skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It probably would be an absolute hell-scape as you imagine, but for someone looking to make a name for themselves, it's an incredible opportunity to jump in, carve out a solid niche and then use that leverage to push your career forward. I can understand those who are leaving as that not what they signed on for, but there's a lot of people who would gladly roll the dice for that opportunity, I would've 5 years ago.
Also, historically, we did care about the equinoxes and solstices falling on specific days of the calendar.

We may not care anymore, but emphasis on may.
“Elon Musk emailed Twitter staff on Friday asking that any employees who write software code report to the 10th floor of Twitter's office in San Francisco at 2 p.m., according to an email reviewed by Reuters.

"There will be short, technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack," Musk wrote in the memo.”
White would reflect more, but also allow light to pass through. The goal of these are to completely block light to prevent algae growth.
This is probably eyewash to flush out leakers. Sent different emails with changed details.
I trust we will also be getting rid of leap years: that whole pausing the calendar for a day thing is very confusing.

Oh wait, that's not how it works. And neither is it how leap seconds work.
Elon has this bizarre conspiracy in his head where he thinks software engineers don't do anything until he realizes they do everything.

Btw, a dev build is in prod right now. Or someone forgot to minimize the JS. Tons of import map issues.
I'm seriously wondering if this is drug related. I dont think he was always this erratic.
In a decent box.
Me too, but I only order lamb when at a sit-down restaurant where I can enjoy it and finish it all. And I default to chicken over red meat because cows are more complex creatures. Delicious though.
Probably some mix of the two.
Unstated subtext: "Who the heck gave these bozos this much investment $$? Your whole job is basically to check for this kind of basic corporate structure and organization before handing over hundreds of millions of $$."

I am wondering how Sequoia or SoftBank explain this to their investors.
Tipp: Research „SMO“ companies (SMO = self managed organization).

I started to work for one and it makes a difference! Bo more bullshit meetings or middle management! They are still rare, but if you don‘t care which industry you are working in, you may find some!
Yeah I'm not saying this is what I think it correct - it's just how the law seems like it works. Ultimately you'd have to convince a jury and I don't think most people would believe "I just happened to forget it when the police asked for it". In the US you aren't required to give the police your passcode, but they do have a legal right to use your face/fingerprints without your permission, so they can freely search if there's only a biometric lock but not a passcode. Very weird but that's how the laws were written
I saw him say it on tv as well. I'll be your source and if that is not enough then you will have to live in a world where others know more than you. At some point the information will reach you.
This shows how out of touch he is - fly, right now, possibly across the country, just to please me. He has no concept or care of how much that might cost or disrupt someones life.
Also free aspirin and T.P. and other basic, simple items TBD, thank you very much.
Local: Proxmox host with

Homeassistant

Jellyfin

Unifi Controller

Paperless NGX

MyMedia for Alexa (streaming local music to Alexa)

InfluxDB

VPS:

NextCloud

FreshRSS

Theoretically also Monica and Linkding, but I haven't managed to get into using either so far
I could not agree more. If I were single I could see giving most of my time to SpaceX because I believe in what they're doing and what they want to accomplish. Twitter? omfg no.
Sometimes you run into packages called reader which makes for a less fun time using variable names that are also words.
I have read that the atronomers at the time actually knew that they were a bit off due to a mistake that was done by one of them.

They spent several years making lots of smaller measurements that were added up.

Each measurement was done twice to ensure correctness. One of the distances had two conflicting measurements, but due to a war, they could not return to make a third measurement and had to just choose one of them (the wrong one).

They chose not to tell anyone because they feared politicians would use it to discredit the metric system.
I guess they'll hop in their private jets and head on over.
Celsius and miles would be the British localisation for a car, if that's available.
Alternative explanation, things aren't that deep, he's just someone who is almost never held to account because of his wealth. He regularly displays appalling judgement but rarely has to suffer the consequences, which are bourne by those around him or the public at large. But in this particular case, he really stepped in it, and there was a group of people - Twitter employees - able to hold him accountable, and because he thoroughly burned his own bridges and denied himself any avenue of escape, he has to take it on the chin this time.

It isn't a difference in kind from calling a rescue diver a pedophile, or pretending he's going to take Tesla private, or any of the million bad decisions he's made over the years. It's just a difference in outcome.
How many traffic laws and safety practices did the three cops break to surround and arrest you in the middle of the road? Oh, but that's their job. Not yours.
If George Hotz joins Twitter, as he recently offered [1], you may be right.

I think people may be underestimating Elon's ability to bring in folks from the "secret guild of silicon valley" [2] to help him in this task. Of course, some of the Twitter employees who left are probably already part of it, but George coming on, even temporarily, might help bring in replacements.

