skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not correct - adrenaline (which is what beta blockers mess with the release of) absolutely has effects on brain function.
The economy goes up and down. That’s normal. It’s been that way since the history of commerce.
While I do enjoy everybody acting as armchair lawyers.... until we get an actual legal ruling, the general consensus seems to be that it is sufficiently transformative as to be considered fair use.
People have drunk alcohol for thousands of years for some reason or other. barbituates and amphetamines go back nearly a century now (they were pretty popular by WWII). Barbituates were pretty unsafe and were pretty much replaced by the benzodiazepines by the 90's I think. That is to say that these drugs, pressures, and medical issues predate the software industry.
I suppose it depends on how well off you are. A job is how most people feed themselves. If you have a hard time finding work, getting laid off is devastating. Unless you’re a dependent, the death of a parent is not financially devastating.
Discriminatory access is more than enough for your security to be compromised by state actors.

If your endpoint device can be accessed by government decree, end-to-end encryption is useless. Encrypted drives and files can be another layer of security, but can easily be made ineffective if your endpoint can be compromised by the OS vendor in conjunction with the government.

Even if you succeed in technologically hardening yourself and performing all data access with exceptional opsec discipline, actually going to such lengths could draw unwanted attention from automated analysis tools. That's why criminals almost always favor pseudo-steganographical methods such as slang dialects and gang symbols - simple codes which are obvious to the initiated and easily misinterpretated by others.

Cloud data is vulnerable to attack by insiders and hackers. Local storage is vulnerable to theft and physical damage. Networked devices running proprietary applications are hard to secure and impossible to fully trust. You will have to come to a compromise with the risks and benefits of each to make an appropriate choice for keeping your data.
The first google result for "upnp adoption" is from 2012. The second is from 2022 and recommends you turn it off for security reasons.

EDIT: I agree we definitely need something like UPnP, or maybe even UPnP itself, but it's another adoption problem currently.
>the article mentions his $30 million dollar penthouse

the $30M penthouse in the Bahamas that was purchased using investor money and customer funds... he didn't own it at the time he received funding from these big name VCs, did he?
Looks like the plan is to get rid of as many costly workers as possible, and than wait and use the looming recession fears and overall layoffs in the industry in their favour by hiring equally competent workers for less pay. Could also be a plan to drive down stock prices, buy them back, and later sell them again - Musk has done with Tesla before. (Or maybe we are all being kind to Elon for his stupidity ..).
- Thoughts (maybe too on the nose)
- Blurb (from the word)
- Pings (i.e. like checking in, seeing what's up)

You are making fun of the generic names for tech companies but as you said (probably sarcastically) naming is hard. Imagine you have an idea for an amazing product but can't come up with a good name, should you drop your idea and give up or just copy the style of names everyone else is doing?
I think it could go hand in hand. What an "active user" does and expects from Twitter is wildly different depending on your residence country, social position, gender, age, occupation etc.

There is not one Twitter experience, but a multitude, and expecting to fully grasp the platform just by being on it for a few years is unrealistic.
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That's because he didn't go to real prison.
The world cup should be a good stress test for Twitter's automated systems
I hereby dismiss all of this outright. Take that as you will.
It sounds like you never had to deal with a mental health issue and have a personality that is compatible with the process. That is great. Not everyone has that luxury. Many engineers are introverted people, possibly dealing with things like inferiority complex, imposter syndrome, anxiety, depression and more.
It is the opposite. It is exhausting to hold a nuanced, balanced view of things. It is much easier to think "I don't like this person, therefore everything about this person is bad". The brain does it for you.

I agree btw, I have watched people go from worshipping Elon to suddenly deciding he's a fraud and a talentless hack and every one of his accomplishments were some kind of fluke. It's so strange.
I am not giving advice, every country is different. But that is the most common rule, with some caveats.
Well, sure, the total amount of time I've spent working on features that never ended up getting used by customers over the last two decades or so is something I wouldn't want to think about. A certain amount of it is inevitable with software development (or probably any sort of product design and development), and you'd like to think you're at least learning something from the experience, but undoubtedly you could be doing better things with your time...
Good luck! Really! I hate ReportLab!

