skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Yah, one second doesn't matter, but it builds up.

I don't think it's that big of a deal; do you really care what the perception of "11 in the morning" is for someone 1,000 years ago? This kind of thing is pretty cultural anyway, and a slow drift over a thousands of years doesn't really matter.

The main reason we have the "new" Gregorian calendar is because of religious reasons, not because people were having huge practical problems with the old (slightly less accurate) Julian calendar.

Plus the current leap second system won't really deal with the long-term drift anyway because the earth's rotation keeps slowing, so in a few hundred years we'd need more leap seconds than the current system allows, and eventually we'd need a "leap second" every day because the day is a second longer (around the year 6000 IIRC).
Guilt by association. No, seriously. Do you expect Congress or the SEC or the DoJ to understand (and, perhaps more importantly, care) about the difference? I'm quite serious: all they're going to hear is "crypto".
I seriously doubt that. The dynamics play out completely different.

Let's look at the admin/security teams. These are the people that literally keep things running. If a significant percentage of people from those teams quit, the others have to immediately pick up the slack (much longer on calls...) the added workload then leads to an avalanche where more and mor epeople quit. And it is always in the most business critical teams where these dynamics play out.
No, HE didn't do that. Teams like three levels under him did that based on a vague goal he set and some people under him refined. Why should "let's do something hard" lifted up as some kind of magical ability? Where were all the people praising Kennedy as the smartest man alive for telling NASA to go to the moon?
By this logic the vast majority of workers in any industry are coddled
Microsoft Windows
I would go the other way and claim the other professions you mentioned must be the coddled ones. How little must they actually have responsibility for in their personal life if they can just fly across country at a moments notice? I can’t do that, I have responsibilities to take care of that are way more important than stroking some guys ego.
Adults operating in the US. They needed to have books. Now, the fact that those books were apparently a work of fiction is a different matter. But they did have to make the effort to have the numbers reconcile.

Which is why FTX wasn't headquartered in the US.
>"Finally, the address sanitizer helps you with that, however I wonder how many actually do use sanitizers?"

I use C++ to write general backend servers / web apps among the other things. Not a single one ever deployed without passing sanitizer tests.

Not that my code would ever look like the examples above. I personally consider modern C++ safe enough for decent level programmer.

Of course I can not guarantee safety buy my servers run non stop servicing tens of thousands of client for months between updates without any hick-ups.

I looked at Rust to see if it can offer me any practical advantage vs modern C++ for what I do and so far did not see anything convincing enough.
Pssh. Only 6 ronnagrams? That's barely a planet at all.
I think the alcohol ban is great, now foreign soccer fans (from certain countries we all are aware of) have no excuse to act uncivilized, start fights, and wreck the place.
If you read his Ashlee Vance about him, you’ll understand that he’s always had this character on him. The biggest difference is that what he does no longer stays inside Spacex or Tesla.
Apparently when they first met, she gave him a dressing down and told him a bunch of things he needed to do to be successful. He then tracked her down and hired her to do all the things.
I used to run a lot at home. But i realized that "support" stops when i would die.

My family, who is a- technical, would have not even have a clue on where would be what (since they freak already out if an icon on their phone is move 1 millimeter). So from that nonfunctional requirement for my own home solutions, I decided that self-hosting would not be the best choice, since it would be too dependent on me.

My family's knowledge stops somewhere at the concept of that pressing the B makes a word bold in Microsoft Word. Trying to explain how to run a script on a certain OS via a certain connection would be abracadabra.

The only thing i can imagine is if there would be some kind of paid service that would mirror your own home solutions and provide support for the long run if you fall away and which offers, when there would be again someone more technical to again transfer it to a home environment. (they would take care of new versions, bugfixes, change requests, databackups and so on).

Something like that, but that does not exist (well... as far I know).

So therefore, i try to host every solution at the places which are the simplest to understand and document what needs to happen if I would fall away. I also try to minimize the number of services. So I use office365 and onenote to document everything. (This used to be on my own hosted wiki).

Based on the nonfunctional requirement of maintainability.

I think there is however a need for a service that offers something like the above, to provide long term support for selfhosted environments taking into account all kinds of standards. That would possibly enable the self-hosted direction again.
Have you ever done CRUD for hundreds of millions of users distributed globally accessing your service 24/7? It's much more complicated than updating a database.

Then you have ranking algorithms, search, ad serving, moderation...
So, basically building auditable accounting systems in house instead of buying existing solutions? Yeah, but no.
It's literally just some bizarre hazing ritual. Trying to evaluate whether code is good or bad from some screenshots without understanding the context and being familiar with the codebase makes no sense anyway. Anyone can show you ten screenshots of formally well written code and you have no idea whether it's useless or not.
I think you can judge some things. It’s crude but if you give a paragraph of context and a screenshot of a function or something, I think that gives some nonzero amount of information.
And by "a dime" I mean "a significant total comp package"
My favorite results from Webb are the ones we can't "see": transit and emission spectra.