[1]:https://twitter.com/realGeorgeHotz/status/159339146698169139...

[2]:https://medriscoll.com/2011/08/19/the-guild-of-silicon-valle...
People I know at SpaceX are terrified of him.
They all secretly track when he comes into the office, and actively hide from him.
This is not a refutation because I think that you’ve given a nice response to the topic. But I think that the people who are concerned or interested with reaching “everyone” deserve being beholden to the Big Box platforms of today; whichever ones rise and gain steam in the future that use phrases like “foster dialogue and bring people together” in lieu of “drive engagement and bring in ad dollars” then crash and burn under the weight of internal whistleblowers and damning The Guardian exposés.

I think the future of online communities will be community for the sake of community…and nothing else. Very mundane and boring on the outside, driven by nothing other than “I’m sharing waffle recipes and I’m going to just upload them to the internet on my hosting provider or via my old Compaq Presario and I do not care about engagements just email me later and goodbye.”
Including an actual comedian making an actual joke lol
His strategy for rooting out smooth talkers is to let them just talk about what they've done?
That would be nice. I know a senior developer that doesn't actually do anything, he had like 2 small CLs this year. But apparently he can't be fired, so he is just there, increasing work load for everyone else.
The projection on here is getting cartoonish.

John Carmack, "Elon is definitely an engineer. He is deeply involved with technical decisions at spacex and Tesla. He doesn’t write code or do CAD today, but he is perfectly capable of doing so."
Interfaces are the most misused feature of Go. I think people like to prototype their API by typing in all the functions they intend to implement, so the interface acts as a template for their program that they can fill out. This, unfortunately, is not what they're for.

I have a longer rant about this here: https://jrock.us/posts/go-interfaces/
I am a bit disappointed that they didn't mark where the alien civilizations are currently living.

Also add-on feature would be nice to find some tribes on the map that have either "scrolls of ancient wisdom" or a good chance of a "an advanced tribe" I'm less interested in the "valuable metal deposits worth 50" but that's far better than "unleashed a horde of barbarians!" but I guess it's a gamble for every tribe you find.
How do you know whether the sun is up or down in a place when all places have the same time?
And you can still use UTC as your indicator for day and night. In 100 years, it would only drift around 1 minute.
I think a big part of SpaceX successes are due to Elon letting Gwynn Shotwell manage the company.
Specifically the drugs required to stave off sleep, and the psychological effects of lack of sleep.
I guess society is not optimized for max productivity. As a group, society makes many resource allocation mistakes and (hopefully) corrects them later on.

Fe. society might have been better off investing in nuclear energy in the past 30 years, yet it did not and it s starting to look as a mistake.

Circumstances play a role too. My opinion is that if it had not been for the pandemic and the economic anomalies that happened way fewer people would have paid attention to crypto.
My experience:

- don't directly address the point of your question / provide a much complex answer (or even worse, a non-answer) to a simple question

Those that are savvier have a point they're trying to get across, not addressed by your question. A common tactic is to ignore the question being asked and give the answer to the question you wished you were asked. Most interviewers let this go, so people do it all the time.

- don't stay focused to the point of the discussion

A lot of people have pet topics that they have knee jerk reactions to. So even if it's not the point, just mentioning the pet topic will make people want to pipe up, even if it's not the point. It's an emotional reaction.

Also, I find most people don't really listen. Their head is full of what they're going to say next that they don't have any idea what the main point is.

- don't have some level of clarity in their train of thought and speech.

Takes practice. Most people don't write enough, as writing is a way of making thought linear and subsequently articulate.

- generally over-complicate matters by wandering off to other related subjects and extending the scope of the discussion.

Sometimes it's an insecurity thing. If you don't know what's being talked about, one tactic is to change the topic to something you do know about.

Generally, it sounds like you (OP) thinks that the reason why people converse is to exchange information, even if it's a technical discussion. There are other reasons, like establishing social status, to socialize, to think aloud, to impress someone else, to influence others to their goal, etc. I think once you know these other motives exist, it makes these behaviors less mysterious.
Putting aside how this was handled, Elon is looking at a business which is losing money and doesn't have a clear path to make money, and acting accordingly.

His priority is not to preserve the business - the business is broken as defined by cash flows.

Can it be more 'broken'? Sure. Elon is taking that risk in exchange for increasing the probability (in his opinion) of reinventing Twitter as a sustainable business. That is a risk that each Twitter employee needs to decide if makes sense for their situation.

So this unfortunate in many regards, but I don't think the core of this is materially different in scope than the type of situations which could develop at just about any one of our employer's (albeit it at a much larger scale than most).
It seems I've got an unpopular opinion reading the comments here, but having some leap seconds from time to time ensure we are able to manage them.
But "no leap second should be added for at least a century" ensures there will be a y2k reckoning every century. Seems short sighted to me, even if it is not a game-changing issue, let's be honest.
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At this point I am curious how long Twitter could run with no one at the helm.