I hate using ReportLab … reading its code is fascinating. Interesting seeing what 1990s Python code looked like.
What annoyed me about Mighty was that it represented giving up on having fast, efficient software on our own machines. We COULD live in a world where 400+ tabs (typical for me) didn't require 32gb of RAM, but browser authors have chosen otherwise, and that sucks. The idea of pushing the entire browser to some other computer, and over-speccing that one, instead of actually making better software, just seemed like a cop-out.

This person's claim that Mighty customers didn't open huge numbers of tabs and use a ton of RAM makes no sense. What OTHER purpose could a $35/m cloud browser possibly serve??
Did Ibn Khaldun predict the decline of America?
Neuralink hasn’t failed. FSD is pretty solid outside of major cities and it keeps improving. Honestly it will probably get there in less than 5 years.
Bigger benchmarks would probably be better but don’t these papers show that the thing programmers commonly believe (that vms will warm up and then run faster, especially for microbenchmarks) is pretty untrue? VMs don’t always or even very often reach a steady state and that steady state may not be faster, even for microbenchmarks.

I’m surprised that the author of the post (who I generally find writes interesting, thoughtful and seemingly correct things) feels that the research talked about in this article was pushing the state of the art in reliable benchmarking and understanding vm warmup, but that your comment seems mostly dismissive. I would especially expect a VM developer to be interested in more reliable benchmarking. Do you think that that assessment by the author was incorrect or that these things are widely known among vim developers?

I also don’t really understand your comment, eg you claim that VMs win on average but the numbers in the article show that, even for a case which ought to be good for a JIT (I might be wrong here?) with a small very hot section, VMs on average fail to end up in a steady state with better performance than the interpreted case. Is the idea that the good steady state performance you get some of the time will average out with the poor or inconsistent performance you get other times to get good performance? I can sort of see that argument being made about a big system with many instances but I don’t think it’s a correct one because in practice many systems like that will block on the slowest part and so have worse tail performance than a single component. I guess another idea could be that a real program has many parts and if 10% reach a steady fast state while the rest are inconsistent or slower, then on average the program can still be faster. But I don’t really buy this because I expect there are a few places that will matter far more and so you don’t average out very well, but my prior could be badly wrong here.
Yep, tunneling is way more secure than direct p2p. Especially if you run the service inside some sort of sandbox/container/VM which is possible on all major OSes these days.
+1 for beta blockers. A lot of professional musicians use it for auditions and what not
A scaled up Birdwatch [1], or some other system, with the ability to find truths, could be incredible. Trust in media is, rightfully, near all time lows [2].

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33474196

2. https://news.gallup.com/poll/403166/americans-trust-media-re...
Hm, in March 2016 I got a 64GB USB flash drive from amazon.co.uk for £24.99 and today a similar 64GB drive is only £6.99.

A 500GB Samsung 850 EVO SSD was £110.99. Now a 500GB Samsung 870 EVO SSD is £68.47. Samsung has just started mass production of 1 Tbit TLC NAND: densities & performance up, cost down. https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/news/252527119/Sams...

I admit I was counting on Optane to have a large part to play by now, and that has completely tanked. But something like MRAM is bound to come along soon and take its place, and the wear factor will be a thing of the past.
No, but I think it should be 40 hrs including transit, and overhead time; yes I would even include walking around, if it's a large facility. For whatever reason I have to walk pretty far for drinks and bathrooms... so it counts.

