skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
First off, it had a lot more than 1000 employees when this started.

But this thread is missing the forest for the trees: take my coworker for example.

He's become such a pivotal player because he stayed at the company much longer than the average tenure in our industry.

Why did he do that? Well, my hunch is the fact no one sweats him if he needs to pick up his kids from school, he can work from home as needed, he's not expected to work 80 hours a week... all play into that.

So it doesn't really matter if you realize he's valuable, fire half the company and start talking about extreme work hours and he'll rightfully leave.

People like him such experts at the specifics of their jobs that even 30 hours of their work is worth more than 80 hours of some loyal Elon drone who might have all the zeal in the world, but can't magically recreate 6 years worth of being deeply embedded in a company.

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We already saw Twitter employees saying Elon has fired people who fit in this category.

And to add fuel to dumpster fire, those people tend to have stayed due to a bond with the job. Start shaking it up by getting rid of people they build camaraderie with and doubling work hours and they'll leave.

After all, having a resume showing years of executing at a high level in a company like Twitter is a huge boon. Money was raining from the sky until very recently and these people ignored it and stayed put. You can't find people like that easily in our industry.
> maybe a software developer's total contribution to the bottom line can be conveyed with a few snapshots of context-less code.

I've never suggested someone should be fired if they can't produce code snippets. But it's fair to expect people who don't actively code (when they're not managers or have a non-coding title) to have a reason they're not coding. And there are many perfectly great reasons, especially for very senior engineers. But if someone isn't coding and they're not actually doing anything else of particular value... well, they're not valuable engineers.

Code is not the single-and-only decider of an engineer's contributions, but I reject the notion that it can't be a starting filter to evaluate someone's contributions, and the assessment to proceed from there.
Imagine you're a woman in your mid-thirties facing a decade or more in prison. You've always wanted children, but you thought there'd be time for that later. Now, though, if convicted, you'll probably never get the chance. What would you do?
Deterrence is seeing justice in action. All sentencing, like speeding and littering fines, are supposed to hurt _just enough_ to deter one from doing it, but not in excess. 8th Amendment "Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." uses the word "excessive" twice.

All of this is opinionated since quantifying justice is often pretty difficult.

https://constitution.congress.gov/constitution/amendment-8
I might be weird because I love salt. I snack on it. And butter by itself is not appetizing however melted butter with just salt is delicious. As for pepper and other seasonings you are right. They don't taste good by themselves.

Many foods are delicious by themselves. Fruits, nuts, vegetables, legumes. Some cooked unsalted, some raw.

And in case of those, taste can be acquired. For example unsalted rice at first tastes bad, but when I ate it few times when I was hungry I started liking it.
I solved for decentralization with a Nodejs app, but have no idea what to do with it. No, it has nothing to do with crypto-coins or blockchain.
Perhaps another moral to add: ISO8601 solves a lot of problems.
In a world of bots and sock-puppets, it feels pretty far from a town square example already. If you acknowledge that you won't ever be able to stay ahead of bot and sock-puppet detection enough to remove it from the platform (and no one seems to think that's a winnable contest for the platform)), you're left with letting that drown out the town square, or to deemphasize it's worst impacts and maybe also impact some of your most negative and hateful users too. But maybe this just shows why Elon shouldn't have used the town square analogy before, it doesn't fit well with what actually exists and causes people to believe it should work in ways it can't (without the equivalent of letting someone bring a microphone and loud speakers to drown out the rest of the town square).
> Which makes me wonder - if your product is not defrauding customers, then how is it that you are defrauding investors ...

I believe a distinction is being made where Theranos the company is understood to have defrauded customers but it cannot be proven that Holmes directly defrauded all customers. Where it can be proven that she directly defrauded investors given she was aware of the fraud against customers.
I've been lucky in lots of ways on what I have ended up working on. I've worked across the sectors but ultimately working on government services has been the most rewarding, which is far removed from being the most enjoyable.

The most difficult but ultimately rewarding was a system that performed checks on people who wanted to work with children or vulnerable adults. I ended up having ultimate responsibility for this being successful which whilst now I can look back on with some pride, I wouldn't attempt again.

Before that I'd rewritten exam appeal systems and been a key developer in the UKs first online student loan offering. I still meet people 20 years on that have to browse my code when reworking those systems/codebase.

Working for banks pays the bills, and I never do subpar work but not something I look back with fondness on, even though I did my share.
It’s somewhat obvious that llm’s as we know them can’t do the kind of inference that it takes to deliver accurate results. They can bullshit with the best of them but don’t really ‘understand’ anything.
Occam's Razor is also known as the Principle of Parsimony; I was using it in that sense.
My definition of useful in this case is humanistic. The utility of "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" doesn't depend on belief in the supernatural, nor do concepts like grace and forgiveness.
So, you editorialize when it's to your liking?
“just put Twitter in the cloud” we tried that- $300M monthly
Was this comment transmitted via internet, and are we on Twitter?
I spent 2 weeks in an ICU due to an appendectomy gone wrong followed by growing open wound and infection. Horrible time from a mental health perspective with visual and auditory hallucinations, feeling of paranoia concerning the medical team and nightmares. Hallucinations and paranoia stopped before I was discharged, but it took a couple of years for the nightmares to subside.