How long can the systems chug along with no one watching.
Wow had no idea you could narrow down React performance issues with just DevTools. Will need to do this soon as the app I'm working on is already lagging in certain places. How many of your performance issues would have just been avoided by using another framework e.g. SolidJS?
The risk is large, but so are the opportunities. I don't do "hardcore" anymore but younger me would be tempted by the challenge of it. Plus, I imagine there would be giant buckets of money to go along with it. A short tenure with a big payout will be worth it to some people.
Even if this is eyewash to flush out leakers... why spend the time doing this as the owner of the company? There seems to be a lot more important work they could be tackling on instead of being a meme lord to a bunch of 14 year olds.
Ask HN: What unorthadox decision changed the course of your life?
That's a pretty huge deal if true.

How confident are you about that?
The thing I don't get is the hyper-focus on salient or "fancy" code. We're not all Jeff Dean and most code is bland and boring plumbing work anyways. Even in awesome ML powered systems, it's still 99% bland foundation, 1% cool algorithms. Hell, as a manager, you don't want only "rockstar" developers because they'll become bored working on the plumbing code, which again, is most work. From datascience there's the phrase "Everyone wants to do the model work, not the data work" and it sounds like he wants only those people? Why?
People who call it a hellsite are using it the way it is specifically designed and intended to be used.

Twitter was originally exactly the experience you suggest; they then spent years and billions designing a system to create, out of nowhere, all of the problems that the site has, and they spend all their time and energy pushing people into that system to drive "engagement" metrics and "time on site" metrics.

People who call it a hellsite are complaining about two things:

1. The intentional design goals of the site which they are trying to force onto people

2. The result of those goals being applied to people who don't know that they can spend a ton of time and energy to avoid the problems they don't realize aren't mandatory.

Saying that it's the user's fault that Twitter is a cesspool that promotes and spreads awful content and rewards people being horrible is just the "you're holding it wrong" of our day.
Makes no sense I agree but that's what I heard about a year ago.
Judging from the transcript of SBF's conversation with the reporter from Vox, I wouldn't say he has a kid-like understanding of the world. Rather, his understanding of the world is a mixture of pure cynicism and total Machiavellianism. He explains that he thinks everyone, everywhere is constantly running a fake persona motivated by social gains. That's not a child's worldview.

It is interesting to think about whether certain aspects of his upbringing might have contributed to this type of person though.
email (cyrus + spamassassin), matrix (both synapse & dendrite)
I like the spirit of that though. Reminds me my startup days.
It’s actually pronounced SweeTango®. Don’t get sued by the University of Minnesota!
That single puff of a joint on JRE definitely decreased his IQ by 40-80 points.
Nobody in their right mind would publicly support Elon right now because he's acting like a lunatic and therefore undeserving of support.

Regardless of what you think of Twitter's future prospects, none of these destructive antics make it stronger. Twitter could still be saved, but it could have been saved even easier without all of this pointless and public display of arrogance and incompetence.
That metric would disqualify C too, no?
It's not that we're spoiled, it's that other folks are abused.

I would say Elon is spoiled though, in thinking he can treat folks as fungible.
> Beyond this distance, galaxies are harder to see. However, we can still see quasars. They are much brighter and bluer.

But don't we have pictures of galaxies going back to the earliest universe? I thought that JWST is specifically made to image them.
No, it is literally true that every company has a party member they must answer too. Whether its a board member or a local party representative.

There is no business autonomy with a court to settle differences. The party wants it, the party gets it. Full Stop.

>The board of directors of a company are not generally owners.

Like I said, China is not America. On Chinese Boards sits a party member who has absolute control. China doesn't care what function American boards typically serve.
What are those decisions, got a link?
Canary trap
He’s also done nothing to communicate a vision beyond “work for an abusive psychopath.”
It should correlate with software releases. When you do a release, you pin the software to that version as that's what is tested and ready to go out the door, and the same is true of documentation. Once you have this down, then yes, it makes perfect sense to document known issues in a release in the documentation for that release.
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It’s bizarre that his tweeting pattern these days is blatant misinformation (mostly Republican propaganda) interspersed with the occasional “twitter is the best source of news, better than all the fake journalists”.
> While the accounting situation at FTX appears to have been a disaster, it just doesn't seem out of the ordinary for a 2 year old company

FTX is 3.5 years old, and Alameda is 5 years old.

> What does negative $8 billion mean in the context of double entry?

"We're supposed to have $8 billion in this account but we don't."