I'm hoping we pick up on an exoplanet venting hallmark biologicals. Or maybe, just maybe, industrials. That would profoundly change our lives forever.

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/2022/042/01G...

https://webbtelescope.org/contents/media/images/01GCW1EQ0GND...
Of course you can? It's basically asking to see what you consider your best work.

If you're earning 100k a year and the most important code you show is how you turned a link colour from light blue to blue -- then your $100,000 a year job has now become questionable.

It's hardly losing the plot to ask someone "What have you achieved and what do you think your best work is?"
> Wouldn't work afaict. You'd have to get rid of the mass, not just explode it.

I'm sure kibwen had in mind a Hollywood explosion, whereby a detonated object ceases to exist, rather than turning into many smaller objects.
In fairness, being a meme lord to a bunch of 14 year olds has been a big part of his playbook so far, and by some metrics it has worked a treat.
I really don't get why corporations in this day and age still make people work long hours.

There have been countless studies showing that long hours lead to more mistakes, worse productivity, decreased motivation, worse health, and burnout. Workers are also more likely to leave for a job with a better work/life balance if given the chance.

It seems many corporate execs haven't gotten the message yet, and I don't know why.
Is there a convention for prefixes for 10^n where abs(n) > 3 and n % 3 != 0? It seems strange to me that we would have prefixes for 10^+/-1 and 10^+/-2 but not for any larger values.
People are annoyed, tired, aggravated, victims, assailants, insecure, overconfident, shy, sad, angry, etc. A whole hodgepodge of things. There really is no way to ELI5 our way out of this.

Take a moment and ask yourself legitimately, “What do I owe the person(s) who I’m speaking to?”, by way of rights. Not monetary “owe”, but civil “owe”, if you’re not keen on any we can talk it out elsewhere. But try this out maybe. Worry less about the hang ups that other people have, because they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon, and focus on what your duties and obligations are toward these people. The outcome will not always be favorable or pleasing to you, but it’s not about that.
Some people are a combination of being not that bright and loving to hear themselves talk.

What you can do is tighten the question down so there is no misunderstanding.

- Can you explain X in 30 seconds?

- Is X going to definitely be done by Y?

etc.

People often communicate (and think) sloppily through-out their lives and it is only when they encounter people who are an order of magnitude better or worse than they are, that they become acutely aware of it. :)
Every time processed foods come up online someone makes this argument. I will assume you're being genuine but a lot of times it's done in an annoying "gotcha" way and it drives me crazy. Regardless, the NOVA classification system is helpful for talking about this topic: https://regulatory.mxns.com/en/ultra-processed-foods-nova-cl...

When people use the term "processed foods" colloquially they are generally referring to NOVA group 4, ultra-processed foods. It seems that that group is implicated in worse health outcomes and it is also that group that has proliferated the most significantly over the past 40 years in tandem with rising rates of obesity and poor health outcomes.
Further in the thread he names some banned accounts that will be reinstated.

A couple weeks ago, Elon said that Twitter’s content policy (and account reinstatement) would be decided by a moderation council composed of people with diverse views. There have been no reports of this council being formed yet.

Edit: why was this post flagged?
It's impossible to detect negative sentiment purely by text. It's an unsolvable problem.
Come as you are. Society and specifically the schooling system never encourages entrepreneurship, but deep down I always knew I was an entrepreneur. It takes balls to actualize entrepreneurship and put it in play. There will be failures, sure, but that's how we learn.
Even as long-time skeptic of Musk's ballyhooed business/engineering acumen, I have no clue what's going on here. Surely nobody at this level could be this brazenly incompetent when it comes to communicating a vision and building some sense of unity. Even the biggest fakers in the world are self-aware about the importance of maintaining the illusion of power and control.

If you had told me that these emails were being written by Kanye as he scrambled to find a new shoe partner after Adidas, I would have believed you.
he's probably going to start handing out TODOs and randomly pointing at people and saying "now you're in charge of X and you, over there, are in charge of Y". Like a realtime re-org.
Stop working. Play retro video games
I really can't stand PHP but as a veteran perl hacker I really do need to say "that's my personal opinion and I am -amazingly- impressed with what people have -done- with PHP even if I don't like it myself."
He's the "Technoking of Tesla" and just tweeted about Ligma Johnson.
Well, that went rather more quickly than expected then. :/

Per the article, in early 2011 there were fewer than 7 billion people. The world population was expected to grow to 9 billion by 2045. But given that we have just passed 8 billion, the global population has in fact grown by 1 billion in just the last eleven years. 2045 is more than twenty years away ... in fact, 9 billion is now expected to be reached in 2037:

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/11/15/world/global-population-8...
How much new code does a 280 character tweet require?
If you don't think GPS as it's own thing is a net good, value adding part of the world, the problem might be you, not things in space.
... but maybe if he got a medical diagnosis for insanity, maybe he could not have legally bought twitter ?
Does this mean he is actually looking to do more firings After the massive exodus yesterday?!?

