skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm oddly probably my first “real” full time job is where I had the most impact - I was one of two programmers hired for a summer to redesign a stress testing suite for a server hardware vendor, prime95, cuda-burn, etc. integrated into one single python application to collect the data. I stayed there during the school year part time and the next summer I got to hire another dev (my counterpart left to facebook).

We then worked on a baremetal automation system that worked through IPMI to completely automate the burn in process -remotely starting servers as soon as they got their IP registered, PXe booting them to the burn in image, and then kicking off the testing process. We had a way overkill rabbitmq system to collect streaming logs from every server as they ran, and all orchestrated via rethinkdb change feeds. I think it is still the most complex software project I have done. Basically one python file would launch 7 separate python processes, each their own rethinkdb change feed. This predated docker otherwise it probably would have been 7 docker containers haha.
Understood. So is Lovecraft Country, despite it's universal horror. Well played in the Lovecraft genre.
The major equity has already been made and salaries probably wont be as attractive. Best case scenario, this is a rebuild of a massive existing code base. However, the team is somehow supposed to do with less despite having to support everything already in place.

This is the titanic. Those engineers that left knew exactly what they were leaving behind.
> The PL theory community seems to appreciate its innovations

I'm curious as to what these innovations are. I've not looked too deeply into Swift - I've played around with SwiftUI a bit and nothing else - but from what I saw I didn't see any fundamentally novel ways to do things. People talk about protocols/actors etc, but I've seen other languages that do those and (IMO) better. If anything, I thought the emphasis on creating new forms of syntax for things that should've been built as more fundamental, orthogonal concepts (eg. `guard let` etc.) would've made it more distasteful to the PL theory crowd, who love orthogonality IME.

(I'm sorry if I'm coming off as sarcastic/combative, I'm genuinely curious about this!)
I'd be curious how the Montesorri is implemented in Netherlands vs North America. As mentioned it does come down to how each school runs their program with some consistencies across the board.
I've worked on numerous medical devices, many startups. From treating cancer, kidney disease, or providing tools for reconstructive surgery.

Nothing hits you in the feels than having customers thanking you for improving their quality of life, or a child thanking you for giving a parent more years of life.
I purchased a car from CarMax earlier this spring online and it was an easy process. Filled out some forms online, went through some questions on the phone and then had a car dropped off in my driveway a few day later.
No

I have been through different phases in my career, and right now I would be answering No for all these stages.

1. Changing the world. I can see the appeal in working for Elon's other companies (Tesla and SpaceX) as you are truly working on things that are change the world, although Tesla is now at the tail end of this. Unfortunately this doesn't apply to Twitter, at least in my personal opinion. It will be probably be forgotten in two decades, like so many social media platforms before it.

2. Getting by. When my children were small, I just wanted a decent paid job to cover the bills and have a nice standard of living. Career wise I had little ambitions at the time. Clearly in that stage I wouldn't be a good fit given Elon Musk demand for rapid growth.

3. Career advancement. This is the only phase where I would give Twitter a chance. With recent lay offs, there are clear opportunities to grow through the ranks. However, it is clearly going to require hard work and at this stage of Twitter, fat options packages are unlikely. Personally I am too outspoken to work for someone like Elon Musk, however, I can see why people in this phase would opt to work for Twitter.
I appreciate the good you've done for the world, but isn't that last sentence just a little bit ironic?
I, for one, would love to see more nurses, doctors, elder care workers. We should want more of these workers, not less. One could argue that AMA needs to be forced to increase the number of workers in these fields and reduce occupational liability for healthcare workers. But even that will fall short of what is required in greying America today. If you want real world evidence of this, look at Canada which is frantically trying to get immigrants because their elderly population has no one to take care of them.

Making people reproduce will take a wholesale change in the American way of life. This would include wholesale changes in food, healthcare, health insurance, housing, inequality and a general well-being of humanity. One party in our country is actively attempting to reduce liberties (this party is red in color if this is not obvious), which makes living in this country a precarious position.

As an older child-free millennial, I am living the scenario described in the article. I can assure you that my life path hasn't been easy for the first 35 years. I have zero interest in making my life even more difficult for the remaining 35, for the sake of society.

Make healthcare easy, then we'll talk. Until then, I thank immigrants in America.
> The courts had traditionally found that liability is determined by whether or not an entity was acting as a publisher actively vetting, producing, and editing content (liable), or a distributor merely selling the products offered by publishers (less-liable).

> The immediate impact of Section 230 was to halt the developing body of common law being forged through internet speech–related litigation.

Big mistake in my opinion.
Depends how we want to define impact.

Is it - what is the thing I made that the most people use? A core service within AWS. Very insane scale.

