skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is delusional.

When you have a big tech company with thousands of employees, the pareto principle comes into play in a huge way: proably only 10% of these people are actually doing any work that directly impacts the platform.

At least half the employees are probably not doing anything really useful. This applies even to tech companies with a mere 100 total employees. At 3000 employees it's probably even more so. Specially with the majority "working from home".

There are probably only about 10 key engineers who understand at a deep level how things are working.

On the other hand, Musk is bootstrapping a hardcode engineering culture where a lot of the platform can be implemented from scratch in a few weeks by top engineers if he can hire them, and I'm pretty sure he can.

His "Fork in the road" email is actually brilliant, many just don't realize it. He is good at making engineers a "high status class"; see this analysis by Samo Burja: https://samoburja.com/how-elon-musk-is-making-engineers-cool...

There are many top teir engineers who are eager to work for him.
This was true decades ago when the dominant automatic transmission was torque-converter junk. This hasn't been the case for some time now, though. The modern automatic transmission (e.g, Porsche's PDK, or any the DCTs, or even the ZF8) will win every time.

Driving a manual is pretty much only for feel or technique at this point, there's no real argument otherwise.
they do come up though, e.g. blood (dL)
>I can’t speak to the private prison stuff, but having grown up in the 80s in the US, I can tell you that the Wikipedia article is not complete for the 80s.

>There was an enormous anti drug push at the time, culminating in 1989. It was everywhere in the culture that I experienced. Maybe a backlash to the popularity of cocaine at the time, I don’t know.

Maybe that's just biased by your memories? If you came of age in the 80s, you're obviously not going to remember all the anti-drug/tough on crime stuff that happened in the 70s. Note that just because that there weren't many developments in the 80s, doesn't mean that they weren't doing anti-drug programs in your school. It just means that the relevant policies were already enacted.

The wikipedia article for "tough on crime" also shows a similar timeline. Crime became a political issue well before the 80s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_order
Rules like this exist only to maintain old wealth at the expense of the young.

Just like with Ponzi, you need new idiots to come along and dump their money into a pot so that the early investors can cash out.

The early investors need to be early! You can't have young idiots coming in at the beginning, they might cash out before you.

So a two-phase investment system is required: the old money that can invest early, and the new money that can be exploited by them.

Conveniently, the old money controls politics and gets to write the laws, which is why there is a law restricting only "accredited investors" as eligible for being in the first round.. the only profitable round.

A friend of mine sold a startup and spent months talking to the uber rich, people with net worths north of 500M. His eyes were opened when he realised that the entire system favours these people and the preservation and expansion of their wealth. It's not an accident. They buy these laws!
So hypothetically could 4chan-esk threads live on twitte but not be found unless someone searches for them? Perhaps through a hashtag?
It was the rigid structure.

Until he was a junior in HS he refused most guidance and advice about school and learing. Then, one day, the light came on and he did a 180 on his schoolwork and life planning.

Now studying for the MCAT to become a neurosurgeon with a minor in CS where before he was a C student.
ModernTeacher.com - The platform has helped 1000’s of schools modernize learning away from traditional 1900’s style classrooms to a modern blended approach. It’s not just about technology it’s also about curriculum, classroom layout, adaptive learning per child etc.
It's kinda funny that you mention it. If we say to someone '99 hundred', they'd immediately understand it as 9,900. If we say 'hundred hundred', it's an immediate math problem trying to figure out how many zeros and what it's called. At least, that's how I'd react.
> No, you don't.

But your actions are doing that. You can say "I think these are unconscionable words" until you're blue in the face, but who are people going to believe, you, the person who lets people say those words, or someone else who bans people who say them?

Part of influencing user behavior is controlling which ideas can be discussed. Subreddits very aggressively do this by, like, having rules about what content can be discussed. More than a banlist of unacceptable topics and ideas, they only allow discussion of very particular topics. You can't post about politics on /r/pets. That is influencing user behavior by influencing content. What it feels acceptable to post (user behavior) is influenced by what you see (content). The two are inseparable. The difference between /r/science and /b/ is what content is allowed, because content creates community.
Not sure if its selection bias but I've almost only heard horror stories from Mensa. Sounds great on paper but I imagine it could also attract those looking to prove something while pushing away those that are smart but less competitive.
Growing up rich without a mother is certainly better than growing up poor without a mother. I can attest to the latter, wouldn't wish it on anyone.
Brown is the new Black
I read that 96% here means guessing both sides of the witha weighted coefficient on how many of them are in the sample.
Don't understand why are you worried about # of kids per woman. Africa currently has a rate of over 4 kids per woman and I doubt the ~1% yearly decline in that rate is of any significance.
I asked around and indeed it looks like it’s just me who missed the memo on biblical terms for traitors.
Lol you throw out a bold claim, where is the data?
Except for those hours 4-9... the solution to that is more storage, a solution which is ready today, shipping, and in demand in excess of current supply, even though supply is ramping up at tremendous speeds.
In the 2005 I published a guide (cafes-wifi.com) to 130 cafés in Paris with good free wifi and electrical plug. Tested myself.
Made it for my friends, nomad software workers.
But quickly became a big success among many nomads workers but also tourists in Paris who needed connexion.