It goes with out saying that there's some flexibility for appointments and personal matters. You don't have work extra hours after going to your doctor for cancer (extreme example there are smaller).
Man you're really leaving a lot out to try and make some kind of point aren't you?
Belatedly changed from http://zxnext.narod.ru/manuals/Basic_Programming.pdf above. Thanks!
This is true, if you write `bracket` for e.g. `Exception`, then you can break out of the bracket with `abort` if your bracket doesn't handle aborts.

So if you want to be really sure of resource cleanup, you should use something like the `Resource` ability to acquire resources:

https://share.unison-lang.org/@runarorama/code/latest/namesp...
Of course: if you're seeing double, you went too far!
Yes, angry. For people on visa, it doesn't matter if severance is gold or silver plated. They will only have 60 days to find another job or leave the country. Giving an advance notice will help them mentally prepare and start looking for a job assuming the worst case so they get some buffer days.

I agree though Meta's severance package was quite good.
Given the mountain of technical debt under the previous administration's focus on growth over everything else, as detailed by Mudge, I don't know how the wheels hadn't already fallen off the system.

I fail to see how a networked system with nobody left tending it is going to last.
Small quibble, but I don't like the "17.11" formatting of dates. It doesn't look like a date to me.

Suggest just "17th", since the month name is written in big above anyway.
Evaluate people on past projects. If you have a project, show the code and walk through the code in a screen sharing session. Only show code that is non-confidential.

If you do not have code, then first create a small project. That can be done in a week or two. This requires less time than grinding leetcode.

Some people will say: but you need to be able to solve a problem in under a few minutes. That is utter bullshit. We all know that development doesn't work that way in reality.
Some people suggested selling to Automattic like Tumblr did and with an implied price of 1M.

I don't think Matt would be a bad choice for a ceo.
Airbnb co-founder needed a tiny prefab. He built Backyard ADU [video]
Sad. He was a giant.

I'm glad I got to at least shake his hand. One of the lawyers at Google had studied under him, and when I saw them crossing the street I just assumed the older gentleman with the visitor's badge was Brooks (I didn't even know what he looked like, but I found out later I'd guessed correctly).
A solar heavy grid mostly depends on cyclic storage, not seasonal storage. The non-cyclical storage potential is acceptable for the kind of storage that isn't needed.

Looping back to my battery analogy. The extra 7 Kwh of non-cyclical storage could come in hand if you needed to use it for an extended period of time if the power goes out. But it's not useful if you need to use it every day. Australia, California, and plenty of other energy markets need cyclical storage that is used every day/night cycle to smooth out the duck curve[1].

If you had clarified that most of Snowy 2's storage capacity is not suitable for cyclical storage from the outset, this whole tangent could have been averted. Cyclical storage is the kind of storage that it's in demand, so it's important not to present non-cyclical storage that has a very limited recharge rate as equivalent to a lithium battery.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_curve
The Boring Company didn't fail. The boring company was a scam to delay and distract the california high-speed rail project. and it continues to delay and distract other public transit projects around the country to this day. it's been a resounding success.

https://jalopnik.com/did-musk-propose-hyperloop-to-stop-cali...
After scrolling this thread for way too long. I can say this is the top underated comment.
I wonder if this legally really is the case. Twitter seems to have asked "Do you still want to work here", giving an option to affirm. They didn't say "you have to go", they said "you may go if you do not like the new direction of the company, please tell us which one it is".

I'd be rather careful with that, and not just proclaim these people were terminated. I see a rather good chance court could rule very differently.
Elon Musk: And we just hit another all-time high in Twitter usage lol
Did it a dozen times in college, those days are far behind me :)
Perhaps that program was mostly doing some regexp thing and so it was easy for the jit to optimise a few function calls and a for loop correctly?
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I have some sort of PTSD from a very humbling mushroom trip almost 15 years ago. Never had anxiety attacks before that.
You're right, I should have been more careful and I get the irony. The comment sounded like it was a defense by the parent and I made an assumption.