Is it - what is the thing I made that I think will be the most intrinsically "beneficial" to society?
Probably https://contractrates.fyi
I've done a lot of freelancing myself and there really doesn't seem to be any single community or hub for freelancers that isn't trying to squeeze every last dollar out of them. I'm trying to make a thing that is legitimately helpful and completely free.
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All of the iBuyer like companies are going bankrupt. Turns out there just no way to cut costs enough to make a profit in these low margin, capital and asset intensive industries. The idea that Carvana, OpenDoor, Redfin, Zillow, etc. were ever going to achieve something like a monopoly over their respective industry was laughable at best. Doomed from the moment they opened the doors.
Yep

Some peoples standards for a job are severely too high.
> I think "committed" will still be 8 hours/day

Do you work at Twitter? Do you have any reason to really believe this?

If significantly more than half of your coworkers left (fired, laid off, quit), it's very reasonable to assume that you now have twice the work to do. Moreover, we've seen in just the last two weeks people sleeping on the floor of the Twitter office(s), working more than 8hr/day, to urgently ship features that Elon personally nixed hours after launching. The language that Elon used repeatedly over the last week is "hardcore", implying that Old Twitter's way of working is "not hardcore"; if you were working 8hr/day before, what does "hardcore" mean beyond that?

> people who are "triggered" by words or don't love what they do

I love what I do, but I'm not about to start working harder without being compensated for that work. If you sign an agreement to work somewhere for a certain amount and the other party demands you work more without more compensation, no amount of "loving what you do" makes that equitable or fair. Loving what you do doesn't mean sacrificing the worth of your craft because someone said to.

Sussing out people who are "triggered" isn't a business move, it's a loyalty test. Loyalty is uncorrelated with skill or motivation. "Loving what you do" is uncorrelated with loyalty. There's a lot of companies out there doing amazing work that are hiring. Twitter isn't somehow special. If you love what you do and have been given an ultimatum by your new boss who has gotten rid of half of your coworkers and wants you to do more work, how is the logical move to _stay_ at the company?
The area around Yr Wyddfa/Snowden is breathtakingly beautiful. The hike to the summit is not too difficult (there is a more challenging route for those so inclined) and there is the option of riding a train.
Earth weighs 0.6 yomommagrams
I would like to see peer-to-peer discussion incentivized. To an extent it is with poster sessions counting for external value. But I think this could be improved by counting more informal discussions and personal communications.
Explain it to me like I'm five:

Why can we only see 90° of the sky?

I look at the map at the bottom of the page and wonder why it isn't a circle. I'm obviously missing a key concept.
The difference should be handled at the same layer as time zones, which is already a mess and is already well-suited to deal with this type of thing.

I'd argue there should be no adjustment until it gets to be +- 15 minutes from UT1. And even then, NO clock skewing, just a time zone adjustment across the board.
> depriving the US government of funding

He wouldn't pay tax anyway. He has too much to ever spend, and the cost basis of his assets will reset after he dies so there will be no taxation. It's better that he gives it away to useful causes than gives it all to his kids.

> their economies don’t develop

This seems overly cynical, and probably wrong. Reducing diseases and malnutrition should have a lot of impact on their economy in 20 years when the kids who otherwise would have damaged brains can mature into more healthy adults. Plus, you know, it's not all about the economy.
Existing platforms that use micropayments just end up filled with content optimized for micropayments.
Just like reddit is filled with content that is optimized for upvotes.
Could you use some kind of android emulator for this task instead of an actual phone?
A good question to ask.

I think you're spot on about most tech companies. But I don't believe this kind of behavior will incentivize high performers to stick around. In fact, I would guess that the best employees have already left. With this kind of uncertainty and the threat of working long hours and then being fired on a whim if you disagree with Musk... ask yourself, who would stick around?

The only people I can imagine are the Musk cult worshippers and those with no other speedy alternative -- H1B holders and other similarly "stuck" people.

So basically Musk is trying to kick everyone out of the company except for his cultists (who will worship him no matter what) and the people who can't leave otherwise.

Open to alternative explanations... but even if I truly believed in a leader, I don't think I would stick around for this kind of abuse. Perhaps I'm just not "hardcore" enough to work at a social network, though.
Thinking of it, FTX and Wirecard are hard to compare.
I don't think it's so simple. I love animals and will sometimes go out of my way to rescue or assist an insect, but I also have an aggressive side and enjoy eating meat. Veganism makes perfect sense to me, but so does predation.
Are you really sure about that?

https://faq.ssa.gov/en-US/Topic/article/KA-02917
Musk emails remaining Twitter staff to find “anyone who writes software”
I knew I saw an anti-aliased looking fellow without legs at the Bigby's earlier...
I try to resist the urge to judge, and remind myself that I shouldn’t be drawing conclusions about things I’m not (or can’t be) informed about.