In 2017 The website was closed.

Overall for a decade I had 10.000 unik visitors / month.
Impactfull I would say
Created the first data team in 30yo corporation in 2007-2008 that shifted the company from proprietary to open-source tech.

A cookie store handling over 50B transactions/day for over 1T profiles

The London Olympics realtime (online) video analytics able to handle over 3M streams on 10 servers (physical).

The March Madness realtime online video analytics

The first realtime distributed OLAP cube

Sold then built then launched a financing tech service to a large bank. Bootstrapped :) Never had more than 2 engineers including myself. System is still live.
They would have to be able to show some damages, which would be quite hard.
Probably not the best idea to commit crimes that carry prison sentences if you want to start a family. I agree with OP. This is truly horrifying narcissism.
>people will know about it (a lot of retweets)

Yeah, unless those get suppressed too which is what currently happens on social media sites like Facebook, Reddit and (pre-Musk) Twitter.

There is no way authorities can gently steer public debates in the "right" direction. Any meddling is overstepping a line and problematic.
I don't understand why this is necessary. We already have TAI (international atomic time) which is just UTC without leap seconds. It sounds like this committee voted to stop adding leap seconds to UTC, but not to "reset" the leap seconds that have already been added, effectively cementing a constant difference between UTC and TAI. What is the point?

Anybody who cares about leap seconds should have just been using TAI all along instead of UTC anyway.
Not guilty of defrauding patients - guilty of defrauding investors.
Hi! Just signed up for Bend YIMBY :) Thanks for sharing that.
VC's also have a high risk tolerance. Not every investment is even expected to pay off. So yes from their perspective, they took a risky bet and lost.

But they'd still have a case as victims if FTX signed contracts and then violated them. Or broke laws which cost them money.
I wish companies could go lean. I had tremendous growth when working for Netflix partly because engineers there got to build meaningful systems with huge ownership and very small teams. Case in point, my coworker and I owned four or five high-traffic systems and carried a pager 24x7. It didn't bother us at all as our we got alerts maybe once or twice a month.

That said, a lean company requires strong leadership, technical depth in management, and specific types of cultures. I don't believe that most companies are up to such challenge.
I’m not sure that analysis is any more flattering. She had children knowing she was at serious risk of significant incarceration. Pretty awful situation she’s created for innocent children.
Agreed. I know several people that think capital gains are "unethical" and would have no qualms about stealing that. They would think they're doing good.
I believe there are some. If you want to build new reactor designs, it is almost impossible because of the approval you have to get for the design. If I recall, Terrapower was pretty much told they had to prove the tech somewhere else before building here. They planned to build a reactor in China but that was halted because of the trade war? If you are building a reactor with older designs most people say we shouldn't build with, yea there isn't as much push back.
>So you’re probably right to say this isn’t a sudden 180 on his thoughts, but it still highlights how faulty his framing of free speech is.

I still don't understand what his logic is. What is the philosophical value of free speech if no one is able to hear that speech? Is his viewpoint that free speech is just about babbling on into an empty void? What is the value in protecting that? How does one argue that shadowbanning isn't infringing on someone's speech. And for the record, I think shadowbanning is generally a good thing for online communities, but I also support outright bans and don't go around pretending I'm a free speech absolutist.
Clearly you haven't dealt with the over 60's crowd-who-has-nothing-better-to-do.
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
I hit 'widescreen mode' and now I can't get back.
I recently tried Whisper to transcribe our local Seattle Fire Department radio scanner -- unfortunately it was not reliable enough for my use case, e.g. "adult male hit by car" gets transcribed as "don't mail it by car".

I imagine future models will allow the user to input some context to disambiguate. Like if I could give it the audio along with the context "Seattle Fire Department and EMS radio traffic", it would bias towards the type of things you'd likely hear on such a channel.
I mean this in the nicest way possible, but are you old enough to have been around for the "dotcom 1.0" boom money, VC funding, startups and irrational exuberance of investment in anything tech related from 1995-2000? It's always been like this.
> From what I’ve been told, compared to the State penitentiaries, the Feds is relatively easy.

I mean, "relatively easy" doesn't mean it's a cake walk, especially since in the US many State systems are barbarically abusive. She will be in prison with an extremely regimented schedule, being told exactly what to do.