Post-intensive care syndrome is something that happens that hardly anyone who hasn't been in an ICU knows about. Even when I was in the ICU the medical team never discussed it with me. My running joke to deal with what happened is that I aged 10 years the 2 weeks I spent there.
It's not a plot hole, it's a plot point, that makes Judas a complex, tragic character. John 13:27 addresses this a little. You might enjoy Jesus Christ Superstar, which is reasonably based on the text but takes some interpretive liberties, and is set from Judas's troubled point of view.

Interestingly, JCS was controversial among some christians for portraying Judas in a sympathetic light. But the text always did portray him in a more complex manner. He did end up hanging himself in shame over his actions very soon after, for example.

Perhaps in today's era of nonstop marvel superhero movies and super partisan political content, you have become accustomed to simple stories where all the characters and motivations are very black and white. But in older times, people were able to appreciate a good complex story told about complex characters with complex and conflicting motivations and emotions...

PS: King James is a notoriously mediocre translation whose only advantage is nostalgia for English speakers and a false patina of "ancientness" (in fact, the KJV is pretty new compared to the original texts, just as the English language is, obviously). If you are interested in learning more, I would avoid everyday bibles sold to everyday christians and look at textbooks with nice commentaries of the sorts you might see used in a college religion or theology class
Is it a problem that the URL is not HTTPS or is it the blessing required to defeat it?
HTTP is also pretty inefficient. I guess if you went for some sort of custom protocol it could be blocked by firewalls or whatever.
Yep, thousands of browser engines would surely bloom from the $7 million a year Mozilla makes in donations.
Anyone's ability to broadcast on Twitter is only as far as the system dynamics of Twitter and its users allows them. Retweeting is not some pure expression of speech that needs to be "free", it is limited already shaped and limited by all kinds of incentives and technological particularities (character limit, anyone?).

I think media should function to encourage speech that balances social and individual utility. That is, speech that has important protection from powerful actors like the government and CEOs, but also that incentivizes true and useful information, in all the nuance that is necessary to actually understand the world. (Obviously entertainment is useful as well.)

But engaging lies are not a form of speech I value, and equating the current operation, or slightly-more-permissive version of it, of an overwhelmingly constructed forum (i.e. Twitter and it's retweet system) with "free" speech doesn't make much sense.
QALYs are hardly non-controversial.
Thanks for all those details. It’s gonna be a rough road for all their customers, especially those who had a lot of money deposited.
It's fun that you mentioned systemd! In it early years, it was notorious for its... lack of robustness and correctness, let's call it so.

An it definitely did have its fair share of dangerous issues [1] which would likely not happen if a safer language were used to write it.

1: https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
Wide and lasting consequences: Teachers give girls higher grades than boys
Sometimes yes, the best answer to "doctor, it hurts when I do this" is actually "then don't do that".
I disagree. It would be one thing if we could say that a person's decision to get into an ultrarisky investment only affected themselves, but that's not true. When investors get scammed or a high risk venture simply fails, there's a blast radius. People getting ruined strains families, social groups, and organizations. Then the government has to step in in all sorts of ways to help clean up the mess.

The most experienced firms in the world got sucked into FTX. That's going to happen from time to time, and they're built to absorb the losses with limited social fallout.

Now, I do think that the rules as they are right now aren't great. They should be focused more on containing risk (we do this with systematically important financial institutions) and evaluating preparedness from a knowledge perspective.

The other thing you could do is try to increase access to registered security status from the venture side, with frameworks for disclosure, reporting, and accountability that don't require hiring millions of dollars worth of professional banking, accounting, and legal services.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemically_important_financi...
Will this cover his own hateful and negative tweets as well? And what are the new policies for what constitutes hateful/negative?
Me again - why two at a time? In my initial testing with whisper-asr-webservice and my RTX 3090 I could pretty easily throw ~10 different files at it simultaneously as there is some natural staggering between API entry, CPU conversion/resampling/transcoding of audio, the actual audio length, network effects like upload speed, etc.

I also implemented some anti-abuse-ish features between traefik and Cloudflare that should help it stand up better in the face of bad actors abusing it.