Combining various sources of information and reading between the lines, the most likely explanation is that this is the Alameda account that FTX customers were depositing money into, which then got gambled away by Alameda instead of transferred to FTX.

I've never worked at a startup but I strongly question the idea that "Whoops we had customers send $8 billion to the wrong company and gambled it away instead of collecting it" is not out of the ordinary.
Feedlots aren’t pretty, but there are many places in the world with much much less agricultural oversight or concern for animal welfare than the US.
I look forward to when they will need to find the key to their domain for renewal. Or any certificate really.
Serving the UI, basic tweeting UX is trivial compared to operating the ads platform they have.
Reading the headline my mind went immediately to humans and not livestock.
Basically, things like the weather can influence the speed of rotation. Angular momentum changes when mass is closer to the center of gravity or farther out. That measurably includes mass like water in clouds and leafs on trees.
lmao exactly what I was thinking
From what I've read the past few weeks, Elon is mostly just a figurehead at SpaceX at this point and it seems like only his cultural presence (read: making everyone work long hours) is still around. Not sure about Tesla but it seems like it's about the same besides very high level business direction decisions.
How long until Musk starts posting tweets implying that he's a world-class Scala expert?
People moving quick! nicely done
I self-studied his book "Foundations of Analog and Digital Circuits" a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Very accessible.

I also tried to self-study Art of Electronics first but it's not really friendly to beginners. Been revisiting it though recently, in the context of the accompanying lab course.
I was thinking of double time (hence talking about effective comp), I didn't see mentions of salary being cut but mayhaps I just missed it?
There were other “permissible decisions”

Thats the point? The ruling is resilient in that it survived appeals, we disagree on whether it should have gone down this path at all. Railroaded is the term.
Maybe "processed foods" is a completely useless term.

I'm pretty sure it's a backformation from "heavily processed foods," which is a useful way to compare foods that have been picked and washed to foods that have been picked and washed and etc, and etc, and etc. Being meaningful makes is less useful for making grand purity pronouncements, though.

All food is processed, all of it is impure, it will make you dirty on the inside, and make you sick. The food that won't make you sick is the food that humans haven't sinned on between God's hand and your mouth.
This isn't an isolated incident. Theranos had no product. Many investors invest in founders instead of the idea, thinking that good founders know when to pivot. Occasionally, a founder doubles down on a bad idea and hides that they've figured out it was a bad idea from investors, but it is hard to predict if a founder will do this ahead of time.

That said, my own opinion is that anybody who invests in the crypto space is either a scammer or a rube.
Is this for real?

I hope a historian is following Musk around and taking notes, because this will make a delicious movie about hubris and its limits.
Realizing you may have thrown away billions has a way of adding stress.
> technical interviews that allow me to better understand the Twitter tech stack

And the stack is basically a very fancy CRUD app. That's all Twitter is. The only reason it's still operating is because of the premise: Create, Read, Update, Delete. NO magic sauce.
Up until he was seen smoking pot, he seemed to be doing OK. Since then, he's been weird.
This works with high quality or high familiarity libraries, which usually stem out of doing something very simple, but as I've gotten more experienced I've learned that most libraries it's faster and clearer to write the one or two functions I need myself instead.
“Negative/hate tweets will be max deboosted and demonetized”
No. Veggies are much less expensive in many other countries with similar selections available. Something is different in the US.
I still cannot understand what investors were thinking and doing. I thought those people were extremely demanding? You always here these stories of people being nervous even to present an idea to investors, but here is an example of a company with not a single shred of professionalism or even attempt at doing things properly. Yet, investors were throwing money at them and writing coronation articles about them.

Is there a way where investors are held liable for some things? Their investments and marketing material for FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, etc. are a large part of what lended credence to FTX and this people putting money in. Will the investors be investigated as well? They are partly responsible, in my opinion. I am not crazy about this world where investors give all this money and see nothing but upsides (aside from losing money that really doesn’t matter to them), but then have no downsides, even when funding fraudulent or incompetent enterprises.
You should ask Randall Munroe! :)

http://what-if.xkcd.com
> Why do I need to [declare variables prior to use]

Given the zen of python specifically says "explicit is better than implicit" I've always been stunned that python doesn't require that.

I've spent enough years writing perl that, believe me, I can hate its foibles more extensively and more accurately than most of the anti-perl people, and generally when I read criticisms of perl my first thought is "this wasn't wrong but it doesn't go nearly far enough."

But not requiring something like 'my' is python abdicating its own stated principles and while I don't feel I know python well enough to criticise it appropriately in general, this has always struck me as, in fact, a deeply un-pythonic attribute of the language.
It seems so, yes.

But the bankruptcy ceo claims the lack of controls is unprecedented. It isn't. Even good guys building good companies have a lack of controls in place in the early days.