This is just...

Honestly at this point this is just fascinating to watch from the outside and I feel bad for everyone impacted. Particularly those that had no choice but to stay (Visa's)
So at the end of all this, only those with visa issues or the ones that are really bad at their job and hence desperate, will be left at Twitter.

I guess he’ll be able to drive them hardcore.

Personally, expect for those with visa issues, I won’t have much respect for anyone who still remains.

Unless of course, some of the good ones might be able to really renegotiate their comp and contract at this time.
There is a huge back end on Twitter even though the front end looks poorly thought out and over-simplified... The back-end reporting and tracking apparatuses built into that site are probably failing miserably, and pissing off a lot of undisclosed clients.

Elon needs technical architects and technical direction more than just developers if you ask me.

I don't think Twitter will completely fail, but I'm pretty sure it will stumble quite publicly/visibly a lot in the coming weeks.
It is incredibly efficient if you start with the assumption that raised meat is the required way to feed people. It's not, obviously, and less so every day.
I am curious if he tried the same at Tesla or SpaceX: "Hello dear mechanical engineers, please bring photos all the cars/rockets that you created in the last 6 months".
Do they really not have a reason or do they not want to put in 15 minutes of effort to explain something that has already been explained a thousand times?
Is it really that bizarre of a conspiracy? If you browse Blind for a day you kind of lose the faith in software engineering as a profession. People proud for making $400k while working 5 hours a week.
Wirecard seems to be a kindergarden party compared to FTX so.
I have to assume there's a website up somewhere that's putting Twitter on death watch. Who has it's location and if it isn't up, someone should try and get one going! (In reference to systemic software issues, not employees leaving even though there is correlation).
Ask HN: Will Google ever launch a successful new product again?
Because I'm struggling to think of anything in recent years, and most of the things they do try to launch tend to flop, even if the initial idea is pretty good.

Meanwhile, all their successful products and services have been around a while now. Search was 1997, Blogger was 1999 (not initially by Google), Gmail was 2004, YouTube and Maps were both 2005, Google Docs was 2006 and both Android and Chrome were 2008. So where's the next big hit? Is one even possible with Google's attitude of "if it doesn't succeed in a few months, kill it"?

What is likely to be their next successful story out of the things they worked on recently?
That's super impressive. Have you been a runner in the past, like high school or college?

I'm starting this in my late twenties after a fairly inactive decade; hiking has been the only thing that's kept me active over the years.
It's awesome. 5€ per year, but more importantly: overrides. When Alexa understands "famous artist", you can set it to instead always play artist X that you actually requested ;)
Kinda reminiscent of how dictators like Stalin and Mao surrounded themselves with sycophantic yes-men. Elon talks a lot about free speech but is that really possible when he's acting like a tyrant?
That is true and supports my statement. If you're chasing technology over people, from whose weaknesses and mistakes could you learn from, apart from your own?
He's always had an outsized ego, a lot of money from his family that masked his individual success, and, up until now, was successful at cosplaying an engineer.

Good people tend to give others the benefit of the doubt. My personal point of no return is when those children were trapped in a cave, and Elon musk came in to turn that crisis situation into a publicity stunt to further his engineer cosplay.
Uber is now a sponsor of the mold linker project
I wouldn't be surprised if that's some form of DDOS protection - give a really high number, ask the browser to do some WASM shit, if it passes, then actually add it to the queue.
The argument is that it doesn't have a general meaning, so relying on that general meaning misses the point.
Sounds like the gov needs to step in and break it up. Anyone have any idea on getting that process started? This is probably a better path than trying to disrupt Ticketmaster as another random startup.
I don't know about soccer, but American sports news is hugely tied up with twitter. It's replaced the sports page of the news paper, ESPN, and even sports radio. I imagine it's the same for international football.
What's there to explain? Customers put money into their accounts, and now all withdrawals are blocked (because the money isn't there and because assets are frozen in bankruptcy).
> it is weak and insufficient to make stronger or more conclusive recommendations.

So you're saying there's a chance...
Its been thrown around a lot on Twitter from recently departed employees and a couple other tech people who have been pretty accurate about Twitter news, but I haven't seen it carried by any major media sites.
you have to add a * after the /. Some rm implementations detect the attempt to clear the root dir.
His history at X.com and then PayPal is definitely of someone who tried pushing their own technical delusions down the throats of other technical people, there he got fired for it.