Certainly not something to necessarily depend on but I thought I'd mention it.
That is awesome. Great work.
I even played Strat-o-Matic baseball by mail when I was a kid! We'd fill out our rosters and managerial instructions then mail them off to our opposing team's manager. A week later I'd get the results back in the mail. Hard to believe such a relaxed pace.
Nothing has come back from the two that I tried (one medium in French, the other large in Spanish), meaning no change on the page since I uploaded them an hour an a half ago. I loaded the page again in another tab, though, and after a few seconds "finishedProcessing" appeared under the form. I suspect that means something.

On Firefox 102.4.0esr, also uBlock Origin.
I filed it myself in California. Doesn't matter who I'm selling to, I file the release of liability immediately. I don't want to pay for someone else's parking tickets or other much worse crimes.
Monads are only complicated if you have to unlearn stuff. You've probably written a ton of monads by accident, regardless of what language you use.
The pop song ''Sunny'' by Bobby Hebb (1963) is famous for featuring several key changes in escalating form:

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=sunny+hebb+guitar+tab&ia=we...
A lot of medical dramas and things that shape people's perceptions portray ICUs are filled with exciting and puzzling cases that need to be solved.
Fraud on that scale definitely deserves a stronger penalty.

I was more talking about cases like this where prosecutors sought 10 years for a protester getting excessively confrontational with police officers and now she is serving 4 years in prison: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/pregnant-black-activist-...

The jury acquitted Martin of inciting a riot and reached no verdict on whether she threatened officers’ lives. Her legal team was “elated” when jurors found her guilty only of breaching the peace, punishable by no more than a $500 fine and 30 days in jail, investigator Tony Kennedy recalled.

State law defines breachers of the peace as any disturbers, “dangerous and disorderly persons” or people who utter “menaces or threatening speeches.” But prosecutors presented the charge as a “high and aggravated” crime, which carries up to 10 years imprisonment. Rosado said Judge Kirk Griffin did not allow her to explain the distinction, and the possibility of a much stiffer penalty, to the jury.

I am not saying she does or doesn’t deserve to go to prison, I am more commenting on how the options go from 30 days to multiple years between the seemingly similar crimes.
My first job out of college I worked for an international telecommunications company.

The first big project I worked on was to develop a call detail record (CDR) search tool.

This tool was used to help locate a missing family who had been lost in the Nevada wilderness for more than 48 hours: https://www.cnn.com/2013/12/11/us/nevada-family-found-alive/...
maybe paid video streaming "one ticket one seat" where one entitlement gets one stream even on a global CDN; tried to take it to realnetworks, they said nobody would pay for video on the internet so i took it to microsoft; we did HBO, Showtime, WWE, together -- turns out people will pay for video on the Internet and various Microsoft tech we collab'd on for 2+ years before release went on to be foundations of online video w/ rights for folks like Netflix

https://news.microsoft.com/2000/02/09/microsoft-unveils-digi...

https://news.microsoft.com/2000/06/12/microsofts-new-digital...
Isn't it more possible than something nefarious that no one is interested and the twitter algorithm just doesn't think people will care so its downranked in searches?
Here is thinner one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtyCyZM6X14

Had to upscale it to have at least 120x vertical (didn't do exact binary search on that), and on higher horizontal resolution it also appeared to crap out.

And I'm out of 24 hour upload limit...

No idea how to click the higher rez button but at least ytd works:

-> ᛯ yt-dlp https://www.youtube.com/watch\?v\=NtyCyZM6X14
[youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading webpage
[youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading android player API JSON
[youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading MPD manifest
[youtube] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading MPD manifest
[info] NtyCyZM6X14: Downloading 1 format(s): 303+251
[dashsegments] Total fragments: 3
[download] Destination: uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f303.webm
[download] 100% of 86.17KiB in 00:00:00 at 105.60KiB/s
[download] Destination: uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f251.webm
[download] 100% of 4.43KiB in 00:00:00 at 20.76KiB/s
[Merger] Merging formats into "uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].webm"
Deleting original file uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f251.webm (pass -k to keep)
Deleting original file uberstatus [NtyCyZM6X14].f303.webm (pass -k to keep)
[02:31:30] ^ [/tmp]
-> ᛯ mpv uberstatus\ \[NtyCyZM6X14\].webm
(+) Video --vid=1 (*) (vp9 1920x36 50.000fps)
(+) Audio --aid=1 --alang=eng (*) (opus 2ch 48000Hz)
AO: [pulse] 48000Hz stereo 2ch float
VO: [gpu] 1920x36 yuv420p
AV: 00:00:09 / 00:00:09 (99%) A-V: 0.000

The original was on 1920x22 but it got a bit stretched in me trying to find the working resolution combination. Probably could go a bit flatter
At the time of acquisition WhatsApp had a group size limit of 100 people.