There’s this big social pressure, not just to agree with the prevailing opinions, but in general to have these confident positions on everything. I think the world would be a better place with more “I dont know”s.
Galactica: The Language Model That Wrote Its Own Scientific Paper
If I were inexperienced and clueless I might, but I am neither. I have worked at places where I was tasked with supporting something no on there knew anything about and made it work. But they were apps used internally or for a limited customer base, not a giant system processing millions of things per minute. I have worked at places with hundreds of teams building services that interoperated in many ways and the thought of jumping into that with no one having internal knowledge is insane. I have also worked for CEOs that were terrible and that's generally no fun either. Combine that with unsustainable 70 hour weeks for months on end, and the sum of that is not worth it.

Is there a $ figure where these things are acceptable? I guess there could be, but unlikely to be found at a company with so much debt and losing income left and right. Of course if work yourself to death no amount of money is spendable...
Not famous, but should be relevant. Otherwise it doesn't mean anything at all.
The words “yes” and “no” are way undervalued as appropriate responses to a question.

Me (manager): “Hey Bob, did you and the other team figure out a solution for the problem you mentioned last week?”

Bob: “Well, we had a couple of long meetings and went through a lot of issues.”

Me: “Great. Did you come to a conclusion?”

Bob: “Well, there was a lot of disagreement at first, that’s why we spent longer than we intended to in discussions.”

Me: “I see. So did you figure out a solution?”

Bob: “Well, I need to think about the impact now, might need to do a lot of refactoring.”

Me: “Ok, but did… you… agree… on a solution??”

Bob: “Oh. Yes.”
> He could give out stock.

But as it is no longer a public company, any such stock is not liquid. Unclear when one could sell it, if ever. So basically worth nothing.
Guess I'm thinking more of HFT. Normal payment processing isn't this affected by a leap second though as far as I know.
You talk to clients during business hours, and at night you hone your pitch and write up proposals, do research, study to become better at your job.

If your job literally only entails things that happen during business hours, like you man the front desk, I'd wager people would be reasonable.
In a few more millennia, our arm of the Milky Way will spin around so that we are able to the other side. We should be able to get some decent parallax measurements to distant objects at that time as well.
Why is this surprising to anyone?

Did someone think the plutonium was going to disappear?

This is why ALL nuclear power is a disaster. Even after this material is used to boil water for a few years, it's still highly radioactive for millennia.
Just have 37 leap seconds to bring UTC into sync with TAI, then lock them together.

That won't break anything...
"No safety or surprise, the end" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXqPNlng6uI
People always seem to jump to the the most complicated and expensive design alternatives. A central pivot and a loop of rope around a motor capstan on-shore to gradually rotate the whole array would be obviously simpler and cheaper.

The extreme for preferring absurd complication seems especially to show up in attempts at extracting wave energy. So, wave energy startups almost always fail; not because the energy is insufficient or hard to extract, but just because they seem compelled to field doomed, overpriced, expensive, and fragile designs.

I sometimes wonder if you need to have foolishly complicated tech to impress investors, who would be disinclined to fund what they feel like they could understand.

Generally, if you are putting stuff out in the water, apparatus that might need servicing should be onshore, with the simplest possible connection out to stuff in the water. For wave energy collection, make your collectors suck air out of a big, shared pipe from shore, with a turbine in the inlet onshore. You don't want your expensive, fragile turbine attacked by salt water and crashing waves, and you don't want lots of little ones where one big, shared one does better.

Apparatus to collect wave energy should be always under the surface, away from crashing surface waves.
No it means you pretend to apologise but are really talking more shit. Everyone knows the part before the "but" is passive aggressive window dressing and means nothing.
No need to wait that long - plenty of incoming email has "My working days are: " in their footer. I'm sure time can be added there too
Crossing my fingers while I read this lest my soul be consumed also
I mean it doesn’t have to be genius or complete moron, it’s most likely neither.

But if it has to be one of the two extremes and I start with 50/50 odds, what would I lean towards with the limited information I have as an outside observer? This is a rhetorical question but I think it gives a hint of how this whole topic has become such a shit show.
I've worked at a lot of startups, and I love that energy.

But part of what I enjoy about it is that I can make a make a real difference in building something new and setting direction, and the sense that all of us are in this together.

That's a totally different vibe than when I'm doing maintenance on a 15 year old codebase, with a billionaire second guessing everything I do
Also, the Rust C FFI (the ABI used to interoperate with the rest of the kernel) is stable.
A global map of plant diversity
Like I said I feel sorry for them, I can't imagine that the h1b and other programs don't have good will time for them to find other employment. Twitter doesn't hire hacks, I'm sure they'll be fine. I'm just talking about the overall greater good because I think they -all- will be out of a job soon. I never wanted twitter to die, but if it's just going to be parler with venmo shrug
That's not the way to persuade people of your correctness. If you make a claim, the burden is on you to support it with facts and evidence.