Correct, she's probably not going to need to join a gang for protection, but it is still nearly 10 years in lockup assuming she gets maximum good behavior credits.
Whatever. The real downside here is that research funding in the field of blood testing will be decimated for them next 20 years.
I think Elon Musk is playing the UFOs and has selected the Claw of Cthulhu victory condition. After failing to destroy PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX, he's going to have to double-down on destroying SolarCity.
"Burning their works" sure sounds like violence.
And all the above is very bad for commerce. Social media should be lubricants for commerce, that's how they make money. Or in Twitter case they dont.

Given all that, the only way to monetize twitter is to use it as leverage on political leaders and business leaders. This was most likely Musk plan, he then got out-framed by the Delaware courts and lost all his confidence to punch up, so he's punching down by abusing employees.
So that means the price reductions will continue at that same rate? Extrapolation of a trend is not a forgone conclusion with anything. In fact, the price of lithium has gone UP in the past two years. Batteries may very well not be getting cheaper for the foreseeable future.
Access to an email-like system for a per-minute fee. No other internet access.

See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrlinks
Contemporary Art Library, a massive non-profit archive of documentation that will organize, preserve and make accessible the art history of our time[1]. How long that will take depends on the extent to which we can learn how to fundraise, but we already have more than 400,000 pieces of media (images, documents and video) documenting exhibitions, performances and other public artist activity from all over the world. If anyone knows any internet-friendly funders that might want to help accelerate our efforts, let me know! [2]

I created the organization, did the design and helped a colleague building the software. We've had more than 4 million visits from 300k+ users (distributed throughout the world, roughly in proportion to the interest in contemporary art in those countries) and continue to grow most months.

[1] https://contemporaryartlibrary.org

[2] forrest -at- contemporaryartlibrary.org
Worth noting that this is how you address the "tyranny of the majority" in a democracy, by enshrining a limited number of rights that even a simple majority cannot revoke, with the goal of protecting the fundamental rights of the minority.
I think the best example of this is breathing

An action so unconsious, that the moment you think about it, becomes incredibly taxing
Related: What are the most salient lines of code you've written?
Do you just hold the page open after upload and wait for it to update?
> 54 days a year of good time

I know it's not at all the same, but that's better than some vacation policies ...
Ah yes, reach. That thing that is definitely independent of your ability to actually have your opinion heard. Mmmhm. /s
No such thing as legal smartphone in federal prison. Also remember she's not going to be rich anymore.
a.k.a. "The yips."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yips
He's gotta be eyeing that Elizabeth Holmes sentence nervously
To be honest I thought she will get away with no prison time like the Sacklers but I guess her powerful friends were not that powerful after all. Not enough $ in the game.
People have been expressing surprise about this issue with computing machinery for 200 years.
Well, that giant impressive green energy project was also put in place by the voted in (democratically) folks in power, and widely popular at the time I believe?

Despite a minority that was objecting it would cause these exact issues?

What's that quote? "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Mencken
I don't know if this is impactful, but the projecy that reached out to the most people that I can think of is Mil[0]. It is a small stack-based language that I wrote in C as a learning language. I first showcased it on HN, thinking nothing much than to get feedback. It turned out to do decently well in views and reach, even reaching out to the Chinese tech community because someone posted it on a Chinese social website (I forgot the domain name).

Even though Mil's popularity is pretty typical of my other projects, but seeing it going out to other social media is pretty cool.

[0]: https://github.com/HoangTuan110/mil
Sure. Not at all happy about that either though.

If China also fed its users nonsense, it wouldn't be a very useful weapon.
>Second, nothing useful taught by religion actually requires religion itself.

This hinges very much on your definition of "useful;" if you don't believe in God or the resurrection of the dead, then talk concerning them is of course pointless. But if you do, they are very useful indeed.
As the old saying goes: you cannot reason someone out of a position that they did not reason themselves into.
His observation that the ICU is full of the elderly reminded me of the Obamacare debates when I was younger.

I always felt like I was taking crazy pills when I would leave my conservative elder parents who hated the idea of universal healthcare, and go to my younger liberal friends who were all for it. It was such a clear case of peoples ideology running directly against their self-interest. Young people being against paying for old peoples healthcare (while the elderly control a much larger share of the wealth) made sense to me, old people wanting more reassurance that they would always have healthcare made sense, but the two groups essentially wanting to self-sabotage was always confusing.
From the movie Planes, Trains, and Automobiles.

Has some insane adventures trying to get somewhere with Steve Martin by Thanksgiving.

