervention. Still a long way to go, but I am super impressed by how far they've come. Check it out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbYuuu0G9Ko

> Tesla could use some care to iron out the QC issues

I am sure, there is always room for improvement. So far, my wife's 2020 Model 3 has been reliable. No issues as yet.
It's the software engineering equivalent of the crypto nerd with the super-strong encryption, beat by a five-dollar wrench attack[0]. ;-)

Sometimes the best (for some definition of best) solution to a problem is to side-step it entirely.

[0]: https://xkcd.com/538/
> - don't directly address the point of your question / provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question

If you ask me "how do I foo the bars?" 2 days ago, "how do I foo the bazs?" yesterday and now are asking "How do I foo the foobars?", it is easier for me to explain the information you need to handle that question rather than handle each time you need it incidentally.
> Sometimes they are not even the ones that management is promoting.

According to The Gervais Principle[1]:

"The Peter Principle states that all people are promoted to the level of their incompetence. It is based on the assumption that future promotions are based on past performance. The Peter Principle is wrong for the simple reason that executives aren’t that stupid, and because there isn’t that much room in an upward-narrowing pyramid. They know what it takes for a promotion candidate to perform at the to level. So if they are promoting people beyond their competence anyway, under conditions of opportunity scarcity, there must be a good reason.

"Scott Adams, seeing a different flaw in the Peter Principle, proposed the Dilbert Principle: that companies tend to systematically promote their least-competent employees to middle management to limit the damage they can do. This again is untrue. The Gervais principle predicts the exact opposite: that the most competent ones will be promoted to middle management. Michael Scott was a star salesman before he become a Clueless middle manager. The least competent employees (but not all of them -- only certain enlightened incompetents) will be promoted not to middle management, but fast-tracked through to senior management. To the Sociopath level.

"And in case you are wondering, the unenlightened under-performers get fired."

[1] - https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-...
Lost fiat deposits? What happens when you try to withdraw it?
Really? In every large tech company whose leveling guidelines I’ve seen (including my own), “being able to code well” only separates junior developers from mid level developers.

After that it’s about “scope” and “impact”. Looking at the git blame tells you nothing about the skillset it takes to be successful at any large tech company at a senior level.
My timeline has radically changed - like 80% of the tweet volume is gone since last night.

People are leaving or algorithms are failing to promote tweets.
If you claimed all three of those, you would have to claim all three of them, at which point you would have claimed all three of them, and someone could easily see that.
Seatbelts have issues. Some of them undiscovered yet. What suggests that Seatbelts won't introduce issues that will be larger than the 70% of issues that it solves with crashes? Because to me, it just sounds like we can't know so we're being hopeful that we don't run into that situation.
Yes it does, but one should be warned that adopting Bazel isn't the lightest decision to make. But yeah, the CI experience is one of its best attributes.

We are using Bazel with Github self-hosted runners, and have consistent low build times with a growing codebase and test suite, as Bazel will only re-build and re-test what needs to be changed.

The CI experience compared to e.g. doing naive caching of some directories with Github managed runners is amazing, and it's probably the most reliable build/test setup I've had. The most common failure we have of the build system itself (which is still rare with ~once a week) is network issues with one of the package managers, rather than quirks introduced by one of the engineers (and there would be a straightforward path towards preventing those failures, we just haven't bothered to set that up yet).
I‘ve had stuff break because of required kernel updates, software that needed to be patched, hardware breaking and no exact substitute being available, database sizes crossing critical thresholds, … - it‘s definitely less risky to run something that is well understood and no longer getting substantial amounts of updates, but every complex system has known and unknown deficiencies that are just a butterfly’s wingbeat away from being triggered. As long as you‘re on the happy path, everything will look fine. But if something pushes slightly and moves you to the unhappy path, you can find yourself very quickly in a position where you need someone with a deep understanding of some obscure component of the system that is misbehaving - and that someone is unlikely to be the infrastructure team.
I'm not familiar with ClearCase. From what little I've heard, I had understood those specifications to specify how to check out files into the working copy, more similar to Git's sparse checkout profile than to revsets.
Real-Time Payments in Healthcare
Nomi Health recently launched a platform that supports real-time healthcare payments in the U.S.
He hasn't not given it away yet...and since most of it is tied up in illiquid stock (space x, twitter) and liquid stock (tesla) he probably can't do so easily. When you and me are billionaires we might have a different perspective.
India commonly uses Lakh for 10^5 1,00,000 and Crore for 10^7 1,00,00,000. After that, there's Arab at 10^9, Kharab at 10^11, Neel at 10^13, and Padma 10^15, but as a US person, I've never seen those used, although I've seen Lakh and Crore. Sometimes lakh crore shows up, which is 10^12 or a (short) trillion, but sometimes trillion is used for that in documents otherwise using lakhs and crores and not billions or millions.
> Depopulation

Tokyo has been growing at a much faster rate than NY or LA.
He's offering 3 months to avoid violating the WARN act - so while severance is not required, following WARN is.
Even if they had participated in the lavender scare, they are a product of their time. The governments themselves did it, which is funny why we somehow now trust those systems today.