It seems minor now but at the time he was pushing for PayPal's tech stack to ditch Linux and use a Microsoft stack instead. Peter Thiel backstabbed him to oust him for that.

I know someone that works at Tesla and they say that when Elon comes around there's an aura of terror. They've personally seen him firing people on a whim during one of his "visits".
-- In this comment I said a dumb thing about stock price for a private company --
>not realistic

The odds are zero.

1/2^256 = 0.

In cryptography these odds are treated as zero until you generate close to 2^128 images.

Unfortunately there's no word in natural English to describe how unlikely. The most precise is "zero".
Also can’t one just print someone else’s code, especially if the person is already gone.
Lots of jobs work precisely like that.

If you want to argue whether the people who do them should get US$100k/yr, that's a different question.
That's hilarious. And sad.

Reminds me of a cleaners strike were after 2 weeks everyone suddenly realised that those invisible men and women do important work.
A corporation is a machine in which even the tiniest cog matters.
There's still a question of how "negative/hate" is defined and whether this will be transparent. I'm skeptical, but the general principle of discouraging and not profiting from negativity is, uh, positive.
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In an enterprise environment, every leap second or TZ change invokes a ceremonious updating of anything using Java or a JVM. I suspect a lot of people would rather perform a once a century update than the bi-annual process they do now.
weekend before thanksgiving no less!
This article glosses over a lot. Fuel cells have a lifespan just like batteries, as their catalytic membranes get poisoned. That membrane is made out of platinum, and our we do not have nearly enough for large scale adoption.

You may disagree with my points, and I invite the discussion, but this article talks about none of that. It makes hydrogen fuel cell vehicles out to be an alternative to electric cars, which they aren't, and wont be unless the pace of progress increases a lot.
i'm sure everyone has a corporate card or at least a process for re-imbursement ( assuming that department still exists)
The major difference is a pandemic, lockdowns are only one of the consequences, the other, obviously, is that a lot of people got sick from covid, and when hospitals are overran with covid cases, they don't have time for routine operations like cancer screening.

Lockdowns are mentioned in the article as one of the contributing factor alongside "repurposing of health services". The Ukraine war and Brexit are also mentioned for the negative impact on cancer research done in the affected countries. The title only mentions lockdowns.
> 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.

Which still doesn't make it literally true that: "The Chinese government owns tiktok", (unless, in addition to using "own" figuratively you are also using "literal" in the now common sense that actually means "figurative").
I'd almost put money on twitter 2.0 going on a blockchain
I am fascinated by how the general community perceives swift. The PL theory community seems to appreciate its innovations, while the (online) dev community sees it as Apple's own C#.

Ultimately, I think Swift is a hugely underrated language, mainly because of outdated criticism.
This message comes after engineers were informed yesterday the office would be locked until Monday. Remote employees encouraged to fly to SF last minute if possible.
Did he only smoke pot, or anything else?
Football fans are a sizable group in pretty much in every social network
The expectation of society on this single fathers with higher income is also different than with mothers. Many jobs don't have provisions for fathers devoting a lot of their day to their kids, except as "cute" exceptions. They often expect fathers to be "successful" and focused on their careers.

> Single fathers are also more likely to live with their parents [than single mothers]

First time I heard of this. Where are the statistics to support it?
I'd love to see some code snippets that he likes.. because i can't grasp what would make good screenshots in this context.

If i were Elon i'd want to see "dumb" looking code which brings together a larger, complex thing in a simple way. The larger picture is complex, but composed of simple primitives. Every piece looks unimpressive because experience taught the right abstractions to write things in a simple, testable and scalable manner.

Yet Elon wants to fit that in a screenshot? I don't understand. I'm glad i don't work at Twitter.
Do you really need to build the whole thing to test?
> poor security model for running containers or building them within a job

You mean Docker-in-Docker? If so, we used Kaniko to build images without Docker-in-Docker
According to Vox: "Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, Sriram Krishnan, Alex Spiro, Jared Birchall"

https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/11/12/23452396/elon-musk-twi...
Any modern positioning system needs an accurate clock. Leap seconds aren’t completely predictable, so you can’t deploy something like a GPS unit with future leap seconds encoded. These computers are often spread across vast distances, so it’s the most difficult thing to possibly update.
but he is a petulant man child, the day everyone becomes a fearful bootlicker is the day democracy dies.
Blind is an alternate reality and a fraction of the market. A lot of people on Blind completely misrepresent themselves and have either worked really hard to get there or are just skilled. Sure some paper chase but using Blind as a gauge of anything is a mistake.
Something about $1 for the part and $99 for knowing where to put it.