However I don't consider it giving someone a hard time. I think of it as calling out people who decrease the quality of the conversation. You could throw that accusation back at me for my mistake but it is just that, a mistake.
I have similar anxiety and my approach has been to take on a 10-20 interviews for jobs I don't care about and put little effort into, and keep getting rejections until I've become emotionally numb to the anxiety. After I reach that point I normally get 1-3 offers in the next 2 weeks once I start applying to places I want
They (the ministers at least) know this, this is working as intended under our previous Liberal governments.
You're ignoring 20 years of Tesla and SpaceX?

And the only thing that we've seen with Twitter is that it's at an all time high DAU at a fraction of the cost. So far so good.

All of the doomsayers are just making predictions that haven't happened.
I agree. That’s a great way of putting it.
Ask what kind of jobs these people are applying for. I apply for low 6 fig jobs and I have never been asked to write an algorithm or any kind of live coding.

The most complex stuff I have been asked were things like “what’s your process for improving application performance” or “what’s an n+1 query”

I assume if I was asking for $250k at a mega tech company, it gets a lot harder.
I'm pretty sad about this.

When I was in high school and learning how to program, he let me borrow a copy of his Mythical Man Month book.
Why Apple Calendar Is My Scheduling Workhorse
People keep mentioning philosophers here, as if we were having a debate about weak vs. strong rule utilitarianism. My point is that the philosophy being expounded here is pre-Benthamite; it is the philosophy of the Medicis, not of Mill.

There is right now on Twitter a circulating post regarding the CEO of the Future Fund, FTX's EA funding arm, a person who did a dissertation on utilitarian ethics, which stated that it might make more sense to save wealthy lives in the developed world before saving lives in the developing world, because the wealthy lives would have greater impact. This is what happens when you take a simple idea about minmaxing the benefit of charitable contributions and hook it up to the morals of 16th century banking families. The snake is eating its own tail.
Why shouldn't we assign that success to the actual engineers instead of the rich kid with enough money to buy the labor of smarter better men?
Exactly, severance was absolutely a no brainer based on that email. I have gone "hardcore" many times in my life working crazy hours but all of that has either been in exceptional circumstances or me doing it because I was having fun. If someone emailed saying that "going hardcore and crazy hours" is the baseline for acceptable performance (note, not even good performance, just acceptable performance), I'd be outta there too.

I feel bad for all those who are on visas though and may not have the flexibility to accept the severance offer.
I am saying that perhaps those companies succeeded in spite of him.

And what we have seen is >75% of the staff leave including NOC, SREs etc.

That attrition rate is really unprecedented and completely unsustainable.

Update: Payroll and Tax teams have resigned. Cue the lawsuits.
No chemo is a last chance kinda thing. Nobody chooses to have chemo, it's just the only tool left in the box.
I've seen mixed things from architecture reviews. I've seen it used by people with titles that exceeded their actual abilities, to stop people with junior titles from doing things the senior person simply didn't understand. And I've seen architecture reviews used just to satisfy the whims of senior people, to gratify that urge to nitpick or dictate what language they wanted to use. Those are the bad ways.

The good way I've seen architecture review used is nobody was going to tell you not to write or even deploy whatever the hell it was that you thought you wanted to write, but if you wanted to integrate with Grown Up Systems, there were ACLs that your system would not be added to unless and until your system had passed the review of the Grown Ups. I think this way is strictly better for two reasons: it can't strangle good ideas at birth, and it minimizes the amount of architecture reviewing that everyone needs to do, because half of the junk that gets brought to pre-implementation arch reviews never gets built anyway.
Drank a ton the night before, hung over and bloodshot as all hell the day of, but apparently did well enough. Did this four nights in a row back when I was binge interviewing five years ago. Of course I was marginally alcoholic back then too so....
Digital rubbernecking
This is a very timely post as we are halfway through Western christianity's month of the dead. I highly encourage anyone, if they find the chance, to attend a Solemn High Requiem Mass on All Souls day. Very metal.
The certificate looks like it was created on Nov 14th and is valid until Nov 14th 2023 to me.
I'm sorry you've had a bad experience, but you should at least admit that it has been a "lifesaver" for so many others.