We can both condemn the actions of a historical figure and also respect them for their achievements that did good. By trying to erase history we cannot learn from it.

There are significantly more important issues affecting us. Who cares about the name of a telescope when homelessness and socioeconomic inequality prevents many from even having a decent quality of living?

Our lives are not infinite, public action is not infinite. choose what you're going to spend it on. Twitter doesn't count.
Sometimes it pays to be the most-prepared among your cohort. In this case, it would have paid so well that your cohort decided to work around it.

It always pays to not be the least-prepared among your cohort. You'll get no sympathy if you're at the back of the pack, you'll just die.
I don't haven't been following CarMax, but CarLotz was another new entrant to the field that went public via an SPAC IPO in 2020 at a value of $1.9B that now has a market cap of around $24M. They are also trying to merge with Shift, which is in a similar state.
Chromecast has somehow become ubiquitous without attracting much attention. I think even among the iPhone and Mac users I know, more of them use Chromecast than Apple TV, since they're so small and cheap. I bought one so I could cast a specific show on a specific trip to visit family, and now my household has one for every TV, for about the same price as a single Apple TV. We always take one with us when we travel.
I've written software for enterprises of Bell scale, but yes the team was small and always under my control. I still work mostly alone (hire subcontractors occasionally). My interactions with other systems is by network APIs so I do not have incompetents screwing with my code.

I understand that this is rather unique position but this is what I wanted, worked for and had managed to achieve. I mostly design and create products from start to finish for my clients. Been on my own for 20+ years already.

BTW. I doubt that Rust or any language for that matter can be a cure from shitty programmers. Some help sure but they'll manage to fuck things up regardless on a different level.
> Which relied on KHTML.

Which was built on the QT toolkit created by Troll Tech [1]. QT was designed originally inspired by folks working on a cross-platform application for ultrasound imaging [2].

Turtles all the way down.

1. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/06/ars-at-wwdc-intervie...

2. https://wiki.qt.io/Qt_History
There isn’t going to be a fire sale. Their margins per car are positive and have only contracted about 20%. The margin isn’t enough to sustain their business, but the cars are priced in line with the market. Worst case, they would restructure in chapter 11 and continue to operate retail as normal.
Honest question. Is there evidence contrary to what NASA's historians pulled together that would validate your position on the name of the telescope?
> I’ve never had a corporate card in my entire career

oh i guess that's what happens when you assume heh. i've always had a corporate card, or for at least the past 15 years. I work in consulting though so it's more common to book flights/hotels and travel individually.
Mostly all of this https://github.com/erebe/personal-server

which consist of:

- nextcloud (to easily share files)

- pihole (for home dns)

- minio (for backups and photos)

- postfix + spamassassin + dovecot (for mail server)

- dashy (to have nice dashboard)

- wireguard (to get a vpn)

- some personal apps

All of this run on a public server and a mini pc hosted at home
I dont do a lot of torrenting anymore.
The low end Pixel 7 is $599 (save $100 listed on their site, don't know if this is with conditions). Low end iPhone 14 is $799.

Apple supports their phones for much longer. Google for 3 years. Apple has recently supported phones for more than 6 years.

If you factor in support, Google phones are more expensive.

So, not gouging at all.

EDIT:

An iPhone 12 would have longer support than a Pixel 7 and it is $599 from Apple.
As I understand it, dark matter is loosely clumped around the bright matter, held by gravity but otherwise not interacting with it.
Those are diffraction spikes. They are caused by the segmented mirrors and struts. Even the Hubble telescope has them just a different shape. The spikes are more noticeable on brighter point like objects like stars.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
Is that practical? Drift is slow and takes 1 min per century. Let’s say you can live with 10 minutes of drift. That leaves minutes [10-50] which is 4 centuries vs minutes [50-10] where it’s fine which is 2 centuries.

Also, if the problem were time zones, time zones already support non-whole hour shifts, so why not just apply the leap second into all time zones? The reason is that that isn’t what a leap second is. It’s kind of “how much time has elapsed since 1970 midnight” and that number is corrected for with leap seconds. Time zone offsets don’t help you here.
By the way, what the hell is a fiat@? Is that at-sign a typo or is it some kind of jargon I don't understand?
I have heard about in this thread genuinely interested. Specially if it's included in YouTube Premium.

In fact, they could release Google Prime and give us a lot of free products for a reasonable price .