A wonderful movie and we watch it every Thanksgiving/Christmas.
And even if true, can you imagine telling someone to their face, "You shouldn't exist so your mom could have gotten a harsher prison sentence"?
Ten years ago I was reading [0] and I remember your name was mentioned somewhere. Here is a quote:

> Locating elements by their class name is a widespread technique popularized by Simon Willison (http://simon.incutio.com) in 2003 and originally written by Andrew Hayward (http://www.mooncalf.me.uk)

[0] Page 91 from "Pro JavaScript Techniques" by John Resig.
Are you able to provide a citation for Twitter suppressing retweets?
>But both those movements were happy to work with them when they appeared to be successful, non-fraudulent billionaires.

Yes? I don't understand the point of this statement.

"When Alice appeared to donating to her local charity, we liked her, but when it turned out she was lying to us, we didn't like her anymore.

We like charity/EA/crypto, and think those are all good things. So when people are doing them, that is good. If they use that goodwill to exploit other people, we don't like that.

That is a functioning system.
Amplenote has OCR for images and a pretty Evernote like interface.
You're thinking about the 'GAPPS' or Google apps, not Android. Those who run AOSP-derived distributions usually have to consciously install those 'GAPPS' - which includes the Google Services Framework (GSF) which some apps insist they can not run without but which often work just fine after dismissing the annoying popup. If you do not install this package you do not get access to those Google services and Google does not get access to your data - the choice is yours.

I have never installed GAPPS on any of my Android devices. I do
have microG installed on one device to see whether it does make those apps which do not work without the GSF useable - it mostly does - but I do not use it on my daily devices because even microG does leak some data to Google by connecting to their services.

Banking apps work on my Google-free phone. The Swedish electronic ID service ('BankID') also works. What am I missing?
I know that people are mostly happy about this this-- and I'm definitely in the minority, but I feel that watching someone lose 11 years of her life in slow motion is not something to be celebrated. It's sad. Secondly, I know it's a pipe dream, but I'd rather see her contribute something back to society (if this is society's retribution) than drain money from us so we can keep her caged.
Let's see where Musk takes it... but of course one of the biggest differences is that 4chan is anonymous, while Twitter at least requires some sort of name.
That's clearly part of the disagreement. Some people want to think and decide for themselves what to like and follow while others want private corporations/algorithms do some of that thinking for them. Or at least narrow down the choices, which is effectively the same thing.
There are literal murders in California serving a fraction of the time.
Another incentive is that, since it's invariably older devices that are decommissioned, you are getting rid of the most primitive and unstable weapons in your stock.
es4x, a server framework on top of GraalJS and Vert.x
Excellent book and a must read. It's all about narrative control and how everuthuing is a narrative (because our nervous systems have evolved around storytelling as a framework for communication) in an age when we know companies like Google and Twitter buried information from being found in real time for political reasons. We don't need to get our news and info from a faucet anymore.
Also, people often attribute "politics is downstream from culture" to Andrew Breitbart, but it was Neil Postman who said "culture is downstream from media/technology," a far greater point in the face of the aforementioned Google and Twitter examples.
Yeah, there is a websocket connection and when the transcription is done it will update the frontend with the links to .srt, .vtt and .txt file downloads
Maybe the circle will expand to include computers; users and programmers of this century will be seen as the unforgivable oppressors and violators of innocent minds for their own profit and convenience.

I don't see value in pandering to hypothetical future moralists. If they one day resurrect my corpse and torture me for eternity as punishment for eating animals, maybe then I'll care. Best case scenario, this comment may provide the same vacant sense of superiority that quotes from dead racists do for us; worst case, society regresses to bigotry and our current social morality is derided as a failed experiment, and you and I will share a cell in the cybernetic hell the 7th Reich make for resurrected wrong-thinkers.
Imagine working really hard to put content out and you have to agree to a deal of 8% you, 92% the one just distributing it for you. It’s like when artists were complaining that Spotify wasn’t paying them enough when in reality is their label sucking most of the earnings.
How does Windows decide whether your computer has full Internet access?
Trust me, once you get the hang of it, 4chan is surprisingly wholesome. Sure I've been called a niggr/faggt/subhuman/kike/retard, I've been asked to kill myself countless times, countless people told me they had fucked my mom, etc. But when you go above that, you see that it's refreshing and lot less toxic than passive-aggresiveness and the brigading that upvotes/downvotes/retweets bring (in places such as Twitter or Reddit, or even here). There's some sort of camaraderie that goes beyond.

And the nice thing is that there's no oversight board, there's just your comment, you can always reply if you don't agree. The only measure of success is the number of replies, and funny, insightful or contrarian posts usually get those. Plus, everyone is completely anonymous so you can really be anyone.
Damn bombcar, that's a good point.
Thinking about it this way, it's fucked up. American Life. What the hell are we doing!?

There are no weekends where she's headed, though.
The part where it turned out that he was just robbing people.