Otherwise, people will naturally treat it with the skepticism it deserves. Or, put less charitably, as the nonsense that it is.
Did you work with Bill Binney? I had a chance to meet him once and got the impression he was the go-to "get shit done" guy at NSA around that time. IIRC, he mentioned having a group of contractors that worked with him throughout his career and credited them with his success.
Depends on the pay, but with enough money I would.
I'm wondering what the value of having "Twitter" on your resume when job searching will have. After all the press on this, I'm wondering if potential employers would look favorably as you being "resilient" or capable of handling high stress situations if you choose to stay for another 2 years or so.
it's all just rounding errors at that point though, but yes, you're correct. congratulations.
I'm sure that one day, most of the things we'll see or hear on the web will be filtered by this kind of software.
Quick question: is that proper usage of "parsimoniously"? I've only seen it used as a synonym for "stingy," which is close, but not quite the same as the "succinctly" synonym usage here. But I'm aware that regions and time periods drift in word usage, so you aren't necessarily wrong.
Better AWS Lambda support would be nice. There is a runtime by the server workgroup but afaik it requires docker as an intermediate for compilation.

If would be awesome if the cross compilation support is as good as it is in Go such that you could build your lambda executable with `GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build -o main main.go`.
Definitely All About Berlin. A few years ago, I started documenting how to deal with German bureaucracy as a foreigner. The website grew and grew until it became a well-known resource for immigrants. It has become my full-time job at some point in 2020.

It's been a little over 5 years since I started, and I'm still super stoked about my work. I still enjoy doing the research, rewriting guides a dozen times, and answering reader mail. People seem really grateful for it, and it means a lot to me.
Sorry I didn't provide any references but they're only a google search away.

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/story/air-pollution-hu...

https://www.cgdev.org/media/developing-countries-are-respons...

https://www.unep.org/news-and-stories/press-release/one-thre...

I'm sure you could argue that their pollution is worse due to all of the trade with wealthier countries, fair enough, but currently the only solution to that would deprive them of the vast majority of their income and would set those countries back decades if not centuries given that trade is a major driver of development within any country.
Peter Singer: Famine, Affluence, and Morality (1972) [pdf]
If that was the purpose of Twitter it would still function with JavaScript disabled.
In principle, yes - but it would cost them more than I think they're willing to pay.

Large amount of debt to service, "negative cashflow", "advertisers canceling", "bankruptcy is not off the table", etc. If an oil tanker crashes, contractors probably make a lot of money on the crisis remediation, because the oil companies still have money. Not sure that's true for Twitter.
Plus, even if you just return an error/bubble up an exception, that is probably better than bubbling up a nil/null value for some of the consuming code to try to dereference.
What an opportunity to bring a blank page and claim to have deleted thousands of lines of clutter while still delivering functionality
As a manager, this is actually a good response. It gives me insight into what's causing problems for my reports.
But leap seconds hose up astronomical applications too. They all start with TAI and then apply corrections as needed. There are lots more corrections than leap seconds, but they're applied proportionally, not as leaps.

Leap seconds are a solution in search of a problem.
As HN has an odd 14-day limit for threads, where should I write?
Again read what Satoshi was saying; no home PCs or Raspberry Pi type devices instead server farms will process transactions. It can scale, no reason why it wouldn't. Look at the BitTorrent for example....still viable.
How great is the Chainalysis business model? When there's a gold rush, sell shovels. When there's a fraud rush, sell investigative services.
Show HN: Cparse – a simple parser generator for C – now supports LALR(1)
That was I was told in history lesson, too, but I'm not so sure that was all that important of a reason, otherwise it wouldn't have taken hundreds of years for people to adopt the new calendar. The drift is so slow that a week more or less over a period of 1,000 years is easily something that can slowly be adjusted to by farmers, politicians, and the like (unlike, say, the Roman calendar before Caesar reformed it which drifted by several days every year).
Love the cat and mouse game!

So then this will be the next target of better deepfake models, right?

We saw that fake pharma tweet that (supposedly, but not really) sent the stock crashing – how long before a fake video of a CEO making an announcement at a fake Davos-like conference stage interview?

As a techie, is this going to make things like digital signatures more important? But more realistically though, most of the audience that would do impulsive things won't care to verify.
You are making a lot of assumptions there and seem to think that this happens to me all the time. I don't have this problem in most conversations.

To the point you're saying without the seeming antagonism - yes, you're right, a quick "wait, I think we need to talk about the background here because we're both making different assumptions" can and does work in most conversations with most people.

In the worst cases, though, some people take it as "ugh, why can't they just provide a yes/no answer to my simple question!?" and the conversation can become increasingly difficult.

If someone's thinking this a lot - like, they think most people are doing this to them to the extent that they wonder why "many people seem to totally lack the capability of understanding simple questions" - it would be wise for them to re-examine their assumptions.