For a L-O-T of other humans, just having an unbiased listener is a positive event in their life.
“Failed at self driving” how about give some credit as well?
And to most hunters, alcohol is encouraged as a performance-enhancing substance.

I believe this is even reflected in some video games, where drinking will give you “deadeye” for a period, rendering your shots more accurate.
We should probably wait for confirmation from more than this source. I don't disbelieve it, because they cite the UNC CS department, but even Wikipedia hasn't been updated yet.
Installing macOS on a Microsoft Laptop
Beta blockers are the dirty little open secret of classical music auditions
Lol haha, I just realized that my stellar interview record and ADHD are related. I freaking LOVE interviewing. Not just interviewing, I generally enjoy someone watching over me as I code. This is not something I have ever seen anyone else enjoy. I thought I was just a narcissist, but I don't enjoy any other sort of attention.
Tho.ts would be hilarious and awesome, but not PC.

Pin.gz / pin.gs seems good and accurate.

But I think abstract is better, e.g. pon.ys or poni.es, shotz

I also like blu.rp but it's admittedly gross sounding, can you imagine the media quoting this? "Shakira sent this blurp:" Me neither. Almost as bad and gassy sounding as the masta "toot" thing.

If you think about it out of context (forget for a second that it exists), twitter is a pretty stupid sounding name.
Any chance you’d know if full signing logs are available for download anywhere?
Put another way, there's no difference in profit between:

10,000 book sales and zero pirated copies.

10,000 book sales and 10 million pirated copies.

The only thing left to argue about is what percentage of those pirated copies would have turned into book sales if the free versions had not been available.
That "fresh voyeur look on the suffering of others" (odd framing) is why there is widespread, bipartisan political support for supporting Ukraine with munitions and money. People wouldn't make that choice if they did not know what is going on.
Same for me. It is a known “symptom,” dopamine floods the brain, we normalize and go into a hyperfocused mode.
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I get the sense that Dorsey played Musk hard. Musk heard what he wanted to hear, and Dorsey walked away with a cool billion. Musk is wrecking the place and laying the ground for the next thing, which Dorsey was already working on.
if fisherman adopt more environment friendly technology, they will find stone increase number of fish.
He seems to be aware, while not acting accordingly

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/16/23462668/elon-musk-trial...
I mean it's well known that Tesla has a insane profit margin (in the car manufacturing market) when compared to other players. The could sell a car around 30,000$ (adjusted for inflation) if they want to - they in fact came pretty close to that a while ago.

The question is, why would they? Why would they reduce their price if they can actively sell all the cars the manufacture? They in fact had months of wait time until recently. Why would they sell a cheaper car when there is no serious competition cutting their market share? It's no different than apple not reducing the cost of their iphone - they have no incentive to do so as long as they are making money and have no serious competition under-cutting them.

Tesla's pitch is partly 'electric car good for climate' yes, but at the end of the day they are a for-profit company and their main objective would be to maximize profit.
There are two J apps for the iPad and iPhone. One for J704 and one for J904 even though it has J901 as the name. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/j901/id1483497239
They won't. They have both the financial resources and honestly probably a legitimate claim that the model produces a sufficiently transformative result that would be considered fair use.

Even if the ruling did go against them, it would likely still be acceptable to train the models since it would be the usage that would be legally suspect.

Which means that in five years anyone will be capable of running these models entirely off-line on their personal machines and no one will ever know the difference.
Could you elaborate on what exactly you experienced (and your takeaways) from your bad trip?

Do you feel like set and setting or your previous mental state going into the trip caused the bad trip?
Twitter may be its own best argument. Twitter had 1,000 employees in 2012 and 200M MAUs. They only have about 50% more MAUs now, 10 years later.