It also did not yet have:

- Document sharing

- Voice / video calls

- End-to-end encryption

- Read receipts

- WhatsApp Web

Still an impressive piece of engineering, but definitely a completely different beast.
Many animals are perfectly capable of understanding the suffering of other animals. It's illustrated by menu recorded instance of one animal helping other animals in need. Even of a different species. There's probably nothing unique about humans except slightly nimbler neurons.

As for the stories humans invented to explain their grace and their horribleness I can't say much. Only that we are very creative in that regard.
From an epidemiological perspective, one of the hardest things about evidence for critical care is that ICUs are really, really hard places to conduct studies.
But it's the technical person's responsibility to figure out the appropriate level of abstraction, if one cares about an accurate and thorough answer, since they are the ones holding the expertise.... but I agree that it would be absurd to expect an speech on networking fundamentals if the question is "why is my website down?".

But if they have to give a "yes*" or "yes, but..." answer, than some of those fundamentals might be relevant. But you wouldn't expect the discussion to get into signalling theory, again, unless it was relevant.

Given that nontechnicals have such a hard time grasping something as basic as abstraction, I certainly would not trust them to make judgement calls on it effectively.

Which again leads to the question of just how accurate an answer is the nontechnical person looking for?
I took couple years off coding to build a Kenyan infrastructure engineering firm - we're still going although I've started programming again. The biggest thing we've done is 6.7km of a mountain / lakeside ring road in Homa Bay on Lake Victoria (Kodula village section specifically, the work is visible on satellite). We're actually not completely done with it but watching the community growth from having the paved road reaching completion and improving the accessibility was absolutely incredible. Extremely frustrating sector to work in and difficult to pay yourself a salary even when it's not charity, but sometimes the rewards are awesome. I have a physics background so doing civil / electrical / mechanical stuff is tractable for me beyond programming, then we use the classic PM tooling to make things run ~relatively better than most people doing stuff out there. All Kenyan engineers other than me, lots of smart people who are highly motivated to meet and work with.
> She doesn't seem likely to reoffend

Oh yes she does. You think she's going to be happy at a menial job? No, she'll be right back with a new con the moment she's back on the street. Only now her name recognition will make the con harder.
I had an 85 Honda Prelude and 88 Honda CRX and they both needed a little gas when you let off the clutch from a standstill or they’d die. My 2000 Miata could make it, but it would lurch and complain loudly.
Yeah but sometimes you don’t know they are serial killers until they go out and do it the second time.
I went the opposite direction and am now paying for Proton and have set up my domains there. For me personally, a better approach than increasing my reliance on a second cloud service (Cloudflare) while continuing to benefit the original (Google) and experience its extreme degree of privacy invasion. This might not be the perfect solution, but for me it's definitely a step in the right direction, even if I move onto something else later.

Further, considering I am regularly inexplicably blocked from accessing websites because they use Cloudflare "protection" (which doesn't like OpenBSD + Firefox strict privacy setting), and considering their recent conduct, there's zero way I'd ever consider using Cloudflare's services regardless of potential usefulness. Not to mention giving up even more control of the internet to these "superpowers" seems like a terrible idea for everyone's sake, IMO.
I just listened to [Ali Abdaal : Digital Nomad Playbook](https://youtu.be/bH4RKOqAe-w) where he shares ideas that clarify your perspective.

Essentially, build something that creates residual income, you have the technology advantage.
A warehouse management system of sorts. I spent a long time on the systems passing orders in to take out the human intervention first. On a busy monday the couriers would be collecting at 5pm and the pickers would not have finished the 'next day' orders. A few weeks later it was peak season and they had finished by 9am!

On my last day a picker came over and hugged me and said I had changed their lives. Proudest moment of my career!

It was a bit of Python and SQL and a lot of thought!
riding a horse will too
Maybe your recruiter was affected by the recent layoffs.
One reason for that is explained well in a comment on the article.

Note that as with the Windows version, the protocol is HTTP, not HTTPS – because captive portals completely break TLS, but plaintext HTTP will result in a clean redirect to the portal, allowing the network service to detect the presence of the portal and to bring up a browser window to let the user authenticate.

(https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20221115-00/?p=10...)

I can see no reason why HTTPS is needed in any event. It's a single purpose domain that serves a static text file which everyone knows the content of.
Yeah and she could have wanted to have kids at some point. Facing a period in prison that will take her past her fertile years, she had to make a decision.
Are there any sites that have an actual map (i.e. like google maps but for the universe)?
Without cotext sure, but if you could visit places where people prepared animal for cosumption over last few thousand years. I'd say there is a trend expressing the intent of reducing suffering.

Not in total of course, but per life taken.
Weight in relation to what? The Earth sits in the void of space, it is like a free falling apple.
Shouldn't you just aggregate based on UTC? Leap seconds still cause a problem here but daylight savings shouldn't matter.
The comments explain why,
common web login pages would fail otherwise.